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VOL. xxin, No. 3 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 28, 1942
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Two Georgia Priests Made Monsignori
Bulletins
HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII has
received no letter of any kind from
Josef Stalin of Russia, Vatican au
thorities state.
A report apearing in some secular
papers in the United States said a
radio broadcast from Rome, sponsor
ed by Italian sources, had said Pope
Pius XII had received a “long per
sonal message” from Josef Stalin, but
the contents were not revealed.
A CHRISTIAN COUNCIL repre
senting Catholics, Anglicans and Free
Churchmen has been set up for Der
byshire, England, following a meet
ing at Derby arranged by Sword of
the Spirit and attended by the Bish
op of Nottingham, the Most Rev.
John F. McNulty, and the Anglican
Bishops of Bradford and Derby. The
Bishop of Nottingham said it is
Christendom which is at stake, not
Christianity, which is not and never
can be at stake.
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
which is preparing for the ob
servance of the Silver Episcopal
Jubilee of His Holiness Pope Pius
XII has announced that the Mass
to be celebrated by the Holy Fath
er in St. Peter’s in commemora
tion of the jubilee will be offered
on Ascension Thursday, May 14.
The Committee has requested that
all priests remember the Pope’s
Intention in their Masses and that
the Faithful receive Holy Com
munion and pray for the Iloly
Father’s intention on that day.
The Holy Father will broadcast a
message to the world on the oc
casion of his jubilee.
ALTHOUGH HE IS a busy man,
he is not too busy to associate him
self with them “in worshiping God
and in honoring the Holy Name
of Jesus Christ,” Australia’s Min
ister for War, F. M. Forde, who is
a Catholic, declared in a rally of
the Middle Park, Victoria, branch
of the Holy Name Society.
A SPECIAL PROGRAM of the
“Catholic Hour” will be presented
on Good Friday evening by the
National Broadcasting Company,
producer of the nation-wide Na
tional Broadcasting Company pro
gram. The Right Rev. Msgr. Ful
ton J. Sheen, of the Catholic Uni
versity of America, will deliver
an address entitled “The Cruci
fixion” and the musical portion of
the program will be provided by a
group of the Paulist Choir. The
program will be heard from 10:30
to 11 p. m., Eastern War Time,
over the NBC Red Network.
A N EXCHANGE SCHOLAR
SHIP program which will consti
tute the largest single effort in
Catholic Inter-American collabo
ration through student exchange
ever undertaken was announced
by the Inter-American Section of
the Department of Education, Na
tional Catholic W'elfare Confer
ence. The Inter-American Section
has arranged for 104 new scholar
ships to be offered by 57 Catholic
universities and colleges through
out the United States to come
from other American countries
during 1942-43. In addition, the
Section has enlisted for next fall
the cooperation of three leading
South American universities to
offer a total of 30 scholarships to
students from the United States.
REV. JAMES A. GREELEY, S. J.,
assistant pastor of the Sacred Heart
Church, Augusta, Ga., will conduct
the Three Hours’ Devotion at St.
Ann’s Church, W'est Palm Beacli,
Fla., on Good Friday.
MOST REV. EDWARD. G. HET
TINGER was elevated to the episco
pate on February 24, becoming the
first Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese
of Columbus and Titular Bishop of
Teos.
POPE PIUS XII HONORS
LEADERS OF K. OF G.
S'even Officials Named
Knights or Advanced in
Order of St. Gregory
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Pope Pius XII has bestowed high
Papal honors on seven Supreme
officers of the Knights of Colum
bus, His Excellency the Most Rev.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apos
tolic Delegates to the United
States, announced in Washington.
Supreme Knight Francis P.
Matthews of Omaha and Supreme
Advocate Luke E. Hart of St.
Louis have been advanced to the
rank of Knight Grand Cross of
the Order of St. Gregory the
Great. This, same honor was
bestowed on the late Supreme
Treasurer, Daniel J. Callahan,
Sr., of Washington, D. C.
Deputy Supreme Knight Judge
John E. Swift of Milford, Mass.,
and Supreme Secretary Joseph F.
Lamb of New York City have
been made Knight Commanders
of the Order of St. Gregory the
Great.
Supreme Warden Charles K.
Walsh of Wichita Falls, Tex., and
Supreme Master of the Fourth
Degree Timothy P. Galvin of
Hammond, Ind., have been named
Knights of the Order Of St. Greg
ory the Great.
Timeliness of NCCW
Convention Stressed
by Bishop Hurley
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla —The time
liness of the 21st national convention
of the National Council of Catholic
Women, to be held in Hollywood and
this city, April 18-23, was stressed by
the Most Rev. Joseph P. Hurley,
Bishop of St. Augustine and host to
the sessions, in an address before the
board of the St. Augustine Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women.
The board held its first meeting to
prepare for the forthcoming conven
tion and adopted as its slogan for the
period of preparation, “Every Cath
olic Woman in Florida a Hostess.”
“The keynote of the whole con
vention will be a deeply supernatur
al one, because it will bring Catholic
women of America together at a time
when the fate of their co mtry and
religion hangs upon the issue of
war,” the Bishop said.
“Furthermore, this meeting will
afford the opportunity to meet at a
great National Shrine of Mother
hood—the Shrine of Nuestra Senora
de la Leche y Buen Parto—at a time
when mothers are praying for the
boys in service. It will also be a pil
grimage of mothers to the Blessed
Mother herself at a period in our
history when those seeking to de
grade motherhood are putting forth
their best efforts.
“The history of the Shrine links
the Catholic home with the Sacri
fice of the Mass, because on that site
Mass was first celebrated in any
American settlement some 55 years
before the Pilgrims landed on Ply
mouth Rock.”
Sessions of the convention devoted
to the family and to shrines will l > a
feature of the program on Ap.ll 23,
the day of the pilgrimage to Shrine
here. In preparation for the conven
tion, the women of the Diocese of St-
Augustine are gathering a spiritual
bouquet for presentation to His Holi
ness Pope Pius XII.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
Catholic priests, Brothers and Sisters
were stationed in the Vicariate of
Bandoeng, Java, the Crosier Fathers
of Immaculate Conception Monastery,
Hastings, Nebr., report on the ,basis of
1939 statistics of Mission of t^i'e Cro
sier Fathers in Java. The Catholic
population of the Vicariate in 1939
was 17,919, of whom 1,723 were na
tives and 16,924 were Europeans.
Catholic Committee of the South
Appointed Papal Cha
MONSIGNOR GRADY
MONSIGNOR CASSIDY
'REV. JAMES J. GRADY,
REV, JOS, G. CASSIDY,
I HONORED BY HOLY SEE
Chancellor of Diocese of Sa-
vannak-Atlanta, and the
Pastor of Milledgeville Par
ish, Made Papal Chamber
lains
SAVANNAH, Ga—The Most
Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D-,, J.
U. D., Bishop of Savannah-Atlan-
ta, has announced that word has
been received from Rome that the
Very Rev. James J. Grady, Chan-
! cellor of the Diocese of Savannah-
Atlanta, and the Rev. Joseph G.
Cassidy, pastor of Sacred Heart
Church, Milledgeville, have been
appointed Papal Chamberlains by
His Holiness Pope Pius XII.
to Convene in Richmond in April
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
RICHMOND. — Two Archbishops
and ten Bishops will attend the Third
Annual Convention of the Catholic
Committee of the South to be held
here April 26 to 28, the Most Rev.
Peter L. Ireton, Coadjutor Bishop of
Richmond and host to the convention,
has announced.
While “A Christian Family Life —
the Bulwark of the South and of the
Nation” will serve as the general
theme, special emphasis will be given
to the South’s role in winning the
war and post-war planning for the
New South.
A Pontifical High Mass at the Sac
red Heart Cathedral will open the
convention, with Bishop Ireton as the
celebrant. The Most Rev. Emmet M.
Walsh, Bishop of Charleston, will
preach the sermon
A feature of the convention will be
the conferring of the CCS Annual
Award upon Mother Katharine Drex-
el, Foundress of the Sisters of the
Blessed Sacrament, for her work in
Christian education among the Col-
ered people of the South. This award
is made annually to an individual,
regardless of race or creed, who has
made a significant contribution to
the progress and welfare of the South.
The recipient last year was Dr. George
Washington Carver of Tuskegee In
stitute.
The "Papal Program for Peace will
be the theme of a banquet concluding
the convention. The Most Rev. Robert'
E. Lucey, Archbishop of San Antonio,
will be the principal speaker.
The Catholic Committee of the
South is an effort on the part of
Catholic Southerners towards the
religious, social, economic and edu
cational advancement of the South.
Departments are functioning in five
fields: Rural, Economy, Labor and
Industry, Racial Relations, Youth, and
Education.
Paul D. Williams, of this city, is
Executive Secretary of the Catholic
Committee of the South.
The honor bestowed on these
two priests of the Diocese of Sa-
vannah-Atlanta by the Holy See
carries with it the title of Very
Reverend Monsignor.
Father Grady was ordained to
the priesthood by Bishop O’Hara
at the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist in Savannah on Ascension
Thursday in 1937, and has been
Chancellor of the Diocese since
1939. He has veen very active in
the youth movement of the Dio
cese and is Diocesan director of
the Catholic Youth Organizations.
He has also been prominently
identified with Catholic Boy Scout
in addition to other activities.
Father Grady was born in Som
erville, Mass., in 1907, his parents
being Mr, and Mrs. Bart E. Grady,
of Brookline. He received his ele
mentary education at St. Anne’s
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Church, U. S. Imperilled Alike
Declares Monsignor Ready
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—Perils present
ly besetting the liberty and way
of life of the United States are the
same that harass the Church and
things Catholic throughout the
world, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Michael
J. Ready, General Secretary of the
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, declared here.
The occasion was the observance
of the third anniversary of the cor
onation of His Holiness Pope Pius
XII. Monsignor Ready delivered
the sermon at the Solemn Mass
celebrated in the National Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception on
the campus of the Catholic Uni
versity of America.
Monsignor Ready lauded Pope
Pius XII as a providential Pontiff.
He said the Holy Father’s “bril
liant qualities of mind and heart,
as well as his outstanding experi
ence in different service” well fit
ted him for “the tremendous re
sponsibilities borne by the Servant
of the Servants of God.”
PAPAL DELEGATE PRESIDES
His Excellency the Most Rev.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apos
tolic Delegate to the United States,
presided at the Mass. The Most
Rev. Michael J. Curley, Arch
bishop of Baltimore and of Wash
ington and Chancellor of the
Catholic University of America,
assisted from the throne. Four
other members of the Hierarchy,
members of the diplomatic corps,
Senators, representatives and
other government officials, and
persons prominent in various other
walks of life were in attendance.
They heard Monsignor Ready
assert that “the liberty and institu
tions of our nation are threatened
now by thd same dominant alien,
materialistic ideas and by the same
rampant totalitarian military
forces which harass the Church
and all the Church has built in the
course of centuries.”
“We have our own national sins
to confess and to repent,” Mon
signor Ready said, “but thank God
our nation as a nation still guards
inviolate the rights of the Church
to carry on with full liberty her
own mission of salvation. This
nation rejoices in the precious con
tribution to national life made by
the millions of Catholic citizens
in the cause of religion and edu
cation and mercy and social wel
fare. And the Church in the
United Sfates rejoices in her free
dom and cherishes the opportunity
to huild up in this Republic the
Kingdom of God among men.
“This freedom' gives us the
blessed joy of standing loyally
with the Holy Father in defense of
the rights of the Church through
out the world. For the Catholic
citizens of the United States yield
to no people in devotion and gen
erosity towards the Supreme Shep
herd, the Common Father of the
Children of the Church. We have
an especially great love for Pope
Pius XII and keep in proud mem
ory his words of farewell after
visiting our country: ‘May God
continue to bless this great na
tion. I admire the very good
qualities of its people and the
achievements of it* , -'aders.’
Consecration of Coadjutor
Bishop of St, Cloud Held
in Chape! of Mayo Clinic
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
ROCHESTER, Minn.—His Excell
ency the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni
Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, came to this little city,
famed as world- medical center, to
raise to the American Episcopate a
Minnesota priest who had been the
Papal Delegate’s student at Appoli-
naris College in Rome.
In St. Mary’s Chapel, at St. Mary’s
Hospital, linked so closely with the
history of two internationally-famous
surgeons, the Brothers Mayo, the Most
Rev. Peter W. Bartholome was conse
crated as Coadjutor Bishop of St.
Cloud in the presence of several mem
bers of the Hierarchy and a large
congregation of clergy, religious and
laity.
At a public reception tendered Hie
Apostolic Delegate in the Mayo Civic
Auditorium and attended by 3,000 per
sons, including Minnesota’s Governor
Harold E. Stassen, Rochester’s Mayor
Paul Grassle, and many other civil
officials. Archbishop Cicognani em
phasized how closely the ministry of
the new Bishop in the past years has
been associated with the work of re
lieving human suffering and ills
through St. Mary’s Hospital. Assert
ing that “the consecration of a Bishop
in a hospital chapel is indeed unus
ual,” Archbishop Cicognani added
that “in reality, we can say that it was
from this hospital that the Holy Fath
er Pius XII selected him for the lofty
office of Bishop.”
Other notables who attended the re
ception included Chief Justice Henry
M. Gallagher, of the Minnesota Su
preme Court; Adjutant General El-
ilard A. Walsh, and Dr, C. W. Mayo.
Earlier in the evening, the Apostolic
Delegate, Bishop Bartlolome and the
prelates were guests of officials of
the Mayo’ Clinic and of the Mayo
Foundation at the house of the laUer.