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AUGUST 24, 1946
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF
GEORGIA
THREE
Three K. of G, Leaders
Receive Papal Honors
Supreme Knight Swift, Su
preme Secretary Lamb, and
Supreme Secretary Heazel
Given New Distinctions
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — (NC)—
Papal briefs have been here con
ferring the Grand Cross of St.
Gregory upon Judge John E. Swift,
of Boston, supreme knight of the
Knights of Columbus, the ranks
of grand offic.er of St, Gregory
upon Joseph F. Lamb, of New
York, supreme secretary, and
Knight Commander of St. Gregory
on Francis J. Heazel. of Asheville,
N. C., supreme treasurer.
Judge Swift, an alumnus of
Boston College and Boston Uni
versity, has been an official of the
Knights of Columbus since 1921.
He is a member of the law faculty
of Boston College and is on the
advisory council of the Boston
College School of Social Science.
Mr. Lamb, a graduate of Ford-
ham University and Columbia
University, is a professional en
gineer. He has been supreme sec
retary of the Knights of Columbus
since 1939.
Mr. Heazel, prominent North
Carolina attorney, is one of the
outstanding Catholic laymen in
the South.
He was born in Shenandoah,
Page County, Virginia. December
10, 1891, attended St. Andrew's
parochial school in Roanoke, Va.,
Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmits-
burg, Md., and graduated from
Washington and Lee University,
with the degree of L. L. B.. in
1912.
He was admitted to the practice
of law in Virginia in 1912, in Ten
nessee in 1910. and in North Caro
lina in 1922. He practiced law in
Roanoke, from 1912 to 1916; in
Kingsport, Tenn.. from 1910 to
1922. and since that time has been
engaged in the practice of law in
Asheville, where he is at present
a member of the law firm of
Heazel and Redmond. lie was
appointed first city attorney in
Kingsport, in 1917.
In 1914, Mr.Heazel married Miss
Anna Flanagan, in Koanoke. They
have two daughters and one son.
One daughter, the former Miss
Mary Gertrude Heazel, is the wife
Of Commander John J. Vogel, Jr.,
U. S. N. R., who resides in Wash
ington, D. C., and the other, Miss
.Anna Catherine Heazel. lives with
lier parents in Buncombe County,
North Carolina, near Asheville. The
son. Francis J. I-Icazel. Jr., now a
student at the law School of the
University of North Carolina, serv
ed as a major in the United Stales
Army during World War II. lie
was on active duty for four years,
serving with the China Combat
Command in the interior of China
during the last year of the war.
Mrs. Vogel is a graduate of Trinity
College, Washington, D. C.. Miss
Heazel is a graduate of Visitation
College. Washington, D. C.. while
Major Heazel received his A. B.
degree at Georgetown Univer
sity.
Mr. Heazel served as State Dep
uty of the Knights of Columbus in
North Carolina for three terms.
He was elected to the Supreme
Board of Directors of the K. of C.
in 1930, and continued as a mem
ber of the board until April, 1942.
when he was cleeled as Supreme
Treasurer
Bishop of Charleston
Conducts Triduum at
Church in Philadelphia
, (Special to The Bulletin)
PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. — The
twenty-fifth annual Vocational Tri
duum, in preparation for the
Feast of the Assumption, at the
Church of the Transfiguration, in
Philadelphia, was conducted by
the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh,
D. D., Bishop of Charleston.
The theme of the triduum was
“God and My Life Work,” “The
Great Vocation to Holiness of
Life.” “The Necessity of Taking
Counsel in the Important Matter
of One's Vocation in Life,” “The
Religious Orders and Congrega
tions — Their Wonderful Contri
bution to the Life and Work of the
Church,” “The Characteristic of
the Apostolic Life Consists not in
Triumphs but in Labors and Suf
ferings Undertaken Out of Love
for Jesus Christ,” “The Holy
Priesthood, a Call to the Unselfish
and Generous Service of God’s
People,” “The Holy Sacrament of
Marriage,” and “The Christian
Home, a Place of Peace and a
Sanctuary of Virtue.”
PAPAL HONORS FOR K. OF C.
Son of Protestant
Leader Entering
Jesuit Novitiate
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y„—(NO
—Avery Dulles, youngest son of
John Foster Dulles, prominent
Presbyterian layman, who recently
entered the Jesuit novitiate of St.
Andrew-on-the-Hudson here, as a
student for the priesthood, has
written the story of his convection
in a volume entitled "A Tribute to
Grace.” scheduled for publication
this fall.
Young Mr. Dulles entered the
Church in 1941. He attributes his
initial interest in the Church large
ly to contacts he had with priests
while a student at Harvard Uni
versity. from which he was gradu
ated in 1939. He recently received
his discharge as a Navy lieutenant
after five years’ service, mostly in
the Atlantic and Mediterranean
theaters.
Mr. Dulles’ father is chairman of
the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America. He
acted as chairman of the Interna
tional Conference of World
Churches held in Cambridge. Eng
land. recently, and at the confer
ence suggested some kind of inter-
Clnirch co-operation for world
peace presumably between the
World Council of Churches and the
Vatican. The novice’s father is like
wise vice-chairman of the newly-
formed Church Commission on In
ternational Affairs, a group estab
lished under the auspices of the
World Council of Churches to
shape policies on wqrld problems
which touch the churches, lie was
also a member of the American
delegation to the London meeting
of the United Nations.
Papal honors have been conferred upon these leaders of the
Knights of Columbus. The Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory
the Great has been awarded to Judge John E. Swift (left), of Boston,
Supreme Knight; the rank of Grand Officer of St. Gregory has
been given to Joseph F. Lamb (center), of New York. Supreme Secre
tary, and that of Knight Commander of St. Gregory to Francis J.
Heazel (right), of Asheville, N. C., Supreme Treasurer.
Supreme Convention of K. of C.
Begins Sessions at Miami Beach
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.— (NC) —i priest declared that “we must no
A charge that the United States | longer be recreant to our high
has "turned traitor” to itself and ! vocation, no longer disappoint the
"to the principles upon which our | expectations of the peoples, espec-
nation was founded” because of ' ially the small peoples who look
UTAH INDIANS, in large num
bers, dressed in heir tribal cos-
“tumes. added color to the cele
bration of the feast of St. Ignatius
at a mission station in Ignacio,
Colorado, a charge of the Theatine
Fathers.
a number ol its affiliated corpora
tions. He is now a director of
the Metropolitan Casualty Insur-
"our attempt to appease Russia,” I
was made by the Rev. James M.
Gillis. ft. S. P., editor of The.
Catholic World, speaking at the
State Dinner held in connection
with the Supreme Council Meet
ing of the Knights of Clumbus
here, which brought together more
than 1,500 delegates and guests.
The meeting opened with a Mass
in St. Patrick’s Church offered by
Msgr. Thomas J. McDonough. Ad
ministrator of the Diocese of St.
Augustine. Msgr. William Barry,
pastor of the church, preached the
sermon.
Father Gillis pointed out that
all the moves of Soviet spokesmen,
though they seem baffling to us,
have a “predetermined pattern.”
The Russian plan is obstruction,
dissension, confusion, prolongation
bf post-war unrest, delay in the at
tainment of political end economic
equilibrium,” he stated. "If the de
lay causes civil wars, so much the
better. If civil wars spread and
lead to world wide upheavals, com
munism again calculates to gain.
Moscow persistently frustrates
what the other powers are trying
to achieve, national and interna
tional tranquillity.”
World
WHITE HOUSE SA*$
MYRON TAYLOR TO
RETURN TO VATICAN
■ WASHINGTON.—(NC) — Myron
j C. Taylor, President Truman’s per-
] sonal representative at the Vatican
; is returning to the United States
on other than official business, but
| it is “assumed” he will take advan
tage of his presence in this coun
try to come to Washington and see
the President. Charles G. Ross,
White House press secretary, has
revealed. Mr. Ross said Mr. Tay
lor is expected to return to the
Vatican.
ALBANIA, the. mountainous
county strategically placed at the
south-eastern shore of the Adria
tic Sea. is firmly in the grip of a
communist-dominated regime of
terror, which employs all the
methods of totalitarianism, includ
ing murder, to suppress political
and personal liberties and free
dom of religion, and to de-Chrisl-
ianize the country. News reaching
Rome confirms the impression that
the Albanian regime, headed by
Enver Iloxha—who is merely a
tool of Yugoslavia's Marshall Tito,
the "long arm " of Moscow—is de
termined to destroy the spiritual
and cultural values that have been
laboriously created by the mis
sionaries of the Church through
many centuries.
to us for light and guidance.” Let
us no longer “disappoint afflicted
humanity nor make void the con
fidence of God,” he added.
In his sermon at the Mass, Mon
signor Barry said that the world
is faced with the same basic prob
lem today as at the beginning of
the Knights of Columbus in the
1880s- Should we strive for a so- , VIII
ciety which accepts or ignores God. 1 ‘ ..if „
I TVS of zs,-; .>1 ,’o4 „T i:r„ I
A materialist concept of life may
“court victory for a time, but de-
feal will inevitably catch up with
us.” he said, adding'lhat while the
acceptance of a divine economy
and the sacredness of the human
personality may bring initial de
feat, “we are assured of ultimate
victory.” ,
Supreme Knight Judge John E.
A PAMPHLET setting forth the
Catholic position on Federal aid to
education written by Archbishop
John T. MpNicholas, O. P„ <oi Cin
cinnati, President General of the
National Catholic Educational As
sociation, is being circulated
among members of the association.
J11 the pamphlet Archbishop Mc-
Nicholas reasserts the right of
American schools to Federal aid,
that this aid should be ex
tended not only to public Schools
but to non-public schools as well,
on an equal basis. “The public
school system is not the American
system of education. It is only
part of it." he states.
PAPAL HONORS have been
awarded to Postmaster General
I Robert E. Hannegan and Assistant
Swift of Boston, in his report to'S^'t Assistant
the delegates, called upon the ! Gcnel J l . GwsKSullivan,
knights to "reasserl more nnsi- I W 10 " l I o I evolved in lmvate audl-
knights to “reassert a more posi- | lr . TI .. _ _.
live leadership, ” and appealed for ; t T r IT ‘ S Hol,ness P °P e Plus
I XII. Mr. Hannegan was made
; j Knight Commander and Mr. Sul-
a crusade to “show the whole
world that in all the woe. want „ „ ... , ., ,
and wickedness now following in 1 L, 1 Kn| S >t of the Order of
the wake of universal war a sound j lhe .^eat. Both were
panacea is to be sought, but not in nc ! , b ^ a oC American
the satanic scourge that Red Rus-I leglsl ?, tors a,lfi official s who were
I recently received in audience
: the Holy Father.
j “It is to be found in our own
t,,, , . , . , , 1 American ideals, in what Pope
I lie real harm in all this is what : j 00 xjll called
our appeasement of the Soviets
has done to us. Father Gillis said.
“We have already lowered our
standards of national honor,” lie
declared. “We have compromised
the principles of democracy; we
have forgotten the sacred pledges
a positive return .
FIORELLA LA GUARDIA, di-
to Christian life and Christian in- ! f. ector general of the United Na-
j stitutions, in that Catholic philoso»,j , “ ns . ,“ clle . f an(1 Rehabilitation
phy which our founding Fathers ; Administration, and his son. Erie,
embodied in our fundamental 1 were received in private audience
1 law,” he said. ; bv lli * Holiness Pope Pius XII.
j Among other speakers were 'Following the audience, the for-
| Msgr. Leo M. Finn, pastor of St. mer Mayor ol Nw York said he
we made to individual peoples and Peter’s Church, Bridgeport Conn i" as impressed profoundly by (he
to tlie* world- wo hflvn Inrn nn an/I i .... .1 ...... , .. ’’ rlrOnil/wl L-.,n.. iA,i„ i ■ 1
the world; we have torn up and and supreme chaplain of the K. of
thrown away the Atlantic Charter C : Senator-elect Spessard L. IIol-
and he four freedoms. | land of Florida, and Mayor Her-
We nave abandoned friends j bert Freink of Miami Beach,
who fought with us and lor us; we . Resolutions called for increased
have jettisoned traditions held fjrm ness in the attitude of the U.
term of the late Daniel J. Callahan,
of Washington. D. C, He was
Forman Realty Corporation of
Chicago, and president and direc-
elcctcd Supreme Treasurer for a tor of Beverly Hills Company, of
011c year term at the meeting of
the Supreme Council held in Mem
phis in 1942, and after a lapse of
two years from the expiration of
that term was again elected Su
preme Treasurer it 1945. He is
now serving in that capacity, and
is ex-offeio. a member of the
Board of Directors and of the
Executive and Finance Committee
of the K. of C.
In the past he has been an of-
Ashevillc, owner of a real estate
development near that city.
Mr. Heazel lias served as a
sacred from 1he foundation of the
Republic; we have disappointed
the hopes of the small peoples of
the world and in consequence we
have lost their esteem we are in
dicted and in their judgement con
victed of perfidy and moral
cowardice.
“When we entered llie war we
declared our purposes noble and
S. Government toward the Soviet
Union and for the exertion of U.
S. influence in behalf of Boland
and other countries within Hie
Soviet orbit. Another resolution
detailed knowledge which the
Holy Father has of relief needs
throughout the world.
DEEP GRATITUDE to the Vati
can for making available to the
Nurnberg trials documents upon
the charges of persecution of reli
gion in Germany and nazi-occupied
countries was expressed by Justice
Robert II. Jackson of the U. S.
was critical of the State Depart- 1,1 a statement to
merit's attitude toward Spain. v.
The annual report indicated a
total membership of 615.280 in 2.-
580 local councils, representing a
our motives pure, but wc have sur- j net membership gain of 78 156 in
rendered our ideals and subslitut- ; the past year
ed shameful political bargainings; ; 1
we have tacitly approved the force
ful transfer of whole populations
sum
its establishment in 1937
ing the settlemenl of the public
debt of Buncombe County apd the
City of Asheville.
He is a member of (he Board of
Directors of the Asheville Cham
ber of Commerce and the Civitan
fleer and director of numerous Club of Asheville; a membe
business corporation's having of
fices in Asheville. In 1932 he
was employed as special counsel
of the United Slates Fidelity and
Guranatee Company in connec
tion with the adjustment of its
mortgage guaranty obligations,
and in March, 1934, became spe
cial counsel of the Metropolitan
Casualty Insurance Company, of
New York, a member of the
Loyalty Group Insurance Com
panies, with its home office in
Newark, N. J. He has continued
as special counsel of the Metro
politan Casualty Insurance Com
pany of New York, and has served
as vice-president and director of
of
the American Bar Association, Hie
North Carolina Bar Association,
the Buncombe County Bar Asso
ciation. the Down Town Club of
Asheville; Biltmore Forest Coun
try Club, St. Lawrence Council
Knights of Columbus, Asheville,
and the North Carolina Catholic
Laymen’s Association,
The law firm of Heazel and Red
mond, of which Mr. Heazel i; a
member, acts as legal counsel for
His Excellency, the Most Rev. Vin
cent S. Waters, D. D., Bishop of
Raleigh.
He -was made a Knight of St.
Gregory the Great by His Holiness
Pope Pius XI, In 1939.
Shikine Fund 0 C ° Unly and thedi. nation oI nd e
Sinking Fund Commission since } of thousands ol lamiHcs; we a re
loflow- even now p 0 ii c i n g alien lands and
repressing revolutions which may j
lie. for'aught we know, as legiti
mate as our own of 1776.
"In a word wc have turned trai
tor to ourselves, to the principles
which our nations was founded, to
the noble philosophy embodied in
the preamble to our Declaration of
Independence, and have acted as if
the Bill of Rights, the most
precious part of our Federal Con
stitution. were for Americans
alone and not for the rest of man
kind. To confess the truth, in our
own conscience as well as in the
judgement of a disappointed and
scandalized world, we are shamed,
humilated, deeply disgraced."
Quoting the Holy Father that
“the American people have a gen
ius for splendid and unselfish ac
tion. and into the hands of America
God has placed the destinies of
afflicted humanity,” the Paulist
To Mark Centenary of
Benedietines in U, S.
LATROBE. Pa.—-(NO— His Ex
cellency Archbishop Amleto Gio-
vani Cicognani. Apostolic Dele
gate to the United States, will
pontificate at a Solemn Mass in
the St. Vincent College stadium
here on September 2 to open the
celebrations marking the centen
nial of the first Benedictine foun
dation in America. Bishop Michael
J. Ready of Columbus, an alumnus
of St. Vincent's College, will
preach the centenary sermon.
Many members of the United
States Hierarchy, 14 of whom have
been former students at the col
lege, and most of the Benedictine
Abbots in the United Stales are
expected to attend the ceremonies,
which will continue to September
4.
A band of 18 Benedictines, led
by the Rev. Boniface Wimmer, a
the NCWC News Service.
HAROLD II. TITTMANN, JR.,
who lias been serving on the staff
of Myron C. Taylor, personal rep
resentative of President Harry S.
Truman, at the Vatican, has been
appointed U. S. Ambassador to
Haiti, the White House has an-
nouneed.
Benedictine from Metten, Bavaria,
arrived in this country on Septem
ber 15. 1846. They came at the
invitation of the Rev. Peter Lemke,,
who was associated with the
prince-priest, FatlWGallitzin, and
was seeking missionaries to serve
the German-speaking Catholics of
western Pennsylvania. The monks
settled near Carrollton. Pa., for a
short time, and then moved to
their present location at the offer,
of Bishop Michael O’Connor of
Pittsburgh. The primitive log
cabin, a brick church and a lew
accessory buildings which the
group erected still stand.
In 1855, the community was
raised to the rank of an abbey
and the following year Abbot Wim
mer sent out groups of monks to
Minnesota and Kansas, where they
founded St. John’s Abbey at Coi-
legeville. Minn., and St. Benedict's
Abbey at Atchison, Kans.