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“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
VOL. XXIII. No. 12 THIRTY TWO PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 19, 1942 ISSUED MONTHLY— S2.00 A, YEAR
Bulletins
ATLANTA, Ga. — Plans are be
ing made for a Catholic Confer
ence on Industrial Problems which
will be held in Atlanta late in
January or early- in February by
the Rev. Raymond A. McGowan,
the Assistant Director of the Social
Action Department of the National
Catholic' Welfare Conference.
Father McGowan, one of Ameri
ca’s foremost economists, is a na
tive of Brookfield. Mo., and was
educated at St. Benedict’s College,
Atchison. Kansas. St. Bernard’s
Seminary, Rochester, N. Y„ the
Catholic University of America,
and at the North American Col
lege in Rome.
Ordained in 1915. he is a priest
of the Diocese of St. Joseph, and
is on leave from that Diocese
through his connection with the
N. C. W. C. A writer on economic
and international subjects, he is
the author of “Towards Social Jus
tice,’’ and many pamphlets, and a
regular contributor to many Cath
olic publications and secular papers
throughout the country.
At this time, when relations be
tween capital and labor have a di
rect bearing upon the nation’s war
effort, the conference to be held in
Atlanta will assume more than
usual importance.
| Reported Removal of
Vatican Treasures to ,
Place of Safety, Denied
From the painting Holy Night, by Correggio.
Peace Must Be Christian—
Argentine Bible Congress Told
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
BUENOS AIRES, — “A peace
that is neither Saxon. German nor
American, but Christian,” was pre
scribed by the Most Rev. Miguel
de Andrea, Titular Bishop of
Temnus, in his address to the First
Bible Congress just held here un
der the auspices of the Federation
of Catholic Teachers.
A return to the Gospel in pri
vate. family, school and institution
al life was advocated in a resolu
tion adopted by the Congress. “Not
only as Catholics but also as Ar
gentines and as components of peo
ples constituting a so-called Chris
tian civilization,” the resolution
reads, “we must turn to the Gospel
in private, family, school and in
stitutional life if we wish to find
the forceful qualities and sound
traditions of nationality, race and
civilization.” <
At the study sessions of the Con
gress and Gospel in relation to all
forms of individual, family and na
tional life, and particularly with
respect to the social order, was
analyzed and discussed.
The words of Pope Pious X were
recalled: “To spread the Gospel is
the surest means of restoring all
tilings in Christ; it is the most
salutary and urgent apostolate of
the present time.” The Congress
also resolved to revivify the recom
mendations made by Pope Leo
XIII in his Encyclical on the study
of Holy Scripture, Providentissim-
us Deus.
Speaking at the closing session^
Bishop de Andrea stressed the
need for wider dissemination of
the Bible and the marvels that
reading of it produces in the minds
of men of goodwill.
POPE SENDS SYMPATHY
FOR GENOA’S CIVILIAN
CASULATIES IN AIR RAIDS
VATICAN CITY,— His Holiness
Pope Pius XII, in a letter to llis
Eminence Pietro Cardinal Boctto,
Archbishop of Genoa, expresses his
sympathy over civilian casulaties
residing from air raids. The Holy
Father assures the Cardinal that,
as in the past, he is availing him
self of every occasion to spare or
lesson the suffering caused civil
ian populations by the war.
A similar message was sent some
months ago by His Holiness to the
English Hierarchy following the
aerial bombardment of British
cities.
Midnight Mass in Mexico
Attended by 600,000
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
MEXICO CITY,—About 600,000
persons, residents of Guanajuato,
Dolores Hidalgo, San Miguel Al-
lende and Leon, participated in a
recent pilgrimage to the hill of
Cubilete, the geographical center
of Mexico, when midnight Mass
was celebrated there for the first
time before the statue of Christ the
King. The celebrant was the Rev.
Estanislao Velazquez of Guana
juato. This holding of a religious
service outside of a church edifice
was made possible through the
interpretation of the law by the
Government of President Manuel
Avila Camacho—a fact that is con
tributing greatly towards national
unification in this time of inter
national crisis.
Last month, by decision of Presi
dent Avila Camacho, the Church of
La Pastora in the City of Vera
Cruz was restored to worship. All
other churches in the city had been
reopened for worship previously.
The return of this edifice to its
parishioners had presented “cer
tain difficulties” because Governor
Adalberto Tejeda, in 1931, had as
signed it to the Communists as a
meeting place.
(Radio, N. C. IV. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY.—Reports that,
guarding against the possibility of
air attacks on Rome, the art treas
ures of the Vatican museum are
being removed to a place of safety,
are declared here to be without
foundation.
At the same time Osservatore
Romano lias carried an official de
nial of the secular newspaper re
port printed abroad that changes
are being considered in the struc
ture of the cupola of St. Peter’s
Basilica.
Meanwhile, the enlarged 'and
renovated quarters of the Papal
Secretariat of State have just been
inaugurated following months of
work. The beautiful salon of these
quarters has a frieze inscription
which notes that the Papal Secre
tariat of Stale treats, through Pa
pal Nuncios, with kings and the
heads of nations on the most im
portant questions of the day, and
gives directives to the Bishops
throughout the world.
In scotching the report that Vati
can treasures are being hidden
away for fear of damage by an air
bombardment, officials here draw
attention to Hit Holiness Pope Pius
Nil's answer to such suggestions
made at the lime of Italy’s en
trance into the present war. His
Holiness said he entrusted the pro
tection of the Vatican to Divine
Providence.
The treasures of the Vatican
Library, including precious codices,
are just as accessible to scholars
today as they ever were.
AMERICAN CATHOLIC
TROOPS stationed in London at
tended a Solemn Mass in West
minster Cathedral on Thanksgiv
ing Day. His Eminence Arthur
Cardinal Hinsley presided, and the
Most Rev. Janies Day, Titular
Bishop of Sebastopol and Vicar
Delegate for the U. S. Forces in
Great Britain, was the celebrant.
The sermon was preached by the
Rev. Henry Ford, of the Diocese
af Denver, a U. S. Army chaplain.
ON A “spot made holy by the
sacrifice of America’s heroic
dead,” the Most Rev. James J.
Sweeney, Bishop of Honolulu,
celebrated a Solemn Pontifical
Mass of Requiem, on the Feast
of the Immaculate Conception, at
Pearl Harbor, where the Japanese
attack just one year ago precipi
tated the United States into the
Second World War.
AS THE SUN slowly set behind
the Vatican hill to bring to a close
the Feast of the Immaculate Con
ception, His Holiness Pope Pius
XII unexpectedly appeared on the
balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to
impart to the huge gathering of
the Roman faithful in the square
below his Apostolic Benediction.
Present in the apse of the Vati
can basilica during the Holy Hour,
which preceded the Holy Father’s
appearance on the balcony, were
20 Cardinals and members of the
diplomatic corps, including repre
sentatives from the United States,
Great Britain and the various Latin
American nations.
A REQUEST that religious fa
cilities and services be included
in the War Manpower Commis
sion’s “List of Essential Activities,”
is made in a memorandum sub
mitted to Paul V. McNutt, War
Manpower Chairman, by the Arch
bishops and Bishops of the United
States through the National Catho
lic Welfare Conference.
Stating that “it is with grave
concern” that they note that men
tion of religion with its facilities
and agencies “is omitted complete
ly from the ‘List of Essential Ac
tivities’,” the Archbishops and
Bishops say they “prefer to be
lieve” that the omission was “an
omission that will be remedied
immediately” when the fact is
called to the attention of the Com
mission.
THE REPORT of the Swiss
Telegraphic Agency that in the
case of aerial bombardment of
Rome, His Holiness Pope Pius XII
would move from the Vatican to
the Lateran Palace in Rome in
order to be in the midst of his
Roman faithful is considered in
Vatican circles to be without
foundation. It is pointed out that
the Holy Father, who is Bishop
of Rome, actually may be con
sidered to be in the very midst
of his Roman flock while remain
ing in the Vatican. There is noth
ing to indicate that the Sovereign
Pontiff has altered his earlier de
cision to. remain in the Vatican in
the event of bombardment.
ADMIRAL KUMAICHI YAMA
MOTO, commander of the Japa
nese navy, is not a Catholic, as
he was mistakenly listed in a
questions and answers column in
the magazine Liberty.. It is be
lieved his name has been confused
with that of the late Rear Admiral
Sinziro Tomamoto, a former presi
dent of Catholic Action in Japan,
who is reported to have died in
1941.
MRS. JULIA W A L B R I D G E
SMITH TAFT, wife of Henry W.
Taft, brother of the late President
William Howard Taft, died in
Washington, December 9. Mrs.
Taft was reared as an Episcopalian
and was received into the Catholic
Church in 1912. Since that time
she was active in many Catholic
charities. The late Pope Pius XI
cabled blessiugs to Mr. and Mrs.
Taft on their golden wedding anni
versary.
Catholic Conference on
industrial Problems to
Be Held in Atlanta