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Voi. XXXIII. No. 7 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JULY 26, 1952 ISSUED MONTHLY-—*3.00 A year
FATHER HESBURGH
NEW PRESIDENT
OF NOTRE DAME
NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Father
Theodore J. Mehling, C. S. C.,
Provincial of the Indiana Province
of the Congregation of the Holy
Cross, has announced that Father
Theodore Hesburgh, C. S. C.,
thirty-five year old native of Syra
cuse. N. Y.. has been named fif
teenth president of the University
of Noll e Dame.
Father Hesburgh succeeds Fath
er John J. Cavanaugh, C. S. C.
Father Cavanaugh becomes a mem
ber of the Provincial Council of
the Congregation of the Holy
Cross, with residence at Notre
Dame, and is assigned for special
assistance to the president of the
University. His six-year term,
marked by major developments in
many fields of plant and academic
organization, was terminated by
Canon Law because the president
of Notre Darne is also religious
superior of the Notre Dame com
munity.
For the past three years, Fath
er Hesburgh has been executive
vice-president of Notre Dame. A
graduate of Gregorian University,
Rome, and the Catholic University
of America, Father Hesburgh was
an auxiliary chaplain at Fort
Meyer, Va. during World War II.
He came to Notre Dame in 1945 to
teach religion, and was chaplain of
the married veterans attending the
University. He was head of the de
partment of religion in 1948 for
the year preceding his appointment
as executive vice-president.
Father Edmund P. Joyce, C. S.
C., formerly of Spartanburg, S.
C.. acting vice-president in charge
of business affairs, was named to
succeed Father Hesburgh as ex
ecutive vice-president of Notre
Dame. Father Joyce was a certified
public accountant for eight years
following his graduation from
Notre Dame in 1927. He was or
dained in 1949 arid assigned to the
business office of the University as
assistant to the vice-president.
Retreat for Men
Held at Belmont
BELMONT, N. C.—Father Mau
rice V. Shean. C. O., provost of
the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at
Rock Hill, S. C., conducted the
Retreat for men held at Belmont
Abbet, July 18-20. The Retreat was
sponsored by the Catholic Men’s
Retreat Movement of North Caro
lina, which is headed by George
Gettier, of Charlotte^and Fred C.
Ray, of Charlotte, was in charge
of reservations.
Bulletins
HIS EMINENCE Samuel Cardi
nal Stritch. Archbishop of Chicago,
pronounced a most impressive and
thoughtful invocation before the
14.000 persons gathered in Chi
cago as the 1952 Republican Na
tional Convention got under way.
THE SLAUGHTER of 15,000 Po
lish officers twelve years ago, 4,-
000 of them in Katyn forest of
western Russia, was blamed offi
cially on Russia in the report of a
Congressional committee, which
urged the House to forward its re
port to the United Nations for ap
propriate action against Russia in
the UN. General Assembly and
before the World Court.
CONGRESS has given final ap
proval to a bill raising to 20 per
cent the amount of an individual’s
income that may he exempt from
income tax because of contribu
tions to religiou,s education, or
charitable organizations.
PRESIDENT TRUMAN has sign
ed a bill granting permanent resi
dence in the United States to four
Polish Nuns who came here after
being imprisoned, beatefr and ex
pelled from China by conununisis, I
AT EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS IN BARCELONA — Pictured
above, leading the Rumanian delegation and various other refugee
groups in the concluding procession of the recent International
Eucharistic Congress held in Barcelona, Spain, is Monsignor John
C. Kirk, a priest of the Diocese of Savannah-Atlanta, who is
presently serving as President of the Rumanian Catholic Mis
sion in Europe, with bis headquarters in Madrid. During the
years that the Most Reverend Gerald P. O’Hara, Archbishop-
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, was Regent of the Apostolic Nuncia
ture in Bucharest, Monsignor Kirk was secretary of the Nunciature
in Rumania.
Bishop and Abbot Officiate at
Funeral Services in Atlanta
For Father Joseph R. Smith
ATLANTA, Ga.~Father Joseph
Reeves Smith, pastor of St. An
thony’s Church here, died on July
8, after being stricken with a cere
bral hemorrhage a few days be
fore while returning from a visit
to the Abbey of Our Lady of the
Holy Ghost at Conyers.
Funeral services were held at St.
Anthony’s Church, where Father
Smith served as pastor since No
vember of last year when he suc
ceeded the late Monsignor Joseph
R. Croke.
The Most Reverend Francis E.
Hyland, D. D., J. C. IX. Auxiliary
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, pre
sided in the sanctuary at a Low
Mass of Requiem, which was of
fered by the Right Reverend Dora
Robert McGann, O. C. S. O.. Ab
bot of the Abbey of Our Lady of
the Holy Ghost. Bishop Hyland
pronounced the absolution and
spoke briefly, expressing sympa
thy and asking the prayers of the
congregation for the repose of the
soul of the beloved priest.
Bishop Hyland was attended by
Father Thomas I. Sheehan, pastor
of St. Thomas More Church, De
catur, and Father Harry Hayes, S.
M., pastor of the Sacred Heart
Church. Atlanta, as chaplains.
Abbot Robert was assisted in
celebrating the Mass by Father
Simon Cherkauskas, O. C. S. O..
and Father Joachim Tierney, O. C.
C. O., of Conyers, with Father
George Daly, assistant pastor of
St. Anthony’s Church, as master of
ceremonies.
Assisting Bishop Hyland during
the absolution were Father
Thomas A. Brennan, Savannah;
Father Valentine Becker, S. M.,
Atlanta, Father Vincent Brennan.
S. M. Atlanta; Father John D. Too-
mey, Milledgeville. Father Thomas j
Dubay, S. M., Atlanta.
Monsignor Cassidy recited the
prayers at the temporary burial j
services in the crypt of West View
Cemetery.
Present in the sanctuary were
Monsignor Joseph G. Cassidy, rec
tor of the Co-Cathedral of Christ j
the King, Atlanta; Monsignor T.
James McNamara, rector of the Ca
thedral of St. John the Baptist,
Savannah; Monsignor Edward Dod-
well, J. C. D., chaplain of Our
Lady of Perpetual Help Free Can
cer Home, Atlanta; Monsignor
James J. Grady, pastor of the Im
maculate Conception Church, At
lanta, and more than forty priests
of the Diocese of Savannab-Atlan-
ta.
The pallbearers were Raoul Pa-
| FATHER JOSEPH R. SMITH
| tron, Eugene Mitchell, Robert Cal-
j laban, Thomas Bergen, John Jent-
| zen, Ben Jordan, Leo Volker,
i Thomas O’Keefe, Eugene Bris-
| bane and Damon J. Swann.
Fourth Degree members of the
; Knights of Columbus served as a
j guard of honor at the funeral, at
j the recitation of the Rosary, and
during the Office of the Dead.
; Members of the Nocturnal Adora
tion Society of St. Anthony’s par
ish, members of the Altar Society
the Needlework Guild, and the Par-
I ent-Teacher Association of St. An-
I thony’s School, also served as
guards of honor while Father
: Smith's body rested in state in the
' church.
Born in Washington, Ga., a mem
ber of a prominent Wilkes Coun
ty family, Father Smith was a con
vert to the Catholic Chruch. Short-
j ly after entering the Church he
began his study for the priesthood
at Belmont Abbey College, in
North Carolina, and continued his
study at St. Charles College, Ca-
tonsville, Md., St. Mary’s Semi
nary, Baltimore, and the Sulpician
Seminary at the Catholic Univar
sity of America in Washington, D,
C. He was ordained May 31, 1923,
at the Cathedral of St. John the
Baptist, Savannah, by the Most
Reverend Michael J. Keyes, S. M.,
D. D., then Bishop of Savannah,
His first Solemn High Mass was
celebrated at the Sacred Heart
Church. Augusta, with the Most
Protestant Minister Declares
Professor O'Neill's Book Answers
Blanshard's Attack on the Church
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
NEW YORK.—Dr. Daniel A. Pol
ing now sees the Catholic Church
in the United States from the view
point of Prof. James M. O’Neill
and his work, “Catholicism and
American Freedom.”
He has abandoned the position he
once took of looking on the Church
from the standpoint of Paul Blan
shard and his two anti-Catholic
books. “American Freedom and
Catholic Power,” and “Communism,
Democracy and Catholic Power.” ,
'The widely known Presbyterian
churchman and author says so in
a review of professor O’Neill’s
book in the Christian Herald, pub
lished here, of which Dr. Poling
is editor.
“In a commendatory review of
Paul Blanshard's best seller. ‘Amer
ican Freedom and Catholic Pow
er.' ” Dr. Poling states, “I wrote:
‘The volume cannot be evaded . . . !
what it affirms will stand unless
answered and disproved.’ I review
ed Dr. Blanshard’s second book in
the same spirit. A careful reading
of ‘Catholicism and American Free- j
dom’ by James O’Neill, chairman
of the department of speech of
Brooklyn College, makes one thing
crystal clear: Every reader of the
Blanshard book owes it to himself
to read now the O’Neill book.
“Indeed this volume is just about
j ‘must’ reading for every literate
American — Jew, Protestant and
Catholic. As a Protestant v so
knows why he is a Protestant, who
is the sixth generation in an un
broken line of Protestant clergy
men. I am bound to write that, on
material submitted, supported and
defended in the two volumes,
James O'Neill answers Paul Blan-
shard. Dr. Blanshard now has his
right to rebut.”
Dr. Poling observes that Profes
sor O’Neill’s hook “renders Ameri
can freedom and presently our ba
sic unity a significant timely ser
vice.” He points out that Mr.
O’Neill in answering questions,
raises other questions which remain
unanswered and that it “would he
impossible in one volume to cover
all the ground now opened by the
deep-cutting plows of these two
writers.”
‘I hope, however,” Dr Poling
continues, "that in the interest of
American unity, controversial writ
ing might now cease and a volume
be forthcoming written on the
theme, ‘Here we stand, Americans
alii’ It is high time that repre
sentative American citizens, lit
erate, intelligent and patriotic, loy
al each to his own faith, sit down
together and find their common
ground—find it, possess and hold it
against any attack of bigotry and
anti-God totalitarianism.”
7,500,000 Patients Treated in 1951 in
Catholic Hospitals of U. S. and Canada
ST. LOUIS.—(NCI—At least 7.-
500.000 persons received treatment
through Catholic health and hos
pital services in the U. S. and
Canada during 1951.
This was reported with publica
tion of the 1952 Catholic Hospital
Directory compiled here by Hos
pital Progress, official journal of
the Catholic Hospital Association.
Editors of the directory said 4.-
150.000 acutely ill patients sought
medical care in Catholic general
hospitals during 1951. and that al
most 800,000 babies were born in
the hospitals.
‘With reports reasonably com
plete, it is clear that not less than
7.500.00 persons received , treat
ment either as bed patients or
through clinics and emergency ser
vices of this group of hospitals,”
the editors declared.
From 1949-51. according to a di
rectory table, there were 1.125
Catholic hospital and health
agencies of all types in the Unit
ed States and its possessions.
Short-term hospitals totaled 806,
and long-term hospitals 44. V
grand total of 139,756 beds were
provided by all facilities.
In this country psychiatric ser
vices ranked highest in long-term
facilities with 17 hospitals, tuber
culosis second with 15. Five hos
pitals provided services for Hie
chronically ill.
“So far, only a few general hos
pitals. Catholic and non-Catholic,
have organized special depat-
ments or nursing units for the
care of the chronically ill.” the di
rectory commented. “This r- a
problem which should be faced by
the majority of hospitals.”
Directory editors said at least 24
new Catholic hospitals opened
their doors during 1951 in the U.
S. and Canada. These hospitals
were founded in 12 Slates and four
Canadian provinces.
The States were Arkensas, Cali
fornia, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana,
Massachusetts, Michigan. Minne
sota, Nebraska. New Jersey, New
Mexico, and Rhode Island.
Reverend Emmet M. Walsh. D. D.,
now Coadjutor Bishop of Youngs
town, and then a priest of the Dio
cese of Savannah, delivering the
sermon.
Father Smith served for several
years on the Southwest Georgia
Missions, with headquarters at St.
Theresa’s Church, Albany, and with
the mission^ at Alapaha and Willa-
coochee as his particular charge.
In 1929, he was appointed assist
ant pastor of St. Anthony’s Church,
Atlanta, where he remained for
three years, until he was named
administrator of the Blessed Sac
rament Church in Savannah.
From 1936, until last November,
Father Smith was pastor of the
Immaculate Conception Church in
Atlanta, The years during his pas
torate saw the establishment in his
parish of Our Lady of Perpetual
Help Free Cancer Home, and he
was most devoted in his interest in
the work of the Sisters of St. Domi
nic of the Congregation of St. Rose
of Lijna on behalf of the victims
of incurable cancer.
Father Smith maintained close
and friendly relations with the
Trappists since they founded a
monastery in Conyers, and Father
Smith’s request that he be buried
in the Abbdy cemetery at Conyers
was granted by Abbot Robert.
Surviving Father Smith are two
sisters, Mrs. P. B. Wise, Bogart,
and Mrs, M. A. Pope, of Washing
ton, Ga., and several nieces and
nephews.
Educators Taken on
“Catholicism Tour"
CHICAGO, 111. —(RNS)—Thirty-
eight educators, studying in a sum
mer workshop on human relations
at Northwestern Univeristy here,
went on a “Catholicism in Chi
cago” tour as a part . of their
course.
The course, designed to give
teachers and schopl admiinstrators
a better understanding of religious,
racial and nationality groups, was
co-sponsored by the University’s
school of education and the Na
tional Conference of Christians
and Jews. Most of the educators
were of Protestant back-grounds.
The educators took the oppor
tunity during the tour to ask ques
tions of priests and Nuns they met.
Questions included: “Is the Pops
the head man of all the Churches?
Does he always stay in Rome? Does
a priest have trouble hearing in
the confessional?
As the tour ended, Edward G
Olseon. course director, said: “Oui
of each visit comes some under
standing of the way other people
worship and also some apprecia
tion of what those ways of wor
ship mean to them. I don’t have tt
accept it or agree with it, but if 1
understand it I’M more sympathe
tic to tlie folks that do accept thos
ways of worship,”