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Over 9,000 In Catholic Schools Last Year;
Increase Expected As Classes Set To Reopen
PUBLISHED BY
THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASS’N.
OF GEORGIA
MONROE, GA.
SATURRDAY,
SEPT. 4, 1954
Vol. XXXV, No. 9
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Can’t Co-Exist With Reds,
Cardinal Tells Legionnaires
St. John’s, Other Additions Have
Been Made During Summer Months
Are Added
AUGUSTA, Ga.—As announc
ed in our issue of August. 21, new
leatures are slated for The Bul
letin.
The first of these appear in this
issue. We have added Sursum
Corda by the Rev. James M.
Gillis, C. S. P.;- World of Ours,
by Dr. Pattee; and You Can Win
Converts by the Rev. John A.
O’Brien.
We feel that the writings of
these well known and respected
men will be of great interest to
our readers, and are happy to
have their columns become regu
lar features in our paper.
iidsWillOpen
On Nurses Home
SAVANNAH, Ga. — September
21 is the date that has been set
to open bids for the construction
of the new Nurses’ Home for St.
Joseph’s Hospital.
This past spring the Advisory
Board of the Hospital announced
plans for improvements on the
hospital to amount to $850,000.
This four story structure, to be
located at Habersham and Taylor
and costing $400,000. will be the
first of these improvements.
Eller be and Co., S t, Paul, Minn.,
are architects and engineers. Os
car M. Hansen, Savannah, is as
sociate architect.
DR. BRODERICK IS
ALUMNAE SPEAKER
SAVANNAH, Ga,—The pro
gram for the Alumnae Day ban
quet of St. Joseph's Nurses
Alumnae Association has been
released.
Speaker at the Sept. 7th din
ner will be Dr. J. Reid Broder
ick. The full program is as fol
lows:
9:00 a. m.: Mass in the Sisters’
Chapel at the hospital, celebrat
ed by the Most Rev. Francis E.
Hyland, D. D., J. C. D., auxili
ary bishop. 10:00 a. m.; Breakfast
in the Nurses’ dining room. 11:00
a, m.; Entourage. 7:00 p. m. Ban
quet, dining room, Johnnie Gan-
em, caterer. Invocation will be
given by the Rev. Thomas Payne.
Toastmistress will be Miss Mary
Helen Saunders.
MACON RETREATS
ATTRACT 102
MACON Ga.— One Hundred
two women of the Diocese availed
themselves of the opportunity to
stregenthen their spiritual lives
by attending the two Retreats
held during August at Mt. de Sales
Academy Macon.
The first of the Retreats held
from August 17 thru 20th had an
attendance of 49. The Second held
primarily for Business and Pro
fessional Women ran from Aug
ust 20 thru 22, and had an at
tendance of 53.
The Retreatmaster this year
was the Rev. H. L. Cooper, S. J.
The schedule followed by the
women was as follows:
7:25 a.m., Morning Prayers;
7:30 a.m., Holy Mass; 8:15 a.m.,
Breakfast; 9:15 Conference: 11:00
am., Conference; 12:15 p.m., Ex
amination of Conscience; 1:00
p.m. Dinner; 1:30 p.m,. Free Time;
4:00 p.m., Stations; 4:30 p.m.,
Conference; 6:00 p.m. Rosary;
6:15 p.m., Supper; 7:30 p.m.,
Benediction, Conference, Night
Prayers.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—
‘‘Americans must not be lulled
into sleeep by indifference nor
be beguiled by the prospect of
peaceful co-existence with com
munists,” His Eminence Francis
Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop
of New York, told the national
convention of the American Leg
ion here.
In his address to convention
delegates the Cardinal warned
that “the danger of another Pearl
Harbor embracing the whole Am
erican people is definitely pos
sible and possibly imminent."
Reminding Legionnaires that
there is no guarantee that Amer
ica will continue to enjoy its
present power and dominance
and noting signs of “alarming
deterioration in things of the
spirit” in America, His Eminence
called for an intensification of
the nation’s religious life.
“How,” Cardinal Spellman ask
ed, “can there be peaceful co
existence between two parties if
one of them is continually claw
ing at the throat of the other,
continually threatening, con
tinually committing actions
which are designed to destroy
life in the other party? How does
one peacefully co-exist with men
who mouth words of peace while
waging treacherous war; men
who wear the trappings of civili
zation while they indulge in the
techniques of barbarism? It is
ignorance of a fatal kind which
prompts the illusion that free
men can peacefully co-exist with
communists.”
“We Americans,” His Emin
ence continued, “need to re
member as we have never re
membered before in our national
life how definite a sentence of
death has been passed upon us
by the very power with whom
we have been asked peacefully
to co-exist. We need to remem
ber as we have never remember
ed before now fatal it would be
to succumb to the temptation to
place any trust in those evil lead
ers who have risen to their world
position by reason of lies, duplic
ity and treason.
“No guarantee has ever been
given to America that it shall
continue to enjoy the dominance
it now has as a nation. America
came to its mighty and majestic
greatness and achieved her pre
sent high destiny through a con
scious dedication of our fathers
to religious truths and principals
for they knew that unless the
Lord build the city, they labor
m vain who build it.”
SACRED COLLEGE
AT 68 FOLLOWING
CARDINALS DEATH
VARESE, Italy-Aug. 30— His
Eminence Alfredo Cardinal Sc
huster Archbishop of Milan, died
here at the age of 74.
Cardinal Schuster has suffered
from circulatory disturbance for
some time and had recently en
tered Venegono Pontifical Semi
nary near here for a rest.
He was elevated to the College
of Cardinals in 1929, and his
death leaves the College of
Cardinals at 68, two under its
full membership of 70.
ATLANTA, Ga. More than
9,000 children are expected
to return to Catholic schools in
the Diocese of Savannah-A'-'anta
when school re-opens next week.
During the last school year
9,733 youths were under instruc
tions in 10 High Schools, and 31
Elementary Schools.
The Rev. Connelius Maloney,
Diocesan Superintendent of
schools feels confident that this
years enrollment . will surpass
last years mark. Reasons for this
are the completion of the new
school at St. John’s, Hapeville,
and the additions made at many
schools during the summer
months in anticipation of new
students, especially in the lower
grades.
Students entering Catholic
high schools in the diocese will
be given achievement and men
tal ability tests by the staff of
the University of Dayton Guid
ance Center, Dayton, Ohio, it
has been announced by Father
Maloney, and Lloyd Rensel, dir
ector of the UD Guidance Cent
er.
The tests will be given in three
cities in the diocese during the
early part of this month. The
announced schedule includes:
Savannah, September 13, Augusta.
September 14; and Atlanta, Sept
ember 15.
All entering freshmen will be
gathered at a single school in
those communities on the specifi
ed date and a battery of tests-
including reading, mathamatics.
VATICAN CITY (NC) Pope
Pius XII has appealed to the Bis
hops of the world to take action
against immodesty in dress which
has “spiritually ruinous effects,
especially on young people” and
is “ a most serious plague of the
present time.’
language achievement, and men
tal ability-will be administered
in a single day.
Figures on the 1954-55 enroll
ment will be released by Father
Maloney’s office as soon as they
are available. These with a list
of school faculties will be report
ed in a latter issue of The Bul
letin.
Nearly four million pupils will
be entered in Catholic grade and
high schools and almost 38 mil
lion will be enrolled in all the
schools and colleges in the nat
ion in 1954-55, it is predicted in
a report issued by the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare.
Slightly over 29 million pupils
will be enrolled in public ele
mentary and high schools. This
figure, with that of the non
public grade and high schools and
other types of educational in
stitutions, brings this year’s pro
spective students to 23 percent
of the country’s population.
The figure for Catholic grade
and high schools in 3,398,912.
This number was arrived at by
taking certain percentages of the
total given by the department
for non-public elementary and
secondary schools. A Health, Ed
ucation and Welfare spokesman
said about 94 per cent of the
non-public elementary school
pupils will be in Catholic schools,
and 83 per cent of the non-public
secondary students will also be
in Catholic schools.
The Holy Father’s appeal was
conveyed through a letter written
at his express instruction by Pie
tro Cardinal Ciriaci, Prefect of
the Sacred Congregation of the
Council, and published in the
Acta Apostolicae Sedis, official
Vatican bulletin.
The letter recalled that one of
the principal aims of the Marian
Year is a salutary reform of mor
als among Christians.
It said that one step toward
such reform should be directed
against “indecencies of fashion
which, especially in the summer
time, furnish a sad and blame
worthy spectacle.” ,
“This is true not only of the
beaches, not only of holiday re
sorts, but of the city and village
streets and other places both
private and public.” Cardinal
Ciriaci wrote. “Even in the house
of God there is a tendency to
wear dress that is unworthy of
the occasion and irreverent, and
whose spiritually ruinous effects,
especially on young people are
easy to imagine.”
The Cardinal stated that an ad
ditional reason for Christians to
observe modesty is the Catholic
teaching, that the body is the
temple of the Holy Ghost and
should be preserved from any pro*
fanation. He invited Catholic or
ganizations to regard the mat
ter among the most important to
be considered in their apostolic
endeavors.
FAMILY FIRST COMMUNION
“He that eatest My Flesh and drinketh My Blood, abideth
in Me and I in him” (John v.52). A most impressive site at the
Sacred Heart Church, Warner Robins, was the First Holy Com
munion of the Duckworth Family. The family is shown just
before receiving their first Holy Communion following their
baptism the preceeding day. Left to right, Mr, Duckworth, G.
H. Jr., Mrs. Duckworth, Jacob and Mary Jo.
HOLY FATHER CALLS FOR MODESTY
"INDECENCIES OF FASHION" HIT