Refugee crisis outlined by Catholic leaders in postwar Europe
Monsignor Edward Swanstrom and other church officials warned at a diocesan meeting that 8 to 10 million Europeans remain homeless or displaced. They urged continued support for IRO and PICME efforts and discussed proposed US migration resettlement legislation to move Europe's surplus population to underdeveloped Western Hemisphere areas.
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Chicago
Germany
Edward F. Swan‘om
Nowc War Relief Services
Greece
Gqanthaan
Europe
I T
IRO
Inator
Pat Mc@arran
Nevada
U. S
PICME
Monsignor Swanstrom
Iron Curtain
The
National Catholic Ahlement Council
Two Bishops to Be Consecrated by Apostolic Delegate in Philadelphia
Monsignor John M. McShea will be consecrated titular bishop of Mina Auxia in St Peter and Paul Cathedral Philadelphia on March 19 by Arch Bishop Amleto Giovanni Ciani Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. Co-consecrators include Bishop Eugene J. Guinness, Bishop William D. Brien, and Archbishop John F. O’Hara. In late March another consecration is set for Amleto G. Coonan to consecrate Archbishop Hoch as the third Bishop of Bismarck with Bishop Murray presiding at the installation on April 2.
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Oklahoma City
Ilsa
William D. Brien
Chicago
John F. O’hara
Philadelphia
Fof
Bismarck
N. Dak
St. Joseph’s
Amleto G. Coonan
William O
Sioux Falls
Bisho Ancs
J. Schenk
Crookston
Minn
John Gregory Murray
St. Paul
Hoch
H Lg St Spirit
Murray
Paul T. Hoban
Society For the Little Flower
Dante Avenue
Holy Father
China
Therese
Charlebois
Kee
Patrick
U.S.A
Ler
Catholic Laymen's Retreat Houses Listed by Conference
National Catholic Laymen's Retreat Conference releases a revised list naming 150 retreat houses for men across 42 states. New York leads with 14, followed by Wisconsin 11, Massachusetts 10, and Pennsylvania and Illinois with nine each.
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Chicago
National Catholic Laymen’s Retreat Conference
New York State
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Illinois
6000 U. S. Benedictine Nuns to Mark Centenary
Pittsburgh report notes 6000 Benedictine Sisters in the United States will celebrate the centenary of the arrival of three nuns from Eichstätt Bavaria on July 8 1852. The order established St Marys Elk County Pa and founded many schools and colleges across dioceses. Lady Abbess Augustina now a U.S. citizen is building a convent in South Boulder Colorado.
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Pittsburgh
United States
Eir
St. Alburga’s
Eichstaett
Imany
Boniface Wimmer
S.B
St. Vincent's Spiree
Trobe
Bene
Sere da Siepp
Walburga Jetrich
Maura Fli
Ludwig of
Bavaria
Re- 1
U. S
St. Mary’s
Elk County
Benedictine Academy of Girls
Benedictines
Thae
Nicos Demies
Augustina
America
Key South Boulder
Colo
Baptist Student to Study at Louvain University
Leon Pacala, 25, a Colgate Rochester Divinity School senior, will study at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium for an extended period. Pacala, a Baptist, hopes cross faith study will ease Protestant Catholic tensions. The fellowship is funded by a Rotary International Foundation grant.
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Rochester
N. Y
A_ Baptist
Catholic University
Belgium
Leon Pacala
Colgate-Rochester Divinity Haol
Pacala
Federated Church
Pittsford
Rotary Interntonal Foundation
Lent begins February 27 in regions free from persecution
The article notes Catholics in unpersecuted countries observe Lent starting February 27. It urges imitation of persecuted brethren, urging prayer and sacrifice as part of the season.
Catholic War Veterans urge substitute for UMT plan
The Catholic War Veterans call the Universal Military Training plan a threat to family life. They propose CWV alternative programs with high school and college courses plus two 13 week field periods and government scholarships. They direct units to seek parental input to influence Congress.
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Washin
National Security Training Commission
U. S
CWV
UMT
Donald J. McQuade
America
NCWC
Leprosy Camp Receives $15,000 U S Kiwanis Aid
U S Kiwanis club members donated $15,000 worth of electrical equipment to the Nyenga leprosarium in Jinja British East Africa. The gift includes generators, a freezer, pumps and a fence. Sister Patrick reports improved care and hope for patients returning to villages as treatment expands.
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Jinja
British East Africa
U.S
Kiwanis
Aud Eiifler
Kiwanis Club
North Hudson
N. J
Patrick
Peter Mary
Philadelphia
Mombasa
Africa
Eisler
Lavino Shipping Company
Nyenga
Ncwc Radio and Wire
Reading Magazines Faiths and Holy Communion as Civic Bond
The letter writer Theophil de a Pittsburgh janitor argues Catholics should receive the sacraments more often to foster saintly city life. The piece cites Catholic doctrine from the Council of Trent, describing Holy Communion as spiritual food, a pledge of future glory, and a remedy against vices, increasing sanctifying grace and virtues.
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Council of Trent
Christ
University Professor’s Convert Daughter Enters Convent
Miss Lina Hess of St Pauls Athens Ohio, a convert, will take the veil with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur at Mt Notre Dame Cincinnati on March 8. Her father, Dr John A Hess, retired German head at Ohio University and a Methodist, accompanies his wife to Rosary services at St Pauls. He authored a definitive work on Heinrich Heine.
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Lina Hess
St. Paul’s Parish
Athens
Sisters of Notre Dame de
St. Paul’s Church
Hess
Dr. Hess
Heinrich Heine
America
Maryknoll Brother Dies in Bolivian Jungle Boat Crash
Maryknoll Brother Gonzaga Chilutti, 39, of Philadelphia, was killed when a boat pilot died after a falling tree struck the craft on the Beni river in Bolivia. Bishop Raymond Lane led rescue, with Monsignor Danehy and Father Bonner surviving. Chilutti had served in Bolivia since 1945 and is survived by three siblings in Germantown, Philadelphia.
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Maryknoll
N. Y
Gonzaga Chilutti
Philadelphia
Beni
Bishop Raymond Lane
Brother Gonzaga
Ethea
Bishop Lane
Thomas Danehy
M.M
Manitowoc
Wis
Raymond J. Bonner
South Ardmore
Beni River
Bolivia
Germantown
Egro
Raymond A. Lane
Canadian Franciscan Arcand dies in Red prison in Chefoo
Hong Kong reports the death of Rev Didace Arcand a Canadian Franciscan of Chefoo China in a Red prison likely on February 10. He led Chefoo since 1946 aged 66 after 41 years in China. Arrested August 10 during a campaign against the Legion of Mary he was charged as a leader in the organization.
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Hong Kong
Didace Arcand
Chefoo
China
Reds
Legion of Mary
Father Arcand
Parish Rosary Crusade Reaches Nine Thousand Pledges
In Sacred Heart parish New Orleans 9000 parishioners pledged daily Rosary, 40 Catholics refused and 131 non Catholics took their places. Father Patrick Peyton reported rallies across the archdiocese and several dioceses, with plans for future crusades in England and abroad.
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New Orleans
Thomas Peyton
C.S.C
Father Patrick Peyton
Archdiocese of
Lafayette
Alexandria
Little Rock
Ark
Natchez
Miss
Mobile
Ala
Father Peyton
England
John Murphy
Francis Woods
Para
Een Np
Lancaster
Australia
New Zealand
South America
Philippines
NCWC
Television Mass Sparks Flood of Fan Letters Across Faiths
The DuMont network receives hundreds of letters after the first Mass telecast from Fordham. Monsignor McDonald notes 200 personal notes and a flood of requests for program texts as 20 stations plan to carry the series. Letters come from Catholic laymen Protestants and Jews praising the program.
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Television
Washington
National Council of Catholic Men
William J. McDonald
Fordham University
Cnbc-Tv
NCCM
Tele
New York
DuMont Television Network
Ife
Fulton J. Sheen
Brooklyn
Ncwc Wire
Archbishop Pol lio reports 32 trials before expulsion
Archbishop Gaetano Pollio of Kaifeng, 41, says he endured 32 trials over three to eight hours each before expulsion by Reds. He describes chained detainees, a Communist mob hurling refuse, and crowded six by nine cells with forced labor including latrine cleaning during imprisonment.
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Rome
Gaetano Pollio
Kaifeng
China
Reds
Dublin Housed Biblical Manuscripts in New Dublin Library
The Chester Beatty Greek papyri, dating to the second and third centuries, join the world’s premier Biblical MSS collection in a Dublin library. Accessible to scholars, the works bridge textual gaps between early Gospels and later codices. Monsignor Edward Kissane announced the move at a National University of Ireland club lecture in London.
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Dublin
Chester Beatty
Monsignor
Edward Kissane
St. Patrick’s College
Maynooth
National University of Ireland Club
London
Prayers for Miracle End In Death of Clergyman
A Jesuit priest dies in London at 57 after months with inoperable cancer as a national novena to aid the cause of Blessed Edmund Campion and three English martyrs ends. The novena continues for Dr James Shaw of Hodgkins disease as he remains at work in a children's hospital.
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London
London Holden
Edmund Campion
Bernardie
South Africa
James Shaw
Shaw
Children’s Hospital
Mass on Highest Peak in Americas in Mendoza
Padres Jorg Torres and Carlos Arroyo carried a statue of Our Lady of Carmel to Mount Aconcagua in the Argentine Andes near Chile. They placed it in an improvised sanctuary and Father Torres offered Mass atop the 23,081 foot summit.
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Mendoza
Argentina
Americas
Acacagua
Chile
Padres Jorg Torres
Carlos Arroyo
Our Lady of Carmel
Father Torres
Missionary Father Emaldi Cuts Tongue to Shield Catholics
Holliston Mass special reports Father Alfeo Emaldi a Xaverian missionary in China chose self sacrifice after Communist forces demanded names of faithful Chinese Catholics He cut his tongue and wrote I am mute for the love of God then was expelled The act boosted Chinese Catholic resistance and unified local believers led by the Legion of Mary.
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Holliston
Mass
China
Alfeo Emaldi
Cuta
Father Emaldi
U. S
China Mission
Italy
J. Henry Frassineti
S.X
Mividly
Angelo Lampis
Tientsin
Chinese National Church
Reds
Legion of Mary
Legion
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Ore
John O’grady
National Council of Catholic Charities
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National Catholic Rural Life Conference
S. Peter
Anis
Mbert A.hoch
Retary
Baptist
Louvain
St. I Therese of
St. Therese
Canada
Pius XI
At Ping Xi
Ping
Francis Xavier
Leo Canavan
Theophilde
San
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Connec
Areaae
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Legion of Mary Martyr
Ohio
N.Y
Holy Name Society
St. Louis
Sheen
Priest
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