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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 10c Per Copy — $3 a Year 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 (Continued on Page 3) 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”