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EIGHT—A
TOE BOLLETlN OF TOE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
JUNE 25, 1949
Leaders of K. of C. in Georgia
Three Benedictines
Ordained As Priests
STATE DEPUTY
J. P. PRICE
Augusta
DISTRICT DEPUTY
EDWARD P. DALY
Savannah
DISTRICT DEPUTY
JOSEPH F. KUNZE
Columbus
DISTRICT DEPUTY
HENRY J. TAYLOR
Atlanta
Distribution of New Catechism to
Non-Catholics Suggested as Way to
Reduce Misunderstanding and Prejudice
CINCINNATI —(NC)— Distribu
tion of the new No. 3 Baltimore
catechism to non-Catholics, and to
Protestant ministers in particular,
has been urged by Archbishop John
T. McNicholas of Cincinnati as a
means of combatting misunder
standings and bigoted attacks on
the Church.
“Secularists, atheistic totalitar
ian governments, some fraternal
societies and prejudiced organized
pressure groups would make Jews,
Protestants and Catholics enemies.
Our manifest duty is to give op
portunities to all God-fearing Jews
and Protestants to know the Cath
olic position,” the Archbishop de
clared.
“Constructive things in a pro-
God movement can be done by
Jews, Protestants and Catholics in
their respective fields and by in
dependent action,” he said. “Thor
ough understanding of the Catholic
position is very necessary for this
movement.”
He said that if the air was clear
ed of untrue and injust attacks
and imputations of unworthy mo
tives, then Catholics could calmly
discuss their points of disagree
ment with Jews and Protestants.
“This list of disagreements should
be so clear that no intelligent and
fairminded person could misunder
stand them,” he said.
The catechism to which he re
ferred is a concise summary, on an
adult level, of the Church’s teach
ings. published recently by the
St. Anthony Guild Press of Pater
son, N. J. It is a revision of the
traditional Baltimore catechism.
Tile Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine sponsored the work.
Archbishop McNicholas. in his
letter to Cincinnati priests, asked
a four-part effort:
Place a catechism in every home
In the parish, as a "reference book
Jor the family, to be consulted
henever there is question of the
teachings of the Catholic Church.”
Try to place the catechism in
every non-Catholic home within
the limits of the parish, with the
help of parochial societies and
parish committees. “If a good num
ber of persons in your parish be
come real apostles to bring the
teaching of Christ to the knowl
edge of those not of our faith, they
can break down bigotry, dispel ig
norance, prevent- calumny or slan
der, and cause hundreds of sincere
persons to investigate traditional
Christianity . .
Help Protestant ministers to
know the Catholic position. “In
formed scholarly Protestant min
isters who know the Catholic po
sition never say an unkind word
about Catholic doctrines, even
when expressing disagreement with
them . . . only uninformed and
bigoted persons can regard the
Catholic Church as alien to our
American democratic institutions.
Kindly ask all ministers of religion
. . . to accept Catechism No. 3 so
that they may know the Catholic
position.”
Place the catechism in the hands
of all inquiring Jews. “No Catholic
can have a part in anti-Semetic
movements. We must hold our
selves responsible in large measure
for the lack of knowledge on the
part of our Jewish brethren who
do not know the Catholic position.”
(Special to The Bulletin)
BELMONT, N. C.—On June 4,
three Belmont Abbey monks, Fath
er Raymond Geyer, O. S. B., Father
Matthew McSorley, O. S. B., and
Father Dennis Byrne, O. S. B.,
were ordained to the priesthood.
Bishop John F. O’Hara of Buf
falo ordained Father Raymond at
St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Buffalo.
N. Y., while Father Matthew and
Father Dennis were ordained by
Bishop Peter L. Ireton of Rich
mond at the Sacred Heart Cathe
dral, Richmond, Va.
Father Raymond celebrated his
first Solemn High Mass on June
5, at St. Mary’s Church, Lancaster,-
N. Y.
‘ Father Raymond came to Bel
mont Abbey in 1940 after graduat
ing from St. Mary’s High School
in Lancaster, N. Y. In 1942, he en
tered the novitiate at St. Vincent
Archabbey, Latrobe, Pa., and com
pleted his philosophocal course at
St. Benedict’s College, Atchison,
Kansas. Returning to the Abbey in
1945, he began his theological
study at Belmont. In addition to
his seminary study, Father Ray
mond served as director of the
Abbey Schola Cantorum and taught
Latin in the preparatory school.
He celebrated his first Solemn
High Mass at St. Mary’s Church,
Lancaster, N. Y., on June 5.
Father Matthew attended the
Cathedral parochial school in Rich
mond, Benedictine High School,
Richmond, and the University of
Richmond, Belmont Abbey, St.
Vincent Archabbey, St. Benedict’s
College, and Belmont Abbey
Seminary. Since 1945, when he en
tered the seminary, Father Mat
thew was an instructor in English
in the college here. He celebrated
his first Solemn Mass at St. Bene
dict’s Church, Richmond, on June
5, and his first low Mass at Mount
St. Agnes Convent, Baltimore,
where his sister, Sister Mary De-
metria, R. S. M., is a novice.
Father Dennis attended St. Pet
er’s parochial school and Bene
dictine High School in Richmond,
and received his A. B. degree at
Belmont Abbey College. He made
his novitiate at St. Benedict’s Ab
bey, Atchison, Kansas. Teacher of
biology in the preparatory school
and prefect of the preparatory de
partment are among the assign
ments given Father Dennis at Bel
mont. His first Solemn Mass was
offered at St. Benedict’s Church,
in Richmond, on June 12.
Sister Mary Louise, C. S. J., R. N.,
Named Director of St. Joseph's
Hospital to Be Built in Augusta
JACK KEARNEY OF
GREENVILLE, S. C.
DIES IN AUGUSTA
Schley B. Fennell
Dies in Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Funeral serv
ices for Schley B. Fennell, Sr.,
former superintendent of Bona-
venture Cemetery, who died June
15, were held at the Cathedral of
St. John the Baptist.
Mr. Fennell was born in Savan
nah September 21, 1875, the son
of the late Mr. and Mrs. William
E. Fennell. Upon the death of his
father, who had been superintend
ent of Bonaventure Cemetery for
twenty years, Mr. Fennell succeed
ed to that position which he held
for five year’s. He was then con
nected with the building and con
struction department of Chatham
County for nearly thirty years and
recently had been in the contract
ing business.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Miss Alice Masters; a
daughter, Mrs. Edmyn Lanier, Sa
vannah: two sons, William Edmund
Fennell, Gainesville, Ga., and
Schley B. Fennell, Savannah: an
aunt, Miss Edna B. Fennell, Flem-
ington; seven grandchildren, two
great-grandchildren, and several
nieces and nephews.
AUGUSTA, Ga —John M. Kearn
ey, owner of the Kearney Oil Com
pany, of Greenville, S. C., died of a
heart attack on June 20, while vis
it ng in Augusta.
Funeral services were held at
the Sacred Heart Church, in Au
gusta, Father F. D. Sullivan, S. J.,
officiating.
Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Kear
ney was the son of the late Mich
ael L. Kearney and Mrs. Johanna
Donohue Kearney, both natives of
Ireland. Formerly of Augusta, Mr.
Kearney had been for some years
a resident of Greenville, where he
was owner of the Jack Kearney
Oil Company. He was a member
of St. Mary's parish in Greenville,
and a member of the American Le
gion. He was an alumnus of Vil-
lanova College and Georgetown
University, and for a while after
leaving college, was a major league
baseball player, with the Phila-
deuphia National League team.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Marie S. Kearney, immediate past
president of the Charleston Dio
cesan Council of Catholic Women;
a daughter, Miss Johanna Kearney;
two sisters, Mrs. John S. Summers,
of Asonbrook, Pa., and Mrs. John
F. Kelly, Mount Airy, Pa.
NEWLY ORDAINED PRIEST
AT SAVANNAH CATHEDRAL
USE OF MARSHALL PLAN
FUNDS to finance large-scale dis
tribution of the gcriptures abrqad
was urged in- New York at a service
held in connection with the an
nual meeting of the Council of
United Bible Societies.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Father Rob
ert Donald Kiernan. of Taunton,
Mass., who was ordained to the
priesthood for the Diocese of Sa-
vannah-Atlanta, on May 11, by
Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of
Boston, is now serving as an assist
ant to Monsignor T. James Mc
Namara, rector of the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist in Savan
nah.
RAISING THE QUESTION of
the future of. the Holy City, the
Protestant Archbishop of York, the
Rev. Dr^ Cyril Garbctt, demanded
in a debate in the English House
of Lords that the whole Jerusalem
area should become an internation
al zone under control of the Uni
ted Nations.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Sister Mary
Louise, R. N., of the Sisters of
St. Joseph of Carondelet, has re
turned to her home city, with the
assignment as the first director of
the Catholic hospital which is to be
erected here in the near future.
Sister Mary Louise, who was
born in Augusta, is the daughter
of Mrs. William A. Herman and the
late Mr. Herman. After graduating
from Mount St. Joseph Academy,
she completed a course in nursing
at the Barrett School of Nursing
at the University Hospital in Au
gusta Twelve years ago, she en
tered the Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet, and has since been
serving at hospitals operated by
the St. Louis Province of the Or
der. She comes to Augusta from
Kansas City, Missouri, where she
was attached to St. Joseph’s Hos
pital.
Upon several occasions, Sister
Mary Louise has visited to Augus
ta to discuss plans for the hospi
tal with Kuhlke and Wade, the
architects, and members of the
hospital building committee.
Mother Carmellta, Provincial of
the Augusta Province of the Sis
ters of St. Joseph, to which Sister
Mary Louise has been transferred
from the St. Louis Province, says
that present plans and specifica
tions now being completed by the
architects, call for the construc
tion of a sixty-five-bed hospital,
and the plans can be changed to
provide for a one hundred-bed
hospital if a Federal grant is
made under the provisions of the
Hill-Burton Act.
George A. Sancken, chairman of
the hospital building fund commit
tee, who headed the drive for
funds to erect the hospital, expects
that a definite date for the break
ing of ground for the structure will
be announced shortly.
With the prospect oi^actual con
struction starting within a matter
of a few months, the building fund
committee is making an appeal to
those who have not yet paid in full
their pledges to the building fund
to do so as soon as convenient. It is
also asked that Augusta individuals
or firms who have not yet con
tributed to the fund, send in their
contributions now.
It is expected that the architects
will complete their plans and
specifications within the next few
weeks and that bids will be asked
for then with the expectation of
letting the contract so that work
on the hospital may begin early in
the fall, so that the foundations
may be laid before winter begins.
Sister Mary Louise holds the de
gree of Bachelor of Science in
hospital administration from Mar
quette University, Milwaukee. In
Kansas City, she served in a su
pervisory capacity in the emerg
ency room, the out patient depart
ment, the obstetrical department,
the medical and surgical depart
ments, and as night supervisor.
The new hospital will be Au
gusta’s first Catholic hospital,
though the Sisters of Mercy staffed
the old City Hospital for twenty
years, prior to 1891. Sisters of
Mercy also nursed the wounded
soldiers of the Confederate Army
at an emergency hospital which
was set up in Augusta between
1861 and 1865.
The land upon which the new
hospital will be erected is a por
tion of the Pendleton King Woods
tract, located in the Monte Sano
section of. Augusta, just south of
the dead ends of Wingfield and
Winter streets and Anthony road.
It embrases more than seventeen
acres and is an ideal location. Title
to the property has been conveyed
to “The Hospital of the Sisters of
St. Joseph of Carondelet, Augus
ta Province,” a corporation which
has been granted a charter through
the Superior Court of Richmond
County.
Serving on the permanent execu
tive committee to promote the hos
pital building program, under the
chairmanship of Mr. Sancken, are
Monsignor James J. Grady and
Alvin M. McAuliffe, vice-chairmen;
Dr. W. W. Battey, Dr. Charles D.
Ward, Sherman Drawdy, W. In
man Curry, Glenn R. Boswell,
Charles C. Chesser, J. P. Price,
Lee Blum, Guy Merry, William S.
Morris, John W. McDonald, C.
Victor Markwalter, Thomas H.
Brittingham and P. H. Rice.
A special finance committee, ap
pointed by Mr. Sancken, includes,
Mr. Morris, as chairman. Mr. Price,
Mr. Brittingham, Mr. Markwalter,
Elbert P. Peabody and Russell A.
Blanchard. Named on the building
I committee are Ferdinand Phinizy,
chairman; Louis Mulherin, Leslie
F. Lancaster, James M. Wooddall,
Mr. McAuliffe and Mr. McDonald.
Charles A. DjeBeaugrine is serving
as secretary of the executive com
mittee.
The Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet, a teaching and nursing
Order, was established in France
in 1650. Under the General Moth-
erhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph
of Carondelet in St. Louis, there
are five Provinces of the Order
in the United States, St. Louis,
Troy, Los Angeles, St. Paul and
Augusta, with approximately 3,500
professed Sisters and a number
of novices and postulants.
The Order operates St. Joseph’s
Hospital, St. Paul; St. Joseph’s
Hospital, Kansas City; St. Joseph’s
Hospital, Lewiston, Idaho; Our
Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Pasco,
Washington; St. Mary’s Hospital,
Tucson, Arizona; Ponca City Hos
pital, Ponca City, Oklahoma; St.
John’s Hospital, Fargo, North Da
kota; St. Mary’s Hospital, Amster
dam, N. Y.; St. Joseph’s Maternity
’Hospital, Troy, N. Y., and St.
Mary’s Sanitarium, Tucson. Train
ing schools for nurses are attach
ed to nine of the Sisters’ hospitals,
and with the exception of those
Sisters who may have special train
ing to fill administrative positions
in a hospital, all of the Sisters who
are attached to the hospitals are
registered nurses.
In addition to operating these
hospitals, the Sisters of St.
Joseph of Carondelet conduct col
leges and schools in the Arch
dioceses of St. Louis, St. Paul, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago,
Indianapolis and Denver, and in
the Dioceses of Albany, Boise, Far
go, Green Bay, Kansas City, Mar
quette, Mobile, Oklahoma City and
Tulsa, St. Joseph, Tucson, Syra
cuse, San Diego, Spokana, Mon-
terey-Fresno, Savannah-Atlanta,
and Honolulu.
Five colleges, fifteen academies,
forty-nine high schools, twe hun
dred and ten grammar schools, two
catechetical schools, two industrial
schools for Indians, eight orphan
ages, an infants’ home, a home
for the aged, and a day nursery
are conducted by the Sisters of St.
Joseph of Carondelet.
The Sisters of St. Joseph came
to Georgia in 1867 from France
and the Diocesan community was
in 1922 affiliated with the Mother-
house in St. Louis.
Presently the Sisters of St.
Joseph in the Diocese of Savan
nah-Atlanta conduct Mount St.
Joseph Academy, in Augusta;
Sacred Heart School and St.
Anthony’s School, Atlanta; Sacred
Heart School, Savannah; St.
Joseph’s School, Brunswick, St.
John the Evangelist School, Val
dosta, and St. Joseph’s Home,
Washington.
Charleston Parish's
New School Completes
First Scholastic Year
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — The
Blessed Sacrament School, which is
located on the Savannah Highway,
at Byrnes Downs, across the Ashley
River, about a mile south of Char
leston, and which serves a parish
which includes attractive suburban
areas, has completed its first scho
lastic year.
The school, which is conducted
by the Sisters of Saints Cyril and
Methodius, whose Motherhouse is
in Danville, Pa., opened last fall,
and the enrollment for the 1948-49
year was 105 pupils, in the kinder
garten, first and second grades, the
only classes taught at the school in
its initial year.
Children of the Blessed Sacra
ment parish, from the third
through the sixth grade, attend the
Father Wood School, the paro
chial school of St. Patrick’s par
ish, where the teaching staff is also
composed of Sisters of Saints Cyril
and Methodius. Seventh and eighth
grade students attend Bishop Eng
land High School in Charleston.
The Sisters of Saints Cyril and
Methodius came to the Diocese of
Charleston three years ago at the
invitation of Bishop Emmet Walsh.
The Order is mainly engaged in
the education of youth and is rep
resented in the Archdioceses of Chi
cago, New York and Philadelphia,
and in the Dioceses of Fort Wayne,
Harrisburg, Hartford, Pittsburgh,
Scranton, Syracuse, Trenton and
Charleston.