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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 21, 1954.
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The Official Organ of the Catholic Laymen’s
Association of Georgia, Incorporated
JOHN MARKWALTER, Editor
416 Eighth Street, Augusta, Ga.
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS FOR 1953-1954
J. P. MEYER, Columbus President
MARTIN J. CALLAGHAN, K. S. G„ Macon
E. M. HEAGARTY, Waycross Honorary Vice-Presidents
HARVY HILL, Atlanta : -
MRS. L. E. MOCK, Albany _ Vice-Presidents
DAMON J. SWANN, Atlanta V. P., Publicity
GEORGE GINGELL, Columbus V. P., Activities
RAWSON HAVERTY, Atlanta V. P., Membership
JOHN M. BRENNAN, Savannah Secretary
WILLIAM Q. EGAN, Atlanta _. Treasurer
JOHN MARKWALTER, Augusta Executive Secretary
MISS CECILE FERRY, Augusta , Financial Secretary
ALVIN M. McAULIFFE, Augusta Auditor
VOL. XXXV AUGUST 21, 1954 NO. 8
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Monroe, Georgia,
and accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided by para
graph (e) of section 34.40, Postal Laws and Regulations.
Member of N. C. W. C. News Service, Religious News Service, the
Catholic Press Association of the United States, the Georgia Press
Association, and the National Editorial Association.
Published fortnightly by the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Geor
gia, Inc., with the Approbation of the Most Reverend Archbishop-
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, and of the Right Reverend Abbot
Ordinary of Belmont.
Welcome To The Visitation Nuns
In the name of the Catholic people of Georgia, THE
BULLETIN extends a most cordial welcome to the Visitation
Nuns who have established a monastery in the City of Atlanta.
This expression of welcome is meant for all the ten Nuns who
have come to our diocese from the Visitation Monastery in
Toledo, Ohio; but we would not be true Georgians if we did
not single out and express a special word of welcome to the
foundress and first superior of the Atlanta Visitation Monas
tery, Mother Francis de Sales Cassidy.
Ever since Mother Francis de Sales left her native Macon
to consecrate her life to God in religion, the Church in her
beloved Georgia has been in Tier prayers. Perhaps at times
Mother visualized the foundation of a monastery of the Visita
tion Order in her native diocese. This vision has come true.
We are indebted to Mother Francis de Sales more than to
anyone else for this new “powerhouse” of prayer and good
works in our midst.
A most cordial welcome, therefore, to Mother Francis de
Sales who has come home to Georgia, accompanied by nine
consecrated companions whose lives, like her own, are “hid
with Christ in God.”
The Visitation Nuns are pledged to offer their prayers,
, sacrifices and good works for the welfare of the Church in
our diocese. In return, we pledge the Nuns our love and our
generous support.
"Pray For Peace"
It is encouraging during these days when our news is
filled with reports of conflict and near conflict to have our
congress pass bills which give evidence to the world that
America is a nation that firmly believes in God.
Our letters are now being carried to their destinations
bearing postage stamps with the inscription “In God We
Trust.” The House Post Office Committee within the past
few days has unanimously approved a bill which will author
ize “Pray for Peace” to be used as a slogan for cancelling
dies.
Rep. Louis C. Rabaut, who is sponsoring the measure,
sums up the reasons for the new cancellation die as follows:
“It is incumbent upon us, as a republic founded upon
religious concepts, and as one of the last and strongest pillars
in the citadel of the free world, that we work as if every
thing depended upon ourselves and pray as if everything
depended upon almighty God.
“Pray for Peace” upon our cancellation die will go far
in expressing our attitude of dependence upon the Supreme
Being and of our striving for a true peace in our time. Con
gress should pass this Bill. For more things are wrought by
prayer than this world dreams of.”
If this new bill is passed it will show that more and
more of our fellow citizens are beginning to realize, after the
suffering and horrors of two world wars, that the prevention,
of the third, and true peace will come only through prayer.
-Jeadt
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
SUNDAY, August 22—Feast of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Honoring the Immaculate Heart
of Mary as a symbol of love, this
feast was instituted by Pope Pius
VII, assigned a proper Office and
Mass by Pope Pius XI and ex
tended to the Universal Church
with a permanent date by Pope
Pius XII.
MONDAY, August 23—St. Phil
ip Benizi, Confessor. He was born
in Florence on the Feast of the
Assumption, 1223. He entered the
Servite Order, which was found
ed on the day of his birth. His
virtue won him respect and ad
miration. He died in 1285.
TUESDAY, August 24—St. Bar
tholomew, Apostle. He carried
the Gospel through the most bar
barous countries of the East,
penetrating into the remoter In
dies. He was martyred in Ar
menia.
WEDNESDAY, August 25— St.
Louis of France, King. He led
two Crusades against the infidels
and was noted for his great zeal
for the Faith. He died in Tunis in
1270 while leading his army on
his second crusade.
THURSDAY, August 26—St.
Zephyrinus, Pope and Martyr. He
succeeded Pope Victor I in 199
and reigned until 217.
FRIDAY, August 27—:St. Jos
eph Calasanctius, Confessor. He
was born in Aragon in 1556. He
studied for the priesthood in
Rome and was ordained in 1583.
He founded the Order of Clerks
Regular of the Pious Schools,
known as the Piarists, dedicated
to care of children of the poor.
In his old age, he was unjustly
accused, brought before the Holy
Office and removed from control
of the community, but eventually
he was restored and his patience
earned for him the title of a “sec
ond Job.” He was canonized in
1767.
SATURDAY, August 28.—St.
Augustine of Hippo, Bishop-
Confessor-Doctor. He was born
November 13, 354, in Tagaste,
North Africa. Despite early train
ing by his mother, St. Monica, he
spent his youth in vice. He be
came a rhetoric professor and
taught at Tagaste, Carthage,
Rome and Milan. He was baptiz
ed at the age of 32 by St. Am
brose, the same year that his mo
ther died. He lived a short mo
nastic life near Tagaste and in 391
was ordained at Hippo. Three
years later he became Coadjuta-
tor Bishop of Hippo. Noted for his
writing he is famous for his “Con
fessions” and the “City of God,”
and also for his defense of the
Church against heresies and
schisms. He died August 28, 430.
FATHER RYAN S. J.
RECOVERING FROM
AUTO INJURIES
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The many
friends of the Rev. P. A. Ryan S.
J. will be sorry to hear that he is
now at the Jesuit House of Stud
ies, Spring Hill, Ala., recovering
from injuries received several
months ago.
Father Ryan was struck by an
automobile while standing on a
corner in Fort Worth, Texas. We
are happy to report that Father is
greatly improved and that he
writes that he is now almost com
pletely recovered.
His injury prevented his at
tendance at the cannonization
rites of St. Pius X held in Rome
the last of May. Father was to
make the trip with Archbishop
Gerald P. O’Hara, Bishop of Sa
vannah-Atlanta, and Apostolic
Delegate to Great Britain.
AND THE
LORD GOD
By
Rev. Eugene H. Maly
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These are the precepts and
judgments, that you musi do in the
land, which the Lord the God of
thy fathers will give thee, to pos
sess it all the days that thou shalt
walk upon the earth. Destroy all
the places in which the nations,
that you shall possess, worshipped
their gods upon high mountains,
and hills, and under every shady
tree.—Deut. 22, 1-2.
Who were the Chanaanites?
What sort of people were they
with whom the Hebrews would
be dealing for such a long period
of time? Unless we know some
thing of their way of life we shall
fail to understand much of the
history of Israel. We shall fail,
too. to understand the manner of
God’s acting with His chosen peo
ple. In the preceding article we
saw something of the land in
which these Chanaanites lived.
Let us now see something of the
people themselves.
Palestine was at this period of
history (about 1250 B. C.) made
up of many independent city-
states. Every town had its petty
prince who glorified in his title
of king. Megiddo and Ta’anach in
the north, and Jerusalem and
Jericho in the south were prime
examples of such independent
“islands” of power in the land of
Chanaan. And the whole was
under the control of Egypt. But it
was no iron-fisted rule of the
peoples. As long as the local
princes paid the regular tribute to
their sovereign lord, they were
left to rule as they pleased. They
could even, and did, wage con
stant war among themselves and
Egypt would not protest.
Under these conditions it is
not difficult to imagine that so
cial injustices could cut deeply
into the daily life of these people.
As a matter of fact, at the time of
the Israelite invasion there were
only two classes left in society:
the warring nobility and the im
poverished peasantry. And the
rich gave little thought to the de
velopment of arts and crafts. Ra
ther, they were intent only on the
improvement of their defenses.
As a result, fortifications became
increasingly more elaborate and
wholly out of proportion to the
size of the city.
Along with this decline in cul- jA
ture there was a corresponding
degradation of the religious con
cepts of the Chanaanites. Like
most ancient peoples, they were
intensely religious; but their re
ligion had degraded into a naL
uralistic and superstitious affair.
Baal and Astarte, the god and
goddess of fertility, were wor
shipped with rites that equaled in
debasing sensuality the most pa
gan rites of primitive man. In
deed, prostitution was considered,
a religious vocation!
Human sacrifice was another
feature of their cult to the gods.
Children, especially the first-born
were offered to the gods. Nor
were adults spared. When a new
house was erected it was not un
common for a man to be slain
and offered up as" a foundation
sacrifice.
Although a few Chanaanite
temples have been uncovered in
Palestine, most of the religious
rites were carried out on the
“high places”—open-air sanctu
aries usually located on some
hilltop. And here took place
drunken revels, frenzied dancing
self-mutilation, and the basest
forms of immorality that the hu
man mind could devise—all in
the name of religion.
These were the people with
whom the Israelites were soon to
come in contact. These were the
inhabitants of the land that God
had given them. Would they dis
possess them entirely? Or would
they reach a compromise with
them and settle down to a way of
life that would permit the co-ex
istence of people with such re
ligious practices? Surely none
could be unaware of the dangers
of such a compromise. Surely all
could understand now the words
of their lawgiver, “Walk not after
the laws of the nations which 1
will cast out before you. For they
have done all these things, and
therefore I abhorred them.”
WASHINGTON LETTER
By J. J. GILBERT
WASHINGTON—This city has
just observed the 200th anniver
sary of the man who planned it.
He was Maj. Charles L’Enfant, a
French Catholic who had thrown
in his lot with the American
cause in the Revolutionary War.
The occasion has served to re
call a number of prominent
Catholics associated with the
early days of what has become
the “capital of the world.”
Through acts passed by Con
gress in 1790 and 1791, offers of
land made by the States of Mary
land and Virginia were accepted
and the District of Columbia was
constitued the seat of the national
government.
George Washington determined
the exact boundaries of the area
which was tp be the Capital. The
First President was also author
ized to apoint three commission
ers to lay out and survey a por
tion of the District for a federal
city, to acquire the land, and to
provide buildings for the resi
dence of the President, the ac
commodation of Congress, and
the use of the government de
partments.
One of the commissioners thus
appointed was Daniel Carroll “of
Duddington,” of the family of
Archbishop John Carroll, first **'
Bishop of the Hierarchy of the
United State?. Daniel Carroll was
one of the principal land pro
prietors of the District.
President Washington chose
Major L’Enfant to draw up the
plan for the City of Washington.
James Hoban, a Catholic, won
by competition the prize offered
for a plan for the President’s
House, which is now known as
the White House. It was con
structed according to his design.
The site of the U. S. Capitol
building occupies part of the land
owned by Daniel Carroll, which
the Catholic Encyclopedia says
“was practically a gift from him
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