Late News Briefs From Around The World In 1953
European weddings shun Lohengrin Bridal Chorus in a study by Wagner’s granddaughter. Paris debate splits on worker priests amid church orders. Six twins baptized at St Marys Pa with extended family. Dominican prelate Curran dies after heart attack in Washington. Contempt petition against Maryland censor Traub dismissed. US Spain bases deal grants aid and bases by 1954. NYU Catholic orientation and Cardinal McIntyre to speak. Kinsey book banned overseas by US Army. Nine men walk to shrine to Place Our Lady of Walsingham. Catholic Rural Life Conference meets in Davenport 1954. Lourdes shrine in France to receive Guadalupe image. Portuguese catechism in Lisbon next month. Triplets baptized in Boston. CatholicStageGuild at Edinburgh Festival item. Mary Stuart play stirs at Edinburgh. Queen Juliana dances with nuns in Amsterdam. San Marino votes civil marriage bill. Woodstock College priest joins Inter-American Schools Service advisory. Chicago to Rome air service via Montreal to Milan or Rome announced. Notre Dame professor Kertesz writes on Hungary. UN Day drive includes Catholic women. Hong Kong bishop and seven priests held by Reds. Loyola adds 30 faculty. German church agreement eases postwar church building shortage. Mexico transfer of Claretian priest. Niagara University opens 97th year. Georgetown nursing school to build $1.35 million building. St Johns Night School to host Know Your Religion quiz show. Clement Dillon, singer of Newman era, dies. Omaha bishop lauds Catholic school sacrifice. 85% Catholic pupils.
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Intermissi
Columbia Broadcasting System
Paris
France
Paul Marella
Sacred Congregation of Seminaries
St. Marys
Wendelin Gallovich
O.S.B
Patricia
Michele Murray
Phy!Narby
Eric
George
Harry Ahn
Montclair
N. J
Byron Murray
St. Mark’s
Andrew Kaul
St. Joseph’s Priory
Kienow
China
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Ashington
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Maryland Board of Motion Picture Censors
Herman M. Moser
Baltimore City
Traub
Maryland
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U. S
Spain
United States
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U.S
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Timothy J. Flirector
N.y.u.’S Catholic Center
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San Marino
Woodstock
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S.J
Woodstock College
Inter-American Schools Service
Schools Service
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Mexico
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C.M.F
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Panama
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Ama
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Jubilee Washington
Georgetown University School of Nursing
Philadelphia
St. John’s Night School
Newman
Spiritual Emphasis Shifts at Catholic Cemetery Meet
At the National Catholic Cemeteries Association convention in Cleveland Auxiliary Bishop Floyd L. Begin outlines a program focused on spiritual aims over monetary concerns. Leaders urge dignified cemetery conditions, worker benefits, and rights to organize while stressing immortality and resurrection.
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National Catholic Cemeteries Association
Floyd L. Begin
Pioneer Missionary's Grave to Be Blessed
The grave of Father Augustine d'Asti, a Franciscan missionary who served in the mid 1800s, will be publicly blessed on October 4 at 3 p.m. The ceremony is under the auspices of the Third Order of St. Francis and is noted in a 1866 issue of The Sunday Telegraph of Houston.
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Houston
Tex
Augustine d’Asti
Third Order of St. Ness
The
Sunday Telegraph of
Father d'Asti
Annapolis Celebrates Centennial of Redemptorists Arrival
The first Mass in Annapolis was held in Charles Carroll’s home chapel before he deeded the estate to the Redemptorists. A three day centennial celebration recalling the Fathers arrival featured Solemn Pontifical Masses at St. Mary’s Church led by Archbishop Francis P. Keough of Baltimore.
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Annapolis
Charles Carroll
Redemptorists
Redemptorist
St. Mary’s Church
Francis P. Keough
Baley
Soviet Education Told Only to a Chosen Few
William C. Bullitt, former U S ambassador, writes in Reader's Digest Oct 5 about Soviet efforts to educate a chosen elite while feeding the public with controlled truths. He frames this as a deliberate filter of information to shape belief.
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Russia
Soviet Union
William C. Bullitt
U.S
Reader's Digest
State Societies Plan 59th Annual Meeting
Union City New Jersey hosts the 59th annual convention of the Catholic Central Society of New Jersey and the National Catholic Women's Union New Jersey branch on Oct 4. Archbishop Thomas A Boland of Newark will preside at a solemn Mass in St Josephs Church Veronicas Veil Auditorium.
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Union City
N. J
St. Joseph’s Parish
Catholic Central Society of
New Jersey
National Catholic Women’s Union
Veronica’s Veil
Thomas A. Boland
Newark
St. Joseph’s Church
Faith Endures in Russia Despite Atheist Teachings
The article in Civilta Cattolica reports that faith remains strong in Soviet Russia, with belief persisting among the youth even after periods of persecution. It notes continued church presence and religious sentiment amid official anti religious campaigns.
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Russia
Rome
Soviet Russia
Civilta Cattolica
Unions Warned Against Moral Rearmament
The ICFTU warns world unions to avoid Dr. Frank Buchman and his Moral ReArmament Movement. The report claims MRA interferes with union activities and seeks to create yellow unions, alleging many so called achievements are false or fabricated.
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Brussels
Belgium
Intentional
Confederation of Freerade Unions
Frank Buchman
ICFTU
MRA
Bishop Issues Warning Over Apparitions Near Calais
Paris Bishop Victor Perrin urged Catholics to refrain from pilgrimages to a grotto near Calais after reports of a woman in white resembling Our Lady appeared to a boy and a workman. Rober Leclercq, 23, of the Catholic Youth, said he saw the vision and heard it speak.
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Paris
Victor Perrin
Calais
Drequent
Rober Leclercq
Catholic Youthrganization
Alais
Procession of Prayer marks 150th Louisiana Purchase anniversary
New Orleans plans a Sunday afternoon Procession of Prayer to close the Catholic Day Observance for the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. The event, sponsored by the New Orleans Metropolitan Union of the Holy Name Society, ends in Beauregard Square with Benediction after a Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving in archdiocesan churches.
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New Orleans
Louisiana Purchase
Beauregard Square
Rummel
So.uis
L. Abel Caillouet
W. Patrick . Donnelly
S.J
Loyola University of the South
Catholic Weekly Offices Raided by Bolivian State Agents
Presencia publishers protest a raid on their premises by armed government agents. The Interior Minister Federico Fortun describes press freedom as respected in Bolivia at a conference.
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Lopaz
Bolivia
Presencia
Catholic Weekly
Federico Fortun
Boivia
Monks Aim to Bring Christ into Christmas in Conception
More than a million aids for Christmas will be produced by the monks of Conception Abbey. They publish Advent wreath instructions, a booklet Christ the Light Is Coming, and various devotional Christmas cards as part of their outreach.
St Willibrord Shrine Rebuilt in Luxembourg
The Echternach church was rebuilt after wartime damage with attendees from six countries for the rededication. The site hosts the historic Whit Tuesday dancing procession honoring St. Willibrord, first bishop of Utrecht, linked to a 600 year old act of penance for nervous diseases.
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Echternach
Luxembourg
St. Willibrord
Apostleesland
Utrecht
Batty Ae
Family Retreat Movement Marks Fourth Anniversary
The Conception Abbey hosted the fourth anniversary weekend retreat of the Family Retreat Movement. Father Dominic Lavan directed the retreat as the organization notes 4,100 attendees over four years at Conception retreats.
British Usage Shows His Refusal to Return Not Composed by Them
Panmunjom Korea report notes the British spelling realise as a hint the repatriation refusal signed by 28 American POWs was not written by them. Rev Patrick O Connor cites communist tone and British spellings practiced and ensure as preferred.
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Panmunjom
Korea
Patrick O’connor
America
U. S
Bishop Mussio Denounces Godless Education
Athens Ohio Bishop John K Mussio denounces the view that religion should be removed from curricula calling it treasonable to God and America. He spoke at the dedication of St Paul's School in Steubenville noting it is the diocese ninth elementary school blessed since his 1945 arrival.
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Athens
U.S
America
John K. Mussio
Steubenville
St. Paul’s School
Mussie
Tucson Auxiliary Consecrated Bishop Green
Auxiliary Bishop Francis J. Green of Tucson was consecrated Titular Bishop of Serra and auxiliary to Bishop Daniel J. Gercke at St Augustine Cathedral. Ordained 1932 he was named Monsignor in 1951 and will remain Vicar General and pastor of Sts Peter and Paul in Tucson. He shares diocesan spiritual guidance for about 165000 Catholics in the growing Tucson Diocese.
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Tucson
Bison Francis
J. Eral
Jucson
Serra
Daniel J. “Gercke
St. Augustine
Gercke
Green
Sts. Peter and Paul’s
No Church for Converts Pleas for Mission Hospital Aid
Orthodox Christians seek funds for a chapel school with 543 pupils under instruction and over 100 children in a partly built school. The bishop of Trichur India appeals for a mission hospital, listing brick costs at 1 and medical kit at 75 with beds at 250 as endowment options.
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Pelof
Trichur
India
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