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Published by the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia “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