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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1952
Page
14
A Denver Ecclesiastical Province poster explains four criteria to assess religious vocation and guides young Catholics. Created by St. Thomas seminary students under Archbishop Urban J. Wehr, it is part of a five poster series used in churches and schools to boost priesthood and sisterhood vocations.
Montreal hosts Governor General Vincent Massey at the University of Montreal amid Catholic church leaders praise Laval University rector and Archdiocese officials in Quebec welcome him. Various international items cover trials, training, diplomacy, and religious events across North America and Europe.
Pietro Montana carved fourteen seven foot long stations of the cross in white oak for Fordham university war memorial chapel. The set took five years to complete and public display in New York City showcased seven feet tall works including bas reliefs of Pius XII and Cardinal Spellman among eleven Montana pieces at Fordham. The project finished the church renovation as a memorial to Fordham men who died in World War II.
Washington reports that an estimated 500 000 to 1 000 000 couples renew their marriage vows annually. The renewals peak with the National Catholic Conference on Family Life convention closures. In 1952 the Family Life Bureau mailed about 150 000 booklets and a similar number of leaflets with the renewal form.
In a bimonthly parish issue critics and followers recount favors granted through prayers to St Frances Xavier Cabrini. Stories include a seven month pregnant mother saved by a relic and prayers, a miracle baby, recoveries from illness, and other testimonies of protection and healing attributed to Cabrini.
President Truman pledges unqualified support for National Family Week May 4 to May 11. He says family bonds and spiritual qualities guide our leaders to peace and faith, in a letter to church and synagogue leaders including Rev. Dr. Edgar M. Schmeideler and Rabbi Hirsch E. L. Freund.
Eleven delegates and observers from the United States will attend the 18th International Congress of the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations in Rome April 21 to 26. The theme is World Peace and the Responsibilities of Christian Womanhood. Shown aboard the Independence are Mrs. Edwin G. Becker Margaret J. Mealey Mrs. Gerald B. Bennett and Miss Edith B. Tighe. Additional attendees include Mrs. L. L. Boerkohl Mrs. Henry Mannix Miss Carolyn Manning Marie Kelinkoff Mrs. Walter Quinlan Mrs. William R. Johnson and Mrs. Mary H. Butler.
Birmingham doctors honor Rev. Harold Purcell 71 founder and director of the City of St. Jude for Negroes in Montgomery. At the John A. Andrew Clinical society meeting he is cited for outstanding work raising standards. He built a church, grades, high schools, and a $1.5 million hospital with private funds.
The first Catholic Who's Who published in Britain since 1941 appears in London. Sir Harold J. Hood is the editor with Burns Oates London as the publishing house. The foreword notes conversions now come less from Protestantism and more from agnosticism and that Catholics face suspicion amid today’s Britain.
Monsignor Luigi G Ligutti of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference argues Point Four aid to underdeveloped regions aligns with the mission of Catholic workers. He notes the program extends missionary work, guided by the golden rule, at a National Conference on Economic and Social Development.
Fourteen Franciscan friars crossed the armistice line from the Old City into the Jewish quarter to visit the Cenacle on Holy Thursday. They chanted the Gospel and sang Eucharistic hymns in the site long under Moslem control and now in Israeli custody. On Easter morning Patriarch Alberto Gori offered Mass at the tomb area in the Holy Sepulchre Basilica. An hours agreement limited Catholic use of the Basilica for Holy Saturday liturgy.
East St Louis parish Sacred Heart celebrates 50 years, led by founder and sole pastor Monsignor Charles Gilmartin. Since 1902 he oversaw 3,718 baptisms, 1,049 marriages, and 1,550 funerals, earning Protonotary Apostolic honors in 1948.
Fifty-sen Maryknoll Sisters pronounced their final vows in missions worldwide. In Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, Latin America, and the Pacific, many sisters who joined five and a half years ago now work in foreign fields and speak new languages. Others remain at the mother house or study in U S missions prep.
The hospital in Asbestos Quebec known as St Luc is run by the Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul. Opened four years ago by Soeur Vironique Clermont the American member, it traces back to Mother Elizabeth Seton who founded the order in 1809. The U S nuns now wear blue gray habits with a white cornette and novitiates remain in Emmitsburg and Normandy Missouri.
The April 14 Life issue showcases Vatican treasures including jeweled crosses emblems and a diamond chalice with six full color pages. A feature traces the jeweled cross of Justin II containing a True Cross relic from the Basilica of St Peter, gifted by the Emperor in 570 and recovered after a theft.
The Oblates of Mary Immaculate accept a new mission in Bolivia’s southwest at Oruro and Potosi. They will work with about 40 000 mine workers. Rev. Valerier Gaudet and Rev. Alexander Gaze are the first Oblates chosen for this mission, expanding to seven South American countries where the order labors.
Milwaukee reports on a new work The Index of Forbidden Books by Rev Redmond A Burke summarizing four American authors on the church blacklist. It traces condemnations from 1874 to 1912 and notes permissions for readers granted by bishops for serious reasons.
Orphans in Rome form two conferences of the Society of St Vincent de Paul to visit and bring baskets of food to needy boys at Villa Nazareth. A new bail is under construction at Villa Nazareth to provide classrooms laundry and a wardrobe for boys under His Excellency care. An appeal to American friends seeks aid for the project.
A House subcommittee report condemns Yugoslavia’s actions against religion citing attacks on priests and a law restricting catechism. It urges pressure for freedom of religious teaching while praising the potential spread of reform. The panel includes J. Zablocki Edna F. Kelly and other members.
The list classifies films reviewed by the Legion of Decency into three categories: Unobjectionable or for adult patrons, Unobjectionable for adults, and Condemned. Notable titles span Alfred Hitchcock era and international fare, with entries including The African Queen, Singin' in the Rain, Streetcar Named Desire, Rashomon, and The Last Musketeer among others.
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