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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1953
Page
9
Madrid reports Spanish Minister Alberto Martin Artajo signals negotiations are near signing stage on use of Spanish naval and air bases by U.S. forces. No formal announcement expected before the end of the transfer of power in Washington.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco announced on New Year’s Eve that Spain’s anti Spanish conspiracy has collapsed worldwide. He claimed Spain now seeks cooperation against Communism and is at its greatest strength since the 16th century.
Fragmentary letters attributed to Vicente Lom and others praise communist ideals and Mao Tse-tung. The text references the Chinese and Korean conflicts and notes alleged support for Communist forces. The readability is limited and names are partially obscured.
Pope Pius XII addressed some 500,000 Indian Catholics via Vatican radio urging Latin and Eastern rites to unite and live the Church’s social teaching. He called for concord among Christians, end of division with Rome as spiritual center, and urged unity against godlessness during the St Thomas centenary Eucharistic Congress in Ernakulam. Cardinal Norman Gilroy attended as Papal representative.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower will become the first U.S. president to visit a university campus on inauguration day January 20 as he attends a pair of parties. crowds will be split between the National Guard Armory and Georgetown Universitys McDonough Memorial Auditorium in a historic campus visit.
A reflective sermon on the Incarnation by Fulton J. Sheen urging humility before God made flesh. He contrasts humanity’s longing to hold God with the mystery of the Word becoming man and dwelling among us for thirty three years.
A Sherman family planned a New Year gift swap to donate equal sums to Holy Father's Missions. Members matched gifts for a total to aid 1 1100,000,000 pagans and urged others to send offerings. Readers were invited to mail sacrifices to Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen or their Diocesan Director with a World Mission Rosary blessing.
The World Council of Churches Faith and Order commission joins Christians across confessions in prayer for Church unity during the Chair of Unity Octave begun at Grayson Moor? No. The octave began 1908 in Graysmoor New York with Father Paul James Francis Watson who led his community into the Catholic Church the next year. The Holy See endorses the Octave.
A full size Easter Vigil book will be available in English February 1. Father Wilmes notes the work serves clergy and laity, with Monsignor Hellige of St. Louis among contributors. The National Liturgical Conference will publish the book through its Elsberry office.
Archbishop Mitty announced by Monsignor Schieder that three bishops will guide NCWCoe Youth Department efforts. Auxiliary Bishops Smith McNulty and Schexnayder serve as Episcopal moderators of national youth federations. Bishop Seetee tage named assistant chairman, highlighting strong hierarchy support.
Washington observers and Protestant groups fear a Eisenhower Vatican envoy. Reporters note he made no definite vow against naming such an ambassador. POAU plans to petition the president elect not to reopen the church state controversy. A mass meeting is set for January 15 at Constitution Hall to wrap up the conference.
A Dublin report quotes the Irish force commission claiming Ireland has the world's lowest indictable offense rate. Indictable offenses last year ran 477 per 100 000 population, far below England and Wales at 1205 and Scotland at 1627 per 100 000.
Twenty five persons in the literary and entertainment fields will receive Christopher awards January 14. Father James Keller will present the medallions at the Waldorf Astoria. Awards will go to Lamar Trotti Henry Koster Ernest Vajda for Stars and Stripes Forever. Medallions also to Samuel Goldwyn Charles Vidor Moss Hart Myles Connolly for Hans Christian Andersen.
Cincinnati Archbishop Alter urges national bishops to appoint diocesan directors for the drive as Lent arrives early on Ash Wednesday February 18. He cites 40,000,000 refugees and war victims in Korea Indochina Formosa and Europe as reasons for the appeal and urges Catholics to support relief beyond diocesan needs.
A social worker priest’s report on Brussels Marollen slums led King Baudouin, incognito, to tour six acres of tenements for six hours with Father Froidtite and Health Minister Alfred De Taeye. They visited 30 tenements while observers noted their delegation appearance. One woman accepted a small gift after learning the King’s identity.
All Hallows college in Ireland trains priests for export with over 300 graduates now serving worldwide. Rev. William Purcell leads the seminary and travels the United States to visit former students. He notes more than 1,000 priests are in other English speaking lands and two have entered the hierarchy. Purcell will stay in the United States for several months.
In Sucre Bolivia a Catholic compact bloc is urged to counter a Marxist advance. Archbishop de Caurer warns Catholic faithful to unite and resist government efforts to nationalize the clergy while a Communist party grows. The appeal cites university and school propagation of Marxist ideas and fears for Bolivian society and religion.
The Indian born prelate Carlostini of Venice dies after nomination as cardinal designate. He studied at Pinan University and served as Auxiliary of the Bombay archdiocese in 1946 and became the first Indian to succeed to the see in 1950. The event marks further Indian izing of the Church in India amid Jubilation at St Thomas centenary.
At the Polish American Historical Association annual meeting in Chicago officials pledged cooperation to locate bibliographical data in the U S to support beatification and canonization efforts for Polish church figures including Archbishop Blyplak and Mother Truszkowska. The discussion touched on Soviet era religious repression and church trials in Passaic and related figures.
Cardinal Spellman visits Taegu and Taegu area churches and a Maryknoll clinic in Korea donating $10,000 from New York Catholics. He meets Korean staff and U.S. Army medical teams treating 600 to 800 patients daily and prays at Sister Alberta Marie Young’s grave. He then travels to Okinawa and Japan for Masses and a New Year’s reception with military chaplains and officials.
Vatican daily Osservatore Romano denounces Tito for lacking basic goodwill toward religion in reaction to Archbishop Stepinac’s cardinal nomination. The front page editorial by Federico Alessandrini accuses Yugoslavia of hostility to the Holy See and without diplomatic break.
An editorial claims Catholic publications are being eliminated and seminaries shut or restricted while youths are indoctrinated with atheism. It accuses Yugoslavia of attacking bishops and priests loyal to church duties, masking oppression with euphemistic rhetoric.
B N A I Israel bought a tract and donated it to the Ursuline nuns for a school. They also gave one acre to the city. The Ursulines will build a school on their land, the Jewish congregation will add a synagogue and playground, and the city will construct a playground. No fences will be erected.
A bishop warned that many man made religions will disappear within five decades while only the Catholic church may endure. He urged believers to change the trend as Britain faces empty churches and a need for more Catholic parishes.
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