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SEPTEMBER 27. 1041
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE
News Review of the Catholic World
Catholics Constitute
31% of U. S. Army
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—Tabulation of the
religious preference of every soldier
reveals that 59 per cent of the army
are Protestants, 31 per cent are Cath
olics. two per cent Jewish and eight
per cent list no denomination, accord
ing to the War Department.
Chaplains in the field heretofore
have reported religious preferences,
hut under a new plan they are being
designated by the soldier at the time
of enlistment or induction into serv
ice. The notation made by the soldier
will assist in the apportionment and
the assignment of chaplains, which,
in the past, has been based on esti
mated religious percentages.
By listing his religious preference,
the soldier and his family will be
assured that he will receive the min
istration of a chaplain or a minister
of his own religion if available, in
those cases of accident and serious
illness where the patient is unable to
give the needed information.
MOST REV. ALOISIUS J. MUENCH,
Bishop of Fargo, went to Chicago to
ordain a priest of his Diocese, the
Rev. Joseph J. Kucharski, in order
that the. priest's mother, who is ill
might be present. She was not abie
to travel to North Dakota to attend
tli ^ ordination in Fargo.
EMMET LAVERY, Broadway play
wright, drama scholar and authority
on the theatre, has been named
Prama Consultant for the National
Catholic Community Service,, one of
the six United Service Organizations-
Author of “The First Legion,”
which after a run on Broadway met
with equal succes on tour, Mr. Lavery
was formerly director of the Play
Service JBureau of the Federal Thea
tre Project.
MOST REV. JAMES STAUNTON,
Bishop of Ferns, has accepted the post
of president of a committee which
has been set up in Wexford, Ireland,
to take charge of the reception and
erection of a $20,000 statute of Com
modore John Barry, U. S. N. The
statue is being presented by the
United States government in honor
of the bicentenary in 1945 on Barry’s
birth at Ballymapson a few miles
from Wexford.
AMERICAN CONSULAR OF
FICIALS and attaches formerly lo
cated in Greece were received in a
private audience by His Holiness Pope
Pius XII. The Holy Father spoke to
the group at great length and at the
end of the audience the Americans
remarked that the Pontiff appeared
to be in excellent health and showed
every sign of vigor.
ESTIMATES MADE PUBLIC by
the United States Office of Education
an«L indicating that enrollments in
•Itmerican schools this year will show
the largest drop in student popula
tion in our history have come some
what as a shock to many, despite
predictions made for some time by
responsible authorities that sharp stu
dent losses could be expected since
the birth rate trough that occurred
approximately in the 30's.
WITH THE ASSIGNMENT of Amer
ican troops to Iceland to garrison the
newly acquired naval base there,
that ancient island-nation can count
more Catholics on its soil than ever
before since the so-called Reforma
tion. for added to the island’s 300
Catholic residents, there are now
thousands of Catholic soldiers with
their chaplain.
“OSSERVATORE ROMANO” re
veals thaf the Holy Father took per
sonal steps to end the recent conflict
between Peru and Ecuador, Radio
Vatican announced in a broadcast re
ceived in London. His Holiness made
personal representations to the presi
dents of the two countries, to other
South American States and to the
United States so that a friendly settle
ment might be reached, the article
says.
REV. EDWARD D. O'CONNELL, of
St. Anthony of Padua Church, Utica,
N. Y.. has accepted appointment as
Rector of Mount St. Mary’s Semi
nary, Emmitsburg, Maryland, with
the consent of the Most Rev- Walter
A. Foery, Bishop of Syracuse. The
appointment was made by the Most
Rev. Michael J. Curley, archbishop
of Baltimore and of Washington.
Born in New York City in 1895.
Father O’Connell began his studies
for the priesthood at the seminary of
which he now becomes rector. His
theological training was completed at
the Almo Collegio Capranica in Rome,
where he received his licentiate in
sacred theology from the Gregorian
University.
STEPHEN HORGAN, inventor of
the half-tone process of photo-engrav
ing. died in Orange, N. J., August 30.
Mr. Horgan, who was a Catholic, was
one of the leading figures in the world
of engraving and photography and
spent the greater part of his life as
an art executive of leading daily
newspapers. In March, 1880, he made
the first half-tone cut.
REV. MICHAEL F. DINEEN. S. S.,
former president of St. Charles Semi
nary, Catonsville, and former vice-
president . of St. Mary’s Seminary,
Baltimore, the oldest Sulpician priest
in the United States, died August 29
at the age of 80. He was a native of
Staunton, Va.
One of the most active prelates in the United States is the Most Rev.
John F. O’Hara, C. S. C.. D. D.. Military Delegate, whose duties take him to
all parts of the nation. Above he is seen visiting some children at a Puerto
Rican nursery in New York City. Below he is confirming soldiers at Camp
McClellan, Alabama, in an outdoor ceremony.
Bishop O’Hara, who was formerly President of the University of Notre
Dame, will deliver the sermon at the Solemn Pontifical Mass which will be
celebrated at Camp Croft, Spartanburg, South Carolina, on October 5.—
(Courtesy of Photo Features).
Apostolic Delegate Cites States’
Duty to Respect Rights of Church
N. C. C. S. Pledged Support
of Knights of Columbus
Supreme Knight Francis P. Matthews Promises Cooper
ation With Member Group of United Servic-e Organi
zations in Address Delivered at K. of C. Convention
(Bv N.C.W.C. News Service)
ATLANTIC CITY — The services
rendered to the National Catholic
Community Service and the United
Service Organizations by the Knights
of Columbus are a labor of loyalty
and love expended in behalf of the
Church of her Hierarchy. Francis P.
Matthews, Supreme Knight of the K.
of C., declared m an address deliver
ed at a session here of the 59th In
ternational Convention of the Su
preme Council of the organization.
Mr. Matthews is chairman of the
Executive Committee of the National
Catholic Community Service, and also
vice-president and a member of the
Board of Directors of the U.S.O.
“That the confidence reposed in
us by our spiritual leaders and shep
herds lias not been misplaced will,
with God’s help, be demonstrated by
our all-out compliance with their
program and our discharge in the
utmost good faith and to the best
of our abilities of the tasks and duties
entrusted by them to us,” Mr. Mat
thews said.
“In your name and on behalf of the
Order whose proud privilege it is
ours to represent in these perilous
times, I solemnly pledge to Holy
Mother Church, to the Bishops, Arch
bishops and Cardinal Archbishops in
the present compelling necessity the
unselfish support and devotion of our
Knights of Columbus individually
and collectively as an organization,
and X promise that as true and faith
ful sons our every act and deed shall
exemplify our fidelity to them and
their undertakings to the end that
we may continue to merit their com
plete confidence and deepest pas
toral solicitude.
UNSELFISH PATRIOTISM
“This is the 59th annual assembling
of this Supreme Council of our Or
der. In the three-score years which
have marked the history of our so
ciety there never has been such an
age.-.izect world for cur membership
to face. Religion, home, family, prop
erty. security, life itself, all are im
periled by a diabolical force let loose
in the world through the most evil
enemies of mankind that the powers
of wickedness could create. Interna-
tional jealousy, racial hatred, relig
ious persecution, brute force, lust for
power, coveted wealth, these are the
elements which molded together com-
pris the instrument of torture through
which the new tyrants of this gen
eration would enslave humanity.
“We the peoples of this western
world regardless of how we have ar
rived there are trembling on the
very bring of the chasm in which
the European countries have already
been engulfed. In the light of that
tragic fact, can any of us fail to com
prehend its significance to this society
and its members?
‘The Knights of Columbus as an
organization, or you or I as individu
al members can not ignore the solemn
implications of present day world
events. Our order has its contribution
to make toward the impending effort
to save Christian civilization. You
must choose leaders who realize that
follow along the road where such
fact and you must be prepared to
leadership will take you and our so-
ciety.
FOR GOD AND COUNTRY
“I can not define for you what your
task or what mine is to be as an
instrument through which the Order
will function in this emergency dur
ing the months ahead, but I can
warn vou of the test that is impend
ing and I urge you to make ready
to meet it.
“In the language of Columbianism,
the eloquent phrase, ‘For God and
Country,’ calls for something more
real in the way of performance than
mere lip service. This Order has never
failed to demonstrate that fact. It
stands ready today as always for
whatever trial or burdens the future
mav hold. In your name and on be
half of every Knight of Columbus
everywhere, I accept the challenge
of the hour and in the face of the
catastrophic contest crashing toward
us, I proclaim our unalterable deter
mination as free men, like the valiant
crusading knights of old, regardless
of any totalitarian decrees and in
defiance of any tyrant's mandate, to
render to Caesar only the things that
are Caesar's and to keep for God
the things that are God’s,”
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
MISSOULA. Mont.—It is the fun
damental duty of every government
to respect^liberty of conscience and
of worship and to recognize the spirit
ual mission of the church, and not
to impede but rather to favor in prac
tice the exercise of her rights, among
them that of teaching, His Excellency
the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni
Cieognani. Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, declared in an address
delivered here.
Archbishop Cieognani spoke at a
banquet in the New Florence Hotel
marking the celebration of the cen
tennial of the first Catholic mission
in Montana.
Taking as his subject “Two Great
Monuments in Helena,’’ the Papal
Delegate spoke of the State Capitol
and the Cathedral of St. Helena and
declared that each was “the symbol
and the realization of great aspira
tions and accomplishments.”
“Here.” he said, “is represented in
architectural form the sublime lesson
formulated by Leo XIII in his fa
mous Encyclical, Immortale Dei: The
Almighty, therefore, has appointed
the charge of the human race be
tween two powers, the ecclesiastical
and the civil, the one being set over
divine, and the other over human,
things. Each in its kind is supreme.
each has fixed limits within which
it is contained, limits which are de
fined by tne nature ?.nd r—eial ob
jects of the province of each, so that
there is. we may say. an orbit traced
within which the action of each is
brought into play by its own native
right’.”
“Divine and natural law,” His Ex
cellency added, “is after all the com
mon basis upon which all authority
rests in everything that concerns the
life of mankind and all constructive
enterprises undertaken for its bet
terment. The guiding principles of
nations are based on this foundation.
Set down by God, it can have no
substitute, and any attempt to re
place it is doomed to failure.”
Remarking that “Montana happily
has the tradition of religious freedom
and of liberty of conscience,” the
Apostolic Delegate announced that he
brought to the clergy and faithful of
the State the Apostolic Blessing, and
said:
“It is profoundly consoling to Our
Holy Father to participate, even in
spirit, in this solemnity. Here his
heart may rest today far from the
horrible discords which tear nations
apart and from the immeasurable de
struction which casts the earth into
misery.”
Army and Navy Chaplains
Distribute Many Pamphlets
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON— Since an pppeal
went out from this office earlier this
summer, affiliated organizations of
the National Council of Catholic Men
have provided at least 7,760 pamph
lets to United States Army and Navy
chaplains for use by men in the
armed forces, it was disclosed today
at N. C. C. M. headquarters. This
is the r.umber that has been order
ed through the N. C. C. M. office,
and it is believed that many more
were ordered independently.
In most instances, each cooperating
local organization undertook to meet
the pamphlet needs of the men un
der one particular Chaplain. Thus
the Holy Name Society of Visitation
Church in New York was responsible
for meeting the requests of the Rev.
Earl C. Lewis. Chaplain of the 9th
U. S. Infantry at Fort Sam Houston,
Texas: the Catholic Action Council
of Men of St. Joseph’s Church.
Krebs. Okla., took care of the mgn
under Chaplain Daniel L. Reardon.
U. S. Naval Hospital, San. Diego. Cal
ifornia; K. of C. Council No. 2007 of
Johnsonburg, Pa., sent literature to
the Rev. John S. Schwartz, Chaplain,
121st Engineers, Fort Meade, Md.:
the Cadets of St. George No. 45, Cath
olic Workmen, of St. Weneeslaus
Parish. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, took
care of the Catholic men under Rev.
Edward J. Sanders at Camp Forrest,
Tennessee, as well as those under
Protestant Chaplain F. S. James, at
Fort Jackson. S. C., who had asked
for the pamphlets and cooperated in
their distribution. Others assisting
in this wav were the Holv Name So
ciety, St. Bavo’s Church, Mishawaka,
Ind.. W. of C. Council No. 1303 of
Frankfort, Kas.; the Holy Name So
ciety-of Albany, N. Y.. which took
care of the men at the Naval Air Sta
tion. Jacksonville, Fla., and the 14th
Training Battalion, Camp Wheeler,
Ga.; the Holy Name Society of St.
Paul's Church, Hancock. N. Y.; Bar-
aboo, Wisconsin Council No. 746 of
the Knights of Columbus; the Holy
Name Society of St. Dennis Church.
Ardmore. Pa.; and the Parish Coun
cil of Holy Ghost Church, Hammond,
La.
Among pamphlets provided are:
“Citizen. Church, and State”;
“Making Democracy Work”; “Revis
ed Baltimore Catechism No. 2”; “Ad
vice to Catholic Recruits”; “Boy
Meets Girl—The Christian Way”;
"The Pope's Peace Program and the
U. S.“: “Catholic Hour” talks by
Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen on “A
Declaration of Dependence” and
"Militarism vs. Pacifism”; the booklet
written by Monsignor Sheen. “What
Can I Do?” and the booklet of pray
ers compiled by him entitled “Pray-
erbook for Our Times.”
The N- C. C. M. headquarters
stated it had requests of a consider
able number of other chaplains
whose needs have not been met as
yet and that it would supply the
name of a chaplai nand a statement
of his needs to any organization
wishing to take part in this work.
“For the numerous organizations at
some distance from the defense areas,
providing the men in the armed
forces with literature is an oppor
tunity to do both a religious and a
defense morale work,” said the
statement.
Knights of Columbus Pledge
Support to National Defense
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
ATLANTIC CITY—A resolution
pledging all members of the Knights
of Columbus who are citizens of the
United States to support the defense
program of the government and urg
ing all to continue their prayers that
this nation be spared the horrors of
war was adopted at the concluding
session of the fifty-ninth annual
meeting of the Supreme Council of
the K. of C.
Members of the Hierarchy, govern
ment officials and distinguished lay
men were among the speakers at the
various sessions. An outstanding
event held Tuesday night in West
minster Hall, was tire States Dinner,
at which the principal speakers were
the Most Rev. Bartholomew W. Eus
tace, Bishop ot Camden; Associate
Justice Frank Murphy of the United
States Supreme Court and Paul V.
McNutt, Social Security Administra
tor.
OFFICERS RE-ELECTED
All of ..the Supreme Officers were
re-elected with the exception of Su-
g reme Warden David F. Supple, of
an Francisco, who retired and was
succeeded by Charles K. Walsh, of
Wichita Falls, Tex. Officers renamed,
in addition to Supreme Knight Mat
thews, were: John E. Swift. Boston,
Deputy Supreme Knight; Joseph F.
Ryan. New Haven, Supreme Secre
tary; D. J. Callahan, Washington, D.
C.. Supreme Treasurer; Luke E. Hart,
St. Louis. Supreme Advocate; the
Rev. Leo M. Finn, Bridgeport. Conn.,
Supreme Chaplain, and Dr. Edward
W. Fahey, St. Paul, Supreme Physi
cian.
The resolution indorsing the defense
program and urging prayers for
peace, in accordance with the request
of His Holiness Pope Pius XII, said:
“Whereas the members of our or
der who are citizens of the United
States view with alarm the increasing
menace of war that threatens to en
gulf our nation, fnoved by a patriotic
desire to support every undertaking
that may tend to insure the security
of our beloved land, we indorse and
commend the defense program of the
government of the United States and,
giving full heed to the sentiments ex
pressed in the messages of our be
loved Pontiff. His Holmes Pope Pius
XII, we urge our members to continue
their prayers to Almighty God to the
end that this nation may be spar’d
the devastating horors of war and its
inevitably destructive consequences.
A blessing from the Holy Father
was contained in a message from His
Eminence Luigi Cardinal Maglione.
Papal Secretary of State, which said:
“The Holy Father, comforted by the
knowledge that the Knights of Co
lumbus are once again prepared in
the present emergency to play an im
portant role in providing tor the re
ligious and social welfare of the vali
ant young men of America, on the oc
casion of the fifty-ninth convention of
the order, begs Almighty God to
grant to the officers and members
guidance and assistance and imparts
to all. as evidence of his deep inter-
est. a special Apostolic Blessing."
New Medal of Our Lady
of Happy Delivery Struck
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
NUNS TO OPERATE
ANNISTON. ALABAMA.
CITY-OWNED HOSPITAL
ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla.—A new
medal of Our Lady of Happy Deliv
ery has been struck, it is announced
by La Leche Shrine here.
The medal portraying the Blessed
Mother nursing the Infant Jesus is
part of the revived but centuries-old
devotion to Our Lady of La Leche,
which is centered in the restored
shrine here. It is less than a half
inch square, is cast in sterling, ancl
has an oval shield shape. The reverse
side bears the prayer, “Our Nursing
Mother of Happy Delivery, Pray for
Us.”
The devotion organized in Spain in
1598 and was brought to Spanish
America by missionaries who preach
ed the gospel in Florida. A shrine
was established here, but was later
abandoned because of military and
other setbacks suffered by the col
onists. The shrine was restored about
a quarter of a century ago and the
devotion in that time has spread to
all parts of the United States.
The new medal was struck in com
memoration of the Feast of the Na-
, tivity of the Blessed Mother.
(By N.C.W.C. News Service)
ANNISTON, Ala.—Sisters of Mercy
will operate the municipally-owned
Memorial Hospital here, the Anniston
City Commission has announced.
It was stated that the present Board
of Trustees will continue to shape
policies and govern the hospital ad
ministration.
This is believed to be the first in
stance of a city-owned hospital in
the South being turned over to a re
ligious organization without changq,
of ownership.
FIFTY THOUSAND copies of the
prayerbook “For Our Times.” by the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J, Sheen
of the Catholillc University of Ameri
ca, have been purchased by the Na
tional Catholic Community-
Service for distribution to Catholic
soldiers on fall maneuvers. The ma
jority of the prayei books will be dis
tributed through the two bookmo
biles which the N. C. C. S. has se
cured to send to maneuver areas in
the Soutuh and West.