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Vol. 1, No. 46
Workshop Session
Will Plan Details
Set For Aug. 26
More than 11,000 pupils in the
Columbus Parochial schools will
have the benefit of the city health
department’s nursing service, start
ing with the opening of the fall
term.
This was announced this week
by the Rev. Bennett Applegate,
acting superintendent of schools
for the Diocese.
Plans for putting the program
into effect will be discussed. Fa
ther Applegate said, at an all-day
health workshop to be held at St.
Joseph’s Academy, Tuesday. Aug.
26. starting at 10 a. m. Some 40
principals of Columbus parochial
schools will meet that day. he said,
with representatives of the city
health department, headed by Dr.
Ollie Goodloe. Some 30 members
of Dr. Goodloe’s staff will be pres
ent to explain procedures and to
answer questions, he said.
In addition, Father Applegate
said, Mrs. Florence Fogle of the
University School, and Mrs. James
O’Leary, central deanery chairman
of the PTA. will be in attendance.
As explained by Father Apple
gate, the service now to be ex
tended to the parochial schools
will parallel the services extended
to public schools within the city.
The highlight of the meeting
will be the distribution of a “Man
ual for Parochial School Health
Services.” Attractively bound, the
manual represents many long
hours of work on the part of Dr.
Goodloe’s staff.
The agenda for the health work
shop Aug. 26 at St. Joseph’s Acad
emy was set up at a special com
mittee meeting last week. In at
tendance were Father Applegate,
Dr. Goodloe, chief of the Colum
bus Health Department, and the
following members of Dr. Good
loe’s staff: the Misses Lois Book
er, Francis Hillman, Ruth Laxton.
Mrs. Mabie Grover and Mrs. Mar
garet Miller.
On the agenda are the following
subjects for discussion: health ex
amination, immunizations, preven
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7 Columbus Girls
Will Make Vows
At Stella Niagara
Two young ladies from Colum
bus Diocese will take final vows
while five will take first vows at
the religious reception and profes
sion of the Sisters of St. Francis
of Penance and Christian Charity
at the Eastern Mother House. Stel
la Niagara, N.Y., next Monday.
Bishop Ready will preside.
Those taking final vows are: Sis
ter M. Helen, Alice Siebold. niece
of Miss Helen C. Collins, 342 S.
Wayne avenue (St. Aloysius Par
ish): and Sister M. Owen, Donna
Doody, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Owen Doody, 1187 Loretta avenue
(St. Augustine Parish).
Those taking first vows are: Sis
ter M. Louis, Nancy Fahey, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond L.
Fahey, 428 Marion avenue (Holy
Rosary Parish) Sister M. Chris
tina, Barbara Kraus, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Kraus,
1436 Neil avenue (St. Francis of
Assisi Parish) Sister M. Doloretfa,
Theresa McCabe, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. B. McCabe. 1083 Sid
ney street (St. Peter’s Parish) sis
ter M. ‘Sheila. Jeanne Wilhelm,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael
V. Wilhelm. 1574 Gault street
(Holy Rosary Parish) and Sister M.
Christopher, Elaine Wirth, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Wirth,
593 Wilson avenue (St. John’s
Parish).
The Discalced Carmelite Nuns
of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
are observing the Feast of the Im
maculate Heart of Mary with a
Solemn Novena, which started yes
terday and which will conclude on
the feast day, Friday, Aug. 22.
The devotions are taking place
at the Carmel of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, 2065 Barton Place,
and are open to the public. They
are being held each evening start
ing at 7:30, with a recitation of the
Rosary, a sermon, and Benedic-
New Scottish Bibhop
LONDON (Cable, NC) Msgr.
Joseph McGee, who has been nam
ed Bishop of Galloway by His
Holiness Pope Pius XII. is the
first alumnus of the Scots College
at Valladolid. Spain, to become a
member of the Scottish Hierarchy.
Parochial Schools Here
Will Get City’s Health
Service: Starts In Fall
Making plans for the all-day school health workshop to be held
Tuesday, Aug. 26, at St. Joseph's Academy are the Rev. Bennett
Applegate, acting superintendent of schools for the Diocese, and Dr.
Ollie Goodloe, Health Commissioner of the City of Columbus. The
city's public health nursing service will be made available to all
parochial schools in Columbus with the opening of the fall term.
Additional Parochial Schools
Needed, insists Papal Legate
Two Million U.S. Children Unable To Get Catholic
Education, 1st Religious Congress Hears
NOTRE DAME, Ind.—(NC)
Need for vastly expanded Catholic
educational facilities this coun
try was indicated by the Apostolic
Delegate as the first National Con
gress of Religious of the United
States got underway here.
His Excellency Archbishop Am
leto Giovanni Cicognani told con
gress participants, “The reality is
this—that almost two million Ca
tholic children would like to be
admitted into our schools but can
not by reason of the lack of teach
ers and schools.”
He compared the number of par
ishes—15.000—with the number 4
elementary schools—9,000.
Need Lay Teachers
Sister M. Patrick of Marygrove
College called for maintaining a
ratio of one lay teacher to four re
ligious in each Catholic school.
This, she explained, would free
Sisters to staff new schools. Sister
Patrick cited her own community.
Sisters-Servants of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, which has about
1.000 Sisters in parochial schools,
with lay teachers making up about
14 per cent of the staffs. Under
the plan, she said. 160 Sisters
w'ould be released for Qther
schools.
The Most Rev. Arcadio Larraona.
C.M.F.. Secretary of the Sacred
Congregation of Religious, cele
brated Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament at the formal opening
of the four-day National Congress
of Religious at the University of
Notre Dame.
Archbishop Cicognani told the
representatives of almost 200.000
religious in all parts of the United
States, "now. more than in the past,
there is a great need of you. not
only in America, but in foreign
lands, particularly in India. China,
Japan, where your contributions
have already been most significant
in some republics of Latin Amer
ica where there is a lack of clergv
in countries of Europe herself
where the world war and the ene
mies of religion have accumulated
physical and moral ruins.”
In describing the achievements
of religious communities. Arch
bishon Cicognani paid tribute to
the 150 Catholic magazines of all
types edited or issued by religious.
Theology For Nuns
Sister M. Madeleva, president of
St. Mary’s College told fellow re
ligious at the congress that the
ology for Sisters is perhaps one of
Discalced Carmelites Offering
Novena To Immaculate Heart
tion of the Blessed Sacrament. Ho
ly Mass is offered daily for those
who participate in the Novena.
On the Feast Day, Aug. 22,
there will be public exposition of
the Blessed Sacrament throughout
the day. The Novena will close
with a solemn Benediction in the
evening, and the Consecration to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary,
first made by Pope Pius XII, will
be publicly renewed.
Volunteers are asked to provide
cars to transport those lacking
means to get to the Monastery.
They are asked to call Miss Anne
B. Witmer WA. 3773 or Miss Mary
K. Rohr EV. 1573. Those unable to
attend may send their intentions to
the Monastery and all who seek
temporal or spiritual graces will be
included in the Novena.
the richest developments of the
religious life in our times.”
Sister Madeleva founded the
Graduate School of Sacred Theol
ogy at St. Mary’s College, Notre
Dame. Ind., in 1942. The school is
open to Sisters and lay women.
Half a dozen similar schools have
come into existence in the past
decade.
Necessity of special training for
mistresses of notices and superiors
was stressed at the congress by the
Very Rev. Paul Philippe. O.P.,
member of the Commission for Sis
ters of the Sacred Congregation of
Religious. The French-born Domin
ican addressed the more than 1.200
Mother Generals. Mother Procin
cials, and other 1 igber superiors
who represented nme 400 relig
ious communities of women at the
sessions.
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Reds Arrest
Two Bishops
In Bulgaria
LONDON (NC) Two of
Bulgaria’s three Catholic Bishops
have been placed under arrest by
the Red regime, according to a
Vatican Radio broadcast heard
here. They are Bishop Cyril Kur
teff, Ordinary of the Byzantine
Rite Catholics in Bulgaria, and
Bishop John Romanoff. Vicar
Apostolic of Sofia and Plovdiv.
The broadcast gave no indica
tion as to the status of the third
Catholic Bishop in Bulgaria, Bish
op Eugene Bossilkoff, C.P., of Ni
copoli, who maintains residence at
Ruse.
Vatican Radio gave as the source
of its information Bulgarian refu
gees who recently arrived in
Greece.
Bishop Kurteff was consecrated
in 1926 and is 61 years old. Some
7,000 Eastern-Rite Catholics are
under his care in Bulgaria. Bish
op Romanoff was consecrated in
1942 and is 73 years old. His See
has the largest number of Catho
lics in the country 28,230. In all,
there are about 57,000 Catholics
in Bulgaria.
Vatican Radio stated that at
least 30 priests are known to have
been imprisoned and their fate
or whereabouts is now unknown.
These imprisoned priests make up
about 25 per cent of the total of
120 Catholic clergymen in the
country.
The broadcast said that Bulgar
ian police raided the residence of
Bishop Bossilkoff on July 16 and
conducted a search of the premis
es.
The Red campaign of terror is
directed against Catholic laymen
as well as the clergy, Vatican Ra
dio stated.
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Requiem Sung For
Sister Victorine
Requiem High Mass was sung
Wednesday in the convent chapel
of St. Joseph Academy, Columbus,
for Sister Victorine (Hester), 55,
who died Sunday in Mt. Carmel
hospital.
A member of the Order of Notre
Dame de Namur, Sr. Victorine had
been librarian at St. Joseph’s for
the past two years. She had pre
viously taught at Dayton, Cincin
nati and Reading, O.
rvivc't bv her mother, a
sister and a brother. Burial was in
ISt. Joseph’^ cemetery.
The Catholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, August 15, 1952
The Sacred Priesthood
To fulfil the duties of Holy
Orders, common goodness does
not suffice, but excelling good
ness is required that they who
receive Orders and are thereby
higher in rank than the people,
may also be higher in holiness.
The Eucharistic Sacrifice in
which the Immaculate Victim
Who taketh away the sins of
the world is immolated, re
quires in a special way that the
priest, by a holy and spotless
life, should make himself as far
as he can, less unworthy of
God, to Whom he daily offers
that adorable Victim, the very
Word of God incarnate for love
of us. “Realize what you are
doing and imitate what you
handle.” says the Church
through the Bishop to the dea
cons as they are about to be
consecrated priests.
From the Encyclical
"Ad Catholici Sacerdotii"
Of Pius XI
Class War Is
Alien To True
Church Goals
Objectives Are To Compose
And Solve Differences
Says Sovereign Pontiff
CASTELGANDOLFO (Radio.
NC)—In dealing with the labor
problem, the objective of the
Church is “the overcoming and
composing of social differences,”
not class struggle.
This was made clear by His Hol
iness Pope Pius XII in an address
to Italian chaplains assigned to
look after the spiritual needs of
Italian emigrants to various Euro
pean countries.
“Tell your Catholic people,’ the
Pope said, “that the Church has
a'ways had. and will always have
maternal concern for the workers”,
and that her action “extends to ail
classes and all conditions
The Pope then pointed out that,
at least in those countries where
th chaplains and 'ne emigrants
will go, “the labor question has
long passed its first stages He
went on to say:
“What 60 or 70 years ago was a
g. al to be gained for the worker,
has since become, with the '’o"ab
oiation of the Chur:h, his natural
right and safe possession.” It was
in this connection that the Pope
added his reminder that class
struggle is alien to the objectives
of the Church.
The papal audience fcr the enii
gi.nts’ chaplains coincided with
the publication of a new' Apostolic
Constitution which cooidinates and
regulates the wo k undertaken by
various institutions of the Church
in behalf of Catholic emigrants
f-om all countres
The Pontiff reminded the -hap
lains that in tho work thev will
mainly dea! with individuals and
small groups wh*» lack the benefit
of association with large Itai’.an
n: tional communities like th-.se ex
is* ng in other cunt nents. Hence,
ho said, the chaplains must d’di
cate a large part of their acti i:i°v
to works of correr?! mercy r
ps even legal help hi this way,
the Holy Father added, ’.e emi
grants will becor.° disposed toward
bcmr recept or of spiritual aid
which includes il.e ooss’bilitv cf
matin'? eon pssion in Italian.
The Pontiff also counseled the
chaplains to urge their spiritual
charges toward attending local
churches and adapting themselves
to the religious life of their new
homes. He emphasized the import
ance for the emigrants to make
contact with local Catholic labor
and youth organizations.
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Bishop To Attend
Plaque Dedication
To Major Gentile
Bishop Ready will be present at
the dedication of the memorial
plaque in honor of Major Don Gen
tile in the State House Yard, Co
lumbus, Friday, Aug. 22 at 2 p. m.
Major Gentile, immortal World
War II ace from Piqua, was killed
Jan. 28. 1951 in the crash of a T-33
jet trainer on a flight from An
drews Air Force base, Maryland.
He is buried in St. Joseph's Ceme
tery.
During the war, Major Gentile
was credited with shooting down
19 German planes and destroying
seven more on the ground. As top
American ace in the European the
ater. he flew 182 combat missions
totalling 350 combat hours. The
late President Roosevelt called
him “Captain Courageous,” and
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower referred
to him as "a one-man air force.”
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22 Priests Ordained
NEW YORK (NC) There
is a shortage of priests but not of
priestly vocations in communist
Poland, according to the Inter
Catholic Press Agency. Archbishop
Eugene Baziak, Vicar Capitular of
the Cracow archdiocese, recently
ordained 22 seminarians of the
major seminary at Cracow.
A
Sister Wilhelmine end Sister Borgie of the Ord-*r o‘ St. Joseph,
Ville Marie, Erie, Pa., were in Columbus to interview postulants for
the order. Plans are now underway to establish a foundation of the
ordej- in this Diocese.
Pacific Defense Pact Newest
Move In Fight Against Reds
Australia, New Zealand And U.S. Seek To Build One
More Fortre»«: All Fronts Stiffen I
The foreign ministers of Aus
tralia. New Zealand and the Unit
ed States have bid goodbye to
Honolulu after what was describ
ed as a highly successful meeting
to implement the tripartite secur
ity treaty signed in San Francisco
last September as another weapon
in the free world’s defense against
communist aggression.
The meetings’ main purpose was
to set up political and military
groups to plan the joint defense
of the three nations in case of an
aggression. In an extemporaneous
talk after the meeting, U. S. Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson la
mented the need for military
preparation but added: “If mili
tary force is going to be used, then
we also are going to be in a posi
tion where we can stand up like
men and not have to tremble and
shrink when those who have mili
tary power rattle the sabre in their
arguments with us.”
Commuinst reaction as express
ed by Moscow’s Pravda, was to
brand it “a new step on the road
to the creation of an aggressive
Pacific Bloc.” Izvestia, another
Moscow Communist organ, said
difficulties will arise because of
“the growing national liberation
movement in the Asian countries
and also because of the inter
imperialistic contradictions in the
Pacific and particularly the contra
dictions between the United States
and Great Britain.”
The inception of a defense alli­
Father Gieringer replaces the
Very Rev. Msgr. Adrian F. Brande
hoff, J.C.L.. who resigned last
month because of ill health.
Is Josephinum Alumnus
The rector is no stranger at the
Josephinum. He took his seminary
training there and was ordained
in the chapel of the college on
June 10. 1922 by the late Bishop of
Columbus, the Most Rev. James J.
Hartley.
Father Gieringer was born May
24. 1896 in Reading, Pa. His par
ents, Charles and Anna Gieringer,
are now deceased.
Prior to entrance at the Jose
phinum he attended St. Paul’s
parochial school in Reading.
Founded High School
His accomplishments since ordi
nation include the founding of
Central Catholic High, School in
Lancaster, Pa., where he served as
director of the school for some
years. Since 1936. he has been
pastor of St. Anthony of Padua
Parish. He has taught Latin at St.
Joseph’s College. Emmitsburg,
Md, and is a Pio-Sy nodal Judge
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Set Up Foundation Here
ance in the Pacific served to focus
attention on Washington reports
that the United States and Great
Britain have been forced to scrap,
at least temporarily, plans for a
Middle East Command and to set
up a defense organization instead
There was some speculation in
Washington that Egypt, and pos
sibly some other Arab countries,
might find it to their advantage
to cooperate in a regional defense
arrangement with the West. In
Cairo, Egypt’s new strong man.
Gen. Mohammed Naguib, said he
would welcome military aid from
Britain or any other West Europe
an country. At the same time, he
hinted that if he could not get
this aid from the West he might
have to seek it in the East.
In France. Minister of Defense
Rene Plevin indicated that the
French would ask the next meet
ing of the North Atlantic Council
for long-term financing of defense
construction instead of yearly bud
gets. M. Pleven had sought a
promise of United States aid of
S500.000.000 to S600.000.000 spread
over three years, but Washington
replied it could make no commit
ments beyond one year.
A flurry of excitement caused
by a flare-up of border trouble be
tween Greece and communist Bul
garia marked by the seizure of two
tiny islands by Bulgarian troops,
quieted when it was announced
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Holv See Names Fr. Gieringer
As Rector Of The Josephinum
The Rev. Paul A. Gieringer. pas
tor of St. Anthony of Padua
Church, Lancaster. Pa., is the new
rector of the Pontifical College of
the Josephinum.
Announcement of Father Gier
inger's appointment was made in
Washington this week by Arch
bishop Amleto Giovanni Cicog
nani, Apostolic Delegate to the
United States. The new rector was
chosen by the Sacred Congregation
for Seminaries and Universities in
Rome, since the college is immedi
ately subject to the Holy See.
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of the Matrimonial tribunal of the
Diocese of Harrisburg.
Additionally, his interest in the
Catholic Students Mission Crusade
won him the assignment of organ-
Fathar Gieringer
izing the crusade throughout the
Harrisburg Diocese. For some
years, he served as field secre
tary of the Crusade in the East.
Father Gieringer is the sixth
rector of the Josephinum since it
was founded 64 years ago.
Sister Wilhelmina and Sister Bor
gia recently came from Erie to in
terview a number of young women
who were interested in entering
the Sisters of St. Joseph. One of
them. .Miss Mary Margaret an
Hoose, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Claude Van Hoose, of St. Maty
Magdalene parish, had expressed
a desire to become a Sister of St.
Joseph. She has been accented as
the first postulant for the new Co
lumbus foundation.
Young women interested n join,
ing the proposed Columbus founda
tinn mav «nte to the niocesan
Chancery Office or to the Reverend
Polish ConMil Resigns
CHICAGO (NC) Zygmunt
Fabisiak, Polish consul here who
resigned and asked the United
States for asylum, said “as consul
in Chicago I felt that I did not
represent the real Polish inter
ests.”
“I couldn't stand the political
situation in Poland." the consul
declared He said he was the third
consul to resign here since 1945.
Dutch Housing
Small For Lar
THE HAGUE (NC) A de
mand that the Dutch government's
home-building plans be revised to
cater to the needs of big as well
as small families has been made
by the head of the Catholic Fam
ily League.
Addressing 23.000 members of
the League at a meeting in Delft.
Dr. J. Gilissen. burgomaster of
Gennep and chairman of the Cath
olic organization, charged that for
mer Minister of Housing and Re
construction Joris in ’t Veld had
been responsible for makin" the
majoritv of new' hmmes suitable
for small instead of large fami
lies
He quoted the ex-Minister. who
belongs to the Labor Partv. as hav
ing stated that “building small
homes is the best and most suc
cessful means to curb large fami
lies.”
Dr. Gilessen called upon Catho
lic members of parliament “not to
cooperate with other parties un
less the interests and just demands
of the bigger families are includ
ed and made safe.
Declaring that “a family that
has no home of its own is like a
State without land.” the Catholic
leader expressed the hope that the
new Cabinet to be formed will
“protect Christian marriage, both
morally and socially.”
Private housing erected in the
United States since World War
II has frequently been criticized
3 Local Women
Receive Religious
Garb Last Week
Three young women from Colum
bus received the habit of the Sis
ters of the Holy Cross and their
religious names in a recent cere
mony of investure at the mother
house of the order in Notre Dame.
Ind.
They were among 40 women
from throughout the country tak
ing part in the ceremony at which
the Most Rev. Leo A. Pursley, D.D.,
auxiliary Bishop of Fort Wayne,
presided.
The three local women are Car
olyn Kramer, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James J. Kramer, 282 S.
Gould road, who became Sister
Mary Clare Louise Julianne Fer
nandez, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Anthony Fernandez, 1970 Suffolk
road, now Sister Mary Frances An
thony and Dorothy Rand, daugh
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James
E. Rand, who became Sister Mary
Jean Carmel.
PRAY GOD TO
SEND LABORERS
INTO THE HARVEST
Price Ton
To Work Within Diocese Now
Interviewing Local Postulants
The Sisters of St. Joseph, who have foundations in 21
archdioceses and dioceses of the United States will establish a
house in the Diocese of Columbus, according to an anounce
ment made this week by Bishop Readv.
The new foundation will
whose Motherhouse is at Villa Ma
ria. Erie, Pa. They will undertake
establishment of the new diocesan
unit here upon the invitation of
Bishop Ready, and with the per
mission and blessing of Bishop
John Mark Gannon of Eric
On May 20 of this year, Bish
op Ready’s in itatioi. was present
ed to Mother Aurelia at Villa
Maria by the Rev. Raymond Bau
schard. pastor of St Mary Magda
lene Church, Columbus. Mother
Aurelia’s advisory council approved
the move June 23. and Bishop Gan
non gave his permission on July
21.
Anns Visit Here
be sponsored by the Sisters
Mother Aurelia, Villa Maria, ^ne.
Pa. As soon as such young
women are prepared to ful
fill the duties of their vocation
they will return to the proposed
Columbus Motherhouse.
Mother Aurelia came tc Colum
bus Aug. 6 and said that postulants
for the Columbus foundation will
enter at Villa Maria on Sept. 1.
They would then be eligible for
investiture next April. Postulai.ts
entering next Feb. 2. will receive
the habit the following Aug. 15.
These novices would remain in the
novitiate at Villa Maria for two
years, and pronounce temporary
vows on Aug. 15, 1955.
Following the making of tempor
ary vows by the first band, they
would come to Columbus accom
panied by two professed Sisters to
start the first convent here. The
Professed Sisters would remain
here for three years, when the
local group would make their Final
Profession.
Ancient Order
The Sisters of St. Joseph were
founded at Lepuy, France, Oct. 15,
1650. and first came to America in
1836 at the request of the Most
Rev. Joshua M. Young, Bishop of
Erie. Pa. The Erie community was
established from Buffalo in May,
1860. and it in turn aided in the
foundation of the Sisters of St. Jos
eph. Cleveland. It is interesting to
note that thm same Bishop Young
who was so instrumental in having
the Sisters establish their Mother
house in this country, was a priest
of the Dincese of Columbus. From
1839 until 1854 when he was ap
pointed Bishop of Erie, he labored
as the zealous pastor of St. Maty
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Scored As Too
e Family Need
in Catholic circles as generally in
adequate for large families. The
vast bulk of this housing was
erected with indirect assistance
from the Federal Government—
through insuring loans for veter
ans' housing and for apartment
construction. Public housing for
low-income families, directly sub
sidized by the Federal Government
along with local housing authori
ties, has provided much larger
apartments than the average built
with private funds.
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Catholic Welfare
Gets Grant From
Ford Foundation
NEW YORK (NC) War Re
lief Services—National Catholic
Welfare Conference is one of four
major voluntary agencies which
will participate in the S2.900.000
Ford Foundation donation made
to solve Europe's knotty refugee
problem, according to word re
ceived here.
Sessions to determine how the
$2,900,000 fund will be distributed
among the agencies currently are
being held in Geneva. Switzerland,
at the office of Dr. G. J. van Heu
ven Goedhart. United Nations High
Commission for Refugees.
The Catholic agency is repre
sented at the sessions by James J.
Norris. European director for
WRS—N.C.W.C. The other agen
cies which it is said will st'are in
the fund are the World Council
of Churches (Protestant) the
Lutheran World Federation, and
the American Joint Distribution
Committee (Jewish).
The Rev. Aloysius J. Wycislo,
assistant executive director of
WRS—N C.W.C., said that anv al
lotments from the fund will be
used by the Catholic agency for
resettlement projects and for inte
gration' work, such as self-help
programs, designed to assist ref
ugees to find a more secure place
in communities where they now
reside.
Paul G. Hoffman. Ford Founda
tion director, announced that the
gift had been made to assist the
United Nations to find a “perma
nent” answer to the refugee prob
lem. The problem entails more
than 10,000,000 displaced persons,
political and religious fugitives
from communism, and expellees
now crowded into western Europe.
The refugees problem is particu
larly critical in Germany and It
i aly.