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Published by the
Catholic Lay
men’s Association
of Georgia
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
Vol. XXIX No. 2 THIRTY-TWO PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 28, 1948
ISSUED MONTHLY—$3.00 A YEAH
John M. Brennan, Savannah,
Succeeds C. A. McCarthy on
C. L A. Executive Committee
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga. — At a meeting
of the executive committee of the
Catholic Laymen's Association of
Georgia, held on January 18, at
the Ansley Hotel, President Estes
Doremus, who presided, appoint
ed John M. Brennan, of Savannah,
to succeed C. A. McCarthy, of
Savannah, as a member of the
executive committee, and the ap
pointment was confirmed by the
vote of the members of the com
mittee present at the meeting.
Mr. McCarthy, who has been
active in the work of the Lay
men’s Association since its foun
dation in 1916, served some years
ago as a member of its important
publicity committee, and also as
president of the local branch of
the Association in Savannah.
When the Constitution and By-
Laws of the Association were
amended in 1941, at the annual
convention held in Rome, and an
executive committee of nine mem
bers was provided for in place of
a number of vice-presidents, Mr.
McCarthy was made a member of
that committee and had served in
such capacity until the meeting
in Atlanta when he submitted his
resignation because of his health.
Mr. McCarthy’s resignation was
accepted with regret and Mr.
Brennan was then named to re
place him on the executive com
mittee.
The meeting was honored by
the attendance of Monsignor Jos
eph E. Moylan, Vicar General of
the Diocese of Savannah-Allanta,
who offered the opening and clos
ing prayers.
Officers of the Association who
were present were: Martin J. Cal-
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Proof
that it pays to advertise Catholic
truth is pouring into headquarters
of the Supreme Council, Knights
of Columbus.
The first of six advertisements
to be published by the Supreme
council appeared the last week of
January in the American Weekly
and Pathfinder magazine. By Feb
ruary 2, 11,500 requests for pam
phlets had been received.
The first week brought letters
from every state excepting Ver
mont and Delaware, and the re
quests for a wide variety of Cath
olic information. A remarkable
number asked for information on
Catholic topics which were not
even mentioned in the advertise
ment.
Some of those writing in asked
for information as the basis for
speeches, and a substantial num
ber of requests were for permis
sion to reproduce the advertise
ment in local newspapers and oth
er media. Many asked for pam
phlets in bulk quantities for dis
tribution to friends and acquaint
ances they thought might be inter
ested in the Catholic faith.
The Knights of Columbus have
received national publicity as a
result of fhe advertising program.
Time carried a story of the cam
paign in its January 20 issue.
Pathfinder had mentioned it in its
section on religion December 31.
So great was the demand for
bulk supplies of booklets offered
in the advertisement that, the
Supreme Council found it neces
sary to place a limit of three on
the number of booklets to be sent
free. A charge of five cents each
will be made for the booklets in
large quantities.
Articles in the first booklet
eover such topics as “Do Catholics
Want to Rule AmerlcaT .. . “Aren’t
the Public Schools Good Enough
for Catholics?” . . . “The Open Bi
ble Was Never Closed.” ... “Toler
ance, Noblest of Virtues or Great
est of Crimes?” .,, “But Are All
laghan, K. S. G., Macon, honorary
vice-president; Fred Wiggins, Al
bany, vice-president; John B. Mc-
Callum. Atlanta, secretary, and
Hugh Kinchley, Augusta, execu
tive secretary.
Members of the executive com
mittee who attended were Bernard
J. Kane, K. S. S„ Atlanta; Ber
nard S. Fahy, K. S. S., Rome, Dr.
T. H. Mediation, Athens, James
Foster, Waycross, and Mrs. J.
Mark Mote, Columbus.
Invitations to attend the meet
ing had been extended to the va
rious local branch presidents
throughout the state. Thomas J.
O’Keefe, president of the Atlan
ta Branch, and R. Habenicht Cas-
son, president of the Macon
Brancjh, were present. Mrs. James
Foster attended as the represen
tative of E. M. Ileagarty, president
of the Waycross Branch, and Pctro
Stephens represented Fred Mills,
president of the Albany Branch,
who advised by telegraph that he
would not be able to reach At
lanta in time for the meeting. Dr.
Arthur Berry, president of the
Columbus Branch, was another
who was unable to reach Atlanta
for the meeting, having been
halted en route because of the
condition of the highway due to
the freezing weather.
After some discussion, the pro
posal of Mr. Fahy, seconded by
Mr. Wiggins, that the subscrip
tion price of The Bulletin should
he advanced to $3.00 a year, was
unanimously adopted.
A budget covering expenditures
for the year was adopted and
quotas for contributing member
ships were assigned to the various
branches.
Non-Catholics Headed for Hell?"
. . . “Do Catholics Really Adore
Images or Statues?” Other articles
cover such topics as prayers for
Hie dead, ceremony and display in
the church, devout Catholics who
were famous scientists, and the
responsibilities of parents in the
matter of religion.
Secretary General and
Councillor of Sisters of
St. Joseph, Visit Augusta
AUGUSTA, Ga.—Mother Eileen,
a General Councillor, and Sister
M. Paul, Secretary General of the
Sisters of St. Joseph of Caronde-
let, recently visited Mount St. Jos
eph Convent in Augusta.
Mother Eileen, who is from St.
Paul, Minn., who was making her
first visit to Georgia, and Sister
Paul, expressed themselves as be
ing well pleased with the accom
plishments of the students at
Mount St- Joseph Academy.
Father Patrick Connell, assist
ant pastor of St. Patrick’s Church,
was the speaker on a Catholic
Press Month program at the
school.
Visual education was introduced
at Mount St. Joseph’s this month
with the exhibition of the motion
picture film, “Mexico.”
Members of the Sodality of Our
Lady entertained the student body
at a skating party at the Y. W. C.
A., with-Miss Philomena Andrews,
Miss Catherine Mealing, Mrs. John
W. McDonald and Mrs. P. H. Rice
as sponsors.
Miss Catherine Mealing, coach
of the basketball teams at Mount
St. Joseph’s, has been commended
by the Red Cross for her services
in water safety for the past sev
eral years.
MASS was offered for the first
time in the vicinity of Albany,
Illinois, a century-old Mississippi
Valley village, when St. Patrick’s
Church of neighboring Coffey’s
Corners, acquired the local Pres
byterian church and moved m
Member of C. L. A.
Executive Board
JOHN M. BRENNAN
One of the outstanding young
Catholic laymen of Savannah, John
M. Brennan, who has been elected
a member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Catholic Laymen's
Association of Georgia to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation
of C. A. McCarthy. Mr. Brennan,
a past giand Knight of Savannah
Council, Knights of Columbus, and
a former district deputy of the K.
of C., is engaged in the practice of
law in Savannah.
Resigns as Executive
Committee Member
c- a. McCarthy
Cornelius A. McCarthy, of Sa
vannah, long and prominently ac
tive in the work of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia,
who has tendered his resignation
as a member of the Executive
Commilee of the Association be
cause of his health.
Press Chairman
Bishop Michael J. Ready of Co
lumbus, as Episcopal Chairman of
the Press Department, National
Catholic Welfare Conference, is
a leading spirit in the nationwide
observance of February as Catho
lic Press Jtowtfc,—4NC Photos).
K. of C, Advertising Campaign
Attracts Great Interest—Brings
Many Requests for Information
Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta
Planning Campaign to Raise
$1,000,000 Building Fund
(Special to The Bulletin)
ATLANTA, Ga. — Preparation
for an all-cut solicitation of the
Diocese of Savannah-Allanta in
$1,000,000 Bishop's Building Fund,
to raise funds with which to erect
new churches, chapels and paro
chial schools, is now being intensi
fied, it was announced by Mon
signor Joseph F. Croke. pastor of
St. Anthony’s Church, Atlanta,
who has been named general
chairman of the campaign.
in reporting campaign progress
to date, Monsignor Croke reveals
that this is the first Diocesan-
wide project to be undertaken in
the past several years, and the
goal sought is ten times larger
than any previous appeal.
Monsignor Croke declared: "We
are faced today with a serious sit
uation in this Diocese. Present
existing religious and educational
facilities are woefully inadequate
for all our Catholic people in this
area. We need more churches,
more chapels, and more schools.
In an area containing more than
59,000 square miles, we have only
forty parishes. Our priests have
been forced to undertake long and
difficult journeys to hold ser
vices in private homes, in hotels—
anywhere, in fact, that affords the
necessary space. If the Church is
to continue to grow in Hie State
of Georgia, we must provide im
mediate additional habitats for the
Blessed Sacrament. It therefore
becomes necessary for us to make
another appeal for financial assis
tance to fulfill these Diocesan
needs- Through the unselfish gen
erosity of every income-producing
Catholic in this Diocese, we are
confident this deplorable condi
tion wil be alleviated.
Monsignor Croke further reveal
ed' that His Excellency the Most
Reverend Gerald P. O’Hara,
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, heart
ily endorses and blesses this effort
to provide proper care and educa
tion for every present and future
Catholic family in this area.
The solicitation phase of the
To Head Campaign
MONSIGNOR CROKE
The Right Reverend Monsignor
Joseph F. Croke, pastor of St,
Anthony’s Church, Atlanta, who
lias been designated general chair
man of the Bishop's Building Fund
Campaign which will be launched
throughout the Diocese of Savan
nah-Atlanta, in April, in an effort
to raise $1,000,000 which will be
used to erect Catholic churches,
chapels and schools in Georgia-
campaign, scheduled to begin the
week of April 20, is under the
guidance of the various parish
chairmen. In each of the forty
parishes, the lay chairman is to
enlist vice-chairmen, who in turn
arc to enlist captains, who in turn
are to enlist the balance of the
worker's needed for their respec
tive teams. Thus the framework,
upon which depends the success
of the campaign, will be com
pleted.
Bishop O’Hara Extends Thanks to
Catholics of Georgia for Food
Sent to People of Rumania
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Some
months ago, in response to an ap
peal from Bishop Gerald P.
O’Hara of Savannah-Atlanta, pre
senting serving as Regent ad In
terim of the Apostolic Nunciature
in Bucharest, Romania, the Cath
olics of Georgia collected and
shipped to Rumania a generous
supply of canned and packaged
foodstuffs.
The shipment was delivered and
in the following letter, which was
read in the churches of the Dio
cese on the last Sunday in Jan
uary, Bishop O’Hara expressed his
gratefulness In these words:
“With heart overflowing with
gratitude I wish to express to my
beloved people in Georgia my pro
found appreciation of their great
generosity and charity in sending
to us a huge consignment of food
for distribution in Rumania.
“If it were possible, I should
like to write an individual letter
to each pastor in the Diocese and,
indeed, to each of those who con
tributed to the special food cam
paign that was conducted for Ru
mania by the Diocese of Savannah-
Atlanta. Unfortunately, circum
stances do not permit me to write
so many letters and so I must con
tent myself with this general let
ter, which I trust will come to the
attention of all and each who in
any way had a part in providing us
and so many other people in this
country with an abundance of the
necessities of life.
“In voicing by own gratitude to
you I am also echoing the senti
ments of the many wiio were the
recipients of your bounty. From
countless, grateful hearts in this
far-off country in Southeastern
Europe will arise to Heaven fer
vent prayers for those whose kind
ness, generosity and charity
brought them so much help and
happiness.
“The gratitude of all of us is
trebled and intensified by the
realization of the many sacrifices
that were involved in the con
signment sent to us. It meant con
siderable thought and extra work
on the part of our priests in or
ganizing the campaign; ip collect
ing the various articles contribu
ted; in labelling, packing and
shipping them. On the part of our
Georgia people, it meant sacri
fices of time and convenience and
money in purchasing the food and
in delivering it to the collection
points. We are deeply mindful of
the immense effort that was in
volved in the help that was sent
us, and, as I said above, this in
tensifies our gratitude and places
all of us here still greater in your
debt.
“May God in His Infinite good-
nes.s—tlie God of Love in whose
Sacred Name so much was done
for us, be your reward in time and
in eternity for what you hav*
done.
“To our priests, especially la
Monsignor Moylan, and to the pas
tors of the Diocese, go my special
thanks for their great goodness in
organizing the special food cam
paign and in cooperating so gen
erously to promote it. It certainly
will be no small gratification for
them to know that among those
who have received quantities of
food shipped from Georgia, were
the clergy here—their brothers in
Christ.
“With affectionate regards and
a blessing to each of you.'' xl