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VOL. XXIII. No. 10
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 24, 1942 ★★★ ISSUED MONTHLY—52.00* A YEAR
Bishop McGuinness Completes Five Year
Expansion Program in Diocese of Raleigh
The Bishop of Raleigh
THE MOST REVEREND EUGENE J. McGUINNESS
Chancellor
Diocese of Raleigh
MONSIGNOR LYNCH
The Right Rev. Monsignor Den
nis A. Lynch, Chancellor of the
Diocese of Raleigh, who was ele
vated to the dignity of a Papal
amberlain in 1940, and who will
invested as a Domestic Prelate
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THAT HIS HOLINESS Pope
Pius XII will create any new Car
dinals before the restoration of
peace is improbable, it has been
stated in authoritative quarters ni
Vatican City. This statement was
prompted by a secular press news
agency report which asserted that
the Holy Father would soon hold
a Consistory, and that he would
name eight new members of the
Sacred College.
WILLIAM' PASCOE ELLIS,
evangelist of the Church Army
who was a member of the late
Lord Halifax’s party during the
Matures Conversations, has been
received into the Catholic Church.
Mr. Ellis had been prominent in
many Anglican organizations.
Vicar General
Diocese of Raleigh
REV. WALTER FARRELL, O.
P., is the recipientt of the annual
Catholic Library Award of the
Gallery of Living Catholic Au
thors, presented for the outstand
ing book of the year written by a
Gallery member, for Volume I of
his “Companion to the Summa”.
MONSIGNOR FREEMAN
The Right Rev. Monsignor Ar
thur R. Freeman, pastor of St. Pat
rick’s Church, Charlotte, Vicar
General of the Diocese of Raleigh,
was created a Prothonotary Apos
tolic in 1940.
Wonderful Progress Made by
Catholic Church in State of
North Carolina Since 1937
RALEIGH, N. C—On October
19,1937, Pope Pius XI nominated
his Excellensy, the Most Reverend
Eugene J. McGuinness, Bishop of
the Diocese of Raleigh, North Car
olina. Five years to the month
after he was created second Bishop
of Raleigh, Bishop McGuinness
brought to a successful completion
one of the most stupendous build
ing and expansion programs ever
undertaken and achieved by any
one diocese in this country.
61 BUILDINGS ERECTED
Under the captable administra-
est information there are 55 par
ishes for white staffed by 81
priests, and 25 parishes for colored
staffed by 35 priests in the Dio
cese of Raleigh.
THE FOUR “R’S
On the basis of the very latest
information it is estimated that 90
per cent of the grammar school.
Catholic children of the diocese
are enrolled in the parochial
schools. The educational needs of
the Diocese are well taken care
of by the 28 grammar schools, the
4 junior high schools and the 5
tration of Bishop McGuinness j senior high schools. These schools
there has been erected, during the ] which are up-to-date and well-
past five years, in the Diocese of j equipped have an enrollment of
Raleigh 25 churches, 14 for white
and 11 for colored; 25 rectories. 17
for priests attached to white par
ishes, and 8 for priests working
amongst the colored population; 6
parochial grammar schools, 3 for
white and 3 for colored children;
5 convents, 4 for Sisters teaching in
white schools and 1 for Sisters in
structing the colored children.
This makes a total of 61 church
buildings which have been erected
at the cost of $815,145.
BORROW AND
BUILD POLICY TABOOED
When this five-year expansion
program was first planned. Bishop
McGuinness, at the very outset,
strictly prohibited the “Borrow
and build’’ policy. He firmly in
sisted that not a stone be laid upon
a stone until the funds necessary
for the proposed building were at
hand or on the “barrel head’’. As
a result of the strict adherence to
every building which has been
erected has been paid for and is
free of debt.
27 NEW PARISHES
During the past five years 27
parishes with resident pastors
have been established. Of this
12 parishes are for white, and 15
parishes exclusively for the col
ored. In addition, 12 flourishing
missions have been opened, 7 for
white and 5 for colored.
DIOCESAN CLERGY
AUGMENTED
At present there are 75 secular
priests canonically attached to the
Diocese of Raleigh. Bishop Mc
Guinness, in the short space of five
years, has added 27 young and
active priests to the ranks of the
diocesan clergy, thereby increas
ing by fifty per cent the number
of priests attached to the diocese
when he was named bishop. Be
sides, there are 56 priests of the
various religious orders and con
gregations, and 207 Sisters work
ing in diverse capacities in the
Diocese of Raleigh.
CATHOLIS POPULATION
INCREASES
The 1942 diocesan census reveals
that 1 there are in the Diocese of
Raleigh 11,264 Catholics: 9,694
white Catholics, and 1,570 colored
Catholics. These figures show an
increase of 2,561 Catholics over a
period of five years. The 1940
Federal census shows that the pop
ulation of the State of North Caro
lina to be 3,571,623 divided as fol
lows: 2,567,635 whites, 981,298
colored people, 22,546 Indians and
144 Orientals. These statistics in
dicate that the Catholic popula
tion of North Carolina comprises
.031 or about one-third of one
per cent of the entire population
of the state. According to the lat
2,643 pupils and are statffed by
competent and experienced Sister-
teachers.
With the appointment in 1940 of
the Reverend Edward T. Gilbert as
the first Diocesan Superintendent
of Schools, definite steps were
taken to place the parochial school
system on a systematic and uni
form basis. Since then a practical
syllabus based upon the needs and
characteristics of the parochial
schools has been worked out and
put into operation. To give the
Sisters an opportunity to meet one
anothei- and to discuss educational
problems and methods, Bishop Mc
Guinness organized the first
Teachers' Institute which was held
at the Sacred Heart Orphanage,
Nazareth, on the 29th and 30th
of November, 1940.
CLERGY AND LAITY
HONORED BY HOLY SEE
During the past five years a
number of prominent diocesan
priests and six members of the
laity have been honored by the
Holy See. The Rt. Rev. Arthur
F. Freeman, pastor of St. Patrick’s
Church, Charlotte, was created a
Prothonotary Apostolic “ad inster’’.
Monsignor Freeman is the Vicar
General of the Diocese and Vicar
Forane of the Charlotte Deanery.
Father O'Brien, pastor of St.
Mary’s Church, Durham; Father
Irwin, pastor of Saint Paul’s
Church, New Bern, and Father
Lynch, Chancellor of the Diocese,
were elevated to the Domestic
Prelacy with the title of Right
Reverend Monsignor. In August
of this year His Holiness, Pope
Pius XII appointed Fathers Bour,
Murphy, McNerney and Federal
Papal Chamberlains.
Messrs. J. Francis Heazel and
John G. Decider of Asheville, Ray
mond B. Streb and James J. Fallon
of Raleigh, Leo W. Driscoll of
Charlotte, and the late John T.
Johnson of Asheville, were made
Knights of Saint Gregory.
PUBLIC AFFIRMATIONS by
responsible persons that it Is nec
essary to hate one’s enemies has
caused. His. Eminence. Giovanni
Battista Cardinal Nasalli-Rocca,
Archbishop of Bologna, Italy, to
point out that fraternity among all
men is a fundamental principle of
Christianity which does not cease
to hold true in time of war
REPORTING THAT the possi
bilities open to the Vatican for
sending aid to the people of
Greece continue to be limited, Os-
servatore Romano says the inter
est shown by Papal representa
tives in prisoners and interned
people everywhere is ceaseless.