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SEPTEMBER 27, 1947
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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Oratory of St. Philip Neri, Rock Hill,
Made Congregation of Pontifical Right,
Father Gerald Ernst, Elected Provost
ROCK HILL, S. C. —Upon , the
occasion of the recent visit to Rock
Kill of the Very Rev. Charles Nal-
di, C. O., of Florence, Italy, who
was sent to the United States as
Visitor General of the Congrega
tion of the Oratory, the Oratory
of St. Philip Neri here was canon
ically erected as a Congregation of
Pontifical Right.
Following the change in status
of the Oratory it was necessary to
hold a new election, and Father
Gerald Ernst, C. O., was elected
Provost of the Oratory of St. Phil
ip Neri, to succeed Father Vincent
Scharff, C. O., who has been the
Superior at the Oratory for the
past five years.
Father Gerald, who also be
comes pastor of St. Anne’s
Church, in Rock Hill, recently re
turned to Rock Hill from Beau
fort, where he has been pastor of
St. Peter’s Church and the mis
sion parishes St. Anthony, Hardee-
ville St. Anthony, Walterboro;
St. James, Catholic Hill, and St.
Andrews, Pritchardville, since
1942. While in Beaufort, Father
Gerald also served as an auxiliary
chaplain for the Marines at Parris
Island.
A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Father Gerald attended Dalhousic
University in Halifax; the Catholic
University of America, and Ken
drick Seminary, in St. Louis, and
the Oratory Seminary in Rock
Hill, where he was ordained in
1939 by Bishop F.mmet M. Walsh
of Charleston. Father Gerald is a
convert to the Catholic Church.
Father Vincent Scharff, C. O.,
whom Father Gerald succeeds as
Provost of the Oratory, will be in
charge of St. Philip's Infant Home,
conducted by the Sisters of the
Third Order of St. Francis, of the
Peoria foundation, in Rock Hill,
and of other charitable work here.
Father Francis X. Winum, C. O.,
l.as been named minister of the
house, at the Oratory; Father
Aloysius Kaszuba, C. O., procura
tor; Father Maurice Shean, C. O.,
chaplain of the Neri Guild; Father
Edward Chmely, C. O., will be in
charge of the school program; Fa-
FATHER GERALD
the. John Gallagher, in charge of
The Oratorian, the Oratory publi
cation.
Father Theodore Cilwick, C. O.,
has been assigned to the missions
at Union and York, and Father
Christopher Barry, C. O., to the
missions at Chester and Lancas
ter.
Father John Haalc, C. O., has
been appointed pastor of St. Wil
liam’s Church, Ward, and the Im
maculate Conception Church,
Edgefield, and will have as his as
sistant, Father Timothy Sullivan,
C. O.
Father Edward Wahl, C. O.. is
pastor of St. Mary’s Church, Rock
Hill, with Father James Sharpies,
assistant pastor.
Father Joseph Richmond, C. O.,
is serving as assistant pastor of the
Sacred Heart Church, Charleston,
and Father Myles Morris, C. O.,
and Father John Ncdley. C. O., are
stationed now at The Oratory
School, Summit, N. J.
Priests of the Oratory presently
on sick leave are Father Henry
Tevlin, C. O., Father William
Coyle, C. O., and Father Ralph
Maher, C. O.
Protestant Visitors to Yugoslavia
Made No Effort to See Bishop Hurley
VATICAN CITY — (NC) — The
American Protestant clergymen
who recently completed a "check”
on the status of religious liberty
in Yugoslavia made no effort to
visit Bishop Joseph P. Hurley of
St. Augustine, the Papal repre
sentative in Yugoslavia, despite
the fact that they were at one
time only an eighth of a mile
from his residence, it has been
ascertained authoritatively here.
Bishop Hurley, who is acting as
Regent ad interim of the Apostolic
Nunciature in Yugoslavia and has
been in that country since 1945,
was in the town of Bled during the
visit of the Protestant group. The
visitors came to Bled to visit
Marshal Tito.
Another religious leader who
was not consulted by the visitors
and whom no effort was made to
see, according to the same Vati
can source, is the Serbian Orth
odox Patriarch Gavril.
The recent mob attack upon two
Catholic clergymen administering
Confirmation in the ’ Yugoslav-
controlled section of Venezia,
Giulia, in which oj»e priest was
murdered and another severely
injured, is regarded in Vatican
circles as the most concrete an
swer to the claim of the Ameri
can Protestant clergymen that
there is religious freedom in
Yugoslavia.
(News dispatches reported the
arrest of Monsignor Jacob Ukmar,
Vatican representative near
Trieste, who was seriously wound
ed by the Yugoslav mob that
murdered Father Miro Bulesich.
Father Stefan Cek, parish priest
of Lanischie, also was taken into
custody. Both were charged, the
report stated, with having “pro
voked” the rioters).
PROTESTANT MISSIONARY
TELLS OK “RELIGIOUS
FREEDOM” UNDER TITO
CHAPEL HILL, S. C.—(NC)—-
"All data from all sources show
that Yugoslav Communists are
endeavoring to separate the youth
from the churches, to curtail
church activity, as American Pro
testants and Catholics understand
it, to prevent dissemination of
Church publications, to deprive
the churches of material support I
and to subject the nation to
Marxist, materialistic, anti-reli
gious teachings.”
These are the finding with re
gard to religious freedom in Yugo
slavia expressed in “Tito’s Im
perial Communism,” by Reuben
H. Markham, published here by
the University of North Carolina
Press. Mr. Markham, a former
Congregationalist missionary to
the Balkans and a former foreign
correspondent for The Christian
Science Monitor, is now on the
Boston staff of the paper.
"American Protestants may sit
back and rejoice at Tito’s Com
munists persecute the two old
“political churches”, (Catholic and
Orthodox) and they can easily
find reasons for Tito's dis
pleasure,” hd asserts. . "But the
Yugoslav Communists, in their
aims and acts, are working against
the Christian religion in all its
forms.”
"A true Protestant Christian
will find,” Mr. Markham con
cluded, “that an alliance, even in
his heart, with Tito against non-
Protestant churches is as a 'pact
with deatli and a conspiracy with
hell.’ ”
In a comment on Mr. Markham’s
book. The Washington Post slates
that he explicitly contradicts al
most every detail of the claim of
religious freedom in Yugoslavia
made by the delegation of Ameri
can Protestant ministers.
Recalling the association of the
Protestant ministers who visited
Yugoslavia with communist groups
in this country’, The New York
Daily News editorially described
their report as a "clerical white
wash” of Yugoslavia and art
“elaborate perfume job.”
IN YUGOSLAVIA, three moro
priests have been arrested by Tito’s
police, according to a report reach
ing Rome. They are Monsiguov
Karkez, of the minor seminary at
•Ljubljana; Father Lanic, secretary
of the Ljubljana chancery, aud
Father Miklaucic, theological pro
fessor at Ljubljana. The arrests
followed a demonstration against
Bishop Vovk, Auxiliary of Ljubl
jana in front of his residence. Four
of the demonstrators forced open
the doors and entered the house,
but the Rlsliop was out of the city
on a pastoral mission at the time.