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Corona a -0r of S . Edwards parish, included assistant past-Or– ate and two term.s as admm1stra– tor in parishes in and around Los Angele . As as.sistant and later as administrator for six months of St. Monica's parish, Santa Monica, during the absence of Mon.signor I Conneally, Father O'Shea assist– ed in the building of the new rec– ory and church. as he did later in Pasadena, where he was given charge of the interior decoration of the new St. Andrew's church, and through his energy, hard work and power of persuasion far ex– ceeded the expectations of all. As assistant pastor of Immacu– late Heart parish, Hollywood, Fa– ther O'Shea had as one of his duties, the editing of a four-page parish newspaper, "The Cam– paigner," an endeavor that fol– lowed closely along the lines of ,his extra-curricula activities dur– ing student days, Some lime was also spent by Father O'Shea in St. Brenden's parish, Los Angeles. Father O'Shea is a member of the National Conference of Social Work and in 1930 represented the Diocese of Los Angeles and San Diego at the International Con– gress of Catholic Seamen at Liver– pool, England. The new editor also speaks S pan i sh, a fact that will p be cf grea • help when the time come~ for the addition cf special I columns of news for the large Mex·ran population resident in the diocese. Much interest in the welfare or' Italian Catholics has also been evinced by Father O'Shea, and it was his lot recently to be assigned the duty of chairman for the im– mense gathering in Los Angeles of the Italian Catholic Federation of Southern California, for which he was highly praised by church authorities for the success of the undertaking. He will also represent the dio– cese at the annual convention of Federation in Los Angeles in Sep– tember.

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Beginning ,vith next w be in fact, as well as in na th official pap r for t~e Dioc:se of San Diego. for Bishop Bu J} ha'i acquired it and will publish it under the direction of hr own td1torial b rd. 7: _hns the C athol10; of this diocese w1 I h ve, for th ·tr mformatton and i~struction a newspaper who , even• v. ord will b supoorted by the authonl y of the Bishop and th ( burch It i onlr fitting at th1 time th.H the r~e, nt publishers of The outhern Cross should r all t he many year~ of contact~·· not I , th the Catholics of San Otego but with the bu ,tncss on Y \\ 1 1· · f y firms of the community in general. Th pub 1cat10n o a_n newspaper such as The Southern C ro5s is alway beset with I difficulties , .1nd the uni tcrrupted service whch Th Southern Cioss has been able to give to the community ha not bee~ due I s~ 1 ~rnch to the labors of it'> o 1crs as to the loyalty and faith of its reader'> and supporters. Tt is pleasant to think th,1t 1 h· Southern Cross has been u~cful to the C.1tholic poptilation of San Diego in the years that , ·t 1 • II m"a ure Its usefulness now 1 h.w~ passed, even I on y m a sma .. · . will be increased a hundred fold. and the .publishers o: The Southern Cross belicw th..-:t anotha long step forward m the advancement of the Church in this part of the ':·arid has ~e~n taken by Bishop Buddy in the publication of his own off1c1al journal.

8'i8iJllh Shea, who ,rill take over his official duties as editor of The Southern Cross next week. Cap.'lble IIands It is with pleasure, too, that in n in the past. Father James P. O'Shea comes to San Diego to take over the edi– torship of The Southern Cross from Corcrna, California, \v!here for the past three years he has served as pastor of St. Edwards church, and where, according to the Riverside Enterprise, in an article regarding his transfer to San Diego, "besides carrying on so successfully the many duties in the church, Father O'Shea found time for many community serv– ices, ljeing a member of the beau– tification committee, the Boy Scout board and many other groups. His services as a speaker have been in much demand out– side of his church." Born at Limerick, Ireland, Fa– ther O'Shea was educated in schools of that country and the United States. He attended St. Muchins College at Limerick, lat– er going to St. John's Seminary, l Watterford, Ireland, for his p,hil– oosophy and to St. Patrick's Sem- 1 inary, 1Uenlo Park, California, for the completion of his theological studies. In 1924, he was ordained at St. Vibiana's Cathedral in Los 1 Angeles by HI s Excellency, the I Most Rev. Archbishop John J. I Cantwell. " -

1 BISHOP- NAME . J. P. O'SHEA EW EITO AS Staff to Assume New Duties With Next Friday's [':iSUC ..,.dll£._,__ ..,,wwSce Picture•---t~l.. ,, TO MOVE OFFICE First The Southern Cross Published in City in 1912 With this issue of The Southern Cross, ~ si 5 mificant occasion is marked, the passing of a news– pi,per edited for twent-six years by laymen for the cause of right and the promotion of the Catho– li~ Church, into the hands of the fir t bishop of the diocese of San Diego, the goal to which the pa– per's early editors ever looked to– ward. His E ·cellcnc~·. Bishop Char! s Francis Buddy, expressed himself as being greatly pleased wi!h The southern Cross when he an-ived in San Diego in February to a~sumc the duties as the first or- dinary of the dioc ~e 'Composed of San Bernardino, Riverside, lm• perial and San Diego countirs. H found it to be a truly representa– tive papnr and expressed his feel 1 mgs on the m tter on April 18 by ccla The Southern Cross to be tr of the Dio- ,-.nc;p

'With next week's issue of The Southern Cross, tllc paper passes I1lJ)lekly ·nto the s of ii new editor, the Rev. Jam · P. O'Shea, ·ho last \leek •a,;; named I by Bishop Buddy as editor-in.– chief of the official dioCFcan pub– lication. The newspaper office will be moved into one of the new cffke rooms at the Chancery, 1528 Fourth avenue. A5sociate editors of The South- I ern Cross will be the Very Rev. Laurence Forristal, chancellor of the diocese; the Rev. C. Norman I Raley, pastor of 1\/f.ar!, Star of the Sea parish, Oceanside, and the Rev. Matthew Thompson. pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe church, Calexico. The present publishers are hap• py at the advent of the paper go– ing into the hands of San Diego's first bisho.r,, for it marks the real• ization cf the late James H. Doughl'rty's fondest dream, that the paper, for which he sacrificed and worked be the instrument of During the many year~ before 1is d a.th in U)31, that Ir. Dougherty edit- ed and p11blishcd The Sot1tbcrn Crc , he often spoke to his sons and th '-e who worked with him of the day in the not too far distant future· when the Diocese of S n Die ,o wculd become a reality, and at his pleasure in being ab e to present a Catholic new ;paper to its first prelate, a requisition i e,·ery well regulated diocese. He was want to predict that the change would come, "not i my da ·, but in yours.'' 1 the c;ty'" fin;I, bishop.

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Lake Bishop Named To Rochester

WASHINGTON- Bishop James E. Kearney has been transfen-ect from the Diocese of Salt Lake to the Diocese of Rochester, N. Y.. in niccession to Archbishop Mooney, first head of the new Archdiocese of Detroit. Bishop Kearney was bo1n in 1884 at Redoak, Iowa, taken to New York when two years old. He was ordained in 1908 and consecrated Bishop of Salt Lake in October, 1932.