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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
DECEMBER, 22, 1945
ELEVEN
WITH OTHER EDITORS
1IOLY TRINITY CHURCH, KINSTON—Formerly a mission of Golds
boro, Holy Trinity Church, Kinston, North Carolina, has had a resident
pastor for the last eight years. The present pastor is the Rev. Thomas
' Williams. Director of Boys Scouts in the Diocese of Raleigh.
American Benedictines
Prepared to Take Over
Czechoslovakian Abbey
(By N. C. W. C. News Service!
LISLE, 111.—Benedictine monks
from St. Procopius Abbey here
will go to Czechoslovakia to take
charge of St. Wenceslaus monas
tery at Brouniov, which is locat
ed in the so-called Sudeten area
of northeastern Bohemia, it lias
been announced. The Very Rev.
John Cherf, O. S. B., Prior of St.
Procopius, is at present in Prague
and, following an investigation of
the situation, has approved of
the plan, which also includes the
formation of a new Benedictine
Slav Congregation.
A petition for the organization
of this new congregation was
placed before the Benedictine
Abbot Primate in Rome and the
Prefect of the Sacred Congrega
tion for Religious, Cardinal Lui-
, gi Lavitrano. The petition was
accepted and confirmed last
month.
The monastery at Brou mov, it
.was explained here, is situated in
a part of Bohemia that was main
ly populated by Germans and the
majority of the monks also were
German. After the liberation of
Czechoslovakia the Prague gov
ernment decreed that all people
of German origin would have to
leave the country and priests and
Religious were included.
Thus, the Abbot of Broumov,
Father Prokop Dominick, and
most of the German members of
his community, have been evac
uated and reside now at the
Benedictine monastery at Mctten
in Bavaria. Other members of
the-, dbmmunity are preparing to
leave in the near future. The Ben
edictine community at Broumov
was no longer able to carry on its
spiritual and cultural work and
the administrator of the mother-
monastery at Brevnov was not in
a position to supply the neces-
. sary number of Czech monks to
resume the work at Broumov.
After the approval of Church
authorities had been obtained the
BreVnov andministrator sent an
appeal to St. Procopius Abbey,
together with the assurance that
(lie present Czechoslovak govern
ment was in favor of the project
to have Czech-Amarican monks
take charge of the Broumov mon
astery, it was declared.
“The Benedictines at Lisle
jhope,” it was said here, “that hav-
jing acquired greater territory for
their activity, they will bo able to
. gain more vocations not only for
their own home country but for
their general mission work in for-
ieign missions, and especially for
their main work of Church uni
ty.’’ The Rl. Rev. Procopius Neu-
ziMs-Abbot of St: Procopius. ■ •
CARNIVAL OF SPORTS
AT MYRTLE BEACH USO
Kinston Pastor
IN' ADDITION to eight Jesuit
missionaries in Java who were
killed early in November by Indo
nesian insurgents, nineteen olh-
ers died during the war from tor
ture and imprisonment at the
hands of the Japanese.
(Special to The Bulletin)
MYRTLE BEACH, S. C.—“The
Carnival of Sports,” the USO
Camp Show which was presented
at the USO Club-by-the-Sca here
was real he-man entertainment
and a huge success.
First on the program was a
fast roller skating act by ‘‘The
Three Tops,” a trio of stellar per
formers.
The acrobatic field was repre
sented by the team of Bob and
Helen Renous who offered re
markable feats of balancing.
An exhibition by two national
ping pong champioi s, Fred Borges.;
and Lou Pagliarc, and their
downing, delighted the spectators.
Carl Joseph and Enid Duechker
offered an archery act which fea
tured trick shot reminescent of
William Tell. Jimmy Waltliour,
famed six-day bicycle racer and
cyclist, offered a novel aci. Loo
Frank Hallan, another expert
Dustin, formerly with Paul Wbite-
man’s orchestra, was responsible
for the musical background which
added much to 1 the enjoyment of
the performance, by a number of
service men and their friends. A
dance followed the sports carnival.
Groups of hostesses from the
USO-CCS Club, beaded by Miss
Elsie Beard and Miss I.ucillc
Jordan, and including Misses
Louise Spring and Louise Blue,
recently visited the Base Hospital
and distributed candy, cigarettes
and cakes to the patients.
A recent tour of the famed
Brookgreen Gardens was followed
by a picnic spread for the service
men who were guests of USO-
NCCS on the tour of the gardens
which arc noted fur their ancient
moss-hung oaks and thrilling
natural beauty.
J. J. Me \ndrcw, director of the
club is now arranging lor a series
of lessons in. badminton, to be
given by Sgt. Edwa-d Perry.
COURAGE PERSONIFIED
In 1940, tli Nazis were at the
very height of their power. Poland,
Denmark, Luxemburg, The
Netherlands, Belgium and France
had fallen before the Nazi might;
Hitler’s planes were raining death
and destruction on England, the
Balkans were under Axis dom
ination, and the Italian-German
forces were ravaging North
Africa.
Within Germany, the Nazis were
as absolute as any Nero. Any
critic of any act of the Govern
ment, even though such criticism
were privately expressed or un
consciously implied by conduct,
was likely to disappear and never
be heard from again.
But there was one. voice con
tinuously raised there against the
Nazi philosophy and its murderous
fruits—one voice, and only one.
That was the voice'of the Catholic
Church, through it clergy col
lectively and individually. New
evidence of this appears in letters
published outside of Germany now
for the first time in Thought,
the Fordham University quarterly,
as recorded elsewhere in this issue
of The Catholic News..
In November, 1940, Cardinal
f’aulhabeV, as chairman Of the
German Bishops' Conference in a
letter to the Reich Chancellery in
Berlin, warned the Government
that "even dluring war time one
may not discard .he everlasting
foundations of the moral order,
nor the fundamental rights of the
individual.”
The immediate occasion of the
protest, which was reiterated in
pastorials of individual Bishops,
ad sermons of thousands of priests,
was the “mass killing in institu
tions for the insane" and the use
of persons objectionable to the
Nazis, especially Jews and critic;
of the regime, for dangerous and
often fatal medical experiments.
No one actually believes, Cardinal
Faulhabcr said that there is any
truth in the report ol' government
official; that certain people had
died suddenly and that their
bodies had to be cremated be
cause of danger of contagion.
To accuse Hitler and his coherts
of lying required great courage,
but the representatives of the
Church did not hesitate, even
though it meant the concentra'ion
camp and death for many of them.
Yet many “liberals" who sat out
the war thousands of miles from
danger now have the audacity to
try to tell the American people
lhat the Bishops of Germany Wore
and arc “Fascists"—(The Catholic
News).
LOUIS J. O’CONNELL
RETURNS TO AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga.—After three
years in the South Paciiic with
the ' Seabees, Louis J. O’Connell,
a member of St. Mary’s-on-Thc-
Hill parish, has returned home
and resumed his position as Au
gusta division claim agent with
the Georgia Power Company.
Mr. O'Connell, a former grand
knight of Patrick Walsh Council,
Knights of Columbus, here, en
tered mil'iary service in Decem
ber, 1942. He saw service on
Guadalcanal, Emirau and Kullell
Islands in the Solomon;, and later
on Sapian, Eniwetok and Okinawa.
He landed on Okinawa two weeks
after the campaign lor that Haqri
began and counted more than a
hundred and fifty raiiU by Jap
anese planes on American miltary
installations there.
At the time of his discharge,
Mr. O'Connell was an a'hletic
director for the Seabees.
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HOW WE (HAVE BEEN FOOLED
The Catholic jPress has- been
vidicatcd again, it was the sole
witness for truth Muring the days
of the Spanish Civil War, .and it
remains the only reliable source
of information for wliat is hap
pening in Europe. Carlton Ilayes,
until recently- our ambassador in
Spain, has published a book which
will be on sale in a few days. We
warn the prospective readers that
its writer leaves the Civil War
and its causes severely alone. Ex
cept for a report which he made
to the late President (by request)
in regard to the damage done ‘to
art. his references to the catas
trophe are few. But it is easy to
] read between the lines. What he
does say about the conditions of
life as he found them are all tile
more valuable because they are
free from any partisanship.
Mr. Hayes was sent to Spain
for a specific purpose. He was
given the most confidential details
of the object of Ilia mission. There
was no doubt that he was chosen
because a Catholic wou’d receive
a more favorable reception. His
instructions were to do everything
posible to keep Franco out of the
war. He was told why. It was abr
solulely necessity to protect the
already projected invasion of
North Africa from any flanking
movement, cither by a German
invasion of the Spanish Peninsu
lar, or by the 150,000 troops that
Franco had massed in Morocco.
The situation was hazardous in
the extreme for no suspicion of
the operation must be aroused.
Mr. Hayes accomplished bis deli
cate mission with conspicuous
success. He ii gerierous in his ad
mission that ill is success was due
in a large measure to the benevo
lent cooperation of Franco and of
the Spanish people, 80 per cent of
whom he estimates to have bebn
pro-American' and pro-Brilish.
lie had difficulties. They did not
come so much from Franco, nor
even from the Falange, and cer
tainly not from the Spanish peo
ple, but from the disagreement
between the "Allied diplomats, the
weak ■ administration at Washing-
, ton. and above all from the ma
lignity of the Allied Press.
He seems to have been convinc
ed that Franco was compelled to
play the part of a friend of the
Axis. Circumstances demanded it.
At any moment Hitler could have
invaded Spain—indeed it was one
of his worse mistakes that he did
not do so. Franco had to seem
submissive or he was lost. It is
not difficult to see how appalling
for the Allies was their position
in May 1942, when Mr. Hayes
reached Spain. That one who was
not trained in diplomacy should
hifvc been able to accomplish his
(ask calls for the highest praise.
Wc are chiefly interested in this
book because of its complete jus
tification of the po sition taken by
the Catholic Press in tiiis country.
Again and again Mr. Hayes de
plores tlie aetivitie; of certain
journalists and radio commenta
tors. He says they “gave aid and
comfort to our German enemies in
Spain;” “that they comtihnsated in
noise and fury for what they
lacked in numbers and knowl
edge.”
He clubs them “sensationalist"
who were "in line with, first, the
Spanish Republican or Commu
nist refugees, who wanted the
United States to help them get
back in power, and second, Amer
ican Communists and fellow trav
elers, who took their cue, as usual
from Moscow.” This "especially
vituperative campaign” with
“highly imaginative propagandist
stories” the German translated in
Spanish and distributed amongst
those who knew its falsity. He
names the activities of Walter
Winchell, and the illustrated arti
cle "Within Fascist Spain,” made
from a film of the same title, as
being especially harmful to his ef
forts.
We quote the following signifi
cant sentence: “Our Government,
it seems to me, has failed in the
opportunities which it has pos
sessed to present tlie other side
of the Spanish picture in order
that our people might judge fairly,
in the light of real facts, on what
advantageous basis, from the point
of view of our country, our rela
tions with Spain now vest.” This
was written in April 1944.
Mr. Hayes supplies his readers
with some or the advantages that
Spain afforded the Allies. It re
leased airmen who came down in
its territory: the number amount
ed to 1100. It gave free transit to
25,000 volunteers to fight in
North, America. It allowed us to
blacklist firms trading with the
Axis. It refused to return to Ger
many those who had passed on to
its soil. It saved tlie lives of hun
dreds of Jews who would other
wise have been slaughtered. It al
lowed our counter-spies to obtain
all the information they wished
from these refugees. It allowed
our planes to land in Spain. But
above all it showed Us unmistak
able sympathy with our African
campaign; indeed, Mr. Hayes says
this campaign gave greatest relief
to the Spaniards who were afraid
that we were going to invade
Spain. All this in spite of the fact
the we treated the neutrality of
Spain as though it were belliger
ency, making continual demands
under threat and at one time cut-
FATHER WILLIAMS f
The Rev Thomas R. IVilliau^,
pastor of Holy Trinity Church in
Kinston, N. C.
K. of C. Memorial Mass
Offered in Charleston
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—The offi
cers and members of Bishop 1’. N.
Lynch Council, No. 704. Knighls
of Columbus, attended Mass anil
received Holy Communion for
their departed brothers on De
cember 9, at St. Patrick's Church.
The Mass was offered by the
Rev. J. Lawrence McLaughlin,
chaplain of the council, and mem
bers of the families of the follow
ing members of the council, who
had died during the past twelve
months attended: Charles A. Den
nis, John Henry Ensign, Thomas J.
Liddy. Eugene L. Leopold, the
Rev. Dennis P. Lanigan, Frank B.
Morgan. William A. O’Biien. tlie
Rev. Michael J. Reddin and J Al
bert Von Dohlen.
The council held its annual me
morial service in the afternoon,
with Grand Knight George L.
Duffy presiding. Joseph J. Bc-
shere served as chairman of the
memorial service committee.
ting off the supply of petroleum
which brought great hardship to
the workers.
Mr. Hayes warns us that Spain
is deeply concerned in our “Good
Neighbor Policy:” that it has, in
these days of air-warfare, an in
creasingly strategic value; that
criticism of a proud people will
not accomplish the democratic de
sire, but will only tend to harden
the present form of government as
a protection against the horrors of
another civil war.
We may judge from our expe
rience of reports from Spain the
amount of reliance to be placed on
what is being said about Hungary,
Austria, Yugoslavia, Poland and
the other Communist-ridden coun
tries. The truth is leaking out.—■
(The Catholic Standard and
Times).
SAN i A STILL COMES TO THE USO
Once again this - Christmas, there will be Santas at all the USO,
Clubs operated by the National Catholic Community Service
throughout the country to distribute gifts to those men and
women whose service to their country must keep them away from
their homes. Christmas programs of religious activities, parties,
musicals, will provide all the spiritual, festive and friendly as
pects of the season. (NCWC1