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MAY 23. 1942
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE
News Review of the Catholic World
FIRST MASS IN 400 YEARS AT HISTORIC SITE
Rev. Robert J. Slavin, O. P.. of the Catholic University of America. Washington, was the celebrant of
the open-air Mass at the site of the first permanent colony of the English people in the United States,
on Jamestown Island. Va. It is believed to be the first Mass celebrated there in more ttjan four cen
turies. The event followed the recent convention of the Catholic Committee of the South. (N.C.W.C.)
Governor of Virginia
Calls Catholic Church
( Rock of Wasting World 9
Archbishop Lucey Tells Catholic Committee of the
South Convention They Must Reject Isolationism—
Majority Leader McCormack of House of Representa
tives Asks “Angry Unity”
CONVENTION DELEGATES
VISIT HISTORIC SITES
(By N. C. W. C. News Agency)
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — More
than 350 persons assisted Wednes
day at an open-air Mass on James
town Island, near here, believed to
be the first Mass celebrated there
in more than four centuries. The
Mass was the first event of a pil
grimage to Jamestown and to the
Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
here, which followed the three-day
convention of the Catholic Com
mittee of the South in Richmond.
The pilgrims, guests of the C. C.
S. Executive Committee for the
Diocese of Richmond, left the Jef
ferson Hotel by automobile and
after the Mass proceeded to the
scene of the surrender of Corn
wallis at Yorktown. They were
then taken to the now world-famed
restored colonial town of Williams
burg, where luncheon was served
on the lawn of St.'Bede’s Rectory.
The pilgrimage to the Shrine of
Our Lady, a replica of the famous
shrine at Walsingham, England,
built centuries ago, was conducted
by the Rev. Thomas J. Walsh, pas
tor of St. Bede’s Church. The par
ty returned to Richmond at e*e-
ning.
Celebrant of the Mass on James
town Island was the Rev. Robert
3. Slavin, O. P., of the Catholic
. University of America, Washing
ton. D. C., and a sermon was given
by the Rev. T. E. O’Connell, pastor
of St. Paul’s Church, Richmond.
IlSTER CHARLES GIBSON, of
»Our Lady of Mercy College, Char
leston, S. C., has been awarded the
Sister Mary de Paul Cogan scholar
ship in education at the Catholic
University of America, for the
academic year 1942-1943.
APPOINTMENT of the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Thomas J. McDonnell, Na
tional Director of the Society for
the Propagation of the Faith, as
General Secretary of the Supreme
General Council of the Society,
marks the first time an American
has been appointed to this office
in the international mission aid or
ganization.
TWO FORMER ANGLICAN
CLERGYMEN who had minister
ed in London in their Anglican
days were aised to the priesthood
at a ceremony at the London Ora
tory. The Rev. Laurence Goulder
received Anglican orders in 1926,
and the Rev. Eliott Ostrehan was
ordained to the Anglican ministry
in 1931. After their reception in
to the Church they attended Beda
College in Rome.
THE SOCIETY OF THE PRO
PAGATION OF THE FAITH has
arranged a coast-to-coast broad
cast, to commemorate the 10th an
niversary of the founding of the
Society over the Red Network of
the National . Broadcasting Com
pany, May 23. The broadcast is
taking place from 2:30 to 2:45 p. m.,
Eastern War Time. Miss Margaret
Anglin, celebrated-stage and radio
star, has the leading role in a
dramatization of the life of Pauline
Jaricot, Foundress of the Society.
REV. DR. GEORGE JOHNSON,
Director of the Department of
Education of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference, was appoint
ed a member of the Committee on
Problems and Plans in Education
of the American Council of Educa
tion, which at its meeting in Wash
ington urged the Federal Govern
ment to finance the education of
gifted youth needed for special
ized war work.
EXCERPTS FROM ADDRESSES
by the Most Rev. Francis J. Spell
man, Archbishop of New York and
Military Vicar; J. Edgar Hoover,
director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and Clarence E.
Manion,,Dean of Notre Dame Uni
versity Law School, deliverd on
the nationwide Knights of Colum
bus broadcast in connection with
the celebration of the 60th anni
versary of the founding of the
Order, have been printed in the
Congressional Record,
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
RICHMOND, V a. — “The
Catholic Church stands today,
as it has stood for centuries,
like a rock in a wasting world,”
and, when peace comes, will
“play a magnificent part in
bringing back to exhausted and
weary people” the opportunity
for “a finer and a cleaner and a
better life.”
This statement was made by
Virginia’s non-Catholic Gover
nor Colgate W. Darden, in an
address at the banquet Tuesday
night which brought to a close
the three-day convention of the
Catholic Committee of the
South here.
“I want to say, because I can
say it to you as an outsider,
what a profound respect I feel
for the great organization to
which you have the honor to be
long,” Governor Darden said.
“The Catholic Church today
stands as it has stood for cen
turies, like a rock in a wasting
world. It offers to mankind
everywhere a sanctuary to
which he can repair with some
chance for the future.
“It is the one great organiza
tion, or certainly one of the
great organizations in human
history, that is international in
its scope. Its profound beliefs
span political boundaries. It ap
peals to fine, right-thinking peo
ple everywhere, and I have no
doubt that—when the day
comes that this peace is written
—that your great Church is
going to play a magnificent part
in bringing back to exhausted
and weary people the oppor
tunity which they so much de
sire for a finer and a cleaner
and a better life.”
By WILLIAM H. FANNING. JR.
(Staff Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
RICHMOND. —The “tremend
ous power” of the American peo
ple bears with it a “tremendous
responsibility” that leaves us no
choice but permanently to reject
isolationism and cease trying “to
persuade ourselves that our coun
try does not belong to the family
of nations and that our people do
not belong to the human race,” the
Most Rev. Robert E. Lucey, Arch
bishop of San Antonio, said at the
closing banquet of the third an
nual convention of the Catholic
Committee of the South.
More than 300 persons attend
ing the banquet heard addresses
by Archbishop Lucey, the Most
Rev.- Peter L. Ireton, Coadjutor
Bishop of Richmond and host to
the three-day meeting; Governor
Colgate W. Darden, of Virginia,
and Representative John W. Mc
Cormack, of Massachusetts. Ma
jority Leader in the United States
House of Representatives.
Also at the speakers’ table were
the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh.
Bishop of Charleston; the Most
Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of
Savannah-Atlanta; the Most Rev.
Eugene J. McGuinness, Bishop of
Raleigh, and the Most Rev. Rich
ard O. Gerow, Bishop of Natchez.
The Most Rev. Joseph P. Hurley,
Bishop of St. Augustine; the Most
Rev. Thomas J. Toolen. Bishop of
Mobile; the Most Rev. John F.
Noll, Bishop of Fort Wayne, and
the Rt. Rev. Vincent G. Taylor,
Abbot of Belmont Abbey, also
took part in the convention.
Representative McCormack ap
pealed for an “angry unity” of all
the American people toward win
ning the war and aiding all those
who will help us win the war. If
we preserve America, “at thesamc
time we will be preserving our
eiviliazation which has its origin
in God Himself,” he said.
BISHOP O’HARA RE-ELECTED
EPISCOPAL CHAIRMAN
Election of officers of the
Catholic Committee of the South
for the coming year toqk place at
a business session, at which
Bishop O’Hara, Episcopal Chair
man of the C. C. S., presided. The
Archbishops and Bishops of the
South constitute the Board of
Governors. The Rt. Rev. Msgr.
James- P. Gaffney, Rector of St.
John's Seminary, Little Rock,
Ark., was elected Chairman, to
succeed the Rt. Rev. Msgr. T.
James McNamara, Rector of the
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist,
Savannah. All other officers were'
reelected. They include Dr. An
drew L. Stabler, of Birmingham.
Ala., Vice-Chairman; John X.
Wegmann, of New Orleans, Trea
surer, and Paul D. Williams, of
Richmond, Executive Secretary.
Other afternoon sessions were
devoted to “Youth and National
Defense” and to economic condi
tions in the South. More than 500
persons filled the ballroom of the
Jefferson Hotel for the youth ses
sion, at u'hich Bishop Gerow pre
sided. Among them were a score
of priests, some 40 Sisters and 100
uniformed cadets from the Bene
dictine High School. A panel dis
cussion, with college students par
ticipating was directed by Sister
M. Consilia, O. P.. Supervisor of
Schools of the Raleigh Diocese.
The Rev. Thomas F. Carey, O. P.,
of New York, Associate Editor of
the Holy Name Journal, spoke on
“Youth Answers the Challenge.”
ECONOMICS AND
THE FUTURE
At the session on economic con
ditions, with Bishop Walsh pre
siding, the work of the Farm Se
curity Administration in rehabili
tation of farm families in the
South was reviewed by R. W. Hud
gens, Assistant Administrator of
the F. S. A. George Boyle, Editor
of The Maritime Cooperator. An-
tigpnisli, N. S., spoke of coopera
tives as “the untilled soil of the
new democracy to be.” and called
for supplementing of “the great
political affirmations of Jeffer
son” with the “economic affirma
tions of Leo XIII.” Other speak
ers were the Rev. William H.
Reintjes, C.SS.R., pastor of St. Al-
phonsus’ Church. New' Orleans,
and Dr. Lee INI. Brooks. Professor
of Sociology at the University of
North Carolina and President of
the Southeastern Cooperative
League.
At a session on “The Church
and Divinely Planned Parent
hood,” Mrs. W. N. Berry, of
Greensboro, N. C., recipient re
cently of the award of the “Am
erican Mother of 1942,” called
upon mothers everywhere to pre
serve for the nation its sense of
order and discipline.
The Rev. Dr. Edgar Schmiede-
ler, O. S. B„ Director of the
Family Life Bureau. National
Catholic Welfare Conference,
Communion-Braakfast
Sponsored by N. C. C. S.
Club in Anniston, Ala.
(Special to The Bulletin)
ANNISTON,‘Ala.—On Mother’s
Day, at Fort McClellan, in Tent
Theatre No. 4, a High Mass was
celebrated by First Lieut. Elmer
Heindl of the 4th Regiment. Over
2,000 soldiers attended, including
high ranking officers of the Fort.
At least 850 received Holy Com
munion and after the Mass, Bene
diction was given. After the ser
vice, through the cooperation of
the National Catholic Community
Service, and the Bus Company of
the City of Anniston, over 700 boys
were taken to Anniston. At the
edge of town they were formed
into lines of four, under the com
mand of the non-commissioned of
ficers, and marched through the
main streets of Anniston to the
new government recreation cen
ter operated by the NCCS, and
other USO agencies, where prep
arations were being made for a
Communion breakfast. The huge
auditorium in this recrea'tion cen
ter was filled to a capacity and
on the plate of each soldier was
a spiritual bouquet card with an
envelope to address to his mother.
The program at breakfast was
enlivened by songs sung by va
rious boys from the Fort and the
speakers were: John E. McCloskey.
director of the NCCS Club in An
niston, who acted as toastmaster;
Col. Andrew C. Tyson of the 6th
Regjment: Major Donat Wilson,
of the 13th Battalion and Father
Elmer Heindl, chaplain of the 5th
Regiment.
After the breakfast was over
many of the boys were taken to
various homes in the City of
Anniston for dinner and many
stayed to enjoy the faciilties of
the Club House.
VICTOR MARKWALTER, of
Augusta, was elected chairman of
the Board of Trustees of the Geor
gia Society of Certified Public Ac
countants at the annual conven
tion of that body held recently in
Atlanta.
warned of .an “invasion” of the
South's family life by birth con
trol propaganda. “Let me make
the point here that the family
moral code is one,” Dr. Schmiede-
ler said. “Tear down a part of it
and you weaken the whole sys
tem. Loosen one thread of the
fabric and • the whole garment
speedily disintegrates.” As one
great safeguard of family life, he
called for new emphasis on the
family wage.
AFTER WAR DAYS
Warning of the social crisis that
threatens after the war, the Rev.
John F. Cronin. S.S.. of St. Mary’s
Seminary, Baltimore, told the
Priests’ Conference that “there is
a need of assuring those who man
the machines for MacArthur that
they are not being exploited for
their patriotism.” In addition, he
said, we must face the race prob
lem “honestly and fearlessly.”
An appeal for viewing the social
problem as a human problem,
rooted in original sin and to be
solved only by “getting God back
into our vision,” was sounded at
a meeting on Labor and Industry
by Frank J. Sheed, noted Catholic
author and publisher. The prob
lem is simply “how to make hu
man beings behave decently,” and
to solve it we must “establish
principles” by restoring “the just
vision, ’ which means “seeing
everything through God,” he said.
Stating that God is the light for
the social problem, Mr. Sheed said
“you v/ould be surprised how well
men would behave if we but put
the light back on again.”
A coming harvest, both econo
mic and spiritual, for the South,
was predicted in an address by Dr.
Franklin W. Dunham, Executive
Director of the National Catholic
Community Service. “Christian
philosophy put into practice is the
best possible economic and social
program,” Dr. Dunham said. On
the other hand, he said, economic
improvement is necessary to the
full spiritual development of the
South, which he said is the only
section of the country that re
mains “a frontier” foe economic
development.