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FEBRUARY 28, 1948 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION GEORGIA Boy Scout Geo. Vieira, Brunswick, Awarded “Ad Altare Dei” Medal THIRTEEN BRUNSWICK, Ga.—With the approval of MonsignOr James J. Grady, Director of Scouting for Ihe. Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta, the “Ad Altare Dei” medal, high est award bestowed upon a Scout, has been awarded to George Vieira, of Boy Seoul Troop 9, sponsored by Henry Thojnas Ross Council, Knights of Columbus. Presentation of the award to Scout Vieira was made at an im pressive ceremony, the first of its kind in the history of the Oke- fenokee Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, by Father John T. Mercer, S. M., pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church, before a large gathering which included a number of Scout officials. Members of Boy Scout Troop 9 marched into the church with their troop flag, while members of the Girl Scout Troop at St. Joseph's School, sang the appropriate hymn, ‘‘An Army of Youth.” With the Boy Scouts were G. Lin Adams, Scout Executive of the Okefcnokec Area Council; James Hearn, Field Executive for (he Coastal District; C. J. Bunting, District Commissioner; Edward Parker, deputy grand knight, and Manuel Boa, warden, of Henry Thomas Ross Council, Knights of Columbus. Father John H. Hillmann, S. M. scoutmaster and chaplain of Troop 9, spoke on Scouting under Catholic auspices and explained the meaning of the ‘‘Ad Altare Dei blessed by Father Mercer, who presented it to Scout Vieira. The services closed with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Following the services at the church, there was an informal gathering at Xavier Hall, where Scout Vieira and his mother, Mrs. Olivia Vieira, received the con gratulations and best wishes of their friends. The “Ad Altare Dei" award is made to Scouts for distinguished service to the Church through the Scout movement. This is the first time in the history of the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta that the award has been made to a Boy Scout, though the award has been made previously to adults active in promoting the Scout program. In order to attain the award, the Scout must be at least a First Class Scout, he must have given the equivalent of 250 hours of service to the Church, as an altar- boy. He must pass a thorough examination in Christian Doctrine, must receive the approval of his parents, his pastor, his Scoutmas ter, troop chaplain and that of the Diocesan Director of Scouting, through whom the award must be made. HONORING BOY SCOUT IN BRUNSWICK—Star Scout George Vieira, of Boy Scout Troop 9, sponsored by Henry Thomas Ross Council, Knights of Columbus, in Brunswick, Georgia, has been awarded the “Ad Altare Dei” Medal. Pictured with Scout Vieira, following the presentation cere mony. are, left to right: Manuel Boa, warden of the K. of C. council; Edward Parker, deputy grand knight, of the K. of C. Council; G. Lin Adams, Scout Executive, Okefcnokec Area Councii; Mrs. Olivia Vieira, mother of the bonoree; Scout Vieira, recipient of the award; Father John T. Mercer, S. M.. pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church, who made the presentation; C. J. Bunting, District Commissioner, Coastal District, Boy Seoul*, and James Hearn, Field Executive, Coastal District. Boy Scouts.—(Photo by Caples Studio' Archbishop Cushing Defies Critics of Church to Establish Any Instance of THE DOCUMENTARY FILM, Catholic Disloyalty to United States War Against War, depicting the I *' J activities of the Holy See for world peace before, during and after World War II, received its award. The medal was then first preview in Rome. | (N. C. W. C. News Service) ■ for our lay people and certain MANCHESTER, N. H. — So- death for our best priests and called liberals and small minority; people “YE OLDE” HERREN’S RESTAURANT 84 LUCKIE STREET Next Door to Rialto Theatre Famous For Fine Foods Atlanta, Georgia groups who have inspired recent attacks against Catholics, were criticized severely by Archbishop Richard ,T. Cushing of Boston, in a strongly-worded address here to Archbishop Cushing urged that all Catholics “read and ponder cnre/ully” the answer to the Mani festo issued by Archbishop John Compliments of JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL 1)84 Peachtree St., N. E. Vernon 5998 Atlanta, Ga. • -s , _ , - - - , T. McNicholas. O.P., of Cincinnati, the Knights of Columbus, whom Chairman of the National Catholic he called upon to “give the lie to Welfare Conference Administra- those who assert that a complete tive Board, and counseled that “all Catholic is less than 100 per cent: Catholic people especially Catb- an American.” 1 olie men like yourselves, must he The Boston prelate spoke at the; prepared to state the case for the State dinner of the New Hamp- Church and against the bigots if shire Knights of Columbus. Bishop i w c are ever to silence the charge Matthew F. Brady of Manchester,> of Catholic disloyalty among poo- presided. The Archbishop levelled | pie still so strongly influenced by a great portion of his criticism anti-Catholic traditions and habits against the newly-formed Protes-! of thought.” tants and Other Americans United He recalled an address he de fer the Separation of Church and live-red last fall dealing with the State separation of Church and State Archbishop Cushing called upon ! problem and said an antl-Catholic the Knights to “close ranks around ! magazine commented editot ui'l.v Mission Conducted at Church in Kingstree (Special to The Bulletin) KINGSTREE, S. C.—The first Mission conducted at St. Ann’s Church here since it was given the status of a parish, came to a most successful conclusion on January 25. The mission was giv en by Father Lawrence P. Sulli van, C. S. C., of the Mission Band of the Fathers of the Holy Cross, with headquarters at North Easton, Mass. This band of missloncrs, which is headed by Father Thomas C. Duffy, C. S. C., conducts mis sion in large and small parishes all along the Atlantic seaboard. Practically every member of the parish was a regular attendant at (be mission services, and on one evening a motorcade brought a group of Knights of Columbus from Georgetown to attend the mission services. At the closing service of the mission, at which members of the FORREST 5 AND 10c COMPANY Five Stores 748 Marietta Street, N. W. Atlanta, Ga. SILVER’S 5 and 10c Store ATLANTA, GEORGIA ACCOUNTS INSURED up to $5,000.00 Legal Trust Funds Liberal Semi-Annual Dividends Assets Over $20,000,000— Surplus and Reserves Over $1,500,000 ATLANTA FEDERAL Georgia’s Largest Federal Savings and Loan Association 22 MARIETTA STREET — MAIN FLOOR Phone WAlnut 2215 Member Federal Home Loan Bank System Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. your Bishops and your priests" i that some of the authorities he i parish renewed their baptismal and to give "no man ground to at- cited—Cardinal James Gibbons, vows, about a third of the persons tack Catholicism because of your | Archbishop John Ireland, M-gr. imperfect Americanism.” John A. Rvan. former Governor “Demonstrate, for all the world , Alfred E. Smith—were dead and “ e ;’ ', hc Areh ^*]i°P exhorted., (heir, pronouncements did not | ence and Father Patrick T . Quin that to be a good Catholic is to necessarily reflect the sentimen.s nas , or of th>» mrsh t„„.„ be a good American - and that, of living Catholic leaders. The , to be a Calholic American is to be | Boston prelate added: “Well, t0 -! Jsslhtcd 1 jUler Su!llvan Jt "»e the best, the happiest, the most! night I make my own and proclaim loyal person in this world or the as vour?. the words uttered by next." I Archbishop McNicholas in accents Archbishop Cushing said that unmistakable and clear to all two great and closely related pile- ; whose minds arc fair and whose nomcna are prevalent in the na- hearts are clean from prejudice lion. One is the storm of talk - • • "The' Catholic Church is com- against the Catholic Church. Hier- mitted to no form of government, arehy and institutions, whipped She gets on with every govern- up by a small, powerful minority nlenl that upholds the basic free- of non-Catholics, chiefly clergy- doms. No group in America is men. Tile other is a tempest of talk seeking union of Church and in behalf of the so-called civil lib- State; and least of all are Calh- erties of communists, communist j olios. We deny absolutely and sympathizers and communist ideas, j without any qualification that the He stressed that often times tho c j Catholic Bishops of the United whose names appear in the lists States are seeking a union of of organizations against Catholics Church and State by anv endeav- also appear among the “special urs whatsoever, either proximate ,»nj- campaign of the so-called lib- pleaders on behalf of the Reds.” or remote. “ I eri , K ,, tuJ .- ma u minority groups. He said that a distinguished Bigotry dies nard, Archbishop ! “What is it that these people Protestant recently remarked: “I Cushing said, and “ere long the! now fear?” Arch! > hop Cu lung am afraid that if it came to a : fomenters of anti-Catholicism will continued. “Have thev read (he show-down between collaboration return" and point out that Arch-j ecord or American history and with Catholics and collaboration I bishop McNicholas “and the rest ‘bund there any slight trace of with communists, clergymen like of us are alive . . . accommodating Catholic treachery’ Are they pre- the ministers who went to Yugo-1 ourselves to the mood of the pre:-| pared to cite so much as a single slavia for Tito would align them- I ent” while the danger lies in the instance of Catholic disloyalty to selves with the Marxists rather future. He added: "There is only the United States in all the rears, in the congregation were non- Catholics. Father William A. Tobin, Flor- | closing exercises of the mission. BISHOP OF ST. AUGUSTINE BACK FROM YUGOSLAVIA ON VISIT TO DIOCESE ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla—(NC)— Bishop Joseph F. Hurley of St. Au- gurtine. who has been serving for more than two years as Regent, ad Interim of the the Apostolic Nun ciature in Belgrade. Yugoslavia, is home on a visit to his Diocese. Bi«hop Hurley was accompanied on his trip to (he United States by his secretary, Father Donald Dai ley. than with the Catholic pridsts and people!”. Archbishop Cushing made it plain he does not believe that the ! group stand trial or suffer few Protestant clergymen whose one answer to weasel talk like, as many as theirs, that we have that . . . No sane man ever asks | been here as a people? If they that the present generation of any read the story, happily brief, of re- 1 reason to this R"’ u % lic they will names constantly appear on anti- Catholic and pri)-communist state ments, “speak for the larger and saner element among our non- Gatholic neighbors, but they do speak—and what they say is a threat to the future faith and free dom of our children . . . and what they say is being repeated with greater and greater insistence.” He added that “even though they only speak for themselves, they must be answered and they shall be answered." He congratulated the officers of the Knights of Columbus for their immediate denunciation of the manifesto issued by Protestants and Other American United. Quot ing some excerpts from the Mani festo, the Archbishop said those “are words which sting the very souls of Catholic Americans . . . re-echo publicly the ancient, pri vately whispered insinuations against Catholic civil loyalty which turned the land of our an cestors into places of fear and fierce conflict, of civil disabilities crimination because of what might j find the names of Benedict Arn- be done—but in all prouahillty ; old. o( Aaron Burr and of others-— vyill never be done—by people who have not yet been horn.” Archbishop Cushing said that the “architects ol antagonism” say they have no quarrel with the Catholic laity, but claim that the Catholic Bishops are guilty of ag gressive activities agai"‘-t the but they will lind no Catholic names or associations. Th?y should know this well—for they sought hard to pin the me of con spiracy on any Catholic individual or group wl’ n m they con’d accuse under any title. Once Utsir kind labored with me lit and main to American Constitution and tradi- j charge a poor women, ".lrs. Sur- lions. He described this as an at- 1 ’-at;.'with the pi'i>’«r Of Abraham tempt to divide prle Is and people | Lincoln, himself! ,J o r®lf-rcshect- The Boston prelate reminded j ing authority would todav talk of critics of the Catholic Bishops that ‘“athoiic complicity in the foul since the day of Aichbithoo John deed . . . Carroll of Baltimore, the “father | "Where are the traitors among of the American Hierarchy.” who American O'hrllcs?” Archbishop dates back to before the begin- ] Cu bing asked. “Where are 111 se ning of the Republic, there have , who have been led by their loyally been almost (iOO Catholic Bichops to Rome into disloyalty to Wash- coirco-pled for service in the] ington? The simple fact is: they United States. He defied them to' do not exist . . . And Protestants name one who was a traitor. | and others united against us know He also recalled the vicious, un-| they do not. Let these critics do fair anti-Catholic campaigns of : the honorable thing: let them state the A. P. A.’s of the 1890's and their case against us fairly or (lie fiery bigotry of the Ku Klux j else withdraw it! But let them Klan of a generation ago, liken- cease attacking Catholic loyalty ing these movements to the pres-i to these United States!”