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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA JANUARY 26. 1946
Jewish Children Included in Spains
Offer of Hospitality to Victim of War
By FRANCISCO DE LUIS
(Madrid Correspondent, N. C. W.
C. News Service)
Mr. de Luis, new N.C.W.C.
News Service correspondent
in Spain, is a member of the
editorial board of tile maga
zine Ecclesia, which is publish
ed by llie central committee of
Spanish Catholic Action, and
serves as counselor-delegate of
a Catholic publishing house
which owns six daily newspa
pers. one weekly and one
monthly magazine).
MADRID.—In connection with
the offer of the Spanish Govern
ment to grant hospitality to 50,000
children from war-ravaged coun
tries it has become known here
that plans are under way to or
ganize an expedition comprising
2.( 00 Jewish children to Barcelona
and Valencia.
“We will never forget the hu
manitarian gesture of generous
Spain, by which we have contract
ed a heavy debt of gratitude,” said
Isaac Weissmann, a member of the
Jewish World Congress, who re
cently visited Spain and submitted
definite proposals for the aid pro
ject. It was also announced that
the Government authorized re
opening of a synagogue at Bar
celona, thus permitting resident
Jews to hold their religious ser
vices. Four Protestant chapels are
functioning in Madrid.
Many expressions of gratitude
have been received from war-
stricken countries whose children
would benefit from the relief of
fer. The offer of the Spanish Gov
ernment was first submitted to the
United States, Great Britain and
France last November. These na
tions, expressing thanks for the
offer, advised the Spanish authori
ties to present it direct to the in
terested countries and to interna
tional relief organizations.
Countless offers have been re
ceived from individuals and Span
ish organizations to grant hospi
tality to children from war-
stricken ebuntries and to further
the humanitarian project of (he
Spanish Government.
FATHER P. J. O’CONNOR
TO CONDUCT NOVENA AT
CATHEDRAL IN SAVANNAH
- SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Rev.
Patrick J. O’Connor, professor of
Sacred Eloquence at the Catholic
University of America 'in Wash
ington, D. C., will conduct a solemn
novena to Our Lady of Lourdes at
te Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist. February 2-11.
Father O’Connor, a .native of
Savannah, is a priest of the Dio
cese of Savannah-Atlanta.
EIGHT MILLION POUNDS of
food have been processed and are
ready for export overseas as part
Paid Many Tributes
Canada's New Cardinal
TORONTO. —(NO— Hundreds
of messages of congratulations
from persons in Canada and the
United States have been received
by Archbishop James Charles Mc-
Guigan of Toronto, who has been
named Canada’s first English-
speaking Cardinal.
Among the messages from per
sons in all walks of life and repre
sentative of all races and creeds
were those from Cardinal Rodri
gue Villeneuve. O. M. I.. Arch
bishop of Quebec, and William
Lyon Mackenzie King. Prime
Minister of Canada.
Prime Minister King said, after
offering his congratulations: "I
have noted your reference to this
very high honor as being a recogni
tion of Canada’s place in the world.
It is, I am sure, no less a recogni
tion of the high place in which
Your Grace is held by your fellow
citizens throughout Canada, and
especially by the members of your
own church.”
Col. George Drew, Premier of
Ontario, and Albert Mathews,
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario,
called personally to pay their re
spects to Cardinal-designate Mc-
Guigan. as did Robert Saunders,
Mayor of Toronto, and scores oi'
other leaders. The secular press of
Canada also has hailed the ap
pointment of Archbishop McGuig-
an, declaring the honor to him to
be one which has brought joy to
all Canadians.
NCCW in Athens Sponsors
Children’s Entertainment
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATHENS, Ga.—The local unit
of the National Council of Catho
lic Women sponsored a Christmas
party for the children of St. Jo
seph’s parish.
Mrs. C. F. Carteaux was chair
man of the committee in charge,
ana arranged an enjoyable pro
gram of entertainment. Carols
were aptig by the newly organized
boys' choir, gifts were distributed
to all, from a gaily decorated
Christmas tree and .retrcshmenls
worp sprvorl
BOYS’ CHOIR ENTERTAINED
Members of the boys’ choir at
St. Joseph’s Church were the
guests of their director, the Rev.
Hugh Taylor, O. S.. B., at a
weiner roast at the Legion Cabin
on January 2. Miss Phyllis
Carteaux, Miss Frances Costa
and Miss Theresa Costa assisted
in serving the youthful guests.
of a campaign conducted by the
War Relief Services of the Na
tional Catholic Welfare Council.
Dies in Savannah
MISS GERTRUDE WILLIAMS
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Funeral ser
vices for Miss Gertrude Williams,
will-known teacher of dancing,
who died on January 8, were held
from the Sacred Heart Church.
The Requiem Mass was offered
by the Very Rev. Boniface Bauer,
O. S. B., with the Right Rev. Msgr.
T. James McNamara, the Rev.
George Daly, the Rev. Peter Triz-
zino, O. S. B., and the Rev. Nor-
bert McGowan, O. S. B., assisting
in the sanctuary.
Miss Williams, a native of Sa
vannah, conducted a dancing
studio for the past twenty-five
years. She served as a director for
the National Catholic Community
Service at one of the USO Clubs
in Savannah during the war years.
She is survived by her mother,
Mrs. Mary Bennett Williams; a
brother, Frank H. Williams, and
a nephew, Stephen B. Williams.
GEORGE J. DICKSON
DIES IN AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Funeral serv
ices for George Jackson Dickson,
who died on December 28 at his
home on the Savannah Road, were
held from St. Patrick’s Church,
the Rev. J. Joseph Malloy officiat
ing. '
A native of Chicago. Mr. Dick
son moved to Augusta half a cen
tury ago and had made his home
here since that time.
Mr. Dickson is survived by three
sons. William J. Dickson. Colum
bus, Ohio; C. ”/. Dickson, Augusta;
and B. H. Dickson, Blanchester,
Ohio; three daughters, Mrs. A. II.
Scott, Mrs. Nancy E. Feutral and
Mrs. C. B. Thurmond. Augusta;
fifteen .grandchildren, five great
grandchildren, and several nieces
and nephews. His wife. Mrs. Vena
Shelton Dickson, died some years
ago.
Father Thomas Maher Is Subject of Article
Appearing in Hat)al Hospital Publication
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Lieut.
Thomas F. Maher, chaplain at
the U. S. Naval Hospital in
Charleston, was the subject
of an article entitled “ Meet the
Chaplain” which appeared in a
recent issue of “The Anodyne."
which is published every pav
day for distribution to the
patients and staff of the Naval
hospital here. The article read
as follows:
Father Thomas Francis Maher
Lt. Comdr. (ChC), USNR, has
made himself well-known to the
personnel of this hospital, both
by his cheery greetings, arid his
sterling abilities as a padre. He
has devoted himself not only to
the religious welfare, but to those
secular matters that in the Navy
are best handled by the chaplain,
with unceasing vigor and good
humor. What with the Christmas
season fast approaching, and his
duties thereby increased, we
think it appropriate that you . . .
meet the chaplain.
Father Maher was born in Au
gusta, Georgia, in 1900. He at
tended St. Stanislaus College,
Macon, Ga., and Mt. St. Michael's
in Spokane, Wash. His theological
training was received abroad at
the College de St. Augustine,
Belgium, and College de St.
Acheul, Amien, France. His mas
ter of arts degree was received
from Gonzaga College, also in
Spokane.
Father Maher is a member of
the Society of Jesus, the so-called
Jesuit order. Prior to his duty in
the Navy, he served as an instruc
tor in English and puolic speak
ing at Loyola University, where
he plans to return after his ser
vice is ended. He was the first
Navy chaplain appointed directly
to this hospital.
The chaplain entered the Navy
on 2 September- 1942, r.r.d has
served at the Brooklyn Navy Hos
pital as well as stations through
out the Third Naval District. He
saw sea duty aboard a troop trans
port and has made teven trips
overseas, during which time his
ship carried varied services, in
cluding soldiers, Marines, Red
Cross workers and prisoners-of-
war.
Chaplain Maher maintains that
at least half of a chaplain’s duties
are not merely non-sectarian, but
non-religious. As a case in point
he tells of last Christmas-time,
whc-n he was stationed at Nav-Sec
Base, Okracroke, N. C. An officer
came to him, despairing of a prob
lem he was faced with. lie in
sisted that he could not think of
a solution, and begged the chap
lain's help. The chaplain offered
his advice and it was accepted.
The problem? What was the man
to get as a Christmas present for
his wife!
During his time aboard the
transport, Chaplain Maher ad
ministered impartially to many,
many thousands of men, includ
ing POW’s, for a chaplain must
not discriminate. He was also
in charge of recreation during the
voyages, and every day he had
to arrange one show alt and one
forward, in order not io disturb
the balance of the heavily loaded
ship. He remembers grimly, one
night, when a torpedo aimed for
his ship plowed into another, and
he was forced to watch-the ship
that had saved his, go down.
One of the chaplain’s hardest
duties is vo detect who has a
serious problem, and who is try-
inug merely to “put one over.”
The chaplain has assumed respon
sibilities in many cases where he
felt the man was right, and in do
ing so he maintained the high rep
utation enjoyed by the entire
Chaplain Corps. He feels that
the war has not radically harmed
religion, believing that those who
are church-goers will remain so
and that there is little he can do
towards influencing the others.
However, he feels that many men,
turning to God in their most aw
ful moments of need, will reflect
more upon religion at their leis
ure.
Adept at tennis (he won a col
lege championship) the chaplain
also spends muen time outdoors,
hunting and fishing.
Early in November. Father
Maher received a well-earned pro-
mot : on to Lieutenant Commander
Well-earned, for his sympathetic,
human approach has made him an
outstanding member of an out
standing service, the Chaplain
Corps of the United Slates Navy.
BEQUEST MADE TO
ATLANTA HOSPITAL
ATLANTA, Ga.—Tile will of
the late John A. Brice, president
of The Atlanta Journal, which has
been filed for probate in the
office of the Ordinary of Fulton
County, contains among other
charitable bequests, one of $500
to St. Joseph's Infirmary, operat
ed here by 111 1 Sisters of Mercy.
WHEN THE POPE SAYS ALL
He doesn't mean a few
| Do you know what Pius
XII recently said to the
laity? Do you know how
he emphasized your obli
gation to work hard and
constantly to build up the
Church? Here are his
words:
"We desire that all,
who claim the Church as
their
AT NCCS CLUB IN COLUMBIA—Pictured above is the altar which was erected at the USO Club op
erated by the .National Catholic Community Service in Columbia, where Midnight Mass was celebrated
at Christmas in order to accomodate the overflow congregation which was not able to secure admit
tance to nearby St. Peter’s Church which was filled to its capacity at the Midnight Mass. The tem
porary altar on the stage of the auditorium of the USO-NCCS Club, was arranged and decorated by
the Rev. Leon Hubacz, assistant pastor of St. Peter’s Church.—(Photo by Munn—Sergeant Studio).
Mother, should seriously consider
that not only the sacred ministers
and those who have consecrated
themselves to God in religious
life, but the other members as
well of the Mystical Body of
Christ, have the obligation of
working hard and constantly for
the upbuilding and increase of
ibis body." ‘
That this desire of the Vicar of
Christ on earth is not being car
ried out in our times is one of the
Church’s greatest handicaps.
Are you merely sitting on the
sidelines, watching the onward
movement of the Church? Then
Pius XI was speaking of you
when he said: "They should be
told what many of the faithful
still do not know, that the apos-
tolate is one of the duties inher
ent in Christian life."
This is really a responsibility
which should smite your
conscience. According to
your capacity, you have
the work of the Church
to do, whoever you are,
wherever you ! are.
Perhaps you have been
dimly and vaguely aware
of this. Perhaps you did
not know what to do or how to
start. Perhaps you tried, but your
efforts were unsuccessful and
short-lived. What you need is a
definite, workable plan.
If you arc a confirmed Catholic
who is willing to develop a loving
zeal for Christ’s "other sheep” ind
to permit yourself to be trained
in the simple essentials necessary
for conducting your own aposto-
late among those whom you meet,
with whom you live and work,
we can help you. Simply write
and ask for the Plan of the One
Fold Movement.
You assume no obligations,
financial or otherwise. Your sole
obligation is that which you al
ready owe as a Christian to the
Good Shepherd and His "other
sheep”.
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