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_THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA VWFN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 30, 1947
Silver Jubilee Reception for
Father Robert Bryant, S. J
Pastor of St. Joseph's, Macon,
(Special lo The Bulletin)
MACON, Ga. — Father Robert
T. Bryant, S. J., pastor of St.
Joseph's Church, was honored on
July 27 by (he members of his
parish and other friends on Ihe
occasion of the twenty-fifth an
niversary of his ordination as a
priest of the Society of Jesus.
After completing his elementary
education in the parochial schools
in his home city, Selma, Ala.,
Father Bryant entered St. Stanis
laus College, in Macon, in 1906. He
completed his philosophical course
at the College of the Sacred
Heart, Woodstock, Md., after which
he taught for several years at the
Jesuit High school in New Orleans
and at Spring Hill College in Ala
bama. He completed his study for
the priesthood at St. Louis Uni
versity.
Father Bryant's first year in
the priesthood was spent at
Loycda University of the South
in New Orleans, after which he
went to the Novitiate of St. An-
d-e -on-the-Hudson, Poughkeep
sie, N. Y„ for his year of tertian-
ship. He was next stationed at
Spring Hill College, where he was
prefect of discipline and director
of athletics. Later he was direc
tor of Retreats for several years
at the Manresa Retreat House,
Convent Station, La.
In 1935. Father Bryant went to
St. Ann's Church. West Palm
Beach, Fla., as assistant pastor,
F-ing made pastor of the parish
the following year. He remained
at St. Ann’s until 1941 when he
came to Macon, to serve for sev
eral months as administrator of St.
Joseph's Church. He next enter
ed the Army Chaplain Corps, serv
ing for three years, mostly in New
Guinea. Last year. Father Bryant
returned to Macon as pastor of
St. Joseph’s.
Father Bryant received the con
gratulations and expressions of
good wishes from his parishioners
and his friends at a reception held
at St. Joseph’s Hall. In the re
ceiving line with the Silver
Jubilarian were his assistants,
Father Michael . McNally, S. J.,
members of her decorating com
mittee, entwined the columns in
the hall with silvered magnolia
leaves and grasses, *md flowers in
pastel shades adored mantles and
tables. The punch tables, with
cloths of Venetian point lace held
silver bowls banked at the base
with silvered fruits, while gladioli
and silvered leaves.
In the vestibule a miniature of
St. Joseph’s Church, with priest
and altar boys in the yard, was
surrounded by small pines, arrang
ed by Miss Frances Weisz.
More than five hundred friends
of Father Bryant registered in
the guest book, which was kept
by Miss Julia McCreary and MisS
A‘gnes McKervey.
Retreat for Women
Held at Mt. de Sales
Academy in Macon
(Special to The Bulletin)
and Father Raymond J. Mullin, U"
CRITICS OF STATE AID
TO NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS
REBUKED IN EDITORIAL
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK—With the'Warning
“let us beware that our Protestant
faith does not degenerate into
mere anti-Catholicism,” Dr. Rein
hold Niebuhr, chairman of the
editorial board, writing in the cur
rent issue of Christianity and
Crisis, lakes issue with opponents
of Federal aid for non-public
schools .as well as those against
allowing non-public school pupils
to ride on State school buses.
Meanwhile an organization in
New Jersey known as the New
Jersey Taxpayers’ Organization to
Preserve Separation of Church
and State has asked that State’s
constitutional convention commit
tee to recommend provision in the
New Jersey charter which would
nullify that 1941 law, which the
U. S. Supreme Court has ruled
gives the right to . ’non-public
school children to public school
bus transportation.
Weidner Titzck, attorney for the
organization, appeared at a public
hearing of the committee and as
serted that the law is now “a
serious threat to the wall of sep-
arat J m of Church and State,
which was intended to be erected
in both our national and State
Constitutions.” He contended
there has been a stream of pro
tests from all parts of the coun
try since the U. S. Supreme Court
rendered its decision.
Dr. Niebuhr in his editorial
stated; “Is it really right for
Protestants to become so excited
about the possibility of Catholic
parochial school children riding in
State school buses? Is it really
good for the Protestant Church to
insist so absolutely on the sep
arate. of Church and State?"
“Ought not Protestant denom
inations,” the editorial continues,
“who pass resolutions against Fed
eral education aid because they
fear the possibility of some of
such aid going to Catholics, ask
whether that attitude is fair and
generous toward America’s dis
inherited school children; whether
in this case Religious hatred
does not deprive needy children
of badly needed educational ad
vantages?”
Dr. Neibuhr insisted that the
primary Protestant “business is
to see that Protestant religious
MACON, Ga. — The twenty-
sixth annual Retreat for women,
S. J.; Father John D. Toomev, p aS : I sponso,ed l)y ‘ he Catholic Lay-
tor of Sacred Heart Church. Mil- men’s Association of Georgia, in
Frtnkhi^pr W r J Q 08C * ph . cooperation with the Savannah- | ,7 fe ^ e n‘ough“to prewntl
£™!L k il aus , e T J S :’ , J ” of Spnng Hill, Atlanta Diocesan Council of spiritual vacuum in the culture
was held at of our nation.’
Mount de Sales Academy here,
August 19-22, with Father Mi- _ __
chael A. Watters, S. J., of New! RETREAT OF DIOCESAN
Orleans, as retrealmaster. PRIESTS TO BE HELD
Those who attended the ■
College, formerly pastor of St. L, ,, ...
Joseph’s here; Father Alohonse I S? 11110 , IC . Women
Koch, S. M. A., of St. Peter Claver ' Mount de SalpK
Ch rch. Macon, and Martin J.
Callagahan, K. S. G.. and A. J.
Long, K. S. G., members of St.
Josephs’ parish, recently honored
with knighthood in the Order of
St. Gregory the Great.
Mrs. Robert F. Wynne was gen
eral chairman of the committee
arranging for the reception, other
members of the committee being
Mrs. A. T. Worsham, Mrs. Agnes
McLellan, Mrs. Regis Lomax, Miss
Agnes Loynd and Miss Genevieve
Weisz.
During the evening a delight
fully ente-taining musical Drogram .... . ... .. ... . -•
was presented under the direction Crffin, Miss Nannie Valeri, La-
» Grange.
re- ; |
treat were; Miss Agnes L. Bros-
nan. Albany; Miss Margaret P.
Redding, Mrs. Alice Dinkier,
Mrs. W. A. Wells and Mrs. W. R.
S. Swartz. At-** * a; ivirs. W. 4 >i'~
gan Smith, Miss Anna M. Rice
and Miss Mary Meadowcroft, Au
gusta. Mrs. E. V. Munson, Bain-
oridge: Mrs. Jane M.
College Park; Miss Mavgaret M.
AT ABBEY IN CONYERS
(Special lo The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH. Ga. — Monsignor [
Joseph E. Moylan, Vicar General
of the Diocese of Savannah-At-
lanta, has announced that a se
ries of three Retreats for the
priests of the Diocese will be held
Columbus; Miss Rosalie Deraney,
of Mrs. S. A. Giglio. Among those
participating were Miss Frances
Jones, Miss Peggy McGoldrick, p McGoldriek Mrs. W. F. Mur
phy, Mrs. Frank Bunch, Mrs.
Zettler and Capt. Lois r7c. Ray. ‘ fwVhJS** °! 5? ur Ladv f ‘ he
■” Holy Ghost, at Conyers, during
the period from September 21 to
October 11, with Father J. Math
ew English, O. M. I„ as retreat-
master.
range.
Mrs. Andrew F. Devlin, Mrs. J.
Miss Teresa McCreary, Miss Mary
Weisz, Miss Patricia Donnelly,
Miss Patty Adams, Miss Frances
Weisz. Mrs. W. D. Jarrett, Miss
Elizabeth PiNman. Edward Iluth-
nancc. Charles Adams, R. Haber-
nieht Casson, Edward Hutchings
and Bill'* Joanis.
Assisting in welcoming the
guests and in serving refreshments
Holmes J. Smith, Mrs. John Mc-
As the Trappist Abbey in Geor
gia cannot accommodate more !
than fifteen visitors at a time, it j
were Mrs Dan Ilorgan, Mrs. Calla- pnd Mrs.
way Riley. Mrs. Florrie Ray, Mrs.
Carling Schatzman, Mrs. Charles
Hays, Mrs. Valentine Sheridan,
Mrs . Ja-k Wood, Mrs. Robert
Kingman. Mrs. Carl Cain, Mrs.
Martin Callaghan, Jr., Mrs. Clark
Davis, Mrs. Angelo Punaro, Miss
Mary Long, Miss Ala Casidy and
Miss Rebecca Long.
Mrs. J. R. Stine, assi-ted by the
Brearty, Mrs. G. H. Donnelly, Mrs. j will be ne’cessary to conduct Re-
Joseph K. Daly, Mrs. Charles Le- treats for the Diocesan clergy in
Hardy Adams, Sr., Mrs. Joseph j three groups.
Thomas, Mrs. Regis G. Lomax, | Father English, a native; of Mas-
Mrs. Christopher Sheridan, Miss sachusetts, attended Holy Angels
Charlotte Cnsson. Mrs. ■ J . j Collegiate Institute, Buffalo, N.
Mathis, Miss Alice Sheridan, | V., and entered the novitiate of
Mrs. H. A. Kennington, Macon, j the Oblates of Mary Immaculate
R. L. Hatcher of Mil- j at Tewksbury, Mass., where he
)p dge. completed his philosophical and
Miss Louise Sullivan, Sanders- theological course. He was or-
ville; Mrs. J. E. Dillon, Mrs. Eliz- dained in 1916 by the late Cardi-
abeth Byrne, Mrs. J. M. Trapani ' nal O'Connell, at Holy Cross Ca-
Miss Helen McGreevy, Mrs. L. J.’ thedral in Boston.
Dunn and Mrs, Walter M. Craw- 1 . After two years post-ordina-
ford, Savannah; Miss Mary E. i M 011 study at the Catholic Univer-
Blanctu.rd, Bishopville S. C.: and slty of America, Father English
Mrs. Mary D. Wichers, St. Leo taught philosophy at the Oblate
Florida.
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Charleston, South Carolina
Scholastic at Washington. D. C.,
for several years.
He next served at St. Patrick’s
Church, McCook. Neb., for two
years, and was then assigned to
the Oblate Mission Band. He has
become noted throughout the
United States as a preacher of
Missions and of Retreats for
priests and Religious. For six
years he was Superior of the ;
Oblate Mission House at Toledo,
Ohio. He is now stationed at the
Oblate Scholaslicate in Washing
ton.
ACCORDING to a Religious
News Service release, Father John
M. Fawley, C. SS. R., of the “Mis
sion Church, “Roxbury, Mass., has
been named Provincial of the Rc-
demptorist Fathers’ Baltimore
Province, which includes most of
the Eastern Uiuied Stales.
REPRESENTING POPE IN GERMANY
Bishop Aloisius J. Muench of Fargo, North Dakota, who is presently]
serving as Apostolic Viaitator to Germany, is shown here after A
service at which he presided in St. Joseph s Church in Hoechst am
Main, Germany. At the service, the American Bishop preached in
English and German. (NC Photos)
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