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FEBRUARY 28, 1948 THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA THREE News Review of the Catholic World Campaign to Raise $5,000,000 for Bishops’ Fund for Victims of War to Be Launched on Laetare Sunday (N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON.—A nation-wide $5,000,000 campaign to be known as “The Bishops’ Fund For Vic tims of War” will be conducted in the form of a collection to be taken up on Laetare Sunday, March 7, it lias been announced by Archbishop .Tohn T. McNicholas, O. P„ of Cincinnali. chairman of the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Confer ence. The Archbishop also announced that, following the custom estab lished last year, .a children's col lection will be taken up in the parochial schools of the country during the Lenten season. Announcement of the campaign was made in a letter sent lo all members of (lie U. S. Hierarchy, which pointed out that in some dioceses it may not be feasible to conduct the campaign on Laetare Sunday and it may be undertaken at a later date. Archbishop McNicholas’ letter to the mcmebrs of the Hierarchy staled: ‘‘I express the grateful appre ciation of the members of the Administrative Board (Directors of War Relief Services) for the very extraordinary response of tiie Bishops to the appeal made in most dioceses on Laetare Sunday, 1947, and in a few dioceses at a later date. The cooperation of the Bishops and their priests, and the generous response of Religious communities and the faithful, have written a marvelous chapter of generosity and sacrifice in the annals of (he Church in (he United States. ‘‘The recent Thanksgiving Food Collection has also surpassed our expectations. We had hoped for 25,000,000 pounds of food; it will probably reach 40,000,000 pounds. Again, the Administrative Board thanks the Bishops, priests and people for their generous help. ‘‘At our November meeting, the Bishops decided that we could-not discontinue our help to the suffer ing people who are the victims of the war. The Administrative Board recommended to the general body of Bishop, the need of raising the sum of $5.000 000. The Bishops, without dissent, in general session recognized the need and voted in favor of the collection. “This year Laetare Sunday comes at an early- date—March 7. I bring the earnest and cordial recommendation of our Bishops’ meeting at Washington (hat we continue our relief and charity to the stricken victims of the war. The letters received from the Cardinals and Bishops of dioceses that have been helped express their very deep sense of gratitude to the American Hierarchy, assur ing its members that the Bishops’ relief, through our War Relief Services, saved the lives of hun dreds of thousands of persons, es pecially little children, 'who were starving and dying. The relief we sent also strengthened the posi tion of the Church in war-stricken countries. “The Bishops of the Administra tive Board (who constitute tile Di rectors of the War Relief Services) and the members of the staff of said Services will appreciate again this year the appointment of. a Diocesan Director, with whom our National Director, Msgr. Edward E. Swanstrom, can communicate. Information and helpful leaflets for publicity purposes will be sent to local directors from Uie of fice of War Relief Services. New York . . . Little time remains for our organized efforts. “Last year during Lent the children of our schools were asked to make sacrifices for their hun gry and suffering brothers and sistprs in the war zones of the world. This children’s Collection in the schools was very successful: it began on Ash Wednesday and contiued during Lent. May we hope again for approval for the Children’s Collection during Lent, from February 11, to March 28.” HOLY FATHER BROADCASTS NEW YORK—His Holiness Pope Pius XII addressed a radio broadcast to the parochial school children of (he United States on Ash Wednesday in behalf of the Bishops’ Campaign for the Victims of War. It was announced that radio and screen stars Don Ameche. Eddie Cantor. Bob Hope. Lionel Barry more, Fibber McGee and Molly Knox Manning, Harlow Wilcox and Truman Bradley had made radio spot announcements for use during the campaign. PLANS FOR PARTICIPATION IN CAMPAIGN DISCUSSED AT CONFERENCE IN GREENVILLE GREENVILLE, S. C.—Plans for participation in the Bishops’ Re lief Campaign were discussed at Piedmont Deanery of the Diocese of Charleston held at the Hotel Greenville here on February 10. Monsignor James J. May. Vicar General of (lie Diocese of Charles ton, and Diocesan director of (he campaign, outlined t lie program to priests serving the parishes in Greenville, Aiken, Anderson, Clemson, Greenwood and Spart anburg. Monsignor A. K. Gwynn, P. A., pastor of St. Mary's Church here, and Vicar Forane of the Green ville Deanery, announced that on March 7, a collection on behalf of the fund would be taken up in the churches of Greenville Dean ery and throughout (he Diocese of Charleston. A NUMBER of recent sessions of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Stale Senate were opened in Richmond with prayers by priests of that city. Father Thomas E. O'Connell, of St. Paul’s Church, and Monsignor James A. Brennan, of St. Patrick’s Church, gave the invocations. Let's ALL Give! BISHOPS' i VICTIMS WA R New Archbishops archbishop McIntyre Most Rev. J. Francis McIntyre, Coadjutor Archbishop of New York, who has been appointed Archbishop of Los Augeles, filling the See made vacant by the death of Archbishop John J. Cantwell last October. (NC Phofbs) ARCHBISHOP BEUGAN Most Rev. Gerald T. Bergan, Bishop of Des Moines, since 1934, who has been named Archbishop of Omaha, succeeding the late James H. Ryan, who died last No vember. Archbishop-elect Bergan was born in Peoria, 111. (NC Pho tos) Advertising Plan of Knights of Columbus Wins Widespread Attention and Approval The program of the Supreme Council of the Knights of Colum bus for advertising Catholic be liefs and practices in periodicals of national circulation, which was inaugurated last month, has al ready brought encouraging expres sions of interest and approval. The first of the advertisements, entitled “You Hear Strange Things About Catholics,” appeared in The American Weekly, January 25, and in The Pathfinder, January 28. These publications have a com bined circulation of almost ten million and an estimated 25,000,- 000 readers. Among the news papers that distribute The Ameri can Weekly as a Sunday supple ment is The Atlanta Constitution. The second in the series of six paid ads sponsored by the K. of C., for February publication, in the same magazines, is headed “Why Catholics ‘Keep Running lo Church’.” PROGRAM COMMENDED BY MEMBERS OF HIERARCHY NEW HAVEN, Conn.—(NC)-— Commendations from mmbers of the American Hierarchy for their advertisements in national secular publications explaining Catholic teachings to non-Catholic readers have been received here by the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus. His Excellency, Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apos tolic Delegate to the United States, predicted in a letter to Supreme Knight John E. Swift that the campaign “will do untold good in enlightening non-Catholics, and in bringing many of them to the one true Church of Christ. . . .” Archbishop Joseph E. Rummel of New Orleans, in praising the Knights’ effort, suggested that State Councils of the fraternal order be asked to extend the ad vertisements by local publications of statewide circulation. Bishop William T. Mulloy of Covington and Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh urged the extension of (he campaign to rural weeklies. Bishop Christopher E. Byrne of Galveston wrote: “I am very glad to see you taking up the circula tion of correct information about the Catholic Church and its teach ings and discipline. And I hope you will not tire of repeating, be cause it is the long and often re peated claumnies which have brought so much misunderstand ing about the Church." Archbishop John T. McNicholas, O. P„ of Cincinnati, in congratu lating the Catholic Men’s organi zation on its program, said tlxat Ihe majority of Protestant people “do not, if left to themselves, show any hostility U) the Church . . . and we calmly and kindly urge them to investigate every statement made against the Catho lic Church.” Others who commended the K. of C. venture included his Emin ence Samuel Cardinal Striteh, Archbishop of St. Louis, Bishop John F. Noll of. Fort Wayne, Bis hop Charles F. Buddy of San Diego. Bishop Vincent J. Ryan of Bismarck. Bishop George I,. Leach of Harrisburg and Bishop Thomas F. Malloy of Brooklyn. TIME NOTES CAMPAIGN Time, the weekly news maga zine. carried the following story in its January 26 issue: "You hear Strange Things About Catholics. . . . You hear it said that Catlioljcs believe all non- Catholics are headed for Hell . . . lhal they believe non-Catholic marriages are invalid . . . that they adore statues . . . are for bidden to read the Bible . . . use medals, candles and holy water as sure-fire protection against the loss of a job, lightning or being run down by an automobile. “With these words the new na tional advertising campaign be gins (his week. Its sponsors: the Knights of Columbus. The idea originated 3th years ago in Mis souri when a small group of K. of C. businessmen decided lo try promoting the Roman Catholic Church with modern sales tech niques. They put 20 ads in Mis souri papers. Results: hundreds of non-Catholics applied lo priests lor instruction, 730 people enroll ed for instruction by mail. “The present scries of six ads. each offering free pamphlets; will inn in the American Weekly and the rural-circulation Path finder. Other ad titles: “Why Cath olics Keep Running to Church’; ‘Why Millions Call Him II*’* Father.’ “Commenting on the campaign, the aggressively Protestant Christ ian Century editorialized this week: "The Knights of Columbus are lo be applauded for having hired a hail in the advertising columns and there submitting the claims of their church to the test of the open forum. If Protestant ism is wise, it will hasten to sub ject its faith to the same scrutiny.” THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY COMMENTS ON CAMPAIGN The editorial to which Time re fers appeared in tiie January 21 issue of the Christian Century under the heading, “Knights of Columbus to Advertise Catholic ism.” The text follows: “From ’Columbia’, official mag azine of tiie Knights of Columbus, we learn that a campaign to ad vertise Roman Catholic doctrines in secular magazines of national circulation will be launched this month. The first weeklies lo carry these advertisements will be Hearst’s American Weekly and the Pathfinder. Later, it is ex pected that the campaign will be greatly extended. In general, the copy will be much like that in the Dispatch for the past three years, Local K. of C. posts have reproduced these St. Louis adver tisements in other newspapers. But the campaign now announced 1949 GENERAL CHAPTER OF DOMINICANS TO BE HELD IN UNITED STATES WASHINGTON — (NC) — The next General Chapter or world meeting of the Dominicans will be held in Washington in 1949, the first such event lo be held in North America, it was announced by the Most Rev. Manuel Saurez, O. P., Dominican Master General, as he arrived here by air from Lisbon, beginning a visitation of his order’s installations in (he United States, Canada and Mexi co. In his first action in this coun try—it is his first time here— Father Suarez officiated with Ilis Excellency Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, at the conferring of a degree of Mas ter of Sacred Theology upon the Very Rev. Paul A. Skehan, O. P., of Providence, R. 1.. Procurator General of the Dominicans. Scene of the ceremony was the Domini can House of Studies at Ihe Cath olic University of America. A REVIVAL of religious belief and deep concern about spiritual values is evident throughout Eng land and Scotland and may be the first evidence of the operation of God’s grace in bringing the peo ple of those lands back to tiie pre- Refoimation faith of their ances tors, Right Rev. Bom Wilfrid Up son, Lord Abbot of Prinknash, England, now visiting the United States, declared in New York. Abbot Wilfrid heads a commun- ty of Benedictine monks among whom arc several former Angli can clergymen. The Abbot, him self a convert, was a member of a community of Anglican Bene dictines at Caldey, off the coast of Wales. BISHOP BERNARD J. SIIEIL. Auxiliary of Chicago, has been named recipient of the 1947 cita tion of the Decalogue Society, an association of 1,500 Jewish law yers in Chicago. The award was presented on the basis of Bishop Shell’s "militant fight against big otry, reaction and partisanship and foi- liis vigorous defense of civil liberties, his devoted and hu man labors on behalf of racial and religious minorities, his stalwart championing of a living democracy in a free world with justice for all nations and for all men.” A DESIGN for a great cross to mark (lie martyrdom of Father Juan Padilla, first missionary to die on the soil of what is now (lie United States, is being selected by executive officers of the Kansas Stale Council, Knights of Colum bus. Father Padilla accompanied Coronado into what is now Kansas in 1541. He returned a year later and continued his missionary work, until he was killed by In dians, presumably on Christmas "Day in 1542. FATHER FRANCIS J. POWERS, C. S. V., prolessor of political science at Gannon College, Erie, Pa., and a candidate for a doctor ate in Sacred Jurisprudence at the law school of the Catholic University of America, has been admitted to practice law before (lie Supreme Court of the United Slates. Father Powers is a mem ber of the Massachusetts bar and holds a Master’s degree in law from the University of Michigan. will be a national affair financed by (lie national K. of C. organiza tion. It is possible that some non- Romanists may be tempted to ob ject lo such a campaign, but if they do llicy will make a mistake, if the ads are competently written and contain a dependable exposi tion of Roman Catholic beliefs— and Ihe hierarchy can be counted on to see to that—it will be a good thing to have them placed before the American people. If it is objected that untrained Protest ants and members of tiie un churched public will not be able to discern debatable assumptions a non sequiturs, and thus may fall victims of their own ignorance, that but indicates the need for Protestantism to be doing adult education of the same sort. The Knights of Columbus are to be applauded for having ’hired a hall’ in the advertising columns and there submitting the claims of their church to the test of the open forum. If Protestantism is wise, it will hasten lo subject its faith to the same scrutiny.”