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CATHOLIC PRESS
SUNDAY
FEBRUARY 3
Vol. 1, No. 17
Communism is "a poisonous
weed of the West,” he said,
“grown in-our secular philosophy.”
Describing the modern exclusion
of religion from the “organized
culture and business of living,” he
deplored the fact that “so many
of our own people seem ready to
identify their great Christian in
heritance with the ruling culture
and the jungle economics of our
time.”
Mr. Twohy concluded with a
ringing appeal for enlistments in
“this great war of the spirit.” “Our
contribution,” he declared, “is to
live our faith up to the hilt—not
in high disputes and pretensions,
but in all the bread and butter
dealings and duties of our daily
lives, in a spirit of charity, of hu
mility, and of purity of heart, as
citizens of a young and beloved
Republic whose mysterious destiny,
now wrapped in the folds of God’s
Providence, we must help to shape,
and as children of the Catholic
Church to which by divine war
rant is committed the spiritual
fortunes of the Race.”
Partial text of Mr. Twohy’s ad
dress follows:
“There are abundant evidences
that the laymen’s retreat move
ment, as it is expanding and mul
tiplying in American Catholic life,
is destined to become one of the
major defenses in depth of be
leaguered Christianity in this age
of confusion.
Cannot Escape History
To grasp the significance of this
fact and the hidden reasons for
it, one ought not only to examine
the World Revolution now engulf
ing the human family, but also try
to assess the present status of the
Church in relation to it. It is doubt
ful whether anyone now living can
wholly escape the terrible impact
of our times. For some mysterious
reason, we of this generation are
the spectators—yes, and the be
wildered actors and victims, of one
of the great upheavals of recorded
history—an upheaval which the
late Pontiff, Pius XI,- with a pro
phetic vision, likened to the Flood
in its potential and universal devas
tation.
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A strong note of optimism about
the family -postulate was voiced in
Columbus last week when the Rev.
Edgar Schmiedeler, O.S.B., Direc
tor of the NCWC Family Life Bu
reau, came here to discuss plans
for the National Catholic Family
Life Conference, to be held in Co
lumbus, March 24, 25, and 26.
“I’m convinced that in our time,”
said Father Schmiedeler, “we shall
achieve a higher type of Christian
family life than we have ever
known.”
He pointed to the growing inter
est in the use of sacramentals in
the home: the blessing of children
by the father, enthronement of the
Sacred Heart, and celebration of
religious milestones, such as anni­
Call To Arms In War Of Spirit
Is Sounded At Retreat Banquet
James F..Twohy Gives Inspiring Address On Role Of
Layman In Crisis Of Modern Society
James F. Twohy, distinguished Catholic layman, industrialist, and
Federal official, underscored the “moral and spiritual breakup which
is sweeping away so many of the complacencies of modern society,” in
an address Sunday night at the annual banquet of the Catholic Laymen’s
Retreat League of Columbus in the Virginia Hotel.
In an eloquent plea for clear
understanding of the present world
crisis, Mr. Twohy traced the con
sequences of three centuries of
secularization: "Master of how to
live with no remembrance of why,
loaded with goods but with a lost
vision of the Good, with a grow
ing terror in his heart before a
world-wide spectacle of human dis
order, misery and defilement, man
stands today at the dead end of a
long, wrong road.”
Speaking with quiet emphasis
and telling effect, the one-time
Governor of the Federal Home
Loan Bank System called it an
“oversimplification” to make Rus
sian Communism “the villain of all
our ills.”
Give Diocesan
Lay Retreats
New Impetus
Bishop Ready called the retreat
movement an “immensely import
ant work for the Diocese” in a
brief address to the Catholic Lay
men’s Retreat League at its annual
banquet Sunday night in the Vir
ginia Hotel, Columbus.
Several hundred retreatants at
tended the dinner, which followed
Pontifical Benediction and recita
tion of the Rosary in St. Joseph
Cathedral.
Cornelius J. Tracy was installed
as new president of the league at
the dinner-meeting, succeeding
James P. Charles, who served in
that office for two years.
Other new officers installed Sun
day were: A. E. Fernandez, vice
president and Ed 0. Ryan, treas
urer. Ralph J. Kramer, Sr., contin
ues as secretary.
Principal speaker at the banquet
was James F. Twohy, Catholic lay
leader and former Catholic Hour
radio orator. (A report of his ad
dress is carried in the adjacent col
umn.)
The secretary’s report of Retreat
League activities for 1951 showed
a total number of 475 retreatants
who took part in the 25 retreats
for men at St. Therese’s Shrine,
Columbus.
Leading group in the Central
Deanery was Holy Rosary parish,
with 45 retreatants. Other leaders
were St. Mary’s, Delaware, with 40,
and St. Agatha’s, Columbus, with
37.
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Cleveland Is Site
Of 6th Convention
Of Nurses Council
CLEVELAND—(NC) The sixth
biennial convention of the Nation
al Council of Catholic Nurses will
be held at the Hotel Statler here
from May 1 to 4.
Principal speaker at the conven
tion banquet on May 3 will be
Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of
Boston, chairman of the Depart
ment of Lay Organizations, Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence. Bishop Floyd L. Begin, Aux
iliary of Cleveland, will be toast
master.
Archbishop Edward F. Hoban,
Bishop of Cleveland, host to the
convention, will offer a Solemn
Pontifical Mass on the final day
of the convention. The principal
speaker at the final session will be
the Very Rev. Ignatius Smith, O.P.,
dean of philosophy at the Catholic
University of America. The theme
of the convention will be: “The
Nurse—Citizen of Two Worlds.”
Father Schmiedeler Sees Hope For Families
In Revival Of Christian Customs In Homes
The Rev. Edger Schmiedeler, O.S.B., Director of the NCWC Family Life Bureau, Is shown above (center)
discussing with Bishop Ready and the Rev. Thomas F. Duffy the coming National Catholic Family Life
Conference.
versaries of baptisms and wed
dings.
Father Schmiedeler deplored the
passing of Christian greetings and
farewells and expressed the wish
we might greet each other, as some
Europeans do, with “Praise be Je
sus Christ!” or “God save all here.”
litigious activities in the family
circle receive the greatest emphas
is from the Family Life Bureau
which he has headed since it was
established more than 20 years
ago.
The Bureau also emphasizes
“ideological” activities, such as
counter- attacks against planned
parenthood propaganda “inspira
tional” programs, including the
I annual selection of the Catholic
New Tinies Feature
Makes Appearance
With this issue The Catholic
Times announces a new feature
which will appear every week:
“Inquiry Corner.” Found on
page 6 of this issue, Inquiry
Corner will provide answers to
questions of the moment of in
terest to all. The Rev. Edward
Healey, professor of Latin and
English at St. Charles Semin
ary, Columbus, will answer the
questions sent in by our read
ers. All questions should be ad
dressed to: “Inquiry Corner”,
The Catholic Times, P.O. Box
636, Columbus 16, Ohio.
Men’s Society
Will •Organize
Study Groups
Weekly Meetings Planned
During Lent Each Club
To Have Own Chairman
Lenten Study clubs for men of
the Holy Name Society will be or
ganized throughout the Columbus
Diocese, it was announced this
week by the Rev. James W. Kulp,
Diocesan Director of the Confra
ternity of Christian Doctrine.
Sponsoring the project, in addi
tion to the Confraternity, are the
Bishop, the Rev. Albert E. Culliton,
Diocesan Holy Name Director, and
diocesan officers of the society.
A meeting for discussions lead
ers will take place Sunday, Feb.
24, at 3 p. m. at St. Charles Semin
ary, Columbus. The preparatory
meeting will be open to any inter
ested men, Father Kulp said.
Weekly meetings of the study
clubs will run through Lent and
Easter week, with a 75-minute time
limit on each meeting.
During the first half of the
course the groups will study and
discuss the recent statement of the
U. S. Hierarchy: “God’s Law the
Measure of Man’s Conduct.” For
the second half of the course they
will consider the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass.
During the meetings on the
Mass, the men will use the Holy
Name Manual Missal and the Balti
more No. 3 catechism.
Retreat chairmen of the parish
Holy Name units were urged this
week by Father Kulp to take the
initiative in organizing the study
groups.
He pointed out that each group
should be limited to 10 members.
“The strongest attraction of
these study clubs,” said Father
Kulp, “should be the fact that the
Church strongly desires us to take
part in them, and that the Holy
Father has called for the organiza
tion of such groups in every parish
throughout the world. Moreover,
such activity carries the great in
dulgences and benefits that the
Pope grants to all Confraternity
groups.”
mother of the year, promotion of
family holy hours, and so on and
action on the economic front, which
includes support of decent housing
programs, concern for industry’s
growing encroachment on family
life as more mothers take full-time
jobs, and similar problems.
A monk of St. Benedict Abbey,
Atchison, Kans., Father Schmied
eler’s Ph.D,. thesis at the Catholic
University of America led him into
his present work. Writing on “The
Industrial Revolution and the
Home” he pointed out that in vil
lage and farm homes, all the norm
al activities—work, recreation, so
cial life—tend to unite the family
and strengthen its bonds, while in
cities the same activities tend to
split the family apart
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The warning came in a statement
drawn up by the Catholic BisLops’
Conference and issued in the name
of Archbishop Joseph Attipetty of
Verapoly, the Conference’s Direc
tor of Catholic Social Action.
The statement came against a
background of increased activity in
this country for a nation wide, gov
ernment-supported program of
family limitation.
“Among the great evils opposed
to the principles of marriage and
thereby undermining the welfare
of the family and the State is the
present tendency towards birth
control advocated by many people,”
the Bishops’ statement declared.
“The methods suggested by such
emissaries of evil are entirely
wrong and should not be counten
anced by any Catholic. It is among
the gravest of sins to have recourse
to such methods. Catholics must
bear in mind that no one has pow
er to destroy human life. So also is
prevention of offspring a heinous
crime. No argument can justify it.
The Church, therefore, condemns
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February is Catholic Press Month
Th Catholic
Times
NEW DELHI, India—(NC) A
new warning against the Nehru
backed program of birth control as
a “sin against marriage” was read
to Catholics throughout the coun
try.
“Read Your Catholic Press—Millions Wish They Could," is the slogan for the official poster issued by
the Catholic Press Association of 'he United States. Catholic Press Month will be observed throughout
the nation during February. (NC Photos)
Indian Bishops Press Is "Fruitful Apostolate,’
Warn Against
Birth Control
Most Rev. Thomas K. Gorman
‘He’s Not Heavy -IHcs My Brother9
A Catholic Welfare Bureau case worker of the Columbus Dio
cese this week made a plea for foster homes to keep groups of chil
dren together who face separation because of death or disability of
parents.
The Welfare Bureau knows about a number of family groups of
two, three and four children that desperately need homes. In some
cases there is an ill mother who cannot care for the children and
there are other circumstances that force a family to separate.
Many foster homes have been found. But the Welfare Bureau is
searching for more and makes an appeal to Catholics to open their
homes in this crisis.
With the knowledge that often homes cannot be found for
groups of children, the Welfare Bureau suggests that two families—
perhaps neighbors, relatives or friends—agree to apply for children.
In this way the children are sure to spend much time together.
One case worker says the well-known phrase “he’s not heavy—
he’s my brother,” is a simple way to express the critical need and
desire of children of the same family to stick together.
While applications from all parts of the diocese are asked for,
the case worker said, groups of foster homes are especially needed
in the Columbus and Zanesville areas. The telephone number in
Zanesville is 25057 and in Columbus, MA. 5891.
Pope Exhorts Catholics Of
China To Be Firm In Faith
By Rev. Joseph J. Sulliven
(Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY —His Holiness
Pope Pius XII has sent an Apostolic
Letter to the Catholic priests and
people of China exhorting them
to stand firm in the Faith and to
offer up their sufferings so that
God may finally grant peace and
freedom to the Church in China.
The Pontiff declared that the
faithful “cede to none in their
love of fatherland,” thus answer
ing the communist accusations that
Catholics are “unpatriotic” and
“enemies of the people.” He em
phasized that the Church neither
seeks nor serves any worldly pow
er, but “loves all men, whatever
be their race or nation.”
The 2,000-word Apostolic Letter,
named after its opening words
“Cupimus Imprimis” (We desire in
the first place), was issued on Jan
uary 18, which is the Feast of St
Peter’s Chair at Rome. The tenor
of the document is much similar
to that of the Apostolic Letter ad
dressed by the Holy Father last
October 28 to the Church in Czech
oslovakia, which is also beset by
communist persecution.
The Pope warned the Chinese
faithful not to be misled by insidi
ous attempts, under the guise of
truth, to set up a schismatic
church.
“The Church does not single out
a particular people, an individual
nation, but loves all men,” the Pon
tiff said. Hence, there can be no
question of her serving any par
ticular power or permitting that
“particular churches” be establish
ed in each nation, “thus destroy
ing that unity that has been estab
lished by her Divine Founder and
unhappily separating them from
the Apostolic See.”
“Already, through the course of
centuries,” the Pope said, “your
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Catholic Press Sunday Feb. 3
Deserves "Careful Examination
Bishop Gorman, Chairman of NC Press Dept., Urges
New Dedication to Catholic Press in February
By Bishop Thomas K. Gorman of Reno,
Episcopal Chairman, N.C.W.C. Press Department
To the friends and patrons of the Catholic Press:
During Press Month we urge you to take another good look at your
Catholic newspapers, magazines and periodicals. You will discover that
you have come face to face with a vast institution which constitute
one of our most important, effective and fruitful apoStolates.
In fact, if you belong to that old
fashioned group whose opinions of
the Catholic press date from a
quarter of a century ago, a school
of critics who haven’t taken a look
in our direction since, you face the
surprise of your life. While you
slept, the Catholic press came of
age.
As you observe Press Month,
therefore, avoid excesses of humil
ity. Too long have ill-informed
people made Catholic Press Month
an occasion for unfounded com
plaint and carping criticism. Lest
these deeply ingrained habits sur
vive in those who have failed to
keep abreast of our modern growth,
when you observe Catholic Press
Month this year insist on pointing
with justifiable pride to a great
and growing, an efficient and ef
fective press. For in very truth
your Catholic press has become a
wonderful institution!
Hail, therefore, with understand
able satisfaction the remarkable
development, the solid accomplish
ment achieved through the years
by that vast and still growing in
stitution, your American Catholic
press! No more, as in unhappier
days long gone, need you rely on
appeals to mere loyalty for support.
Yours is a first class product to
boost, capable in every way of ful
filling the high purpose to which
it is consecrated. Very decidedly
has your Catholic Press grown up
and advanced to take its place in
the front ranks of American jour
nalism.
Salute, too, during these days,
the efficient, dedicated men and
women who labor to produce our
Catholic papers and periodicals.
Their uncommon devotion to the
spread and defense of truth puts
to shame the arrogant ignorance
and distorted sense of values dis
played by too many present day
newsmen.
Do not permit Catholic Press
Month to slip by without taking
a good, close look at what these
devoted press people of yours pro
vide for your information and edi
fication week after week, month
by month. You will soon discover
that you need what they provide,
if you would possess a fuller un
derstanding and completer enjoy
ment of the Catholic way of life.
Quickly you will learn, too, that
the American way takes on a new
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Choose Saginaw As Site
Of Rural Life Convention
MILWAUKEE—(NC)—The exec
utive committee of the National
Catholic Rural Life Conference at
its annual midwestern meeting
here, designated Saginaw, Mich.,
for the 1952 annual convention and
fixed the dates at October 17 to 21.
The committee adopted resolu
tions to promote a rural youth pro
gram in cooperation with existing
youth organizations, such as 4-H
clubs, Future Farmers of America
and rural CYO’s, following a rec
ommendation by the Rev. Michael
Dineen of Milwaukee.
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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:
SUPPORT
YOUR DIOCESAN
NEWSPAPER
Price Ten Cents $3.00 A Yoar
Bishop Asks New Dedication
To Apostolate Of The Press
Sunday, Feb. 3, will be Catholic Press Sunday in the Columbus
Diocese, Bishop Ready announced this week in a pastoral letter.
At the same time be praised the Catholic press as “a positive
guide in pointing out the way of truth amidst the false directions of
evil philosophies.”
Urging continued support of The Catholic Times, the Bishop
also called attention to the “steady flow of tremendously worthwhile
periodicals and books from Catholic publishers, with which our people
should be acquainted.”
The text of the Bishop's letter follows:
Official
DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS
198 East Broad Street
Columbus 15, Ohio
Sunday, February 3rd. will be Catholic Press Sunday in the Diocese
of Columbus. It will serve to open the annual appeal in our parishes
for renewing or obtaining subscriptions to our diocesan newspaper,
THE CATHOLIC TIMES.
It is no longer necessary to argue the value of the Catholic Press
and the conscientious duty of Catholics to read it No one can be truly
informed about the meaning of current world events without
the aid of the Catholic Press. It is a positive guide in pointing out the
way of truth amidst the false directions of evil philosophies. It is
the one unfailing source of responsible reporting on personalities,
events and pronouncements which make up news of the Church today.
We have had recent examples in the secular press of garbled accounts
which have done great injury to the Holy Father and to the Catholic
position regarding present-day grave, moral problems.
It is the duty of our laity to keep well informed so that they may
in turn inform their non-Catholic neighbors on matters of Catholic
importance. In this, our zealous and energetic lay men and women are
wisely directed by the Catholic Press. It is dedicated to the apostolate
of truth. But it will be just as helpless and ineffective as it is in irrelig
ious countries today if Catholic people do not receive it into their
homes, and more importantly, if they do not read it.
The clergy, religious and laity of this Diocese have always been
most devoted to the Catholic Press. They will continue to do so. We
bespeak a word of gratitude to the Reverend Fathers, to the Religious
and to all the devoted people in our parishes who have been loyal to
our diocesan newspaper. We call the attention of all to the business
firqfis Jn various communities of the Diocese who have so con
sistently mvited our patronage through advertisements in its pages.
Their support enables us to publish THE CATHOLIC TIMES at a
modest cost.
It is common knowledge that in the past few years costs in print
ing and newsprint have been steadily rising. Publications everywhere
have repeatedly found it necessary to increase their rates. It is with
reluctance that we are obliged to do so at this time. Our priests and
people will understand this necessity and give their usual generous
cooperation to our excellent diocesan paper, THE CATHOLIC TIMES.
The subscription price is $3.00 for one year. All subscriptions
should be submitted through the parishes and sent to the Chancery
Office before February 24th.
We should not for one moment think that tlse full importance
and principal merit of the Catholic Press lies entirely in our diocesan
newspaper. There is the steady flow of tremendously worthwhile
periodicals and books from Catholic publishers with which our people
should be acquainted. As a matter of fact, it is barely fulfilling the
duty of good Catholic fathers and mothers to subscribe to the dio
cesan weekly. There is a large and varied selection of journals of
opinion and instruction which should be found in our Catholic
homes. Parents should read them and make them available to their
children for reading also. Among the many excellent publications
of this nature. I woud single out but a few for your consideration—
THE SIGN, AMERICA. EXTENSION and the HOLY NAME JOURNAL.
This list is by no means exhaustive. These are some of the many fine
periodicals offered by the Catholic Press in this country.
Our Catholic Press is indeed a Sword of the Spirit in these crit
ical days. We must be eager to support it and just as eager to be in
formed by its glorious truth in the present time of confusion.
Commending our Catholic Press to your prayers and support,
Devotedly in Christ.
MICHAEL J. READY
WASHINGTON (NC) Re
ligious persecution in Rumania is
of such extreme violence that the
structure of the Catholic Church
“has been brutally crushed,” ac
cording to the Rumanian National
Committee. Every one of the coun
try’s eleven Catholic Bishops is in
prison.
The Committee, set up in this
country for the purpose of repre
senting the people of Rumania and
promoting the cause of their lib
ciation, made this statement in a
letter expressing gratitude to the
American Bishops for their “mes
sage of sympathy and cheer” to the
victims of communist persecution
and for the help given by American
Catholics to those who suffer for
their faith.
Referring to a resolution adopt
ed by the United States Bishops at
their annual meeting here last No
vember, the letter said:
“That noble message of Christian
charity and human solidarity may
certainly be expected to be a price
less and universal source of inspira
tion, reviving the failing forces
of all the peoples now fallen in
bondage behind the ‘Iron Curtain,’
in their desperate and unequal
struggle to defend their very being
against the forces of evil, and to
reconquer their lost liberty.”
The letter, which was signed by
Constantin Visoianu, former Ru
manian Minister of Foreign Affairs
and President of the Rumanian Na
tional Committee, was addressed
to Msgr. Howard J. Carroll, General
January 23, 1952
Bishop of Columbus
Church in Rumania "Crushed
All Eleven Bishops in Prison
Rumanian National Committee Thanks U. S. Hierarchy
For Resolution of Admiration and Sympathy
Secretary of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference.
In thejr resolution, the American
Bishops had expressed “boundless
admiration” for Catholic heroes in
Iron Curtain countries and mourn
ing for “our martyred dead in Rus
sia and in the 14 nations which are
now captives to communism.” As
suring the persecuted of “fraternal
sympathy” and “fervent prayers,”
the Bishops also voiced “sorrow at
the indifference of so-called Chris
tian governments to this frightful
persecution” and declared them
selves “appalled by the apparent
inability of the free secular press”
to inform the public of the true
facts.
In accordance with the resolu
tion of the Bishops, Catholics
throughout the United States mark
ed the last Sunday of the year 1951
as a day of prayer and reparation
for the victims of communist per
secution.
The letter from the Rumanian
National Committee stated that the
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Two Priests In Hospital
Two diocesan priests are in Mt.
Carmel Hospital, Columbus, where
they underwent surgical opera
tions.
The Right Rev. Msgr. John B.
Donahie, pastor of Holy Name
Church, Columbus, is reported to
be improving. The condition of the
Rev. Otto Guenther, pastor of St.
Colman Church, Washington Court
House, was reported as “serious.”