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vol. xxii. No. 10 THIRTY-TWO PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 25, 1941 _. issued monthly-?2.oo a year
C. L. A. CONVENTION IN ROME, ON OCTOBER 26
To Celebrate Convention Mass
BISHOP O HARA
»His Excellency the Most Reverend Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D.. J. U. D..
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, who will he celebrant of the Mass which will
®i*en the annual convention of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
to he held in Rome.
To Preside at Laymen’s Convention
BERNARD J. KANE
Presiding officer at the annual convention of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia, which will be held in Rome on Sunday, October 26, will
be Bernard J. Kane, of Atlanta, who has served as president of the Associa-
tion since his election at the convention in Savannah last year.
Dominican Scores
Cronin Novel’s
View of Clergy
WASHINGTON—-The Keys to the
Kingdom”, widely discussed novel
by Dr. A. J. Cronin, was criticized
for presenting religious persons as
unattractive and unbelievers - as
fascinating by the Very Rev: Ignatius
Smith, O. P., Dean of the Faculty of
Philosophy of the Catholic Univer
sity of America, in* a review of the
book at the opening lecture of the
Critics Forum’s 1941-42 season.
Father Smith said “if the purpose
©f fiction is to entertain and sus
tain interest, then certainly there is
reason for the popularity” of “The
Keys to the Kingdbm” but, he added,
•there is reason why it has been
chosen by the Book of the Month
Club, and there may be reason why
it was not chosen by the Catholic
Book Club”. He declared there are
16 members of the clergy out of
44 characters in the novel and 12
of them, “if not screwballs are very
unusual and extraordinary char
acters”. “I am afraid”, he said, that
because 14 of the 16 members of the
clergy in the book are “potential
maniacs or lunatics”, many “prej
udiced persons believe that the 25,000
Catholic priests in the United States
•re like that if their story could
•nly be written”.
“The book is fiction, not fact, but
many will forget this”, Father Smith
reminded.
FATHER O’LEARY RE-NAMED
I’O ALABAMA WELFARE BOARD
SPRING HILL, Ala.—The Very
Rev. W. D. O’Leary, S. J.. M. D..
resident of Spring Hill College, has
een re-appointed a member of the
Merit System Council of the State
of Alabama for three additional
Fear s.
The board of welfare in making the
ippointment, expressed its apprecia
tion for the services Father O'Leary
has rendered in serving as chair
man of the council.
MYRON TAYLOR’S visit to the
Pope caused much comment and
was given great prominence in the
British Press. Comment was very
tavorable -and the talks have been
heartily welcomed. The Vatican alone
represents peace and charity In
Europe, it is felt in London, and
tooperation between the Holy Fc<ier
and the United States President
gives hope of real Christian in
fluence in the coming peace terms.
Mrs. Aline Kilmer,
Noted Poet’s Widow,
Dies in New Jersey
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
STILLWATER. N. J.—Mrs. Aline
Murray Kilmer, widow of Joyce Kil
mer, and herself a prominent poet,
died here October 1 at the age of 53
after a long illness.
Mrs. Kilmer, a native of Norfolk,
Va., was a prolific writer of poetry,
essays and children’s stories and also
lectured on poetry at schools and club
meetings throughout the country. She
was a vice-president of the Catholic
Poetry Society of America.
Sh-e and Mr. Kilmer were Episco
palians until shortly before the fa
mous poet of “Trees and other works
left for France in 1917 with the Six
ty-ninth Regiment, when both em
braced Catholicism. They met while
attending Rutgers Preparatory School
in New Brunswick. N. J., and were
married in 1907, a year after Mrs. Kil
mer graduated from Vail-Jean School
in Elizabeth. N. J. Mr. Kilmer was
killed in 1918 while fighting with the
A. E. F. Mrs Kilmers stepfather,
Henry Millis Alden. was at one time
Editor of Harper’s Magazine.
Among books written by Mrs. Kiy-
mer are-
* Candles That Burn,” “Vigils,”
“Hunting a Hair Shirt and Other Es
says, “The Poor King’s Daughter”,
“Emmy. Nicky and Greg.” “A But
tonwood Summer” and “Selected
Poems.”
Mrs. Kilmer is survived by two
sons, Kenton, of Arlington, Va., asso
ciated with the Congressional Library
in Washington and Poetry Editor of
The Washington Post, and Christo
pher Kilmer, of Tucson, now' serving
in the Army at Camp Georgia, and a
daughter, Sister Michael, a Benedic
tine nun.
Fourth Floor Addition
Being Dedicated at
Greenviile Hospital
(Special to the Bulletin)
GREENVILLE. S. C.—Formal ded
ication of the new fourth floor which
has been adefed to St. Francis Hospi
tal, conducted by the Sisters of the
Poor of St. Francis, is being held on
October 23. The wont of remodeling
and the addition of the Rev. Michael
Mclnerney, O. 9. B., ecclesiastical
architect, of Belmont Abbey, will
give the hospital a capacity of 120
beds and greatly improved facilities
foe caring for patients.
BISHOP O’HARA WILL
ATTEND AND OFFER
CONVENTION MASS
Elaborate Program of En
tertainment Planned by
Rome Branch; Mrs. Frank
Sheed and Richard Reid to
Be Guest Speakers ,
(Special to The Bulletin)
ROME, Ga.—Rome wil be host on
Sunday, October 26th, the Feast of
Christ the King, to the twenty-sixth
annual convention of the Catholic
Laymen's Association of Georgia, a
gathering which will bring together
representative Catholic men and
women from all sections of the State.
His Excellency the Most Reverend
Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D..*U. D.,
Bishop of. Savannah-Atlanta, will
celebrate at St. Mary’s Church, the
Pontifical Low Mass, which will open
the convention. Bishop O'Hara will
deliver the sermon at the Mass and
will/ also deliver the concluding ad-
dresh at the afternoon session of
the convention. - -
The Laymen’s Association is partic
ularly fortunate this year in being
able to offer as its convention guest
speakers, Mrs. Frank J. Sheed, of
London and New York, and Richard
Reid, former executive secretary of
the association, now editor of The
Catholic News, of New York.
Mrs. Frank Sheed. under her
maiden name of Maisie Ward, has
lectured in the United States and
Canada from coast to coast and also
at the American College in Louvain
and at the English Seminary, where
her grandfather, although a layman,
was Professor of Theology.
She is the daughter of Wilfred
Ward, the biographer a,nd close friend
of Cardinal Newman. Her mother,
Mrs. Wilfred Ward, was author of
the novels. "Tudor Sunset”. "Horace
Blake’ and "Out of Due Time’’. Her
father was the son of William George
Ward, the first of the Oxford move
ment converts to the Catholic
Church. Mrs. Wilfred Ward was
the daughter of James Hope-Scott. a
later convert of the movement, who
joined the church with his close
friend, Cardinal Manning. Hope-
Scott’s first wife was the grand
daughter of Sir Walter Scott, his
second, Lady Victoria Howard, a
sister of the Duke of Norfolk, who
petitioned the Pope to make New
man. a Cardinal. Mrs. Wilfred Ward
was a child of the second marriage
and thus descended from two of
those English martyrs to whom
"Tudor Sunset" pays tribute.
EVIDENCE GUILD PIONEER
Twenty years' experience on the
outdoor platforms of the Catholic
Evidence Guild has given Mrs. Sheed
a rigorous training in indoor lectur
ing. Her book., "Catholic Evidence
Guitding Training Outlines”, has
played a significant part in tile cur
rent revolution in Catltsijcapologe-'
tics. As secretary to her fatTiSr while
he was writing the life of Cardinal
Newman, she was in contact with
the leaders of European Catholic
thought. Since her marriage, this
contact has been widened to include
practically every province of Catho
lic Christiandom by her position as
vice-president of the publishing
house of Sheed and Ward of New
York and London.
The success of her two volume bi
ography of her parents. "The Wilfred
Wards and the Transition,” which is
also a history of fifty years of Eng
lish Catholicism, caused Mrs. Gilbert
K. Chesterton to entrust her with
the writing of the biography of G. K.
Chesterton, noted convert and cele
brated English novelist.
Her lecture topics may be divided
into three groups, literary, historical
and general, the last classification in
cluding such subjects as "Has Chris
tianity Failed?” "The World We Are
Living In. ’ "The Layman and the
Mystical Body,’ and “Catholic Action
and Catholic Thought,” which will
be the topic of her discourse at the
Laymen s Association convention.
FORMER EXECUTIVE
SECRETARY
Richard Reid, editor of the Catho
lic News, of New York, is well-
known in Georgia, where for eigh
teen years he distinguished himself
as executive secretary of the Catho
lic Laymen’s Association of Georgia,
and editor of The Bulletin, its pub
lication.
Born in Winchester. Mass.. Mr
Reid attended' the Academy of the
Sacred Heart and Holy Cross College
in Worcester, receiving his A. B. and
A. M. degrees from Holy Cross. He
later attended Columbia University
and Fordham University, from which
latter institution he received an LL.B.
degree. «
Moving to Augusta with his parents
after he had graduated from Holy
Cross, Mr. Reid was connected with
both of the August newspapers, serv
ing on the editorial staff of The Au
gusta Chronicle and as news editor
-of The Augusta Herald. He was
principal of the school for ex-service
men conducted by the Knights ol
Columbus of Augusta, and also
taught for a time at St. Franci^ Xav
ier high school in New York City.
He was president of the Catholic
Press Association of the United
States in 1932 and 1933, and in 1936
was awarded the Laetare Medal by
the University of Notre Dame. His
Holiness Pope Pius XI conferred
Knighthood in the Order of St. Greg
ory the Great on him, and he holds
an LL.D. degree' from Spring Hill
College and from Dayton University,
and a Litt. D. degree from Holy
Cross-
THE CONVENTION
PROGRAM
On the evening of Saturday, Octo
ber 25, from 8 until 9 o'clock, a re
ception in honor of the Most Rev.
Gerald P. O'Hara. Bishop of Savan
nah-Atlanta. will be held at the Gen
eral Forestt Hotel, the convention
headquarters, at which a registration
desk will be established for the reg
istration of delegates to the conven
tion.
The reception will be followed by
a dance at the General Forrest Hotel,
at which the Sancta Maria Club, of
Rome, will entertain members of
Catholic Youth Organizations and
other delegates to the convention.
On Sunday morning, the day of the
convention, Masses will be said at
St. Mary’s Church at 7:30, 9 and 11
o'clock. Members of “the Catholic
Youth Organizations will approach
Holy Communion at the 7:30 Mass,
and will be guests of the Sancta
Marie Giub at a Communion break
fast at the Gerystone Hotel at 8:15
o'clock.
Bishop O’Hara will celebrate the
Convention Mass at 9 o’clock. This
will be « low Mass, during which
St, Mary’s choir, under the direction
of Mrs. Robert G. Gordon, organist,
will sing appropriate hymns.
MORNING SESSION
The morning session of the conven
tion, with Bernard J. Kane, of At
lanta, president of the Catholic Lay
men's Association of Georgia, presid
ing. will be held at II o’clock at the
De Soto Theatre.
After the opening prayer has been
offered by Bishop O’Hara, a brief
word of welcome will be addressed
to the delegates by Bernard S. Fahy,
president of the Rome Branch of the
Laymen’s Association. Appointment
of committees and reports of John B.
McCallum, of Atlanta, state secre
tary; Thomas F. Walsh, K. S- G'„ . of
Savannah, state treasurer; Hugh
Kinchley, of Augusta, executive sec
retary, and President Kane will
follow. There will then be an open
forum for the discussion of business
and local branch presidents will, be
asked to make reports of branch as
sociation activity.
At 1 ■otgjpck the convention lunch
eon will be held at the General For
rest Hotel, with Bishop O'Hara pre
siding, and Bernard S. Fahy acting as
toastmaster. On behalf of the City, of
Rome, the Honorable John Yar
brough, first commissioner, will ex
tend a welcome to the officers and
members of the Laymen's Associa
tion. and the welcome on behalf, of
Floyd County will be extended .by
the Honorable W. Howard Lewis, jM.
D.. chairman of the County Commis
sion of Roads and Revenues.
The response to "the addresses . of
welcome will be made by Alfred jM.
Battey, of Augusta, a former presi
dent of the Catholic Laymen’s Asso
ciation. and now co-chairman of ,its
finance committee.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The afternoon session of the con
vent ion. which will be held at the
De Soto Theatre, will begin at 2:30,
and will be honored by the presence
of Bishop O'Hara, who will offer the
opening prayer and impart the bene
diction.
The afternoon's program will be
gin with the singing of "America",
led by Miss Alice Corbitt, of Rome,
with Mrs. Robert G. Gordon, at tin;
piano.
After reports of committees have
been heard, the annual election of
officers held, and any unfurnished
business disposed of. the guest speak
ers, Mrs. Sheed and Mr. Reid, will
be presented!
The concluding remarks by Bishop
O'Hara, and the closing prayer will
follow, and then with the assembly
singing "Holy God, We Praise Thy
Name,” the convention will adjourn.
Following the adjournment of the
convention session, the Rev. James H.
Grady, pastor of St. Mary's Church,
and the members of St. Mary’s par
ish, will be hosts at a buffet supper
at the Greystone Hotel.
Despite the fact that Rome is sit
uated in the northwest region of the
State of Georgia, it is anticipated
that the convention will be well at
tended and will be one of the most
successful in the twenty-five years of
Catholic Laymens Association his
tory.