Pope Urges Homes for All Families in November Intention
The Pope’s 1950 November intention calls for suitable homes for all families, stressing urgency amid housing shortages in Europe and America. The message cites 50 million displaced in Europe and Asia, postwar France and Germany losses, and U.S. census data on dilapidated housing, urging Christians to act.
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Holy Father
Peter
Europe
Asia
France
Germany
U. S
Christ
Jesus
Bad Neighbor Policy and the Rio Grande Dam
President Eisenhower and Mexico’s Adolfo Ruiz Cortines dedicate a joint Rio Grande dam to provide power irrigation and flood control. The piece urges tackling illegal Mexican labor crossing the border, criticizing peonage and urging moral reflection and civic action.
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Eisenhower
Rio Grande
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
Mexico
U. S
Rio
Herbert Brownell
Embarrassed to Speak of Spiritual Things Cites Media Influence
A Xavier University Family Life Institute speaker laments how minds are captured by clever campaigns. He notes mass media, headlines, radio, and TV stories shape conversations and sway opinions toward consumption, politics, and tolerance.
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Xavier University Family Life Institute
Roger Bacon Jubilee Rites Highlight School Heritage
Father McCarthy praises the Roger Bacon community for its “extremely competent principals” and “numberless friars,” noting parents and merchants who support the Catholic school. The college aims to inspire ambition and leadership, tracing roots to Archbishop McNicholas and a thriving enrollment rise from 305 students to 818 with 34 teachers, 28 of them Franciscan priests, and 3,160 graduates.
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Roger Bacon
McNicholas
Father McCarthy
Christ
Forty Hours Devotion Schedule Across Cincinnati and Ohio
A list of the Forty Hours Devotion period from November 1 to 8 across churches in Cincinnati and Ohio including St Anthony's Cincinnati Christ the King Our Mother of Sorrows St Mary's Dayton and St Peter's Hamilton plus events from November 8 to 15 at Holy Name Cincinnati Sacred Heart McCartyville Holy Redeemer New Bremen and Good Samaritan Hospital Cincinnati.
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St. Anthony’s
Third Street
Cincinnati
St.Mary’s
Dayton
Delhi
St.Peter’s
Hamilton
St. Anthony's
Mercer County
St. John’s
West Chester
Fryburg
Holy Name
St. Mary’s
H.P
Sacred Heart
McCartyville
Holy Redeemer
New Bremen
St. Joseph's
Springfield
Good Samaritan Hospital
Scandinavia seen through Catholic lens by Richard Pattee
In a three month tour Pattee surveys Scandinavia, praising Sigrid Undset and Nordic talent while noting secularism's rise. He argues Catholic presence is historical and slow to grow, urges prayer and support for bishops, clergy, and distant missions across five nations.
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Oslo
Norway
Trondheim
Europe
Lillehammer
Sigrid Undset
Scandinavia
Crisis in the Virgin Islands divorce economy
A satirical column notes a U S Court ruling denying jurisdiction to grant divorces for non residents and warns the Virgin Islands economy, reliant on divorce and tourism, could suffer. It suggests importing American know how to create a self contained divorce industry and hints at using the word incompatible to spur marriages to break.
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Virgin Islands
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
U. S
Virgin Islanders
Cardinal Spellman Addresses Europe on Rosenberg Case and Race
The address defends American justice in the Rosenberg case and highlights advances for African Americans. It criticizes European press bias and Communist propaganda, urges U.S. leadership, and urges frank but charitable discussion of world affairs and internal matters.
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Rosenberg
Cardinal Spellman
Promseanes
Rosenbergs
U. S
Europe
Asia
Britain
Socialist Party
America
West
Winston Churchill
U.S
Ional Committee
Saint Has Laugh On Commies Who Overlooked Utopia
The piece profiles a Catholic author and reviewer for major newspapers and magazines. It notes he has written six books including poetry and a children’s cartoon book with his wife Eileen, and is working on two more. He praises Sigrid Undset and criticizes modern book stalls prior to focusing on St. Thomas More as his subject.
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Saint
Buffalo Evening News
New York Herald Tribune
America
Eileen
Brady
Sigrid Undset
St. Thomas More
Mr. Brady
Bruce Marshall
Rue Notre Dame
Daniel Peteril
Sheed
France
Marshall
F.B
Assembly votes 59 to 1 against communists in NH schools
The Assembly of Delegates of the New Hampshire Teachers Association passed a resolution opposing communists in the teaching profession by a 59 to 1 vote in Manchester.
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Manchester
N. H
Assembly of Delegates
Teachers’ Association
New Hampshire
Readers Guide Recounts St Bernard and Cistercians
A long review summarizing Saint Bernard of Clairvaux born 1090 died 1153 and his letters to kings and popes. Also discussed are Cistercian life, the White Monks, and related works by Father Lekai with appendices maps and photographs.
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St. Bernard of
Clairvaux
Fontaines-les- Dijon
St. Bernard
Abbey of
Citeaux
Bruno Scott James
Thomas Merton
M. Louis of
Gethsemane
Lekai
Spring Bank
Okauchee
Wis
The White Monks by Father Louis J Lekai overview
A concise portrait of the Cistercian Order’s history and cultural achievements. It traces the order’s French origins in the late 11th century and outlines its growth and influence within Western Christianity.
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Louis J. Lekai
S.c.cist
France
Belief, Apparitions, and Modern Faith Explored
John Beevers reviews The Sun Her Mantle and Rue Notre Dame Daniel Peteril noting documented Marian apparitions across France Ireland Belgium and Portugal. The Sun Her Mantle covers century long reports with church pronouncements while Rue Notre Dame presents a diary style tale of a priest’s confessional and moral reckoning in modern France.
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John Beevers
Newman
Earth
France
Belgium
Ireland
Portugal
la Salette
Grenoble
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