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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JANUARY 26. 1946
Eminence in Many Fields Marks Careers of
New American Members of Sacred College
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
Nomination of four new Cardi
nals for the United States brings
the total number of the members
of the Sacred College in this coun
try up to five. Recently there has
been only one Cardinal in the
United States, although at one
time there were as many as four.
The newly-named American
members of the Sacred College
are amoni: the most illustrious
churchmen in this or any other
country.
One of them has been a mem
ber of the Hierarchy for nearly
half a century and is the second
oldest Bishop in the world, in
point of service. Another is the
first American given a permane.it
appointment in the diplomatic
service of the Holy See. Another
was the first American called to
active service in the Papal Secre
tariate of State at the Vatican.
The other was the youngest mem
ber of the American Hierarchy
at the time of his episcopal conse
cration and has governed three
different Sees in the United
States.
Two of the Cardinals-designate
have served as Chaiiman of the
Administrative Board of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, and one of them is presently
Chairman. Three of the new
Cardinals-elect have served on the
N. C. W. C. Administrative Board
at the same time. Two of them
are presently members of the
Board.
UNDER FIVE POPES
Archbishop John Joseph Glen-
non, of St. Louis, whose name ap
pears second on the list of 112 new
Cardinals announced in Osserva-
tore Romano, has been priest and
Bishop under five different
Popes, and has received the warm
felicitations of a half-dozen Presi
dents of the United States. He is
hailed as one of the greatest ora
tors the Church in the United
States has ever produced. He is
also renowned as a builder and
ndminis ator, an unflagging work
er for Catholic education, chain
pion of the Christian home, advo
cate of temperance although foe
of prohibition, and implacable ad
versary of divorce, unclean litera
ture and other factors undermin
ing the sancity of the home.
To an vent which took place
Just a m nth before Cardinal-
elect Glennon became Archbishop
of St. Louis, is ascribed the recog
nition of this great churchman as
one of the country’s foremost ora
tors. It was an address delivered
at the golden jubilee celebration
of Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan in
Philadelphia in September, 1903
For the next quarter of a century
or more, there was hardly a Cath
olic event of national importance
anywhere" in the United Stales but
that the Archbishop of St. Louis
was sought to deliver an oration.
He has addressed three Interna
tional Eucharistic Congresses—in
Chicago, Dublin and Buenos Aires.
In Dublin he spoke to an audicn -*
of some 500,000 persons, and in
Buenos Aires his address was car
ried over one of the greatest net
works of radio stations ever
sembled.
Cardinal-elect Glennon was bo.-n
in Kinnegad. County Westmeath.
Ireland, on June 14, 1862. He was
ordained in Kansas f'ity. Mo., De
cember 20, 1884. lie was cons
t-rated Titular Bishop or Pinara
and Coadjutor Bi-hop of Kansas
City on June 29. I89li. 116 became
Coadjutor Archbishop of St. Louis
on April 27. 1903. and Archbishop
of St. Louis on October 13. oMhe
same year.
I IN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE
I Archbishop Edward Mooney of
[Detroit, another of the Cardinals-
i elect, was the first American priest
( given a permanent appointment
in the di ( lomatic service of he
Holy See. He was Apostolic Dolc-
[sate to India and subsequently
•Apostolic Delegate to Japan. Since
'that diplomatic service, lie has
.governed two Sees in the United
pStutes, and has rendered distill
I guished service on the Adminis
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years Chairman.
Born at Mount Savage, Md., May
9, 1882, Cardinal-elect Mooney
came to serve the Church on three
continents. His family moved to
Youngstown, O., when he was still
a child, but be returned to Mary
land to study at St. Charles Col
lege, Ellicott City, and at St.
Mary’s " nninary, Baltimore. He
was ordained to the priesthood in
Rome on April 10, 1909, after es
tablishing a brilliant record at the
North American College. He had
returned home and was engaged
in pastoral duties when he was
called in 1923 to be Spiritual Di
rector of the North Ame rican Col
lege in Rome. He was still serv
ing in this Dost when, in 1920, he
was named Apostolic Delegate to
India. Five years later he was
named Apostolic Delegate to Ja
pan.
Iu November, 1934, Archbishop
Mooney, then on a visit to the
United States, was named Bisnop
of Rochester. On June 1. 1937,
word came from Vatican City that
the Diocese of Detroit had been
elevated to the rank of archepis-
copal See, and that Archbishop
Mooney had been named its first
Archbishop Metropolitan. Since
his first election in November,
1934, Cardinal-elect Mooney has
served a half-score years on the
N. C. W. C. Administrative Board.
PRESIDED OVER 3 SEES
Archbishop Samuel A. Striteh,
Metropolitan of Chicago and Car
dinal-elect, is presently Chairman
of the Administrative Board N. C.
W. C. He was Archbishop of Mil
waukee before being translated to
the Archdiocese of Chicago, and
was at one time Bishop of Toledo.
The Cardinifl-elect is so distin
guished as the Chairman of the
American Bishops’ Committee on
the Pope’s Peace Points, set up
in 1941. and the keynote of a vast
number of spoken and written ut
terances be lias made is the neces
sity of recognizing the moral .aw
as the only true and lasting basis
of individual, family, national and
international life.
Born in Nashville. Term.. Au
gust 17. 1887, Cardinal-elect
Striteh studied at St. Gregory’s
Preparatory Seminary. Cincinnati
and at the North American Col
lege in Rome, where he complet
ed Ills philosophical and theologi
cal studies at the age of 20. Three
years later, after a special dispen
sation had been obtained, lie was
ordained in Rome by the late Car
dinal Respighi. May 21, 1910. at
the age of only 23 years.
Cardinal-elect Striteh was Chan
cellor or his native Diocese of
Nash ille when Pope Benedict XV
named him Bishop of Toledo at
the age of 34 years, making him
the youngest member of the Am
erican Hierarchy at the time. Nine
years later, in 1930, he was named
Archbishop of Milwaukee. Pre
siding over the installation, was
the late Cardinal George Munde
lein, whom Cardinal-elect Striteh
succeeded as Archbishop of Chi
cago in 1940.
Cardinal-elect Striteh was elect
ed to the N. C. W. C. Administra
tive Board first in 1935. and be T
came its Chairman in 1939. The
following year, he retired under
a rule limiting service to five suc
cessive one-year terms, lie vas
re-elected to the Board in 1941.
and last month wuis again chosen
its Chairman.
MILITARY VICAR OF U. S.
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman.
Metropolitan of New York and
Cardinal-elect, lias governed two
of til" mo- populous Sees in the
world. He became Ordinary of
the great Archdiocese of New'
York on May 23, 1939. and in De
cember of that year was named by
the Holy See to be U. S. Military
Vicar. When tlie United States
entered World War II. the Army
and Navy Diocese grew to he even
more populous than the New York
archdiocese as America's military
might w-as mustered
Cardinal-elect Spellman was the
first American ever called to ac
tive service in the Papal Secreta
rial of State at the Vatican, when
he was summoned to Rome in
1925. The present Holy Father,
Pope Pius XII. was then Cardinal
Eugenio Pacelli, Papal Secretary
of State, and 'he young Ameri
can priest. became closely asso
ciated with him in the work When
Cardinal Pa’clli visiteduhe United
Stales in 1936, Cardinal-el t
Spellman then Auxiliary Bishop
of Boston, a.companies him on his
tour of this country.
The Cardinal-elect became prob
ably the uost traveled churchman
of his time as Military Vicar ol
the United States forces in World
War II. He journeyed round the
world to inspect military installa
tions, to have conferences with
chaplains, and to meet and cheer
America’s fighting men in the
field. On one of these trips, made
in 1943, he was accorded the un
usual privilege of safe passage to
Rome, when he proceeded to Vat
ican City, where he was received
by Pope Pius XII.. This country
was at war with Italy at the time.
The visit was concerned with re
ligious matters. The Cardinal-
elect traveler'. 45,000 miles as Mil
tary Vicar alone. As a result of
only one trip, lie sent more than
1,400 letters to relatives of service
men he met and talked with
abroad.
Cardinal-elect Spellman was
born at Whitman, Mass., May 4,
1889, and was graduated from
Fordham University in 1911. He
attended the North American Col
lege in Rome froni 1911 to 1916.
and was ordained in the Eternal
City on May 14 of the latter year.
Returning to the United States, he
combined an editorial position on
The Pilot, archdiocesan newspa-
ner, with his pastoral duties. He
served in the Papal Secretarial!
of State from 1925 to 1932, when
he was named Auxiliary Bishop
of Boston and was consecrated in
Rome by the present Holy Father,
then Cardinal Pacelli. He was
named Archbishop of New York
in 1939.
Cardinal-elect Spellman also has
been prominently identified with
the work of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference. He was first
elected to the N. C. W. C. Admin
istrative Board in 1940. and lias
been re-elected for five successive
years. He Is present secretary of
the Administrative Board.
A NEW CARDINAL
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St. Leo College Prep.
School
Accredited High School
Conducted by the Benedictine
Fathers
Ideal location
St Leo Pasco County. Florida
Duggan Optical Go.
Optometrists and Opticians
D. C. Jackson. Jr.. Mgr.
221 Mitchell St.. S. W.
ATLANTA. GA.
Cardinal - Designate Bernard
Griffin, 46-year-old Archbishop of
Westminister, is pictured in the
uniform of an air-raid warden in
Birmingham, where he was active
in Civilian Defense during the past
war. He is also a veteran of the
Navy and R. A. F. in World War I.
—(N. C. Photos).
Macon US0-NCCS Club
Re-Opens as Project of
St. Joseph’s Parish
(Special to The Bulletin)
MACON, Ga.—Following
closing, on December 15, of
USO dub operated here by the
National Catholic Community Se
vice for more than five years,
of St. Joseph’s parish.
The club was opened in Febru
ary, 1941. through the efforts of
the Rev. Peter McDonnell. S. J ,
then pastor of St. Joseph’s Church,
and was a “going concern” when
Hie USO- entered this military
area.
Under the new arrangement, the
club will be open each Wednesday
and Saturday evening for dances
and other entertainment 1 '., and on
Sunday until early afternoon. Be
sides being a club house and a
recreational center for service
personnel still on duty in and
near Macon, it will be gathering
place for returned veterans and
their friends. Already the club
has been visited by a number of
former service men whose first
contacts with it were under USO-
NCCS auspices ami who now have
returned to Civilian clothes.
Permission lias been obtain'd
by Hie Very Rev. Harold A. Gaud-
in. S. J., pastor of St.- Joseph’s
Church, from the Most Rev. Ger
aid P O’Hara, D. D . J. U. D„
Bishop of Savannnh-Atlanta, for
the continuance of the war-time
program. The club will also serve
as the center of activity for parish
groups.
SACRED HEART SCHOOL
MOTHER’S CLUB HOLDS
MEETING IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga.—At the Jan
uary meeting of the Mothers' Club
of the Sacred Heart School, Mrs.
Robert F. Henry, the president,
suggested that the club entertain
the fathers of children attending
the school with a buffst supper
on February 5, and plans are now
being made to arrange a floor
show as an entertainment leature
of the affair.
At the conclusion of the busi
ness session, Mrs. H. J. Schneider
program committee chairman, pre
sented Miss Joyce Donaldson, who
Earl G. Dowda
Optical Co.
132Vi Whitehall St.. S. W.
ATLANTA, GA.
Crescent Laundry
Company
Up-to-Date Laundry
Work, Dry Cleaning and
Dyeing
Phone* IS—11
519 Second St.
MACON
GA.
Out-of-town work done on
•hort notlen.
Goodyear Tires
Prest-o-Lite
Batteries
Genuine Alemiting
General Tire &
Supply Co.
Broad at Twelfth Street
Phone 2600 Augusta, Ga.
HENRY W.
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POTEET
FUNERAL
HOME
(Formerly Grealish. Poteet & Walker)
529 GREENE STREET
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA
NOTRE DAME ACADEMY
Southern Pines, N. C.
A resident and Day School for Girls conducted by the Sisters
of Notre Dame de Namur. College Preparatory Course. Music,
Art, and Secretarial Subjects are offereo. Extensive grounds in
the pine covered sandhills of North Carolina afford outdoor
‘recreation in riding, swimming, boating, tennis, archery, and
other sports.
The school is accredited by the Slate of North Carolina.
For further information address the Sister Superior.
SGT. WILLIAM A NEV1N
RETURNS TO AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Sgt. William
A. Nevin, sou of Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Nevin, a member of St. Mary's-
en-The-Hill parish, has received
his honorable discharge from 1 lie
Army at Foil McPherson, Atlan
ta. after serving thret' years. He
spent twenty-six months overseas
and wears tlie Philippine Libera
tion ribbon witli one battle star
and the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with
three battle stars.
SAINT JOSEPH’S INFIRMARY
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Atlanta, Georgia
Approved by the Georgia State Board of Examiners for Nurses
and by the Committee on Nursing Education of the Catholic
Hospital Association.
CLASSES ADMITTED IN SEPTEMBER AND FEBRUARY
For information apply to Director of School of Nursing.
Life insurance Company
or Boston. Mamacmusitt*
SAVANNAH
George A. Rice
Citizens Trust Bldx.
Phones 3-5492—2-2911
First
COLUMBUS
O. E. Slurkie
National Bank
Phone 2-3852
Bldg.
WALTER POWELL,
General Agent for
Georgia, 1403
William-Oiiver
Bldg.. Atlanta.
MACON
Edwin S. Davis
First National Bank Bldg.
Phone 1142
ATHENS
Howard T. Abney
Southern Mutual Bldg.
Phone 71
Simmons Plating Works
Largest and Oldest in the South—Established 1861
Gold, Silver, Brass and Chromium
Plating
Expert Replating, Repairing and Refinisliing of Sacred Vessels,
Altar Candlesticks and Church Metalware of Every Description
219 Pryor St., S. W., Atlanta 3, Georgia
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