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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1952
Page
8
A Lowell Mass special notes the 20th anniversary of the Beauraing Marian apparition to five children. It recalls the 1932 appearance window from November 29 to January 3 and marks the lasting impact on believers.
Five Beauraing youths testified to a vision of a young Marian figure at the sanctuary of Our Lady of Beauraing. Miraculous cures were declared by Bishop Charne of Namur, dating from June 1933, with devotion authorized by the Holy Office in 1943 and a Pontifical Mass in 1948.
Dr. Luther A. Weigle of Yale Divinity School discusses the Revised Standard Version in Catholic Biblical Quarterly. He traces its lineage from the American Standard Version and the King James Version, citing textual defects and new manuscript discoveries shaping modern translation. He notes shifts in English usage and broader biblical scholarship over the past 75 years.
Mrs. B W Dodd a former Communist National committee member in New Jersey and a New York lawyer writes in Sign about leaving communism. She cites contradictions between preachings and actions and recalls disillusionment with party tactics and empty slogans.
Four hundred ninety thousand four hundred ninety five Catholics pledge to say a daily Family Rosary in the New York Archdiocese. Volunteers collected pledges from a house to house canvass after the Archdiocesan Family Rosary Crusade led by Rev. Patrick Peyton. The totals cover only half of the archdiocese's 380 parishes.
Hong Kong report of Father Matthew Su who died reciting the Apostles Creed after two years of Communist detention. He stood against the “Independent Church” amid harsh treatment, while other missionaries endure exile or house arrest across Chekiang and nearby regions.
Father Patrick O Connor reports a Mass in a cleared hilltop space near the main line of resistance in Korea. Thirty men knelt as artillery fired nearby and a jeep was hit by a sniper. Capt Joseph Hoffman praised Father Rooney for blessing the men before a later assault on a Communist held hill.
Maryknoll reports Bishop Patrick J. Byrne died in Red captivity after harsh treatment including forced bare floors and barley meals. The 65 year old Apostolic Delegate to Korea remained with imprisoned clergy to protect others. His death follows Bishop Francis X. Ford in Canton, with details only released in September. Byrne, born Oct 26 1888 in Washington DC, joined Maryknoll after priestly ordination in 1915.
Vatican sources say there is no positive proof of Bishop Patrick J. Byrne death but evidence and reports make it reasonably certain he died in Korea. The Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of Faith declared presumed death and so indicated at Maryknoll. Cardinal Fumasoni Biandi and Archbishop Celso Costantini signed the statement.
An analysis discusses Israel on its founding and its global impact. It weighs Arab refugees, land rights, and the moral questions of displaced peoples against Jewish sacrifices for a homeland. The Grand Mufti interview is cited to illustrate regional tensions.
A 100 bed hospital was constructed by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate brothers in Fort Smith North West Territories. The brothers did all labor themselves drawing blueprints felling lumber and applying five tons of paint to complete the more than 35000 square feet facility.
Father Felix Paul S.J. reports 350000 confessions heard in Coblenz over 25 years, averaging 14000 annually and about 270 per week, reflecting steady parish devotion.
Archbishop Cushing announces the Guild of Veronica in Boston during National Catholic Youth Week. Open to high school girls aspiring to be nuns, the group parallels the Guild of St Botolph for boys and honors Veronica for wiping Jesus face.
Roland Brassard of Springfield starred as the Pope in a mission exhibit pageant celebrating the silver jubilee of the Springfield diocesan Society for the Propagation of the Faith. The event featured 500 clergy and 5000 youth in religious vestments, with 170000 attendees over the week-long exhibit.
The piece argues that modern Christians may question the Jewish claim to land, noting Old and New Testament prophecies of regathering and conversion. It cites world Jewish population figures totaling 11,672,000 with 5,000,000 in the United States, 2,000,000 in the USSR, and 1,450,000 in Israel, spread across 97 nations.
American Jews contributed heavily to support the new state of Israel, raising $64,200,000 in the first nine and a half months of 1952. The text notes Palestine lacked development and refugees arriving there were very poor, highlighting the scale of aid.
Father Ralph E. Willwock of Herrick South Dakota organized a one room school at Xavier mission after the Bureau of Indian Affairs closed its day school and local whites kept Indian children from St Charles Public School. Eighteen students attended first day, nineteen second day, with all children well dressed and cared for. The effort supplements but does not replace the St Charles school board, and the case has been referred to the U.S. district court as a civil rights matter.
Col Toeanka Chmielewski describes how priests on the front edit a monthly religious aid for soldiers under fire. The first October issue includes articles like Sex and the Catholic and Sermon for Soldiers and praises chaplains for their work.
Trivandrum India Archbishop Mar Ivanios recovering from illness has blessed the cornerstone for a new cathedral. The church will sit on a hill with a full view of the city. He is noted as a leading convert and head of the Syro Malankarese Rite.
Arch bishop Aloisius J. Muench lists Ireland Luxembourg Scotland and Holland as models of equal public funding for all schools. He argues U S should consider France style grants to parent associations to fund private religious and non religious schools, restoring parental education rights.
Two sisters from Ozone Park New York Josephine and Sadie Atensio born blind have entered the Convent of Our Lady of the Refuge in Wheeling West Virginia both served daily as communicants at Our Lady of Perpetual Help and attended local parochial school Josephine graduated with honors from Brooklyn College and Sadie worked at the Lighthouse for the Blind before joining the convent Queenie the seeing eye dog accompanied Josephine on subway trips and the sisters were active in Catholic Career Conferences and Legion of Mary programs
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