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Published by the
Catholic Lay-
, men’s Association
of Georgia
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
' Feeling Among
Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
Vol. XXIX, No. 10 THIRTY-TWO PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 23, 1948 if. if. if. ISSUED MONTLY—$3.00 A YEAR
Honored by Holy See
"MONSIGNOR GEORGE LEWIS SMITH
President of the Catholic Hospital Association of the United States
and Canada, and Pastor of St. Mary Help of Christians Church, Aiken,
South Carolina, who has been elevated to the dignity of a Domestic
Prelate, with the rank and title of Right Reverend Monsignor, by His
Holiness Pope Pius XII.
Father George Lewis Smith,
Pastor in Aiken, Invested
As a Domestic Prelate
Cardinal Mooney to Dedicate
Bishop England High School
Gymnasium in Charleston
AIKEN, S. C.—Father George
Lewis Smith, president of the
Catholic Hospital Association of
the United States and Canada,
and pastor of St. Mary Help of
Christians Church, Aiken, has been
elevated by His Holiness Pope
Pius XII to the dignity of Domes
tic Prelate, with the rank and title
of Right Reverend Monsignor.
Bishop Emmet M. Walsh of
Charleston formally invested Mon-
sigr.or Smith as a Domestic Prel
ate at a ceremony held at St.
Mary Help of Christians Church
•here on the evening of October 21.
Right Reverend M. James Fox', O
C. S. O., Abbot of Our Lady of
Gethscmani Abbey, Trappist, Ky.;
Monsignor Andrew K. Gwynn,
P. A., of Greenville; Monsignor
Joseph L. O’Brien, S. T. D., LL.
D. , of Charleston; Monsignor Mar
tin C. Murphy, of Columbia; Mon
signor Joseph G. Cassidy, of At
lanta; Monsignor Joseph F. Croke,
Atlanta; Monsignor John L. Man
ning, D. D., of Charleston; Mon
signor T. James McNamara, of Sa
vannah; Monsignor James J.
Grady. Augusta, Monsignor Len
nox Federal, Raleigh; Monsignor
P. J. McGill, Jacksonville, and
Father Donald McGowan, NCWC
Director of Hospitals, Washington,
D. C., with some sixty or more
priests of the Charleston and
neighboring Dioceses were present
in the sanctuary and a congrega
tion of Monsignor Smith Catholic
and non-Catholic friends filled the
church.
The choir, directed by Sister
Mary de Neri, with Mrs. F. E.
Audrey, organist, included Sister
M. Genevieve and students of
St. Angela Academy.
Following the ceremony, Bishop
Walsh and the visiting clergy were
guests at a dinner at the Hendsr-
son Hotel. An enjoyable program
of dinner music was presented by
Mrs. Hugh Kinchley, violinist, and
Miss Agnes Gouley, pianist, both
of Augusta.
Monsignor Smith was born at
South River, New Jersey, where
his family has lived for several
generations. After attending high
school and college, he was con
nected with the South River Com
pany for two years before begin
ning the study of law. He gradu
ated from the New Jersey Law
School of Rutgers University with
distinction and with the degree of
LL B. Subsequently he did grad
uate work at the Mercer Beasley
School of Law. He was admitted
to practice as an attorney and
Counsellor at law and as a So
licitor and Master of Chancery
of New Jersey, and also admitted
to practice before the Supreme
Court of the United States. He
conducted an active law prac
tice in New Jersey for many years
and was senior member of the
legal firm of Smith and Dicker-
son. He was active in civic and
fraternal affairs, having served as
State Advocate of the Knights of
Columbus and as a promotor of
the Laymen’s Retreat Movement
in New Jersey.
Monsignor Smith took a leave
of absence from his law practice
and travelled around the world
while considering his decision to
enter the priesthood. He then
withdrew from his legal firm and
entered the Pontifical College
Beda in Rome to pursue his theo
logical studies. On March 13,
1937, he was ordained to the
Priesthood by his Eminence, Fran
cis Cardinal Marehetti-Salvagian-
ni, Vicar General of His Holiness,
Pope Pius XI, at the Basilica of
St. John Lateran, the Mother
Church of all Christendom in
Rome. He volunteered to serve
as a priest of the Diocese of Char
leston at the invitation of the Most
Reverend Emmet M. Walsh, D. D.,
and came to South Carolina in
July of 1937, and was appointed
Auditor of the Matrimonial Court
of the Diocese of Charleston and
assistant rector of the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist, serving
Saint Mary’s Mission at Yonges
Island. In December, 1937, Mon
signor Smith was appointed Ad
ministrator of St. Joseph’s Church
in Charleston and served there
■«q£il coming to Aiken in the au
tumn of 1938.
During his pastorate in Aiken,
(Continued on page Twenty-Four)
Bulletins
FATHER PATRICK ADAMS,
O. F. M., was recently appointed
assistant pastor of St. Bonaven-
ture’s Church, Allegany, N. Y.,
after serving for the last five
years as assistant pastor of Sacred
Heart Church, Rochelle Park, N. J.
Father Patrick is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Lellardy Adams,
of Macon, Ga. .
THE HOLY SEE has granted
permission to some twenty priests
in India, who left the Syrian Rite
when they joined the Society of
Jesus, to resume their Oriental
Rite and offer the Sacrifice of the
Mass according to it.
THERE IS A* CATHOLIC
TREND in the world today and
Protestants can no longer look
upon the Catholic Church “as a
remnant of the dark middle ages,”
says an article in the Protestant
monthly Zcitwende, published in
Germany.
CATHOLIC CHURCH authorities
in Bavaria, Germany, have shown
the utmost sympathy with, and
understanding of the problems of
the U. S. Military Government and
have proved very cooperative, said
Murray D. Van Wagoner, U. S.
Military Governor of Bavaria, a
non-Catholic, now on a visit to
the United States.
FOR THE FIRST TIME since its
establishment in 1795, St. Pat
rick’s College at Maynouth, Coun
ty Kildare, Ireland’s national sem
inary, has made a public appeal
for funds. The appeal, which will
be directed to “the Irish people
at home and abroad,” was author
ized at a meeting of the Irish
Hierarchy held at the college.
GEORGE D. BURKETT Mas
ter of the North Carolina Province
of the Fourth Degree, Knights
of Columbus, has announced that
there 'will be an exemplification
of the fourth degree on Novem
ber 7, at the Sclwyn Hotel, in
Charlotte.
EVOLUTION, even if it becomes
a proven fact, in no way contra
dicts Biblical teaching on the cre
ation of man, declares an editorial
in THOUGHT, quarterly of Ford-
ham University. The editorial
comments on and quotes an arti
cle on “The Christian and the
Progress of Science,” written by
His Eminence Archille Cardinal
Lienhart, Bishop of Lille, for
ETUDES, monthly periodical of
the French Jesuits.
Holy Name Society in
Spartanburg to Sponsor
Day of Recollection
(Special to The Bulletin)
SPARTANBURG. S. C.—Under
the auspices of the Holy Name
Society of the Church of St. Paul
the Apostle, a Day of Recollection
for all of th e men of the par
ish will be held on the second
Sunday in November, regular
Communion Sunday for the socie
ty.
Father Patrick Walsh, O. P., of
tile Dominican Mission Band,
from Columbia, will conduct the
exercises and will be in the con
fessional at St. Paul’s Church on
Saturday, November 13, from 4
until 6 and from 7 until 9 p. m.
In addition to several confer
ences, during the day of recollec
tion, there will be Holy Hour de
votions and new members of the
Holy Name Society will be enroll
ed.
Following the 8 o’clock Mass on
November 14, breakfast will be
served in the parish hall for the
men who are attending the exer
cises, and luncheon will also be
served in the parish hall.
In the afternoon, a motion pic
ture, “Christ the King," will be
exhibited by Father Walsh in the
parish hall.
Father Charles J. Baum, pastor
of St. Paul the Apostle parish, has
urged all of the men of the parish
to receive Holy Communion at the
8 o’clock Mass on Sunday, No
vember 14, and to attend the ex
ercises ot the one-day Retreat.
CHARLESTON, S. C.—Bishop
Enjmet M. Walsh of Charleston
has announced that His Eminence
Edward Cardinal Mooney, Arch
bishop of Detroit, will dedicate
the gymnasium of Bishop England
High School at a ceremony to be
held here on November 21 It
will be the first time since the
dedication of the Cathedral of St.
John the Baptist, in 1907, that an
American member of the Sacred
College of Cardinals has visited
Charleston. Cardinal Villeneuve
of Canada visited here in 1946.
Cardinal Mooney, a native of
Mount Savage, Md., who moved
with his family to Youngstown,
Ohio, when he was a child, at
tended St. Charles College, Elli-
cott City, Md., and St. Mary’s Sem
inary, Baltimore, and completed
his study for the priesthood at
the North American College in
Rome, where he was ordained on
April 10, 1909. He returned home
and was engaged in pastoral duties
until 1934 when he was called to
Rome to be Spiritual Director of
the North American College.
His Eminence was still serving
in that post when, in 1926, he was
named Apostolic Delegate to In
dia. Five years later, he was
named Apostolic . Delegate to
Japan. In November, 1934, then
on a visit to the United States,
he was named Bishop of Roches
ter In June, 1-934, he be--
the first Archbishop of Detroit.
He served for ten years as a mem
ber of the Administrative Board
of the National. Catholic Welfare
Conference.
Bishop Walsh stated that all
plans for the dedication ceremony
had not been completed, but would
be announced early next month
when the construction work on
the new building had been com
pleted.
In 1944 the school raised a fund
of $65,000 for the construction
of a gymnasium but the high cost
of materials and labor caused a
delay in the erection of the struc
ture. Last year, a campaign was
launched to raise additional funds
and the amount needed to com
plete the building was subscribed.
A contract to erect the build
ing at a cost of $148,118 was
awarded to Skinner and Ruddock
Charleston contractors. Plans for
the latest, addition^to the Bishop
England High School plant wore
executed by Harold Tatum, Char
leston architect, with Father Mi
chael Mclnerney, O. S. B., of Bel
mont Abbey, as associate archi
tect.
Founded in 1915, and named for
Bishop John England, first Bishop
of Charleston, classes were held
at first in what is now the Ca
thedral School on Queen Street.
After a year, the high school
moved to a building formerly oc-
COLUMBIA, S. C.—The Nine
teenth Annual Convention of the
Charleston Diocesan Council of
Catholic Women is being held here,
October 23 and 24, with conven
tion headquarters at the Columbia
Hotel.
Mrs. Jack Kearney, of Greenville,
president of the Diocesan Council,
has anounced the following pro
gram for the convention, which
will bring to Columbia representa
tives of the various deanery and
parishes councils of Catholic wom
en, and affiliated organizations,
from all parts of South Carolina.
Saturday, October 23: Diocesan
Board meeting, with Dutch lunch
eon, Crystal room, Columbia Hotel,
I p. m., Registration, mezzaine
floor, Hotel Columbia, 2 p. m.;
Business sesison, ball room, Colum
bia Hotel, 4 p. m.; evening session,
ball room, 8 30 p. m.; general re
ception, ball room, 10 p. m.
Sunday , October 24: Solemn
Pontifical Mass, St. Peter’s Church,
CARDINAL MOONEY
cupied by the Religious of Our
Lady of Cenacle, and then to the
Gregorian Hall on George Street,
where it remained until the main
part of the present high school
on Calhoun Street, was erected
in 1921.
A new addition to the original
building on Calhoun Street was
completed in 1947 at a cost of $115,
000. It is a two-story structure
which affords space for science
rooms, an auditorium, a lunch
room and the principal’s office.
The new building will afford
locker rooms and showers for, boys
and girls and for visiting teams.
With seating accommodations for
1,500, the main floor will have
a basketball court and a stage.
Conference rooms, storage space
and quarters for the athletic di
rectors will also be provided in
the new building.
Monsignor John L. Manning, D.
D., Chancellor of the Diocese of
Charleston, is the present rector
of Bishop England High School,
having succeeded Monsignor Jo
seph L. O’Brien, S. T., LL. D.,
who organized the first classes,
and who served as rector of the
school from its founding until last
year
Diocesan priests and Sisters of
Our Lady of Mercy compose the
high school faculty, and the stu-'
dent body is dfawn from all of
the parishes in Charleston and
the city’s suburban area.
BISHOP DANIEL J. Gcrcke, of
Tucson, will commemorate the
twenty-first anniversary of his
consecration on November 7.
Bishop Emmet M. Walsh of
Charleston, celebrant, 10 a. m.;
luncheon, Hotel Columbia, 1 p. m.;
business session, Hotel Columbia
crystal'room, 5 p. m.; benediction
of the Blessed Sacrament, St.
Peter’s Church, 5:30 p. m.
Monsignor Paul F. Tanner, As
sistant General Secretary of the
NCWC will preach at the Mass.
Speakers include David P.
Doyle, legal adviser of the NCWC;
Mrs. Wm. J. McAlpin, of Atlanta,
Treasurer of the NCCW, and Miss
Catherine Jarboe, of Washington,
D. C., national chairman of the
Family Life committee of the
NCCW.
Mrs. J. E. Welsh, president of
the Columbia Deanery Council, is
general chairman of the conven
tion committee, with Mrs. L. S.
Tompkins and Mrs. Alex Wiles as
chairman and co-chairman. Mrs.
B. B. Bellinger is serving as chair
man of the Credentials-Itegistra-
tion committee, ,-j
Nineteen Annual Convention
Charleston Diocesan Council
NCCW Being Held in Columbia