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Official Newspaper For The Diocese Of Savannah - Atlanta t 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 (Continued on Page Twelve) 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 (Continued on Page Thirteen) 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: