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K. OF C. AT CARDINAL’S TOMB
HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius'XII
has received in private audience
Max Sorenson, of Pltlladclpliia,
national commander of the Cath
olic War Veterans.
BY A DECKEL of the Sacred
Consistorial Congregation, the
Holy Father has changed the title
iA the Diocese of Leavenworth.
Kansas, to the Diocese of Kansas
City in Kansas. The decree was
formally put into execution on
August 15.
BY A VO TE OF 50 TO 28, THE
Constitutional Convention in New
Brunswick. N. .1.. approved a pro
vision in the proposed new con
stitution for the State of New
Jersey authorizing use of public
funds for transportation of chil
dren to and from all schools, pub
lic and private. By this action the
convention affirmed and enlarged
the state’s school bus act which
was approved by the highest court
in the state and upheld last Feb
ruary by the United States Su
preme Court.
IN THE PRESENCE OF SOME
15.000 Catholic Boy Scouts and vis
itors at the sixth annual world's
Boy Scout Jamboree, in Moisson,
France, His Eminence Bernard
Cardinal Griffin. Archbishop of
Westminister celebrated a Solemn
Pontifical Mass on the Feast of
the Assumption, with 100 priests
of various nations assisting. Cath
olic scouts are prominent among
nearly all of the delcgatipns of
85.000 boys from 24 countries at
tending the Jamboree.
HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII
has named Father Ansgar Nelson,
O. S. B„ a priest of the Priory of
St. Gregory the Great at Ports
mouth, Rhode Island, to be Titular
Bishop of Birta and Coadjutor to
Bishop Johannes Erik Mueller,
Vicar Apostolic of Sweden. Dorn
Ansgar Nelson, the Bishop-gleet, a
native of Denmark, is a convert to
the Catholic Church.
THE SPEECH AND DRAMA
department of the Catholic Uni
versity of America is to have an
other of its original plays pro
duced on Broadway. This time is
“All Gaul Is Divided,’’ a comedy
by John McGivcr, student play
wright, which has just been sold
for professional production.
HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII
has named Bishop Thomas L. Noa,
formerly Coadjutor to Bishop Ed
mond Heelan of Sioux City. Iowa,
to be Bishop of Marquette, Mich
igan, and has named Monsignor
Joseph M. Mueller. Pastor of St.
Peter’s Cathedral, Belleville, III.,
be Titular Bishop of Simla and
Coadjutor to Bishop Heelan.
Gathered in Boston for the 65th annual Supreme Convention of their
Order, national officers of the Knights of Columbus went with Arch
bishop Richard J. Cushing of Boston to the tomb of the late Cardinal
William O'Connell within the grounds of St. John’s Seminary, Brigh
ton, Mass,, and placed a wreath. Shown at this ceremony are, left
to right: Archbishop Cushing, Joseph F. Lamb of New York, Su
preme Secretary of the K. of C.; Francis J. Heaze! of Asheville,
N, C., Supreme Treasurer, and Judge John E. Swift of Milford,
Mass., Supreme Knight:
Myron Taylor Returns to Vatican
for Conference With Pope Pius XII
Supreme Knight Swift Scores
Foes of Religious Schools in
Address at K. of C. Convention
WASHINGTON — (NC) — Con
structive views and suggestions to
help United States thought and
action contribute to a “moral
world order” of peace will be
sought by Myron C. Taylor, Presi
dent Harry S. Truman’s personal
representative to the Holy Father,
in another visit to Rome.
This announcement was made in
a statement by the President short
ly after Mr Taylot had taken off
in New York for his first trip to
Rome in eight months The duration
of his stay overseas was not an
nounced. but President Truman
did say his representative has been
asked to confer with “other lead
ers” as well as Pooe Pius XII.
In June of last year, after pres
sure from non-Catholic clergymen
to end the mission to which the
late President Roosevelt had as
signed Mr. Taylor in 1940, Presi
dent Truman said at a press con
ference th^it the Taylor mission
would continue until such time as
world peace was secured. Later,
in November, 1946, Mr. Taylor re
turned to Rome for a visit that
lusted less than 30 days. ,
In the statement released by the
White House.., Mr Truman said:
"At my request the Hon Myron
C. Taylor is proceeding to Rome
as my personal representative for
further exchanges of views with
His Holiness Pope Pius XII, on
problems relative to the establish
ment of peace under a moral world
order to the alleviation of tile hu
man suffering still continuing in
many parts of the world. Mr. Tay
lor has also been asked to hold
conversations with other leaders
on similar problems while he is
in Europe.
“The purpose of these further
conversations, as on earlier crea
tions. is to gather for my guid
ance and assistance various views
and impressions concerning exist
ing conditions affecting peace and
the relief ot distress, and to ob
tain the energetic cooperation of
all men and women of good will,
whether in religion, in govern
ment, or in other activities of life,
in the interest of progress toward
solution of those problems.
“I am seeking by this means a
greater clarification of the nature
of the' vital tasks that confront
eacli of the nations that have
pledged themselves to cooperate in
llie establishment and mainte
nance of international peace and
security and to promote economic
and social advancement. I wish
to have the benefit of the con
structive views and suggestions of
leaders everywhere to the end
that the thought and action of the
United States as to world affairs
may contribute to that moral
world order ot peace and security
and well-being for which we and
the other United Nations struggled
to victory in World War II.”
ON NATIONAL CATHOLIC RADIO PROGRAMS
Msgr. Leo J. Steck (left), Archdiocesan Director of Catholic Rural Life Conference, St. Louis, Mo.,
will deliver a series of talks on “The Church and Rural Life," on the nationwide Catholic Hour pro
gram during the Sundays of September, on the NBC network. The Rev. Joseph N. Moody (center),
professor of history at Cathedral College, New York City, will be the speaker on the Hour of Faith
program during the Sundays of September over the ABC national network. Rev. Vincent J. Mc
Cauley (right), Superior of the Missionary Seminary of the Holy Cross, Washington, D. C., will
speak on the Mutual Broadcasting system’s Faith in Our Time program, during the Thursdays of
, September. The programs are produced by the National Council of Catholic Men. (NC Photos)
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
BOSTON — Urging all U. S.
citizens to cease bickering among
themselves and to unite against
the "embattled powers of dark
ness, now successfully conspiring
to raise another iron curtain even
between all creation and its Divine
Creator,” Judge John E. Swift,
Supreme Knight of the Knights of
Columbus, scored “those profes
sional brewers of bigotry” who
would penalize parents for send
ing their children to religious
schools.
The Judge was one of the speak
ers at the state dinner at the 65th
annual meeting of the Supreme
Council. Ollier speakers were
Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of
Boston. Senator Francis J. Meyers
of- Pennsylvania, and Gov. Robert
F. Bradford of Massachusetts.
Greetings were extended by John
B. Hynes, acting Mayor of Boston.
The meeting opened with a
Solemn Pontifical Mass offered by
Bishop Ilenrv J- O’Brien ot Hart
ford at the Cathedral of the Holy
Cross. Archbishop Cushing pre
sided and Bishop Matthew F.
Brady of Manchester preached the
sermon.
Archbishop Richard J. Cushing
of Boston, speaking at the States
Dinner of the convention called
upon the members of the Knights
of Columbus to be “Christophers”
by bringing Christ to men and to
become “an informed, zealdus,
apostolic laity actively engaged in
the defense of the Church before
I he bar of public opinion.
In a message addressed to
Judge Swdft, His Holiness Pope
Pius XII extended to the dele
gates “paternal greetings and
cordial felicitations on the 65th
anniversary of the founding of
the order whose history is a
record of most significant
achievement for God and coun
try.” A letter from His Excel
lency Archbishop Amlcto Gio
vanni Cicognani. Apostolic Dele
gate to tlie United States, ex
pressed the hope that the apos
tolic blessing would “bring with it
many and abundant graces in re
ward for the past devoted service
of the Knights of Columbus lo
I lie cause of Holy Mother the
Church.”
The Pope’s message stated: “It
is a source of comloit and satis
faction for us to know that dur
ing the past year the order lias
welcomed more than 100,000 new
members who will have an active
part in its mission of advancing
Christian ideals in the relation
ships amongst men and amongst
nations. In token of Our pater
nal affection and us a pledge of
bounteous divine fgvor we impart
to Hie officers and members of
the order and to all those near
and dear to them Our Apostolic
Benediction."
President Harry S. Truman in a
message to the convention urged
the Knights to continue (heir tire
less efforts on behalf of education,
social welfare and patriotism.
In his letter of greetings Presi
dent Truman slated, “It is well
for the nation and for the world
that the Knights of Columbus con
tinue unwearied in their activities
to forward the cause of education,
to promote social welfare and to
uphold the ideals of highest patri i-
lism. How wise your fraternity is
'in holding fast to the old ideals
of American life. I hope that the
program now being launched by
the Knights ot Columbus to pre
serve that heritage of freedom will
receive the solid support of good
citizens throughout the nation.’’
Taking issue with “certain reli
gious agitators,” who he said “are
proving disruptive of that peace
and concord happily reigning
among the millions of our fellow-
citizenry,” Judge Swift declared
that they are “blasphemously tak
ing in vain the name of the First
Amendment of Hie Constitution”
and are “hypocritically attempting
to despoil millions of our God
fearing fellow citizens of their
God-given rights guaranteed by
that First Amendment.
“That amendment declares that
‘Congress shall make no law e-
specting an establishment of reli
gion or prohibiting the free ex
ercise thereof.’ ” the Judge con
tinued. “Relying on that constitu
tional guarantee of the free ex
ercise of their religion, and duti
fully mindful of Washington’s ad
monition Unit ‘the nation that for
got God has never been allowed to
endure,’ many millions of patriotic
i Americans — Protestants, Jew:
and Catholics—have established
religious schools lo educate their
children as loyal citizens who can
maintain and ever promote that
new birth of freedom,’ whicli
Lincoln, like the Founding Fathers
before him. always besought the
Divine Benignity lo bestow upon
this ‘Nation under God.’
“Now. when Congress, for pur
poses of public health, the com
mon weal, and the general welfare
appropriates public funds, drawi
from all citizens alike, to furnish
needy little school children with
free ' lunches, free text-books, oi
bus-rides, was there ever a more
tragic, or even more treasonable
contradiction than this shortsight
ed and malevolent attempt, in the
name of the First Amendment, to
nullify that very amendment, am
withhold their fair share of those
funds from children in religious
schools, and thus penalize theii
parents, and in so far, destroy the
religious freedom of those parents
who had heroically established
those religious schools in pursu
ance of their coifttilulional right
to free exercise of their religion!
“Never will loyai Americans,
once they grasp the point, wilfullj
countenance such injustice, sue)
perfidy lo the constitution. No>
will they ever share the ill-wll
or the sloganized thinking benim
that fallacious, underfined, un-
A m erica n, foreign - fashionec
I phrase, about ‘Separation o
| Church and State,’ — a phrase
i hatched into Hie European worli
| by the historic enemies ot al
religion.
I “Hence, we call upon all ou'
I fellow Americans, all believers ii
the living God. the God of oui
fathers, (lie God in Whom ever
the coinage, passing so freel;
effbry moment through our fingers
solemnly attests that we still pu
our trust,—yes, we conjure all ti
cease exhausting our nationa
energies and moral resources, to
cease pitting citizen against citiz
en, to cease such paltry bicker
ings that make us the laughing
stock of our foes. Rather, let 1'1-
unite as one nation and one man
against I lie embattled powers o.
darkness, now successfully con
spiring to raise another iron cur
lain even between all creation am
its Divine Creator. Yes, let oui
union, divinely one and insepara
ble, prove lo a tottering worh
that, in fundamentals, we al
wholeheartedly still indorse Wash
ington’s warning that ‘The nation
that forgot God has never 'been
allowed to endure!’ ”
OFFICERS. RE-ELECTED
At the closing session of the
convention. Judge John E. Swift,
of Milford. Mass., was unani
mously re-elected to a second
two-year term as Supreme
Knight.
•Also re-elected unanimously
were Timothy I’. Galvin, of Ham
mond. I ml.. Deputy Supreme
Knight: Joseph F. Lamb. New
York City. Supreme Secretary;
Francis J. Heazel, Asheville. N. C..
Supreme Treasurer: Luke E. Hart.
St. Louis, Supreme Advocate:
Monsignor Ceo M. Finn. Bridge
port, Conn., Supreme Chaplain:
Dr. Edward W. Fahey, St. Paul.
Minn.. Supreme Physician. Clar
ence J. M; lone, of Topeka, Kans.,
was elected Supreme Warden, un
opposed, when Gus J. Strauss, of
Hall tsvillc. Texas, former ward
en. withdrew.
Chosen as directors were Mi
chael J. Howlett, Chicago; John
L. Martin, Oklahoma City; John
A. Flanigan. Baltimore: James M.
Donohue, Huntington. W. Va,; Dr.
C. D. Kerrigan. Davenport. Iowa,
and William M. Lennox, Philadel
phia.
FATHER THOMS U. BOLD!
S. M„ of St. Joseph’s Chun
Paulina. La., and Father Jose
Buckley, S. M„ vice-rector
Notre Dame Seminary, New (
leans, wilt act as delegates to t
general chapter of the Society
Mary starting in Rome, Septcmb
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