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SIXTEEN
FEBRUARY li), 1944
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION CW GEQRGIA
Atlanta Branch Installs New President
Felix J. Commagere, newly elected president of the Atlanta Branch of the Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion oi Georgia, is pictured above as he stood to deliver his acceptance address at the annual meeting
ol the Atlanta Branch held on January 30. Seated, left to right, appear Miss Aimee Clohecy, secretary
treasurer of the Atlanta Branch; Martin J. Callaghan, of Macon, vice-president of the Catholic Laymen's
Association ol Georgia; the Most Bev. Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta; Estes Doremus, re
tiring president of the Atlanta Branch, and Bernard S. I-’ahy, of Rome, president of the Catholic Lay-
men’s Association of Georgia.
Commagere Succeeds Doremus
as President of Atlanta Branch
of Catholic Laymen’s Association
ATLANTA, Ga.—At the annual
meeting of the Atlanta Branch of
the Catholic Laymen’s Associa
tion of Georgia, held on January
30. in the auditorium of the
Sacred Heart School, Felix J.
Commagere was elected president
of the local unit of the state-wide
association, succeeding Estes
Doremus, who has held that office
with distinction and success for
the last three years.
Officers of the Atlanta Branch
who were chosen were: Miss May
Haverty and Thomas J. O’Keefd,
executive vice-presidents; Miss
Aimee Clohecy, secretary-treasur
er, and the following vice-presi
dents, representing the various
parishes of the city; J. G. Epler
and Mrs. W. R. Weymouth, Imma
culate Conception: W. G. Coyle
and Mrs. Mary Dicks White, Sacred
Heart; A. J. Kaiser and Miss Nell
Jantzen, St. Anthony’s; D. C. Car-
ley and Mrs. Alex Smith, Cathe
dral of Christ the King, and James
L. Harrison and Mrs. W. A.
Gericke, St. Thomas More, De
catur.
The Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara,
D.D., J. U. D., Bishop of Savan
nah-Atlanta. addressed the meet
ing, paying high tribute to the ex
cellent record achieved by the At
lanta Branch under the inspiring
leadership of Mr. Doremus. Bishop
O’Hqra also celebrated the Ponti
fical Low Mass at the Sacred
Heart Church, at which members
of the Atlanta Branch received
Holy Communion, and at which
the sermon was delivered by the
Very Rev. William J. Lonergan, S.
M., the pastor. Bishop O'Hara was
assisted by the Rev. F. M. Perry,
S. M.. and the Rev. William Col
lins, S. M.
secretary; Hugh Klnchley, Augus
ta, executive secretary, and Ber
nard J. Kane, Atlanta, Fred Wig
gins, Albany, and C. A. McCarthy,
Savannah, members of the com
mittee.
Among the out-of-town guests
at the breakfast were Mrs. Hugh
Kinchley, Augusta, and Robert
McCormack, of Albany.
Felix Commagere, the newly
elected president of the Atlanta
Branch, is a native of New Or-
learns. lie is a graduate of Loy
ola University of the South, and
has been engaged in the electrical
supply and heating and ventilating
equipment business in quanta for
the last twenty years.
Mr. Commagers has three
daughters and three sons, and five
grand children.
Journalist Says Church
Is Defender of Spiritual
Freedom in Nazi Germany.
The meeting followed a break
fast served in the school auditor
ium by a committee which includ
ed Miss Clohecy, Mrs. John B. Mc-
CalluTn. Mrs. W. J. McAlpin, Mrs.
John 15. Leamy, Mrs. W. L.
Schmidt, Mrs. John W. Turner,
Mrs. George C. Gardner, Mrs.
Joseph I. Oberst, Mrs. Mary Cole,
Mrs. William Weymouth, Mrs. W.
A. Tndlock; Mrs. Chester Zeidler,
Mrs. Julia Pratt. Mrs. W. W.
Greene, Mrs. George Ebcrens, Mrs.
Ruby Uhrbach, Miss Bess Nell
Rafferty. Miss Nell Jentzen, Miss
Mary Cronin, Miss Elizabeth
Satsk.v, Miss Ethel McGraw and
the Misses Manning.
Other speakers at the breakfast
meeting, which was attended by
more than three hundred, were
Bernard S. Fahy, of Rome, presi
dent of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia; Martin J.
Callaghan, of Macon, vice-presi
dent, Hugh Kinchley, Augusta,
executive secretary, Fred Wiggins,
Albany, and C. A. McCarthy, Sa
vannah, members of the executive
committee of the Association, and
Bernard J. Kane, of Atlanta, im
mediate past president of the state
organization.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
HOLDS CALLED MEETING
Following the meeting of the
Atlanta Branch, a called, meeting
of the executive committee of the
Catholic Laymen's Association
was held with Bernard S. Fahy, of
Rome, president of the Associa
tion, presiding. Members of the
committee attending were Murtin
J. Callaghan, Macon, vice-presi-
deul; John B. McCallum, Atlanta,
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
PLASANTVILLE, N. Y.—- That
the organization of the Church and
the resistance of Catholic leaders
to Nazism in Germany has been
the principal influence in saving
thus far what is left of German
culture and spiritual freedom, is
the opinion expressed by Arvid
Fredborg, a Swedish journalist
who left Germany a few months
ago, in a condensation of his
volume “Behind the Steel Wall,”
appearing in the January issue of
The Reader’s Digest.
Mr. Fredborg was Berlin corres
pondent for the Stockholm daily
paper Svenska Dagbladet. His
jourhalistic record of events inside
Nazis Germany is described by the
Digest as the first “to reach this
country after the American cor
respondents were recalled in De
cember, 1941.” In the condensa
tion in the Digest Mr. Fredborg
writes:
“The clergy, both Protestant and
Catholic, have shown great cou
rage and tenacity in the struggle
for freedom of conscience. They
are cooperating in their resistance
to Nazi pressure, and many bar
riers between Catholicism and Pro
testantism have fallen . . .
“It is undoubtedly the firm,or
ganization of the Catholic Church
that has thus far saved what is
left of German culture and spiritu
al freedom. It is also'Catholicism
■which is reaping the main advant
age of the religious renaissance
which has been noticeable through
out Germany.
“This is chiefly duo to the out
spoken, daring attitude of many
leaders of the Church. For ex
ample, copies of anti-Nazi sermons
delivered by Graf von Galen, the
Bishop of Munster, have been pass
ed from hand to hand all over
Germany, and the cathedral in
Munster has been packed with
listeners whenever the Bishop
preached.
"The Gestapo did not dare lo
interfere. Every morning during the
period when Count Galen's arrest
seemed imminent, peasants came
into town in their carts and called
for the Bishop to show himself at
the Residence. They wanted to be
sure that he was there and not in
a concentration camp.” :
EDITOR RALPH McGILL
TO ADDRESS HIBERNIAN
SOCIETY IN SAVANNAH
The principal speaker at the an
nual St. Patrick’s Day banquet of
the Hibernian Society of Savan
nah, to be held at the Hotel De
Soto on the evening of March 17,
will be Ralph McGill, editor of
The Atlanta Constitution. Henry
M. Dunn, president of the society,
will preside, and the details of the
annual meeting and dinner are
being arranged by committees
headed by John J. Bouhan and
Joseph W. McAvoy.
Movie on Catholic Life
in U. S. to Aid Work of
Missionaries in China
SAVANNAH HOLY NAME
GROUP ELECTS OFFICERS
SAVANNAH, Ga. —Officers of
the Holy Name Society of the
Sacred Heart parish were chosen
at a reorganization meeting held
on February 8, Andrew J. Ryan,
Jr., being named president. Other
officers selected were J. A. Laf-
fiteau, vice-president; George
Cleary, treasurer; R. F. McGinley,
secretary, and T. J. Fogarty, Jr.,
marshal.
Brief talks were made by the
Very Rev. Boniface Bauer. O. S.
B., pastor of the Sacred Heart
Church, and the Rev. Gilbert
Fuchs, O. S. P., spiritual director
of the Society.
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
CINCINNATI,— A motion
ture illustrating various phases of
Catholic life in the United States
will be prepared for circulation in
China by the Rev. Charles L,
Meeus, a priest of the Vicariate of
Hairnen, China, who has come to
this country for a year of lectur
ing under the joint auspices of the
Catholic Truth Society of China
and the Catholic Students’ Mission-
Crusade. Father Meeus arrived
from Chungking via bomber and
troop transport.
The Catholic Truth Society of
China, which was founded recent
ly in Chungking under the aus
pices of the Catholic Hierarchy of
Free China, is under the honorary
chairmanship of the Most Rev.
Paul Yu Pin, Vicar Apostolic of
Nanking, and is directed by
Francis Yeh Chiu-yuan, a Catholic
member of the Legislative Yuan.
Despite various difficulties, it has
continued the publication of Cath
olic pamphlets and prayer books.
The society also has established
the nucleus of the “Ricci Photo
Service,” which will circulate
microfilms and motion pictures
dealing with Catholic subjects.
The movie to be made in America
will be handled through this ser
vice.
The proposed motion picture
will be a full-length feature to be
projected in the main theaters of
the larger cities of China and it
will include sequences showing
activities of Catholic groups in the
United States, sports events of
Catholic youth, and public Catho
lic religious ceremonies.
The importance of using modern
methods for propagating know
ledge of the Catholic Church has
been pointed out by many observ
ers in China. A letter to Father
Meeus from the Rev. Thomas F.
Ryan, S. J., missionary and author
of “China Through Catholic Eyes,”
contains this observation:
“One of the obstacles to spread
ing Catholic truth among students
is the prevalence of the belief that
Catholicity is something for the
poor and the unlettered, whereas
Protestantism of any brand is for
those who count more. It is neces
sary to get rid of this absurd belief,
for it puts a new obstacle in the
way of any educated young man
who wants to enter the Church.
The best way to destroy it is to
make the truth known that the
Church is a great and honored in
stitution throughout the world,
especially in the country which
the young men of China most ad
mire, the United States. The best
way to make that known is through
a motion picture illustrating this
NCCW Atlanta Deanery
Council Holds Meeting
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—The Atlanta
Dearnery Council of the National
Council of Catholic Women met
on February 13, following a lun
cheon at the Ansley Hotel, at
which the Catholic Club of Busi
ness and Professional Women were
hostesses.
Reports of committees were
submitted and a panel discussion
on Parent-Teacher Associations
was led by Mrs. James A. Smith,
with Mrs. George Gunning-, Mrs.
Jerry D’Andrea, Mrs. Richard Rey
nolds and Mrs. E. C. Brisbane par
ticipating.
The Right Rev. Msgr. Joseph
E. Moylan, rector of the Cathedral
of Christ the King, and spiritual
director of the Savannah-Atlanta
Diocesan Council of the National
Council of Catholic Women, con
tinued his explanation and dis
cussion of the book, “Principles
for Peace.”
Mrs. Jack Leamy, president of
the Atlanta Deanery Council, con
ducted the meeting.
GEORGE IIASLAM ON
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.—George
Haslam, formerly of Savannah,
now assistant professor of social
science at Georgia State College
for Women, has been named to
the membership committee of the
American College Publicity Asso
ciation, to serve as chairman for
the State of Georgia. This makes
the second successive year Mr.
Haslam has been named to the
committee by the national organi
zation..
A SOLEMN MASS OF RE
QUIEM was offered in the pre
presence of His Holiness Pope
Pius XII in the Sistine Chapel on
February 10, the fifth anniversary
of the death of Pope Pius XI.
Harold Tittman, American Charge
des Affaires at the Vatican, and
his family were among those in at
tendance.
fact. The theater of the larger
cities would be quite ready to co
operate and the effect would be
excellent.”
Father Meeus is a native of Bel
gium, but is a citizen of the Re
public of China, having received
his citizenship papers on the day
of his ordination at the hands of
a Chinese Bishop. The vicariate
of Hairnen, in which he is incardi-
nated Is governed by the Most
Rev. Simon Tsu, S. J., who was
one of the six first native Chinese
Bishops consecrated in Rome in
1926 by the late Pope Pius XI.
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