Father Keller Registers Justin Nick of Time
Father James Keller M M founder of the Christophers lectured and campaigned for voters in the November elections. He arrived to vote but a tape address and travel disrupted his schedule. He registered at the elections office before a flight to Cleveland and wed at St John Cathedral the next day to offer Mass.
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Cleveland
James Keller
The
Christophers
New York
Board of Elections Office
St. John’s Cathedral
Telephone Company
Group Helps Trappists Under Red Persecution
Neenah Wisconsin group Friends of the Far East Trappists forms to aid a new Trappist community near Hong Kong and support the Tobetsu monastery in Japan and two Japanese convents. Backed by Cardinal Thomas Tien and Bishop Stanislaus Ona, the group promotes Fatima devotion and publishes Salve Regina. Membership funds aid Chinese Red terror victims and publicity for the Trappists.
Largest Known Basilica Found in Wine Cellar
Remains of what may be the largest fourth century Christian basilica were found in Aquileia Italy. The site now serves as a wine cellar and pantry in a farmhouse. Three layers were uncovered including a suspected synagogue pavement, a mosaic basilica floor, and a medieval convent pavement.
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London
Aquileia
Trieste
Attila Theon
New York Teachers Linked to Communist Underground
A former Communist party official says 300 New York City schoolteachers were organized into a Communist underground in 1948 and 1949. A university professor refused to confirm membership in the Communist party and was suspended. Four municipal empire teachers face dismissal under a self incrimination rule. State Education Commissioner Wilson cites youth protection against subversive propaganda as a major problem. Hunter College deans warn Young Progressives of America membership could signal Communist sympathy.
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New York
Communist Party
John Lautner
New York City
Communist
New York University
Lewis A. Wilson
Education Department
George N. Shuster
Hunter College
Young Progressives of America
Bishops Seek Christian Path for Uganda Nationalism
In Entebbe Uganda bishops outline Catholic principles to guide nationalist feelings under British protection. They focus on patriotism nationalism and segregation amid Uganda’s 5 million people and a Catholic population around 1 million across six apostolic vicariates.
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Entebbe
Uganda
British East Africa
Boston bishop warns against religious political parties
Worcester bishop John Wright warns that the founding of religious political parties in the United States would harm both religion and America. He says danger to Catholicity often comes from political friends, not enemies, and affirms Americans would not attach a church label to a political movement.
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Worcester
Mass
U. S
Christian Democratic
America
John Wright
fo‘Frum
U.S
Europe
Catholic Colleges List Professional Courses Across Disciplines
The NCWC Education Department issued A Guide to Professional Courses in Catholic Higher Institutions listing architecture, business, dentistry, engineering, journalism, library science, medicine, nursing education, physical education and more. It notes 40 colleges have ROTC units and seven host multiple ROTC units.
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Washington
Ncwc Education Department
Emma Kammerer
Home Doctrine Course Marks 10th Anniversary at Woodstock
Woodstock Md The Home Study Course in Christian Doctrine directed by Jesuit theologians at Woodstock College marks its 10th anniversary. Rev John F X Sweeney SJ is home moderator and Rev Federico O Escaler SJ director for the coming year. The course aims to reach parish priests nationwide and chaplains in the armed forces. Since inception in 1942 it has produced 26 baptisms with 21 more to be received and 1127 inquiries from Catholics and non Catholics in three and fourteen foreign nations including Ceylon Brazil the Philippines and West Africa. Of those inquired 650 started the course and 257 completed with 129 non Catholics among graduates. The program began to instruct service members during the war and expanded to all interested laymen in the Catholic faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodstock
Woodstock College
John F. X. Sweeney
Fedrico O. Escaler
Ceylon
Brazil
Philippines
West Africa
Aith
U S Immigration Policies Challenged by Cleric
Monsignor Raymond J. O Flaherty of the Los Angeles Archdiocesan Charities told the Presidents Commission on Immigration and Naturalization that current U S policy based on national origins violates justice and charity. He urged reforms to align immigration laws with equality and global leadership aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Raymond J. O’flaherty
Commission On Immigration and Naturalization
O’flaherty
Monsignor
U.S
Wichita School Board Keeps Releasing Pupil for Religious Instruction
Wichita, Kansas officials said they would continue releasing public school children for religious training during school hours unless legally barred. Attorney General Harold R. Fatzer declared such releases violate the Kansas constitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kans
Wichita School Board
Harold R. Fatzer
Kansas
Plastic Substances Used To Restore Masterpieces
London reports Rembrandt Capuchin Friar restored for another century with plastic substances. Used in the United States since 1930 and five years in the British National Gallery, the process is said to be more effective than other methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Rembrandt
United States
British National Gallery
Willie Hoppe Retires After 46-Year Billiards Reign
Willie Hoppe, historic champion of billiards, retires at 65 after a 46 year title run started at 16. He won 51 championships, including the 1906 18.2 balkline title in Paris, and plans 25 to 30 exhibitions annually.
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Bill Warner
Willie Hoppe
Hoppe
Paris
Maurice Vignaux
Vignaux
Willie
France
Challen
Catholic Slovak Culture Study at Abbey in Cleveland
St Andrew's Abbey, the sole Benedic tine Slovak abbey, launches a program to preserve and promote Catholic Slovak culture. Four refugee scholars in Cleveland staff the project, with Abbot Theodore Kojis guiding and Father Andrew Pier overseeing the course for adults twice weekly. Father Nicholas Sprine, a Slovakia escapee who fled to Rome in 1945, joins as a faculty member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
St. Andrew’s Abbey
Benedictine School
Cleveland Abbey
Theodore Kojis
Andrew Pier
Nicholas Sprine
Spis
Rome
Slovakia
Western Reserve University
Pius XII Blesses Rosary Statue for use in Athens
About 2000 Catholics filled the Cathedral of St Denis for a Family Rosary Crusade service. A replica statue of the Virgin of the Rosary from Pompeii was installed and presented to the cathedral by Archbishop Roberto Ronca after being blessed by Pope Pius XII.
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Pius XII
Athens
Cathedral of
St. Denis
Family Rosary Crusade
Pompeii
Italy
Roberto Ronca
Veteran Chaplain Edward R. Martin to Retire After 25 Years
Monsignor Col Edward R Martin first army chaplain in New York will retire from the army at end of October after more than 25 years of service. He holds the Legion of Merit and Soldiers Medal for heroism. World War II overseas service spanned four and a half years. Ordained 1921, he was associated with the Fighting 69th. Born in Union Hill New Jersey he was made Domestic Prelate in 1952 and became an army chaplain on October 7 1925.
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Edward R. Martin
First Army
New York
Army
Armed Services
Monsignor Martin
Fran Duffy
Union Hill
N. J
Rsune
Christ's Teaching Law's Fulfillment Not Its Downfall
An essay argues that Christian faith grows from Jewish origins and that Jesus fulfilled rather than rejected Jewish law. It notes the Sermon on the Mount reframes the Decalogue with a higher love, while the Promised Land is a spiritual, not only geographic, reality guiding God's destiny for Israel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Egypt
Promised Land
God
First French Canadian named Superior General of Brothers of the Sacred Heart
Brother Josaphat becomes the Made Superior General in Montreal, the first French Canadian to hold the post. He leads the religious order as its top executive and spiritual head.
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Montreal
Josaphat
The
Brothers of the Sacred Heart
Early Spanish Settlement in Chesapeake Bay Explored
A historical overview recalls the 1526 San Miguel de Guandape venture led by Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon. Father Montesinos presided over Virginia’s first Mass and chapel near today’s capital area. Pestilence felled 300, ending the colony, with note of Bartolomé de Las Casas and Verrazano’s earlier Atlantic surveys shaping the coast.
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Joan B. Exper
Bay of the Mother of God
Chesapeake Bay
Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon
St. Michael’s Day
Jamestown
San Miguel de Guandape
Father Montesinos
Haiti
Ayllo
Mes States
Virginia
U.S
Ayllon
San Domingo
Onirginia
Bartholomeo de Las Casas
Herbert E.ton
Holy See
Aylton
Atoll
Cape Fear River
Jordan
Pedee River
Guandape
Yale University Press
Hungary Bishops Suspend Reds Appointed Priests
Two Hungarian bishops suspend priests backed by the communist regime. Bishop Golomanoy ousts Father Josef Zala named administrator by the Reds, while Bishop Andrew Hamvas removes two priests and the director of Budapest Central Seminary. A pastoral letter appeals for help to monks and nuns dispossessed of their homes as six of eleven seminaries have been closed in two years.
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Cologne
Germany
Reds
Golomanoy
Gyver
Josef Zala
Papp
Andrew Hamvas
Csanan
Budapest
Hungary
Korean Students Form Union in Seoul
About 150 Catholic students from four South Korean colleges unite to seek greater public service and administration involvement. A spokesman said the group will apply for Pax Romana membership.
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Seoul
Korea
Pax Romana
Prayer Plan offers 35 reparation hours at Old St. Mary’s
Holy Hours run from 1 p.m. Oct. 25 to midnight Oct. 26 at Old St. Mary’s Church on Ninth Street and Wabash Avenue. The program, by the Soul Assurance Prayer Plan and Paulist Fathers, seeks reparation for nations, the blind, armed forces, persecuted peoples, and youth sins.
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Chicago
Old St. Mary’s Church
Soul Assurance
Old St. Mary’s
Ninth Street
Wabash Avenue
Slovak American Federation Plans Aid for Homeland Missions
The Slovak Catholic Federation of America at its 35th convention pledged funds for mission work education of seminarians and care for the ill in Slovakia as a free nation. It cites over a million Slovak-Americans supporting freedom and the need for many priests to replace martyrs and prisoners.
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Wilkes-Barre
Slovak Catholic Federation of América
Slovakia
SCFA
Monsiignor Milos Mlynarovic
Valparaiso
Ind
John Sengier
Philadelphia
Michael Churak
Perth Amboy
N. J
Stephen Marjenin
Cleveland
Mary Dolak
Youngstown
Gabriela ‘Vavrek
Wilkes- Barre
Stephen Tkach
Dallas
Tex
Alcoholics Anonymous lectures by Rev Ralph Pfau in California
The Rev Ralph Pfau of the Indianapolis archdiocese speaks to California AA groups in Santa Clara on Oct 25 San Mateo Oct 27 Oakland Oct 30 Modesto Nov 1 Monterey Nov 5 and Nov 8 He helped lead the Northern California Council meeting in Sacramento and is the author of the Golden Book series.
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San Francisco
Ralph Pfau
Indianapolis
California
Alcoholics Anonymous
Santa
San Mateo
Oakland
Modesto
Monterey
Father Pfau
Northern California Council of AA
Sacramento
Rosary for America booklet aims to awaken civic conscience
Madison Catholic Art Services publishes Rosary for America in Madison Wisconsin priced at 25 cents. The booklet presents the Rosary mysteries in an up-to-date format to awaken the civic consciousness of the nation's citizens.
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Madison, Wis
Catholic Art Services
America
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Catholic University
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Tokyo
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Manila
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