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Published by the
Catholic Lay
men’s Association
of Georgia
nlUlin
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed
VOL. xxil. No. 9 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 27, 1941
ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR.
Annual Convention ol Catholic
Lay men s Association of Georgia
to Be Held in Rome, October 26
Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D., J. U. D., Bishop of
Savannah-Atlanta, Will Celebrate Convention Mass
and Deliver Sermon—Mrs. Frank- Shreed, Philadel
phia, and Richard Reid, New York, to Be Convention
Speakers—President Bernard J. Kane Urges^ Mem
bers to Attend—Rome Branch, Headed by B. S. Fahy
Plans Program of Entertainment
Congregation of Soldiers Fills Macon Church
(Special to The Bulletin)
ROME, Ga.—Elaborate preparations
are being made here for the recep
tion and entertainment of those at
tending the annual convention of
The Catholic Layman's Association
of Georgia which will be held in
Home on Sunday, October 26, the
Feast of Christ the King.
Members of the Rome Branch are
enthused at the designation of Rome
as the convention city for the annual
meeting which will mark the com
pletion of twenty-five years' effort
on the part of the Laymen's Associa
tion "to promote a better feeling
among Georgians, irrespective of
creed." They are deeply gratified that
the officers of the Association ac
cepted the invitation to meet in Rome
which was extended through the
Rev. James H. Grady, pastor of St.
Mary’s Church here.
All details of the convention pro
gram have not yet been completed,
but it has been announced the Most
Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D.D.. J U.D.
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta. will
celebrate the Mass which will open
the convention, and will deliver the
sermon.
MRS. FRANK SHEED.
CONVENTION SPEAKER
The committee in charge of the
program is particularly pleased to be
able to announce that Mrs. Frank
Sheed. of Philadelphia, has accepted
i an invitation to be one of the speak
ers at the convention.
Mrs. Sheed, who was one of the
founders of the Catholic Evidence
Guild in England, was one of the
pioneers among Catholic lay women
to engage in street speaking, and
has on many occasions explained the
doctrines and teachings of the Catho
lic Church to the throngs that gath
ered in Hyde Park, in London.
Under her maiden name, Maizie
Ward, Mrs. Sheed is an author of
international note. She is the author
of "Insurrection versus Resurrection,"
“The English Way.” "Catholic Evi
dence Training Otuline.” and other
volumes. With Mr. Sheed she is a
partner in the publishing firm of
Sheed and Ward, of New York and
London.
Keen of intellect, and a brilliant
speaker. Mrs. Sheed is certain to
captivate her audience on this, her
first appearance in the South just as
Mr. Sheed did those who heard him
at the convention in Savannah last
year.
Richard Reid, now Editor of The
Catholic News, of New York, for
merly executive secretary of the
Ctholic Laymen's Association, and
former editor of The Bulletin, has
lost none of his interest in the Catho
lic Laymen’s Association since leav
ing Georgia, and his return to speak
at the convention to be held in Rome
next month is an evidence of his
continued interest in its work.
The morning session of the conven
tion, at which Bernard J. Kane, of
Atlanta, president of the Laymen's
Association, will preside, will be de
voted to the reports of officers and
committees and other business. This
will be followed by a luncheon at
which only a few brief talks will be
made in order that the afternoon
session may be completed early
enough to allow the delegates to be
on the return journey to their homes
before dark.
ROME BRANCH TO BE
HOST AT BUFFET SUPPER
At the conclusion of the afternoon
session, during which the annual
election t>f officers will be held, the
members of the Rome Branch will
entertain the visitors at a buffet
supper.
Every effort is being made to in
terest the young Catholic men and
women of the Diocese of Savannah-
Atlanta in the work of the Laymen's
Association, and Bishop O’Hara has
in a special appeal urged that as
many young people as possible be in
attendance at the convention in
Rome. The younger generation, in
particular, will be entertained at a
dance on the evening previous to the
convention by the Santa Maria Club,
the Catholic Youth Organization of
Rome. Miss Lucille Poppalardo is
president of the Santa Marie Club,
and the other officers are Miss Alice
Corbitt, secretary, and Miss Dorothy
Hubbard, treasurer.
The dance will follow a reception
which will be held earlier in the eve
ning.
Officers of the Rome Branch, which
will be host to the 1941 convention,
are- B. S. Fahy,- president: J. F. Cor
bitt vice-president; Joseph Deprima,
vice-president: Mrs. W. R. Kelley,
vice-president; Mrs. George B. Hor
ton, secretary, and Richard L. Hack-
ett. treasurer. The Board of Governors
includes L. V. Curran, Albert F.
Fahy, Roger W. Hackett, Miss Edna
Lackey, Mrs. Mary Mann, Miss Mar
garet Miller. Joseph W. Trommer-
hauser, Joseph L. Turbidy, of Rome;
Robert Ford, of Cartersville; Dr. W.
H. Lucas, of Cedartown, and Miss
Alice Wrench, of Dalton. The con
vention committee chairmen are: J.
L. Turbidy, entertainment: Miss
Jane Fahy, supper; Mrs. Robert Gor
don, music; Mrs. Sumpter Puryear,
decorations; Mrs. George Horton, reg
istrations, and W. D. Birdsong, trans
portation.
Every parish and every parish or
ganization in the Diocese of Savan
nah-Atlanta is entitled to appoint
two delegates, a man and a woman,
to te Laymen’s conventhion, and all
members of te Laymen s Association
are invited and urged to attend.
FORREST HOTEL
CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS
For the information of those who
anticipate attending the convention,
the committee in Rome has an
nounced that single rooms, with bath,
are available at the Forrest Hotel,
the convention headquarters, from
S2.25 per day and up: double rooms,
with bath. $3.25. $4 and $5. At the
Greystone Hotel, the rates for single
rooms, with bath, are $2.25, and foi
double rooms, with bath $4 and $4.do.
At the Third Avenue Hotel, the rates
range upward from $1.75 for rooms
with bath.
THE FIRST USO CENTER operated
bv the Women’s Division of the Na
tional Catholic Community Service
for women in defense industry was
dedicated in Hartford, Conn., Sept.
20, by the Most Rev. Maurice r •
McAuUffe, Bishop of Hartford.
The new center will provide social
facilities and a recreational program
for the hundreds of girls who have
flocked to ttie area to work in the
arms and munition factories.
THE REV. VINCENT C. DONO
VAN, O. P-, President of the Catholic
Thought Association, is one of three
American clergymen who have
flown to Britain under the auspices
of the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews to study the effects
of war on religious and social trends
there. With Father Donovan are
Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, Presbyterian
minister and president of the Na
tional Conference of Christians and
Jews, and Rahbie Morris S. Lazaron,
of Baltimore, trustee of the Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY’S year
long celebration of her one hundredth
anniversary was concluded Sept. 17,
after three days of the most bril
liant ceremonies ever held at that
institution. His Excellency the Most
Rev. Amlcto - Giovanni Cicoguani.
Apostolic Delegate to the United
States was among the 15 persons upon
whom honorary degrees were con
ferred. Lieut- Gen. Hugh A. Drum,
commander of the First Army of the
United States, was another so honor
ed. Governor Herbert H. Lehman,
of New York, and Nelson Rockefeller
were among the non-Catholics upon
whom Fordham conferred degrees in
connection mith the centenary
observance.
ARCHBISHOP CURLEY was cele
brant of the Pontifical Requiem Mass
at the funeral of the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Charles F. Morrissey, of Baltimore.
Ordained in 1908, Monsignor Mor
rissey had the remarkable record of
bringing an estimated 1,400 converts
into the Church. He was a fellow
student at St. Mary’s Seminary of
Bishop Ireton, of Richmond, who de
livered the sermon at tlie funeral
Mass.
SPECIAL PRAYERS throughout
the month of October to Our Lord,
through the intercession of the Queen
of the Holy Rosary, that the days of
trial for the Church and poor human
ity may be shortened”, are asked for
by His Holiness Pope Pius XfiL
Nearly a thousand soldiers from Camp Wheeler and C ocliran Field, members of the Holy Name Society, filled
the pews of the spacious St Joseph’s Church in Macon, cn Sunday, September 14. when a special Mass was cele
brated for them by the Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara. Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta. Every man in the congrega
tion approached Holy Communion. Soldiers in uniform, who served as altar boys, may be seen in the sanctuary
to the left of Bishop O’Hara and the assistaing priests.— (Photo by Private Dick Oliver of Camp Wheeler—
Courtesy of The Macon Telegraph).
New York Prison
Chapel Dedicated
to “Good Thief”
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
DANNEMORA. N. Y. — Clinton
State Prison's new chapel, built en
tirely by 200 inmates, was dedicated
here following a Solemn Pontifical
Mass celebrated by the Most Rev.
Francis J. Monaghan, Bishop of Og-
densburg. Among those attending
were the Most Rev. Edmund F. Gib
bons, Bishop of Albany, and the Most
Rev. Joseph Guy, Bishop of Gravel-
burg, Canada.
Named the Church of the Good
Thief, the new chapel was erected
stone by stone by the prisoners over
a period of three years.
Messages of congratulation were re
ceived from His Excellency the Most
Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani,'
Apostolic Delegate to the United
States, President Roosevelt, Governor
Lehman, of New York, and others.
Archbishop Cicognani’s message con
veyed the Apostolic Blessing of His
Holiness Pope Pius XU.
In the afternoon at Benediction
Bishop Monaghan administered the
Sacrament of Confirmation to 47 pris
oners. In a brief address, Bishop Mon
aghan said the Church is proof that
“there is no such thing as the for
gotten man so far as the Catholic
Church is concerned. "
In the sermon at the Mass, the
Rev. Morgan J. O’Brien, of the New
York Apostolate Mission Band, prais
ed the Rev. Ambrose Hyland, Cath
olic chaplain of the prison, saying the
inmates had come to love him as a
“right guy”. “You men who worked
on this building”. Father O'Brien
said, “you didn't want it to be easy,
did you? Honest? You didn't stint.
While heartless criminals in other
places were bombing churches, these
criminals with repentent hearts were
building one”.
Bishop O’Hara Celebrates
Mass for Camp Wheeler
Holy Name Society
THE TWENTY-SEVENTH National
Conference of Catholic Charities avJ
the annual meeting of the Society
of St. Vincent de Paul will lie held
in Houston, Texas, October 17-22.
(Special to The Bulletin)
MACON, Ga.—More than 700 mem
bers of the Holy Name Society from
Camp Wheeler attended Mass at St.
Joseph's Church on Sunday, Sent.
14, then paraded past a reviewing
stand at the City Hall to the Hotel
Dempsey, where a communion break
fast was served.
The Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara,
D. D. J. U. D.. Bishop of, Savannah-
Atlanta, who was celebrant of the
Mass, was also one of the principal
speakers at the Communion breakfast,
and in his address he emphasized the
fact that all men now preparing
themselves for military service are
learning to defend cherished ideals—
among them freedom of worship.
Brigadier-General John H. Hester,
commander of Camp Wheeler, was
another speaker. General Hester paid
a tribute to the citizens of Macon
and the members of St. Joseph's
parish. Both, he said, are greatly
responsible for keeping high the
morale of the soldiers statoned at
Camp Wheeler-
Other prominent guests of honor
who spoke included Lieut.-Col.
Alfred T. Wright, Lieut.-Col. H. L.
Barrett, and W. H. Mitchell, general
chairman of the Catholic Club.
Lieut.-Col- Hurley F. Fuller acted
as toastmaster at the breakfast and
read a letter of greeting front Colonel
William R. Arnold, chief of chaplains
oE the United States Army, who ex
pressed regret that he was unable
to attend.
Entertainment included vocal and
Instrumental selections by Private
John Marranca, Private N. A. Boes,
Private Louis Mastrodi, Private
Charles Perrotta L. C. Stenger.
Mayor Charles L. Bowden, of Ma
con, was represented at the break
fast by Councilman John A. Jones.
Assisting in arrangements for the
Mass and breakfast were the Rev.
Patrick J. MicDwver. C. P., the Rev.
Cajctan Sullivan. C. P., and the Rev.
Edmund F- Kuczmarski, Catholic
chaplains at Camp Wheeler.
Fifty army trucks were used to
transport the men from camp to tire
church. Soldiers from Camp Wheeler
served as ushers and on the altar
and composed the choir that was
accompanied by Mrs. S- A. Giglio
at the organ. Private James P.
Kiernan was in charge of the decora
tions in the dining room at the hotel.
Private Roland Garreau headed the
entertainment committee, while Pri
vate John Adamiak handled the
publicity.
Harry J. Laker Is president o* the
Holy Name Society at Camp Wheeler,
the other officers being H. F. Meiane-
con. secretary, Company B 5th bat
talion; John C. Simienkovic, Company
C, 6th battalion, treasurer. The com
mittee in charge of arrangements in
cluded Privates William J. Miller,
Jr-, Company B. 4th battalion; John
F. Blisard, Company A. 6th battalion;
Andrew Galligan, Company B, 4t.ii
battalion; James Giernan, Company
B. 4th battalion; Thomas Boyle, Com
pany D, 4th battalion; John Purks,
Company D. 6th battalion; John Hag-
ney, Company C, 4th battalion;
Leonard Martin, Company B, 4th
battalion; Sylvester Ebner, Company
B, 4th battalion; Louis Principe, Com
pany A, 4th battalion; Adam Sonier.
Company B, 5th battalion: Raymond
Melancon, Company B, 5th battalion}
and Francis McLaughlin, Company
C, 4th battalion.