Hidalgo Not Excommunicated For Leading Mexico War Probe Finds Absolution
A historical committee reports Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was excommunicated automatically for the war with Spain. He later made a general confession and received absolution before death, with the excommunication traced to a clerical process rather than his revolutionary leadership.
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Hidalgo
Mexico City
Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla
Spain
Paramittaa
Father Hidalgo
Dolores
Guadalajara
Meadalajara
Innocent Religious
Christus
Eee
Father Algo
Chihuahua
Mexico
Ncwe
Rural Areas Produce More Nuns Vocations Survey Finds
A National Catholic Rural Life Conference survey of 417 sisters in 13 communities shows 201 were raised in country regions, including 148 from farms, with 53 from non farm areas. The report argues rural schooling supports vocations and contrasts rural and urban recruitment trends.
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U.S
National Catholic Rural Life Conference
NCRLC
NCWC
Missioners Expelled by Reds Still Left in China and Hong Kong
More than 5 000 Catholic missionaries have been expelled from Communist China since the Reds took over. About 400 foreign missioners remain in China plus an estimated 5 000 native priests and religious, many jailed or under house arrest. Bishop John V. Lesinski and Father Franz Spaeth report expulsions and the formation of an Independent Church movement as Catholics face renewed pressure and arrests.
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Hong Kong
China
John V. Lesinski
O.P
Tingchow
Maryknoll
Francis X. Ford
Kaying
Ford
Lesinski
Franz Spaeth
Rodeberta Halter
Reds
Independent Church
Auguste Barreau
Paris Foreign
Manges
France
Christopher
Rositz
Germany
Teofila Fresneda
Rosa Cancélo
Elvira Valentin
Spain
Bertha Bracher
Brazil
Congregation of the Daughters of Jesus
Relief shipments rise 72 percent for 1953 first eight months
Emergency relief consignments to Europe and Asia by the American Protestant Churches during January through August 1953 increased 72 percent over the same period in 1952, reflecting growing aid efforts abroad.
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New York
Europe
Asia
TV Telecasts New Bishops Double Consecration
Auxiliary Bishops designate Edward V. Dargin and Walter P. Kellenberg will be consecrated in a televised service from St. Patrick's Cathedral on October 5. Cardinal Francis Spellman will serve as consecrator.
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New York
Edward V. Dargin
Walter P. Kellenberg
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Dumont Network
Cardinal Francis Spellman
Blue Army to Build International Headquarters in Fatima
Groundbreaking in Fatima Portugal marks the start of the Blue Army international headquarters. The chapel and assembly hall will blend Roman and Byzantine styles and should be finished by August 1954 with a Belarusian style altar layout and four side altars. Bishop Jose Correia da Silva officiated the event. The white stone structure sits on a knoll behind the Basilica of Fatima and will host world congresses and pilgrims working toward Our Lady's promise of Russia’s conversion and world peace. The Blue Army claims 4,000,000 members in 28 countries, founded in Plainfield New Jersey in 1947 by Rev Harold V Colgan.
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Bisma
East West
Fatima
Portugal
International Blue Army
Jose Correia da Silva
Leiria
Auma
Blue Army
Plainfield
N.J
Harold V. Colgan
Colgan
Russia
POW Favorite Song London
Rev Stanley Davies reports Catholic hymn Faith of Our Fathers as POWs favorite in a Korean camp. Camp commander refused chaplains access to sickness. Davies notes three American chaplains, one Catholic, died in the prison.
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London
Korea
Stanley Davies
Pope warns wine makers against excess promotion
Castelgandolfo Italy Pope Pius XII addresses the seventh International Congress of Wine Producers in Rome. He says promoting over indulgence is inadmissible and cites alcohol related harm worldwide while affirming the industry’s value and spiritual context. 400 delegates from 24 countries attend.
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Castelgandolfo
Italy
Christ
Pius. XII
International Congress of Wine Producers
Rome
American Sisters Praised By Pontiff Have Audience
American nuns of the Sisters of Charity of Cin eae Ob, who run the Villa Nazareth Orphanage in Rome since 1952, met Pope Pius XII. He blessed a stone for a new hall while two orphans presented it, praising the sisters for their work with orphans. Sister Mary Onter, former Cincinnati supervisor, leads the villa.
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Castelgandolfo
Rome
Sisters of Charity of Cineae Ob
Villa Nazareth
Cne
Domenico Tardini
Vatican
Pius XIII
Mary Onter
St. Joseph’s Orphanage
Cincinnati
NCWC
Persecution to Toleration The Edict of Milan 313
Tertullian notes early Christian accusations and martyrdom under Roman rule. Diocletian’s 303 edicts ordered destruction of worship sites and burning of sacred texts, with torture and banishment for Christians. The upheaval ended with Constantine and Licinius’ Edict of Milan in 313 granting toleration and equality for the church.
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Constantine
Diocletian
Galerius
Salona
Licinius
Milan
Occasional Breaks in Roman Persecutions
The passage notes that persecutions under the Rowans were not continuous and occurred in fits with intervals of relative ease between periods of pressure. It highlights nonuniform severity across time and context.
Communists Hold Brazil In Virtual Terror Grip
Brazilian society is described as heavily infiltrated by Communist influence with 1500 officials labeled Red leaders. Police blocked by government orders and a presidential aide deemed a Red sympathizer are noted. The Army penetration sparked a War Ministry resignation and mass detentions after arms smuggling. Red cells operate in Minas Gerais and in the Foreign Affairs Ministry with diplomats in London Hamburg Athens and San Salvador alleged to be Reds.
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Jaime Fonseca
Washington
Latin America
Brazil
Reds
Red
Lo Vargas
Yeddo Fiuza
Communist Party
Brazil’s
Sed
Minas Gerais
Pringommunists Actua
Rio Grande -Do Sul
Reublic
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
London
Hamburg
Athens
San Salvador
NCWC
Minorities Urged To Seek Legal Redress In Fair Employment
In Loretto Colorado a National Council of Catholic Women workshop urged minorities to report violations of fair employment statutes and to pursue legal redress when violated. Delegates said adult education should promote protective legislation and noted abuses persist despite local laws. They blamed landlords who exploit disadvantaged workers.
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Loretto
Colo
National Council of Catholic Womenhere
Catholic Men Target Sin Vending Machines
Catholic men across the United States were urged in the National Council of Catholic Men to remove "prophylactic" vending machines from public places. They advised forming committees, consulting pastors, checking taverns and public facilities, and early legal action or lobbying for new laws where none exist.
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Washington
U. S
National Council of Catholic Men
Old Iron Legs John F Stahl Receives Papal Knight
In Panama City Panama John F Stahl 71 known as Old Iron Legs received a second Papal decoration in two years after being made a Knight of the Order of Pius IX He is pictured kissing the ring of Archbishop Paul Bernier Papal Nuncio to Panama and Costa Rica In March 1952 he became the first Canal Zone resident to be named a Knight of St Gregory the Great Stahl has walked thousands of miles on pilgrimages across Central America Europe and the United States and completed a Holy Year pilgrimage from Fatima Portugal to Rome in 1950.
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Panama City
Panama
John’f. Stahl
Paul Bernier
Costa Rica
Stahl
Canal Zone
Panamia
Central America
Europe
U.S
Fatima
Portugal
Rome
Saginaw Bishop Denies Polish Reds Charges In Warsaw Trial
Saginaw Bishop Ste Rene S. Woznicki dismissed Polish Communist charges linking him to anti State activities via Radio Warsaw and a witness named Mieckza. He said his charity work for Poland was open and above board and denied any involvement with Polish relief groups.
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Ee Pa
Ste Rene S. Woznicki
Saginaw
Radio Warsaw
Mieckza
Czeslaw Kaczmarek
Warsaw
Poland
U. S
Woznicki
Hen. Klonowski
Scranton
United States
Catholic League Charity
Catholic Ague
Detroit
Francis Spellman
New York
the . S
Britain
Nazi Germany
Polish Prelate Convicted by Reds as Enemy of the People
Washington dispatch reports Polish Bishop Czeslaw Kaczmarek of Kielce and allied church figures were tried by a Communist Warsaw court in a purge labeled as an enemy of the people. Former Nazi era arrest records and secret police confessions are cited amid charges of collaboration and espionage.
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Washington
Czeslaw Kaczmarek
Kielce
Poland
Ase Sa
Warsaw
Iaceeee
Gesee
Pspine
Espiona
U.S
Vatican
Jan. Danilewicz
Kielce Curia
Kaladyslaw Widlak
Josef Dobrowski
Waleria Nikelewaka
Plock
Theology urged for Catholic press editors by Vatican delegate
Archbishop Cicognani told about 70 newsmen at a National Catholic Welfare Conference seminar that editors need theological training. He cited St. Francis de Sales and Denver's Register school, urged Christian spirituality and Christ at the center of history, and called for more theology in Catholic journalism.
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Washington
Amleto G. Cicognani
U. S
Pates de Sales
Bellarmine
Register
School of the Register of
Denver
Cicognani
Sete
Archie
Christ
Christian Charity More Theology
Ca Press
Thomas K. Gorman
Dallas
Episcopal
NCWC
Press
Albert R. Zoroweste O. Belleville
Howard J. Carroll
Thomas Meehan
Catholic Press Association
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Pakahi
Brother Christopher
Jeanne D’arc
Shanghai
Brother Gabriel
Father Garcia
Lepanto
Peterwardein
Hungary
Lady of the Rosary
Leo Canavan
Pope
God
Pontiff
Newton Estillac Leal
Ambassa
Kaczmarek
Catholic Action
Caritas
People’s Univers
Sant
NCEWC
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