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ACCEPTANCE BY THE NA
TIONS of the world of an Interna
tional Bill of Rights is proposed by
the Kev. Wilfred Parsons, S. J..
Catholic University of America, in
an appendix to a report on “Ameri
ca’s Peace Aims’’ just issued in
Washington by seven committees of
the Catholic Association for Inter
national Peace, which calls for the
respect of both national and per
sonal rights.
Bishop Hurley Terms Nazi Danger
America’s Most Immediate Peril
In Nationwide Broadcast,
Bishop of St. Augustine
Urges Harmony With Civil
Authority
THE MAHARAJAH OF TRAVAN-
CORE. one of the foremost Hindu
rulers of India, has contributed
valuable timber to be used in the
construction of the Bishop Coola-
paramhil Memorial Ward attached to
the District Hospital at Kottayani.
The .Most Rev. Alexander Chooola-
parambil. Bishop of Kottayani, re
cently celebrated the silver jubilee
of his consecration. Hindus. Moslems
and non-Catholic Christians have
liberally subscribed to the fund for
the erection of the hospital ward.
IN THE FIRST OF FOUR TALKS
with which the B. B. C. is marking
the golden jubilee of the encyclical
Rerunt Novarum and the tenth anni
versary of Quadragesimo Anno, the
Archbishop of York (Anglican)
spoke of “these two great pronounce
ments for which all Christians
should be grateful.”
“CATHERINE OF ARAGON” by
Garrett Mattingly, is the July choice
of the Catholic Book Club in New
York. It is published by Little,
Brown and Company, of Boston.
ARNOLD LUNN, back in England
after a visit to the United States,
asserted at the annual meeting of
the Convert's Aid Society that con
vert clergymen of the present day
were martyrs whose heroism _ “is of
a finer order than the heroism of
those who have stuck out the bom
bardment of London.”
The Convert’s Aid Society, whose
secretary is F. W. Chambers, K. S.
G., himself a convert clergyman,
gives financial help to non-Catliolic
ministers who embrace the Faith.
He reports that grants during the
year totalled $S3,500—about $13,000
less than the previous year.
THE CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE
BAPTIST, Kenmore. N. Y., founded
over a century ago by the Veil.
John Nepomucene Neumann, later
to become Bishop of Philadelphia,
wilt have no heating worries next
winter regardless of coal strikes or
petroleum shortage. The church,
school and rectory are all heated
by natural gas draw'n from three
wells on the church property.
THE REV. GERALD O. BECK, O.
F. M., of the Monastery of St. An
thony of Padua, is now stationed
at Fort Bragg, N. C., as a United
States Army Chaplain. Father Beck
was until recently assistant at the
Church of St. Clement, St. Bernard,
Ohio.
PROFESSOR CHARNES N.
USCHKA, of the Department of
Education of Loyola University, Los
Angeles, has been appointed Catho
lic technical adviser to Foundation
Films, Inc., which is now engaged
in the production of 24 bibical pic
tures.
THE UNITED DESTINY, in hap
piness or misfortune, of all the
members of the great human family
is rendered clearer every day. His
Holiness Pope Pius XII declared
when he received in audience
Ihinmedes Arias Schreiber, Peru's
new Ambassador to the Holy See.
Pope Pius said it is of vital im
portance to all nations, and especial
ly those of lesser armaments, to
work for the reestablishment of In
ternational Law on a just and moral
ly sound basis.
Former Anglican Cleric
Baptised a Catholic
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ALBUQUERQUE. N. M.. —Michael
Francis Wills, a former member of
the Anglican Order of St. Francis,
was baptized a Catholic in Sacred
Heart Church here by the Rev.
Francis P. Cassidy, of this city.
Mr. Wills, who was attached to the
Episcopalian community in Hot
Springs when he decided to enter the
Catholic Church, was born in Corn-
well, England, 40 years ago. The Or
der of St. Francis, which he entered
as a young man, aims toward a re
vival of Franciscan ideals in the
Anglican Church.
He is now residing at Iyiurdes
School, diocesan minor seminary and
trade school, and is engaged in musi
cal instruction and direction of the
school’s choir.
(By N. C. W. t. News Service)
WASHINGTON,—The people of the
United States should think and act in
harmony and obedience to our con
stituted civil authority, the Most Rev.
Joseph F. Hurley, Bishop of St. Aug
ustine, declared in an address broad
cast over a nationwide network of
the Columbia Broadcasting System.
■ Bishop Hurley said the Nazi danger
is the most immediate peril in Amer
ica and to the Christian civilization
the world over.
Speaking on “Papal Pronounce
ments and American Foreign Policy,”
the Bishop said there is nothing in
Papal pronouncements, despite asser
tions to the contrary in some Ameri
can circles, which would deter us
from taking all measures necessary to
our national defense.
After surveying the development
of American foreign policy in recent
years. Bishop Hurley asserted it as his
personal conviction that “since our
problem is primarily a strategic one,
it should be left to the Commander-
in-Chief who alone, in constant, loyal
communication with the Congress
and in consultation with his military
and naval advisers, is capable of
bringing us safely through the dang
ers which encompass us.”
EPOCH OF CRISIS
“I have an abiding faith in govern
ment by the people,” Bishop Hurley
said, “but I do not believe that ques
tions of national security, in an epoch
of crisis, should be submitted directly
to them. It would be a lumbering pro
cess involving fatal delay, and fatal
leakage of plans to potential enemies.”
Treating of “the latest development:
the Russo-German war,” Bishop Hur
ley said: /■
“On the subject of Communism the
Christian stand has been defined by
Pius XI in his Encyclical on Atheistic
Communism. On the subject of Na
tional Socialism it has been defined
by the same Pontiff in his Encyclical
to Germany. I am convinced that
these two documents give us the one
safe guide to the ideological questions
involved in this war, which has pitted
Nazi against Communist. The Nazi
and his sympathizers over here are
trying to make out that it is a holy
crusade against Communism. Crusado
forsooth: Not God, but the enemy of
God. wills it; its standard is not the
Cross, but the swastika which a
great Pontiff called the foe of the
Cross of Christ; the rape of Poland is
scarcely a recommendation for
Christian Knights; and the recluse of
Berchtesgaden is badly cast for the
role of Peter the Hermit. The bald
facts of tile ’crusade’ are these’- On
Sunday morning, June 22, the Nazis,
in violation of a treaty, launched an
unprovoked and undeclared war of
aggression against the Communists,
their former partners in crime. Amer
ica’s attitude towards this new war
should not be swayed by Red or Nazi
propaganda; it must be based on pure
ly strategic considerations. In point
of urgency the Nazi remains Enemy
No. 1 of America and of the world.
Bishop Hurley said we have great
need of national unity, but that there
is only one center around which, as
a nation, we can rally. That center is
Washington, he declared. Speaking of
the authorities of the country— the
President and the Congress—Bishop
Hurley said they are “patriotic men,
bent on the protection of our be
loved land, —I have confidence in
them.”
DEFENDING CIVILIZATION
Giving what he called “a brief con
spectus of the Papal attitude towards
the issue of this war” and its anteced
ents. Bishop Hurley said:
“1 shall leave it to you, my hear
ers. to judge if it gives any comfort
to those who have loosed the flood oi
destruction and hatred upon the
world; if it can, by any stretch of
imagination, be construed as lending
approval - to those publicists who
would deter us from defending our
■Christian civilization against the
might of embattled paganism.”
Throughout the address ran th
theme of confidence in the President
and the Congress, and of discipline
and obedience to authority as the
only means of achieving national uni
ty in the midst of a grave national
crisis. ,
The Bishop insisted that he was ex
pressing his own views. “Due to my
past connections with the PopaJ
Secretariate of State,” he said, I
deem it well to say at the outset that
this address is delivered without any
mandate from the Holy See; that T
use only documents of public record;
and that I engage only my own au
thority,.” ... .
“The American people will be
wise,” Bishop Hurley said, “if they
turn themselves as individuals to the
task of moral rearmament. The years
which lie ahead will probe us with
unrelenting fingers to find and to
International Conference of
Newman Clubs in Atlanta
Most Rev. Joseph P. Hurley
Religion to Be
Taught in Public
Schools of Brazil
‘Training of Catholic Lead
ers” Theme cf Sessions
Sponsored by Southeast
Province and Georgia Tech
Newman Club
ADDRESSES NEWMAN
CLUB CONFERENCE
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
RIO DE JANERIO, — ‘ Religion is
one of the strongest educational
forces.” Gustavo Capanema. Brazil
ian Minister of Public Education, de
clared in a recent press conference
summoned to hear him explain the
reform of Brazilian education which
he is undertaking. He declared that
the cooperation of the family and of
the Church is absolutely necessary
for the achievement of his aim. which
is to unify the country's. educational
tendencies.
Declaring that Brazilian educa’ion
had suffered severely from the con
tradictory measures in force within
the last 20 years, the Minister said:
“We must forget the ancient pre-
sumtion in favor of secularism in the
school.”
An educational system based on
religion, he declared, is the best sys
tem "to form workers and patriots."
“On the basis of these considera
tions.’’ he said, "the present Brazil
ian Government has put an end to
the rule of secularism and is intro
ducing religion as an educational
factor in-the school life of this coun
try.” , ,
The new policy has been much
commented upon in the press, and a
leading paper of the country, O Esta-
tlo de Sao Paolo, said editorially that
"we can only gain in rapprochement
to God", under the new policy. "We
can quote,” Estado said, “the ex
ample of France, which though nega
tive, is very instructive. The agnos
ticism of the state was the cause of
the downfall of this once powerful
and glorious nation.”
Report Wholesale Arrests
of Clergy in Jugoslavia
By GEORGE BARNARD
(London Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service).
LONDON. —Practically no services
are being held in the churches of
Jugoslavia owing to the wholesale
arrest of the Catholic clergy, reports
the Polish Ministry of Information
here.
The same source says that profes
sors of theology and those engaged in
Catholic Action have also been ar
rested, and that most of the monas
teries and convents have been shut.
Places in which the houses of
Capuchins, Salesians and other Or
ders and Congregations have been
closed are given as: Marybor, Celje,
Skofja, Nazarja. Trojica, Goricy,
Brezicy, Camnitz, Brezje and Loki.
The Bishop of Lavant, the Most
Rev. John Tomazic, has disappear
ed from his residence at Marybor.
the Polish Ministry of Information
says, adding that the famous pilg
rimage center of Brezja is deserted.
(By The Associated Press)
ATLANTA, Ga.—With His Excel
lency the Most R'ev. Gerald P.
O'Hara, D. D.. J., U. D„ Bishop of
Savannah - Atlanta, as Honorary
Chairman, the twenty-i'ixth annual
International Conference of Newman
Clubs was held here July 20, 21, and
22, under the sponsorship of the
Southeast Province and the Georgia
Tech Newman Club
“Training of Catholic Leaders
was the theme of the conference,
which attracted several hundred rep
resentatives of Newman Clubs from
twenty-five states.
On Sunday morning, July 20, the
Conference opened with a Pontifi
cal Low Mass, celebrated at the Ca
thedral of Christ the King by Bishop
O Hara, the sermon being delivered
by the Rev. Donald C. Cleary, Chap
lain of the Newman Club Federation,
of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Following the Mass, the Newman
Club of the University of Georgia
Evening School was host at a break
fast served in the auditorium of the
Cathedral Parish.
Bishop O'Hara addressed the dele
gates to the conference at the lunch
eon on Sunday at the Ansley Hotel.
Victor Baran, president of the Geor
gia Tech Newman Club, presiding.
At the dinner given on Sunday
evening, Willoughby E. Beaudry pre
sided, and presented the Rev. Vin
cent Mooney, C. S. C , Youth Direc
tor of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference, Washington, D. C., the
principal speaker.
The conference theme: _ ’Training
Catholic Leaders’, was discussed at
the evening session on Sunday, with
the Rev. Raymond Murray. Chaplain
of the Newman Club of the Univer
sity of Buffalo, acting as moderator.
At the conclusion of the discussion
an enjoyable program of entertain
ment was presented.
Monday’s sessions were opined
with Mass at the Sacred Heart
Church. William J. Hurley, presi
dent of the Newman Club Federa
tion, presided. At the luncheon on
Monday, at which the speaker was
the Right Rev. Monsignor T. James
McNamara, Superintendent of Schools
for the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta.
John P. Runey, of the College of
Charleston Newman Club, and chair
man of the Southeastern Province,
presided. An * Information Please
program followed the luncheon.
BISHOP OF ROCHESTER
ADDRESSES CONFERENCE
His Excellency the Most Rev. James
E. Kearney, D. D„ Bishop of Roches
ter, addressed the conference at the
formal banquet held on Monday eve
ning. Following the banquet lie
Chaplains in attendance at the con
ference held a special meeting, and
later in the evening the delegates
were guests at a formal dance.
On Tuesday morning, following
Mass at the Sacred Heart Church,
there was another general session,
after which luncheon was served.
The Right Rev. Monsignor Joseph E.
Moylan, Rector of the Cathedral of
Christ the King, being the luncheon
spcsilvcr.
Another general session was held
on Tuesday afternoon, followed by
Benediction of the Blessed Sacra
ment at the Sacred Heart Church,
with the Rev. Bernard F. Brady,
O M. I., Chaplain of the Georgia
Tech Newman Club, as the celebrant.
An “open house” at the Georgia
Tech Newman Club House on North
Avenue Tuesday night, brought the
conference to a close.
The Georgia Tech Newman Club,
on the conference program, express
ed sincere appreciation to Bernard
M. Kane, Hughes Spalding, John M.
Harrison, David Lewis, Mrs. Reyburn
L. Watkins and Mrs. E. G. Beaudry.
exploit our moral weaknesses. A
democracy above all forms of gov
ernment. must find its strength in
the virtue of the people; its greatest
danger is decadence from within. It
is my most earnest prayer that we
may set ourselves with a will to the
task of sanctifying ourselves, our
homes and our public life, to die end
that in these days of trial and
reckoning we may be and remain a
Christian example among the na
tions. a people acceptable to Almighty
God.” _ .. .
Death in Normandy
of Sister of the
“Little Flower**
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
VICHY—Sister Franchise Therese,
the former Leonie Martin, sister _ of
St. Therese of the Child Jesus, died
at Caen, in Normandy, at the age of
78. She was a Visitation nun and
the only member of the family who
did not enter the Carmel at Lisieux.
The eldest of the family, Marie,
who became Sister Marie de Sacre
Coeur, died in January, 1940. Two
sisters survive: Mother Agnes de
Jesus, Prioress of the Carmel, and
Sister Genevieve de la Ste. Face et
de la Ste. Therese.
BISHOP KEARNEY
The Most Rev. James E. Kearney.
D. D., Bisliop of Rochester, who ad
dressed die Twenty-sixth Annual In
ternational Conference of Newman
Clubs at the formal banquet which
was one of the highlights of die
gathering in Atlanta.
Officers Chosen at
Atlanta Conference
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—At the closing
business session of the Twenty-Sixth
Annual International Conference ot
Newman Clubs, held at the Ansley
Hotel here on July 22, William J.
Hurley, of the College ot the City ot
New York, was reelected president
of the Newman Club Federation.
Other officers named were Ann
Metzgar, of the University ot Cin
cinnati. vice-president; Oliver Judge,
of Boston Law School, treasurer;
Donald Purcell, Las Vegas. New Mex
ico, corresponding secretary; Rita
Raley. George Washington Univer
sity, Washington, D. C., recording sec
retary.
Virginia Hassett, of Hunter College,
New York; Lucile Keating. Welles
ley College. Wellesley, Mass., and
John O’Brien. Brooklyn College,
Brooklyn, N. Y„ were elected to the
Board of Governors.
The Rev. Donald C. Clary, Resi
dent Chaplain at Cornell University,
Ithaca. N. Y., will continue as Chap
lain of the Federation of Newman
Clubs.
London Convent,
Near Tyburn Tree,
Escapes Bombing 0 :
BY GEORGE BARNAHR.
(Loudon Correspondent, N. C. Vf, C.
News Service)
LONDON.—The convent in which
the Superior gave Holy Communion
to the nuns while flames were de
stroying the house next door is the
one at Tyburn, it may now be re
vealed.
Tyburn Convent faces Hyde Park
near the Marble Arch and is a few
yards from the site of Tyburn Tree
' where many of the English martyxs
suffered death. _ J
During a heavy raid incendiaries
fired neighboring property, and as
the flames swept closer the Supe
rior's thoughts turned to saving the
Blessed Sacrament. She called the
nuns to the chapel, where day and
night watching is maintained for the
conversion of England, and opened
tiie tabernacle.
Observers say that the wind
changed. At any rate the fire, which
gutted two large houses to the east
of the convent, .was put out. and the
convent 'suffered only small damage
from water poured in by fire fight
ers.
When bombing started in London
the convent W3S hit and the nuns
went to tlie country at the request of
His Eminence Arthur Cardinal Kins
ley. Soon they obtained permission
to return.
Today they are taking their re«s*
lar turns of adoration befosa Uje
*
Blessed Sacrament. Tonight
be the same.