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Vol. XXX. No. 7. FORTY PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JULY 30, 1949 ★ ★ ★ ISSUED MONTHLY—$3.00 A YEAR
His* Holiness Pope Pius XII chats with Secretary ot the Treasury,'
John W. Snyder, in the Holy Father’s private library at the Vatican.'
Mr. Snyder, the first U. S. Secretary of the Treasury to be received
by a Pope, is touring Europe to study the intemational_moncJary
* ^situation. INF.. (NCJfhotos) T
MRS FRANK B. SCHACHTE,~ CHARLESTON
SUCCEEDS MRS. W. ERNEST DOUGLAS AS
HEAD OF DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF WOMEN
Official Catholic Directory for 1949 Lists
26,718,343 Catholics in the United States
Showinq an Increase of 642,646 Over 1948
Bulletins !
DR. MELVIN A. CASBERG, a
Methodist, and one time ■ physi
cian to Med a me Chians Kai-shek,
has been named Dean of the
School of Medicine at St. Louis
University, conducted by the Jes
uit Fathers.
RADIO EIREANN, Ireland’s na
tional broadcasting station, has
made arrangements to broadcast
the ringing of the Angclus bell
from the Cathedral in Dublin each
evening at six o'clock.
CATHOLICS v ere warmly thank
ed by Rabbi Simon Bchr of Nancy,
France, for distributing to all per
sons, regardless of race or religion,
the offerings brought by pilgrims
to the Eucharistic Congress just
held there. Some 20,000 packages
were distributed to the poor and
invalids in the Nancy area.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN, asked
at a weekly press conference in
Washington whether he intended
to appoint a Catholic to fill the
Supreme Court vacancy occasioned
by the death of Justice Frank
Murphy, said he had no comment.
FATHER EDWARD J. O’BRIEN,
pastor of Little Flower Church,
Glen Echo. Md., will deliver dur
ing August a series of talks on the
theme “Christ as Seen by His
Apostles,” on the Hour of Faith
program, broadcast by the Nation
al Council of Catholic Men, in co
operation with the American
Broadcasting Company.
SPEAKER during the month of
August on the Faith in Our Time
program, broadcast by the Nation
al Council of Catholic Men, in co
operation with the Mutual Broad
catsing System, will be Father
Francis P. O’Reilly, member of the
faculty of St: James High School,
Chester, Pa.
Barden Bill Branded
"Unfair" By Majority
Leader of House
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
■WASHINGTON. — With the flat
assertion, “I am opposed to passage
of the Barden Bill,” Representative
John W. McCormack of Massa
chusetts, House Majority Leader,
branded the measure as "grossly
unfair” and “discriminatory.” Is
suing a statement here, he predict
ed that it will not pass in Con
gress.
Mr. McCormack said the meas-
sure "is not in fact truly repre
sentative of Federal aid to educa
tion for the benefit of all our citi
zens." He said he did not believe
the bill will be reported out by
the House Education and Labor
Committee. Outlining his object
ions to the measure, Mr. McCor
mack asserted:
“The Barden Bill is unfair in
that it would allocate Federal
funds to the states on the basis
of total child population (age five
to 17) and then prevent the states
from using the funds for the bene
fit of any child in attendance up
on a non-public school.
‘Even those states which now
use their own state funds,” Mr.
McCormack continued, “for ser
vices to non-public school chil
dren such as bus transportation,
standard textbooks and health ser
vices, would be prohibited from so
using the Federal funds under the
Barden Bill.
“The bill fails to assure a fair
share of the Federal funds being
allocated in some states for the
use of Negro school children.
“I believe the Barden Bill is
therefore a prohibition bill.”
The legislator added that these
and other objectionable features
warrant defeat of the measure. He
added: “1 predict with confidence
that the Barden Bill will not be
enacted into law by the Congress.”
Mr. McCormack said that a fair
Federal aid-to-education bill would
be one that guarantees the ser-
vioes mentioned to all school chil
dren alike, and declared, “I be
lieve such legislation would be
enacted into law.”
(Special to The Bulletin)
CHARLESTON, S. C. — At a
meeting of the executive board of
the Charleston Diocesan Council
of Catholic Women, held on July
20, in Columbia, Mrs. Frank B.
Schachte, of Charleston, was elect
ed president of the Diocesan Coun
cil to succeed Mrs. W. Ernest
Douglas, who has resigned that
office. Mrs. Douglas was elected
president of the Diocesan Council
at the annual convention held in
Columbia, succeeding Mrs. Jack
Kearney, of Greenville.
Mrs. Schachte, the new presi
dent of the Diocesan Council of
Catholic Women, is the former
Miss Ruth Miner, of Pittsfield,
Mass. She is a convert to the
Church, and has taken an enthusi
astic interest in parish and Dio
cesan lay activity since entering
the Church. She has served as
vice-president of the Charleston
Deanery Council. For eight years
WASHINGTON, D. C.—(NC)—
The Barden Federal Aid to Educa
tion Bill has caused an avalanche
of mail in one o f the most heated
letter-writing campaigns that this
city has witnessed in years. Sena
tors and Representatives receiving
letters from Catholics and Protes
tants alike. As a general rule, the
Catholic letters are opposing the
bill on the grounds driven home in
addresses by Their Eminences
Francis Cardinal Spellman, Arch
bishop of New York, Samuel Car
dinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chica
go, and other Catholic prelates—
that the Barden Bill is discrimina
tory, unfair and un-American.
On the other hand, the letters
from Protestants follow the line
advocated by the organization call
ed Protestants and Other Ameri
cans United for Separation of
Church and State, urging passage
of the measure.
It has been estimated that nu
merically the opposing factions are
about even — each with between
25,000,000 and 30,000,000 support
ers.
The situation has come to such a
stage that Representative John Lc-
sinski, chairman of the full House
Education and Labor Committee (a
sub-committee of which has stud
ied the Federal Aid to Education
legislation) has stated: "As long as
I have the breath to prevent It, the
Barden Bill will never come out
and I can't see a chance of any-
she served as chairman of the
Diocesan Council’s Organization
Committee, and for the last two
years as chairman of the Family
Life Committee.
Mrs. James F. Condon, of Char
leston, first vice-president of the
Diocesan Council, presided at the
board meeting in Columbia, at
which it was voted to hold the
1049 convention in Spartanburg,
November 26 and 27, with head
quarters at the Cleveland Hotel.
Mrs. Condon announced that Mrs.
A. S. Lucas, of Birmingham, pres
ident of the National Council of
Catholic Women, will attend the
convention in Spartanburg.
Guest speaker at the meeting
was the Very Rev. Cornelius P.
Hoffman, C.SS.R., of the Redemp-
torist Mission House, Richmond,
Va., and Vice-Provincial of the
Richmond Vice-Province of the
Congregation of the Holy Redeem-
thing else being voted out this
year.
Chairman Lesinski particularly
was critical of the Barden Bill fea
ture which would count in paro
chial school children in determin
ing the amount of benefits to the
States and then count them out in
the distribution of benefits. He
added: “Besides that, I agree with
the majority of the committee that
aid should go only to States that
need it.”
Another member of the commit
tee, Representative Richard Nixon
of California, declared he supports
the stand taken by Gen. Dwight
Eisenhower, president of Columbia
University and Harold Stassen,
president of the University of
Pennsylvania, who went on record
as opposed to Federal" aid for all
states. The Californian said “it is
pure pork barrel” when Federal aid
is given to States already able to
support their schools.
APPOINTMENT of William H.
Shriver, Jr., ot Baltimore, as radio
director of the National Council of
Catholic Men, producer of three
weekly nation-wide radio pro
grams, has been announced at
NCCM headquarters in Washing
ton. Mr. Shriver, member of a
prominent Maryland family, suc
ceeds WIIHum C. Smith, who is
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—There are 26,718,-
343 Catholics in the United States,
Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands,
an increase of 642,646 over last
year, according to the 1949 Official
Catholic Directory just issued here
by P. J. Kenedy & Sons.
Seventeen dioceses reported no
changes in Catholic population and
15 reflected slight decreases, but
substantial gains were noted in the
93 other Sees, archdioceses with
more than 1,000,000 Catholic popu
lation are: Chicago, 1,657,669; Bos
ton. 1,283,232; New York, 1,256,269,
and Philadelphia 1.031,866. Brook
lyn with a Catholic population of
1,203.915 continued as the largest
diocese, and Pittsburgh is second
with a population of 787,479.
The Directory lists 181 members
of the Hierarchy—four Cardinals,
20 Archbishops and 157 Bishops—
largest number ir the history of
the Catholic Church in the United
States. The publication notes the
erection of the Diocese of Joliet,
III., with the Most Rev Martin D.
McNamara as its first Bishop, and
the appointment if nine new Bish
ops within the year to serve in the
continental United States. The Di
rectory lists 23 Archdioceses and
102 Dioceses, and other jurisdic
tions. and notes that as of January
1, 1949, no Sees were vacant. Since
that time two members of the Hier
archy were appointed — Bishop
Charles H. Helmsing, Auxiliary of
St. Louis, and Bishop John-B. Grel-
linger, Auxiliary of Green Bay.
The Directory records an in
crease of 587 in the clergy, bring
ing the total in the nation to 42,334,
an all-time high. The Necrology
lists 621 priests. Professed Reli
gious listed in the Directory in
clude 7,302 Brothers and 141,606
Sisters, an increase of 490 Reli
gious in the year. 'Hu directory
notes that 61,122 Religious are en
gaged in duties other than teach
ing.
Full-time teaching staffs of all
educational institutions under Cath
olic auspices has reached a record
total of 104,962, an increase of 3,-
018, the Directory records Among
the teachers are 7,376 priests, 3,540
Brothers, 432 scholastics, 80,484
Sisters and 13,130 lay teachers—
1,284 more Religious and 1,734
more lay teachers than a year ago
in Catholic schools.
For the ninth time since 1822,
the format of The Official Catholic
Directory has been changed and
the 1949 issue appears in a new
page size—8tfe by 11 inches—per
mitting three columns of text in
stead of two, and is reset through
out in the most easily read type of
its size. Explaining the need for
the change. Directory Editor Louis
Kenedy commented:
“After the complete retyping of
all contents, this issue is literally
new-from cover to cover. Yearly
changes and additions now average
157,500. Viewing these constant in
creases in the physical structure of
the Catholic Church, it is easy to
understand why the new format
was adopted. It provides not only
greater readability and a more at
tractive presentation but also
gives assurance that for a few
years, at least, The Official Catho
lic Directory will be able to pre
sent all necessary data without
again undergoing major alteration.
The 1949 issue, incidentally, is the
largest as well as the most com
prehensive Religious Directory or
Year Book ever published any
where."
With many pages of new data for
the 48 States, Alaska and Hawaii,
the U. S. section reauires 1,008
pages of larger size, weighing six
pounds, to record the condition of
the Church and growth of its in
stitutions. - Canada, a summary of
Ireland, the British isles, Australia,
New Zealand and the Philippines
are covered in 156 additional pages.
The complete edition runs 1,164
pages and weighs 7t» pounds. All
new features of recent years have
been retained, and for the fourth
year the status of the Church as of
January 1 is recorded to maintain
statistical accuracy. The general
summary of statistics for 1949 tab
ulates for every comparison some
uniform entries for every diocese.
More exact compilation of statis
tics enabled the new Directory to
report 14,277 parishes with resi
dent pastors, an increase of 262,
and 835 parishes without resident
clergy, a decrease ot 5o—a record
total of 15,112 Catholic parishes in
Jhe United States, Alaska and Ha
waii. Also listed are 5,802 chapels,
4,913 missions and 1,643 stations
where Mass is offered regularly.
The directory lists 11,332 sepa
rate educational institutions, an
increase of 93 despite post-war con
ditions, which include 64 diocesan
seminaries; 337 religious commu
nity seminaries, novitiates and
scholasticates; 228 universities and
colleges for men and women; 1,596
diocesan and parish high schoolx;
789 private high schools; 7,777 ele
mentary parish schools and 541
private elementary schools. Also
listed are 151 protective institu
tions with 14,972 children under
instruction, an increase of 22 insti
tutions and 392 children. New ed
ucational Institutions include: four
diocesan seminaries: 59 religious
community seminaries and novit
iates; seven colleges; 17 private ele
mentary schools and 53 elementary
parish schools. The directory noted
21 fewer parish and diocesan high
schools due to changes in classifi
cation and six fewer private high
schools.
The Directory notes an aggre
gate of 4,401524 American youth in
all grades under Catholic instruc
tion, an increase of 262,829 over a
year ago. Catholic universities and
colleges enrollments reached an
all-time high of 240,048, an in
crease of 45,106. It also was point
ed out that since 1946 when 102,-
655 were enrolled in Catholic high
er learning institutions, the enroll
ments have more than doubled.
Student Religious in seminaries
and novitiates reached an ali-time
high of 26,215, an increase of 2,514.
Parish and diocesan high school
enrollments number 319,599, a re
duction of 1,328 reflected after the
reclassifications of some of these
institutions. Private high school
enrollments were 189,125, an in
crease of. 3,655. Elementary parish
school pupils are placed at 2,351,-
604, an increase of 153,392, while
students in private elementary
schools numbered 83,646, an in
crease of 7,081. There were 14,972
children in protective institutions,
an increase of 392.
In addition to the enrollments in
Catholic educational and protective
institutions, the Directory notes
that there were 1,157,702 public
school children attending 17,639
released time classes, religious va
cation schools and other classes—a
year’s increase of 79,266 pupils and
3,968 classes.
The Directory notes that 13 new
institutions brings the total of Cath
olic general hospitals to 713, while
the bed capacity has been increas
ed by 740, to facilities of 95,283.
Special hospitals total 110, an in
crease of four, with accommoda
tions for 7,721 patients.
In relation to the Catholic pop
ulation, the Directory notes it is
evident that the total of 4,315,806
patients treated during 1948 in
Catholic hospitals included a la.rge
number of non-Catholicjj. It is not
ed there were 161,931 more pa
tients treated than a year ago. The
369 Catholic training schools for
nurses decreased by eight, with an
enrollment of 28,315 students, a de
crease of 2,016. Added to the 9,666
reductions in the two previous
years, the Directory notes there has
been a decrease, of 11,682 from the
wartime record high of 39,997 stu
dent nurses. Homes for invalids
and aged now number 244, caring
for 22,017 indigent poor, the Direc
tory reports.
For the third time on record, the
number of converts to the Church
exceeded 100,000 in a single year,
the Directory discloses. Adult bap
tisms totaled lli, 130, an increase
of 1,916 over the previous years,
while the number of infant bap
tisms were 1,054,330, an increase of
31,380 over 1948. There were 378,-
191 marriages recorded, a decrease
of 21,402. Catholic deaths during
the year totaled 271,09*, aa nr
crease ot S-01V
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Senators and Members of Congress
Receive Thousands of Letters in
Regard to Barden Federal Aid Bill