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VOL. 28—NO.
FAROINAL TO DEDICATE
ST, DONATO'S GHURCK
His Eminence Will Also Pontificate
at Solemn Mass in Newly
Completed Edifice
A MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE
Parish Plant Completed’ by Addi-
tional Building—Religioa _
Thrives in Section
‘The members of St. Donato’s parish,
sixty-fifth and, Caulowit streets, are
preparing for one of the greatest
events in Be histor of te bait, the
solemn ded of the new and
nite et chuck “rch will take place
(Sunday),
Suinenee the Cardinal, will of-
‘at the dedication and ‘will also
ooniente at Solemn Mass.
Right Rev. Monalgnor 1, J. Fitz
. Das the assistant
‘The deacons et honor to His
ight Re
a J.J.
‘uni and the
+ Anthony _Gareltano will be dea
ctively, of
he re ‘Monsignor
MeNaily will be master of
rdinal will be met
crefock at Sixty-third and ‘callow
streets an escort
event. vil
10 o'clock and will be followed i the
Solemn Mass.
The dedication of the new. chure!
marks a triumph for, the
Rev. Pietro Mtlehetth, and
lalians of that section. Tit
raculous manner the chu
rect
resbyterian church,” which has e%
tied on a long and losing warfare for
the souls of tittle Ttatlan children, Tt
is repo to een . heavily
fnanced by proselytizers, who seem to
ing to attract the
Tunded erected the parish bulldings,
which are to-day an ornament t
ocese and the ‘pride of hie parish.
rogress of Parish
Donato’s pari
mana a
"HEAR END IN GERMANY
Loss of Court Protection Has
Marked Rapid Decline of
Non-Catholic Sects
. W. C, News Service.)
pics have worked to bring about
Heconeitiation between the two camps
nto which the Christian world was
livided. But the power of kings and
rinces in Germany was great and it
Wa usually exerted on the ‘side of
Protestantism. 1 last 70 years
pie Kings af Prussia, who later be
ri e Kaisers, have been at the hei ead
: the pekentant “Landeskirehe- ”
Pre Rulers Lost
Xo he’ revolution has
snashed'alt the thrones of the former
mpive and there are no rulers to pro-
and strengthen Protestantism,
W
Shich, having” grown accustomed to
does not por
strength /) vand,
hat support,
mt 3 Its for
: the last remaining lin
© chain forged. by Luther, has been
Poken do
ATHOLICS OF LOUISIANA
WILL COMBAT BIGOTRY.
News Service.)
19,
Raterwide rgentzation to defend civil
pas astous 1 verty tn Louislann were
“ymen ye ing of leading Catholic
cignen eld here fast week under the
vs the Catholic Laymen’s As-
lost Rev. John W. Shaw
op of ew Orleans, addressed
winetitg, SE which the other speal-
Sie eluded Fran
pam Gort, Sohn. xX, Wegmann, witt
The gcuste and ti. L, Hammett.
he association wil) maintain ofices
Garondelet street, with Guy J.
mock. secretary, bp charg
° not
it rene
ren
Hehbish
1s
‘simed. to
2 Brotec:
“eights
f directors include some
bt
Me vest Prominent Catholics of
Oulsin:
(ZEcHO.
SLOVAKIAN STATE
SEIZES CHURCH PROPERTY
News Service.)
—Accordin to stat
aces inthe “cas of Prague,
holie fatiy, which cannot
xaggeration, 238.136
fate property b
Church in
KEV. VINCENT W. CORCORAN
TWO PASTORS HONORED
QN SILVER JUBILEES
Rey. Alfred C. Welsh Ob-
serve - Anniversaries
RECEPTION Ss TENDERED
Doylestown Gives Surprise Affair.
Quiet Celebration at
Coatesville
ore Rev. Vincent W, Cor ran. rec-
“Rew. +A on
Velsh, recto ee eit’ ‘ne,
Contesvte celebrated on Ins lay
and Monday, the twenty-Atu amie
a
sary of ribet ordination to the priest:
ood.
Father Corcoran had not planned to
hold any formal celebration. in con:
nection with his silver sacerdotal
Jubilee, ‘The affair wa: ed en~
Yely by parishioners and came as a
surprise to the jubilarian, i was only
when 's from neighboring par-
ishes to assist at. his Jubilee
4
2
om,
§ Master of cere-
by Monsignor . Whital
ho. sermon was preached by
Right. Rev. Monsignor’ Joseph A.
Whitaker, 8. T. chancellor, who
pald tribute to the jubilarlan and his
Work while explaining the dignity and
sanctity of the sacerdotal si
‘After making the parish announce-
ments for the ensuing week Father
Corcoran said that he had not planned
“the
his fellow prieats to assiat in a solemn
observance he Was glad. He wished to
particuiarly "Monsignor
coming, despite the
Clement weather. to Doylestown
for his kind words,
Speaking of the priesthood. he said
a
t the fice of the priest iy
to offer the holy: sacrifice of the Mass.
Such a mission i . Christ Hin’
as |. “You have not chosen
Me but I have chosen you.” The
Apostles were called and tone dured
to enter extent those called. | That the
all comes carly ‘in life he: Mustrated
elatin|
oy and
prient.”
said.
The ‘child understood not but
@ Words sank deep in the minds and
hearts” of, his parents who did what
ey could to nourish the vocation. Op-
portunity came whereby he was en-
abled to study for the priesthood and
after many setbacks. crosses. anzletios
of application that young
kneels before his Bishop and
hears the words of consecration.
ime Passed Qui
“T' -five years in the priest-
hood,” he said “have passed like- a
flas! nighty God has been good in
Alm
sparing me an these years. Task you
jo strerigthen me in
en five fold.”
‘The choir, a double quartette, under
the direction of Miss M, Estelle Sieg
ler, organist, sang the
and render ed Marto “Mase
fter Benediction of the Most Blessed
Aicrament the ‘choir sang the hymn,
“Holy God We Praise Thy Name.”
After the Mass the congregation as-
sembled tn the bagement of the church
where still greater surprise awaited
Father Corcoran when he was led in
and greote by the singing of a jubilee
min by eight girls from St. Bernards
enol This was followed by five well
Senn Siegler, Mary Dick,
n Helen’ Hohlefelder and Mary
Rute,
Among the gifts to Father Corcoran
‘of the occasion A
from the’ St. Vincent de
rele, and a gift from the congrega-
Interspersed with the presenta-
jon’ of gifts addresses were delivered
os c.
Dr,
Murphy.
fra, William Fe Mercer ‘Migs Gertr
y. Each
jeular
ad
bi
he
jeerdotal
Sui
jee.
ure!
Overcome oe emotion. Father Core
eeran faltered en 5 fem mom
saat such Speautiful gifts before to-
9 the nraine You have show.
Silesia have been
the Czecho-Slovaklan State
ss
red .
gic by
Rev. Vincent W. Corcoran and!
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY,
{EDITORIAL}
threatened,
strewn with wi
voice of lov
Bt Stet
misery, but chiefly from its own folly.
The fullness of woe has fallen on our race.
is beginning to grip men and bow the
had attached its hopes, ‘have grown dim and. a
Darkness is taking their place and shutting out the view of
proved a broken reed upon which it is imposssible to lean.
which humanity had put its trust, have failed ii in the hour of need.
vain oes sounds without substan
NINE
vault of the sky, the world need not fear. Salvation i is at hand,
Star of Bethlehem points the way.
to be an inspiration and a moral force.
Life.
a mere
iewed.
confidently invoked, life blossoms out of ruse and beaut ty
the good thrives.
wrenched out of shape, like a roughly han
of rebuilding the wor!
d this titanic enterprise can come to no happy‘issue, unless
As soon as mankind st
Of course; the rem s been within easysreach
practiced by Christ.
application of Christian principles to its conduct an
napkin and buried it; it has left this. tremendous force un
the nurse.
SN ZEINALSS
But
keen. Avived at the last forking of the
ZN
the world tremble in the balance.
at this crucial and decisive’ moment!
XX
which its Savior is cradled,
of its sorrow lifted from its weary shoulders.
ANZA
DECEMBER
ack to Betblebem!
ain Christmas morn dawns on a world at strife and at cross Purposes, seething with
dangerous unrest and agitated by forebodings of terrible possibilities, secking in vain a remed
38 for the ills with which it is afflicted and an antidote against the _Breater evils by which it is
The star of Bethlehem that heralded the arrival of the Prince , of Peace rises on a world
reckage and covered with ruins; its mild light falls upon men who have brought
disaster to themselves by following the promptings of fierce passions rather than the gentle .
its soft radiance reveals humanity fearing itself and trembling before the sin-
ister forces which it has unchained in its own bosom. Mankind has gone astray; and now,
two thousand years ago, it is waiting and sighing for a deliverer who will save it from its
Evil has come to a fatal maturity.
m down into the dust. The shining stars, to which mankind
¢ fast disappearing beneath the horizon.
only one rising star, thet, though it may be temporarily eclipsed by human
ignorance, climbs higher and higher in the firmament and sheds its bright lustre upon the
orld. At this moment it shines brighter than ever. Its splendor has not faded and its bril-
Tiancy has not been tarnished. The eyes of the world are lifted towards it and new fires of ZA
hope are kindled by its warm glow. As Jong as the Star of Bethlehem i: is resplendent in the
There is only one-Name that never has disappointed mankind and that never has ceased
sound and not a .
It is the Word spoken by the Eternal Father. “Through this Word the world has been
created; and through Its wonderful power the shattered world can be reconstructed and re-
is one Name still retains Its saving power and Its. creative force.
rises- out of
healed and sorrow is sweetened; grief is transfigured and adversity Tightened: evil wilts and
Around Christmas, therefore, cluster the hopes of humanity. This broken world,’ sadly
led toy, we can confidently and trustfully place in
the hands of the Infant of Bethlehem to be refashioned and: rem:
desires and ideas. If we allow Him to remake it as He wishes to mold it, it will, indeed, be a
better and a fairer world. Men’s hands have proved clumsy and unskillful at the gigantic task
ey are beginning to realize that it is a task mucl id th
they make sure that God is
a ling with them. He will be with them, if they carry out His plans and renounce their own
‘oolish designs; if for human conceit they substitute divine wisdom.
tarts its pilgrimage to Bethlehem, its feet are on ‘the path to spiritual
overy and material reconstruction. In Bethlehem the cure for-all its troubles can be found.
world has only half-heartedly applied it. . This supreme remedy i: is Christianity, as taught and
Unfortunately, the world has never. been sincere and serious about the
life,
What has mankind done with Christianity? “Tt has wrapped this God- -given talent in a
and shunn
remedy as a feverish patient rejects the healing draught held to a3 lips by the kindly hand of
w the world is coming to its senses. Misery has made its sight clear and its vision
roads, it sees only one alternative before it: eith
it ‘will go back to Bethlehem and accept Christianity with its marvelous powers of =p
regeneration or it will march on to spiritual exhaustion and/éomplete
lay saddened and stricken humanity make the right choice
Let the world, in humility, alent adoration and repentance of heart, kneel at the crib, in’
e days of its afffiction shall be abbreviated and the burden
9
my
1922
WANGAN ASGANL
1, as
Despair
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‘Yh
ding names, in
They were only empty and 3%
A
s
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The mild eflulgence of the
erever It is
wounds are
ashes;
leled according to His
em
for twenty centuries, but the
ed this heavenly
wm
itua
The destinies of
ruin.
’
Sw
TAA
f.0. HS. ROH. 9. ALUNNI TOHOLD | HOLY FATHER EXTENDS AID
ANNUAL HASSAN BANQUET. ere
Members of Football and Basket-
ball Teams, With Coaches, to
Be Guests at at D Dinner
been
‘Preparations have completed
im quet
annual Mass nquet us J
siuinnt of the Roman Catholic an f the Soviet Government for a Cath-
Scho Broad and Vine streets, The] Ce mission to conduct feeding in
Mass be celebrated by the rector | Orenbur province. a
of the school in the auditorium to-| The Rev, be ‘Walsh has arranged
orrew (Sunday) at 10 o'clo tor a feeding programme caring for
20,000 persons in the O1
The
banquet an be neta 1 te the Monuface 20.000 persons Jp the
ers’ Club on hursday eve-| possible and which will bring the op-
ning at 7.30 0 Jock. . | erations of ‘the Catholic. co-operating
The sermon on the Mass will: be| Mission up to @ 000 person:
of the school
L
to D
the. “Provagation of the also stated that the Po)
y pe has mad
immediately afte Maes the regu onal gift of a million lira for
business meeting Sine held soresided nipiten writ which the athe
over by oli ilesion ‘will co-operate in the
rogramme -of mM
ance and” inoculation
spread of epldemtc diseases.
a| MARRIAGE BY Y RADIO | IS
‘Me een extended
ite “DECLARED TO BE ILLEGAL from the Tater. ‘ave to Trinity Sun-
be held at the Manufacturer: b oF da: lay _ These changes in the Papal rev
Thursday, December 28. Tho atunmi{ ©; . W. G. Xews Service.) scrip ‘on le
M have as its gues rember: erous_petitior
¥ the championship football team al Y, Dec. 19.—A marriage United presented — through
Catholic High, tozether with thelr | ceremony performed by radio is ilte-| Father Ripple. It was represented that
ch, Stanley Cofall.. William Hy : many parts of the country, because
ea stay oh of the dasket-bali | Sth according to an opinion given by of peculiar local conditions, it’ would
Markwara- Glas the members of the {State Attorney-General Newton when| be hardly possible for many. of ‘the
nt e jumni's} the question of the legality of the] members of the society to fulfll the
foe will Iikewlse be the slumnt's “ naht un by a | conditions specified the rescript
. 0 niece within the time originally specified.
—+--——
cher yan ‘promeast. he teat to the *| HOLY FATHER RECEIVES
the Gi
New York city, TIARA FROM FROM iMILANESE
Newton declared
in the presence, me. Dec. he Pope cele-
domestic relations| b: the Sistine Chapel tor
2 law, means an actual and not a con-|a pilgrimage of citizens from Milan on
structive presence, aay, After the, Muss, Cardinal
Eignt | nilal.” he said, “that | Tos of Milan, officially
elected after the dox fail of the Liovd | the wilinease person, officiating] p new triple tiara donated
George ministry. oniate, Linerale | should ely at hand, am it| by the. Milanese to the P
e Nationnitiat-are ine [ia that the. contracting hartles to the Aa olin
te not the firs
(Continued ‘on Seventh Page)
horites And ¢
cite fn thn Cathoile. representation marringe should be im view of cai
bu
" «| Rescripts Amended to Enable More
ch | And declared
PERIOD OF HOLY NAME
AUBILEE 1S EXTENDED
Members to Take Advan-
tage of Privileges
NW aa News Service.)
York, 18.—Th
Papal ‘yencripts eranting spec!
gences and privileges to members o
me Society, in honor of
the Attietn anniv ary of the found-
tng of the organisation Jn the Untted
States, have been amended and ex-
tended to) enable | more members “to
take advantage of the privileges of
tered. ‘Anmouncement of action
of the Hi gon
seein
inte, O.P.
Same
m Cardinal MSosslunt, Pro-
tector of the organization.
qh jetreat Appi
ight day retreat snectfied in
the ergina rescript has been changed
ree day retreat will How
the spiritual favors
granted by the Holy Father. In addi-
tion .the jubilee period, ich
originally specified a
and C serie
lh ann
rm
segoeaney a
tzey wer
REV. ALFRED C. WELSH
PRAISES PHILADELPHIA
HOLY NAME MENIERS
| olies
| dral,
| whic
! {said
In Stirring Address, P, J. Haltigan’ eee
Lauds City’s Showing in Wash-
| room
Ja
ington Demonstration |
poin
— In
NEW OFFICERS. PRESIDE | $\'2!,".
— Bree
Testimonial Presented to G. W. | bers
~ Crowley at Union's Quar-
terly Meeting
‘ccord
the Philadetphia’ 's
rn i
officers elected last June presided, 3 |
inarked by an exccilent attendance of |
delegates, who were welcomed. by |
i s
abet! ho expressed his greetings
to the sclera.
mittees Make Report:
S
s AL) Ce
Nuruy, chairman of the Willow Grove fous
Rally ¢
his hope that
hess an even
uty, D. Da
Sighting Sixty-ninth,” ad de-
livered the oration oa that. occasion,
and to the clergy and members of the
committee whose efforts, he sald. had
nirihuted largely to the success of
¢ rally, mentioning in marticulas the
geal und, encrey Cs
Edw ret or of St David's
to Washington”
re rar | wan made through George W.
(reat movement in this city. and Ine
the union, in a brief address, intro-
auses Mr, Haltigan, (eins of the work
the guest of the day had done
in a pramoring Preateintla” {plerest in
the Washington demonstr:
Haltigan’s Addee
After congratulating his auditors on
the splendid attendance, and saying
that the ast which he had that at-
ternoon of the workings of the
Pritadeiia, ‘Caton nelped me under- i
de | be
ter
z
faltigan | will
of
and the
Baltimore Union,
the ‘Pailade iphiana had tai
rade at “ity of Monuments:
which be, dectared, haa made his story.
resuits
2
ton a text for their
discourses on the following Sunday.
‘corde of praise “and commendation
for schat waa declared “the fineat elvie
nese expressed hie Eratitude
that the new crown
e kept inthe Vatican treasury.
} ‘
demonstration ever held in the ational
Lone t
jontinued en Seventh. Pag in
APOSTOLIC CHARACTER
Paulist Father Gives Vast Congre-
gation in Cathedral Proof
‘REFORMERS’ WERE TOO LATE
Shows That Only One Can Teach
} {teaching
| Rpostolie”
‘hureb.
which
ve DELEGATE’SAPPOINTHENT —~
| Archbishop Fumasoni-Biondi Will
Vatican Representative Here
essed his gra ‘imes, official announcement has been
Heation a Mine sptendid outpouring of | gimee camcial appointment
members und their families for the] bishop. Pletro
annual outdoor guthering, and told of | Apostolic
nex
shaplain “ot the | News ‘Bureau
pi 0.
committee | Sebastian Cardinal Martinelli, who
relegate to the U
S86
On
tolic Delegate was made
Catholic Alum:
years in order that t
nd
hat | from she Supreme Court,
fight
or
for the rend part throughout the Unites
pees
olies: tn Cologne. one for ¢
in Berlin, one for
in Reuasels. one for 14.440;
in
FIVE CENTS
OF CHURCH EXPLAINED =
of Catholic Claims
With Same Authority as
Divine Founder
in $8, Peter and Pau
declared that the only Church
h to-day shows in its doctrine, its i
its miaxton rs and ¥
direct descent
Church, is
Furthermore,
maren of history. likewite ,
‘a
Peel
333
thee
cli ie origin, “ihe ¥
the * discourse
ot
ts on Cathoie
place 1
as given by William S: Thunder,
nist J
has
for
cane “hut wilt, never be foe was again evidenced lust Gunday eve.
was the manner ip which P. J. Halti- Father Smyth's Ser :
gan, president of the Baltimore Arch-| tn his sermon, eloquently delivered, :
Goconan Holy Name Union, dexeribed Father Smyth spok part as fol- :
the. participation ot this hoe Holy . Y
Nam e y :
me “members in the Washington] a6 oid. As the amiable writer of the
demonstration, tn th rse of his] Pasay: a
ddress .at the quarterly meeting of
the Holy. Name Union, st Sun-
fay eftemnoon In St th's Hall,| SUthority’ tor that, “Thue saith the .
Twenty-third street and Montgomery] Lord, stand ye in the ways and sce
avenue. Edward A Daly pre esided, | and ask for the old paths ‘where is the
s of resolu good way, and walk therein’ (Jeremias
Hh 18). ‘
ane “we lelay now to prove ‘
that Christ. founded the church, be .
ing all Christians we may take that
for granted, but we shall insist that
there can be no rel -
(Continued on Seventh Page)
oe
OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED.
ucceed Cardinal Bonzano as
‘onfirming a report published prev-
ly in The Catholic Standard and
Wa te to Japan
November 4, Tate, the new Apos-
titular Arch "
Fumasoni made his reputation as :
Fector of the ‘srchdioeexio Union, At] administrator and did much to im-
the conclusion 0! ress, Mon-| Prove the relationship between the :
signor Turner, in “ochane of the execu- | Vatican and the Mikado. $
tive committee, fhe, resolutions When Cardinal Laurent! cle- °
adopted by the committee in apprecias vated to the Sacred College it became »
tion of Mr. Crowley's efforts, and pres | Receasary to choose his successor as t
sented him with a copy of them. secretary of the Sacred Congregation ‘
for the Propagation of the Faith iq
the record made by Archbishop Fu £
Fun
Jel him for this -
ie Was appointed in 1921.
——+
made Rev. *
honey. to wl of s 3
encouraging the support of this pub- SEES STATE SOCIALISM $
Meation has been delegated by the IN OREGON SCHOOL BILL
executive committee. 3
Joseph L. Durkin, chairman of the ' :
captains’ association of the Laymen's a NERS Series? ‘
Retreat League, gave a brief summary | ,, Washington, Dec, 18.—-Oregon 5
progress of the laymen’s re- | bigots select en rises 8 the date in ‘
societies” wit itlustrated | States would have ranged themselves f
fees oes their mactinge’ [against private schools, according to {
James A. Murray. vice-president of | tte Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, B.D. - > £
bia Chap-
of the International | Federation ot
hey are tr rying to drive us gut by
he
passed in other States wher
r Oregon alone, but a ficht
cur whole system. of education
a 8
Figures on Clergy
Oe Ne ©
Cin Rom
for 22-500:
danest
Paris, one
one for 22.000,
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