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Murillo's famed painting of the Immaculate Conception serves as a
reminder to American Catholics that Saturday, Dec. 8, is their
patronal feast day, a holyday of obligation. The Feast honors the
Mother of God for her miraculous preservation from original sin
from the first instant of her existence.
Movie Pledge Renewal
Scheduled For Sunday
Bishop Credits National Legion of Decency for Success
In Raising Moral Tone of Motion Pictures
Catholics in the Columbus Dio- faithful of our country owe a debt
cese and throughout the nation of gratitude to the National Legion
will renew their Legion Decency of Decency established by the Bish
pledge Sunday to carry on their ops of the United States.”
united campaign against indecent “Indeed,” he continued, “the
and immoral movies. whole -American people can credit
In a pastoral letter this week this organization for the generally
Bishop Ready stressed the import- improved moral tone of the motion
ance of the pledge renewal and pictures in the past years.”
pointed out that “the clergy and Text of the letter follows:
To the Reverend Clergy, Diocesan and Regular,
To the Members of the Religious Communities,
And to the Faithful of the Diocese of Columbus.
My beloved Brethren:
With my blessing,
Official
BISHOP’S OFFICE
198 East Broad Street
Columbus 15, Ohio
The Clergy and Faithful of our country owe a debt of gratitude
to the National Legion of Decency established by the Bishops of the
United States. Indeed, the whole American people can credit this
organization for the generally improved moral tone of the motion
pictures in the past years.
Through the regular bulletins of the Legion of Decency, there
is available for all the classification of films. These lists of the
Legion should be well and regularly displayed on bulletin boards
in our parish churches and schools. The listings are carried regularly
in our Catholic Press. There is no reason whatsoever for our patron
age of motion pictures that flagrantly violate the ordinary norms of
human decency and Christian morality.
We particularly urge parents and guardians of our youth to care
fully supervise their movie attendance. The Reverend Pastors will
be solicitous in their vigilance. Public attention should be called
to the running of films in their parishes which have been condemned
by the Legion of Decency. Local theaters will welcome the coopera
tion of parish committees who will furnish the management with the
Legion of Decency ratings.
We repeat here the truth which we have expressed before:
there is only one defense against a movie industry which offers in
decent films to the men and women and especially to the youth of
our nation. That defense is the box office. We should use it sincere
ly and perseveringly. We should emphasize that part of the Legion
of Decency pledge which demands withholding all patronage from
theaters which exhibit objectionable pictures.
The renewal of our Legion of Decency Pledge is important. Each
year on the Sunday within the Octave of the feast of the Immacu
late Conception, Catholics are asked to reaffirm their promise to
avoid those motion pictures which violate the principles of mor
ality and lower the standards of public decency. This year the pledge
will be recited on Sunday, December 9th. We urge our beloved
faithful to stand firmly by their convictions and to be honest in
fulfilling the obligations of Christian life which the pledge denotes.
December 4, 1951
Devotedly in Christ,
MICHAEL J. READY
Bishop of Columbus
PLEDGE OF THE LEGION OF DECENCY
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Ghost. Amen.
I condemn indecent and immoral motion pictures, and those
which glorify crime or criminals.
I promise to do all that I can to strengthen public opinion
against the production of indecent and immoral films, and to
unite with all who protest against them.
I acknowledge my obligation to form a right conscience
about pictures that are dangerous to my moral life. As a member
of the Legion of Decency, I pledge myself to remain away from
them. I promise, further, to stay away altogether from places of
amusement which show them as a matter of policy.
Tell Senate
Of Bigotry
In Election
Ministers Testify Religious
Issue Was Injected Into
Ohio Campaign
WASHINGTON—(NC) Two
Protestant ministers rdmitted be
fore a Senate subcommittee here
that the religious issue was inject
ed against Catholic candidates in
the Ohio state elections 1950.
The Rev. F. R. Stoneburner of
Dayton, O., a member of the Amer
ican Lutheran Church, identified
a letter which he sent to 35 fellow
ministers about a month before the
balloting, calling attention to the
fact that certain candidates, whom
he named, were Catholics. Another
Lutheran clergyman asked permis
sion to reproduce this letter, he
said, and it was granted. Still oth
ers reproduced the epistle, and
eventually more than 20,000 cop
ies were made.
The Rev. B. F. Lamb, president
of the Ohio Council of Churches,
identified a statement sent out by
the Public Affairs Department of
the council, listing the name and
religious affiliation of each candi
date of the Democratic and Repub
lican tickets. This was sent to 4,500
Protestant pastors in Ohio, and
subsequently 23,555 copies were
sold at a penny apiece for distribu
tion, Dr. Lamb said.
Dr. Lamb is well known in Co
lumbus and central Ohio. Besides
being president of the Chic Coun
cil of Churches, he is known for
his activity in connection with the
proposed Temple of Good Will
which is to be a national center of
Protestantism. Efforts in behalf of
the Temple are under his direct su
pervision. He was also executive
secretary of the Ohio Council for
many years before becoming its
president.
A third clergyman, Dr. D. R.
Sharpe of Cleveland, executive sec
retary of the Cleveland Baptist As
sociation and an official of the
Church Civic League, told the com
mittee that “the religious issue was
one of five major factors that got
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Regents Urge
Daily Prayer
In All Schools
ALBANY, N.Y.—(NC) New
York State’s Board of Regents has
recommended that the start of
each school day be marked with
a prayer joined to the act of alleg
iance to the flag, and called for
“specific programs stressing the
moral and spiritual heritage which
America’s.”
Noting that the Founding Fath
ers built upon a cornerstone of
“belief in and dependence upon
Almighty God,” and that the State
Constitution opens with an expres
sion of gratitude to God, the reg
ents said:
“We are convinced that this fun
damental belief and dependence of
the American—always a religious
people is the best security
against the dangers of these diffi
cult days.”
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey declared
he “wholeheartedly supported the
statement of the Board of Regents
of the State of New York on moral
and spiritual training in the
schools.”
“In these days of world wide
conflict between the free world
and the slave world of godless com
munism,” the former Republican
Presidential candidate said, “it is
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They Sing
The Catholic limes
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, Doc. 7, 1951
Peter Essman
To Be Raised
To Priesthood
St. Charles Graduate Will
Be Ordained At Rome
On Saturday, Dec. 8th
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Rev. Peter Essman
Another priest will enter the
service of God for this Diocese
when Peter Essman of Columbus
is ordained in Rome Saturday.
The son of Mr and Mrs. Charles
P. Essman of Holy Name parish,
the 25-year-old candidate will re
ceive the Sacrament of Holy Orders
from Bishop Martin J. O’Connor,
Rector of the North American Col
lege, in the college chapel.
On the same day, the Feast of
the Immaculate Conception, the
8:30 high Mass at Holy Name
Church in Columbus will be sung
by the Right Rev. Msgr. John B.
Donahie, pastor, in the new priest’s
honor.
Father Essman will sing his first
solemn Mass on Sunday, Dec. 9, in
the Church of St. Lawrence and St.
Stephen in Rome. Expected to as
sist him are the Rev. John Wolf,
former assistant pastor of St. Jo
seph Cathedral, Columbus, now
taking graduate theology studies at
the Angelicum College in Rome,
and two seminarians from this di
ocese: Thomas Ryan of Columbus
and James Cooney of Lancaster.
Peter Essman went to Rome in
the fall of 1948 to study theology
at the Gregorian University there
after his graduation from St.
Charles’ Seminary, Columbus.
His father is a civil engineer
with the State Highway depart
ment. A brother, Joseph, is a sen
ior engineering student at Ohio
State University.
of the Coming of Christ
The St. Charles Seminary Choir is shown above ifith its director, the Rev. Thomas Gallen, rehearsing
for the television program to be presented Sunday, Dec. 9, at 2:30 p.m. over WBNS-TV, Channel 10, Co
lumbus. It will be the first of four religious television programs sponsored by the Diocese of Columbus
to be given on successive Sundays at the seme time over the same station. The concert of sacred music
will be taken from the liturgy of the Advent season, with a commentary on Advent by the Right Rev.
Msgr. Roland T. Winel, who is directing the series.
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New Diocesan Holy Name Officers
Shown with th* Rev. Albert E. Culliton, Diocesan Director of the Holy Name Union, are the new officers
of the organization elected last Saturday at its convention in Columbus. They are, left to right: Edward
P. Wdlf, secretary Joseph E. Tritschler, president August C. Grodrian, treasurer, and William H. Mc
Grath, vice-president.
This year’s Thanksgiving Cloth
ing collection for Korean and oth
er war victims may nearly double
last year’s, the Rev. William E.
Kappes, Director of Charities and
Hospitals, predicted this week.
He based his prediction on pre
liminary reports from 16 parishes
with a total of close to 16,000
pounds, compared with a little
more than 7,000 pounds collected
by the same parishes last year.
Last year’s total for the Diocese
was 27,313 pounds, or 131£ tons.
This yaer’s total is expected to
reach 45.000 pounds.
Largest collection reported to
date was that of St. Mary’s parish,
Marion, with 3,240 pounds.
Others that reported this week
and the number ol pounds collect
ed were: St. Joseph Cathedral.
950 Holv Rosary, Columbus, 1.800:
St. Matthew’s. Mt. Ghead, 300 St.
Joseph’s, LaRue, 170 St. Patrick’s,
London, 1,131 Sacred Heart, Mil
ford Center, 200 St. Mary’s, Del
aware. 800 Our Lady of Lourdes’,
Marysville, 400 St. Joseph’s, Sugar
Grove, 400 St. Joseph’s, Somerset,
688 St. Thomas’, Zanesville, 889
Immaculate Conception, Kenton,
865 St. Mary’s, Chillicothe. 990
Blessed Sacrament, Newark, 1,750
and St. Mary’s, Portsmouth, 1,290.
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Exposes Tito’s Campaign of Lies
Diocesan Holy Name Society
Considers NCCM Affiliation
Joseph Tritschler Elected President at Convention
Held In Columbus Last Saturday
The Diocesan Holy Name Union
elected a new regime of officers at
its convention in Columbus last
Saturday and heard Bishop Ready
and Martin H. Work, executive
secretary of the National Council
of Catholic Men, call for affiliation
of the organization with the Na
tional council.
Joseph E. Tritschler of Our Lady
of Victory parish, Columbus, was
elected president, succeeding John
McAndrews. Also elected, all of Co
lumbus, were William H. McGrath
of St. Agatha’s parish, vice-presi
dent Edward P. Wolf of St. Aloysi
•V parish, secretary, and August
C. Grodrian of St. Christopher par
ish, treasurer.
Appointed to take charge of vari-
Clothing Drive
Reports Show
Big Increase
ous activities of the Holy Name
union were: Leo C. Walter of Cor
pus Christi parish, programs: Fred
J. McCool of Cathedral parish, pub
licity Edward Ryan of St. Christo
pher parish, speakers Louis F.
VonVille of St. James parish,
press, screen, stage and radio Rol
and V. Eyerman of St. Mary’s,
youth: Charles Gilbert of Immacu
late Conception parish, visitation
of the sick John H. Jennings of
St. Cyprian’s parish, marshal: and
Ralph J. Kramer of Holy Rosary
parish, retreats. All are of Colum
bus.
At the closing banquet in the
Virginia Hotel, Bishop Ready de
clared that there is a need for the
co-ordinating efforts of the Nation
al Council of Catholic Men, and ex
pressed his desire to see the Di
ocesan Holy Name Union joined
with the NCCM to strengthen the
voice of Catholic opinion in the
U.S. on major issues.
Calling attention to the recent
statement of the U.S. Hierarchy,
"God’s Law: The Measure of Man’s
Conduct,” he urged the nearly 200
men who attended the banquet to
read and study the “pertinent,
timely and necessary” message. He
also suggested that the men make
the statement the subject of study
in their parish meetings.
Bishop Ready asked the assem
bled Holy Name men to stand
while he read the solemn resolu
tion of the U. S. Bishops express
ing “boundless admiration for
those heroes of our common Faith,
the Bishops, priests, religious, and
faithful behind the Iron Curtain of
Europe and Asia, who are giving
their lives and their blood for
Christ and for the ideals of human
freedom.”
After reading the resolution, the
text of which was published in last
week’s Catholic Times, the Bishop
prayed with the men for the vic
tims of Red persecution.
Earlier the men heard a plea
for “active participation in the cor
porate life of the Church” from
the Very Rev. Msgr. Harold J.
O’Donnell, Assistant Chancellor,
who preached the sermon at Pon
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A tentative allocation of $62,500
to the Catholic Welfare Bureau for
the operation of the agency in 1952
was announced this week by the
Community Chest of Columbus and
Franklin county. The grant is $12,
500 more than last year’s.
The Community Chest, one of
the participants in the United Ap
peals of Franklin county, furnishes
support for that part of the pro
gram of family guidance and chil
dren’s care provided by the Cath
olic Welfare Bureau for citizens
of Franklin county.
Support of the program in other
counties of the Diocese comes en
tirely from donations of the people
of those counties except for Lick
ing county, where beginning in
1952 an allocation also will be fur
nished by the Community Chest.
Commenting on the increased
allocation, the Rev. William E.
Kappes, Director of Charities and
Hospitals, said it will enable the
Welfare Bureau “to re-emphasize
and re-establish its piogram of fos
ter-family care for children, espec
ially for pre-school children and
infants, a program that had to be
curtailed in 1951 because of lack
of money and shortage of staff.”
“During 1951,” Father Kappes
said, “the Catholic Welfare Bureau
had to refrain from placing many
children in more or less temporary i
Pope Goes on Retreat
VATICAN CITY—NC) —His
Holiness Pope Pius XII has re
turned to Vatican City from
Castelgandolfo and has begun
his annual retreat, conducted
this year by the Jesuit Father
Celebrini.
Cardinals, Archbishops, Bish
ops and other prelates of the
Curia join the Pontiff in these
spiritual exercises each year in
the Mathilda Chapel of the Vat
ican Palace. All audiences are
suspended during these days.
Red Channels
Author Speaks
Here Sunday
Vnrent W. Hartnell Will
Give Third Lecture Of
Erskine Series
A Catholic radio and television
producer who was one of the first
to expose the Communist threat in
America’s entertainment industry
will speak here Sunday. He is Vin
cent W. Hartnett, who will give
the third of the current series of
Erskine lectures Dec. 9 at 8:15 p.
m. in the Little Theater at the
College of St. Mary of the Springs,
Columbus.
Mr. Hartnett, who will speak on
“Red Fronts in Radio,” is the au
thor of Red Channels, a document
ed expose of Communism in the
radio and television fields.
A graduate of the University of
Notre Dame, he is one of the chief
promoters of the Christopher
movement, and served at one time
as assistant to the movement’s
founder and director, the Rev.
James Keller. M.M.
Mr. Hartnett was a Naval Intelli
gence Officer in World War II. at
tached for a time to the staff of
the of the Chief of Naval Opera
tions.
Former supervisor of the “Gang
busters” radio program, he is now
an independent producer of radio
and TV shows.
College officials announced this
week that the college bus will meet
lecture patrons at Fifth avenue
and Nelson road before the lec
ture and return them to the inter
section after it.
Bigger Grant Enables Welfare
Bureau To Increase Services
foster-family care because it was
unable to provide the boaroing ex
pense for many of the children. As
a result, a number of little chil
dren were kept in Diocesan insti
tutions longer than modern child
care authorities ejeem wise. The in
creased grant from the Chest will
enable the Bureau to provide the
wholesome experience of living in
a family to many more children in
1952.”
Father Kappes said be still is
faced with the serious problem of
finding two social workers for the
Bureau's staff because of the de
mand throughout the country for
workers experienced in child care
and family casework.
During the first nine months of
1951 the Catholic Welfare Bureau
was supervising an average of 277
children in the homes of their own
parents and has been caring for an
average of 298 children away from
their own homes, in addition to
helping many families where the
problems of children was not di
rectly involved.
During the past two years the av
erage number of children cared
for away from the homes of their
own parents has averaged between
290 and 300 children.
During 1950 the Catholic Wel
fare Bureau removed 171 children
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NCIFC Hoard Chairman Cites
Proof Abp. Stepinac Innocent
(By N.C.W.C NEWS SERVICE)
In a letter to the American news commentator Drew Pearson,
Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia has coupled the announcement of an
early solution of the “Stepanic problem'’ with a restatement of
thoroughly disproved charges that the Archbishop of Zagreb was
“guilty” of “crimes against the people.”
In his letter to Tito, Mr. Pearson asserts that the release of
Archbishop Stepinac “through a voluntary move by you would be
received with great acclaim b^ both Catholics and non Catholics
throughout, the world and would result a new era of friendly co
operation between Yugoslavia and the United States.”
The real attitude of American Catholics—regardless of the as
sertions contained in Mr. Pearson’s letter—is reflected in the follow
ing statement issued by Archbishop Francis P. Keough of Baltimore,
Chairman of the Administrative Board, National Catholic Welfare
Conference.
By Most Rev. Francis P. Keough
Archbishop of Baltimore
Chairman of the Administrative Board
National Catholic Welfare Conference
WASHINGTON—The recent exchange of letters between Marshal
Tito and the American commentator Drew Pearson shows clearly that
the Yugoslav communist dictator persists in his campaign of distor
tions, misrepresentation* and plain falsehoods about Archbishop Aloisi
us Stepinac.
The pretense is still maintained
that the imprisoned Archbishop of
Zagreb was convicted of “crimes
against the people” after a “fair”
trial. But all the persistence and
eloquence of Tito cannot veil what
was plain more than five years ago
and is equally plain today: Arch
bishop Stepinac is innocent. He is
the victim of gross injustice. He
has never asked for mercy. He suf
fers in silence.
Only one act can redeem the in
justice done to him: His uncondi
tional release from prison as a
token to the world that he is an
innocent man. This act Tito refuses
to perform. His letter to Mr. Pear
son makes it clear that he wishes
to stand before the world as a mer
ciful judge. All the while he ig
nores the most elementary claims
of justice.
Tito agrees that “the past should
be forgotten and that we should
look forward to the future.” But in
the very same breath, Tito harps
back to the false charges that
Archbishop Stepinac “not only tol
erated but encouraged and bestow
ed with blessings” the war-time
Croat regime that he "caused the
forcible conversion of Orthodox
people into the Catholic religion”
and that religion is “comparatively
free” in Yugoslavia.
To the Tito charge that Arch
bishop Stepinac collaborated with
the Croatian war-time Ustashi re
gime and the nazi and fascist occu
piers of his country, the Arch
bishop himself gave the most ef
fective answer. In his final address
before the “court” in Zagreb that
sentenced him to 16 years’ impris
onment. he said: “You accuse me
as an enemy of the state and the
people’s authority. Today. I ac
knowledge your authority. But who
was my authority then? I repeat
again: you were my authoritv
from May 8. 1945, and not
before that. Where in the world is
it possible to obey two authorities:
yours in the woods and theirs in
Zagreb? Should I have submitted
to the authority of the illegal, or,
as you say, exiled government in
London, or that in Cairo, or yours
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Vincentians Slate
Particular Council
Meeting on Sundav
The Particular Council of the St.
Vincent de Paul Society of the Co
lumbus Diocese will hold ts first
meeting Sunday, Dec. 9. at 3:30
p. m. in the Cathedral Book Shop,
205 E.. Broad street. Columbus.
According to the Rev. Lawrence
Corcoran, Assistant Director nf
Charities, who scheduled the meet
ing, the Particular Council com
prises chiefly the presidents and
vice presidents of the Society's 39
parish conferences in the Diocese.
“The Particular Council,” he said,
“is charged with thos? .works and
important measures which .oncern
all the conferences of the area. It
is a co-ordinating council, and also
carries on works that cannot be
performed by one conference
alone.”
At the same time Father Cor
coran called attention to the Feast
of the Immaculate Comepti n,
traditionally observed in a spec al
manner by the St. Vincent de Paul
Society. “Attendance at Mass and
reception of Holy Communion in a
body would be appropriate,” he
si ogested to the parish confer
ences.
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Notre Dame Alumni Slate
Annual Mass Next Sunday
Bishop Ready will celebrate
Pontifical Mass for the Notre
Dame Alumni Club of Columbus
Sunday, Dec. 9. 9 a. m. in St.
Joseph Cathedral.
After Mass the men will go to
the Fort Hayes hotel for their an
nual Communion Breakfast, at
which Bernie Crimmons, assistant
to Coach Frank Leahy, will be the
chief speaker.
Chairman of the annual event is
John Igoe president of the club is
Joseph E. Ryan.
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