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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1952
Page
9
The article explains fixed feasts use the Gregorian calendar while movable feasts follow the lunar cycle. Easter is set by the first Sunday after the full moon on or after March 21, per Nicea 325, with Ascension 40 days and Pentecost 50 days later. Christmas Dec 25 is traditional, Epiphany once observed the same day until later.
In Sambalpur India Bishop Her on Westermann ordains Rev John Kertta the first native priest of the diocese. The ceremony is witnessed by the priest's parents and about 8000 aboriginal Catholics amid simple peasants.
U S Ambassador to Israel and Israel's Foreign Minister Sharett signed a grant in aid of 50 million dollars. A special account will hold the currency equivalent, with funds earmarked for relief and resettlement projects in Israel.
The text explains basilica architecture with a portico, nave, aisles, apse, and narthex. It distinguishes Major Patriarchal basilicas in Rome such as St John Lateran and St Peter's, hosting papal altars, from Minor Basilicas. the latter 11 in Rome and many worldwide receive special dignity.
The text argues Christ founded a Church with a divinely guided structure, not a tyrannical state. It asserts the Pope is bound by divine revelation and canon law, preserving justice and natural law. The author links Catholicism with Americanism through adherence to natural law, warning against courts abandoning it.
The piece defends Catholic history against critic Sugrue and argues against his portrayal of Pius XI and Henry IV. It praises Gregory VII’s fight against simony and urges Sugrue to study Catholic mysticism through works by Secke, Gang, Merton and Graef, claiming many Catholics are not mysticism novices.
The remains of Louis Braille, who died in 1852, are to be moved to the French Pantheon a century after his death. Braille, blinded at three, was born in Coupvray near Paris in 1809 and attended the Paris institution for the blind. his system of embossed dots, Braille, revolutionized reading for the blind.
Louis Braille pioneered raised dot reading in 1829 with a system that taught both literature and music. His work faced resistance, but spread across Europe. In England and the United States, organizations and government funding advanced Braille publishing, while readers show strong memory, rapid reading, and high literacy among the blind.
A Jewish father recounts a Protestant doctor’s suggestion to place a mentally deficient infant in a Catholic home. He describes his son’s care at St Rita's in Williamsville, run by the Felician Sisters, noting the sisters’ patient tenderness and spiritual exercises sustaining them in demanding hours.
The article notes 3 730 foreign Catholic missionaries have been expelled from China since 1948 with about 1 650 remaining behind the Bamboo Curtain including 1 121 priests and 438 sisters. It reports at least 7 percent of foreign priests in China are under arrest and describes limited freedom of movement for missionaries.
The federal government allotted seven million dollars to Canadian universities and colleges. Assumption College in Windsor received sixty four thousand five hundred dollars to help cover operating deficits.
The Rev. Dr. Gerald V. McDevitt of Philadelphia becomes secretary to the Apostolic Delegate in Washington D C. He succeeds Bishop-elect Joseph M. McShea, recently named Auxiliary of Philadelphia. McDevitt studied at St Lee, Overbrook, and the Pontifical major seminary in Rome. He was ordained in 1942 and has taught at St Thomas More High School in Philadelphia.
Berlin has transformed from a city of one parish five priests and about 20 Catholics a century ago to a metropolis with 201 Catholic churches and over 500000 Catholics. The expansion reflects broad religious growth and organizational development in the capital.
A J John a Catholic was elected leader of Travancore Cochin Congress defeating Pa nampilly Govinda Menon a Hindu former Education Minister. John will head the 44 Congress members in the 108 seat legislature and become the first Catholic Prime Minister of the state with Catholic control of key portfolios in education and food.
Discussion notes landmark rulings on the Feinberg Law and Bible reading in public schools. It cites U S Supreme Court positions on protecting immature minds from propaganda and the complexities of religious practices in state education.
A Catholic appeal column urges readers to sacrifice for the Holy Father's Missions, praising offerings from readers such as $28 from B. J. P. and others. It notes a missionary in Oceania baptizing 250 pagans with catechist support, mentions a six-year-old donor in Puerto Rico, and describes quints at a Tuticorin leper colony. The piece links prayer, fund-raising, and the World Mission Rosary, urging donations to support catechists, priests, and missions worldwide.
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