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Priest, Former Farmer
Observes Golden Jubilee
NEW ORLEANS (NC) He
started out to become a school
teacher, but soon decided he’d rath
er be a priest instead. Then he
changed his mind again and took a
fling at farming. But now Father
Ephraem Poetsch, 75. has cele
brated the 50th anniversary of his
ordination as a Benedictine.
offered a Solemn Mass of Thanks
giving at Our Lady of the Sacred
Heart Church, here, where he is as
sistant pastor. Archbishop Joseph
F. Rummel of New Orleans presid
ed and Abbot Columban Thuis,
0453.. of St Joseph’s Abbey, St
Benedict, La., preached the ser
mon.
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recently. (NC Photos)
Father Dudley, Famed Author,
Convert, Lecturer, Dies At 70
IjONDON (NC)—Father Owen
Francis Dudley, one of tbe best
known Catholic novelists and
preachers in the English-speaking
world, died here (Dec. 8) at the age
of 70. For 30 years up to his re
tirement in 1947, he had held the
limelight as lecturer, missioner and
as one of the most outspoken and
most quoted of Catholic publicists.
Father Dudley s best-seller, "The
Masterful Monk ran into hun
dreds of thousands of copies Other
works included “The Coming of
WASHINGTON—(NC) Burial
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by Arlington National Cemetery
was accorded Navy Capt. Charles
Gavin Duffy, 53. widely known
newspaperman and naval public re
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Italy. Dec. 10.
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the Monster,” “Will Men be Like
Gods?” end “The Shadow on the
Earth.”
On his last visit to the United
States, on his way home from a
successful tour of Australia, he
was elected an honorary member
of the International Mark Twain
Society in appreciation of his last
novel, “You and Thousands Like
You.”
Father Dudley covered over
10C,000 miles in 1938-39 lecturing
in Australia. New Zealand and the
United States.
A converted Anglican clergyman.
Father Dudley retired five years
ago as superior of the Catholic
Missionary Society, a group of
priests who spend their lives wan
dering through the more isolated
and less Catholic areas of England
and Wales, preaching, and admin
istering the Sacraments. Because
of his great gifts he traveled much
further than most, and many hun
dreds owed their conversion direct
ly to him.
Father Dudley was a dramatic
preacher capable of holding au
diences not only in churches and
public halls but also in market
places and other open-air sites. His
writings, many of which were
translated into a score of lan
guages and transcribed in Braille,
were also in a direct, clear and
simple modern style.
Father Dudley became a Catholic
after four years as a Church of
England minister, studied for the
priesthood in Rome and was or
dained there in 1917. He enlisted as
a British Army chaplain during
World War 1 and was wounded. He
joined the Catholic Missionary So
ciety in 1919 Since 1949 he had
been chaplain to fhe Carmelite
onxent at Berkhamstcd, Hertford
shire a few miles outside Ixindon
A brother is a Jesuit. Father Eusl
tace Dudley, S.J ol Manchester.
Irish Missionary
(gives Blood To
Save ROK Life
CHEJU ISLAND, Korea
When a missioner puts out his
“shingle” in a new town, God
usually finds a way for him to
establish himself. Father John
Savage, Columban Father in the
Prefecture of Kwangju, feels
that he was “established” in a
unique
way.
morning, after Father
had finished Mass in his
in Sugwipo on the south-
One
Savage
church
ern tip of the island, he heard
about an accident that happened
the previous night. At the local
movie house (an old barn) a
ROK soldier had accidentally
exploded hand grenade.
Twelve persons were injured.
Six of these had died during the
night. The missioner rushed ov
er to the dispensary to see what
he could do. Blood was needed
or the other six would also die.
Father Savage called Father
Tom Sullivan, an Irish Francis
can at a POW camp twenty-five
miles away and told him the sit.
nation. Then the missioner gave
a pint of his own blood. Father
O’Sullivan arrived with a U.S.
doctor and blood plasma and all
six were saved.
Said Father Savage. “If I were
to run for mayor of Sugwipo,
I'd win in a landslide Of course,
my chief supporter is the Kor
ean who has a pint of Irish hlood
running through his veins
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THE CATHOLIC TIMES. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1952
‘Nation Needs
V ital Weapon
It Is Prayer’
NEW YORK (NC) The na
tion sorely need* another weapon
to add to its stockpile of mighty
atomic devices, Thomas E. Mur
ray, Atomic Energy Commission
member, declared in a radio ad
dress,
ed, is
The needed weapon, he add
prayer.
Murray, father of 11 chil
two of whom are priests,
on the Faith In Our Time
Mr.
dren,
spoke
program produced bv the National
Council of Catholic Men and car
ried by the Mutual Broadcasting
System. His topic was “Faith In
Our Time.”
"Every man is a creature of
faith,” Mr. Murray said. “He has
to be. For no man can live with
out faith—without believing in
something, without trusting in
someone. The disease of our world
today is not that men have no faith,
but rather that they put their faith
in the wrong things, the wrong
persons. And, if the disease is a
misdirected faith, then the cure is
a redirected faith.”
Peace of Mind
The 1952 Laetare Medalist said
that greater peace of mind come*
from supernatural faith—faith in
God. Mr. Murray added: “If any
one holds there is no God, then for
him it must follow that no one has
any rights at all—only temporary
privileges which can be snatched
away by force. Force, not justice,
becomes the guiding norm. Nations
and governments, like communist
Russia, that refuse to recognise
God must logically refuse to recog
nize man.”
“This is no time to abandon our
defenses,” Mr. Murray asserted.
“On the contrary our stockpile of
atomic weapons must be improved
and expanded far beyond its pres
ent size. But, it is every man s duty
to pray-'-to pray God for deliver
ance from wars and threats of
wars just as it should be every
man's belief that God can and will
hear our prayers.”
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Roof Sag Closes
Historic Church
At Mount Adams
CINCINNATI—(NC) Historic
immaculata church atop Mount
Adams, goal of Good Friday pil
grims for nearly a century, was
closed last week because its high
pitched roof is in danger of col
lapsing.
City building inspector* ordered
the 91 year-old church closed un
til major repairs make it safe for
public worship.
Whether it will be reopened by
Good Friday, when the annual cer
emony of “praying the steps”
takes place, is “extremely doubt
ful,” according to Father Cyprian
Frank. P., pastor.
Every year on that day tens of
thousands of persons devoutly as
cend the 90 cliffside steps leading
to Immaculata church, pausing on
each step to recite a Hail Mary,
and at each landing, an Our Father.
Father Cyprian, a veteran Chi
na missionary, became alarmed re
cently when he observed the tin
covered roof of the stone church
swaying in a stiff w’ind.
Upon” closer inspection, he dis
covered that the roof had devel
oped a serious sag. and that the
walls of the church appeared to
be pushing outward. Cracks began
to show in the ceiling
Examining the roof’s support
ing timbers, he found that some
of the largest had split and no
longer were supporting anything.
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(rives 100 Boys
A Beal Christmas
CHICAGO—(NC “Gee. Mama
won’t know me when I get home.”
All dressed up with some place
to go, a grinning youngster made
this observation after attending the
20th annual Christmas party given
by His Eminence Samuel Cardinal
Stritch. Archbishop of Chicago.
He was one of 100 boys given a
complete outfit of clothing- suit,
overcoat, shoes and the accessories
at the Cardinal’s party in The
Fair Store The boys were selected
from 50 parishes in the archdio
cese and the clothing given to them
was valued at $10,000.
The Christmas party was a com
plete surprise to the boys All they
were asked to do was to meet at
Holy Name athedral. where Fath
ers Emmet Ragen and George Hal.
pin took them in hand
After they were outfitted, the
boy* who ranged from 4 to 14, were
treated to a turkey luncheon and
were entertained by radio and tele
vision personalities.
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brothers end
his father in
the boy who
‘Mama won’t
One bay has 16
sisters. Another lost
World War II. And
was confident
know me when I get home' lost his
father only recently.
The Russian peasantry for cen
turies have had a curious tradi
tion. It seems that an old wom
an, the Baboushka, was at work
when the Wise
Men passed
from the East
on their way to
Bethlehem to
find the Christ
Child. Knock
ing at her door,
they said:
“Come with
u» we have
seen His star
in the East and
we go to worship Him.” She an
swered. “I have some housework
to do and there are some things
I bought yesterday I have to put
away. When this is done I will
follow.” But her work was never
done, and the Three Kings pass
ed on their way, and the star
shone no more on the darkened
heavens. She never saw the
Christ Child but she is still seek
ing and yearning and trying to
make up for it by caring for His
children at Christmas.
It is she who in Russia is sup
posed to fill the stockings of the
children and dress the tree on
Christmas morn. Children are
awakened by the cry: “Behold
the Baboushka!” They spring out
of bed to catch a glimpse of her
before she vanishes through the
open window. The tradition has
it that the good old woman be
lieves that whenever she gives a
gift to a child, or warms and
feeds the poor, she may find
the Christ Child whom she ne
glected centuries ago.
Everyone, like Baboushka. let
pass the thousand graces w'hich
poured into the soul from the
Christ Child through His Moth
er Mary. Souls will be lost not
only from the evil they have
done, but also because of the
good that was left undone. The
sun is shining, but we hide from
its light the river is near but
God Love You-------------
Do Without A Luxury, Fill
Stockings Of Missionaries
by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen -.
we will not wash the stars beck
on us to meditation about God,
but we look down grace calls
us to sacrifice for the spread of
the faith in missionary lands and
we heed it not. The lost oppor
tunity is one of the saddest stor
ies of tongue or pen.
But in the Mercy of God it is
never too late. Like Baboushka
we can make amends by filling
the stockings of our one hun
dred thousand missionaries by
doing without a luxury or a des
sert or a package of cigarettes
or a bottle of liquor, or the
tenth tie in ord6r to feed a Ko
rean infant, hire a catechist for
an African Bantu, dig a well for
a Moslem, or build a chapel for
thx convert Hindus. For all the
neglected inspirations of grace,
atonement can be made, for in
helping the Society for Propaga
tion of the Faith you are not
helping a particular mission or
a particular missionary, you are
helping the Holy Father. Your
offering goes to him he decides
where it wall be sent.
This is w hat others are doing!
GOD LOVE YOU to A. H. fdr
$13, the money she earned help
ing at a private party GOD
LOVE YOU to I.K. for $16. She
decided against buying a set of
China and instead will send the
payments she would have other
wise made for the China to the
missions GOD LOVE YOU to
M.S. who sends $3 from her co
workers GOD LOVE YOU to
Mrs. N.P. “After reading MIS
SION, I just could not keep this
$4.
Cut out this column, pin your
sacrifice to it and mail it to the
Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen,
National Director of The Society
for the Propagation of the Faith,
109 East 38th Street, New' York
16. New York, or your Diocesan
Director, the Rev. James Kulp,
246 E. Town street, Columbus 15,
Ohio.
New Missionary Bishops
WN A'
a Y A.
Bishop Danehy Bishop Bower*
Rev. Thoma* J. Danehy, M.M.,
(above) of Fort Weyne, Ind., and
Manitowoc, Wi»., Administrator
of th* Vicariate Apostolic of Pan
do, BoFvia, since 1941, ha* been
named Titular Bi*hop of Bit* and
will retain hi* present post there.
Bishop-elect Danehy was ordain
ed a Maryknoll priest In 1939.
Rev. Joseph Bowers, S.V.D.,
(above) negro priest from th*
British West Indies and an alum
nus of St. Augustine's Seminary,
Bay St. Louis, Miss., has been
named Auxiliary Bishop of Accra,
Gold Coast, West Africa. He was
ordained In Rom* In 1939. (NC
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Catholic Cultural Congress
Honors Our Lady Of Guadalupe
MEXICO CITY—(NC)-The First
National Congress of Catholic Cui
tvre is to be held January 18 to
23. in Guadalajara, capital of the
State of Jalisco.
Announcement of the congress,
expected to bring together Catholic
cultural leaders, professional men
and students from all parts of Mex
ico, was made joint’y by Archbish
op Luis Martinez of Mexico City
and Archbishop Jose Garibi Rivera
of Guadalajara, on behalf of the
Mexican Hierarchy.
They said they had chosen to
make their announcement on the
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe,
patroness of Mexico, as “a guaran
tee of success” for what they de
scribed as an event of exceptional
importance in tbe nation's spiritual
and cultural life.
The Archbishops’ announcement
w as heard here by visitors from far
and near who had come to the Mex.
ican capital on pilgrimages to the
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe
on the slopes of Tepeyac Hill three
miles from the city. Every year
for days before and after the Feast
of Our Lady of Guadalupe on De
cember 12, numerous special pil
grimages take place to the shrine
built to commemorate the appari
tion of the Blessed Mother to Juan
Dieo. a humble Indian, in 1531.
Previously, Archbishop Martinez
had addressed an individual mes
sage to the Catholics of Mexico
timed to the Feast of Our Lady of
Guadalupe.
Archbishop Martinez spoke to
300.000 w orkers and employers who
had made a pilgrimage to the
Basilica of Guadalupe a few days
before the feast day. Celebrating
a Pontifical Mass at th? shrine, he
exhorted the pilgrims to “remain
closely united in order to conquer
communism.”
“At the present time,” Archbish
op Martinez said, “there exists in
the world a dangerous problem,
that of communists wanting to
dominate everywhere. However,
the Church, strongly united with
you the workers, will emerge vic
torious. The rights of the workers
will be upheld, and there shall be
piosperity upon earth.”
The Archbishop concluded his
talk by urging the workers to be
united with their employers, “so
you may solve all problems of man
agement and labor, basing your ef
forts on justice and charity.”
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SISTER CELESTIN® to a novice with the Franciscan Sisters of th*
Cross at Jall-ed-Dih, I^ebanon. She has just one more year erf training
and she does beg a kind Near East friend to give her $150 so badly
needed.
THEODORE ha* Jwt begun his six years’ training for the priesthood
at tbe Seminary «f SL Jwaphat tn Rome. Exiled from hi* own home
country by the Russians, he hi destitute. Can you adopt him, riving
$660 in any installments ever tbe six yean? God will blew you.
We know you will want to read oar pamphlet, OUR LADY’S KREM
LIN. We send it to all who give even a mite for the Shrine Chapel of
OUR LADY OF FATIMA, which we hope to build Ethiopia. Mary
must reign everywhere.
WHEN COMES THE FEAST OF STRINGLESS GIFTS? Why, that
to Epiphany. January 6. when the Three King* laid etrtngtess gift* at
the feet of the Babe. When yon give one, yon make every day Epiphany
for Jesus and His poor.
GOD’S WANT AD: We must keep asking for those dear Carmelite
Sisters at Ayroor, South India. Sister Cecilia writes: “We live a
shed and all around us are wretchedly poor people. Christmas could
mean so little to them, for they are starving, and we have not th*
means to eat ourselves. In the sweet names of Jesus, Mary and Joseph*
I beg your help.” What a $10 gift will do for these dear Sisters!
FLIGHT INTO EGYPT: Father Henry Ayrnnt. the wonderful Jesuit
Father in eharge ef ear orphans In Egypt, keep* begging for thou*
three dollar gift*, so that be een clothe a tittle ehild. If yon ean give
one, wiH be like giving a garment to the Child Jerne. Who Bed to
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BISHOP TARAYTL of Kottayam, India, keeps writing tn ns and beg
ging for help in building five chapel* among hie poor. Two thousand
dollars to a lot of money, but even your mite to the CHAPKL-OF-THE
MONTH CLUB will do wonders for ns. We have all too many each
plea*.
YES, EVEN IN YUGOSLAVIA, believe er n«L we have misetons.
Father Visoeevic ha* been asking ns for ever a year for $566 to com
plete a little chapel. We have never been able to hety hhn. Perhnpa
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