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Published by the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia VOL. XXIII. No. 8 “To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among - Neighbors Irre spective of Creed” THIRTY-TWO PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 29, 1942 ★★★ ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR Holy See Honors Five Priests of Raleigh Diocese Domestic Prelate Papal Chamberlain Papal Chamberlain Papal Chamberlain Papal Chamberlain MONSIGNOR McNERNEY The Rev. Monsignor Peter JIc- MONSIGNOR MURPHY The Very Rev. Monsignor Cor- MONSIGNOR LYNCH MONSIGNOR FEDERAL MONSIGNOR BOUR The Right Rev. Monsignor Den- The Rev. Monsignor J. Lennox The Very Rev. Louis J. Bour, nis A. Lynch, Chancellor of the Federal, Rector of the Cathedral Pasior of St. Lawrence Church .. . Diocese of Raleigh, who has been of the Sacred Heart, Raleigh, who Asheville, who has been elevated P e ™Lf ul ri, OUr | La „ y . I ' ellus E - Murphy, Pastor of St. elevated to the rank and dignity has been appointed a Papal Cham- to the dignity of a Papal Chamber- Mount whf ’’ R i M * y * Iarys Church ’ Wilmington, who of a Domestic Prelate. berlain. lain P Mount, who has been made a has been appointed a Papal Cham- —— Papal Chamberlain. berlain. Bulletins HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII has sent the sum of $10,000 for the relief of distress caused by air raids on the Island of Malta. The contribution was made avail able through an allocation from the Bishops’ War Emergency and Relief Committee of the United States. Postmaster General Walker Addresses K, of C. Convention REPRESENTATIVES of the Catholic Church in Holland and the Netherlands Reformed Church have protested against Nazi pro posals to deport all the Jews of that country to Eastern Europe, according to information received by the Netherlands Information Bureau in London. AN ANGLICAN MINISTER in Tunis, Isaac Dunbar, discovered 30 British Catholic sailors in a French prison in Tunisia, and telephoned to the English White Fathers at Carthage, and when arrangements were made for the visit of a priest he scrubbed the floor of a room in preparation for Mass. BRAZIL’S declaration of war on Germany and Italy has hasten ed the victory of the Christian re ligion, President Roosevelt declar ed in his message to President Getulio Vargas on the Brazilian Goverment’s action. “The action taken today by your Gov ernment,” President Roosevelt asserted, “has hastened the com ing of the inevitable victory of freedom over oppression, of Chris tian religion over the forces of evil and darkness.” FCmaCTORY BUY UNITED STATES WAR HWy/BONDS AND STAMPS (By N. C. W. C. News Service) MEMPHIS, Tenn.,— Regardless of its beginnings, this is no long er a war between nations but a war for human, rather than politi cal, independence, Postmaster General Frank C. Walker said in an address on “The War Aims are the Peace Terms” at the States Dinner held in connection with the sixtieth annual convention of the Knights of Columbus. “Not all of us,” he said, “yet un derstand the Total War for Human Rights in which we are mortally engaged. I doubt that anyone ful ly understands it. The magnitude of this eruption of humanity is too great to be now comprehended. Only the perspective of future years will discern the complete character and trace the historic direction of its forces. If the scope were less we could grasp it with a more concentrated conviction if the disturbance were limited to a spot, we could attack with the focused intensity of our armed might. “But the War for Human Rights is everywhere; it is wherever human hearts are found! It is the conflict between good and evil in the soul of humanity. It is the civil war of the human race whose battleground is the continents of the globe, the seas that divide them and the skies that cover them. This much we do under stand; this much we know must surely. Regardless of its begin nings, this is no longer a war be tween nations. It is a war for human, rather than political, in dependence. No individual or na tion can be safely neutral any long er. .. . “Knights of Columbus and citi zens of the United States! If ever cause were just this cause is just. | If ever war were necessary—this j war was necessary. If ever victory could be placed, as an offering, on the Altars of Almighty God, our victory, when it comes, can be placed there in a spirit of humility and dedication that the cause of justice and liberty may be sancti fied as a lasting heritage of man kind. Meanwhile, as we travel through the night of struggle to ward the dawn of triumph, our war effort and our war aims must be inspired by all' our strength, With the full working-power of our nation and the unadulterated honesty of our purposes. So, God helping us, we shall triumph; so, God sustaining us, we shall carry on to a better future—a future in which we shall keep faith with our dead.” Teaching of Religion in Philippine Schools Banned by Japanese (By N. C. W. C. News Service) NEW YORK. — The Jesuit Philippine Bureau has received word from a source which may not be disclosed, that an announce ment was made last week in a Spanish-language broadcast over Station KZRH, Manila, to the ef fect that religious instruction in the Philippine Schools was abol ished by Act of August 4. Spe cifically, the news told of the je- voking of a certain “Regulation No. 35” which since the fall of Manila had allowed references to religion in Philippine text-books; this by order of the Director-Gen eral of the Japanese Military Ad ministration. Word has also been reported of a movement to popularize the Japanese language in the Philip pines. To accomplish this, a re organization of the educational system was declared necessary. According to the plan which was spoken of, existing private schools will be abolished, the number of public schools increased. Colleges are to be “appropriately reorgan ized” in accordance with the plan. Japanese educators are to be placed in these colleges in some capacity, either as President or Vice-President. Shortly after the occupation of Manila by the Japanese, a “Bureau of Religious Affairs” was inaugu rated, for the purpose of exercis ing control over religious prac tices. It is reported that ministers of religion are required to obtain licenses from this bureau. An other activity of this bureau is to take care of the registering of all people in the Philippines accord ing to their religious beliefs. The registration of all church property, it is further reported, will be carried out at once. Some weeks before the inaugu ration of the more extensive pro gram outlined above, a meeting was reported as having been held at Tokyo to determine which re ligions were to be “recognized.” These included Shinto (the state religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confuscianism, Mohammedanism, and Catholicism. It was mention ed, however, that all other re ligions besides Shinto would be “converted” to Shinto eventually. Monsignor Lynch Made Domestic Prelate-Fathers > Federal, Murphy, M’Nerney Bour, Papal Chamberlains - r RALEIGH, N. C.—His Excellency the Most Rev. Eugene J. McGuinness, D. D . Bishop of Raleigh, has announced that he has re- ceivect word from Vatican City that five outstanding priests of the Hlocese of Raleigh have been created Monsignori by His Holiness ope Pius XII. The North Carolina priests who have been so sig nally honored being; Monsignor Dennis A. Lynch, Chancellor of the Diocese of Raleigh, and private secretary to Bishop McGuinness, who has been elevated to the high ecclesiastical rank of Domestic Prelate, with the title of Right Reverend Monsignor; the Rev. Louis J. Bour, V. I pastor of St. Lawrence Church, Asheville: the Rev. Cornelius u" Alurphy, \ . I., pastor of St. Mary's Church, Wilmington; the Rev. Peter McNerney, V. F„ pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Rocky Mount, and the Rev. Joseph Lennox Federal, rector of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Raleigh, who have been elevated to uie rank and dignity of Papal Chamberlains, with the title of Very Reverend Monsignor. ' Bishop McGuinness stated that no definite date had been set for the investiture of the newly-made Monsignori, but that there was a possibility that the ceremony would be held in the Cathedral at Raleigh toward the end of September. There are now eight Monsignori four Domestic Prelates and four Papal Chamberlains, including one Prothonotary Apostolic — in the Diocese of Raleigh. The high honors that have been conferred by His Holiness upon the priests and Laymen of the Diocese of Raleigh are evidence of the high regard and affection that the Holy Father has for North Carolina, and, further, shows that His Holi ness recognizes the great work the clergy and laity of North Carolina are accomplishing on behalf of the Catholic Church. MONSIGNOR LYNCH A NATIVE OF IRELAND Monsignor Dennis A. Lynch, the seventh child of Peter and Helen Lynch, was born in the County of Kerry, Ireland, on October 9, 1906. He received his early education in the National Schools of that coun try, and in 1921 entered Saint Brendan’s Preparatory Seminary, Killarney, County Kerry, to pre pare himself for the priesthood. On the completion of his classical studies, he came to the United States in September 1925 and was immediately adopted as a student for the newly erected Diocese of Raleigh. He pursued his philosophical and theological studies at Belmont Abbey Seminary, Belmont, N. C., and was ordained to the priesthood on October 1, 1931, in St. Mary’s Church. Wilmington, N. C. He served as assistant at St. Peter’s Church, Grenville, N. C.; at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Rocky Mount; at St. Mary’s Church Goldsboro, and from September 1937 to June 1938, he served as chaplain at St. Gencvieve-of-the- Pines Junior College and Academy, Ashville. In June 1936, Monsignor Lynch graduated with a degree of Master of Arts from the School of Arts and Sciences of the Catholic University of America in Washing ton, D. C. In June, 1938, Bishop McGuin ness appointed him Chancellor of the Diocese of Raleigh, which office he now fills with great distinction. In May, 1940, His Holiness Pope Pius XII named him a Papal Chamberlain, with the title of Very Reverend Monsignor. In rec ognition of his outstanding work, Pope Pius XII has now elevated him to the rank of a Domestic Prelate, with the title of Right Reverend Monsignor. Monsignor Lynch has resided in North Carolina since 1925, and his long continued residence in the South has made him a typical Southerner and a great lover of Dixie” manners and customs. MONSIGNOR BOUR IS A NATIVE OF PENNSYLVANIA Monsignor Louis J. Bour was born in Scranton, Pa., on Decem ber 14, 1888. He attended St. Mary’s parochial school and St. Mary’s High School in that city. He made his philosophical and theological studies at St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, N. Y„ the Catholic University of America, in Washington, from whiett he re ceived a degree of Bachelor of (Contiiued on Foui.-4J __