U S Should Remember Poles Anti Red Fight
A Chicago priest urges the United States to support Polish Catholics in their struggle against Communism. Rev S J Pino war, executive director of Catholics for Religious Assistance to Poland, appeals for aid and solidarity with Polish laymen and clergy in Chicago and Poland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Pittsburgh
United States
Poland
S. J. Pinowar
Chicago
Catholics For
Jon Piet. R
The
Resurrection Fathers
Polish Reds Hold Priests in Jail Claims Stir U N Crusade
A former Polish U N delegate Dr Marek Smorowicz told a Crusade for obedience that the aes vote s000 Cathalia he said the diches in are filled from morning to night with priests jailed in Poland according to the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United Nations
Marek Smorowicz
Aes
Million Dollar School Named for World War II Chaplain
Indianapolis, Ind. The $1,000,000 Father Scecina Memorial High School was named in honor of Chaplain Father Thomas Scecina who died in World War II. His mother and priest brother traveled from Texas for the ceremony. Scecina died October 1944 when Allied forces sank a Japanese POW transport in the China Sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Thomas Scecina
Texas
Father Scecina
China Sea
Classified Ads Rough All Ists Be Bre Ree
A rough ad page lists various classified offers including business opportunities, merchandise for sale, sewing machine, old gold and jewelry buyers, instruction and employment, and misc notices. Entries mention Venetian Blind Laundry, Budd Supply Co, sewing machine $19.95, Old Gold & Jewelry WANTED, Uncle Sam work, Catholic lady opportunity, bakers wanted, Syriac Maronite Mass, Christmas Seals, and an art library offer.
NCCS plans new canteen network for troops in Asia
The National Catholic Community Service told President Eisenhower of plans to expand canteens and service clubs for American soldiers in Korea and Japan, while possibly reducing activities in the United States. NCCS chair Michael J. Kelleher announced the plan after the executive committee meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Catholic
Eisenhower
White House
Korea
Japan
NCCS
Thomas D. Hinton
Michael T. Kelleher
Boston
Washington
The
National Catholic Community Service
cApana Ws VeVo
United States
Michael J. Kelleher
Nccs-Usoc
USO
Jacksonville
St. Augustine
Key West
Fla
Shreveport
Wichita Falls
Tex
Charleston
Car
San Juan
P.R
Balboa
Canal Zone
Youngstown
Portsmouth
Savannah River Atomic Plant
Georgia
South Carolina
Inaugural Address at Holy Family Hospital Delhi
Mother Anna Dengel founder and Superior General of the Medical Mission Sisters delivers the inaugural address at Holy Family Hospital New Delhi. The Catholic hospital dedication stone ceremony was attended by Archbishop Fernandes of Delhi and Simla and Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Vice President of India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Dengel
Medical Mission Sisters
Fox Chase
Holy Family Hospital
New Delhi
India
Joseph A. Fernandes
Delhi
Simla
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Louisiana Purchase Ceremony Re enacted in New Orleans
Re enactments near St. Louis Cathedral recalled the 1803 completion of the Louisiana Purchase as President Eisenhower attended the sesquicentennial events. Archbishop Rummel gave the invocation while leaders including Bishop Georges Petit, Father Reymond Leopold Bruckberger, Governor Kennon, and mayors of Orleans and New Orleans joined French and Spanish ambassadors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
St. Louis
Louisiana Purchase
France
Eisenhower
Joseph F. Rummel
Eorges Petit
Verdun
Reymond-Leopold Bruckberger
O.P
Paris
Robert Kensa
Orleans
Parish Marks Centenary in Uxbridge Celebration
St. Mary parish in Uxbridge Massachusetts traces its roots to 1853 and marks its centenary. The present church began in 1924 and was dedicated in 1926 after an 18 month building period. A public school building struck by lightning in 1951 was rebuilt and rededicated a year later to serve the parish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Uxbridge
Mass
St. Mary’s
Two Priests Help Write The American Legion Reader
The American Legion Reader to be published by Hawthorn Books on November 11. Contributors include Father Leopold L. S. Braun of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish New York and Monsignor Maurice S. Sheehy of the Catholic University of America, among others in a Catholic cooperative effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Hawthorn Books
Leopold L. S. Braun
Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish
New York
Maurice S. Sheehy
Catholic University of America
Polish Prelates Call Memo One of Great Ecclesiastical Documents
Cardinal Samuel Stritch praised the Polish Hierarchy memo as one of the great ecclesiastical documents. The Polish Bishops declared they would not place the things of God on the altar of Caesar amid Church State tensions, referencing Cardinal Wyszynski’s fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Cardinal Wyszynski
Reds
Samuel Stritch
Chicago
Pontifical Polish Institute
Caesar
Cominform Launches Church Nationalization Drive
Cominform headquarters in Bucharest orders a drive to liquidate the Catholic Church in Iron Curtain countries and form National Catholic Churches. The program, to begin next spring, targets Czecho Slovakia and Hungary where tensions had cooled for months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Iron Curtain
Cominform
Bucharest
Romania
Czecho-Slovakia
Hungary
New Papal Delegate Consecration set for Nov 1
Rome reports Archbishop-elect James R. Knox arrives from Tokyo to be consecrated as Apostolic Delegate to British East and West Africa on November 1 by Cardinal Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi. He becomes Titular Bishop of Metilene, succeeding Archbishop avid Mathew who resigned due to ill health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
James R. Knox
British East and West Africa
Tokyo
Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi
Metilene
Avid Mathew
Heating Plant to Modernize Historic St Vibiana’s Cathedral
After 77 years the Los Angeles landmark St Vibiana’s Cathedral will receive a heating system as part of a modernization plan. The project also removes the last gas lighting jets except one in Bishop Amat’s crypt and includes ceiling and roof brace work from the 1870s, sacristy renewal, and new reliquaries for St Vibiana’s relics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
St. Vibiana’s
Thaddeus Amat
St. Vibiana
Book Tells Martyrdom of Salesians in Spain
In Laurels and Palms Father Amedeus Burdeus recounts the persecution and martyrdom of Salesian Fathers during the Spanish Civil War. Beatification processes have begun for many priests killed by the Reds. Eighty eight Salesians were murdered, nine died in prison, and nine are unaccounted for. The attack interrupted a spiritual retreat, with the Provincial Father nz among the first victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Rochelle
N. Y
Spain
Amedeus Burdeus
Father Nz
Reds
Two Nurse Catechists Study for Priesthood in Framingham
In Framingham Mass two members of the Sons of Mary Health of the Sick study for priesthood. John Coss from Seneca Illinois and Edward Moscati attend St Johns Seminary Boston and took vows in August in a ceremony led by Archbishop Richard J. Cushing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Framingham
Mass
Sons of Mary
Edward F. Garesche
S.J
America
St. John’s Seminary
Boston
John Coss
Seneca, Ill
Edward Moscati
Richard J. Cushing
Life of Floyd Gibbons Published by Brother
Edward Gibbons writes of Floyd Gibbons the headline hunter in a new book. The tome recounts a 2000 mile Sahara trek to honor Father Charles de Foucauld, a three month journey breaking camel travel records, and the first American flag across the desert. The book notes Gibbons white eye patches were made by nuns in Missoula Montana. he lost an eye in World War I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Floyd Gibbons
Edward Gibbons
Gibbons
Africa
Sahara Desert
Charles de Foucauld
Sahara
St. Patrick’s Hospital
Missoula
Mont
Georgetown University
Bishop Leads Devotions To Mary in Red China
Bishop James E. Walsh and five priests led devotions to Our Lady of Fatima at the Catholic Central Bureau in Shanghai on October 11. Father Anthony Sacchettini, the latest expellee from Shanghai, said Walsh and the attending clergy were free and well. Sacchettini had taught at Aurora University in Shanghai before Reds forced his departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
James E. Walsh
Cumberland
Catholic Central Bureau
Shanghai
Anthony Sacchettini
Walsh
Sacchettini
Aurora University
China
Cardinal Spellman Sees U S Spiritual Renewal
Cardinal Francis J. Spellman of New York urged a renewed American spiritual vigor at a Brussels Catholic conference. He defended the U S against European critics, praised religious education and national charity, and endorsed wartime sacrifices while noting progress on the Negro issue and congressional inquiries into Communist infiltration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Belgium
America
Francis J. Spellman
New York
U. S
Religion Cabinet
Europe
Rosenberg
NCWC
Maryknollers Ousted From China Aid In Hong Kong
Maryknollers cut from aid operations in Hong Kong after a year in which aid reached over 25,000 villagers. Programs covered unemployment relief for 253 families, rent support for 78 families, clothing for 9 867, school and vocational education for hundreds, and extensive health and maternity services in refugee camps. A Maryknoller built ten houses and assisted in erecting thirty four more as proof of low cost construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Maryknollers
Mao Tse-tung
China
Maryknoll
Maryknoller
Law Church Dedicated Attends 50th Jubilee
In Los Angeles 1200 attendees marked the golden jubilee of St. Joseph's Church with Cardinal McIntyre presiding over Solemn Pontifical Mass. Attorney Joseph Scott, on the 1903 reception committee, recalled Archbishop Falcone dedicating the downtown edifice, praising the church's enduring faith amid calls for permanent principles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
St. Joseph’s Church
Joseph Scott
Diomede Falconio
O.F.M
Cardinal McIntyre
St. Joseph’s
Kenya appoints priest to teach Mau Mau detainees
Kenya rulers name Father Colleton to provide religious instruction to 1,200 suspected Mau Mau adherents in a Nairobi detention camp. He serves as overall education officer and aims to train detainees to become good citizens alongside Protestant co-workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenya
Nairobi
Colleton
Harsh Need for Clothes Drive and Thanksgiving
Monsignor Edward E. Instrom of NCWC War Relief Services announced a national clothing collection for most dioceses from November 22 to 29. The drive seeks blankets, bedding, and children's garments as more people flee conflicts, with last year’s total at 9.82 million pounds. officials urge Catholics to surpass that record to aid refugees in Europe and the East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ging
Edward E. Instrom
NCWC
War Relief Services
Monsignor Swanstrom
Europe
Far East
Ar East
Polish Bishops Arrests Raise Communist Clamps In Poland
Auxiliary Bishop Anton Beraniak and Auxiliary Lucian Miernacki of Gniezno are reported arrested as Communist authorities widen a crackdown on church leadership. The list includes Archbishops and bishops across Cracow Kielce Katowice Gniezno and Danzig as Poland faces intensified church suppression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anton Beraniak
Gniezno
Poland
Cardinal Wyszynski
Michele Klepacz
Lodz
Vatican
Berank
London
Lucian Miernacki
Stefan Wyszyns
Hhishos
Warsaw
Eld
Init
Keat
Lworn
Atenbeietrates
Cracow
Stanislaw Raspond
Czelaw Kaczmarek
Kielce
Stanislaw Adamski
Towice
Herbert Bednorz
Katowice
Julius S Bieniek
Karl Maria Splett
Danzig
New Ambassadors to Vatican Rome
Lebanon appoints its first ambassador to the Vatican Joseph Saouda who presented credentials to Pius XII at Castelgandolfo after the Vatican post was upgraded to an embassy. He previously served as Minister to Brazil. Machado of Brazil also presented credentials as the new Brazilian ambassador to the Vatican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Lebanon
Vatican
Joseph Saouda
Pius XII
Castelgandolfo
Saouda
Brazil
Christiano Monteiro
Machado
Mission School Plea Supports Basilian Dollar-a-Month Club
A bishop and mission leaders urge support for church work in mission lands. They stress the indispensability of mission schools for children and refugees in the Holy Land, asking readers to join the Basilian monthly mite program with a dollar per month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Ghattas
Basilians
Holy Land
Holy Souls Month Masses Announced by Missionaries
Monday marks the start of November offerings as priests prepare to say masses for the souls. Beloved souls are urged to remember the deceased and support the mission work, now coordinated to begin swiftly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franti Institute
Mites Needed for Fatima Shrine Offering Hills of Pales
Community fund seeks donations to build a Fatima shrine on Jordan hillsides. Each mite contributes a block, with a $10 gift yielding a copy of Monsignor McMahon's Hills of Pales the Morning paramphiet. Send donations to Mary today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jordan
Fatima
Mary
Pales
Monsignor McMahon
Membership offerings aid Holy Father mission needs
The notice outlines 18 Near East areas with enrollment for safe and deceased members in 15000 yearly Masses. Individual dues are 1 dollar yearly and 20 dollars perpetual while family rates are 5 dollars yearly and 100 dollars perpetual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holy Father
Near East
Also Mentioned on This Page
Seneca
Wake
Kansas
Dts
Budd Supply Coe
Dept
St Paul St. Wikelncesary
Singer Electric
N. Howard
Wash
Greenfield
Ohio
OLD Gold & Jewelry
Rose Smelting Company
East
Madison
Jifica Postoffice
Qual
Seattle
el Paso
Sfeir
Cedar St
Buffalo
Walle, Alla
Mlesiesippi
A R. Jonephone Street
Pat
Ieee
ART Library
P.O
White Plains
Susie Walker
Susie
J"hill CO
Broad St
Newark, N. J
Los Angeles Cathedral
Brother
Red
Martin J. O’connor
North American College
Colle
Janiculum Hill
St. Peter’s Basilica
Burke
C.S.P
St. Paul’s College
Catholic University
Washin
Edmond D. Benard
Gerard N. Glynn
Newman Foundation of Washington University
MBS
Ae Oe Council
Southern Cross
Helthour
Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity
Deep South
Friends of the Missions
Hollywood
Jeff Chandler
Ice Follies
Andrew Lawrence
Silver
Spring
Chandler
Father Wrence
Cardinal Spellman
Most
Clara
Kena
ALL Souls Day
Simon
Palestine
Thomas J. McMahon
Welfare Association
Lexington Ave
46Th St
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!