Children's Art Show Attracts Six Hundred Entrants In New York
Four annual art exhibit and contest organized by Catholic Youth Organization with New York archdiocese school superintendent honors seven to eighteen year old artists. Prizes awarded in nine media including watercolors tempera and pencil. First prize in tempera shown by seven year old Patricia Badger of St. Monica's Newark.
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New York
Catholic Youth Oranization
Superintendent of Schools
York Archdiocese
Patricia Badger
St. Monica’s
Newark City
Thomas Gunningham
Catholic Charities
John J. Voight
Csark
Terence J. Cooke
Archdiocesan
CYO
Bishop Sheen Claims Reds Seek Fake Clergy Ordination
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen told a Santa Susanna church audience that Communists held a secret meeting in a major U S city to recruit volunteers for religious orders and seminarian life. He said in 1986 there was wide Communist influence among media and that a Moscow visitor attempted to infiltrate his office, later exposed by the FBI. He then met with Pope Pius XII to deliver his annual report.
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Rome
Fulton J. Sheen
New York
Santa Susanna
Sheen
Phiey of
Moscow
United States
Pius XII
Society For the Propagation of the Faith
Romanian Church in U S Defies Red Appointment
The Romanian Orthodox Church in America rejected the bishop named by the Communist controlled Bucharest Patriarch and consecrated Viorel D. Trifa of Cleveland as head, despite a court order. Trifa, 37, becomes the first outside Romania to be consecrated, succeeding Archbishop Moruseca who left for Romania in 1939.
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Philadelphia
America
Bucharest
Viorel D. Trifa
Cleveland
Trifa
Romania
Policarp Moruseca
Grass Lake
Mich
Andrei Moldovan
Akron
Justinian Bucharest
John Trutza
Holy See
Anglican Archbishop Blasts Birth Control Policy
In Georgetown British Guiana Dr Alan John Knight the Anglican Archbishop of the West Indies denounces birth prevention measures as contrary to the law of God He cites a 1946 synod and says the church holds marriage is indissoluble and cannot be dissolved by any court The process of nullity of marriage rests with ecclesiastical courts upon proof of invalidity.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
Alan John Knight
West Indies
Church of
Ngland
Night
1St India Commission
Ishops
New England Pastoral Conference Decries Attacks on Private Schools
In Quincy Massachusetts the New England Pastoral Conference adopted a resolution denouncing attacks on private and religious schools. The statement quoted Harvard President Mel Conant warning that public schools cannot provide needed moral and religious training. The Missouri Synod backs 1,164 day hours for about 100000 children taught.
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Quincy
Mass
New England Pastoral Conference
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Archdiocese Child Program at Shoreham Hotel
Archbishop Pat ch O Boyle Auxiliary Bishop John M McNamara and Auxiliary staff conduct a child welfare program at the Shoreham hotel from May 11 to 13.
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Washington
Patch A. O’boyle
Our Double Morals Blamed for World's Ills
Loyola students surveyed by the Los Angeles Examiner blame a double standard of morals for societal corruption. They say society at large, not the church, parties, or business, bears responsibility as every person partly participates. One Loyola student cites a triple standard across business family and Sundays in modern conduct.
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Los Angeles
Loyola University Stuents
Los Nae
California
E Examiner
Stuents
Loyola
New York Mayor Hails Supreme Court School Release Ruling
Mayor Vincent Impelliteri celebrates the Supreme Court decision upholding a program for released time for religious study in public schools. He says the ruling reinforces religious foundations of the nation and cites New York's Feinberg anti Communism Teacher law and Bible Reading law as recently upheld.
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New York
U.S. Supreme Court
Vincent Impelliteri
Feinberg
Supreme Court
Russian Youth Develop Thirst for Christianity
The Rev. Leopold Braun, A.A., former American chaplain in Moscow 1934 to 1945, said Russian youth have a strong faith and are seeking Christian learning. Speaking at a Wisconsin Catholic Action convention, he noted youth were raised in an intellectual vacuum and, since the war, exposed to other religions, now asking about morality and church doctrines.
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Milwaukee
Leopold Braun
Moscow
Russia
Wisconsin
Father Braun
Reds Prisoners Fashion Crucifixes in Defiance
An escapee from the Jachymov mines reports that political prisoners in Linz, Austria are defying their Russian-run oppressors by secretly making and wearing crucifixes and keeping Bibles. They craft crosses and rosaries from wire torn from mine explosions.
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Linz
Austria
Radio Free Europe
Jachymov
Czecho-Slovakia
Citizens seek cleaner shows after 13 hour viewing tally
A St Paul committee led by Frank J. Schwietz reviewed television and radio programs to curb juvenile delinquency. In 13 hours of viewing there were 16 murders 12 references to violent death 85 shots fired and several other violent scenes. He urged community action to fix entertainment rather than blame police or schools.
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St. Paul
Minn
A_ citizens’ committee
Peete
Frank J. Schwietz
Mr. Schwietz
New Hampshire Veterans Establish Month of the Holy Eucharist
The Catholic War Veterans at their fifth annual state convention in Manchester New Hampshire adopt April as the Month of the Holy Eucharist and authorize a Pilgrim Virgin shrine to Our Lady of Fatima to be built in the state. They vow to strengthen devotion to Fatima for world peace. National Commander Don ald J. McQuade of Toledo Ohio urges reviving faith in God as the supreme ruler and guarantor of rights.
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New Hampshire
Manchester
N. H
CWV
Donald J. McQuade
Toledo
Jesuits Arrested by Communists in China
Three Canadian Jesuits and Bishop Philippe Cote of Suchow are reported as jailed by Chinese Reds with seven others under surveillance in Suchow. Bishop Cote, a Canadian-born bishop from Lawrence Massachusetts who studied in Canada, was imprisoned December 5. The seven under surveillance include Fathers Maurice Garneau Maurice Belhumeur Horace Labranche Marc Hardy Edouard Lafleche Auguste Gagnon and Cornelius Pineau.
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Montreal
Philippe Cote
Suchow
Eugene Lauzon
Armand Proulx
Gote
Lawrence
Mass
Canada
Suchon
Maurice Garneau
Quebec
Maurice Belhumeur
Horace Labranche
Marc Hardy
Sorel
Edouard Lafleche
Winnipeg
Auguste Gagnon
Cornelius Pineau
Festival of Ireland Opens With Easter Mass
Dublin Archbishop John C. Mc Quaid grants permission for a Mass at St Mary's Pro-Cathedral on Easter Monday to launch a three week Festival of Ireland. Sponsored by the Irish tourist board with government sanction the event is titled An Tostal meaning Ireland at Home. It aims to highlight modern Irish life and Eires cultural and spiritual status.
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Dublin
John C. McQuaid
St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral
Ireland
Irish Tourist Board
Reds Control One Third of Vicariate of Saigon
In Saigon Vietnam the Vicariate Apostolic of Saigon sees about one third under Communist control. The 120000 Catholics face dangers after grenades and bombs, with 11 priests killed and six missing since 1945. Estimates say Reds killed about 1000 Catholics and destroyed 57 churches amid Vietminh violence.
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Saigon
Vietnam
Patrick O’connor
S.S.C
Cholon
Father O’connor
Ernest Tricoiru
Reds Left Bell Alone and the Pummerin of the Cathedral
The historic Pummerin bell in the cathedral, famed as the Reds Left Bell Alone, was destroyed in 1945 amid wartime bombardment that left the cathedral a casualty of conflict.
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Reds
Bell
Pummerin
Jubilarian Celebrates Silver Jubilee at Spring Bank
The Very Rev Romuald Pecasse, Commissary of the Abbot General in the United States, marked his silver priestly jubilee at the Spring Bank monastery in Okauchee Wisconsin. Since 1921 he helped reestablish abbeys in France and Wisconsin and has managed the order's finances, including a 500000 debt payoff.
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Romauld Pecasse
U. S
Spring Bank
Okauchee
Wis
Holland
France
Pont Colbert
Versailles
Yee
Rural Parish Workers Plan June Open House
The Rural Parish Workers of Christ the King announce an open house at their Cadet headquarters Route 1 Box 194 on June 22. Auxiliary Bishop Charles Helmsing of St. Louis led the visitor list at the sponsors dinner in March. The group aims to attract young women to serve God and neighbor in the lay apostolate and aid rural pastors with spiritual and physical consolation.
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Cadet
Moa
Workers of Christ the King
Charles Helmsing
St. Louis
Seminarians Aid Flood Fight and Donate Blood in Missouri
Seminarians from Conception Abbey helped fight Missouri river floods at Craig for three days then returned to donate 171 pints of blood to the Red Cross. Crews of 45 volunteers worked three shifts daily under Father Isidore Diebold with meals by locals and Red Cross workers. The group prayed Rosaries on the bus and sang as they toiled on the levee.
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Maryville Parish
Red Cross
Girl on Deathbed Gets High School Diploma
Marilyn Doerre of La Crosse Wisconsin received her Aquinas high school diploma on her deathbed. The 17th birthday ceremony was moved up as doctors doubt she will live, she has been blind for weeks, and doctors cannot diagnose the incurable illness causing constant pain. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Edmund Doerre and has five siblings.
Taught at Columbia 43 Years Carlton Hayes Sought Truth In History
Noted American historian Carlton J. Hayes, born 1882 in Afton New York, converted to Catholicism in 1904 while at Columbia. He taught at Columbia from 1910 to 1950, served as ambassador to Spain during World War II, and authored influential works in modern European history and nationalism.
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Carlton Hayes
John B. Eset
Carlton J. H. Hayes
Ims
Dr. Hayes
Connecticut
New York
Afton
Philetus
Permelia Hayes
Columbia University
Golid
Younger
Mary Evelyn Carroll
Mary
Elizabeth
Carroll Joseph
Hayes
University of Chicago
University of California
Johns Hopkins
Seth Low
Spain
Gibraltar
National Council of Christians and Jews
Catholic Historical Association
American Historical Association
Notre Dame
Marquette
Fordham
Laetare
Cardinal Gibbons
Catholic University
Europe
Parker
Thomas Moon
Moon
University
Marshall W. Baldwin
New York University
Charles W. Cole
Amherst VI
Church
New York Board of Education
St Benedicts College To Honor Judge Ridge And James Malone
St Benedicts College will award an honorary Doctor of Laws to Judge Albert A Ridge U S District Judge Western District of Missouri who converted to Catholicism during World War I and who led the Kansas City USO in World War II Also honored will be James Malone Topeka Kans lawyer former State Representative and State Senator and St Vincent de Paul officer
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St. Oes College
Albert A. Ridge
U. S
Western
Missouri
Truman
1Th Field Artillery
Ridge
Kansas City
Malone
St. Vincent de Paul
Chinese Student Baptized at Fontbonne College
Wen Tsai Chien, a Chinese exchange student at Fontbonne college, was baptized confirmed and received First Communion here. Her father, an MIT graduate, works with the Economic Stabilization Board in Formosa. A brother attends the University of Wisconsin.
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St. Louis
Archbishop O'Boyle To Speak At Notre Dame Mass
Archbishop Patrick O Boyle of Washington will deliver the sermon at the baccalaureate Mass at the University of Notre Dame on Sunday June 1.
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Notre Dame
Ind
Patrick O’boyle
Washington
University of Notre Dame
Ceremony Honors Disabled Vets with Cardinal Medal
John J. Coughlin state commander presented the Cardinal medal for services to United Nations troops in Korea. Lt. Col. Vincent G. Hart assistant state attorney general donated the medal to the Catholic War Veterans and attended the ceremony.
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Elans
United Nations
Korea
John J. Coughlin
Vincent G.hart
Field and Stream Showing Hold Promise of Top Team
A Chicago story notes strong Olympic prospects from Penn Relays and Drake Relays results. It highlights Kansas and North Texas records, Wisconsin crew qualifiers, and U S Olympic plans with Russians signaling full participation. Also mentions Rev Francis X Bimanski a long serving Cook County Hospital chaplain and noted watchmaker.
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Bill Warner
U.S
Penn Relays
Hejep ’ Penncaer
Princeton
Drake
Kansas
Indiana
North Texas
Peng Vola
Ieago Y
Howard Pa College
U. S
Wisconsin
Navy
California
Washiton
Cornell
Harvard
Pe Sylvania
Finland
U. S. Olym Committee
Holy Family Church
Chicago
Francis X. Bimanski
Buman
Cook County Hospital
Cook County
Christ
Cardinal Striteh
Father Bimanski
Will provides extra funds for Darby priests and villa furnishings
In Darby Pa aged priests at St Josephs Villa receive additional spending money under Margaret E M Brennan's will. Bonds valued at 12000 and the sale price of her home support the bequests. Furnishings of peace go to St Josephs Villa and the residue about 40000 goes to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
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Philadelphia
St. Joseph’s Villa
Darby
Margaret E. M. Brennan
Miss Brennan
Society For the Propagation of the Faith
Lake Destroys Village Church in Haute Savoie Dam Situation
A small church in the village of Tign is flooded by a newly created lake after a dam opening. Authorities dynamited the church to prevent it from peeking above future waters. Sacred ornaments were removed and the church emptied before demolition.
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Paris
Tign
Haute Savoie
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