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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1953
Page
7
The Pope in Rome declares the praying family is a living family and urges united daily Rosary, stressing peace at home amid world hate. He calls Rosary a beautiful way to communicate with heaven and warns against reducing life to bread alone while urging just work for better living conditions.
Professor Starkie speaking to the Medina Cultural Circle said Cervantes Quixote is the most translated book after the Bible in English. He noted Cervantes is beloved by English readers as the world’s great ex combatant, recalling his wounding at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
His Holiness blessed two shipments, totaling 35 food trucks, for Italy, then paused at the Vatican Palace window. He later blessed five freight cars of furniture for children’s schools and shelters in Holland during a visit to the Vatican City rail station.
Bishop Bertalan Badalik of Veszprem announced that the State Office for Church Affairs approved 200000 forints to finish a church dedicated to St Margret at Kaposvar.
The Vatican Osservatore Romano published the Sicilian Hierarchy statement confirming the weeping terra cotta Madonna of Syracuse as miraculous. The tearful statue in Angelo and Antonia Giusto’s home shed tears Aug 29 to Sept 1, with analyses matching human tears.
Arch bishop Anthony Riberi administered baptism to the Formosan king and queen and 171 aboriginal followers at Capian in Southern Formosa. Peter Puraruyan became Peter, Mary Rose King and Queen Mallulla became Mary Rose. The mountain people, once headhunters, embraced Christianity after ceremonies featuring traditional dress and dances.
A look back to events fifty years prior recalls the Baltimore conflagration of February 7 8 that destroyed buildings at a cost of 125 million dollars. The General Slocum disaster in June in New York killed over 900. Fall River mill workers walked out affecting 25 000. New York Supreme Court Appellate Division holds unions may strike within reasonable limits.
Fifty years ago workers faced wage cuts and major strikes. Central Pennsylvania coal miners accepted a five percent reduction, metal miners in Colorado faced clashes with militia, Chicago meat packers fought back but lost, all driven by wage reductions.
Seattle ran the first municipally owned streetcar line with a ten dollar steerage fare. The era saw shipping rate cuts to ten dollars for Atlantic passage as German French Belgian and Dutch lines slashed prices to compete with English ships.
Thirty young Americans were ordained to the priesthood in the first such ceremony at the new American College on the Janiculum Hill. Bishop Martin J. O Connor presided. Fourteen came from archdioceses including Denver Detroit Boston New York and Washington D C. The remaining sixteen are from Albany Worcester Mass Covington Boise La Crosse Scranton Cleveland Youngstown Cincinnati Sioux City Columbus Winona Rochester Savannah Atlanta Harrisburg and other locales.
Archbishop Joseph Hurley of St. Augustine became the first Florida bishop to visit Raiford State Penitentiary and confirmed fifteen prisoners during the visit.
The Bishops of the United States urge Americans to observe a national day of prayer on Sunday December 27. They plead for supplication to God and penance for victims of renewed warfare against the Church and hope prayers will support those suffering in what they call the bitterest bloodiest persecution in history.
The Feast of the Holy Family on Jan 10 is urged to be observed by sharing the Gospel at the family noonday meal. Renewal of marriage vows and a pledge to Christian marriage by all family members are recommended. 98 diocesan directors of family life coordinate observances and plan gatherings in St Paul.
American Friends of Spain a new non profit foundation to strengthen relations with Spain by aiding non governmental charities has been announced by Stanton Griffis former Ambassador to Madrid Mrs William Gaynor is president and Angier Biddle Duke vice president U S Ambassador James C Dunn and Spanish Ambassador Jose Felix de Sequerica are honorary chairmen
South Korea’s Catholic population rose by 10 057 to 167 977 for the year ending June 30. Catechumens total 14 502 as instruction awaits more religious leaders. Comparisons show large gains since 1949 despite war and North Korea bans on religion.
Dublin reports that the Irish government will issue a special postage stamp to mark the 1954 Marian Year, announced by Erskine Childers, the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs.
The Vatican scheduled seven canonizations and three beatifications for April to June 1954 to mark the Immaculate Conception definition. Pius X is slated for the last Sunday in May, with six others likely to be canonized in groups. Beati include Maria Crocifissa di Roma Peter Louis Chanel Dominic Savio Vincenzo Pallotti Gaspar del Bufalo and Giuseppe Mari Pignatelli. Three Servants of God will be beatified in the Marian Year.
The report notes a potential canonization cause for Pope Pius IX in 1954 as part of the Marian Year marking the Immaculate Conception. It recalls his 31 year reign, the start of his beatification process in 1907, and mentions related note on Pius X urging the inquiry.
The Catholic Directory reports 11 532 adult converts joined churches in England and Wales in 1953. Catholic population rose by 61 500 to 2 918 700 in permanent parishes, with total Britain estimated between four and five million. Scotland has 1 million Catholics and Northern Ireland 500 000.
British Catholic traveler Mrs. Robert T. Bower reports religion remains a living force in the Soviet Union after a month with the Soviet Women’s Anti-Fascist Committee. She notes about 200 attend Low Mass and Benediction at Moscow’s Church of St. Louis, with 8,000 at Easter in the same church.
Mary Beth Croxall of Elkhart Indiana is a junior at Saint Mary's College Notre Dame. She is a biology major and chemistry minor.
Gaston Marcel, 29, a French Indo China war veteran, arrived in Rome on crutches after covering 1000 miles in four months. He endured 32 operations, losing a left leg and an eye, as he sought a meeting with Pope Pius XII.
The Little Nun remains beloved as Mother Cabrini, the first U S citizen Saint, with dozens of cures and favors reported in the Mother Cabrini Messenger. Stories from Utica to Shreveport note diabetic relief, healed sores, psoriasis improvement, wart disappearance, and eye cures after prayer to Cabrini.
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