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rol.,37, No. 16.
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 5,
1957.
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Bishop McDonough Is Savannah Auxiliary
f IS-NCWC Was
le Of First To
id Refugees
(N.C.W.C. News Service)
EW YORK—Catholic Relief
/ices-National Catholic Wel-
Conference, which provided
iedii.te overseas relief aid for
Hungarian refugees in Aus-
was also one of the first vot
ary relief agencies to assist
inis, of war in Egypt,
r iis was revealed in a report
en here by Russell Stevenson,
nr. an of the emergency com-
ee for victims of war in
g.vpt. He recently returned from
eciai survey tour to Port Said,
jexandria, Cairo and surround-
lg Suez Canal areas where re-
ig'ees had gone for shelter. He
id that on arriving in Cairo, he
;t Father Victor Gohargui, head
the Catholic Child Welfare Bu-
: there who is serving as a
nber of the Cairo committee
_■ distribution of relief supplies,
motioning as a member of the
..rgeney committee to provide
ylief for victims of war in Egypt,
(Continued on Page Five)
MOST REV. THOMAS J. McDONOUGH
'arns Against False Realists
Popes Christmas Message
Stresses Disarmament Need;
Possibility Of Just War
ho, N.C.W.C. News Service)
iTICAN CITY—His Holiness
Pius XII stressed the coni
ng necessity for disarmament,
stated clearly the possibility
just defensive war and I'uled
onscientious objection in his
al Christmas message,
this year’s address “to the
h-ful and to the whole world”
Holy Father condemned the
nunist onslaught against
ary and noted that he was
ting forth the terms of today’s
cf in clear language. He
* that “Unpleasant realities”
1 him to do so.
rong the unpleasant realities,
intiff said, is “the help given
jme Catholics, both ecclesi-
1 and lay, to the tactics of
■“'ihon, calculated to bring
a result they did not in-
Holiness also issued a strong
,ig against “false realists”
say that men can achieve
and the perfect society
il God and religion. These
realists, he said, recognize
,»od in men, but refuse to
he fact of sin.
called for strong action by
united Nations, impartially
a on moral right, whether the
itrant nation be strong or
This firmness, he said,
Id be backed up by adequate
forces and by excluding
in rights in the United Nations
ue nations that undermine the
organization, “refusing even the
admission of observers.”
It was the first time the Pope
specifically discussed the tasks
and responsibilities of the United
Nations.
The Holy Father said “European
solidarity” is a “definite need of
this period,” not only for the good
of Europe but for Asia, Africa and
the Near East with its Holy
Places as well.
In the field of disarmament,
Pope Pius said the acceptance of
controls is the “crucial point” and
strongly backed aerial observa
tion as a means of control.
The Holy Father concluded his
address with “one final word of
encouragement” praising the
world's generous reaction on be
half of the “oppressed Hungarian
nation.” He asked for even greater
sacrifices for “this martyred peo
ple” and for “the many on earth
who in the turbulent changes of
the last ten years have experienc
ed personally what misery is.”
The message was delivered in
Italian in response to the tradi
tional Christmas greetings of the
College of Cardinals. Twelve Car
dinals sat. in a semi-circle facing
the Pontiff’s gilded throne. His
Eminence Eugene Cardinal Tis-
serant, Dean of the Sacred Col
lege, presented the greetings of
the Cardinals, recalling events of
the past year.
The Holy Father did not actual
ly deliver the complete text over
the radio. As announced before
hand, he gave only a portion of
the first part, none of the second
part, but the third part of the
message in its entirety.
The message was broadcast
from the Vatican City radio sta
tion with announcements in Eng
lish, German, Portuguese and
Polish, as well as Italian. It was
also carried simultaneously over
the national radio networks of
some ten countries of Europe and
Ipter over more than a score of
others throughout the world. Ra
dio Free Europe and the Voice
of America carried it behind the
Iron Curtain, Radio Free Europe
carried the complete text in Po
lish, Hungarian, Rumanian and
Czech.
Pope Pius summed up the world
conflict as what he called “a flag
rant contradiction (that) presses
down the human race of the twen
tieth century.” On the one hand,
he said, are those who think that
by technology' and man’s efforts
alone they can produce a perfect
world, without recognition of God
or religion. On the other hand, he
said, there is the bitter realityi of
the long years of grief and ruin.
This, he declared, results in “the
fear becoming greater in these last
months — of not succeeding in
founding even a mere modest be
ginning of harmony and lasting
peace.”
“Christians,” His Holiness de-
(Continued on Page Two)
PStss XII Transfers St. Augustine
Auxiliary To Diocese Of Savannah
SPECIAL TO THE BULLETIN
ST. AUGUSTINE — Auxiliary
Bishop Thomas J. McDonough of
St. Augustine has been named
Auxiliary Bishop of Savannah.
He will be Auxiliary to Arch
bishop Gerald P. O’Hara, now
serving as Apostolic Delegate to
Great Britain.
The appointment was announc
ed by Archbishop Amleto Gio
vanni Cicognani, Apostolic Del
egate to the United States, Wash
ington, D. C. Bishop McDonough
will be in charge of the adminis
tering of the Diocese of Savannah
in the absence of Archbishop
O’Hara.
Details of the transfer of the
hew Auxiliary of Savannah are
now being worked out by Arch
bishop Joseph P. Hurley and
Bishop McDonough.
The new Savannah Auxiliary
was named Titular Bishop of
Thaenae and Auxiliary of St.
Augustine on March 7, 1947.
While Archbishop Hurley was
absent from Florida during the
five years he served behind the
Iron Curtain in Yugoslavia, Bish
op McDonough carried on the ad
ministration of the Diocese of St.
Augustine.
For 15 of the 16 years Archbish
op Hurley has been Bishop of St.
Augustine, Bishop McDonough
has been closely associated with
the administrative work of this
Diocese.
The ground for St. Matthew’s
was broken on Christmas Day,
1955, by Archbishop Hurley, and
Bishop McDonough blessed the
completed church on Christmas
Day just passed.
Savannah’s new Auxiliary
Bishop received many signal hon
ors attesting the recognition of his
spiritual and administrative abi
lities.
The distinction of Domestic
Prelate was conferred upon him
on January 8, 1946. The late Den
nis Cardinal Dougherty, Arch
bishop of Philadelphia, consecrat
ed him a Bishop in the Cathedral
of St. Augustine on April 30, 1947.
It was the first time in the his
tory of the Diocese that St. Augus
tine had an Auxiliary Bishop.
At the time of his consecra
tion, Bishop McDonough was the
youngest member of the Amer
ican hierarchy.
The incomparable service to th
Diocese and to several pari;
which Bishop McDonough
rendered since his arrival
Florida has earned for him the a
preciation and devotion of priests
and the faithful throughout the
State.
Last July, the Apostolic Del
egate to the United States an
nounced that the Diocese of Sav-
annah-Atlanta had been divided.
Archbishop O'Hara, in the diplo
matic service of the Vatican, con
tinued as Bishop of Savannah,
while his former Auxiliary, Bish
op Francis E. Hyland, was named
Bishop of Atlanta.
Born in Philadelphia on Decem
ber 5, 1911, Bishop McDonough
attended St. Charles Seminary,
Overbrook, Pa. He was ordained
in the Cathedral of Sts. Peter
and Paul, Philadelphia, May 26,
1938, by Bishop Hugh L. Lamn,
then a Philadelphia Auxiliary,
now Bishop of Greensburg.
Following his ordination, Bish
op McDonough held temporary as
signments in the Philadelphia
archdiocese while he made post
graduate studies at the Catholic
University of America, where he
received a doctorate in canon law
in June, 1941.
Upon completion of the Cath
olic University courses, he came
to the Diocese of St. Augustine.
He was named vice-chancellor
in 1941, chancellor in 1944 and
vicar general in 1945, He was ad
ministrator of the diocese when
Archbishopf Hurley served from
1945 to 1950 as head of the papal
mission in Yugoslavia.
As a newcomer to Florida, he
first administered the St. Joseph
parish in Loretto. He was also
pastor of the Cathedral here and
was formerly administrator of the
Sacred Heart Parish in Green
Cove Springs. In 1947, he estab
lished and was the first pastor of
St. Rose of Lima parish, Miami.
Bishop McDonough was ap
pointed pastor of St. Paul’s Par
ish, Jacksonville Beach,' in Feb
ruary, 1952. As administrator of
St. Matthew’s Parish, Jackson
ville, he has just blessed the new
St. Matthew’s church.
The Savannah Diocese now em
braces the southern portion of
Georgia, with its principal cities
in its northern sector including
Augusta, Macon and Columbus.
Archbishop O'Hara is another
native Pennsylvanian. He was
Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia
when he was named Bishop of
Savannah in 1935. He has been in
the papal diplomatice service
abroad for 10 years, serving first
as Regent of the Apostolic Nun
ciature in Bucharest and then as
Papal Nuncio to Ireland. In
1954, he was named Apostolic
Delegate to Great Britain, an of
fice he now holds in addition to
being Bishop of Savannah.
Augustine Long,
Former Georgian,
[s Papal Knight
CINCINNATI, O. — Mr. Augus
tine J. Long of Cincinnati, a
former resident of Macon, Ga., has
been named a Knight of St. Greg
ory by the Holy Father.
Mr. Long is the son of Augus
tine J. Long, first president of the
Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia, one of the founders of
THE BULLETIN.
Now vice chairman of the board
of directors of Colonial Stores,
Inc., Mr. Bong now resides in St.
Gertrude’s Parish in Madeira, a
suburb of Cincinnati.