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FIVE NEW CHURCHES FOR THE DIOCESE OF RALEIGH
Bulletins
IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
at the Foreign Office ill Tokyo, Mr.
Yakichiro Suma. spokesman for ihc
government in the sphere of interna
tional relations, assured the Rev.
Dr. Joseph F. Tliorniiig, Special
Correspondent of the N. C. W. C.
News Service that, up to the present
there had been no attempt to elim
inate foreign-born members of the
Catholic Hierarchy in Japan, nor
was there any discernible inclina
tion in official circles to take sucli a
step. Mr. Suma added that in the
state of contemporaneous world af
fairs anything was apt to happen,
but that the respect and esteem in
which Catholic Bishops "and priests,
foreign as well as Japanese, were
held made it extremely unlikely
that governmental policy would re
quire the withdrawal of any of
them.
THE UNITED STATES Housing
Authority, in its official publication
“Public Housing,” gives complete
credit to the Rev. Emmett Mc-
Loughlin, O. F. M., of the Church of
the Immaculate Conception, Phoe
nix, Arizona, for the 506 new USHA
homes now being built in that city.
THE ENROLLMENT AT LOYOLA
University of the South this year
has gained seven per cent in spite of
the abolition of intercollegiate foot
ball at that institution, the Rev. P.
A. Roy. S. J., President of Loyola
declared recently.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH “oc
cupies a strategically important po
sition in fostering and cementing
improved South American relations,”
declares Senator Dennis Chaves of
New Mexico in the current issue of
AMERICA, Catholic review of the
week published in New' York by the
Jesuit Fathers.
A PROTEST TO PREMIER MUS
SOLINI against recent attacks in
Italy directed at the Church and the
Holy Father has been sent by cable
gram on the part of the United Ital
ian Societies of Cincinnati.
SIXTEEN TOWNS visited on 8#
nights and audiences totalling 10,-
025—this is the record achieved last
summer by Catholic “street preach
ers" in Oklahoma, according to a
report submitted to the Most Rev.
Francis C. Kelley, Bishop of Okla
homa City and Tulsa, by the Rev.
Dr. Stephen A. Leven, Pastor of
St. Joseph’s Church, Tonkawa, and
pioneer promoter of the “Aposto-
late of the Street" in Oklahoma.
ONLY RELIGIOUS COMMUNI
TIES established on Rumanian soil
prior to April 22, 1928, are permit
ted to remain in the country and
keep their properties, according to a
new law promulgated there after the
recent change of regime. Also, the
Superiors and all the members must
be Rumanian citizens and reside in
the country. New' religious commu
nities may not be established unless
by special permission of the gov
ernment.
THE REV. DANIEL A. LORD. S.
J.. well known writer and preacher,
will be the speaker at tlie Commun
ion and Breakfast to be held on
Sunday, November 17, as one of the
features of the ninth annual Nation
al Catholic Evidence Conference in
New York. Father Lord is National
Director of the Sodality and Editor
of Queen’s Work.
The principal work of the Evi
dence Guilds is the presentation of
Catholic Truth through street-comer
meetings, although other means,
such as radio and indoor meetings,
are utilized.
THE REV. RODERICK O’SULLI
VAN, who spent eight days and
nights in an open boat in the mid-
Atlantic following the torpedoing of
the City of Benares which was car
rying refugee children to Canada,
had just finished reading his obit
uary notice in the Universe when a
staff correspondent meth im in the
hospital, where the priest, who suf
fered leg injuries and bruises while
assisting littlec hildren into tire
boat, is being treated.
“QUEEN ELIZABETH.’’ by Theo
dore Maynard, is the October selec
tion ot the Catholic Book Club, New
York.
A RECORD NETWORK OF STA
TIONS—106 in all—is currently car
rying the nation-wide “Catholic
Hour,” the National Council of
Catholic Men, producers of the pro
gram announced.
NORTH CAROLINA
CLERGY CHANGED
Father Livelsberger Trans
ferred to Greensboro —
Father Curran Goes to
Durham
(Special to The Bulletin)
RALEIGH, N. C. — The office of
the Chancellor of the Diocese of Ra
leigh has made announcement that
the Rev. Eugene Livelsberger, who
has been serving as assistant to the
Right Rev. Monsignor William F.
O'Brien, pastor of Immaculate Con
ception Church. Durham has been
transferred to St. Benedict's Church,
Greensboro, where he will be assist
ant to the Rev. Cornelius Deihl, O. S.
B.. the pastor.
The Rev. Thomas Curran, who has
been serving as assistant to the Rev.
Francis J. Gorman, pastor of St.
Mary’s Church, Goldsboro, will re-
ulace Father Livelsberger as assist
ant at the Church of the Immaculate
Conception, in Durham.
Father Curran is a native of North
Carolina, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Curran, of Roanoke Rapids. He
was ordained to the priesthood this
year by the Most Rev. Eugene J.
McGuinness in the Cathedral at Ra
leigh.
Father Livelsberger is a Pennsyl-
valian, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
D. Livelsberger, of Hanover. He is
a graduate of Mt. St. Mary’s College,
Emmitsburg, Md., where he also
completed his theological course, hav
ing been ordained at Mt. St. Mary s
Seminary in June, 1939, by the Most
Rev. John M. McNamara. D. D.,
Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore.
TO CEEBRATE MASS
AT VIRGINIA SHRINE
Bishop Ireton Will Officiate
at Aquia Where Jesuit
Missionaries Were Slain
in 1571
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
RICHMOND — At Aquia, Va„
where Catholicity was first known
in the State, the eleventh annual
Field Mass will be celebrated by the
Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton. Coadjutor
Bishop of Richmond, on Sunday, Oc
tober 27, the feast of Christ the King.
The Very Rev. Arthur A. O’Leary,
S. J„ President of Georgetown Uni
versity, will deliver the sermon .at
this shrine of Virginia Catholic his
tory, where stands a memorial erec
ted by the Virginia Students’ Mis
sion Crusade of Virginia to the earl
ier Jesuits who came in 1571 to bring
Christianity to the Indians and were
brutally slain in the vicinity by the
natives because of their teachings.
They were: Luis de Quiros, Jean
Baptista de Segura, priests; Baptista
Mendez. Gabriel De Solois, Christo-
bal Redondo, scholastics; Pedro Li
nares. Gabriel Gomez and Sancho Ze-
ballos, all Spanish missionaries and
all of the Society of Jesus.
The blood of these martyrs flowed
into the Virginia soil near Aquia ov
er three centuries and a half ago, and
the silence of the wilderness with its
sacred dead was not broken again
until in the year 1647, when Giles
Brent, his sisters, aMrgaret and Ma
ry, and other followers from Mary
land took up land at Aquia and es
tablished the first English Catholic
settlement in Virginia.
Nothing today remains of the once
prosperous town of Aquia save the
markers of the graves of these brave
pioneers, and these were lost for
many years in the thicket and under
brush of northern Virginia until the
late Archbishop Dennis J. O’Con
nell purchased the land for the dio
cese and appointed the Rev. Walter
J. Scott to develop the place as a
shrine of Catholic history.
With the assistance of Mrs. P. Jef
ferson Archer, Chairman of the in
dustrial committee of the Catholic
Womans Club of Richmond, sub
scriptions were raised and the great
bronze Crucifix was erected on the
highway between Fredericksburg and
Washington to call attention to the
resting place of these early Catholic
settlers. Later the cemetery was en
closed by descendants of the Brents,
and, after the death of Father Nott,
an altar was erected in his memory in
the burying ground by the priests
of the diocese, under the leadership
of the Rev. Edward L. Stephens as
a fusing place for the Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass.
“America” Poll Shows Southerner
BISHOP OF RALEIGH
Most Rev. Eugene J. McGuinness, D. D., under whose able leadership
the Diocese of Raleigh is becoming known as one of the most progressive
Dioceses in the United States.
NEW PARISHES FOR
LINVILLE, TABOR
CITY. SOUTHPORT
Wrightsviile Church and
Rectory Nearly Completed
—Salisbury Church to B©
Dedicated Next Month
(Special to The Bulletin)
RALEIGH N. C. — His Excellency
the Most Rev. Eugene J. McGuinness,
carrying on the program of construc
tion upon which he embarked when
consecrated Bishop of Raleigh three
years ago, has announced that plans
for the erection of three new churches
in North Carolina are now being
drawn.
The new churches wilt be built at
Southport, Tabor City and Linville.
Southport and Tabor City are mis
sion stations which at present are
being served from Whiteville, where
the Rev. Francis J. Howard is pastor
of the Sacred Heart Church.
Linville is a mission station that is
being served from Spruce Pines,
where the Rev. Stephen Sullivan is
pastor of St. Lucien Church, which
was dedicated by Bishop McGuinness
in july of this year.
The new church at Linville. con
struction of which is to begin at
once, is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Law
rence W. Driscoll, of Charlotte, as a
memorial to their daughter, Miss Pat
ricia Driscoll.
A new church and a rectory is now
nearing completion at Wrightsviile
Beach, where the Rev. Michael J.
Begley is pastor of Star of the Sea
Chapel.
In addition to these is the new
Church of St. Madeleine Sophia at
Salisbury, where the Rev. William
Regnat O. S. B., is pastor, which is
now practically completed and which
will be formally dedicated by Bishop
McGuiness on Sunday, November 3.
In the short tirile that he has been
Bishop of Raleigh, Bishop McGuin
ness has erected seven churches, be
sides those just mentioned, has re
built the Cathedral of the Sacred
Heart in Raleigh, and lifted an $80,-
000 debt from the Orphanage at
Nazareth.
FATHERliLLiSlN
“CATHOLIC HOUR”
Victim, Not Carrier of Bigotry
Noted Panlist in New Series
of Lectures on Nationwide
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—The Southerner “is
a victim and not a carrier of the
disease" of anti-Catholic bigotry, the
Rev. Gerard Donnelly, S. J„ Associate
Editor of “America” Jesuit Fathers’
weekly review, deduces from the
recent poll conducted by the maga
zine to determine the extent of anti-
Catholic feeling in this country.
Analyzing the returns from 159 Ca
tholics clerics in the Southern States.
Father Donnelly in the current issue
of “America”, declares that while a
majority of those replying believe
that antipathy to the Catholic Church
is growing in this country, comments
from the clerics polled seem to in
dicate that Southern bigotry where
it exists is due not to lack of good
will but to lack of knowledge of the
Church and to the ravings of “the
Revelations—quoter who has no other
topic for his sermons than dread of
the Beast of Rome”.
“Besides (our correspondents in
sist) great groups of these people have
never been infected, on at least not
dangerously infected, by horror
preaching on the Scarlet Woman or
other Tom Heflin bugaboos". Father
Donnelly says. ‘As a result these
-groups entertain no deep feeling
about the Church one way or the
other;! they know little good about
her, but on the other hand, litle bad;
they seem willing, and even eager,
to hear Catholic degmas explained.”
Fifty-six percent of the polled
clerics answered “Yes” to the ques
tion, “Is anti-Catholicism growing
throughout the country”, and 57.3 per
cent to the query. “Are you person
ally aware of anti-Catholic incidents or
publications?” However, Father
Donnelly adds, these figures are ac
companied by statements of facts
which “modify the picture essen
tially”. Among these are the fact
that “actual contacts with the enemy
have not exceeded one or two, have
occurred only recently, and have
been only with the Witnesses”, clear
ly implying, he adds, that “anti-
Catholism is not the usual modus
viveudi in the voters’ bailiwick and
perhaps did not exist at all until the
coming of the Rutherforders”.
Many of the respondents, says
Father Donnelly do not see antipathy
to the Church “as a natural instinct
of the Mason-Dixon heart or as a
tradition breathed in under an Ala
bama sky”, but as “something imposed
upon the Southerner by professional
fanatics, scandal-mongers and other
merchants of hate.”
Analysis of the responses from the
Western States where the Western
clergy evenly split regarding the ex
tent and growth of bigotry. Less of
them—48.3 percent—are aware of
bigotry in their own areas.
C0NFRMATI0N CLASSES
IN DIOCESE OF RALEIGH
RALEIGH. N. C.-The Most Rev.
Eugene J. McGuinness, D. D., Bishop
of Raleigh, administered the Sacra
ment of Confirmation to a large class
at St. John the Baptist Church, Roan
oke Rapids, where the Rev- Peter M.
Denges is pastor, on the afternoon of
October 22, and on November 3 will
confirm a class at St. Mary’s Mission,
the Colored parisii in Greensboro,
where the Rev- Gerald Murphy, C. M.,
is the pastor.
STATE DEPT. PROTESTS
BOMBING OF CATHOLIC
MISSIONS IN CHINA
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON, Sept- 23-The State
Department has announced that rep
resentations have been made to the
Japanese Embassy at Peiping con
cerning bombings earlier this month
in the cities of Chihkiang, Chenki and
Luki in China, when American Ca
tholic mission properties were dam
aged-
The American Embassy at Peiping,
it was stated, received word of the
bombings in a message from the Most
Rev. Cuthbert O’Gara. Vicar Aposto
lic of Yuanling. A convent and a
priests’ house at Chihkiang were de
stroyed by direct hits. All of the
mission personnel was reported safe.
Radio Program
(Special to The Bulletin)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Rev.
James M. Willis, C. S. P., Editor of
The Catholic World, noted speaker on
“The Catholic Hour" programs pre
sented each Sunday by the National
Council of Catholic Men, began a
new series on October 6 which will
continue until December 8.
Father Gillis has divided the cur
rent series into two parts, the first,
“Crucial Questions’, has included
thus far: “Why Are Ye Fearful, O
Ye of Little Faith”; “What Is It All
About?”; “Why Must the Innocent
Suffer?”; with “Where Is Thy God
Now?” scheduled lor October 27, and
“When the Son of Man Comes Will
He Find Faith on Earth?” on Novem
ber 3.
The second part of the series is
based on favorite texts from “The
Confessions of St. Augustine” and
includes: November 10, “Thou hast
made us for Thyself and our heart
is restless until it rests in Thee”. No
vember 17: “My own error was my
God; where I found Truth there i
found God”. November 24: “The re
bate raged in my heart myself bat
tling against myself”. December 1:
“Swept up to Thee by Thy Beauty,
tom away from Thee by my own
weight.” December 8: “Too late
have I loved Thee, O Beauty ever
ancient, ever new."’
Music on the program will be by
a unit of the Paulist Choristers.
The nation-wide Catholic Hour was
inaugurated in 1930 by the National
Council of Catholic Men. in cooper
ation with the National Broadcasting
Company. The cost of the presenta
tion for the current year will he $43 -
000, an amount that must be raised by
popular subscription.
A PUBLIC SCHOOL whose enroll
ment has been decreasing steadily has
been rented to the Notre Dame de
Lourdes parish, Lowell. Mass., to help
accommodate parochial school chil
dren. A nominal fee of $1 a year wan
fixed by the School Committed &
approving the “loan" of the buiWhaft-