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Newspaper
Catholic Telegraph Register
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1953
Page
11
Printed in Brooklyn New York, meal prayer cards adorn all USS tables in the Military Sea Transport Service Atlantic area. The tent style cards carry a two sided suggested grace for Catholics and Protestants to say before meals on Navy ships.
The Navy uses invocations at bases across the United States and distributes printed prayer sheets at the head of mess lines for both officers and enlisted personnel as part of religious practice amid broader experimentation with spiritual observances.
An advertisement asserts Geritol can boost strength in 24 hours and claims noticeable gains in seven days with a money back guarantee. It targets readers feeling fatigue in arms legs and back and promotes a rapid improvement.
The text urges reaching out to the suffering and describes Jesus as the model for sympathy. It argues real good comes from identification with others and that touching a leper illustrated this mercy, contrasting human reluctance with divine example.
The message highlights 74000 lepers in 219 areas aided daily by 1200 missionaries, with over 100 workers infected. It urges individualized pity, urging readers to sacrifice one personal luxury to support the missions so Christ’s healing can reach a single soul.
A religious appeal lists multiple small offerings to the Holy Father’s Missions with donors giving amounts from 25 cents to $25 for personal gratitude, crops saved, recovery from illness, and better health. It invites prayers for Asia and requests a $2 offering with a World Mission Rosary.
Cut out this column and mail it to Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen at the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in New York or to Diocesan Director Monsignor Edward Freking in Cincinnati as directed. The notice provides addresses for submission.
Father William Augustus Maguire long time Navy chaplain credited with the famous line about praising the Lord and pass the ammunition died September 1 at age 62. He served at Pearl Harbor during the 1941 attack and retired in 1946 with rank of captain. He authored books including Big for Church and The Captain Wears a Cross and later served at St. Catherine's in Anaheim California.
The first annual Christopher Columbus Award for service to inter-American friendship will be presented October 12 by the Knights of Columbus at a Columbus Day celebration in the Hall of the Americas at the Pan American Union. Honorary sponsors include 28 ambassadors from 20 Latin American countries and the U.S. The event is in cooperation with the Pan American Union the U.S. State Department and other groups. Georgetown University will present its Axacan Award for Ash Jesuit Martyrs of 1571. Thomas E. Braniff of Braniff Airways chairs the event. The Puerto Rican National Guard will be honored. it traces to 1510 and is claimed as the hemisphere’s oldest National Guard. District of Columbia K of C originate the observance.
Chicago marks the 56th anniversary of St Therese death with a solemn novena at the National Shrine. Father Paul Hoban announces the event as followers from around the world converge on Chicago for the observance beginning September 27.
Classified ads detail rates and policies for the Register editions with a large circulation. It lists job offers from U S government positions to salary claims and miscellaneous items, including stamps and gifts. Names and addresses appear for Franklin Institute Rochester Vatican City and various locations. The text includes multiple fragments and ad listings with stray punctuation and errors.
Philadelphia Archdiocesan Holy Name Union sponsors an Oct 11 Fatima event for about 80000 in front of the art museum with a 42 foot high glass enclosed altar topped by an 18 foot statue of Our Lady of Fatima. A Solemn Pontifical Mass at 9 will be led by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph McShea with Archbishop O'Hara delivering a sermon.
The National Council of Catholic Men announced four October Sunday teleplays for The Catholic Hour on NBC TV at 1:30 p.m. EST. The line up includes The Gardener Who Was Afraid of Death by Henri Brochet, 50 Missions adaptation from Joseph Vers, Career Angel selections by Father Gerard Murray, and Lucifer at Large by Fr. Ford.
A pilgrimage will take place Sept 28 to Oct 5 for 200 incurably sick children to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. Sixty thousand school children and 17,000 teachers will join in daily prayers for the 200 children. The National Association for Pilgrimages plans similar events next year and 1955 pilgrims are to be sponsored by the Catholic Worker Movement.
Archbishop Albert G. Meyer was installed as Milwaukee's seventh archbishop at St. John's Cathedral on Sept. 24 in a ceremony led by Arch Bishop Amleto Cicognani. About 100 priests escorted him from Superior to Milwaukee. dignitaries spoke at dinners honoring the new ordinary.
Cpl. Benito Martinez a Catholic from Fort Hancock Texas earned the Medal of Honor posthumously for a six hour solo defense of a listening post at Sandbag Castle in Korea. He warned his unit by phone as surrounding North Koreans pressed, firing with his machine gun rifle and .45 pistol until killed. His heroism saved fellow soldiers and delayed enemy advances. Martinez had won the Babe Ruth Foundation Sportsmanship Award in 1960 and was noted as an outstanding youth at St. Teresa's Church.
Missionary priests named to represent the National Council of Catholic Men at the third Inter American Week of Catholic Action to be held in Chinboto Peru from October 18 to 25. Fathers William R. McCarthy M.M. of Lima Peru and James McNiff M.M. Maryknoll superior at Santa Cruz Bolivia named as representatives.
In Dubuque Iowa the school board under Superintendent Max Clark approves a release-time religious education experiment. The program run by a non public school staff must be held off school premises and funded privately. Attendance requires parent written consent and is limited to eligible students while under attorney general directives.
Leatherhead Surrey council had granted tax exemption to a Catholic school under an old law for gratuitous education of the poorest classes but the Irish Minister of Housing and Local Government reversed the ruling saying there are no such poorest classes.
The Sacred Congregation in Rome bans French seminarians from priest worker roles in factories to avoid clashes with communists amid French strikes. Observers note French church leaders favor the move to keep zeal within church doctrine, with Mission de Paris and Dominicans among those active with workers.
Vatican letter from Monsignor Giovanni Montini to ecclesiastical assistants of the Christian Associations of Italian Workers calls priests to teach the church social doctrine to workers. It endorses applying distributive justice and elevating the working class while respecting property and urging study of workers’ problems.
A brief telegram from Bishop Victor Foley reports that the Fiji Islands quake and tidal wave did not damage Catholic institutions or seriously injure Catholic personnel in Auckland New Zealand.
In Manizales Colombia two Catholic brothers Abraham and Abdulio Morales Castro 13 and 12 were sheltered at San Jose Orphanage after their mother refused to feed them for choosing Catholicism. Civil judge ordered temporary care while Protestant and Catholic leaders clashed over the incident described as kidnapping by a Protestant bulletin.
In Hoboken New Jersey an evening Mass will be celebrated on a pier September 27 for members of the National Pilgrimage of Invalids to Europe. The Mass precedes the ship Niew Amsterdam voyage under Archbishop Thomas A. I of Newark sanction. Pilgrims will visit Catholic shrines in France Portugal Italy and Switzerland sponsored by the Confraternity of Pilgrims.
Bonn Germany reports the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima plans a 1954 pilgrimage to Fatima to mark the centenary of the Immaculate Conception dogma. Representatives from 11 countries met for the second European meeting to coordinate prayer based unity and expand Blue Army apostolates across Europe.
Accra Gold Coast Africa hosts elaborate ceremonies for the installation of Bishop Joseph C Read the first Negro bishop in West Africa Consecrated in Bay St Louis Mississippi by Cardinal of New York Bishop Bowers left New York September 1 and halted in England en route to the Gold Coast Upon arrival he will be escorted in a solemn procession to the Pro Cathedral for the installation rites.
Bishop James P. Davis voices concern over secularism in Gov. Luis Munoz Marin's administration while praising industrial progress since Puerto Rico's 1952 Commonwealth. He condemns birth control and sterilization funding, urges legislative action to curb such laws, and laments the Legislature's inaction.
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