Pius XII Warns Germans Over Catholic Schools Enemies
In a letter to German bishops, Pius XII warns against efforts to eliminate Catholic schools and teachers colleges. He urges vigilance to protect vocations and warns against luxury, urging simple Christian living to influence youth. He warns against spurious visions and notes turbulent times demanding church decisions affecting Germany’s status, economy, and morals.
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Cologne
Germany
Pius XII
Oye
Heroldsbach
Jesus Heals Woman Who Touched His Garment
A gospel scene recounts Jesus moving toward Jairus daughter restoration when a woman in the crowd believes a touch of his garment will heal her. Jesus identifies the touch as faith, saying power went out from Him.
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Jairus
No short cuts in giving and learning
No virtue or power leaves us without loss to the giver. Healing through sacrifice, cross bearing, and shared flame show helping others costs. Nature, industry, art demand effort. Knowledge is earned, not passively received.
Sacrificial Giving for Holy Father's Missions Emphasized
The piece urges daily sacrifice over dues to support missions in Africa, Japan, and India. It lists grateful donors and amounts from readers like $25 from W. W. and $22.32 from an Easter worker, urging prayer, energy, and generosity.
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Holy Father
Jesus
Mary
Africa
Japan
India
W. W
E. L.P
A. O.B
E. R
A. D
G. W
GOD Love
I. J
Holy Father's Missions
World Mission Rosary Offered by Church Leaders
Readers are invited to request a World Mission Rosary with a $2 offering to the Missions. Send the request and sacrifice cut from the column to Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in New York or to Monsignor Edward Freking in Cincinnati for distribution across Africa.
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Africa
Fulton J. Sheen
Society For the Propagation of the Faith
East 38Th Street
New York
Edward A. Freking
Shottuc Avenue
Cincinnati
Ohio
Passionist priests in China reported by NCWC wire
The article recounts the seizure and imprisonment of Passionist Fathers Ubinger and Westhoven in Yuanling China during the Chinese Civil War. It notes their return to the United States via Rome and mentions other Passionists in prison or under house arrest in Yuanling and surrounding areas, along with officials and locations involved.
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York
Paul Ubinger
C.P
Pittsburgh
Passionists
Yuanling
Hunan
China
William Westhoven
Liberty Center
U. S
Rome
Malcolm LaValle
Cuthbert O’gara
Abinger
Hong Kong
New York
Abinger William Westhoven
Orient
Ee Pra
Crlane
Legion of Mary
Ubinger
Westhoven
Jerome Does
Winthrop
Mass
Rank Ridgeeek
Brooklyn
Yungshun
Lawrence Mullin
Jersey City
N. J
Marcellus White
Waltham
NCWC
Eight Reid Brothers Served. One Becomes Priest in God's Army
Washington reports George Bernard Reid, one of eight brothers who served in World War II, was ordained a priest by Archbishop O Boyle. Two Reid brothers also served in the armed forces, while Reid is expected to return to St. S ment's parish in Lynbrook for his First Solemn Mass.
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Washington
George Bernard Reid
Patrick A. O’boyle
Joseph J
Edna Staples Reid
Harry S. Truman
St. Stemond’s
Lynbrook
Catholic Attorney Named Head of New York Education Board
Joseph B. Cavallaro, 49, Brooklyn Catholic attorney, named chancellor of the New York Board of Higher Education which oversees four city colleges. He urged more religious emphasis in colleges and "strong measures" against Communist teachers. Cavallaro serves as a trustee of St Athanasius church and Catholic Charities and Italian Board of Guardians. his election drew secularist attacks.
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New York
Joseph B. Cavallaro
Brooklyn
Board of Higher Education
Cav
J. Cavallaro
St. Athanasius’ Church
Catholic Charities
Italian Board of Guardians
Senator Mansfield Profile Mirrors Montana Mining Roots
Colorty background cites Sen. Michael Mansfield of Montana a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He mined copper as a mucker then rose to mining czar status and later earned degrees from the University of Montana. Mansfield served in all three military branches and later taught history and political science before entering Congress. He spoke at St. Marys College Notre Dame on June 6 about American foreign policy.
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Michael Mansfield
Montana
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Mansfield
Congress
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Leathernecks
University of Montana
University
Pius XII
St.Mary's College
Notre Dame
Ind
Consecration of Bishop Bowers Highlighted by Spellman
The rite of consecration for Most Reverend Joseph Bowers S V D as Bishop of Accra in the Gold Coast Africa is described as one of the most important events in the religious world in recent years. Cardinal Francis Spellman officiated the ceremony in Bay St. Louis Mississippi.
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Houston
Mostaboseph Bowers
S.V.D
Accra
Gold Coast
Africa
Bay St. Louis
Miss
Francis Spellman
Baptist Leader Forecasts Private Schools Replacing Public Ones
Seire executive secretary of the Florida Baptist Convention predicts Protestant and other private schools will replace public schools in Florida if no ban on segregation is enacted. He says church schools would gain first. Dr. Maguire notes Florida Baptists number 311,000 and could establish a church school system.
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Miami
Florida
Seire
Florida Baptist Convention
Maguire
Purity Martyr's Slayer Sentenced to 50 Years
Barcelona Spain The slayer of Josefina Vilaseca 17 who defended her purity has been sentenced to fifty years imprisonment. The girl who was attacked was a secretary of a girls’ group tied to Catholic Action and died on Christmas day 1952.
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Barcelona
Spain
Josefina Vilaseca
St. Maria Sereed
Josefina
Ara ‘Goretti
Welfare Groups Back Iire in Admitting Extra 240000 Immigrants
Thirty two national and local welfare organizations backed President Eisenhower's immigration plan to admit 240000 extra refugees and expellees from Iron Curtain states and distressed nationals from Greece and the Netherlands. The Catholic relief groups led by Monsignor Edward Swanstrom urged emergency legislation to ease the intake, saying the refugees' condition could threaten peace. Organizations include the NCWC and various Catholic councils, committees, leagues, and alliances.
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New York
Eisenhower
Nationa Catholic Relaniance Council
American Committee On
Sm Migration
Edward Swanstrom
Ncwc War Relief Services
Iron Curtain
Greece
Netherlands
America
NCWC
National Councils of Catholic Men and Catholic Women
Catholic Committee For Refugees
Hungarian Catholic League of America
League of Catholic of America
Iance
Progressive Education Ruins American Home
Cardinal J Francis McIntyre attacks progressive education on a radio program with Virgil Pinkley. He says the idea encourages lack of discipline and vandalism, calls for religious instruction and belief in God as norms, and notes a surge of new Catholic schools in the West to serve military families and new settlers.
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Los Angeles
J. Francis McIntyre
Virgil Pinkley
the Mirror
West
Pinkley
Cardinal McIntyre
California
Cardinal McIntyre to Get Degree at Notre Dame
Cardinal James Francis McIntyre of Los Angeles will deliver the baccalaureate sermon and receive an honorary degree at Notre Dame on June 7 during the 108th commencement. Dr Detlev Bronk of Johns Hopkins will be commencement speaker and also receive an honorary degree. Cardinal McIntyre will deliver his address at a Solemn Pontifical Mass offered by Bishop Leo A Purs ey.
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Notre Dame
Ind
James Francis McIntyre
Los Angeles
University of Notre Dame
Detlev Bronk
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Cardinal McIntyre
Fort Wayne
Leo A. Pursey
Mary Milwaukee Catholics Promote Fatima Rosary Devotion
Friends and devotees sponsor a full page in the Milwaukee Sentinel for Sunday May 10 announcing a Fatima Family meeting. The article extols Mary’s promises and the Rosary as powerful as any modern weapon and explains neo-Catholic devotion to Mary Fatima and the Rosary.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Milwaukeee Sentinels
National Spelling Champ Elizabeth Hess Wins Bee
Elizabeth Hess 13 of St. Matthew's Phoenix Arizona wins the 26th national spelling bee spelling soubrette. She meets President Eisenhower receives $500 and a New York trip. Runner up is 11-year-old Raymond Sokolov Detroit. Her father taught at Keystone Junior College and died when she was a child.
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Washington
Elizabeth Hess
St. Matthew’s School
Phoenix
Ariz
Naomi Reynolds Hess
Elizabeth
Eisenhower
New York
Raymond Sokolov
Detroit
Phoenix Medical Center
Keystone Junior College
Scranton
Lizabethess
Arane Pil
St. B
Heal Hoe Phoen
Ree
White House
Scripps-Howard
Vatican appoints Sensi as permanent observer to UN
Monsignor Giuseppe Sensi becomes the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. A Vatican State official, he has served in Budapest, Switzerland, and Brussels. Born in Cosenza, he is 46 and previously acted as charge d affaires at the Internunciature in 1948 49.
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Unesco
Vatican City
Monsinor
Giuseppe Sensi
United Nations
Angelo Roncalli
Venice
Vatican Secretariat of State
Monsignor Sensi
Budapes
Switzerland
Brussels
Cosenza
Healy
Internunciature
White and Negro Churches Merge in Famous City
Bishop Vincent S. Waters orders merger of White and Negro Catholic parishes in Newton Grove effective May 31. The plan absorbs St Benedict's and involves the two churches on adjacent lots with separate but nearby schools for White and Negro students. protest by some White parishioners noted. Cardinal Gibbons previously supervised Carolina missions.
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Grove
N. Carl
Vincent S. Waters
Raleigh
Newton Grove
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Carolina
John Monk
Arte Carolina
Sta Catholic
St. Benedict’s
Judge Rules Guardian Decides Child's Faith
In Trenton New Jersey Superior Court Judge Sidney Goldman ruled that a custodial parent may determine a child’s religious training after a divorce. The decision came in a dispute where a Protestant mother sought to bar a Catholic father from guiding the girls’ faith. The case, among the first on this issue, notes laws are evolving and welfare remains central.
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Trenton
N.J
Sidney Goldman
Gertrude L. Boerger
Catholic
New Jersey
U.S
Perfect Family Is Goal Designated by Pontiff
Vatican radio quotes Pope Pius XII urging Catholics to pursue a Christian family life rooted in marriage and sacrifice. He describes the ideal family as wife and mother devoted to God and children formed in fear of the Creator, living in shared prayer and peace through Christ. He cites Titus as a model for a lively apostolate and strong Christian action.
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Vatican City
Piuschl
Christ
Pius XII
Catholic Audio Visual Educators to Hold Second Convention
Visual Educators The Catholic Audio-Visual will hold its second convention in Chicago on August 3. General chairman Barth of De Paul University Chicago announces. Last year the event drew over 500 educators and the 1953 edition will expand with emphasis on using audio visuals in teaching religion. Planers include Rev Michael Mullen St John’s Brooklyn Jack McKay Notre Dame Michael Ference and Clement Wagner.
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Norman
Chicago
Ie Pius 7 Barth
O.F.M
Decen. of Education
de Paul University
Michael Mullen
C.M
St. John’s University
Brooklyn
N.Y
Jack McKay
Notre Dame University
Notre Dame
Michael Ference
Pittsburgh
Clement Wagner
Bishop McCormick Memorial Highlights Fifty Years in Education
The funeral Mass honors Patrick J. McCormick rector of the Catholic University of America, who devoted nearly five decades to priestly education. Archbishops and prelates from Rome to Detroit sent condolences as tribute praises his work in transforming Catholic schooling from 260 students in 1910 to over 3,000 today.
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O’boyle
Pius XII
Mooney
Detroit
Stritch
Chicago
Pelman
New York
McIntyre
Los Angeles
Francisco Lardone
Haiti
Paul Yu “Pin
Martin Oe O’connor
Rome
Father Conseil
Catholic Universi
Wh Ho
He McCormick
McComuick
Hartford
Hart
Pe VU
Rene Oe
Obstacles Slow Clergy Plan for Social Security Coverage
Difficulties delay Congress in extending old age and survivors insurance to ministers. Lawmakers weigh compulsory versus voluntary coverage amid concerns over administration and exemptions. Catholic officials study proposals to determine if a voluntary plan might work without harm.
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Washington
Suppression of Poland Catholic Paper Reported
The V dio news service reports that a Catholic paper in Poland has been suppressed by Communist officials. Polish exile sources confirm the last issue appeared March 4 and say the paper may resume publication under constraints after repairs to its printing technology.
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London
The_ V. dio
Typedsih Powe Eiste Poczechny
Pap “ Wal
Ture
Photog Oth
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