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PUBLISHED BY THE
CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
“To Bring About
a Friendlier
Feeling Among
. Neighbors Irre
spective of Creed”
Y T ol. XXXVI, No. 3.
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1955.
10c Per Copy — $3 a Year
SCHOOL BELLS RING
School bells have called children of the Diocese back to school. Shown registering at Sacred
Heart School, Augusta, are: Seated, Tina Dear, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dear, and
Caroline Webb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Webb. Standing, left to right: Gloria Reese,
daughter of G. A. Reese, Eugene, Dennis and Thomas, sons of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Downs. Sister
Consuela, R. S. M., is registering the children.—(Photo Morgan Fitz). .
COD—VALUE 0F WORKSHOPS
NEW CHAPEL
(By REV. FRANCIS J.
DONOHUE
Soon now the Catholic Lay
men’s Association will assemble
for its 40th Annual Convention.
This year’s convention takes on
added significance in that it will
be held jointly with the 9th
Regional Congress of the Con
fraternity of Christian Doctrine.
As these two all-important as
semblages come together at the
General Oglethorpe Hotel, Wil
mington Island, Savannah, Oc
tober 21, 22, 23 the members of
our Laymen’s Association
through the program of the • 9th
Regional Congress will find
much to re-vitalize and invigor
ate the splendind objectives of
our Association.
In the public meetings of the
joint Convention and Congress
there will be speakers, national
ly known and nationally recog
nized as authorities in their re
spective fields. The build-up of
these public meetings is such as
to arouse that enthusiasm, which
has so characterized the Lay
men’s Association in times past
and which our membership rea
lizes is so needed for the future,
if the Association is to continue
the magnificent work that has
brought it world-wide acclaim.
In the Workshops, which will
be conducted the second day of
the joint Convention and Con
gress, our membership will be
afforded opportunities to learn
new ways and attractive means
to achieve and better the objec
tive of our Laymen's Association.
Now that there has come, as
the result of the activities of
the Laymen’s Association, a
friendlier feeling among Geor
gia, irrespective of creed, a new
outlook is needed for the Associ
ation’s membership, if the
Church is to go forward to the
people of our State in the light
of the gains that have come
from the sacrifices of those lay
men, who have gone before us.
A mere glance at the Work
shops, which will be held on the
occasion of this year’s joint Con
vention and Congress, will in
dicate the promise they hold
out to the laymen of Georgia,
who would have our Church in
Georgia better understood and
our Catholics better informed to
meet the opportunities that are
at hand. There will be Work
shops on Lay Catechists, Home
Visitors, Religious Discussion
Clubs, Parent Educators, and the
Apostolate of Good Will. Con
ducting these Workshops will be
leaders, whose work in their
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FOR CALHOUN
CALHOUN, Ga.—The Very
Rev. Bernard C. Krimm, C.S.S.R.
offered the first mass at the newly
erected Chapel of St. Clement on
Sunday, Sept. 4.
Services have been held in the
Public Library since June. Mass
is to be celebrated every Sunday
at 11 a.m.
On Friday evenings a Novena
in Honor of Our Lady of Per
petual Help is conducted. Reli
gious Instruction classes are held
following the Novena services.
The new Chapel is the charge
of the Redemptorist Fathers of
of St. Joseph’s, Dalton.
REV. WILLIAM J. HARTY, S. J., TO
PREACH AT FAMED PILGRIMAGE
LONDON, (NC)—For the first
time, an American Jesuit will
play a leading role in the an
nual pilgrimage to the famous
shrine city of Canterbury held
in honor of its 12th century mar
tyred Archbishop, St. Thomas a
Becket.
He is Father William J. Harty,
S.J., of Savannah, Ga., who will
preach an open-air sermon to the
thousands of pilgrims from all
parts of the country expected to
gather on Sunday, September
18, for what is regarded as one
of Britain’s biggest Catholic
events of the year.
Father Harty will appear at
the invitation of Bishop Cyril
Cowderoy of Southwark, who
recently toured the United States
seeking funds for his bombed-
out cathedral in South London.
Canterbury, with its own glori
ous cathedral, seized at the Re
formation, and now the Principal
Protestant see in Britain, lies
REV. WM. J. HARTY, S.J.
in the Southwark diocese.
The pilgrimage, which will be
led by Bishop Cowderoy, is be
ing organized by the Knights of
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In November of this year the Catholic Church Extension
Society will celebrate its Golden Jubilee and it is most proper
that this diocese, which so often over the past half century has
received assistance from this Society, should take notice of this
important anniversary.
Fifty years ago a zealous priest by the name of Father
Francis Clement Kelley, who later became Bishop of Oklahoma
City and Tulsa, established the Catholic Church Extension So
ciety in Chicago. Father Kelley wanted to help the home mis
sions, that is, those sections of The United States of America
in wihch Catholics were too few in numbers and often too poor
to build even a humble chapel in which they could hear Mass
and be taught their holy religion and receive the Sacraments.
Father Kelley’s plan was nothing short of an inspiration. It
would be difficult to find amongst all the clergy of the United
States a priest more well-deserving of the Church in America
than the late Bishop Kelley of Oklahoma, Founder of the Cath
olic Church Extension Society. In the west, southwest, and in our
own southeastern section of the country, the priestly zeal and
tireless energy of Father Kelley, and those who. in the course of
time became associated with him, not only did magnificent work
in keeping the faith alive but were responsible for many con
versions to the Catholic Church.
Our own diocese, as I said above, has been assisted again
and again by the Catholic Church Extension Society over a long
period of years. The latest benefaction of thjs Society was the
help given to the mission at Richmond Hill, near Savannah.
Not only did the Catholic Church Extension Society grant a
generous sum for building up this mission but the President him
self of the Catholic Church Extension Society, the great and good
Archbishop William D. O’Brien, made the long trip from Chicago
to bless the new mission. Archbishop O’Brien has shown towards
the home missions the same zeal and generosity that were so
characteristic of his immediate predecessor, and I am happy to
have this opportunity to pay tribute to the interest that he has
always shown in the Church in Georgia.
It would not be out of place for me to mention “Extension
Magazine,” which is published by the Catholic Church Exten
sion Society. The revenue received through subscriptions to this
magazine is used to build churches and mission chapels in parts
of the United States that otherwise would never be able to have
them. A subscription to “Extension Magazine” is a very practical
way of helping the Catholic Church Extension Society to con
tinue its apostolic work. If those in charge of this Society have
helped us, we should be anxious to help them., Every assistance,
therefore, should be given to those who come to the diocese from
time to time to solicit subscriptions to “Extension Magazine.”
Both personally and officially I will be most grateful for any
help that our priests and people give in enabling the Catholic
Church Extension Society to increase the number of subscrip
tions to this most intei'esting magazine.
We give our heartfelt congratulations to His Eminence,
Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Cihcago and Chancellor of the
Catholic Church Extension Society, to Archbishop O’Brien, its
amiable, hard-working President, and to all the priests and laity
associated with them in the work of the Catholic Church Exten
sion Society on the happy occasion of the Society’s Golden
Jubilee. A jubilee is intended to mark the closing of one im
portant epoch in the life of a person or of an organization—a
time for looking backwards to the years that are sped—a looking
forward to the years ahead—a time of Thanksgiving for the bless
ings of the past—a time of prayer for their continuance and
multiplication in the future.
If even an ancient pagan (Seneca) could say “nothing is more
honorable than a grateful heart,” it is more than fitting and it is
indeed an imperative Christian duty to render thanks to benefac
tors. The Catholic Church Extension Society eminently deserves
the tribute of gratitude that in this public letter we readily and
so justly tender.
Devotedly yours in Our Lord,
Archbishop Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta,
Apostolic Delegate in Great Britain.
Dearly beloved in .Christ: