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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1952
Page
9
A campaign in San Diego reached 95,054 non-Catholic homes and covered 4,694 square blocks and 1,121 rural areas. It resulted in 4,784 lapsed Catholics returning to the faith and active involvement by 251 of 274 priests in the diocese. Instructions are in place for 1,946 non-Catholics, with 6,118 non-Catholics expressing interest.
Bishop Charles F Buddy announced that 4784 lapsed Catholics were converted and 1946 non Catholics instructed as San Diego diocese expands catechetical outreach. Notre Dame priest Rev John A OBrien led a campaign with 14 information forums and twice weekly instruction after six weeks of prayers and recollection. Every parish served to invite non Catholics to church or formation centers in the diocese.
Martin Bormann Jr., five, son of the missing Hitler deputy, entered the novitiate of the Missionary Fathers of the Sacred Heart at Feberau near Villach Austria. He is described as very happy and devout with plans to become a missionary after ordination in five years. His father’s fate remains unconfirmed since May 1945.
A Buffalo priest leads a 12 member group to the White House, urging President Truman to appoint a top level independent commission on housing. They demand a re examination of programs, contend housing famine for minorities and lower income defense workers, and call for higher standards nationwide.
Milwaukee Lutherans seek to cut tax support from 14 public schools they say are under Catholic domination. A Lima grade school near Durand taught by nuns is the test case, with 13 other schools under fire. State officials urged to stop recognizing these schools as public and to withhold funds and benefits.
Mary V. Merrick, founder of the Christ Child society in 1886, remains involved in service to underprivileged children. The society’s 11th biennial national convention runs May 11 to 13, opening with Pontifical Mass by Archbishop Patrick A. pp at St. Matthew Cathedral in Washington.
In Arcadia California the Legion of Mary of Holy Angels parish has placed free Catholic literature on racks in two supermarkets and a laundromat. Housewives take booklets on Christian marriage the moral law and the immortality of the soul with groceries or laundry. Begun April 1951 by 12 percent of Mary members under Rev Patrick J McHugh supervision over 2000 pieces have been taken.
Brava Waugh told the Newman society in Derby that literature is dying with no young novelists of note. He argued non-Catholic novels lack plots as essential elements vanish from modern storytelling. He cited marriage and inheritance as key plot drivers no longer taken for granted.
Lent teaches spiritual strength to overcome temptation as Jesus endures forty days in the desert. He resists the devil with scripture saying bread alone is not life and to worship God only. The devil flees and angels minister to Him after rightful obedience.
New Orleans reports Xavier University students continued an 18 year old opera tradition with The Tales of Hoffman. Conducted by the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, the program is noted for its opera and choral groups. Frank Davis, a featured performer, will appear on the Fred Waring show in March.
The Rev. John Haynes Holmes writes to The New Leader criticizing Protestant pastors for reacting to the ambassador to the Vatican appointment. He endorses William E. Bohn’s Home Front column calling the Protestant uproar a witch-burning in spirit and urges calmer, constructive Christian motives.
The Times of London editorialized on throne and church linking the Crown with church and state. It argues royal supremacy guides spiritual and temporal matters, and that the Queen’s authority persists beyond figurehead status, with church discipline under secular adjudication. The piece links this to U.S. diplomatic practice with Vatican and potential analogies to England and Lutheran lands.
A Belgian Catholic mission group led by Mary Magdalene Petre runs a social service program in Kindu Belgian Congo. The Lay Auxiliaries house in Chicago has trained 180 women who study sewing knitting and other urban skills. One class includes a village of lepers receiving practical lessons. The three missioners plan to spend their lives in Africa.
The Tablet notes four British historians declined to participate in a UNESCO history of mankind. Critics argue the project is flawed beyond representativeness, fearing unbridgeable divides over what history should cover. A column by Joseph Breig questions funding amid global need.
Edgar L. Matthews, longtime mail carrier and organizer, was awarded the Papal Medal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by Bishop Francis E. Hyland of Savannah Atlanta. Matthews led the Colored Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia for a decade, joined the Church in 1920, and received a Roosevelt wartime service citation for 2000 plus volunteer hours with the USC club in Augusta. He studied at Lane College in Jackson Tennessee.
Prince Sigismondo Chigi Albani Della Rovere, husband of Atlanta native Marion Barry, was named by Pius XII to succeed his father as Marshal of the Holy Roman Conclave. The hereditary post, dating to 1712 for the Chigi family, guards the door to the Conclave where Cardinals elect the Pope. The previous guardian, Prince Ludovico Chigi, died at 86 in November.
Nuns of the New York archdiocese collected 564 pints in a single day at St. Vincent's hospital establishing a civilian record. A total of 862 people contributed, while 298 were disqualified due to colds or other reasons. Cardinal Spellman attended to offer congratulations.
The body of Francisco Marto, one of Fatima's three shepherd children, was located in the village cemetery by his father Manuel and others. Relics are recognized and to be moved to Fatima Basilica beside Jacinta. The discovery confirmed by Archbishop Corre da Silva and others.
Monsignor John C. Kirk of Savannah Atlanta diocese is named head of the Catholic Romanian Mission for Europe by the Holy See. He will coordinate missions in Spain France Germany and Austria and reside in Madrid with plans for London and Italy. The staff includes Father Ottaviano Barba as head of the Paris French mission and Father Alessandro Mircea as Kirk's assistant. Archbishop Gerald P. O'Hara previously served as secretary to the papal nuncio in Romania.
In Rutland Vermont the Feast of the Assumption on August 15 becomes a paid holiday for 129 moulders at the Howe Scale company. The pact grants a three cent piecework raise and a five cent hour raise with a guaranteed base of 1.26 dollars for all. Total paid holidays rise to seven with the holiday added.
Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Montgomery knelt during Benediction at Lourdes and called the pilgrimage his strongest religious experience. Bishop Theas said Montgomery, a non Catholic, asked questions for two hours and was moved as faithful prayed for his intention. Lourdes drew 80,000 sick pilgrims with 1,410 physicians last year.
The Most Rev Joseph A Burke will be installed as the ninth Bishop of Buffalo on April 30 at St Josephs New Cathedral with Cardinal Spellman of New York officiating. A dinner for visiting Hierarchy and clergy follows the ceremony. The Buffalo diocese has 658514 Catholics.
The film Our Lady of Fatima named best Spanish movie of 1951 by the Sindicato de Espectaculos. It won a peseta prize around 10 000 and has released in France Canada Great Britain Austria Brazil and Indo-Ch Twenty six copies circulated in Spain and abroad. Production cost roughly 120 and earned about 60 000 in three months profit. Producer Vicente Escriva received the Order of Civil Merit from the Spanish government.
The Holy Cross brothers announce an international English language school for boys in Rome to begin in 1952. It will be named the Notre Dame International School for boys, starting with the sixth grade and following the New York State Regents syllabus. Textbooks will be Regents approved and the campus on Via Aurelia near St. Peter's aims to serve Americans in Rome's expatriate community.
The seven Belgian and Dutch Scheut Fathers, including Rev Florent Ver Eecke, were freed after a harsh Red prison ordeal and a Communist trial in Saratsi. They endured hunger and vermin while the Chinese authorities taxed church lands. They were moved to Hong Kong via Peking after expulsion.
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