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THE BEAUTY of Sacred Heart Cathedral is captured in this photograph by Ed Chabot. Formerly the parish church of Ra leigh, Sacred Heart was elevated to the rank of Cathedral in 1924. J c McFall's DRUG COMPANY SUNSET HILLS GREENSBORO. NORTH CAROLINA 1619 MADISON AVENUE ETHICAL TO THE PROFESSIONS OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY Christmas Remember your friends, home folks and business associates with the most appropriate gift of all . . . FLOWERS! Poinsetta Plants • Cyclamen Plants • Flower Gift Arrangements Corsages • Wreaths Christmos Decorations Season's Greetings1! We send Christmas FLOWERS-BY WIRE Anywhere. Your Satis faction Guaranteed. J. J. FALLON CO., INC. 205 FAYETTEVILLE TELEPHONE TE 2*8347 RALEIGH, N.C. Christmas cheer is in the air— May its joys stay with you always! Kavanaugh-Smith Co. REAL ESTATE Si Durham—Asheville—Fayetteville—Charlotte Raleigh—Graham—Burlington—Winston-Salem Greensboro—High Point Diocese Observes Fortieth Anniversary This Sunday Continued from Page 1A liam H. Gaston which was responsible for the removal of the political disabilities which had been imposed on Catholics by the Constitution of the State. (This issue of THE NORTT^ CAR OLINA CATHOLIC reproduces several letters which reveal further efforts made by Judge Gaston to establish the Church in North Carol ina.) Bishop Hafey was transferred to the See of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1937, and was installed there on November 15 of that same year. He passed to his eternal reward on May 12, 1954. BISHOP HAFEY was succeeded by Bishop Eugene J. McGuinness, who was formerly a priest of the Philadelphia Ardhdiocese and who had served as vice-president and general secre tary of the Catholic Church Extension Society in Chicago. He was consecrated on December 21, 1937, and installed on January 6, 1938. At the time of his enthronement there were 10,571 Catholics living within the territory of the Dio cese. There were 53 diocesan priests and 26 reli gious. Over 3,000 students were enrolled in the schools of the Diocese. The short tenure of Bishop McGuinness witnessed a tremendous expansion in the con struction of mission churches across the length and'breadth of the state. The most notable edi fice erected during this period was the Phalen Memorial Church, St. Patrick’s, in Charlotte. On April 17, 1944, Lincoln, Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford, McDowell, Burke and Catawba counties were transferred to the jurisdiction of the Raleigh Diocese, leaving only Gaston county as the territory of the Abbatia Nullius of Bel mont Abbey. Bishop McGuinness was transferred to the See of Oklahoma City-Tulsa on December 8, 1944, and was installed there on January 10, 1945. He succumbed on December 27, 1957. THE EPISCOPATE of Bishop Vincent S. Waters has spanned nearly half the life of the Diocese. A former Chancellor of the Diocese of Richmond, he was Director of the Diocesan Mis sion Band at the time of his nomination by Pope Pius XII on March 16, 1945. Bishop Waters was consecrated by the Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Richmond on May 15, 1945. Like the first ordinary of the Diocese, he was the youngest member of the American Hierachy at the time of his consecration. He took formal possession of the See of Raleigh on June 5, 1945. Among the more significant achievements of Bishop Waters’ episcopacy have been the for mation of The North Carolina Catholic Lay man’s Association in 1946; the establishment of the Diocesan newspaper in 1946; the imple mentation of the full program of The Confrater nity of Christian Doctrine in 1952; and the con demnation of segregation and all discrimination in the memorable Pastoral Letter issued on The Feast of The Sacred Heart in 1953. A significant milestone in the history of the Diocese was reached in 1951, when for tho, first time a member of the Diocesan clergy was elevated to the episcopacy. Monsignor Joseph Lennox Federal, rector of The Sacred Heart Cathedral in Raleigh was appointed and con-„ secrated as the Auxiliary of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, and is now the Ordinary of that See. To assist Bishop Waters in the ever increas ing work of guiding the Diocese, in 1952 Pope Pius XII named James J. Navagh, of the Dio cese of Buffalo as Titular Bishop of Ombi and* Auxiliary to the Bishop of Raleigh. Bishop Navagh served the Diocese until 1957, when he was transferred to the See of Ogdensburg, New York. He is now the Ordinary of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey. RAPID EXPANSION of the physical facili ties of the Diocese have characterized the ten ure of Bishop Waters. Among the more impost ing edifices erected during, his episcopacy are Our Lady of' Graced Greensboro, dedicated in 1952; and Holy Child Church, Shrine of the In fant of Prague, Jacksonville, dedicated in 1963/ During this same period a system of Diocesan inter-parochial high schools was also establish ed, with construction at Asheville, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Raleigh, Greensboro, New Bern, and Washington. By decree of the Consistorial Congregation, dated March 26, 1960, all of Gaston county, with the exception of the grounds of Belmont Abbey Monastery, was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Raleigh. That same year also marked the establishment of St. John Vianney Hall, Diocesan pre-seminary in Asheville. In 1964 the first Bishop’s Fund Drive was undertaken for the construction of new build ings at the Orphanage at Nazareth. The most joyous event of this present year, however, was the selection of Father Charles B. McLaughlin, pastor of St. Leo’s Winston Salem, as the new Auxiliary of the Diocese and Titular Bishop of Risinium. » IN THE SPAN of nearly two decades since Bishop Waters was installed, the population of the Diocese has almost quadrupled from 12,922 to 49,954. The most recent statistics show that there are now 122 diocesan priests and 45 reli*r gious priests in the Diocese. At present there are 447 sisters working in the Diocese and 28 semi narians preparing for the priesthood. There are 110 parishes, of which 108 have resident pastors, and there are 51 missions. There are 13,268 stu dents enrolled in Catholic grade schools, high schools amd colleges. J&temeb (glass Associates CRAFTSMEN—DESIGNERS P.O. Box ISIS of Church Windows FACETED LAMINATED Leaded Glass Raleigh, N. C. 27602 Compliments of BELL Distributing Co. 94 Coxe Ave. Asheville, N. C. Fancy Grocery and Institutional Foods Since 1934 AL 2-8764 «tcwctK<ctft(tet(ti J^ht Christmas bells peal loud and dear. At you hear their message, may your heart be filled with joy. HEILIG-LEVINE of RALEIGH, Inc
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