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Newspaper
Texas Catholic
Location
Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1957
Page
2
A congressional education committee urged continued federal support for hospital funding under the Hill-Burton Act and for college housing loans to aid facilities. It favored expanding student loans and low interest credit, opposed broad federal scholarships, and urged tax benefits for low income students alongside encouraging borrowing for education.
A Texas Catholic advertisement claims to deliver results by connecting readers with services and offerings. The paid notice highlights contact details and calls for engagement from parish communities seeking solutions or opportunities through the paper’s classified style.
A Fides survey shows Catholics total 231,993,993 among 1,463,765,000 Asia residents excluding Soviet possessions. The Philippines has the largest Catholic share at 78 percent of 22,265,000, with 17,390,395 faithful. India hosts 6,440,927 Catholics in 482,507,000 people, while China accounts for 3,196,901 Catholics in 593,920,000. Indonesia, Vietnam, Lebanon, and other places add to the regional total of about 32 million Catholics, 2.19 percent of Asia’s population.
The Vatican Library has finished a four year effort to microfilm more than 600000 manuscripts, producing about seven million photos on three million feet of film. The collection will be housed at Pius XII Memorial Library, St Louis University, funded by the Knights of Columbus Foundation.
Delegates at New Haven debate open war rhetoric toward Rome and Catholic countries with Protestants claiming persecution. Pastor Charles Westfall warns against public anti Catholic statements while Czech clergyman Josef Hromadka is reelected to the World Council of Churches despite criticism over his stance on Soviet Hungary.
Sister Mary Theopane, a Medical Mission Sister and director at the Catholic Maternity Institute Santa Fe New Mexico, was elected president of the American College of Nurse Midwifery for a two year term at the college annual convention in Chicago. The organization governs about 650 nurse midwives across the United States.
New Orleans Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel said he was not surprised by the Association of Catholic Laymen’s appeal to Pope Pius XII challenging his race integration moves. The group seeks a three point ruling on segregation and asks the Holy See to halt further integration. The association, formed in 1956 to study racial integration, also appeals the order to disband.
Catholic Monsignor Heimbach testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that a 1949 Singer Sewing Machine strike in Elizabeth New Jersey was engineered by 20 Red leaders and Moscow-trained agents led by Marcel Scherer. He described a 168 day walkout that caused a 54 million dollar combined loss and broad suffering, especially to women and children, amid a climate of Americanism versus Communism.
Washington NC The House passed a bill with a provision to exempt religious and charitable institutions from wheat growing limits and marketing quotas. Sponsored by Rep Victor L Anfuso of New York the measure would aid small scale farms to meet residents' food needs and has gone to the Senate.
Rome reports a total annual budget of 21.1 million dollars for three pontifical missionary bodies. The Propagation of the Faith will distribute 15 million to 700 mission territories, the Society of St Peter the Apostle will use 2.6 million to develop native clergy, and the Society of the Holy Childhood will receive 3.5 million for work among children in missions.
In Rome a strong effort by the Italian Communist Party and allied groups to pass a bill legalizing birth control propaganda aims to abolish article 553 of the Italian penal code. The campaign includes members from Socialist, Social Democratic, Republican and Liberal parties.
UNESCO has a budget of 22.68 million dollars. WHO receives 13.5 million dollars. ILO is funded at 7.97 million dollars.
A Catholic appeal urges readers to sacrifice small pleasures to fund missions. It cites examples from scripture and church history and notes that 17 percent of Earth’s population belongs to the Church. Readers are asked to mail donations to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith via Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen and diocesan directors.
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