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Vol. 1, No. 49
Catholic Bible
Week Praised
By The Pope
Sai* lloli Scriptures Are
Shining Beat-on igainst
Despair. Disillusion men!
WASHINGTON (NC) Cele
bration of Catholic Bihle Week in
the United States, Sept. 28 to Oct.
5. has been commended in a let
ter from His Holiness Pope Pius
XU.
It is the first time an American
Bible Week has been the subject
of a Papal letter since Biblical
Sunday was inaugurated in 1941.
The Pope's letter was sent
through the Apostolic Delegation
to the United States by Bishop Ed
win V. O’Hara of Kansas City,
Chairman of the Episcopal Com
mittee of the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine, Bible Week
sponsor.
7'ext Of Letter
Receipt of the letter was an
nounced at the annual meeting of
the Catholic Biblical Association
in Chicago last week. Text of the
letter was made public here today.
The Holy Father wrote:
“I has seemed fitting that the
laudable initiative sponsored by
the Archconfraternity of Christian
Doctrine in the United States, to
formally commemorate the 500th
Anniversary of the printing of the
Gutenberg Bihle by a Catholic Bi
ble Week from Sept. 28 to Oct. 5
of this year, should receive from
Us a word of paternal encourage
ment.
“This noteworthy centennial is
an event whose celebration calls
forth quite properly the fullest
participation of Catholics through
out the world. The very fact of the
production of the Bible as the first
great work of the newly discovered
art of printing, in that period when
Europe was religiously one and un
divided in its Catholic Faith, is
but another clear attestation to
the maternal care of the one true
Church of .Jesus Christ in safe
guarding. honoring and diffusing
ever more widely, down through
the centuries from apostolic times,
the Sacred Word of God.
Marked Progress
“Against the dangers of disil
lusionment and despair at the fail
ure of worldly remedies in the
present crisis affecting all of man
kind, there ever remains a shin
ing beacon, a sure source of hope
and solace in the unchanging in
spiration of the Word of God.
“That the faithful of the United
States, not only during Catholic
Bible Week but subsequently as
well, will give themselves in in
creasing numbers to a more fre
quent reading of the Bible and
draw from meditation upon its
eternal truths spiritual light and
strength for the salvation of their
souls in Jesus Christ Our Lord, is
Our fervent and confident trust, in
pledge of which We impart to all
who generously cooperate in this
high purpose. Our paternal Apos
tolic Blessing.”
Presiding at a Solemn Mass in
St. Joseph's Cathedral, Bishop
Ready last week opened the fifti
eth annual meeting of principals
and teachers of the Diocese of Co
lumbus. Some 568 delegates at
tended the opening Mass and the
remainder of the two day program
held at St. Mary of the .Springs
College.
Delivering the opening sermon
was the Rev. Paul Campbell, pas
tor of St. Lawrence church, Pitts
burgh, who listed ten things which
The celebrations in 1933 marked
the 250th anniversary of the siege
of Vienna when all of Europe was
saved from being engulfed by Is
lam, a deeply symbolic occasion.
In 1933, the eyes of Europe were
focused on Vienna as 250 years
earlier the Christian w'orld looked
toward the city to see if the Cross
of Christ still stood atop the spire
of St. Stephens Cathedral, vener
able landmark of a city beseiged
by hostile forces from the East.
In 1933. the world saw little Aus
tria struggling to defend herself
against the menace of the pagan
forces of Hitler's Third Reich, then
in the first year of its march to
conquest, power and ruin.
Then Hitler
Then Austria succumbed to Hit
ler, passed through the horrors of
the second world war until the
collapse of the Third Reich
brought the rebirth of Austria as
a nation. Seven years have passed
since those memorable days of
April and May 1945. Austria was
liberated then—yet she still is not
really free.
Speaking at the closing session,
Slate Groundbreaking For St. Gabriel Church
Ground for the new St. Gabriel church, to be located at Mock road and Woodland avenue, will
be broken at 3 p. m. Sunday by the Rev. Harold J. O'Donnell, pastor.' Construction is to begin
Monday and is slated to be finished around Mar. 1, 1953.
Architects for the new church are M. L. McGee and G. L. Emerick while the
tor is the C. J. Lang Construction Comany. The building itself will be 160 ft. long
and will accommodate 250 persons seated.
The new parish, which serves the large AMVET village in Northeast Columbus,
ship of 290 families with 115 children in school. Sunday Masses are temporarily being celebrated at
9 and 11 a. m. in the social hall of St. Mary of the Springs College.
Catholic Leader Explains Aims
Of People’s Party In Austria
Says Austria Only Country On Continent Which Favors
Western Democratic Freedoms
For the first time in 19 years.
Austria's Catholics will gather.
Sept. 11, in Vienna for their na
tional Katholikentag. the Catholics'
Day. and many minds will remem
her a day in September 1933 and
the 19 turbulent years that have
passed since then.
One of the oldest civilized peo
ple on the Continent, who brought
culture to all of southeastern Eu
rope, yet they require further edu
cation and tutelage. Today, Aus
tria is the only country in the
world that favors the western dem
ocratic form of government and
has a single, unified government,
although it is still occupied by the
four big powers: Soviet Russia.
United States, Britain and France.
In these times of trial and fer
ment, the Austrian people prepare
for their Katholikentag which fo
cuses attention on the country's
current social, cultural and politi
cal problems, for not only upon
the People’s Party but also upon
the Church in Austria weighs a
heavy responsibility for the future
of the country and for the material
and spiritual life of its people.
The Austrian People's Party be
lieves that the general standard of
living can best be raised by co
operation between employer and
employee, by a joint increase in
production for only by increasing
national income can genuine social
achievements be financed. The
People’s Party, therefore, is a gen
uine anti-communist and non
socialist movement. It seeks the
protection of the family, fosters
the private family home and stands
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“make a school Catholic.”
Using the early history of edu
cation in the Columbus Diocese
as a backdrop, Father Campbell’s
concluding reason was
“Its (the Catholic school's) con
sistent effort to make religion so
dominate the classroom that its
precepts and practices shall per
meate the soul of the child and
hold him through life firm in the
path of duty, no matter how' fierce
the storms he may encounter.”
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of the Golden Jubilee meeting,
which centered on the general
theme of “Recruiting for Christ,”
the Rev. John J. O’Brien, professor
of religion at Notre Dame universi
ty, told the Sisters and priests that
“we have just scratched the sur
face in recruiting for Christ in the
United States.”
“There are 100 million persons
in this country who rarely, if ever,
darken the door of any.church,”
Father O'Brien said. To combat
this, he said the Sisters must use
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Erect Fourth
Prefecture In
Formosa Isle
VATICAN CITY (Radio, NO
—A new' Prefecture Apostolic, the
fourth, has been erected on the
island of Formosa, according to an
announcement by the Sacred Con
gregation for the Propagation of
the Faith.
The new Prefecture, Kiayi, em
braces territory taken from (he
Prefecture of Kaoshung, in charg'
of Spanish Dominicans. The new
Prefecture will be in charge of
Chinese diocesan clergy and Bish
op Thomas Niu Hui-ching of Yang
ku has been named Apostolic Ad
ministrator.
The other two Apostolic Prefec
tures on Formosa arc those of Tai
pei, in charge of the Disciples of
Christ, an all-Chinese community,
and of Taichung, staffed by the
Maryknoll Fathers. Both were
erected in 1950.
According to a recent report by
Rev. Patrick O’Connor, NC Far
East correspondent, the present
Catholic population of Formosa is
estimated to be close to 20,000,
with conversions being 15 times
more numerous than they were
five years a^o. There are close to
100 priests laboring on the island,
in addition to 166 Sisters and six
Brothers.
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Presents Credentials
VATICAN CITY (NC) The
new Colombian Ambassador to the
Holy See. Jose Antonio Montalvo,
recently presented his credentials
to His Holiness Pope Pius XII.
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At the same time. Father Kappes
said, the average per diem expend
iture per patient in the Catholic
hospitals was some six percent
lower than the average for all the
hospitals of the state, and more
than 14 per cent lower than the
per diem expenditure of the 25
highest cost hospitals in the state.
He gave the figures as follows: for
the Catholic hospitals, $15.40 av
erage per diem expenditure for
all the hospitals of the state,
$16.35, and for the 25 highest cost
hospitals, $17.95. Figures for the
hospitals of the state, he said,
were compiled by the Ohio Hos
pital Association.
The amount of free care which
the diocesan hospitals extended
during the year, Father Kappes
said, was $571,998.73, or more than
1 per cent of the total operating
expenditures. Of this sum. he said,
state and private agencies, includ
in the County Welfare depart
ments and the Community Chests,
contributed some $291,399.72. But
he pointed out, this still leaves the
Mass Opens Golden Jubilee Meeting Of Principals and Teachers In Diocese
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not only prayer but consecrated
action to win converts to the
Faith.
“Go out among the people in
your community,” he told the Sis
ters, “take an hour each day to go
in pairs to the various homes and
explain the Faith really be
recruiters for Christ.”
Nevertheless, the famed educa
tor declared, the real recruiters
must be the 30 million lay Catho
lics of the nation. “The laymen.”
he stressed,
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lion w'hom priests or religious nev
er meet. In beauty shops, in res
taurants, in stores and on the
streetcar, there is a potential re
cruit for Christ if we will but open
our eyes ana see him.”
"The greatest loss of the
Church in the United States to
day,” Fr. O’Brien said, "is the loss
coming from our failure to harness
the good will and latent mission
ary zeal of 30 million Catholics
now going unused. It is a vast Ni-
must hit the 100 mil-1 agara which, if harnessed, could
Official
Th« Most Reverend Bishop announces the following appoint
ment! of the clergy.
Effective August 29. 1952:
The Reverend Gerolamo Clerici, P.I.M.E., Assistant Pastor, St.
John the Baptist Church and Chaplain of Saint Rose of Lima Con
vent, Columbus.
Effective August 30, 1952:
The Reverend Philip Hoelle, S.M., Chaplein of Saint Raphael's
Home for the Aged.
Effective September 1, 1952:
The Reverend Alfred Delve, O.M.I., Chaplain of Columbus State
School and Columbus State Hospital
The Reverend L. W. Duprey, O.P, Assistant Pastor of Saint
Thomas Aquinas Church, Zanesville.
By Order of the Most Reverend Bishop
Sparing nobody, inflation struck
heavily at the eight Catholic hos
pitals of the Diocese during the
past year, causing an increase in
operating expenditures of more
than 26 per cent.
According to figures compiled
by the Rev. William Kappes, Di
ocesan Director of Charities and
Hospitals, the operating expendi
tures of the hospitals were $5,023,
737.1f for the fiscal year July 1.
1951 to June 30. 1952. This is an
increase of $1,043,721.09 over the
total of $3,980.721 06 for the cor
responding period of the preced
ing year, or more than 26 per
cent.
Loir Average
ROLAND T. WINEL
Chancellor
Diocesan Hospitals Feel Pinch
Of Inflation During Past Year
Operating Co«t» Up 26 Per Cent New Additions And
Improvements For Better Service
hospitals to make up the differ
ence of $280,599. principallj he
added, by donations.
The total number of patients
treated in the hospitals. Father
Kappes announced, was 38.113 for
a total of 297.274 patient days.
This was an increase from the to
tal of 37.249 patients treated dur
ing the preceding year.
The number of live births, he
said, jumped some six per cent
The actual figures were 8.514 for
the year compared to 8.034 for
the year preceding.
The number of emergency bap
tisms in the hospitals for the year,
he said, was 316, some of whom
were adults.
The hospital facilities of the di
ocese. Father Kappes pointed out,
are constantly being improved. Ad
ditions and improvements totalling
more than $8,500,000 have been
made or are now being made to
four ol the hospitals. They are
Mt. Carmel, where bed capacity
was increased from 280 to 358 St.
Ann’s, where bed capacity was dou
bled to a total of 60 Mercy Hos
pital. Portsmouth, where the bed
capacity has already been increas
ed from 81 to more than 100, and
where the number of beds will be
shortly increased to 140, and Mer
cy, Mt. Vernon, where building
now going on will double the pres
ent 75 beds.
The building program at Ports
mouth, Father Kappes added, in
cludes a new nurses home, which
will be ready for occupancy some
time this fall.
In addition. Father Kappes said.
San Antonio Hospital, Kenton,
completed a $300,000 renovation
and expansion program several
years ago.
double or triple the number of
Catholics in this country in two
decades.”
Other speakers at the 50th an
niversary meeting discussed re
ligious vocations, the missions and
the general work of the schools
under the theme of Recruiting for
Christ.
At a general session devoted to
Parent-Teacher Associations, the
Rev. Edward Healey of St. Charles
college, Columbus, outlined and
refuted eight usual parental objec­
U.S. Church
Membership
On Increase
Catholic* Number More
I han Half Population
Regularly Affiliated
NEW YORK—(NC) American
churches had 88.673.005 members
in 1951. highest number in history.
The figure was released in the
new Yearbook of American Church
es. published here by the ational
Council of the Churches of Christ,
an organization representing many
of the larger Protestant denomina.
tions.
The statistics showed that 53 per
Vent of the total population were
church members in 1951. compared
wjth 49 per cent in 1940 The rise
in church membership of 34 per
cent since 1940 was described as
the most rapid in the past century.
It compared with an increase of 15
per cent in total population during
the same period.
Protestant membership in 1951
was given as 52.162.432 Catholic
as 29.241.530 The Official Catho
lic Directory. 1952 gives the Catho
lic population as 29 407.520): Jew
ish as 5.000.000 Eastern Orthodox
as 1.858.585 and other as 410.408.
It was stated that lor the past 50
years Catholics and Protestants had
maintained “about the same rela
tion to each other.”
Benson Y. Landis Yearbook ed
itor. said in an analysis of the fig
ures that “there is statistical evi
dence that the people of the Unit
ed States turned to the churches in
a period of war. international crisis
and the atomic age to a much
greater extent than in either the
depression years or the relatively
prosperous years of the 1920's.”
The Yearbook estimated the
number of religious denominations
in the United States in 1951 as 252
and said there were 284.592
churches.
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Carmel Schedules
Reception Rites
Martha Watts of Washington
C., will receive the habit of the
Discalced Carmelite nuns in the
Carmel of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary in Columbus at a religious
reception ceremony Saturday.
Bishop Hettinger will offer the
Mass and preside at the 9 a m.
ceremony.
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Army Honors Gen. Drum
NEW YORK. N.Y. (NC)
The Army paid a lasting tribute to
a great soldier and an outstand
ing Catholic when the former Pine
Camp was dedicated ae Camp
Drum for the late Lieut Gen.
Hugh A. Drum. The 107.000-acre
military reservation is eight and
one-half miles from Watertown.
N.Y.
tions to the priesthood. The main
one. he said, is expressed by most
parents as “I won't let my boy (or
girl) throw his life away.”
“This is the objection to the
general joylessness which some
parents feel is the lot of priests
and nuns,” Father Healey said. “If
we appear a worried, cross and
petty lot then we can scarcely ex
pect parents to choose or approve
of such a life for their children.”
Priests and nuns, he continued,
must not allow the true happiness
Price Ten Cents $3.00 A Year
Mass To Open Catholic
Bible Week On Sept. 28
Scripture Forum,
TV Show Included
In Week’s Slate
A Solemn High Mass Coram
Pontifice, in St. Joseph’s Cathe
dral Sept. 28. will open the dioces
an observance of Catholic Bible
Week, marking the 500th anniver
sary of the first book made from
movable type, the renowned Gu
tenberg Bihle.
Bishop Ready of Columbus will
preside at the 11 a m. Mass, and
the Rev. George T. Wolz. S.T.D.,
instructor in Sacred Scripture and
Biblical languages at St. Charles
College, will preach the sermon.
Father Wolz is diocesan director of
the week-long celebration.
Symposium Slated
In addition to the Mass, present
plans call for a “St. Jerome's
Night” at 8 p.m. Sept 30 in the
Campus Theater. St. Charles Col
lege. Seminarians of this institu
tion ^will take part in a symposi
um. tracing the history of the Bi
ble from its first appearance at
the end of the second century, to
the Katin Vulgate translated by
St. Jerome, and then to the time
Gutenberg gave it its printed form.
The public is invited to the forum,
which will also include a question
and answer period.
Gutenberg, incidentally, was a
member of the Third Order of St.
Francis, and printed the Catholic
Bible for a Europe which was then
still Catholic.
Religion teachers in Catholic
high schools in the diocese will al
so emphasize the Catholic tone of
the anniversary. Particular atten
tion will be paid to such ques
tions as the divine origin of the
Sacred Scriptures, their place in
the Church, and how and why the
list of Books in the Gutenberg Bi
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Men’s Club Opens
10th Year Today
The Rev. Bennett Applegate,
Superintendent of Schools
for the Columbus Diocese, will be
the speaker when the Catholic
Mens Luncheon Club opens its
10th year with a dinner meeting
at noon today. Friday. Sept 5, at
the Virginia hotel, Columbus.
Father Applegate will discuss
the recent decision of the Colum
bus Board of Health making nurs
ing services available to Catholic
schools.
The Luncheon Club, which is
open to all Catholic men. collects
membership dues of any kind.
It regularly meets the first Friday
of each month. Moderator of the
Club is the Rev. William Kappes
and president is L. Murnane.
The trustees are:
Frank Lorenz. Leo Kletzly. Ed
Ryan, Henry Reinhard. Mr. Mur
nane. Edward J. Kirwin. Edward
Bnngardner. E H. Echenrode,
Ralph J. Krames, Sr. and Charles
Leach.
of their state of life to be obscur
ed from parents by trivial diffi
culties showing through. “No par
ents will object to a vocation if
they think it is for their children's
happiness,” he concluded.
The Rev. James W. Kulp, dioces
an director of the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, at an
other general meeting outlined
three areas in the school* where
the bond between the missions and
the general theme of working for
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