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7'he first distinctly Catholic newspaper in the United States came off the press just 125 years ago
this month. June 5, 1822, at Charleston, South Carolina—the United States Catholic Miscellany.
Founded fay Bishop John England of Charleston. On the masthead of each issue appeared the words
of the First Amendment to the U.»S. Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting the estab
lishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof,” Pictured are the earliest issue available
in the Library of Congress (July 5, 1822) and a portrait of the pioneer Bishop-journalist, the Right
Rev. John England, first Bishop of Charleston.— (NC Features)
Georgia Gettier
Heads K. of C. in
North Carolina
(Special to The Bulletin)
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, N. C.
—At the annual meeting of the
North Carolina State Council,
Knights of Columbus, held here
on May* 31, George Gettier, of
Charlotte, was elected state deputy
to succeed John P. Cummings, of
Raleigh.
Other officers chosen by the
state council are E. D. Strickland,
Greensboro, state secretary; Paul
Baschow, Wilmington, state trea
surer; Edward Hogan, Asheville,
state advocate, and Daniel Brady,
Raleigh, state warden.
Speakers at the banquet which
followed the convention session
were Bishop Vincent S. Waters
of Raleigh and Joseph F. Lamb,
of New York, Supreme Secretary
of the K. of C. Other national
officers attending were Francis J.
Heazel, of Asheville, Supreme
Treasurer, and Edward P. McCue,
Cleveland, Ohio, member of the
supreme board of directors.
Among the resolutions adopted
at the convention was one which
endorsed the establishment of
Catholic Youth Organizations in
North Carolina.
The convention voted to hold ifs
1948 session in Asheville.
NCCM Announces
Speakers on ftadio
Programs for July
.... NEW YORK. — (NC)—Speakers
for tin* month of July have been
announced for the three radio
programs produced weekly by the
Naional Council of Catholic Men.
On the Catholic Hour, which is
heard every Sunday at 6 p. m.
(E. D. T.) over National Broadcast
ing Company stations, the speak
ers will be Justice Matthew Mc
Guire of the District Court of the
United States for the District of
Columbia, and John A. Matthews,
of Newark, for 14 years Judge of
N v, Jersey Chancery Court. On
the first two Sundays of the month,
Justice McGuire will speak on
"The American Way,” while on the
last two Sundays, former Judge
Matthews will speak on “The Road
Back.”
Father Francis L. Sampson,
chaplain of the Second Division,
Fort Lewis, Wash., will speak on
the Hour of Faith program, which
is broodcast every Sunday at 11:30
a. m. (E. D. T.) over the stations
of the American Broadcasting
Company. Father Sampson, who
was assigned to the Army a year
after his ordination, was chaplain
of the 101st Airborne Division in
France and was twice captured by
the Germans after jumping with
his paratroopers, will speak on
“Remaking America.”
Father L. F. Cervantes, S. J.,
Bulletins
JUSTICE MATTHEW McGUIRE,
of the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia, who will
speak on the Catholic Hour radio
program next month, was the
guest speaker at the annual con
vention. of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia, held in Sa
vannah last fall.
“U. S. Catholic Miscellany"
Published in Charleston Was
Nation’s First Catholic Paper
IN ATTENDANCE at the Mar
ian Congress, His Eminence Eu
gene Cardinal Tisserant, Secretary
of the Sacred Congregation for the
Oriental Church, and His Emi
nence Pierre Cardinal Gerlier,
Archbishop of Lyons, both combat
veterans of World War 1, were the
guests of Jean de Hauteclocque,
French Ambassador to Canada,
during their stay in Ottawa
WHILE IN OTTAWA for the
Marian Congress, His Eminence
Francis Cardinal Spellman, Arch
bishop of New York, was the guest
of Ray Atherton, U. S. Ambassa
dor to Canada.
of St. Mary’s College, Kans., will
speak on the July and August pro
grams of the Faith in Our Times
series which is given every Thurs
day at 10:15 a. m. (E. D. T.) over
the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Well-known as a radio speaker,
Father Cervantes has chosen
“Truths for Today” as the general
subject of his eight talks.
BY M. B. MAJOLI, S. J.
A worthy ancestor of the Cath
olic Press in the United States
was born just 125 years ago.
A true Southern gentleman-
charming in its personal communi
cations, its warmth and poetry,
but daring and aggressive in its
poised and sometimes bitter con
troversies—United States Cathoilc
Miscellany first saw the light of
day at Charleston, S. C., Wednes
day, June 5, 1822.
Some 400 Catholic publications
in the United States today have
a total circulation of more than
ten million. A century and a
quarter ago, there was not one
strictly Catholic newspaper in the
land. An Irish Bishop named
England remedied that.
First Bishop o£ Charleston, John
England founded the first distinc
tively Catholic newspaper in the
United States and thus earned for
himself the title of “Father of
American Catholic Journalism.”
“The principles of the publica
tion will be candor, moderation,
fidelity, charity and diligence.”
This was the promise made by
Bishop England in the prospectus
about his forthcoming paper, is
sued hardly a year after his arrival
in Charleston. And the record
shows that Miscellany fully ful
filled the promise.
Those were the days when men
were men, but not all of them gen
tlemen. The anti-Catholicism of
colonial days had not fully disap
peared. Religious liberty was on
the books, but not necessarily in
hearts. It'required courage and
vision to launch a Catholic paper
in such times. Bishop England
had both, plus tremendous energy,
a keen mind and a trenchant pen.
Over the initial issue of Miscel
lany—a large quarto, somewhat
smaller than Time Magazine, of
eight three-column pages—Bishop
England ran the First Amendment
to the Consttution. “Congress
shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or pro
hibiting the free exercise thereof.”
In Bishop England’s time, Cath
olics were outnumbered 50 to one
in the United States; and his own
flock, scattered throughout North
and South Carolina and Georgia,
numbered 5,000 to a population of
two millions. But the courageous
prelate found a compelling motive
in the isolation and defenseless
position of his people. Several
months before the appearance of
his paper, he wrote to Judge Wil
liam Gaston of North Carolina:
“Among the various wants of the
Catholics of these states, I do not
know a greater temporal one than
the want of some common organ
of communieatino.”
At the outset, the bishop jour
nalist was content to devote his
| column to the leaching of Catholis
doctrine and 1he correct presenta
tion of the Catholic* position in
history. But, i?* the fourth issue,
he was compelled to pen a reply
to a sermon published in the Wash
ington Gazette, entitled “Abomina
tions of Popery.” From that time
on Miscellany would also carry
controversial debates, letters and
articles, and set the polemical
note characteristic of nineteenth-
century Catholic journalism.
Bishop England wrote much of
the matter carried in the first vol
ume of Miscellany, and for 20
years—until his death in 1842—
his vivid style was to brighten the
paper. His pen was prolific as
well as versatile—essays, histori
cal pieces, discourses, pastoral let
ters, addresses and orations. Rich
ard J. Purcell considers his writ
ing "forceful and logical.”
When Bishop England came to
Charleston from Cork, he was ac
companied by his devoted sister,
Joanna. She sank her modest for
tune in the Miscellany undertak
ing and was of invaluable aid to the
editors “both by reason of her
translations, and because of her
taste and judgment,” according to
the Rev. J. R. Frese, S. J. Theo
dore Maynard says that “she turn
ed down the too vigorous passages
in her brother’s compositions and,
one suspects, gave them polish.”
Her death in 1827 was a tragic
loss.
Meanwhile, Miscellany was by
no means tripping down a rosy
Carolina Ians. What bitter ad
versaries could not accomplish,
Catholic apathy did. Lack of sup
port brought the press runs to a
stop only six months after the
paper’s birth. Agents in 31 cities
—from New York to Mobile, and
out west to Louisville—turned up
only 600 subscriptions, half of
whom failed to pay the four-dollar
annual rate. Faced with 9 de
ficit of $500, Miscellany suspend
ed publication with the Christmas
issue.
About a year later, Miscellany
reappeared, reduced In form to
octavo 16 pages; but again sus
pended in December, 1825, due to
“financial and typographical dif
ficulties.” The first issue of vol
ume six came out the following
July, this time on “a new press of
the most approved construction,
upon an excellent paper, and care
fully corrected.” This time it
was to last until December, 1861—
almost two decades after Bishop
England’t death—when fire de
stroyed the office of the paper,
the cathedral, the episcopal rei-
dence, the diocesan library, and a
good portion of the city. From
the ashes of this fire there was
no revival.
In overcoming difficulties and
meeting deficiencies, Miscellany
served as a spiritual model for all
Catholic papers to follow. There
is hardly a problem faced by cur
rent editors, that the editors of
Miscellany did not confront—and
other (difficulties, too. It had no
reporters to round up the news,
no news agency available to sup
ply its. needs. Bigoted postmas
ters, so the paper charged on more
than one occasion, opened, lent,
“by systematic accident delayed,
or even destroyed packets of pa
pers addressed to agents. Every
thing from hurricanes to the ill
ness of the excellent and esteemed
printer” caused interruptions, with
almost yearly epidemics of yellow,
dengue or stranger’s fever taking
toll.
A fitting eulogy has been made
of the Miscellany and its founder
by the Rev. Dr.. Peter Guilday:
“Bishop England found the Calit-
olic body in the United States
withoyt gny means of defense. He
taught both clergy and people in
the pages of Miscellany the inesti
mable privileges of their Catholic
Faith and of their American citi
zenship. He inspired them to pro
tect and defend both the one and
the other with a fearless advocacy
of the truth and with a courage
that never faltered before any dan
ger or opposition. The Miscellany
would, alone, be a- noble monu
ment to his widespread fame as an
orator, a divine, a patriot, and a
scholar.” (NC Features)
TAYLOR’S MISSION TO
VATICAN ENDORSED BY
EPISCOPALIAN ORGAN
MILWAUKEE.—(NC)—Endorse
ment of President Harry S. Tru-
j man’s policy of having a special
representative at the Vatican has
j been voiced by The Living Church,
! organ of the Protestant Episcopal
j Church, which declared in its cur-
' rent issue that it had no sympa-
] thy “with the frantic protests of
Protestant church 'leaders against
the special representation of this
country at the Vatican."
Commenting on the recent hook,
"Wartime Correspondence Be
tween President Roosevelt and
Pope Pius XII,” the weekly pub
lication declared that the mission
of Myron C. Taylor to the Vatican
was fully justified'by merely keep
ing channels open for the trans
mission of the messages in the
book.
“Even in peacetime,” the publi
cation said, “the Vatican has suffi
cient value as a center of diplo
matic intercourse to justify Amer
ican representation there.’’ j