Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1941-1945

RESURRECTIONISTS TO BUILD AND STAFF BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL While in Chicago the Most Rev- erend Bishop completed a program with the Very Reverend Provin- cial of the Resurrectionist Fathers, the order which will build and staff a central high school for boys in San Bernardino. j A committee of pastors and lay re~resentatives rrom parishes in the vicinity of San Bernardino, under Very Rev. John Power, dean of San Bernardino and pastor of St. Bernardine's church, are work- ing now to select a site for this high school. The new school will serve students of both San Ber- nardino and Riverside counties, in- cluding the cttles of Riverside, Redlands, Colton, Corona, Chino, Bryn Mawr, Fontana, Arlington, Bloomington, East Highlands, On- tario, Guasti, Cucamonga, Mira Loma, Highgrove, Loma Linda I and Rialto. Arrangements have been worked out for a bus system to gather students in the morning and re- turn them in the evening. The Resurrectionist Fathers, who celebrated a half century of labor in C h i c a g o this week, specialize in academic and collegi- ate education and their professors hold degrees of distinction from the highest ranking universities in this country and Europe. They conduct several schools in the United States and Canada, includ- ing St. Mary's college, St. Mary's, Ky.; St. Jerome's college, Kitchen- er, Ont.; St. Peter's college, North Bay, Ont., and ,•feber high school in Chicago, Ill., where the order has eight parishes. They also have two parishes in Louisville, Ky., 17 parishes in Canada and a large number in Eu!'ope. They operate many institutions in It~ly, Poland and Austria and own a million dollar college in Bulgaria which the government has been using as a factory for the last several years. Diocean Goal Is Five Carloads of Food for Drive The goal outiined by the Most Reverend Bishop and his commit- tee for the Food for War Stricken Campaign, to be conducted from Dec. 9 to 16, is two carloads of canned food for San Diego county, one for Imperial, one for Bernar- dino and one for Riverside. Twenty million cans of food is the goal set for the nation, and it is believed that the American people are so keenly aware of the neces- sity for helping the victims of war through the bitter winter ahead that that will be the minimum amount received. The food collect- ed will be shipped immediately to Europe and the Far East in re- sponse to urgent appeals from War Relief Services-NCWC's resi- dent relief directors in these areas, who have stressed the imperative necessity of immediate aid if people are to be saved from star- vation. It is the intention of the com- mittee' in charge to make this the greatest food collection campaign \in the history of the San Diego I Diocese.

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Official Organ of the Diocese of San Diego, December 7, 194S

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Help to Meet the Crisis

DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO 1S28 fourth Avenue San Diego 1, California

November 30, 1945

Dear Reverend Father:

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Heartily endorsed by His Holi,1ess, Pope Pius, XII, an intensive campaign for canned goods will start in all the parishes of the United States during the coming week of December 9th. These foodstuffs go directly to the Catholic countries of Europe, the Philippines and other suffering peoples. • We cannot pretend to be followers of Jesus Christ, Whose Sacred Heart burns with love for all mankind, and neglect the dire needs of millions in war-stricken countries where condi- tions are heartrending. The poor in all parts of the world face a tragic winter. Twenty millions, frost-bitten, hungry, exposed to every form of human disease, desperate and homeless, wander east and west, north and south, across the continent of Europe. In Poland the harvest of death counts millions who have sought ground holes for shelter. This appalling crisis grimly claims young and old. Our Holy Father, who daily receives piteous appeals from far and near, knows "only too well the depth and extent of the desolation." He fervently blesses his beloved children in the United States "in their Christ-like efforts to bring relief in ever increasing measure to the innocent victims of the war." Our devoted faithful have indeed responded generously to many demands upon their zeal and charity, but we must continue to divide the loaf, show mercy to the helpless, alleviate the distress of those stripped to the bone that, one day, we may hear the Divine approval:- "For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat" (Matt. 25,35). We shall welcome help also from non-Catholics-even the Widow's Mite-the smallest parcel of food to save a life. Those who prefer may donate money with which volume purchases can be had at a discount. "If thou have much, give abundantly: if thou have little, take care even so to bestow willingly a little" (Tob. 4,9 I. To aim at a practical goal, one railroad freight-car of foodstuffs (i. e., about 70,000 lbs. I is expected from each of the three counties of Imperial, Riverside, San Bernardino and two freight-carloads from San Diego county. Praying the Holy Spirit to grant to all the grace of giving generously, I remain, with affec- tionate blessings, Your devoted servant in Christ,

Holy Ghost Order Surveys Mission Needs of Diocese Very Rev. George J. Collins, 1 C.S.Sp., provincial of the Holy Ghost Fathers, whose provin- cial house is in Washington, I D. C.; Very Rev. Regis C. I Guthrie, C.S.Sp., procurator and treasurer of the Order, and Very 1 Rev. James A. Hyland, C.S.Sp., distinguished missionary and. w-i<1t- er and author of The Dove Flies South, Rome and the \Vhite House and other books, came from the East last Saturday at the invita- tion of the Most Reverend Bishop to survey the missionary needs of the San Diego diocese. The Very Reverend Provincial and the two members of his order were guests at His Excellency's residence on Sunset boulevard. They have visited several localities in the Diocese with a view to erecting a mission house in the northern section where their priests would be available to assist neighboring pastors and also to conduct missions and retreats. I Twenty-five million souls, of I whom 2,500,000 are Catholics, are in the territories confided to 2,100 priests and 900 brothers of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In their missions are over 100 native priests, 75 native brothers, 800 native sisters and 1,000 native seminarians. The Congregation of the Holy Ghost was founded in 1703 by a lawyer turned priest, Father Claude Poullart des Places. years the order sent missionaries to various French colonies and trained other priests for the same (Continued on Page 2)

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THE SOUTHERN CROSS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 194S Nineteen Become Children of Mary at St. John's

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The Most Reverend Bishop received 19 pupils of St. John's school into the Sodality of the Children of Mary after he had celebrated Holy Mass at St John's church, Thursday, Dee. 6. Assisting were Rt. Rev. Msgr. John B. Cotter, V.G., pastor, and his assistants, the Rev. M. J. O'Connor and the Rev. Conrad Marrama.