Evening star., 1936-11-18
Djunitaries of Church Gather
Here to Inaugurate
New Rector.
JUSTICE BUTLER
WILL BE H0N0RED
He and Right Rev. M. J. Lovelle
to Receive University's
Honorary Degrees.
rmnortant dignitaries of the Catho-

of Right Rev. Joseph Moran Corrlgan
as sixth rector of Catholic University.
Headed by Most Rev. Amleto Clcog-
mani, apostolic delegate to the United
States, these archbishops, bishops,
monsignori and priests will enter the
university gymnasium at 4 pm. to
witness the ceremony. With them
will be the trustees and members OF
the faculty of the university, mem
bers of the diplomatic corps, Govern
ment officials, delegates from more
than 800 educational institutions,
heads of the religious houses affiliated
with the university and a delegation
of priests from the archdiocese Of
Philadelphia, Msgr. Corrigan's home.
Patrick Cardinal Hayes, archbishop
of New York, will pronounce the in
vocation; Dennis Cardinal Dougherty,
archbishop of Philadelphia, will speak.
Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, arch
bishop of Baltimore, will confer hon.
orary degrees on Associate Justice
Pierce Butler of the Supreme Court
and on Right Rev. Michael j. Lavelle,
: vicar general of the archdiocese of
New York.
To Read Citations.
Right Rev Patrick j. Mccormick,
vice rector of the university, will pre-
sent the candidates. DR.. Joseph P.
Christopher, the university's public
orator, will read the citations.
After Msgr Corrigan makes his in
augural address, Most Rev. John j.
NIFTY, archbishop OF San Francisco,
will extend greetings to the new rector
on behalf of the clerical alumni, and
Francis P. Garvan of New York will
extend greetings on behalf OF the lay
alumni
Archbishop Cicognani will give the
benediction, and after the services
Msgr. Corrigan will lead the process
sion to the Mullen Library for a re-
eeption at $50 pm. The activities
will begin at $3.50 pm. with process
sion, which will form in three units
on the campus under the direction of
Rev. Dr. Maurice 8. Sheehy, as grand
marshal.
The first unit, composing bishops.
faculty and trustees, will form at
Caldwell Hall, with Rev. DR.. Ignatius
Smith, director of the School of Phil
osophy, as marshal.
The delegation from learned insti-
tutions and societies will form at Nc
Mahon Hall, with DR.. Hardee Chamb-
liss. professor of chemistry, and DR..
James J. Hayden of the School of
Law as marshals. The delegation will
be arranged in procession in the order
of date of foundation of the institu-
tion they represent.
Castle to Be Delegate.
William R. Castle. jr., former Under
secretary of State and member of
the board of overseers of Harvard Uni
versity, founded in 1886, and DR..
Charles C. Marbury, trustee of st.
Johns College, Annapolis, founded in
1896, both prominent washington res
idents, will be the delegates leading
this procession.
The student body will form in Glib
bons Hall with Rev. DR.. Frank P.
Cassidy, dean of men, as marshal, and
will enter the gymnasium where the
exercises are to be held, preceding the
other divisions.
On conclusion of the exercises Msgr.
Corrigan will lead the procession to
Mullen Library Assisting the new
rector in the receiving line will be
Msgr. Mccormick and the deans OF the
several schools and colleges of the uni
versity.
Msgr. Corrigan was appointed rector
of the university in March. 1886. sue
ceeding Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan,
who had been appointed Bishop OF
Omaha. The new rector is one OF the
best known priests in the United States
and has a distinguished record as an
educator. He came to the university
from the rectorship of St. Charles Bor-
romeo Seminary, Overbrook, Pa, where
he was also a professor of pastoral
theology. He served at one time as
chancellor of the archdiocese of Ph1la-
delphia and also as director of chart-
ties
Born in the Cathedral Parish in
Philadelphia, he attended the paro-
chial school and La Sale College.
While a student at st. Charles Sem
inary, of which he later was to become
rector, he was selected to pursue his
, philosophical and theological studies
at North American College, Rome.
He was ordained in Rome at the
Church of st. John Lateran on June
6. 1903. and on his return to Philadel-
phia was assigned to parish work. On
october Is, 1913, he was appointed to
the staff of st. Charles Seminary, and
on October 20, 1925, he was named
rector of the seminary, which post he
held until named rector of Americas
National Catholic Pontifical University
BY his holiness, Pope Plus XII.
Meeting Is Held.
The archbishops and bishops met
this morning in the Catholic Univer-
sity library for the first session OF a
two-day discussion of ecclesiastic
problems general to them all. The
bishops on the administrative noaro
Of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference will meet Friday. perhar
to name q successor to Msgr. John
Burke, former secretary of the CO.
ference, who died fortnight ago.
Todays ceremonies were the second
this week of wide interest to the
Catholic hierarchy.
On Monday, Rev. DR.. Edward Bene-
dict Jordan, associate professor OF ed
ucation at Catholic University ant
dean of the Catholic Sisters College
was invested as a domestic prelate u
Pope Plus XII with the rank Of mon
signor. Msgr. Jordan was invested b,
his bishop, Most Rev. Thomas G
OReilly of Scranton. Pa. The sermon