North Carolina Esthle
Volume II.
JL
Nazareth, N. C., Friday, February 27, 1948
Number 22
Archbishop M'Nicholas
Urges Sacrifice for
Refief of War Victims
WASHINGTON — Archbishop
McNicholas, O. P„, of Cincinnati,
in a radio appeal especially trans
cribed to be broadcast over many
stations throughout the country,
urges American Catholics to con
tribute for the relief of war vic
tims at a special collections on
Laetare Sunday, March 7, to the
extent “that one feels some sense
of sacrifice in the giving.”
This 1948 relief fund “will do
more than bring some measure of
relief; it •will give hope and en
couragement to those who are suf
fering in utter destitution,” Arch
bishop McNicholas, who is Chair
man of the Rational Catholic Wel
fare Conference Administrative
Board, declares.
“It will establish a fraternity with
the givers; it will do something
to make the victims of hunger and
cold and disease forget the horrors
of war and the indescribable
cruelities of the concentration
camps,” the Archbishop says. “It
will, give to many a new ambition
to s?tart life again with renewed
determination and to spread hat
red of war and to foster love of
peace.”
Archbishop McNicholas reports
that two N.C.W.C. agencies—the
Bishops’ Relief Committee and
War Relief Services—already have
sent food, clothing, and medicines
valued at more than $100,000,000
to suffering war victims abroad,
and that more than 22,000 unpaid
volunteer workers have distribut
ed these supplies.
Principle of Equality
Defended by Church
In Third Century
ROCHESTER — The principles
upon which America is founded
are those which the Catholic
Church gave the world as far
back as the third century, Judge
Clare G. Fenerty of Philadelphia
declared here at the opening din
ner of the St. John Fisher College'
campaign.
Speaking on the American in
heritance from the Catholic
Church, Judge Fenerty, a member
of the Court of Common Pleas in
Philadelphia and a former con
gressman, said:
“The American virtue ftf the
equality of man with man was
not born in the American Revolu
tion though then it was given elo
quent expression. It is a teaching
that has come down to us from
at least the third century, enun
ciated by St. John Chrysostom in
Constantinople beside the throne
of the most despotic of emperors.
“We find it in the fourth cen
tury in the preaching of Lactan
tius. We hear Pope Zachary in
the seventh century denouncing
the tyranny of taxation without
representation. We see it in the
days of Charlemagne and of
Gregory the Great." We perceive
it in the luminous thirteenth cen
tury on the inspired tongue of St.
Thomas Aquinas.
“Not only was Thomas Jeffer
son acquainted with St. Robert
Bellermine’s doctrine of popular
sovereignty but he drew from the
great Jesuit saint in many instanc
es the identical words which he
later wrote into the immortal
Declaration of Independence.”
DEDICATES HICKORY RECTORY
A new rectory with a large basement hall for parish use was
dedicated Feb. 15 at St. Aloysius Parish, Hickory. Clergy in atten
dance were, (L.toR.) Rev. Sebastian Deris O.S.B. Belmont Abbey,
former pastor under whose administration the stone church was
built; Most Rev. Vincent S. Waters, D.D., Bishop of Raleigh; Rt. Rev.
Arthur R. Freeman, V.G., St. Patrick’s Church, Charlotte; and Rev.
James King, pastor of the Hickory church.
Bishop Dedicates
Morganton Chapel;
Hickory Rectory
MORGANTON — More than 50
people attended the dedication of
the little Chapel of St. Charles
in Morganton when His Excejlen
cy, the Most Reverend Vincent
S. Waters, was celebrant at the
Pontifical Mass* and blessing cere
mony which took place Sunday,
February 15. »
The sermon was delivered by
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Arthur R. Free
man, Vicar general of the Dio
cese. Father Sebastian Doris, O.
S. B. and Father Boniface Bauer,
O. S. B. of Belmont Abbey we?e
chaplains to the Bishop and Rev.
James H. King, pastor served the
Pontifical Mass.
At 4:40 p. m. His Excellency,
Bishop Waters blessed the newly
constructed rectory of St. Aloy
sius Church, Hickory, before a
throng of parishioners and friends
and offered Benediction of the
Most Blessed Sacrament in St.
Aloysius’ Church.
Prelate Is Installed
In Baltimore See^
BALTIMORE — The sacred
heritage of the Archdiocese of
Baltimore, which has “supplied
the vitality of the Church in
America” and is rooted deeply in
the history of the nation, was re
called Feb. 24th. by His Excel
lency Archbishop Amleto Giovan
ni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate
to the United States, as he in
stated"'the Most Rev. Francis P.
Keough as the eleventh Archbish
op of the country’s pripiatial See.
Scene of the solemn and color
ful ceremonies was the historic
Cathedral of the Assumption of
the Blessed Virgin Mary. Present
in the venerable edifice for the
rites were six Archbishops, 32
Bishops, five Abbots, more than
50 Monsignori and more than 500
priests.
Archbishop Keough occupied
the throne chair of the late Car
dinal James Gibbons — who
headed the See of Baltimore for
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Holy Father Confident Catholics
Of U. S. Will Give Generously
WASHINGTON — Confidence that U. S. Citholics will respond generously to the $5,000,000
campaign of the Bishops’ Fund for Victims of War, which will be conducted as a collection
on Laetare Sunday, March 7, in parishes throughout the nation, is expressed by His Holiness Pope
Pius XII in a cablegram to Archbishop John T. McNicholas, O.P., of Cincinnati, chairman of
the Administrative Board, National Catholic Welfare Conference.
The Holy Father recalls that the “liberal and magnanimous” charity of the Americal Catho
Meeting of Supreme Board of CDA
Held In Southern Pines Feb. 17-20
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. —- The Supreme Directorate ol
the Catholic Daughters of America meeting here in Mid-Pines
hotel, for the semi annual Board meeting, which has for its
ultimate goal, “to strengthen the spiritual life of the laitv and
Rumanians Still Need
Help, Says Prelate
NEW YORK -— Rumania is still
in critical need of food, clothing,
and medicines, according -to- gn
American Bishop who is acting
as Regent of the Papal Nunciature
in Bucharest and has helped to
administer aid sent to Rumanians
by American Catholics.
“Rumania, like most of Europe,
is still plagued by want and it is
to be fervently hoped that the im
mense good done by Catholics of
the United States in the past will
be continued in the future until
the crisis will have passed,” wrote
Bishop Gerald P. O’Hara of Sa
vannah-Atlanta in a letter re
ceived here by War Relief Serv
ices-National Catholic Welfare
Conference.
“From all sides,” he said, “Ru
manians, Catholics and non
Catholics alike, appeal to us for
help of every kind but especially
for food and clothing . . . Our
American Catholics have given
them new hope and new courage.”
“Intolerance towards the Ne
groes in the United States is per
haps the acme of the racial intol
erance of modern nationalism.”
—Carlton J. H. Hayes.
' to make women strong for Goc
and strong for America.”
The Board meeting, first to be
held in the South, was at the in
vitation of Most Rev. Vincent S.
Waters, Bishop of Raleigh and
national chaplain of the organiza
tion.
Welcome By Bishops
Attending the meeting was the
Rev. Charles J. O’Connor, Raleigh,
N. C. sjate chaplain for the Cath
olic Daughters. Miss Elizabeth
Bullard, State Deputy headed a
group of the North Carolina per
sonnel who honored the visiting
board members with an informal
reception on- Tuesday at Mary
hurst, in Pinehurst, N. C., the new
diocesan retreat house for wome».
Bishop Waters welcomed the
Board members at the Maryhurst
event, and on Wednesday ad
dressed the board in his official
capacity as national chaplain.
Because of the proximity of
Raleigh to Southern Pines, the
members of Court Bishop Hafey
offered to make arrangements for
and serve the tea. The committee
carrying out the arrangements
consisted of Mrs. R. B. Streb,
chairman, Mrs. John Kane, Mrs.
J. V. Hofmann, Mrs. B. A. Du
bois and Mrs. J. J. Fallon.
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■ lies had enabled him to “bring a
measure of comfort and relief” to
those in desperate need, but he re
minds that numerous and heart
rending. appeals for aid continue
to pour in on him from the suffer
ing, undernourished and displaced
“in those countries where the
blight of war is still being felt
in it£ distressing aftermath.”
Text Of Message
The text of the message of Pope
Pius XII follows:
“We are pleased to send this
message of encouragement in sup
port of the appeal of the Ameri
can Hierarchy on behalf of relief
for the victims of war. It is
most appropriate that this appeal
for voluntary sacrifice and gener
ous almsgiving should be launched
on Laetare Sunday in the midst
of the Lenten season of penance
and reparation.
“We are confident that Our
dear children in the United States
will respond to the sublime call of
supernatural charity in the spirit
of this sacred season and will
provide with their wonted gene
rosity the means of bringing all
possible succor to alleviate press
ing spiritual and material need
of the suffering and the under
nourished and the displaced in
those countries where the blight
of war is still being felt in its
distressing aftermath.
Gives Blessing
“In the exercise of Our Apos
tolic Office, We cannot be un
mindful of these calls upon Our
charity and We cherish the hope
that the traditional devotion and
liberality of the Hierarchy, clergy
and faithful of the United States
will again at this critical time
place in Our hands the possibility
of meeting some of the more ur
gent demands made upon Our
limited resources. gs
“To all Bishops, priests and
faithful generosity participating
with Us in this mission of mercy
We cordially impart in pledge of
abundant blessings from the Di
vine Redeemer Our paternal
Apostolic Benediction.”
In addition to the coming cam
paign in the parish churches, the
3,000,000 students in Catholic
parochial schools throughout the
country already are participating
in a drive of their own to aid the
Bishops’ Fund. They are mak
ing sacrifices throughout the Len
ten season and amassing a collec
tion which will be turned over to
the campaign.
Bishop Hurley Returns
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.—Bishop
Joseph P. Wley of St. Augustine,
who has been serving for more
than two years as Regent ad in
terim of the Apostolic Nunciature
in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is home
on a visit to his diocese.
Prejudice on the part of Catho
lic laity is a barrier to the con
version of the Negro and a trial
to the new found Faith of the
Negro convert.—“Interracial Re
view.”