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Vol. XXVI1. No. 3 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES AUGUS'lA, GEORGIA, MARCH 30, 1946
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New Domestic Prelates
MONSIGNOR MANLEY
The Right' - Rev. Msgr. John P.
Manley, formerly pastor of St.
Joan of Arc Church, Asheville, N.
C., now Director of the Home Mis
sion A postdate of the Diocese of
Raleigh, who has been made a
Domestic Prelate, with the dignity
and title of Right Reverend Mon
signor by His Holiness Pope
Pius XII.
MONSIGNOR McNERNEY
The Right Rev. Msgr. Peter Mc-
Nerney, formerly pastor of Our
Lady of Perpetual Help Church,
Rocky Mount, N. £., now Assistant
Director of the' Home Mission
A postdate of the Diocese of Ral
eigh, who has been elevated to
the dignity of a Domestic Prelate
by His Holiness Pope Pius XII.
Financial Committee of North Carolina
Home Missionary Apostolate Appointed
by Bishop Waters of Raleigh Diocese
Monsignor McNerney, Father John Manley
Created Domestic Prelates by Holy Father,
Formally Invested by Bishop of Raleigh
(Special to The Bulletin)
RALEIGH, N. C. — The Most
Rev. Vincent S. Waters, D. D.,
Bishop of Raleigh, has announce!
the establishment of a financial
committee of the Home Mission
ary Apostolate of North Carolina,
with the Right Rev. Monsignor
John P. Manley, formerly pastor
of St. Joan of Arc Church, Ashe
ville, as director, and the Right
Rev.' Msgr. Peter McNerney, for
merly pastor of Our Lady of Per
petual Help Church, Rocky
Mount, as assistant director. The
Rev. John A. Brown, pastor of the
Sacred Heart Church, Pinehurst,
has been appointed treasurer.
In describing the purpose of
this committee. Bishop Waters
stated that in future all collet; |
lions taken up outside of the Dio
cese for secular parishes will
come under this committee, and
that when funds collected are of
sufficient amount they will be |
made available, without interest
charges, for the building and ex
pansion of the physical property
of the Diocese.
Bishop Waters recommended
the success of the work of (his
committee and the Home Mis-!
sionary Apostolate to the prayers
of the clergy and laity of the Dio- i
cese, “so that, unhampered by
financial matters, each priest may
give himself more completely to
the apostolate for souls.’’
(Special to The Bulletin)
RALEIGH, N. C. — With im
pressive ceremony, at the Cathe
dral of the Sacred Heart, on the
evening of March 10, the Most
Rev. Vincent S. Waters, D. D.,
Bishop of Raleigh, formally invest
ed as Domestic Prelates, with the
dignity of title of Right Reverend
Monsignor, the Very Rev. Msgr.
Peter N. McNerney. formerly pas
tor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Church, Rocky Mount, and the
Rev. John P. Manley, former pas
tor of St. Joan of Arc Church,
West Asheville.
The sermon at the investiture
ceremony was delivered by the
Right Rev. Msgr. Arthur R. Free
man, P. A., Vicar General of the
Diocese of Raleigh, and pastor of
St. Patrick’s Church, Charlotte.
Immediately following the in
vestiture, Bishop Waters was cele
brant of Solemn Benediction of
the Blessed Sacrament, with the
Rev. John Regan as deacon; the
Rev. Patrick Gallagher, subdea
con. and the Rev. John A. Brown,
of Pinehurst, master of ceremo
nies. Present in the sanctuary
were the Right Rev. Msgr. Dennis
A. Lynch. Chancellor of the Dio
cese of Raleigh, the Right Rev.
Msgr. Michael A. Irwin, of New
Bern, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. Len
nox Federal, rector of the Cathe
dral, and about thirty priests of
the Diocese of Raleigh.
Monsignor Manley was recently
appointed by Bishop Waters as
Director of the Home Mission
Apostolate of the Diocese of Ral
eigh, and at the same time ap
pointed Monsignor McNerney as
assistant director of the Home
Mission Apostolate.
Monsignor Manley was ordain
ed to the priesthood in 1922. He
first served as assistant to Monsig
nor Freeman, who was then pas
tor of St. Mary’s Church in
Goldsboro.
In 1927, Monsignor Manley was
made the first pastor of St. The
resa’s Church in Wilson, and in
1929 was made first pastor of St.
Edward’s Church, High Point. In
1930. he became director of the
Catholic Orphanage at Nazareth,
and in 1940 was appointed pastor
of St Joan of Arc Church. West
Asheville.
Monsignor Manley has resign
ed as pastor of the parish in
Asheville to devote full timp to
his new assignment as Director of
the Diocesan Home Mission Apos-
lolale.
Mon-ignor McNerney, who has
been appointed assistant director
of the financial committee of the
Home Mission Apostolate of North
Carolina, was born in County
Longford. Ireland, on April 12.
1904. He attended the National
Schools and St. Mary’s Apostolic
Seminary, in County Longford,
and graduated from St. Peter’s
College, Wexford, Ireland, lie
completed his theological study
at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary.
Kinmilsburg, Maryland, and was
ordained in May, 1929, at the
Cathedral in Raleigh, by the Most
Rev. William J. Tlafey. first Bishop
of Raleigh, now Bi hop of Scran
ton.
Following his ordination, he
was appointed assistant pastor at
St. Lawrence ’Church, Asheville,
and also served as chaplain at St.
Joseph’s ’Hospital in that city. In
1930. he was made assistant pas
tor of SI. Benedict’s Church.
Greensboro, and in May, 1931 was
appointed pastor of Holy Trinity
Church in Kinston, where he re
mained until June, 1933, when he
was appointed the first pastel of
St. John the Baptist Church,
Roanoke Rapids. In October, 1937,
he was appointed pastor of Our
Lady of Perpetual Help Church,
Rocky Mount.
In January. 1938, the Most Rev.
Eugene J. McGuinness, then Bish
op of Raleigh, appointed him a
member of the Board of Diocesan
Consultors. and in December,
1940, he was named Vicar Forane
of the Rocky Mount Deanery.
Four years ago, His Holine.-s
Pope Pius XII elevated Fa'ber
McNerney to the dignity of a
Papal Chamberlain, with the title
of Very Reverend Monsignor.
In order that Monsignor Mc
Nerney may devote full time a d
efforts to the work of the Home
Mission Apostolate, he has been
relieved of his parochial duly m
Rocky Mount.
The honors accorded by the
Holy Father to Monsignor .McNer
ney and Monsignor Manley, bri-gs
the number of Monsignori now m
the Diocese of Raleigh to let: the
Right Rev. Msgr. Arthur R. 1
man. P. A , Vicar General of the
Diocese and pastor of St. Patrick’s
Church. Charlotte; the Right Rev.
Msgr. Dennis A. Lynch. Chancel
lor of the Diocese; the Right lev.
Msgr. William F. O’Brien, ol Dur
ham; the Right Rev. Michael A.
Irwin, of New Bern; the Very Rev.
J. Lennox Federal, of Raleigh: the
Very Rev. Louis F. Bour, of Ashe
ville: the Very Rev. Cornelius E.
Murphy, of Wilmington, and the
Very Rev. Hugh A. Dolan, of
Greensboro. having previously
been given that distinction.
Committee on Christian Heme and Family
Organized by Bishop Waters of Raleigh
Father George Dietz, Appointed
Resident Chaplain of St. Francis
Hospital in Greenville, S. C. •
(Speial to The Bulletin)
GREENVILLE, S. C.—The Rev.
Georg. J. Dietz, formerly pastor
of St. William Church, Ward, and
of the Immaculate Conception
Church, Edgefield, has been ap
pointed resident chaplain of St.
Francis Hospital, operated here by
the Sisters of the Poor of St.
Francis.
Father; Dietz, a native of Balti
more, attended Loyola College
and St. Mary Seminary. He was
ordained to the priesthood in 1918
by the late Cardinal Gibbons. Af
ter serving some time as assistant
rector of the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist in Charleston, he was
appointed assistant pastor of St.
Mary’s Church in Greenville, lat
er being transferred to Aiken,
where he was first assistant and
then pastor of St. Mary Help of
Christians Church.
Before beginning his study for
the priesthood, Father Dietz at
tended the Maryland Agricultural
College, where he specialized in
the study of soil, crops and ani
mal husbandry, so when he was
placed in charge of the rural mis
sion at Mine Creek, near Ward,
the members of his congregation
found that they could go to their
pastor to seek help in • solving
farm problems just as they sought
his adviec on religious problems.
During the war, Father Dietz,
who w a chemist, and a member
of the American Chemical Socie
ty, volunteered his services to the
chemical warfare branch of the
country’s armed forces. He also
served as ah auxiliary chaplain at
FATHER DIETZ
German prisoner of war camps.
Some months ago, Father Dietz
was seriously injured in an auto
mobile accident, and was for some
time a patient at St. Francis
Xavier Infirmary in 'Charleston,
where during his convalescence he
served temporarily as resident
chaplain.
lie is being welcomed in Green
ville where he made many friends
during the time he was attached
to St. Mary’s Church here.
(Continued ou page eight)
(Special to The Bulletin)
RALEIGH, N. C. — The Most
Rev. Vincent S. Waters. D. D..
Bishop of Raleigh, has organized
in the Diocese of Raleigh (he
Bishop’s Committee for Christian
Home and Family, which will be
composed of a group of Catholic
mothers, appointed by His Ex
cellency. to act as his messengers
in bringing to mothers the advice
of the Church in regard to the
Catholic education of their chil
dren during the formative years
before their children enter school.
The members of the committee
will already have completed the
rearing of their own families and
will bring to this work of Catholic
Action their own years of expe
rience.
Pope Pius XI declared in his
Encyclical on Christian Education
that the aim of Christian educa
tion is to ’’form a true and perfect
Christian who must live a super
natural life and display it in his
actions.’’ The Catholic mother
wants her children to leave her
when they grow up. said Bishop
Waters, “with not only a complete
knowledge of the Faith, but with a
character strong enough to live a
Catholic life in the -face of a
world which thinks only of pres
ent pleasure. Character is devel
oped in the Catholic home by the
Catholic mother and father fol
lowing the principles of the
Church.’’
“Religious education should be
gin as soon as the child is born,”
Bishop Waters continued. “A
great psychologist was approached
by the mother of a child of five
who wished to get some advice in
forming her child’s character. He
asked her how old the child was,
and when she told him, replied,
You'should have come to me five
year ago. It is too late now.’ In
the first six years of life the
background of character is indeli
bly formed. It is’ because of this
fact that we are so anxious to have
available for Catholic mothers all
of the principles of character
forming."
Among its many doctrines amj
counsels, the Church has some
which apply to mothers and fa-'
Ihers of children in their infancy.
The Bishop’s Committee for
Christian Home and Family is to
serve as the means Bishop Waters
has chosen to bring these teach
ings and counsels to the faithful ol'
his Diocese.
As soon as a child is born to
Catholic parents in the Diocese of
Raleigh, a member of the Bi-h
op’s Committee will call on the
mother and ask if she wishes to
obtain this service. If she does
wish it. the committee member
will list the name of the child and
the names of its parents. Later,
another member of the commit
tee will bring to the child a med
al blessed by the Bishop as a token
of its welcome into his flock. After
(hat, the committee member will
call every two or three months to
make a friendly visit and to bring
a pamphlet prepared by the Com
mittee under the direction of the
Bishop. The pamphlets Will be dif
ferent at each time and will be
adjusted to the age of the child at
the time the committee member
calls.
Services of a member of the
Committee will be available at any
other time, and she will be pre
pared to offer a solution to any
problem which may be presented
to her. If she does not know the
solution of the problem, she will
find it.
The members of the Committee
will serve without any hope of
material reward, will make no
charge whatever, and will refuse
any offering. They will also do
nate their time and use their own
automobiles for transportation.
The only other cost, that of print
ing the pamphlets, will be assum
ed by the Bishop.
A suggested list of books about
(he rearing of children has been
recommended for those who may
wish more information on the
iubjcct than would be con* ,1
in the pamphlets which are dis
tributed by the Committee. This
list includes titles such as. ‘ You
and Your Children,” by the Rev.
Paul Ilauly Fuifey. Ph D : “Com
mon Sense lor Mothers.” by Mrs.
John S. Ri'illey; "Tim \v r n - s
Family.” by Florence M. Horn-
back: “The House of Gold.” by
the Rev. Bed” Jarrctt, O. P. ;
"Safeguarding Children’s Nerve' ”
by James .1. VjJaLh M. D . <r.i 1
John A. Foote. M. D: ’‘Tvainiog
the Adolescent.” by the R >v.
Raphael C. McCarthy. S. f
“Safeguarding Mental Health." "by
the Rev. Raphael C. McCarthv, s.
J.: “Practical Psychology.” by
Vera Barclay:,"Parent and Child.”
by the Rev. * ? dear H. Schmeidler,
O. S. B.. and M Rose 'McDon
ough. and 'Social Problems of
Childhood.” by the Rev. Paul
Hanley Fuifey. Ph. D.
Copies of the volumes lisled are
available al Catholic hospitals in
the Diocese oT Raleigh, and are
obtainable from the lending li
brary of the hospital by patients.
Those desiring further infor
mation in regard to the Bishop's
Committee for Christian Home
and Family are asked to write to
Mrs. Wililam N. Berry. 2306 Co
lonial Avenue. Greensboro, N. C„
or to The Bishop's Committee for
Christian Home and Family. 15
North McDowell St.. Raleigh. N.
C.
LOUIS K. BUDENZ. who re
signed as managing editor of the
communist Daily Worker last fall
to rejoin the Catholic Church, is
writing a book explaining why lie
took this step and also describing
his experiences as a free-thinker
and a communist. Hr. Bud cm,
who became a member of the fac
ulty of the University of Notre
Dame shortly after his return
the Church, is living w n his con
vert wife and three daughters in
Souta tteud, Indiana.