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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
NOVEMBER 27. 1954.
Catholic 7/Mmuti ’a, page
EDITED BY MRS.
SAVANNAH-ATLANTA DIOCESAN
JOHN RHENEY
COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN
Says: "Average Woman Will Decide Issues
If
NEW OFFICERS OF N. C. C. W,
Elected to head the National Council of Catholic Women
aich has just concluded its 27th national convention in Boston
..e the following officers, left to right: Miss Kathryn McCarthy,
Ms. Carmel, Pa., secretary; Mrs. August G. Desch, Chicago, 111.,
president;, Mrs. Albert R. Spillman, Hempstead, N. Y., first vice
iesident, and Mrs. R. G. Warner, Jr., Nashville. Tenn., treasurer.
Albany PTA Hears
Representative Of
Catholic Digest
ALBANY, Ga. — The Parent-
Teacher Association of St. Te
resa’s School met November 10th,
in the school auditorium with
Mrs. Edwin Anderson ,vice pres
ident, presiding for Mrs. Dermot
Sherriwell, Jr., president, who was
ill.
Father Daniel Bourke opened
the meeting with prayer. Father
Bourke introduced T. E. McMann,
“Catholic Digest” representative,
who spoke on the advantages of
Catholic literature.
The meeting was turned over
to Mrs. Herman Turner who in
troduced Miss Petty Jones, Wom
an of the year. She gave a very
interesting talk on the cultural
advantages that Albany has to
offer.
The first grade won the atten
dance prize.
After the meeting a social hour
was enjoyed. Mrs. Zack Lee serv
ed refreshments.
PRESIDENT SAYS FAMILIES
MUST BE KEPT SPIRITUALLY
"RICH, STRONG AND FREE"
(N. C. W. C. News Service)
BOSTON, Mass., President Eis-
w.inower said here that this na
tion will “remain strong and se-
ot e and great” only as long as
we keep “our families spiritual
ly 'ich, strong and free.”
NORTH BROAD ST
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The Chief Executive also de
clared that today the possibility
of peace “is more promising than
at any time in recent years.”
He addressed the 27th Nation
al convention of the National
Council of Catholic Women. The
2-4228
ROME, GEORGIA
delegates to the gathering are
representatives of eight million
women throughout the nation.
Speaking on efforts toward
world peace, the President said
that essential to this cause is an
understanding of the bonds
which make brothers of all men.
“The desire to be free, the de
sire to realize one’s own capa •
cities, the desire of justice, the
respect for reason, willingness to
sacrifice for one’s children, love
of home and love of peace—all
these lie deep in the hearts of all
peoples”, he said.
This must be so, he continued,
for “it is this divinely inspired
faith which gives promise to our
qxiest for peace.”
The President was met at Lo
gan airport here by a delegation
which included Patrick McDon
ald, president of the Boston
Council of Catholic Men, Dr. Ce
cilia McGovern, president of the
Boston Council of Catholic Wo
men, Governor Christian A.
Herter, United States Senator
Leverett Saltonstall and Bost
on’s Mayor John B. Hynes.
On the stage in the auditorium
were more than a dozen mem
bers of the hierarchy, including
Archbishop Albert G. Meyer of
Milwaukee, Archbishop Thomas
J. Toolen, Bishop of Mobile-Bir-
mingham, and Bishop Thomas K.
Gorman of Dallas-Fort Worth.
Also present was Msgr. How
ard J. Carroll, general secretary
of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference and Miss Margaret
Mealey, executive secretary of
the National Council of Catholic
Women. Mrs. William H. Dalton,
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. . . ARCHBISHOP RICHARD CUSHING
ADDRESSES BOSTON CONVENTION
(By William E. Ring, Staff
Writer, NCWC News Service)
BOSTON, Mass.—A woman will
decide the issues for or against
Christendom' in the crisis of the
present age, Archbishop Richard
J. Cushing of Boston told the 27t.h
National Council of Catholic Wo
men (NCCW) convention here.
He identified this woman as the
“average woman,” for, he said,
ours is the “age of the average
woman.”
• The five-day gathering, at
which President Eisenhower ap
peared, was characterized as the
greatest assembly of Catholic wo
men in the nation’s histox-y. Near
ly 2,000 came from all sections
of the nation, and were joined by
3,000 from the Boston and New
England area.
Some 20 members of the Am
erican Hierarchy took part in va
rious meetings, panels and work
shops.
As the convention opened, it
was announced that Mrs. William
H. Dalton of Augusta, Me., presi
dent of the NCCW, had been hon
ored by the Holy Father with the
mejial “Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.”
An overflow crowd in Mechan
ics Hall heard Archbishop Cush
ing’s address at the first general
public meeting. Archbishop Henry
J. O’Brien of Hartford, Conn.,
gave the invocation and served
as honoi'ary chairman. Mrs. Dal
ton presided.
Mayor John B. Hynes of Bos
ton and Dr. Cecilia McGovern,
president of the Boston Archdio
cesan Council of Catholic Women,
gave addi’esses of welcome. Dr.
Richard Pattee, National Catholic
Welfare Conference consultant on
international affairs, spoke on
“The Catholic Layman in the
Contemporai’y World.” The Arch
bishop’s topic was “The Modern
Apostolate.”
The convention formally opened
with a Solemn Pontifical Mass of
fered by Ai'chbishop Cushing in
the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
Archbishop Albert G. Meyer of
Milwaukee gave the sermon.
Archbishop Meyer told the con
gregation that as members of the
NCCW they have the opportuni
ty, as well as the obligation, to
help restore the family to its
rightful dignity and its full vigor
as the basic cell of the social or
ganism.
He added that to do this, they
must begin by developing to the
fullest possible extent the divine
idea of woman’s dignity which is
climaxed in the figure of Our
Lady.
At the session in Mechanics
Hall, Archbishop Cushing told his
audience: “I am speaking to the
avex-age woman present, not the
ideal woman. As a matter of fact,
there probably isn’t an ideal wo
man. The difference between the
two is real and important. The
average woman has one great ad
vantage over the ideal—she ac
tually exists,” the Archbishop re
marked.
Addressing himself to this “av
erage woman,” Archbishop Cush
ing appealed “to her spiritual
sense and her apostolic power be
cause she is at the controls of his
tory itself in the present crisis of
our age.”
From the time of temptation in
the garden of paradise, almost
every age has had its crisis, the
Archbishop declar-ed. Christian
histoi’y has seen many crises and
in most of them a woman was at,
or close to, the controls which set
the decisive direction.
Ours is an age of crisis, he said.
But in our age we cannot look
to queens to' do for Christ and for
the Chi’istian commonwealth what
once a woman like Empress Hel
ena or Queen Clothilde was in a
position to do.
“No dramatic captivating girl
seems likely to step forward in
our age, as did St. Joan in hers,
to influence the imaginations, in
spire the wills and unite the
hearts of the discouraged, the de
feated and the divided,” the
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