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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. 8 FORTY PAGES AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, AUGUST 30, 1932 ISSUED MONTHLY—$3.00 A YEAR Pope Creates New U. S.Proyince Embracing State of Kansas WASHINGTON. (NC)—His Ho liness Pope Pius XII has erected a new ecclesiastical province em bracing the State of Kansas. The Diocese of Kansas City in Kansas becomes an Archdiocese and the new Metropolitan See. Bishop Edward J. Hunkeler of Kansas City in Kansas becomes Archbishop and Metropolitan of the new province. Suffragan Sees of the new Met ropolitan Province include the Diocese of Wichita, of which Bish op Mark K. Carroll is Ordinary; the Diocese of Salina, of which Bishop Frank A. Thill is Ordinary, and the Diocese of Dodge City, of which Bishop John B. Franz is Or dinary. The Holy Father’s Action was announced here by His Excellency Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Ci- cognani. Apostolic Delegate to the United States. This action by the Holy See in creases to 24 the number of ec clesiastical provinces now in the United States. It increases to 25 the number of archdioceses. An ecclesiastical province is the territory over which an archbishop exercises metropolitan jurisdiction, namely, over his own archdiocese and at least one ^suffragan See. There are now in the United States the Provinces of Baltimore, Bos ton. Chicago. Cincinnati. Denver, Detroit, Dubuque, Indianapolis, Kansas City in Kansas. Los An geles, Louisville, Milwaukee, New ark, New Orleans, New York, Oma ha. Philadelphia, Portland in Ore gon. St. Louis, St. Paul, Sari HEADS NEW PROVINCE — | Most Reverend Edward J. Hunke- j-ler; Bishop of Kansas City, who | has been named Archbishop and | Metropolitan of the new Province j embracing the State of Kansas — ; NC Photos). I j Francisco, Santa Fe and Seattle, j The new province was formerly j within the Province of St. Loujs. I The Archdiocese of Washington 1 iB. C.) is not a metropolitan See ! because it has no suffragan Sees. | Archbishop Hunkeler was nam- I ed. Bishop of Kansas City in Kan- i ses in April, 1951. Prior to that be i had been Bishop of Grand Island. Kilkenny Accords Archbishop O'Hara "100,000 Welcomes" KILKENNY, Ireland. (NC)—An j enthusiastic welcome was accorded Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara, Pa- | pal Nuncio to Ireland, when he vis- : ited this city where Archbishop j Rinuc-cini. the first Papal Nuncio ■ l to Ireland, sat with the confeder- j ate parliament in 1645. A liturgical reception for the : Nuncio, who is also Bishop of Sa- j vannah-Atlanta. in the United j States, was held at St. Mary's ea- ‘ thedral here. Among those present was Bishop Patrick Collier of Os- ] sory. The ceremonies included a Solemn High Mass. At a civic ceremony Arcfibishop j O'Hara received the “freedom of j the city’’ from Mayor Gleeson. Pre senting a scroll to the Archbishop, the mayor stated that the Nuncio had been acclaimed by Christians all over the world. The Archbishop served as regent of the papal nunciature in Ruma nia for several years. He was ex pelled from that country by the communist regime in 1950. j Archbishop O’Hara also visited | the Cistercian abbey at, Rosc-rea where he was received with full liturgical honors. Among those • greeting him was Dorn Thomas ! Gundel, the procurator of the Cis- I tercians in Rome. Dom Gundel is now visiting the Order's Irish I communities. Monsignor James J. Navagh, Director of Buffalo Missionary Apostolate Named Auxiliary to Bishop Waters of Raleigh In Apostolic Letter Addressed to Russian People, Pius XII Dedicates Russia to Mary's Immaculate Heart <N. C. W. C. News Service) VATICAN CITY.—His Holiness Pope Pius XII dedicated the Rus sian people in “most special way” to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in an apostolic letter addressed to them. The unique apostolic letter was addressed to “all, _ the peoples of Russia.” It is believed to be the first time that a papal document was addressed directly to the Rus sian people. Previous papal docu ments were usually addressed to individual Patriarchs, Archbishops, princes and so forth. Dated the Feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Apostles of the Slavs, the papal letter prays that the enemies of religion may be driven far from the Russian peo ples who have always been devot ed to God and the Blessed Virgin. It assures the Russian people of the Pope’s constant prayers for them and for universal peace. A translation of the Latin docu ment was made into Russian. It was beamed across the Iron Curtain to the Russian people by Radio Vati can. The Pope stated that his conse cration of Russia to the Immacu late Heart of Mary answers the many appeals the Pontiff received after the definition of the dogma of the Assumption. It is also a ful fillment of the requests made by the Blessed Virgin during her Fa tima apparitions. She then urged: “I come to ask the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart ...” In 1942 the present Pontiff ded icated the entire world to the Im maculate Heart of Mary, but the dedication contained only an indi rect reference to Russia. The Pope's new apostolic leter says: “Just as not many years ago we consecrated the entire world to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mother of God, so now, in a most special way, We dedicate and con secrate all the peoples of Russia to that same Immaculate Heart, in confident assurance, that through the most powerful protection of the Virgin Mary there may at the earliest moment be happily real ized ttie hopes and desires which We together with you and with all I those of upright, intention have for ! the attainment of true peace, or I fraternal concord and of rightful I liberty for all ...” j The Holy Father prays that ; Mary may “look with clemency upon those who are organizing the | ranks of militant atheists . . . that ; she may deign to obtain for their | minds that light which comes from j on high.” | The Pope takes note of the ! campaign of hate directed against | him and the Holy See by eom- ; munist offiicals. He declares that j while he has been required to i challenge their errors, he cher- ; ishes for them “a greater pity and ; s more ardent love.” “Not only do | We not turn way from them, but We desire that they should return <to truth and to the right path.” The Pontiff also addresses him- ] self to those who have withstood | The official campaign of atheism in Red Russia and have clung to •their- Christian beliefs. He states: j “We know that there are very many amongst you who still pre- ; serve their Christian faith within the innermost sanctuary of their | consciences, who in no way allow themselves to be induced to help the enemies of religion, and more over, whose ardent desire is to I profess the Christian teaching — I the one safe foundation of a | civilized life—not only in private but if possible also openly, as be- | comes free men.” I He recalls their traditional love. ! for the Blessed Virgin and urges | them to continue to venerate, love i and beseech her. He adds. “We together with you are rais- ! ing to her Our suppliant invoca tions, that the Christian faith. ! which is the honor and support of ; human society, may be strength en and increased among the people of Russia, and that all the wiles , of the enemies of religion, all their j errors and their deceptive artifices may be driven far from you . . . that those especially who among you profess themselves as Catho lics, although deprived of their pastors, may resist with fearless fortitude the assaults of the im pious, if necessary even unto death; that just liberty which is the right of the human person, of the citizen and of Christians, may he restored to all as is fitting . . President's Daughter Pays Courtesy Call on Archbishop O'Hara DUBLIN, Ireland — Miss Mar garet Truman, daughter of the President of the United States, paid a. courtesy' call on Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara, Apostolic Nun cio to Ireland and Bishop of Sa- vannah-Atlanta, at the Papal Nunciature in Dublin when she was recently in Ireland. While here, Miss Truman was tendered a dinner at the U. S. Embassy by Ambassador and Mrs. Francis P. Matthews. The guests included Prime Minister De Valera, Archbishop O’Hara, Archbishop McQuaid of Dublin and Bishop Martin J. O’Connor, rector of the North American College in Rome. Last year, when Miss Truman was received in private audience by His Holiness Pope Pius XII at the Vatican, she was presented to the Holy Father by Bishop O Con- .. WASHINGTON —(NC)—Monsig nor James J. Navagh, a priest of the Diocese of Buffalo, has been named Titular Bishop of Ombi and Auxiliary to Bishop Vincent S. Waters of Raleigh, North Carolina. Announcement of the appoint ment was made here by His Ex cellency Archbishop Amleto Gio vanni Cicognani, Apostolic Dele gate to the United States. Bishop-elect Navagh is present ly director of the Missionary Apos- tolate in the Diocese of Buffalo, with headquarters at Blessed Sac rament church in Delevan, N. Y 7 . He has held that office for the last 12 years. Monsignor Navagh was born in Buffalo, April 4, 1901, the son of George Thomas and Katherine (Horne) Navagh, both of who are now deceased. He attended Cani- sius College, Buffalo, and Our | Lady of the Angels Seminary, Niagara University, Niagara Falls. | N. Y. He was ordained to the priesthood in Cathedral of St. Joseph, in Buffalo, on December ! 21, 1929, by the late Bishop Wil liam Turner, then Ordinary of ’ Buffalo. j Since his ordination Bishop- : elect Navagh has served as assist- | ant pastor of Holy Cross church, Buffalo, for seven .years; pastor of Lady of Mt, Carmel church, Brant, N. Y., for three years and director of the Missionary Apostolate in the Diocese of Buffalo, for 12 years. As director of the Missionary Apostolate, the Bishop-elect also served as pastor of the parishes which served as headquarters for this work: St. Joseph's, Fredonia; St. Mary’s, MayVille, and St. Mary's, Cattaraugus. He has also taught pastoral theology to the young priests of the Diocese of Buffalo for the last 12 years. He directed the Summer Schools of Religion for three years. The Diocese of Raleigh, in which the Bishop-elect swill now serve, comprises all of the State of North Carolina with the exception of Gaston County, which constitutes the diocesan territory of the Ab- batia Nullius of Belmont Abbey. It embraces an area of 52.349 square miles, in which there is a Catholic population of 26.164 out of a general population of 4,051,- 740, according to the 1952 Official Catholic Directory. Bishop-Elect Bulletins A TABLET to he erected by the British government to mark the site of the state trial in 1535 of St. Thomas More, celebrated Eng lish martyr, will be installed in Westminster Hall, London, where the Saint, Lord Chancellor in the early part of the reign of King Henry VIII, was arraigned on charges of “treason” and sentenc ed to be beheaded. The trial took 1 place after he had refused to ac knowledge the ecclesiastical au thority claimed by the king. 1 MISS MARY MARGARET BYRNE, of Columbus, Georgia, who is touring Europe with a i group of newspaper women, was received in audience by His Holi ness Pope Pius XII on August 20 I at Castelgandolfo. Bishop-elect Navagh is the author of the book, “The Apostolic Parish,” published in 1950, when he had been a decade in the work of the Missionary Apostolate in the Diocese of Buffalo. The apostolate, it is stated in the book, has a double purpose: to train young priests of the diocese in pastoral theology and to estab lish parishes in areas without churches. Through the apostolate, young Monsignor James J, Navagh, di rector of the Missionary Aposto late in the Diocese of Buffalo, who has been named Titular Bishop of Ombi and Auxiliary to Bishop Waters of Raleigh, N. C. The Bishop-elect was born in Buffalo in 1901. (NC Photos) priests who have mastered the theory of pastoral theology in their seminary days are expertly guided and supervised at the start of their actual ministry. Monsignor Navagh states that “the essential pastoral theology of the Church does r.ot change through the centuries, but the methods change from century to century because of new inven tions, changing times and changing conditions. Because of its import ance, pastoral theology should not be a haphazard matter but should be systematically taught to young priests so that they may have at their disposal in the early years of their priesthood the knowledge older priests have gained in the hard school of experience.” The book emphasizes the im portance of close and constant con tact between priests and people, and would have the parish a close- knit unit, an organism with a com- | mon life, supernatural and natural, [ within it. International Scapular Center To Be Established at Fatima 94723 PERSONS have been eh- i rolled for instruction in the teach- i ings of the Catholic Church as a | result of the Knights or Columbus j advertising" campaign, it was re- ] vealed at the Supreme Convention in Los Angeles. More than a mil lion inquirers sought information about the Church in response to the advertisements. FATHER JAMES KELLER, M. M., founder of the Christopher movement, was one of the princi pal speakers at the 54th annual convention of the Fraternal Order of Eagles held in Philadelphia, NEW YORK. (NC) —An inter national Scapular center is to be opened at Fatima. The announcement was made by the Most Reverend Kilian Lynch, prior general of the Carmelites, at the National Shrine of the Scapu lar here. Father Lynch is en route to Australia to conduct a visitation I of Carmelite houses there. The prior general made the an nouncement after receiving par- j mission for the center from Bishop I Jose Alves Correia da Silva of I Leiria, whose Diocese includes | Fatima. ! The decision to establish the in- | ternational Scapular center stems back to a visit with Sister Lucy | on September 13. 1949, by Father Donald M. O’Callaghan, O. Carm., director of the American Scapular Apostolate, and Father Albert Ward, O. Carm. Sister Lucy is the The other main address was deliv ered by Governor John S. Fine of Pennsylvania. sole remaining witness of the Fa tima apparitions in 1917. The nun, a Carmelite at Coirr.- bra, Portugal, explained to the priests her interpretation of Our Lady appearing with the Scapular at Fatima. It was the first time that the significance of the last ap parition was made known by her. She said that the Scapular and the Rosary are inseparable and that the Scapular is definitely a part of the Fatima message. She also stated that the Scapular de votion is pleasing to Our Lady and that she desires its propagation. Sister Lucy then urged the Car melites to open a house in Fatima. In compliance with her request property was purchased. The Bish op of Leiria has now given per mission to build there an interna tional center for wearers of the Brown Scapular. Father O’Calla ghan, with headquarters at the national shrine here, has been placed in charge for the campaign for the international center at Fa tima.