The Catholic times. [volume], December 21, 1951, Image 2

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Less and less students devote
any time to Latin, but at this sea
son of the year the so-called dead
language comes into its own as car
olers everywhere are joined by the
crowds singing the original of “O,
Come All Ye Faithful” from the
first words. "Adeste. fidelis,” right
through to the final "Venite, ad
oremus.”
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demonstration. No charges were
made against the prisoners on the
morning of their arrest.
Bishop Cote is the twenty-third
prelate held in communist jails in
the government's drive to deprive
the Church of her leaders. The
Hierarchy stands as a bulwark
against the schismatic church be
ing promoted by the government.
In accusing or arresting without
accusations Catholic prelates, the
communists aim to spread terror
and leave the Church without lead
ership. The schismatic church pre
tense would then be dropped and
godlessness would be the only per
mitted “religion" in the totalitar
ian Chinese Peoples Republic.
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Chaplain Gel* 2 Medals
CAMP KILMER. N.J—(NC)
The Rev. (Capt.) Robert E. Lynch,
whose steadying influence on sev
eral occasions helped prevent
troops from becoming demoralized
under heavy enemy fire in Korea,
received the Silver Stai and his
second Bronze Star in a ceremony
here. Father Lynch, who is now
Catholic chaplain at Camp Kilmer,
spent a year in Korea.
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The memory of the late Brother
Peter of the Brothers of the Sacred
Heart lives on in the Brother Pet
er Christmas Tree for children at
Bay St. Louis, Miss. Brother Peter
served several terms as president
of St. Stanislaus High Scheel. Last
Christmas 700 white children and
450 colored children received gifts
from Brother Peter’s tree.
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Pray for Victims of Tyranny!
Six years later, the Archbishop
was able to return to England. The
King had expressed a willingness
to compromise. But almost imme
diately new difficulties arose.
Like the totalitarian rulers of
today, King Henry had a few "pa
triotic” members among the clergy.
Two of the country's Bishops had
been excommunicated by the Arch
bishop through papers he brought
back from the Pope. The king de
manded their absolution.
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Death of a Salesman
Miracle of Milan
On Dangerous Grounds
Pictura—An Adventure in Art
Shadow in The Sky
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Thirty million Catholics of the United States have been asked by
their Bishops to unite on Sunday, December 30, to offer their prayers
in reparation and mourning for their persecuted brethren in Iron
Curtain countries. It is recalled that December 30 follows the feast
commemorating the martyrdom of St. Thomas a Becket, Archbishop
of Canterbury, who was murdered in his cathedral in 1170, because
he resisted Henry Il's interference in ecclesiastical matters. The
above illustration of the archbishop's martyrdom is from a 13th cen
tury Norman French Psalter, in the Harleian Manuscript collection
in the British Museum. (NC Photos)
Symbol of New Martyrdoms
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of Church courts, restraining ap
peals to Rome, preventing the ex
communication of any of the king’s
officers and great vassals, and sanc
tioning the kings appropriation of
the revenues of bishoprics and ab
beys.
Because oi ms uncompromising
resistance to King Henry’s de
mands. the Archbishop found him
self in all kinds of difficulties. He
was fined 500 pounds for “con
tempt of court” for opposing a
claim marie against him by one of
the King's vassals. He was then
fined 30,000 pounds for alleged
“liabilities” against him dating
back to the time when he was
chancellor.
The Archbishop was finally forc
ed to flee to France, where Pope
Alexander 111 received him at
Sens The Pontiff encouraged him
in his heroic defense of the
Church.
On the night of December 29,
1170, a band of armed men march
ed into the Canterbury cathedral.
“Where is the traitor,?” they
demanded.
“Here I am, no traitor, hut Arch
bishop and priest of God,” St.
Thomas answered.
They tried to drag him from the
church, but were unable. Finally
they plunged their daggers into
him and scattered his brains over
{he pavement.
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ReMilt of Mission Aid
CHICAGO—XNC)—Nearly two
millions dollars were spent during
the year for home missions by the
Catholic Church Extension Society,
Bishop William D. O’Brien, presi
dent of the society, reported at its
46th annual meeting here. Fifteen
Archbishops and 71 Bishops were
present, with His Eminence Sam
uel Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop
of Chicago presiding.
Splendid spiritual crops are
growing throughout the United
States and its possessions because
of the aid given by the Extension
Society, Bishop O’Brien said,
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The sequel 1o an altar in the
basement of the home of Dr. and
Mrs. Theo F. Kirn of New Orleans,
and the erection of a 6-by-7foot
church on their front lawn three
Christmasses ago, is a shrine to Our
Lady of Fatima.
During World War II the Kirns
kept lights burning on their base
ment altar where they and their
friends prayed tor men and women
i., the military service. Then came
the Christmastime “church," which
was visited by more than 15,000
persons.
“We noticed folks throwing of
ferings into the church," Dr. Kirn
explains. "Consulting our pastor,
he advised us to let them alone.
When the church was removed we
counted the sum of twenty-three
dollars.”
Dr. and Mrs. Kirn solved the
problem of what to do with the
money by using it as part payment
on a statue of Our Lady ol Fatima,
now enclosed in a front-lawn
shrine.
Fifty Years In Priesthood
Two distinguished American priests marked the golden jubilee of
their ordination on December 21. The well-known columnist, Rev.
James M. Gillis, C.S.P., of New York (left), 75, looks at a copy of the
Cathtolic World, which he edited for many years. At right is Dom
Pablo Maria Moore, 74, American-born Carthusian priest, who re
cently opened the first American foundation of hit order at Whiting
ham, Vt. As Father Thomas Verner Moore, he was ordained in the
same class as Father Gillis, Dec. 21, 1901 joined the Benedictines
in 1923 and the Carthusians ins 1947^ NC Photos)
THE CATHOLIC TIMES, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1951
Tito Says
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minister, Miha Marinko, in which
he combines references to “the
Vatican and its satellite Catholic
clergy” with accusations that the
Holy See is striving “to enthrone
itself again as a state within the
state,” and in which he tries to
draw a distinction between “hos
tile clergymen” and that “part of
the clergy which has adopted a
positive and patriotic deportment
toward the people.”
Tito says the American people
“do not know that people can free
ly go to churches.” But he is si
lent regarding the fact—known to
the American people that hun
dreds of churches are closed be
cause the priests who should ad
minister them are dead, in prison
or in exile. Nor does he admit
that the agents of the regime su
pervise the sermons, that open
profession of the Catholic Faith
becomes automatically a “black
mark.”
The American people cannot be
deceived by the tricky presenta
tion of a severely curbed “free
dom of worship” as genuine “free
dom of religion.” Even if Bishop
Peter Cule were not imprisoned:
even if the regime had not at
tempted to deny Archbishop Step
inac the right to his office and
the exercise of his episcopal func
tions even if not a single priest
or Religious had been murdered or
jailed, religious freedom would
still be absent in Yugoslavia.
Tito knows and American
Catholics know—that there are
some basic requirements on which
the Church cannot and will not
yield. The Church must have free
dom to teach the truths of the
Gospei. But she is deprived of
that freedom in a regime which
continues to consider religion the
“opium of the people” and which
compels the teaching of material
istic and atheistic principles in
schools and universities.
Tito knows and American
Catholics know- that the Church
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Midnight Mass from Boys Town
at 1:00 a. m. Columbus time.
Dec. 25.
The Most Rev. Gerald T. Ber
gan, Archbishop of Omaha.
Neb., will be celebrant of the
Mass in the Dowd Memorial
Chapel, Boys Town. The Mass
will be televised over the na
tion-wide network of the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System.
Indians Promote Heroine
CAUGHNAWAGA, Quebec
(NC)—Descendants of the earliest
Christian Indians in Canada and
New York State have formed
themselves into a guild to spread
devotion to the Venerable Kateri
Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks.
The guild hopes that as a result
the cause of the beatification of
Kateri Tekakwitha will progress
more’ rapidly.
will resist to the end any attempt
to break the spiritual ties unit
ing Catholics with the Holy See.
There can be no semblance of re
ligious freedom under a regime
which has raised enmity toward
the Holy See and the Pope almost
to a principle.
Tito knows that he and he
alone—can restore that climate
in which the problems involved
in the relationship between
Church and State in his country
can find an acceptable solution.
But the stand he has taken poisons
rather than improves that climate.
And because, unfortunately, this
continues to be the case, Ameri
can Catholics have every reason,
and every obligation, to remem
ber Yugoslavia, when they offer
up prayers in reparation and
mourning for their persecuted
brethren behind the Iron Cur
tain.
'Gloria In Excelsis Deo'
HR
The Birth of Christ in the stable of Bethlehem, starry heavens spell
ing the initials of Jesus, Mary, Joseph angels singing Gloria in
excelsis Deo, shepherds and the magi, deer on the watch, are all
etcher on a real maole leaf from the earnout of Manhattan College,
New York City. It is the hobby of faculty member, Brother Adrian
Lewis. (NC Photos)
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Cathedral.
The Bishop will offer his two
Low Masses immediately following
the Pontifical Mass Appropriate
Christmas hymns will be sung dur
ing these Masses by the St. Charles
Seminary choir. The choir will also
offer a program of religious music
of the Church for a half hour pre
ceding the Blessing oi the Crib.
Solemn Rites Set
In Other Churches
Congregational singing of a
Gregorian ‘Credo" during the Sol
emn Mass at midnight will add to
the solemnity of the observance
of Christmas at Christ the King
Church, Columbus.
At Midnight Mass the congre
gation will sing the “Credo”
from the “Mass of the Angels.”
As usual there will also be con
gregational singing of the "Ades
tc Fideles" at the Offertory. The
regular choir will sing the rest
of the Mass
With the encouragement of the
Rev. Leo R. Brehm, pastor, this
congregational singing of the
“Credo” on Christmas is expect
ed to be the beginning of congre
gataional singing of the entire
Mass he plan is being develop
ed by Mrs. Helen Sliter, choir
director, and Miss Mary Martha
Sliter, organist.
The Sliters' were greatly im
pressed last year during their
Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome by
the way Catholics from all over
the world joined in the singing
of the “Credo” just before the
Papal Blessing in St. Peter's. They
also were happy to find it the
custom during the famous torch
light processions at the Lourdes
Shrine in France. All through
Franco, they reported, congrega
tions sang entire Gregorian Mass
es from memory.
At Holy Rosary Church. Colum
bus. a Solemn Mass will be of
fered at midnight, with the men's
choir singing The Holy Rosary
Boychoir will sing at the High
Mass at 10 30, while the school
children will sing Christmas
hymns at the 9 o’clock Mass.
The Rev. Msgr. H. E. Mattingly,
pastor, will be celebrant of the
Midnight Mass, and will be assist
ed by the Rev. Patrick J. Griffin
and the Rev. Raymond J. Carter,
assistants. The Rosary High School
Glee Club will sing Christmas
hymns before the Midnight Mass.
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CHICAGO—(NO More'than cate themselves to the wisdom of
our founding Fathers—a wisdom
200,000 men of the Chicago Holy
Name societies stand pledged to
carry out the mandate of the US.
Bishops to restore God and mor
ality in the private and public life
of this Nation.
Their representatives adopted a
resolution backing the Bishops’ re
cent statement entitled, ‘God's
Law: The Measure of Man’s Con
duct.”
His Eminence Samuel Cardinal
Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago,
who presided at the annual busi
ness meeting of the Chicago Arch
diocesan Union of Holy Name So
cieties, praised the men as “true
members of the lay apostolate.” He
said:
“You men, with God’s help, can
help the Church in making Chicago
and the Nation holy.”
The Holy Name resolution said
in part:
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which proclaimed God’s rightful
place in human affairs, a wisdom
so memorably expressed by the
Father of our country in his fare
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habits which lead to political pros
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prevail in exclusion of religious
principle’,”
Other resolutions adopted in
cluded one calling for all parish
societies to maintain active mili
tary committees for contacting
servicemen.
Theodore Lownik, attorney of Ev
ergreen Park, Ill., told the Holy
Name Men that “no Catholic draw
ing a salary from the public treas
ury for doing nothing can worth
ily approach the Sacraments.”
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