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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 30, 1952
Past Grand Knight
HUGH H. GRADY, K. S. G.
Former President of the Catho
lic Laymen’s Association of Geor
gia, and Grand Knight of Savan
nah Council, Knights of Colum
bus, from 1935 to 1936, Mr. Grady
has also served as Faithful Naviga
tor of Savannah Assembly 4th De
gree.
Past Grand Knight
ANDREW J. RYAN,'JR.
President of the Savannah
Branch of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia, who head
ed Savannah Council, Knights of
Columbus, as Grand Knight from
1939 to 1940. Mr. Ryan is Solici
tor General of the Eastern Judicial
Circuit.
Delegates to Congress of Religious
At Notre Dame Warned of Inroads of
Secularism in Catholic Welfare Field
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC)—Two
speakers at the first National Con
gress of Religious of the United
States warned against infiltration
of secularism in the Catholic social
welfare field.
Other developments of the con
gress, whose sessions and delegates
from 500 religious communties, in
cluded:
1. Discussion by nun delegates
of modern comforts and conven
iences in relation to the religious
spirit.
2. A prediction by Archbishop
John F. O’Hara, C. S. C., of Phil
adelphia that until the world sees
Christ through His followers, “it
will continue to wallow' in the
slough of despond and wander
in the valley of the shadow of
death.”
3. Disclosures by Father Edward
L. Heston, C. S. C., who is on the
staff of the Sacred Congregation
of Religious that 129 Mothers Gen
eral of religious communities par
ticipating in the Congress com
prised the largest assembly of
their offices in the Church’s his
tory. Father Heston is rector of
the college maintained by the
Congregation of the Holy Cross in
Rome.
Msgr. Vincent W. Cooke. Chicago
Archbishop Supervisor of Chari
ties, told the congress that there is
a constantly growing pressure from
seeularistic forces in this country
to turn over all orphaned and de
pendent children to the state for
care, education, and upbringing.
He declared that many public
welfare agencies and Community
Chests are exerting pressure to
place the responsibility for or
phaned and dependent children
directly in the hands of the state,
forcing voluntary and religious
child-care agencies into the ivory
towers of research.
"In their clever manipulations,”
said the Chicago priest, “they have
confounded even the elect of our
and labor union groups, who were
attracted by the apparent good
but had to be advised of the ca
tastrophic evil of this philosophy
before they withdrew their sup
port from this movement to make
child welfare the beachhead of
statism in America.”
Monsignor Cooke asserted that
many agencies of charity have
become too dependent, if not total
ly so, on Community Chests. In
many lacalities, the Monsignor
said, he found that Catholic agen
cies were packaged in with
such irreligious organizations as
Planned Parenthood.
Mother M. Magdalene, of the
Hospital Sisters of the Third Or
der of St. Francis, also warned
against inroads of secularism.
“We must be ever alert that the
control over our Catholic hospitals,
over the hospital Sisters, the
flower and pride of Holy Mother
Church, be not handed over to
questionable agencies, or to a
staff of materially-minded lay
men,” she said.
Mother Magdalene declared
there is danger of this happening
sometimes in the name of science,
progress, good business manage
ment, and public relations.
Mother Magdalene is assistant
provincial and supervisor of educa
tion at St. Francis Convent, Spring-
field, 111. She has directed hospi
tals and schools of nursing, and for
18 years headed her community’s
American province.
In the discussion by nun dele
gates of modern comforts and con
veniences in relation to the re
ligious spirit, the Mother General
of the Sisters of Charity said “the
principal purpose of a convenience
is not to make work easier for the
religious, but to enable the re
ligious to perform more and bet
ter work.”
“If we were forced to employ
only the means and equipment
available in 1900, we could not
even attempt the greater burden
of work the years have brought,”
Mother Mary Berehmans declared.
Mother Mary Evelyn, Mother
General of the Sisters of St. Domi
nic Sinsinawa, wis., said “St.
Thomas’ middle way is the best
course to adopt: not luxury, not
destination, but a way of life ac
cording to the end of which the in
stitute is directed.” »
Mother Mary Corona, Superior
General of the School Sisters of
St. Francis, Milwaukee, warned
that “the over-conservative hinder
God’s work by an unintelligent op
position to everything modern;
the ultra-modern fail as religious
by easy surrender to soft living
and modern comforts.”
Religious of the United States,
representing approximately 15 to
20 per cent of the total number of
religious throughout the world,
“constitute the largest number at
work in any individual nation.”
This was reported at the first
National Congress of Religious of
the United States here by the Most
ftev. Arcadio Larraona. C. M. F.,
Secretary of the Sacred Congrega
tion of Religious, who came from
Rome to address the congress.
“The Holy Father is well aware,
and I have often heard him say,
that in a very large degree, and
perhaps even in the largest pos
sible degree, you are responsible
for- the preservation, growth, and
influence of the Catholic Church
in America,” Monsignor Larraona
said in his greetings to the Sisters.
Monsignor Larraona said the
presence of 2,000 superiors and
delegates of religious communties
at the University of Notre Dame
for three full days of sessions made
it “the largest Congress of Re
ligious ever held.”
“Lastly, this Congress is char
acteristically American in its har
monious blending of the theoreti
cal and the practical. In keeping
with the accelerated rhythm of
American life which it aims to as
sist, it has set for itself an ardous
three-day program of intensive
study and activity.
“The liturgical ceremonies
which, so to speak, constitute the
framework of the Congress, are
an outward expression of the inner
spirit of fervent prayer and recol
lection which must be the back
ground for our deliberations. They
should be for us a constant and
eloquent reminder—that holiness,
as well as the interior life which
is its food, its test, and its appli
cation, was and always will be the
inspiring soul of the apostolate. oi
your intense and magnificent
apostolate as religious in the
United States.”
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