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JULY 27, 1946
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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News Review of the Catholic World
dev. John Cavanaugh
Elected President of
Notre Dame University
NOTRE DAME, Ind.— Election
of the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh,
C. S. C., as President of the Uni
versity of Notre Dame for a
three-year term, starting imme-
i ately, was announced here by
the Rev. Thomas A. Steiner, C. S.
C., Provincial of the United States
Chapter of the Priests of the
Congregation of the Holy Cross,
tl-e religious older which' con
ducts Notre Dame.
Father Cavanaugh, who has
been Vice-Presicdnt of Notre
Dame since 1940, was chosen for
the high honor by the Provincial
Council of the congregation at
the latter's triennial chapter meet
ing at Notre Dame. Ho succeeds
the Rev. J. Hugh O’Donnell. C. S.
C., who has been President of
Notre Dame for the last six and
one-half years. Father O'Donnell
will be given a special assignment
by the Provincial.
At the same time Father Stein
er announced the election of the
Rev. John Murphy, C. S. C., Supe
rior of Moreau Seminary at Notre
Dame since 1943. as Vice-Presi
dent of the University. He will
also serve for three years.
Father Cavanaugh, who was
born in Owosso, Mich., in 1899, a
son of the late Michael and Mary
(Keegan) Cavanaugh, has been
associated with Notre Dame since
1917. During his first two years
at. (he University he served as
private secretary to the late Rev.
John W. Cavanaugh, C. S. C..
President of Notre Dame. They
were not related, however; Later
he was private secretary to the
late Very Rev. James A. Burns, C.
S. C., Assistant Superior General
of the Congregation of Holy Cross
and a former President of Notre
Dame. Before coming to Notre
Dame, Father John J. Cavanaugh
had served as secretary to Mr.
Liebold, private secretary to Hen
ry Ford.
Following his graduation from
Notre Dame in 1923, he worked in
the sales promotion department of
the Sludebaker Corporation for
two years, and was assistant ad
vertising manager when he re
signed to enter the novitiate in
1928. He was ordained a priest in
1931 in Sacred Heart Church at
Notre Dame by the Most Rev.
John F. Noll. D. D.. Bishop of Ft.
Wayne, Ind. He received the Ph.L
degree from Gregorian University
-in Rome in 1933.
Father Cavanaugh then return
ed to Notre Dame and in July,
1933, was appointed Assistant Pre
fect of Religion. One year later lie
was named Prefect of Religion to
succeed the new President of
Notre Dame elected at that time,
(lie Rev. John F. O'Hara. C. S. C..
now Bishop of Buffalo, N. Y. lie
held that post until his appoint
ment as vice-president in 1940, in
which position he also was chair
man of the Faculty Board in Con
trol of Athletics.
The new Notre Dame president
has two brothers — Rev. Francis
Cavanaugh, C. S^C., Dean of the
College of Arts and Letters at
Notre Dame, and Michael, Jr., of
Lansing, Mich., and a sister, Ann,
residing in Chicago.
Father Murphy was born July
18, 1912 at Racine. Wis,, son of the
late John H. Murphy and Ger
trude Baumann Murphy. 11c at
tended St. Patrick's Parochial
School in Racine and in 1926 en
tered the Holy Cross Seminary at
Notre Dame. After attending the
University for two years, he be
gan his study of theology and phil
osophy at the Gregorian Univer
sity in Rome, Italy.
Ordained in December, 1938, at
Rome, Father Murphy then pur
sued further graduate studies in
scripture at the Pontifical Biblical
Institute in Rome during 1939-40.
At the outbreak of World War II
he returned to the United States.
He continued his scripture studies
at the Catholic University of
America, Washington, D. C., in
1940-41.
From 1941 to 1943 Father Mur
phy served as Director of Voca
tions at the Holy Cross Semi
nary on the Notre Dame campus.
In the latter year he was appoint
ed Superior at Moreau Seminary
at Notre Dame.
More Than 30,000 Attend Canonization Rites
i
Full Diplomatic Relations
Now Established Between
China and the Vatican
The Basilica of St. Peter's in Rome was a blaze of glory when this
during the solemn canonization ceremony which made Mother Frances X,
can citizen Saint. A throng of over 30.000 persons witnessed the centuries-o
picture was
vier Cahrini
Id ritual—(NC
taken on July 7.
the first Arneri-
' Photos).
Catholics Throughout the United States
Honor This Nation’s First Citizen-Saint
GENE BUCK AND PAT
O’BRIEN were re-elected Presi
dent and Vice-President, respect
ively, at the annual meeting of the.
Catholiq Actors Guild held in
Washington, D. C.
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
Catholics throughout the Unit
ed States hastened to pay tribute
to the humble nun who becomes
the nation s first citizen to achieye
sainthood—St. Frances Xavier Ca-
brini, foundress of the Missionary
Sisters of the Sacred Heart.
Hardly had the canonization
ceremony in Rome been conclud
ed when special ceremonies in
honor of the new Saint were held
in all sections of the United
States, in which Mother Cabrini
had worked for 28 years.'
In New York, where the Saint
began her work in 1889 and where
she is buried. His Eminence Fran
cis Cardinal Spellman. Archbish
op of New York, officiated at two
Masses in her honor. The Cardinal
offered one Mass in the Chapel of
Mother Cabrini High School. The
Saint’s body is entombed be
neath this altar, At a later Mass
in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, offered
by Bishop Thomas E. Molloy of
Brooklyn. Cardinal Spellman
preached the sermon.
“The chief call of the hour,”
Cardinal Spellman said, ‘‘is not
for statesmen, generals, scholars,
diplomats or economists. All these
have their places, but they alone
cannot be the agents of peace. The
essential need is for saints. The
world needs redemption and every
saint is a redeemer. The world
needs a heart like the heart of our
Saint, as daily she prayed with
Mary, her Mother. The world
wants victory with peace and to
day peace comes to earth in the
person of this saint of our times,
through whom we should renew
our determination lo make this
world one by offering odrselves
to the God of love, for the peace
brought and bought by His love.
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. herald
of happiness, champion of liberty,
symbol of service, saving victim
for the peace of the world, glory
of our country, pray for us.”
In Chicago, where St. Frances
Cabrini died on December 22,
1917. His Eminence Samuel Car
dinal Stritch- Archbishop of Chi
cago, claimed Mother Cabrini as
‘Chicago’s patron Saint.'' Italian
Catholics, many of whom knew
Mother Cabrini during her life
time, took a prominent part in the
services throughout the city. Chi
cago will pay its official tribute to
the new Saint on September 8 at
the annual Holy Hour service in
Soldier Field.
Outstanding among the Chicago
services were those held at Bless
ed Mother Cabrini Church, in the
heart of the west side Italian set
tlement. There seven Masses were
offered in her honor, ending with a
Solemn Mass followed by a street
procession. At Columbus Hospital,
where Mother Cabrini died and
where her room is preserved as a
shrine, as well as at other hospi
tals conducted by the nuns of the
community she founded, special
services were held.
The capital city of the nation
of which Mother Cabrini became
a citizen in 1909 marked the day
of her canonization with services
at St. Stephen’s Church on Penn
sylvania Avenue. The July 7 ob
servance was the climax to a no-
vena lo Blesed Frances Xavier
Cabrini in preparation for the
ceremonies raising her to saint
hood. Special permission had been
obtained from the Apostolic Dele
gation to have, a public novena to
the missionary foundress while
she was still a Blessed.
A Solemn Mass was offered in
St. Mary’s Church in New Orleans.
where Mother Cabrini often wor
shipped, and a special Mass also
was offered at the Immaculate
Conception 'Church, conducted by
the Jesuit Fathers. At the two
houses of the Missionary Sisters
of the Sacred Heart, relics of the
Saint wore venerated.
Mother Tranquiila. superior of
the Sacred Heart Orphanage in
New' Orleans, recalled an inci-
I dent in the life of the new Saint
It happened in Chicago in 1904.
“Our Community,” Mother Tran-
quilla related, "had been feeding
a large number of unfortunate
men. the noon hour came and the
pantry was empty. There was no
bread. When Mother Cabrini was
told of this, she said it surely was
a mistake. She instructed the Sis
ters to return to the pantry. They
did and found it full of bread.
Mother Cabrini said simply that at
first when they saw there was no
bread- they did not have faith.
She told the Sisters they always
must have faith..”
His Eminence Dennis Cardinal
Dougherty, Archbishop of Phila
delphia, piesidcd at a Solemn
Mass in St. Donato's Church, high
lighting the celebration in Phila
delphia at St. Frances Cabrini's
canonization. Present was Mother
Bernadette, one of the nuns who
came lo this country with Mother
Cabrini in 1889. In the afternoon
Cardinal Dougherty dedicated and j
blessed a Shrine to Mother Ca
brini in St. Donato's Chapel. Moth
VATICAN CITY.—(RADIO, NC)
—Full diplomatic relations be
tween the Holy See and China
have been established with the
appointment of Archbishop An
tonio Riberi as Apostolic Inter-
nuncio to that country. This action
follows the recent erection of a
National Hierarchy in China.
Archbishop Riberi. 49-year-old
naitve of Monte CaYlo in the Prin
cipality of Monaco, has been
Apostolic Delegate to the African
missions attached to the Sacred
Congregation for the Propagation
of the Faith. In that capacity lie
has resided at Mombasa, In British
East Africa, since 1934 . •
The Holy See had been pre
viously represented in China by
an Apostolic Delegate whose of
fice was dependent upon the Sa
iled Congregation for Extraord
inary Religious Affairs. China is
represented at the Vatican by an
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary.
REV. THIERRY d’ARGENLIEU,
Carmelite provincial of the prov
incial of the province of Paris, has
been raised to the rank of an ad
miral in the French Navy, and at
lhe same time the Council of Min
isters has conferred on him the
Grand Cross of the Legion of Hon
or, the highest honor given by the
French Government. Father d -
Argenlioii is an ex-officer of
World War l. after which lie en
tered the monastery. At the out
break of World War II he v’as call
ed to the service of his country
and given a high command. By
special authorization of the Pope
he remained in the service of the
French Government alter the war,
because the government wished to
entrust him with exceptionally im
portant duty.
AN APOSTOLIC TRIAL, be
lieved to be the first of its kind
in Canada's religious history, has
been opened by Bishop Maurice
Roy of Three Rivers, to inquire
into flic virtues and miracles at
tributed to Father Frederick Jans-
soono. O. F. M.. with a view to his
beatification and canonization.
Known as "Good Father Fred
erick " the subject of the inquiry
was born in French Flanders, in
18,>8. and came to Canada from
the ,Holy Land, where he was
guardian of the Holy Sepulchre,
lie died at Three Rivers in August,
1916. lie was one of the builders
of the internationally known
shrine dedicated to Our Lady of
the Holy Rosary at Cap de la Mad
eleine in the Province of Quebec
THE HOLY FATHER’S WARN
ING to the peoples of France and
Italy on the eve of their elections
that they are called upon lo choose
between the forces of religion and
irreligion also contains a warning
for the American people. Bishop
Jules I!. Jeanmard of Lafayette
declared in a pastoral letter in
which lie wrote. "We may well ask
ourselves if the same choice may
not bo ours to make some day; if
we can beguile ourselves that ‘it
cannot happen here.’ that the
same forces which are fomcntii \
discord, confusion and disorder in
Europe are not already at work in
our beloved country.”
er Cabrini. during her lifetime,
worshipped at the Church and
worked in the parish. In 1912 she
purchased two houses which she
put to use as an orphanage and
convent. The orphanage today ac
commodates 70 children. The nuns
of the Saint's community teach at
St. Donato's school.
There was also a Solemn Mass
in the Church of Our Lady of
Lordlo in Philadelphia, preceded
by a parade led by r. embers of the
Catholic War Veterans. In Cam
den. at the Church of Our Lady
of Mount Carmel Msgr. Joseph B.
McIntyre, chancellor of the dio
cese. blessed a new statue of the
Saint.
Out in Denver, whose streets
were trod by the humble nun, a
Solemn Pontifical Mass was offer
ed by Archbishop Urban J. Vehr,
Archbishop of Denver, in the Ca
thedral of the Immaculate Con
ception.
Special services were scheduled
lor (lie Queen of Heaven Orphan
age in the northern section of tile-
city. which was founded by Mother
Cabrini in 1906 and served as the
hub of her activities there, where
she also founded a parochial
school, a summer camp and sev
eral oilier institutions.