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NOVEMBER 23. 1957.
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
FIVE
Jottings...,.
(By BARBARA C. JENCKS)
• HERE'S A STORY for you,
appropriate for this month of the
Holy Souls. Not .all the minds at
Notre Dame were concentrated on
the big Army-Notre Dame game
that week end in Philadelphia.
The infirmary at Notre Dame was
bulging with Asian flu victims.
While the “Student Special” train
sped through the night toward
the stadium in Philadelphia, back
oil campus a Notre Dame man
died. His name was Denis Mul-
cahy and he came to the big cam
pus just a year ago from Indian
apolis. I’ve been fond of quoting
here in this column the daily re
ligious. bulletin from Notre Dame.
So often it holds practical and
poignant well written thoughts.
This is the way the writer de
scribed the . death of Denis Mul-
chay in the college infirmary.
* * *
• "DENIS MULCAHY came to
Notre Dame from Cathedral
High, Indianapolis, for a Cath
olic education. It didn’t take him
long to catch on to the Notre
Dame way of life. His room
mates tabbed him as a regular for
the daily 6:30 Mass, as he trotted
down four flights of stairs, missal
in hand. They’d tell you, too, that
the stroll back from the dining
hall found him edging towards
the Grotto regularly for a brief
pause and a prayer to the Blessed
Mother. This was the daily rou
tine that he latched on to as he
settled down to life on the cam
pus. On a night when death was
farthest from the minds of stu
dents, God reached into the cam
pus and took Denis off to Heaven.
A heart condition that had caus
ed previous trouble suddenly
worsened. The end came quickly.
His family, called earlier in the
afternoon, was present, along
with nuns and nurses at the in
firmary.” Witnesses have told me
what a moving death scene it was
with boys from beds all through
the infirmary reciting the prayers
for the dead along with the fam
ily, doctors, nurses, nuns, and
priests.
• THE PRIEST-WRITER con
tinues: “Nor did Denis go empty
handed. He took with him all the
fruits gathered at the recent
Sophomore Mission.” And at that
mission all classmates one par
ticular morning offered up their
Masses and Communions for the
next one of their number to die.
Apparently God who is Indefi
nitely wise saw that Denis was
ready. The prefect writes that, he
was a classical example of the
Catholic college man who lives as
he would wish to die. He belong
ed to the crowd that goes to face
God, sure-footed and unafraid.
This was his brief education. He
had come to Notre Dame to learn
! how to live in order to die well.
He learned the lesson early, and
God called him home.
• AGAIN THIS story of Denis
Mulcahy shows us of sudden
death and its nearness. We all
have experienced it. Since last
November and writing a column,
on sudden death, I have experi
enced it in a loved one who is
still sorely missed. Denis Mul
cahy was ready, thank God, and
so was Bob. So often we push
death from our minds and think
that in older years there will be
time to contemplate it and pre
pare for it. Neither Denis nor
Bob or the hundreds of other
young people who are united
now in God had that time. Per
haps you and I will not be given
that time. Only God in His infi
nite love and wisdom knows at
what time and in what circum
stances He will call us. All this
brings us again to ask: “Are we
living as we would wish to die—
in the Lord?”
BACKDROP-
(Continued from Page Four)
devoted his energies to a dis
passionate exposition of the posi
tion of the Church on so-called
censorship of books, magazines
and the stage and screen—a posi
tion that has inspired much ill-
tempered criticism from advocates
of unbridled license in the field
of the so-called arts.
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state and local laws to curb the
publishing and distribution of
such materials,” said the NODL
report.
The NODL also said that cir
culation of its list of “Publications
Disapproved for Youth” has in
creased from 819 subscribers who
obtained 7,805 lists last year, to
1,305 subscribers, who ordered
13,432 lists this year.
As for the present situation in
publishing, the NODL report said
that magazines “continue to pub
lish the vilest material,” par
ticularly in the fields of so-called
men’s publications, nudism and
photography.
It said the work begun by
comic book publishers to clean
up “a deplorable situation” in
their field continues, but noted
that although the pocket-size
book industry has “cleaned up
some of its presentations, (it) con
tinues to delve into an excess of
perverse sex and brutality.”
A new member of the NODL
committee was named at the
meeting. Auxiliary Bishop Jere
miah F. Minihan of Boston suc
ceeded Bishop John G. Bennett
of Lafayette, Ind.
Other committee members are:
Bishop James A. McFulty of
Paterson, N. J., Bishop William
E. Cousins of Peoria, 111.; Auxili
ary Bishop John A. Donovan of
Detroit, and Auxiliary Bishop
Stephen A. Leven of San Antonio,
Tex.
YOU CAN WIN CONVERTS
A Professor Finds His Way
By REV. JOHN A. O'BRIEN, Ph. D.
(University of Notre Dame)^
Dr. Paul Salisbury Conklin,
professor of English literature at
Nex Mexico College of Agricul
ture and Mechanic Arts in Las
Cruces and a noted Shakespear
ean scholar, is a recent convert.
After graduat-
Services For
John J. Maher
DECATUR, Ga„ Funeral serv
ices for John J. Maher, were held
November 7th, at St. Thomas
More Church, Rev. Leonard May-
hew officiating.
Mr. Maher was retired chief
division clerk for the Atlanta and
West Point, Western of Alabama
and Georgia Railroads, he retired
in 1951. He was a native of Au
gusta and had lived in Atlanta
for about 38 years.
Survivors are his wife, the for
mer Lillian Murphy; sons, John
J. Maher, Jr., Hapeville; Gregory
J. Maher, Decatur; Robert L.
Maher, Atlanta; James L. Maher,
Decatur; a daughter, Mrs. W. F.
Webb, Tucker; a sister, Mrs. Eliz
abeth M. Collins, New York City;
brothers, Marion J. Maher, De
catur; Brian A. Maher, New Or
leans and Joseph A. Maher, San
Diego, Calif.
Mrs. Lottie Speairs
Services In Atlanta
ATLANTA, Ga.,—Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Lottie Heybach
Speairs were held November 7th
at St. Anthony’s Church, Rev.
James E. King officiating.
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs.
Margaret S. Rynard of Atlanta; a
son, W. A. Speairs of Lake
Charles, La.; a sister, Mrs. Lula
Gary of Atlanta, and one grand
daughter.
ing from North
western Uni
versity, he took
his M.A. at the
University of
Wisconsin and
his Ph.D at the
University of
Minnesota,
where he also taught. For 35
years he had been searching for
the true Church.
“Professor,” I asked, “what
prompted you to embrace the
Catholic faith?”
“There were a number of in
fluences,” he replied. “But para
mount among them, after the
grace of God, were the writings
of Cardinal Newman and Francis
Thompson. I first came into con
tact with Newman as a student in
a university seminar, and he ex
ercised over me a strange fasci
nation. I read practically every
word he wrote.
“His Apologia, the story of his
conversion and life, stirred me
profoundly. Here was a scholar
whose brilliance was matched by
his sincerity. After years of
painstaking search for the full
ness of divine truth, he found it
in the Catholic Church. As I read
his moving story I had the
strange feeling — was it a pre
sentiment? — that I too might be
following in his footsteps.
“The fragrance of his exquisite
personality, distilled in words,
has remained with me through
the years. Indeed it is difficult
to see how any one can read his
works, faultless in diction and
flawless in logic, and ever after
wards escape his influence.
“The second writer whose in
fluence drew me toward the
Church was Francis Thompson.
A graduate student at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, I was chat
ting with Miss May Erickson
over the counter of her student
bookstore at University Farm, St.
Paul. She drew my attention to
Thompsons’ Hound of Heaven.
When I read it, I knew that I
had discovered the greatest poem
in the English language. Its im
passioned words and superb im
agery held me enthralled. Event
ually I learned it by heart and in
doing so I took unto myself the
very heart and tissue of the poem.
“It fitted me like a garment
tailored by the most skillful ar
tisan to my measure. The very
fact that it seemed to be echoing
the deepest emotions of my own
heart demonstrated to me the
universality of its appeal — the
irrepressible ceaseless quest of the
human soul for God.
“At the invitation of Father
Charles Walsh, pastor of St. Mich
ael’s Church, Madison, Indiana, I
attended a mission preached by a
Dominican priest. His well-reas
oned sermons drew me closer to
the Church. So too did a long se
ries of instructions by an able
and zealous priest, Monsignor
Lawrence E. Gaynor.
“On June 4, 1954, after years
of strange hungerings and heart-
seachings, my long odyssey end
ed: Father William H. Ryan, pas
tor of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary Church received me into
the Church. My baptism was in
deed a rebirth and in a way a
second marriage ceremony.”
Professor Conklin’s experience
shows that good Catholic books
can help lead souls into the fold.
This is particularly true of books
wherein persons relate, the stories
of their conversiohsf such con
verts are witnesses for Christ and
His Church.
The following books have help
ed to lead many into the Church:
Roads lo Rome, Macmillan Co.,
N. Y., and Where Dwellesl Thou?,
Julian Messner Inc., N. Y. Keep
these two books circulating
among your non-Catholic friends,
ask them to pray and pray for
them, bring them to Mass and
finally to an Inquiry Class. With
God’s grace you will thus win
several converts each year.
Father O’Brien will be grateful
to readers who know anyone who
has won two or more converts
if they will send the names and
addresses of such persons to him
at Notre Dame University, Notre
Dame, Indiana.
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