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Vol. II, No. 1
The newly elected president of the Superior Council of the U. S.
Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Edmond Borgia-Butler, New York
lawyer, is shown (right) with Bartholomew A. Seymour, of Detroit,
national treasurer. The Society held its annual meeting in Cleveland,
In conjunction with the National Conference of Catholic Charities
Mr. Borgia-Butler succeeds Mr George J. Gillespie of New York, for
many years national president. (NC Photos)
FBI Chief Says Nation
Is Spiritually Starved
WASHINGTON—(NO—Plans to
observe National Catholic Youth
Week from Oct. 19 to 26, were hail
ed here today by J. Edgar Hoover.
Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
Pointing to an increase in the
crime rate of the United States
during the first six months of 1952.
the head of the FBI said the stor
ies behind these figures prove
that “our nation is suffering from
spiritual starvation.” He expressed
the hope that National Catholic
Youth Week would help to awaken
all Americans, and that the spirit
of the Week will continue into the
future as a source of inspiration.
Crime Rate Up
“The crime rate in the United
States continued unabated during
the first six months of 1952.” Mr.
Hoover said. More than one mil
lion major crimes, an increase of
6.4 per cent over the same period
for 1951. were committed.
“Youth led the criminal army
during the first half of 1952, as
more persons aged 18 were arrest
ed than any other age group. Al
most 30 per cent of all persons
arrested were less than 25 years of
age and they were responsible for
55.1 per cent of all robberies, 60 2
per cent of all burglaries, 43.4 per
cent of all larcenies-and 69.4 per
cent of all auto thefts. Behind these
figures lie tragic stories of parent
al neglect, broken homes, immoral
ity. adult delinquency and public
apathy—painful proof that our na
tion is suffering from spiritual
starvation.
Adults Indifferent
“At a time when too many adults
are indifferent to the problems we
face -with reference to youth the
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence is to be congratulated on its
sponsorship of National Catholic
Youth Week which will be cele
brated from Oct. 19 through Oct.
26. 1952. I hope that this special
emphasis will contribute to the
awakening of all Americans to the
continuing need to aid in backing
worthwhile and constructive pro
grams for youhg people. It is
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through such programs, properly
implemented, that America can
stiike a telling blow at the sour
ces of youthful delinquency.
"1 trust that the spirit of Na
tional Catholic Youth Week will
continue into the future and that
it will serve as an inspiration for
all those who have dedicated them
selves Io the fight against crime.”
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Installation Rites
For Fr. Gieringer
Scheduled Sunday
Bishop Ready will conduct the
services Sunday at 3 p.m. when the
Rev. Paul A. Gieringer, formerly
pastor of St. Anthony of Padua
cnurch, Lancaster. Pa., is installed
as rector of the Pontifical College
Josephinum. The ceremonies will
be held in the Josephinum chapel.
Musical background for the oc
casion—which will be attended by
more than 35 Diocesan priests as
well as the students at the Jose
phinum—will be provided by the
Josephinum choir. Both Bishop
Ready and Father Gieringer are
slated to give short talks.
Following the installation, Bish
op Ready will be guest of honor
at a dinner for Father Gieringer
in the Josephinum dining hall. A
get-together for Father Gieringer
and faculty and students of the
Josephinum at 8 p.m. will close
the day’s activities.
Father Gieringer was appointed
rector in August by the Sacred
Congregation for Seminaries and
Universities in Rome. He replaced
the Very Rev. Msgr. Adrian F.
Brandehoff, J.C.L., who resigned
in July because of ill health.
Father Gieringer was born May
24, 1896, in Reading, Pa., the son
of Charles and Anna Gieringer,
both deceased. Prior to his en
trance in the Josephinum, he at
tended St. Paul’s school in Read
ing.
He is the 6th rector of the Jose
phinum since its founding 64 years
ago.
7th Annual DCCW Meeting Slated Thursday
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they leave the Cathedral Rectory following a conference on
seventh annual convention of the Diocesan Council of Catholifc
Women ere: Mr*. Anthony J. Herold, hospitality chairman Mrs.
Richard H. Deibel, reservations secretary and Mr* Alexander J,
Glockner, chairman of the workshop for officer* of organizations.
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tion tn modern conditions, at least
in non-essentials, was urged by
His Holiness Pope Pius XII as a
cure for the “crisis” of insufficient
religious vocations.
The Pontiff addressed the ap
peal to 700 Mother General and
other Sisters whom hr received in
audience at the conclusion of the
First International Congress of
Mothers General of Religious Con
gregations which held three-day
sessions in Rome.
Speaking in French, the Holy Fa
ther said that what he termed the
“crisis” arising from the lack of
vocations could be attributed,
among other things, to the reten
tion of customs and usages which
were perfectly acceptable in an
other cultural period, but are out
moded and non-essential today.
“We ask you,” the Pope declar
ed. "courageously to conform ev
ery, time that your Sisters and your
own experience tell you that the
moment has come to take account
intelligently of present-day forms
of life." He was referring at this
point to a talk a year ago to dele
gates to the first international
congress of teaching nuns in which
he urged superiors and general
chapters to adapt schedules, regu
lations and customs arising from
past conditions to new circum
stances.
“Take care.” Pope Pius urged,
“that the customs, the manner of
life or the growth of your religious
families do not constitute a bar
rier, or a cause of failures (of
vocations). We refer to certain
usages which, if they had a mean
ing in another cultural frame, have
it no longer today, and in which a
truly good and courageous girl
would find nothing but obstacles
to her own vocation.”
Discusses Religious Garb
The Pontiff said that “the re
ligious garb must always express
consecration to Christ it is this
w'hich everyone expects and
wants.” But he said it should also
conform to modern demands and
correspond to the needs of hy
giene. He added that he had been
unable adequately to voice his
satisfaction when some congrega
tions during the past year had put
some of these ideas into practice.
"In those things which are not
essential,” the Pope advised the
Mothers General, “adapt yourselves
as far as reason and a well-ordered
charity counsel.”
The Holy Father said that his
“most special reason” for speaking
Benedictines
Reopen Monte
Cassino Abbey
ROME (NC) The Benedic
tine monks of Monte Cassino cele
brated their return to the famous
abbey here by holding a genera!
chapter.
The monks moved into the abbey
a few days prior to the opening of
the chapter. It was the first time
the monks had occupied the his
toric building since its destruction
by Allied bombing during the Ital
ian campaign in 1944.
Monte Cassino is considered the
cradle of western monasticism. It
is the place where St. Benedict or
ganized a community of monks and
wrote his rule after leaving Subi
aco.
Diocesan Women
AnnouiicePrograin
For Convention
Bishop Ready will celebrate a
Pontifical Mass Thursday, Oct. 9.
in St. Joseph’s Cathedral to open
the annual one-day convention of
the Columbus Diocesan Council of
Catholic Women.
Assistant at. the Mass, which is
set for 9 a.m., will be the Very
Rev. Msgr. Harry S. Connelly, pas-’
tor of the Cathedral. Deacons of
honor will be the Very Rev. Msgr.
Harold J. O’Donnell, assistant
chancellor of the Diocese and ad
ministrator of St. Gabriel's parish,
and the Very Rev. Msgr Joseph E.
McGlynn, officialis of the matri
monial tribunal.
Deacon of the Mass will be the
Rev. Paul J. O’Dea. St. Charles
college, and the subdeacon will be
the Rev. James Kulp, Diocesan Di
rector of the Society for Propaga
tion of the Faith. The Right Rev.
Msgr. Roland T. Winel and the
Rev. James Carroll will act as mas
ters of ceremonies.
Speakers from many fields, both
clerical and lay, will intergrate
dynamically the nine workshops
of the convention into the theme
“Be Renewed in the Spirit.”
The all-day meeting will open
with a Pontifical High Mass at St.
Joseph Cathedral at 9 a. m.. cele
brated by Bishop Ready who will
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Pope Tells Convent Superiors
Pontiff Say* Abandonment Of Outmoded Customs.
Usage* In Religion* Order* Will Increase oration*
The Catholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, October 3, 1952
thus was the present lack of voca
tions.
Laud* Vow of Chastity
Pope Pius said he wanted to
speak a special word to those—
priests, or laity, preachers, orators
or writers who in these times
have no longer a word of approval
or praise for virginity vowed to
Christ. He was speaking, he said,
to those who for long years, in
spite of the warnings of the
Church, and in contrast to her
thought, have given preference, in
principle, to marriage over virgin
ity, and who have extended them
selves to the point of presenting
marriage as the only state adapted
to human personality and its natu
ral perfection.
“Let those who so speak and
write.” the Holy Father admonish
ed, “be aware of their responsibil
ity before God and Church. It is
necessary to put them among those
principally guilty of a fact of
which we cannot speak except with
sadness.”
The Pontiff went on to make two
exhortations to Mothers Superior
He asked them to show maternal
affection in the direction of the
Sisters under their care, and said
they should see to it that the Sis
ters are adequately trained for the
office or task to which they are
assigned.
"Without doubt, it is true, as
psychology holds.” the Pope said,
"that the woman invested with au
thority does not succeed as easily
as man in dispensing and balanc
ing severity and kindness.”
Stressing the need for Mothers
Superior to cultivate maternal al
fection toward their Sisters, Pope
Pius said that this is particularly
necessary because the Sisters, like
themselves, have made a great sac
rifice in renouncing their families,
the happiness of married intimacy,
and of the domestic fireside. He
added that Superiors have a duty
“in the first place to inject into
the common life of the Sisters the
warmth of family affections.”
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Bulgaria Adds
Fuel To Fires*
Of Persecution
Red. indict 40. Of Whom
28 Are Priests, Charged
A* Being atiran Agents
VIENNA (NC) A Catholic
Bishop is among the group of Cath
olics just indicted by the Bulgarian
communist regime.
This was revealed when the So
fia radio broadcast a summary of
the indictment and mentioned
some of the defendants.
In all 40 are accused of “spying”
for the Vatican and the western
powers and of "criminal and hos
tile” activities against Red Bul
garia. The broadcast listed about
a dozen of those accused.
The Bishop accused is Bishop
Eugene Bossilkoff, C.P.. of N’icopo
li, who usually maintains his res
idence at Ruse. He was elevated to
the episcopacy since the time the
communist regime came to power.
The 51-year-old prelate was ordain
ed in 1926 and consecrated a Bish
op in 1947.
Others listed in the indictment
are the Revs. Kamed Dichev lon
kov, head of the Byzantine-Rite
Catholic seminary in Bulgaria Pe
ter Petrov, secretary to Bishop
John Romanoff, Vicar Apostolic of
Sofia and Plovdiv Marislav An
tonov Banchev, former director of
the Catholic seminary at Yambol.
and Fortunat Pavlov Bakalkov,
priests of Sofia and former editor
in-chief of the Bulgarian Catholic
paper, Istina (Truth).
Also the Revs. Pavel lozov Gigov,
Klaud Vonchev and Nikola Barbov,
and two engineers identified as
Vulkov and Zaekov.
An earlier Sofia broadcast stated
that there were 28 Catholic priests
among the 40 accused. The more
recent broadcast speaks of "29
Catholic leaders.”
The indictment contains a long
harangue against the western "im
perialist” powers and the Vatican
which it charges is cooperating
with the "imperialists.”
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European Newsmen Fas or
Board To Bar False News
AACHEN, Germany (NC)—Mea
sures to curb false newspaper re
ports that threaten West European
unity were urged here at a meet
ing attended by some 80 Catholic
newspapermen from six European
countries, including West Ger
many, Belgium. Holland and Lux
embourg.
The newspapermen passed a res
olution calling upon European gov
ernments and organizations inter
ested in European unity to form
an international arbitration board
which would pass judgment in cas
es of untrue reporting. The pro
posed board would be empowered
to force newspapers found guilty
of publishing false reports to is
sue retractions.
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Holy Father Outlines
Psychoanalysis Norms
VATICAN CITY (NC) "Au
thoritative norms” set by the Pope
for the use of psychoanalytical
methods are explained in a front
page article of Osservatore Ro
mano.
The unsigned article comments
on the recent discourse by His
Holiness Pope Pius XII to dele
gates of the first international con
gress on the histo pathology of the
nervous system. In this discourse
the Pope outlined the moral and
ethical limits beyond which science
must not go and applied these
norms to the field of psychoanaly
sis.
Distinctions Required
According to the article, the
Pope made it clear that neither
psychoanalysis in general, nor its
recently developed forms and tech
niques, nor the psychotherapeutic
treatment of sexual neuroses, are
necessarily to be condemned. How
ever, the Pope definitely disap
proved of the so-called "pan sexual
method” in its "transgressions of
ethical limits.”
(The phrase "pan-sexual meth
od” was said to refer to the philos
ophy that would attribute all men
tal and emotional disturbances to
sexual causes. A prominent Cath
olic psychiatrist in Washington
pointed out that if a psychoanalyst
has a pan-sexual attitude regard
ing mental illness, such an atti
tude would be reflected in the
method of treating the patient.)
Not All Systems Wrong
It must, however, be remember
ed, Osservatore said, that not all
systems of psychoanalysis are in
fected by the “vice of pan-sexual
ism.” All systems, it explained,
have certain common principles,
methods and experiments that are
in no way contrary to natural eth
ics and Christian morality and are.
therefore, in no way condemned by
the Pontiff.
"In the psychoanalytical field.”
the article said, "granted that the
ethical order is fully observed,
new and profounder researches
and experiments may be made. But
in all these cases practitioners fall
not rarely into errors and abuses.
Fifth Diocesan Synod To Open
With Blessing Of Holy Father
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“On the other hand, it is to be
regretted that in some countries
it has recently become prevalent
among not a few medical men
(and, unfortunately, also Catholics)
to make use habitually or exclu
sively of the sexual method for
every nervous malady.”
Discusses Freud
Terming the Pope’s words "an
authoritative norm on the much
discussed question of psychoanaly
sis,” the Osservatore article stated
that the discourse also answers
many questions posed by a recent
article of Msgr. Pericle Felici,
judge of the Sacred Roman Rota.
In this article Monsignor Felici
expressed the personal view that
psychoanalytical treatment accord
ing to the methods developed by
Sigmund Freud comes close to be
ing sinful for the doctor as well
as the patient.
“The Holy Father does not treat
of psychoanalysis in general, nor
the various forms and techniques
proposed and experimented with
during recent decades by compe
tent scientists, including Catho
lics,” the Osservatore article point
ed out. “But he is concerned with
the ’pan-sexual method of a certain
school of psychoanalysis.’ Nor does
he treat of the nature and thera
peutic value of this method, but of
the transgression of ethical limits
committed by it.
“Likewise the Pontiff does not
prohibit or condemn the psycho
therapeutic cure of sexual neuros
es, but he does disapprove of the
amoral method which is at work
in the practical application of the
cure.”
The article, dealing with the use
of the “pan-sexual method” for
treating nervous disorders, criti
cized the argument that its effec
tiveness had been proven by re
sults and that even priests should
be instructed in the use of that
method for better pastoral work.
These arguments, Osservatore said,
have too often and too imprudent
ly been proposed tn all kinds of
publications which emphasize the
medical and forget the moral as
peels.
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Pictured above is a document received this week by Bishop Ready from the Vatican on the occa
sion of the 5th Diocesan Synod which convenes Wednesday in St. Joseph's Cathedral, Columbus. Signed
by hi* Excellency, Monsignore Domenico Tardini, Secretary for Extraordinary Affairs in the
Secretariate of State, the scroll imparts the Holy Father's apostolic blessing on th* Bishop, Auxiliary
Bishop, clergy, religious and faithful of th* diocese "a* a pledge of ever greater future achieve
ments for God and Souls." It is dated Oct.
4.
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Chinese Communists Oust
72-Year-OId Archbishop
HONG KONG (NC) The
Chinese Reds have again struck at
the small contingent of foreign
Bishops still in China. They oust
ed Archbishop Paulin Albouy of
Nanning, a 72-year-old member of
the Paris Foreign Mission Society.
Archbishop Albouy had been im
prisoned by the Reds last year.
Earlier this year he was permitted
to leave his prison cell. He was
the victim of a hurried "expulsion
meeting” before his ouster.
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Bible Reading
Is Obligatory,
Priest Asserts
Scripture Tells Us How We
Must Imitate Our Lord,
Biblical Scholar Says
The importance of reading Holy
Scripture was emphasized last
Sunday by the Rev. George T.
Wolz, at a Solemn Mass in St. Jo
seph Cathedral opening the dioces
an celebration of National Catholic
Bible Week. The seven-day ob
servance commemorated the 500th
anniversary of the printing ol the
Gutenberg Bible.
Fr. Wolz, who is professor of
Scripture and Biblical languages at
St. Charles Seminary, noted that
most Catholic homes have a copy
of the Gospels but that "dust
sometimes lies thick upon the cov
ers.”
He compared this apathy to a
soldier serving overseas who says
he loves his parents, but week af
ter week "he puts their letters
aside, unopened and unread. How
sincere is he when he says he loves
his parents’” Fr. Wolz asked.
“The Fathers of the Church,”
the priest declared, “often com
pared the Scriptures to so many
letters written by God our Father
to us His Children as we wander
here upon earth far from our heav
enly homeland. We say that we
love God. But can we accuse him
of injustice and misunderstanding
if he questions our sincerity be
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Mass Celebrated
Bv Bisbop Ready
To Begin Session
A Pontifical Mass, celebrated at
10 a Wednesday, Oct. 8, in St.
Joseph's Cathedral by Bihop
Ready, will open the 5th Synod in
Diocesan history.
Deacons of honor at the Mas*
will be the Very Rev. Msgr. Harry
S. Connelly, pastor of the Ca
thedral, and the Very Rev. Msgr.
Harold J. O’Donnell, assistant
chancellor of the Diocese and ad
ministrator of St. Gabriel’s parish,
Columbus.
Assistant priest will be the Right
Rev Msgr Paul Glenn rector of
St. Charles college, while the dea
con of the Mass will he the Rev.
Julius Klinec. administrator of St.
Mary's church. Portsmouth. Th*
Rev. Thomas A. Sabrey of St.
Charles college will serve as sub
deacon.
The Synod will be the first held
in the Diocese since 1902 That
was held under the direction of
Bishop Henn Moeller, who after
wards became Archbishop of Cin
cinnati.
All the clergy in the Diocese will
attend the Synod, purpose of
which is to enact laws which are
necessary or useful for the welfare
of the Diocese. These laws, which
affect both the clergy and laity
of the Diocese, are confined to
the limitations prescribed by the
common aw of the church and
are pa^-ed only after consultation
of all the clergy of the Diocese.
Usually at the synod, decrees de
termined upon by the Bishop, are
promulgated When* promulgated,
they oblige immediately unless the
Bishop expressly permits a period
of grace.
Diocesan synods differ from all
other legislative assemblies in the
Church Whereas in ecumenical,
plenary or provincial councils, the
participating Bishops all have a
vote and voice in the discussion
and enactment of statutes, in a dio
cesan synod, only the one Bishop,
the Ordinary of the diocese who
convoked the synod, has authority.
He is the sole lawgiver for his See.
Though he usually delegates the
preparatory work of the synod to
commissions composed of his dio
cesan clergy, the Bishop alone ap
proves the new statutes or revis
ions of old ones, and he alone
promulgates them that is. pub
lishes the laws and sets the date
on which they are to become ef
fective. if it be other than the date
of the synod.
The first recorded diocesan sy
nod took place in the year 585, but
the report of it refers to such an
assembly as a well-known and al
ready ancient institution. They
were traditionally held in the
month of May.
Pope Benedict XIV in a book en
titled “De Synodo Diocesana”
“Concerning the Diocesan Synod
defines it as follows "... a lawful
assembly convoked by the Bishop,
in which he gathers together the
priests and clerics of his diocese
and all who are bound to attend
it. for the purpose of doing and
deliberating what belongs to “the
care.’
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Requiem Sung For
St. Marys Sister
Solemn Requiem Mass was cele
brated in the covent chapel of St.
Mary of the Springs college. Co
lumbus. Sept. 24 for Sister Olivia
Glaub, OP. w ho died two days
earlier. Sister Olivia’s nephew, the
Rev. Hubert Rubeck pastor of St.
Luke’s church. Danville, was the
celebrant.
Sister Olivia was born Feb. 17,
1898. at Lowell. O. and entered
the noviate at St. Marv's in 1920.
She was professed J"lv 10. 1922.
During the 30 years of her relig
ious life she had taught in the pa
rochial schools at ilm°rding,
Braddock. McFees ks *nd Pitts
burgh. Pa Columbus ’v-ster
and Somerset. O and ^-‘roit,
Mieh.
She is survived by three broth
ers. Frank of Columbus Ten of
Orrville and Roman of Newark
three sisters. Anna Glaub -nd Mrs.
Cnopop Rubeck of Newark, and
Mrs. Carl Scharf of Mt. Victory.
Program Change
The Rev. Urban Nag'e, O.P.,
noted author and dramatist
from the College of St. Mary of
the Springs. Columbus, will di
rect a special television pro
gram Sunday, Oct. 12, as a part
of the Diocesan celebration of
National Catholic Bible W’eek,
The program, to be seen over
WBNS-TV, Columbus, channel
10, at 2:30 p.m., will be based
on incidents in the Bible. Be
cause of program commitments,
it was necessary to change the
program from the previously
announced date of Oct. 5.