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TIIE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JULY 27, 1946
•‘World Unity Through Christ," was the theme of the- 21st biennial convention of the Catholic
Daughters of America, held in St, Louis. Pictured on that occasion, left to right: Miss Mary C.
Duffy, Supreme Regent; Bishop George J Donnelly, Auxiliary and Administrator of the Archdiocese
of St. Louis; Miss Frances M Maher, Kahe, Pa., Supreme Vice-Regent; Bishop William J. Hafey,
Scranton, National Chaplain; standing, Bishop Vincent S. Waters, Raleigh, Miss Eileen Egan, War
Relief Services—N. C. W. C., principal speaker. (NC Photos.)
Bishop Waters Dedicates Motor Chapel at
National Convention of Catholic Daughters
Catholic Daughters
Ask tor Firm Hand in
Dealing With Russia
ST. LOUIS. — Resolutions re
flecting the interest of the Catho
lic Daughters of America in reli
gion. education, social welfare,
and world affairs, were adopted
here bv the closing sessions of the
21st biennial national convention,
attended bv delegates from 45
states and Puerto Rico and Alas
ka.
All officers headed by Miss
Mary C. Duffy, South Orange. N.
J.. were reelected, and five new
directors were named to the
board. Associate officers with Miss
Duffy are Miss Frances M. Ma
her. Kane, Pa., supreme vice re
gent; Miss Katherine M. Rosney.
New York, secretary: Mrs. John
V. Ballard, Boston, treasurer, and
Mrs. Leonora Z. Meder, Chicago,
counsellor. New Board members
are Miss Marie Curry, Belle Rose,
N. Y.; Miss Katherine M. Madden,
North Quincy. Mass.; Miss Adele
Hitlgen. Sheboygan. Wis.. Miss
Margaret Buckley, Chevy Chase,
Md.. Mrs. Emma McIntosh. San
Deigo. Calif.. Mrs. Thomas uoyle.
Centralia, 111., was reelected to ti
board.
Presid. it Harry S. Truman and
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes, according to a resolution
adopted, are to be asked "to take
a firm hand in dealing with Rus
sia in the U. N. Council because
of its dictatorial attitude, which is
contrary to efforts for peace.” All
ot; ’r recommendation directed
that officials of the Department
of State and other government
agencies desist from their attacks
on I he government of Spain and
that Spain be allowed lo work out
its own internal problems without
interference.
The President and the Secre
tary of State are also lo be asked
to give consideration lo the ap
proximately 1.000 Polish refugees
now at Colonia Santa Rosa. Leon.
Mexico, who are stated to be able
to meet all legal requirements for
entry into the United Stales but
are unable to receive visas. It is
understood, according to the res
olution, that “these visas are be
ing frozen for the use of refugees
in Europe.” The resolution ex
pressed the hope that “the same
happy solution for this colony of
refugees be found as was found
for the 1.000 refugees at Port On
tario. Oswego, N. Y.. which was
satisfactorily closed through the
intervention of the President.”
A resolution requesting that ex
tra prayers be said at each Society
meeting for the conversion of Rus
sia and another commending and
pledging I lie support of the mem
bership in tile Maryville College
plan of organizing millions of pe
titions to the President of the
United States urging him to adopt
a praver to be recited bofoye each
session of the U. N. and other in
ternational conferences were also
adopted.
The delegates approved the
Wagner-Eliender Housing Bill op
posed the Murrav-Wagner-Dingell
public health hill, opposed also
the Equal Rights Amendment: de
plored the laxity of some citizens
who make no attemnt to have
their views heard in Washington
in contrast with the highly vocal
efforts of Leftists groups.
Anolher resolution directed to
the President of the United States
with the reouest that copies be
sent to tile Secretary of State and
the British ambassador, made ref
erence to the more than 1.000,000
displaced persons now in Itaiy,
Austria and Germany, who de-<
cline lo return to Jthe countries of
their origin for reasons of race,
religion or political beliefs and
who are being denied rights of
asylum and rights of freedom of
choice. The President is being
asked to exemplify the American
tradition of human freedom and
of help to destitute people by con-
Death in Savannah of
Sister Mary Elizabeth
SAVANNAH. Ga.—Sister Mary
Elizabeth Donelan, who was in her
seventy-second year as a Sister of
Mercy, died on July at 5 at St. Jo
seph’s Hospital.
Funeral services were held in
the chapel of St. Vincent’s Con
vent, Father George Daley offer
ing the Requiem Mass.
Sister Mary Elizabeth, formerly
Miss Kate Donelan, was born in
Savannah. February (i, 1856. She
attended St. Vincent Academy and
entered the noviatc of the Sisters
of Mercy on Decembre 26, 1874.
She pronounced her final vows on
February 2, 1877.
Her first mission as a .Sister of
Mercy was in Atlanta. Later she
returned to Savannah, where for
twenty-seven years she cared for
and taught the orphan girls at St.
Mary's Home. She next was sent
to Augusta, where she taught for
six years before coming back to
Savannah again.
In 19f>12 she was assigned to
the Immaculate Conception School
in Atlanta, where she was Supe
rior for thirteen years. In recent
years she has been at St. Vincent’s
Academy in Savannah.
Sister Mary Elizbcth was a mod
el of religious fervor and cheer
fulness througrout the long years
of her life as a Sister of Mercy.
Always gentle and amiable
with a sympathetic understanding
of youth, she endeared herself to
generations of Georgians. She
had seen Georgia develop through
tlie Reconstruction era and con
tributed to its welfare and culture
by her long and fruitful life.
Sister Mary Eiizabetli is sur
vived by a sister. MISs Dollie
Donelan, of Brunswick.
GEORGE MeNAUGHTON
DIES IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Funeral
services for George W. MoNaugli-
lon, of John's Island, who died
July 14. were held from the
Blessed Sacrament Church, Father
John Nedley, Congr. Orat., offi
ciating.
Mr. McNaughton is survived by
his wife, two daughters, a step
daughter; two sons a half-brother,
five sisters and forurteen grand
children.
A NEW orphanage in the Diocese
of Regensburg. Germany, called
Mother Cabrini Home, was offi
cially dedicated on July 7, the date
of the Saint’s canonization.
tinuing to supply basic needs of
displaced persons in an economy
where without help they would
perish. This same resolution rec
ommends that practical steps be
taken to re-settle these peoples in
other areas of the world where
they may renew their broken lives.
Representatives of Congress
were asked in another resolution
to use whatever legislative powers
may be required to secure from
the President of the United States
a proclamation setting asTde Good
Friday of every year as a national
holiday.
The society also recorded its
opposition to racism and anti-
Semitism. urged furtherance of
fair and just treatment of the
Negro, protested the parading of
“moral aberrations under the
guise of news” in the secular
pre-s. reaffirmed support of the
Catholic press and the Legion of
Decency, promised to spread the
social doctrines of the Papal
Encyclicals, pledged the main
tenance of family life ill accord
with religious principles, protest
ed the discrimination against non
public schools in the Thomas-Hill-
Taft Education bill, and asked the
blessing and protection of Al
mighty God upon the Holy Father.
Included in donations voted by
die convention was an allotment
of $2,000 towards rebuilding of
(be Home of the Good Shepherd
in Manila; $2,000 for the Catholic
Extension Society; $1,000 each
for the Oklahoma and North Car
olina missions.
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
ST. LOUIS. — In the fields of
charitable, religious and educa
tional programs, some 1.500
Courts of the Catholic Daughters
of America expended nearly $1,-
000.000 during the two-year pe
riod from August, 1943, to July,
1945, Miss Mary C. Duffy. Su
preme Regent, reported here at
the first business session of the
21st biennial national convention
of the organizatoin.
Miss Duffy stated that the re
ported expenditures came from
but 91 per cent of the Courts for
the two-year period and empha
sized that more than one-third of
the amount was spent for charita
ble projects. She said die expend
iture was the largest in the history
of the organization.
In the same period, Miss Duffy
reported the organization’s mem
bership was increased by 50,000
senior members, and the forma
tion of 77 new Junior Courts and
of 90 Juniorette Courts, which are
for girls from 10 to 12 years of
age.
Seveli Bishops attended the con
vention dinner, at which Miss
Eileen Egan, projects supervisor
of War Relief Services—National
Catholic Welfare Conference, was
the principal speaker. The pre
lates were Bishops Wiliam J. Ha
ley, of Scranton, Vincent S. Wa
ters of Raleigh; Frank A. Thill of
Salina; Eugene J. McGuinness,
Coadjutor.of Oklahoma City and
Tulsa; George J. Donnelly. Aux
iliary and Administrator of St.
Louis; William O. O'Brien, Auxil
iary of Chicago, and Albert L.
Fletcher Auxiliar of Little Rock.
Outstanding services by the C.
D. of A. as a “war and post-war
agency of mercy” were lauded by
Miss Egan, who expressed die
appreciation of Msgr. Patrick A.
O’Boyle, executive director of War
Relief Services. She recalled that
more than 1,000 cases of infants
and children’s clothes in addition
to large sums of money were do
nated by Courts of the Catholic
Daughters to War Relief Services
for the aid of the needy in war
devastated nations.
Bishop Hafey, who is national
chaplain of the C. D. of A., deliv
ered the sermon on the theme
“World Unity Through Christ” at
the Solemn Pontifical Mass which
was offered by Bishop Donnelly
at the Cathedral of St. Louis and
attended by the delegates.
- Among the principal speakers
at the convention sessions were
Bishops Thill, Waters, O’Brien.
McGuinness and Fletcher and
Msgr. John O'Gra’dy, secretary of
die National Conference of Cath
olic Charities; Msgr. Harry E.
Slitz. Editor of the St. Louis Reg
ister, and Msgr. Leo Stock. Arcli-
dioeesan rural life director.
A highlight of die convention
was die • blessing by Bishop Wa
ters, Episcopal Chairman of the
Converts League of the Catholic
Daughters of America, and die
dedication of "The Queen of
Peace” motor trailer, donated by
the Catholic Daughters to the
Paulist Mission Band to be used
as a chapel car in the rural areas
of Texas. The trailer, which is
•a memorial to Father Francis P.
Lyons, C. S. P., founder of the
first Convert League program in
Washington, D. C.. was turned
over to Father A. J. Burggraff, C.
S. P,. national moderator of the
C. D. of A. Convert League, who
made a brief address of accept
ance, citing the important role
that the trailer chapels have filled
in the work for converts in die
rural areas.
A resolution was presented at
die convention requesting the or
ganization to adopt the. motor
chapel project as another phase
of the Convert League program.
The league was begun in Wash
ington as a local project but now
lias developed into a national de
partment, spreading to forty-five
States, Puerto Rico, the Canal
Zoen and Alaska. It has brought
nearly 3,000 persons into the
Church, according to Miss Flor
ence M. Winter, national director
ol the league and herself a con
vert.
At the first business session of
die convention, it was announced
that a denation of $1,000 had been
made by the C. D. A. to the Rev.
Patrick C. Peyton, C. S. C., of
Albany, to aid in the promotion
of the Daily Family Rosary Cru
sade. A resolution was adopted
asuring Father Peyton of the
support of the organization’s en
tire membership in his Crusade.
In an° address at the business
meeting, Bishop llafey emphasiz
ed dial there is nothing new about
conversions to the Catholic Faith
from among those rightly termed
intellectuals. Such conversions
have been going on constantly
ever since the three Wise Men
made their pilgrimage to Bethle
hem. lie said.
AFTER RECORDING them
selves in favor of unwavering op
position to communism in the
United States, delegates to the
63rd national convention of the
Aticient Order of Hibernians, held
in Syracuse, N. Y., elected Michael
A. McGrath, of Cleveland, as their
national president.
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