Hierarchy's Annual Meeting Number Full Account of Men's Council Convention 2 the National Catholic Welfare Council Bulletin
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OUNCIL OCTOBER WASHINGTON, D. C. 1921 Hon. DAVID 1. WALSH. U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Whose Inspiring Call to the Catholic Laity of America Was an Outstanding Feature of the Washington Convention of the National Council of Catholic Men.-See story on pp. 18 and 19. HIERARCHY'S ANNUAL MEETING NUMBER FULL ACCOUNT OF MEN'S COUNCIL CONVENTION 2 THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN Annual Conference of the Hierarchy Prelates Review Work of Welfare Council and Adopt Program for Coming Year WHAT THE BISHOPS DID AT THEIR MEETI G Reviewed the work of the National Addressed a letter to Cardinal Logue Welfare Council as follows: Most Rev. Catholic Welfare Council as contained conveying to the Irish Hierarchy sym Edward J. Hanna, D.D., Chairman; Rt. in the reports of the episcopal chair pathy and good wishes for the speedy Rev. P. J. Muldoon, D.D., Vice-chair men of its various departments. fulfillment of the national aspirations man; Most Rev. Austin Dowling, D.D., Approved the program of the Ad of the Irish people, and for a happy Treasurer; Very Rev. John F. Fenlon, ministrative Committee for the coming outcome of the conference between the S.S., Recording Secretary. Rev. John J. year and provided budgets with which representatives of Ireland and the Eng Burke, C.S.P. continues as General to finance the work to be continued or lish Government. Secretary. initiated during the next twelve months. Fixed Sexagesima Sunday, February Unanimously re-elected the following Voted to the various chairmen of the 19, 1922, as Press Sunday and February members of the Administrative Com Council's Departments formal apprecia as National Press Month. tion of the Hierarchy for the good work mittee: Most Rev. Austin Dowling, D.D., Chairman Department of Educa thus far accomplished. Attended the mass meeting at the Catholic University arranged for the tion; Rt. Rev. P. J. Muldoon, D.D., Issued an important statement on the delegates to the National Convention Chairman Social Action Department; subject of limitation of armament, the of the Men's Council and presided over Rt. Rev. William T. Russell, D.D., plea being in conformity with the ex by Bishop Schrembs, and addressed Chairman of the Pre$s Department; pressed desire of His Holiness, Pope by Archbishop Hanna of San Francisco, Be-:ledict XV. Rt. Rev. Joseph Schrembs, D.D., Chair Senator Walsh of Massachusetts and man Department of Lay Organizations; Issued a call upon the Catholic peo Admiral Benson of Washington. Rt. Rev. Edmond F. Gibbons, D.D., ple of the United States to set apart Gave their approbation to an octave Chairman Department of Laws and Armistice Day, November 11, as a day of prayer for church unity-the octave of speciai prayer that God's blessing Legislation, to take the place of His beginning on January 18 and ending on Eminence Cardinal Dougherty, who re may guide the deliberations of the January 25, 1922. international conference and hasten the signed; and elected Rt. Rev. Louis J. era of peace and good will throughout Unanimously re-elected the officers Walsh, D.D., Bishop of Portland, mem the world. of the Administrative Committee of the ber of the Administrative Committee. N ONE of the mo t ucce sfu] meetings of the Hier of the United :tate cabled to 11 j, Eminence Cardinal _ archy,held since the inauguration in 1919 of the plan Logue, Primate of Ireland. I for an annual conference, the work of the National At the same session the Archbishop and Bishops adopted Catholic Welfare Council during the past year was pre a strong re olution in favor of the limitation of armament sented for the consideration of the Archbishops and Bishops and issued a formal statement urging upon the Catholic at the several sessions held by them at the Catholic Uni people of the United States the ob ervance of Armistice versity on September 21 and 22, 1921. The meeting was Day (November 11) as a day of prayer for the succes~ presided over by His Eminence, Cardinal O'Connell, of the international conference called by President Harding Archbishop of Boston, and was attended by Cardinal to promote that cause. Dougherty, and more than three-score Archbishops and Both the letter of sympathy to Cardinal Logue and the Bishops. - resolution in behalf of a general limitation of armament Reports of the Mo -t Rev. and Rt. Rev. Chairmen of the received the unanimous approval of the prelates attending several departments of the National Catholic Welfare Coun the meeting. cil were submitted to the Bishops and approved by them. PRE u. 'DAY FEBRUAl{Y 19, 1922 The program of the administrative committee for the .\mong other proposals anctioned by the Bishops wa. coming year and the budgets with which to finance the • that for a Press Sunday and a Pre s lVlonth. It was voted various activities to be continued or initiated in the course to make Sexage ima Sunday (February 19) Press Sunday of the next twelve months were adopted. _Formal appre and the month of February Pre. s :r..10nth. This suggestion ciation of the Hierarchy was voted the variou chairmen was made in the report of Right Rey. W. T. Russell, chair of the Welfare Council's departments for the good work man of the Department of Publicity, Press and Literature thus far accomplished. of the National Catholic Welfare Council. Sympathy with the Ir~sh hierarchy and good wishes for The Bishops also gave their approbation to an octave of the happy outcome of the conference between the repre prayer for church unity. This octave will begin January entatives of Ireland and the English Government were 18 and end January 25, 1922. - expressed in a letter which the Archbishops and the Bishops The officers of the Administratiye ommittee of the THE NATIONAL ATHOLIC \i\TELFARE COUNCIL BULLETIN vVelfare Council were unanimously reelected. They -are: over 'ea. The organized ·labor in behalf of immigrants Most Rev. Archbishop Hanna, chairman; Right Rev. P. J. both in this country and in the places of embarkation; Muldoon, vice-chairman; Most Rev. Austin Dowling, treas the creation of an agency to assist Philippine students who urer, and Rev. Dr. John F. Fenlon, S.S., secreta ry. come to this country for higher education; the issuanc of a conservative program with respect to moving picture CHA GES IN ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE and the resultful campaign against the circulation and His Eminence Cardinal Dougherty resigned from the exploitation of indecent films were other topics of the chairmanship of the Department of Laws and Legislation report . of the Council and from the Administrative Committee. Successful opposition had been exerted by the Council. Right Rev. Louis S. Walsh, D.D., Bishop of Portland, A rchbishop Hanna reported, to the repeal of the law for was elected to succeed Cardinal Dougherty as a member bidding the transmission through the mails of literature on of the committee, and Right Rev. Edmund F. Gibbons, birth control, the Smith-Towner bill, and the move to re D.D., Bishop of Albany, becomes chairman of the De duce the quota of Catholic chaplains in the Army and the partment of Laws and Legislation. Bishop Gibbons was Navy. The administrative department also had defended already a member of the Administrative Committee, but he the Holy Father's letter on proselytizing in foreign coun was not chairman of a department of the council. The tries; continued the work of gathering historical record!:> chairmen of the other departments were unanimously re of Catholic participation in the war, and issued the publi elected. ('ation, "American Catholic in the War." 3. •.. Archbishop Hanna's Report ... ~ r Report of Educational Department ... ~ Allost Rev. Edward 1. Hanna) D.D.) Archbishop of San Archbishop Dowling, in reporting. the work of the De Francisco, chairman 0 f the Administrative Committee partment of Education during the past year, stated that directing the activities of the Council, reported a number ~reat progre s had been made in informing Catholic edu of definite and important accompli hment" on the part of cators of the work and purposes of this agency of the the organization ince the Bishops' la t meeting. Thi 'vVelfare. Council. The opinion was advanced that no single report showed that a letter on di armament had been issued group is more alive to the advantages of cooperation than by the Administrative Committee in April; that the Cath the Catholic educators of the United States, who, in prac olic position on education had been made known to Presi tical unanimity of sympathy and approval, have cooperated dent Harding and that he had been informed of condition~ with the work of the N. C. W. c.'s Education Department in the Philippines; that 'the Conncil haa been officially e1uring the past year. recognized and consu lted by all department of the Govern The chief purpo ' e. of the department were stated to ment on religious que tions' that the Church's interests be the following: . had been safeguarded in regti.lations governing the distribu tion of sacramental wines, in the tariff bill. and in the 1. A clearing house of information concerning Catholic immigration legislation. education and Catholic educational agencies-for Catholic educators and students and for the general public. IMPORTANT SERVICES RE~lDEl{ED 2. An advisory agency to assist Catholic educational The Secretary of the Navy had given his approbation vstems and institutions in their developments. to Catholic work in '1 THIS ISSUE 3. A con n e c tin g Haiti after the subj ect agency between Catholic had been brought to his DIGEST OF CONVENTION PA educational activities and attention by the Coun governmental e d u c a - cil, Archbishop Hanna EDITORIAL COMMENT .....,' I tional agencies.