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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
OCTOBER 26, 1946
She Bulletin
The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen’*
Association of Georgia. Incorporated.
HUGH KINCHLEY, Editor
216-217 Southern Finance Building, Augusta, Ga.
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1945-46
BERNARD S. FAHY, Rome...: President
M. J. CALLAGHAN, Macon,
Honorary Vice-President
ESTES DOREMUS, Atlanta Vice-President
J. B. McCALLUM, Atlanta Secretary
HUGH GRADY. Savannah Treasurer
HUGH KINCHLEY. Augusta Executive Secretary
MISS CECILE FERRY. Augusta Financial Secretary
A M McAULIFFE. Augusta Auditor
Vol. XXVII
OCTOBER 26, 1946
No. 10
Entered as second class matter June 15, 1921 at the
Post Office at Augusta. Georgia, under the Act of March
3, 1879; accepted for mailing at special rate of postage
provided In paragraph 4, section 538, Tostal Laws and
Regulations as modified by paragraph G.
Member of N. C. W. C. News Service. Religious News
Service, the Catholic Press Association of the United
States, the Georgia Press Association, and the National
Editorial Association.
Published monthly by the Catholic Laymen's Association
of Georgia, Inc., with the Approbation of the Most Rev
erend Bishops of Charleston and Savannah-Atlanta,
of the Right Reverend Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont.
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A Cistercian Abbey For Georgia
I N March, just two years ago, there came into the
clamor and commotion of a railroad station in
Atlanta a group of some twenty silent men, wear
ing the habits and hoods of monks of the Order of
Cistercians of the Strict Observance.
They had come to Georgia from the Abbey ot
Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky, to establish a
Trappist monastery in this state, near Conyers, some
thirty miles from Atlanta.
Proceeding to the 1,700-acre tract of land which
had been acquired by their Abbot, the Right Reve
rend M. Frederic Dunne, O. C. S. O., who had lived
for a number of years in Atlanta, the priests and
lay-brothers of the Trappist Order were quartered
in a barn, which served as their monastery until a
temporary frame building was completed last winter.
Work has already begun on the construction ot a
permanent structure of gtone, which will be com
pleted as soon as necessary materials become avaii-
The General Chapter of the Cistercians of the
Strict Observance, in recognition of the work of
Abbot Frederic and his monks here in Georgia, de
parting from the ordinary course of procedure,
which usually extends over many long years, has
liaised the Cistercian community at Conyers to the
status of an abbey, and Father M. James Fox O. C.
S O who has been Superior of the Monastery of
Our Lady of the Holy Ghost since its establishment,
lias been installed as Abbot by Bishop Emmet M.
Walsh of Charleston. .
It is a source of pride for all Catholics in Georgia
that the Trappist Monastery in this state has so
soon been made an autonomous community, and is
no longer a dependency of the Abbey in Kentucky.
Abbot James, a native of Boston, received his A.
B. degree from Harvard in 1918, and served?as an
officer in the U. S. Navy during World War I.
After the war, he served for some time as
a revenue agent for the Income Tax Division of the
United States Treasury Department. In 1927 h„ en
tered the Cistercians at the Abbey in Kentucky, and
was ordained to the priesthood in 1930. Before com
ing to Georgia, he was Director of Retreats at Gcth-
M The'coming of the Trappists to Georgia was un
doubtedly one of the most important events m the
long history of Catholicity in this state Tli_ inter
est displayed ir the monastery in Rockdale County
by the secular press is but one indication ot.t
J .... . establishment of a
Our Convention In Savannah
T HIS year, for the seventh time in its history,
the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia
will convene in Savannah, in which city it held
its conventions in 1917, 1920, 1925, 1929 and 1935,
and its memorable Silver Jubilee convention in 1940.
As this year’s convention, which will be held on
Sunday, October twenty-seventh, the Feast of Christ
the King, will mark the completion of three de
cades of effort on the part of the Laymen’s Associa
tion to combat anti-Catholic prejudice in Georgia
and to "promote a better feeling among Georgians,
irrespective of Creed,” it will be one of the most im
portant gatherings of the Catholic laity of this
state in several years.
It will be an opportunity to review the work of
the Association since the convention held in Albany
last October, and to find in its thirty years of history
the inspiration to make plans for on intensive re
newal of its efforts in the year, and years, ahead.
At these annual conventions of the Catholic Lay
men’s Association, members of the laity from every
section of Georgia meet to receive accounts of the
activity of the Association during the preceding
twelve months and outline a program of activity for
the year that is to follow.
This year, the convention will be highly honored
in having as the speaker at its afternoon session, the
Honorable Matthew F. McGuire, Associate Justice
of the United States District Court of the District of
Columbia.
Justice McGuire is not merely an outstanding
American who is a Catholic, he is an active Catho
lic layman who is keenly interested in Catholic
activity wherever found, and is ready to aid such
activity whenever possible. His coming to Georgia
from the Nation’s Capital is an indication of, his
willingness to further the cause of Catholic Action.
Another feature on the program of this year’s
convention will be the appearance of William Shaw
McCallum, of Boston, as the speaker at the conven-
tin luncheon which will be served at the De Soto
Hotel.
Mr. McCallum, a brother of John B. McCallum,
of Atlanta, secretary of the Laymen’s Association,
spent his boyhood days in Savannah, and will be on
a visit to his old home city at the time of the con
vention.
Remembering the stirring address which he de
livered at the morning session of the Laymen’s As
sociation convention held in Savannah in 1929, Mr.
McCallum’s friends in Georgia are happy to know
that he has consented to take part in the program
this year.
Savannah, this year’s convention city, has a na
tional and international reputation for hospitality
and the eminently pleasant recollections of previous,
conventions of the Laymen's Association in that city
have proved that Savannah’s reputation is well de
served.
It is certain that when Mayor Peter Roe Nugent,
of Savannah, addresses words of welcome to the
convention delegates, they will be ready to return
his greeting with a glad response that will leave no
doubt of their happiness at being in the beautiful
and progressive «city of which he is the chief ex
ecutive.
Members of the Laymen’s Association in Savan
nah under the leadership of their local president,
Mrs. Joseph E. Kelly, and with the cooperation of
the Catholic Young People’s Association, have pre
pared a program of entertainment for the evening
previous to the convention that will add to the at
tractiveness of the social side of the gathering of
the Catholic laity of the state.
While those of his flock are proud that their
beloved Bishop has been chosen by the Holy See
for a special and an important assignment in Europe,
they deeply regret that His Excellency Bishop
Gerald P. O’Hara will not be able to honor this
year’s convention with his presence. This will be the
first time since Bishop O’Hara came to the Diocese
of Savannah-Atlanta that he has not attended the an
nual convention of the Laymen’s Association. Ihc
inspiring encouragement of his counsel and the
gracious and cordial charm of his brilliant personali-
Dixie M usin<rs
The campaign for funds to com
bat anti-Semitism by Kenneth
Leslie and publishers of The Pro
testant magazine has been repudi
ated by six of the outstanding
Jewish organizations in the United
States; the National Community
Relations Advisory Council, cen
tral coordinating body of the
American Jewish Committee; the
American Jewish Congress; B’nai
B’rith; Jewish Labor Committee;
Jewish War Veterans of the Unit
ed States, and the Union of Amer
ican Hebrew Congregations.
The Jewish groups charged that
while The Protestant’s solicita
tions for funds are ostensibly to
combat anti-Semitism, the maga
zine “has contributed to inter
group' dissension; obstructed de
velopment of good inter-group re
lations in the United States; and
has made malicious and irrespon
sible attacks upon Jewish agen
cies, national and local.” The
charges were made on behalf of
the Jewish groups by Henry Ep
stein, former New York State
Solicitor General, and were pre
pared after a review of the pub
lished material, program, and ac
tivities of the magazine’s publish
ers.
In a recent issue of NATION’S
BUSINESS, there apoeared an ar
ticle entitled “A Tour of the
Leftist Press,” included in its sur
vey of the Communist press in
this country the following com
ment:
"The Protestant, a monthly orig
inally called the Protestant Digest,
combines hatred for Catholicism
with fervent love for atheistic Rus
sia—a combination, that by some
strange logic, makes it the darl
ing of some “progressive” cleri
cals. Its editor, Kenneth Leslie,
claims a circulation of around
30,000. Since he caters to relig
ious folks, Leslie sometimes strays
a bit from the party views, but
not enough to offend even the
most sensitive comrades.
“The Protestant, which is high
ly selective in the objects of its
criticism, came through nobly for
Stalin’s secret police with a de
fense of the Soviet execution of
two famous Pollsh-Jewish labor
leaders, Ehrlich and Alter. It con
stantly assails critics of red totali
tarianism as red-baiters. It un
loads fire and brimstone on Spain
and Argentina, but has not yet
gotten around to protesting
against worse* dictatorships in
Russia and Yugoslavia. It demands
that American troops be recalled
from China—but nary a word
about the recall of Soviet forces
from Poland. It has ‘exposed’
General Bor, the heroic leader of
the Warsaw anti-Nazi uprising.
Moscow’s puppet government, it
assures its clientele, is ‘bringing
true freedom to Polnnd,’ ‘Stalin,"
Architect’ of Peace’ is a typical
Leslie title and article. His maga
zine, of course, had kind words
for the Hitler-Stalin Pact.”
An investigation of un-Ameri
can propaganda' activities in the
United Slates, reported by the
Committee on Un-American Ac
cation of the Federal Council of
Churches, at a convocation of
volunteer church school workers
and Protestant • public school
teachers. The meeting was held
under the auspices of the Protes
tant Council of the City of New
York.
Stressing the importance of a
more positive content in faith
than the negative idea of “pro
testing,” Dr. Johnson asserted
that religious education requires
more than techniques. “What it
needs,” he said, “Is a definite per
sonal commitment and clear
theological point of view” on the
part of every instructor.”
This month. The Bulletin wel
comes to the field of Catholic
journalism. The North Carolina
Catholic, which published its first
weekly issue on October 6, as the
official publication of the North
Carolina Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation.
Dale Francis, executive secre
tary of the North Carolina Catho
lic Laymen’s Association, is also
serving as editor of the new Cath
olic naper. Barbara Francis is the
associate editor, and Virginia
Sabotka, art editor.
Mr. Francis came to North Caro
lina last year from Ohio, where
he had been doing newspaper
work, to become the executive
secretary of the laymen’s associa
tion, which had been organized in
the Diocese of Raleigh, by Bishop
Vincent S. Waters, along the pat
tern of our Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation in Georgia.
The Bulletin welcomes the new
comer to the field of the Catholic
press in the South, and wishes its
newest contemporary, unqualified
success.
Appearing in tabloid form, the
initial issue of The North Carolina
Catholic contains among its feat
ures, articles by Dorothy Freeman
Grant, noted authoress, who is a
member of St. John’s parish,
Waynesville, N. C.; by Col. William
F. Kernan, writer of the best sell
er, “Defense Will Not Win the
War," who now lives in Highlands,
N. C„ and by Father William J.
Smith, S. J.
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A ri* r .« s ™^
Catholic clergy and lafty of Georgia, and th? many)and most cooperative with, its work. No priest m Cities, 0 f the House of Represen-
non Catholic friends that the monks have made :Georgia has lent himself more readily to aid r tHl [ tatives, at the second session of
Ct ' cause than Monsignor Joseph E Moylan, Vtcai ; lhe Seventy-ninth Congress .dated
General of the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta May 29 ]g4C t ii F0 losed that the
V/o are happy to announce that Monsignor Moylan Protestant p| ge st h a( j been cited
elevated to the
sacrifice in our midst has ,jc.en
status of an independent Abbey. .
Georgia will’ receive manw blessings ftom ne
Will offer til’ Holy Sacrifice of thp Mass at (he
nrnvm-V’and sanctified labor of its Traopisls. and the 1 Cathedral in Savannah to invoke God’s blessing on
example of their lives will inspire throughout the cur deliberations, and will address words^oi advice
state a greater devotion to the‘things of God and
contribute abundantly to the spiritual and material
welfare of the Empire State of the South.
A Happy Occasion
T HIS year Ihc convention of the Catholic lu
men’s Association of Georgia will be a very
special occasion for rejoicing because during
lhe twelve months which have just passed into its
history, seven Catholic laymen of Georgia, who have
Wen and are, eonspicously active in its efforts,
jave been signally honored by the Holy See
His Holiness Pope Pius XU has selected Hughes
BpaUling, of Atlant-'. presently serving as treasurer
of the Endowment Fund of the Association, and
Clarence Haverty. of Atlanta, former chairman of
the As-ociation’s finance committee, to be the recip
ients of high Papal Honors, they having been ap
pointed Fupern”me ary Private Chamberlains of
the Sword end Capa by the IIqIv Father.
Augusta J. 1 ong, of Macon, the first president of
the Laymen's Association, and Martin J. Callaghan,
.also of Macon, now honorary vice-president of the
Association, have b^en honored by the Holy See
with Knighthood in the Order ol Saint Gregory the
Great.
Bernard S. Fa'av. of Rome, who now heads the
Laymen's Association as its president; Bernard J.
Kane, o’ A'lanta, hi? immediate predecessor in that
office, and Robert E. McCormack, of Albany, one of
the most actively interested members of the As
sociation. have had Knighthood in the Order of
Saint Sylvester conferred up them by the Holy Fath
er.
The Laymen's Association also finds cause for
rejoicing in that three members of the clergy of
the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta, who have been
strong supporters of the Laymen’s Association, and
who have cooperated most earnest with it in its
work, have also been deemed worthy of honor by the
Sovereign Pontiff, the dignity of a Domestic Prelate
having been conferred on Monsignor Joseph G.
to the delegates at the convention’s concluding
session.
All members of the Catholic Laymen's Associa
tion of Georgia are invited to attend the conven
tion in Savannah. It should not be necessary to
urge them to do so. ■
Cassidy and Monsignor Edward Dodwell, and that bf
a Papal Chamberlain on Monsignor John C. Kirk.;
These new honors which have been bestowed up
on members of the Catiiolic laity in Georgia recall
:iif>t His Holiness Pope Pius XI, of blessed memory,
act a precedent for his successor in the Holy See
by conferring the honors of Papal Knighthood upon
the late Colonel Jack J. Spalding, the late James
J. Haverty and the late Carroll Payne, of Atlanta;
upon the late Captain P. II. Rice, of Augusta; upon
.the late Thomas F. Walsh, of Savannah, and upon
Richard Reid, now of New York, all of whom were
prominently identified .with the work of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia.
His Holiness Pope Pius XI also conferred Knight
hood in the Order of Saint Gregory upon John W.
Gleason, of Savannah, but while Mr. Gleason has
been, and i:~, deeply interested in the work of the
Laymen’s Association, it must be conceded that in
his case the Holy See was more strongly moved to
honor him in recognition of his magnificent, record
of service in behalf on St. Mary’s Home in Savan
nah.
In the ease of the others mentioned, however,
it would be safe to claim that even though their
participation in Catholic Action was varied and
extensive, it was their contribution to the effort of
the Catholic Laymen's Association that was mainly
responsible for the honors they received from the
Holy See.
It is gratifying to every member of the Laymen’s
Association to remember that in the past its work
gained recognition from the Vatican, but it is, per
haps, even more a source of gratification and joy
that the work of the Association is still winning
favor with the Holy See,
as a Communist front by the Spe
cial Committee on Un-American
Activities, March 29, 19'44.
It is hoped that representative
Protestant groups and individuals
will follow the example of the
Jewish groups, and like Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt and others
whose names The Protestant once
listed as sponsors, disassociate
themselves from a pro-communist
publication which disguises itself
as a Protestant magazine.
Thomas Lomax Hunter, > noted
columnist of The Times-Dispatch,
daily newspaper in Richmond, Vir
ginia, Who is not a Catholic, paid
the following tribute to the Cath
olic Church in his column several
days ago when he was writing in
regards to conditions in Europe at
the present time:
“My own faith is that the
Catholic Church will be here in
undimnied vigor when bolsfic-
visin is nothing more than a
malodorous memory. It was
born into a world of force and
fury. It endured the worst per
secutions of the pagan emper
ors of Rome. It fought the Cru
sades. It was on the ship which
brought Columbus to America
before Protestantism was born.
It founded-the first Christian
Church on this continent. Spain
is the real mother of America.”
Abbot Frederic Dunne, O. C. S.
O., of the Abbey of Onr Lady of
Gethsemani, in Kentucky, recent
ly made known that there are
now twenty-three former service
men as members of his commun
ity. They include a former Army
doctor and a former captain in
the Merchant Marine. Another
doctor has just entered the no
vitiate from civilian life. Among
the novices are eleven priests "who
have come from the ranks of the
secular clergy and other religious
orders.
Considering the nature of the
Trappist life, the number of voca
tions in recent years has been
phenomenal. When Abbot Fred
eric was placed at the head ot
the community at Gethsemani in
1935’, the community numbered
seventy-two. Since that time thir
ty Trappists from Gethsemani
have transferred their allegiance
to the Monastery of Our Lady of
the Holy Ghost, at Conyers, Ga.,
but in spite of this, the Kentucky
monastery now has the largest
membership in its history—about
one hundred and seventy.
This autumn for the third time,
principals of all parochial private
and public high schools in the
United States, Hawaii, Alaska and
Puerto Rico are being invited to
extend to their seniors the oppor
tunity of participating in the
nation-wide competition for the
one hundred and twenty-one
scholarships and more than six
hundred Certificates of Merit be
ing offered by the Pepsi-Cola
Scholarship Board.
A description of the competition
may be had upon request to the
Pepsi-Cola Scholarship Board. 522
Emerson Street, Palo Alto, Calif.
The need for a more expressive
word for “Protestantism” was
voiced in New York by Dr. F.
Ernest Johnson, secretary of the
department' of research oud edu-
Father James J. Campbell, O.
M. I., well known in Diocese of
Savannah-Atlanta, joined the staff
of The Oblate World as an asso
ciate editor, and will be in charge
of the photography and art de
partments of that magaino.
The currcn issue of The Oblate
World features an article entitled
“Right Smart Crops,” written by
Father Campbell. It is a graphic
account of share-cropper life in
the South.
Father Robert Brennan, O. S. B.,
pastor of the Sacred Heart Church
in Savannah, offered th" invoca
tion at the opening session of the
annual convention of the United
States Wholesale Grocers’ Asso
ciation, held this month in that
Georgia city. —H. K.