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A simple review of the facts is usually the most effective response to charges against the Church -if "the accuser is not a bigot. Through the Immaculate Heart of Mary Christian civilization can be saved from the ravages of war-? if men will pray and do penance. CATHOLIC WEEKLY Published rr7 Sttwday by TBB TABLJVr fcblUhtn Company. 1 Habmb Plrne. Brooklyn IT.

If. T. VOL. XXXIX, NO. 25 Sotrd Second Out Oflic.

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1S79. BROOKLYN 17, N. SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1947 AecpUe for mUlne st ptUl rto of portw proYlded for hi Section 1403. Act of October 3. 1917.

Authorised Awut 22. HI. 5 I 1 DECEASED Jesuit, Once Protestant MSGR CONWAY'S ASK CLERGY TO AID SEES FOUR PHASES IN TITO CAMPAIGN oSS'sTATE Missioner, Visits Here Truth inYugoslavia 1,916 Catholic priests In Yugoslavia In 1939. 369 Catholic priests killed. i 175 Catholic priests impris-' oned.

409 Catholic priests in exile. 562 Catholic priests missing." 401 Catholic priests in Yugo i sv But Other Events Interfered With Expected Publicity, NIC.W.C. Writer Finds CHARGES ARE PUERILE Vatican Radio Says Yugoslav Reds Pay no Attention to Competent Defenses By J. J. GILBERT Washington," Augr.

14 (NO The campaign Marshal Tito and his minions are conducting In this country to discredit the Catholic Church In Yugoslavia gives some indications of a public relations counselor's hand, but nonetheless seems not to have reckoned with certain possibilities which might have been foreseen. Looking at the campaign. It ap pears to have four phases -ach jndepenaent out an pan oi a whole. The first phase was the extension of an Invitation to seven Protestant ministers to go to Yugo slavia as the guests of Tito and to investigate the position of religion in that country. The second phase came just as these ministers, apparently hand-picked, were winging their way toward Yugoslavia.

It consisted of a press conference staged by the Yugoslavia Ambassador in Washington, where he handed out a thick: brochure attempting to prove 0 SMEAR CHURCH Father Farmer Hat Labored as Minister, and Priest? Rev. Francis X. Farmer, S.J., for mer Protestant missionary, Is back in the States after an absence of 23 years. Father Farmer returned from China to visit his 88-year-old Methodist mother, Mrs. Mary Eliza beth Farmer, of Atlanta, Ga.

Sent as a Methodist missionary to China in 1001, Francis Farmer met and married Martha Bee son, also a Methodist missionary, in 1903. For 13 years he labored at Kwang Si and Huchow Fu, but with the slow growing conviction that Protestantism had too little to of fed. After the death of his wife, he returned to the States and made his profession of faith to Bishop B. J. Keiley in Savannah, Ga, on May 6, 191.5.

The following year he entered the Society of Jesus, choosing the Paris province, whose priests labored in China. Ordained in England in 1922, Father Farmer was on his way back to China within two years, this time as parish priest in Shanghai. Here he remained for 23 years except for the three and a half years when he and his fellow missionaries were interned at Zika-wei. At the Jesuit Mission House in Manhattan, before leaving for E. Brooklyn Nun Thanks Readers for Helping Work in Shanghai In a visit to the Good Shepherd home for girls in Shanghai, Mad ame Chiang Kai-shek i told the students they were happy "because but she warned them not to be selfish but to spread their happiness among others, ac cording to a letter received by THE TABLET from Mother Mary Francis of Assisi upon her return to China after a month's stay in Brooklyn.

Madame Chiang Kai-shek had come to Shanghai for dental treatment and expressed a desire to visit the school. She was accom MD BY MM CHANG IN RADIO DEBATE Prote James O'Neill Asserts Rutledge Misinterpreted Jefferson and Madison ASKS LAWS BE OBEYED Charges History Is Mangled In Minority Opinion in Supreme Court Case The issue be kept in mind in the current discussion on the separation o'f Church and State is the I Constitution of the United States and the several States and not the interpretation put on these without justification declared Professor James M. O'Neill, chairman of the department of speech at Brooklyn College, in a debate recently with Harold E. Fey, managing editor of the 'Christian Century" and the author'of a series of articles in that magazine hostile to the Cath olic Church. The discussion, which was heard over the Mutual Broadcasting net work," was' by North western Evanston, 111..

and the chairman was Irving J. Lee, professor of public speaking at the university. A transcript of the broadcast fol lows, in part: Favors Complete Separation Mr. Feyi; How are Church and State related in America? They are related by constitutional provisions which keep them in separate spheres. This principle of separation of Church and State is under fire today.

The first amendment 'Congress shall make no law respecting ani establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof r-is being attacked. "The campaign to minimize, limit and -even tc discredit this amend ment comes from those who seek to inject sectarian issues into the public schools. It comes even more strongly fom those who seek to support parochial schools or other religious establishments, from public funds. 'I "Whatever, the ultimate goal may be, the iirimediate objective is to secure for a particular church the prestige, the, power and the financial resources which have always been associated with a preferred, an official or. an established church.

"Every Citizen in my opinion should make it his business to de fend the principle of separation of Church and State. I hope and be lieve that a. majority pf my coun trymen defend it as I do, in the spirit of good will toward the institutions of 'religion. But it is precisely because I believe that the mission ot'j the church is to bring the good hews of salvation to society that I as a minister of re-Contihued on Last Page slavia in 1946 12 Catholic Sisters killed. 50 Catholic Sisters imprisoned.

About 400,000 Catholics killed in Croatia alone. I' It About 100,000 Catholics imprisoned. LE BRITISH FILM "Black Narcissus Called Affront to Religion i The National Legion of Decency has placed the motion picture "Black Narcissus" in the condemned classification. This film was produced by Powell and PressbUrger in conjunction with J. Arthur Rank, and released through Universal International.

The Legion has given the follow ing reasons for this action: "The character of this film and the attitudes displayed- therein create an impression ttiat constitutes an affront to religion land religious life. It ignores the spiritual motivation Is the foundation and safeguard of re ligious life and it offensively tends to characterize such life asj an escape for the abnormal, the neurotic and the Ridicules Anglicans Made from the novel by Rumer Godden, the film tells of a group of Church of England nuns in a convent in India, who fall under the SDell of material influences. It Howard Barnes, film reviewec.Iorj the New York "Herald Tribune, appraising the picture in Thurs day's edition of that paper asserted, part: "In translating the Rumer God-den novel to the screen Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger have hewn to a bitter tale of; spiritual conflict. Unfortunately the dramatic incident in a story of Anglican nuns, drying to establish hospice in the high mountains of India, is too thin to give the work compulsion, as well as courage There is good acting in this latest English importation. Narcissus' achieves a mood and one violent explosion of melodrama, but it is singularly unsatisfying.

"Perhaps the co-directors were so bemused by Technicolor that I they thought the lovely tints of the continuity would make an average spectator disregard the episodic Continued on Page Eight ON CONDEMNS REV. FRANCIS X. FARMER China once more, Father Farmer expressed great hope and love for his mother and his country. he said, "is a great and beautiful country. It is harder for me to leave it this time than ever before." He sails from San Francisco just a month before his 70th birthday, SCHOOL TO START Evening Sessions New Feature, Fr.

Lord Announces The night sessions of Sum mer School of Catholic Action, inaugurated this year, will open in New York Sunday. Aug, 17,1 at 7 p.m., at Regis-High School. 55 84th Manhattan, and will close Friday evening, Aug. 22. The day classes will open at Fordham University Monday, Aug.

18, at 8:30 a.m., according to an announcement made by Rev. Dan iel A. Lord, S.J., founder and director of the traveling Summer school The New iYork school, the sijeth of the 1947 session, is next to the stOD in a circuit of 3,036 miles made by the faculty of twenty eight persons headed by Father Lord. The school, which is sponsored AM a that there is no persecution of the Catholic Church in his country and that the arrest, trial and Imprison- ment of Archbishop Aloysius Step-inac Were on "the up and up." The third phase has been to have the ministers "sound off while still in Yugoslavia, so that th, press associations would carrpd Manhattan last Wednes- LAY APOSTOLATE: Fifth Study Week for Priesti At Notre Dame Receives Information on Russia YCW PROGRAM CITET) Msgr. Hillenbrand Explains Movement as Carried on tin the United States Notre Dame, Aug.

13 The urgent need for greater effort among Catholic priests in the activities of the lay apostolate was stressed during the fif trrannual Lay Apostolate Study Week for Priests, held at the University of Notre Dame, under the patronage qf Archbishop John J. Mitty of Sap Francisco episcopal chairman of the Catholic Action Study Department, N.C.W.C. More than 100 priests from dio ceses throughout the United States, and from Canada, Prance, England and Yugoslavia, heard leading lay men and priests connected with the lay apostolate movement urge more concentrated effort on the part qf lay apostolates and the priests who no 4 are their chaplains. Rev. John Fitzsimons of live pool, England, a visiting lecturer at the University of Notre Dame, re viewed the teachings of Pope Pius XI on the apostolate, and described the strength of the late Pontiffs emphasis on the idea of the lay apostolate.

A tremendous psychological revolution is taking place in Soviet Russia today, with at least 90 per ceiit of the Russian people opposed to thej Communist regime controlling their country, in the opinion pf competent observers from the resistance movements in several Soviet-occupied countries, who re ported first-hand Information to ihipilest attjmdingvitU tu Week. YCW Leader Speaks Principal lay speaker at the co: ference was Patrick Keegan, London, general secretary of International Young Christian Workers movement. Mr. Keegan spoke on behalf of the young work ers of the world and stressed the importance of inserting'the whole of Christianity into the whole life of the worker" if the worker is to regain his God-given dignity. Insisting that attempts to huild the me or the working class Christ must begin with the working class Mr Keegan reminded tfie priests that "the Church, State and all authorities can and should help, but cannot replace the young worker in this conquest of himself and the working masses.

"The young worker, therefore must be trained, organized, and given the formation necessary to continued on Page Eight Catholic agency of teach I study. organization efficient unc-j moral guidance and spiri-f generously as their means1 Almighty God it may con4 TRAIN WORKERS T5 REQUIEM OFFERED msnon rresines at mass inr i a Pastor of Queen of AH Saints Church FR. BOYD OFFERS MASS Fr. Ronaghan Is the Deacon; Fr. Collins Is Sub-Deacon; Fr.

Sweeney Preaches A Solemn Requiem Mass was offered on Wednesday morning at the Church of Queen of All Saints, Brooklyn, for Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph Conway, pastor of the parish for the last 17 years, who died on Saturday of a heart attack in Atlantic City, N. where he was on vacation.

The celebrant of the Mass was Rev. Charles Boyd, spiritual director of the Diocesan Seminary of the Immaculate Conception. Huntington He was assisted by Rev. Sylvester Ronaghan, pastor of the Church of the Resurrection, Brooklyn, as deacon, and by Rev. James V.

Collins, assistant pastor of St. Mary, Star of the Sea Church, Brooklyn, as sub-deacon. The eulogy.text of which appeara below, was delivered by Rev. Joseph W. Sweeney, chaplain of the Convent of Mercy, Brooklyn.

Bishop Molloy presided and gave the final absolution Over 75 priests were present at the Mass, including the following Monsignori: Right Reverends Edward P. Hoar, V.G., John L. Belford, Boleslaus Puchal-skl, John B. Gorman. Joseph V.

S. McCIancy, William J. McKenna, Joseph Kelly, Herman J. Pfeifer, James H. Griffiths, Patrick J.

Rogers, Francis P. Connelly, V.F.; J. Jerome Reddy, and Very Reverends John J. F. Robinson, VJ, and John D.

Wynne. Also attending were 35 Sisters of St. Joseph of the staff of Queen of All Saints school and Queen of. All Saints Diocese a High a representation of four Christian Brothers of the faculty of Bishop Loughlin Diocesan High School. Sixty students of Queen of All Saints High School served as a guardfTionor.

On Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock tne body or Msgr. Conway was brought into the church to lie in state. The members of the parish societies served as a guard of honor throughout the night. The children of Queen of All Saints school attended a Mass for their deceased pastor on Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. The celebrant of the Mass was Rev.

Daniel J. Potter-ton, assistant pastor of Queen of All Saints Church; deacon, Rev. Joseph Lamb, assistant pastor of Our Lady Help of Christians Church; sub-deacon. Rev. Warren Leonard, assistant pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church, Bayside West.

Wu 72Year Old Msgr. Conway was born in St. Paul's parish. Brooklyn, March 19, 1875, and was educated at St. Francis Xavier College, Manhattan; St.

Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, N. and the North American Col lege in Rome. Italy. He was or- f1niTiA4 4a tV, 1 1900,. and served as an assistant at St.

Joseph's Church, Pacific for eight years. On Sept. 16, 1908, Father Conway received his first pastorate at St. Martin's Church, Amityville. and remained there for ten years He also served as pastor at Guardian Angel Church, Brooklyn, from June 26, 1918.

to April 20, 1922, and at Our Lady of Mercy Church, Brooklyn, from April, 1922, to July 31, 1930, when he became pastor of Queen of All Saints Church. For a number of years Msgr. Conway had been a member of the Diocesan School Board. He wai elevated to the rank of domestio prelate with the title of Right Reverend Monsignor by Pope Pius XI on March 26, 1938. Surviving are two sisters, Margaret and Catherine Conway.

Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery. The Eulogy Following is the text of th Father eulogy delivered by Sweeney: 'It is now time for me to return to Him who sent me. Tobias XII -20. Some years ago I happened to summoned to the death bed of verv distinguished man, a soldier in the Army of the United States, a brigadier general. This man had! been given eighty-four years of human life.

For over seventy of those eighty-four years he had been a stranger to his God. Having been afforded the grace of repentance he received the Last Sacraments and very soon the sweat of death upon, his forehead told the story that he had been called before his God "A few days later a funeral train -was speeding south towards the Mason and Dixon line. At Union Continued on Page Four ON WEDNESDAY panied by Rev. Frederick A. Mc-jlast Guire, i also of Brooklyn, executive secretary of the Catholic Welfare Committee of China; Dr.

Francis Yeh, secretary of the Catholic Truth Society, and latter's wife. the central office of the 384 In addressing the children In me lzm nem wew xor in their Shanghai dialect, the 17-J'ear history of the school Lady of China commented first I New York session was tiAir hannv Mnreweinna onrt in 1933 and it attracted 649 RT. REV, JOSEPH CONWAY JAILED PRELATE Max Sorenson Will See Archbishop Stepinac On Trip to Earope A visit to Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac. imprisoned Primate of, Yugoslavia, will be made by Max H. Sorensen, national commander of the Catholic War Veterans, who left Thursday via American Over seas Airlines, for Copenhagen, Denmark, on the first leg of his European trip.

Mr. Sorensen stated that he had applied to the Yugoslav Consulate in Manhattan for a visa to enter Yugoslavia for the purpose of visit ing Archbishop Stepinac, and has been advised that upon his arrival at Rome, Aug. 20, his visa will be ready at the Yugoslav Consulate While in Italy he also plans to visit Leghorn, headquarters of the U. 6. Army Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, to-learn at first hand, of the serious charges concerning American troops and their commander in that theatre, which have been made by Robert Ruark, cor respondent for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, in a series of articles.

On Tuesday Mr. Sorensen wired Secretary of War Kenneth Royall requesting a sweeping hv vestigation of the Ruark charges, and urged that an impartial com mission be designated to maKe a full report to the American people without delay." At Copenhagen he will visit his mother who will be 81 on August 16. A native of Denmark, Mr. Sorensen served in the U. S.

Army during I World War I as an Army Air Corps instructor, and is the first naturalized American to head a veterans' service organization in the U. S. While in Italy Mr. Sorensen will also have a private audience with Pope Pius XII, at Castel Gondolfo. Sign" A.

KEHR Mother Cabrinl's beatification too closely, but ever anxious to do something that might make United States visitors feel a little more at home, he decided to mention the canonization and cover his lack of knowledge of her life by describing canonization ceremonies in Rome, which he'd personally witnessed while he studied there. Father McGuiness, who was an engineer before his vocation called him to the priesthood well in his adult years and therefore not in clined to emotional figments of the imagination, declared that as he was speaking of Mother Cabrini. a voice urged him to "place the problem of raising the new church fund in her hands that it might be accomplished." Specified Donors After Mass, as he was offering, thanksgiving, the voice persisted and without, knnurino' rtiH it. he nrved fnr a 'That, 8lmav Vnnw T-m hr0Hn, come to me with voluntary contribution before the end of the month," the priest asked Mother Cabrini. The month went by and the church seemed as far from reality as it ever had been, for on the last Sunday tourists came and went with only the ordinary cmtribu tfons donated to the plate.

But on the following Wednesday, July 31, a letter' from a woman in Chicaeo jcarried with it a chck for $500. towards the new church about Continued on Page Eight CWV HEAD TO VST tnem wny tney were nappy; "Because you are here," piped one of the youngsters. Acknowledging the tribute, she said "but you are permanently happy because you have Jesus. She added that "you must not be i6 persons enronea. selfish and keep this happiness to! 'rhe theme of the 1947 Summer yourself," explaining that she hadjscno01 sessions, "Mary.

Marriage, seen much misery resulting Family and Your Life's Work, Says; Mo th er Cabrini Aids Poor Church in Canada Alberta Pastor Is Given Unusual Reply lo His Prayer thai laudatory comment back Ama the SMtCesT The fourth phase undoubtedly is to be a "whitewashing" to be the Tito regime upon the ministers return to tnis country, a process they are expected to continue for some time out of grateful recollec tion. There's nothing particularly new, or- brilliant; about this type of "build up." The interesting thing is that it came at this time. Apparently Tito felt something had to be done, "because, contrary to his prediction of last Winter, the widespread indignation over the trial and imprisonment of Archbishop Stepinac has not died down. Time Ripe for Publicity It is easy to see how someone with feel of things" could have convinced the Tito people that this Summer was just the time to put on the campaign. Congress would be in adjournment, things in general would be quieter than at any' time during the and, presumably, editors would be casting Continued on Far Twelve FORDHAM HOLDS RADIO PARLEY Representatives from all parts of this country and Canada are attending the organizational conference of the Catholic Broadcasters Association at Fordham University this week-end.

In addition to local atnd regional scries, various Cathofic network and recorded programs will be represented, among them the Queen's Workshop of the Air. the Catholic Hour, the Hour of St. Francis, the Ave Maria Hour and the Family Rosary Hour. Rev. Jan Dito, of Switzerland, vice-president of the International Catholic Association for Radio and Television, wjll discuss affiliation with his organization.

Rev. Matthew Dubee of the Gen-esius Players Guild of Montreal wilj represent Canada on the conference while West Coast Catholic radio will be represented by Rev. Hugh Noonan and Rev. Eugene Mitchell of the Hour of St. Francis and Daniel Doran of the Catholic Film and Radio Guild, Los Angeles othr nnnel members will in elude Vincent G.

Hart. Assistant Attorney General of New Yont State: Ted Heflron. media director nf tvio xTstinnoi Conference of V11V 1 Christ inns an a Jews: Joseph Er rigo. chairman of the Catholic Forum of the Air, Wilmington, William C. Smith, radio di rector of the National Council of Catholic Men, and Rev.

Matthew Hale, S.J. East coast director oi the Rarrixf Hoort Trrrrjn. PTO- fessional radio will be represented a. AX Jay Josten District a board member of AFRA; Arthur Hull Hayes, general manager of CBS key station WCBS. and "Bill" Bailey of the Frequency Modulation Association.

in in a BISHOP'S OFFICE 75 Greene Avenue Brooklyn 5, N. Y. Dear Reverend Father: Please announce to; your esteemed parishioners that their financial support for the Catholic University of America at Washington will be requested at all the Masses on Sunday, August 17th, 1947. We are all properly proud of the notable services year-old Sodality of Our Lady, will persons. Last Summer 2,392 persons were enrolled in the New York session of the Summer School of Catholic Action at Fordham University In the eleven sessions held in New York there have been Key-noiea in ine course on mar- riage given by Father Lord at the first period in the evening sessions and at the first morning period, following the dialogue Mass.

Following Father Lord's talk on marriage and family life and on the guidance at young people into happy marriage, there will be six Sodality organization courses given by Sodality organizers in college, high and elementary schools and in the parish. Over forty elective courses in; Catholic living, ranging from the liturgy, the family, courtship and the Mass to economic housing, Interracial justice and consumer education, will be given at both the day and night sessions, i When the faculty of 28 Jesuit priests and lay persons arrives inj New York for the session they will have nearly completed a circuit which will be completed; at the final session of tfce school at the Morrison Hotel, Chicago, 111., Aug. 24-30. Former Actor Receives Petitions at First Mass Lima, Peru, Aug. 13 (NO Numerous petitions: poured into Father Jose.

Francisco de Guadalupe. O.F.M., who was known to the world as Mojica. a favorite Latin American motion picture and operatic star before he entered religious life, when he prepared to "offer his First Mass. Father Jose said his primary intention was the salvation of the souls of all interested in his vocation, especially those who assisted at his First Mass. -j Vincentians Meet The monthly meeting of the Society of St Vincent de Paul, Queens Particular Council, will be held at the central office.

93-26 Union Hall Jamaica, Sunday, Aug. 17, at 3:15 pjn. rendered by our national ing and research. For By ERNEST Banff, Canada, Aug. 13 The remarkable manner in which prayers to iMbther Cabrini are making possible the construction of a new churdhf.

"whose attractiveness will be in keeping with the glories of nature which God has placed here," wasi disclosed by Rev. F. R. McGuiness 6ne of the most widely known priests in Western Canada. to this writejr.

The -iginal church a weather-beaten ahd time-worn wooden building ft more than sixty years old and although it has served th- few Catholic residents and thousands of Summer tourists, repairs and patches: are no longer ibl2 to keep it in even the minimum stagt of utility. iBut fewer than seventy Catholics Jimply cannot suppor the construction of a church, so Father MCGuiness' hopes seemed almost futile until last Summer, when Mother Cabrini took a super-' natural hjpid in the problem. On JulV 7. 1946, after the Then! again we are sincerely grateful for its en lightening; and helpful influence in fostering a true and sound! knowledge of the truths of our holy Faith; in maintaining high standards of genuine scholarship the war and that they should spread happiness to others. Remarking their healthy appear ance, Madame Chiang asked when they last had tasted meat.

"Today for dinner they replied. She was surprised, with the cost of meat 10,000 Chinese dollars a pound. Later, visiting the kitchen she saw a supply of canned rfady-meat. The day after her isit, Madame Chiang had a month's supply of rice, candy and some meat delivered to the school. i Thanks TABLET readers In her letter.

Mother' Mary St. Francis of Assisi said, in part: "Were back home in China again, deeply grateful; to THE TABLET for its publicity and to its readers for their response to its appeal. We wish to thank all our friends for the kindness and great charity extended to us during the month we were back in our native Brooklyn. "The Ford, which a devoted ben efactor managed to get on the boat with us, was the first to arrive. How thankful we are to have transportation assured for the daily food supply for our 140 dependents! Then came the heating system and the trunks intact.

There was no pilferage. How this shipment has encouraged our Sisters! Now that they have the material to advance their work, their twelve uninterrupted years of struggling is lightly borne. Harry G. HU1, of 895 St. Marks Brooklyn, is taking care of, our mission auxiliary in order that the projects undertaken may be sustained." Mother Mary St.

Francis Is the Superior of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, 910 Hengshan Rd. (Ave. Shanghai, China. She is a sister of Rev. Dermod C.

Flinn, chaplain of St. Mary's Hos pital, Brooklyn. and in providing for; thousands of our clergy, Relig ious and laity an opportunity of acquiring approved methods of teaching and These very usef ul, services have been gratifyingly reflected in the scientific tioning; cultural effects; tual influence of our elementary, secondary and col-j legiate diocesan schools. o'clock Mass a tourist came to theLf God, let a New Yorker and a We shall ask our people, therefore, on Sunday, August 17th, to as will a substantia! evidence of their sincere interest in and support of the Catholic University of America so that unhampered by financial obligations and "with the blessing of small room adjacent to the church wmcn serves dually as rectory and sacristy to, speak with Father McGuiness: "I was a little surprised that you didn't say anything about Mother Cabrini's canonization today. You know she's one of our first United States saints and I think it would please tburists from across the line if said something about it during pur sermon at ine next Mass." ie woman said.

Father. McGuiness admitted that he'd nc. the news of I tinue and extend its worthy and serviceable educa-j tional endeavors. Mi Faithfully yours. THOMAS E.

MOLLOY, il Bishop of Brooklyn.

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