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SEPTEMBER 27, 1947
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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News Review of the Catholic World
AS POPE OONFERRED WITH PRESIDENT’S ENVOY
His Holiness Pope Pius XII receives in private audience Myron Taylor, President Truman’s personal
representative at the Vatican, in the first of a ser ies of talks at Castel Gandolfo, the pontifical sum
mer residence, near Home. INP. (NC Photos)
Pope Pius XII Appeals for
Aggressive Catholic Action
Speaking Before an Assembly of Over 200,000 People Gathered
in St. Peter’s Square, the Holy Father Also Urged Coopera
tion With Non-Catholics in the Cause of Christ
TWO BENEDICTINES
PRONOUNCE VOWS
• - -
Frater John Oetgen, O. S. B.,
and Frater Raphael Bridge,
O. S. B., Make Formal
Profession at Belmont
Abbey
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT. N. C.—Two mem
bers of the Belmont Abbey com
munity, Frater John Anthony
Oetgen, O. S. B., of Savannah,
Ga.. and Frater Raphael Gerard
Bridge, O. S. B., of Latrobe, Pa.,
pronounced their solemn vows in
the Order of St. Benedict on St.
Augustine’s Day, in the presence
of the Right Reverend Vincent G.
Taylor, O. S. B„ D. D„ Abbot-
Ordinary of Belmont, at the Bel
mont Abbey Cathedral.
Abbot Vincent celebrated a
Solemn Pontifical Mass, with
Father Joseph Tobin, O. S. B., as
assistant priest; Father Maurus
Bucklieit, O S. B., and Father
Boniface Bauer, O. S. B., as dea
cons of honor, Father Sebastian
Doris, O. S. B., deacon of che
Mass Father Bernard Rosswog, O.
S. B., subdeacon, and Father An
selm Biggs, O. A. B., and Father
Andrew Doris, O. S. B., master of
ceremony. The Mass was chanted
by the Abbey Gregorian choir,
under the direction of Father Ray
mond, O. S. B., with Father Abe
lard Bouvillers, O. S. B., at the
organ.
Attending the ceremony were
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Oetgen. of
Savannah, parents of Frater John;
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Oetgen, Mrs.
and Mrs. William Oetgen, Savan
nah, and Mr. and Mrs. Gerard
Bridge, parents of Frater Raphael,
and other relatives from Latrobe.
Both Frater John and Frater
Raphael are graduates of Belmont
Abbey College, both finished a
year of novitiate at St. Benedict’s
Abbey, Atchison, Kansas, and re
ceived their bachelor degrees at
St. Benedict's College. Both are
now entering Belmont Abbey
Seminary for theological courses.
FATHER MARTIN HAYES
ON BENEDICTINE SCHOOL
FACULTY IN SAVANNAH
• SAVANNAH, Ga.—Father Mar
tin Iftiyes, O. S. B., former Pro
curator of Belmont Abbey, who
was to be a member of the faculty
of the Benedictine High Schoot
Richmond, Va.. has been trans
ferred to the Benedictine Military
School in Savannah.
Father Henry Bollman, O. S. B.,
of Belmont Abbey, replaces Fath
er Martin on the faculty of Bene
dictine High'School in Richmond.
SCHOOL IN GRIFFIN
ADDS ANOTHER GRADE
(Special to The Bulletin)
GRIFFIN, Ga. — The Sacred
Heart School, conducted here by
the School Sisters of Notre Dame,
has added a fourth grade this
year, and the teaching staff now
consists of four Sisters, one more
than last year.
Enrollments for the current
school year in the kindergarten
and four elementary grades, has
far exceeded expectations, Sister
M. Edwin, S. S. N, D., the princi
pal, reporting that it was neces
sary to reject the applications of
a number of pupils who could not
l>e accommodated.
The Sacred Heart School was
opened last year with twenty-six
pupils, but before the school year
ended fifty-two children were at
tending classes in the kindergar-
den and the first three grades of
grammar school.
The imposing residence of John
A. Simms, on Tenth Street, was
purchased during the summer of
1946 and converted into a school
and convent. The property, form
erly known as the Daniel Estate,
has had but three owners in the
last hundred years.
VATICAN CITY—(Radio, NC)—
Weil over 200,000 people gathered
in St. Peter’s square here to hear
Ilis Holiness Pope Pius XII make
two burning appeals to the men
of Italian Catholic Action, one for
immediate and more aggressive
action and a second for coopera
tion with those outside the fold
in the cause of Christ.
Taking note of the huge crowd
the Holy Father called it the “em
bodiment of the cry of gratitude
rising from the depths of our
hearts to the Lord Omnipotent for
the good he has done during the
last 25 years through the men of
Catholic Action.” The impressive
gathering, the Pope stated, indi
cated a resolute determination
firm as granite, a readiness for
the present and the future, clear
vision and fixed resolve.
In his ringing call to action the
Pontiff declared: “The time for
reflection and planning is past.
Now is the time for action. Are
you ready? The opposing fronts
in the religious and moral fields
are clearly defined. The time of
test is here.” Urging the men to
keep in mind the ideal of con
quest, not merely that of defense,
he asserted that the ultimate aim
of Catholic Action is to regain
what is lost and to advance to
new conquests. #•
In his plea for cooperation with
those outside Catholic Action and
even outside the ranks of the
Church, the Holy Father urged the
men to rejoice whenever and
wherever they find evidences of
sincere good will and activity in
the cause of Christ. “The needs
for which the Church has to pro
vide at the present time,” he said,
“are so numerous and urgent that
every hand which offers generous
cooperation is welcome.”
The Holy Father outlined five
main fields in which he declared
Catholic Action should make
special and determined efforts:
(1) the improvement of religious
culture by promoting a deep ana
solid knowledge of the Catholic
faith; (2) the sanctification of
Sunday, for Sunday must again
become the day of the Lord”; (3)
the preservation of the Christian
family, and of its proud boast and
strength, the Christian mother;
(4) the improvement of social jus
tice by a more just distribution of
the wealth, and (5) the promotion
of the ideals of loyalty and truth
fulness in private dealings and the
furthering of a sense of responsi
bility for the common good.
The Pontiff also warned the
men against isolating themselves,
urging them to go forth among
those outside Catholic Action and
the Church and to work among
those deceived or deluded fre
quently by misunderstanding and
ignorance. In the art of winning
men learn from the adversaries,
he declared, or better still from
the Christians of the first cen
turies whose constantly fresh
method of penetration into the
pagan world enabled the Church
to progress from its lowly begin
nings.
The Holy Father also took note
of the persecution of the Church
raging in many lands and stated:
“The immortal youth of the
Church shines forth—how wonder
fully—especially grief. She is
the Spouse of Blood. In blood
her sons, her ministers are ca-
iuminated, imprisoned, killed,
massacred in this twentieth cen
tury after all the progress 6f
civilization and after so many pro
testations of liberty.
“Who could ever have believed
possible that such oppression, so
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President Attends Services
Conducted on the Missouri
by Catholic Navy Chaplain
ABOARD THE U. S. S. MIS
SOURI, At Sea—(NC)—President
Truman, accompanied by Mrs.
Truman and their daughter, Mar
garet, attended Sunday religious
services conducted by a Catholic
priest as he returned from Brazil
aboard this veteran battleship of
the Pacific war. The first family
attended a general service con
ducted by Father Lawrence R.
Schmeider, Nevy chaplain and
priest of the Cincinnati Arch
diocese.
Preaching to the congregation of
some 200 persons Father Sclimeid-
er chose as his theme St. Paul’s
text that to those who love God
all things work together unto
good. Earlier in the day the navy
priest had offered Mass for the
Catholics aboard ship.
During the war Father Schmeid
er saw action afloat on the cruiser
Pensacola and ashore with the
Marines at Okinawa.
EIGHT DOMINICAN NUNS in
Rodallben, Germany, have been
receiving monthly packages of food
from members of a Jewish fam
ily in Natchez. Miss. This family
has been sending to the Sisters
packages that contained, in the
words of one of the Sisters, “all
the things we have known only by
name all these years.”
Mrs. Lilly Heilberg and Mrs. S.
Hcilberg, sisters, came to the Unit
ed States from Rodallben in 1938
to escape nazi rule. In Rodallben
children of the Heilberg family
attended the Dominican Sisters’
school. In gratitude for what the
Sisters did for the Jewish people
there during the persecution, the
Heilbergs have been sending food
packages monthly.
THE THREE CARDINALS off
the British Commonwealth, making
a tour of the various Archdioceses
of Canada, greeted Ray Lawson,
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario,
and George Drew. Premier of On
tario, following their arrival in
Toronto. The three Prelate are
Their Eminences James Cardinal
McGuigun. Archbishop of Toronto;
Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Arch
bishop of Westminester, and Nor
man Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop
of Sydney, Australia.
BISHOP JOSEPH P. HURLEY
of St. Augustine, who is serving
as Regent of the Apostolic Nun
ciature in Belgrade, Yugoslavia,
arrived in Rome last week for an
audience with His Holiness Pope
Pius XII.
many persecutions, such violence,
could exist! But the Church fears
not.”
Tremendous applause, singing
and wild enthusiasm followed the
Pontiff’s stirring speech. He de
scended from the Baldaehino
throne, which had been specially
erected for the occasion before the
entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica,
and walked through the square,
stopping to greet various groups
in the crowd. Several minutes of
thunderous applause also greeted
the Holy Father before beginning
his address. He had come from
the Papal summer home, Castel-
gandolfo, to make the speed i,
which highlighted the men’s Cath
olic Action congress, marking the
25th anniversary of its foundation.
The Pope left almost immediately
after the address for his summer
home.
Among those present atop the
colonnade where members of the
diplomatic crops listened to His
Holiness were Mrs. Henry Mannix
of Brooklyn, president of the Na
tional Council of .Catholic Women,
and Miss Ruth Craven, executive
secretary. Both are in Rome to
attend the meeting of the Inter
national Union of Catholic
Women’s Leagues to be held from
September 12 to 16.
Earlier a crowd estimated at up
to 100,000 had attended Midnight
Masses offered amid the ruins of
the ancient Baths of Caracalla by
Bishop Giovanni Urbani, national
director of Italian Catholic Action,
it is believed that the Mass was
the first ever celebrated in the
former pagan setting. Eighty-jjjve
priests distributed Holy Com
munion for more than hail’ an
hour during the service. Prime
Minister Enrico de Gasperi was
the first to receive the Holy Euch
arist, followed fey other members
of the c-'iSine-’' and of the diplo
matic crops, who attended the
service unoffic ! all' ■