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JUNE 27, 1942
THREE
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
News Review of the Catholic World
Catholic Press Leaders for Coming Year
At the closing session of the 32nd annual convention of the Catholic Press Association of the United
States, held in Birmingham, Ala., officers elected for the coming year, pictured above left to right in
clude: Rev. Hyacinth Blocker, O. F. M„ of JSt. Anthony Messenger, Cincinnati, magazine section chair
man and member of the Board; Rev. Daniel J. Kelley, of The Catholic Week, Birmingham newspaper
chairman and member of the Board; A. J. Wey, of The Catholic Universe Bulletin, Cleveland presi
dent: Very Rev. John J. Considine, M. M., of The Field Afar, Maryknoll, N. Y„ vice president; Charles
S. Murphy, of the Catholic Review, Baltimore, treasurer, and the Rev. J. Fred Kriebs, of The' Witness,
Dubuque, Iowa, secretary. Dean J. L. Sullivan of the School of Journalism of Marquette University’
Milwakee, chairman of the school press section, wa s not present when this picture was taken (N C W
C. News service).
Special Wartime Decree Allows
Evening Mass in Military Chapels
JOSEPH QUINN HEADS
SOUTHERN REGIONAL
CONFERENCE OF C. P. A.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Joseph
J. Quinn, Managing Editor of The
Southwest Courier, Oklahoma
City, was elected President of the
Southern Regional Conference of
the Catholic Press Association of
the United States at its meeting
here.
Other officers elected were the
Rev. Herbert O’H. Walker, S. J.,
Associated Editor of The Queen’s
Work, S. Louis, Vice-President,
and Hugh Kinchley, Editor of The
Bulletin, Augusta, Ga., Secretary-
Treasurer.
The Rev. Daniel J. Kelly, Editor
of The Catholic Week, Birming
ham, was host to the Conference
at a dinner at Tutwiler Hotel, at
which Francis Watters, of The
Catholic Week, was toastmaster,
and at which the Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Peter M. H. Wynhoven, of New
Orleans, retiring president of the
Catholic Press Association, was
the principal speaker.
IN CHURCH SERVICES, at
least, a general may sometime take
the place of a private. The private,
first class, who acts as assistant to
the post chaplain at Mitchel Field,
Long Island, was otherwise engag
ed one morning and unable to
serve Mass at the appointed hour.
When he arrived later, serving
Mass for Father Paul J. Giegerich
was Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Hanley,
Jr., Chief of the Material and Sup
ply Division of the Army Air
Corps.
WITH MEXICO AT WAR with
the Axis powers, the Most Rev.
Luis M. Martinez; Archbishop of
Mexico, and the Most Rev. An
tonio Guizary Valencia, Bishop of
Chihauhua have issued statements
regarding the duty of Catholics to
uphold the Civil Government.
IN A CEREMONY unusual in
the annals of the Church on the
Pacific Coast more than 2,200 con
verts were confirmend in St. Vi-
biana’s Cathedral, Los Angeles;
the Most Rev. John J. Cantwell,
Archbishop of Los Angeles; the
Most Rev. Joseph T. McGucken,
Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles,
and the Most Rev. Philip G. Scher,’
Bishop of Monterey-Fresno. The
class included converts of the past
year from all parishes of the Los
Angeles Archdiocese.
QUEEN WILHELMINA of the
Netherlands has received from His
Holiness Pope Pius XII his best
wishes and assurances that his
prayers are being offered for her
and “the noble Netherlands na
tion,’’ according to Aneta, Nether
lands Indies news agency. The
communication from the Vatican
was in reply to a message from
the Queen in which she congratu
lated the Pope on the silver jubil-
lee celebration of his consecration
as a Bishop.
THE HOLY SEE is helping to
feed British prisoners of war held
by the Japanese in Hong Kong
and Singapore, it was reported in
the House of Commons by the
Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden,
who said that as supplies by sea
cannot arrive for some time, ar
rangements have been made
through the good offices of the
Vatican for the purchase by local
missionary organizations of such
supplies as can be obtained local
ly, and for their distribution to
the camps.
A UNIQUE CEREMONY was
held at St. Joseph’s Church, New
Bern, N. C., on June 7, when the
Most Rev. Eugene J. McGuinness,
D. D., Bishop of Raleigh, imparted
the Nuptial Blessing to nine mar
ried couples, all converts, and
members of the Colored parish in
New Bern. These converts were
either married before entering the
Church, or cases where the non-
Catholie partners entered the
Church after marriage. The Rev.
Julian Endler, C. P., is pastor of
St. Joseph’s, and has been engaged
in missionary work among Colored
people for fourteen years.
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the first afternoon Mass this week.
They had just completed their
daily round of training duties, and
some 30 of them received Holy
Communion after observing a
four-hour fast.
Coming at this time word of
this extraordinary privilege re
calls strikingly a plea for the cele
bration of evening Mass made Dy
Bishop Joseph M. Corrigan, late
Rector of the Catholic University
of America-—who has iust died—
at the twenty-eighth International
Eucharistic Congress held in Chi
cago in 1926. Then Rector of St.
Charles Borromeo’s Seminary near
Philadelphia, Bishop Corrigan
said:
“The measure" of eternal life
which may be rightfully ours in
this testing time reaches its high
est perfection in the beautiful n-
timacy with Jesus Christ accorded
to the human soul in the precious
moments of Holy Communion.
Nor is it necessary to believe that
this union ceases as long as the
bonds of love securely hold the
soul to its Incomprehensible
Love.
REPETITION
IS DESIRABLE
“All desirable, however, in such
love is the repetition as often as
may be of that sublime act of un
ion which is precisely Holy Com
munion. Of the yearnings of lov- I
ing hearts throughout the world
for such happy repetition of Holy
Communion in the stress of daily
life is born the legitimate hope
that there may be swept away any
unnecessary restraint upon the
soul’s free access to the great hu
man heart of God. If this hope
soars to the sublime must it .iot
look forward eagerly and confi
dently to the time when the return
of evening Mass will bring to thou
sands of faithful souls the oppor
tunity of Holy Commutiion that is
not possible to them in the early
hours of the morning?
“To the workers of the world
striving to keep faith with their
loving Lord in the face of work,
anxiety and hourly temptation,
what % safeguard and what a pow
er of holiness it would be that
they were looking forward to die
peace and consolation of the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass and the
coming of God to their hearts at
the close of every day. How sancti
fied would every day become if
union with Jesus Christ was pos
sible to every devout soul ”
The Bishop said “the plea of
love from the hearts of the peo
ple and from the hearts of the
priests needs only perseverance to
make it powerful to sweep away
whatever be the restraints that
have been able to erect themselves
into barriers between the hearts
of God’s people and the heart of
God ”
UNTIL ELEVENTH
CENTURY
The Catholic Encyclopaedia in
dicates that Mass was celebrated
in the evening up to the eleventh
century. It states that in the first
ages, during the night before every
feast, a vigil was kept. In the eve
ning, the faithful assembled in the
place or church where the feast
was to be celebrated and prepared
themselves by prayers, readings
from Holy Writ, and sometimes
also by a sermon. On such occa
sions, as on fast days in general,
it is stated, Mass also was celebrat
ed in the evening, before the Ves
pers of the following day.
After the eleventh century, The
Catholic Encyclopaedia adds, .he
fast, Office and Mass of the noc
turnal vigil were transferred to the
day before the feast; and even now
the liturgy of Holy Saturday
(Vigil of Easter) shows, in all its
parts, that originally it was not
kept on the morning of Saturday,
but during Easter Night. The day
before the feast was henceforth
called vigil.
Some who have contended that
William Shakespeare “knew noth
ing of Catholicism” have put for
ward as an argument the fact that
in “Romeo and Juliet” he speaks
of “evening Mass.” In refutation
of this, students have pointed out
examples of the practice of occa
sionally saying Mass in the after
noon. One of the places where
this was wont to happen was Ver
ona itself, scene of “Romeo and
Juliet. ”
ONLY FOR
EMERGENCIES
Catholic chaplains serving with
American armed forces in the first
World War enjoyed a special privi
lege with regard to the celebra
tion of Mass granted by the Holy
See. However, in the case of the
first World War, the privilege of
celebrating Mass in the afternoon
and evening seems to have been
enjoyed only by those chaplains
serving with troops overseas, and
was to be exercised only in emer
gency situations. For example,
overseas chaplains apparently
could not plan to have evening
Mass on regular days of the week,
as is possible, even within territor
ial United States, under the new
ly-granted privilege. The chap
lains in the first World War cele
brated Mass in the evening when
their troops were suddenly order
ed into the front line, or to an at
tack, and they would not be able
to hear Mass or receive Holy Com
munion next morning.
“It certainly was a wonderful
dispensation on the part of the
Holy Father to allow us to say
Mass al any time of the day or
night,” wrote the Rev Francis A.
Kelley, who served with the 27th
Division in all of its engagements
in France. “So often jnen are
called quickly forward that the
movement orders are not bxecuted
until the afternoon of the night on
which they are to go forward. If
we did not have this dispensation
from the Holy Father, and if men
were not allowed to approach the
Sacraments without fasting, many
would go forward with only the
Sacrament and of Penance; now,
they go forward fully fortified in
soul, and its reflection is found in
their courage and bravery xhibit-
ed at all times.”
Chaplain Kelley was cited seven
times for bravery, and received
the Distinguished Cross, the Mili
tary Cross of Great Britain, the
Croix de Guerre of France, and
the Conspicuous Service Cross. He
was the first National Chaplain of
the American Legion.
EVENING MASS
AT FORT BRAGG
FORT BRAGG, N. C. — Mon
signor Fulton J. Sheen of the
Catholic University of America
celebrated the first evening Mass
at 6:00 o’clock in the post play
grounds. The altar was set up in
the Band Stand. About two thou
sand soldiers participated. The
Ninth Division Band played a
number of Catholic hymns during
the Mass. There was also congrega
tional singing. Monsignor Sheen
also delivered the sermon.
REQUIEM MASS FOR
GENERAL TINKER AT
CHURCH IN TAMPA
TAMPA, Fla. — Officers and
men with whom he served, civil
ians of Tampa who knew him as
the civic-minded first commander
of MacDill Field, and members of
his family paid tribute to Major
General Clarence L. Tinker at a
solemn Requiem Mass celebrated
at the Sacred Heart Church here.
Those attending the Mass in
cluded members of the personnel
of the U. S. Third Air Force from
Maj. Gen. Walter H. Frank, com
mander, down through all ranks of
commisisoned officers and enlist
ed men.
The Most Rev. Joseph P. Hurley,
Bishop of St. Augustine, delivered
the eulogy over the flag-draped
catafalque before the altar, upon
which the Mass was offered by the
Rev. Edmund J. Griffin, senior
chaplain of the Third Air Force,
with the Rev. William J. Gaynor,
chaplain at McGill Field, and the
Rev. F. J. O’Brien, chaplain at
Drew Field, as deacon and sub
deacon.
Mrs. Clarence L. Tinker, wife of
the General, and their daughter,
Mrs. Byron E. Brugge, and their
son, Gerald Edward Tinker, were
in the congregation that filled the
church.
Chinese Catholic Center
Dedicated in Los Angeles
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
LOS ANGELES. — High tribute
was paid the Church’s ministry to
her Chinese children by Chinese
Counsel H. H. Chang as the Mcst
Rev. John J. Cantwell, Archbishop
of Los Angeles, presided over im
pressive ceremonies marking the
formal dedication of the Chinese
Catholic Center here.
A girls’ Chinese drum corps, at
tired in native costumes, and a
Chinese Boy Scout troop partici
pated in the ceremonies, held in
the gymnasium of Cathedral High
School which adjoins the Center.
“Here, today,” said Archbishop
Cantwell, “we are planting a tiny
seed. The dedication of a Chinese
Catholic Center in Los Angeles is
significant and timely. In our
great American democracy we
have a place in our hearts, and in
our temples, for the Chinese peo
ple.
IV e have not merely a fratern
al kinship of brother to brother;
we consecrate ourselves in another
relationship — which is that of
mother to child. The kindly Moth
er Church, knowing no racial bar
riers or political compromises,
stretches out her arms to inclose
in her embrace the Chinese peo
ple of this community.
“The Church is no stranger to
China. For hundreds of years she
has labored in that vineyard and
today numbers three million Cath
olics in her fold. Here in Califor
nia, the people 'of China, exiled
from their homeland, yet like the
Israelites of old, find themselves
deeply rooted in the promised
land.
“Here, the Church raises up for
them an altar whereon they may
sacrifice to the true and living
God and a Communion table
where they may partake of the
Body of their God, and beyond all
human concept become brothers
indeed, they with us and we with
them.”
The Rev. James Cowhig, of the
St. Columban’s Society, Director
of the Center, addressed the con
gregation in Chinese.
Eighty pupils are enrolled in the
Chinese Catholic Center School,
presided over by Dr. Stanley Chan.
Thirty-nine Chinese were bap
tized during the past year and
there are at present twenty cate
chumens.
General Tinker,
Hawaiian Air Chief,
Killed in Action
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C. — A Cath
olic gentleman in the United States
Army who lost his life while lead
ing his men on a perilous mission
in the recent battle of Midway
Island was paid warm tribute on
the floor of the United States Sen
ate today.
The soldier was Major General
Clarence L. Tinker, U. S. A., Com
manding General of the Hawaiian
Army Air Forces. He was of Osage
Indian blood and attained the
highest rank ever won by a native
Indian in the armed forces of the
United States. Senator Charles O.
Andrews of Florida told his col
leagues in the Senate that General
Tinker “was fifty-four years of age,
and was the first American Gener
al reported lost in action since we
went to war, after Pearl Harbor.”
The General, like his entire fam
ily, was a Catholic.
THE cATHOLITE, student pub
lication of the Boys’ Catholic High
School in Augusta, in a recent is
sue, expresses the gratitude of the
Marist Brothers and the students
at the school to Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas G. Brittingham, who gen
erously contributed a substantial
number of valuable volume to the
school library.
BANNED SINCE 1899, religion
has been restored to the schools
in Brazil. The restoration has
been effected through revision of
the curriculum of secondary and
senior schools made after careful
.study by a committee appointed
by the government.