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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1953
Page
10
In Grand Rapids Michigan Francis J Haas, a bishop, has shown great improvement after a heart attack. Church officials report his condition is stabilizing and he is expected to leave the hospital and go home.
The National Council of Catholic Men announces an Action Award for outstanding group action by a Catholic organization. US Catholic men groups may submit a 750 word account of group action promoting the faith within a year prior, by December 1, 1953, to NCCM Washington DC.
Louisville Kentucky affiliate of Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State plans court action to force withdrawal of 115 Catholic teaching sisters from Kentucky public schools.
A visiting missionary Sister who endured two years in a Communist prison in China spoke of embracing martyrdom and loving enemies. She stressed that suffering united with Christ transcends politics, noting both torturers and the tortured are loved in Christ.
A recalled Mass in a prison setting ends with a Bishop blessing a small group. The scene features a simple tray used for bread and wine and a moment of reverent communion amid hardship.
Lettered appeals for donations to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith show varied gifts from readers. Donations range from five and ten dollars to larger sums, including special offerings for Mother's Day and children’s gifts. The piece lists donors and amounts and invites pinning sacrifices to a column for mailing to church officials in New York and Cincinnati.
Bishop Weldon of Springfield will lead the 81st annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America in Pittsfield Massachusetts August 10 to 12. Rev John Murphy is liturgical director and opening Mass celebrant August 11 while Very Rev Francis Moriarity S S E president of St Michael’s College will preach.
Through the generosity of a convert now serving in the army St Pauls Church in Sendai Japan received a painting by Gibbs Perry resident The artwork was shown to Lynn C Martin a friend of the artist and church parishioners provided labor and several collections funded the churchs rebuilding
Berlin reports Baden Wuerttemberg moved to form Christian Community interdenominational schools in defiance of the 1933 concordat with the Vatican. Catholic leaders and the Papal Nunciature appealed to the federal government after the constitutional assembly rejected recognizing the concordat.
Vatican messages from Monsignor Montini to Bishop Rossi call for renewed liturgical devotion ahead of two liturgy weeks and an international liturgical studies convention in Biella. The note stresses the Mass as the inexhaustible source of spiritual life offered by Christ and shared by the faithful.
In Szekesfehervar Hungary Bishop Lajos Shvoy obtained May 2 Sacred Congregation permission to allow bination on First Fridays for priests who lack additional clergy. Priests may offer both morning and evening Masses if they apply in writing with a valid reason "a lack of priests" the bishop stated.
A youth camp near Estes Park opens July 6 offering activities like swimming biking and mountain adventures for nine to fifteen year olds. Weekly rates are 25 dollars with riding and 20 dollars without. inquiries directed to Rev. Richard Hiester in Denver Colorado.
Atlantic City reports the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent Association has paid death benefits totaling over 68 million dollars to Catholic families since its 63 year founding by seven women in Union City New Jersey. At a convention 600 delegates from 27 states and Canada heard Miss Katherine Stanton say the organization remains solvent with substantial reserves. Officers including Stanton and others were re elected, preserving leadership in the male opposition’s absence.
Vatican City reports Pius XII expresses wish to provide summer vacations for 60,000 Italian under privileged children through 4000 seaside and mountain camps run by the Pontifical Aid Committee. Camps offer recreation and educational aid programs for the youths.
Construction starts on St Joseph Hall at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans as a tribute to Archbishop Joseph F Rummel. The French château design building will house 74 philosophy students with library lecture facilities and a large auditorium, with completion expected by October.
Colonel W C O Ferrell heads a Protestant subscription campaign for Schumpert Memorial Sanatorium in Shreveport Louisiana. The drive aims to raise over 1 500 000 for a new building as the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word run the facility for 42 years. The first earth turning marks a 4 5 million project to construct a 310 bed main facility expected to start by year end.
A European hospital founded by the U S religious St Patrick's of Mallow Cork was dedicated July 16. Staff includes nuns trained in the order's American institutions. Mother Leandro and superintendents from U S Franciscan hospitals attended.
A Glencoe dispatch notes that the Christian Brothers, with about 20 000 members teaching 500 000 boys worldwide, have produced 55 Brothers' Boys priests. In the St Louis Province from 1940 to 1953, 38 secular priests, 17 in religious communities, 3 in diocesan seminaries, and 60 in religious seminaries are noted amid 207 in novitiate and scholasticate.
Oslo reports Catholic celebrations for Norway 800th hierarchy anniversary with Pontifical Mass in Trondheim and a pilgrimage to Stiklestad shrine near King Olaf death site in 1030. Events on July 26 and 27 precede Lutheran commemorations in Sor Tronde. Cardinal Bernard Griffin and Norwegian bishops attend amid small Catholic presence.
An 18 month Lourdes Medical Bureau investigation found Col Paul Pellegrin cured in October 1950 of a fistula after immersion in the Lourdes pool. Professor Oberlin of the Faculty of Medicine confirmed the cure. The bureau, run by unpaid independent doctors, investigates medical claims only.
Vatican appoints Martyred St. Cassian as patron of Italian stenographers after Naples shorthand writers convention requests in 1951. Apostolic Letter Dec 23 appears in Acta Apostolica Sedis. St. Cassian denounced pagan status at trial of St. Marcellus during Diocletian persecution.
Bishop Dominic Fukahori lauds Nebraska priest Father Neil F. Fenright and Omaha area volunteers for delivering food clothing money and soap to flood victims in southern Japan where a million people face hunger and disease. American women at Kazuke Air Base assisted via Catholic sisters and Sam McCook Nebraska led aid efforts.
Hungarian policy toward the church is described as a ploy to soothe Catholics and split Western unity. Mindszenty is housed under looser controls while other clerics are moved or released to lure the West into complacency. The piece cites officials and a so called Red Rasputin guiding Budapest.
The Rev. Henry P. Cosgrove aged 37 will leave in July to become assistant superior of Graduate Hall in Rome. He has served as Defensor Vinculi of the Brooklyn Diocesan Tribunal since 1949. He was ordained on June 7, 1941 and studied canon law at the Catholic University of America and the Pontifical Institute in Rome where he earned a doctorate in 1949.
In London Cardinal Bernard Griffin reads Pius XII letter from the Vocation Exhibition at Olympia Stadium urging parents to direct children toward the sanctuary, saying no privilege compares with a son at the altar and stressing early parental guidance toward priesthood.
Norway's Parliament shelved a constitutional amendment to allow the Society of Jesus to operate in Norway and will not consider the repeal in 1954. Secretary General Gunnar Hoff said other pressing legislation blocks the move. two thirds of a 100 member quorum is required. The 1814 constitution barred Jesuits and monastic orders, a ban later altered for Jews in 1851 and other orders in 1897.
The scene lists St. Olaf, the Apostle to Norway, Pope Adrian IV the only English pope, and Bishop Joannes Rueth Vicar Apostolic of Central Norway, noting their distinct roles and eras. The fragment connects Nordic saints with papal and ecclesiastical leadership from medieval times.
A plea from Blessed Martin de Porres Mission asks supporters to help build a church for 200 worshippers. Residents cite overcrowding in the current chapel and the desire to hear Mass clearly, with letters from local students and parishioners urging donations and memorial gifts.
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