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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1952
Page
12
In a broadcast in Arabic and Spanish, General Franco credits Islam rulers for defending Spain and justice. He cites Morocco's proffered aid in resisting atheistic materialism and argues Arabs and Spaniards have a common past, now seeing a parallel resurgence while other nations decay.
The preinduction booklet Greetings published by the National Catholic Community Service warns soldiers to know their limit and avoid drunkenness. It stresses moderation and personal responsibility, noting the military allows drinking at discretion as long as it does not disgrace the uniform. Copies are available from the National Catholic Community Service in Washington, D.C.
At Earlham College Richmond delegates from 40 states heard Dr Mordecai W Johnson president of Howard University argue that modern colleges suffer religious injury from a curriculum monopolized by specialized subjects and the dominance of natural sciences. The five annual conference of the National Association of College and University Chaplains drew over 100 delegates.
Through efforts of a vocations society in Oliveira Brazil, 25 seminarians study in six seminaries and five more are soon entering. This rises from four students in 1948. The society runs 18 centers in the diocese with about 168000 Catholics.
Prof. G F Thomas of Princeton told a subcommittee on pre professional education that medical training must include pure 기술 of medicine and moral instruction. He warned Nazi doctors in World War II show dangers when Christianity is removed from medical education in favor of service to the State and cautioned similar risks under Communism.
Bishop Lorenzo Bianchi, aged 52, long time head of Hong Kong's diocese, remains blocked by Chinese Reds in North China. He is reported sentenced to six months for engaging in subversive missionary activities as talks for his return continue. Father Antonio Riganti leads prayers for the Bishop's release.
Pope Pius XII names St. Joseph of Leonissa, canonized 1745 Capuchin, patron of the Trabzon Turkey independent mission. He aided Christians and slaves under Turkish rule in late 16th and early 17th centuries. The mission serves 3.85 million people with 175 Catholics. Turkey's Catholics total about 55,000.
Hanoi faces a warning that French withdrawal of 190,000 troops could trigger a Vietminh conquest across Southeast Asia. Father Patrick O Connor NCWC News Service describes heavy French casualties and the high cost of the war as France weighs self government in Indochina and the risk of losing influence if the Vietminh prevail.
Auxiliary Bishop James H. Griffiths denounced American backing for Yugoslavia’s Tito regime at a Waldorf breakfast. He accused the U S government of inconsistency: fighting communism while underwriting it in Yugoslavia and warned that Marxism remains Marxism across forms.
The Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary at Ain Karem, traditionally linked to St. John the Baptist, was termally consecrated. Construction began between the world wars. WW II interrupted progress, and Palestine outbreaks delayed completion until interior frescoes were finished by Prof. Cesare Vagarini.
Monsignor John M. Fleming secretary to Cardinal Spellman called a reported boycott by Catholic laymen of Jewish merchants over Good Friday observance a mistaken idea of zeal. The Chancery announced no prior knowledge of such plans and said it would not have approved a campaign calling non Catholic merchants to close their shops from noon to three.
Soviet zone calendar drops Easter and Pentecost as legal holidays. The East German Almanac for the year lists four Christian holidays Christmas New Year Ascension and Protestant Atonement day. It also marks fifteen Communist anniversaries including Stalin Marx and Lenin birthdays.
Damien Brother Nyegina, a Maryknoll Brother from Wheeling West Virginia, arrives in Africa. He was named Brother at birth and adopted the baptismal name Damien upon embracing Christianity. He is newly arrived to the mission field and connects a historical birth date with local naming customs.
Catholic social agencies in India are urged to enroll as members for the sixth International Conference of Social Work to be held in December. The India World Conference seeks to register Catholic delegates and extend participation across Catholic social services nationwide.
The annual report of the National Catholic Rural Movement in Australia notes aid to displaced persons and other European migrants to settle on land or in country towns. It warns that a migration policy aimed at expanding the industrial labor force risks increasing city centralization.
In Trieste era, Tito era, the Yugoslav church faced systematic deprivation of self support. Parents face pressure to keep children from religious contact. Teachers must report pupils attending services or under clerical influence. Ljudska Pravica criticizes mothers sending children to catechism. Slovene Communist party vows to keep schools from aiding mysticism and undermining socialist revolution.
The Hungarian Communist regime orders the registration of all seminarians and dismisses spiritual directors at Hungarys two largest seminaries. They plan state operated seminaries with new spiritual directors from patriotic priests and a Marxism Leninism course.
Reverend Thomas N. Quirk of Maryknoll, from Portsmouth New Hampshire, says African ants cause more suffering and threaten health and life more than Africa's big game. He cites them as highly dangerous to humans and warns of their bite danger.
A theological discussion on how supernatural merit rests on divine grace and human cooperation. It argues merit requires free will acting in grace, done during life, aided by actual grace and gifts of the Holy Ghost, with St. Paul cited to affirm grace at work in us.
In 1783 Boston Puritan minister John Thayer witnessed the miracle claims surrounding St Benedict Joseph Labre and converted to Catholicism on May 23 1783 becoming the first New England native ordained a Catholic priest. He served in Boston Alexandria Kentucky and Limerick before dying in 1815. His legacy includes Ursuline foundations in Boston and later Thayer family ties to Catholic history in Ireland and Canada.
Special Holy Thursday services at St. Mary’s church commemorated Father James Marquette S J founder of Illinois missions and the first parochial services. Cardinal Stritch and Archbishop Schlarman attended the earlier bronze and granite marker unveiling last October.
General Chapter Four Members delegates from Alfred New York depart on the Queen Mary to the Isle of Jersey. Delegates include Brothers David Patrick and Denis from Alfred and Davien of Fall River Massachusetts. The American province began in 1946 with 100 brothers teaching in Maine Massachusetts and New York. The order totals 2000 members teaching 50000 pupils in 250 schools worldwide. In the picture Patrick David and Denis appear left to right.
The column surveys 1952 baseball hopes across leagues, naming favorites and likely finishers. It notes the absence of Williams and others to military service and injuries, projects Dodgers Cubs Cardinals Yankees and White Sox positions, and ends with a light aside on fan loyalty and the rallying cry play ball.
Gene Picciano a Catholic University drama student in Washington D C shares top billing with Chester Morris in Each Dawn I Die on the CBS radio Phillip Morris Playhouse on Broadway Sunday April 20 at 8 30 p m EST He is the ninth collegian in the intercollegiate acting competition and eligible for the 2000 grand finals prize on June 15.
A St. Louis jail prayers service introduces special prayers to St. Dismas the Good Thief at Sunday Masses for prisoners. Rev. Thomas J. Davitt, chaplain, leads the new practice reflecting a nearly century old nun initiated program. The Sisters of Mercy historically aided inmates with visitation, letters, and support for condemned prisoners.
An estimated 50 people died when St. Theresa’s church in Caracas collapsed after a curtain fire during Holy Week. The church was among the city’s oldest, and the panic rushed hundreds as walls and roof gave way.
More than 20,000 Notre Dame alumni and friends worldwide will honor the university’s academic scientific cultural patriotic spiritual and other contributions during the 29th Universal Notre Dame Night April 21. A special tribute will mark the six year presidency of Very Rev John J Cavanaugh CSC.
The Biophysics Institute in the biology department and graduate school at St Louis University, announced by President Very Rev Paul Reinert S J, offers specialized bio physics training. Researchers work on the quick freez e method to preserve life with projects including freeze drying of chick embryos under Professor Luger guiding Leo Menz toward a PhD.
Sister Mary Virg Becker founder of mission efforts in the Hawaii islands died at Joseph’s Hospital Kansas City after a two year illness. She arrived in Hawaii in 1938 and led a group of 30 sisters establishing schools and various missions across the area.
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