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FEBRUARY IS
CATHOLIC PRESS
MONTH
Vol. 1, No. 20
Pastor Of Holy Cross,
New Chancellor Named
Msgr. Schwendeman Named Pastor of Holy Cross
Msgr. Winel Is New Diocesan Chancellor
Msgr. Winel
Bishop Ready made official an
nouncement this week of the ap
pointments of two priests to new
positions in the Diocese. The
Right Rev. Msgr. Francis J. Schwen
deman, for the past three and a
half years Chancellor of the Diocese
and since September of last year
administrator of Holy Cross church,
Columbus, has been named pastor
of that parish.
The Right Rev. Msgr. Roland T.
Winel. secretary to Bishop Ready,
has been appointed the new Chan
cellor of the Diocese.
The appointments become effec
tive today, Friday, Feb. 15.
The new pastor of Holy Cross
church was born in Marietta and
attended St. Mary’s school there.
He spent three years at St. Jo
seph’s college. Collegeville, Ind.
two at St. Gregory’s seminary, Cin
cinnati, and three at MU St. Mary
of the JVest, Cincinnati.
Studied Abroad
He was ordained July 6, 1931, by
the late Bishop Hartley, after
which he was sent to the Universi
ty of Fribourg for advanced study
in theology.
Following his return in 1933 fie
was named chaplain of St. The
rese’s shrine. Columbus, and ap
pointed to the teaching staff of St.
Charles seminary. He completed
his work for the Doctorate of
Sacred Theology and was awarded
the degree by the University of
Fribourg in June, 1936.
In 1939 he was appointed chap
lain of the institution for the feeble
minded in Columbus.
Previous to his appointment as
Chancellor of the Diocese in June
of 1948 he served as vice-chancellor
for three years.
Monsignor Schwendeman has
twice been hopored for his work in
Msgr. Schwendeman
the Church by Pope Pius XII, who
named him a Papal Chamberlain in
1946 and a Domestic Prelate in
1949.*
The Right Rev. Msgr. Roland T.
Winel, who takes on his new du
ties of Chancellor of the Diocese
today, was born in Columbus and
attended St. John’s grade school
there.
He attended St. Charles High
School and College and began his
studies for the priesthood there.
Upon the completion of his theolo
gy studies at Mt. St. Mary Semi
nary, Norwood, he was ordained by
the late Bishop Hartley in March,
1939.
Former Navy Chaplain
After his ordination, Monsignor
Winel served for a short time as
chaplain, of the Convent of the
Good Shepherd, Columbus. Later
in the same year, 1939, he became
assistant pastor of St. Joseph Ca
thedral, where he remained until
November of 1944, when he left to
become a chaplain in the Navy.
Monsignor Winel spent the year
following his discharge from the
Navy in 1946 taking special studies
in philosophy at the University of
Laval in Quebec, Canada. Bishop
Ready named him his personal sec
retary the following year.
The same year also saw his ap
pointments as Diocesan Moderator
of the DCCW and as Chaplain of
the State of Ohio’s Catholic War
Veterans.
Monsignor Winel also has been
honored twice by Pope Pius XII for
his work, once in 1949 when he
was named Papal Chamberlain by
the Holy Father and again in 1951
when he was made a Domestic Pre
late.
n
Official
The Most Reverend Bishop announces the following appoint
ments:
Effective February 15, 1952
The Right Reverend Msgr. Francis J. Schwendeman appointed
pastor of Holy Cross Church, Columbus.
The Right Reverend Msgr. Roland T. Winel appointed Chancellor
of the Diocese of Columbus.
By Order of the Most Reverend Bishop,
schools in the U. S., made by the
Rev. Edward F. Spiers, Ph. D.,
Professor of Education at St. Char
les College, Columbus, and just
published by the Catholic Univer
sity of America Press, already has
won high praise in education
cles.
ROLAND T. WINEL,
Chancellor
Study Of U.S. Central Catholic High Schools
By Rev. Edward F. Spiers JFins Wide Praise
cir-
Re-
The Catholic Educational
view called Father Spiers’
page volume “a most thorough
piece of scholarship,” and declar
ed that it is “by far the most
comprehensive and best organized
study of its kind yet made of
Catholic high schools in this
country.”
216-
Entitled “The Central Catholic
High School,” the book, originally
written as a Doctor's dissertation
at Ohio State University, contains
a foreword by Bishop Ready and
a preface by Ward G. Reeder, Pro
fessor of Education at OSU.
A study of central Catholic high Bishop Ready in his foreword system in gaining an insight into
terms the study “a valuable hand
book for all administrators, edu
cators, and students of the Catho
lic school system.” “It offers not
only information,” he writes, “but
also practical suggestions and
recommendations for their guid
ance.”
i The Bishop points out that “the
central Catholic high school rep
resents the effort of diocesan
authorities to provide better sec
ondary education.”
“During the past 25 years,” he
goes on, “attendance in Catholic
secondary schools has increased to
a phenomenal extent. The prob
lem of providing pupils with a
secondary education under Catho
lic auspices is a real challenge
to Catholic educators today."
The Bishop calls attention, also,
to the value of the study “to ad
ministrators of the public school
Mission Order Will Establish
Seminary In Columbus Diocese
Missionaries Of Sts. Peter And Paul Now Operate 21
Seminaries In Italy And Mission Countries
A new seminary will be estab
lished in the Columbus Diocese by
the Missionaries of Sts. Peter and
Paul, according to an announce
ment made this week by the Rev.
Nicholas Maestrini, P.I.M.E., U. S.
Superior of the 102-year-old mis
sion society.
He announced that permission
has been granted by the Most Rev.
Michael J. Ready, Bishop of Col
umbus, to set up in this diocese
the s o i e y’s first missionary
training seminary outside of Italy.
The society conducts 10 seminar
ies in Italy, and 11 in mission coun
tries.
Although plans for the new
seminary have not been drawn yet,
Father Maestrini said it has been
decided to name the chapel for
Blessed Alberic Crescitelli, a mem
ber of the Missionaries of Sts.
Peter and Paul, who was slain
in China in 1900. Pope Pius XII
declared him a martyr of the faith
Greene Novel
To Be Judged
By F. J. Sheed
Frank J. Sheed
Frank J. Sheed, world-renowned
Catholic author book publisher, lit
erary critic, and lay theologian, will
speak at the opening session, of the
Critics’ Forum series at the JJttle
Theater of the Columbus Gallery
of Fine Arts Thursday. Feb. 21, at
8:30 p. m. He will review Graham
Greene’s latest novel, “End of the
Affair.”
An Australian of Irish descent,
Mr. Sheed is the founder of the
Sheed and Ward publishing house.
He is the author of “Theology and
Sanity,” “Communism and Man
and other books, and the translator
of a dozen works, including St. Au
gustine’s “Confessions.”
For 25 years Mr. Sheed has been
a speaker of the Westminster Cath
olic Evidence Guild, organized to
teach Catholic doctrine at public
meetings in the streets of London
and other places. He is in charge
of the training of speakers for the
Guild in London.
The Graham Greene novel which
he will review is, like many of
Greene’s works, a story of the
struggle of a human soul torn be
tween sin and the longing for God.
Wilfred Ebhert, Professor of
Education at Ohio State University,
will introduce Mr. Sheed.
Chairman of the 1952 series,
sponsored by the International
Federation of Catholic Alumnae,
is Mrs. Carlton Lippert. She has
named Mrs. Frank Holters chair
man of the reception that will be
given for the speaker after the lec
ture.
the Catholic school system.” “The
financial data,” he writes, “should
impress all with the contribution
which Catholics are making to the
American public school system by
the operation of
schools.”
their own
declares that
have a wide
Prof. Reeder also
the volume should
reading among public school of
ficials and employees. “Too many
of these persons.” he notes, “know
nothing about the administration
and financing of Catholic schools,
and this ignorance sometimes
breeds suspicion and intolerance.
The Catholic schools have many
features which the public schools
might well emulate.”
Copies of the book, which in
cludes 66 tables, an extensive bib
liography, and a complete index,
are available at the Catholic Uni
versity of America Press, Wash
ington 17, D. C.
The Catholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, Fob. 15, 1952
142 Members Of Hierarchy Victims Of Persecution
Aug. 8, 1950, and beatified him
Feb. 18, 1951.
A recent issue of the society’s
monthly publication, the Bulletin
of the Sts. Peter and Paul Mission
aries, pointed out that the terri
tory entrusted to the society in
cludes missions in Japan, China,
Burma, Pakistan, India, Africa,
and Brazil, with a total population
of more than 44,000,000.
In their first 100 years of mis
sion work, the priests of the so
ciety baptised more than 1,000,
000 persons. Today they have more
than 500,000 Catholics in their
care.
In addition to the seminaries,
they conduct 614 schools, 167 or
phanages, 144 clinics, dispensaries,
and hospitals, and 10 leper asylums.
Personnel of the society, whose
world headquarters is in Rome,
includes two archbishops, 14 bis
hops, 517 missionary priests, and
65 brothers.
U. S. headquarters of the society
is located at 1035 Brewster Street,
Detroit, where priests of the so
ciety are in charge of San Fran
cesco Church. They also administer
the Church of St. John the Bap
tist in Columbus.
Dispensation
By virtue of a spacial indult
granted by the Holy See to the
Bishops of the United States, the
faithful of the Diocese of Co
lumbus are hereby dispensed
from the law of abstinence on
the. civil holiday, George Wash
ington's Birthday, Friday, Feb.
22.
Those who avail themselves of
this dispensation are exhorted in
charity to make an offering to
works that aid the poor and
needy.
ROLAND T. WINEL,
Chancellor
Study Groups’
Leaders Meet
Sunday Feb. 24
The Holy Name Society’s Lenten
discussion club program will gath
er momentum when leaders meet
Sunday, Feb. 24, at 3 p. m. at
St. Charles Seminary.
Instructions in study club tech
niques will be given by the Rev.
James W. Kulp, Diocesan Director
of the Confraternity of Christian
poctrine, and the Rev. Edward
F. Healey of the seminary faculty.
One of the features of the meet
ing, to which all Holy Name men
are invited, will be a demonstra
tion of
tion.
a discussion club in ac-
who attend will
manuals copies
Those
Final Honors
Paid To Late
Fr. Guenther
receive
of the
leaders’
recent statement of the U.S. Bish
ops, “God’s Law the Measure of
Man’s Conduct” and discussion
outlines for each meeting.
Group leaders unable to attend
the meeting will receive the ma
terial by mail, Father Kulp said.
Rev. Otto F. Guenther
The Columbus Diocest paid final
honors Tuesday to one of its priests
when Bishop Ready officiated at
Pontifical Requiem Mass for the
Rev. Otto F. Guenther, pastor of
St. Colman’s Church, Washington
Court House, who died in Mt. Car
mel Hospital Feb. 9.
Burial of the 56-year-old former
pastor of St. Augustine’s, Colum
bus, was in Sts. Peter and Paul
Cemetery, in his native town of
Glenmont, Ohio.
Assisting the Bishop were the
Rev. Raphael D. Rodgers, pastor of
St. Mary’s Church, Chillicothe, and
the Rev. Edmund McCormick,
pastor of St. Peter’s, Wheel
ersburg, deacons of honor
the Right Rev. Msgr. Joseph R.
Casey, Pastor of Holy Redeemer
Church, Portsmouth, and Dean of
he Southern Deanery, assistant
the Rev. Edward J. Reidy,
.Pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul’s,
Wellston^ deacon and the Rev. Jos
eph Stanton, assistant pastor of St.
Francis de Sales’, Newark, sub-dea
con. The Very Rev. Msgr. Harold J.
O’Donnell, assistant chancellor,
preached the sermon.
Born Nov. 22, 1895, Father Guen
ther, who was one of 13 children,
was educated at St. Fidelis College,
Herman, Pa., and at Our Lady of
Angels Seminary, Niagara Falls
N. Y.
He was ordained June 14, 1919,
by Bishop James J. Hartley at the
old Josephinum College, Columbus.
In the period from his ordina
tion until 1926 he served as assist
ant at St. Francis’, Newark St.
Mary’s, Dennison, and St. Petefs,
Steubenville and as Pastor at St.
Mary’s, Pine Grove, and St. Ter
esa’s, Cadiz.
In October, 1926, he was named
Pastor of St. Augustine’s Church.
The first Pastor of the Linden
parish, he undertook the building
of the present church
structure, which was
Aug. 28, 1927.
Victor J. Warken, Ohio Supervisor of Commodity Distribution,
and the Rev. Bennett C. Applegate, Acting Superintendent of Schools,
discuss the benefits of the National School Lunch Program. They
listed the following principal benefits received by schools that take
part in the program: 1) A cash reimbursement for each meal served
2) Free food purchased by the U. S. Department of Agriculture for
direct distribution to participating schools 3) Additional food pur­
and school
dedicated
St. Augus-
In his first year at
tine’s, Father Guenther also served
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Discuss School Lunch
I
K
Catholic Nurses
Set High Marks
In State Exams
Two graduates of Catholic nurs
ing schools in Columbus tied for
fifth place among the 1.383 nurses
who took the recent Ohio nursing
examinations.
An average of 98 was scored by
Miss Marilyn L. Snediker of Garden
City, N. Y., graduate of Mt. Carmel
Hospital School of Nursing, and by
Miss Elinor L. Pedry of St. Mary’s
Parish, Dennison, graduate of St.
Francis Hospital School
ing. Highest average in
exam was 98.6.
of Nurs
the state
of both
All of the graduates
schools who took the exam 31
from Mt. Carmel and seven from
St. Francis’—passed and won the
right to use the title of Registered
Nurse.
Midnight Liturgy Privileges
For Holy Saturday Extended
Reports Show Favorable Reactions To Last Year s
Experiment Ancient Vigil Restored
By Rev. Joseph J. Sullivan
VATICAN CITY—(NC)—The
faculty to transfer the liturgy of
Holy Saturday from the morning
to the evening hours of the same
day has been granted to Bishops
for an additional three years.
The faculty was first granted
to Bishops last year as an ex
periment. At that time it was
pointed out that moving the liturgy
back to the evening hours would
restore it to its ancient function
of being a vigil of the Resurrec
tion.
The three-year extension of this
faculty is contained in a decree
of the Sacred Congregation of
Rites which will be published in
the next issue of Acta Apostolicae
Sedis, a publication of the official
acts of the Holy See.
The new decree will recount the
reception of many reactions to last
year’s experiment. It will state
Boys Call Priest
Helicopter Padre
ABOARD USS ESSEX IN KO
REAN WATERS (NC) Men
on duty with the fast carrier
Task Force 77 call their chap
lain the “helicopter padre.” The
Columbus priest uses a helicop
ter to fly from ship to ship to
minister to the men.
He is the Rev. (Lt. Cdr.) Jo
seph J. Buzek, former adminis
trator of St. Paul’s Midvale and
St. Therese’s, Wainwright, Ohio.
While his primary duties are
aboard the USS Essex, Father
Buzek finds it necessary to look
after the spiritual welfare of his
men on other ships of. the task
force and that’s where the heli
copter comes in handy.
The silk vestments Father Bu
zek uses in serving the men of
Task Force 77 were made in Ja
pan by the Sisters of the Sacred
Heart. His silver Chalice, a gift
of the Catholic men aboard the
Essex, was handmade by a Jap
anese silversmith.
Program In Diocese
that the majority were favorable,
but several suggestions were of
fered.
The decree, this correspondent’s
source said, will contain some di
rections based on the study of
these experiences which were re
ported from various parts of the
world It details the rubrics even
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Fr. Petrarca
Will Be Buried
This Saturday
Priest’s Accomplishments
Brought Him Fame In
Manv Different Fields
Rev. Rocco Petrarca
The Rev. Rocco Petrarca died in
Detroit Tuesday after giving 53 of
his 75 years to the service of God
as a priest 35 of those years in
Columbus as Pastor of St. John
the Baptist Church.
Pontifical Requiem Mass will be
celebrated by Bishop Ready to
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chased by the Department of Agriculture in Its farm price support
program. Schools in the Columbus Diocese taking part in the program
last year received cash reimbursements totaling S28.716.46. Free
food received from the Ohio Office of Commodity Distribution was
valued at $34,575.45. (Seo second section for details of the National
School Lunch Program in the Columbus Diocese.)
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Extent Of Red War On Church
Shown By World-Wide Survey
List Includes Two Cardinals, 27 Archbishops, And 113
Other Heads Of Sees Affected By Reds
(N.CW.C. News Service)
The shocking magnitude of communism’s war on the
Church was thrown into bold relief with the compilation of
an exhaustive list of 142 Bishops and other heads of Sees who
have fallen victims of the Reds.
Compiled by the N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE, this modern
martyrology includes two Cardinals. 27 Archbishops, 81 Bish
ops, 19 Prefects Apostolic, six Administrators Apostolic, six
Vicars General and one Visitator Apostolic.
They have been either murdered, imprisoned, expelled
or otherwise impeded in the exercise of their offices. The
Vicars General included are those who suffered persecution
after becoming acting heads of Sees.
The shocking catalogue of names
hints anew at the plight of the
Catholic laity and clergy—from
Prague in the west to Peking in the
east—who have been deprived of
their
been
at a
faith
widespread and systematic attack
in history.
religious leaders. They have
left flocks without shepherds
time when their Christian
is under the most concerted,
The compilation includes the
names of victims of persecution re
leased last week by the Vatican
Press Office, which it said com
prised “the Church of Silence.**
The phrase is taken from the re
cent Christmas message of His
Holiness Pope Pius XII. However,
the NC list goes beyond this, and
catalogues victims established from
other sources.
List Not Complete
Exhaustive as it is, the NCWC
does not claim to name every Bish
op or bead of See who has ever
suffered at the hands of the Reds.
It lists only those who have been
murdered, imprisoned, permanent
ly barred from their sees or grave
ly impeded in the exercise of their
office. It does not attempt to men
tion those who have suffered iso
lated acts of violence or have been
obstructed in the exercise of their
office for only a brief time.
The honor roll of persecuted
Bishops shows that the spotlight
must swing from Europe to the Far
East. Because of its
ruthless decimation of
archy during the past
China stands at the top
in the number of victims of perse
cution.
swift and
the Hier
year, Red
of the list
At least 67 Bishops and other
heads of Sees have been expelled,
imprisoned or otherwise impeded
in the discharge of their office in
China. In the group is His Emi
nence
S.V.D., Archbishop of Peiping, who
is barred from returning to his
See Archbishop Anthony Riberi,
Papal Internuncio to China ousted
by the Reds, and 13 other Arch
bishops. Also included are seven
American Bishops and four Ameri
can Prefects Apostolic.
Behind iron Curtain
Thomas Cardinal Tien,
Responsibility for the next larg
est number of victims goes direct
ly to the Soviet Union. The list of
martyrs shows that Russia must
assume liability for the murder,
imprisonment ov exile c* 32 Bish
ops and other heads of Sees. This
includes victims of persecution in
the great slice of territory grabbed
from Poland after World War n,
and in Lithuania, Latvia and Es
tonia. These areas Moscow has in
corporated into the Soviet Union.
They do not include the so-called
satellite countries where Russian
communism dictates to puppet gov
ernments.
Other countries covered by the
list are: Albania. Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Korea, Poland, Rumania
and Yugoslavia.
Albania shows four victims: two
Bishops executed, an Archbishop
sentenced to prison, another Bishop
reported under house arrest.
Czechoslovakia has seven vic
tims four Bishops sentenced to
prison, an Archbishop banished,
one Bishop imprisoned without
trial, another Bishop forced from
his See.
Hungary shows four victims:
His Eminence Josef Cardinal Mind
szenty, Primate, and an Archbishop
sentenced to prison one BL .op
murdered, another reported in a
concentration camp.
Five Victims In Korea
Korea lists five victims: two
Bishops and two Prefects Apostolic
taken prisoner, another Bishop who
died in a Red prison. Two victims
are Americans.
Poland is obstructing the work of
two Bishops.
Rumania must take responsibil
ity for 15 victims of persecution
one American Archbishop expelled
as papal representative, another
Archbishop impeded, one Bishop
sentenced to prison, seven Bishops
imprisoned without trial, one Bish
op dead of communist maltreat
ment, another forced from his See
two Vicars General imprisoned, one
deported.
Yugoslavia shows up on the list
with one Bishop murdered in pris
on, another serving a prison term,
two Archbishops impeded in the
exercise of their office, one Bishop
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