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TWELVE THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FEBRUARY 27. 104?, Pastor of St. Mary’s Greenville The Right Reverend Monsignor Andrew Keene Gwynn, V. F., who is completing his forty-second year as pastor of St. Mary’s Church, Greenville. South Carolina. Born in Baltimore. Monsignor Gwynn has been a resident of the Piedmont Section of South Carolina since boyhood. He was educated at Wofford College, All Hallows College. Durlin. Ireland, Mount St. Mary”s Seminary, Emmitsburg, Mary land. and was ordained by the late Bishop Henry Pinckney Northop, of Charleston, on July 25, 1895. Not only is Monsignor Gwynn lov ed by his own parishoners and the Catholics of South Carolina, but in. and far beyond, the confines of his parish, he holds the respect and admiration of a host of non-Catholic friends. Financing Rebellion Against the Law of Qod By THE REV. JOSEPH J. SCHAGEMANN, C.SS.R. Architecture Students at Giemson College Hear Talk by Father Michael (Special to The Bulletin 1 CLEMSON, S. C. — The Rev. Michael Melnerney, O. S. B. Noted priest-architect of Belmont Abbey. Belmont, N. C., delivered an il lustrated lecture on eccelsiastical architecture to the architectural class of Professor G. E. Hoffman j at Clemson College on February 8. j Father Michael, recognized as one of the foremost authorities on this type of architecture in the United States, designed and super vised the construction of hundreds of structures, ranging from small schools and rectories to some of the finest hospitals and handsom est churches in the South and in parts of the North. Among the churches for which Father Michael executed the plan is St. Andrew's Church in Clem son. a charge of the Paulist Fath ers with the Rev. Maurice Fitz gerald. C. S. P., as pastor. He drew the plans for St. Francis Hospital in Greenville, Providence Hospital in Columbia, the Divine Saviour Hospital at York, the addi tion to St. Francis Xavier Infirm- armv in Charleston, and for many other buildings In South Carolina, including St. Paul’s Church, Spartanburg. Father Michael pointed out the great architectural discoveries of the middle ages, the Gothic arch! and the flying buttress, which en abled builders to go to great heights and create vast spaces while reducing the size of piers and columns. His lecture covered the period from the time of St. Benedict to the 16th century, and emphasized the marvelous archi tectural of the 13th century when Religion was the passion of the age, as industry is the fashion of today. ‘’Gothic architecture is known in history as Benedictine art.” said Father Michael. “It arose entirely out of Christian ideals and aspira tion, executed by.the monks from thousands of monasteries, who were architects, artists, craftsmen and workmen. It was fostered and and developed during a period of 1,000 years from the 6th to the 16th century, under the administration of Benedictine Popes, 6,000 Bene dictine Archbishops and 15,000 Benedictine Bishops, to such an ex tent that the 13th century has been called the greatest of centuries, when practically all civilezed peo ples were Christians of one faith, when there was less poverty, less crime, and when religion was the ruling passion. When the art of joyous living found expression in the flowering of all of the arts and found its highest expression in the production of those glorious Ca thedrals of the Middle Ages, ex emplified everywhere in Europe, and especially in France. England and in Spain. “Here was assembled in one building practically all of the arts as external expression of interior devotion. The longs and aspirations of the faithful souls seeking their Creator. The late Ralph Adams Cram, in one of his books, has stated that a Solemn Pontifical Mass in one of the glorious medi eval Cathedrals is the highest pos sible conception of the artistic, wherein all of the arts combined in one glorious ensemble in grow ing glory to the Creator of all tilings. Not only the building, with its height, its might and depth, but the perfect work of stained-glass workers, of sculptors in stone and in wood, paintings and mosaics, the intricate work of the silver and goldsmith, the priestly vestments of silk and linen in handwrought ■needlework, but also the living, moving drama of the ceremony, with the liturgical persons and the audience in rapt devotion—there is oratory and rectoric. there is the poetry and rythm of the plain chant, and the solemn crescendo of organ tone, and from the belt tower, goes forth to the world of men that God is in His holy temple. “Such an ensemble of arts at the same time in one place for such a high and holy purpose, should accomplish the end of all true art. the raising of the mind and heart above and away from the sordid things of life and bring us new to our Creator." Greenville P.-T. A. an Active Group GREENVILLE. S. C.—The Par- enP-Teacher Association of St. Mary's School, despite its small membership, has been most ac tive during the past year in school, parish and war work, under the capable direction of Mrs. William A. Healey. In May, a First Holy Commun ion breakfast was served the children of the parish. June brought prizes for honor gradu ates. and a breakfast for members of the .graduating class. In the Fall, a Hallowe’en party was giv en, and on Armistice Day, the Association sponsored a success ful bridge party. One of the outstanding enter tainments of the season was the Christmas play, presented by pupils of the school, under the direction of the Sisters. Mothers helped in designing and making costumes. Last week a circus was presented. affording recreation and providing a means of raising funds. The meetings of the Association are featured by the reading of articles concerning the Catholic training of children, and these readings have proven both inter esting and instructive. The Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy joined with the mothers of their pupils in a First Aid and an Advanced First Aid course con ducted at the school by the Red Cross. Members of St. Mary’s P.-T. A., together with other Catholie groups, help at the Red Cross headquarters making surgical dressing each week, and knit sweaters, socks and scarves, as well as doing miscellaneous sew ing. The Association members have cooperated in salvage drives, and have sold War Bonds and Stamps in conjunction with the Greenville Council of Catholic Women. The - Parent-Teacher Association has also worked with the recreational committee of St. Mary’s parish, under the auspices of the National Catholic Commun ity Service, in entertaining ser vice men in their homes, arrang ing dances, spaghetti suppers and Sunday breakfasts. Student Activity at St. Genevieve’s (Special to The Bulletin) ASHEVILLE, N. C. — The last week of January brought to a close the scholastic year's first half at St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines. Febru ary 1 was tbe beginning of the sec ond semester, and also the date on which semester honor rolls and the College Dean’s List were announc ed. The most important curricular change will be the adoption in the college department of eight-week marks and tests to replace six-week ones. On January 28, interested stu dents and faculty members were invited to Asheville College to hear a lecture by Di. Wilhelm Solz- bacher. Dr. Solzbacher, a graduate of the University of Cologne, and a former leader of the German Catholic Youth Movement, has been deprived of German citizenship by the Nazi government. His topic: “Youth of Europe Today and To morrow,” was of great interest and timeliness, and he was well quali fied by training and experience to discuss it. School social events of recent weeks have included: Friday night movies, of which the most enjoy able were “Magnificent Dope” and “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”; the annual Book Parade on the school’s celebration of its pa tron, St. Genevieve, January 19; a French Bingo Party of the Acad emy French Club on February 5; a Freshman Student Activity Period on Lincoln February 12; and the Valentine Tea Dance of the high school students on Febru ary 13. The last, which opened with the Procession and Corona tion of the King and Queen of Hearts accompanied by their royal attendants, was a very festive oc casion celebrated with contests, pantomines of great lovers, and dancing before His Cordial Majes ty. On the evening of the following day, February 14, began the stu dents’ Annual Retreat, conducted this year by Father Raymond An- able, S. J., of Fordham University. Witli classwork suspended until the eighteenth, the members of the junior college, academy, and eighth grade, spent three days in recol lection suid prayer. A metropolitan daily which re commended contraception edit orially a few years ago reported recently that a check of 550,000 was presented to the president of an organization planning to make contraception part of the health programs of all the States. The writer stated: “The gift was the largest single contribution ever received by the organization.’’ We are told that the man agers of 175 war plants which em ploy great numbers of women plan to include advice on “planned par enthood” in their general health programs. The national director of the organization explained fur ther that “planned parenthood” would not be presented to the workers as an isolated service but would be included in the broad health services which many indus tries were planning. The prom inence given the meeting of the propagandists by the secular press every year advertises their false arguments before these can be refuted in the correspondence column. The Catholic Press wel comes advance information of their plans. DOES THE END JUSTIFY THE MEANS? The Catholic Church has always condemned this doctrine. The condemnation is repeated when the Church brands artificial birth con trol as gravely sinful and declares that no reason, however grave, can- justify the evil practice. But the advocates of contraception espouse this false principle when they as sert that poverty or danger to life justifies violation of the na tural law. St. Thomas teaches that the natural law is the ordinance of God, known by the light of na tural reason, as commanding the observance of the natural order and forbidding its disturbance. The leader of the birth control movement, however, is quoted as writing in the Birth Control Re view in 1917: “No law is too sa cred to be broken.” On October 27. 1941. “TIME”, commented on the announcement made at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the opening of the first birth control clinic, that “there are now more than 620 contraceptive centers, and that “77 per cent of U. S. citizens fav ored the teaching of contraception through government health clin ics,” The writer continued: “Be cause of this success, the birth con trollers have recharted their course, turned fertilitarian. Wor ried by the long-trend fall of the birth rate, they dropped their old cry of ‘limited’ families. In stead, they urged U. S. parents to have as many babies as they can afford, to ‘space’ them two years apart.” The advocates of contra ception, therefore, now urge re course to sinful means to bring about what is the ordinary course of nature, namely, a Child about every two years. The donor of $50,000 is re ported to have declared: “It is my conviction that once planned par enthood is made part of our pub lic health and welfare services, more healthy children will be born to maintain the kind of peace for which we are fighting,” But we are fighting for a peace which the world cannot give. Can a na tion hope for God-given peace while sponsoring rebellion against the law of God, for Whom the States receives its power? St. Paul teaches: “There is no power but from God.” FINANCING Thousands of dollars have been squandered since 1916 to prevent parenthood. Writing in St. An thony’s Messenger a few years ago, Marie O'Dea said. “The ad vocates of contraception prate much of the sad drain on the poor man’s income, yet they lift not a finger to fight for a just living wage . . . They spend millions of dollars spreading the gospel of birth control, when that money would provide a living for healthy American families.” The poor raise large families because they enjoy the companionship of their own flesh and blood. Their home is their club. They do not go to parties at which the conversation very oftea turns to a discussion of the most effective method of frus trating the plans of the Creator. PROPAGANDA OF TRUTH An article in “PARENTS” maga zine stated a few months ago: “The birth control fight, as a fight, is almost over . . . More than 800 clinics or referral serv ices are operating under the law today in forty-six states . . . more than 3,000 private physicians throughout the country . . . are willing to give this information to those who are not eligible for clinic services because of family income.” As this national menace .is growing worse every day, we ask: Will Catholic Action meet the challenge by its cultural apos- tolate of true doctrine? Will the charity of Catholic Action aid those who courageously shoulder the economic burden of Christian family life, so that parenthood may be promoted instead of being pre vented? Recommending contra ception, the writer in “PARENTS" declared: “Men and women want children—and they seem to want them all the more when coupled with this desire is the will to pro vide for them properly . . . Case re ports confirm the reality of the maternal instinct: When the fin ancial condition of the family im proves, more children are wel come.” Hence, by helping fami lies to improve their financial con dition we will promote parenthood by preventing contraception. Miss Helen Wasil Enters Convent at Danville, Virginia (Special to The Bulletin) DANVILLE, Va. — Miss Helen Wasil, of Jackson Heights, Long Island, N. Y., has been received into the Society of Christ Our King at the Motherhouse of the Order in Danville, th^ ceremony taking place in the convent chapel, Feb ruary 2, following the community Mass, with the Rev. John J. Mc- Keon, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, officiating.- Miss Wasil was formerly active in Sadality work in her home par ish of St. Joan of Arc. Jackson Heights, and in catechetical work in Manhattan. As a volunteer work er, she served in two centers with the Religious of the Cenacle, which have charge of the Christian Doc trine classes in St. Paul’s and Holy Rosary parishes in New York City. As a religious. Miss Wasil will be known as Sister Felicity, and on the completion of her novitiate will be assigned to the work oE Doctrinal Instruction for which she has been well prepared by the Re ligious of the Cenacle on River side Drive in New York. The Society of Christ the King was founded in Greenville. N. C., in June 1931. Members of the So ciety are drawn from nine states and one foreign country. The So ciety is devoted to extending the reign of Christ on earth through the reconstruction of the social order in Christ. The Sisters work mainly with those who have no church affiliations and instruction in Religion is a particular and all embracing phase of their work. Be sides a school and catechetical cen ters conducted in Danville, the Sisters conduct a farm Life School in the country. Children from four to fourteen are admitted to this school for day classes. Parents and older children attend evening class es where principles of self-help and community cooperation are learned and discussed. CITADEL NEWMAN CLUB SPONSORS RETREAT CHARLESTON, S. C., — The Newman Club of Citadel sponsor ed a spiritual retreat from Feb ruary 7 to 10, in connection with the annual observance of Reli- lious Emphasis Week. The pro gram included a brief sermon by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph L. O’Brien, pastor of St. Patrick's Church and rector of Bishop Eng land High School, at services which were held in the Citadel chapel each evening. Monsignor O’Brien, also celebrated Mass in the chapel during the retreat, and officiated in Benediction each evening.