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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1953
Page
10
Report states a national drive aims for 93 million dollars this year with New York City setting a 7 million dollar quota. Endorsements come from Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish communities supporting the campaign.
Excelsior Springs Missouri reports a new free book on a specialized rheumatism and arthritis treatment. The Ball Clinic offers a detailed system blended with mineral waters and baths, with no obligation to request the enlarged book titled Rheumatism. Write today to Ball Clinic Dept 551 for the free instructional volume.
A Catholic column urges giving first to the Holy Father’s Missions, noting many praise letters and the Pope’s call that charity surpasses other charity. It argues prayers are more likely to be answered when believers sacrifice and focus on saving others, including missionaries and souls in need.
Two polio stricken girls in wheelchairs prayed during the blessing at Lourdes asking Jesus to cure the other, not themselves. Each was healed, and they later learned of the other’s prayer and cure, a touching testament to faith and charity.
The message urges believers to seek intercession through caring for others souls especially within the Holy Father’s Missions. It calls for sacrifice to aid recipients so that God may reward the donor with blessings in return.
Readers are asked to send contributions to the Holy Fathers Missions with notes of thanks and promises. A World Mission Rosary blessed by the author is offered for a $2 offering, with prayers and regional color meditations for Africa America Europe Oceania Asia.
A reader is urged to cut out the column, pin their sacrifice to it, and mail it to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith national director or to the Diocesan Director at specified New York addresses.
Monsignor Cardiji founder and chaplain general of the Young Christian Workers says the Catholic Church erred by neglecting to train labor leaders. He urges 100000s of trained workers on the job via after hours groups and notes an Brussels international institute sending labor missionaries to South America India North Africa and Japan. He blames opportunist politicians and credits Communists with initiating the labor movement.
Texas & Pacific Railway will place copies of the Protestant Revised Standard Version Bible in lounge cars on all trains. The move follows strong public response to last year's advertising campaign highlighting the need for religious literature, supported by ads in 120 newspapers and magazines.
Winooski Park Vermont station The Knight and the Lady radio program produced by St Michael's College under Rev Gerard David S.E. wins a George Washington honor medal from Freedoms Foundation in Valley Forge Pennsylvania, announced on WJOY Burlington.
Classifieds detail advertising rates and placement rules with Monday deadlines. A series of money making claims appears, including part time survey work and spare time outfits. Names and addresses such as Wilmette Illinois and Beeline Fashions Chicago appear among promotional notices.
The Catholic Daughters of America at a three day meeting adopted a resolution condemning anti Semitism and urging Congress to curb obscene materials. Leaders praised Eisenhower for appointing women to high office and sent messages to Clare Boothe Luce and Oveta Culp Hobby. The group announced new appointments and awarded seven scholarships as it marks its 50th jubilee with a theme Peace as a Mission from God and Humanity.
A Catholic educator predicts optimism and skepticism offer a path to a factual study of religion in public schools. The piece in Religious Education argues separation of church and state raises questions, while general education without religious reference risks impoverishment and incompleteness.
Two Passionist priests depart San Francisco bound for Yokohama to establish Japan’s first Passionist monastery. Rev. Matthew Vettes and Rev. Carl Bee Sehesis lead, with Osakan site chosen by Bishop Taguchi. A second group from Norwood Park will join in six months. Ten Passionists remain in China, five under house arrest.
In Osaka a Buddhist monk enrolled his son at a Salesian Fathers school where 37 classmates were baptized after the father signed parental consent. The monk had sought enrollment since the school's opening in 1949, despite priests noting the Catholic environment.
Una E. Ford, sister of Bishop Francis X. Ford and retired editor of the New York Freeman's Journal and the Monitor, died in a Catholic home for the aged after time in a Chinese prison. Born in Brooklyn, she was educated at Loretta convent and contributed to the Irish American press.
Seven Medical Mission Sisters plus two doctors and five nurses were appointed to international posts. Dr Leon Mather oversees assignments. Sisters Scholastica and Perpetua join Holy Family hospitals in Mandar India and Rawalpindi Pakistan. Others are posted to Patna Karachi Newark Maracaibo and the Gold Coast with roles in surgery nursing education and hospital expansion.
Father Patrick H. Shanley Apostolic Administrator of Infanta in the Philippines is appointed Prelate Nullius of Infanta and Titular Bishop of Kouhene. Born 1886 in Athlone Ireland he served as a WWI layman and WWII chaplain before founding the Infanta mission with five U.S. Discalced Carmelites.
A 53-year-old man in Milwaukee prepared for death after accepting his fate. Frank Ferris, a servant of Green Bay, Wis., reportedly refused work as death neared, called a priest, and arranged his room. Pathe Willi Pueter, S.J., arrived and administered last rites as Ferris died with candles and holy water nearby.
The Rt. Rev. Eugene Medved O.S.B. becomes the first native Idahoan and Mt. Angel monk to be named abbot of Westminster priory in Vancouver. Born June 26, 1907 at Nez Perce, he later served as rector of Mt. Angel seminary and Christ the King College, with degrees and roles across Oregon, British Columbia, and Notre Dame. Arch Bishop William Mark Duke of Vancouver will confer the abbatial blessing March 19 at Holy Rosary Cathedral.
An anti-Catholic preacher born in Southern Italy and later a U S Protestant minister has been ordered out of Italy for attacking the Church and promoting defection among priests. He lived in the United States as a child and contributed to the Converted Catholic magazine. After World War II he returned to Italy as a U S citizen and faced deportation from Naples with assistance from the U S consulate. his wife is American.
Milwaukee publisher Frank M Bruce Sr longtime head of Bruce Publishing company dies at 22 in Misericordia hospital after a sudden shock. Survived by wife three sons and two daughters with firm ties. Bruce helped found Catholic Literary Foundation and led Catholic press groups and church organizations. Solemn Mass offered at Ey ton Trinity church with funeral details announced.
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