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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1952
Page
13
Bishop Rudolph Discout of Chartres confirmed that during the war many German POWs were invited to Chartres to pursue theological studies at a special seminary. The article notes that most German detainees have since been ordained.
Archbishop Keough will preach at the 14th annual Memorial Military Field Mass for the War Dead in Washington in the amphitheater at a ten memorial cemetery on May 25. Bishop McShea of Philadelphia will offer the Mass.
Rev Dr Max Jordan reports about 8000 children born to German mothers and Black fathers, largely American, enrolled in German public schools after Easter. About 2000 live with fathers, 400 with mothers, rest in welfare homes. Only about a third of fathers engage with their children. Caritas Verbrand, German Catholic charities, urges tolerance toward colored children of German birth.
In Western Poland Bishop Stanislaw Adamski of Katowice ordains seminarians one year early due to mass Polish emigration from eastern lands after World War II. A special Zalcze college will advance sixth year study with parish work, aiming to raise militant yet spiritual priests amid church shortages.
Vatican radio message to the National Marian Congress lauds Oblates of Mary Immaculate for a century of toil and sacrifice in South Africa. The Pope expresses hopes that South African women remain worthy clients of the Virgin Mary as missioners continue their apostolate in the region.
Warner Brothers plans The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima a clear retelling of the Fatima apparitions. The film recounts the miracle of the sun seen by about 70 000 people in 1917 with Gilbert Roland portraying the atheist who reaffirms faith amid a 1951 pilgrimage to Fatima shrine. Suz ane Whitney Sherry Jackson and Sammy Ogg headline as Lucia Jacinta and Francisco.
Catholic leaders announce an 11 member panel to evaluate Middle States Association criteria for secondary schools over an 18 month period. The group includes aes G Cox Lorenzo K te and Brother Anthony F as C Rome. The debate centers on sex education and philosophy's role in curricula.
The Rev Dr Max Jordan reviews a volume on pastoral medicine about Theresa Neumann. Father Bernard Weigl of St. Leo's abbey argues the decisive issue is the 1927 two week fast examination and asserts the bishop should decide with Holy See approval. He notes Neumann may be genuine and urges support for the Ordinary's guidance.
Cardinal Stritch awards the Magnificat medal to Mrs K Cary Clem of Los Angeles during a Chicago ceremony. Established in 1947 the honor recognizes alumnae for leadership in social, aesthetic, scientific, or religious fields. Mrs Clem chairs Los Angeles Archdiocesan Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Family Life Committee.
The Catholic teaching that God dwells in the souls of the just through sanctifying grace is explained with biblical and theological references. It describes a spiritual indwelling where God inhabits the soul as a temple and a friend, akin to water revitalizing a sponge, and cites St Teresa's Interior Castle to illustrate felt presence.
Atlantic City N J The third annual Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists convention at the Chalfonte hotel May 11 will feature Rev Thomas Verner Moore speaking on Torne Morals and Psychiatry now a Carthusian monk formerly at the Catholic University of America He is joined by Rev Dr James Jerome Hayden and other noted speakers from Los Angeles Montreal Chicago Hartford and New York with titles in psychiatry and Catholic thought.
In Los Angeles a housing battle led by Monsignor D'Er and the archdiocese succeeded after California Supreme Court ordered the city to honor a 10000 unit public housing pact with a federally subsidized authority. The court ruled the City Council could not cancel the agreement. The priest urged government protection of citizens from housing hazards.
Abbot Boniface Seng O S B 84 announced his resignation at St Bernard's abbey and called for election of a Coadjutor Abbot. He celebrated his golden jubilee five years ago when Pius XII conferred the cappa magna and violet zucchetto. Seng was elected fourth Abbot of St Bernard's Jan 4 1939.
At La Salette Shrine and Basilica to Our Lady of La Salette have been built on the site of the apparition. In the photo above pilgrims are shown in procession around the statue of Our Lady at the Basilica.
In Union City and Hoboken New Jersey the Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Amleto Rognani marked the Passionist Fathers’ 100 years in the United States. He recalled early objections to St. Paul of the Cross and noted US work now sees one quarter of Passionists serving here. He praised Bishop Cuthbert O Gara and Passionists in China for steadfast faith under Communist imprisonment.
Miss Mar es M Donahue of Staten Island N Y, a senior at St Mary's College Notre Dame Ind, won 25 for her story Last Judgment and Marian E Redlex of Sheridan Wyo, a junior at St Mary's College Xavier Kans won 10 for The Funny Man. Eight contestants received honorable mention. There were 121 entries.
The Supreme Court upholds a state power to punish literature and exhibitions that deride race creed or religious groups. In a Chicago related case Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter writes that a state may punish such utterances aimed at a defined group without ruling on the law’s wisdom.
Six American Passionists are in Rome as members of the U S delegation to the thirty sixth general chapter. The meeting opened May 1 and is to last at least until May 4. Delegates include Rev. Ernest Welch of Cambridge Mass Provincial and others from Boston Union City Louisville Cleveland and Chicago with titles of provincial and consultor roles.
National officers of Young Christian Workers organizations held their first pan European meeting in Cleves Germany with 100 delegates from 14 European countries attending.
The historic St Patrick’s academy for boys built in 1861 will be vacated for a new super highway. The building will become a grade school and girls’ high school for the parish, while the current grade school and girls’ high school are demolished. The academy will receive a new site.
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