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Published by the Catholic Lay men’s Association of Georgia ttlieiitt “To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed” Vol. XVIII No. 11 THIRTY-TWO PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 29, 1947. ★ ★ ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAH St. Euphrasia Training School for Girls, Batesburg ST . i Pictured above is the administration building of the former Summerland College, at Batesburg, South Carolina, which has been acquired by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, of the Baltimore Province, and which will be opened in January as St. Euphrasia Training School for Girls. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd will have this building remodeled and converted into a convent and temporary quarters for about twenty-five girls, to be used while the large dormitory building is being remodeled and improved so that the scope of their work can be extended.—(Photo by Father George Lewis Smith—“Camera-Graph” print by Maurice Getchell). Shown above is the dormitory building of the former Summer- land College at Batesburg, South Carolina, recently purchased by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Summerland College was a Lutheran School for girls, which has been used as a home for children of Lutheran missionaries since Newberry College was made a co-educationnl school some years ago. Pictured above is the cottage formerly occupied by the superin tendent of Summerland College, Batesburg, South Carolina. It is one of the group of buildings purchased by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Sisters of the Good Shepherd Acquire Batesburg Property as Training School for Girls Bulletins THREE CENTENARIES — the return of the Jesuits to New Or leans after their expulsion 84 years before, the founding of their Church of the Immaculate Con ception and the establishment of their college which is now Jesuit High School—will be observed with a triduum of Solemn Pontifical Masses «f Thanksgiving front December 2-6 in New Or leans. Secularism in All Aspects of Life Is Root of World's Travail Today, Bishops of United States Warn HIS EMINENCE Dennis Car dinal Dougher.ty Archbishop of Philadelphia, in a pastoral letter addressed to the approximately one million Catholics of the Arch diocese, instructed that for at least a year they refrain from patroniz ing the Central City Fox Theatre, which had exhibited the film “For ever Amber”, after His Eminence has protested its showing in Phila delphia. A GALAXY of Hollywood stars will be featured in the dramatiza tion and recitation of the joyful mysteries of the rosary on a spe cial program to be broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System on December 26. Called the ‘‘Joy ful Hour,” the full sixty-minute program will be heard from 9 to 10 p. m. EST. Screen and radio stars who will take part include Bing Crosby, Kate Smith, Perry Como, Dennis Day, D4ck Haymes, Ethel Barrymore, Ann Blythe, Jeanne Crain, Joan Leslie, Mau reen O’Hara, Maureen O’Sullivan, Pedro de Cordoba and others. A SOLEMN MASS was offered at the Bede (English) College in Rome, Italy, on the wedding day of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip for the intention of the royal couple and the welfare of the British realm. Representatives of, the British diplomatic missions apd members of the Empire’s clergy and laity in Rome attended. Later in the day, the British envoy to the Holy See held a reception for diplomats accredited to the Vatican. PRINCE GIITLIO PACELLI, a nephew of His Holiness Pope"' Pius XII, has just arrived in this country on a visit which will take hihi to several principal cities of the United States and Canada. (N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON.—A ringing warning against the dangers of secularism is given by the Arch bishops and Bishops of the United States in a statement issued here through the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Made public following the an nual meeting of more than 130 members of the American Hier archy at the Catholic University of America in this city, the state ment asserts that “the practical exclusion of God from human thinking and living is the root of the world’s travail today.” It tears the signatures of four Cardi nals and of all members of the N. C. W. C. Administrative Board for the coming year. In what it calls “perhaps the gravest crisis in all history,” the statement appeals to all who be lieve in God to “make that belief practical in their workaday lives,” to “look across the real differ ences which unfortunately divide them, to the contmon danger that threatens.” to “refuse to. let a com mon enemy capitalize on those dif ferences to the detriment of social unity.” If this were done, the statement adds, “we might begin to see a way out of the chaos that impends.” The statement admits that “Christians have often failed to meet their responsibilities and by their transgressions have permit ted ugly growths to mar the insti tutions of their culture.” “But,” it adds, “wherever, despite their lapses, they have held steadfastly to their Christian ideals, the way to effective reform and progress has been kept open.” The remedy for the shortcom ings and sins of Christian peoples is surely not to substitute secular ism for godliness, human vagaries for divine truth, man-made expe dients for,a God-given standard of right and wrong. This is God’s world, and if we are to play a man’s part in it, we must first get dotvfi on our knees and with a humble heart acknowledge God’s place in His world. This, secular ism does not do.” “In the dark days ahead,” the statement says in its conclusion, “we dare not follow' the secularist philosophy. We must be true to our historic’ -Christian culture. If all who believe in God would make that belief practical in their work aday lives, if they would see to it that their children ace definitely imbued with that belief and train ed in the observance of God’s way of life, if they would look across the real differences which unfor tunately divide them, to the com mon danger that threatens, if they would steadfastly refuse to let a common enemy capitalize on the differences to the detriment of social unity, we might begin to see a way out of the chaos that im pends. “Secularism holds out no valid promise of better things for our country, or for the world. During our own lives it has been the bridge between a decaying devo tion to Christian culture and the revolutionary forces which have brought on what is perhaps the gravest crisis in all history. The tragic evil is not that our Chris tian culture is_ no longer capable of producing peace and reasonable prosperity, but that we are allow ing secularism to divorce Chris tian truth from life. The fact of God and the fact of the responsi bility of men and nations to God for their actions are supreme real ities, calling insistently for recog nition in a truly realistic ordering of life in the individual, in the family, in the school, in economic activity, and in the international community.” The statement carries the signa tures of Their Eminences Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia; Edward Cardinal Mooney, Archbishop of Detroit; Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Arch bishop of Chicago, and Francis Car dinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York; Archbishops John T. Mc- Nicholas; O. P., of Cincinnati; Rob ert E. Lucey of San Antonio; Rich ard J. Cushing of Boston; Joseph E. Ritter of St. Louis, and James R. Ryan of Omaha; and Bishops John Mark Gannon of Erie; John F. Noll of Fort Wayne; Emmet M. Walsh of Charleston; Karl J. Alter of Toledo, and Michael J. Ready of Columbus. (Special to The Bulletin) BATESBURG, S. C.—Announce ment has been made by Bishop Emmet M. Walsh jf Charleston that the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, of the Baltimore Province, have ac quired property here and will open St. Euphrasia Training School for Girls as soon as the buildings can be remodeled and improved. The property was formerly Summerland College, a Lutheran school for girls, which was closed some years ago when Newberry College was made a co-educational institution. Since that time, the property here has been operated as the Westervelt Home, for children of Lutheran missionaries. There are some one hundred and seventy acres of land, part of which is landscaped, part in or chards and part in farm land, through which there is a running stream. It is located ju=t beyond the city limits of Batesburg on the highway to Greenwood. On the property is a three-story, fifty-five room dormitory building, a two-story administration build ing, a superintendent’s residence, a small school building, tenant houses and other farm structures. Some months ago the property was offered for sale to the Diocese of Charleston as being suitable for an orphanage, but was not needed for that purpose at this time. Monsignor Martin C. Murphy V. F., pastor of St. Peter's Church. Columbia, interested the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Baltimore in the property, and Sister Mary of St. John Eudes, the Provincial, and other Sisters of the Good Shepherd came to Batesburg on a trip of inspection. The Sisters decided that the property could be converted into one of their training schools for girls, and it was acquired at a cost of $66,000. An eleemosynary charter was is sued by the State of South Caro lina on’October 24 for St. Euphra sia Training School for Girls, with Monsignor John L. Manning, D. D., Chancellor of the Diocese of Charleston, being listed as presi dent and treasurer. Possession of the property will come to the' Sisters of the Good Shepherd in January, and it is planned to use the administration building as a convent and school, for a limited number of girls, un til the other buildings can be made ready for use. Assisting the Religious of the Good Shepherd, who never leave their convent except in cases of necessity, are the ever affable ex tern Sisters who attend to the ex ternal business of the house. Living in the convents of the Good Shepherd, but of a distinct J religious society, are members of j the Magdalen community who are permitted to take vows of obed- | ience, chasity and poverty for one ] year with annual renewals. These ! penitents, by their prayers and j good works, bring untold blessings ] on all. j The object of the Order is three- ! fold: To preserve young girls from ! evil; to reform women of evil life; j to superintend the Order called , the Magdalens. The Good Shepherd Order is ! cloistered and follows the rule of ! St. Augustine. In the Order are j three grades, the Choir Sisters, . who recite the Divine Office and attend to the instruction and ad- | ministration of the penitents; the 1 Lay-Sisters, who attend to the 1 household affairs, and the Out side Sisters, who look after things outside the convent. The habit for all, except the ! Outside Sisters, is , white, with a j blue girdle. Hanging from the | neck and displaying in front is a , large silver heart. On one side of : it is engraved the figure of Jesus, I the Good Shepherd, and on the 1 other the Blessed Virgin. Besides i the silver heart, they also wear a j crueifix under the scapular. M. C. C. M. Announces December Speakers on Three Radio Programs Delinquency, juvenile and other wise, is not a new problem, despite the emphasis the problem has re ceived during the Fast few years, ip the press, in social work and in community consciousness. Neither are the agencies for correcting it new. Over three hundred years ago, in 1641, St. John Eudes founded, in France, a community of women for the reclamation of erring souls. In addition to the three ordi nary vows of religion, these Nuns took an oath, binding themselves to work for the conversion of wom en, who desiring to reform their liyes, sought a place of refuge. This community was the beginning of the Sisters of the Good Shep herd. Today there are some 350 Houses of the Good Shepherd throughout the world,- sixty-three of them in the United , States, In every House of the Good Shepherd you will find the most modern principles of social science in busy application; There you will find the human means of re habilitation supplied; thriving courses in education, the manual arts and the fine arts, vocational guidance and talent development; You will find social and recrea tional facilities which compare with those of the finest colleges. But you will discover more—a spirit. The terms of salutation will give you the clue. The white-robed Religious are greeted by their charges by the name “Mother.” The Sisters do not di rect inmates but “children.” WASHINGTON. — (NCI — Two Redemptorist priests and a Mary- knoll Father will be the Decem ber speakers on the three nation al radio programs produced by the National Council of Catholic Men —the Catholic Hour, the Hour of Faith in Our Time, according to an anouncement here. Father Joseph Manton, C.SS.R., who has been speaking each week to audiences of 20,000 people and more at the famous Mission Church in Roxbury, Mass., will give four addresses on the Catho lic Hour under the geneaal title: ‘The Stable and the Star.” On December 7, he will speak on “Mary:” December 14, “Joseph;” December 21, “Jesus;” December 28, “The Animals.” The Catholic Hour is heard Sunday from 6 to 6:30 p. m., EST, on the National Broadcasting' Company network. Father James Keller, M M., founder of the Christophers move ment, will be heard on the Hour of Faith, carried by the American Broadcasting Company network Sunday from 11:30 a. m. to noon, EST. His general subject is; “Reaching the Hundred Million.’’ On December 7, he will talk on “Millions Ready and Waiting;” December 14. “Influencing the World from the Home;” December 21, “A Challenge to Business Men.” December 28, “Students: A Big Job Ahead.” Father Fred Mann, C.SS.R., Wichita, Kan., Cana Conference leader, will continue the series of talks on marriage problems he be gan in November over the Faith in Ouy' Time program. This pro gram is carried nationally by the Mutual Broadcasting System on Thursday from 10:15 to 10:30 a. m., EST. His December subjects; December 4, “Let’s Look at Mar riage the Right Way:” December 11, “What Does Modern -Science Say about Marriage;” December 16, “Knowledge Isn’t Enough;’’ December 25. “'Pile 'Huiihut Race Looks to Otm> Family.’’’ AN EDITORIAL paragraph in The Charleston News and Courier, some days ago, declared: “If ever there shall be no church and pri vate schools and colleges in South Carolina, the schools and colleges will be non-religious, and iu tirnrv anti-religious.”