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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1953
Page
11
Father Donald F. Kelly, a Chicago native and 12-year navy veteran, is named chaplain of the Second Marine Air Wing. The announcement notes his parentage and service record.
Debaters to compete William Hank of Chicago and Charles Een of Pittsburgh will represent Notre Dame in the competition.
St Marys in Winona Minnesota supported by Christian Brothers will keep participating in intercollegiate football. The decision followed student and faculty polling and board committee input and aims to improve competitiveness in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. St Marys has about 542 men students and is the smallest school in the conference.
Washington D C legislation by Representative Robert W Kean would extend voluntary social security coverage to ordained ministers and about 10 million workers. The bill H R 3608 seeks to include clergy previously barred since 1937, amid church state separation debates.
The Rev. Harold C. Gar diner a Jesuit writer editor will join the Notre Dame staff for the fifth annual writers conference opening June 22. Father Gardiner assists. Richard Sullivan Jovellat and a noted spy writer direct fiction workshops. John T. Frederick, novelist and critic, oversees the workshop of creative writing.
Cardinal Francis Bullman will preside at the Divine Liturgy in the Chaldean Rite at St Patrick's Cathedral on March 21. The ceremony closes the 15th annual Eastern Rites Conference at Fordham University with Rev. Thomas Bidawid of Chicago as celebrant and Auxiliary Bishop John J. Boardman of Brooklyn presiding. Very Rev. John A. Yon is listed as conference chair.
Archbishop Ritter urged Catholics to know facts about parochial schools as a defense against attacks. Speaking at an Archdiocesan educational conference, he said Catholic schools enrich urban life and should be trusted. he announced he will lead national Catholic educational congress in Atlantic City, April 7 to 10.
St Cloud church officials report ecclesiastical approval for a recording rosary attached to a car steering wheel. The device, encasing a rosary, transfers indulgences to the rosary. proceeds from sales support charitable causes under Bishop Bartholome.
In San Pelayo Spain an official program aims to merge scattered holdings into larger productive farms. About one thousand acres of unproductive land will be prepared and allotted to farmers in ten villages to compensate those relinquishing holdings. The remainder will be sold on easy terms at low prices.
Fordham University will conduct the first U S mission institute in New York starting July 6. Courses, guided by the Holy Father, target missionaries seminarians brothers and laymen under Rev J Franklin Ewing S J. The program blends area study with practical fieldwork and analyzes social and economic institutions and government attitudes. Rev Richard A Lawlor S J D Miss lectures on mission theory with Prof Felix M Keesing of Stanford on Oceania.
Father Thomas Smith C M veteran of about 20 years in the China missions is assigned to aid Chinese exiles on Formosa. He was driven from China by Communists in 1952 after serving in Yu kiang Kiangsi province first as assistant then pastor for 17 years. He helped organize trained Chinese convert groups and had about 2000 under instruction during the Red invasion. Since returning to the U S he taught at De Paul University Chicago. He joins Fathers Fox and Guyot in Formosa work with exiled mainland Chinese.
Mrs Oksana Kasenkina a Russian schoolteacher who fled the Moscow embassy in 1948 said she plans to enter a Catholic convent soon. She is a convert and purveyor of the Slav Byzantine Rite and commented on Stalin's death predicting a Russian revolt against the Communist government claiming the people have endured five years of bloodshed and oppression. She spoke as contact with the Church grew amid the Christopher movement.
Father John F. Bannon lectured at St. Louis University on the sesquicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase, saying LaSalle failed to persuade France to establish forts along the Mississippi Valley, costing the nation control of central North America.
A TV film titled Ent Trial at Tara will air as a tribute to St Patrick. Father Patrick Peyton’s Family Rosary Crusade and Family Theatre present the program featuring Richard Hale as Patrick and Rhys Williams as the archdruid.
Pope Pius XII elevates five priests from the Philadelphia Ukrainian Rite to Monsignor. Appointees include Very Rev. Joseph Cathe ral of Immaculate Conception Philadelphia, Nicho Gresko of St Basil Stamford Conn, J Hamtramck Michigan, and John Stock, with Ukrainian Catholic Committee for Refugees Stamford.
Savannah hosts St Patrick’s Day events with a solemn Pontifical Mass by Auxiliary Bishop Francis Hyland and a downtown parade drawing thousands. The Hibernian Society marks its 141st anniversary amid color and history with historic ties to Irish groups and past presidents.
The Loyola University Chicago fulfillment fund total reached 4,675,636 with year end gifts and pledges of 150,000. In 1952 the university received 337,218. Frank J. Lewis gave 1,000,000 held in trust and over 500 gifts of 1,000 plus 35 gifts over 10,000. About 2,322,521 is in cash.
The Rt. Rev. J. B. Gleissner of Bryan the oldest Texas priest died at 88. Cadets at Texas A. and M. honored him as the first at the school to study for the priesthood. Ordained in Galveston in 1889, he hoped for China missions but health redirected him. Funeral was officiated by Bishop Leake J. Reicher with over 100 priests in attendance.
The Grail movement opens a Catholic center for foreign students in Ipain at 46 W 55th Street Manhattan with Cardinal Spellman’s permission. An American and Oriental group will devote full time to integrate Chralladorcine into daily life. Grail headquarters in the U S are Grailville. Teams operate in Detroit Philadelphia Brooklyn.
Saint Louis Mayor Joseph Darst signed the Sacred Heart program pledge joining his family to devotion. Father Eugene Murphy, program director, promotes the My 12 Promises to the Sacred Heart of Jesus pledge as part of a drive to consecrate another million homes.
Archbishop of Jerusalem will celebrate a special Solemn Mass at the Holy Sepulchre on Easter to support missionaries. Several of his missionaries will participate in similar offerings to aid their work.
Three students named Josephs plan to emulate Saint Patrick by aiding Irish people. Each will study for three more years and needs 100 dollars per year. Donors may sponsor any student with 100 dollars annually for three years.
Sisters Clementine Leontine and Celestine are named after popes Clement, Leo and Celestine. Each sister needs 150 dollars for one year of Franciscan Sisters training. Calculate one sister’s required sum.
A fragmented plea for St Patrick’s Day charity references food packs and Easter aid, urging support for Lay Missionaries and social workers. It notes Mass offerings for priests displaced from Spain, and appeals for Holy Father assistance through fund offerings and film rentals.
A dense OCR list catalogs numerous films and titles across genres and studios. The entry includes many foreign and domestic releases and references to actors and production notes, reflecting a broad catalog rather than a single narrative event.
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