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OCTOBER 26. 1940
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE
News Review of the Catholic World
CHRIST THE KING
FEAST IN MOBILE
MOBILE, Ala. — Clergy and laity
of Mobile are endeavoring to make
of the observance of the Feast of
Christ the King an impressive appeal
for world peace.
The Most Rev. T. J. Toolen, D. D.,
Bishop of Mobile has urged every
Catholic in the community to take
part in the celebration, which wil/
be highlighted by a procession
through the streets.
Bishop Toolen pointed out that the
feast, instituted in 1925 by Pope Pius
XI has ever been one dedicated to
peace and good will among men, and
this year, because of existing turmoil
among nations, it acquires adding
significance.
The Rev. D. P. Hartnett. D. D. Ph.
D., assistant pastor of St. Mary's
Church, will deliver the sermon at
services which will be held in Bien
ville Square.
FELICITATING the Most Rev. An
thony J. Schuler, Bishop of El Paso,
on the occasion of the prelate’s Silver
Episcopal Jubilee, President Franklin
D. Roosevelt, in a personal letter as
serts that “only a spiritual awaken
ing can save the world.”
“I think it a most happy circum
stance that you will celebrate your
Episcopal Silver Jubilee by dedicat
ing a monument to Christ the King,”
the Presdent writes. “Such a monu
ment will stand through coming gen
erations as a witness to the eternal
truths of religion—changeless through
the ages and because unchanging, al
ways a safe guide to men and na
tions.”
HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII of
ficiated at the marriage of his niece,
the Marchesa Maria Anna Ceilia Ger-
ini. with Count Lucius Malvessi Cam-
peggi, on October 7.
THE UNITED STATES has men as
noble and bold as the Diegos and Ser-
ras whose missions dot the Camino
Real in California, in the opinion of
the Most Rev. John J. Cantwell, Arch
bishop of Los Angeles, who spoke on
a national broadcast with the Most
Rev. William A- Griffin, Bishop of
Trenton, over the network of the Mu
tual Broadcasting Company.
The prelates urged American Cath
olics to give geenrous support to the
thirteen annual Mission Sunday appeal
made on October 20 under the aus
pices of the Society of the Propagation
of the Faith.
LETTERS RECEIVED AT MARY-
KNOLL brought the first official
news of the opening of a new mission
in Kweilin in the interior of China in
August. The new Kweilin Superior
and a Sister assigned to a nearby
mission made the trip by plane, since
previous attempts to reach there by
land routes had proved unsuccessful
due to war conditions.
JOHN REGIS PERSHING, eight-
year-old kinsman of General John T.
Pershing, and Captain of the Jeffer-
son-Bellarmine Guards of St. Robert
Bellarmine School in Burbank, direct
ed the raising of the American flag at
the Coliseum in ceremonies that pre
ceded the Pontifical Mass celebrated
by His Excellency the Most Rev. Am
ide Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, to mark
the centennial of the founding of the
hierarchy in California.
Young Pershing also led the assem
bly in the pledge of allegiance to the
United States and prayers for the
Pope and President.
A PROGRAM OF SPIRITUAL DE
FENSE that will involve the reorgan
ization of undergraduate religious
studies has been launched at the Uni
versity of Notre Dame under the di
rection of university authorities and
the Rev. Thomas P. Irving, C. S- C.,
head of the Department of Religion-
The two-fold program will be di
vided into intensive class instruction
and periodical lectures by leading
Catholic apologists, including the
Rev. Daniel A. Lord. S. J.. the Rev.
Fulton J. Sheen, and the Rev. John
A. O'Brien.
A VERITABE MARTYRDOM in
the cause of the Catholic Church's
struggle to rescue thousands of
Chinese from the grasp cf godless
Communism, was the death of the
Rtev. Vincent Lebbe, apostle to the
missions of China, according to a
letter from the Rev. F. X. Clougher-
ty. O. S. B., of the mission at Kai-
feng, Honan, China.
Because of his activity — in Eu
rope as well as in China — in form
ing a Chinese front against the al
luring appeal of the Reds, Father
Lebbe was nearly executed by the
Communists, and ultimately died as
the indirect result of imprisonment.
THE CHRONICLE, Colored week
ly secular newspaper, of Boston,
publishes regularly an article on
“Catholic Information." The article
is supplied by the secretary of the
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
in St. Peter Claver’s parish, New
Orleans.
AN ARTICLE by the Rev. Dr. John
F. Cornin, S. S., Professor of Politi
cal Science at St. Charles Seminary,
Baltimore, which appears in the cur
rent issue of the magazine Common
Sense, is reprinted in full in the
weekly ‘Tnfoxmation Service” of the
Federal Council of the Churches of
Holy Father in Mission Sunday Radio Plea
NATION'S TRIBUTE
PAID COLUMBUS
Knights of Columbus Lead
Observance of 448th Anni
versary of America’s Dis
covery
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
The New World,'at peace, paid tri
bute to its Discoverer last Saturday
while the Old World whence he cami
to the Western Hemisphere 448 years
ago, is a boiling cauldron of strife,
death and suffering.
Organizations throughout the Uni
ted States marked Columbus Day,
honoring the great Navigator with
exercises, addresses, services and
celebrations of various kinds. In
many States and communities it was
a holiday. Catholics, • led by the
Knights of Columbus, commemorated
the achievements of the intrepid
Catholics and civic officials joiqed in
the general observances.
Knights of Columbus Councils hon
ored their Patron with religious ob
servances, radio broadcasts, exempli
fications of degrees, socials and other
special events in which thousands of
Knights and their friends took parfc.
His Holiness Pope Pius XII who personally issued this year’s call for Mission Sunday, when he broad
casted Saturday, October 19, over the~ combined networks of the National Broadcasting Company and the Co
lumbia and Mutual Broadcasting Systems. Monsignor Thomas J. McDonnell (right), National Director of the
Society for the Propagation of the Faith, introduced the Holy Father to the radio audience and Archbishop
Francis J. Spellman (left), of New York, Chairman of the Episcopal Committee of the Society, conveyed the
thanks of America’s 22,000,000 Catholics to His Holiness. (N. C. W. C.)
Christ in America.
. The article, entitled “Catholicism
and Democracy,” is described by the
editor of “Information Service” as
“remarkable."
A WARNING which the Very Rev.
Robert I. Gannon, S. J., President of
Fordham University, delivered in a
nation-wide broadcast against letting
inconsistent, irreligious intellectuals
shape the program of training for
young men drafted into military ser
vice, was placed in the Congressional
Record. Father Gannon spoke on
the tenth anniversary program of the
Columbia Broadcasting System's
“Church of the Air” period.
PEOR'IA. ILLINOIS, was awarded
the 1941 Convention of the Catholic
Press Association, and May 21-24
were designated as the dates, at a
meeting of the Executive Board of
the Association held in Chicago.
MORE THAN 1,200 DELEGATES
from coast to coast—students and
their teachers—discussed "The Press
in the World Today” at the National
Catholic Educational Press Congress
conducted at Marquette University,
Chicago.
Sponsored jointly by the Catholic
School Press Association and the
Marquette College of Journalism,
with Dean J. L. O'Sullivan as the
general chairman, the congress pro
duced a breadth of student thought
that, in the words of its leaders, was
“surprising and encouraging in times
as ominous as these.”
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Peter M. H.
Wynhoven, President of the Catholic
Press Association and Editor of
Catholic Action of the South, New
Orleans, keynoted the gathering with
an address on “Union of the Catholic
Press in the Doctrines of Christ.”
MOST REV. MICHAEL J. KEYES,
S. M., retired Bishop of Savannah-
Atlanta, was celebrant of a Solemn
Pontifical Mass at the sesquicen-
tennial of the founding of the first
Convent of Carmelite nuns in the
United States observed on the site of
the original foundation at Port To
bacco, Maryland.
THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE
LAITY in the mission work of the
Catholic Church was described by
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. Mc
Donnell, National Director of the
Society of thh Propagation of the
faith, in the Columbia Broadcasting
System's “Church of the Air” period,
broadcast nationally, October 13.
STRIKING OUT AGAINST reli
gious and racial intolerance in an
address before the National Coun
cil of Jewish W ome n held in Wash
ington, the Fv’ev. Dr. Robert J. White,
Dean of the Law School of the
Catholic University of America,
warned that ‘t‘he hour of crisis in
any nation, including America,
brings serious threats from zealots,
cranks, and cruel bigots who at
tempt to use the emotion and feays
of a crisis as an opportune setting
for their bigotry.” Dr. White also
said that ’ out of any ten who
preach such hatred, seven seek fin
ancial profit through sales of maga
zines or gowns or buttons or mem
berships or whatnot. The other
three are either ignorant or on the
border-line of mental illness.”
A NEW EDITION of “The State
and The Church,” under the title of
“Catholic Principles of Politics,’.’ by
the R’t. Rev. Msgr. John A. Ryan,
Director of the N. C. W. C. Social
Action Department and Professor of
Political Science at Trinity College,
Washington, and the Rev. Dr. Fran
cis J. Boland, C. S. C., Professor of
Politics at the University of Notre
Dame, has been published by Mac
millan Company.
Apostolic Delegates Leads
Nation’s Tribute to Jesuits
Celebrations Marking Quadricentennial of Founding of
Society of Jesns Are Held Throughout United States
Led by His Excellency the Most Rev.
Amleto Giovani Cicognani, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, the
Catholic clergy and laity throughout
the United States are joining with
members of the Society of Jesus in
commemorating the four hundredth
anniversary of the Confirmation of
their Order. Services and other ex
ercises are being held in Jesuit
churches and institutions the country
over and tributes to the work of the
Society for the past four centuries are
being paid by prominent prelates,
civil officials, and leaders of reli
gious Orders and Congregations.
WASHINGTON. — His Excellency
the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cico
gnani, Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, celebrated a Solenjr.
Mass in the Jesuits’ St. Aloysius
Church here September 29, to mark
the Society’s fourth centennial.
More than 1,000 persons thronged
the church and heard the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, of the Cath
olic University, declare in the sermon
of the Mass that St. Ignatius, found
er of the Society of Jesus, was, like
Our Lord, a man “who belonged to
no time.” He characterized St. Igna
tius as “one with infinite potentiali
ties for both virtue and vice” and
pointed out that he, by a change of
will, suffered for the cause of Christ,
proving the possibility of transform
ing individual lives-
Across the city. Georgetown Uni
versity, oldest Catholic college in the
country, commemorated the cente
nary of the Society which has con
ducted it from colonial times. Follow
ing a High Mass in Holy Trinity
Church, Jesuit parish in the George
town section, a convocation was held
at the university, which was address
ed by the Very Rev. Arthur A.
O'Leary, S. J.. President of George
town. Father O’Leary called the So
ciety “an instrument against godless
ness” and “the powers which would
wreck our republic and place as a
gloating monument over its grave a
mockery of government in defiance
of God. the Supreme Lawgiver.”
The Washington Post, large secular
daily here, added its tribute to the
Society of Jesus in an editorial, o»
claring that “the missionary exploits
and adventures of the Jesuits over
four continents, their heroism, mar
tyrdoms and triumphs, form a tale
more strange and wonderful than the
wildest romances.” “From Japan to
Paraguay, from India to New France,
they could number their converts in
millions,” the editorial says.
PHILADELPHIA. — His Eminence
Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Arch
bishop of Philadelphia, celebrated the
Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Church
of the Gesus here yesterday com
memorating the four heundredth an-
nieversary of the Society of Jesus.
The Rev. Wilfrid Parsons, S. J.,
Professor of Political Science at the
Catholic University of America,
preached the sermon.
NEW YORK.—Four Bishops were
among the prominent persons who
attended the rites at the Church of
St. Francis Xavier here making the
Jesuits’ fourth centenary.
Present in the sanctuary for the
commemorative Mass were the Most
Rev. Franei# J. Spellman. Archbishop
of New York; the Most Rev. Stephen
J. Donahue, Auxiliary Bishop of New.
York; the Most Rev. Thomas H. Mc
Laughlin, Bishop of Paterson; and
the Most Rev. James E. Walsh. M. M.,
Superior General of MaryknolL
Dignitaries of various Orders and
Congregations attended the services,
at which the Very Rev. Ignatius
Smith, noted Dominican pulpit ora
tor, preached the sermon.
Father Smith said it is significant
that the Jesuits have survived all the
attacks made aganst them, declaring
that those who would “remain mute
or would damn instead of praise” the
Society are only as mall and insig
nificant minority compared with “the
intelligent, grateful and outsponken
millions who rejoice today that the
Company of Jesus, ‘scarlet and splen
did with eternal slander’, has endur
ed, vigorously and fruitfully, for
four centuries.”
Archbishop Spellman spoke brief
ly, recalling his close friendship with
the Superior General of the Jesuits,
the Very Rev. Wladimir Ledochow-
ski and adding that the anniversary
is a cause for rejoicing among ali
Catholics.
BOSTON. — St. Ignatius Loyola
showed the world the difference be
tween ‘Thy will be done” and “My
will be done,” which is the essence
of the fight today between Christian
ity and the forces of evil, His emi
nence William Cardinal O'Connell,
Archbishop of Boston, declared in a
tribute to the Society of Jesus here
September 29.
Speaking at services in the Church
of the Immaculate Conception com
memorating the Fourth Centenary of
the Society's Confirmation, Cardinal
O'Connell said it is when the words
of the Lord’s prayer—“Thy will be
done” are forgotten and “My will
be done” substituted that a Master
Will comes ar,d a few men dominate
millions. At the time of Ignatius, he
said, “there was disillusion, disinte
gration, everywhere, because every
man sought to excuse his own will
in the name of liberty.” ‘What’ was
needed at that time was pulling to
gether and creating tremendous force
which only unity can bring,” he add
ed, saying Ignatius was the apostle
“to bring that light, that incandes
cent light.” He declared that “my
will be done"—the command of the
tyrant, the command of the totalita
rian—“was causing absolute discord
and chaos then as it is today.”
“This boasting of having our own
way," His Eminence continued, “is
just trying to bluff ourselves. People
are not having their own way. They
cannot have their own way without
complete chaos. For order and law
there muht be obedience. Giving up
our will to God's will, self-renuncia
tion,—that is the keynote of the
founding of the Society of Jesus.
That is why it is the vanguard of the
body of the Church; soldiers of JesuS
Christ, knowing obedience down
through the four centuries from St.
Ignatius, who was a disciple of obe
dience.”
“Either we have the spirit of tyr
anny from without or we choose the
way of St. Ignatius, obedience to
God's laws, and in that obedience we
have complete renunciation which
brings complete satisfaction as well
as its own heaven,” His Eminence
added.
AUSTRIAN ROYAL FAMILY
TO OCCUPY CANADIAN VILLA
QUEBEC, Sept. 27—'The Imperial
Family of Austria is being installed
in the Villa St- Joseph at Berger-
ville.
The Sisters of St. Joan of Arc have
placed the Villa and its surrounding
park at the disposition of the Em
press Zita and her family during
their stay in Canada. Until 1849 it
was a part of the Vive-Regal property
at Spencer Wood.
WASHINGTON,- Knights of Co
lumbus of the Nation’s Capital hon
ored their Patron and the Discoverer
of America at exercises climaxed by
a dinner attended by 400 persons-
Principal speaker at the banquet
was Matthew F. McGuire, Assistant
Attorney General of the United
States, who in his address asserted
that the “divine faith” that inspired
Christopher Columbus must fill the
hearts of Americans if "this last cita
del of freedom” is to survive.
- The invocation was given by the
Very Rev. Arthur A. O’Leary, S. J.,
President of Georgetown University,
and the benefiction by the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Peter Guilday, of the Catholic
University of America.
NEW YORK, — More than 5,009
marchers and spectators gathered un
der the auspices of the Knights of
Columbus at Columbus Circle for the
K. of C. annual commemoration of
Columbus Day.
This was one of several observances
held throughout the city by American
and Italian-American organizations.
At an earlier civic celebration at the
same place, about 10,000 persons
heard Lieutenant Governor Charles
Poletti, of New York, while in a mes
sage to a Columbus Day labor rally
at the New York World's Fair Presi
dent Roosevelt saluted Americans of
Italian origin and Mayor La Guardia
said there is no “racial fifth column”
among Americans of Italian origin.
Father Gillis Cites
Calm of Pontiff in
Face of World Ills
(By N. C. W. C. News Agency)
NEW YORK. — Despite the grave
situation of the world, the Holy
Father “does not grow hysterical”
and while he does not minimize
Present evils, ‘neither does he mag
nify” them, declared the Rev. James
M. Gillis, C. S. P.. editor of The
Catholic World, in the first of his
current series of addresses over the
“Catholic Hour.”
The “Catholic Hour” is broadcast
over the R-ed Network of the Nation
al Broadcasting Company through
Station WEAF here and is produced
by the National Council of Catholic
Men.
Taking as his theme, “Why are ye
fearful, O ye of little faith." Father
Gillis declared that because the Cath
olic Church is a Universal Church
and has a long memory, extending
over 2,000 years, she does not suc
cumb to the pessimism that sees the
end of all things—civilization, relig
ion, culture—as a result of the pres
ent crisis. At least, he added, the
Church does not doubt about her
continuance and that of the civiliza
tion she has created.
“The Church has been here a long
time,” lie went on, “and she is due to
remain a longer time. ‘I am with you
all days,” said her Divine Founder,
‘unto the end of the world.’ We often
call the Church the Bark of Peter.
When a storm on the Lake of Gen-
esareth threatened to engulf the Bark
of Peter and the disciples in alarm
cried ‘Lord, save us, we perish’; the
Master awoke from sleep, or from
seeming sleep, and asked with divine
calm, ‘Why are ye fearful, O ye of
little faith?’
“I dare say that the original Peter
never forgot that mild rebuke. His
faith did not waver again. Neither
does that of his successor, the pres
ent Peter the Pope. The Holv Fath
er does not grow hysterical. He does
not pace up and down the corridors
of the Vatican, crying ‘Woe! All is
lost! This is the most serious crisis
ever known; there never was a time
like this!’ Not that he is apathetic;
not that he blinds his eyes to the
genuine gravity of the situation. He
is awake, and alert. He is moder
ately alarmed. But if he does not
minimize the evil, neither does he
magnify it. He is not only the suc
cessor of Peter: he is vice-regent of
Christ. As such he has taken on
some of the calm, the interior peace,
the mental balance, the emotional
equilibrium of his Master. I suggest
that we profit by his example."