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Official
Newspaper For
The Diocese Of
Savannah
Vol. 37, No. 21.
PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
MONROE, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1957.
Official
Newspaper For
The D iocese Of
Atlanta
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Name Immaculate Heart Of Mary,
Saint Pius X As Atlanta Patrons
MSGR. CASSIDY
MSGR. SHEEHAN
Papal Honors Given
Two Atlanta Priests
ATLANTA — The Most Rev.
Francis E. Hyland D.D., J.C.D.
Bishop of Atlanta, announces
that Pope Pius XII has bestowed
Honors upon two priests of the
Diocese of Atlanta. Those honored
are the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph G.
Cassidy, V.F., Rector of the Ca
thedral of Christ The King, and
the Rev. Thomas I. Sheehan, pas
tor of St. Thomas More, Decatur.
Msgr. Cassidy has been raised
to the rank of Prothonotary Apos
tolic and Father Sheehan has
been elevated to the rank of
Domestic Prelate with the title
of Rt. Rev. Monsignor.
Msgr. Cassidy, a native of
Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., re
ceived his early education at
Benedictine School, attended St.
Charles College and St. Mary’s
Seminary, Baltimore, Md. He was
ordained to the. priesthood at the
Cathedral of St. John the Bap
tist, Savannah. The ordaining
prelate was the Most Rev. Michael
J. Keyes, Bishop of Savannah.
Prior to his assignment to the
Cathedral in Atlanta, he served at
the Cathedral in Savannah, as an
assistant at the Immaculate Con
ception in Atlanta and in Rome
and Savannah.
He was the first pastor of St.
Mary’s in Rome. Under his super
vision the present church was
constructed. Msgr. had the priv-
i iedge of attending the Silver
Jubilep celebrations of St. Mary’s
which were held last year. He
served as pastor of St. Teresa’s
Albany before being named Rec
tor of the Cathedral in 1945.
Father Sheehan, who is a na
tive of Savannah, graduated from
the Benedictine Military School,
and after attending St. Charles
College, Catonsville, Md., com
pleted his study for the priest
hood at St. Joseph’s Seminary,
Yonkers, N. Y. He was ordained
at the Cathedral in Savannah on
May 9, 1930, by the Most Rev.
Michael J. Keyes, Bishop of Sav
annah.
He has served at various times
as assistant at the Savannah Ca
thedral, and at St. Teresa’s, Al
bany. He served as pastor of St.
Joseph’s Church, and director of
St. Joseph’s Home in Washing
ton and was appointed pastor of
St. Augustine’s Church Thomas-
ville in 1938. Before being ap
pointed pastor of the newly es
tablished parish at Port Went
worth,- Father Sheehan served as
pastor of St. Patrick’s, Savannah.
GEORGIA IRISH
Georgia’s Sons of Erin will cele
brate the Feast of St. Patrick with
parades and dances throughout
the state today. Celebrations are
being held today due to the fact
that the seventeenth falls on Sun
day this year.
Mamouth parades will be' fea
tured in Savannah and Atlanta.
In Savannah the Irish led by
Grand Marshal Charles F. Pow
ers Sr., will parade for the 101st
time. Grand Marshal R. L. (Shor
ty) Doyle will lead Atlantans as
they march for the 99th time.
This afternoon in Atlanta, a
wreath will be placed on the
plaque honoring Father Thomas
O'Reilly. Bishop Francis E. Hy
land will address the dinner to
be held this evening at the Dink
ier Plaza.
Highlighting tonight’s celebra
tions in Savannah, will be the
annual Hibernians Banquet. Res
ponding to toasts will be U.S.
Senator Smathers of Florida and
MARCH TODAY
Father Gannon, New York City,
former president of Fordham. The
Jaspers Greens will meet this
evening at the country club, while
a gala St. Patrick’s Day Ball is to
be held by the Knights of Colum
bus.
Complete coverage of these and
other St. Patrick’s Day Celebra
tions held in Georgia will be
given in our next issue.
USO Post For
Msgr. McNamara
SAVANNAH—Msgr. T. J. Mc
Namara, rector of the Cathedral
of St. John the Baptist, has been
nominated to the National Coun
cil of the United Service Organi
zation, which is the governing
board of the USO.
He will attend the second an
nual meeting of the group in
Washington, beginning March 21.
ATLANTA—Our Blessed Lady
under the title of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary and Saint Pius X
have been designated the special
patrons of the newly established
Diocese of Atlanta.
In announcing that the Holy
Father had acceded his requests,
Bishop Hyland stated that he
proposed Saint Pius X as one of
Requiem For
Rev. William
P. Kearney, S. J.
AUGUSTA—The Rev. Peter F.
O’Donnell, S.J., was celebrant
March, 12, of the Requiem Mass
for Rev. William P. Kearney S.J.
Father Kearney died at St: Jos
eph’s Hospital, March 9th. He was
taken to the hospital on Ash
Wednesday after being stricken
while offering mass.
Father Kearney was a native of
Baltimore, Md., and the son of
the late Michael J. Kearney of
Baltimore and Hannah I^eiley of
Charleston, S. C.
Father Kearney entered the
Jesuit Novitiate, St. Stanislaus
College, Macon, Ga., in 1908 and
was there until 1913. His philoso
phical studies were made at
Woodstock College in Maryland
from 1913-1916. He taught from
1916 to 1921 at Spring Hill Col
lege in Mobile, Ala.; St. Charles
at Grand Coteau and Jesuit High
School in New Orleans, La.
His work in theology was at
St. Louis University, St. Louis,
Mo., from 1921-1925 and in Asceti-
cal Theology at St. Andrews on
the Hudson, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
He was ordained June 28, 1923
at Georgetown University by
Archbishop Curley and said his
first Mass as St. John Church in
Baltimore, the following day. His
work in the priestly ministry was
in Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico
and Georgia. He was the author
of two popular devotional book
lets, “Hour of Reparation” and
“Devotion to the ‘Sacred Heart.’
He had been assistant pastor
of Sacred Heart Church since
coming to Augusta in 1953.
Survivors include a sister, Mrs.
James I. Keenan of Baltimore,
and a brother, M. Joseph Kearney
of Toledo, O.
Interment was at Spring Hill,
Alabama.
the patrons principally so that He
and the Priests of the Diocese,
through his intercession and by
imitating his life, may truly san
ctify themselves while they min
istered faithfully and zealously
to the flock committed to their
charge.
Bishop Hyland Continued:
The immaculate Heart of Mary
was declared the principal pa
troness of our diocese because it
was made known to the Holy
Father that several years ago
many of our Catholic people
pledged themselves to recite the
Rosary daily in their homes with
the members of their families.
The Holy Father is hopeful that
this salutary practice will con
tinue and indeed be put into effect
in every home, in our diocese.
The season of Lent is an excel
lent time to resume or inaugurate,
as the case may be, this pious
custom of the daily recitation of
the Rosary in your homes. It is
recommended that the recitation
of the Rosary take place at the
end of the evening meal when all
members of the family are usual
ly together.
Do not hesitate to put this prac
tice into effect in your homes even
if you are partners to a mixed
marriage. Many non-Catholics
realize the necessity of daily fam
ily prayer and you will discover
I think that they love the Mother
of Our Divine Saviour, even as
we do. “The family that prays
together stays together” has be
come almost a Catholic cliche, but
it expresses a truth borne out by
the experience, of every priest.
ATLANTA — The Honorable
Marvin Griffin, Governor of the
State of Georgia, has proclaimed
the week of March 16-22 as “Cath
olic Rural Life Week.”
The proclamation dated March
1st reads as follows:
WHEREAS: The National Cath
olic Rural Life Conference has
designated the week of March 16-
22 as Catholic Rural Life Week,
and
WHEREAS: The purpose of Na
tional Catholic Rural Life Week is
to dramatically call attention to
the spiritual and material oppor
tunities for country living and to
stress the need for family prayers,
soil and water conservation, and
Priests rarely come across of un
happy marriages and marital dis
cord among people who have fam
ily prayer in their homes.
Daily family prayer, therefore,
and especially the recitation of
the Rosary, is the antidote against
the plethora of unhappy marriages
and broken homes which unfor
tunately are. so common in our
beloved country. But daily family
prayer will do much more than
keep a family together physically;
it will bring down God’s graces
and blessings in fuller measure
upon your families and homes; it
will gain for your families and
homes the powerful intercession
and the protection of our heav
enly Mother; it will unite the
members of the family in bonds
of genuine affection; it will bring
all closer to God and our Blessed
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ST. JOSEPH'S
PLANS $200,000
CONSTRUCTION
ATLANTA — A permit to com
plete interior work on the St.
Joseph Infirmary was granted by
the Atlanta building inspector
recently.
The permit calls for $200,000
of interior work to be done by
Barge-Thompson, Inc. This will
bring to a total of $3,576,000 the
cost of the project at the hospital
since it was begun in 1951. Build
ing officials said that when this
phase of the work was finished
the six-story building will be con
sidered complete.
home grounds beautification, and
WHEREAS: This occasion is of
great significance in view of the
large rural population of our
State, now
THEREFORE: I, Marvin Grif
fin, Governor of Georgia, hereby
proclaim the week of March 16-22,
1957 as Catholic Rural Life Week
in Georgia and urge our citizens
to participate in this observance.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and
caused the Seal of the Executive
Department to be affixed. This
1st day of March, 1957
S/ MARVIN GRIFFIN
Governor
AUGUSTA HIGH SCHOOL—Shown here is the new $175,000 High School recently completed
in Augusta. Pupils from Boys’ Catholic High have moved into the new building. Students from
Mount St. Joseph’s will transfer to the new building at the start of the 1957-58 school year.—(Fitz
photo).
Governor Proclaims March 16-22
As “Catholic Rural Life Week”