Rosary and Lay Baptism Preserve Faith on Shipwreck Island
On Ba buyan Island in the Philippines descendants of a shipwrecked group dating to 1800 kept Catholic practices for 150 years without a priest. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen reported their Rosary recitations and lay baptisms, performed in their small chapel, preserved tradition despite isolation and myths of savagery.
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New York
Babuyan Island
Philippines
Fulton J
Sheen
Faith
Fides Service
Rome
Conenti Agers
Florentino Casaan
Antonio
Father Castanan
St.Dionysius
30 American Missionaries Left in China
A list shows 30 Catholic American missionaries remaining in Red China, with 17 jailed and five under house arrest. The overall number fell from about 500 before the regime crackdown to 30, as many were expelled or imprisoned amid new persecutions. Names include Bishops Philip Cote and Frederick A. Gordon, and various clergy from Jesuit, Franciscan, and Missionary orders.
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China
Hong Kong
Red China
Lowell
Proulx
Mass
Knoll
Joseph A. Sweeee Bri Quinn
Baltimore
Joseph P. Passionist
Linus
Monkeyinterrupts Services St. Joseph Church Attendees
A rhesus monkey appeared in St. Joseph's Church in Brooklyn and cavorted in the nave for over two hours during three Masses attended by about 1,000 worshippers.
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Brooklyn
St. Joseph’s Church
California Marian Dogma Centennial Celebration Planned
California readies a pilgrimage style Marian Congress to mark the centennial of the Immaculate Conception dogma. Bishops led by Archbishop Mitty support the Franciscan National Marian Commission with delegates traveling from San Diego on May 2 to Sacramento on May 9.
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James Intyre
Angeles
Silos Lane
California
Fa IX
John J. Mitty
Franciscan National Marian Commission
Preacher Attacks Oxnam Over Pinko Book in Roanoke
Roanoke Virginia special report notes Methodist Bishop G Bromiley Oxnam faced harsh criticism from Protestant ministers accusing him of anti Catholic bias and connections to Communism. Rev Robert E Master of the Ghent Brethren Church led the charge as part of ongoing efforts to portray Oxnam as a propagandist.
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Roanoke
G. Bromiley Oxnam
Munism
Oxnam
Pringgestonne
Robert E. Master
Ghent Brethren Church
Priest Norton Sees Grandchildren and Family Ties
A Roanoke World-News reader letter describes Father Norton studying for the priesthood after his wife’s death. It details his large family across New York Chicago and Dubuque with sons, daughters, and sisters among clergy and nuns. The piece also references a wartime audience with Pius XII and criticisms of Bishop Oxnam’s missionary book distribution.
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Jane
Michael, Jr
Michael Pejo
New York
Norton
Archdiocese of
Peers
Claude Norton
St. Mary’s Ch
Winton
John Norton
Charles
Cuba
Chicago
Ary Leona
Visitation
Dubuque
Mary Edmund
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mary Olive
Moline
Til
Rome
Pius XII
U. S
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Patrick J. Norton
Dubuque,Ia
Marys flood sparks wave of baptisms in Brazil
Deluge of Our Lady of Fatima procession echoes a surge in Mary names in baptism. In the capital, more than six hundred babies were named Mary in May and June, reflecting the pilgrimage's influence on naming.
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Mary
Automobile Club Helps Handicapped to Church
Silver Spring Md A seminarian uses the Stoe Club idea to aid crippled aged and penness a cet to church windshield stickers available free from Father Gilbert Hay MSSS T Box 30 Silver Spring Md
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Silver Spring
Colman Nolan
Tadies
Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity
Gilbert Hay
M.s.ss.t
Latin Mass Draws Over 3000 in Scotland Pilgrimage
More than 3,000 persons joined in Latin responses at a diocesan pilgrimage to St. Thomas Church Keith Banffshire as a 16 man choir read English translations of the Mass parts while Bishop of Aberdeen recited them at the altar. Epistle and Gospel were read in English from a microphone.
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Edinby Scotland
Cis W
Aberdeen
St. Thomas’ Church
Keith Banffshire
Seven Sleepers Legend Echoed Across Ages
An ancient Gostitian tale from before 500 recounts seven men in Ephesus saved from death by miraculous sleep in a cave during Decian persecution. They awaken centuries later amid Christian lore, inspiring belief in the immortality of the soul and influencing St. James and St. Gregory of Tours.
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Decius
Ephesus
Are Turkey
Theodosius II
St. James of First
St. Gregory of Tours
Counterfeiter Arrests Highlight Food Crisis Motive
A man accused of counterfeiting admitted he needed food for himself and associates. He reportedly entered a bakery to buy bread and attempted payment with a coin of Decius or other illegal tender, raising questions about the case.
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Decius
Legend Had Involvement Across Civilizations At A Feast
Fragmentary note references a legend shared by Egyptians Ethiopians and Armenians and mentions Mohammed as having used it. A feast is described with a page reference to Turn to Page 8 Column 3.
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Ohammed
Egypt
Mohammed
Korea Is Fully Ripe For Conversion Says Columbans Superior
The Columbans Superior declares Korea ready for conversion amid war’s devastation. He cites limited personnel and resources, praises Catholic aid networks, and hopes for more priests and sisters to aid in Korea’s mission work amid enduring papal and missionary support.
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Korea
Columbans Superior
Aith
Connolly
Father Thomas C
Colum Sekuieies
Tare
Tei
Pather
Moran
Catholic Daughters of America
NCWC
Swanstrom
Par- Henter
Columbans
Onother
Bishop Brady Urges Religious Education for National Survival
Bishop Matthew Brady warns the nation faces moral decay and peril without religious schooling. He says home and church cannot bear the burden alone and calls for integrating divine truth into national education to curb divorce, delinquency, and perjury.
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Matthew Brady
Legisees
Bishop
Innel
NCWC
Girl with atrophied leg walks after Lourdes visit
Paris report describes Bernadette David a 22 year old French girl who traveled to Lourdes on a stretcher for a bone decay and 6 months of immobility. After treatment she now walks and helps others at the hospital. The Lourdes bureau investigates cures to classify miracles.
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Lourdes
Paris
Bernadette David
Pius XII to Declare 1954 a Marian Year
Rome reports that Pope Pius XII will proclaim 1954 a Marian Year on the Feast of the Assumption August 15 marking the 100th anniversary of the Immaculate Conception declaration. Secular agencies call it an extraordinary Holy Year though officials say no large Papal ceremonies are planned.
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Rome
Pius XII
St. Peter’s
Native Clergy in Mission Lands Is Growing Strong
Vatican radio reports 87 native bishops serving in Africa and Asia including 8 in Africa 3 in Ceylon 25 in China 3 in Korea 1 Formosa 9 Japan 27 Indonesia 1 Thailand and 7 Indo China. It also notes over 21 million Catholics in East and West Germany comprising about 45 percent of the two zones with 14 thousand Hungarian Catholics in Germany served by 21 Hungarian priests.
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London
Africa
Indonesia
Ceylon
China
Korea
Formosa
Japan
Thailand
Indo-China
Vatican Radio
East
West Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
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Frederik di Donaghy
Wuchow
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Chowtsun
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Boston, Mass
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Roanoke World-News
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G. Bromley Oxnam
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Ae Hewlett Johnson
Canterbury
Russia
Joseph E. Davies
Brotherhood of Man
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Bishop Oxnam
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House of Representatives
Committee On UN- American Activities
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Philip Neri
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Hey
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Leo XIII
St. John
Pius XI
Eee Oat van
St. Camillus de Lellis
Red Cross
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Rere
Brady
Episcopal Aera
Ncwc Education Department
Rochester
Stevenson
Vatican City
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Luigi, Einaudi
Italy
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Peint
Sisters of the Holy Family
L. Abel Caislouet
New Orleans
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