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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1952
Page
11
Zine notes Texas newspaperman urges Catholic church to use public sermon previews and accessible language to attract non Catholics. He argues calm church messaging and bishop Fulton Sheen style promos could spark interest and quicken church growth.
Italian Catholic Action members were told that Catholics cannot join the Young Men's or Young Women's Christian Association due to the organization’s Protestant composition. The YMCA, once active in Italy during World War I and revived later, faced Fascist suppression and was denounced by the Holy Office in 1920 as corrupting the faith.
Irish actress Ann Blyth completes Sally and Saint Ann at a Hollywood studio. In the pictured group left to right are Daniel E. Doran executive chairman of the old Miss Blyth William N. Karp chairman of the 1952 awards committee and Shannon ONeal secretary of the guild.
A commemorative history from Archdiocese of San Antonio 1874 1949 highlights the mission era, San Antonio de Valero and the Alamo, Cabeza de Vaca and Massanet explorations, Bay of San Fernando origins, and long Catholic legacy across Texas with bishops Odin and Pellicer.
Archaeologists note St. Pierre aux Nonais as France oldest church, restored for public viewing. Built around 300 years at the site of a Roman Basilica near Metz, its older portions remain in good condition. Seventh century sculptures, including Christ blessing, were found nearby.
Wire and radio flashes summarize Catholic world events including obituaries of Leo A. Kieran aviation journalist, mass for Goode, and Vatican statements. Notable items cover church figures, pilgrimages, education, government service retirements, and international church news from New York to Paris.
A Colombia focused report notes heavy anti Catholic sentiment by Protestant ministers and followers amid violence in a largely Catholic nation. It outlines tensions between Catholics and Protestants, noting violence by both sides and alleged links to guerrilla groups. The piece calls for a balanced view and condemns violence by all parties.
Girl Scouts of the United States announces Mrs. Charles H. Ridder of New York as secretary chosen by the national executive committee. She heads the organization's national Catholic advisory committee.
The Catholic Herald Citizen calls the action by Wisconsin State Superintendent George E. Watson to cut state aid to fourteen Catholic nun taught public schools ill advised and inconsistent. It questions whether Protestant dominated schools and church aligned practices deserve similar treatment and hints at a broader confrontation with state funding in religious schooling.
On the third anniversary of Joliet Diocese founding Bishop Martin D McNamara announced the construction of the New Cathedral of St Raymond. When complete it will be 17 stories high and cost 2 million dollars funded by diocesan Catholics. The project honors early French missionaries and involves Monsignor E V Hoover, Rev Emory Gottshall, and Abbot Ambrose Ondrak among others.
Georgetown University will honor 22 outstanding alumni April 26 at the John Carroll dinner. Notables include Michael V. DiSalle former Toledo mayor and U.S. Senate candidate Walter Donnelly U.S. High Commissioner to Austria John McShain builder of the Pentagon Dr Thomas Parran former Surgeon General Maj Gen George A Horkan Quartermaster General of the Army Thomas F Murphy government prosecutor in the Alger Hiss trial Austin Canfield chair of the American Bar special Communist study Hugh J Fegan Georgetown Law dean Elias Laws District of Columbia chief judge Francis E Walter Congressman Paul R Bowen SEC member Charles Fahy U.S. circuit judge and former Solicitor General.
Two bishops will address the annual convention of priests in outdoor apostolate across ten Southern states. The gathering at Dominican Fathers' Mission of Blessed Martin de Porres runs April 15 to 17 with Pontifical Masses by Bishop Vincent S. Waters and Bishop John J. Russell.
Washington reports third quarter steel allotments for schools rose by 15 000 tons to 145 060 tons and aluminum allotment increased 250 percent to 200 tons. Previously deferred school and hospital projects will be approved this quarter for defense hardship areas including New York Boston Washington D C Portland Seattle San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Patriarch Albert Gori of Jerusalem blessed Rt. Rev. lias Corbisier new Abbot of Latroun Trappist monastery in Western Palestine. Corbisier, WWII chaplain born in Belgium in 1912, leads Maran Abbey of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows in a tree lined oasis near the no man’s land between Jewish held zones on the Palestine plain.
The Rev John Corridan of Xavier Labor School told the Catholic Interracial Council that fewer than half of New York port longshoremen worked as much as 800 hours in 1950. He called for registration of all type longshoremen and restricting work to licensed workers amid investigations of waterfront racketeering.
A commission on education suggests government support for church schools in Australasia. Under the plan parents of church school pupils would receive a grant covering four-fifths of the public school cost for a child of the same grade.
A dense collage of 20th century classifieds outlines services from government job boosts to silver plating and wedding invitations. It lists rates for ads, nursing schools, photo finishing, and help wanted at an Indian mission, with multiple addresses and contact lines.
A letter from 14 Ursuline Sisters in Paradise Eritrea appeals for funds to feed an orphanage and provide medicines. They seek about 450 and ask supporters to pledge monthly gifts to build a chapel or fund mission work, urging gifts to the Basilian School Club.
A church fundraiser urges donations of $40 to fund a chalice or monstrance for East Mission needs. The appeal links almsgiving to Christ’s crucifixion and atonement, describing the chalice, monstrance, and memorial gifts as fitting tributes for venerable worship.
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