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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, JULY 31, 1954
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Washington Scene
Of 34th Annual
Laymen's Retreat
WASHINGTON, Ga, — St. Jo
seph's Home was the scene July
MM 8 of the 34th Annual. Retreat
for Men sponsored by the Catho
lic Laymen’s Association of Geor-
iS**
The week end Retreat conduct
ed by the Rev. James McGuckin,
S.M., of Atlanta, was attended by
representatives from Atlanta, Al
bany. Augusta, Hephzibah, Macon,
MllledgevHle, Warner Robins, San-
decsville, Washington, and Savan
nah
Following the Retreat the Nom
inating Committee composed of
John J. McCreary, Macon, J. Hen
ry Wigerman, Adbany, T. W. Duf
fy, Atlanta, and Albert Rice, Au
gusta, presented the following slate
of officers for election:
For chairman: James B. Mul-
hei tn. Augusta; vice-chairman, To-
bin Barrett, Augusta; local chair
men. Joe L. Rau, Albany; C. H.
Sh< Hey. Atlanta; J. Thomas Mc-
Smdriek. Macon; Reginald W. Hat-
ilvr. Milledgeville; Hubert S.
Grawford, Hephzibah; John B. Mur-
a*r, Martinez; Phil J. Sheridan,
Svitfin: Ed H. Sullivan, Sanders-
y*te: John Larkin, Thomasville;
F'raneis X. McCashin, Warner Rob
ins. Jack M. Conell" Washington
••J Thomson; T. H. McHatton,
Athons.
WORLD CATHOLIC DOCTORS MEET
Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara,
Papal Nuncio to Ireland and newly-
appointed Apostolic Delegate to
Great Britain is shown at the Sixth
International Congress of Catholic
Doctors, held in Dublin. Pictured
with him are: Rev. Gratian Gru
ber, (left) famed Resistance priest
and Dr. Hermann Katzenberger
(right) German Minister to Ire
land. Lower photo, Professor Lu
igi Gedda, adviser to Pope Pius
XII and president of the Interna
tional Congress of Catholic Doc
tors.—(NC Photos).
0»r Lady of Perpetual Help Church,
Carrollton Is Dedicated by Bishop Hyland
MRS. W. C. LEE, JR.
CARROLLTON, Ga.—Our Lady
of Perpetual Help Catholic Church
in Carrollton was dedicated by the
Most Rev. Francis E. Hyland, D.
D.. J. C. D., auxiliary bishop and
general of the Diocese of
Sayannah-Atlanta,
The ceremony consisted of the
blessing of the church’s exterior.
Then the Fiftieth Psalm was beau
tifully rendered by the Priest
Choir of Sacred Heart Church in
Iflaota, led by the Reverend Fath
er Edward Kelly, S. M., graduate
of Pius X School of Music in New
York. Next there was a procession
#f the Priests.
Deacons-of-honor were the Very
Rev. Father Valentine Becker, S.
M.. superior of Marist College in
Atlanta, and the Rev. Father An
drew A. Wall, S. M., pastor of St.
Joseph's Church, Marietta. The
procession also included the fol
lowing Marist Fathers, Rev. Fath
er Edward Kelly, Thomas O’Don
nell, John McShane, and James
Cummings. Others were Rev. Kolb,
C, S. Sr„ from Cedartown; Rev.
Simon Glasser, C. S. Sr., from
Newnan, Rev. Charles E. Duke, S.
M., priest-in-charge of Our Lady
of Perpetual Help Church, and
Rev. Michael Regan, assistant to
the Bishop. The Mass was said by
His Excetlncy, the auxiliary
bishop.
The choral rendition was by the
choir of the Co-Cathedral of
Christ the King in Atlanta, under
the direction of Mrs. Lawrence
McEvoy. Members present from
the choir were Mrs. Harry Horsey,
Jr., Mrs. William C. Horne, Mrs.
William C. Lee, Jr., (formerly a
member of the choir, now of Car
rollton), Frank Juden, Joseph
Dwyer and Lawrence McEvoy, Jr.
Roland Blackburn was organist.
Men of the Choir at the Intrait
sang “Salve Mater Misevicordiae,”
(Gregorian Chant); at the Offer
tory, “Cor Jesu,” W, Shwltes, sung
by all of thee hoir; at the Eleva
tion, “Ecce Panis Angelorium,” G.
B. Poileri, sung by Choir; at Com
munion, “O Lord, I Am Not Wor
thy,” Burns; solo, Mrs. Lawrence
McEvoy, and duet, Mrs. McEvoy
and Mrs. W. C, Horne; at Post-
Communion, “Ave Verum Corpus,”
Gregorian chant by the men. For
the Recessional the choir and con
gregation _ sang “Holy God, We
Praise Thy Name,” melody from
the Katholisches Gesangbueh.
CARROLLTON CHURCH—Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church which was dedicated by His Ex
cellency the Most Rev. Francis E. Hyland, D.D., J.C.D. Pastor of the, new church is the Rev.
Charles E. Duke S.M.
Plea for Vocations Addressed
To Youth of Diocese by His
Excellency Archbishop O'Hara
SAVANNAH, Ga.— “The South
in general is justly celebrated for
the large number of its converts.
Such Conversions would be multi
plied many times over if we had
more priests and religious.” This
plea for vocations was addressed
to the youth of the Diocese of Sa-
vannah-Atlanta in the first letter
ever exclusively addressed to youth
by His Excellency Archbishop
Gerald P. O’Hara, Archbishop of
Savanah-Atlanta, and Apostolic
Delegate to Great Britain.
The Archbishop stressed that
there are many kinds of vocations
through which Youth by living in
the fear and love of God and by
teaching, through word and ex
ample, those who will be depend
ent upon them to keep his holy
law, will obtain for them the ful
lest posible measure of happiness
in this world and, above all, merit
in God’s good time a high place
among the Saints in Heaven.
“But it is of vocations of another
order that I wish expecially to
write to you. 1 mean, of course,
vocations to the priesthood or to
the religious life. There is abso
lutely no doubt that this is the vo
cation to which God is calling some
of you—the elite among you, the
chosen ones. Those who sense this
divine eatl will surely respond to
it with a generosity that is eharac-
teristigpf our Catholic youth. Per
haps jfau may say that you are un-
wortfw of such a vocation. Nothing
could be more true. No one is
worthy of so great a favor from
God, At the same time, Divine Pro
vidence has ordained that men and
women, in spite of human failings
and imperfections, should be called
to engage in one way or another in
the sublime work of saving souls.
We know that Peter, James, John
and the others whom Our Lord
called to he his first priests had
many human imperfections. The
Gospels are only too eloquent in
this regard. And yet Our Lord
called them to His service and sent
them forth to convert the world.
“The grace of God makes up for
all human imperfections and weak-
nesse. From the day that Our Lord
called His first priests to leave
all things to follow Him and be
come “fishers of men,” even unto
this day, Our Lord has never
ceased to inspire young men and
women to leave all things and to
serve Him. At this very moment
God is calling some of you to leave
your homes and to abandon all
thoughts of a secular career in or
der to spend your lives for Christ
Our Lord Himself in the glorious
apostolate of laboring for the sal
vation of souls.”
“At the end of lives spent as
priests or religious, it will be an
amazing consolation to be able to
look back upon those lives and to
realize that they have not been
spent for the few members of our
immediate families, and much less
for our own individual interests,
but for many thousands of God’s
people. The priest or religious in
the course of even a few years min
isters to thousands. This multitude
of souls whom the priest or reli
gious has been instrumental in
leading to God will be his crown
and glory in heaven.
(The full text of the Archbishop’s
letter appears on page four.)
Archbishop Likens Doctor's Vocation to
That of Priest as He Addresses Meeting
By LEILA CARROLL
DUBLIN, Ireland.— The United
States was one of 16 countries rep
resented here at the sixth Interna
tional Congress of Catholie Doc
tors which brought a brilliant ar
ray of specialists for discussion of
topics of vital moral and social as
well as scientific interest.
Devoted to the theme “Demog
raphy and Medical Practice” —
demography is the study of the
multiple problems affecting popu
lations and population trends —
the Congress laid particular stress
on the responsibility of scientists
in Christian countries to provide
guidance in the solution of many
great problems affecting mankind.
Papers were read on the need of
combatting birth control, abortion
and other practices condemned by
the Natural Law. The Congress
was opened by a Solemn Votive
Mass in St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral
at which His Eminence John Cardi
nal D ’ A 11 o n, Archbishop of
Armagh, presided. Also present
were 13 other members of the
Irish Hierarchy headed by Arch
bishop John C. McQuald of Dublin;
Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara,
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, retir
ing Papal Nuncio to Ireland; and
a distinguished group of civic no
tables, including Prime Minister
John Costello and members of the
Irish Cabinet.
The special importance of the
Congress was underscored by
Archbishop O’Hara,—he has re
cently been named Apostolic Dele
gate to Great Britain—who gave a
talk to the 400 medical delegates
in which he likened the vocation
of the doctor to that of the priest.
“You are called,” he said, “to heal
men’s bodily ills and to preserve
their organic file. We priests are
carted to heal their souls’ wounds
and to preserve their spiritual life.
We priests assist men in their fight
against sin; you in their fight
against disease.”
The Archbishop said it was
edifying to see distinguished
scholars, surgeons, doctors, and
scientists proclaim their adherence
to Catholic doctrine in their own
fields. “With your Catholic edu
cation,” he said, “you know that
the light of faith will always shed
bright light before you leading you
unerringly in research. It is good
for us priests,” he continued, “to
see that in your important work
which touches and at times over
laps our own you uphold the high
standards of Catholic Oogma.”
Dr. Patricia Ann Carter, gyneco
logist of Charleston, S. C., spoke
on the basic concepts of social and
Catholic medical principles as pre
paration for marriage. She describ
ed the work of the Cana Confer
ences and advocated early mar
riages.-
The Congress embraced five
scientific sessions, at the opening
one of which Dr. Gedda read a
paper in which he warned that a
medical science unenlightened by
moral principles would lead back
to concepts based on state supre
macy above the interests of the in
dividual, He said that the com
parative modern science of gene
tics had clearly demonstrated the
fallacy of racial supremacy doc
trines arid the dange rof arbitrary
birth limitation.
Among speakers who discussed
th eproblem of artificial birth con
trol was Dr. W. J. Donovan of
Great Britain, who exhorted doc
tors to avail themselves of every
opportunity to refute negations of
the natural law, especially in par
liaments and the medical press.
He said a particular responsibility
esests on those who advise govern
ments and municipal authorities,
and added that a special need is to
inclucate future members of the
mediea Iprofession with a sound
knowledge of Christian principles.
^clericalT
APPOINTMENTS
SAVANNAH, Ga. — His Excel
lency, the Most Rev. Francis E.
Hyland. D.D., has announced the
following Clerical appointments:
The Rev. William P. Dowling,
Jr., native Savannahian, who was
recently ordained to be assistant
to the Rev. Thomas A, Brennan,
pastor of the Church of the Most
Blessed Sacrament.
The Rev. Francis Donoghue to
be an assistant to the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. T. James McNamara, Rec
tor of the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist.