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JUNE 26, 1943
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC L AYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE
News Review of the Catholic World
Monsignor McEnte'gart
Bishop of Ogdensburg
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Rt.
Rev. Msgr. Bryan Joseph McEnte-
gart, Executive Director of the
War Relief Services of the Nation
al Catholic Welfare Conference,
has been named Bishop of Ogdens
burg, it is announced in word - -
ceived from the Holy See at the
Apostolic Delegation here.
Bishop-elect McEntegart suc
ceeds to a See left vacant by the
death of the Most Rev. Francis J.
Monaghan, fourth Bishop of Og
densburg, November 13, 1942. He
is a priest of the Archdiocese of
New York, a native of New York
City, and a distinguished figure in
the field of social work.
MONSIGNOR MICHAEL J.
READY, General Secretary of the
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, was one of a small group of
religious leaders who visited the
WAAC Training Centers at Fort
Des Moines, Iowa, and Fort Ogle
thorpe, Ga., at the invitation of
Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell,
Commander, Army Service Forces.
The entire tour was made in Gen
eral Somervell’s plane.
When inviting this group of re
ligious leaders to visit these camps
which serve as training centers
for more than 60,000 women now-
enrolled in the Corps, General
Somervell said; “I have taken the
position that provision for the
spiritual welfare of the WAAC
should, if anything, be given more
complete than for the Army as a
whole.”
AN OUTSIDE TRIBUTE to the
Church comes from the Rev. Gil
bert Pawson, Anglican vicar of St.
Peter’s, Cowleigh, Malvern, Eng
land, who writes in his parish ma
gazine: “Today all are interested
in the social doctrine of the Popes,
and we who are not Roman Catho
lics should surely have a mind
large enough to admit that if the
whole world had listened to and
acted upon what they said the
building of a new order might
never have been launched, as it is
now going to be, on a sea of blood
and tears.”
CATHOLIC HOSPITALS of the
United States, devoted to “service
and mercy,” are “an integral part
of American life and fill a vital
need,” members of the Catholic
Hospital Association of the United
States and Canada were told at
their annual convention in Pitts
burgh by Maury Maverick, Direc
tor of the Government Division of
the War Production Board.
Among those attending the con
vention was the Rev. George Lew
is Smith, Director of Hospitals for
the Diocese of Charleston.
AT THE ANGLICAN SYNOD
held at Saint John, New Bruns
wick, Canada, the Rt. Rev. W. H.
Moorehead, Bishop of Fredericton,
emphasized the need of religious
teaching in the public schools of
New Brunswick. The present sys
tem, said the Anglican Bishop, “en
courages the fallacy that essential
education can be completed by
secular instruction” and added
that “Religion, of course, must
form the very basis of any educa
tion worthy the name, and that
education with religion omitted is
scarcely education at all.”
FATHER FRANCIS X. LA-
SANCE, author of prayer books
and devotional writing, celebrated
the sixtieh anniversary of his or
dination May 24 and received a
letter from His Excellency the
Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicog-
nani. Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, informing him that
His Holiness Pope Pius XII ex
tended ‘from the depths of his
heart his special Apostolic Bene
diction.”
REV. LEO J. RYAN, pastor of
Sacred Hear Cathedral, has been
named Vicar General of the Di
ocese of Richmond by the Most.
Rev. Peter L. Ireton, Coadjutor
Bishop of Richmond. Bishop Ire-
ton also announced the appoint
ment of the Rev. Robert O. Hick
man, assistant pastor of St. Agnes
Church, Arlington, as Chancellor,
succeeding the Rev. Vincent Wat
ers, now director of the Diocesan
Missionery Fathers.
EIGHT JAPANESE internees at
Camp Manzanar, California, are
now' receiving instructions in Cath
olic doctrine from two Japanese
Maryknoll Sisters also interned
with them. An additional 17, pre
pared for the Sacrament of Baptist
by the same Sisters, were recently
received into the Church.
are busy days at the Vatican’s Information Office for Prisoners
of War and Refugees, w'here these pictures were taken recently.
Above is Archbishop Evrienoff, director of the office. Low'er picture
shows the dispatch of outgoing mail w'hich carries Information to
many lands, easing the war’s heartaches for thousands of anxious
relatives. (N.C.W.C.)
ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOL
TO BE NAMED IN HONOR
OF MISS MARY BROSNAN
(Special to The Bulletin)
ALBANY, Ga. — A rare bit of
drama unfolded on the stage of
the Municipal Auditorium on June
3 when the oldest Albany school
teacher, in point of service, inad
vertently “stole the show” from
the graduating class of the Albany
High School at the commencement
exercises.
The recipient of a tremendous
ovation, which roared through the
spacious auditorium, when the
senior class paid tribute to her,
earlier on the program and ac
companied its sentiments with a
gift, Miss Mary L. Brosnan was
honored even further for her fifty
years of devoted services to the
school system of Albany.
"At the request of the Albany
Parent-Teacher Council,” H. T.
McIntosh, president of the Board
of Education, announced in an un
herald part of the program, “the
Board of Education has unani
mously voted to rename the Mon
roe Street School, the Mamie
Brosnan School.”
It was not until an ovation that
last fully five minutes has subsided
that Miss Brosnan—who has taught
thousands of Albany citizens, in
cluding grandfathers and grand
mothers of girls and boys on the
stage—could make a speech of
thanks.
Miss Brosnan is a devoted mem
ber of St. Theresa’s parish in Al
bany, and one of the most active
members of the Catholic Laymen's
Association of Georgia.
BISHOP YU PIN CITES
GROWING INFLUENCE
OF CHURCH IN CHINA
NEW YORK. — Although we
should give due attention to the
sacrifices and the war now being
engaged in by the Chinese people,
we should think principally of the
future of that great nation, the
Most Rev. Paul Yu Pm, Vicar
Apostolic of Nanking and leader of
social work in Free China, de
clared in an interview here.
“Today, in China,” Bishop Yu
Pin said, “the Church has a new
position. It has a rising popular
ity with the whole nation. Many
leaders of China have confidence
in the Catholic Church. They see
that the Church is open to and in
terested in all men.”
Bishop Yu Pin pointed out, in
post-war China, the Church is go
ing to play a large role. The main
source of its growing strength is
in the great social welfare pro
gram which the Church possesses.
One of the reasons for the
Bishop’s trip to this country was
to study American Catholic social
service activities.
“We have co-operated in all
fields in leadership in national
interests,” the Bishop said. “Very
often the individual Catholic feels
that the only aim of the missioner
is to convert individuals. To have
Holy Father Speaks to
20,000 Workers of Italy
Refutes Charge That Re
sponsibility for War Rests
on Church
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY. — Addressing
one of the largest audiences ever
held in the history of the Vatican,
His Holiness Pope Pius XII told
20,000 workers that “the whole
complex structure of society is in
need of adjustment;” that the
problems of labor merit speciai at
tention, but that the solution does
not lie in the field of revolution.
Holding up to his listeners “the
divine model of the Christian
worker—Christ the Carpenter,”
the Holy Father warned that “the
social revolution claims to raise
the working class to power,” but is
in reality “an empty word, and a
mere show incapable of realization
in fact.” He said it yokes and
binds the working class “to the
force of State Capitalism,” and
“like the other social systems and
orders which it claims to fight, it
classifies, regulates and presses all
into a fearful war instrument
which demands not only the
blood and health but also the
goods and property of the people.”
Pope Pius spoke out against
“propaganda of an anti-religious
inspiration” which, he asserted, is
circulating among the people and
especially among the working
classes This propaganda, he said,
would have the people believe the
Pope wished the war; that the
Pope supports the war and supplies
money for its continuance; that
the Pope does nothing for peace.
Asserting that “never, perhaps,
was there launuched a calumnj
more monstrous than this or absurd
than this,” the Holy Father listed
some of the enormous efforts put
forward by himself and his prede
cessors to head off this war, and
his own efforts to mitigate the suf
ferings of this war after it started
despite the „ efforts of the Holy
See.
“When (he truth of the facts and
our work,; will have been reveal
ed,” His Holiness declared, “they
will be confounded who malicious
ly try to throw on the Papacy the
responsibility for all the blood that
has flowed in the battles on land,
in the air in the sea and in the
ruins of cities ”
“PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE,”
an 894-page volume prepared un
der the direction of the Bishops’
Committee on the Pope’s Peace
Points, has been published by the
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, setting forth the peace pro
nouncements of five Popes, from
Leo XIII to Pius XII.
this only in mind would be a trag
ic mistake. The aim of the mis
sioner is ever to build a finer and
greater civilization.
Catholic Editors in Convention
Denounce A ttacks on Religion
By BURKE WALSH
(Staff Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service)
TOLEDO, O..—Directing atten
tion to signs of a systematic and
implacable campaign against the
Catholic Church both here and
abroad, the Catholic Press Asso
ciation of the United States de
nounced all attacks upon religion,
“especially at this critical mo
ment,” and demanded that all or
gans of opinion in this country, se
cular and religious, “respect the
sincerity of our efforts to assist
the Government and the nation in
present emergency.”
The action came as the Associa
tion brought to close its Thirty-
third Annual Convention held
here.
Six members of the Hierarchy
were present at the various con
vention sessions, and the Most
Rev. John Mark Gannon. Bishop
of Erie and Episcopal Chairman of
the Press Department. National
Catholic Welfare Conference, told
the delegates “we do not take sec
ond place to any editorial group in
the United States.” Bishop Gan
non said the outstanding phe
nomenon in the life of the Church
today “is the rise and develop
ment of the Catholic Press in the
United States,” and he told the
editors and publishers that the
Bishops of this country “are de
lighted with what you are doing in
the field of Catholic journalism ”
The Most Rev. John F. Noll,
Bishop of Fort Wayne and a char-
ter member of the C. P. A. called
upon the editors to “help wake up
our people” to the work of the Na
tional Organization for Decent Lit
erature, the risting tide of juvenile
delinquency and other present day
concerns. “Having aroused them.”
he added, “they may help to awak
en those outside the faith to the
dangers that surround us.”
OTHER BISHOPS PRESENT
The Most Rev. Karl J. Alter,
Bishop of Toledo, was host to the
convention- Other members of the
Hierarchy in attendance were the
Most Rev. Thomas IC. Gorman,
Bishop of Reno and Assistant Epis
copal Chairman, N. C. W. C. Press
Department; the Most Rev. Edward
F. Hoban, Coadjutor Bishop of
Cleveland, and the Most Rev. Paul
Yu Pin, Vicar Apostolic of Nan
king.
A. J. Wev, General Manager of
the Catholic Press Union. Cleve
land, was re-elected President of
the Association-
Other officers re-elected arc:
The Very John J. Considine. M.
M.', Editor of The Field Afar,
Maryknoll, Vice-President: the
Rev. J. Fred Kriebs, Editor of The
Witness, Dubuque, Secretary;
Chas. S. Murphey, Business Man
ager, of The Catholic Review, Bal
timore, Treasurer: the Rev. Daniel
J. Kelly, Editor of The Catholic
Week, Birmingham, Director of the
Newspaper Section; the Rev. Hya
cinth Blocker, O. F. M-, Editor of
The St. Anthony Messenger, Cin
cinnati, Director of the Magazine
Section, and Prof. J. L. O’Sullivan.
Dean, Marquette University School
of Journalism, Milwaukee. Direc
tor of the School Press Section
By resolution the association re
affirmed its loyalty to His Holiness
Pope Pius XII; offered continued
support of his efforts to bring
back peace and tranquillity to this
afflicted world, and pledged “its
every resource and talent to con
vey to all Christians a plain and
practical understanding cf the
Holy Father’s peace program.”
The Association expressed again
its profound respect for His Excel
lency the Most Rev. Amleto Gio
vanni Cicognani, Apostolic Dele
gate to the United States, and to
the Members of the American
Hierarchy. It “reasserted in the
present emergency its unwavering
loyalty to the President of the
United States in his struggle to
preserve the nation and to safe
guard the traditional liberties of
the American people.”
SCORE ATTACKS ON RELIGION
“In view of information emanat
ing from reliable sources in Eu
rope,” said another resolution,
“that a systematic, implacable op
position, which seems to be bred of
the fact that the Church will stand
out at the end of this war more
influential than ever; and that dif
ficulties of many kinds are being
put in way of Pope Pius XII’s un
selfish efforts to bring relief to
war sufferers; and that an anti-
religious propaganda of obscure
origin is increasing alarmingly in
Europe—the Catholic Press Asso
ciation expresses its abhorrence of
I all attacks upon religion and the
Church, especially at this critical
moment when the collaboration oi
all moral and spiritual forces is im
peratively necessary.”
“The Catholic Press Associa
tion, said another resolution, “ex
presses regret at what seems to be
a systematic and sustained attack
upon the Catholic Church on the
part of certain periodical maga
zines in America. The Catholic
Press will continue to do dll in its
power to promote unity of feeling
and of effort amongst the people
of this country, but in all fairness
we demand in return that all or
gans of opinion, secular and reli
gious, shall respect the sincerity of
our efforts to assist the Govern
ment and nation in the present
emergency. In view of collabora
tions in men and money mad; by
Catholics, we assert our right to
be spared attacks upon our religion
and our patriotism; and we shall
not fail to vindicate that right.”
Declaring that “certain disturb
ing groups” in this country "are
interposing obstacles” to the State
Department’s policy of maintaining
friendly relations with the Govern
ment and people of Spain,” the
convention revealed that the Cath
olic Press Association is lending
“its whole-hearted support to the
American Government in Its policy
of maintaining friendliness be
tween the United Slates and Spain,
and its support of every worth
while and honest effort create a
better understanding and a great
er feeling of cooperation between
Latin-American countries and the
United States.”
Speaking at a luncheon session,
Bishop Noll noted that Drew Pear
son, Walter Winchell and other col
umnists had charged collusion be
tween the Postmaster General and
the National Organization for De
cent Literature. He vigorously de
nied this, as well as the canard that
the N. O. D. L. has asked publish
ers of magazines to submit “dum
mies” of forthcoming issues to that
organization.
Bishop Noll drew attention to
the fact that the Post Office De
partment today is proceeding un
der a law passed many years ago
which proscribed from second-
class mailing privileges publica
tions that are indecent.
Cooperation from large sellers of
magazines has been “very good
from the beginning.” Bishop Noll
said, on the basis that they were
anxious to keep their publications
from inclusion on lists of maga
zines that the N. O- D. L. evaluat
ed as indecent.
Bishop Yu Pin greeted the dele
gates at the luncheon “not onlv in
my own name, but also in the
name of the Catholic Press in
China.” The Bishop, .who is one of
25 member; of the Advisory Com
mittee of Generalissimo Chiang
Kai Shale, is also a distinguished
leader of the Catholic Press in his
country.
NEED TO WRITE TRUTH
IN WAR-TIME STRESSED
BY C. P. A. SPEAKER
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
TOLEDO, Ohio. — While it may
seem to some that “war-time is no
time for truth”, it is his opinion
that it would be wise to “speak and
write truth in war-time even mere
than before,” the Rev- James M.
Gillis, C. S. P„ Editor of The Cath
olic World, New York, declared in
an address delivered here at the
annual convention of the Catholic
Press Association of the United
States.
“Government of the people and
by the people,” he said, “in a cri
sis surrenders—perhaps necessar
ily—to government by exccuilve
order, and fortunate is the people
which recovers control of its own
government when the crisis has
passed. It is essential, therefore,
that in a people’s government, the
people should know what is hap
pening at all times.”
DECATUR PARISH GROUP
HOSTESSES AT OPEN HOUSE
ATLANTA, Ga. — On June 6,
hospitality was extended to service
men and women at the weekly
open house at the Knights of Co
lumbus Home by the St. Thomas
More division of the Catholic War
Service Council of the Atlanta
area, which includes Decatur.
Refreshments were served and
entertainment included group sing
ing under the direction of Mrs.
Lois Allen Wallace, with Ray Wil-
mer as master of ceremonies. Mrs.
William K. Wyany, Mrs. Elmer
Whitham. Mrs. Grace Chisolm,
Mrs. Maie Gewinner and Miss
Leila Cordes acted as hostesses.