The Catholic times. [volume], August 14, 1953, Image 1

About The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current

Image provided by: Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH

                
Complete World
Coverage of
Catholic News
Vol. II, No. 46
FREEDOM VILLAGE. Korea—
(NC) Religion, which lightened
captivity for American and other
UN prisoners, added joy to then
liberation.
At two altars in the large recep
tion center here Catholics received
Holy Communion while still wear
ing the blue garb of communist
prison camps. They had been de
prived of Mass and the Sacraments
for up to 36 months. Now the ma
Journal Lauds
Success Of
Fund Drive
The Ohio State Journal. Colum
bus’ morning newspaper, followed
the Development Fund Campaign
closely and gave it frequent edi
torial encouragement. When the
success of the campaign was an
nounced, the Journal carried the
following editorial in the August 1
edition:
Victory celebrations are always
pleasant. Usually they are shoit
lived and one-sided, as in the case
in athletic contests. But the Cath
olics of the Columbus Diocese have
just come up with a victory in
which the entire community can
rejoice.
The $2,500,000 Catholic Devel
opment Fund- a campaign design
ed to provide two new high schools
and a new St. Vincent's Orphan
age—has exceeded its goal by more
than $10,000.
Raising such a tremendous sum
of money tor any purpose can nev
er be regarded at the outset as an
easy, simple matter. Generally
such drives require numerous
frantic appeals to get them close
to their goal. But it appears that
the campaign conducted by the
Catholics was never in doubt.
The fact that they exceeded
their goal, doing it during the
summer, considered by many as a
poor season tor raising money,
makes the victory all the more
satisfying.
The victory reflects the high
esteem and worthiness of purpose
with which Catholics and non
Catholics regarded the drive. It
shows that the drive was well or
ganized by officials and laymen of
the diocese and then carried to
completion by a formula for which
there never has been found a sub
stitute-plain. old-fashioned hard
work.
The Catholics related the mes
sage of need to fellow members of
their faith and others and the re
sponse has been more than satisfy
ing
The entire community can be
proud of this victory. All of us
share from the benefits derived
from community improvements
such as the new schools and or
phanage will represent. All who
contributed to the fund are mak
ing a real and lasting contribution
to the education and welfare of
children of this great community.
England's Cardinal In Norway Celebration
Participating in tha celebrations of Norway's Catholics marking the 800th anniversary of the Mission
to Norway of England's Cardinal Breakspeare, only Englishman to become Pope, His Eminence Ber
nard Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, is shown riding in the procession to Norges Tech
nicke Hogskole, where he celebrated Pontifical Mass. With him is his secretary, Monsignor Worlock.
Upper photo shows clergy, nuns and laity in the procession with the Trondheim Cathedral in the back
ground. (NC Photos)
Freedom Village Busy as GIs
Flock to Receive Sacraments
jority received the Sacraments
within half an hour after their ar
rival here.
“Almost to a man the Americans
went to Confession and received
Holy Communion,” said Father
(Lieut.) John T. Moore, Paulist
from los Angeles and a Marine
chaplain.
“They were very grateful for
the opportunity to receive the Sac
rament.” stated Father (Lieut.)
Paul C. Hammerl of Buffalo an
other Marine chaplain. These two.
with Father (Lieut.) John B. Con
lon. O.P.. also with the Marines,
covered the reception center on
the first day.
“The first we had was a stretch
er case. Corp. Gerald Cavagnaro of
the Eighth Cavalry, from West
Newbury. Mass. Tears came to his
eyes.” said Father Hammerl. “He
had been a prisoner since the win
der of 1950.”
Corporal Cavagnaro said that
they had a priest with them when
they were captured in the winter
of 1950, Father (Capt.) Emil J.
Kapaun of Wichita, Kans. Sickness
(Continued on Page 2)
One of Many
Whose Plans
Were Spoiled
HARTFORD. Conn—(NC) —The
shell-pocked hills of Korea no long
er echo artillery fire: the big guns
are silent now and the men are
hoping for replacements so they
can go home. But thousands can't
go home again—among them Army
Pvt. Francis J. Scully of Union
City, Conn.
The 21-year-old medical aid man
had one major goal—to be a priest
—but he died on the battlefield
last April 17 as he ministered to
the wounded. Just before his death,
young Scully had written his par
ents a letter saying that "•if any
thing happens to me and I don’t
come home. I know that I will be
united with all in heaven because
I sincerely believe that all in my
family, will go to heaven when they
leave this earth.”
In the letter, published after the
truce-signing by The Catholic
Transcript, weekly of the Hart
ford diocese. Private Scully said:
“Believe me, as I run through
these trenches and up these hills
my conscience is clear and I feel
that God is right in back of me.
in front of me. and guiding me.
saying you too may be wounded or
killed just like the other men you
are to help: but you can't get hurt
or wounded for a better cause.
That is why 1 am able to face mor
tar shells grenades, etc. Remem
ber. if I get hit it was either while
1 was in the act of helping a
wounded man or going to get him
ot bring him back. Most of us aid
men feel the same way, for the
cause is a good one.
“I couldn’t possibly get closer to
God. I feel like I had personal con
tact with him
Reds Still Seek
odd Domination
Union Emphasizes
NEW YORK (NC)- There can
be no hope tor peaceful co-exister
between the communist and free
nations, a statement by the Chris
tian Democratic Union of Central
Europe has concluded.
Weighing past statements of
Soviet leaders, the position of
Red enslaved peoples and taking
what it called a realistic Christian
view, the report stated that any
acceptance of the present inter
national status quo “would mean
no less than to acquiesce to the
complete de-Christianization oi at
least one-sixth of the Christian
world.”
“If Christians living in the free
world give up their effort toward
liberation of the subjugated na
tions. it would be equivalent to
acceptance and recognition of the
Soviet order.” the statement con
tinued.
Citing speeches by Stalin and
present Soviet Premier Malenkov
the report concluded “communism
has never renounced its purpose
of world domination.” The inten
tion to establish peaceful co
exissitence is lacking on the com
munist side, the statement said,
and only Christian solidarity can
bring about true peace.
The report underscores that for
Christians in the Soviet orbit
peaceful co-existance means only
continuous exploitation, injustice,
slave-labor and the constant de
nial of the highest values of re
ligion. freedom and civilization.
An international community can
be built up only if its members
are working in mutual harmony
upon the principles underlying it
—it must be built either on com
munist or on Christian principles,
the report added.
“If Christians living in the
temporal order will be courageous
enough not only to preach the
order of justice and charity, but
to put it into practice loo. there Is
no doubt that charity wil' triumph
oxer hate and justice over in
justice.” the Christian Democratic
Union asserted.
-----------------o----------------
President Sets
Sept. 17 Aside
As Citizenship Day
WASHINGTON (NC) Pres
ident Eisenhower has issued a
proclamation setting aside Thurs
day, September 17. as “Citizenship
Day” and has requested that the
flag be displayed on public build
ings and private homes.
The President urged Federal.
State and local officials, as well
as interested civic groups, to ar
range appropriate ceremonies on
that day and to "summon to the
minds of all of us a keener aware
ness of our rights and responsi
bilities as citizens.”
Citizenship Day is an annual
Congress-approved day of com
memoration for on September 17,
1787. the Constitution of the Unit
ed States was officially signed.
The Gaelic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, August 14, 1953
Ike’s Selections
Fail to Raise
Church-Stale Talk
NEW YORK—(NC)— Lack of op
position by champions of the sep
aration of church and state to the
recent appointments ol non-Catho
lie clergymen to Government post*
was noted in a sermon in St. Pat
rick’s Cathedral here.
Father Edwin Broderick di
rector of radio and television for
the Archdiocese of New York,
pointed out that “professional re
ligious agitators, who last year
belligerently defended their policy
of separation of church and state.”
had not expressed any opposition
to the appointments of “several
non-Catholic clergymen to key
posts in our Government.”
Father Broderick commented
that the absence of opposition to
these appointments indicates that
“these self annointed watchmen
of our civil liberties have been
napping” or "that there has been
a breach in their well constructed
wall.”
Declaring that “the scars oi hi
tory have a wav of blending with
time.” Fathei Brndcrick said that
what was "once a pressure group'
might "now be dignified as an en
lightened public opinion
Although Father Broderick did
not identify the non-Catholic
clergymen named to government
posts recent appointments have
included the Rex. Joseph Simon
son. of Minnesota, a Lutheran min
ister. as United States Ambassa
dor to Ethiopia, and Ezra Taft
Benson, one of the twelve Apostles
of the Mormon Church, as Secre
tary of Agriculture.
(Editor’s note: President Eisen
hower recently appointed Archi
bald J. Carey Jr., described as sa
minister in the African Method'll
Eposcopal Church, to the United
States Delegation of the United
Nations).
o-----------------
Father Faistl
To Return From
Korea Next Month
Father Clement Faistl. whn has
been an army chaplain in Korea
since last August, will return
home next month.
In a letter written two riav«
after the Korean truce was sign
ed, Father Faistl said that he ex
pects to be discharged in October.
Referring to the truce. Father said
“It looks good.”
He continued, “(the signing)
saves the lives of our hoys and
ends the situation of holding to a
stationary line and slugging away
with millions of dollars of ammo
da-ily xvhich was getting ridiculous
and which would have exhausted
even the wealthy Americans.”
Further expressing his feelings
concerning the truce, Father
Faistl wrote. “I first envisaged a
world of peace after some military
victories. But it now appears to
me that military victory mean*
little without truth and justice in
diplomacy with and before and
after victory.”
Father Faistl was formerly pas
tor at St. Monica's. New Boston.
He was recently assigned to the
Korean Military Advisory Group
Headquarters Chapel in Taegu.
Korea.
He served as an Army Chaplain
in Europe in World War II. Dis
charged from the army in 1946.
he became pastor of St. Peters.
Millersburg and Sts. Peter and
Paul, Glenmont. In September.
1949. he was appointed as first
pastor of St. Monica's. He re
turned to the Chaplain service in
October, 1950.
Gilumbus Girls
lake Heli jlious
Vows, Habits
Six young women from the Co
lumbus diocese were among the
eighty-two who participated the
Reception and Profession cere
monies held in Joliet for the Sis
ters of St Francis of Mary Im
maculate.
Sister M. David Ann Hoy. form
er parishioner of Immaculate Con
ception parish. Columbus, and Sis
ter M. Alcantara Goode, of St. Jo
seph parish Circleville, pronounc
ed perpetual vows and received
the ring, a symbol of lifetime dedi
cation to Christ.
Thirty-two candidates received
the religious habit. Four are from
Columbus: Miss Geraldine
Sweeney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard J. Sweeney, of Immacu
late Conception parish, is now
Sister M. Ruth Bernard: Miss Ann
Hensel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Nelson E. Hensel, of St. Mary
parish, is now Sister Regina
Therese: Miss Mary Kathryn Nes
sei daughter of Mi and Mrs.
John L. Nesser. of St. John Evan
gelist parish, is now Sister John
.Marie: and Miss Kathleen Burns,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James
A. Burns, of Corpus Christi par
ish. is now Sister M. Julia.
Reception and Perpetual Proles
slop ceremonies this year were
held at the Cathedral of St. Ray
mond on August 13 following a
Pontilicial Low Mass celebrated
by the Most Rex erend Martin D.
McNamara. D. D.. Bishop of Joliet.
On the previous morning, profes
sion of first vows was made in
the Motherhouse Chapel at 520
Plainfield Avenue, Joliet.
A Columbus girl was among
the forty-eight young women who
received the habit of the Sisters
of the Holy Cross in impressive in
vestiture ceremonies in the Chapel
of Loretto at the mother house of
the Sisters of the Holy Cross.
Notre Dame. Indiana.
Helen Fox. formerly of St. John
the Evangelist parish. Columbus,
received the habit and took the
religious name of Sister Mary
Francis Helene.
The Most Reverend Leo A. Purs
ley, D.D.. Auxiliary Bishop of Fort
Wayne, presided at the ceremonies
and conferred the Holy Habit.
o-----------------
Slavs Appreciate
Aid to Stepinac
TRIESTE—(NO The Catholic
people of Yugoslavia have voiced
their deep gratitude to America's
Catholics for sending a medical
mission to His Eminence Aloysius
Cardinal Stepinac. according to re
ports reaching here.
Although the communist regime
tried to prevent knowledge of the
American doctors forthcoming ar
rival from leaking out. news
spread quickly and was widely dis
cussed. Sermons were preached
in Zagreb cathedral and many
other churches throughout Croatia
in gratitude for the action of the
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference. The NCWC sent Dr. John
H. I^awrence, California specialist
in the medical use of radioactive
substances, and Dr. John F. Ruzic
Chicago surgeon of Croatian de
scent. to the Cardinal’s bedside.
It was noted here that the ar
rival of the American specialists
coincided with the sudden cessa
tion of the attacks on the Church
in general and the Bishops in par
ticular which the government
controlled Yugoslax’ radio has
been waging each day.
ft
Ht covered the Korean War for the Catholic newspapers served
by the N.C.W.C. News Service, and now with the signing of an
armistice Rev. Patrick O'Connor, S.C. (right) can afford to pause
for a laugh with Bishop Germain Mousset of th Paris Foreign
Missions and a few of the French Fathers in Seoul
Last GI Killed
Dies ith Rosary
Around His Neck
SEOUL. Korea The last Amen
can, soldier killed in the Korean
wai died with a Rosary around
his neck and alter having received
the Last Sacraments.
According to Eighth Army head
quarters, the last U.S. soldier
killed before the armistice halted
the Korean war was Sgt. (1st class)
Harold R. Cross, jr., a Catholic
from Junction City. Kan.
Sgt. Cross belonged to the fifth
Sgt. Harold R. Cross, Jr.
regimental combat team attached
to the 45th division. He was fa
tally wounded when a shell hit
his bunker on the east central
front.
He lived long enough to receive
the Last Sacrament'. He had been
at Mass and received Holy Com
munion that morning. He wore
a Rosary around his neck and in
sisted that the medics leave it
with him after he was wounded.
The Sergeant, who had previous
ly served with the U.S. occupation
forces in Germany, was hit duiing
the terrific shelling by commun
ist artillery between 8:40 and 9:40
on Monday night. July 27. The
armistice went into effect at ten
o'clock that night. He died at
about 11:25.
-----------■------------------o------------------------------
Circleville
Waits Opening
Of New School
For the first time in 27 years,
parents in the Circleville area will
be able to send then children to a
Catholic grade school this fall
More than 80 students are ex
pected to enroll in grades one
through eight at St. Joseph School.
132 W. Mound St., Circleville. Ren
ovation of the red brick building
adjacent to the church will be
completed when classes begin
Sept. 8.
The school w ill be staffed by
the Sisters of St. Joseph. Baden.
Pa., under the principalship of
Sister Rose Bernadette. One lay
teacher will be employed.
Msgr. George Mason, pastor of
the church, who continued the re
modeling project instituted by Fa
ther Edward Reidy, said arrange
ments are being made to secure a
federal lunch program. Transpor
tation problems have yet to be
worked out, he added.
The two-story building has new
lighting fixtures, freshly painted
walls, new lavatories, closets, sev
en classrooms and a principal’s of
fice.
It is the same structure which
at one time was used as a Catholic
grade and high school. The grade
school followed on the heels of the
high school in closing in 1926. due
to lack of student enrollment The
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth then
operated the school.
The Sisters of St. Joseph will re
side in a 10-room home, purchased
by the church last week The con
vent is also situated on Mound St.,
only a few yards from the church,
rectory and school.
The St. Joseph nuns will sup
plant the Victory Noll Sisters of
Washington C.H.. who have been
conducting week-end religion class
es in the parish.
o----------------
Canadian Bishop Named
OTTAWA—(NO—Bishop Albert
Bernard Leverman. Auxiliary
Bishop at Halifax for five years,
has been named Bishop of Saint
John, N.B. The appointment was
announced here by Archbishop
Ildebrando Antoniutti Apostolic
Delegate to Canada. Bishop I over
man succeeds Bi*hop Patrick A.
Bray. C. J. M., who died in June.
Film Company Asks Supreme
Tribunal to Wipe Out Ohio’s
Movie Censorship Machinery
Superior Films. Inc., instituted
the court proceedings after the
censorship agency had refused to
approve the picture. The case was
taken through the Ohio Supreme
Court, which upheld the States
movie censorship system. The
distributing firm now has asked
the U.S. Supreme Court to review
the case, but the highest tribunal
first must decide whether it has
jurisdiction in the matter.
The Ohio Catholic Welfare Con
ference entered the case as an am
icus curiae 'friend of the court)
duiing proceedings in the Ohio
Supreme Court In its brief, the
OCWC attacked the principal con
tention of the distributing firm.
Relying on the Burstyn caw?,
which lifted the ban of the film
“The Miracle in New York, the
distributing firm contended that
the U.S. Supreme Court in that
case had decided that motion pic
ture censorship was an unconsti
tutional abridge ment of free
speech and free press.
While conceding that the free
dom of the press applied to mo
tion pictures, the OCWC brief
stressed that the Supreme Court
ruling did not outlaw the censor
ship of motion pictures on all
grounds. "The Miracle was ban
ned by New York censors on the
grounds that it was "sacrilegious."
Ohio's high tribunal agreed with
this stand but in its decision stat
ed: "As we view it. the United
Mass Schedule
For Fair Goers
Two Masses will be said in tha
Music Hall at the State Fair
grounds, Columbus, Sunday, Au
gust 30, for the benefit of Ca
tholics attending the Ohio State
Fair.
Msgr. Gilbert Schmenk of the
Jesephinum will offer both
Messes—a Low Mass at 8:30 a.
m. and a High Mass at 10:30 a.
m. The Girls' Choir of St. Pet
er's Church, Columbus, will sing
the High Mass.
The Music Hall is located in
the Southwest corner of the
Fairgrounds.
Sunday's Collet
Help for Aged,
Bishop Ready has set Sunday,
August 16. as the day for the an
nual collection for the aged people
of the Columbus Diocese and for
the welfare of the home missions.
The works for the aged and the
missions have been commended to
the Blessed Mother's protection
and the collection will fall on the
Sunday within the octave of the
Feast of the Assumption.
The two homes for the aged in
Columbus. St. Raphael's and St.
Rita's, have been caring for more
Nevi Principal
Named At
Rosary High
Sister M. Eunice. O.S.F. a na
tive of Buffalo. N.Y., has been
named puncipal of Rosary High
School. Sr. Eunice succeeds Sister
M. Angela. O.S.F.. who was made
president of Rosary Hill College,
Buffalo, in June.
Sr. Eunice is a graduate of Stel
la Niagara Seminary. She received
her B.A. from the College of St.
Mary of the Springs in 1943. In
1947. she was awarded her M.A. at
St. Bonaventure’s College. Olean.
N. Y. Her graduate studies were in
sociology, education and French.
Sister did post-graduate work in
French in the French School of
Rivier College. Nashua. N.H. She
later did special work in dramatics
at Capital University.
Sr. Eunice taught at Sacred
Heart Academy. Buffalo, from 1926
to 1934 She taught at Rosary High
from 1934 to 1947 and then was
sent to Stella Niagara Seminary to
teach until last June
’•Where Charity
^nd
Lovp
Action Initiated When Censors
Refuse To License Movie ‘M’
WASHINGTON (NC) The U.S Supreme Court has
been asked to review a case in which a motion picture distrib
uting firm has attempted to junk Ohio’s movie censorship ma
chinery.
The case grew out of the refusal of Ohio’s motion picture
censorship agency, the division of film censorship of the
Department oi Education to li
cense a movie called “M’ The
agency refused to approve the pic
ture on the grounds that its etfect
could lead to serious increase in
immorality and crime among un
stable persons of any age level,
and because the presentation of
actions and emotions of a child
killer emphasized complete per
version without serving any valid
educational purpose.
Are
There I* God”
Price Tan Cants $3.00 A Year
States Supreme Court has not ipso
facto taken away all community
control of motion pictures by cen
sorship. and this court will not do
so under the claim of complete un
o n s i u tionality ot censorship
In its decision, the Ohio Supreme
Court made mention of another
case of film censorship which may
wind up in the U.S. Supreme
Court. The case involves the Com
mercial i u es Corporation,
which has been seeking to invali
date an ordei of New York State’s
censorship agency, the Regents of
the University of New York, ban
ning the showing of the movie “La
Ronde” in the State. New York
courts have upheld the action of
the censorship agency, which
deemed the picture offensive to
public morals.
o ............—
Communist Mobs
Attack Two
ugosla$ Bishops
GRAZ. Austria (NC) Two
more Yugoslav Bishops have been
the victims of mob violence organ
ized by the Red*, according to re
ports reaching here.
They are Bishop Michael Pusic
of Hvar and Bishop Cyril Banic,
Apostolic Administrator of the Si
benik diocese.
The attacks on them were moti
vated by their opposition to the
Tito regimes efforts to et up a
government-controliei priests' as
sociation. which has been con
demned by the Holy See and the
Yugoslav Hierarchy
Recently Bishop Francis Franic
of Split was attacked and beaten
by a mob in Makarska. Another
mob threw stones through the
church windows of a village while
Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Pavlisic
of Senj was administering Confir
mation there.
In Hvar, the reports stated,
Bishop Pusic s residence was at
tacked by a mob organized by that
city's Socialist Front. The mobs
Red leaders were retaliating, it
was claimed, against the Bishops
excommunication of priests who
had joined the communist-controll
ed priests a-sociation.
0-------------
Plan Neu Nursing School
WASHINGTON—(NC) Expan
sion of the medical center area at
Georgetown University will take
place the fall when construction
on the university’s new $1,350,000
school of nursing building will be
started.
tiou To Provide
Home Missions
than 130 old people during the
past year. St. Raphael's has facili
ties to care for 85 aged and St.
Ritas has facilities for 48. Both
homes are filled to capacity.
St. Raphael's, located at 1550
Roxbury Road, was the first of its
kind in the diocese. It was opened
in January. 1948. A new three
story wing was added in 1950,
bringing the capacity to 85.
The home contains most modern
rooms and equipment, a chapel,
recreation room, occupational
room, screened porches, a diet kit
chen on each of the three floors
of the new wing, a barber shop
and beauty parlor. In addition,
there is the "St. Joseph s Work
shop” where the men can keep
themselves occupied.
St. Rita's. 1415 E. Broad Street,
formerly a home for Catholic work
ing girls, was converted into a
home for the aged in 1949. It
too was remodeled and enlarged
in 1952 to expand its facilities.
All rooms are modern and the
home contains a chapel, recrea
tion rooms, and dormitories.
The a elite Congregation,
which is dedicated to the work
among the aged and infirm was
founded in 1929 by the late Cardi
nal Patrick Hayes of New York.
The Sisters expend every effort to
make their places real homes for
the people. There are feu restric
tions and the men and women are
free to come and go as they please.
Mother Regina is in charge of
St. Raphael’s and Mother Elizabeth
is in charge of St. Rita’s. Both
home.- are greatly aided by the
Daughters of Isabella who have
formed 22 guilds to aid St. Raph
(Continued on Page 2)