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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1953
Page
13
A religious denunciation claims Communism steals the Cross and Christ, corrupting Christianity worldwide. It cites 87 French Communist MPs donating salaries to the party, American donors funding anti religion, and Chinese youths pledging long workdays to suppress religion, democracy, and spiritual freedom.
The text argues that Christ without the Cross is anti Christ and the Cross without Christ is empty sacrifice. It calls for uniting Cross and Christ in life to conquer Communism and cites to be conformable to His Death and sharing in His sufferings. It asks for sacrifices and the Cross. It recalls that without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.
A devotional appeal urges readers to abandon personal luxuries and give the saved funds to The Society for the Propagation of the Faith. It suggests using proceeds from selling old gold or salary increases to aid lepers and support the Holy Father in saving souls.
Letters thread a web of small gifts from individuals to missions including five and ten dollar signs. Donations come from varied ages and roles, with notes of thanksgiving, dividend windfalls, study motives, and acts of charity tied to faith and hope for converts and the needy.
A fragment urges readers to cut out the column, pin their sacrifice to it, and mail to The Society for the Propagation of the Faith by sending it to Fulton J. Sheen in New York or to Diocesan Director Msgr. Edward A. Freking in Cincinnati with a $100 contribution referenced.
The piece lists American archbishops with ad personam titles and U S delegates serving abroad. It notes Archbishops Gannon and Molloy and others, plus Gannon College, Montezuma Seminary near Vegas New Mexico, and growth of the Erie diocese with new parishes and schools.
The fifth International Congress of Catholic Nurses will meet at Laval University Quebec from September 7 to 12, 1954. Father Edward F. Garesche S J founder of the nurses movement announced the event and will lead an unofficial pilgrimage from the United States to Canadian shrines and historic places.
Mass was offered for the first time in the harbor at Sunderland on the deck of the U S destroyer Lewis Hancock. Chief engineer Lt Harold Smith from Connecticut organized it and Father Stephen Stack of St Patrick parish led the service.
Archbishop William D. O'Brien presided at a Solemn Pontifical Mass in Holy Name Cathedral Chicago to mark his 50 years as a priest. 184 archbishops and bishops 10 abbots 220 monsignori and hundreds of priests attended. Cardinal Samuel Stritch delivered the sermon and Archbishop Amleto Cicognani lauded Pius XII. Countries represented included the United States Canada Mexico Alaska Hawaii the Philippines Puerto Rico the Canal Zone and Africa. Cicognani told a post Mass dinner that Pius XII's voice resounds worldwide and attracts both Catholic and non Catholic listeners.
United Nations report highlights Father Yves Congar O P predicting U S Negro priests rising from 33 in 1950 to 1000 by 1960 in The Catholic Church and the Race Question UNESCO pamphlet He argues racism contradicts Christian doctrine and condemns anti Semitism while linking prejudice to colonial imperialism He cites papal condemnations and historic church positions on race and religion
Father Patrick McGill, an Irish missionary in Kenyan highlands, continues expanding his Kiriku and Galitu centers despite Mau Mau threats. His Kiriku mission now runs 20 schools, and 12,000 Kikuyu paid tribute during his silver jubilee.
Catholic leaders in Singapore and Malaya urge coordinated government action to ease urban crowding by decentralizing industry and jungle clearance, increasing rice irrigation, and expanding public funding for birth control. Mr. T P F McNeice of the Singapore City Council, who raises the allotment, also heads the Family Planning Association.
A solemn funeral Mass was offered November 28 at St Patrick's Cathedral for Monsignor John J. Bingham former director of the Department of Health and Hospitals of the New York Catholic Charities.
The Catholic Family Bible from John Crawley Company uses ten carloads of special Bible paper and involved fourteen plants in production. It features Gregorian Edition bindings in Cardinal red leather priced 29.95 and Gutenberg Edition bound replica priced 10.95, drawing on medieval sources and notes added at book ends for seminaries and schools.
Mrs. Nora Menjou 84 mother of actor Adolph Menjou dies in Santa Monica California. Solemn Mass held at St. Paul the Apostle church with rosary services the eve of the funeral. Survived by son and other relatives.
Catholic chaplains will join the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception drive on December 6. Service men and overseas Catholics will respond nationwide, aiming to fund an altar or Chapel of Requiem and strengthen the church seen as a national votive shrine. The Military Ordinariate oversees spiritual care for Catholics on duty worldwide.
Auxiliary Bishop Johanness von Rudloff of Osnabruck toured the diocese behind the Iron Curtain. He was welcomed by thousands of eager Catholics in the German zone. The bishop plans a new church at Schwaan and appeared unhampered.
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