Catholic World Briefs Across North America and Europe
Madrid eyes a September 8 signing of a new concordat with the Vatican while Anglican and Catholic ties shift in Britain and Canada. Notables include Laura St Laurent retiring after 50 years as Compton post mistress and Bishop Browne praising U.S. church growth. Other items cover education debates in Rhode Island, a planned Our Lady of the Railways Chapel, and international clerical appointments and honors.
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Madrid
Alberto Martina
Rome
Spain
Vatican
Sherbrooke
Que
Laura St. Laurent
Canada
Louis St. Laurent
Compton
St. Laurent
J. B. M. St. Laurent
Miss St. Laurent
Catholics Sought for International Posts in 1950s
Bonn Germany Catholics urged to accept international assignments warning supranational bodies risk Christian claims. ICMICA congress highlighted Catholic participation in world affairs with leaders including Cardinal Frings Archbishop Muench and Bishop Jaeger attending along with 29 countries represented.
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Anthony B.atar
Bonn
Germany
Rudolf Salat
Foreign Office
International Catholic Mint
United Nations
Unesco
European Coal and Steel Community
Ak. Stott Taylor
Princeton Graduate School
United States
Icmica
Aloisius Muench
Fargo
Most Youths Fall Prey To Filthy Literature
A Sydney survey by the National Catholic Girls Movement and the Young Christian Workers in South Australia finds 90 to 95 percent of Australians aged 15 to 25 read magazines and comic books deemed undesirable. The study links such reading to a belief that sex pleasure is life’s main aim and notes glorified crime fosters defiance toward authority.
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Sydney
Australia
National Catholic Girls’ Movement
Young Christian Workers
South Australia
Shrine Crusade Sparks Yard Marian Shrine in D C
Margaret Jenkins promotes a backyard Marian shrine in Washington with the slogan Shrines for Mary Ba. The dedication occurred on the Feast of the Assumption, attracting bouquets left by Catholic and Protestant neighbors. The shrine cost two weeks of labor about $20 plus garden work.
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Washington, D. C
Mary
Margaret Jenkins
Germany Reparation Goods Arrive in Haifa From Hamburg
The first shipment to Israel under the German reparations deal of 715 million dollars arrived in Haifa from Hamburg. The 2,000 tons of chemical products marked the initial direct consignment, though crude oil had already reached Israel from British sources for six months.
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London
Israel
Germany
Hitler
Haifa
Hamburg
Rome Appeal Seeks Aid for Impoverished Cloister Nuns
The Sacred Congregation for Religious issued a plea for donations to help impoverished nuns in cloistered Italian monasteries. The letter says monasteries are citadels of prayer, not refuges for worn out souls.
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Rome
Sacred Congregation For Religious
Edward Flynn Funeral Held in Bronx Church
Edward J. Flynn Democratic National Committeeman and Bronx leader funeral held at St. Jerome's Church Bronx note he wed there in 1927. A 61 year old Democratic leader died while in Ireland with wife and daughter visiting Chief Justice Conor Maguire of the Hire Supreme Court. Flynn led Bronx Democrats for three decades after accepting the chairmanship as Roosevelt's choice following Farley's resignation.
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New York City
Edward J. Flynn
Bronx
St. Jerome’s Church
Mr. Flynn
Ireland
Conor Maguire
Supreme Court
Franklin Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Missioners in U S After China Ouster
Eight Hungarian born missionaries ousted from Red China have received permission to work in the U S. They include Franciscan Fathers Hippolytus Ferenczy and Albin Thun, Brothers Edward Gunzt Benedict Barath Titus Toth, and Sisters Bernarda Golkovsky Louise Horvath Melinda Molnar. Sponsored by Father Julian Fuzer of Roebling, they were expelled a year ago on a spying charge.
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New York
Red China
U.S
Hippolytus Ferenczy
Albin Thun
Edward Gunzt
Benedict Barath
Titus Toth
Bernarda Golkovsky
Louise Horvath
Melinda Molnar
Sisters of Mercy
Julian Fuzer
Roebling
N.J
Franciscan Commissariat of
St. John Capistran
China
United States
First Japanese national to gain U.S. citizenship in Kansas
Frank Yobe Yokoyama of Wichita will become the first Japanese national to be admitted to U.S. citizenship in the Kansas area as he completes naturalization. The McCarran Act enables the process. Yokoyama, active in Catholic groups, has not heard from his Hiroshima-based parents since the atomic blast.
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Frank Yobe Yokoyama
Wichita
Kans
U.S
Kansas
McCarran
Yokoyama
Wichita K. of C
Holy Name Society of St
Hiroshima
Non-Catholics Relish Lay Talks on Church in New Jersey
Alexander J. Battell, a Catholic layman seeking priesthood, has lectured to hundreds of non Catholic church school and YMCA groups in North Jersey over seven years. He presents Catholic authority discipline and doctrine without attempting conversion, aided by Cardinal Murphy and Monsignor Edwardur phy. Battell, unmarried, conducts sessions from a service station in Elizabeth Roselle Park offices.
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Roselle Park
N.J
Alexander J. Battell
North Jersey
Battell
Archdiocese of
Newark
Monsignor
Edwardurphy
St. Joseph the Carpenter Church
Roselle
Elizabeth
Shrine builder who witnessed Fatima miracle creates California shrine
Senog de Thedim, sculptor and originator of the Pilgrim Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, completed a marble shrine at Our Lady of the Lake Church in Lake Arrowhead California. The artwork was donated by two anonymous California benefactors with K of C sponsors at dedication.
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Our Lady of Fatima
Los Angeles
K. of C
7th Province Erected By Felician Sisters
The Felician Sisters establish their seventh U S province with a mother house and novitiate in Ponca City Oklahoma in the Diocese of Oklahoma City Tulsa. Since arriving from Poland in 1874 they have operated schools hospitals and homes in Oklahoma and across 13 archdioceses and 43 dioceses. The new province will include institutions in Iowa Texas California Kansas Nebraska.
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Ponca City
Okla
U.S
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Poland
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Marland
U. S
Iowa
Texas
California
Kansas
Nebraska
European youths study in U S after voyage despite storm
Ninety Austrian and Free German teenagers arrived in New York for a year of study in American schools under state sponsorship with Catholic and civic group support. They hope the experience will help explain America to their peoples and strengthen understanding between nations. A 17 year old girl seeks to learn about Catholic life here and plans to use the knowledge for goodwill. An accompanying teen says Germany values U S economic aid, crediting it with keeping the country from being lost.
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Washington
U. S
Department of Tate
CWC
National Council of Catholic Women
America
Germany
Plan Pageant Depicting Growth of U S Faith
Springfield is set to host The Sword of the Spirit pageant at Eastern States Exposition Grounds October 10 to 12. Delegates from New England parishes attend the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine regional meeting. Produced by Father Basil Rafferty the production features 500 performers and scenes from Columbus to modern American life.
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Springfield
Mass
Sword of the
America
Eastern States Exposition Grounds
West Springfield
New England
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
Christopher
Columbus
Father Basil Rafferty
Portuguese Navy Crew Attends Mass at St Patrick's Cathedral
Officers and midshipmen of the Portuguese Navy sloop Concalves Zarco enjoyed a solemn Mass at St Patrick's Cathedral. Cardinal Francis Spellman presided, blessing the visitors and speaking individually. They were welcomed in Portuguese by Father William Gaudreau, consultor-secretary at the Redemptorist Provincial House.
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Cardinal Spellman
New York
Concalves
Zarco
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Cardinal Francis Spellman
William Gaudreau
C.ss.r
Redemptorist Provincial House
Blast State's Assault on Rights of Parents
In El Salvador Catholics decry new law banning private secondary schools from granting university qualifying diplomas. Fines of 200 dollars per degree and 100 dollars per course certificate apply, with teaching licenses denied to repeat offenders. Forty schools affected, including 32 run by religious orders teaching 3,000 students. Diplomas have long been recognized abroad.
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Sanador
el Salvador
Costa Rica Elects First Nuns to Vote
In San Jose Costa Rica nuns and other women voted in the presidential election for the first time. The surge in female participation increased ballots beyond prior records. Jose Figueres of the National Liberation Party will assume office in November pledging social reforms through evolutionary democratic and Christian means.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
National Liberation Party
Jose Figueres
Parental prerogative to educate children cited by bishop
A pastoral letter by Bishop George Behring argues parental rights in education surpass civil law with state and church roles defined. He criticizes secular educators as materialist and calls for parental guidance against indecent material and inappropriate school content to protect children.
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Pa Ae
Dell
George Behring
Megia
Ishop
Benedictines Begin 67th Year of Teaching
The Benedictines enter the 67th year of instruction at the abbey college with 120 incoming seminarians, including 60 in the major seminary. Most will be ordained for Joliet Diocese. Students include seven from Costa Rica and seven from China, and the abbey library holds 41,000 volumes. Rev. Leo Vancura spent a year at Oxford and was elected to the Royal Society of Literature in England for his Francis Thompson lectures.
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Som Ben Lisle
Sale F
Tent College
Joliet
U. S
Costa Rica
China
Leo Vancura
O.S.B
Oxford University
England
Francis Thompson
Father Vancura
Royal Society of Literature of England
Catholics Play Big Part In Parley on Migration
Eleven Catholic representatives attended the fourth annual meeting of the International Conference of Non governmental Organizations on Migration in Geneva. James Norris of NCWC War Relief Services in Europe is vice president, with three Catholic group delegates elected to the executive committee.
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Geneva
Switzerland
International Conference of Nongovernmental Organizations
Esee
James Norris
Ncwc War Relief Services
Europe
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