Lay Members of Legion of Mary Expelled from Shanghai
Hong Kong Shanghai lay Catholics of foreign extraction tied to the Legion of Mary face expulsion by the Chinese Reds. Some 27 have left or received deportation orders, with 12 more to depart. Many are young, long-time Shanghai residents, mostly without valid passports. Nationalities include five British, 13 Portuguese, five Filipinos, and one Italian. Some are stateless. Catholic Welfare Committee Hong Kong and NCWC War Relief aim to resettle them, but visas are hard to obtain. They currently reside in Macao and nearby.
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Hong Kong
Shanghai
Legion of Mary
Catholic Welfare Committee of
Ncwc War Relief Services
U. S
Macao
Encwc Radio
Hospital history recalls amazing convert to faith
Springfield Missouri recalls the St. John's hospital history from 1890 to its new building dedication on September 24. The Sisters of Mercy opened the facility for the Ozarks with non Catholic support and later expanded with Hill Burton funds. The campus now represents a 7209000 dollar investment.
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Springfield
St. John’s Hospital
Sisters of Mercy
Ozarks
Sisters of Ercy
W. J. Phillips
Mr. Phillips
Katherine O’leary
City
Father Peyton Finds England Rich in Rosary Advocates
The piece notes Father Patrick Peyton’s 15 week campaign across eight English dioceses reaching 800000 people and securing nearly a million family prayer pledges. It highlights Granny Bella Simpson of Newcastle and other Irish English families as fervent Rosary supporters and recalls a large turnout in Hayes, Middlesex, where six thousand attended a rally once eight Catholics in town.
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New York
Granny Bella Simpson
Newcastle
England
Schoo
Patrick Peyton
Granny
America
Aay Cross
Father Peyton
Best
Granny Bella
J. O’brien
Manchester
Middlebrough
Stokeld
James Grant
Gateshead
Durham County
Gosforth
Hayes
Middlesex
NCWC
Emphasis on Parenthood Is Catholic Action Aim
Catholic Action launches a Philadelphia archdiocese campaign to stress Christian parenthood and early religious training in Catholic homes. Archbishop John F. O'Hara forms parish Archbishop's Committees for Christian Home and Family to promote Christian motherhood and unselfish sacrifice to raise children toward the Kingdom of God.
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Philadelphia
Christian Home and Family
John F. O’hara
Cancer Hospital Head Honored at Age 97
Mrs. Catherine Cecilia McParlan, 97, attended Cardinal Spellman’s dedication of the Catherine Cecilia McParlan Pavilion at the House of Calvary in the Bronx. She received the Papal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal and has directed the House of Nerve she founded with 12 widowed Calvary women.
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New York
House of Calvary
Bronx
Furthem
Catherine Cecilia McParlan
McParlan
Spellman
House of Nerve
Calvary
Sisters of St. Dominic of Blauvelt
Bishop Ford Murder Condemned by U S Secretary of State
Secretary Dean Acheson denounced the Chinese regime for the murder of Brooklyn born Maryknoll Bishop Francis X. Ford in a Communist prison. He cited meager diet and humiliation and noted about 156 Americans were held in Red China including six bishops and 88 priests.
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U. S
Dean Acheson
Ford
Catholic Telegraph-Register
Sarkuait Abe
Washington
Maryknoll
Francis X. Ford
Bishop Ford
Acheson
Tha Nw
Red
China
NCWC
Hong Kong
Hiest
Brooklyn
Canton Rison
Mothers General Meet in Rome Discuss Garb and Education
The First International Congress of Mothers General of Pontifical religious congregations met in Vatican City for three days to discuss moderating sisters garb for work or climate. About 700 women religious from Europe west of the Iron Curtain and from the U S Canada Australia and India attended, including 200 delegates. A proposal urged a university grade school in Rome for women religious, training those who teach sisters and manage novitiates, with existing facilities expanded. The congress followed other religious gatherings and urged a permanent Mothers General committee to share information and coordinate efforts. Delegates were received by Pope Pius XII at Castelgandolfo.
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Vatican City
Mothers General
Pontifical Religious Congregations
Sacred Congregation of Religious
U. S
Canada
Australia
India
Rome
Walking Pilgrim Reaches Fatima Shrine at 80
An 80 year old Spanish pilgrim Laurenco Lanca Martins walked several hundred miles to the shrine of Our Lady at Fatima Portugal.
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Fatima
Portugal
Laurenco Lanca Martins
Here
Listening In How to Become a Contemplative
A discussion on contemplation definitions, meditation practice, and spiritual growth. It cites St. John of the Cross and church teaching, outlines natural and preternatural contemplation, and notes daily meditation benefits for priests, nuns, and laypeople.
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John of the Cross
Webster’s
Mysticism Compared to Meditation and Contemplation
The text discusses mysticism as higher than meditation, describing contemplation as the soul passively beholding the Supreme Being with a profound spiritual experience. It cites the Catholic Encyclopedia Dictionary noting contemplation as an imperfect vision of God.
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Catholic Encyclopedia Dictionary
Apostolic Delegate Blesses Church Shrine Funded by Mason Gift
In Greensboro a $400000 shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary was dedicated by Archbishop Amleto Cicognani. The gift came from Julian Price’s family through Jefferson Standard Life Insurance, with attendance by Bishop Helmsing and multiple diocesan leaders. The statue and windows honor Mary and promote Catholic heritage amid a growing diocese from 8000 to 28000 members.
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Apostolic Delegate
Mary
Mason
Greenboro
N. Car
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani
United States
Ourchy of Grace Church
Julian Price
Baltimore
Charles‘.H. Helmsing
St. Louis
Patrick Peyton
C.S.C
Family Rosary Crusade
Our Lady of Peace
Marshals Foch
von Hindenburg
Legion of Mary
Cicognani
Greensboro
Raleigh
Vincent S. Waters
Vincent G. Taylor
Ordin
Belmont Abbey
St. Benedict’s Church
Mary Taylor
Price
Thomas J. Toolen
Mobile
Bert L. Fletcher
Little Rock
John J. Russell
Charleston
Ncwc Wire
Catholic Seamen Care Focused by Apostleship in Port Work
Auxiliary Bishop L Abel Caillouet of New Orleans says about 2,000,000 seamen exist worldwide with half Catholic. He notes no parish for seamen and describes the Apostleship of the Sea's plan for lifelines of faith in ports, with 12 Catholic maritime clubs in major U.S. ports.
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Cleveland
L. Abel Caillouet
New Orleans
Apostleship of the Sea
U.S
Orthodox Seek Unity With Rome at Lund Conference
Father Doyle notes Orthodox representatives urged reunion with Rome as essential while Protestants and some Lutherans pushed for unity without Rome. He cites warnings of Protestant proselytizing and difficulty drafting universally accepted statements on intercommunion worship ministry and defining schism.
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Sapere
Lund
Sweden
Robert M. Doyle
Yngve Brilioth
Berlin
Father Doyle
Rome
Doyle
Athens
Athenagoras
London
Ecumenical Patriarchate
Western
Europe
World Council of Churches
Commission On Faith and Order
Rch
Catholic schools resume as public units in Lake Linden and Hubbell
After 18 years as public schools, Holy Rosary St. Josephs Lake Linden and St. Cecelia Hubbell reopen as Catholic units under state pressure. An inspector cited 17 alleged violations. the parish schools will reinstate religious teaching outside school hours while remaining part of the local district.
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Lake Linden
Mich
Houghton County
Marquette Diocesan Department of Education
Cause of Christ
Holy Rosary
St. Joseph’s
St. Cecilia’s
Hubbell
Ke Linden
State Department of the Instruction
Michigan
Rheault
Marquete Diocesan Department of Education
Harry J. Trainor
Lake Linden-Hubbell
Millard
INCWC
Late Vice President's Daughter Dies at 76 Benefactor of Church
Helena Stuyvesant Morton, daughter of Levi Parsons Morton who served as vice president and New York governor, dies at 76. A noted Catholic benefactor, she built the Carmelite monastery in Brooklyn and a Jesuit novitiate in the Philippines, and donated the Hudson family estate to the archbishop, now Cardinal Farley Military Academy.
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New Road
Helena Stuyvesant Morton
Levi Parsons Morton
United States
New York
U. S. House of Representatives
France
New Yo
Morton
Archbishop of Boston Edits New Publication
Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of Boston funds and edits a new Catholic Nurse magazine intended for about 20,000 readers. An editorial board chaired by Mrs. Mary Maullane of Detroit includes Monsignor Joseph B. Toomey of Syracuse and the National Council of Catholic Nurses under the NCWC.
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Boston
Richard J. Cushing
Episcopa
NCWC
National Council of Catholic Nurses
Skee
an_ edito board
Mary Maullane
Detroit
Joseph B. Toomey
Syracuse, N. Y
Traveling Collegians Turn Movie Actors in Europe
Eighteen students from St. Catherine's college in St Paul Minnesota joined an education tour of Europe and acted in a travel film in Salzburg. They then met Austria's Chancellor Dr Leopold Figl in Vienna and were featured in a radio broadcast. In Rome they were received in audience by Pius XII.
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St. Paul,Minn
St. Catherine’s College
Europe
Salzburg
Vienna
Austria
Leopold Figl
Rome
Pius XII
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