Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1937 (2)

A Concerted Voice Of Welcotne "Never in the history of the city have such tribute and tokens of affection been bestowed on a St. Joseph pastor as have been paid to Bishop Buddy," the Catholic 1

The Throne of St. Didacus

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Above is shown the elaborately carved throne chair in St . Joseph 's Cathedral to which Archbishop Cantwell led Bishop Buddy in the ceremonies Wednesday morning. The throne is the work of Eugene Alker of Pasadena, a world famous wood carver who has worked in some of the greatest Cathed(als in Europe. It is all hand-carved from carefull y selected bl ack · walnut, - Cul Courtesy San Diego Sun. _ --' lation of the Rt. Rev. Charles Francis Buddy, D.D., form- I erly of St. JosephJ Mo., as the first San Diego bishop, this city having been made the center of a new Catholic , I • diocese a few months ago. The history of San Diego has been entwined with that of the Catholic Church 'from the beginning. In fact, , the discoveries in the New World which followed the landirtg of Columbus at San Salvador were the labors of men who were as anxious for the furtherance of the ' Catholic Church as they were for the furth.erance of the int erest of their countries. Thus the missionary always I accompanied the discoverer-if, indeed, he was not some- '. times both discoverer and missionary. . , This was particularly the case in what is now west- ern Mexico and the western United States. Most of the great expanse of territory which we now know as Sonora, 1 Lower California, Ar izona, New Mexico and California was brought to t he attention of the civilized world by Catholic missionaries who penetrated far afield for the salvation of souls while the conqueror or the governor was looking for t he golden cities of Cibola-which, need- less to say, he never found. When Junipero Serra selected the site of Mission San Diego de Alcala and buil t t here the first of that chain of Missions in California which was to become one of the greatest phases of the development of Christianity in the ·history of the world, he was simply extending-lthe trail which s tar:ted at San Salvador with Columbus, traversed Mexico to Guadalajara and ended finally at San Fran- cisco. Bu·t the furtherance of Catholicity which also started with Columbus and which was continued by Sel'l'a has not stopped, nor probably will it ever stop.

Tribune of St. Joseph, Mo., wrote in their farewell to San Diego's new leader. Mirroring St. Joseph's grief in loosing Bishop Buddy, San Diego is equally glad to recei:Ve him as its own. Not only the Catholic people, for whom it is natural to receive Bishop Buddy with open arms, but the non-Catholics as well have been happy in welcoming to their fair city this new leader from the middle west. San Diego daily papers rivaled each other in present- ing the news and pictorial happenings of the week in re- gard to Bishop Buddy. They went a step further and generously loaned San Diego's Catholic paper the use of those cuts for this week's issue. The weekly papers too, ~~ve geen gene.rQus in their, ~raise and welcome, while -th~ monthly periodicals are already asking leave to. print I various articles. Striking a keynote of the welcome accorded Bishop\ Buddy by the secuiar press is the following editorial from "The Herald", a paper dealing in civic politics. I To the believer and the unbeliever alike the Roman Catholic Church is of continual interest. Whether she be loved or hated, she cannot be despised. She remains, as a great writer has said, the one sure fact in the world. I Her antiquity, her numbers, her universality challenge the admiration of men today as they have done through the centuries, and as to her future we may quote from Macaulay probably the most famous sentence ever writ - ten by that famous man when he said that the Catholic. Church would still be great "when a stranger from New I Zealand shall stand upon the broken arches of London 1 Bridge to sketch the r uins of St. Paul's." These considerations have been aroused by the instal-