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AUGUST 30, 1952 i'HE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMENS ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA THREE
News Review of the Catholic World
Holy See Names
Auxiliary Bishop for
Richmond Diocese
WASHINGTON — (NC) — The
Very Reverend Joseph H. Hodges,
director of the Diocesan Mission
ary Fathers of the Diocese of
Richmond, has been named by His
Holiness Pope Pius' XII to be
Titular Bishop of Rusadus and
Auxiliary to Bishop Peter L. Ire-
ton of Richmond.
Announcement of ‘the, appoint
ment was made here by His Excel
lency Archbishop Amleto Giovan
ni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate
to the United States.
Bishop-elect Hodges was born
October 8, 1911, at Harper’s Fer
ry, West Virginia, which is in
the Richmond diocese. He is the
son of the Joseph Howard and j
Mrs. Edna Bella Hendricks
Hodges. His father is deceased.
His mother resides in Martins-
burg, W. Va., which is also in the
Diocese of Richmond.
The Bishop-Designate attended
St. Joseph’s High school ijj Mar-
tinsburg, St. Charles College, Ca-
tonsville, Md., and the North
American College in Rome. He
was ordained in Rome, December
8. 1935, by Cardinal Francesco
Marchetti-Selvaggiani. He took a
course in preaching at the Cath
olic University of America, Wash
ington. D. C., in 1945.
Pastdral assignments of the
newly-named Bishop include those
of assistant at Sacred Heart
Church, Danville, Va., 1936-1939;
assistant at St. Andrew’s church,
Roanoke. Va., 1939-1945, and ad
ministrator of St. Mary’s Church,
Richmond, since T945. He has also
been director of the Diocesan
Missionary Fathers since 1945,
and has served as Promoter of
Justice and Defensor Vinculi in
the Diocesan Tribunal, as Synodal
and Clerical Examiner, and as
diocesan director of information.
Catholic Observers
To Attend Protestant
Meeting in Sweden
STOCKHOLM. (NCI—Catholic
observers are in attednance at the
Faith and Order Commission of
the World Council of Churches
meeting at Lund, Sweden, August
15-29.
The World Council is a federa
tion of Protestant churches which
includes also a small group of
Eastern Orthodox bodies.
The Swedish Hierarchy has
named three priests to act as ob
servers at the Lund meeting: Mon
signor David Assaron, Father de
Pailleret, O. P., and Father Ger-
lach, S. J.
Designation of Catholic observ
ers at the Swedish meeting is in
harmony with instructions issued
by the Holy Office in February,
1950, it has been pointed out.
These instructions permitted, even
encouraged Bishops to name com
petent priests to treat with per
sons outside the Faith in such a
way as to assist them in under
standing the Catholic Church’s
doctrine and teachings while tak
ing pains to maintain its position
as the one true Church.
PROTESTANTS INVITED
TO “KATHOLIKENTAG”
VIENNA. (NO—Two Protestant
leaders in Austria are understood
to have accepted invitations to at
tend the forthcoming “Katholiken-
tag” here. This development is
generally considered unprecedent
ed in this country’s history.
The invitations were extended
by the committee, which under the
chairmanship of Coadjutor Arch
bishop Franc Jachym of Vienna,
is now completing arrangements
for the Catholic national conven
tion, the first since 1933, which is
scheduled to take place here Sep
tember 11-14.
The two Protestant leaders in
vited are Bishop Gerhart May and
Church Superintendent Traar. The
Protestant churches in Austria
have about 367,000 members, most
of them Lutherans, out of a total
population of close to 7,000,000.
About 94 per cent of the popula
tion are Catholics.
THE SECOND ANNUAL observ
ance of National Catholic Youth
Week will take place from October
19 to October 26.
New Auxiliary
"The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima"
Warner Brothers New Motion Picture
Has Double Premier in New York City
On August 21, simultaneously at
two theatres in New York City,
“The Miracle of Our Lady of Fa
tima,” Warner Brothers new mo
tion picture, had its premier pub
lic showing. Those who have wit
nessed previews of the film are
most enthusiastic about it. The
Bulletin presents here a review of
the picture taken from NOVENA
'NOTES, Catholic magazine pub
lished in Chicago.
merciful in its condemnation of
certain types of Hollywood pic
tures! This time . . . we go all out
and strongly urge Noventies to see
what we consider WARNER
BORTHERS’ newest and most suc
cessful effort. A delightful sur
prise awaits you!
Very Rev. Joseph H. Hodges, di
rector of the Diocesan Missionary,
Fathers, of Richmond, Va., for the!
past seven years, who has been
named titular bishop of Rusadus
and Auxiliary Bishop to the Most
Rev Peter L. Ireton, Bishop of
Richmond. (NC Photos)
Bishop Walsh to
Mark Episcopal
Silver Jubilee
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. (NC) —
Bishop Emmet M. Walsh, Coad
jutor Bishop of Youngstown, will
observe the silver jubilee of his
episcopal consecration by offering
a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in
Rome on September 8.
Bishop Walsh sailed on August
15 on his first trip to Rome since
1934. He had completed all ar
rangements for a visit to the Eter
nal City in 1949, but had to can
cel the trip because his transfer
from the office of Bishop of
Charleston to that of Coadjutor
Bishop of Youngstown took place
at that time.
He will be accompanied by
Monsignor George Lewis Smith,
pastor of St. Mary Help of Chris
tians Church, Aiken, S. C., who
was to have been his companion
in 1949. They will go first to Ire
land, where they will be the
guests of Archbishop Gerald
O'Hara of Savannah-Atlanta, who
is Papal Nuncio to Ireland.
Bishop Walsh was ordained in
1916 as a priest of the Diocese
of Savannah. He was consecrated
Bishop of Charleston on Septem
ber 8, 1927, and was named Titu
lar Bishop of Rhaedestus and Co
adjutor of Youngstown on Sep
tember 8, 1949.
Bishop Walsh and Monsignor
Smith disembarked at Cobb, Ire
land. While in Ireland they were
guests of the Most Reverend Ger
ald P. O’Hara, Archbishop-Bishop
of Savannah-Atlanta and Papal
Nuncio to Ireland, and of the Hon
orable Francis P. Matthews, Amer
ican Ambassador to Ireland.
From Ireland they went to Eng
land for a week before proceeding
to France. In France, after a stay
in Paris, they visited Lisieux and
Lourdes and then the Maritime
Alps at Grasse and from thexe
went to the French Riviera.
Much of their time will be spent
in Italy. A car will meet them at
Geenoa and they will travel
through Italy. While in Rome,
Monsignor Smith will pai-ticipate
in the annivei'sary celebration of
the Pontifical Collegia Beda, of
which he is an alumnus.
While in Rome they are expect
ed to have an audience with His
Holiness Pope Pius XII at Castel-
gandolfo, the Papal summer resi
dence. They are scheduled to re
turn in October on the SS. Bian-
camano.
Novena Notes has never carried
paid advertisements, nor ... do
we make an exception in this cen
ter spread. We were privileged to
preview the new WARNER BRO
THERS picture “The Miracle of
Our Lady of Fatima” and adjective
superatives just don’t describe
how we feel about Hollywood’s
latest production. For years . . .
we have read everything written
about Fatima, tried to relay our
impressions to Novenites in writ
ten words, but . . . never felt
satisfied. Printed effort . . . just
did not convey what we had in
mind and heart. Instinctively . , .
before we saw “The Miracle of
Our Lady of Fatima” we figured
the presentation would leave us
cold and indifferent. For once in
our life . . . we have to apologize
to Hollywood! The picture not only
surpassed expectation but . . . left
us with the impression, this was
one of the great pictures of all
time giving an accurate account of
the greatest drama, the most bril
liant message of this age. In the
picture . . . there is no exaggera
tion, no distortion of reality ... It
simply tells the story as it unfold
ed itself in 1917. (Only one
character, a sort of seedy tramp,
played by Gilbert Roland does not
fit into the historic picture. How
ever ... he does provide comic re
lief and certainly does not distort
the truth.)
Done in color, with huge settings
a-la-Cecil de Mille . . . the picture
does not make appeals of any kind.
It simply tells the story a.s it hap
pened . . . far more effective than
the tons of ink we have used in
Novena Notes ... it is a “MUST”
... for all the family and one of
those pictures you want to talk
about . . . never feel satisfied un
til all your friends have seen it.
If people don’t believe in God and
the supernatural . . . “The Miracle
of Our Lady of Fatima” will ap
pear fantastic and absurd. If they
do ... it will dig into the sub
conscious and make them want to
take constructive action. If they
love our Lady and know the story
of Fatima and all it means . . .the
picture will puli out all the stops
of emotion, from tears of sorrow to
those of joy. Those of you who,
like ourselves, seldom look at
movie ads . . . watch your paper
and make sure and see “The
Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima.”
From past experience . . . you
know Novena Notes has been un-
Monsignor Manning
Heads Charleston
Diocesan Schools
CHARLESTON, S. C— Bishop
John J. Russell of Charleston has
announced the appointment of
Monsignor John L. Manning, D.D.,
rector of Bishop England High
School, as Superintendent of
Schools for the Diocese of Charles
ton. Monsignor Manning succeeds
the late Monsignor Joseph L.
O’Brien.
Announcement was also made
that Father J. Fleming McManus,
assistant pastor of St. John’s
Church, Naval Base, and member
of the faculty of Bishop England
High School, has been named as
sistant diocesan superintendent of
schools, and that Father William J.
Cioghan. assistant pastor of Stella
Maris Church, on Sullivan’s .Island,
and a member of the faculty at
Bishop England, had been named
vice-rector of the high school.
Father Edward Doyle
Spring Hill College
Commencement Speaker
SPRING HILL, Ala.—The sum
mer session graduation class at
Sprin gHill College was told that
they had been educated in a sys
tem designed “to give America in
telligent, God-fearing citizens,
loyal Americans, defenders of
Faith in God, and America.”
The commencement speaker,
Father Edward A. Doyle, S. J., vice-
president and dean of Loyola Uni
versity of the South in New Or
leans, told the members of the
graduating class that “Catholic
educators stand four-square against
educational anarchists who flaunt
those principles upon which man’s
personality, dignity and destiny
are founded.”
Father Doyle, is the son of the
late Major Alexander Calhoun
Doyle and the late Mrs. Lillian
Catherine Allen Doyle, of Colum
bia, S. C.
Commencement exercises were
held in Spring Hill College chapel,
and degrees were conferred on
twenty-nine graduates by the Very
Reverend Andrew C. Smith, S J.,
president of Spring Hill. Candi
dates were presented by Father
George Beigen, S. J., dean of the
college.
HAILED AS A SUCCESS, the
first Institute on Practical Busi
ness Problems for Religious Sis
terhoods was held at the Univer
sity of^ Notre Dame. Some 200
Sisters representing schools, col
leges, hospitals and other institu
tions attended from points as far
...„ away as New Orleans, Miami and
n jT^\ Canada. The purpose of the Insti
tute was to give the Sisters an
understanding of the major prob-
Charleston, is a graduate of Bishop
England High School. He later at
tended St. Charles College, Ca-
tonsville, Md., and completed his
study for the priesthood at the
North American College in Rome,
where he was ordained in 1927
lems of real estate, business law,
accounting. public relations, in
surance and other subjects which
arise in the course of their busi-
After serving as assistant pastor at , ness dealings with secular com-
the Sacred Heart Church, the j me ice.
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist,
and St. Patrick’s Church here,
Monsignor Manning was made
Chancellor of the Diocese of Char
leston in 1933. In addition, he serv
ed on the faculty of Bishop Eng
land High School. He was made
rector of the high school in 1947.
REAR ADMIRAL H. B. MIL
LER, U. S. Navy, retired, former
naval aviator and chief of infor
mation for the Navy during World
War II, was received into the
Church, made his first Commun
ion and was received in audience
by His Holiness Pope Pius XII—
all in thirty hours.
Named Councillor
A STREET in Ramat Gan, sub-
urb of Tel Aviv, Israeli, has been
named after Father Giovanni Pala-
tucci, an Italian priest who was
instrumental in saving the lives of
many Jews during World War II.
Father Palatucci was later impris
oned at the notorious Dachau con
centration camp in Germany where
he was murdered.
Society of African
Missions Ho'ds
Sexennial Chapter
DEDHAM. Mass.—The sexen
nial Chapter of the Society of Af
rican Missions was held last week
at Queen of Apostles Seminary
here. At the inaugural session, the
Very Reverend Peter Harrington,
S. M. A., East St. Louis, 111., was
re-elected Provincial Superior.
Councilors elected to assist Fa
ther Harrington in the administra
tion of the Province for the next
six years are: the Very Reverend
Anthony P. McAndrew, S. M. A.,
rector, Queen of Apostles Semi
nary, Washington, D. C.; Very
Reverend Alphonsus Barthlen, S.
M. A., rector, St. Anthony’s Mis
sion House, Tenafly, N. J.; Very
Reverend Adolph Gall, S. M. A.,
pastor, Immaculate Conception
Church, Augusta, Ga., and Very
Reverend John D. Sheehy, S. M.
A., rector, Queen of Apostles Sem
inary, Dedham, Mass.
The Society of African Missions
maintains extensive mission fields
in West Africa, including Liberai,
Gold Coast, Togoland, Dahomey
and Nigeria, with two archdioceses
and their suffragan Sees, together
with sevei’al vicariates and perfec-
tures apostolic. Its missions in the
United States are in South Caro
lina, Georgia, Arizona, Illinois and
California,
A STORY in The New York
World Telegram dealing with the
entrance into the Catholic Church
of Dr. Bella V. Dodd, formerly the
m lion’s top woman communist,
says that there are two messages
that Dr. Dodd wants to get over to
the teachers of New York City:
The teachers Union is thoroughly
dominated by the Communist par
ty, and No teacher who is a con
vinced member of the Communist
party should be permitted to teach
in the public schools, but no teach
er should be fired until he has
been given a chance to disen
tangle himself from the party'
clutches.
M A R Y W O O D COLLEGE in
Scranton, Pa., has announced that
its curiculum will be extended this
fall to offer a major in medical
technology and wider opportunity
for training in speech and drama.
An ultra-modern theatre now being
completed on the campus will of
fer ideal conditions for the teach
ing of experimental stagecraft and
stage production. The college is
conducted by Sisters, Servants of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
FATHER GALL
Father Adolph Gall, S. M. A.,
pastor of the Immaculate Concep
tion Church, Augusta, who has
been elected to serve as a Provin
cial Councillor of the Society of
African Missions. A native of Iowa,
Father Gall moved to France with
his parents when he was six years
old. After completing his theolog
ical study at Clermont Ferrand
Seminary, in Kerr, Holland, he
was ordained in 1921. For some
time after his ordination he was
professor of languages at the So-
citty's seminary in Lyons, France.
Returning to the United States in
1931, Father Gall served as assist
ant pastor at the Immaculate Con
ception Chnrch in Augusta, and in
1933 was appointed pastor of the
Church of the Most Pure Heart of
Mary in Savannah. In 1947, he re
turned to Augusta as pastor of the
Immaculate Conception Church.
New Church in
Greensboro, N. C.,
To Be Dedicated
GREENSBORO. N. C—His Ex
cellency the Most Reverend Am
leto Giovanni Cicognani, Arch
bishop of Laodicea and Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, will
dedicate on September 14, the new
Church of Our Lady of Grace. The
Ethel Clay Price Memorial, in
Greensboro. The sermon at the
Mass of Dedication will be de
livered by the Most Reverend
Chaxles E. Helmsing, S. T. D., Aux
iliary Bishop of St. Louis.
Construction of the new Cath
olic church and rectory in Greens
boro was made possible through
the generosity of a non-Catholic,
Julian Price, who gave $400,000
for the building of the church
which would be a memorial to his
wife, the late Mrs. Ethel Clay
Price, a Catholic, who had been a
member of St. Benedict’s parish
here. Mr. Price is chairman of the
board of the Jefferson Life In
surance Company.
The Most Reverand Vincent S,
Waters. D. D„ Bishop of Raleigh,
has made known that an additional
group of buildings, consisting of
a grammar school, a high school
and a parish hall will be added t(*
the church and rectory in the near
(.future.