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Vol. XXIX. No. 3 FORTY PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 27,1948 * ISSUED MONTHLY— $3.00 A YEAR
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VINCENT G. TAYLOR, O. S. B„ D. D.
Bulletins
ST. CHARLES COLLEGE, Ca-
tonsville, Maryland, now devoted
exclusively to training boys and
young men for the priesthood,
will round out a century of ser
vice this fall. The original build
ing of the college was opened Oc
tober 31, 1848. on land donated
bv Charles Carroll, of Carrollton,'
signer of the Declaration of In
dependence. Numbered among St.
Cborles’ alumni are two Cardi
nals. seven Archbishops, twenty
Bishops. At present some 1,500
priests who studied at St. Charles
are serving in the United States,
Canada, the Philippines, the West
Indies, and in other foreign mis
sion fields.
DOUGLAS HYDE, for the past
five years news editor of The
Daily Mirror, Britain’s leading
Communist newspaper, lias an
nounced Tris resignation from that
post and from the Communist
Party and his nitention to join
the Catholic Church
THE WORLD TODAY needs
women whose activities, study and
work reflect the ideals of the
Catholic Church His Eminence
Samuel Cardinal Stritch, as
serted as he presented Munde
lein College’s first Magnificat
Medal to Mrs. Henry Mannix of
Brooklyn, mother of nine and
president of the National Coun
cil of Catholic Women.
THE OBLATES of Mary Im
maculate soon will add missionary
work in Japan to their labors in
other parts of the world, the Very
Rev. Leo Deschatclets, Superior
General, announced on his first
visit to his Canadian homeland
since his election a year ago as
head of the Oblates.
CONGRATULATIONS f r o in
heads of States all over the world,
including Catholic Ireland, Mos
lem Egypt and chiefly pagan
China, were received by His Holi
ness Pope Pius XII on the ninth
anniversary of his coronation. . .
FRANCIS SOUBIROUS, twen
ty-year-old grandnephew of St.
Bernadette of Lourdes, has arriv
ed in New York on his first visit
to the United States. He said he
expected to make a five-week lour
of Eastern cities, lecturing on the
Lourdes shrine where the Blessed
Virgin appeared to his grand aunt.
Noted Priest Economist
to Speak on Catholic Hour
ABBOT-ORDINARY OF BELMONT
WASHINGON, D. C.—Father
Benjamin L. Masse, S. J„ Associ
ate Editor of the Magazine. Amer
ica,” will speak on the Catholic
Hour radio program on the Spn-
days* of April, according to an
announcement from the National
Council of Catholic Men, produc
ers of the program in cooperation
with the National Broadcasting
Company.
Father Masse, in addition to
his editorial duties, is noted
a speaker, educator and as a con
tributor to Columbia, the Catholic
World, the Catholic Digest, and
other periodicals.
The general subject of Father
Masse’s talks will be “Religion j
and Economic Life.” On April 4, j
Father Masse will speak on "The I
Right and Wrong of It,” on -April :
11, “Is Property Private?”, on I
April 18, “The Morality of Wages," j
and on April 25, “Toward Indus
trial Peace.”
RIGHT
One of the most widely known and most highly esteemed members
of the Order of St. Benedict in the United States is the Right Reverend
Vincent George Taylor, O. S. B., D. D., Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont,
who was blessed as Abbot on March 19, 1925, as the successor of the
late Bishop Leo Ilaid, O. S. B., first Abbot-Ordinary of Belmont. Ab
bot Vincent is a native of Norfolk, Virginia, and graduated from Bel
mont Abbey College. He was ordained (o the priesthood in 1902 and
had served with distinction as pastor of St. Benedict’s Church, Greens
boro, North Carolina, for more than twenty.years when he was’ chosen
to succeed Bishop Ilaid as Abbot of the Abbatia Nullius of Belmont.
Young Christian Students to
Conduct Study Week-End at
Sacred Heart College, Belmont
(Special to The Bulletin!
BELMONT, N. C—College stu
dents from eight Southeastern
states have been invited to attend
the Study Week-End to be con
ducted by the Young Christian
Students at the Sacred Heart Jun
ior College and Academy here on
April 17 and 18.
The Young Christian Students
is an international movement of
specialized Catholic Action and is
an adaptation W conditions and
circumstances in America of the
Catholic Action Movement and
Method (called Jocist) In France,
Belgium, Portugal, Australia, Can
ada and many other rations.
The purpose of the movement is
twofold: the formation and train
ing of the individual engaged in
Catholic Action, that is, making
the individual and his own life
more Christian; the actual aposto-
late, that is making others in the
environment and the environment
itself, more Christian.
College and university students
are expected from West Virginia,
Virginia, North Carolina. South
Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky.
Georgia and Florida.
Miss Patricia Ollivier. vice pres
ident of the General YCS Council,
will come from Chicago to spend
two weeks in the Carolinas to
prepare for the meeting, at which
she will preside.
The purpose of the study week
end is to discuss problems of the
student milieu and to make plans
for unity of action and coordina
tion with the international move
ment. Plans for (he week-end
include discussions, Conferences,
spiritual exercises and social gath
erings.
Since the YCS groups at Win-
thiwp College and Sacred Heart
Belmont Abbey and College, Belmont, N. C.
are the only ones in the Southern
Slates, discussion leaders will be
chosen from these groups and
from outstanding leaders in Ten
nessee and Kentucky.
The Sacred Heart grodp is in
charge of preparations for the
program and will serve on com
mittees during the week-end. The
members of the group are Miss
Carmen Burns, of Dade City, Flu.,
leader; Misses Mary Catherine
Thimont, of Hamlet; Lillian Ap
plewhite of Petersburg, Va., Ern
estine Russell, Raleigh, and Peg
gy Angelo, Winston-Salem.
The'tentative program for the
week-end has been announced as
follows:
Friday, April 16—8 p. m.. In
troductory meeting. Miss Carmen
Burns. Sacred Heart College,
chairman. Informal discussion.
Saturday, April 117—8 a. m.,
Missa Recitale. 10 a. m. The
Problem: Secularism in College
and Decadence of Social Institu
tions, Miss Patricia Ollivier, YCS
General Council, Chicago. Dis
cussion. 3 p. m.. Our Responsi
bilities Catholic Students, Ed- 1
ward Maher. Catholic University
of America. 7 p. m. Our Goal rnd
Vision of the World—To Restore
All Things in Christ, Miss Pa
tricia Ollivier. Discussion. 8:30
p. m., Informal social.
Sunday, April 18—8 a. m.. Missa
Cantata. 10 a. m.. Plan of Action,
Miss Patricia Ollivier. Discussion.
2 p. m., Spirit of the YCS, A
Movement, Edward Maher. Gen
eral Discussion. 3:30 p. m. Bene
diction. 4 n. m., Plan for Action
in the South, Miss Carmen Burns,
chairman.
The genera) outline of the week
end is the discussion of the actual
situation in college. Students
must be made to realize in the
concrete how secularism and the
decadence of social institution^
have affected their day-by-day
lives before they will do anything
about the mailer.
Monsignor Francis J. Furoy. rec
tor of St. Charles Seminary, Over
brook ,Pa., will speak during April j
on the nation-wide Hour of Faith
radio program, produced by the j
National Council of Catholic men
in cooperation with the American
Broadcasting Company.
Monsignor Furoy will deliver
four addresses on the general sub
ject, “The Light of Liberty.” j
The aerial photograph above
shows a group of buildings of
Belmont Abbey and Belmont Ab
bey College .Belmont, North Caro
lina, in the midst of which stands
Ihe magnificent and stately Bel
mont Abbey Cathedral which was
dedicated to the honor and glory
of \God, under the patronage of
Mary Help of Christians, more
than fifty years ago.
The Right Reverend Vincent G.
Taylor, O. S. B., D. D., is Abbot-
Ordinary of Abbatia Nullius of
Belmont, and also President of
Belmont Abbey College. The Very
Reverend Joseph Tobin, O. S. B.,
is Vicar General of the Abbatia
Nullius and Prior of Belmont Ab
bey. The Very Reverend Sebas
tian Doris .O ,S. J3., is Sub-Prior
of the Abbey. The Reverend Ber
nard llosswog, O. S. B., Chancel
lor of the Abbatia Nullius, is Hec
tor of Belmont Abbey Seminary
and also Rector of Belmont A-
key College. The Reverend Culh-
bert Allen, O. S. B., is Dean of
Men at Belmont Abbey College,
and also Superintendent of Schools
for the Abbatia Nullius. The
Reverend Andrew Doris, O. S. B.,
is Procurator of Belmont Abbey,
and the Reverend Charles Kast-
r.er, O. S .B. ,is Rector of the
Cathedral. The Reverend Gabriel
Stupasky, O. £5. B., is pastor of
the Colored parish in Belmont.
The faculty of Belmont College
includes Father Boniface Bauer,
O. S. B., Father Flotian Check-
hart, O. S. B„ Father Wilfred
Foley, O. S. B., Father Paul Milde
O. S. B., Father Brendan Dooley,
O. S. B., Father Gabriel Stupasky,
O, S. B., Father Walter Coggin,
O. S. B., Father Anthony Cahill
O. S. B., Father Francis Ferri,
Frater Raymond Geyer, O. S. B.,
Prater Matthew McSorley, O. S.
B., Frater Raphael Bridge, O. S.
BL, Frater John Oetjen, O. S. B.,
Frater Christopher Johann, Fra
ter Dennis Byrne, and Brother
Passiomst Fathers
Conduct Mission nt
Church in Savannah
(Special to The Bulletin)
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Large con
gregations attended the services
held at the Blessed Sacrament
Church during the two weeks’ Mis
sion conducted by Faiher Hubert
Sweeney, C. P., and Father. Nor
man C. Kelley. C. P., of the Pas-
sionist .Fathers Mission Band, from
the Monastery of Blessed Vincent
I^ary Strambi, Riverdale, N. Y.
The Mission lor men and boys
of high school age concluded on
March 14, at the 8:15 o’clock Mass,
after which a Communion break
fast was held under the auspices
of the Holy Name Society.
The second week of the Misj-
sion was devoted tto women and
girls of high school age, and the
subjects of the Mission sermons
covered such topics as "The Im
mortality of Ihe Soul,” "Death,”
“Marriage,” “The Home,” and “De
votion to the Mother of God.”
A special series of Mission ser
mons was also conducted for 1 lie
children of the parish, of which
Father Thomas A. Brennan is pas
tor.
Fidel is Motzer, O. S. B.
Lay members of the faculty of
Belmont Abbey. College - 'are: J. P.
Smith, Luis Martinez de Gama,
Edward Stry and Mrs. Richard
Lay.
Prients in residence at Bel
mont Abbey are Father Michael
Mclnerney, O. S. B., Father Al
phonse Buss, O. S. B., Father
Maurus Bucklieit, O. S.'B., Father
Basil McKee, O. S. B., Father
Richard Graz, Father Adcia.rd
Bouvilliers, O. S. B.