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DECEMBER 21,1946 THE BULLETIN OK THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Sales Representatives
NEILL & HANRAHAN CO.
40 East 34th St., New York
Southern Representative
FRANK C. DURHAM
ACWORTH, GA.
Manufacturers of *
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ACWORTH, GA.
Nuns from Belmont Arrive in Guam
Greeted upon their arrived in Guam by the Capuchin Fathers are
these Sisters of - Mercy of Belmont, North Carolina, who will open a
school and novitiate for the training of native religious there, the
first foreign mission venture of their Congregation. The Sisters, who
made the trip aboard the Navy transport U. S. S. LeJeune, are, left
to right, Sister Mary Louise Wiesenforth, of Troy, N. Y.; Sister Mary
Inez Underwood, of Guam; Sister Mary Annette McBennett, of Fay
etteville, N. C.—(Associated Press Photo—NC Photos).
Public Schools Should Be Allowed to
Teach Religious Background of Nation,
Says Monsignor McNamara on “Catholic Hour ’
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—Although the
United States, in its boast of lib
erty and freedom, stresses the
fruits of belief in God. the public
educational system in its totality
fights shy of integrating the na
tion’s religious background in its
curricula, Msgr, T. James Mc
Namara, schools superintendent of
the Savannah-Atlanta diocese, de
clared this evening in the final
discourse of a series for the Cath
olic Hour, which is produced by
the National Council of Catholic
Men and aired on the National
Broadcasting Company network.
Monsignor McNamara reminded
the Founding Fathers “turned to
nature and to nature’s God and
found the principles of a just and
durable peace.” He added: “The
faith that was theirs, we of this
generation must rekindle if we
are to retain our precious heritage
of freedom. The faith that was
theirs, we must live if our nation
is to fulfill its high destiny to a
stricken world.”
The Catholic school, he said, is
hapfty that it serves the nation in
the all-important matters of faith-
but it would be happier if the na
tion would bring the full force of
these vitalizing principles to bear
on national thinking. He remind
ed that “no one has charged the
Founding Fathers With sectarian
ism because of the religious truths
they incorporated into the Dec
laration of Independence,” and
said no such charge should be
feared, in restating these religious
truths in textbooks.
“A changing economy has made
many of our citizens rank
pragmatists and earthy material
ists,” Monsignor McNamara said.
“They regard class warfare as in
evitable and look upon the equali
ties of the Declaration as idle
speculation having no bearing on
the practicalities of life
tunatel.y on the other hand, there
are many more fortuitously placed
in our country’s economy, who give
lip service to these equalities
while using class consciousness to
serve their equally pragmatic
ends. Both blot our American and
religious values, and make our
country’s boast of liberty and
freedom a hollow sham.’
Such persons. Monsignor Mc-
N am are charged, "arc t lie real
threat to our country’s determina
tion to perpetuate liberty and
freedom in the tradition of the na
tion’s Declaration of independ
ence; they are the enemy threat
ening to obscure our country’s
ideal of peace.” He declared “the
believers in America—Protestant
Jew and Catholic—must reassert
our faith in our nation's thinking,”
by word and example.
"These religious principles," he
asserted, “so vital to the way of
life of Protestanism, Judaism and
Catholicism, are identically and
equally vital to the continuation
of the American way of life. Elim
inate them, and you soon may
have the. omnipotent state and its
arbitrary enactments, circum
scribing and dissipating human
dignity and human liberty. Elim
inate them, and you may have
persecution and eventual liquida
tion of the conscientious Protest
ant, Jew and Catholic. Eliminate
these religious principles, and
you may well have life with fear,
liberty destroyed and happiness
deteriorated.
“Eventually there is no alter
native,” the Monsignor continued.
“Either men are creatures of God
or they become creatures of the
state. Either men enjoy equally
from the Omnipotent God rights
to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, or they become simply
pawns to be used by an omnipo
tent state for power. Either the
state is their servant or the state
becomes their master. Either they
are free or they will be slaves
. . . Liberty and freedom require
God; force and subjugation re
quire brute energy. God is peace;
brute energy is war.”
Belmont Benedictines
Ordained Deacons by
Bishop of Richmond
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT, N. C. — The Most
Rev. Peter Ireton, Bishop of Rich
mond, ordained the Rev. Frater
Anthony Cahill, O. S. B., and the
Rev. Frater Andrew Doris, O. S.
B.. of the Benedictine community
of Belmont Abbey, to the dincon-
ate. on December 1, at Our Lady
of Angels Chapel, College Park,
Staunton, Va.
Frater Anthony was horn in
Kansas City, Mo., though he now
considers Buffalo, N. Y.. as his
home. He attended the Catholic
High school in Toronto, Canada;
Belmont Abbey Junior College,
f. Benedict’s College, Atchison,
Kansas, the Catholic University of
Unfor- America, and Belmont Abbey
Seminary.
Frater Andrew is the youngest
son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P.
Doris, of Augusta, Ga. After at
tending Catholic grammar schools
in Augusta, Frater Andrews com
pleted his high sehool course and
two years of college at Belmont
Abbey. His junior and senior
years of collegiate study were
made at Georgetown University,
and upon graduation from the col
lege he entered the Georgetown
University sehool of Law. After
attaining his degree in law. he
was admitted to the bar in Geor
gia, and was engaged in thp prac
tice of that profession for a year
before he returned to Belmont to
begin his study for the priesthood.
Both young men, now complet
ing .the fourth year of their the
ological course, will be ordained
to the priesthood in the- spring.
Frater Andrew is a brother of
Father Sebastian Doris. O. S. B.,
sub-prior of Belmont Abbey.
ARCHBISHOP PAUL YU PIN
on Nanking, China, has been
elected to the Presidium, steer
ing committee, of the Chinese.
National Assembly,