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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. XXXIII. No. 6 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JUNE 21, 1952 ISSUED MONTHLY—$3.00 A YEAR Bishop Hyland Named Vicar General, Father Andrew McDonald, Chancellor, Of the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta NCCM Inaugurates Information Service On Religious Films WASHINGTON, D. "C*—(NC)— The National Council of Catholic Men has inaugurated an NCCM Film Information Service for in dividuals and groups interested in religious films and the production of local television programs, Mar tin C. Work, executive secretary, has announced. Initial function of the service will be to review and catalog for its members all 16mm religious films suitable for use by Catholics on local television stations, in the parish hall or school, and for or ganizational and group showings. Information on the films will be printed in “Close-up.” monthly bulletin of the new service. The first issue appeared June 1, Each bulletin will carry reviews of our films. Information on the cost, availability, suitability, technical quality, and a careful analysis of the content of each film will be given. “Close-up” will also feature articles by leading Catholics in the film industry and a short biblio graphy of reliable articles on films which have appeared in Catholic and other publications. The NCCM Film Information Service also will provide informa tion on all 16mm religious films, and suggested film programs for special occasions. It will aso review films referred to it by subscribing Individuals or groups. The service will be under the di rection of Robert McMahon, well known Catholic motion picture at torney and film distributor. He will be assisted by Robert Nichols and a staff of competent film re viewers. Bulletins FATHER BEDE LUIBEL, O. S. B., has been elected Coadjutor Ab bot to take over the active admin istration of St. Bernard’s Abbey and College, St. Bernard’s, Ala. Abbot-elect Bede will assume the duties of Abbot Boniface Seng, O. S. B„ who resigned last month. A native of Memphis, the Abbot- elect is an alumnus of St. Ber nard’s, and was ordainel at the Abbey in 1944. Forty-five years old, he will be the youngest Bene dictine Abbot in the country. GEORGE SOKOLSKY, syndi cated columnist, writing about the “slaughter-house job” that is being don on the motion picture “My Son John/’ by left-wing and so-called liberal reviewers, says that “It seems to be a crime to be pro- American.” The Bulletin urges its readers to see this anti-communist film, directed by Leo McCarey and star ring Helen Hayes, Van Heflin and Robert Walker. HIS EXCELLENCY the Most Reverend Francis E. Hyland, D. D., J. C. D., Auxiliary Bishop of Sa- vannah-Atlanta, celebrated quietly on June XI the twenty-fifth anni versary of his ordination to the priesthood. EMMET BLAES, prominent at torney of Wichita, Kansas, who was national president of the Na tional Council of Catholic Men from 1948 to 1950, has been honor ed by His Holiness Pope Pius XIT with Knighthood in the Order of St. Gregory the Great. CHINESE COMMUNISTS kept Monsignor Eugene Fahy, S. J., of San Francisco, Prefect Apostolic of Yangchow, shackled to iron bars of his prison cell for three months —in a vain attempt to extort a “confession” about an imaginary American “spy ring.” Monsignor Fahy and three other Jesuits, two of them Americans, have arrived in Hong Kong where they are in a hospital to be treated for the physical effects of their long im prisonment Vicar General BISHOP HYLAND The Most Reverend Francis E. Hyland, D.D., J.C.D., Auxiliary Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, who has been appointed Vicar General of the Diocese. (N.C.W.C. News Service) NEW YORK. — Catholics in the United States, Alaska and the Ha waiian Islands now number 29,- 407,520 according to The Official Catholic Directory for 1952, -just is sued here by P. J. Kenedy & Sons, publishers. The new total represents an in crease of 772,642 over last year. There now are 29,241,580 Catholics in the 48 states and 165,940 in Alaska and Hawaii. While 14 dioceses report no changes in their Catholic popula tions and seven reflect slight de creases, the advances indicated in 109 dioceses show substantial gains. The 24 Archdioceses re ported a growth of 265,236 and the 106 Dioceses 507,406. Archdioceses with Catholic pop ulations in excess of one million are Chicago, 1,743,936; Boston, 1,360,732; New York, 1,302,306; Philadelphia with 1,114,122 and Newark, 1,077,935. Philadelphia replaced Newark as the fourth largest Archdiocese. Brooklyn, with 1,340,787, contin ues as the largest Diocese, while Hartford, 724,000, is the second largest. Pittsburgh, from which the new Diocese of Greensburg was detached is third, with 686,156. It was the second largest Diocese in 1951. CONYERS, Ga.—The Very Rev erend Dom M. Gabriel Sortals, O. C. S. O., Abbot General of the Cistercians of the Strict Observ ance, from the Abbey of Notre Dame de Citeaux, in France, is visiting the Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Ghost here in the course of his first visitation of Trappist abbeys and monasteries in the United States. Dom Gabriel was elected Abbot General at the Plenary General Council of the Trappist Order in Rome last November. Before coming to Georgia, the Abbot General visited St. Joseph’s Abbey, Spencer, Mass.; the Monas tery of Our Lady of the Genesee, Piffard, N. Y.; the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemane, Trappist, Ky.; the Abbey of Our Lady of New Melleray, Dubuque, Iowa; the Monastery of Our Lady of the Assumption, Sweden, Mo.; the Ab bey of Our Lady of the Holy Trin ity, Huntsville, Utah; the Abbey of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Peco, N. M. After his visitation to the Trap pist foundation here, Dom Gabriel will visit the Monastery of the Chancellor FATHER MCDONALD The Reverend Andrew J. Mc Donald, J.C.D., who has been ap pointed Chancellor of the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta and who as sumed that office, June 2. The 1952 Directory lists the largest number of the Hierarchy in the history of the Catholic Church in this country: three Car dinals, 27 Archbishops and 158 Bishops. Archdioceses number 24' and there are now 106 Dioceses, including the Vicariate-Apostolic of Alaska. For the s ; Vi year in succession, the number of converts entering the Catholic Church in one year exceeded 100,000, with adult bap tisms numbering 116,839. This brings the total conversions dur ing the past decade to 1,040,999. However, the 1951 figure was be low the 1950 convert total of 121,- 950. The first issue of The Catholic Directory for the United States was published in 1817 and subse quent editions have reflected the steady growth of the Church. The past year’s growth requires 28 more pages than in 1951. Yearly changes and additions now average 150,000, to record the correct status of the Church as of January 1. The United States edi tion requires 1,084 pages and weighs over six pounds. Another 164 pages in the complete edition record the Church in Canada and a summary of Ireland, the British ABBOT GENERAL GABRIEL Immaculate Heart of Mary, Moncks Corner, S. C., and the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Cross, Berryville, Va. SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Most Reverend Gerald P. O’Hara, D.D., J.U.D., Archbishop-Bishop of Sa vannah-Atlanta, who is presently serving as. Apostolic Nuncio to Ire land, has appointed the Most Rev erend Francis E. Hyland, D.D., J. C.D., Auxiliary Bishop of Savan nah-Atlanta. to succeed the Right Reverend Monsignor Joseph E. Moylan, P. A., as Vicar General of the Diocese. Archbishop O’Hara, at the same time, announced that Father An drew J. McDonald, J.C.D., had been appointed Chancellor of the Diocese, and also succeeds Mon signor Moylan, who has been both Vicar General and Chancellor of the Diocese since April, 1945. Bishop Hyland, a native of Phil adelphia, was ordained to the priesthood on June 11, 1927, after attending St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, at Overbrook, Pa. He enrolled in the School of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., and graduated with a degree of Doc tor of Canon Law in June, 1928. After serving as assistant pastor of several churches in the Arch diocese of Philadelphia, he be came secretary of the Apostolic Delegation in Washington, a post he held for ten years. In 1933, the Holy See conferred on him the dignity of a Domestic Prelate, with the rank and title of Right Reverend Monsignor. In November, 1949, when he was serv ing as pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, in Phila delphia, His Holiness Pope Pius XII appointed Bishop Hyland Titu lar Bishop of Gomphi and Auxili ary Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta. Bishop Hyland came to Georgia in January, 1950, and since that time has been administering the affairs of the Diocese in the ab sence of Archbishop O'Hara who was then serving as Regent of the Apostolic Nunciature in Ru mania, and who is now Papal Nun cio to Ireland. Father McDonald was born in Savannah, October 24, 1923, the eleventh child of the twelve chil dren of the late Mr. and Mrs. James B. McDonald. After attending the grammar, school conducted by the Marist Brothers In Savannah, he enter ed St. Charles College, Catons- ville, Md., for preparatory train ing for the priesthood. After six years study at St. Charles, he en tered St. Mary’s Seminary, Balti more, where he completed his study of philosophy and obtained a B. A. degree in 1945. He then entered the Theological Department of St. Mary’s Semi nary, at Roland Park, Md., and prior to leaving the seminary for ordination was awarded an S. T. L. degree. Father McDonald was ordained to the priesthood on May 8, 1948, at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah, by the Most Reverend Emmet M. Walsh, D.D., then Bishop of Char leston and now Coadjutor Bishop of Youngstown. During the summer of 1948, Father McDonald served as assis tant rector of the Cathedral in Savannah, and in September of that year entered the Catholic University of America in Washing ton, D. C., for a post-graduate course in Canon Law. In May, 1949, he received the degree, J.C.B. In September, 1949, he went to Rome, Italy, to complete his course in Canon Law at St. John Lateran University. In June, 1951, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Canon Law. Returning to this country in September of last year, Father McDonald spent three months working in the Tribunal and Chan cery Office of the Archdiocese of Chicago. He returned to Savan nah at Christmas time, and in Jan uary of this year, the Most Rev erend Gerald P. O’Hara, D.D., J. U.D., Archbishop-Bishop of Savan nah-Atlanta, appointed him Vice- Officialis of the Diocesan Tribun- al and as assistant pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes at Port Wentworth. Four of Father McDonald’s sis ters are members of Religious Or ders: Sister Celine of St. Rose, of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Denver; Mother M. Aurelia, C.S.J., principal of St. Joseph’s School, Brunswick; Sister M. Incarnata, R. S.M., instructor in the School of Nursing at St. Joseph’s Infirmary, Atlanta, and Sister Mary James, C. S.J., in residence at the Sacred Heart Convent, Atlanta, who is Su pervisor of Schools, under the Rev erend Cornelius E. Maloney, Ph.D., Diocesan Director of Schools. Monsignor Moylan, a native of Savannah, attended Belmont Ab bey College, in North Carolina, and completed his philosophical and theological courses at St. Ber nard’s Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. He was ordained to the priesthood on October 18, 1917, by the late Bishop Benjamin J. Keiley, in Sa vannah. His first appointment was as as sistant rector of the Cathedral in Savannah, following which he was temporarily in charge of the Sa cred Heart Church, Milledgeville, then assistant pastor of the Im maculate Conception Church in At lanta.' For a time he was admin istrator of Holy Family Church, Columbus, and in July, 1928, was named pastor of the Immaculate Conception Church, Atlanta. In June, 1936, when the new i parish of Christ the King was es tablished, Monsignor Moylan be came its first pastor, continuing as rector when that church became the Co-Cathedral of the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta. In 1939, he was made a Domestic Prelate, and in 1950 the Holy See conferred upon him the dignity of a Proth- onotary Apostolic, the highest dig nity outside the Episcopacy to which a priest in America can be elevated. When construction began on the new Church of Our Lady of the As sumption, in 1951, Monsignor Moy lan was appointed pastor of the new parish in the North Side area of Atlanta. He also served as pas tor of St. Michael’s Church, Sa vannah Beach, since coming to Sa vannah as Vicar General and Chan cellor. The building which will serve the new Atlanta parish as a church and school has just been complet ed, and while it has not yet been formally dedicated, Mass is being celebrated in the building every Sunday. Father John J. Kehoe, who has been the priest in charge of St. Michael’s Church for the past three years, has been appointed temporary administrator of the parish at Savannah Beach. Dispensation Granted for Fourth o! July i The Most Reverend Francis E. Hyland, D. D., J. C. D., Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar Gen eral, of the Diocese of Savannah - Atlanta, by virtue of special facul ties from the Holy See, has granted a dispensa tion from the law of ab stinence throughout the Diocese on July 4th, In dependence Day. It is recommended by way of compensation that the faithful make a small offering in behalf of the poor. 29,407,520 Catholics in the United States, According to Official Catholic Directory (Continued on Page Two) Abbot General of Trappists Visiting Abbey at Conyers