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AVE MARIA
GRATIA PLENA
DOM INUS TECUM
Vol. 1, No. 42
At Dover Will
Sisters of Divine Providence who
comprise the faculty of St. Joseph’s
School in Dover are to have a new
convent. This was announced this
week by the Rev. David Dressman,
O.F.M. Cap., pastor of the parish.
The new convent. Father Dress
man said, will cost more than
$100,000, and will replace the pres
ent convent regarded as unsafe for
occupancy and which will be razed
and the area utilized for the pres
ent time a$ a school playground.
The new convent, he added will
be a two-story brick building with
dining area, reception looms, re
creation facilities and a chapel on
the first floor, and 14 rooms on the
second floor for the Sisters.
Designed by Lawrence Motter of
the architectural firm of Firestone
and Motter of Canton, he said, the
building will be erected on a va
cant tract at Tuscarawas avenue
and Sixth street. The site is now
being used as a playground.
Bids for the new building are in.
Father Dressman added, and it is
hoped that construction can be
started before Fall.
In making the announcement
Father Dressman said: “Teachers
of St. Joseph’s School are women
who have dedicated their lives to
religion and the education of chil
dren. As young girls they left the
world and its attractions to live a
life of sacrifice as a religious com
munity.
“Unmarried, they devote their
entire life to the salvation of their
own souls and the souls of others.
They are mother auxiliaries or
mother helpers. Their only ambi
tion and purpose here in Dover is
to assist parents in educating and
training their children.
“During the last 66 years, the
Sisters of Divine Providence from
Pittsburgh have been working un
der adverse circumstances. Among
their hardships have been the un
healthy and cramped living quar-
Urge G.O.P. Adopt
Immigration Plank
But To No Avail
CHICAGO-- (NC) —War Relief
services of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference joined here
with 25 national, fraternal and re
ligious organizations, federated in
the American Committee on Spe
cial Migration in presenting to the
Platform Committee of the Repub
lican Party a proposal for special
migration legislation in the party’s
1952 platform.
However, the platform as finally
drafted had nothing whatever to
say about immigration.
Msgr. Edward E. Swanstrom,
Executive Director of War Relief
Services and Acting Chairman of
the American Committee on Spe
cial Migration, headed a committee
of four member agencies which
appeared before the Foreign Policy
sub-committee of which Senator
Eugene D. Milliken of Colorado
was chairman.
Paul McCormack, executive as
sistant to Monsignor Swanstrom,
was the spokesman for the group.
He urged the Republican Party to
adopt a platform plank supporting
immediate enactment of special
migration legislation designed to
help alleviate the refugee and pop
ulation stresses in Western Europe.
Monsignor Swanstrom explained
after the meeting that “The enact
ment of such a special legislative
program was advocated not only
from a self interest point of view,
but also as a reaffirmation of free
enterprise as the path tn world
peace, progress and prosperity.”!
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Dover Planning New Convent For St. Joseph
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Construction Of New Convent
Start By Fall
ters for a goodly number of years.
And since these self-sacrificing sis
ters have been such a tremendous
power for good in this community.”
they are deserving of a better and
more decent home.
“We Catholics feel that we owe
it to them. This new building, we
hope, will be started next month.
We have confidence in God and
the generous people of this com
munity that they will not let this
necessary project fail."
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Medical Society Won’t
Reinstate “Mercy Killer”
MANCHESTER, N. H. (NC)—
For the second time, the Hillsbor
ough County Medical Society has
refused to reinstate Dr. Hermann
N. Sander, physician who was the
central figure in a “mercy death"
murder trial that attracted world
wide attention here two and a half
years ago.
The doctor was acquitted on a
first degree murder charge in con
nection with the death of Mrs.
Abbie C. Barroto, 59, at the Hills
borough County General Hospital,
where she was a cancer patient.
Knights Of St.
Mrs. Renner A
INDIANAPOLIS Mrs. Clara
Renner, a member of St. John’s
parish, Columbus, and a member
of Columbus, Auxiliary No. 3,
Knights of St. John, was re-elected
president of the National Auxiliary
group at the supreme convention
of the Knights and Auxiliary held
here in Indianapolis last week.
Mrs. Renner, who is serving her
fourth term as president of the
national group, lives at 834 S. 22nd
street, Columbus. She is first vice
president of the Columbus group.
Raymond Hammer of Piqua, O.,
was re-elected president of the
Knights.
The meeting, which attracted
some 5,000 delegates and guests,
adopted resolutions condemning
“the alarming breakdown in de
cent moral standards of govern-
Mrs. Clara Renner
ment deploring the “attempt to
make a religious issue” of the pro
posal to resume diplomatic rela
tions with the Vatican denouncing
the charge that parochial and pri
vate schools are harmful to the
welfare of the state and pledging
defense of the rights of American
parents to educate their children
in schools of their own choice re
dedicating the organization to pro
motion of the ideals of the Chris
tian family.
Among the highlights of the con-
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The Sacred Priesthood
Our Lord saw the multitudes
“lying like sheep that have no
shepherd.” Such multitudes are
to be seen today, not only in the
far distant lands of the Mis
sions, but also in countries
which have been Christian for
centuries. How can a priest see
such multitudes and not feel
deeply within himself an echo
of that divine pity which so oft
en moved the Heart of the Son
of God?—a priest, we say, who
is conscious of possessing the
words of life and of having in
his hands the God-given means
of regeneration and salvation?
But thanks be to God, it is this
flame of apostolic zeal which is
one of the brightest jewels in
the crown of the Catholic priest
hood. Our heart fills with fath
erly consolation at the sight of
Our Brothers and Our beloved
Sons, Bishops and Priests, who
like chosen troops ever prompt
to the call of their chief hasten
to all the outposts of this vast
field.
From the Encyclical
"Ad Catholici
Sacerdotii"
Pius XI
John Select
ixiliary Head
vention were a colorful parade in
dress uniforms through downtown
Indianapolis and a competitive drill
participated in by various com
manderies and auxiliaries. Teams
from St. Boniface parish, Roches
ter, N.Y., won first prize in both
divisions. It was the first time in
the history of the organization, it
was said, that a single parish has
won both top awards. Joanettes
drill team, of Columbus, finished
second.
Archbishop Paul Schulte of In
dianapolis welcomed the delegates
to the archdiocese. Bishop James
E. Kearney of Rochester, N.Y., su
preme spiritual director of the
Knights of St. John, preached the
sermon at the Solemn Mass open
ing the deliberations.
Reports of various committees at
sessions of the Auxiliary revealed
that during the last year the or
ganization financed the building
of a chapel in India educated a
young man for the priesthood fur
nished a hospital chapel supplied
cribs for an orphanage sent more
than 10,000 articles of clothing to
war-ravaged countries sponsored
several large donations of blood to
the Red Cross, and its members
were instrumental in getting
homes for a number of displaced
persons.
Fred J. Schoettle. president of
Te Deum International, was a
speaker at the convention’s ban
quet session, and complimented
the organization on its high pur
pose of “infusing into human so
ciety a broader and higher mor
ality.”
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New Texas Nursing Schoo]
Admits All Creeds, Ibices
AUSTIN, Tex. (NC) The
first Catholic school of practical
nursing in Texas, now operating
here, is open to all regardless of
race, color or creed.
First students at Holy Cross
School of Practical Nursing include
Negroes, whites, and girls from
families of Latin-American origin.
Missionary Sisters of the Immac
ulate Conception, who operate Ho
ly Cross Hospital, conduct the new
school.
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While here,
both girls at
tended local
schools. e
trude went to
St. Mary of the
Springs Acad
emy, while Use
went to St.
Mary’s High
School. Both
were members
of this year’s
The Catholic es
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, July 18, 1952
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Two ’teen-age girls, one from
Austria, the other from Germany
who have just completed a year of
living and study in this city under
the guidance of two local Catholic
families will soon be back in their
own countries as unofficial “am
bassadors of good will.”
They are Gertrude Fries. IT of
Vienna, Ausb-ia, who lived this
past year with Mr. and Mrs. John
Dell, 1619 Vendome drive, and
Use Graf, 16, of Steislingen, Ger
many, who lived with Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Williams, 712 South Third
street.
A Year Of Study
The girls spent a year of study
here in the United States under a
State Department student program
and were under the sponsorship
of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference in cooperation with the
National Council of Catholic Wom
en. Their job will be to tell their
friends back home what they saw
and learned in the United States.
Miss Graf
graduating class at their respective
schools.
Use has already sailed for her
home country. She left last week
on the S.S. Constitution from New
York with a group of 49 other Ger
man boys and girls who have also
spent the past year in similar fash
ion with Catholic families in other
cities of this country.
Gertrude will sail for home
sometime next month. She left for
a trip to Canada last week to visit
with some relatives.
Both girls benefited greatly, ac
cording to their sponsors here
from their stay in this country.
Both would like to return here to
live permanently. Both gained at
least 20 pounds during their
American year.
Fine Scholars
Excellent scholars, both, the girls
spoke English before they left
their own country, but. after a year
here, their English had improved
greatly.
Gertrude, called “Trudie” by her
American school friends, would
like to be an interpreter, accord
ing to Mrs. Dell. “She speaks very
good English,” Mrs. Dell said, “and
liked mostly to read and study,
though she did attend several foot
ball games last year.”
Use has ambitions to be a for
eign correspondent, Mrs. Williams
said, “though she could do equally
well as a photographer’s model, a
career which she is also consider
ing. She was offered two college
scholarships, but was unable to ac-
New Parisian Bishop
PARIS—(NC)—Msgr. Pierre Brot,
a vicar general of the Paris Arch
diocese, has been named by His
Holiness Pope Pius XII as Auxil
iary to Archbishop Maurice Feltin,
it was announced here. He suc
ceeds Bishop Roger Beaussart, who
died recently.
Teachers
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Columbus Trains 2 Teen-Age
"Ambassadors Of Good Will’
Back To Germany,
Austria Following
Year Living Here
cept them because the State De
partment refused to extend the
time of her stay.
“But,” Mrs. Williams added, “we
still want to do something about
that. My husband and I grew to
love her so much that we would
like to adopt her.”
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Americans. All
Miss Fries want to return
to make this
country their permanent home.
Two others besides Gertrude and
Use found themselves in Ohio
Robert Druetschell, an 18-year-old
lad from Baunauch, Bavaria, landed
in Fostoria, O. Six feet, four and a
half inches tall, his American
schoolmates at St. Wendelin’s High
School promptly nicknamed him
“Shorty.” He liked that, he said,
as “I liked everything else about
America
Others In Oh io
Herby Kirner (it was Herbert
before his American friends short
ened it for him) was thrilled at
having been able to work on a big,
modern farm at New Riegel, O.
His father has a farm in Wuert
temberg and Herby wants to ap
ply some of the things he learned
in the U. S. He thinks square danc
ing and tractor pulling contests
will go over big in his home town.
Elfriede Huhn stayed with a fam
ily in East Palestine, O. She came
to America wearing a plain German
dress, her hair in braids. She left
using her American nickname
“Elfy”, sporting a poodle cut,
wearing lipstick and dressed in
new American clothes, including
high heels. “With all those nice
clothes in this country,” she asked,
“why do they w'ear jeans and those
colored shirts to school?”
While here, the boys and girls
had been placed in Catholic homes
by the N.C.W.C. in cooperation
with the National Council of Ca
tholic Women.
The State Department program
which brought a total of about 500
German and Austrian youths to
the United States last year aims at
givi. youths, who '■how promise of
leadership, a chance to get first
hand acquaintance with the Amer
ican way of life. Another 420
youths will arrive in the U.S. in
August under the program. About
75 are under the sponsorship of
the N.C.W.C.
Praise Freedom
All the youngsters were enthusi
astic in their praise of the freedom
and informality typical of the
American people. They were unan
imous in their high regard for the
sound Catholicity of the families
with whom they stayed. They were
particularly impressed by the Ca
tholic fervor and devotion of the
men.
As one youngster said: “People
who know the truth about America
will love her. Just as people who
know the truth about Germany
will love her. too.”
All the youngsters took serious
ly the advice of the Rev. William
McManus, who directs the N. C.
W. C. program for the teen-age
students. Father McManus remind
ed the youths that on their arrival
here a year ago he had asked them
to act as good will ambassadors
from Germany to the United States.
Pope Appeals
For Support
Of Refugees
A#k# All To Assist U.N.
Fund To Aid Afflicted
Awaiting Resettlement
GENEVA, Switzerland, (NC)
His Holiness Pope Pius XII has
called on governments and private
agencies to support the appeal of
a United Nations agency for funds
to aid refugees awaiting resettle
ment.
The Pope s appeal is contained
in a message to G. J. van Heuven
Goedhart, United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, uhose
office here has released the text
of the Papal statement. The U. N.
official was recently received in
audience by the Holy Father.
The message is as follows:
“Among the many painful and
distressing problems created by
the war, there is one which, de
spite the organized efforts made
in recent years to solve it, remains
a source of grave preoccupation.
It is that of the refugees, those of
our fellow-men who, under pres
sure of political events, have been
forced to abandon their home
steads and country and seek
hospitality and a livelihood in
foreign lands.
“If we plead their cause, it is
to give a renewed expression to the
abiding interest which We have
ever taken in their sad lot, and to
pledge the continued support of
the Holy See for the praiseworthy
work being accomplished by inter
national organisations for the al
leviation of their pitiable con
dition. In this regard We warmly
commend the recent initiative of
the United Nations High Com
missioner for Refugees which has
as its objective the establishment
of a fund for the purpose of pro
viding for the essential human
needs of the many refugees who,
by reason of their extreme poverty,
are unable to maintain themselves
while awaiting resettlement.
“Our earnest solicitude for these
sorely afflicted members of the
human family urges Us to exhort
governmental authorities as also
social service and charitable
associations to cooperate whole
heartedly in fostering this very
laudable initiative and to contri
bute generously to this most time
ly appeal. In doing so, We feel con
fident that We are voicing the
sentiments of all those who, be
cause they dearly cherish the
Christian values and freedom for
which, in such great part, these
refugees are suffering, cannot re
main unmoved by their present ad
versity nor be indifferent to their
future destiny.”
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Create New See
In India Name
Two New Bishops
COCHIN, India (Radio, NC)
Together with the creation of a
new diocese the appointment of
two Indian Bishops has been an
nounced here.
The new diocese is that of Alep
pey and consists of territory taken
from the area hitherto included
in the Diocese of Cochin. Both
cities are seaports on the west
coast of southern India.
The Most Rev. Alexander Eday
azheth has been named as the
first Indian Bishop of the Diocese
of Cochin. He suceeds Portuguese
born Archbishop Vieira Alvernaz,
who in 1950 was named Coadjutor
with the right of succession of the
Archdiocese of Goa.
The Most Rev. Michael Arattu
kulam has been named first Bishop
of the new Diocese of Aleppey.
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Urge# Philippine School#
Give Religious Instruction
MANILA (NC) Dr. Paul R.
Hanna, director of education of the
Mutual Security Agency in the
Philippines, went on record here
as favoring religious instruction in
the public schools.
In a statement to the press, the
American educator declared that
“there is a universal desire that
spiritual values be stressed in edu
cation. If a man does not have a
purpose in life, then he is nothing
more than a machine.”
Dr. Hanna, professor of educa
tion at Stanford University, Cali
fornia, is on leave to carry out his
educational mission for the U.S.
State Department. He will have a
part in disbursing $5,000,000 for
educational rehabilitation in the
Philippines over a period of 5 years.
Hospitals Here Ranked
High In Nation Unique
In Special Care Of Sick
Franciscan Nuns’
Story On WHKC
The story of the Sisters of the
Poor of St. Francis and the life
of the order’s foundress. Mother
Frances Schervier, will be dra
matized by the Ave Maria Hour
Sunday. The program will be
carried by WHKC at 3:30 p. m.
The story will trace the his
tory of the order from its be
ginnings in Aachen, Germany,
to its hospital work in America.
These are the nuns whom Abra
ham Lincoln called “Angels of
the Battlefield” because of
their bravery under shell fire in
the Civil War.
The Sisters of the Poor of St.
Francis conduct St. Anthony’s
and St. Francis Hospitals in Co
lumbus.
Fr. McLarney
Named Prior
By Dominicans
The Very Rev. James J. McLar
ney, O.P., last week was re-elected
prior of the Dominican House of
Studies and re-appointed pastor of
St. Joseph Church in Somerset. He
will hold both positions for the
next three years.
Approval of his re-election came
this week from the Very Rev. T. S.
McDermott, Dominican provincial
in New York City. Bishop Ready
then appointed Fr. McClamey as
pastor of St. Joseph’s, the oldest
Catholic Church in Ohio.
Fr. McLarney, widely known as
a public speaker, has served at the
Dominican House of Studies in
Somerset as a professor of funda
mental theology for the past eight
years.
Born in New York City, Fr. Mc-
Fr. McLarney
Clarney received his Bachelor of
Arts degree from Georgetown Uni
versity, Washington, in 1925. He
also holds the degrees of Lector of
Sacred Theology and Doctor of
Sacred Theology.
Since his ordination in 1932, he
has taught at the Dominican House
of Studies in Chicago, Rosary Col
lege, River Forest, Ul., St. Mary of
The Springs College, Columbus,
and the Faculty of Theology in
Washington. He is also former
president of Aquinas High School
here.
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Fr. Vito Perrini,
Assistant Pastor
At Dennison, Dies
The Most Rev. Edward G. Hettin
ger. auxiliary bishop of Columbus,
was the celebrant of a Pontifical
Requiem Mass Monday in Immacu
late Conception Church. Dennison,
for the Rev. Vito Perrini.
Fr. Perrini died in Mt. Carmel
Hospital, Columbus, Friday of a
cerebral hemorrhage. He was 40.
Born in Castellaneta province of
Taranto, Italy, on Apr. 9, 1912, Fr.
Perrini was ordained in Rome on
July 14, 1935, after studying at the
Collegium Propaganda Fidei there.
He came to the Columbus Diocese
in 1950 and was stationed at St.
Mary’s church, Marion.
Later, he was transferred to Im
maculate Conception in Dennison
as assistant pastor, where he serv
ed until his death.
Fr. Perrini is survived in Italy by
hi mother, a brother and two
sisters. The body was sent to New
York for burial.
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Canadian Bishop Named
OTTAWA, Ont.—(NC)—The Rev.
Leo Blais, rector of the cathedral
at St. Boniface, Manitoba, has been
named Bishop of Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan, succeeding Bishop
Reginald Duprat, O.P.
PRAY GOD TO
SEND LABORERS
INTO THE HARVEST
Price Ton Cents $3.00 A Year
Catholics Open 24
New Insitutions
In U.S., Canada
Catholic hospitals in the Col
umbus Diocese ranked high among
Catholic hospitals in the United
States in the care of the sick
during 1951. More than 37.000
acutely ill were cared for in the
eight hospitals of the diocese dur
ing the year, according to the Rev.
William Kappes, director of the
Catholic Welfare Bureau, Diocese
of Columbus.
At the same time, it was learned
that at least 7,500,000 persons
received treatment through Cat
holic hospital and health services
in the UJ5. and Canada. This
was reported with the publication
of the 1952 Catholic Hospital di
rectory compiled at St. Louis by
Hospital Progress, official journal
of the Catholic Hospital association.
800,060 Babies
Editors of the directory said
4,150,000 acutely ill patients sought
medical care in the Catholic gen
eral hospitals during 1951 and that
almost 800.000 babies were bom in
these hospitals.
According to Father Kappes,
more than 8,000 babies were bom
in the Catholic hospitals in the
Columbus Diocese during a com
parable period.
The record also shows that Col
umbus holds a unique spot in
facilities for the care of the chron
ically ill, and for special care of
women.
“Since 1895, when it was estab
lished, St. Anthony’s Hospital has
taken care of the chronically ill
in addition to those with acute
illness,” Father Kappes said. “How
ever.” he added, “the number of
applicants always exceeds the num
ber of beds available. At St
Anthony’s there are 130 beds for
chronically ill, and 72 for acute
cases.”
“During the past year.” Father
Kappes added, “St. Ann’s earned
the distinction of becoming the
only women’s hospital in
Columbus.”
Thus Columbus anticipated a
need which was cited in the nat
ional directory report which said:
“So far, only a few general hos
pitals, Catholic and non-Catholic,
have organized special departments
and nursing units for the care of
the chronically ill. This is a pro
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Guatemalan
Land Reform
Law ‘Marxist’
Substitute# State For Big
Owners, Ignores Needs
Of Persons, Critics Say
MEXICO CITY, (NC) The
disturbing growth of communist
ideas in Guatemala is demon
strated again by the “land reform’*
law recently enacted by the
country’s leftist-dominated parli
ment.
Informed persons here share
the view expressed before passage
of the law by the Guatemalan
Catholic W'eekly, Verbum, that the
measure offers “a marxist solution,
not a Christain one.”
They agree that there is, indeed,
need for land reform measures
in Guatemala and they point out
that the Church there has often
cited the desirability of increasing
the number of actual landholders.
But, they are convinced, the new
law achieves the exact opposite of
a true land reform: while it takes
property away from the large
landholders it hands it over to
an even larger one: the state
The laws was dratted by a leading
Guatemala marxist, Victor Manuel
Gutierrez, who recently returned
from Russia Many Soviet totali
arian ideas, it is pointed out here,
are reflected in the new law, as
for instance:
(1) Only the use of the expro
priated'land will go to the tenant
farmers. Ownership remains vest
ed in the state through an agri
cultural committee” responsible
only to the President.
(2) All questions arising from
the application of the law will
be resolved by the President and
any appeals to the courts are bar
red.
(3) While, theoretically, the
original owners of the expropriated
lands are to be compensated, they
have no guaranty that the state
will meet its obligations.