Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1937 (3)
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.Joseph "e h_ave had mu c h experience along these Imes , as some of the living Catholics hav" known th e four Bish- ops who _ruled this diocese in their life- time. ,, e haYP had a delicious variety and some of the, good people say what wonderfu I contrasts in our Bishops 1 "'e haye had recluses and public lead~ Prs who ha,·e bee n looked upon as the first citizens of St. .Joi;eph. ,Ve haYe had connoisseurs of art and literature who had international reputations fo,: their knowledgP of Dante. ,Ve have had prodigious stud••nts like the intel- lectual Gilfillan, whose universal and "·ide stretch of learning equaled that of any prelate in the United States. ,ve have had mastel's of the social sciences as our present beloved Bishop. All oi them "ere great Church men, whom the people revered and hold their namea in benediction to this day. Pays T r ibute to Bishop Buddy You will find that your ne,v Bishop has gathered into his personality the grand tra, ts of all these men, and espe- cially of th late BiRhop Burke and B ishop Gilfillan, who had much to do with shaping· and molding his sacer- dotal charactel'. These two great Bish- ops, gifted various ways, were, above all else, men of pl'ayer. In his daily walks through this city Bishop Burke found time to spend an hour before the Blessed Sacrament every clay, and every night at midnight Bis;hop Gilfillan went into his Cathedral to commune with his Eucharistic Lord for an hour. You will find Bishop ,Buddy, above all else, to be a man of God, first and last. and a true priest. You will find Bishop Buddy progl'es- sive and still conservative. He has seen th is diocese go forwal'd a pace for the glol'y of God without any attending serious financial catastrophe. All the debts in the diocese on our churches, rectories. schools and diocesan institu- tions amount to only $155,000-perhaps an unparalleled condition in our coun- t1·y. But you may say like the Bishop said to a pastor who was boasting that he had no debt: "Father, what institutions and buildings have you?" ,\'e haY e high schools for our boys and girls; w e have orphan asylums for th e berea\'ed boys and girls; we have more than 90 per cent of our children in th e parochial schools in our city; we have a numbel' of high schools in the interior of our diocese in the rural dis- tricts: we have Catholic hospitals in many of our larger towns, and our Most Reverend Bishop T.e Blond urged and encou,·ag·ed the giving of street missions in localities where thel'e were few, if any, Catholics. You will find Dishop Budd.v a leader in public affail'S, deep!)' concerned with all that relates to the happiness and welfare, not only of his Catho lic flock, hut also that of your citJ', state and our country. His g!'eat heart that heark- ened to the cry of the poor will con- tinue to help the needy and to be sym- pathetic to the priests on the poor n1issionr-;. Presents Purse T have been del egated to present, in the name of the priests of our diocese, t h is token of our esteem and felicita- t ions. and with it goes our sincere prayer that God's benediction s will at- tend every work you undertake a nd that )·ou ma~· be spared for many years in YOUI' new field of labor. OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS AT CONSECRATION < '~' ~.\ Among those attending the consecra- tion ceremony who were guests of Mrs. Louis Dandurant were Sister Mary Magdalin, Superior of Sacred Heart Academy, Ogden, Utah; Sister John Berchmans, Fresno, Cal. ; Sister Fran- ces J erome, vice-president, and Sisler Agnes Claudia, secretary of St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Redmond, Laurelton, Long Island, N. Y.; Dr. and Mrs. E. P. Buddy, Edward, J r., Betty and Alice eJ an Buddy, St. Louis; Mrs. W ill S. Peters, Denver, Colo.; Mr s. Ed Mc- Quirk, Atchison, Kan., and Mrs. P aul McGannon of Nrw York City. Other out-of-town guests included ;\Jr. and Mrs. J ohn R. Hermes, P itts- burgh, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. George Neiger. Fort Wayne. Ind.; Maurice F. Lenn an, Chicago; Dr. and Mrs. Robert E Schleuter, St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. B. Notzen, Kansas City; Francis Schott, Kansas City; Dr. and Mrs. Frank McLain, Des Moines; Dr. and Mrs. Tom Horner, Atchison; Edward Clark, l\Iiss Lucy Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ryan. Brookfield. Mo.
St. Charles a Model Bishop lia\e l a:-.sed. "I ·t ,the 5'ln1st1an world of tod:i.,· looks to :;,i.. < harl<'H as a mod<-! Bishop-a gri•t;~- ~·1•tro1·1~1t·I', ~1·c:11rding to the n1ind of'.'"~ X, "ho \\ould r<"sto1·p all things in_ ( hnst. I [e was lhl' Disl10p of Cath- / 011<• .\ct1on, as our presPnt Holy F..,a- th ..,, "·ho wants th,, fullt11•ss of faith to J>t·nneatt· t·Yf>1'Y pari~h-eve1T dio- l'l'Ht-·-t•Yt 1·y land. .. \nd now, my_ fri!'1Hls, can r do better than h1·1ng bc,lon, you the name and 1'\mP nnI Bishop-the forL•1·unner and r,,-mplifi,·athn of what our pres- ent Holy Fa tlwr (whom may the Lord t·onsern•) drs1gnat<'s as Catholic Ac- tion. l'i_tn I d,o b<'ttp1•, I say, than sPt b:fnre \ 0111· I~xcellency, Charles Fran- c,:s, by tlw g-raye ,or MANY DISTINGUISHED GUESTS VISIT CONVENT Archbishop J . J . Cantwell of Los An- ~eles, special guest of honor at the consecration ceremonies for Bishop C. F. Buddy here Monday, said Mass that morning at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, and was a breakfast guest of the religious at the convent. The Archbishop is a friend of years' stand- ing of Reverend Mother A. Mullen of th convent. Others saying Mass al the convent that morning and who were breakfast guests with Archbishop Cantwell were Bishop Henry Althoff, Belleville, Ill.; Bishop William D. O'Brien, Chicago; Msgr. C. Gilmartin. Belleville; Msgr. .T. Lyons, St. Louis; Msgr. J . W. Sten- son, Omaha; the Rev. Sylvester Tuck- er, Cathedral, St. Louis; the Rev. Adolph Kuhlman, S.J., St. Marys, Kan_.; the Rev. J. R. O'Neill, S.J., St. Louis, and the Rev. J . J. Bannon, S.J ., Clrveland, Ohio. PUBLIC RECEPTION SUNDAY AFTERNOON There will be a public reception Sun- day afternoon, Dec. 27, at 3 o'clock in the auditorium of Central High School for the laity, both Catholic and non- Catholic. At this meeting, which is open to the public, Joseph E. Corby, chairman, in a presentation speech, will present a purse to Bishop Buddy on behalf of the people of the Cathedral Parish. Other speakers will be the Most Rev. C. H. Le Blond, D.D., Mayor P hil I Welch, John D. McNeely, Dr. Daniel Morton and Fred Karr. Bishop Buddy will respond. HOTEL ROBIDOUX Following the consecration services, 11 banquet was given in the crystal room at Hotel Robidoux, with Bishop Buddy as host to the visiting clergy- men, among the guests being Their Excellencies the Most Rev. John J. Cantwell of Los Angeles, the Most Rev. James P. Murray of St. Paul and the _Most Rev. John J. Glennon of St. ~oms.. a number of Bishops, Mon- 1 s1gnon, the Right Rev. Abbot Philip Ruggle of ~onception, the Right Rev. 1 Abbot Martm Veth of Atchison, Kan., Bishop Le Blond and a number of priests. Right Rev. Msgr. J. P. Brady was toastmaster. I Toasts were given by the Very Rev. John J . O'Neill, the Rev. J . K. Cart- wright, Ph.D., D.D., the Rev. Louis F. Kelleher, D.D., the Right Rev. Msgr. John M. Hegarty, V.F., the Most Rev. John J. Cantwell, D.D., Archbishop of Los Angeles, and the Most Rev. C. H. Le Blond, Bishop of St. Joseph. Bishop Buddy responded. Ve ry Rev. John J . O' Ne ill's Add r ess We publish the following address of Father O'Neill because of its dio- 1 cesan interest: Last st'.mmer and. th e early _fall one of ou, p11ests was 111 Cal!forn1a doing some research work for his thesis at the Catholic University. Whilst in San D,_ego he was often twitted by the priests about the City and Diocese of St. Joseph. He often heard them say "Where is this city? Of what can you,: d 1ocese boast?" Fortunately or unfor- tunatel.v for them, this post-graduate stu dent_ pnest left San Diego the day before 1t was announced in their daily ~apers that a priest from the City of S_t. Jos_eph had been appointed their first B ishop, . This diocese may not be well known 1n all parts ~f the great State of Cal i- forn ia, b u t h istory shows that it is well and favorably known at Rome, where p1_-,ests are selected to be t h e Bishops of the world. In fact, this diocese oc- cu p,cs a very unique position among the d1oceses ' of the United States. From the M issouri to the Pacific there is not another diocese of the size of St. Jo- seph, and ver~· few from the Missouri to the Atla n tic, that has seen so large a number of men associated with it elevated to the Episcopate as St. Jo- seph has seen. Gives Credit to Irish Priests In. the early days the State of Mis- souri was evangelized by a band of cul- t,ured, high ly educated Irish priests. 'l here were the ScanIons, the Powers, the Don n ell ys, the Hennessys, the Ho- gans, the Walshes, th<' Ryans the TuckE:rs, the Foxes, going up and down the highways and byways of the great state carrying the Gospel to the peo- ple. Amongst t h em was a Father Hen - ness~·. who was rector of St. Joseph Cathedral from 1860 to 1866. In the la_tter year he was consecrated Bishop oJ Dubuque by the late Archbishop kenenck, and some yearn later he be- came Dubuque's first Archbishop and fowa's great Apostle of Catholic Edu- cation. Then, when a village some fiftv m il es down the Missouri began to expand and boom. the first Bishop of St. Joseph bcca111~ the first •Bishop of Kansas City, the samtly _Bishop Hogan, who, with all h1R p1oneer1ng labors. bui lt two Cathe- drals m l11s lifetime and still was hum- ble enough to live in the basemen t of the Cathedral where Bishop Buddv \\'as consecrated todav. · Then, fifty seven year ago, a student was adopted to study for the priest- hood in this diocese. Today that stu- dent for the St. Joseph Diocese of fifty- sev_en years ago is the great Metro- politan of St. Louis. _T!1e Pl'esent wonderful Church ad- 1111n1st1·ator of Kansas City did his in- aug:ural WOl'k in the Pl'iesthood as an assistant at St. Patrick's Church in this city. Then. in later times, the beloved Fa- th_er .Johannes, who spent most of his lite as assistant pastor at the lmmacu- l la_t<' Conception Church, became the Bishop of Leavenworth. toda~· again we are thrilJc:>d to brother-priest whom we have known and labored with since his ordination, C'levated to the fullnes,; of the priesthood. Pays T r ibute to Former Bishops . T can readily i111agine the pri es ts o! San Diego saying: "\Veil, this is his- tor~·; t <'ll us something about our new/ Bishop. ,vhat manner of man have we co nw out beyond the desert to see?" " -~ well know that no archeologist so <'are tull~·- ~crapes the ground of lost and huried c,t,es as priests try to analyze and lC''!-1 n the broad and outstanding I l " ·es ot thP1I' new Bishop. Here in St. Ann see a companion. a • •
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