Report of the Committee on Resolutions

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS The Committee on Resolutions of the XXV Annual Meeting of the Fran­ ciscan Educational Conference respectfully submits the following resolutions: 1. The members of the Franciscan Educational Conference renew their love and loyalty for the Holy See and for His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, thanking him with all their hearts for the paternal and Apostolic Blessing bestowed on the President and members on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of the Conference. 2. The Conference is deeply grateful to His Excellency, the Most Rev. Amleto G. Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, for his own personal words of congratulation and encouragement. 3. The Conference wishes to express its appreciation for the continued patronage and help on the part of the Hierarchy. In particular, the members are grateful to the Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore and Washington, and the Most Rev. John M. McNamara, auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore and Washington; to the former for his written word and to the latter for the vocal message given the members of the Conference at an informal dinner. 4. To the Most Reverend Ministers General of the three families of the First Order of St. Francis; to the Most Rev. Mathias Faust, O. F. M., Dele­ gate-General of the Order of Friars Minor; to the Most Rev. Benno Aichinger, O. F. M. Cap., Commissary General of the Capuchins; to the Very Reverend Ministers Provincial and Commissaries, the Conference ex­ tends its best wishes and prayers, as well as its thanks for their paternal protection and encouragement. 5. The Conference congratulates the Catholic University of America on the election of the Right Rev. Patrick J. McCormick, Ph. D., as its new Rector Magnificus. Monsignor McCormick himself it salutes and thanks for his visit to the Conference and his kindly words of interest. 6. The genuine Franciscan hospitality shown by the Commissariat of the Holy Land, under the order of the Very Rev. Leonard T. Walsh, O. F. M., and the personal direction of the Rev. Herbert Gallagher, O. F. M.; the kindness of the Rev. Mark Kennedy, O. F. M., Vicar of Holy Name College, the Very Rev. Ferdinand Mayer, O. F. M. Conv., Guardian of St. Bonaventure Convent, and the Rev. Sebastian Miklas, O. F. M. Cap., Guardian of St. Francis College, have each and all merited our undying gratitude. 7. The Conference extends its condolences to the Province of Santa Barbara on the death of its Minister Provincial, the Very Rev. Martin Knauff, O. F. M.; and to St. Bonaventure Province of the Friars Minor Conventual on the death of the Very Rev. Felix Baran, O. F. M. Conv., Minister Provincial. 8. The Conference extends a most hearty welcome to its newly affiliated members: the three Mexican Provinces of the Order of Friars Minor, that of the Holy Gospel (Mexico City), of Sts. Francis and James (Jalisco) and of Sts. Peter and Paul (Michoacan); the Franciscan (Slovenian) Commis­ sariat of the Holy Cross, Lemont, Illinois; the Italian American Custody of the Friars Minor Capuchin, New York City; and to the two Provinces 412 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS 413 of the Third Order Regular: that of the Immaculate Conception (Hollidaysburg , Pa.) and of the Sacred Heart (Loretto, Pa.). 9. On the occasion of its Twenty-fifth Jubilee, the Conference extends its thanks and appreciation to its Very Reverend President and to all Friars who at any time have been officers of the Conference. 10. The absolute need of strictly scientific jnethods and approaches in papers prepared for the Conference and for the Franciscan Studies must ever be realized by Franciscan scholars and students. Otherwise, the standards of scholarship will inevitably decline, to the disrepute of the Conference and the periodical it sponsors. 11. Apropos the chief topic of the Jubilee Year of this learned body, the Conference goes on record that in these days of rampant materialism, positivism, indifferentism, and atheism, as well as of multifarious miscon­ ceptions of the nature and existence of God, the correct theological and philosophical doctrine de Deo be stressed and propounded in season and out of season in the pulpit, the classroom, the press, and...