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Will Seek
Vocations
In America
MisMonariea Adopt New
Mme Will Establish
U. S. Seminary Soon
WASHINGTON--(NC)—One of
the largest missionary pontifical
institutes of secular priests, the Mi
lan Foreign Mission Society, has
become a world wide institute with
headquarters in Rome and has for
the first time opened its doors to
vocations from outside Italy.
This was disclosed here by the
Rev. Nicholas Maestrini, F.I.M.E.,
who has been named U.S. regional
superior with headquarters in De
troit. Father Maestrini also said
the 100-year-old mission organiza
tion will henceforth be known as
the Missionaries of Saints Peter
and Paul, in honor of the society’s
patron Saints.
He also revealed plans to estab
lish a seminary in the United
States which would accept Amer
ican candidates. Next fall, Father
Maestrini said, it is hoped that stu
dents can be brought from Italy to
attend U.S. seminaries until the
congregation has its own seminary
in this country.
Members of the Missionaries oi
Sts. Peter and Paul are in charge
of the Church of St. John the Bap
tist in Columbus, and of the Church
of San Francesco, Detroit.
The U. S. regional superior was
especially enthusiastic over the
prospect of American youth becom
ing seminarians in the Missionar
ies of Saints Peter and Paul.
“By having American vocations
all our mission work will receive
more benefits, because I feel
America is acquiring the leader
ship in the world apostolate which
she has in the political and indus
trial spheres,” he declared.
And Father Maestrini voiced this
comment on having Italian semin
arians study in the U. S.:
“Every missionary group can
learn much from the energy, team
spirit, and all the other excellent
qualities of the American people.”
Although hitherto an exclusive
ly national group in membership,
the pontifical institute has during
its recently-completed first cen
tury founded missions in China,
Burma, India, Africa, Japan and
Brazil. It is believed to be the
second oldest missionary institute
of secular priests, having been es
tablished after the foreign Mission
Society of Paris.
Over 100 of the institute’s mis
sionaries are still in Red China,
where one Bishop is imprisoned
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Roman College
Grants Degree
To. Fr. Fulcher
Rev. G. A. Fulcher
The Reverend George A. Fulcher,
priest of the diocese of Columbus,
has been awarded the doctorate de
gree in sacred theology by the
Angelicum University, Rome. An
nouncement of the honor was made
last week by the Bishop’s Office.
Father Fulcher was serving as
assistant pastor of St. Francis de
Sales parish, Newark, when nam
ed by Bishop Ready to pursue grad
uate studies in theology. He went
to Rome in September, 1949.
Born in Columbus. Father Ful
cher is one of the eight children of
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Fulcher,
Sr., 1542 E. Arlington avenue,
members of St. Augustine's par
ish. He attended St. Aloysius’
school and St. Charles Preparatory
school. He received the A. B. de
gree from St. Charles’ seminary in
1944, and completed his studies for
the priesthood at Mt. St. Mary ol
the West, Norwood, Cincinnati.
Father Fulcher was ordained by
Bishop Ready Feb. 28, 1948. His
first assignment was to St. Francis
de Sales, Newark.
While a seminarian, Father Ful
cher spent the summer vacations
of 1945 and 1946 at Catholic Uni
versity, Washington, D. C., studying
journalism, English and education.
It was also announced at the
Bishop’s Office this week that Fa
ther Fulcher was to have sailed for
home October 18.
'Come Unto Me'
Annual Rites
At Cemeteries
This Sunday
Bishops Will Preside Over
Coin mhus Ceremonies
For Departed Souls
Traditional ceremonies on Sun
day, Oct. 28, in the cemeteries of
the Columbus Diocese will serve as
dramatic reminders of the Church
Suffering, with Bishop Ready pre
siding at devotions in St. Joseph
Cemetery and Auxiliary Bishop
Hettinger, at devotions in Mt. Cal
vary. The devotions in these two
Columbus cemeteries will begin at
3 p. m.
The ceremonies will include Ro
sary, litany, and special prayers
for the souls of the dead. At St.
Joseph Cemetery, one of the few in
the U. S. where the Blessed Sac
rament is reserved at all times,
there will be Benediction in ’he
Chapel of Our Mother of Sorrows
to bring the ceremonies to a close
In the official announcment of
Cemetery Sunday observances from
the Chancery, “similar devotions
in parish cemeteries throughout
the Diocese” were recommended.
Pastors were asked to "urge
their people to participate in these
pious exercises for the eternal re
pose of their departed brethren in
the peace of Christ.”
The Josephinum College choir
will sing for the services at St Jo
seph’s cemetery, while the St.
Charles Seminary choir'will sing
at Mt. Calvary cemetery.
Cemetery Sunday services, which
all are urged to attend, precede
the month of November dedicated
to devotion to the Poor Souls.
College To Unveil Statue of Christ Bv
Richmond Bar
i
Mission Leaders Challenge
Students To Convert World
More than 300 high school stu
dents of the Columbus diocese
heard a challenge to extend God’s
kingdom and pledged themselves
to “zeal for the conversion of the
world” at a Catholic Student’s
Mission Crusade workshop held at
St. Joseph’s academy, Columbus,
Oct. 19.
With more than a score of
priests and nuns their high
school mission moderators they
took part in a dialog Mass to
gether. discussed mission problems
in workshop round-tables, and met
in general sessions to hear Bishop
Ready the Right Rev. Msgr. Ed
ward A. Freking, national head of
the CSMC, and the Rev. Nicholas
Maestrini, veteran China mission
ary and U.S. superior of the Mis
sionaries of Sts. Peter and Paul.
The Rev. James W Kulp Di
ocesan, Director of the Society for
the Propagation of the Faith, and
chairman of the workshop, was hon
ored by the Crusade at. the open
ing of the meeting when Msgr.
Freking awarded him the “Grand
Cross of the Order of Paladins.”
(See photo on page 7.) Highest
decoration of the CSMC, the Grand
Cross, is given for “distinguished
service and outstanding leader­
the, Famed Negro Sculptor
Life-Size Bronze Entitled ‘Come Unto Me’ Will Be
Dedicated On Feast of Christ The King
A new, life-size, bronze statue of Christ entitled “Come Unto Me”
will be unveiled at the College of St. Mary of the Springs Sunday, Oct.
28, after the 9 o’clock Mass.
An outstanding example of the work of one of the world's greatest
sculptors, Richmond Barthe, the statue also is a tribute to the zeal of
an 85-year-old nun at the college, Sister Mary Andrew, whose five-year
campaign of paper salvage and sales-tax stamp redemption raised the
money for the statue’s purchase.
The figure, which shows Christ
clad in a seamless robe, His hands
extended in a gesture of welcome,
stands on a knoll overlooking the
Johnstown and Sunbury road en
trance to the college.
The Rev. John J. Bauer, O.P.,
college chaplain, will officiate at
the dedication and explain the sig
nificance of the statue. He also
will tell something of the life of
the sculptor, and of Sister Mary
Andrew’s project.
Priest Gave Him Start
Richmond Barthe, Mississippi
born Negro Catholic artist and 1945
winner of the Hoey award for inter
racial justice, visited the college
last month to help college officials
select a suitable site for the statue,
which he completed last May.
At that time he disclosed that a
priest in New Orleans, the late
Father Harry Kane, of the Society
of the Divine Word, had given him
his first opportunity to follow an
artistic career.
Father Kane sent him to the Chi
cago Art Institute and gave him the
necessary financial aid to work and
study there.
But his art education began ear
lier. “I can’t remember a time
when I didn’t paint,” he mused. “I
received my first set of water col
ors when I was six. A New Or
leans family I was working for
gave me a set of oils when I was
about 14, and I started to copy
their old masters. Father Kane saw
my work then and thought I ought
to’ study.”
Sculpture An Accident
He studied painting, but drifted
“accidentally” into sculpture when
Part of the multi million dollar
expansion program inaugurated by
the Sisters of the Holy Cross at the
hospital in 1949, the new depart
ment occupies an entire floor of
the recently completed eight-story
building facing Souder street on
the west.
Dr. Shelby G. Gamble is in
charge of the department and
heads a staff which includes reg
istered physiotherapists, aides, re
ceptionist, and secretary. The doc
tor and his staff offer complete
treatment to patients suffering
from orthopedic, arthritic, per
ipheral vascular, and neurological
diseases.
Therapeutic facilities housed by
the new department consist of a
hydrotherapy room, one for occu
pational therapy, a gymnasium,
electrotherapy room and individual
treatment rooms. The department
also contains utility rooms and doc
tors’ offices as well as offices for
the secretary and receptionist and
waiting room.
The rooms are furnished with
the newest equipment that has
been developed in the science of
physical medicine, including a
Hubbard tank, diathermy short
wave units, infra-red heat cradles,
Ultra-violet lamps, a hydrocollator,
paraffin and whirlpool baths, and
an electrostimulator. The new de
partment will use this equipment
in the treatment of both In and
Cut patients.
ship” in promoting the Church’s
missions.
Other round-table discus sion
leaders at the workshop were the
Rev. R. F. Vollmer O.P., of Aquinas
high school the Rev. Robert
O’Brien of St. Charles’ seminary,
and Sister Vincent, S.N.D.
Urges New Approach
Every Catholic is a missionary,
Bishop Ready reminded the stu
dents. He asked them to be con
scious of their “rich heritage” as
members of the Catholic Church
and to be unselfish in sharing the
Faith.
He told them to strike out on
original paths in their programs of
mission aid, citing the practice of
Rene Black, 71-year-old manager
of the Waldorf-Astoria restau
rants in New York, who fines his
waiters for all their errors and
contributes the fines to the mis
sions.
Church's No. 1 Problem
Monsignor Freking called the
mission problem “the number one
problem of the Church today.”
“We’re not going to solve the
world’s difficulties by defeating
Communism,” he declared. “Our
primary job is to convert the
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Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, October 26, 1951
“a couple of heads I made for my
own amusement” won him commis
sions to do more of the same.
His work brought him more fame
than fortune, and he remembers
one year when he earned $46 from
his sculpture.
But he also earned two Roscn
wald fellowships and two Guggen
heim awards, as well as citations
from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters and the National
Academy of Arts and Letters, and
his work is represented in some of
the world’s leading museums as
well as in private collections
throughout the world.
One of his most recent commis
sions was to make heroic figures
of Toussaint L’Ouverture and Des
salines for the Haitian govern
ment.
“As a result of those jobs,” he
smiled, “I am row able to go to
Italy and take up my painting ca
reer in earnest.”
When he returns from Italy he
will move into his new home on
the northern coast of Jamaica in
the British West Indies.
No Modernist
Mr. Barthe considers himself “an
old-fashioned type” of artist. “I be
lieve an artist should speak to the
people,” he said, “not just to him
self.”
While he is interested in com
munication, he does not care
whether he pleases people. “That’s
why I hate to take commissions,”
he admitted. “I don’t want to have
to satisfy someone or meet a dead
line.”
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Bishop Will Bless Physical
Medicine Dept. At Mt. Carmel
The largest and most complete
department of physical medicine
in the city of Columbus will be
blessed at Mt. Carmel Hospital by
Bishop Ready Thursday, Nov. 1, at
4 p. m.
The Department of Physical
Medicine was made possible by the
Timken Roller Bearing Company
in honor of its employees.
Graduate of Nebraska
Doctor Gamble was graduated
from the University of Nebraska
College of Medicine in 1937. He
served his internship at Immanuel
Hospital. Omaha, Nebraska, and
was a Resident at Michigan State
Sanatorium before coming to the
Cleveland Clinic Foundation on a
Fellowship.
Coming to Columbus in 1945, Dr.
Gamble was an associate professor
of medicine at Ohio State Univer
sity. While at the University he
was director of the department of
physical medicine at University
and Children’s hospitals and con
sultant in physical medicine and
rehabilitation at Nightingale Cot
tage, Franklin County Cerebral
Palsy Treatment, center, and Ben
jamin Franklin Hospital.
Returning to Cleveland in 1948,
Dr. Gamble was director of the de
partment of physical medicine and
rehabilitation of the Cleveland
Clinic, assistant professor of phys
ical medicine of the Frank E.
Bunts Educational Institute, and
consultant in physical medicine at
the Cleveland Rehabilitation Cen
ter.
The public is invited to Inspect
the new department from 9-12 and
1-3 on Thursday, Nov. 1.
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Requiem Sung For
DeborahMcKibben
By Priest- Brother
Solemn Requiem Mass for Mrs.
Jane Deborah McKibben, who died
Oct. 21, was sung Wednesday, Oct.
24. in St. Michael’s church, Colum
bus, by her brother, the Rev. Da
vid G. Dennis, assistant editor of
The Catholic Times
Deacon of the Mass was the Rev.
John Kleinz of the faculty of the
Josephinum College the Rev. John
H. Graf, assistant pastor of St. Jo
seph Cathedral, was sub-deacon.
The sermon was preached by the
Rev. John B. Byrne, pastor of St.
Michael’s. Burial was in St. Joseph
Cemetery.
Surviving are her husband, Wal
ter J. McKibben her mother, Mrs.
H. J. Dennis two children, Rich
ard and Jane another brother, H.
Richard Dennis, and a sister, Mrs.
Richard L. Hindman, all of Colum
bus.
A native of New York City, Mrs.
McKibben was graduated from
Ohio State University in 1930.
She was a member of the St.
Ann’s Altar Society of St. Michael’s
Church, and of various civic and
dramatic organizations.
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Bishop To Confirm
Bishop Ready will administer
the Sacrament of Confirmation at
St Francis de Sales Church, New
comerstown, Tuesdaj, Oct. 30, at
7:30 p. m.
Pontifical Masses Set
For Coming Feaet Days
Bishop Ready will celebrate 9
o’clock Mass in St. Joseph Cath
edral on All Saints Day, Nov. 1,
a major feast of the Church
year and one on which all Cath
olics are obliged to hear Mass. I
He also will celebrate three
Masses in the cathedral on All
Souls Day, Nov. 2, beginning at I
8 a. m. All Souls’ is one of two
days in the year—the other is
Christmas—when every priest
has the privilege of saying three
Masses.
Wednesday, Oct. 31, the vigil
of All Saints, will be a day of
fast and abstinence.
New Chaplain
Is Assigned
To Air Base
Rev. Frank H. Ebner Of
St. Cloud, Minn., Combs
To Lockbourne Field
A new Catholic chaplain took up
his duties at Lockbourne Air Force
Base on Oct. 19. He is the Rev
Frank H. Ebner, a first lieutenant
in (he Chaplains’ Corps and a
priest of the St. Cloud, Minn., Di
ocese.
He is one of three chaplains
charged with the spiritual welfare
of the approximately 4.000 men
stationed at the base south of Co
lumbus the other two are Protest
ants. It is estimated that 25 per
cent of the Base personnel are
Catholics.
The tall (6'feet, 2 inches), 29
year-old priest found only a hand
ful of Catholic pamphlets, prayer
books, and religious articles avail
able in the common chape' that al
so serves other denominations.
“Right now that’s about our big
gest need,” he said. “We can use
Rev. F. H. Ebner
all the Catholic literature, news
papers, missals, rosaries, and re
ligious articles that we can lay our
hands on.”
A native of Elk River, Minn.,
Father Ebner was educated at St.
John’s College Prep school, Col
legeville, Minn., and attended the
college there for two years. Then
he entered St. Paul seminary at St.
Paul, Minn., where he studied for
the priesthood. He was ordained in
1947 by Bishop Joseph F. Busch
of St. Cloud.
From his ordination until his en
listment in the Chaplains Corps
last summer, Father Ebner was as
sistant pastor of St. Boniface
Church, Melrose, Minn.
Commissioned July 17, he went
on active duty August 26 and was
assigned to the Chaplains’ School
at Fort Slocum, N.Y., Sept. 10.
He has a “lot of plans” for Lock
bourne, and already has scheduled
two Sunday Masses, daily Mass,
and Daily Rosary devotions.
The only flying he has ever done
was a round-trip trans-Atlantic
flight last year when he made a
pilgrimage to Rome.
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OSU Gridders Guests
Of Men's Luncheon Club
More than a dozen members of
Ohio State’s varsity football squad
will be guests of the Catholic Men’s
Luncheon club at its next lunch
eon-meeting in the Virginia hotel,
Columbus, Friday, Nov. 2, at noon.
Speaker will be the Rev. James
McEwan, chaplain of the Newman
club at the university, who will talk
on “Catholic Action.”
Open to all Catholic men, the
club meets on the first Friday of
each month. Walter R. Burkley,
Sr., is president of the organiza
tion.
Church Grateful For
Mission Sunday Gifts
The Society for the Propaga
tion of the Faith expressed
“deep gratitude” this week to
“all who helped make Mission
Sunday successful.”
“The prayers and alms given
to the Holy Father on that day
have earned the prayerful
thanks of all missionaries,"
said the Rev. James W. Kulp,
Diocesan Director of the S.P.F.
Late Mission Sunday gifts, he
added, may be sent to him at
the Diocesan office of the so
ciety, 246 E. Town street, Co
lumbus.
Storm Center
General Mark W. Clark, an Epis
copalian and commander of the
U. S. Army field forces, who has
bean named by President Tru
man, United States ambassador
to the Stata of Vatican City. He
is the first U. S. envoy to the
Vatican with full ambassadorial
status. (NC Photos)
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Youth of U. S.
Must Combat
Modern Evils
25 Members of Hierarchy
At National Catholic
Youth Conference
CINCINNATI—(NC)—The major
role in the task of eradicating the
nation’s existing evils caused by
the “denial of eternal truths” must
be shouldered by American youth,
particularly Catholic youth, Bishop
William T. Mulloy of Covington
told the third National Catholic
Youth Conference here.
Some 500 adult leaders of Cath
olic youth organizations in all sec
tions of the country came here for
the five-day sessions, arranged by
Msgr. Joseph E. Schieder, director
of the Youth Department. National
Catholic Welfare Conference.
There were 40 separate meet
ings. Twenty five members of the
Hierarchy took part in the'pro
ceedings. Approximately 200 speak
ers addressed the various sessions.
The convention was held under the
patronage of Archbishop Karl J.1
Alter of Cincinnati, and its theme
was “Youth—Christ’s Ambassadors
Today.”
Bishop Mulloy declared that the
nation today faces grave religious,
educational, social and economic
problems which will require years
of constructive work to solve if
we are to remain “the land of the
free.” He declared that the great
er share of this task must be
shouldered by American youth, but
pointed out that not all youth is
prepared for the undertaking.”
“If American youth is to be
equal to the task that faces it,”
Bishop Mulloy said, “its prepara
tion must be founded on religion
and true Christian education. The
preservation of the noble heritage
of our country demands not mere
ly the best in machines and mili
tary equipment, but even more the
best in minds and wills, in culture
and learning.
Columnist George Sokolsky open
ed the 15th annual Erskine Lec
ture Forum before a capacity
crowd at the College of St. Mary
of the Springs. Columbus. Tues
day with a sweeping criticism
of the U. S. policy in Asia (“We
have no policy!”) and a dark proph
ecy that Russian-trained Asian
armies may “blot out European
civilization.”
But the Polish-born writer, who
worked in China 13 years as news
paper editor and correspondent,
held out the hope that “we still
can win in Asia,” if this country
clearly shows the world that it
stands for human freedom, broth
erly love, and life lived according
to the moral law.
“But we must be sincere,” he
added, “and really live up to what
we preach.”
One of our chief handicaps in
the battle for Asia, he said, is the
fact that “we don’t know what we
believe."
And in our ignorance of
what people in Asia believe, he
went on, we preach “mass pro
duction and power,” instead of
love of man and love of God.”
Mark Clark Named
U.S. Vatican Envoy
The nomination is before the
Senate Committee on Foreign Re
lations, but the Congress has ad
journed and it is not expected that
there will be any hearing on the
appointment before the second ses
sion of the 82nd Congress convenes
in January. Members of the For
eign Relations Committee have
been quoted as saying there will be
public hearings.
Until there is Senate confirma
tion which must await committee
approval. General Clark could only
take up his post at the Vatican on
a recess appointment. White House
sources said today that President
Truman is not likely to make a re
cess appointment in this case.
When President Truman sent
General Clark’s nomination to the
Senate a few hours before the first
session of the 81st Congress ad
journed last Saturday, it was ac
companied by a separate bill which
would specifically permit General
Clark'to retain his military status
while serving in a diplomatic post.
There is an 80-year-old law which
restrains officers in the military
from occupying civilian posts in
government. It can be waived only
by Congress.
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Bishop Comments
On Truman Move
In a statement to the daily press.
Bishop Ready called attention to
the Vatican’s “unique position in
world affairs” and expressed hope
that the purposes of Truman’s
move would “foster the spirit of
good will among our citizens.”
The text of his statement fol
lows:
“Regardless of religious loyalty,
the Vatican does occupy a unique
position in world affairs. It is a
sovereign state, whether one likes
it or not. Thirty-seven nations have
full diplomatic relations with it.
In not even one instance have such
relations interfered with tradition
al state-church policies. England is
a fair example. The United States
presently has international agree
ments with the Vatican affecting
mail, radio and consular services.
“It is well to consider that the
action taken by our Government
was based, as it said, ‘in the na
tional interest.’ The church did not
request the recognition. The
church in the United States or else
where will not especially profit
from diplomatic recognition.
“The advantage sought by our
Government as stated at the White
House was to serve ‘the purposes
of diplomacy and humanitarian
ism.’ ‘Direct diplomatic relations,’
the White House stated, ‘will assist
in co-ordinating the effort to com
bat the Communist menace.’
“The purposes put down as the
reasons for the move are excellent.
I pray that they will be fostered
and that the spirit of good will will
grow among our citizens.”
Sokolsky Scores U. S. Policy
In Asia At Erskine Opener
Mr. Sokolsky expressed the
opinion that war in Asia “to save
Chiang Kai-Shek” or “to save Jf
pan from Communism” is “none of
our business.”
To make secure a base in Asia
for U. S. defense, however, would
be worth fighting to achieve, he
said.
“I don’t believe we can ever
produce the manpower to destroy
Communism by war,” he said.
In the question period follow
ing the lecture. Mr. Sokolsky scor
ed corruption in public office, call
ing it “a luxury we cannot af
ford.”
“It might have been all right in
President Grant’s time,” he said,
“because we were paying only
about live cents of each dollar for
taxes.”
The Rev. Leonard Fick of the
Josephinum College, who introduc
ed Mr. Sokolsky, announced that
the second lecture will be given
by Senator Herbert O’Conor of
Maryland on Sunday, Nov. 18, at
8:15 p. m. in Erskine Hall nt the
college. He will speak on “Chal
lenge from Within.”
"We Are Easily
Satisfied With
The Best**
Price Ton Cents $3.00 A Year
President^ Last Minute Move Brines
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Sharp Reaction From Protestants
President Trumai’s eleventh-hour nomination of Gen. Mark Clark
as the first U. S. Ambassador to the Vatican, announced last Satur
day, will “serve the cause of peace,” according to the Vatican news
paper, Osservatore Romano, and was hailed by John W. McCormack,
House Majority Floor Leader, as a move “in the best interest of all
nations.” But Protestant leaders in the U. S. immediately began to
marshal their forces to oppose Senate confirmation of the appoint
ment.
The sending of Gen. Mark W.
Clark to Rome as the first United
States Ambassador to the State of
Vatican City may be held up for
months, according to present indi
cations.
The American general who a lit*
tie over seven years ago led his
victorious troops into the Eternal
City, has been nominated to return
to Rome as “Ambassador Extra
ordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
United States of America to the
State of the Vatican City.” His
nomination by President Harry S.
Truman, once confirmed by the
United States Senate, establishes
full diplomatic relataions between
this country and Vatican City—re
lations that have been dormant
since 1867,
The President took this step be
cause “it is in the national interest
for the United States to maintain
diplomatic representation at the
Vatican.” according to a statement
by Joseph Short, Secretary to Mr.
Truman.
The statement gave two reasons
in explanation of this “National
interest.” It said (1) “The President
feels that the purpose of diploma
cy and humanitarianism will be
served by this appointment,” and
(2) “It is well known that the Vat
ican is vigorously engaged in the
struggle against Communism. Di
rect diplomatic relations will assist
in coordinating the effort to com
bat the Communist menace.”
As Ambassador to Vatican City,
General Clark will join the minis
ters of “37 other nations (which)
have for a great many years main
tained at the Vatican diplomatie
representatives,” the statement
pointed out.
Like many other countries, the
United States will then maintain
in Rome two heads of diplomatic
missions, one of whom is accredit
ed to the Government of Italy and
the other to Vatican City.
The position of General Clark as
U. S. Ambassador to the State of
Vatican City will be basically dif
ferent from that of Myron C. Tay
lor, who from Christmas, 1939, to
January, 1950, served as the Per
sonal Representative first of the
late President Franklin D. Roose
velt and then of President Truman
to His Holiness the Pope.
Mr. Taylor, although he had the
personal title of Ambassador, was
not an ambassador” in the legal
and diplomatic sense. He was a
representative of a person accredit
ed to a person. General Clark will
be the representative of a country
accredited ot a country. He will be
the U. S. Ambassador “to the Stata
of Vatican City,” which, though
small in territory and population,
enjoys the full legal status of an
independent country. In that re
spect, the State of Vatican City is
on a par with any other independ
ent country in the world. His Holi
ness Pope Pius XII is Soveieign of
the State of Vatican City.
The White House statement pays
tribute to Mr. Taylor, saying: “Dur
ing and after the war the Taylor
Mission performed an extremely
useful service not only in the field
of diplomacy but in the ameliora
tion of human suffering. That serv
ice is set forth in official cor
respondence published from time
to time.”
Mr. Truman’s nomination of Gen
eral Clark came to the Nation’s
Capitol as a complete surprise. It
was sent to the United States Sen
ate just a few hours before it was
scheduled to adjourn until early
next year.
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Program Will
Train Priests
For Lithuania
NEW YORK (NC) A pro
gram to educate youth of Lithuani
an descent in more than half a
dozen countries to serve as priests
in Lithuania when conditions in
that now virtually priestless coun
try permit, has been put into op
eration, it has been announced
here.
His Eminence Francis Cardinal
Spellman, Archbishop of New
York, has been named honorary
president of a committee in charge
of the project, it was announced
by the Rev. IJr. Joseph B. Koncius,
committee executive director and
general secretary.
He said that candidates to pre
pare for the priesthood to serve
in Lithuania must be between the
ages of 17 and 25 with the equiva
lent of a high school education.
Father Koncius pointed out that
before World War n, there were
about 2.000 priests serving in Lith
uania. Today, he added, there are
less than 200 priests in the com
munist enslaved country and all
seminaries have been abolished.