Catholic Charities Drive Net Hits 1.41 Million
The eight day Catholic charities appeal ended April 6 with a record 1 408 148 dollars raised surpassing the 1 million dollar goal on opening day and beating last year's total by about 100 000. Bishop and governor led in Good Friday stations on WJAR TV while Ukrainians resume guerilla actions near Stalinist forces.
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Catholic Charities Appeal
Chicago
Order of St. Francis
Trieste
Bartolomeo
Opicina
351St Infantry
Oblates Dedicate New Scholasticate at Chillum Maryland
The Oblates of St. Francis de Sales will dedicate a $900000 scholasticate at Chillum near Washington April 20 with Archbishop O Boyle presiding and Ignatius Smith delivering the sermon. Open house follows on April 27 with a special train from Philadelphia and Wilmington.
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Tulsa
Toledo
Wilmington
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South Africa
Oblates
Philadelphia
Chillum
Sugrue to Speak at POAU Rally in New York
Thomas Sugrue a severely disabled Catholic layman known for anti Catholic writings will headline a POAU religious liberty rally in Carnegie Sun on April 22. The event is organized by PCAU New York affiliate the Metropolitan Committee for Religious Liberty with Dr Joseph Dawson of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs also slated to speak on The Vatican and America Today.
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Thomas Sugrue
Carnegie Sun
PCAU
Metropolitan Committee For Religious Liberty
Joseph Dawson
Washington
Baptist Joint Committee On Public Affairs
Vatican Ae
America Tony
Negro Judge Harold A. Stevens Elected Council President
Judge Harold A. Stevens of New York City has been elected president of the General Sest of the Catholic Interracial Council. The city’s highest criminal court lead, a convert, marks a milestone as a Black judge in a top post.
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New York
Harold A.sions
Stevens
Torcourt
General
Sest
Catholic Interracial Council
Closer Ties Between Home and Schools Urged
Kansas City Mo eight thousand educators gathered for a four day National Catholic Educational Association convention. Cardinal O Hara urged schools to join with parents to educate with strong discipline and high standards. Father Reinert urged resisting softness and deepening curriculum, emphasizing religion and character in education.
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Win V. O’hara
Nationalatholic Educational Association
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Family Allowance Plan Adopted by Local Steelworkers
A Steelworkers local in Lackawanna New York approves a family allowance plan to aid dependents of wage earners. It provides 4 to 16 dollars monthly per child based on age and will be proposed at the national convention in Philadelphia the week of May 11. Funds come from industry. government funding is excluded. The allowance will fund health welfare and education, at parental discretion.
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Lackawanna
New York
United Steelworkers of America
Pat J. Gibbons
United Steelworkers
Philadelphia
Catholics Form Big National Catholic Scout Conference
More than 300 Catholic scout leaders gathered in San Francisco for the 12th national conference of diocesan scout chaplains with the theme The Whole Family in Scouting Forward on Liberty's Team in the Service of God. Archbishop Mitty and Father Dowd headlined as diocese committees report 7,117 Catholic packs and 510000 Catholics among 2950000 Scouts and leaders nationwide.
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Liberty
Mwoay
John J. Mitty
Episcopal
NCWC
George M. Dowd
Catholic Committee On Scouting
Archbishop Mitty
Catholic Committee
Father Dowd
Hated Church Leader in China Accused of Libertine Life
Chow Li-hsing, long-time head of the Church movement in China and East China religious director since 1951, is now described as a degenerate libertine and despotic dictator. Liberation Daily Shanghai says he led a corrupt bourgeois life and the Communist Party asks the government to deal severely with him.
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Chow Li-hsing
China
Liberation Daily of
Shanghai
The
Reds
Communist Party
East China Area
Li-hsing
No Tax Aid for Catholics in British Columbia
The Vancouver council opposed state support of parochial schools. They argued health care for all children, whether in public or other schools, should be provided by health authorities not schools. They favored restricting bus transport to public school students, opposing secularism and U S style policy.
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Vancouver
B. C
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Pera
British Columbia
Counci
U. S
Pope urges priests and laity to preach in streets
In an Easter message from Rome, Pope Pius XII calls priests and laypeople to preach everywhere to bring Christ to workers, families, and daily life. He urges Christians to build the House of God and counter sin with faith and love across factories and offices.
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Pius XII
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