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I’HE BULLETIN Of THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
DFCEM3ER 20. 1947
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The Official Organ ot the Catholic Cay men's
Association ot Georgia Incorporated
HUGH KfNCHLEY, Editor
216-217 Southern Finance Building, Augusta, Ga.
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1946-1947
ESTES DOREMUS. Atlanta President
M. J. CALLAGHAN, Macon,
Honorary Vice-President
FRED WIGGINS, Albany Vice-President
J. B. McCALLUM, Atlanta Secretary
HUGH GRADY, Savannah .... Treasurer
HUGH KINCHLEY. Augusta Executive Secretary
MISS CECILE FERRY. Augurta Financial Secretary
A M McAULIFFE. Augusta Auditor
VOL. XXVIII
DECEMBER 20
No. 12
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erend Bishops of Charleston and Sovannah-Atlanta. and
of the Right Reverend Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont.
Aiding Anti-Religious Aims
L IMITATIONS of space, brought about by the
prevailing shortage of newsprint, prevent
The Bulletin from giving its readers, as often
as it would wish, the benefit of the Washington
Letter, written each week for the NCWC News
Service by J. J. Gilbert.
However, Mr. Gilbert's letter of last week is one
that is of such timely importance that The Bulletin
will devote space on this editorial page to quote
from it as follows:
“For some time certain elements have been going
about saying religious groups are trying to break
down ‘the wall between Church and State’ in this
country, and that various religious denominations
re trying to take over the public schools.
“We are now beginning to see the first glim
merings of a by-product, or perhaps the next cal
culated step, of this sort of propaganda. Some
people are beginning to advocate an attitude to
ward the public schools that would make them so
actively secular they would be aggressively anti-
religious.
“A particular unfortunate aspect of this develop
ment, and it seems to be a development that could
have been foreseen, is that persons prominent in
GAIN it is the prayerful wish of
the publishers and staff of Tne
Bulletin, that all of its patrons
and friends may enjoy a Holy
and a Happy Christmas and a
New Year filled with bless
ing's, spiritual and temporal'.
Dixie Musings
There was an appealing Short
story in a recent issue of The
Sign, national Catholic maazine,
various religious groups are' in the ‘fordronf of
those who opposed released time religious instrue- 1 r l , h _. H y Ghost ’
tion, free bus transportation and welfare services
for children attending parochial schools, and sim-
near Conyers, Georgia.
The story, entitled
“Goose
“Lei the Earth Be Glad”
H OLY Mother Church, in selecting the Offertory
for the Mass which the Roman Missal provides
for the first, or the midnight Mass on the
great Feast of Christinas, took the words of the
psalmist: "Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth
be glad before the face of the Lord, because He
cometh.’’
Surely, if there ever were a time when the earth
should have been glad it was on that night, more
than nineteen hundred years ago. when in the
stable at Bethlehem, the Blessed Virgin Mary
“brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped
Him up in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a
manger,” for the Holy One who was born of her
was to be called the Son of God. The Word was
made flesh and dwelt amongst us—The Messiah.
On each recurring anniversary of the Nativity
of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the earth
is glad, and we are now approaching the gladness
which the coming of another Christmas Day will
bring to the world.
In this inspired account of the birth of Our
Blessed Lord, Saint Luke tells us that the shep
herds, guarding their flocks on the hills of Judea,
heard a choir of angels voice the message of the
Incarnation by proclaiming glory to God on high:
and bringing a promise of peace on earth among
men of good will.
Victory days in Europe and in Japan brought
World War II to an end, but though that raging,
world-wide conflict has ended, we cannot say that
peace now really reigns on earth.
In the very land hallowed by the footsteps of
the Saviour of Mankind, blood is at this moment
being shed, and we hear talk of a “cold war" in
other parts of the world.
There is not much in the news that comes to us
these days from the radio or our daily newspapers
to make us glad, and we know that there are mil
lions of men, women and children to whom every
day is a day of misery, privation and suffering.
As with troubled hearts we approach rgain the \ ProtesW"churches on~one sideband‘the Catholic
I borbood and what happened when
he called to visit the Trappist
monks.
A branch of the Catholic Uni
versity of America Engineering
School is now in full swing at the
Army Engineer Center, Fort Bel-
voir, Va., under the guidance of
a committee of Army and univer
sity officials. Full credit is given
for all work done at the military
post, and degrees ultimately con
ferred will be identical with those
accorded other Catholic Univer
sity engineering students.
ilar public welfare programs. By the very vigor i Grease anfl Red Pepper,” by Grov-
with which they have fought these proposals, call- j er Abies, with illustrations by
ing them The camel's nose under the tent,’ these Harvey Kidder, told an amusing—
men of religion have paved the way for a pro-1 and an inspiring story about a
!™““d seculanst v,ew that is now beginning to ' Kmall Colored boy of the neigh-
appear. -
‘They have said that the Catholic Church is
trying to ‘take over' the public schools. Now those
who capitalize cn their trail blazing say that all
the religious groups are trying to ‘muscle in,’ and
that they should be actively resisted. This gives
an excuse for swinging the pendulum far in the
other direction toward active, belligerent secular
ism or anti-religion.
“Thus it is that you have addresses at teachers’
conventions flaying ‘the churches' for causing ‘di
vision’ among pupils by their released time religious
instruction; speeches that tell ‘the churches' to get
out of the schools or that call upon the people to
put them out; speeches that glorify and idealize
the schools as the focus of a community’s solidarity,
and urge that nothing—not even religion—be per
mitted to interfere with them. Schools have been
called the medium through which all health and
welfare programs are placed at the disposal of the
family in a natural, simplified manner.
“Propaganda of this sort, in turn, prepares the
public for a ruling by a school official banning
the singing of Christmas carols making reference
to the Nativity or any Christmas observance having
‘religious significance,’ as if Christmas were not
a religious feast. This school official said that while
‘personal jollity and merrymaking’ are fine for the
children of public schools, ‘the religious features
of the day should be eliminated. It should not have
any sectarian religious significance.’
“There is a recurring reference these days to
'sectarian religion,’ with the suggestion that it is
narrow-minded and unchristian for one to think
that Iris is the true religion. It is even bruited about
that the various religious denominations are fight
ing fiercely among themselves, and that the schools,;
if left alone, could do better by a person than the
churches do. At any rate, it is said, the churches are
threatening their own spiritual mission if they in
terfere in any way with the ‘unifying’ work of the
public schools.
“Such persons create the impression that the
In a recent issue of The Builder,
the weekly bulletin of Druid Hills
Baptist Church in Atlanta, it was
announced that a collection was
taken up in the church for the
benefit of Our Lady of Perpet
ual Help Free Cancer Home, the
offering amounted to $689.99, and
that there would very l'kely be
additional contributions to the
fund.
The Rev. Dr. Louie D. Newton,
president of the Southern Bapti = t
Convention, is the minister of
Druid Hills Baptist Church.
The “Valley Ranch of Peace”,
an establishment well known
around Sante Fe, New Mexico, will
be purchased by the Order of
Cistercians of the Strict Observ
ance for a Trappist monastery, ac
cording to announcement made by
Abbot Edmund Flutterer, O. C. S.
O., of the Abbey of Our, Lady of
the yalley, in Rhode Island.
season which should be one of great joy there does
come a thought of blessed hope that holds a measure
of gladness for even the heart submerged in sorrow.
There is a wry in which the nremise of peace,
given by the angels on the first Christmas Day can
become a reality.
The Virgin Mother of the Babe of Bethlehem, in
the message given at Fatima, told us that the way
to bring peace to the world was to reek it through
her intercession.
As we gather before the altar this Christmas,
In humble adoration of the Inf--:t Sviour, let us
offer fervent net'Mqns to the Imr.--oulatc Heart
of Mary that the hearts of men of ill-will will be
so imbued with n lev- of God and lho ; - f'-'lov: m~n.
so that a real ard lasting peace will let all the
earth be glad.
Church on the other are engaged in a fierce hand-
lo-b-rd struggle. Many people swallow this, either
because they want to, or because they don’t think.
But it take; two to make a struggle, and if some
Protestant individuals and publications are con
Ope of the most unusual flights
in aviation history will be staged
shortly when ten Sisters board "a
flying convent”—in Rome bound
for Australia.
/ The Sisters, members of the
Order of the Sisters of Mercy,
will make the trip in response to
an appeal by the Vicar General of
the Archdiocese of Melbourne for
additional nurses at a Catholic
hospital there.
• The charterttd plane leaving
Rome will haye an altar install
ed in the cabin so the Sisters
will be enabled to say their pray
ers and read their office while in
flight. Curtains will be draped
over the windows to insure priv
acy at refueling stops. On over
night stops, 1 the Sisters will stay
at convents along the route.
Paul D. Williams, widely known
Catholic layman of Richmond, Va.,
was re-elected president of the
Southern Regional Council at a
meeting held some weeks ago in
Atlanta. The organization voted
a study of civil rights in the South
as a major 1948 project and adopt
ed a resolution asking a campaign
of equal rights for veterans after
hearing that the Veterans’ Admin
istration has failed to make proper
provisions for the handling of
Negro cases.
Mr. Williams, who was one or
the founders of the Catholic Com
mittee of the South, and its first
executive secretary, is a former
vice-president of the National
Council of Catholic Men.
Furfural, a chemical made from
agricultural waste such as grain
d o??jSS for a C whole b new , !l 1 d f ustry < to
not
make a struggle. The Catholic Church has 1 n VIL 17 ,
constantly maintained an attitude of friendship: r ' wn ^ ur ?' Dr ' Christopher
and charity. It is true that Catholics have spoken Lf th „ . T br , ofesso J of chemistry
out vigorously against persecution of religion, but 1 0 . Gmversiy of Notre Dame,
in this they have condemned Godless regimes— j ,?“ ra , at a recen t meeting of
the ensures of all religion, Catholic, Protestant j alumni of Canisius College. Dr.
and Jewish. I Wilson has been engaged in re-
“Lcck rather to the scholarly warning which search in the use of furfural, from ‘^P°stle, St. Patrick, and has never
three emine.it Protestant clergymen have given j which nylon and other synthetics ’ been broken or weakened ,in spite
Inauguration of the Irish Air
Line's new service between Dub
lin and Rome was hailed by His
Holiness Pope Pius XII at an
Vice Premier Sean Lemass and
thirty citizens of Ireland who
made the first flight from Ireland.
“The Irish have long been found
in all the known continents of
the world,” the Holy Father de
clared, “and thus why 0 should
they not find a place also in the
air?”
“It is well known that Irishmen
do not need an airline as a link
to Rome,” the lloiy Father added,
"because this link was forged J,-
! 000 years ago by their heroic
in the official organ of 111- Council for Social Action can be produced.
of ihe Congregational Christian Churches. Dean I
Luther A. Weiple of the Yale Divinity School, Dr. !
F. Frne t Johnson, director of the Department of i What effect have, the
Research and Education of the Federal Council of of Decency’s “Condemned
of the persistent hammer blows
of God's enemies.
“With their lives permeated by
Legion ' an indomitable faith and moulded
rating, by its precepts,” the Pone con-
“Can CaiMVsm Win America?”
U NDER the herding quoted above there appeared .... ... p . vwvl ,Jj BL P„J|
in the November edition of Georgia Education Churches, ami Tom Keolin, legislative secretary of j and Catholic disapproval had upon tinued, "it is no wonder the Irish
Journal, the officirl organ of the Georgia 1r<lr nf + 1 ’" Onommiinnul iiu i,«, »«;. *•■-- — ....
Education Association, an editorial which began with
these words.
CathoHc^or^vci^a^L-na^odiTr sc'hoc)/ 8 buf ' people in our country to defend against the secu-', Cne answer Jo that question has of individuals, pure in family life,
opposed to givin- I v monev n anv ■ hao- or riLi | lervation of our culture. , boen **ven by the theatrical trade with a heart for the poor and af-
directly or indircc'ly to institutions maintained bv : “‘ T1,e £trcn §J- h of their (the Catholics') claims |? urna * Variety, which looks upon Dieted patient, peaceful, loyal and
any church, Catholic or Prote an! ! i0r of their schools as a part of the nation’s Ule recent conferences between brave.
“Since Or* r-niVtl i c to divide tax money with 1 educational establishment/ wrote Dr. Johnson, ‘lies ( the Fox organization and the, The Holy Father concluded by
non-public sohcch comes from Itomon Catholic ! * n th / ir concord-on that a purely secular program
leaders, it is well for our members to under t-nd 1S enough. 10 the extent that Protestants co
the general hre-k^-omd r *d nhile orliy of the J In . th^s judgment they arc confronted with , ,
Catholic movement hi Ap~erica. This n provided in ! diificu t au? tiap . . . I'rom a typically secularist ] urcs “have hurt considerably at travel on the new air service “mav
edFor Harold E. j P° mt of v °' 7 there is no problem, for all criticism Cue box office.” 1 - -
i, ‘lies j i ox organization and the, me Holy Father concluded by
ogram Legion representatives over the praying that “now when the Saints
s con- po-sible reclassification of the film j will wing their flight from the
villi a as an indication that these nieas- j Liffey to the Tiber,” all those who
a series of eight .• •' -ies by field
Fc.v wh'rh an”C
vember 29. I??*
The closer" c {
then quoted by C,
(No- . * the public rhools on religious grounds' is’ re
jected as rr-iv'’:'". We Protestants cannot dismiss
the matter oa easily.’
c l to Th* Ch - G—fury. <
tl Jemr.rv 17 10i5.)”
- "t it M-. Fey’s .irticl-s was, . . . . , >» K unu prm
to FAcclfo-I Journal, a”d 1 , ■ • v ,=* d: ‘There is desperate need for a | *
* A - 1 -f of rtcivmn 1 ilrn of f onlr nn f Kn pna-1 *
?.0th must earn around $8,000,000
reach their destination safely, and
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Believing that ihe Georgia Election Association
is. as it p.oelrtov, rot ca&CathoUc, it is believed
that the editor of its official organ would be glad
to know that the ccrio.o of eight articles of Mr. Fey-
in The Christian Century were answered serially
by Our Sunday Visitor, and will let its renders know
that they can read what the other side has to say
by writing to Our Sunday Visitor, Huntington,
calm, rational, statesmanlike attack on the real
issues, the cri'is in public education, the real
mer.n'ng o', indirect aid.’ the proper policy on a
specific i ue .-rich as transportation . . . The Pro
testant rh'losophy of education must be restated
and applied to the real issues of today.’
‘Demi Y/clg'c reminded that ‘it was not un
believers, but believers- who brought religious free
dom into American life and established it as a
national principle,’ and that 'the separation of
Church and State in this country was intended
net to restrict but to emancipate the churches, not
to imoair but to protect religious faith.’
“It is indeed time to restate principles, and to
defend principles. It is time, too, to recall the
real mcrn'ng of reparation of church and state. It
is time to protect the schools of our country, not
Iron religion, hut from active, aggressive secular
ism that seeks to stamp out religion from the life
of the nation.’’
Indiana, for the booklet in which the answers to
Mr. Fey’s article have been published.
If any cl' those who have read Mr. Fey's articles
would like to read the reply to them 1hat was made
by the Catholic publication, The Bulletin will be
glad to secure a copy lor them, and send it to them
with its compliments.
“With a negative cost of some be happier and
1,300,000, coupled with advertis-' visits.”
ing and print costs of $1,000,000, j .
es for distribution, Edgar Kobak, of New York City,
president of the Mutual Broad-
in rentals on ihe film before start- easting System, has been elected
ing to break even,” Variety ob
server. “Box office pattern estab
lished by ’Amber’ to date, con-
requc-ntly, lias given 201 h plenty
to ■ 'orry about.”
The theatrical publication stales
lhat in the first veek that “For
ever Amber” was released Twen
tieth Century-Fox obtained 475
bookings on it. and in the first
fourteen days of showings it took
it more than $2,00,000 from the
nation’s movie-goers.
“Gross in most instances, how
ever, has fallen off considerably,
a large part of it due directly to
the church ban.” Variety adds.
“Because of bxhibitors' reluctance
to incur the displeasure of their
local church authorities," 20th is
said to face new play-dating.
Some who booked the film already
are reportedly asking to be let
out of their contracts.”
chairman of the Advisory Coun
cil for Science and Engineering at
the University of Notre Dame.
Mr. Kobak, a former student at
Notre Dame, succeeds Harold
ranee, chairman of the Board at
(he Studebaker Corporation in
South Bend. Indiana, as chairman
of the Board.
The Advisory Council reviews
scientific and engineering research
conducted at Notre Dame’s lab
oratories and advises the Univer
sity regarding this and proposed
new research. Important research
m nuclear energy, electronics, can
cer, synthetic rubber, peniclillin,
insulin, germ free animals the
causes of tooth decay, plastics, vac
cines toxins, vitamins, proteins and
other fields of vast benefit to man
kind are being carried on at pres
ent in the Notre Dame labora
tories ■—H. K.