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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LA YMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JANUARY 17, 1948
Author of Book on
Spiritual Subjects
Holy Father, in Christmas Message, Refers to
Forces Which Make Lying and Incitement of
Masses to Revolt Weapons of Their Policy
(Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—"He is a de
serter and a traitor," His Holiness
Pope Pius XII told the world,
I “who would give his material sup
port, his services, his talents, aid
or vote to parties and to forces
j which deny God, which put might
in the place of right, and threats
' and terror in the place of liberty,'
| which make Jying, opposition and
incitement of the masses to revolt
! so many weapons of their policy,
i thus rendering national and in
ternational peace impossible."
It was the Holy Father's annual
Christmas Message, and he vigor
ously denounced the present-day
tendency to “insincerity." saying
it “amounts practically to a sys
tem," and appealed to all honest
men to join “in a sincere spirit of
brotherhood uniting all classes, all
races and all nations with the one
bond—love."
The Pontiff’s message was pre
pared as a response to the season’s
greetings extended by the mem
bers of the Sacred College of
Cardinals present in Rome. His
Holiness personally broadcast the
message in Italian, and subsequ
ently it was rebroadeast in a dozen
different tongues. The Rev. J. Ed
ward Coffey, S. J., an American
priest who is assistant director of
the Vatican City radio station,
read the official English text.
Pope Pius said this Christmas
and New Year "bring with them
certain signs which point a warn
ing finger toward the days to
coine;" that “Europe and the wide
world have reached a turning
point of their destiny;” that “the
graveness of the crisis Is unques
tionable, its ppssibilities for good
or evil immeasurable, its issue un
predictable,” and that “the champ
ions of negation and disagreement,
with the long line of profiteers in
their train, are jubilant at the
thought—or the illusion — that
their hour is near."
His Holiness said he did not
propose "to describe in detail the
havoc wrought by this tournament
of ‘insincerity’ in public life,” but
that “We are in duty bound to
open the eyes of Catholics all over
the world—and of all others be
sides who share our faith in Christ
and a transcendent God—to the
dangers which this prevalence of
falsehood presents for the Church
Father William Regnat, O. S. B.,
a priest of the Abbatio Nullius of
Belmont, who is the author of
"Light Amid Shadows,” a work on
spiritual subjects which has been
published by P. J. Kenedy and
Son . New York. Father Regnal
spent many years as a missionary
in North Carolina, having served
at parishes in Concord, High
Point. Hickory and Statesville. He
was pastor of St. Benedict's
Chu'ch, Greensboro, and of the
S: cred Heart Church Salisbury.
At the present time, Father Wil
liam is serving as chaplain of St.
Joseph’s Hospital, Lancaster, Pa.
Tollman E. Rodgers
Funeral in Ward
WARD, S. C.—Funeral services
for Tillman E. Rodgers, who died
January 8, after an extended ill
ness. were held at St. William’s
Church, Father Timothy Sullivan,
C. O , offering the Requiem Mass,
with Father Theodore Cilwick, C.
O.. assisting.
The women’s choir of St. Wil
liam’s Church, under the direc
tion of Mrs. McKinley Rodgers,
sang during the Mass.
Mr. Rodgers, who was 74 years
old, had lived in Saluda County
throughout his life. He is sur
vived by his wife, Mrs. Emma
Walton Rodgers; five sons, Marion
Rodfers and Tillman Rod^ers, Jr j Christian civilization, for the
ol Saluda, Thomas Rodgers anu ( „„„„
Wade Rodgers, of Ward, and
leadership of the evil one” men
who would seemingly have rea
son to disagree, he asked, “what
could love not accomplish toward
uniting in a world-wide league
those whose high purpose, noble
instincts and community in suf
fering have drawn them together
by ties stronger and more intimate
than any difference or divergency
which could keep them apart?”
His Holiness said that Herod,
plotting to slay the Babe of Beth
lehem, ‘hid his plan under a pious
mask,” and “today, his modern
imitators move heaven and earth
to conceal their real purpose from
the masses, and make them the
unconscious instruments of their
designs.” "But once they have won
power?’ Pope Pius added, "and
feel the reins securely in their
hands, little by little they let fall
the veil, and pass by successive
stages from oppression of the
dignity and liberty of man to
abolition of all authentic and in
dependent religious life.”
"No one today — to whatever
social or political movement or
party he may belong—who wants
to bring the weight of his convic
tions and his public acts to bear
upon the present or the future
destiny of nations,” the Holy Fath
er asserted, “has any right to wear
a mask, to appear to be what he is
not, to avail himself of the strat
egy -of the lie, of tension and of
threats, in order to restrict the
tion and to go forward to a more
harmonious future unless it re
strain and control the forces of
division and discord by means of
a sincere spirit of brotherhood
uniting all classes, all rapes and all
nations with the one bond—love.
"We launch such an appeal to
the entire world, today, the Eve of
Christmas, because We see this
spirit of brotherhood in danger
of being stifled and crushed; be
cause We see selfish appetites get
ting the better of sound reason,
and the cruel tactics of oppression
and violence prevailing over loyal
understanding and mutual respect,
and the utter disregard for any
consequent evils to the detriment
of the zealous maintenance of
public welfare.
‘The Church, whose maternal
heart embrases all nations with
equal affection, is following with
great anxiety this new develop
ment in national and international
conflicts.”
His Holiness said the Church
cannot fail to denounce error, in
loyalty to her Divine Founder’s
declaration; that she cannot but
warn the faithful not to let them
selves be lured from the path of
rectitude, or be deluded by fal
lacious promises.
“Our position between the two
opposing camps,” he added, "is
exempt from every prejudice,
from any preference for this or
that people, for this or that bloc
honest citizens of every land in the i of nations, as it is foreign to any
exercise of their just liberty and sort of temporal consideration. To
Gwynne Rodgers, of Johnston;
three daughters, Mrs. Ida Fred-
ette, of Massachusetts, Mrs. J. T
Bledsoe,of Johnston, Mrs. John
Powell. Ward; six brothers
George Rodgers, Homer Rodgers,
Joseph P. Rodgers. William Rod
gers, and James Rodgers, all of
Saluda County; a sister, Mrs. J. A.
Thomas, Columbia; twenty-nine
grandchildren an two great-grand
children.
MRS. MATTIE PRESTON
DIES IN COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS. Ga.—Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. Mattie Anderson
the Ion, who died January 8, were ;
held at the Church of the Holy j
Family
Mrs. Preston was born in Chat
tahoochee County, the daughter of
the late James Anderson and Mrs.
Martha Tinsley Anderson. She
had made her home in Columbus
for fifteen years.
entire religious and even merely
human heritage which has sup
plied the peoples of the world
with the substance of their spirit
ual life and of their real greatness
for the past 2,000 years."
Despite that “a dark cloud is
gathering” this Christmas. His
Holiness said, “still We know that
the numbers of those who do not
separate themselves from Christ
by unbelief, who cling to Him. . .
is great, that it is increasing and
growing strong.” He added that
“other men of good will are join
ing them.”
“To you all, therefore, beloved
sons and daughters,” the Holy
Father said, “We say: Your hour
is come.
“At the assemblies of statesmen
another unseen spirit presided as
WILLIAM CARROLL
DIES IN AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Funeral ser
vices for William Aloysius Car-
roll, storekeeper at the Riverside
Mills, who died January 8, were
held at the Sacred Heart Church,
Father James Buckley. S. J., of
ficiating.
Mr. Cat roll is survived by a
sister, Mrs. William M. Ford, Au-
gu;ts; a brother, Owen C. Carroll,
Augusta; and several nieces and
nephews.
civil rights.
"You will readily understand,
then, how pained We are to see
hostile propaganda distorting
what We think and say, embitter
ing men’s hearts, hindering the
peaceful exchange of ideas, and
deepening the chasm which sepa
rates from Us so many souls re
deemed by the Blood of the same
divine and loving Savior. At the
bottom lies, unfailingly, the same
identical duplicity, deliberately
adopted and ruthlessly employed
as the most incisive weapon with
which to combat justice and truth,
and hinder mutual understanding,
reconciliation and peace."
Just as “those who were abso
lutely determined to win the war
were ready for any sacrifice, even
unto death,’’ the Holy Father said,
“those who sincerely wish to win
the peace must be ready for sacri
fices just as generous, since noth
ing is more difficult for convulsed
and embittered human nature
than to forego reprisals and lay
aside its unforgiving rancor.”
The Pope asked who can meas
ure the “moral, domestic and
social distress," the harm to the !
cultural and economic stability of
Europe — and beyond Europe —
wrought by “the compulsory and
indiscriminate displacement of
peoples.” He added that “a wiser
and more judicious policy on the
part of those who hold the fate of
the world in their hands can pro
vide a tolerable solution for an
otherwise insoluble problem."
His Holiness said the human
race “will be powerless to emerge
from the present crisis and desola-
be with Christ or against Christ:
that is the whole question."
Savannah Deanery Council
to Meet at Thunderbolt
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Representa
tives of the eighteen parish and
mission councils affiliated with
the Savannah Deanery Council of
Catholic Women will meet on
January 18 in the parish hall of
the Church of the Nativity of Our
Lord, at Thunderbolt.
Mrs. William J. O’Shaughnes-
sey, of Macon, president of the
Savannah-Atlanla Diocesan Coun
cil, and Mrs. William J. McAlpin,
of Atlanta, a member of the board
of directors of the National Coun
cil of Catholic Women, will attend
the meeting.
At the conclusion of the busi
ness session, members of the
Thunderbolt Parish Council,
which is headed by Mrs. T. J.
Joyce, as president, will entertain 1
the visitors at a tea.
Musical numbers on the program
will include a group of vocal sel
ections by Kenneth Helmly, with
Miss Margaret Steeg as accompan
ist.
K.of G. Launching
Advertising Campaign
in Secular Publications
The Supreme Council of the
Knights of Columbus has decided
to launch an advertising campaign
of the Catholic faith in national
secular publications in this coun
try, the January issue of Colum
bia, national K. of C. organ re
ports.
Already six advertisements have
been authorized to begin in Janu
ary in the American Weekly with
a circulation of over eight and
one-half million and in the Path
finder with more than a million
subscribers. The first ads will
appear in the January 25 issue of
the American Weekly and in the
January 28 issue of the Pathfinder.
Ads are also being considered for
other national magazines later jn
the year.
Each of the six advertisements
will offer a pamphlet free on re
quest. These pamphlets are pub
lished in pocket-size form and will
contain answer* to questions dis
cussed in the ads and other Cath
olic facts.
The practice of advertising Cath
olic truth was begun by a K.
of C. group in Missouri three and
one-half years ago and proved so
successful that the Supreme Coun
cil decided on its present cam
paign.
In a report made at the K. of
C. convention in Boston last fall,
the Missouri unit pointed out that
from arvertisements in local
papers with a combined circula
tion of only 300,000 it had re
ceived 39,861 requests for pamph
lets, 730 non-Catholics have be
gun taking instructions in the
faith by mail and hundreds of
other persons have applied to par
ish priests for instructions.
The present advertising cam
paign, officials point out, is aimed
at those who would not seek the
opportunity to hear a Catholic
sermon, who do not often see a
Catholic periodical, and who might
not care to listen to a Catholic
radio program.
CATHOLIC BUSINESS AND
PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S
CLUB INSTALLS OFFICERS
RATISBON. the Catholic mon
astery in Jerusalem, has given
ATLANTA, Ga. — At a meeting
of the Catholic Club of Business
and Professional Women, held at
the home of Mrs. Loir, Smith, the
new officers who will direct the
activity of the club for the com
ing year, were formally installed.
They are: Mrs. W. A. Grennor,
president, Miss Mary Katherine
McGowan, vice-president; Mrs.
Evelyn Webb, recording secretary;
Miss Edna Kirby, corresponding
secretary; and Miss Melba
Schraupp, treasurei
Miss Katherine Birmingham, the
retiring president, gave a resume
of the accomplisments of the club
shelter to Jewish and Arab fami- during 1947.
lies forced to evacuate their homes i The annual Christmas party for
because of recent disturbances. I the members was held at the home
They have been assured of free j of Mrs. Thomas G. Perry, and an
accommodations as long as they interest contest program was con-
are unable to find new homes. ducted by Miss Margie Perry.
DOMINIC MODENA
DIES IN MACON
MACON, Ga.—Funeral services
lor Dominie Modena, retired gro-
eei, who died January 2, were held
at St. Joseph’s Church, Father
Robert T. Bryant, S. J., officiating.
A native of Italy, Mr. Modena
had made his home in Macon for
more than fifty years.
MRS. LEON OLIVER
DIES IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, S. C—Funeral
services for”'Mrs. Elisa E. Oliver,
widow of Leon Oliver, who died
December 15, were held at St Jos
eph’s Church.
Mrs. Oliver is survived by six
daughters, a son, thirty-three
grandchildren, and thirteen great
grandchildren
I Sovereign Lord. The Omnipotent
God, to Whom nothing is secret
and Who holds in His hands the
thoughts and hearts of men, to
bend them as He will and when
He chooses; God, all of Whose in
scrutable designs are governed by
His paternal love. But to fulfill
these designs He wishes to use
your cooperation. In the day of
battle your place is in the van
guard, fighting at the front. The
timid and those afraid to come
out in the open are very close to
becoming deserters and traitors.
He is a deserter and a traitor who
would give his material support,
his services, his talents, aid or vote
to parties und to forces which
deny God, which put might in the
place of right, and threats and ter
ror in the place ot liberty, which
make of lying, opposition and in- (
eitement of the masses to revolt
so many weapons of theTr policy, 1
thus rendering national and inter
national peace impossible.”
“Pray and work to obtain from
God,’’ the Sovereign Pontiff add- j
ed, “the grace that the year 1948
may be for wounded Europe and
for the nations torn by discord, a
year of rebirth and of peace.”
The Pope said those who have 1
eyes to see and ears to hear “can
not but be pained and humiliated”
that “Europe and the world—even
to distant and tormented China—
today are farther from real peace,
farther from a new order based
firmly on agreement and justice,
than ever they were before.”
The Holy Father pointed to the
"titanic struggle between the two
forces now competing for the
mastery of the world.” If hate is
sufficient to marshal “under the
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