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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAVMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NOVEMBER 24. 1945
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IBOOK WEEK EXHIBIT — Pictured above is the exhibit arranged by
[Sister Carmel, librarian, at St. Angela Academy. Aiken, S. C., in con-
with the observance o( National Catholic Book Week.
MRS, G. LEO LOWRY,
CHARLESTON, DIES
To Be Ordained for Diocess of Charleston
Ordination of Two Priests for
Charleston Diocese Next Month
Past President of Charleston
Diocesan Council of N. C.
C. W. Dies en Route to
National Council Directors
Meeting in Washington
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Mrs.
Katherine R. Lowry, widow of
Ci. Leo Lowry, of Charleston,
died in Fayetteville, N. C., on
November 7, while en route to
Washington. D. C„ to attend a
meeting of the Board of Directors
of the National Council of Catho
lic Women.
Funeral services were held
from St. Patrick’s Church here,
the Right Rev. Msgr. Joseph L.
O’Brien, S. T. D., LL.D., officiat
ing.
Mrs. Lowry was born in Boston
in 1862, the daughter of the late
John G. Long and Mrs. Rosanna
Fitzgerald Long, both of Ireland.
A past president of the -Char
leston Diocesan Council of the
National Council of Catholic
Women, she headed the N. C. C.
W. in South Carolina from 1941
to 1944, when she w»s made a
director of the National Council,
representing the Province ol Bal
timore. She was a member of the
USO Council of Charleston, and
state chairman of the National
Catholic School of .Social Service,
in which she also held a chair
manship on the national board.
Mrs. Lowry is survived by a
daughter, Miss Jeannette E. Low
ry; two sons, G. Leo Lowry and
Pvt. John G. Lowry, U. S. Ma
rine Corps; a brother, John G.
Long, of Boston; two sisters, Mrs
James McLaughlin and Mrs.
Dennis F. Gleason, of Naliant.
Mass., and two grandsons.
MRS. JOHN HENRY JONES
FUNERAL IN CHARLESTON
* CHARLESTON, S. C. — Funeral
services for Mrs. Mercedes Jones,
wife of John Henry Jones, who
died November 8, were held from
the Sacred Heart Church, the Rev.
Henry Wolfe officiating.
Mrs. Jones is survived by her
husband; five sons, Jack Parnell,
U. S. Navy; John H. Jones, Jr..
Frank Jones, Ernest Jones and
Michael Jones; five daughters,
Miss Mercedes Jones, Barbara
Jones, Kathleen Jones, Margaret
Jones and Patricia Tones, /all of
Charleston; three sisters, Mrs. O.
W. Walter, Lakewood, Ohio. Mrs.
W. H. Rowland and Mrs. R. E.
Benton, Charleston, and four bro
thers, Frank A. Donnelly, of
Charleston, Joseph P. Donnelly, U.
S. Navy, John J. Donnelly.
Charleston, and Edward M. Don-
nely, U. S. Army.
MEMBER OF ST. ANNE’S
PARISH IN FLORENCE
DIES IN JAPAN
FLORENCE, S. C.—A Requiem
Mass for the repose of the soul
of Private Simon James, a member
of the Colored Parish in Florence,
was offered at St. Anne’s Church
here on October 31.
According to a message from the
War Department to his parents
here, Private James died in Japan
on September 24. Before enter
ing the Army almost two years
ago, he was employed at the San-
bourn Hotel barber shop here. He
landed on Okinawa and was later
sent to Japan with the Army of
REV. D. FRANCIS MURPHY
The Rev. D. Francis Murphy, of
Boston, who will be ordained as a
priest of the Diocese of Charles
ton, on December 8.
REV. THOMAS JELLICO
The Rev. Thomas Jellico, of
Charleston, who will be ordained a
priest of the Diocese of Charles
ton. on December 16.
Bishop Waters Makes Presentation of
Interracial Award to Paul Williams
(By N. C. IV. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—The South bolds
out great promise in the field of
interracial justice, the Rev. John
LaFarge, S. J., chaplain of the
Catholic Interracial Council, de
clared at (he fourth annual presen
tation of the James J. Hocy
Awards for Interracial Justice
here. Recipients of the 19415
awards were Paul D. Williams, of
Richmond, Va., vice president of
the National Council of Catholic-
Men, and Richmond Bathe, of New
York, distinguished Catholic
Negro sculptor.
Presentation of the awards,
made annually to the Catholic
Negro and white laymen who
have done most during the year
to promote interracial justice, was
made by the Most Rev. Vincent S.
Waters, Bishop of Raleigh. Speak
ers included Charles A. Birming
ham, president of the Catholic In
terracial Council, which sponsors
the awards, and A. Philip Ran
dolph, international president,
Brotherhood of Sleeping Cat-
Porters. The opening prayer was
said by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Philip
J. Furlong, representing the Most
Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Arch
bishop of New York.
The recipients of the Hoey
medals “symbolize the interracial
progress being made in the
South,” Father LaFarge declared.
In making the awards. Bishop
Waters lauded tlie role played by
Mr. Williams in the Virginia In
terracial Commission, and praised
the Catholic and spiritual inspira
tion of Richmond. Burthe’s artis
tic works. Referring to the Cath
olic Interracial Council, the Bishop
said:
“The Council sets itself to work
on a different, and embarrassing
problem, pointing out injustices
and a spirit that is not Catholic,
a spirit that is not truly American.
It devotes itself to the task of
making Catholics more truly Cath
olic, and Americans more truly
American—a task that will make
Americans more Catholic, and
Catholics more American.”
Accepting the Hoey Medal, Mr.
Williams said a specific purpose
ol the Catholic Commitee of The
South has been “to cooperate with
their light, are trying to build a
better Southland.”
"As a result, our Bishops, priests
and laymen.” he continued, "have
been invited lo speak at secular
conferences aftd have been chosen
to their Executive Councils. In
this way, we have a hand in shap
ing the policy of the important
sceial and economic groups of the
South. One of the important
things we are doing is preparing
courses of study and textbooks
dealing with social justice, which
will be used by the children in
Catholic schools and colleges.”
Atlanta Altar Society
Sponsors Card Party
ATLANTA, Ga.—The Altar So
ciety of the Cathedral of Christ
the King sponsored a benfitcard
party on the afternoon of October
30 at Columbia Hall.
Mrs. Estes Doremus was general
chairman of the committee in
charge, with Mrs. O. K. Alcorn,
Mrs. Grover Hcyser, Mrs. L. A. Al
bright. Mrs. Hal Voorhis, Mrs. H.
J. Maillard, Mrs. A. J. Connolly
and Mrs. Bernard Winters assist
ing.
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Two
young men who are completing
their theological courses at St.
Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore will
be ordained us priests of the Dio
cese of Charleston in December.
The Rev. D. Francis Murphy
will be ordained to the priesthood
on the Feast of the Immaculate
Conception, at St. Clement’s
Shrine of Perpetual Adoration in
Boston, by His Excellency the
Most Iicv. Richard Cushing, Arch
bishop of Boston.
The Rev. Thomas Jellico will be
ordained at the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist, in Charleston,
on December 16. by His Excel
lency the Most Rev. Emmet M.
Walsh, D. D., Bishop ol Charles
ton.
The Rev. D. Francis Murphy was
born in Boston on January 12,
1917. He received his primary,
grammar school and high school
education in Maldin, Mass. He
played football and soccer and
was a member ol' the track team
at his school.
In 1936 he entered St. Charles
College, Cantonsville, Md., from
which he graduated in 1940. He
then entered St. Mary’s Seminary
to begin his theological course. In
both college and seminary he
sang in the choir and was a mem
ber of the school orchestra.
For several years he has serv
ed as counsellor and teacher at
the summer vacation religious
camps in South Carolina.
His first Solemn High Mass
will be celebrated in his home
parish church, St. Peter’s, Dor-
cester, Mass., on December 9,
with the Rev. Leon J. Hubacz, as
sistant pastor of St. Peter’s
Church, Columbia. S. C., one of
his closest friends, as deacon.
The Rev. Thomas Michael Jellico,
was born in Charleston, in Janu
ary, 1921, and was baptized in the
Sacred Heart Church. He attend
ed the Cathedral parochial school
and graduated from Bishop Eng
land High School in the class of
1937. He began his study for the
priesthood at the Minor Seminary
of St. Bernard, in Alabama, where
he completed his junior college
course. He then enl ,ed the St.
Mary’s Seminary, in Baltimore,
where he completed his philoso
phical course. At St. Mary’s
Seminary, Roland Park. Md„
where he made his theological
study, lie received the degree of
S. T. B.
On the morning following his
ordination, he will celebrate his
first Solemn High Mass in the
Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist in Charleston. The Right
Rev. Msgr. James J. May, Vicar
General of the Diocese of
Charleston, will be the assistant
priest. The Rev. Charles Sheedy,
pastor of St. Louis Church. Dillon,
will be deacon; the Rev. J. Lawr
ence McLaughlin, assistant pastor
of St. Patrick’s Church. Charles
ton, will be sub-deacon, and the
Rev. Joseph J. Murphy, assistant
rector of the Cathedral, will be
master of ceremonies. The “ser
mon will be delivered' by the
Right Rev. M?gr. John L. Mann
ing, D, D., Chancellor of the Dio
cese of Charleston.
Minor officers of the Mass will
be fellow seminarians from the
Diocese, and the Mass will be
suftg by the children’s choir, un
der the direction of SiSter M.
Agatha.
The ordination and first Solemn
Mass of Father Jellico, will be at
tended by bis mother. Mrs. Mary
Jellico, of the Cathedral parish,
by his brother, First Lieutenant
Charles P. Jellico, who is home on
leave after serving in the Pacific
theatre of the war; and his sister,
Mrs. Cecil O. Lewis, of St. Pa
trick’s parish. Other relatives
from Charleston. Augusta, Sum
merville and New York will also
attend.
A reception for the newly or
dained priest will be given at the
Cathedral School on December 16,
from 4 until 7 P. M.
REV. PATRICK O’CONNOR
TO PREACH AT NOVENA
DEVOTIONS IN CHICAGO
(Special (o The Bulletin)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Rev.
Patrick J. O’Connor, a priest of
the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta,
who for tlie past thirteen years
lias been professor of Sacred Elo
quence at the Catholic University
of America, will deliver the ser
mons at the Novena to Immaculato
Conception which opens in Our
Lady of Christians Church in Chi
cago, on November 30 and con
tinue until December 8. Father
O’Connor is one of the nation’s
outstanding pulpit orators.