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North-Carolina Catholir Y Volume I. Nazareth, N. C., Sunday, November 10,1946 1 Number 6 His Holiness Pope Pius XII, left, conferred the .Red Hat upon His ' Eminence Jon Cardinal De Jong, Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, at a ceremony held recently at Castelgandolfo, the Papal summer residence outside of Rome. The Netherlands Cardinal was one of the 82 prelates named to the Sacred College last December, but until recent days was prevented by illness from coming to Rome for the Red Hat. (Acme-NC Photo) North Carolina Sisters of Mercy 3 Land on the Pacific Island of Guam Three Sisters of Mercy from North Carolina landed this week on the island of Guam in the Marianas <to begin their work on that American Island. — The Sisters, first to _ serve on the island, will open a School and establish a novitiate house. One p* them, Sister Mary Inez Under wood, is a native of Guam and will be reunited with her parents. She holds her bachelor’s degree from St. Vincent College, New York, and her master’s from Catholic University/in Washington. The other Sisters are Sister Mary Louise Weisenforth, Troy, N. Y., and Sister Mary Annette McBennett, Fayetteville, N. C. The mission to Guam was ac cepted when the Most Reverend Apollinaris Baumgartner, O. F. C., Vicar Apostolic to Guam, made an appeal in person to Rev. Mother Mary Maura, Superior of the Sis ters of Mercy at Belmont. Guam is considered of great military importance to the United States, ranking now with Pearl Harbor as an American naval base. The pepple of Guam are almost 98 per cent Catholic with only about 200 Protestants among the more than 25,000 people. The cities of Guam were de stroyed. The United States gov ernment is planning to reconstruct the destroyed cities and will build (Continued on Page 6) Prominent Citizens Quit Red Group New York.—(NC)—Three other prominent persons have joined Senator Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts in withdrawing sponsorship from the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. They are Harold L. Ickes, former Secretary of the Interior; William L. Batt, former vice chairman of the War Produce tion Board, and Judge Learned Hand of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Messrs. Ickes and Batt attributed their resigna tions to disagreement with policies or activities of the council, while Judge Hand gave no reason for his withdrawal. Georgia Laymen Hear Judge Speak Savannah, Ga.— (NC) — The Catholic Church was pictured as “the great stabilizing influence and the mighty bulwark around which the world must cling in the cur rent threat to Christian civiliza tion,” by Justice Matthew Mc Quire of the United States District Court of the District of Columbia, in an address delivered to the members of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of .Georgia, at its (Continued on Page 7) General scen^ of the huge sports arena, the Boston Garden, taken on the occasion of the formal open ing of the Eighth National Congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine as His Excellency Arch bishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States celebrated a Pontifical Mmc there on the Feast of Christ the King, in the presence of 15,000 persons. Cardinal Spellman Of New York preached the sermon. The huge auditorium was again filled on the evening of the same day for a general public meeting, at which the Archbishop Richard J. Cushing, of Boston addressed the dele gates on “Restoring All Things in Christ.” Photo by Boston Post. (NC Photos). Greatest Confraternity Congress Makes U. S. Catholic History Boston.—One hundred million i Americans are drifting without re ligious guidance and many of them are learning through bitter expe rience that civilization cannot en dure when founded on nothing more than man-made laws, the Confraternity Of Christian Doc trine was informed as it closed its eighth and greatest national congress. The Rev. James F. Keller of Maryknoll, N. Y., speaking at a session on the apostolate of good will, declared that most people were begining to recognize that “the world conflict, narrowing down to the issue of being for God or against Him, involves the very dignity of Man.” Once the majority of Catholic laity become aware that, by God’s grace, “we have in our hands the blessing of Christ belonging to all the world as much as to ourselves,” he said, “we will shift in a nota ble way from concentrating exclu sively on ourselves, spiritually and materially, to a dynamic program of bring Christ to the World.” In a particular way, he asserted, Catholics would concentrate on the 100,000,000 persons who were ‘!‘drifting” “because no one of Christ is taking a realistic, perse vering interest in them.” He urged Catholics to be alert to bring by prayer, example and action the principles of Christ into all phases of man’s daily life, “particularly those fields Which affect and control the thought and living of most of mankind.” These fields he listed as labor govern ment, education, social science, management and writing for newspapers, magazines, books, ra dio and motion pictures. “While the majority of Catho lics seem to withdraw into their own little worlds, anti-Christians are working day and night to take over the big world itself,” he warned. “They are literally swarming (Continued on Page 6) m Very Rev. Robert J. White, Dean of the School of Law at the Cath olic University of America, Wash ington, D. C.f who was elected President of the Chaplains As sociation of the Army and Navy, at its 16th annual convention just held at Washington, D, C. Fa ther White, who was a line officer in World War I and Chaplain in World. War II, is the first Chap lain to attain the rank of Com modore. (NC Photo) New Papal Decree On Confirmation Vatican City.— (Radio, NC) — The new issue of Acta Apostolicae Sedis, official Vatican publication, contains the text of a decree issued by the Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments* under which priests, acting as “extraordinary minis ters,” may administer the Sacra ment of Confirmation to those in danger of death from serious ill ness. Summarizing Catholic doctrine (Continued on Page 7) Boston.—Fading out on the stir ring strains of “O, Holy Name” sung at Solemn Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament, the eighth national congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doc trine passed into history here, destined to rank with the great est Catholic assemblies in the nation’s history. Some 4,000 persons crowded ev ery nook and comer of the huge ballroom and overflowed into the spacious lobby of the Copley Pla za Hotel for the closing service. Boston’s own beloved Archbishop Richard J. Cushing was the cele brant. Bishop Edwin V. O’Hara of Kansas City, Episcopal Committee Chairman of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, at the con clusion of the five-day sessions which brought some 70 prelates and upwards of 50,000 persons to this city from all parts of the country and from nine foreign na tions, evaluated the congress as the greatest in the history of the Confraternity. He said that the immediate eb jective of the Confraternity was a project of quality and not quanti ty. The Bishop pointed out that the Confraternity now is firmly organized in 114 dioceses of the United States in emphasizing the spread oi me movement. ‘^Our most important objective now and forever,” Bishop O’Hara said, “is competent leadership. There must be intensive training in leaders in this apostolate, which is the choicest form of Catholic1 Action. The spiritual motivation of leaders in everjj; section must be deepened. They must not be merely informed, but spiritualized in their outlook.” Bishop O’Hara said he felt the five major objectives of the pro gram — religious education of Catholic elementary school chil dren not attending Catholic schools; religious instruction of Catholic youth not attending Catholic high school; discussion clubs for adult groups; religious education of children by parents in the home, and instruction of non-Catjholics in the teachings of the Catholic Faith — were cov ered amply in the formal as well as informal discussion at the con gress. “There was no fanfare in the speeches,” Bishop O’Hara said. (Continued on Page 6) Catholic Virginian Newest Paper Richmond.—(NC)—The Catho lic Virginian, which for nearly 20 years has been the monthly mag azine of the Diocese of Richmond, has changed its status with the issue appearing here this week to that of a weekly newspaper. John J. Daly is the new editor. In explaining the changeover from a monthly to weekly publi cation, Bishop Peter L. Ireton of Richmond writes in the Virginian that “in the rapidity of life and news, a monthly magazine or pa per yields to views rather than news; a monthly publication cannot diffuse the news of yester day or tomorrow.”
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