Newspaper Page Text
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. li TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 30, 1940 issued MONTHLY-$2.» a YEAR
Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia Holds
Twenty-Fifth Annual Convention in Savannah
Apostolic Delegate Pontificates at Convention Mass
this rarely photographed interior of the Cathedral of St. John the Bap-
(ist is beautifully shewn in this view taken during the Solemn Poutificial
M s. celebrated by the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic
lViegatc in the United States, to open the Silver Jubilee Convention of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia. His Excellency "appears on the
throne to the left. The Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh. Bishop of Charleston,
is shown in the pulpit, to the right, as he delivered the sermon at the Mass.
(Photo by Foil?—Courtesy Savannah Morning News.)
Catholic Charities Convention
Completes Sessions in Chicagc
Diocese ol Raleigh to Hold Its
First Annual Teachers f Institute
New York Priest, Widely Known for Welfare Work
Named President—Bishop LeBlond Continues as
Honorary President
CHICAGO — The Rev. Bryan J.
McEntegart, Director of the Child
Care Division of the Catholic Chari
ties of the Archdiocese of New York,
was chosen President of the Nation
al Conference of Catholic Charities
at the closing session of its twenty-
sixth annual meeting here.
The Most Rev. Charles Hubert Le
Blond, Bishop of St. Joseph, was
re-elected Honorary President. Other
officers chosen were: Vice - Presi
dents'. George Strake, Houston;
Charles C. Kerwin, Chicago; Miss
Jane Hoe.y, Washington, D. C.; the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas J. O'Dwyer.
Los Angeles, and Miss Agnes G.
Regan, Washington, D. C.; Secretary,
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John O’Grady,
Washington, D. C„ and Treasurer.
Thomas F. Farrell. New York City.
Elected to the Executive Commit
tee were: Miss Katherine E. Grif
fith. Hartford; John E. Riley, St,
Louis: Miss Clara Swieczkowska, De
troit; the Rev. William A. O'Connor,
Chicago, and the Rev. Ralph Glov
er. Newark. N. J.
The Committe on Resolutions of-
ferred resolutions of gratitude to His
Holiness Pope Pius XII for his apos
tolic Benediction; to His Excellency
the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanna Ci-
cognana, Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, for his message of en-
lement: to the Most Rev. Sam-
Stritchf Archbishop of Chica
go and host to the convention, for
Iris hospitality and generosity; to the
Most Rev. Karl J. Alter, Bishop of
Toledo; to the Most Rev. Moses E.
Kiley, Archbishop of Milwaukee; to
Bishop LeBlond and to the Most
Rev. Vincent J. Ryan, Bishop of
Bismarck.
APOSTOLIC DELEGATE TO
CANADA VISITS GEORGIA
SAVANNAH. Ga.—His Excellen
the Most Reverend Ildebran
Antoniutti, D. D., Apostolic Deleg;
to Canada, who was a classmate
the Most Reverend Gerald P. O’Ha
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta at t
Roman Seminary in Rome, Italy, w
recently a guest of Bishop O’Hara
the Bishop’s Residence In Savannah
FATHER GREELEY TO PREACH
.IlT
AT SAVANNAH*”CATHEDRAL
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Right Rev.
Monsignor T. James McNamara, rec
tor of the Cathedral of St. John the
Bapitst, has announced that the Rev.
James A. Greely, S. J., of the Sacred
Heart Church, Augusta, will deliver a
series of sermons at the Forty Hours
Devotion which will begin’ at the
Cathedral on the first Sunday of Ad
vent.
Noted Educators Appearing on Program of Sessions Be
ing Held at Sacred Heart Orphanage, Nazareth
(Special to The Bulletin)
RALEIGH, N. C.—The First Annual
Teachers’ Institute of the Diocese of
Raleigh is being held at the Sacred
Heart Orphanage, Nazareth, Novem
ber 29-30. under the patronage of the
Most Rev. Eugene J. McGuinness, D.
D.. Bishop of Raleigh, with the Rev.
Edward T. Gilbert, M. A.. Superin
tendent of Schools of Eastern North
Carolina, presiding-
The Institute will open with a Pon
tifical Low Mass, celebrated by Bish
op McGuinness, at which the sermon
will be delivered by the Rev. John A.
Weidinger, Ph D„ of Mount St- Mary's
College, Emmitsburg. Maryland.
Speakers at the first session will be
the Right Rev. Monsignor T. James
McNamara, Superintendent of
Schools, Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta,
on “Why a Teachers’ Institute;” and
Sister Mary Brendan, I. H. M„ M. A.,
of Marywood College, Scranton,
Pennsylvania, on “Vitalizing the
Teaching of Religion.”
At the afternoon session the pro
gram will include: “The Inside of
Catholic Education,” by the Right
Rev. Monsignor Joseph V. S. Mc-
Clancy, LL.D., Superintendent of
Schools, Diocese of Brooklyn; “Cath
olic Education an Asset to the Na
tion.” by the Right Rev- John I. Bar
rett,-Ph. D-, LL.D. J. C. L., Superin
tendent of Schools, Archdioceses of
Baltimore and Washington; 'The True
Meaning of Liberty,” by Sister M.
Concilia, O. P* Ph,D„ Mount St.
Mary-on-the-Hudson, Newburgh, New
York; and a discussion led by Paul
D. Williams, Executive Secretary,
The Catholic Conference of the
South.
The Rev. Edward T. Gilbert will
celebrate a Requiem Mass for deceas
ed Sisters on the morning of the sec
ond day of the Institute, and the pro
gram for the morning session will
include talks by the Rev- Edward A.
Ryan, S. J., Ph D.. College of the Sa
cred Heart, Woodstock, Md., on “Vi
talizing the Teaching of History;” by
the Rev. Cuthbert E. Allen, O. S. B.,
M. A.. Rector, vice-president, Bel
mont Abbey College, Belmont, N. C.,
on “Catholic Education in North Car
olina; and by Sister M. Marguerite, S.
N. D., Notre Dame College. Cleve
land. Ohio, on “Vitalizing the Social
Studies.’”
At the afternoon session the Rev-
George W. Johnson, Ph D.. Depart
ment of Education, The Catholic Uni
versity of America, Washington, will
speak on “Catholic Education's
Meaning to the American Democra
cy;” with a panel discussion on the
subject of “Teaching Citizenship in
the Catholic Schools,” which will be
led by Paul Williams with the Rev.
Thomas J- Quigley, M. A., Superin
tendent of Schools, Diocese of Pitts
burgh, Monsignor McNamara, Father
Johnson, Father Weidinger, and Sis
ter Marguerite taking part.
The Institute will close, with Bene
diction of the Blessed Sacrament.
GATHERING HONORED
BY ATTENDANCE OF
APOSTOLIC DELEGATE
NOTED SPEAKERS ON
CONVENTION PROGRAM
Bernard J.. Kane, Atlanta,
Succeeds Dr. Broderick as
President of Georgia Lay
men’s Association
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga. — On Sunday,
October 27. the Feast of Christ the
King, members of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia assem
bled in Savannah for their twenty-
fifth annual convention, and while
in the course of a quarter of a cen
tury the Association has held many
successful meetings, there has not
been since that meeting in Macon in
1916, when the Association was found
ed, any annual convention .which
would surpass in splendor the con
vention that has just been concluded
here.
Seldom before have Savannah
1 Catholics seen a thirty-hour period
so full of color, rich religious ser
vices and oratory, and brilliant so
cial functions, combined in the time
that elapsed from the arrival of His
Excellency the Most Rev. Amleto
Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Del
egate to the United Stataes on Satur
day afternoon, until Sunday night,
when the delegates left Savannah,
bound for their scattered homes, and
His Excellency departed on his re
turn journey to Washington.
The spacious Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist was thronged with a con
gregation that included a number of
non-Catholic civic leaders and public
officials, for the Solemn Pontifical
Mass which was celebrated by the
Apostolic Delegate, with the Most
Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D. J. U.
D., Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta; the
Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh. D. D.,
Bishop of Charleston; the Most Rev.
Eugene J. McGuinness, D. D.,
Bishop of Raleigh, the Rt. Rev. Mon
signor P. J. McGill, Vcar Capitulor
of the Diocese of St. Augustine, and
other prelataes and priests attending
in the sanctuary.
BISHOP OF CHARLESTON
DELIVERS SERMON
His Excellency the Most Reverend
Emmet M. Walsh, Bishop of Charles
ton, formerly a priest of the Diocese
of Savannan-Atianta, preached the
sermon at the Mass, and traced the
details.of a campaign of bigotry run
ning rife in Georgia at the time the
Catholic Laymen's Association was
organized, and how the association
eventually achieved a distinguished
success in its efforts to “bring about
a friendlier feeling among Georgians,
irrespective of creed”.
The Right Reverend Monsignor T.
James McNamara, Rector of the Ca
thedral, read the announcements.
At the conclusion of the Mass
Archbishop Cicognani imparted the
Papal Blessing, to which is attached
a plenary indulgence. Conditions
necessary to gain the indulgence hav
ing been first outlined by the Very
Rev. Monsignor Leo Binz. D. D.. Ph.
D.. secretary of the Apostolic Delega
tion in Washington.
Attending prelates included the
Right Rev. Monsignor Leo Binz, Sec
retary to the Apostolic Delegation,
Washington; the Right Rev. William
Barry, V. G„ Miami Beach; the Right
Rev. William Mullally, Daytona
Beach.
Among the attending clergy were
the Very Rev. Dan J. McCarthy, V.
G., Columbus; the Very Rev. Martin
C. Murphy. Columbia, S. C.: the
Very Rev. Ignatius Lissner. S. M. A.,
Tenfly, N. J.; the Very Rev.. Boni
face Bauer, O. S. B.. Savannah: the
Very Rev. James J. Grady. Savan
nah; the Rev. Peter Paul O'Sullivan,
S. J.. Miami; the Rev. Joseph L. Darn,
S. J.. Spring Hill. Alabama; the Rev.
Joseph Callaghan. Brunswick; the
Rev. Thomas L. Finn. Atlanta; the
Rev. Charles McBennett. O M. I., At
lanta; the Rev. James H, Grady,
Rome; the Rev. Thomas A. Brennan,
Albany; the Rev. Peter McDonnell S.
J., Macon; Rev. H. A. Sehonhardt, At
lanta; the Rev. James H. Conlin, Sa
vannah; the Rev. James Croke, Sa
vannah; the Rev. Thomas I Sheehan,
Savannah; the Rev. John Mullins. Sa
vannah; the Rev. Joseph W. Kava-
naugh, Savannah: the Rev. Daniel
Bourke, Savannah; the Rev. Gustav;
(Continued on Rage 8-An u jj