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rol.,37, No. 16. MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 5, 1957. 10c Per Copy — $3 a Year 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.