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AUGUST 29, 1942
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEVEN
Editorial in Atlanta Constitution
on Bishop O’Hara’s War Message
The Atlanta Constitution, in its j of life. We .have justice, honor
issue dated Sunday, August 23, and decency on our side; and these
published the following editorial - in the end prolonged though the
comment on the message address- | conflict may be, will ultimately
ed to the Diocese of Savannah-At- | prevail against the fierce barbar-
lanta, by His Excellency, the Most
Key. Gerald P. O’Hara, shortly
after America’s entry into the
war.
Typical of statements by Cath
olic leaders in all parts of the
country, is a message addressed to
the clergy and laity of the Savan-
nah-Atlanta diocese by Bishop
O’Hara.
Expressing the attitude of
of Catholics of this country to
ward the war now raging in all
quarters of the world, Bishop
O’Hara calls upon every man, wo
man and child to render all help
they can to their country.
“Knowing our Catholic people
so well,” writes Bishop O’Hara,
“I am confident that it will not be
necessary for me to urge our
priests and people to place them
selves at the disposal of the gov
ernment for whatever service they
may be personally able to render
to the nation in this grave hour
Further, he says:
“Our country is fighting not'for
any material gain, but to preserve
those spiritual values that are in
separable from our American way
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ism of those nations who live by
brute force and who w’ould, if
they could, make themselves mas
ters of the world and reduce other
peoples to slavery and vile bon
dage. We enter this war with no
hatred for any people in our
hearts. The Christian law forbids
us to hate anyone. It is legitimate,
however, to detest Godless phil-
sophies and pagan systems of gov
ernment, and to use every legiti
mate means to bring about heir
downfall. ”
God grant that the victory may
not be long delayed so that we
may soon return to the pursuits
of peace ...”
Christians of all creeds and de
nominations understand, fully,
that Christianity itself is at stake
in this war against forces that
have openly derided the teachings
of Jesus Christ and which have
declared that the church is but a
relic of superstition and the ref
uge of weaklings.
A group of outstanding Protes
tant leaders of America recently
called upon their people for all-
out support of the war effort
Bishop O’Hara, in his statement
quoted above, but reflects the
views of Catholic leaders all over
America.
This war is many things. It is
a war for national safety, for the
succor of free peoples now en
slaved, for the destruction of a
form of power based upon the
methods of gangsterism.
It is, likewise a crusade against
all that Christendom holds sacred.
Macon Lawyer
Leaves Practice
to Enter Navy
Camp Villa Marie
Closes Session
(Special to The Bulletin) .
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A very
successful camp session at Villa
Marie was concluded with a pub
lic contest in Catechism conduct
ed in the camp recreation hall by
the Rev. James C. Croke, camp
director.
At the end of the contest the
following boys and girls were de
clared winners of first and second
prizes in their respective groups:
Junior Boys, Joseph Von Waldner
and J. J. Garrity; Confirmation
Group: Foster Mobley and Ed
ward Butcher; Intermediate Boys:
Michael Cosgrove and Peter Cour-
son; Senior Boys, Billy Goodyear
and Bernard McGuigan; Junior
Girls: Marie Dudley and Rita Gar
rity; Confirmation Group: Mary
Ann Govreau and Betty Joe Nu
gent: Intermediate Girls: Mary
Smith and Geraldine Metts;
Senior Girls: Lila Clark and Kate
Spivey. Prizes were presented by
the Rev. Edward Dodwell, former
director of Villa Marie.
On Sunday, July 26, the Sacra
ment of Confirmation and Holy
Communion was administered by
the Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara,
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta. Thir
ty-five campers received their
first Holy Communion and fifty-
three were confirmed. On £he
previous day, three of the camp
ers had been baptized by Father
Croke.
Lt. R. Habenicht Casson
(Special to The Bulletin)
MACON, Ga. — R. Habenicht
Casson, prominent young attorney
of this city, a past state deputy
of the Knights of Columbus of
Georgia, and a member of the
executive committee of the Catho
lic Laymen’s Association of Geor
gia, has been commissioned a
lieutenant junior grade in the
United States Navy.
Lieutenant Casson, who attended
Mercer University, has practiced
law in Macon since his graduation
in 1930, and for the past several
years has also been assistant so
licitor of the city court. He has
been garden editor of The Macon
Telegraph for the past twelve
years and has become well known
through Georgia for his lectures
on horticulture before garden
clubs and other groups. He is a
former president of the Men’s
Garden Club and the Bibb County
Flower Club, and last May was
chairman of the Bibb County
Flower Show. He is secretary of
the Macon Little Theatre, an
office he has held since its or
ganization and has had leading
roles in many of its plays.
Lieutenant Casson is the son of
rs.'K. E. Casson, of Macon. His
brother, Lieutenant Emmett E.
Casson, is stationed at Camp Liv
ingston, Alexandria, Va.
Father Donnelly Named Principal,
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
AUGUSTA, Ga.—The Rev. YVil
liam Patrick Donnelly, S. J., for
merly of Augusta, has been named
principal of the Jesuit High School
in New Orleans, the largest Cath
olic high school below the Mason-
Dixon line. He will be the young
est principal the institution has
had since it was founded in 1347.
Father Donnelly was born in
Augusta on March 12, 1908, the son
of Mrs. Elizabeth Theresa Hunt
Donnelly, of Augusta, and the late
Patrick Donnelly. , He attended
the Sacred Heart parochial school,
the Catholic High School, conduct
ed by the Christian Brothers, and
the Richmond Academy here, later
receiving his A. B. and M. A. de
grees from St. Louis University.
In September of 1927, Father
Donnelly entered the Society of
Jesus at St. Charles College, Grand
Coteau, La., and after returning to
St. Louis University for a course
in theology, became a member of
the faculty of Spring Hill College
in Mobile. He was ordained to the
priesthood on June 26, 1940, by the
Most Rev. Paul T. Schulte, S. T.
D., Bishop of Leavenworth, at St.
Mary’s College, St. Mary’s Kansas,
and celebrated his first Solemn
Mass at the Sacred Heart Church
here.
During the summer following
his ordination, Father Donnelly
served as chaplain at the Jesuit
summer camp in Wisconsin, re
turning in the fall to St. Mary’s
College for post-ordination study
REV. W- P. DONNELLY. S. J.
in theology. For the past year
Father Donnelly has been at St.
Robert’s Hall, Tertianship of the
New England Province of the
Jesuits, at Pomfret, Conn.
Father Donnelly is the second
member of his family to enter a
religious order, as one of his sis
ters is Sister Patricia Elizabeth,
of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
An Italian in Georgia Is
Glad to Be an American
SAVANNAH KNIGHTS
PLAN OBSERVANCE
OF COLUMBUS DAY
SAVANNAH, Ga.— Because of
the war, Savannah Council, No.
631, Knights of Columbus, will
observe Columbus Day quietly this
year, according to initial plans
which were presented at a special
meeting of the council called by
A. J. Schano, grand knight.
C. F. Powers, W. T. Walsh and
Joseph Rossiter were appointed a
committee to present plans for
working with the Chatham-Savan-
nah Tuberculosis Association on
its hospital project.
Mr? Powers was also delegated
to confer with Sister Angela, R
S. M., principal of St. Vincent’s
Academy in regard to the council's
supplying the school with its year
ly subscription to the Catholic
Book of the Month Club.
In a recent issue of The Savan
nah Morning News, Robert Donald
son, writing from Statesboro, con
tributes an article about Sam
Denitto, an Italian, now living in
Brooklet, a town about twelve
miles east of Statesboro on the
highway to Savannah.
There is no Catholic church in
Statesboro, nor is there a church
in Brooklet, but Mass is said for
the Catholics of Statesboro and
Brooklet in Sam Denitto’s house,
on the second Sunday of each
month by the Very Rev. Thomas
I. Sheehan, pastor of Our Lady
of Lourdes Church, Port Went
worth, of which parish Brooklet
is a mission.
Mr. Donaldson’s article follows:
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“Among one of Uncle Sam’s
adopted sons now farming in Bul
lock County is Sam Denitto, an
Italian who came to this country
from French Algiers in 1913, and
who recently expressed the fact
that he was proud to be an Am
erican since he came back a
second time after being discharged
from the American army in France.
“Sam Denitto is one of the four
Italians who live about seven miles
from Statesboro in a community
known as the ‘Italian Community.’
Living as neighbors are his bro
ther, John Denitto, who came to
America in 1907, Fortunado Stroz-
zo and Bennie Strozzo. All four
men have families. Their children
have attended the schools of Bul
lock County and some of them
have gone to college.
“Sam was born in Italy, moved
to Algiers when he was three years
old, married in Algiers and settled
in Jamestown, N. Y„ in 1913. He
has lived in Georgia, Florida, Mirf-
nesota and New York and stated
that he has found real freedom in
this country. Denitto has one son
who will be 21 in -October, has
registered and is subject to call
to service. He has a daughter
training for a nurse in Savannah.
Sam saw service for Uncle Sam ift
the World War, stayed in France
one year and saw action for six
months. He was discharged in
France and given the opportunity
to go to Algiers, Italy, or return
to America. For a second time he
chose America. He is now a mem
ber of the Georgia State Guard.
“Sam lives on a 140-acre farm
and is a successful farmer, grow
ing truck, tobacco, cotton, corn
and this year has planted sixteen
acres of peanuts for the war effort.
He is also a livestock grower.
“If I had not found freedom and
had not liked America I certainly
had opportunity to live in other
talking about Algiers, Italy and
the war. He was especially proud
that Uncle Sam had paid the
mortgage off his farm for him and
helped him on numerous occasions.
In talking to the AAA administra
tor of Bullock County, Sam said,
‘Say, when we gonna get those
soil conservation checks. If Uncle
Sam needs the mon, he can keep
mine, but I would like to have it
if they are being given out.
“Denitto will have tobacco on
the local market within a few days
and he will be there himself tell
ing- his friends that he hopes the
country of his wife (Algiers) and
where he lived and married will
some day have her freedom. He
will tell them also that the farmers
of America will furnish food for
those who need food in European
countries and he will be' telling
them that this is a grand place
in which to live.
“Denitto, his brother and his
two cousins have been farming in
Bullock County for eleven years.”
JUNIOR COLLEGE IN
CHARLESTON CLOSES
ITS SUMMER SESSION
JjttwUrieSr’ Sam said when he wasLSouth Caeslku-
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Diplomas
were presented at commencement
exercises of the summer session
of Our Lady of Mercy Junior Col
lege, held on July 30, by the Most
Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, D. D.,
Bishop of Charleston. The Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Joseph L. O'Brien,
superintendent of schools for the
Diocese of Charleston, delivered
the commencement address.
About one hundred students,
lay as well as religious, have been
attending the session. The college
offers a standard two-year course
in arts, sciences and secretarial
training, and during the summer
session a special program of teach
er courses is offered in teacher
training.
The faculty is composed of
members of the Sisters of Our
Lady of Mercy, with clerical and
lay professors of the city. This
summer the college had the
cooperation of Mother M. Gerald,
Mother General of the Sisters of
St. Dominic, Adrian, Mich., in
securing two Dominican nuns, Sis
ter Rose Concepta, M. A., and
Sister M. Aquiline, Ph. D.. who
conducted classes in chemistry and
history.
The college is a member of the)
American Association of Junior
Colleges affiliated with the Ca
tholic University of America, and
accredited by the State ot