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Volume IV.
Nazareth, N. C., Friday, January 20, 1950
Number 16
Reunion of Christendom,
Theme at Consecration
Of New York Auxiliary
NEW VORK. — The reunion of
Christendom was the subject of the
sermon of Jan. 18 as the Most Rev.
James H. Griffiths was solemnly
consecrated Titular Bishop of Ga
za and Auxiliary to His Eminence
Francis Cardinal Spellman in the
latter’s capacity as Military Vicar
of the Armed Forces.
The speaker, Bishop William A.
Scully, Coadjutor of Albany, also
mentioned that Bishop Griffiths
had fought strenuously for the pre
servation and internationalization
of the Holy Places in Jerusalem.
He said that it was appropriate that
Bishop Griffiths’ Titular See is that
of Gaza, an ancient city on the
Palestine — Egyptian border.
Consecration Ceremony
The consecration ceremony took
place in St. Patrick’s Cathedral
here. Cardinal Spellman was the
consecrator. »He was assisted by
Bishops Thomas E. Molloy of
Brookyln and William R. Arnold,
Military Delegate.
Bishop Griffiths, who has been
chancellor of the Military Ordi
nariate, which comprises the Cath
olic men and women in the U. S.
armed forces, will be auxiliary to
Cardinal Spellman in his capacity
as Military Vicar.
Sunday Mass Offered
At Louisburg, Lincolnton
Mass will be offered regularly
each Sunday at 11:15 a. m.,
at the Warlick Funeral Home
at Lincolnton, according to
arrangements made by the
Rev Lawrence C. Newman, pastor
of St. Mary’s Church, Shelby. The
parish comprises all of Cleveland
and Lincoln Counties, Lincolnton
being the county seat. Mass is of
fered regularly at St Mary’s at
9:30 a. m.
Louisburg Mass
A scheduled Sunday Mass for
11:00 o’clock has been offered at
the home of John Rabil of Louis
burg. Louisburg, the county seat
of Franklin County, is part of St.
Catherine’s parish of Wake For
est, which is located in the nor
thern part of Wake County. The
Rev. John Roueche is pastor.
Catholic Nurses Guild
Hears National Officer
GREENSBORO. — Catholic nur
ses from Asheville, Charlotte and
Greensboro had as their guest at
a recent State Chapter meeting of
the Catholic Nurses’ Guild, Miss
Anne V. Houck, Executive Secre
tary of the National Organiza
tion. The meeting was held at
St. Leo’s Hospital Nurses’ Home
here.
Miss Rita Moriarity was elected
as president of the Guild for the
Greensboro area. She succeeded
Mrs. Mary L. Williams, who will
take up residence at Greenwood,
S. C.
The new president was a mem
ber of the Guild in Cleveland,
Ohio and is now affiliated with
the Central Carolina Convalescent
Hospital, at which place a recep
tion for the guests was held.
The Very Rev. J. Lennox Feder
al of Raleigh, Chaplain of the
Guild and Director of the North
Carolina Catholic Hospital Asso
ciation. attended the meeting and
addressed the Guild.
St. Michael's Church, Chadbourn, Scene
Of Dedication Rites January 24; Story
Of Work of Whiteville Missions Is Told
CHADBOURN. — A completely
renovated edifce, St. Michael’s
Church here, will be dedicated by
the Most Rev. Vincent S. Waters,
Bishop of Raleigh, on Tuesday,
January 24, at 10:00 a. m.
St. Michael’s, which was the
Chadburn Presbyterian Church
until a few months ago, is a Mis
sion of Sacred Heart Church,
Whiteville. It is served by the Rev.
Francis J. Howard, Pastor, and his
assistants, the Rev. Desmond
Keenan and the Rev. Francis
Smith.
A Solemn High Mass will be
offered by the Rt. Rev. Edward J.
Freking of Cincinnati, Ohio. Msgr.
Freking is director of the Society
for the Propagation of the Faith in
the Archdiocese.
The Rt. Rev. J. L. Barden, Di
rector of the Society of the Propa
gation of the Faith for the Dio
cese of Youngstown, Ohio, will de
liver the sermon.
Immediately following the ded
ication services there will be a
reception for guests and clergy.
Wrought Iron
The church has been remodeled
and repainted. The wrought iron
candlesticks and communion rail
were made by Caral Siniwski, a
Rumanian Displaced Person who
lives in Chadbourn.
The history of the Catholic
Church in Chadbourn goes back
50 years ago. Mass was first,
celebrated here in the home of
the Koons family, who came to
America from Ireland. They had
lived in Nebraska a few years prior
to their settlement in Chadbourn.
Since that time Mass has been said
intermittently in other homes here.
Then, all of this area was a mis
sion of St. Mary’s Church in Wil
mington.
The first Catholic Church in this
area was built in Maco in
Brunswick County about 1900. By
1913 many immigrants from Aus
tria-Hungary had settled near
Delco, and a Catholic church was
built. The church at Maco, which
was no longer in use, was dis
mantled and many of the furnish
ings were brought to the church,
called St. Elizabeth’s of Hungary.
The ground for this first Catholic
Church in Columbus was donated
by Hugh McCrae. <
Delco, at that time was also
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Noted Counselor Finds Lack of Preparation Is
Chiefly Responsible for Failures in Marriage
GREENSBORO. — “The chief
reason for the breakdown in mar
riage is the lack of preparation
for it,” stated Dr. A. H. Clemens,
prominent Marriage Counselor and
Professor of Sociology at the Cath
olic University of America, Wash
ington, D. C., at the first of a se
ries of four lectures sponsored
by the St. Benedict’s unit of the
NCCLA. The lecture was held at
the local YMCA recently.
The religious bonds of marri
age snapped first, Dr. Clemens
said. He asserted that religion
has been fading from the family
circle since the Reformation. The
break in the bond of working to
gether, he said, came with the
Industrial Revolution. He point
Protestant Rights in Italy Respected
ROME. — Protestants in Italj
have the same legal standing a:
Catholics, Dr. Guido Comba, sec
retary-treasurer of the Walden
sian Church of Italy, told a corre
spondent. He said the Walden
sians form the largest non-Catho
lic body in Italy.
“Our Church has never been mo
lested in any of its charitable ac
tivities,” Dr. Comba said. “All the
institutions owned and conducted
by the Waldensian Church can
do their work without interference
by anybody.”
This statement by Dr. Comba
was significant in view of charges
printed here that recent demon
strations by local populaces against
American, non-Catholic mission
aries are part of “a real plan of
terrorism inspired by the Catho
lic Church.” The charges were
given prominence in the commu
nist press here.
Dr. Comba stated that there are
some 200 Waldensian pastors in
Italy who go about their regular
work without interference. As a
general rule the pastors experience
no interfemce in their church ser
vices or in any other activities.
Rights Respected
“From the legal point of view
Waldensians have the same rights
and same footing as Roman Catho
lics,” the Waldensian official stat
ed. He related that many of their
members were high government
officials and magistrates.
There are 17 Waldensian insti
tutions in Italy: five orphanages,
four homes for the aged, two hos
pitals, two colleges, two hostels
for boys, an industrial home and
a home for incurables.
Italy’s population of 46 million
is considered more than 99 per
cent Catholic. The Protestant pop
ulation has been estimated at be
tween 50 and 200 thousand.
An outright denial that “func
tionaries” of the Catholic Church
are pursuing a planned campaign
of persecution against Protest
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ADS ON FAITH READ BY THIRTY MILLION
The Supreme Council, Knights
of Columbus, has begun publica
tion of its third series of ad
vertisements in U. S. and Canadi
an magazines, explaining Catholic
beliefs and practices.
The new advertisements have
been scheduled for publication in
AMERICAN WEEKLY, COLLI
ER’S, LIBERTY, PATHFINDER
and ATLANTIC MONTHLY in the
United States, and in TORONTO
STAR WEEKLY, MONTREAL
STANDARD and NEW LIBERTY
MAGAZINE in Canada. Meantime,
the second series of ads is stllll
running in THIS WEEK, PARADE
and GRIT, which will carry the
new series later in the year. The
Canadian NATIONAL HOME
MONTHLY is currently publish
ing the first series of ads.
The total circulation of these
magazines — approximating 30
millions.
Captions Listed
“Yes ... I Condemned The
Catholic Church” is the title of
the first ad in the new series.
Others are captioned: “What Do
You Mean — Only One True
Church?” . . . "But How Can Edu
cated People Be Catholics?” . . .
“No . . . Belief in God is NOT
Enough,” and and “The'Real Se
:ret of Successful Marriage.” Two
additional advertisements are in
course of preparation.
Meantime, the advertising pro
ject — not only statistically but in
other important ways — continues
to produce many amazing results.
The number of requests for Cath
olic pamphlets total well up in six
figures — the number of enroll
ments for Catholic instruction in
five figures. And for every one
of the hundreds of thousands who
write for information and help,
many more who do not write are
nevertheless learning the truth j
about the Catholic religion for the!
first time in their lives.
ed out that whereas play and rec
reation used to be centered in the
family at home, commercial ven
tures have pulled the members of
the family outside their homes
now for entertainment. With these
bonds of worship, work, and play
broken in the family, Dr. Clemens
declared, it is impossible for love,
the fourth bond, to hold.
Train the Children
He called on families to train
their children for marriage, to
pick the right mate for life, to un
derstand the adjustments that
must be made in marriage, and
to realize the psychological dif
ferences which exist between men
and Women. As a final point, he
emphasized that families must
have a full appreciation of mother
hood. These are the things, he
said, which tend to make a mar
riage successful.
Among the audience of 200 were
a doctor, four social workers, a
professor with six students and a
number of non-Catholic husbands
and wives.
The speaker said religion only
can give the proper motivation for
the required sacrifices which the
married life calls for.
Dr. Clemens declared that the
basis of most marriages now is
emotion, and that people react al
most entirely on an emotional
level in trying to solve the prob
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Labor Secretary Tobin
Tells Holy Name Men
To Promote Loyalty
BALTIMORE. — “If we are loy
al to our country and our God,
we are loyal to ourselves and our
eternal destiny,” said Maurice J.
Tobin, Secretary of Labor in his
address delivered before the Arch
diocesan Holy Name Union here
this week.
Speaking before a gathering of
distinguished guests and members
of the Holy Name Society headed
by Archbishop Francis P. Keough
of Baltimore, Secretary Tobin en
titled his talk “Promotion of Loy
alty to God and Country.”
Warns of Propaganda
“There was never a time in the
history of the world when loyalty
was so important as it is today,”
the Cabinet officer said. “And there
was never a time when there was
such a struggle being waged by
both the angels of darkness and
the angels of light for the loyalties
of the peoples of the earth.”
Warning his audience against the
“mischievious purveyors of hate
and propaganda” who claim that
Catholics, by their loyalty to God
are somewhat less than 100 per
cent Americans, Secretary Tobin
then reviewed the part that Catho
lic men and women played in the
ranks of the armed forces during
the last war “in numerical propor
tions far exceeding their relative
percentage of our Nation’s popula
tion.”
Catholic Chaplain Goes
lo Moscow Church Post
NEW YORK—The Rev. Arthur
0. Brassard, A.A., American priest
who was granted a Russian visa
after a ten-month delay, will leave
here for the Soviet capital on Jan
uary 15.
He will go by plane to Helsinki,
Finland, and then take a train to
Moscow via Leningrad. He ex
pects to be in Moscow by Janu
ary 18.
1933 Agreement
The Assumptionist priest goes to
Moscow as a chaplain of the
American Catholics there in ac
cordance with the stipulations of
the Rossevelt-Litvinov agreement
af 1933 when U.. S. recognition
was granted to the Soviet Union.
The stipulations give Americans
stationed in Russia the right to
‘free exercise of liberty of con
science and religious worship” and
the right to maintain churches and
have chaplains for that purpose.
Monsignor Sheen Cites
Attributes of Church
NEW YORK. — An explanation
of the Mystical Body of Christ was
given by Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
of the Catholic University of
America in an address on the Cath
olic Hour program, which is pro
duced by the National Council of
Catholic Men and carried by the
National Broadcasting Company.
Gave Characteristics
The Monsignor pointed out that
“Our Lord gave dozens of char
acteristics of this New Body which
He would take to Himself publicly
when He sent His Spirit.” The nu
clues of the New Body, he con
tinued, was Our Lord’s Apostles,
who were “to be the raw mater
ial into which He would send His
Spirit to quicken them into His
Prolonged Self.”