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AVE MARIA
GRATIA PLENA
DOMINUS TECUM
Vol. 1, No. 37
Featured Will Be Keynote
Speakers, Awards, Mass
For Deceased Members
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC)
More than a dozen topics of high
current interest to Catholic editors
and publishers will be discussed
at the 42nd Annual Catholic Press
Association convention here, June
18 to 21.
His Eminence Samuel Cardinal
Stritch. Archbishop of Chicago,
will preside and speak at the con
vention banquet. Bishop Thomas K.
Gorman, Coadjutor of Dallas and
Episcopal Chairman of the Press
Department, National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, will be honorary
chairmen of the keynote luncheon,
chairman of the session consider
ing News Service problems and
will preside at the Journalism
Tinies Men to Attend
R«v. David Dennis, assistant
editor, and Robert Wunderlin,
business manager, will repre
sent the Catholic Times at the
42nd annual convention of the
Catholic Press Association at
Notre Dame.
Awards luncheon. Bishop John F.
Noll of Fort Wayne, host to the
convention, will deliver the key
note address at the keynote lunch
eon and will also speak at the con
vention banquet. Bishop Albert R.
Zuroweste of Belleville, Ill., Assist
ant Episcopal Chairman of the
N.C.W.C. Press Department, will
offer the annual Mass for deceas
ed members of the C.P.A., and
Bishop Leo A. Pursley, Auxiliary
of Fort Wayne, will preach on this
occasion.
Topics to be considered at indi
vidual sessions of the convention
include: the effect headlines have
on newspaper readership, how oth
er media (pamphlets, books, etc.)
affect Catholic magazines, the
place of the Catholic newspaper in
its community, research as an aid
to editors and publishers, a pro
fessional code of ethics for Cath
olic magazines, the function of a
diocesan publication, Catholic ed
itors and women readers, how to
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Requiem Mass
For Brother Said
By Local Priest
Requiem High Mass for Ambrose
M. Schneider, 74, of Columbus, who
died last Sunday, was celebrated
in St. Leo’s Church Wednesday by
his brother, the Rev. Cornelius
Schneider.
Mr. Schneider is survived by his
wife, Ida two sons a daughter an
other brother five sisters, all of
W'hom are nuns and 12 grandchil
dren.
Mr. Schneider, who lived at 100
Thurman avenue, was a member of
the Holy Name Society at St. Leo’s
and the Knights of St. John. For
many years, he managed a jewelry
store at Main and Third streets.
Burial was in St. Joseph ceme
tery.
Priest Who Sa
On Last Land 1
An Iowa priest who said the
first Mass ever to be celebrated
on Earth’s last continent visited
Columbus this week.
He is the Kev. William J. Men
atcr of Dubuque, la. The “last con
tinent” was Antarctica where he
said the Mass when he was chap
lain of the fourth Byrd expedition,
“Operation High Jump,” in 1946
47. His visit to Columbus is to at
tend the Ohio State convention of
the Amvets of which he is nation
al chaplain.
Not only was the Mass which Fa
ther Menster said on Jan. 26, 1947,
the first Mass ever to be celebrated
on the great frozen waste “way
down under,” but it was also in his
own words, “the first public wor
ship to God ever conducted by any
clergyman of any faith in that
farthest South area."
Age-Old, Ageless
In a tent pitched on the lonely
Ice-pack in the great white silence
of Little America, a scant few hun
dred miles from the South Pole Fa
ther Menster set up his tiny altar.
His little congregation of lonely
men, thousands of weary miles and
many weary months from home,
knelt on the rough ice and bowed
their heads as Father Menster of
fered the age-old, ageless, sacri
fice.
Said Father Menster: “It was a
solemn moment. It was, I believe,
a fulfilment of the words the
prophecy of St. Paul in his
Epistle to the Romans (Rom. 1-8):
‘First I give thanks to my God
through Jesus Christ for all of
you, because your faith is proclaim
ed all over the world.’
Catholic Press Association Meets
At Notre Dame For 42nd Annual
Convention: Three-Day Parley Set
To Address
A
Four Fined
Four editors and writers, two of
them women, were found guilty by
the court and each fined the equiv
alent of $150 and costs. At the
same time, the court ordered the
defendants to print retractions in
their own newspapers and in two
prominent secular dailies—Il Mes
saggero, of Rome, and Corriere
della Sera, of Milan.
The case originated in May,
1949, when the Rota brought suit
after L’Unita and II Paese printed
articles stating that annulments
of marriage could be “bought”
from it. Subsequently, L’Avanti
and Noi Donne made similar
charges, and the Rota brought suit
against them also.
Outcome of the case was an-
id First Mass
Visits Columbus
“Thus,” he added, “with this
Mass, the Faith, figuratively and
literally, reached the ends of the
world.”
The only clergyman of any de
nomination to accompany the Byrd
expedition that far South, Father
j|lF
Father Menster
Menster incorporated his experi
ences in a book, “Strong Men
South,” published in 1949 by the
Bruce Company of Milwaukee.
Father Menster’s assignment to
the Byrd Expedition was under
Navy orders. A Lieutenant-Com
mander, he served as chaplain in
the South Pacific for two years
from 1942 in the thick of the great
battle with the Japanese for con
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Journalists
Catholic journalists from all
parts of the United States will
attend the annual convention of
the Catholic Press Association, at
the University of Notre Dame, In
diana, June 18-21. Cardinal
Stritch, Archbishop of Chicago
(upper photo), will give the ban
quet address. Among the other
participants are (lower photos)
Bishop Thomas K. Gorman (left),
Coadjutor Bishop of Dallas and
honorar president of the CPA
Bishop John F. Noll (center), of
Ft. Wayne, host to the members
who will give the keynote ad
dress Francis A. Fink (r*9ht), of
Our Sunday Visitor, president of
the CPA, who will preside. (NC
Photos)
Roman Rota Wins Libel Suit
Against Four Leftist Papers
By Rev. Joseph J. Sullivan
ROME (Radio, NC) The
Sacred Roman Rota has won a li
bel suit against three communist
publications and one socialist news
paper for printing defamatory re
marks against the Vatican tribunal.
Involved in the case were the
two Rome dallies, L’UnftS and II
Paese, and Noi Donne, a woman’s
magazine, all communist organs,
and L’Avanti, socialist newspaper.
The Rota, which handles appeals
from diocesan courts in matrimoni
al cases, had complained that ar
ticles appeared in the publications
alleging that “annulments” could
be “bought” by those with enough
money.
nounced in Osservatore Romano,
Vatican newspaper, which publish
ed a full page history of the suit.
The newspaper stressed it had
been necessary to establish recog
nition of the juridical personality
of the Sacred Roman Rota because
of leftist objections that the tri
bunal had no such standing.
Osservatore cited facts and fig
ures from the Rota’s annual re
ports which, it said, prove that the
number of decisions granting an
nulments of marriages by the tri
bunal has been greater among
those whose cases were handled
free of charge than among those
able to pay fees.
(In its 1951 report, the Rota dis
closed that it heard 184 marriage
cases during the year, and that 88
of these were handled free, all the
expenses being borne by the Holy
See. Marriages were held to be
valid in 116 cases, and in the re
maining 68 cases decrees of nul
lity were handed down.)
Proof Cited
The Vatican newspaper said that
the trial had revealed the annual
deficit sustained by the Rota in
its work. It stated that in the 1948
1949 judicial year the deficit was
about 20 million lire, or $30,000.
It said approximately the same def
icit resulted in the 1949-1950 year,
while in 1950-1951 the deficit was
about $37,000.
All these deficits, Osservatore
added, were related to the costs of
the cases brought before the
Sacred Roman Rota and were ex
clusive of expenses involved in
maintaining premises, and furnish
ing various other incidental needs.
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New Bill Aids Churches
WASHINGTON (NC) Both
houses of Congress have passed a
bill permitting churches to import,
duty free, articles for church pur
poses. Altars, pi||pits, communion
tables, baptismal fonts, shrines or
parts of foregoing, including statu
ary, could up to now be imported
duty free only if the donor had
the shipments made in his own
name.
The measure was sent to Presi
dent Truman.
Dropping ‘Anti’
Pamphlets An
Error, He Says
WASHINGTON (NC)—A half
dozen copies of an anti-Catholic
pamphlet fluttered down from the
visitors’ gallery on to the floor of
the United States Senate during
one of its regular sessions. Copies
of the pamphlet struck two Sen
ators.
Police took into custody an eld
erly man who had been sitting in
the gallery. They said later that
he claimed he had not dropped
the pamphlets deliberately, but
that they had fallen from his hand.
He was released. Some persons at
the Capitol said they had seen cop
ies of the same pamphlet in at
least one other place in Washing
ton, mingled with legitimate press
releases available to Washington
Newsmen.
The pamphlet is entitled ‘Paroch
ial Schools and Treason”, and at
tacks “the Vatican’s schools.”
The Catholic limes
Columbus 16, Ohio, iFriday, Juno 13, 1952
The Sacred Priesthood
The priest is the minister of
Christ, an instrument, that is
to say, in the hands of the Di
vine Redeemer. He continues
the work of the redemption in
all its world-embracing univers
ality and divine efficacy, that
work that wrought so marvelous
a transformation in the world.
Thus the priest, as is said with
good reason, is indeed “another
Christ” for, in some way he is
himself a continuation of Christ,
“As the Father hath sent Me, I
also send you,” is spoken tfi the
priest, and hence the priest, like
Christ, continues to give “Glory
to God in the highest and on
earth peace to men of good
will.”
From The Encyclical
“Ad Catholici Sacer
dotii” of Pius XI
robin Says Labor
Is Youth Frontier
DUBUQUE, la.—(NC)—The trade
union movement is a field of rich
opportunity for Catholic young peo
ple, Secretary of Labor Maurice J.
Tobin told 140 graduates at Loras
College here.
“This labor movement, it seems
to me, is a new frontier for Amer
ica’s young people, full of job op
portunities of all kinds,” the Cab
inet member declared.
He specified the need for tech
nicians, lawyers, economists, writ
ers, newsmen and specialists in
public relations, education and so
cial work.
Terming the trade union move
ment a challenge to all young peo
ple he said “it is a challenge for
young Catholics in particular, for
the eyes of the Church are turned
upon working people and their
problems more than ever before.”
“The razor sharp edge of the new
social order is in the field of labor
and industrial relations,” Secretary
Tobin continued.
“Regardless of the career you
choose, you have a moral obliga
tion as men trained to be future
leaders, to become constantly fa
miliar with the great social changes
of our time and the new develop
ments in industrial relations. I
nestly ask you to look to labor to
morrow, for therein lies our fu
ture greatness as a Nation, and
therein lie great opportunities for
dedicated Catholic lay leaders.”
HONK KONG—(NC) A com
munist court has sentenced Msgr.
Ignatius Maxmilian Koenig. Pre
fect Apostolic of Shoawu, Fukien
Province, to a year’s imprisonment,
it was reported here. The same
court, held at the local police head
quarters, impose a seven-month
prison sentence on 63-year-old Sis
ter Ferdinanda Gauss, and expelled
another nun and three priests.
Msgr. Koenig and Sister Ferdin
anda were arrested on May 5 at the
Shaowu mission by the security po
lice and bound like criminals, were
led through the streets to the jail.
The entire mission personnel, con
sisting of five priests and two sis
ters, had been under house deten-
Seek To Solve
Vital Problem
Of Migration
Delegates From 35 Nations
Meet In Spain To Help
Ease Road Of Displaced
BARCELONA—(NC)— A world
wide program of education and in
terpretation of Christian principles
in tackling the problem of surplus
populations was recommended here
at the first general meeting of the
International Catholic Migration
Commission.
Delegates from 35 countries at
tending the meeting also called for
“a widening of Catholic activity
in every country, bringing about
a mobilization of all Catholic re
sources toward that end.”
The sessions were presided over
by James J. Norris, European di
rector of War Relief Services, Na
tional Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, and chairman of the Com
mission’s executive committee.
One of the resolutions adopted
appealed “to governments with re
sources and territories to liberalize
their immigration legislation with
a view to making a substantial
contribution to world peace
through a more equitable distribu
tion of the goods of the world to
all men.”
Recognizing that “large move
ments of peoples needed for a solu
tion of the surplus population
problem cannot take place without
substantial capital investments on
the part of international, national,
governmental and private sources,
delegates declared:
“Such investments should be of
a sound economic basis giving a
fair return to the investors.”
Famed (JlUTcIl
Leader Dies
In New Jersey
Final Rites Of Archbishop
Walsh To Be Televised
Millions Mourn Prelate
NEWARK, N. J. NC Sol
emn Pontifical Requiem Mass for
the Most Rev. Thomas Joseph
Walsh, 78, first Archbishop of
Newark, will be offered today in
St. Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral here.
His Excellency Archbishop Am
leto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic
Delegate to the United States, will
offer the Mass and Bishop Thomas
L. Boland of Paterson, one of seven
members of the American Hier
archy who were consecrated by
Archbishop Walsh, will preach the
sermon. The funeral rites will be
televised and broadcast by radio.
Chinese Reds Jail Prelate,
Nun Banish 4i Missionaries
The spiritual leader of more
than 1,000,000 Catholics in the
Newark archdiocese died June 6.
He will be laid to rest in a crypt
in the new Cathedral of the Sacred
Heart, now nearing completion,
which he did so much to make
possible.
At a meeting of the archdiocesan
consultors, Bishop James A. Mc
Nulty, Auxiliary of Newark, was
elected to serve as administrator
of the archdiocese until a succes
sor to Archbishop Walsh is named
by the Holy See.
Archbishop Walsh had a part in
the development of five Catholic
colleges in New Jersey and more
than 200 churches, schools, hos
pitals, orphanages and other insti
tutions were added to the arch
diocese which was under his direc
tion since 1937.
A priest for 52 years and a Bish
op for nearly 34 years. Archbishop
Walsh was born at Parker’s Land
ing, Pa., on December 6, 1873, the
son of Thomas and Helen Curtin
Walsh. He studied for the priest
hood at the College and Seminary
of St. Bonaventure, Alleghany, N.
Y., at the Apollinaris University,
Pontifical seminary in Rome,
where he received doctorates in
divinity and Canon Law, and was
ordained in Buffalo, N. Y., on Jan
uary 27, 1900.
Archbishop Walsh was named an
Assistant at the Pontifical Throne
in 1922, less than four years after
his consecration. He was honored
signally by Pope Pius XI, and dec
orated by several foreign govern
ments.
tion since October 19 last year.
At the police trial, eleven “accu
sations” were read against the
Shoawu prelate. He was charged
with having connections with the
Japenese during the last war, with
being in contact with the Italian
government, attempting to estab
lish the Legion of Mary, “sabotag
ing” the communist independent
church movement, gouging out
eyes from the babies in the or
phanage, and using the bodies of
dead babies to fertilize the gar
den.
Accused of Mutilation
The court also produced a “wit
ness” to state the day and hour
he had “seen” the prelate gouge
out the eyes of a baby at the or
phanage. The flowers on the
graves of the cemetery for children
gave rise to the allegation that the
mission used the dead bodies to
fertilize the flowers.
Msgr. Koenig was found guilty
on these counts, the court holding
him responsible also for the ac
tions of all the missionaries.
Sister Ferdinanda was accused of
causing the deaths of 100 of the
180 children received in the mis
sion foundling home. When a Chi
nese woman who received the ba
bies testified the children often
died in her arms before she even
reached the Sisters, or were dead
when the nun accepted them at the
gate, she was admonished to “keep
quiet.” “Your one duty,” she was
told, “is to accuse the foreigners.”
Others Banished
The Reds also banished Sister
Dora Schupp who had been impris
oned since Sept. 8 last year. She
was superintendent of the mission
dispensary.
Also ordered banished were the
Reys. Arthur Ogger. Cletus Loh
mann and Edmund Goldmann, all
members of the Salvatorian Con
gregation. Besides those in prison,
there remain one other priest and
one Sister in Shaowu, still under
house arrest. They are not permit
ted outside their own residence
and are not allowed to have any
contact with the people.
Public Mass has been forbidden
in Shaowu since December 1950.
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Gide’e Writings On Index
VATICAN CITY—(Radio, NC)
All works of the late French novel
ist and playright, Andre Gide.
have been placed on the Index of
forbidden books. The decision
was taken by the Sacred Congrega
tion of the Holy Office on April
2, and the decree was issued under
date of May 24.
rj’VtSlON
“Slums exist everywhere—thou
sands of them,” he said. “Birming
ham and the neighboring industrial
area have 103,000 houses that are
long over-ripe for demolition. Sal
ford (near Manchester) has 20.000
such homes. Demolition orders
have been withheld for thousands
of houses in Glasgow.”
The British government is try
ing to build 300,000 homes a year—
less than the average before the
war—without attempting to solve
the problem of the slums, he add
ed. One of the mam results is that
young married couples, in many
cases, must live with their rel
atives. Marriages are breaking up
through frustration and the health
and spiritual wealth of the nation
are being seriously affected.
Sordid Conditions
Mr. Kerrell-Vaughan gave as ex
amples of how people live in Brit
ain today the fact that over 5,000
people in one London district, Is
lington, live below ground in homes
that never see the light of day. An
other 15,000 live in the same condi­
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New Parish Is Dedicated In Honor
Of St. Gabriel Will Include Amvet
Village And Area North And West
DECREE
We herewith define the limits of SAINT GABRIEL
PARISH, Columbus, Ohio, to be:
Northern Boundary: Denune Avenue from Joyce Ave
nue on the West to Alum Creek on
the East.
Eastern Boundary: Alum Creek from Denune Avenue
on the North to Holt Avenue on the
South.
Southern Boundary: Seventeenth Avenue from Joyce
Avenue on the West to Woodland
Avenue on the East Holt Avenue
from Woodland Avenue to Alum
Creek on the East.
Western Boundary: Joyce Avenue from Seventeenth
Avenue on the South to Denune
Avenue on the North.
Such boundaries are established as of this 12th day of
June, 1952.
MICHAEL J. READY
Bishop of Columbus
New British Housing Effort
Aims To Aid 6 Million Homeless
LONDON—(NC)—Britain's Cath
olic Parents’ Associations have de
cided to launch a drive for better
housing for the nation’s 6,000,000
homeless people.
Delegates from southern Eng
land met at Archbishop's House,
Westminster, to consider the pos
sibility of organizing a national
Catholic conference to draw atten
tion to the situation.
A. R. Kerrell-Vaughan. an au
thority on housing, told the dele
gates that 2,000,000 families in
Britain today pre waiting for homes
of their own. This means that more
than 6,000.000 are living in slums
or are otherwise badly housed.
tions in Deptford and Finsbury,
two other areas.
He urged Catholics to do all they
could to fight this growing and
deadly evil, which is a problem af
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Dublin Launches
Extensive Church
Building Program
DUBLIN (NC) An exten
sive church-building program is
under way in the Irish capital to
meet needs created by increases
in the city’s population. In the
past 100 year, the population has
grown from 396,916 to 691.630.
At the same time, a fund-raising
drive has been launched to finance
a considerable extension of Holy
Cross College in Clonliffe, the
Dublin Diocesan seminary. Each
parish in the archdiocese is contri
buting its share to help provide
enlarged accommodations for the
training of Dublin s future priests.
The Dublin Archdiocese at pres
ent has 91 parishes, compared with
66 in 1901 and 48 in 1850. The
number of churches is 191, compar
ed with 152 in 1900 and 126 in
1850.
Fourteen new churches some
just about completed and others
recently begun are being erect
ed in newly built-up areas on the
outskirts of the city, which up till
a year or two ago were green
fields.
Demonstrating the need for
more churches is the fact that as
each new’ church is opened it is
immediately crowded for the Sun
day services.
Honor Society Elects Nuns
Thr** nuns war* among a group of 27 students at tha Catholic
Univarsity of America, salactad for mombarship in the Phi Beta
Kappa society, which recognizes their ixcellence in studies. Dr. Fran
cis E. Litz, president of the society, congratulates the nuns, the first
so honored at the University. Left to right: Sister Amelia Wozniak,
G.S.S.F., of Enfield, Conn.,* Sister Rosa Maria Iceza, C.C.V.I., of San
Antonio Sistor M. Robert Thompson, SJAA., of Lockport, N Y.
(NC Photos)
PRAY GOD TO
SEND LABORERS
INTO THE HARVEST
8 Acree Bought For New
Parish Msgr. O'Donnell
Named as Administrator
A new parish dedicated under
the title of St. Gabriel was canon
ically established June 12, 1952, th*
Feast of Corpus Christi. In announc
ing the erection of the parish.
Bishop Ready said it followed the
recommendation of the Rev. Earl
I. Holtzapfel, pastor of St. Augus
tine's parish, from which the par
ish is form"*
The area of the new parish is the
northeast section of the city, pop
ularly referred to as Amvet Vil
lage. It will serve that development
and the territory adjacent to th*
north and west.
The Very Rev. Msgr. Harold
O’Donnell, assistant chancellor of
the Diocese, has been appointed
administrator of St. Gabriel’s par
ish and will proceed immediately
to provide suitable church and so
cial facilities for the people of th*
Monsignor O'Donn*ll
area. Presently, there are approxi
mately 300 families in the area.
Eight acres of land have been
purchased on the north side of
Mock Road at Woodland avenue for
the parish site and plans are under
way for the new construction.
The boundaries of the new par
ish on the north will include De
nune avenue from Joyce avenu*
on the west to Alum Creek on the
east the eastern boundary along
Alum Creek from Denune avenu*
on the north to Holt avenue on the
south the southern boundary in
cludes Seventeenth avenue from
Joyce avenue on the west to Wood
land avenue, north on Woodland to
Holt avenue. Holt avenue to Alum
Creek Joyce avenue will be the
western boundary from Seven
teenth -venue north to Denune
avenue.
5th Hughes Son
In Family Of 7
Becomes Doctor
The fifth brother in a family of
Catholic doctors received his M.D.
degree June 6 at the Ohio Stat*
University Medical School.
He is Vincent Patrick Hughes,
3186 Indianola avenue, son of Mrs,
George F. Hughes and the late Mr.
Hughes. Three of his four brothers,
all practicing physicians, received
their M.D. degrees from Ohio State
while the fourth received his from
St. Louis University Medical
School.
All five graduated with the B.S.
degree from Notre Dame Univer
sity.
They are: Dr. J. J. Hughes, 987
Grandview avenue: Dr. Thomas,
1975 Arlington avenue: Dr. Henry
G.. 490 Erst North Broadway, and
Dr. Robert G. of St. Louis. Mo. Rob
ert is the brother who took his
M.D. at St. Louis.
Two sisters bring the total num
ber of children in the Hughes fam
ily to seven. The sisters are: Mar
tha who is a secretary for the D.
L. Auld company, and Mrs. S. H.
Bergman. Both live at the Indian
ola avenue address. They are mem
bers of Immaculate Conception par
ish.
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Columbus Church
Schedules Appeal
An appeal on behalf of the mis
sion parish of Sacred Heart, Mil
ford Center, will be made in SL
Thomas the Apostle Church, Co
lumbus, at all masses Sunday
The Rev. Willian. Meyer, C.P.P.S.,
pastor of the mission parish, will
preach at the masses, describing
his work and requesting prayers
and alms.
The Milford Center parish num
bers only 16 persons and is situated
in the midst of Amish persons. It
is one of 26 missions within the
Columbus Diocese.
Sunday’s appeal has been ar
ranged by the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith.