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MAY 23, 1942
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINE
To Be Ordained for Diocese of Raleigh
REV. JOHN J. HYLAND REV. HUGH P. KENNEDY REV. CHAS. J. O’CONNOR
North Carolina Priest
Addresses Graduates of
Whiteville High School
(By N. C. VV. C. News Service)
WHITEVILLE, N. C. — Two
priests .had the leading parts in
the baccalaureate program at the
Whiteville High School, although
not one of the 79 members of the
graduating class was a Catholic.
The Rev. Francis J. Howard,
pastor of the Sacred Heart Chap
el here, presided at the exercises
and the Rev. Edward T. Gilbert,
pastor of St. Agnes’ Church,
Washington, N. C., gave the an
nual baccalaureate a d d r e ss.
Whiteville is a town of about 5,-
000 inhabitants, of whom about a
dozen are Catholics.
Speaking on “Religion, the Bul
wark of Humanity,” Father Gil
bert warned that divorce, birth
control and other social evils that
have been eating away at Ameri
can life have been “softening us
up” for destruction, which, he
said, may come unless we return
to the sturdy principles for which
our forefathers gave their blood
and the lives in founding this re
public.
Calling upon the graduates to
realize their responsibilities as
they go forth, he said: “It be
comes your duty to serve your
God, your fellow man and your
country. Remember the suffering
and hardships which your fore
fathers went through to gain for
us this kind of nation which we
have now—this Utopian nation of
freedom and liberty.”
Stating that “the sad condition
of the world today is positive tes
timony of the effective operation
of the powers of darkness,” Fa
ther Gilbert said men are now be
ginning to realize that religion is
the only thing w'hich can save the
world and that religious teach
ing and principles furnish the
only bulwark and safeguard for
society.
RT. REV. MSGR. AUGUSTINE
DANGLMAYR, Vicar General of
the Diocese of Dallas, has been
named by His Holiness, Pope Pius,
XII to be Titular Bishop of Olba
and Auxiliary Bishop of Dallas.
Graduation Exercises
at Christ the King
Junior High, Atlanta
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—The Most
Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, D. D.,
J. U. D., Bishop of Savannah-
Atlanta, will preside at the grad
uation exercises of Christ the
King Junior High School, which
will be held on June 2, and will
pontificate at Mass and Benedic
tion.
At the conclusion of the com
mencement program, Bishop
O’Hara and the Right Rev. Mon
signor Joseph E. Moylan, rector of
the Cathedral of Christ the King,
will be guests of honor at a
breakfast which will be given by
students in the tenth grade.
Members of the graduating
class, who will be awarded di
plomas by Bishop O’Hara are:
Vivian Butler, Patti Conlan, Marie
Claire Gunning, Rose Kelan,
Leona Kincaid, Joyce Lynch, Ann
Newman, Jane Snyder, Mary Sue
Thomas, Joan Trippe, Frances
Whitman, Mary Wrigley, Peter
Fletcher, James Hart, William
Tietz and William Sullivan.
President of Notre
Dame Discusses
New Tax Proposals
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Strong
condemnation of certain tax pro
posals now before the Government,
affecting charitable and education
al institutions, was sounded by the
Very Rev. J. Hugh O’Donnell, C.
S. C., President of the University
of Notre Dame, in an address to
450 alumni and guests here.
The proposals, he declared, are
based on a “philosophy of Statism”
seeking to “destroy the rights of
the individual,” and actually
“might be considered as the start
of a campaign” to bring private
institutions under Government
control.
Three Ordinations to the Priesthood
for Diocese of Raleigh in June
Rev. John J. Hyland, Rev. Hugh Patrick Kennedy and
Rev. Charles Joseph O’Connor to Be Ordained at
Mount St. Mary’s Seminary by Auxiliary Bishop of
Baltimore
(Special to The Bulletin)
EMMITSBURG. — One June 1,
His Excellency the Most Rev.
John M. McNamara, D. D., Titular
Bishop of Eumenia, and Auxiliary
Bishop of Baltimore, will ordain
the Rev. Charles Joseph O’Con
nor, the Rev. Hugh Patrick Ken
nedy and the Rev. John J. Hy
land to the priesthood for the Dio
cese of Raleigh. The ordinations
to take place in the Chapel of the
Immaculate Conception at Mount
St. Mary’s Seminary here.
Rev. Charles Joseph O’Connor,
whose home is in Philadelphia, at
tended Our Lady of Lourdes pa
rochial school and West Phila
delphia Catholic High School, and
received his A. B. degree in 1938
at St. Charles Seminary, Over
brook, completing his studies for
the priesthood at Mount St.
Mary’s. He will celebrate his first
Solemn High Mass, June 7, at
Our Lady of Lourdes Church,
Philadelphia.
Rev. Hugh Patrick Kennedy,
who is also from Philadelphia, at
tended Our Lady of Mercy Pa
rochial school, and graduated
from the Roman Catholic High
School of Philadelphia in 1934.
He attended St. Charles Semi
nary, Overbrook, for seven years,
completing the final year of his
theological study at Mount St.
Mary’s. His first Solemn High
Mass will be celebrated on June
7 at Our Lady of Hercy Church
in Philadelphia.
Rev. John J. Hyland, also from
Philadelphia, attended the Ro
man Catholic High School in that
city, St. Charles Seminary, Over
brook, and Mount St. Mary’s Sem
inary. He will celebrate his first
Solemn High Mass at St. Co
lumbia’s Church, Philadelphia, on
June 7.
On the same day, Bishop Mc
Namara will also confer the sub-
diaconate on the Rev. Stephen
Aylward, the Rev. Thomas Mur
phy and the Rev. Joseph Sands,
and minor orders on the Rev.
Paul Mattern, all of whom are pre
paring for ordination as priests of
the Diocese of Raleigh at Mount
St. Mary’s Seminary.
CHRIST THE KING STUDENTS
TO PRESENT BARRIE PLAY
ATLANTA, Ga.-—The Dramatic
Club of Christ the King High
School will make its debut on
June 1 with the presentation of
“Quality Street” by the noted
playwright, Sir James M. Barrie.
The cast will include Joan
Smith, Regina Schofer, Josephine
Kelan, Marie Claire Gunning,
Jean Robb, Paula McKoin and
Patti Conlon.
BETTY MITCHAM, ATLANTA
WINS SPELLING HONORS
ATLANTA, Ga.—Betty Mitcham,
eighth grade student at Christ
the King School, has been crown
ed Fulton County’s champion
speller for the second consecutive
year and will enter The Atlanta
Journal’s state-wide Spelling Bee.
Miss Mitcham, who is 13 years of
age, won over 29 other finalists in
a contest held at Fulton High
School.
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Father O’Donnell spoke at the
annual Alumni Commencement
Banquet in the university dining
halls, bringing to a close a full
day of alumni activity in connec
tion with the university’s ninety-
eights annual commencement.
“Today, imbued with the philos
ophy of Statism,” he said, “a cer
tain group would have the Govern
ment cut off the support of the
privately controlled university by
setting limits on estate tax deduc
tions now allowed for charitable
and educational purposes.
“I mention this proposal because
there is more in it than meets the
eye. It seems to be just another tax
measure suggested at a time when
the Federal Government needs ad
ditional revenue. Actually, it
might be considered as the start
of a campaign to bring private
colleges and universities under
Government control.
“This Is but another instance of
the^unremitting attack being made
upon''American institutions by a
little band of astute secularists
who, in the name of expediency,
would destroy the rights of the in
dividual.”
“In a changing world, the Am
erican heritage is in danger,”
Father O’Donnell declared. “But a
fight will be waged to protect it.
Notre Dame, along with other pri
vately-controlled universities, will
wage the fight, because it is in the
interest of basic truth. Notre Dame
will not compromise _with move
ments of regime?tation whose pur
pose is to enslave the individual
by making him the creature of the
State.”
“Our real Quislings,” he assert
ed, “operate under the cloak of
respectibility, or, since they are
true Quislings, even under the
guise of patriotism. They find it
easy to do their work because God
has been cast out of education?
Among them are the proponents of
divorce, birth control, planned
parenthood, and euthanasia —
groups that attack not only the
family, but the individual’s right
to life under the pretense of social
betterment.”
Danger to Catholic Schools
Seen in Neuy Tax Proposals
MT. ST. MARY’S COLLEGE
HOLDS COMMENCEMENT
EMMITSBURG, Md. — The one-
hundred and thirty-fourth annual
commencement exercises of Mount
St. Mary’s College were held May
3. A class of 66, the second largest
in the history of the college, re
ceived degrees. Thomas W. Pang-
horn, of Hagerstown, delivered the
address to the graduates and the
Most Rev. George L. Leech, D. D„
Bishop of Harrisburg, presided.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK. — The danger
which is presented for Catholic
schools in new tax proposals made
by the Treasury Department to
the Ways an<| Means Committee
of the House of Representatives is
reviewed in an article by Rev.
Harold C. Gardiner, S. J., which
appeared in America.
The article is concerned with
Treasury proposals which seek to
limit deductions against estates
taxes now allowed for religious,
charitable and educational be
quests.
Opposing these tax recommen
dations in an appeal to the House
Committee, the Administrative
Board of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference recently call
ed for recognition and protection
of “personal initiative in the ad
vancement of religious, cnaritable
and educational purposes.”
Reviewing the tax proposals, Fr.
Gardiner says in his article: “This
means that a bequest to a Catho
lic college, let us say, will not be
entirely free of an inheritance tax.
. This may not affect our col
leges to any very great extent, as
few of them get anly large be
quests, but affect them it will, even
in small amounts. Beyond this
field, of course, hospitals, asylums
and other charitable institutions
will inevitably feel the pinch”.
“This plan, proposed on a na
tional scale, will be a further ag
gravation of the growing burden
educational institutions are hav
ing to bear in many places because
of the trend to limit sharply the
extent of their exemption from
property taxes,” the article adds.
“It was ruled recently in one place,
for example, that a Religious house
of studies, because the teaching in
it is confined to members of the
Religious community (though they
were being prepared to teach ex-
terns in their many colleges), was
not properly an educational insti
tution, and hence, not exempt from
tax. If teacher training is not an
educational activity, what is?
“The few editorials we have seen
on the subject have invariably op
posed the Treasury plan on the
grounds that it will cripple educa
tional and charitable work, and
that is unfortunate and true. But
the real danger, though not so in-
mediately painful is more menac
ing — the danger of the octopus of
bureaucracy winding itself more
and more around the whole inde
pendent school structure, our mag
nificent Catholic system, for which
we have spared no sacrifice, in
cluded.
“The danger has always existed,
though remotely; now it looms very
large and definite. What can we
do about it? This, to quote from
an editorial in the San .Francisco
Chronicle for March 30: ‘Congress
must be made aware of opposition
by every thoughtful citizen look
ing to the long-range welfare of
the Nation.’
“Opposition to the bill on the
part of educators may be shrugged
off at Washington as uemg just
what is to be expected from the
profession, jealous against having
its vested interests diminished. But
knowledge of the scheme and oppo
sition to it from interested laymen
may result in the sceme being def
initely abandoned.
“And laymen, Catholic laymen,
ought to be interested, for it will
effect their children’s education,
and greatly hamper the work of
the Church. Unity in wartime is,
of course, greatly to be desired;
cooperation with the Government
is imperative, but not blind coop
eration in a plan that will even
tually engender here the very situ
ation we deplore abroad — State
absolutism in education.”
Winthrop College Newman
Club Installs Officers
(Special to The Bulletin)
ROCK HILL, S. C. — New of
ficers were installed and freshmen
initiated at the annual banquet
of the Winthrop College Newman
Club held on April 25 at the Ora
tory of St. Philip Neri in this city,
in connection with “the most suc
cessful college program held for
the Catholic young people of this
section.”
Arrangements for the week-end
program were made by the Very
Rev. Vincent G. Scharff, Cong.
Orat., Superior of the Oratory,
who was assisted by the Rev. Al
bert Faase, Cong. Orat., chaplain
of the Newman Club at Winthrop
College, and the Rev. John A.
Haak, Cong. Orat., treasurer of
the Oratory.
Plans for the week-end includ
ed a formal initiation Saturday af
ternoon, a banquet Sat urday
night, a special Mass at which the
Newmanites approached Holy
Communion, followed by a break
fast on Sunday.
Approximately twenty Clemson
cadets addended, and were —in
charge of the initiation ceremony.
Speakers for the occasion were
Father Albert, of Rick Hill, who is
Newman Club chaplain for the
Southeast Province, and the Rev.
Jom M. Riach, C. S. P., of Clem
son.
Officers of the Winthrop Col
lege Newman Club who were in
stalled were Miss Agnes Shahid
president; Miss Martha Azer, vice
president; Miss Estercita Clark
secretary, and Misq^ Caia B-rhtrti,
treasurer.