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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1952
Page
9
A National Council of Catholic Women resolution from Seattle calls parents to guide children toward religious vocations and to support training of lay teachers for Catholic and public schools. The convention also urges Catholic families to unite to promote understanding of the Catholic school system.
National Council of Catholic Women elects new officers led by President Mrs Wil Dalton of Augusta Maine and first vice president Michael Geraci from University Heights Ohio. A large executive slate includes Mrs Ayraud Herbert New Orleans and others. Resolutions urge continued UN stand on POW repatriation rent control in high occupancy areas price controls on shortages mutual defense support, caution against inflamed action, and liberalization of immigration restrictions.
In Dansalan Mindanao Philippine City Moros numbered 17 000 with St Marys parish serving 2 800 Catholics Only about 4 percent of Philippines population is Mohammedan and 79 percent Catholic Father Tom Brennan from Kilkelly Ireland arrived December 1949 as first resident priest in 35 years He built a high school while assistant Father Thomas Holohan serves 45 miles away Converts among Moros are rare Moros tolerate Christians and fear Moro outlaws roam the roads after dark The piece notes one Moro graduate of Santo Tomas and the ongoing Catholic influence in the region
Archdiocese officials report Japan's Catholic counts rose sharply in the year ending June 30 with 171 785 Catholics, a 57 percent gain since 1947. Nagasaki diocese leads with 67 328 Catholics, Tokyo has 20 398 and 4 329 catechumens, Kyoto shows 3 006 catechumens amid 7 601 Catholics, while priests total 978 including 213 native Japanese.
Reverend Thomas J Bauer reports five Missionaries from Belgium and Ireland detailing 14 months of torture in Peking. They describe sleep deprivation up to 20 days, standing bound for days, beatings with straps and sticks, and a pole device suspending three priests. One priest lost hand use for months and bears scars, while others endured delirium and physical collapse.
The Observer reports cures attributed to prayers to Brother Anthony Kowalczyk O.M.I. a Polish Oblate who died four and a half years ago in Canada. Born sixth of twelve children, he left school at thirteen to work, later joined the Oblates and served near Edmonton Alberta.
Matteo Lamot, head chief of the Acoli district, dismissed all his wives except one after a Mass at Gulu Cathedral. Once Catholic, he stopped practicing after becoming chief thirty years ago following a custom of taking multiple wives. He sent his remaining wife to a mission for Catholic instruction.
Bishop Galvin of Hanyang is ordered to leave China after 36 years in the diocese amidst charges of opposing the Independent Church movement and other anti-regime acts. He and Bishop O Shea of Kanchow, a Vincentian native of Deep River Connecticut, are both in Hong Kong recovering from Red prison detentions and disorder. The Columban Fathers, founded by Galvin, now number over 600 priests and 200 students with missions across Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Burma, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Chile, and Argentina.
Mrs. Winfield D. Smart, Falls Church Catholic group leader, told a House subcommittee that a survey by local Catholic women found parents unhappy with children's TV. She urged industry self discipline or a voluntary code, while an ACLU spokesman warned such codes threaten freedom. Congressmen pressed for a nationwide NCWC survey to assess TV standards.
A 5 000 word talk by Dr. ow ley at the First World Congress on Humanism and Ethical Faith in Amsterdam argued for Evolutionary Humanism and attacked supernatural religion. He urged population control and eugenics, warned against overpopulation, and proposed migration as a solution. critics cited unscientific Planned Parenthood claims and questioned birth control’s link to brains or physique.
Two artists created portraits of Matt Talbot without seeing him or a photo, relying on descriptions from friends. John Dixon painted the right portrait, Baron von Schlitz the left, unveiled at Matt Talbot Legion HQ in Englewood New Jersey. Von Schlitz's relief includes the rosary and chains found with Talbot when he died in 1925. The canonization cause is under study and Rev Donald F Gray leads a prayer and education movement for alcoholics inspired by Talbot.
At the First International Congress of Mothers General in Rome the participants urged that ascetic life not oppress personality and that religious life remain adaptable to local conditions. They discussed dress changes, education for superiors, and greater collaboration among congregations to broaden their work and improve discipline. A committee was authorized to study collaboration and an institute for ascetic and spiritual training for women was planned.
Travel agents promote the Heroldsbach apparitions amid church denials and excommunications. Promoters, including a pilgrim leader and a US contact, press on despite documentary proof of inauthenticity and warnings from the Sacred Congregation and Archdiocese of Bamberg.
Providence, R I Miss Clara Lamore holder of five national titles and 1948 U S Olympic team member in London has entered the cloister of the Religious of the Cenacle at Ronkonkoma Long Island N Y Her parents Mr and Mrs Raymond Lamore say she has long desired religious life since her teens when she rose to prominence as a swimmer Lamore won the New England 300 yard medley title at 13 and from Ate through 1946 collected seven New England senior titles plus about 150 regional championships
Work nears completion on a cathedral like church carved from salt in a state owned mine near Bogota. Construction began in August 1951 and the structure stands on the mine’s second level, 81 feet high.
In Munich during ceremonies witnessed by thousands including his carpenter father and mother, the remains of 14 year old Nard Lehner who died in 1944 were exhumed and reinterred beneath the main altar of the village church. Archbishop Michael Buchberger and Archbishop ueero Regensburg officiated. The act preludes steps toward beatification due to his extraordinary sanctity.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover warned crime surged in early 1952 with over a million major offenses and youths under 25 driving burglaries, larcenies and auto thefts. He cited parental neglect and broken homes as factors and urged Catholic Youth Week plans to curb delinquency.
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