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AUGUST HO, 1947
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
THREE
News Review of the Catholic World
Abbot Vmcent Attends Americ an Benedictine General Chapter
Five American Priests
Elevated to Episcopate
The Right Reverend Vincent 0.
Taylor, O. S. B„ D. D„ Abbot-
Ordinary of Belmont (seated, sec
ond from lgft), was one of the
fourteen Abbots of the American
Cassinese Congregation of the
Order of St, Benedict who attend
ed a Triennial General Chapter,
held August 5-8, at St. Bede’s
Abbey, Peru, Illinois. Pictured-
above at the meeting are. left to
right, seated: Abbot Bertrand
Dolan, St. Anselm’s, Manchester.
N. • H.; Abbot Vincent; Abbot
Leonard Schwinn, Holy Cross,
Canon City, Colo.: Abbot Mark
Braun, St. Gregory’s, Shawnee,
Okla., president of the Congrega
tion; Abbot Cuthbert Goeb, As
sumption Abbey, Richardson, N.
D.; Abbot Severin Gertken, St.
Peter’s, Muenster. Saskatchewan, I
Canada: Abbot Alfred Koch, St. '
Vincent’s Arch-abbey, Latrobe. '
Pa. Standing: Abbot Ambrose
Ondrak, St. Procopius, Lisle, 111.;
Abbot Theodore Kolis, St. An
drew’s, Cleveland; Abbot Raphael
Holder, St. Martin’s Lacey. Wash.;
Abbot Lawrence Vohs, St. Bede’s,
Peru, 111.; Abbot Cuthbert Mc
Donald, St. Benedict’s, Atchison,
St. Catherine Laboure
Canonized in Rome
French Sister of Charity to Whom the Devotion of the Miracu
lous Medal Was Revealed Proclaimed a Saint by Ilis Holi
ness Pope Pius XII in Solemn Ceremony at St. Peter’s in
Rome
R O M E.—iNC)—The glorious
pageantry which marked the can
onization of St Catherine Laboure
by His Holiness Pope Pius XII in
St. Peter’s Basilica here was a
profound contrast to the lowliness
of the Sister of Charity to whom
Our Lady revealed the Miraculous
Medal.
While millions ot Catholics
throughout the world wore the
medal during the nun’s lifetime,
the Christian world, including the
reigning Pontift, Pope Gregory
XVI, who had personally held the
Miraculous Medal in high regard,
did not know the author of the
medal. Only the nun’s confessor.
Father Algdcl, knew the secret and
from him she had exacted a prom
ise that he never tell anyone her
name .
Also remarkable about St. Cath
erine, who became the eighth
saint canonized by the Holy Fath
er during the first seven months
of this year, is the fact that the
introduction of Her cause was not
suggested by her community but
by the late Cardinal Masella,
the Prefect of the Sacred Con-
gregation of Rites, the very
congregation whose duty it is
to check carefully Ihe virtues of
the servants of God proposed for
the honors ot the altar.
It all came about when the lfely
See was petitioned for a feast day
in honor of Our Lady of the Mira
culous Medal. Accompanying the
petition, forwarded to Cardinal
Masella, were documents recount
ing the apparitions. The slory so
Impressed the Cardinal that he
urged the superiors of the Sisters
of Charity to begin the process for
Catherine's beatification. When
the Sisters hesitated, pointing out I
that it was the spirit of their rule
to shrink from glory the Cardinal
declared: “If you do not under
take this cause. 1 will do so my
self.” The cause was- begun in
1895.
Sisler Catherine Laboure was
beatified in 1933 and the two
further miracles necessary for her
canonization came shortly after
wards. The first .occurring the
same year as the nun’s'beatifica
tion, concerns one Josephine Goit-
dret, who was suffering from a se
rious heart ailment, and had re
ceived the Last Sacraments. After
imploring the intercession of
Blessed Catherine she was perfect
ly cured—a cure confirmed by
two doctors who attended her and
by four expeits sent by the Con
gregation o( Rites. The second
miracle wrought through St.
Catherine’s intercession occurred
in 1937. It concerns a Sister Irene
Pascal of the Daughters of Charity
who had undergone four opera
tions of adhesions. Doctors hud
labeled her condition incurable,
but on the sixth day of a novena to
St. Catherine. Sister Irene was
completely cured.
The newly canonized nun was
born in the little French village
of Fain-les-Moutiers on May 2,
1806. She was only eight years
old when her mother died. Em
bracing the statue of the Blessed
Virgin, she declared: “Now you
will be my mother.’ While the
saint was in her early teens her
oldest sister joined the Daugh
ters of Charity and (lie care of
the household fell on Catherine’s
shoulders. She lived a life devot
ed to household chores for about
ten years when one night she had
an exceptional dream in which an
old priest kept beckoning her to
follow him. She later recognized
the old priest in the portrait of
St. Vincent de Paul and she un
derstood she was to follow him as
a Sister of Charity.
She entered the novitiate in
April. 1830. Eight days after be
coming a novice she was favored
by a revelation from St. Vincent
and a few months later by one
from the Blessed Vergin. In No
vember of the same year Mary
again appeared to her standing
on a globe, crushing a serpent’s
head under her heel. Dazzling
rays of light flashed from her
jewelled finge;s. About her were
the words in letters of gold: “O
Mary, conceived without sin. pray
for us who have recourse to thee.”
Tlie apparition turned and Cath
erine saw a cross with the letter
M. and the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and Mary, framed in an oval of
twelve stars A heavenly voice
spoke: “Have a medal struck after
this model Those who wear it
will receive great graces.”
The nun spent the rest of her
forty-six years of life in obscurity
in a hospital in Reuilly. France,
where she was, employed in the
kitchen and clothes room. She
died on December 31. 1875.
Her body . today reposes under
the very altar where Mary mani
fested the Miraculous Medal. Her
bands still white as when alive
clasp the Rosary beads, her olive
complexion is clear and without
wrinkles, her vivid blue eyes are
still open and fixed on the spot
where as a novice she saw ihe
first model of the medal that to
day is worn throughout the world.
DR. IIENRY S. LUCAS, profes
sor of history at the University of
Washington since 1921, lias been
received into Ihe Church by Mon-
signor Theodore Ryan, pastor of
I maculate Conception Church,
Seattle. Dr. Lucas attributed his
conversion to his study of history.
“The Catholic Church's very ex
istence and continuity challenge
the interest of one who makes
thoughtful study of history,” he
said.
TO MARK ANNIVERSARY
BISHOP WALSH
His Excellency Ihe Most Rev
erend Emmet M. Walsh, D. D.,
Bishop of Charleston, who will
celebrate at Solemn Pontifical
Mass at tlie_Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist" in Charleston. S. C„
on September 10, in commemora
tion of the twentieth anniversary
of his elevation to the Episcopacy.
Bishop Walsh, who was born in
Beaufort, S. C., March 6, 1892,
moved to Savannah. Ga„ with his
parents in his youth, and «i 1916
was ordained as a priest of the
Diocese of Savannah. In 1927. lie
was named by His Holiness Pope
Pius XI to succeed the late Bishop
William T. Russell as Bishop of
Charleston, and in September of
that year was consecrated Bishop
at the Cathedral in Savannah by
Bishop Michael J. Keyes. S. M..
then Bishop of Savannah, with
Bishop William Ilafey, then Bishop
or Raleigh, and the late Bishop
Patrick Barry, then Bishop of St.
Augustine, as Co-consecrators.
Members of the Bishop P. N.
Lynch Assembly, Fourth Degree
K.iiglits of Columbus, of Charles
ton, and a number of Fourth De
gree K. of C. members from Sa
vannah, will serve as a guard of
honor at Bishop Walsh's anniver
sary Mass.
Holy Father Relights
Votive Column in Sicily
VATICAN CITY—(Radio NO—-
In a radio address to the people
of Messina. Sicily, His Holiness
Pope Plus XII implored the Bless
ed Virgin to illumine lire hearts
of men so that they may recog
nize that true peace cannot he at
tained “through fraternal strife
and selfish victories” hut only “by
putting into practice the teachings
of Him Who) alone was able to
call Himself ‘Prince of Peace’ and
proclaimed no other war than
that of man against his own pas
sions.” *
•The Holy Father delivered his
allocution over the radio from the
Papal summer villa in Castel-
gandolfo, after he had •relit, by
Kans.; Abbot Francis Sadlier, St.
Leo’s, Fla.; Abbot Patrick O'Brien,
St. Mary's. Unable to attend be
cause of illness were Abbot Al-
euin Deutsch, St. John’s. College-
ville, Minn., and Abbot Boniface
Seng. St. Bernard's. St. Bernard,
Ala. Abbots will soon leave
for Rome to attend a congress of
all Abbots of the Benedictine Or
der.—WC Photos).
REV. JOSEPH KAVANAGH
APPOINTED RECTOR OF
PHILADELPHIA CHURCH
(Special to The Bulletin)
i Philadelphia, Pa. — Announce
ment has been made by the Chan
cery Office of the Archdiocese; of
Philadelphia of the appointment of
Father Joseph W. Kavanagh, for
mer administrator of St. Mat
thew's Church, Convhohocken, Pa.,
to rector of the Church of the
Transfiguration of Our Lord, in
Philadelphia.
Father Kavanagh, one of four
brothers to be ordained to the
priesthood, was ordained as a
priest of the Archdiocese of Phil
adelphia in May, 1931, by ilis Em
inence Dennis Cardinal Dougher
ty, Archbishop of Philadelphia.
His first assignment was at
Pottsville, Pa , and in 1934 he was
transferred to the Church of the
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary, in Philadelphia, where the
Most Rev. Gerald P. O’Hara, then
Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia,
was rector a. the time.
When Bishop O'Hara was made
Bishop of Savannah-Atlahta, in
1936. Father Kavanagh accompa
nied him to Georgia as his secre
tary, and served in that capacity
and as Diocesan master of cere
mony. until four years ago when
lte returned to the Archdiocese of
Philadelphia.
Father Kavanagh's brothers
who are also priests are the Very
Rev. William A. Kavanagh. S. T.
D.. P R.. rector of S'. John (he
Evangelist Church, Philadelphia:
(lie Rev. John C. Kavanagh. as
sistant pastor of St. Anne’s
Church, Philadelphia, and the
Rev. M. Francis X. Kavanagh, O.
C. S. O., master of novices at the
Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy
Ghost, Conyers, Ga.
Father P. J. O’Connor
Delivers Sermon at
Site of “Lost Colony”
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Father
Patrick J. O'Connor, assistant pro-
lessor of Sacred Eloquence at the
Catholic University of America,
and assistant director of ihe
Preachers’ Institute, which each
summer gives instruction in . pul
pit oratory to priests from many
Dioceses, delivered the sermon at
the Pontifical High Mass which
was celebrated on August 24 on
the stage of the Waterside Thea
tre. where the historical drama,
“The Lost Colony.” is being pre
sented in its tenth anniversary
season.
The subject of Father O'Con
nor’s sermon at the Mass, which
was celebrated by Bishop Vincent
S. Waters, of Raleigh, was “God i
or Hie Lost Country.” Music for I
tlie Mass was rendered by the |
Westminster Choir of Princeton j
University.
Catholics from all over North I
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON. — Five priests
in different parts of the United
States, one of them a distinguished
Catholic editor, have been raised
to the Hierarchy by His Holiness
Pope Pius Xli. it is announced in
word received here by His Excel
lency Archbishop Amleto Giovan
ni Cieognani. Apostolic Delegate
to I lie United States.
The Rev. Hubert Michael New
ell, superintendent of schools of
the Archdiocese of Denver for the
last ten years, has been' named
Titular Bishop of Zapara and Co-
adjulor with the Right of Succes
sion to Bishop Patrick A. McGov
ern of Cheyenne.
Msgr. Hugh A. Donohoe, editor
o The Monitor, newspaper of tlie
Archdiocese of San Francisco, has
been named Titular Bishop of
i Taiuni and Auxiliary to Archbish-
I op John J. Mitty of San Francis
co.
I The Very Rev. L. Abel Caillou-
i el, Rector of St. Joseph’s Church,
Baton Rouge. La., has been named
Titular Bishop of Setea and Aux
iliary to Archbishop Joseph F.
Rummel of New Orleans.
Msgr. Roman R. Atkielski, Chan
cellor of the Archdiocese of Mil
waukee, has been named Titular
Bishop of Stobi and Auxiliary lo
Archbishop Moses E. Kiley of Mil
waukee.
Msgr. James Aloysius McNulty,
Moderator General of the Mt.
Carmel Guild and director of dio
cesan cemeteries in (he Arch
diocese of Newark, lias been nam
ed Titular Bishop of Mcthone and
Auxiliary to Archbishop Thomas J.
Walsh of Newark.
QUEBEC, the mother See of
North America, in a great out
pouring of affection, gave an un-
forgettablc welcome to a native
son when Archbishop Maurice Roy
was enthroned as the 21st Bish
op and 11th Archbishop of Que
bec, succeeding the late beloved
Cardinal Villejieuve. Archbishop
Ildebrando Antoniuiti. Apostolic
Delegate to Canada and New
foundland. presided at the cere
mony which was attended by hun
dreds of members of the Cana
dian Hierarchy and clergy, as well
a s representatives of the Domin
ion of Canada and Province of
Quebec Governments and Military
and Judiciary life of the country.
Archbishop Roy was senior Cana
dian Catholic chaplain in Europe,
and his service during the war
won for him the decorations of
an Officer of the British Empire
from King George VI and the
Knighthood of the Legion of Hon
or from tlie Government of France.
OSSERVATORE ROMANO, of-
ficial Vatican newspaper, has hail
ed the Marshall Plan as “the most
genuine expression of a will to
normalize the economic conditions
of nations hit by the war and con
sequently easy prey to internal
disorders and possible internation
al conflicts. In an article entitled
“The Holy See and European Re
construction.” the paper expressed
the gratitude of the Vatican for
the formulation of the Plan and
said it must “deeply influence
Catholic opinion all over the
world because it is built upon the
eternal principles of the Christian
religion.”
HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII
has left the Vatican and the in
tense heat of the Italian summer
in favor of his summer residence,
CastelgandoU’o, in the Alban Hills,
south of the Eternal City. The
Holy Father made the forty-five
minute trip in an automobile, and
immediately after his arrival at
the summer residence, appeared
on r. balcony overlooking the town
square and imparted his Apostolic
Blessing to a throng of some 1,500
p. rsons.
means of a radio contact, the
beacon atop a 200-1'oot column at
the entrance to the port of Mes- 1
sina. This column is crowned by j
a 23-feet-liigh statue of tlie Bless- |
ed Virgin standing upon a globe
measuring six feet in diameter. I
Carolina visited Roanoke Island
on August 23 and 24, to witness
the stirring drama and to attend
Ihe Mass, which was sponsored by
tlie North Carolina Catholic Lay
men’s Association.
Father O’Connor is regarded as
one of the foremost pulpit orators
in this country, and he has trav
eled extensively throughout the
United States and Canada, preach
ing at novena and othgr services.
He is a priest of the Diocese of
Sav|innah-Atlanta, but for the past
fourteen years has been a member
of the faculty of the Catholic Uni
versity in Washington.