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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1953
Page
9
Richmond dispatch reports Rev Bernard F Meyer Maryknoll veteran who returned from 32 years in China says five million Americans are ready to convert if reached by lay apostolate. He spoke at the Outdoor Apostolate of the Southeast convention and Catholic Committee of the South meeting urging lay catechists and dynamic evangelization nationwide.
One in four Ontario children attends separate Catholic schools with about 140000 pupils. Annual enrollments are rising by five thousand, and a building program costing more than the past seven years is needed in three years. Cardinal McGuigan urged sacrifices as government support shows interest. Etienne Gilson spoke on the Eminence of Teaching at the conference.
In Kwangju and Ham Pyong Korea, mass baptisms by Columban Fathers and Korean clergy increased Catholic numbers. 670 converts were received in two Holy Saturday ceremonies. 512 adults were baptized in Kwangju, raising prefecture Catholics above 10,000.
At the biennial Southern Conference in Richmond Virginia Bishop William S Mulloy of Covington Ky urged leaders to seek interracial justice rather than a single technique to end segregation. Ishop Mulloy said the Principles of interracial justice matter more than method and no diocesan chairmen were appointed to coordinate race relations work. One speaker noted some Negro leaders view the Catholic Church as the likely ultimate solution and called Catholics to set the pattern.
London report recalls Monsignor Thomas Quinlan and Bishop Patrick Byrne among prisoners in North Korea. Byrne died in a communist internment camp after a long death march. Quinlan survived and described harsh conditions, limited meals of millet, and no access to Mass or Confession.
In India a new government policy could curb activities of about 2,000 foreign Catholic clergy including 150 American priests. Home Minister Kailas Nath Katju said outsiders should not propagate religion, prompting Catholic leaders to cite Article 25 guaranteeing freedom of conscience and propagation. Local church leaders and supporters worry over implications for education and social work.
A Rev Patrick O Connor NCWC News Service report describes Communist guards breaking up Catholic prisoners gatherings for Rosaries at Freedom Village Munsan Korea. Prisoners say they faced anti religious indoctrination yet retained faith with limited priest presence and self conducted services.
An editorial on an AI workingman's anniversary discusses Paul Revere as a controversial figure with complex family history. It notes his two marriages, eight children from each wife, and a debated French heritage claim. The piece ties public perception to lineage, religion, and immigrant origin.
Paul was the third of the cheap by the dozen family. He learned silversmithing from his father after attending No Grammar School. A mechanical prodigy, he mastered copper plate engravings for printing and political cartoons aiding colonial resistance. He produced seals bookplates certificates and coats of arms and even advertised dental plates as “real use in speaking and eating.”
Catholic spokesman said Bishop Cuthbert O Gara of Yuanling and two U S Passionist missionaries were released by Chinese Communists. Fathers Paul Ubinger Pittsburgh and William Westhoven Liberty Ohio were under arrest since 1950 and ordered to prepare for exodus. The clerics were taken to a hospital in Changsha before possible travel to Hong Kong.
A Maine youth freed by Reds in Freedom Village Munson Kv coincides with his First Communion day. He confesses to Father Elmer, who directs a makeshift altar in a tent and administers the sacrament.
The Little Flower Basilica in Lisieux France will be consecrated on July 11. The church by architect Condonnier creator of the Peace Palace in The Hague was completed after years of construction and blessed in 1927 by Cardinal Pacelli then Gene Pius XII.
Former POWs recall Father Emil J. Kapaun as selfless and courageous in Korea. Non Catholic soldier recalls his kindness to all, including Protestants, as conditions worsened. Kapaun risked life guiding wounded to safety and earned the Distinguished Service Cross and Bronze Star. A memorial plan is proposed in Wichita diocese.
French priests are urged by the Assembly of French Cardinals and Archbishops to limit community Masses and preserve private Masses. Bishops must grant express permission for such services, as overuse may undermine the value of the private Mass and mislead the laity about unity.
Wolfgang Gruen, a German electrical engineer jailed in Shanghai in 1951, learned Catholicism from Father Aiden McGrath via toilet tissue gospel pages. He was expelled from China, later baptized by Divine Words Father Bartley Schmitz, and said he did not regret prison for discovering faith.
Louisville drivers from Local 89 of the A F of L presented a 25 000 donation to Bellarmine College president Father Alfred F Horrigan. The gift funds a labor studies memorial for founder Pat Ansboury and 15 000 for labor field programs plus 10 000 for a labor management classroom in the 1 000 000 building under construction.
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