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Catholic Lay men's Association of Georpa “To a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed” Vol. XXIX. No. 3 FORTY PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 27,1948 * ISSUED MONTHLY— $3.00 A YEAR . - --r-r--- 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.