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FEBRUARY 28, 1948
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
SEVEN-A
ST. ANNE’S CHURCH. FLORENCE—'The picture of St. Anne’s
Church, which serves I he Colored Catholics of Florence, South
Carolina, was taken on the occasion of its dedication in 1941. It
is a charge of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, served by Father
Thomas Haggerty, O. M. I., pastor of St. Jude’s Church, Sumter.
Mrs. Merrelle Mock
President of Deanery
Council in Greenville
SPARTANBURG, S. C.—Mrs. J.
| Merrelle Mock, of Greenville, was
elected president of the Green-
j ville Deanery Council of Catholic
Women at the quarterly meeting
held February 3 in the—parish
hall of the Church of SL Paul
the Apostle here.
Other officers named were Mrs.
Leonard Becker, Sr., Spartanburg,
vice president; Mrs. Louis Reib-
ling, Spartanburg secretary, and
Miss May McGrath, Anderson,
treasurer.
Mrs. Jack Kearney, of Green
ville, president of the Charles
ton Diocesan Council of Catholic
Women praised Mrs. Leonard
Becker, Sr., the retiring presi
dent of the Deanery Council, for
her cooperation and a rising vote
of thanks was extended by the
assembly.
In the absence of Monsignor A.
K. Gwynn, P. A., pastor of St.
Mary’s Church, Greenville, who
was to be the guest speaker,
Father Charles J| Baum, pastor
of St. Paul the Apostle Church,
Spartanburg, addressed the meet
ing.
Father Baum stressed the need
of increased membership and urg
ed each member present to try to
enroll at least one new member.
He also directed attention to the
observance of Catholic Press
Month reminding the members of
the importance of religious read-
' ing in the home.
Following the business session,
| members of the Spartanburg Coun-
. cil were hostesses at a tea. Mrs.
Charles Cook, president of the lo
cal council, poured tea, and Mrs.
E. P. Joyce poured coffee. They
were assisted in serving by Misses
Shirley Abernathy, Paricia Holt
and Ann Reibling, members of
the St. Paul’s Catholic Youth Or
ganization.
Mrs. Warren Cathcart was chair
man of the committee arranging
for the meeting, with the fol
lowing sub-committee chairmen
assisting: Mrs. J. S. O’Neill, reg
istration; Mrs. Alfred Price and
Mrs. Martin O’Brien; welcome
Mrs. E. P. Joyce and Mrs. J. E.
DuPre; decorations, Mrs. William
Cash, Mrs. Alice Abernathy and
Mrs. A. O. Barbare; refreshments,
Mrs. John Siener; nominating, and
Mrs. Louis Reibling, publicity and
correspondence.
PROTESTS TEACHING
RELIGION IN PUBLIC
SCHOOL OF VIRGINIA
Special to The Bulletin)
RICHMOND, Va.—Charging
that the teaching of religion in
the Norfolk County public schools
is a violation of Federal and State
constitutions, W. C. Moore has
served notice on State and county
school officials that he will seek
to have it discontinued, through
a judicial ruling if necessary.
Mr. Moore, who describes him
self as a Protestant, is the father
of a fifth grade student in one of
the district schools.
He contends that under the
present voluntary religious educa
tion program in the school, his
son is “deprived of the full school
time to which he is entitled under
the compulsory education laws of
Virginia,” and that it further is
embarrassing for the child to be
put out of the classroom during
the period taken up for the teach
ing of religion.
Superintendent of Schools W.
A. Early said the course taught in
the fourth and fifth grades of all
county schools is purely voluntary
and the instructors are paid by
the Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America and the Vir
ginia Council of Religious Educa
tion.
It consists of thirty minutes in-
si ruction, once a week, and is giv
cn only to those children who
have written permission from their
parents to take the course.
JUSTICE HAROLD M.
STEPHENS, who was appointed
chief justice of the U. S. Court
of Appeals for the District of Co
lumbia, called the second highest
court in the land, by President
Truman, is a convert. He was
baptized and received into the
church in 1928 by Bishop Duane
G. Hunt of Salt Lake City.
BROTHERHOOD WEEK
PROGRAM IN COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Observance
of American Brotherhood Week,
sponsored here by the Columbus-
Phenix City Religious Council,
was feaulred by talks before civic
clubs and school students by Al
bert I. Edelman, of New York, for
mer chief of investigations of car
tels and foreign assets for the U.
S. Military Government in Ger
many Benjamin M. Parker, Atlan
ta, former special assistant to four
Attorneys General, and Andrew J.
Ryan, Jr., Savannah, Solicitor
General of the Eastern Judicial
Circuit of Georgia.
STATE OF WASHINGTON
RULES AGAINST CHURCH
SURVEYS IN SCHOOLS
OLYMPIA, Wash.—(RNS)—At
torney General Smith Troy de
clared in an opinion here that a
church-conducted survey of re
ligious interest and affiliation may
not take place in the schools, be
cause it would violate the state
constitution.
The Bremerton Ministerial As
sociation had requested pel-mis
sion to poll students to ascertain
their church preferences and help
them receive the benefit of some
definite religious training and ex
perience.
ST. CHRISTOPHER’S CHURCH. BAXLEY, GEORGIA
INTERIOR OF ST. CHRISTOPHER’S CHURCH. BAXLEY
Committee Named for
NCCS in Columbus
* The Little Red Fish House
201 N. Dargan Street Telephone 11C3—11(54
“THE FISH WITH THE WIGGLE IN THEIR TAILS”
GOLDENFAT POULTRY
Florence, South Carolina
(Special to The Bulletin)
COLUMBUS, C.a.— The recre
ational center operated by the
USO on Fifth Street, is now un
der the sponsorship of National
Catholic Community Service, which
was a member agency of the Unit
ed Service Organizations.
The NCCS program is designed
to meet the wide variety of per
sonal and leisure time needs of
the men and women in the arm
ed forces, and here in Columbus,
practically everything is still the
same as it was during the war-
years.
This extended service of NCCS
is made possible by the Arch
bishops and Bishops of the Unit
ed States, who in November of
last year, after reviewing the ac
complishments of NCCS during
its seven years of existence, au
thorized its continuance to serve
the spiritual, educational, social
and recreational needs of our
peacetime forces.
Father Herman J. Deimel, pas
tor of the Church of the Holy
Family, is moderator of the local
NCCS, and the committee includ
es: Louis C. Kunze, president;
Maurice Rothschild, vice presi
dent; William Fortson, treasurer;
Gus Murray, recording secretary;
Colonel Onto P. Bragan, military
representative, and Dr. Polk Land,
Richard II. Fleming, W. G. Bridg
es, Isadore Monsky, Vincent Mc
Cauley and Mrs. W. G. Bridges.
Students at Sacred Heart
College in Belmont Aid
Student Relief Campaign
AIKEN & COMPANY
FORTY HOURS DEVOTION
AT COLUMBUS CHURCH
INSURANCE
RENTALS
INVESTMENTS
F. H. A. LOANS
REAL ESTATE
PERSONAL LOANS
Phone 334
119 N. Dargan Street
Florence, S. C.
Phone 335
COLUM-BUS, Ga.—Father God
frey Weitekamp, O. F. M., pastor
of St. Mary’s Church, Americus,
delivered the sermons at the eve
ning services during Forty
Hours Devotion held at the Church
of the Holy Family here Febru
ary 22-24. Members of Bishop
Gross Council, Knights of Co
lumbus, served as a guard of
honor during the processions.
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT, N. C.—The Student
War Relief Campaign to aid desti
tute students in Europe and Asia
is now being conducted in hun
dreds of colleges and universities
throughout the country, was re
sumed on February 14 at the Sa
cred Heart Junior College and
Academy here, and an intensive
effort will be paid until the end of
the current school year to collect
food, clothing, books, magazines
and educational supplies for ship
ment by the NFCCS Relief Com
mittee to students abroad.
During the Christmas holiday
season, the students at the Sacred
Heart College and Belmont Abbey
College joined in sponsoring a
dance for the benefit of the fund.
The student aid to student or
ganization will strengthen the
bonds of spiritual, intellectual and
cultural interests between the stu
dents in this country and their col
leagues overseas. The gifts in kind
shipments will alleviate wide
spread suffering and insure, to
some degree, a sound Intellectual
and Christian world leadership.
Sacred Heart Coillege students
on the Student Relief Committee
are Misses Ernestine Russell, of
Raleigh, - chairman: Mary Cather
ine Thilmont, of Hamlet, vice-
chairman; Anne Gailelte. of Sa-
vanah, Ga.: Kitty Moore and Ann
Connell, of Mount Holly, and Win
ifred Rankin and Margaret McCer-
rigle, of Gastonia.
Monsignor Moylan
Dedicates Church of
St. Christopher, Baxley
(Special to The Bulletin)
BAXLEY, Ga.—Monsignor Jos
eph E. Moylan, Vicar General of
the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta,
dedicated the new St. Christo
pher’s Church here on January 25,
with Father George Fahey, S. M.,
of Brunswick, and Father Bernard
Brady, O. M. I., of Douglas, and
Father Francis McCarron, O. M. I.,
of Lakeland, assisting.
Father Frederick V. Gilbert, O.
M. I-, pastor of St. Paul’s Church,
Douglas, of which the new church
is a mission, welcomed the visitors
who attended the dedication and
gave an explanation of the cere
mony. Frank Hanna and Burnell
Moore, of Douglas, served as aco
lytes.
In his sermon at the Muss of
Dedication, of which he was the
celebrant, Monsignor Moylan
traced the history of tile Ciiureh,
told of the part -it played in the
lives of the faithful and of the con
tribution it made to civic life.
A transcription of the services
was made and broadcasted later
over Station WMDG in Douglas, so
that people all over South Geor
gia might be able to felicitate the
Oblate Fathers on the erection of
this new chapel which will serve
the Catholics of Baxley and its
surrounding area and the number
of tourists who travel U. S. High
way No. 1 between the North and
Florida.
The Mayor and several members'
of the City Council of Baxley at
tended the dedication ceremony.
Catholics from Baxley, Lumber
City, Selena and Surreney, and a
number of non-Catholics were in
the congregation.
At the conclusion of the ser
vices, refreshments were served
on the church lawn by members of
the Altar Society of St. Paul’s
Church in Douglas.
The construction of the chapel
was made possible through the
generosity of Henry D. Rodden-
ben-y, of California, a native of
nearby Ilazelhurst, and a convert.
Contributions from Catholics and
non-Catholics of- Baxiey helped to
purchase a site and other contribu
tions will aid in completing the
furnishing of the chapel and the
landscaping of the grounds.
Mass is now being said every
Sunday at St. Christopher’s
Church by one of the Oblate Fa
thers who comes up from Douglas
and spends Saturday night in the
priest’s quarters which are provid
ed at the rear of the building.
Pews and kneeling benches have
been placed in the church and a
bronze tabernacle has been in
stalled on the altar.
HOLY NAME SOCIETY
OFFICERS INSTALLED
ARCHBISHOP CUSHING of
Boston. Episcopal Chairman of the
Youth Department of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference, has
announced that the Rev. Dr.
Joseph Eugene Schieder, a priest
of the Diocese of Buffalo has been
named Director of the Youth De
partment of N. C. W. C.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Newly elected
officers of the Iloiy Name Society
of the Immaculate* Conception
parish, J. F. Glanorff, president;
II. L. Peterson, vice-president;
James Giglio, secretary; Matt Bott-
chen, treasurer, and M. C. Masters,
sergeant-at-arms, were installed at
lire January meeting held in the
recreational hail of the parish.
PRIEST FROM NEW YORK
SPEAKS ON PROGRAM AT
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
ATHENS, Ga.— Father George
B. Ford chaplain for the Catholic
students at Columbia University,
in New York City, was among the
visiting speakers who addressed
students at the University of Geor
gia during the annual Religion in
X,ilc Week held this month.
Florence Union Stock Yards
Florence, South Carolina
J. C. McCRACKLIN, Manager