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Published by the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia “To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed” VOL. XXI. No. 10 THIRTY TWO PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 26, 1940 issued MONTHLY—$2.00 a YEAB *** 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-