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Newspaper
Texas Catholic
Location
Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1952
Page
1
The Texas Catholic announces its revival and seeks united support from priests, sisters, and laity. It pledges a higher plane publication while acknowledging initial publishing teething pains and inviting reader feedback. It notes rising parochial school demand amid secular pressure and invites broad diocesan involvement.
The Dallas Fort Worth Catholic schools enroll about 9 656 students as of Sept 15 with 8 373 in 33 elementary and 1 283 in 10 high schools The diocese expects total area enrollment near 13 000 with two new schools opening this year Saint Cecilia Grand Prairie and St Alice Fort Worth plan to add grades yearly Construction expands facilities including St Thomas Fort Worth and Holy Name Fort Worth while Holy Name’s new school nears opening After delays St Bernard’s project in Dallas notes spent about 1500000
Bishop Gorman advised National Council of Catholic Women delegates at Seattle to clarify purpose and method of council activities to gain public and clergy support. He urged enlisting members with writing talent to produce vivid local and national reports for magazines and newspapers, explaining the council’s aims and ethics.
Bishop Thomas K. Gorman delivers the keynote address at Seattle on September 22 introducing the theme God’s Will Our Work. He urges members to align council programs with church teaching across the universal church diocese and parish, emphasizing motive love and divine guidance.
Francis X. Ford, a Brooklyn born bishop in Kaying China, died in a Red China prison after urging priests to embrace persecution as a holy sacrifice. He spoke of suffering as a mark of Christian identity and hoped persecution would rebirth faith, tying his martyrdom to a 1918 prayer for guiding multitudes to worship.
Loyola University buys a three story brick apartment building adjacent to the campus for use as a residence for Jesuit Fathers teaching at the university. The purchase is enabled by a $47,500 gift from Frank J. Lewis who also funded Lewis Towers downtown and supported a medical dental building campaign.
The former Catholic college at Doupov near Karlovy Vary in Czechoslovakia has become a police dog training center under the Red regime. Veritas reports the dogs are used to track escapees trying to flee across the Czech border into western Germany.
The Sixth Regional Congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine will meet in Corpus Christi October 28 to 30 with nine Texas and Oklahoma bishops and Bishop James P. Davis of Puerto Rico among attendees. Key speakers include Dr. John L. McMahon and Msgr. Charles Walsh. the event marks the first such congress in South Texas and will highlight released time programs for religious instruction.
GREENSBORO, N. C. A new votive shrine to Our Lady was dedicated by the Apostolic Delegate to the United States. The gift, $400,000 from Julian Price, a Baptist and former head of the Scottish Rite bodies, funds the church to honor his wife Ethel Clay Price. The church will be known as the Church of Our Lady of Grace and the Ethel Clay Price Memorial. Bishop Charles H. Helmsing praised the donor for his public and spiritual contributions.
Josef Wendel, the 1 year old archbishop elect, is chosen to succeed Cardinal Faulhaber as Archbishop of Munich and Freising. Born May 27 1901 in Blieskastel to a tailor father and baker mother he rises from modest origins to the German church’s upper ranks. Both parents are living.
Mary Dugan a 70 year old nurse who died August 27 left a 25 000 bequest to relatives priests and parishes and a residue split equally among the Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Philadelphia the Monastery of Displaced Nuns in Mobile Alabama and the Monastery of St Clare in Philadelphia.
More than 500 people attended the annual day of recollection of New York Catholic Charities at Fordham University. The retreat opened with Mass at the University Church offered by Msgr. James J. Lynch, director of Catholic Charities, with a climax the next day as Francis Cardinal Spellman offered Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Bishops of the United States may allow merchant seamen to take liquid nourishment up to one hour before receiving Holy Communion while in American ports. The authority came from the Sacred Congregation of the Sacraments and was announced at the Apostleship of the Sea meeting in Cleveland by Rev. Thomas A. McDonough.
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