Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1941-1945

OFFICIAL O GAN OF THE DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 , 1945

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Cardinals-designate, En Roule To Vatican . To be Honored In Eire (Continued from Page 1) According to the time table pre- pared by the Trans World Airline, this pla.ne is scheduled to arrive at Shannon, Eire, in the morning of Feb. 11 and will leave after a 90- minute stop for Paris a.nd Rome, where it is due in the afternoon of Feb. 11. Canadian Cardinal En Route Cardinal Rodrigue Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec, sailed aboard the SS Queen Elizabeth from New York on Feb. 4, bound for the Consistories. BERLIN (Radio, NC)-Cardinal- designate Konrad von Preysing, Bishop of Berlin, left here Jan. 31 aboard a French airplane for Paris en route to Rome, where he was expected to arrive within a few days. The other two German Cardinals - elect, Joseph Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, and Cle- ment August von Galen, Bishop of Muenster, are journeying to Rome this week. On the first stage of their journey they were to be taken by a British airplane to Brussels. Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich and Freysing, the only present German Cardinal, planned to travel to Rome by automobile via Swit- zerland. The Cardinal was much impress- ed with San Diego, many parts of which reminded him of his own coastal city, Tsingtao. Friday afternoon he toured the city with San Diego's Bishop, visiting the Cathedral and the Loretto Chapel whose beauty delighted the Chi- nese prelate. The same Friday afternoon His Eminence agreed to address the Children of Mary at their regular monthly meeting at St. Madeleine Sophie Convent. In his talk, the Cardinal discuss- ed the friendship existing between the United States and China and thanked the members and the Am- erican people in general for their continued and generous support of the Chinese missions. He closed the meeting with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament In the Con- vent chapel. ·Later in the afternoon the (Continued on Page 2)

I VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC)- According to an announcement in Osservat-Ore R-0mano, the following Cardinals-elect were expected to arrive in Rome this week: Adam Stephen Sapieha, Archbishop of Cracow, Poland; Joseph Minds- zenty, Archbishop of Esztergom, Hungary, Konrad von Preysing, Bishop of Berlin, and Clement August von Galen, Bishop of Muenster. His Holiness Pope Pius XII has received in audience Cardinal- designate Charles McGuigan, Arch- bishop of Toronto, Canada, who was the first of the 32 new Princes of the Church to r<:!ach Rome. Cardinal-designate Manuel Artea- ga y Betancourt, Archbishop of ?avana, was second. The two pre- lates sailed from New York aboard the Gripsholm on Jan. 10. Cardinal-designate Teodosio Cle- mente de Gouveia, Archbishop of Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, Africa, who arrived in Rome by airplane from Cairo, Egypt, ex- plained that his delay en route was due to a forced stop at Khartoum, Egypt, for a six-day quarantine. He expressed his appreciation of the courtesies extended to him by the British and Egyptian authori- ties. His nomination to the Sa- cred College took him completely by surprise, the Prelate said, add- ing that it reflected the profound interest of the Holy Father in the work of the missions. Two Unable t,o Attend Cardinals• designate Jules Sa- liege, Archbishop of Toulouse, France, and Jon de Jong, Arch- bishop of Utrecht, The Nether- lands, who for reasons of health will be unable to be present at the forthcoming Consistory, will re- ceive official notification of their election to the College of Cardinals by the Apostolic Nuncios to France and The Netherland~, it was stated here. The Nuncios will also im- pose the red birettas upon the two new Princes of the Church. RIO DE JANEIRO (NC)-Six Cardinals - designate sailed from ) here aboard the war transport Duque de Caxias, placed at their disposal by the Government of Brazil, to attend the Consistory at Vatican City. • The two Brazilian Cardinals- designate, Archbishops Jaime de Barros Camara of Rio de Janeiro, and Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcelos Motta of Sao Paulo, were joined by Cardinal-designate Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Papal Nuncio to Brazil, and the following Cardi- nals-designate from Chile, Peru and Argentina: Archbishops Jose Maria Caro Rodriguez of Santiago, and Juan Gualberto Guevara. of Lima, and Bishop Antonio Caggi- ano of Rosario.

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The Most Rev. Thomas Tien, S.V.D., Bishop of Ts lngtao and China's first representative to be chosen for the Sacred College of Cardinals, accompanied by the Most Re,·erend Bishop of San Diego, pays his respects to Vice Adm. J. B. Oldendorf, commandant of the Eleventh Naval District, after leaving the USS Wakefield, the transport ship that brought him from China to San Diego the first lap of his jour,ney to Rome where he will receive the red hat and other cardlnalitlal 1n11ignla.

St. Michael's cathedral, Tsingtao, China, See of Bishop Thomas Tien, who was the guest of San Diego's Most Reverend Qrdinary over the week-end. Bishop Tien ls en route to Vatican City, where he will be elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals. the first Chinese prelate to be so honored.

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China's first Cardinal Greeted y Bishop Buddy On Arrival Humble Bishop Tien, on Way to Rome For Consistory, Enjoys Tour of City h ~t. 1~ichael's C3;thedral _walls echoed to the stirring eern of Joy of Arnencan Mannea when Bishop Thomas Tien nno~nced from the pulpit that he had been appointed a ardm~l of the Church. Thus Americans set a precedent in he Orient for a Chinese prelate. - 1 Outstanding for h is humility, modesty and shyness, the little

When the Bishop got word from General Howard that he had ar- ranged passage on the USS Wake- field, he sent a wireless message to the boat extending a cordial welcome to the Cardinal-elect in- viting him to be his guest of honor in San Diego. Upon his arrival in San Diego, His Eminence was met at the pier by our Most Rev. Bishop and a welcoming committee including Father Augustine Tseu, America's only Chinese priest, the Rev. An• thony May, S.V.D., Procurator General of the Society of the Di• vine Word, the Rev. William A. Maguire, District Chaplain of the Eleventh Naval District, the Rev. Albert R. O'Hara, S.J., who spent eight years in the Chinese mis• slons, the Rev. Douglas A. Moore, secretary to Bishop Buddy and Diocesan Director of the Propaga- tion of the Faith, and the Rev. Ed- ward A. Johnson, Editor, Southern Cross.

China-born Cardinal refrained from announcing his arrival in San Di- ego. It was through the courtesy of General Howard, stationed in Tsingtao that His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bishop of San Di- ego learned by cable of the coming of Bishop Tien.