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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JULY 27, 194G
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Father Harold Gaudin, S. ]., of Macon
Conducts Retreat for Georgia Laymen
(Special to The Bulletin)
WASHINGTON, Ga.—Seventy-
five Catholic laymen, from north
and central Georgia, attended the
twenty-sixth annual Retreat held
under the auspices of the Retreat
Section of the Catholic Laymen's
Asociation of Georgia, held at St.
Joseph’s Home here, July 19-21,
with Father Harold A. Gaudin, S.
J„ pastor of St. Joseph’s Church,
Macon, as Rclreatmaster.
The retreatants were: James B.
Mulherin, W. A. Lyons, William
Webster, Robert Bresnahan, Jr.,
J. Noel Schweers. Jr., James L.
Grogan, Jack Arthur, Albert A.
Rice. Andrew N. Thompson. Miles
A. O’Connor, Ivan Parker, II, E. J.
O’Connor, P. H. Thompson, W. J.
Heffernan, Jerry E. Lyons, J. P.
McAuliffe, W. H. Dimmock. John
W. Burke, A. V. Kirsch, H. Gould
Barrett. J. Tobin Barrett, J. Ed
ward Sheahan, Jr., Charles C.
Chesser, Peter McManus, John P.
Mulherin, Thomas William Brit-
tingliam. Louis J. O’Connell, Dr.
M. J. O’Brien. Edward A. Shee
han. John Chesser, William A.
Faughnan, John L. Armstrong,
and W. A. Nevins. Augusta.
Charles Anton Moran, Dan Sut
ter. William H. Shelton, Lewis
Van R Smith, Thomas J. Gilmore,
Dwight L. Hollowell, Claud H.
Shirley, W. A. Brand, Richard M.
Kane, Matt Carroll, J. Clayton
Burke, William H. Schroeder,
Furman Smith. William E. Grabbe,
Thomas W. Duffy, Sam J. Martin,
J. B. McCallum, Bernard J. Kane,
Everett Wrigley, Hughes Spalding,
Jr., and Harvey Hill, Atlanta.
Martin J. Callaghan, Charles
Le H. Adams, Sr., Walter Wilson,
Cosby W. Smith, Charles W. Well
er, W. Russell Burke, J. P. Mc-
Goldrick, John J. McCreary, John
C. Garvin, Robert F. Wynne,
Jesse R. Cheves. W. J. O’Shaugh-
nessy, Augustin Daly, Thomas Mc-
Goldrick, Harry J. Bernhardt, M.
L. Connelly. Macon; Neil Edward
Shay, Marietta, Dr. T. H. McIIat-
ton. Athens, A. J. Opperman.
Americus, Leo Fahy, Rome, and
Reginald W. Hatcher, Milledge-
ville. ,
At a meeting held at the close
of the Retreat, James B. Mulherin,
of Augusta, was re-elected chair
man of the Retreat Section of the
Laymen’s Association. Local chair
men selected were Martin J. Cal
laghan. Macon; Norman J. Wrig
ley, Atlanta. Miles J. O’Connor,
Augusta, Henry J. Murphy, Co
lumbus. Fred Wiggins. Albany,
Dr. T. II. McHatton, Athens, Reg-
inal Hatcher, Milledgeville, and
Leo Fnliy, Rome.
At their meeting, the retreatants
adopted a number of resolutions
which were presented by a com
mittee which was headed by John
J. McCreary, of Macon, as chair
man. and included Dr. T. H. Mc
Hatton, Athens; Thomas J. Gil
more. Atlanta; A. V. Kirsch, Au
gusta, Neil Edward Shay, Marietta,
Re,\ ! nald Hatcher, Milledgeville.
Among the resolutions adopted
were the following:
RESOLVED-—That at this, the
26th Retreat for men, under the
auspices of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia, and the
16th year at St. Joseph’s Home, in
Washington, we thank Almighty
God for the many blessing we
have received from Him and for
this opportunity to do His will. It
has been a most beneficial and
salutary experience for all of us.
God willing, we shall persevere in
our determination- to make these
Retreats annually, and spread the
practice among others in our
parishes at home.
We note with gratification the
presence here of many newcomers,
making their first Retreat with us.
and we are particularly pleased
that many of them are of the
younger generation. To all of them
w: offer a hearty welcome and
gladly add their names to our
permanent roll. As years pass, it
will be their responsibility to pro
mote the growth of the Retreat
movement in their parishes and in
the Diocese, a duty which we are
confident they will discharge with
devotion and credit.
RESOLVED: That we commend
to our new retreatants the Union
of Prayer established at our first
Retreat in 1921, through which
each retreatant shall include in his
prayers every night, one Our Fath
er, three Hail Marys and a Glory
Be to the Father, for the intention
of a happy death and that the souls
of our departed fellow retreatants
and retreat-masters may rest in
peace.
We are saddened by the absence
of our companions of former years,
actively identified with the Retreat
movement, who since our 1945
meeting have received their sum
mons for our Creator. We offer
our prayers for the repose of the
souls of James L. Gillespie, of At
lanta: David 1,. Lewis, of Atlanta;
Joseph II. McNeill, of Augusta,
and Sister Mary Genevieve Laffer-
ty. of the Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet.
We ask for health and strength
to those absent retreatants who
from illness were prevented from
being with us in body, though we
are confident that they were with
us in spirit.
RESOLVED; That we whole
heartedly endorse and support the
work of the St. Vincent de Paul
Society in the several parishes of
this Diocese and their efforts to
make the feastday of their patron a
day of special devotion in those
parishes.
That our usual Retreat dates
may not conflict with the annual
observance of the Feast of St. Vin
cent de Paul, we recommend that
hereafter our annual Retreat will
begin on the Friday which may fall
on. or next following, the tenth day
of July in each year.
RESOLVED: That we avail our
selves of this opportunity to record
again our devotion and loyalty to
our belived Bishop, His Excellency
and Most Reverend Gerald P.
O’Hara, D. D., J. U. D., of Savan-
nah-Atlanta, and we assure him of
our prayers for the success of his
mission on behalf of the Holy See.
RESOLVED: That we are over
whelmed again by the kindness
and attentions showered upon us
during this Retreat by Father John
Crean, the director; the Sisters of
St. Joseph of Carondelet, and their
charges, the boys of St. Joseph’s
Home. We realize the unusual
burden that becomes theirs during
the days of our annual Retreat,
even when conditions arc most
favorable, and now, as in recent
years, we know that they are be
set with many problems that are
not easy to solve.
We beg them to accept our
heartfelt gratitude for all they
have done for us, as we on our part
endeavor to find means of lighten
ing their burden and making less
difficult their tasks when, please
God, we hold our twenty-seventh
annual Retreat.
Our suggestion is that considera
tion be given to placing a limit on
the number of retreatants, and
conducting, if possible, two or
more Retreats during the same
year if necessary to accommodate
all who wish to attend.
RESOLVED; That all of us who
have made this Retreat have been
given opportunity to receive im
measurable graces and blessings
from Almighty God, to Whom we
have been led and guided by our
zealous retreatmaster, Father
Harold A. Gaudin, of the Society
of Jesus.
We assure Father Gaudin that
we will ever remember his counsel,
ills sympathy, his encouragement
and his cheer, during these few
days, as we hope that he, too, will
hold this Retreat in pleasant recol
lection.
We ask Almighty God to shower
on Father Gaudin an abundance of
His choicest blessings, that his
harvest of souls will become in
creasingly rich and bountiful.
Construction Begins on
Sacred Heart Church at
Monroe, North Carolina
WADESBORO, N. C. — Ground
has been excavated and material
is being placed for the erection
of Wadesboro's first Catholic
church, which will be built on
the comer of South Rutherford
and West Morgan streets, adjacent
to the main business district.
The lot and the building are
the gift of Mrs. James D. Horne
and her daughters, Mrs. George
W. Little, Mrs. S. H. Sutherland,
Miss Elizabeth Home and Miss
Virginia Horne. Plans for the
structure have been executed by
James A. Malcomb, of Charlotte,
and J. S. Stearns, of Monroe, is
the contractor.
To be dedicated to the Sacred
Heart of Jesus, the new church
will be of brick, in English coun
try style, and will measure 69 by
25 feet.
Wadesboro has numbered Cath
olics in its population since the
time of General Atlas J. Dargan,
who died in 1883, and there are
quite a few Catholics here at the
present time. For a number of
years Mass was offered here in
private homes, but for the past
four years Mass has been offered
in the chapel of the Moore Fu
neral Home.
Wadesboro is served by the Fa
thers of Mercy, from Our Lady
of Lourdes Church in Monroe,
where Father James F. Ilurson,
S. P; M.. is the pastor.
Heads Albany
Parish Committee
ROBERT E. McCORMACK
Under the able leadership of
Robert E. McCormack, the mem
bers of St. Theresa’s parish in
Albany. Ga., conducted a most
successful campaign last year to
raise a fund of $100,000 toward
the construction of a new church,
a new school, a new convent and
a new rectory. Work of construc
tion on the project will begin
when building conditions are
more favorable than they are at
present.
Additions to Faculty
of Marist College
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga.—Father Ray
mond Healy, S. M., returns to
Marist College this year as a
member of the faculty after re
ceiving his M. A. degree in Eng
lish at the Catholic Univrsity of
America in Washington.
Father John, Redmond, S. M.,
M. A., J. C. L., will also be.added
to the faculty of Marist College
this year. Father Redmond has
been teaching Canon Law and
Theology at the Marist College in
Washington, D. C.
Father Thomas Hughes, S. M.,
who was ordained this month, and
Father John Emerick, S. M., for
merly assistant pastor of St. Jo
seph's Church, Buckhannon, W.
Va., have been appointed assis
tants to the Very Rev. Edward P.
McGrath, S. M„ pastor of the
Sacred Heart Church in Atlanta.
MARIST COLLEGE GRADUATE
WINS HARVARD SCHOLARSHIP
ATLANTA, Ga.—James Markle,
who graduated from Marist Col
lege with the class of 1946, has
been awarded and accepted a
scholarship at Harvard University.
Mr. Markie is a member of the
parish of the Cathedral of Christ
the King. He was major of the
R. O. T. C. battalion at Marisl
last year, class president, co-cap-
tain of the football team, and had
the leading role in the dramatic
production at the college.
SISTERS OF ST* JOSEPH
CLOSING BOYS’ SCHOOL
AT SHARON, GEORGIA
(Special to The Bulletin)
WASHINGTON, a.—The Sacred
Heart Seminary, an elementary
school for boys, which has been
conducted here for nearly seventy
years by the Sisters of St. Joseph,
will not be re-opened with the
beginning of the school year this
fall, and the property is being
advertised for sale.
In 1878, Father James O’Brien,
of blessed memory, who was
then pastor of St. Joseph’s Church
and director of St. Joseph’s Home,
in Washington, asked the Sisters
of St. Joseph to aid him in estab
lishing a school at Sharon.
Mother Clemence agreed and
the school for boys was opened
with Sister Frances as superior,
and four Sisters from St. oJseph’s
Academy, the girls’ school in
Washington, were sent to Sharon
to teach in the new school.
During its long life, boys from
all parts of the Uinted States,
and some from other lands, re
ceived their early education at the
school in Sharon, which was
located close to the site of one of
the first Catholic churches to be
erected in Georgia, for it was in
this vicinity that a colony of
Catholics from Maryland settled
at Locust Grove in 1796.
It is understood that the Sis
ters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
will use the funds derived from
the sale of the school at Sharon
toward the establishment of a new
parochial school somchere else
in Georgia.
Fellow Chaplain Tells of Death on
Jap Prison Ship of Father Zerfas,
Once Army Chaplain at Penning
(Special to The Bulletin)
MILWAUKEE, Wis. — A post
script to the last chapter in the
life of Father Matthias Zerfas,
priest of the Archdiocese of Mil
waukee, who lost his life while
serving as an’Army chaplain, was
added recently when Archbishop
Moses E. Kiley, of Milwaukee, re
ceived a letter from Father John
Duffy, the Army chaplain who
administered last Sacraments to
Father Zerfas.
In his letter to Archbishop Ki
ley. Father Duffy wrote: “Father
Matt was one of the five hundred
of us who were in the forward
hold of a Japanese’ prison ship in
Tacao Bay, Formosa, when we
were attacked by U. S. Naval air
planes on the morning o! 1 January
9, 1945. Three bombs landed in
this hold and about two hundred
and fifty were killed outright.
“Father Matt had his left leg
practically blown off at the knee.
He was in great agony and suffer
ing from shock. After administr-
nig the Saoraments to him. with
the help of a couple of others, I
moved him to a clearing where
we covered him with the rags we
salvaged from the dead to try to
warm him as he was chilled and
shaking badly.
“Only God will know the tor--
lure that Father Matt endured.
I’m sure none of the early mar
tyrs in Nero’s arena suffered
more and endured- it more pa
tiently and more manly.
"Father Zerfas died about dusk
on the evening of January 11,
and we had to put him over with
the other bodies. On the 13th, the
dead were taken from this hold
and buried in a common grave on
the beaches of Tacao Bay.
“No chaplain was allowed to go
ashore with the dead, but some of
the detail who took care of the
interment told me that the spires
of the Catholic church in Tacao
could be seen from the place
Where they laid him. I think God
took a great liking to him and
wanted him for his own.”
Father Duffy referred to Fa
ther Zerfas’ many converts. “He
had a way with converts and his
converts were always as solid as
the Church. In my opinion, he was
one of the outstanding priests on
Bataan. He was a great credit to
the Church, his own Diocese of
•Milwaukee and its priesthood, his
parents, his state and the nation
. . I hope his priesthood will
long be remembered in the Dio
cese of Milwaukee."
Father Zerfas was one of eight
Catholic chaplains who died
while being transported as prison
ers of war on a Japanese ship. He
has been previously reported as
“detained by the enemy” after the
fall of Bataan and Corregidor.
Born in Twin Lakes, Wis., in
1908, he was ordained in 1934. He
was assistant pastor of St. Mary’s
Church Fond du Lac, Wis., when
he entered the Army Chaplain
Corps. He was commissioned as a
first lieutenant in May, 1940, and
for some months was stationed at
Fort Benning, Ga.
BOOK REVIEWS
By EILEEN HALL
THE QUIET MAN, By Patrick
Purcell, (Putnam), $2.50, May
selection of the Catholic Book
Club.
There were three distinct epochs
in the life of Peter O’Dea after he
came to Carriglca from County
Clare to be assistant schoolmaster.
The reputation of “Old King
Coady" reached him before he ar
rived at the home of the school
master, Jer Coady, confirmed
bachelor and ’ardent Fenian—and
the reputation was a trifle alarm
ing to a quiet man like Peter
O’Dea.
But the two lived .together,
taught together, entertained a
strange array of friends together
for more than 10 years. They be
came the best of friends and part
ed only when Jer Coady insisted
that his quiet assistant now ruled
him, the renowned “King of Car-
riglea,” and retired in spite of
Peter’s remonstrances.
Thresa Fogarty wasn’t the first'
girl to set a pretty cap for -Peter,
but she was the one who really
captured his heart not long after
Jer Coady left. “Good Queen Tess’
transformed the erstwhile bache
lor’s home, materially and spirit
ually, though the old friends con
tinued to gather around Peter
O’Dea’s hearth just as before Jer
Coady left. Tess reigned there for
only five years, when the post-
World War 1 influenza epidemic
claimed her among its victims.
But she left Peter a son, young
Markie.
Markie O’Dea,' the “Heir Ap
parent,” filled Peter’s life from
then on. Peter insisted on raising
the youngster himself, and raise
him he did—but with his full
share of the problems, heartaches
and pleasures any parent ex
periences in seeing his child grow
to manhood.
Patrick Purcell, author of “Han-
rahan’s Daughter,” which was also
a Catholic Club selection about
two years ago, has told an intrigu
ing story of modern Ireland—a
story which delightlully surprises
the reader who scans the first
few pages dubiously. The charac
ters are human and endearing, and
the breath of Erin soon surrounds
you with a delicious magic that is
almost nostalgic if you ever had
so much as one Irish ancestor cn
your family tree.
“The Challenge of World Com
munism,” by Hamilton Fish, and
“After Hitler Stalin?” by Robert
Ingrim .two books which throw
further light upon the nature and
scope of communist activities in
America, are being brought out
currently by the Bruce Publishing
Company in Milwaukee.
Written by the former present-
tative from New York who for 15
years was chairman of a special
House committee to investigate
tlie workings of communists within
the United Ctatcs, “The Challenge
of World Communism” presents,
in easily comprehensible fashion,
the most pertinent of the docu
ments the author was able to ob
tain, plus the knowledge and opin
ion of fpreign affairs experts. It
is an expression of Mr. Fish’s* be
lief that “communism is genuine
democracy’s most insidious and
dangerous foe, as it is the enemy
of all free institutions.”
“After Hitler Stalin?" is the
product of an Austrian journalist
and foreign correspondent, Dr.
Franz Klein, who writes under the
name of Robert Ingrim. It is an
evaluation of European politics,
written by a man who was expell
ed from both Berlin and Rome for
his pre-war anti-nazi writings. Pub
lication date for this book has
been set as July 30.
The initial volume ’ in the se
ries, ‘‘Ancient Christian Writers,"
translations into English of the
patristic literature of the early
Church, is now available under
the title, “The Epistles of St.
Clement of Rome arid St. Igna
tius of Antioch,” Father John
Quasten, J. C. D., and Father Jos
eph C, Plumpe, Ph.D., of the
School of Sacred Theology at the
Catholic University of America,
co-editors, have announced.
“The appearance of this first
volume of the series,” the editors
state, “opens to the English
speaking world a monumental
collection of the works of the Fa
thers translated and edited under
Catholic auspices. Comprising as
it does, the oldest patristic docu
ments which Christianity pos
sesses, the volume also marks a
logical beginning of the series.
Here a Roman Pope at the end of
the first century wrote to put an
end to difficulties harassing far
away Christian community. Here
a Syrian Bishop came from the
Far East, to bear witness and to
die for his Lord Jesus Christ
where Peter and Paul died for
Him. Here Roman authority
meets Eastern Mysticism, and
concern for the unity of the
Church joins concern for the pres
ervation of her Apostolic doc
trine."
A SPECIAL COMMENDATION,
signed by Secretary of the Navy
James Forrestal. has been receiv
ed by the University of Notre
Dame in recognition of the part
played by the University in the
Navy V-12 program during World
War II. During the tenure of the
naval training station at Notre
Dame, more than 2,200 graduated
from the V-12 program. More than
12,200 men attended the Navy I
midshipman school, 9,099 were
commissioned in the Naval Re
serve, 290 in the Marines.