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IN HIS PROCLAMATION calling
for the observance of Thanksgiving,
November 29. President Roosevelt ask
ed the people of-the United States to
pray for “a speedy end to strife and
the establishment of earth of freedom,
brotherhood and justice for enduring
time.’’
THE INCREASE in the number of
films rated as objectionable by the
Legion of Decency continues, the' Most
Rev. John T. McNicholas, O. P„ Arch
bishop of Cincinnati, revealed in his
report as Chairman of the Episcopal
Committee on Motion Pictures, deliv
ered before the Annual General Meet
ing of the Archbishops and Bishops
of the United States in Washington.
A FORMER PROTESTANT Naza-
rence Church has been purchased in
Merced, Cal., by the Very Rev. Mi
chael Stack, pastor of Our Lady of
Mercy Church and will he used as a
mission for more than 500 Mexicans
fruit and farm laborers and railroad
employes. It will also serve as a
catechetical center for Catholic chil
dren in public schools.
A PLEA that the Prince of Peace
might guide the deliberations of the
House of Representatives and fill its
members with "great courage to fight
for a just and lasting peace” was
made by the Rev. L. B. Keenan, pas-
tor of SC James Church, La Crosse,
Wis., when he delivered the invoca
tion at the opening of its session.
MOST REV. EMMET M. WALSH,
Bishop of Charleston, has been ap
pointed one of the Assistant Bishops
of the Department of Education of
the National Catholic Welfare Con
ference.
At Tercentenary of the Sulvicians
HIS HOLINESS POPE PIUS XII
has sent to the Hirarchy. priests and
faithful of tlie U. S. special testimony
to his gratitude for the upholding of
his hands in his potermfl efforts to
bring relief to suffering people
throughout the world.
The Holy Father's message was con
tinued in iiis signed cablegram that
was read by the Apostolic Delegate to
the United States at the Annual Gen
eral Meeting of tile Archbishops and
Bishops of the United States held at
the Catholic University.
Axis Planes Destroy
Convent in Egypt
Mother Ortolana, Formerly
Stationed at the Fran
ciscan Convent in Augusta,
Was Superior of Com
munity
AUGUSTA, Ga.—An Associated
l*ess dispatch from Cairo, Egypt,
published in local newspapers told
that St. Frances Convent of the
Franciscan nuns at El Falyum Oasis,
near Cairo, was among the buildings
that were destroyed in an Axis air
raid on November 12, during which
64 persons were killed and 95 in
jured.
According to the report Mother
Urtolana, the superior of the con
vent. led four blind children and
twelve other nuns • to safety when
the convent was machine-gunned by
tiie Axis planes.
. Mother Ortolana is quoted as say
ing that the planes came so low that
they must have seen the cross on
the convent. “When the bombs first
tell she said, “we ail ran to the
garden taking four blind children
who live with us. Our escape whs
a miracle because the convent was
hit by a bomb and the building on
the other side of the garden was also
hit.
For a number of years Mother
Ortolana was stationed at St. Bene
dict the Moor orphanage for Colored
children. Conducted by the Fran
ciscan Sisters in Augusta. Mother
Ortolana was in charge of the home
and taught sewing to the children.
A native of Italy, she entered the
Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the
Immaculate Conception at the
motherhouse in Rome when she was
fourteen years old.
Mother Ortolana was twice station
ed in Augusta, leaving for some
years to teach at the Immaculate
Conception school, in Rockford, Illi
nois, returning to Augusta in 1931,
to stay here until 1937. when she
left for Egypt. She has many friends
in Augusta where she was well-
known, and where she celebrated her
silver jubilee as a religious.
She became a naturalized American
citizen here some years ago, taking
the oath of allegiance before the late
Judge William H. Barrett in the
Federal district court.
more man iw Bishops and some 10,000 persons thronged the great Armorv at Baltimore to take part iri the
cdebratioiu observing the tercentenary of the founding of the Fathers of St. 'Sulpice, and the sesquicentenarv of
ff Phfladel^fi min wk y there , P‘ c ‘ u ’? d iif X)Ve (upper photo) His Eminence Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop
of Philadelphia who presided at the Throne and (lower photo) the Most Rev. Michael J. Curley Archbishop of B
altimore and Washington, who was the celebrant of the Pontifical Mass.—(N. C. W. S.) ’ ^
Cardinal, Two Archbishops
at Sulpician Celebration
His Eminence Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop Curley
and Archbishop Mitty Participate in Observance of
300th Anniversary of Founding of Society of St. Sul
pice and Sesquicentenaryof St. Mary’s Seminary, Bal
timore
(By N. C. YV. C. News Service)
BALTIMORE—The day may come
when “the prostrated nations of Eu
rope will look to us for clergy and
Religious to take up the labors of
our marytred brethren,” the Most Rev.
John J. Mitty, Archbishop of San
Francisco, said at ceremonies here
marking a double centenary of the
Society of St. Sulpice.
He spoke at a Pontificial Mass cele
brated in the Fifth Regiment Armory
by the Most Rev. Michael J. Curley,
Archbishop of Baltimore and of Wash
ington. Later in the day His Emi
nence Dennis Cardirral Dougherty,
Archbishop of Philadelphia, officiated
at Benediction of the Most Blessed
Sacrament following the laying of the
cornerstone of the new seminary
chapel by Archbishop Curley.
TWO ANNIVERSARIES
The three-day celebration is in ob
servance of the tercentenary of the
founding of the Sulpician Fathers in
1641 and the sesquicentenary of the
founding of St. Mary's Seminary here.
St. Mary's, founded in 1791. is the
oldest seminary in the United States.
Asserting that the training of can
didates for the priesthood must al
ways be guided by the methods and
characteristics of the “first seminary,”
the Apostolic College . Archbishop
Mitty said the Fathers of St. Sulpice,
living “by the secret of Nazareth,’’
have made their character-forming
system and their “fashioned priest
hood’’ one of the “most brilliant and
priceless gems in the crown of the
Church which rests on America.”
“Christ is master of the Seminary,”
he said. ‘‘The chapel is the center of
seminary life: from His tabernacle
where He abides day and night with
His future priests, Christ is training
and forming them by prayer and
sacrifice into other Christs, to do
Christ's work for souls.
‘ He accomplishes this by the action
of grace. He accomplishes it also
through the instrumentality of the
priests who form the seminary facul
ty. They are to teach the seminarians
the eternal truths of salvation; but
they are also to give them, day in
and day out, through the long’ years
of training, the example of priestly,
Christ-like lives.’’ “This has been
the Sulpician system of seminary
training, taken from the example of
Christ with the Apostolic College,”
he said.
Recounting the long years of build
ing, during which the Church in
America was aided by the now suf
fering nations of-"Europe, Archbishop
Mitty said the day may not be far
off when we shall be called upon to
repay our debt of gratitude in kind.
In the years that followed the per
secution of the Church in France and
the founding of the Sulpician Semin
ary here in 1791, “almost every nation
of Europe gave generously of its
priests for the spread of the faith and
the upbuilding of the Church through
out the land,” he said. “To France
and Spain were added Ireland, Ger
many, Austria. Hungary, Poland, Bel
gium, Holland, Italy, Portugal and
other lands.
“All of them made the sacrifice of
the clergy to help the growing Church
in the United States. Differing in
nationality and background, they
were united in their priestly lives and
work and made part of that valiant
VATICAN ORGAN TERMS
CERTAIN PRESS REPORTS
“FRUIT OF FANTASY”
(Continued on Pace 2fU
By MSGR. ENRICO PUCCI
(Radio, N C. C. W. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—Statements which
from time to time have appeared in
the international daily and periodical
press and information sent out by
certain press agencies and radio sta
tions and through “confidential” re
ports, purporting to give the attitude
of the Holy See toward certain world
events, were termed the “fruit of
fantasy” in an article published in
Osservatore Romano. In the same
category were placed so-called chron
icles of Vatican life disseminated
through the same agencies.
"We think it necessary,” Osserva
tore said, “to put all on their guard
against this unfounded ‘information,’
which are all the more to be re
proached when, coming as they do in
the present moment, their consequen
ces can be all the more grave.”
Catholic Chaplain on
CBS Church of the Air
(Special to The Bulletin)
NEW YORK, N. Y.-The Rev. James
H. O’Neill, Catholic Chaplain of the
First Corps Area, stationed in Boston
as a member of the staff of Major
General Francis J. Wilby, will speak
on “The Church of tire Air” program
of the Columbia Broadcasting Com
pany which will be heard on Sunday,
November 30. from 1 to 1:30 p. m.
Speaking from Boston, Father O’
Neill will speak on “The Contribu
tion of Religion to the Soldier's Self
Defense.”
Father O'Neill is a sixteen-year
veteran in the United States Army,
having seen service in posts and sta
tions throughout the United States
and in the Phillipine Islands. He will
deliver the closing address in a series
of three programs which include
talks by Chaplain George Rixey, of
the Methodist Church, and Chaplain
Aryeh Lev. liaison officer with the
Jewish Welfare Beard.
HOLY FATHER LAUDS
SULPICIAN FATHERS
ON THEIR JUBILEE
(By N. C. YV. C. News Service)
BALTIMORE — “Profound appre
ciation” of the accomplishments of
the Fathers of Saint Sulpice in the
“most noble mission” of the forma
tion of the clergy in the United States
was expressed in a message addressed
by His Holiness Pope Pius XII to
the Rev. Dr. John F. Fenlon, S. S.,
President of St. Mary’s Seminary here
and Provincial of the Sulpician Fath
ers in the United States.
The Holy Father's message, in
which the Apostolic Blessing was im
parted to Father Fenlon and to the
directors, faculty, alumni and stu
dents of St. Mary's, was read at a
Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Fifth
Regiment Armory marking the 30<)th
anniversary of the founding of the
Sulpician Society and the 150th an
niversary of the Sulpician Fathers’
arrival in this country to found St.
Mary’s Seminary.
The Pope recalled that one of the
“happy recollections” of his visit to
the United States in 1936, when he
was Papal Secretary of State, is that
“of a delightful visit to Roland Park
and of-the whole-hearted hospitality
shown Us by the many friends of the
seminary.” *
The “personal holiness of the priests
and pastors of Christ’s flock,” the
Holy Father said, is “of vital and un
suspected importance to the moral
well-being of the whole nation.”
The first Bishop of the Church in
the United States, Bishop John Car-
rell, of Baltimore, could only regard
it “as a wonderful mark of Divine
Providence, that at tjie very moment
he was entering upon the arduous
task of organizing and directing the
nascent Church, the excellent Priests
of Saint Sulpice should offer to found
a seminary in his Episcopal see of
Baltimore,” the Holy Father’s mes
sage said.
Chapel Cornerstone
Laid as Sulpicians
Mark Double Jubilee
(By N. C. YV. C. News Service)
B ALTIMORE—Archbishops and
Bishops and hundreds of priests lined
what will some day be the choir
stalls of tlie new chapel of St. Mary's
Seminary, Roland Park, as His
Eminence Dennis Cardinal Dougher
ty, Archbishop of Philadelphia,
celebrated Solemn pontifical Benedic
tion of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
The ceremony, which followed the
laying of the new chapel's corner
stone by the Most Rev. Michael J.
Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore and
of Washington, climaxd the celebra-
, tions marking the one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of
the Suplician Fathers in the United
States and the tercentenary of the
founding of the Society of Saint
Sulpice.
The ceremonies brought together
one of the largest gatherings of the
Hierarchy that ever met for such
an occasion in the United States-
Occupying thrones in the open-air
sanctuary during Benediction were
His Excellency the Most Rev. Amleto
Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Dele
gate to the United States, and Arch
bishop Curley.
DIGNITARIES AT DINNER
The. cornerstone ceremony and
Benediction followed a dinner at
which 110 visiting Bishops and
clergy were welcomed by Archbishop
Curley and, the Very Rev. Dr. John
F. Fenlon, S. S.. Provincial of tlie
Society of Saint Sulpice in the United
States and President of St. Mary's
Seminary, the first seminary in this
country. At the speakers’ table with
Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop
Cicognani and eleven other Arch
bishops from every quarter of the
United States were Governor Herbert
R. O’Connor of Maryland and Dr.
Isaiah Bowman, President of Johns
Hopkins University here.
Scores of Bishops, some 70
Monsignori and several hundred
priests, most of them alumni of
Sulpician seminaries, filled the large
dining hall and several other rooms
at St. Mary’s Seminary as guests of
Dr. Fenlon and the Sulpician Fathers.
The three-day observance of the
double jubilee closed with ceremonies
at old St. Mary’s Seminary, North
Paca Street, which is now the philo
sophy seminary. Pontifical Mass
was celebrated by the Most Rev.
Peter L- Ireton. Coadjutor Bishop of
Richmond, in the seminary heapel
and the sermon was given by the
Very Rev. John J. Lardner. S. C.,
Rector of new St Mary’* Seminary.
Roland Park.