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SEPTEMBER 27, 1952
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NINE
St, Michael's Parish
Council Meeting Held
At Savannah Beach
SAVANNAH BEACH, Ga.— At
the September meeting of the St.
Michael’s Parish Council of Catho
lic. Women, Mrs. Katherine Hug
gins, the president, announced the
following committee appointments:
Entertainment, Miss Margaret
Shea, chairman, Mrs. Guy Burke,
Mrs. P. W. Roach, Mrs. M. H.
East; Study Club, Mrs. W-. G.
Bennet, chairman, Mrs. Joseph J.
Hutton, Mrs. William Barfield;
Membership, Mrs. Gertrude Van
Trump, chairman, Mrs. J. H. Put-
ton, Mrs. J. W. Lang; Sunshine,
Mrs. Anna Daum; Sick, Mrs. Joel
Farrell; Ways and Means, Miss
Julia MeadeT chairman, Mrs- J.
Conolly, Mrs.- Mary Byrnes, Mrs.
Nell Cooney, Mrs. J. Morrissey;
Publicity, Mrs. Nell Devine.
Officers of the council, in addi
tion to the president, are Miss
Julia Meade, vice-president, and
Mrs, J. Guy Burke, secretary-trea
surer.
Named as delegates to the meet
ing of the Savannah Deanery
Council, being herd at the Frede
rick Yacht Club, Sea Island, were
Mrs. Huggins. Miss Meade Mrs.
Roach, Mrs. J. H Tilton, Miss
Shea, Mrs. East, Mrs. Mildred
Schwartz, Mrs. Laura M. Moore,
Mrs. Cooney and Mrs. Devine.
RATINGS OF CURRENT
BEST SELLERS
The Library and Literature
Committee of the Atlanta Deanery
Council of Catholic Women pre
sents thhe following rating of Best
11 prs ”
FICTION—Suitable for genera]
reading; “Catherine Carter,” John
son; Suitable for adults only be
cause of advanced content and
style; “The Silver Chalice,” Cos-
tain; “The Houses in Between,”
Spring; “The Gown of Glory,”
Turnbull; “The Hidden Flower,”
Buck; “The Shining Tides,”
Brooks; “Scalpel,” McCoy; Suit
able for adults only because of im
moral language or incidents; “The
Caine Mutiny,” Wouk; “Matador,”
Conrad; “My Cousin Rachel,” de
Maurier; “The Cruel Sea,” Monsar-
rat; Permissible for discriminating
adults: “The Golden Hand,” Si
mon: “The Alexandrians,” Mills.
GENERAL—Suitable for gener
al reading: “Witness,” Chambers;
“The Seal Around Us,’’ Carson;
“Anne (Frank) The Diary of a
Young' Girl; “Windows for the
Crown Prince,” Vining; Adlai Ste
venson of Illinois,” Busch; Suitable
for adults only because of advanc
ed content and style: “Journey to
the Far Pacific,” Dewey; “Subma
rine,’.’ Beach.
CHRIST THE KING PTA
MEETS IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga.—Father John
McDonough was the guest speaker
at the first fall meeting of the
Parent-Teacher Association of
Christ the King School, held on
September 15. Mrs. H. A. Kane,
presided, and plans were made for
the annual tea in honor of the
Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart
who teach at the school.
MONSIGNOR KIRK RETURNS HOME ON VISIT—Monsignor John C. Kirk, a priest of the Diocese of
Savannah-Atlanta, who is serving by appointment of the Holy See. as President of the Rumanian Catho
lic Mission for Europe, with headquarters in Madrid, Spain, is presently enjoying a-visit to his home
town, Athens, Georgia.’ Monsignor Kirk is pictured above with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Kirk,
of Athens.
1,600 Delegates to NCCW Convention
Called Living Antidote to Secularism
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
SEATTLE.—It is your work “to
utter God’s cry of protest” or
“ford of support,” Archbishop
Richard J. Cushing told the 26th
national convention of the Nation
al Council of Catholic Women
here.
“The heavens do not split in or
der that God may cry out against
graft, special privilege, protected
crime or evil political philosophies,
all these violations of God’s Will,”
the Archbishop said.
“It is your work to utter God’s
cry of protest.
“No angels descend to trumpet
approval from the sky of those
things which promote the national
welfare because they are in accord
with God’s Will.
“It is your wi?rk to speak up as
God would will when there is need
of support for virtue, sanity and
good order.”
Archbishop Cushing gave the
keynote address as convention ses
sions got into full swing for more
than 1,600 delegates, 800 of them
from out of town. More than TOO
NCCW - affiliated organizations
were represented. Theme of the
convention was “God’s Will: Our
Work.”
In another opening' address of
the five-day convention Bishop
Joseph P. Dougherty of Yakima
told the delegates “you are the liv
ing antidote to the poison of the
new secularist subjectivism.”
He described this “new moral
ity” as “an insidious concer in so
ciety because it cannot be readily
detected by its victims, some of
whom are among the elect, who re
sent beipg told that they have the
disease.”
Monsignor Howard J. Carroll,
general secretary of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference,
warned of the effects of religious
indifferentism, which he said
strikes at women themselves and
at institutions “very close and dear
to them,” marriage and the school.
“It threatens to destroy what
only a truly Christian culture has
given them—a firm basis for their
personal dignity and the enjoy
ment of the rights that are its
properties,” the N. C. W. C". offi
cial declared.
Monsignor Carroll detailed how
various parts of the National Coun
cil of Catholic Women help women
fulfill their role in Catholic Action
working in union with the Bishops.
Margaret Mealey, reporting as
NCCW executive secretary, said
the number of NCCW affiliates—■
7,211—represents a growth of over
100 per cent in ten years. Eighty-
four of the Nation’s 132 dioceses
are affiliated with the national
council. Thirty-two diocesan coun
cils are 100 per cent organized, she
said, and 27 dioceses not organized
with diocesan councils still have
societies within them “united in
our great federation.”
“Nineteen of the great national
organizations of Catholic women
are united in this federation—nine
State organizations and 7,183 par
ish organizations,” she said.
Miss Mealey asserted that the
National Council of-Catholic Wom
en represents more than seven mil
lion Catholic women.
Everybody complains about the
natiopal'origins plan in the current
immigration act. but nobody pro
posed a “definite, spelled-out sub
stitute” to Congress.
This estimate of the present im
migration setup was given at the
Blessed Sacrament
Pa rent-T eac he rs
Meet in Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga. —At the Sep
tember meeting of the Parent-
Teacher Association of the Blessed
Sacrament School, the following
committee appointments
were
made:
m
Hospitality, Mrs. Frank W.
Campas; Health, Mrs. Arthur
Rourke; Sick, Mrs. F. W. Kilcline;
Program, Mrs. Thomas J. Mahoney;
Publicity, Mrs. Edward J. Werntz;
Membership, Mrs. E. P. Daly;
Lunchroom, Mrs. C. J. Scapiro;
Girl Scout, Mrs. W. W. Wolfe;
NCCW Representative, Mrs. John
E. Porter,
Class Mothers are; Eighth grade,
Mrs. R. S. Downing; seventh grade
Mrs. John B. Mock; sixth grade
Mrs. John H. Daniels; fifth grade
Mrs. James P. Counihan; fourth
grade, Mrs. George H. Wilson;
third grade, Mrs. Harold D. Cause;
second grade, Mrs. Peter L. Scar-
dino; first grade, Mrs. E. F. Sul
livan, Mrs. Jack Fulton.
MONSIGNOR KIRK IS
HONORED BY PARISH
COUNCIL IN ATHENS
.ATHENS,’Ga —The St. Joseph
Parish Council of Catholic Women
entertained informally on thfe eve
ning of September 10, in the school
auditorium in honor of Monsignor
John C. Kirk, president of the
Rumanian Catholic Mission in Eu
rope. „
Monsignor Kirk, whose head
quarters are in Madrid, Spain, is
on vacation in Athens, visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Kirk.
Many of the friends of Monsig
nor Kirk gathered to welcome him
back to his home city.
During the evening, Monsignor
Kirk spoke most interestingly of
his experiences in Europe and of
the work which he is doing among
the Rumanian refugees on the
continent.
Monsignor Kirk came to the
United States as the personal dele
gate of His Eminence Eugene Car
dinal Tisserant, Prefect of the
Sacred Congregation for the Orien
tal Church, to the national conven
tion of the Romanian Catholics of
America, held in Aurora 111.
Bishop John Boylan of Rock
ford presided at the convention,
which was attended by dignitaries
of Church and State and delegates
frhm all of the sixteen Rumanian
parishes in this country—the only
‘free” Rumanian Catholic parishes
in the world. Monsignor Kirk was
the guest speaker at the conven
tion.
En route to Georgia, Monsignor
Kirk stopped in Washington, D. C.,
where he had an audience and
lunch with His Excellency the Most
Reverend Amleto Giovanni Cicog-
nani, Apostolic Delegate to the
United States.
National Council of Catholic Wom
en convention here by Sarah Wea-
dick, assistant director of the Im
migration Bureau, National Catho
lic Welfare Conference.'She noted
that the N. C. W. C. bureau was
opposed t« the national origins
plan “from the very start.”
Politics, economics and social
questions are by no means reserv
ed for men. ,
So the delegates to the National
Council of Catholic Women con
vention here were told by Dr. Eliz
abeth Morrissy, NCCW chairma n
of social action and professor of
economics at Notre Dame College
of Maryland;
Altar Society and I
Parish Council Hold
Meetings in Albany
ALBANY, Ga.—The September
meeting of St. Theresa’s Altar So
ciety and the Council of Catholic
women was held at the parish hall,
with Mrs. Mary Lewis, the presi
dent, offering the opening prayer.
Minutes of the previous meeting
and the treasurer’s report were
read and Mrs. Robert E. McCor
mack’s reported that she had some
aprons and wristlets made for the
Sisters at the Cancer Home in At
lanta.
Mrs. Sam Barnett was named-
refreshment committee chairman
for the Sunday night socials for
service men held at the parish hall.
Father Daniel J. Bourke, V. F->
pastor of St. Theresa's Church,
spoke on the observance of Cath
olic Bible Week, and Mrs. L. E.
Mock suggested that the members,
in buying postage stamps, ask for
the stamp that commemorates the
500th anniversary of the Guten
berg Bible.
Mrs. Edward S. Armstrong was
named general chairman of the
barbecue committed, wire Mrs.
J. D. Paulk and Mrs. Gus Gotsch
as co-chairmen. Mrs. Fleming and
Mrs. Strickland were appointed- as
a telephone committee.
I
Parish Council in
Gainesville Holds
First Fall Meeting
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — “Monas
tic Life” was the theme of a pro
gram presented by Mrs. Otto
Thornhill and Mrs. R. M. Van
Leer at the first fall meeting of St.
Michael’s Parish Council of Catho
lic Women.
The meeting was opened with
prayer by Father Michael Man
ning, pastor of St. Michael’s
Church, and Mrs. Charles Edmond
son, president of the council, con
ducted the business session
Welcomed as new members
were Mrs. Henry Cabulski and
Mrs. James Turner, while Miss
Mary Kate Bellahan, of Montclair,
N. J., was welcomed as a visitor.
Mrs. Eugene Lawrence and Mrs.
W. E. Lowe vyere hostesses at the
social hour following the meeting.
As its first project of the sea
son, the council sponsored a Bake
Day Sale on September 13 at the
Georgia Power Company. Mrs.
James Caras, chairman of the ways
and means committee was in
charge of the sale, with Mrs. Wil
liam Faw, Mrs, Robert Roper and
Mrs. Otto Thornhill assisting.
CONSTRUCTION of nine Cath
olic health and hospital projects,
with an estimated total cost of
more than $7,000,000. was author
ized during July under the gov
ernment’s Controlled Materials
Plan,