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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1953
Page
10
A Catholic moral discussion argues that donating eyes after death is morally permissible and a charitable act. It weighs whether living donors may transplant a cornea between eyes and whether sight-saving transplants affect dignity or harm the remaining eye. It notes advances in surgery and cites opposing views on live cornea removal.
The passage explains St Paul’s view of a guardian or father's role in a young woman’s marriage, noting that while fathers had influence, women could voice their own wishes. It contrasts legal marriage with spiritual virginity and urges guardians to promote religious celibacy for higher spiritual ends.
A North Carolina movement sees public high school students gathering daily before classes to sing hymns on school premises. In Charlotte and Mount Olive, about 70 Central School students attend each day, while Catholics remain largely silent though some fear a church-state fusion if wider adoption occurs.
The Rev. Claiborne Lafferty of Little Rock Arkansas will lecture at Rome February on the topic of comparative law. He will be the first American to lecture there and has spent much of his life in Rome. He has studied at Washington University and holds doctor of both laws and civil law degrees from the Pontifical Athenaeum.
The text contrasts Darwinian evolution with creationist views, arguing that life depends on a Necessary Being. It claims contingent beings require God for existence and denies an endless chain of self-sustaining creatures, concluding that existence or extinction cannot prove self-originated existence.
A Catholic perspective questions Darwinian evolution arguing souls are created directly and evolution is a hypothesis not a fact. It notes Augustine and Aquinas, fossil research, and recent coelacanth discoveries prompting questions about species emergence and ancestral links.
The passage traces Mendel’s descent laws from 1865 1866 presentation to 1900 recognition and 1920 impact per the Columbia Encyclopedia. It notes early misgivings and later appreciation by scientists, linking Mendel to Darwinian theory shifts in heredity.
The piece defines faith as adhesion to revealed truth under divine authority and explores how faith is elicited by intellect and grace. It cites Scripture Hebrews and John, cites Augustine on grace as God’s gift, and states that true faith requires illumination and inspiration from the Holy Spirit.
The fragment argues that evolution or creation requires continuous divine involvement. It asserts God sustains all moments of existence and actions, from simple acts to complex inventions, and that God’s necessary concurrence preserves all life and motion.
The passage lists opponents of God in the modern world, including Marxism’s rejection of religion and Freud’s view of religion as mass neurosis, alongside Nietzsche’s claim that God is dead. It hints at Russia as an example of atheistic communism eroding decency and humanity.
The author argues Freud offered practical cures but lacked scientific rigor and overemphasized infantile sexuality. Freud denied free will and scoffed at religion, adopting a martyr's pose and claiming science is probabilistic. The writer dismisses Freud as a thinker beyond a philosopher and theologian, likening him to a grasshopper.
Monsignor Matthew Smith contends Nietzsche born 1844 and died 1900 held insane ideas shaping modern politics. He argues Nietzsche’s critique of democracy influenced movements leading to major conflicts though acknowledging God’s return in death.
The text critiques bourgeois virtues as misused by extremists and discusses economic liberalism versus state control. It notes Pius XII on investment as duty, France's hoarded gold, and Africa’s capital needs. It mentions a British education bill shifting school control to the Education Minister and calls it a move labeled as democracy triumph by socialists.
In a December address marking a year since his speech Pius XII warned of infringements on liberty from non Communist sides. He cited forced birth control claims and the denial of parental rights to educate children as two troubling pressures he observed.
Washington report notes a nationwide effort to promote Catholic Press Month through women's clubs. The National Council of Catholic Women released February suggestions to publicize the event and its aims.
An Argentinian writer available in Latinoamerica argues that colonial education was broader than feared. He lists colonial women who read and wrote, claiming women were not less literate than men and that female education then was more profound than today.
A missionary in Accra plates a Sacred Heart picture to a condemned killer in West Africa. Father Kretschmer baptizes him conditionally before death as the man murmurs Jesus I love you. The scene highlights the Enthronement movement led by Rev Francis Karlin.
Cardinal Samuel Stritch told 100 attendees at the fifth annual Catholic Economic Association gathering that the United States bears a responsibility in international life and leads in freedom. Rev. Raymond J. Miller noted providential guidance from Popes Leo XIII, Pius XI, and Pius XII, praising the Marshall and Schuman plans as signs of growing international cooperation.
Catholic leaders have long protested the national origins system and its race and nationality restrictions. The President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization recommends that the McCarran-Walter Act be reconsidered and revised from beginning to end. Senator Pat McCarran and Representative Francis E. Walter push for changes in the law.
A church radio talk by Father Joseph Manton discusses church life and devotion. He cites vivid anecdotes from a Boston parish during the Mother of Perpetual Help novena detailing parishioners and their prayers.
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