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FAMILY LIFE
CONFERENCE
MARCH 24-26
Vol. 1, No 22
Diocese Plans Award
To Outstanding Family
Citation Will Be One Of Major Events Slated For
National Catholic Family Conference
An outstanding Catholic family
in the Columbus Diocese will re
ceive a special award from Bishop
Ready at the National Catholic
Family Life Conference, it was an
nounced this week. The Confer
ence will take place at the Deshler
Wallick Hotel, Columbus, March
24-26.
Presentation of the family life
award will be made at the Tuesday
evening session. March 25, to a
family chosen from a list recom
mended by the pastors.
The Rev. Thomas F. Duffy, gen
eral chairman of the convention,
explained this week that “it would
be impossible to make any objec
tive selection of one family from
among the many fine families of
the diocese upon the basis of the
excellence of their family life
alone.”
The convention committee there
fore decided to base the award on
some achievement in the interest
of the family either in the parish,
the diocese, or the community.
Examples of such achievement
listed by the committee include:
1) Participation in public forums
and programs promoting the prin
ciples of Catholic family living.
2) Cooperation in activities in
tended to foster better family life,
such as the promotion of the fam
ily rosary, family prayer, family
Communion, Cana conferences, etc.
3) Achievement in the commun
ity in the interest of the family in
such areas as housing, social wel
fare, legislation, journalism, etc.
Russian Expert
Slated To Speak
An address on “The Family Be
hind the Iron Curtain” by a native
of Russia who is now a professor
at the University of Notre Dame
will be a special feature of the
three-day conference.
Dr. Waldemar Gurian, noted
authority on Russian affairs and
editor of the Review of Politics
at Notre Dame, will give the ad
dress. He is expected to describe
how the Communists have reversed
themselves on such matters affect
ing family life as public-sponsored
abortion and birth prevention.
In line with this year’s confer
ence theme, “The Home, a Church
in Miniature,” the majority of ses
sions will be devoted to religion
as it pertains to family life. Two
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Young women who want to
serve Christ as nuns, who think
they may want to do so in the fu
ture, or who just want to learn
more about the various congrega
tions of nuns, will be guests at a
symposium on religious life Sunday.
March 9, at 2 p. m. at the College
of St. Mary of the Springs.
Girls from the seventh to the
12th grades of schools in the Dio
cese, and others interested in the
subject, will have an opportunity
to become acquainted with the 19
religious communities of women
represented in the Diocese.
Planned as a Vocation Month
dozen authorities will discuss the
theology of marriage and Christ
ian family living, appropriate re
ligious practices for the family
circle, and the home as a religious
training school for the child.
Special sessions will be devoted
to such topics as the “Home and
Church,” ‘‘The Family Retreat,”
“The Office of Sponsors,” “The
Vocation of Marriage,” “Blessings
for Home and Family," “Celebrat
ing Religious Milestones in the
Family Circle,” and “Making Use
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Licking County
Welfare Assn.
Names Board
Thirteen men were elected to the
Advisory Board of the Catholic
Welfare Association of Licking
County at its annual meeting in
Newark last week.
Elected for three years were:
John Callahan, Edward Doneff,
Earl Fatzinger, and Edward Blanch.
For two years: Joseph Kavalycez,
Dr. Gilbert Mannino, Matthew Mate
sich, William Giles, Sr., and How
ard Mueller.
For one year: Dr. James Nealon,
Fred Swank, Herman Warnement,
and Orin Radcliffe.
Licking County pastors are
ex officio members of the board.
They are: the Rev. Richard Grosser
of Blessed Sacrament, Newark the
Rev. Vincent Mooney of St. Ed
ward’s, Granville the Rev. Edward
McGinty of St. Francis de Sales’,
Newark the Rev. Charles Curran
of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Buck
eye Lake and the Rev. Edwin Mc
Nulty of the Church of the Ascen
sion, Johnstown.
Mr. Swank, president of the As
sociation, presided at the meeting.
Speakers included the Rev. Wil
liam E. Kappes, Diocesan Director
of Charities and Hospitals William
Schmidt, Chairman of the Advis
ory Board of the Catholic Welfare
Bureau of Columbus and Fred Gar
rity, executive secretary of the
Newark Community Chest and a
member of St. Francis de Sales’
parish, Newark.
Young Women With Questions On Vocations
Will Get Answers At Symposium March 2nd
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Serious questions are revolving in the mind of this high school junior. With hundreds of other
young women of the Columbus Diocese she will receive useful information .nd wise counsel on her voca
tion problem at the symposium on religious life Sunday, March 9 (Mary Ann Lilley of St. Mary's High
School, Columbus, is the girl in the photo.)
event to awaken interest in relig
ious vocations among young wom
en, the project will be sponsored
by the Religious Vocations Commit
tee of the Diocese, of which the
Rev. Thomas A. Sabrey is chair
man.
Other members of the commit
tee are: Sister M. Arsenia, O.S.F.,
of St. Mary’s High School Sister M.
Kathleen, O.S.F., of Holy Rosary
High School Sister Francis de
Sales, S.C.N. of St. Agatha’s School
and Sister M. Joel, C.S.C. of St.
Catharine’s School, all in Colum
bus and Sister Rose Marie, O.P.. of
St. Francis de Sales’ School, New
ark.
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Sister Francis Gabriel, O.P., of
the College of St. Mary of the
Springs, will be co-ordinator of the
symposium. Participants will in
clude a postulant, a novice, a pro
fessed sister, and a golden jubilar
ian.
Representatives of the various re
ligious communities of women in
the Diocese also will give two-min
ute talks on the origin and works
of their communities.
Registration for the religious
vocation program will begin at 1:30
p. m.
Benediction will close the pro
gram at 4 p. m. in Christ the King
chapel at Be college.
The Catholic
Newman Hall To Be Blessed,
Formally Opened March 9th
Bishop Will Officiate At Ceremonies Al New Center
For Catholic Students At Ohio State
Bishop Ready will officiate at
the formal opening of Newman
Hall, center for Catholic students
at Ohio State University, Sunday,
March 9, and will celebrate Mass
there at 10:30 a. m.
Prior to the Mass the Bishop
will bless the chapel and social
rooms of the new center, and in
the afternoon the hall will be ded
icated and an “open house” will be
held for the public.
The chapel will be named for
St. Thomas More, one-time Oxford
student, who combined literary
pursuits with a courageous defense
of his religion, and who was mar
tyred for his faith in 1535.
After Mass there will be a lunch
eon at Newman Hall for officers of
the State Council of the Knights of
Columbus, whose contributions dur
ing the past four years have made
the new building possible the
Newman Mothers’ Club, which co
operates with the students and
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, Fob. 29, 1952
K. of €. Give $10,000 For Catholic Youth
The Knights of Columbus presented a check for $10,000 to Bishop Reedy last week from the State
Council's Youth Fund towards construction and equipment of Newman Hall, a center for Catholic stu
dents at Ohio State University. Shown making the presentation to the Bishop is Jack Malloy of Lima,
State Deputy, Ohio State Council, as Ray H. Berne rt of Steubenville, Executive Assistant to the State
Deputy, looks on.
their chaplain in developing a core
of Catholic culture within the uni
versity and representatives of the
students.
The new chapel accommodates
500 persons, and services now
scheduled include daily and Sun
day Masses, evening Rosary, week
ly Holy Hours, and regular novenas
and retreats.
Plan Instructions
The Rev. James McEwan, chap
lain to the Catholic students at
the university, also conducts mar
riage instruction courses and in
structions for non-Catholics.
Also planned for the center are
college-credit courses in Catholic
philosophy and doctrine Sunday
evening lectures by priests and
laymen from various fields discus
sion groups for students in the
professions of law, medicine, nurs
ing, and pharmacy seminars and
Cana Conferences each quarter of
the school year vocational guid
ance by successful business and
professional men and student dis
cussion clubs in academic subjects
and contemporary problems.
The assembly rooms of the new
hall provide a meeting place for
students to enjoy wholesome so
cial life and properly supervised
companionship between Catholic
young men and women.
Social events sponsored by the
Newman club include parties, open
houses, picnics, and other forms of
recreation.
The Newman club was establish
ed at Ohio State university in 1906,
but it was not until 1945 that it
was provided with a center and
resident chaplain.
Begun In 1950
Transformation of the 14-room
house at Iuka avenue was begun in
1950, and the cornerstone was laid
by Bishop Ready in October of that
year.
In a recent letter inviting sup
port of the project, Bishop Ready
declared that “nowhere in America
is the need for religious education
and strong spiritual influence more
critical than at our great state uni
versities, where extensive facili
ties for the study of engineering,
science, commerce, agriculture,
medicine, and law attract so many
of our Catholic youth.”
“Here at Ohio State University,"
he continued, “these young people
were for many years without a
shepherd. The need to provide for
them became imperative at the end
of the war, which brought a tre
mendous influx of students under
the G.I. bill.
“At substantial cost to the Di
ocese of Columbus, a center, with
a resident chaplain, was opened
near the campus in 1946. This soon
became inadequate and plans were
made to provide better
for the 3,500 Catholics
thA university.”
facilities
attending
Sunday,
The ceremonies on _____
Inarch 9, will mark the realization
of those plans.
Cana Conference
Slated March 2
The Rev. Thomas F. Duffy, Direc
tor of the Family Life program in
the Diocese of Columbus, has an
nounced a Cana Conference to be
given in the Catholic Student Cen
ter at Ohio State University, Sun
day, March 2, at 1 p. m.
The Rev. Thomas W. Murphy, as
sistant Secretary of Catholic Chari
ties of the Archdiocese of Detroit
and long active in Cana work, will
conduct the Conference.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jacobs, 655
Berkeley road, Columbus, have
been appointed chairmen of the
Conference.
A MINK
Mt. Carmel Hospital
‘Open House' Sunday
The Sisters of the Holy Cross
repeated their invitation this
week to the people of Colum
bus to visit the Greater Mt. Car
mel Hospital Sunday, March 2,
when “open house” will be held
from 9 to 11 a.m. and from 2 to
6 p.m.
Completion of the second of
Mt. Carmel’s proposed three
new wings increases the capaci
ty of the hospital by more than
115 beds, in addition to provid
ing entirely new and enlarged
facilities for medical, surgical,
maternity, and emergency pa
tients.
In a letter to contributors and
other friends. Sister M. Constan
tine, Administrator, said: “With
out your generosity and co
operation the new wings would
not be a reality today, and we
ask God to bless you for your
goodness to us.”
Persons attending the “open
house” were asked to use the
new emergency entrance on
Souder avenue below State
street.
Another U. S.
Bishop Taken
By China Reds
HONG KONG (NC) An
American-born Bishop has been ar
rested by the Chinese Reds. A Ger
man-born Archbishop has become
so critically ill in a Red prison
that he was moved to a mission
hospital.
Bishop John O’Shea of Kanchow,
a Vincentian and native of Deep
River, Conn., was arrested in the
early morning of February 17, with
two Chinese priests, the Revs. Jo
seph Wang and Charles Chen.
The critically ill prelate is Arch
bishop Cyril Rudolph Jarre, O.F.M.,
of Tsinan, Shantung province. He
had been in prison eight months.
The charges against Bishop
O’Shea and the two Chinese priests
are that they participated in the
Legion of Mary, which the Reds
have long ago branded as “reac
tionary and counter-revolutionary”
because of its intrepid resistance
to the Red “reformed church”
movement.
Thirty police surrounded the
Kanchow mission in Kiangsi prov
ince prior to the arrest. Two Le
gion members were also taken.
Bishop O’Shea has been in China
for 31 years. He is known to be
in very poor health. He had re
covered from a ten-day illness just
before his arrest. Attempts to send
food to him in prison have been
rebuffed.
The two Chinese priests were
originally of the Paoting diocese.
They served as spiritual directors
of the Legion of Mary at the hos
pital and parish in Kanchow. At
the same time communist pamph
lets accusing other foreign priests
of “grimes” are being circulated
throughout the city.
Bishop O’Shea, 64, was superior
of the first band of American Vin
centians to go to China in 1921. He
never left China. After the Reds
“liberated” his diocese in 1949
Bishop O’Shea was greatly handi
capped in performing his duties.
Mission buildings were seized by
the Reds, and he and his priests
were subjected to gruelling court
hearings.
Lenten Regulations
The Lenten Regulations pub
lished last week in the Cath
olic Times will be found on
page two of this week's issue.
It is suggested that you clip
them and keep them in a con
venient place for reference.
DIVISION
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The body now found, lower in
the original grave, has been identi
fied by Francisco’s father, who rec
ognized the boy’s rosary entwined
in the skeleton of his hands.
Francisco Marto, aged 9, and
Jacinta Marto, aged 7, were two of
the three shepherd children to
whom the Blessed Virgin appeared
at Fatima, near here, on May 13,
1917. The other was Lucia dos
Santos, aged 10, their cousin. Lucia
is the only survivor and is a Car
melite nun.
Francisco and Jacinta died a
few years after the apparitions at
Fatima. Jacinta, who died in a Lis
bon hospital, was first placed in a
private vault in Ourem cemetery
and later moved to a tomb in the
Fatima cemetery. Francisco, who
died in his parents’ home at Aljus-
Convert Drive
Brings 4,700
Back To Faith
SAN DIEGO, Calif.—(NC) The
Campaign for Converts conducted
in the Diocese of San Diego last
November resulted in 4,784 lapsed
Catholics returning to the practice
of the Faith, it is revealed in a
report on the undertaking made
public by Bishop Charles F. Buddy
of San Diego.
The Bishop's report shows that
out of a total of 274 priests in the
Diocese of San Diego, 251 were ac
tively engaged in the Campaign for
Converts 4,694 square blocks and
1,121 rural areas were canvassed
95,054 non-Catholic homes were
visited 6,118 non-Catholics ex
pressed an interest in taking in
struction in the Catholic religion
1,946 non-Catholics are actually
taking instruction 4,784 lapsed
Catholics returned to their re
ligious duties, and 149 information
forums were organized throughout
the diocese to give catechetical in
structions twice a week.
Lauding the enthusiastic co
operation of the priests and laity
in the campaign, Bishop Buddy
said that “where no appreciable
number of converts to the Faith
was registered, the return of 4,784
lapsed Catholics more than justi
fied the effort.” He added that this
crusade for souls would be “re
emphasized in another campaign
next fall.”
Six weeks of novenas, conferenc
es and days of recollection preced
ed the actual work of the cam
paign,
center
ization
stress
pastor
non-Catholic resident within the
boundaries of his parish received
an invitation to come to the church
or to the information center.
Every parish served as a
in the diocesan-wide organ
and an effort was made to
the responsibility of each
to make certain that every
At the request of Bishop Buddy,
the Rev. Dr. John A. O’Brien of
i the University of Notre Dame
spearheaded the campaign.
New Diocesan Television Programs
To Be Inaugurated On March 2nd
Non-Catholic Cemeteries
Salesmen for non-Catholic Cemeteries frequently go from
door to door peddling their plots. When they visit a Catholic home
they often falsely claim that there is a Catholic section in their
public cemeteries or that they will have an individual grave
blessed. No one has been authorized by the Diocese of Columbus
to establish a Catholic section in these cemeteries nor is permis
sion granted to have the individual graves blessed.
Over the centuries, traditionally and by Church regulations,
burial in a Catholic cemetery has been considered an honor, a
privilege, and an obligation.
It is an honor the Church bestows on her faithful children
primarily intended as a tribute to their fidelity to her teachings
during life here on earth.
It is a privilege extended to Catholics at a time when they
are particularly in need of the prayers and indulgences embodied
in the burial service of the Church.
It is an obligation since the Church has always insisted that
Catholics be buried in a Catholic Cemetery.
This honort privilege, and obligation of Catholics to bury in
consecrated ground is proper, for the body buried has been
during life a temple of the Holy Ghost and is destined for re
union with the soul for all eternity.
A Catholic Cemetery is “God’s Acre” blessed and consecrated
according to the age-old ritual of the Church. It is an indulgenced
place of prayer. Within its sacred precincts wordless sermons
are preached on the sacred truths of our faith, for it radiates
the hope of the future reunion with our departed loved ones in
the kingdom of God.
Body Of Francisco Marto Is
Found In Its Original Grave
By Susan Lowndes Marques
LISBON—(Radio) The body of
Francisco Marto has been found.
It was announced today that the
discovery was made by Francisco's
father, Manuel, who is now more
than 80 years of age his brother,
Joao, and the sexton, digging in
the village cemetery on the spot
where the boy’s body was original
ly interred.
They found the coffin below the
place from which an earlier coffin,
thought to contain Francisco's re
mains, had been transferred in
1935, with Jacinta’s, that of his
sister, to a newly-prepared tomb in
the Fatima cemetery. When this
other coffin was opened last May
for transference to the Fatima ba
silica, it was found to contain the
bones of a boy much older than
Francisco had been at the time of
his death.
trel, was buried in the local cem
etery. What was presumed to be
his coffin was removed in 1935 to
the tomb at Fatima. When both
coffins were opened last year, for
identification preparatory to re
moval to the new Fatima basilica,
the bones in what was thought to
be Francisco’s coffin were found
to be those of a 15-year-old boy. It
was thought at the time that Fran
cisco’s remains had been lost.
Church, medical and civil offi
cials have officially recognized the
relics of Francisco, which will be
transferred to the basilica to rest
beside those of Jacinta, already
there.
Three U. S. Archbishops this
week appealed to American Cath
olics for generosity in the collec
tion for Indian and Negro missions
to be taken up in the churches of
the Diocese this Sunday, March 2.
The joint appeal was signed by
Francis Cardinal Spellman, Arch
bishop of New York, Archbishop
Francis P. Keough of Baltimore,
and Archbishop John F. O’Hara of
Philadelphia.
“It is fitting,” they wrote “that
a day be set apart at the beginning
of Lent for special prayer for the
Negro and Indian missions in this
country and for a thoughtful con
sideration of the claims which this
apostolic work has upon us. For
we are to be saved and sanctified,
not only by drawing near to the
Cross of our Blessed Savior, but
also by helping others to share in
the fruits of His plentiful redemp
tion.
“This solicitude for the salvation
of others should reach out especial
ly to those who live amongst us,
even those of other races.
in the Negro and in the
souls that our Redeemer
have for His own, and to
cordingly towards them is to have
SUPPORT
YOUR DIOCESAN
NEWSPAPER
To see
Indian
would
act ac­
Dr. Wu treated the lecture
goers to the unusual experience
of hearing themselves addressed
as “Brothers and Sisters in
Christ.” Smiling, he pointed out
that he did not doubt they were
ladies and gentlemen, but felt
their mutual membership in the
Mystical Body of Christ was
more important.
“In the spiritual life,” he warn
ed, “not to progress is to fall back.
The moment we cease to strive for
perfection, our souls become luke
warm and mediocre.”
Repeatedly he stressed the need
for constant progress in the life of
grace. “Many are too easily satis
fied with a few Catechism prin
ciples,” he said, “and it is because
they do not understand the need
for steady interior growth that
their spiritual life is stunted.”
In an interview. Dr. Wu recom
mended closed retreats as one of
the best means of “living constant
ly in God’s sight."
Speaking of his beloved China,
Dr. Wu expressed the convictiox
Price Ton Cents $3.00 A Year
Family Life To Be Theme
Of Series Scheduled
To Start Here Sunday
The second the series of Di
ocesan-sponsored television pro
grams will begin this Sunday,
March 2, at 2:30 p.m. over WBNS
TV (Channel 10) Columbus. In
augurating the series will be the
Rev. Thomas W. Murphy, Assistant
Secretary of Catholic Charities in
the Archdiocese of Detroit, and
the Rev. Thomas F. Duffy of St.
Charles College, Columbus, who
will be guests of the Right Rev.
Msgr. Ronald T. Wind, Chancellor
of the Diocese of Columbus.
The series, to be seen at 2:30
p.m. each Sunday afternoon of
March, is being offered in prep
aration for the annual convention
of the National Catholic Family
Life Conference which will be held
in Columbus March 24-26.
Sunday's program with Father
Murphy and Father Duffy will dis
cuss the immediate preparation for
marriage through pre-Cana con
ferences and the solution of prob
lems facing present-day family life
by conducting Cana Conferences
and the formation of small Cana
groups for married couples in the
parishes.
The remainder of the Sunday
afternoon programs over WBNS-TV
will bring to television audiences
various phases of Catholic family
life.
Father Murphy has been promi
nently associated with Cana work
in Detroit for several years. He
has done extensive work in family
counselling and presently is the
director of the Parental-Child Sex
Education Program of the Detroit
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic
Women.
As director of the Family Life
Program in the Diocese of Colum
bus, Father Duffy has conducted
many Cana Conferences in Colum
bus. He has been appointed Gen
eral Chairman of the 1952 Nation
al Catholic Family Life Convention
here in Columbus.
Sunday Affords Opportunity
To Aid Negro, Indian Missions
His spirit to follow His example to
fulfill His desires.”
They point out t" it there are
15,000,000 Negroes in the U. S. and
about 350.000 Indians—“in dire
need of the help that the Church
alone has to give.”
“Today,” they wrote, “more than
400,000 Negroes and 100,000 Indi
ans are Catholics. During the past
year alone, over 10,000 of them
have embraced the true Faith.”
But the Archbishops go on to
remind the faithful that “only one
Negro out of 37, and only one In
dian out of three, is a Catholic.”
“Millions of others, literally, have
not as yet heard the voice of the
Good Shepherd. This stark fact
may well weigh heavily upon our
hearts. Our unfinished duty is tre
mendous.”
The appeal closed with the re
minder that “the maintenance of
this work depends greatly upon
you. Its expansion depends entire
ly upon you. We urge you, there
fore, to be generous in your con
tributions. and to be fervent in
your prayers that God may draw
many souls to Himself through the
ministry of His apostolic servants.”
Spirituality Is Concern Of All,
Oriental Scholar Emphasizes
The life of the spirit should be
everyone’s daily concern, according
to Dr. John C. H. Wu, Chinese
statesman, diplomat, poet, trans
lator of Scripture, father of 13
children, and convert to the Cath
olic Church.
Dr. Wu, author of “Beyond East
and West,” gave the fifth in the
current Erskine Lecture series
Sunday at the College of St. Mary
of the Springs, Columbus.
that “this is the most glorious day
in the history of the Church in
China.”
“The efforts of all the mission
aries for the past 300 years will
bring forth a remarkable harvest,”
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Minister Decries
Bad Feeling Over
Envoy To Vat’ran
NEW YORK—(NO—In Presi
dent Truman’s appointment of an
Ambassador to the Vatican "the
Protestant churches have at last
found an issue, to hate the Cath
olics, and are lashing themselves
into a perfect fury of attack.” a
prominent Protestant churchman
has declared.
The Rev. John Haynes Holmes
said that “this, I suppose, is what
they understand Christianity to
be.”
Dr. Holmes made his statement
in a letter to the New Leader
here praising a column by that
weekly review’s editor comment
ing on the Vatican appointment.
In his January 24 "Home Front”
column William E. Bohn had said
that the “shout” which went up
over the appointment of Gen. Mark
W. Clark as Vatican Ambassador
“reminds one of the witebbuming
days.”
“I don’t see any important rea
son for such an appointment,”
Mr. Bohn wrote, “but why get so
excited about it?”