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Vol. II, No. 19
Dr. James Hull, representing the
Columbus Dental Society, acted as
master of ceremonies as Rudolph
Janata, of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce and Mrs. Emily Tracy,
Division oi Dental Health, pre
sented the awards. Mrs. Genevieve
Kinnerium represented the Dental
Assistants Society.
The posters, transferred from
the Art Gallery to Stanton Motor
Puerto Ricans Hit
Birth Control Lair
SAN JUAN, P. R. (NC) The
legislative assembly of the Com
monwealth of Puerto Rico has been
asked to approve laws prohibiting
therapeutic abortion, sterilization
and artificial birth control.
The request was made by the Un
ion Pro Defense de la Moral Natu
ral. an association established to
defend natural moral law'.
The administra ion of Gov. Luis
Munoz Marin has been attacked by
Catholics as favoi.ng measures the
group seeks to ban.
Miss Ana Maria Collazi, a De
partment of Education employee,
has refused to swear allegiance to
the entire Constitution of Puerto
Rico, because she rejects those
laws which have been condemned
by the Bishops.
In stating her objections to Com
missioner of Education Mariano
Villaronga. Miss Collazo said she
la prepared to deiend all the laws
except those opposed to divine law
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Mary Lou Attellils (J
Winners In Dental Poster Contest On TV
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Parochial Schools H'in Three
Out of First Five In Contest
Sixth Grader* Vie for Top Honor* in Dental Art Pouter
Competition: St. Christopher Boy* Win
Parochial school “artists” of Co
lumbus walked oil with three of
the top live awards in the Colum
bus Department of Health. Division
0) Denta Health poster contest for
sixth graders.
The young artists were asked to
express their ideas about care of
the teeth.
The team of Robert Moses and
Michael Forquer joined talents to
produce the prize winning poster
for St. Christopher’s school.
Michae' Reis. St. Leo’s talented
young “drawer.” won second prize.
Patricia Bingham of St. Agatha’s
parish was awarded fourth prize.
James Riley, Edison school, was
third and Dolores Ridges. Douglas
school, placed fifth to complete the
roster of prize winners.
Pictured above the winners are
shown as they were guests of “The
Wrangler” on his Monday after
noon television program over
WBNS-TV.
The colorful posters lined the
rooms of the Columbus Art Gallery
a- the judges made the rounds
seeking the best posters.
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Sales, 500 W. Broad street, at
tracted a great deal of attention
The event is expected to become
an annual affair.
ROME—(Radio. NO—The "trial”
and sentencing of Polish priests at
Cracow is a sign that religious free
dom there is swiftly deteriorating.
This comment on the “trial” was
made here in II Quotidiano, Rome
Catholic Action daily.
The development is significant,
the paper states, because the War
saw Reds had so far proceeded
much more slowly and more care
fully in their persecution of the
Church than the communists in
other lands.
“With a population entirely and
profoundly Catholic, the commun
ist government was until now con
strained to act with relative cau
tion such as other communist gov
ernments. where Catholics consti
tuted a more or less large minority,
have not felt necessary.” the paper
stated.
“The calumnies against the
Church (accompanying the trial)
fit the practice followed by all
Advertising Parley Set
For Catholic Publisher*
NEW YORK (NC) Catholic
newspaper publishers in the Unit
ed States who are members of the
Catholic Press Association have
been invited to attend a meeting
to be held at the Roosevelt Hotel
here, Feb. 13, to consider a na
tional advertising program for
their papers.
The meeting has been called by
the Publishers’ Sponsoring Com
mittee. of which A. J. Wey of The
Catholic Universe Bulletin,,Cleve
land, and Humpnrey Desmond of
The Catholic Herald Citizen, Mil
waukee. are co-chairmen.
New Church To Be Open
The new St. Gabriel church,
located at Mock and Woodland
avenues, will be opened Sunday,
February 8. The church is still
under construction and for the
present Mass will be celebrated
at 8 and 11 a. m. The church
will be dedicated at a later date
by Bishop Ready.
A 0 MINK
NEWSPAPER DIVISION
OHIO STATE MUSEUM
Meeting the "Wrangler" was
on of the thrills enjoyed bv the
winners of the Dental Care Post
er contest. The prize-winning
posters along with their youth
ful artists are pictured above just
before going before the TV cam
era. The winners, left to right,
Michael Fonquor, Robert Moses,
Dolores Ridges, Dick Zuble
"The Wrangler," James Riley,
Patricia Bingham, and Michael
Reis.
Trial Of Priests May Presage
Red War On Poland’s Catholics
‘people’s democracies’ in their
struggle against Catholicism.”
Il Quotidiano echoed the
thoughts expressed by Osservatore
Romano. Vatican City daily, which
declared that all supposed links
oi the Vatican and the Church
with alleged traitorous activities
must be categorically rejected.
Both papers commented on the
tact that the communist technique
in Poland, as in other Red lands,
aims at making the people forget
the old glories associated with the
Church and its leaders by a cease
less repetition of calumies.
Both papers recalled that during
the Cracow “trial” the prosecution
tried to smear the memory of the
late Cardinal Adam Sapieha. whom
tie communists themselves had
honored for his intrepid resistance
to the nazis during World War II.
3 Get Death Penalty
The Cracow “trial” involved four
priests connected with the Cracow
chancery office, two laymen and a
lavwoman. A priest and two lay
men were sentenced to death. The
three other priests were sentenced
to from eight years to life in pris
on The lay woman was sentenced
to six years in prison.
Sentenced to death were Father
Josef Lelito. Michal Kowalik and
Edward Chachlica. One of the vic
tims who had previously been iden
tified as Father Kowalik is now
identified as Mr Kowalik, a lay
man.
Father Franciszek Szymonek was
g'ven life imprisonment. Father
Wit Brzycki got 15 years Father
Jan Pochopien. eight years. Miss
Eugenia Rospond received a six
year sentence.
The “trial” ended with the “de­
fense” lawyers telling the court
that the main responsibility for
the “crimes” of the priests rested
with “certain representatives of
the Hierarchy.” *TTie names of the
Polish Hierarchy dragged into the
“testimony” included those of the
late Cardinal Sapieha. Archbishop
Eugene Baziak. Vicar Capitular of
Ciacow now under arrest, and
Bishop Stanislaw Rospond. former
Auxiliary of Cracow.
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Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, February 6, 1953
Holy Father
Lauds Press
Enthusiasts
Reader* and Editor* Of
Catholic Pre** Hailed
By Pope Pin*' Message
Tht following account of a re
markable and unique Catholic
Press tribute and blessing from
the Holy Father, rests on a re
cent dramatic incident at the
Vatican.
Never before has a Pope ad
dressed particularly the editors
of the Catholic Press and the
millions of readers of the Cath
olic Press on the occasion of the
traditional Catholic Press Month
of February.
In recent days, Bishop Thom
as K. Gorman, Coadjutor of Dal
las and Episcopal Chairman of
the N.C.W.C. Press Department,
on the occasion of the great Con
story for the making of Cardt
nats, was received tn special aud
ience by the Holy Father, taking
with him the Director of the
N.C.W.C. News Service and the
staff members of NC covering
the Consistory. Bishop Gorman,
a former Catholic press editor
himself, used the occasion hum
bly to suggest some message of
encouragement to the Catholic
Press. His Holiness, tremendous
ly busied iinth the great cere
monies of the Consistory, never
theless gave new evidence of
his special interest in the Cath
olic Press by promising such a
message if it were at all pos
sible in these pressing times.
That His Holiness found time for
this special message is impres
sive of his peculiar solicitude
the press of the Church.
WASHINGTON (Radio, NC)
—Hi* Holiness Popo Pius XII
ha* personally extended his
"whole-hearted, paternal com
mendation" to those who co
operate in th* work of the Cath
olic Pres*.
In a signed message addressed
to Bishop Thomas K. Gorman. Co
adjutor of Dallas and Episcopal
Chairman of the N.CWC. Pres*
Department. His Holiness notes th*
United States observance of Feb
ruary as Catholic Press Month, and
says he wishes to give “a word of
special encouragement.”
There perhaps was never a
greater need, the Holy Father de
clares, for the faithful to under
stand clearly the relationship of
current events to unchanging
Christian values He adds that ef
forts to increase the influence of
the Catholic Press increase the
number of persons ‘intelligently
informed.” and he blesses those
who advance this work by the sub
scriptions and their labors.
The text of the Holy Father’s
radioed message to Bishop Gorman
follows:
"W* ar* pleated to convey, on
the occasion of Catholic Pre**
month, a word of special encour
agement through you. Venerable
Brother, to the member* of the
American Episcopacy, to your
fellow laborer* in the Pres* De
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Subscription Lisis
For ’53 Coming In
Pastors throughout the Diocese
were flooding the Chancery office
this week with their 1953 subscrip
tion lists to the Catholic Times,
the diocesan Catholic weekly news
paper. Subscribers w-ho live out
side of the diocese may send their
subscription renewals directly to
the Catholic Times office. 246 E.
Town street, Columbus 16, Ohio.
Parishioners are urged however,
to submit their own subscriptions,
both new and renewal to their
parish pastors. Sacred Heart Par
ish, CosKocton, was again first on
the list in submitting the 1953 re
newal list.
Six months in a plaster cast, her slim body held rigid as if by
magnetic power, has failed to keep 13-year-old Mary Lou Ranney
from “attending” her ?lasses at St. Francis school, Columbus.
Through the cooperation of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company
of Columbus, a special wire was strung from the Ranney home, 447
Vermont Place to St. Francis seventh grade school room, where, by
the use of an inter-communication system. Mary Lou asks questions
by pushing a buzzer to attract Sister’s attention and then answer*
Sister’s questions on each subject bv the same method.
By the magic of telephone she is able to take part in all ordinary
class-room activities, spelling-bees and all. She is able to hear every
word spoken in the class-room She has kept up her grades re
markably well, school officials say.
Doctors don’t explain her illness except to say that “she prob
ably grew too fast,” causing some defect in the structure of her
back.
The cast was placed on Mary Lou July 15 at Children’s Hos
pital. It was removed January 15. 1953. The telephone intercommuni
cation system w'as installed October 4.
Her father, now a salesman for the Crawford Door Company,
had been with Ranco for 12 years until disc-trouble last September
caused an operation and the end of heavy work.
Mary lxu is one of seven children. Billy is 14. Mary Lou 13.
Sandra Jean 12, Shirley Ann 11, Gene (Jr.) 10, Philip Lee, 8, and
Barbara Jo. 6*4.
Mrs. Erminia DiRosario, Mrs. Ranney’* mother, who is 74, aids
the family a great deal, and rejoiced along with the rest of the
family recently when Mary Lou took a few steps, her first in half
a year.
A City Health Nurse visits Mary Lou at regular interval* to
help in her convalescing program.
Whin th* National Convention
of th* Catholic Library Associ
ation i* hold in Columbus April
7-9, th* abov* group will b* ac
tive in handling arrangement*
for th* event. Bishop Ready will
be host to th* convention. Pic­
LONDON (NC)—Bishop John
E. Petit of Menevia has demanded
that the British government public
ly dissociate itsell from Marshal
Tito’s policy of repression and per
secution.
Bishop Petit, one of the most
outspoken churchmen in Britain
today, told Knights of St. Columba
al Colwyn Bay, North Wales, that
the Churchill government should
Priest Upholds
No Segregation
Housing Policy
TOLEDO, O (NC) Msgr. M.
J. Doyle spoke up in favor of the
recently-announced non -s egrega
tion policy of the Toledo Metro
politan Housing Authority.
The TMHA announcement
brought public protests from East
Toledoans seeking to prevent Ne
groes from occupying vacant units
in three East Toledo public hous
ing projects which heretofore
have been rented only to whites.
Monsignor Doyle director of the
Toledo Catholic Charities, said
“There's only one position that a
Catholic can take In the in
terest of social justice Catholics
should recognize the right of non
white peoples to enjoy all the priv
ileges of citizenship.”
These privileges, he added, in
clude decent housing as well as a
just wage and equal economic op
portunities. And these are more
than privileges said Monsignor
Doyle, calling them rights under
God and the state
“As Catholics we must hold to
the principle and hold to it strict
ly—let the chips fall where they
may,” Monsignor Doyle said.
Monsignor Dovle spoke at a
meeting of men oi an East Toledo
parish following the protest which
reached the City Council cham
bers. He was asked some pointed
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Mass For Ike, Congress
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
(NC) A votive Mass to the Holy
Ghost was offered in the Cathedral
of San Juan by Msgr. Mariano Va
sallo, Vicar General and Rector,
"to seek enlightenment from the
Holy Ghost for President Dwight
D. Eisenhower and the new Amer
ican Congress.”
Mission Co-op Plans Set
Catholic Library Association To Meet Here
tured above as plan* were talked
over last week at th* Deshler
Wallick ar*, front row, left to
right: Ann Sullivan, Sitter Mary
ann*, O.P., th* R*v. A. A. Kl*in
schmidt Sister Mary Ruth, O.P.,
Sister Mary Candida, O.S.F.,
Demands British Government Dissociate Self
From Tito Persecution Before
take this action before the Yugo
slav dictator comes to Britain in
March as an official guest. If it
does not do so the result will be
very bad for Britain and very bad
for the world, he added.
“It will be very bad for this
country because it will took as if
we could not care less what hap
pened in Yugoslavia,” the Bishop
said. If someone speaking for the
government doe- not make uch a
public stalemen’ the world will
be still more convinced of the
cynicism and opportunism of poli
tics.
“The ordinary men and women
of this world have sulferca intoler
ably and un.xpeakably in these last
years because major issues involv
ing their Ines and families have
been settled by expediency and
opportunism and not by the ap
plication of fixed principles.
“There is no doubt in my own
mind that the Russian policy of
expansion and the retreat of the
West before the advance of the
East has been made possible chief
ly because the policies pursued by
Confused Reds
Give 2 Priests
Royal Welcome
HONG KONG —(NC)—- Red
faces were really red in Nancheng
That was when Irish-born Fa
thers James and Luke O’Reillv,
the last Columban missionaries
from that capitol of Kiangsi Pro
vince. were mistaken for visiting
Russians after having been ordered
expelled from communist China.
On their way to freedom, the
priests were considerably astonish
ed when members of the Kiangsi
communists reception committee
came rushing forward to greet
them, crying "Su-lien! Su-lien!”
(Soviet! Soviet!).
The Reds took the priests' hand
luggage and escorted tfiem to a
small reception room, where they
offered them tea and cigarettes.
When eventually they discovered
their error, the VIP treatment was
quickly reversed. But not quickly
enough to prevent the Reds from
losing considerable “face.”
Fathers James and Luke O'Reil
ly reached here exactly a month
after their superior. Bishop Pat
rick Cleary of Nancheng, had been
expelled from his See.
Elizabeth Biggert and Mr*. Lee
Kelly. Second row: Th* R*v.
George Wolz, Robert Holsinger,
th* Rev. Steven Moder, S.J., the
R*v. Ambrose Burke, T.O.R., and
the Rev. Edmund L. Bintfold,
C.P.S.
Coming isit
____
the West have been based not on
principles but on expediency”
Bishop Pent pointed out that
His Eminence Bernard Cardinal
Griffin. Archbishop of Westmin
ster Dr Geoffrey Fisher Anglican
Archbishop of Canterbury, and the
Rev. S. M. Watts. Moderator of the
Free Church Federal Council—lhe
three principal church leaders in
Britain—have all now appealed to
the British government regaining
Tito’s attitude to religion.
Fr. inkier’s
Work on Rent
Board Praised
The Rev. Father Augustine
Winkler of St. Charles College was
among a list of clergymen men
tioned by James Henderson,
federal rent stabilizer, who have
“rendered invaluable service” in
serving on rent control advisory
boards.
Of the priests. Henderson com
mented:
“Their knowledge of the hum. n
problems of lheir communities has
been of great help the success
ful administration of the rent pro
gram on a local level,” he said.
Some of the clergy who serve
on the boards in voluntary, unpaid
positions have sacrificed the equiv
alent of a two-week vacation in
helping to solve rental problems,
he noted.
At the same time the Office of
Rent Stabilization released a list
of clergymen who have been serv
ing on advisory boards throughout
the country.
Other priests commended includ
ed Msgr. Robert Navin, presi
dent of St. John s College in Cleve
land Msgr Robert DeGasperi.
pastor of Our Lady of Mount Car
mel Church, Herrin. Ill., Father
Sylvester Hladkv of St Peter and
Paul church, in Warren Ohio: Fa
ther Arnold F. Witzma pastor of
St. Edward’s Church Cincinnati
Msgr. J. F. Murphy pastor of Sa
cred Heart Church, Sharon. Pa.
Msgr. B. F. Ferrell, pastor of St.
Francis Xavier Church. Mounds
ville, West Virginia
Fifty-two clergymen of 13 de
nominations are serving without
compensation on rent advisory
boards in this country and Alaska.
Phone Durins Illness
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Price Ten Cents 13.00 A Yoar
Will Aid Both
Home, Foreign
Mission Fields
The Missionary Coopera
tion Plan, which gives Catho
lics in the Columbus Diocese
an opportunity to aid mission
aries at home and abroad, was
announced this week by the
Rev. James Kulp, diocesan
director of the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith.
The plan, approved by Bi
shop Ready, will bring mis
sionaries to 44 parishes in the
diocese this year to appeal for
prayers and alms
Contribution* will benefit nin*
mission* in th* Columbus dioc***,
three diocese* end on* congrega
tion elsewhere in th* United
States, four religious orders dedi
cated to work in the foreign mis
sions, end three mission diocese*
abroed.
The Society for the Propagation
of the Faith. Father Kulp explain
ed. has scheduled the plan in line
with its function to prepare, out
fit and send missi oners abroad and
to meet emergency financial needs
in home and foreign missions.
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, national
director of the society. has sent
the diocese a hearty endorsement
of the missionary cooperation plan.
Nine missions of the Columbus
Diocese w'lll share in the, plan.
Dresden St. Ar.n and its three mis
sions will be adopted by Colum
bus Sacred Heart, St. Catharine
and St. Ladislaus parishes. Gran
ville St. Edward's chapel will be
assisted when Father Vincent
Mooney, pastor, makes an appeal
at St. Leo’s, Columbus St.
Patrick’s, London and Holy Re
deemer, Portsmouth. Father Carl
Heilman will speak in behalf of
St. Joseph s. La Rue. to the congre
gation of Blessed Sacrament par
ish. Newark.
Milford Center Sacred Heart and
Plain City St. Joseph missions are
assigned to Columbus Holy Name,
Circleville St. Joseph and Coshoc
ton Sacred Heart,
Mt Gilead St. Matthew and
Cardington St. Joseph missions of
Morrow County are assigned to
Danville St. Luke Delaware St.
Mary and Portsmouth St. Mary.
Other assignments are Murray
City St. Philip Neri and Moxahala
St. Pius to Columbus St. Mary
New Boston St. Monica to Colum
bus St. Augustine and St. Mary
Magdalene: Shawnee St. Mary to
Columbus Holy Rosary and St. Ag
atha. and Wheelersburg St. Peter
West Portsmouth Our Lady of Sor
rows parish, now located in a
basement hall, to Kenton Immacu
late Conception Logan St. John
and Zanesville St. Nicholas.
The Most Rev. John J. Russell,
Bishop of Charleston. S.C., a mis
sion diocese with a total popula
tion less than one per cent Catho
lic, will explain his work and ask
for prayers and alms at Columbua
St. John the Evangelist and Mt.
Vernon St. Vincent de Paul parish
es.
The Most Rev Robert Dwyer,
newly appointed Bishop of Reno,
Nev., will speak st Columbus Im
maculate Conception and St. Al
oysius churches. The Diocese of
St. Luke. Utah, will be represent
ed by its Bishop the Most Rev.
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Mary Ann’s Cake
Nels Polio Fund
$1,075 In Drive
MARION Along with regular
study and school activities, pupils
of St. Mary School turned sales
men this month and as a result
the Marion Countv March of Dimes
treasury is richer by SI.075.
The project was Mary Ann Ev-
erly’s birthday cake.
Mary Ann’s birthday cake has
come to be a “must” in the annual
county March of Dimes Campaign
and the ticket selling job is a proj
ect of the elementary and high
school grades.
Ed Denninger a Tenth Grade
pupil, was the winner of a cake
for selling the most books—110—
and also won a dollar for selling
the winning ticket. The cake was
awarded tn Carol Linda, nine
month-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. LeMasters Since Linda
was not too much interested—she
has only one tooth—the family
and friends enjoyed the four-tiered
cake decorated with white frost
ing. pink rosebuds and silver sugar
balls.
Pupils met in the school assem
bly hall at 3 Jan 26, and
after singing "Happy Birthday” to
Mary Ann, held the award.
Mary Ann. a pupil in the fifth
grade, was 11 years old Sunday,
Jan. 25. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Everly. A vic
tim of polio, her birthday cake
project originated with her several
years ago and has now been taken
over by the pupils a* an annual
event of the polio campaign. The
cake* are baked by her mother.