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A mixed Catholic World roundup notes aging teachers, provincial education budgets, and church figures. It cites an 84-year-old educator, a Quebec education spend, Planned Parenthood complaints in New York, Capuchin province splits, Vatican shortwave transmitter, and St. Joseph Sisters novena March 11 19, plus various ecclesiastical appointments and missions from Chicago to Rome and Cozumel to Warsaw.
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St. Jose _ Nazareth
Mich
M. Colette
Sisters of St. Joseph At
Nazareth-on the-Lake
St. Joseph
Missionaries Expelled From China Amid Growing Harassment
Chinese Reds order all missionaries to leave as families aboard ration buses and trains report harassment. Three Sisters of the Missionaries of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, who served 20 years in Shihtseien and Kweichow, were separated from others and forced to travel for weeks. The other three sisters remain detained in Kweiyang.
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Hong Ng Kon
China
Priest's Finding of Synthetic Rubber Credited to Reclusive Priest
A Notre Dame priest, Father Jones Nieuwland, is credited with guiding scientists to a key step in synthetic rubber. His experiments on monovinyl precursors and acetylene earned him the nickname "Acetylene" and, years later, helped DuPont produce a commercially viable rubber. He foresaw its future use long before profits were realized.
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Washin
Solains
Scientific
Father Jones Nieuwland
Notreame
University Amiere
Notre Dame
Father Nieuwland
Chemst
Dupont
Nieuwland
Fort Worth
Texas
Detroit
Christopher
Air Force
Washington, D. C
State Department
Calif
Hollywood
Dawn of a New Insight in Photosynthesis
A fragment hints at a theory where chemists foresee chlorophyll like molecules mimicking natural photosynthesis. It suggests the chemi virtual pant may convert sunlight into usable food, signaling a potential breakthrough in energy biology.
Italian Migration Aid Meets in New York Hotel Pierre
A newly formed American Committee on Italian Migration opened its work at Hotel Pierre New York to aid thousands of displaced Italians and seek permission for 100000 Italians to enter the United States Messages of support were read and pledges up to 25000 dollars were received Bishop James E Griffiths and Mayor Vincent Impellitteri spoke with Judge Juvenal Marchisio heading the committee.
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Hotel Pierre
New York
American Committee On
U. S
James E. Griffiths
Center
Vincent R.impelli
14 Christopher Awards Named for 1952 Winners
Hollywood announces 14 Christopher Awards with $25,000 in cash and bronze medallions. Rev James Keller outlines goals to spotlight creative power for good, inviting letters of 300 to 1,600 words by Feb 27 to Apr 18. Prizes include $2,000 to $5,000 in various categories.
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Hollywood
Ames Keller
M.M
The
Christophers
Representa
1350 1550 Church Data Found Behind Cobwebs
Cobwebbed church registers from 1350 to 1550 were found in Armagh and are now at Queen's University. The documents cover church events and daily life, including chieftain indiscretions and family matrimonial issues. Professor Sayles at Queen's leads microfilming and study and will consult London and Vatican archives.
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Dubt
Armagh
Ireland
Episcopal Library
Queen’s University
Ast
Sayles
Public Records Office
London
Vatican
Sister of Four Priests Marks 50th Religious Vows
Mother Marie Rabardella, French born Religious of the Sacred Heart, celebrated 50 years of religious profession at the College of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau Indiana. Monsignor John A. Vigliero led a solemn Mass as Bishop Jules B. Jeanmard of Lafayette presided with Bishop Maurice Schexnayder giving Benediction. Four of her brothers are priests and a deceased sister was also a Religious of the Sacred Heart.
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Grand Coteau
the Sacred Heart
Marie Rabardella
College of the Sacred Heart
John A. Vigliero
Jules B. Jeanmard
Lafayette Iled
Maurice Schexnayder
Lafayette
Rabardella
Pagan Menominee Leader Objects to Catholic School Plan
78 year old John Rain, leader of the so called pagan faction on the Menominee reservation, protests the construction of a Catholic school in Neopit Wisconsin. The tribe voted for the project in Keshena despite Rain and his group opposition. The school is funded by a federal grant of 10,009,000 dollars.
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Neopit
Wis
John Rain
Ibe
Keshena
Rain
Paulinus
Cos
Atte
Salesians Take Over Boys Town Sydney
Father Dunlea's Boys Town, modeled on Father Flanagan's in the United States, is being taken over by the Salesians of Don Bosco in Sydney.
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Sydney
Father Dunlea
Father Flanagan
U. S
Salesians of
Don Bosco
Players on Tour Bring Mo liere to St Michael Theater
Winooski Park Vermont troupe Players, Inc. tours from Vermont to Texas presenting Moliere's School for Wives at St Michael College Theater. The company, adapting Twelfth Night and Both productions, features professional cast from the Catholic University of America's drama program.
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Winooski “Park
Players, Inc
Vermont
Texas
School For Wives
St. Michael College
National Repertory Neeny
U. S
Walter Kerr
New York erald-Tribune
America
Drama
New University of San Diego Opens with 1500 Enrollment Expected
In San Diego California the University of San Diego opens its first unit with Mass by Bishop Charles F Buddy. Religious of the Sacred Heart run the college and 50 students register at Alcala Park as Mother Catherine Parks says 1500 enrollment is expected for fall.
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New University of San Diego
San Diego
Calif
College For Women
University of San Diego
Charles F. Buddy
Mission Society Plans First U S Seminary in Columbus
The Rev Nichola Maestrini P I M E announces the Missionaries of Sts Peter and Paul will open their first U S seminary in the Columbus diocese. Known as the Milan Foreign Mission society it runs 10 seminaries in pays and 11 in mission countries with missions in Japan China Burma Pakistan India Africa and Brazil. In a century of work priests baptized over 1000 persons.
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Columbus
Nichola Maestrini
P.I.M.E
U. S
Lept
Jungle Airfield Built by Maryknoll Missionary in Bolivia
Father W. Sylva Maryknoll Missioner created a makeshift airstrip in Cavinas Bolivia using local Indians for labor. He planted thick grass to form a solid surface during the dry season after rainfall allowed growth. Shovels wheelbarrows and carts aided construction. a barbed wire fence is under construction to keep animals out.
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Cavinas
Bolivia
Ph W. Sylva
Maryknoll
Piety and Education Called Inadequate for Citizenship
Boston Archbishop Richard J. Cushing urged at Weston that moral education is essential alongside religious and secular schooling. He argued that responsibility and core conduct codes underlie social order, noting education alone cannot create a virtuous citizen.
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Weston
Mass
Eec
Richard J. Cushing
Boston
Refugee Countess Avramenko Arrives in New York
Avramenko a 59 year old refugee of two wars arrives in New York with a tale of murder during the Revolution and a husband and band who perished in a concentration camp. She says she added three aids to her work but lost everything in 1941 while in Austria where she and her group were enslaved.
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New York
Avramenko
World
Lore
Ee Oera Moreh
Taeiwood
N. Dewood
Austria
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