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Pray For The
Poor Soul*
During November
Vol. Ill, No. 6
Even To The End The ITorld
Pope Reminds Students
Of Eternity Of Church
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy (Radio, NC) The Church
has always had periods of apparently real and complete disas
ter, and today is no exception. But God has always brought
her safely through.
This was the assurance given by His Holiness Pope Pius
Xll at an audience at his summer residence here to a number
of student groups. He recalled the
barbarian invasions, the struggles
to keep the elections of the Rom
an Pontiffs free from the interfer
ence of sovereigns and ruling fami
lies, the schism of the West, and
“the whole progressive apostasy
tending toward the complete de
Christianization of human society.”
“Had one stopped at appearanc
es at such times.” the Holy Father
said, “he would have believed
them to be real dangers for the
existence of the Church, or at least
for the work of the Church among
men.
"In fact, however, with the
help of its Founder and Invis
ible Head, she has found in
them, and till the end of time
will find in them, occasions for
progress, an intensified precision
in her doctrine, a wonderful re
awakening of sanctity within,
and the extension of her aposto
late to other lands, thanks to
her missions."
Pope Pius declared that “along
side prevaricators. God raises up
saints and to heretics He opposes
holy and learned ecclesiastical
writers.” He said that “the violence
of autocratic emperors is contain
ed by the fearlessness of Pontiffs,
while the great work of Catholic
restoration is offered in response
to the so-called Protestant reform.”
“Today also,” the Pope added,
“the world is passing through one
of its greatest periods, and this is
not the first time we call attention
Protests Ask
Churchill To
Condemn Reds
LONDON (NC) From their
national council in Yorkshire, the
Union of Catholic Mothers has sent
a protest to the Holy Father, the
British Foreign Office and Polish
President Bolesaw Bierut express
ing indignation at the Red persecu
tion of the Church in Poland. From
Middlesbrough, 1,500 Catholics
have sent protests to Churchill,
Labor Party leader Clement Attlee,
the Warsaw government and the
Secretary General of the United
Nations, Dag Hammarskjold.
Thousands of Catholic refugees
from such Iron Curtain countries
as Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Yugo
slavia and the Ukraine marched
through the center of Bradford,
Yorkshire to another protest meet-4
ing. They heard Monsignor Hen
ry Thompson, speaking on behalf
of Bishop John Heenan of Leeds,
tell them: “No one who pays even
lip service to the Atlantic Treaty
can afford to remain silent.”
From all over England have
come reports of similar protest
meetings and appeals to the gov
ernment, and to Prime ^Minister
Winston Churchill particularly, to
condemn publicly the methods of
religious persecution and terror
used in Poland and other Red-ruled
countries.
A giant protest rally will be held
In London's Central Albert Hall on
Dec. 3. All the bishops of Eng
land are expected to attend, and
Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Arch
bishop of Westminster, will pre
side. Speakers will include Gener
al •Wladyslaw Anders, the war time
hero who is now Inspector General
of the Polish forces in exile.
Council 2898
Awards To Go
To Graduates Of
Columbus Schools
The Santa Maria Council No.
2898, Knights of Columbus, is of
fering four high school scholar
ships to graduates of all elementary
schools in greater Columbus, it
was announced this week.
The scholarships, to be awarded
to two boys and two girls who have
completed the eighth grade at a
parochial school, located within
greater Columbus, may be used at
any High School in the Diocese of
Columbus.
The Council has set aside funds
to finance the project from money
obtained from the State Youth
Campaign of 1953. The scholarships
will provide tuition and all compul
sory fees.
Application blanks for the Santa
Maria Council scholarships will be
sent to all elementary schools in
Columbus. The applications must
be filled out and returned to the
Diocesan School Office not later
than Mar. 1, 1954.
The awards will be made on the
basis of scholastic standing and
general school record. In addition,
exceptional leadership qualities in
extracurricular activities will be
to the fact. Men are amazed at the
contrast between the brightness of
a gigantic technical progress, and
the shadows of a distressing moral
decay, not only because of an ever
more brazen immodesty of dress
and figure and of public spec
tacles, but also because of a pro
gressive negation of the funda
mental truths on which the Divine
Decalogue and the Christian con
duct of life are based.”
Court Upholds
Ban Against
Obscene Book
WASHINGTON (NC) “Dirt
for dirt's sake” in any part of a
book, makes the book obscene, a
court has ruled in upholding con
fiscation of an imported book.
The Ninth Circuit Court of ap
peals, in a decision considered im
portant in legal circles here, held
that a book is rendered obscene
by “the relations of an incident
which is integrated with the theme
and story, and is ‘word-painted’ in
such lurid, smutty or pornographic
language that dirt appears as the
primary purpose rather than a re
lation of fact or an adequate de
scription of the incident.”
The court referred to, without
saying whether it agreed with, the
famed “Ulysses" decision which
held that a book is not obscene
if erotic matter does not furnish
the dominant mood of the book.
Defendants argued that the book
in question is a truthful descrip
tion of a “base status of society”
and that in the present “age of
realism” obscene language depict
ing obscenity ceases to be obscene.
In its opinion th* court stated
that "dirty-word description of
th* sweet and sublime, especially
of the mystery of sex and pro
creation, is the ultimate of ob
scenity
“We share the general antipathy
to censorship ... Yet we risk here
the assertion that there is an un
derlying, perhaps universal, accord
that there is a phase of respect
able delicacy related to sex that
those compositions which purpose
ly flaunt such delicacy in language
generally regarded as indecent
come under the ban of the statute.”
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Named To Ohio
Censor Board
Dr. Wilfred Eberhart, a member
of Immaculate Conception parish.
Columbus, associate professor in
the Education Department at Ohio
State University, has been appoint
ed a member of the State Film
Censorship Advisory Board by Gov
ernor Lausche.
Dr. Eberhart, who succeeds Lee
H.B. Malone, is a graduate of John
Carroll and Ohio State University.
He has been teaching in the fields
of English and Education at Chanev
High School. Youngstown, and Ball
State Teachers College, Muncie,
Ind., as well as Ohio State Univer
sity since 1927.
Meanwhile, he has done gradu
ate work in his fields, obtaining
his doctorate at Ohio State in 1936.
Vatican Paper
Lists Clergy
Held By Reds
VATICAN CITY—(Radio. NC)—
For the third successive week the
Vatican City daily, Osservatore Ro
mano, has published a documented
history of communist persecution
of the Catholic Church behind the
Iron Curtain. The latest install
ment outlines in detail events in
Czechoslovakia and Hungary since
World War II.
Placed on the honor roll by the
paper are 12 Czech and Slovak
Bishops and four Hungarian pre
lates.
The paper said seven Czech and
Slovak Bishops are being held in
unknown places. They are Arch
bishop Josef Beran of Prague, and
Bishops Joseph Hlouch of Bude
jovice Charles Skoupy of Brno,
Stephen Trochta of Litomerice
Basil Hopkow, Auxiliary to the By
zantine Rite See of Presoy: Stefan
Barna, Auxiliary of Spis and Rob
ert Pobozyn. Vicar Capitular of
the diocese of Roznava.
In orison are Bishops Jan Voj
tassak of Spis Paul Gojdic, By
zantine Rite Ordinary of Presov
Stanizlav Zela, Auxiliary of Olo
mouc and Michael Buzalka, Aux
iliary to the Aoostolic Adminis
trator of Trnava.
The honor roll of heroes in Hun
gary listed one prelate detained in
an unknown place, Bishop Joseph
Petery of the Vacz diocese.
Prelates whom the communists
have jailed include His Eminence
Joseph Cardinal Mindzenty, Pri
mate of Hungary, and Archbishop
Joseph Groesz of Kalcosa. the pa
per said. In a concentration camp
is Bishop Zoltan Meszlenyi, Auxil
iary of Esztergom.
Osservatore Romano added that
the remaining Hungarian Bishops
have been “impeded in their duties
of governing and caring for their
dioceses.”
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Chillicothe KC
To Launch Drive
For New Building
CHILLICOTHE —Announcement
of plans to erect a new home by
Knights of Columbus. Flaget Coun
cil No. 1071 was made by Willard
Taylor, Grand Knight of the coun
cil. at an Appreciation Dinner for
Knights and their ladies held Sun
dnv evening at the Conservation
League.
The building will be on land do
nated by William and Thomas
Boulger and located at Riverside
and Sycamore Streets. A child
ren's playground with swings, slid
es. etc., plus a soft ball field will
be included.
A drive for funds will get under
way shortly. Mr. Charles McCarthy
heads this Solicitation Committee.
Other members are Robert Carroll,
Anthony Purpero. Chas. Bunstine,
Robert Snow, Earl Blair and Will
iam Cline. Named on the plan
ning committee for the new home
are Leo Stark, Paul Juenger and
H. E. Hunter.
The dinner, attended by 170, was
also an occasion of honor to top
solicitors in the campaign for state
and local youth program funds
currently underway. Top solicitors
are: Anthony Purpero, Williard
Taylor, William Cline. Eugene Hol
Jis. W. E. Stanton, B. B. Palkovacs,
Ed Wolfe, Ralph Martin. Edward
Hurff, F. J. Purpero. Robert Car
rol, Harold Krauser, Robert Reev
es, H. E. Hunter, Herbert McDan
iels. and Walter Bradshaw.
Grand Knight Taylor also an
nounced a Thanksgiving Eve ball
for knights and their ladies, to be
held at the Elks hall. Music will
be furnished by Ray Roop and his
orchestra.
To Award Four Scholarships
i
Discussing final plans for Santa Maria Council's Scholarship
Project are Robert J. Finneran, right, past grand knight of Santa
Maria Council, and at present, chairman of the state youth program,
and Frank A. McCabe, chairman of the Council's Youth Activities
Committee. The Council will award four high school scholarships
for the school year beginning in September, 1954.
taken into account. I ship w inners and announcement
Judges selected by the School I of the winners will be made before
Office will determine the scholar-1 Apr. 15, 1954.
VISION
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The -‘holic Times
Coiuniuva .Q, Ohio, Friday, November 13, 1953
Some four hundred fifty dele
gates from 33 dioceses in the Unit
ed States were in attendance at the
second National Convention of the
Diocesan Section.
A challenge to thettfe^ho
would blame only youn^SF^I*
themselves for so called jc
delinquency was the keynote
the series of youth meetings.
Delegates representing six mil
lion Catholic youth and their lead
ers were forcefully reminded of
these other causes:
—The parental delinquency of
bad example and broken homes.
—A widespread “contempt for
youth” ranging from birth control
and housing restrictions to gross
indifference about youth’s prob
lems.
—Exploitation of youth by pur
veyors of indecency and narcotics.
“Forgetful society and short
sighted elders”, even after youth’s
sacrifices and heroism in two
wars, are calling today's young peo
ple “the most immoral youth in
history,” Msgr. Joseph E. Schieder
said in the keynote address at the
second National Catholic Youth
Convention. But in fact “you are
the greatest group of youth we
have ever known.” he said.
Modern Pharisees
Monsignor Schieder. Youth De
partment director of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference, de
nounced “modern-day Pharisees”
who ignore the fact that it is
grown-ups who offer youth “every
convenience to make you im
moral.”
“There are no teen-agers pub
lishing lurid books or producing
condemned films.” he said.
The four-day convention of the
young people themselves brought
some 800 observers and delegates
ranging in age from 16 to 26 from
all parts of the country, including
noints as distant as Seattle and
Texas. It was followed by a two
dav meeting of the National Cath
olic Camping Association, and an
over-lapping five-day meeting of
the nation’s Catholic youth leaders
Paper Predicts
Uncertain Future
For Nehru’s Party
BOMBAY, India (NC) In
dia’s oldest Catholic paper has pre
dicted an uncertain future for the
country’s dominant Congress Party
if the scramble for power among
its leaders is not checked in time.
Declaring that the gulf between
the Congress and the people is
widening, The Examiner pointed
out that it is only the leadership
of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Neh
ru, who is also the President of the
Congress Party, that prevents a
complete and irrevocable break.
The writing on the wall is clear,
the paper added, and. unless the
warning is heeded, the same fate
that overtook the Nationalist Party
in China is in store for the Con
gress Party.
As an instance of what it called
“the rot that has set in Congress
ranks,” The Examiner mentioned
especially the situation in East
Punjab where Congress leaders are
indulging in mutual recrimination
and accusations.
Miss Mary K. Ruddy, second from left above, secretary of the diocesan Catholic Youth Council,
Columbus, has been elected vice-president of the National Council of Catholic Youth, at the Council's
convention in Boston. Shown with Miss Ruddy are the other new officers. They are, left to right,
Joseph Crangle of the Buffalo Diocese, president Miss Ruddy Miss Delores Dlugas, of the Hartford
Diocese, secretary and Math Prom of the Fargo Diocese, treasurer.
Columbus Girl New Vice-President
Of Nat! Council Of Catholic Youth
Miss Mary K. Ruddy, secretary of the Diocesan Catholic
Youth Council, has been elected vice-president of the National
Council of Catholic Youth, at the National Convention of the
Council being held in Boston. Miss Ruddy is a member of St.
Agatha parish, Columbus, and a graduate of Our Lady of Vic
tory High School and St. Mary of the Springs College.
—the fourth National Conference
on Catholic Youth Work. All are
under the auspices of Archbishop
John J. Mitty of San Francisco,
Episcopal chairman of the N.C.W.C.
Youth Department.
In keynoting the youth leaders’
gathering. Archbishop Richard J.
Cushing of Boston sounded a par
allel warning against mistaking
the causes of crime and immorality
among youth.
"Juvenile delinquency is real
ly adult delinquency," he said.
"In very great measure the prob
lem of juvenile delinquents is
the problem of delinquent par
ents."'
A series of resolutions passed
by the delegates touched
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VATICAN CITY—(Radio, NO—
The Vicariate Apostolic of Sweden
has been raised to the rank of a
diocese—the third to be set up in
Scandinavia since the Reformation.
Titular Bishop Johannes Erik
Mueller, who has been Vicar Apos
tolic of Sweden since 1922, will be
the first Bishop of the new See,
w'ith his seat in Stockholm.
Last May, His Holiness Pope Pius
XII elevated the Apostolic Vicari
ate of Oslo to the status of a dio
cese and named Bishop James Man
gers, S. M., as first Ordinary of the
new See.
This development came bniy two
months after the Vicariate Apos
tolic of Denmark was made a
diocese, and Bishop Theodor Suhr,
O. S. B., Vicar Apostolic since 1938,
appointed the first Bishop of Co
penhagen.
Sweden, has some 19.000 Ca
tholics out of a total population of
7,000,000. In Denmark, Catholics
number about 26,000 in a popula
tion of 4.250.000. Norway counts
5,000 Catholics among its 3.250,000
population. Ail three countries
are predominantly Lutheran.
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3 Prelates Receive
New Appointments
From Holy Father
VATICAN CITY (NC) Three
appointments, one involving a
transfer in the Vatican diplomatic
corps, were announced here.
Archbishop Efrem Forni was
transferred from his post of Papal
Nuncio to Ecuador to become Pa
pal Nuncio to Belgium and Inter
nuncio to Luxembourg.
Archbishop Carlo Ferrero Caval
ierleone, who has been serving as.
Italian Military Ordinary, has been
named to the post of “Prelate on
the General Council” of the Sover
eign Military Order of Malta.
Succeeding him in the military
post is the rector of the Salerno
Regional Seminary, Msgr. Arrigo
Pintonello, who has been elevated
to Titular Archbishop of Theodosi
opolis. The latter is normally a
titular diocese but has temporarily
been raised to the status of a titu
lar archdiocese.
lions, foreign trade and parish
credit unions.
The group voted in favor of
eliminating the causes of juvenile
delinquency, and (they listed among
the preventive measures religious
training at home, modest dress, de
cent literature, movie censorship,
greater respect for married life and
good housing conditions.
They also voted in favor of elim
ination of racial segregation and
discrimination
Improved labor legislation and
the establishment of the industry
council plan.
Removal of trade barriers and
increase of American assistance
“to the people of underprivileged
areas”
Establishment of parish credit
unions which they termed “power
ful instruments of self help.”
The young people also agreed to
send protests to the Polish am
bassador in Washington denounc
ing the treatment of Catholics in
Poland as “an injustice not only
to the victims but to all right-think
ing men.”
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venile delinquency, the United Na-
Third Diocese
Is Set Up In
Scandinavia
Date Announced
For Adult Class
Bishop Ready will confer the
Sacrament of Confirmation on a
class of adult converts from all
the parishes in the Central Dean
ery, Sunday. December 13. at 4 p.
m. in St. Joseph Cathedral.
Annual Clothing Appeal...
Pathetic Plight
Of North Korean
Refugees Cited
(N. C. W. C. News Sen ice)
NEW YORK The pathet
ic plight of a million Korean
refugees was emphasized here
by Msgr. George Carroll. M.M.,
who returned to this country
to report on the urgent need
for continued shipments of re
lief materials to Korea during
the coming winter months.
The Monsignor is the Korea
of War Relief
Services—National Catholic Wel
fare Conference. He made his re
port at the agency's headquarters
here.
“It looks like this w inter is going
to be the hardest yet for the mil
lion civilian refugees from North
Korea.” the monsignor said. "They
now have lost all hope of return
ing to their homes.”
W’RS—N.C.W.C., at the direction
of Cincinnati’s Archbishop Karl
Alter, chairman of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference Ad
ministrative Board, is now engaged
in promoting the annual Thanks
giving clothing campaign. It will
be conducted in some 100 archdio
ceses and dioceses the country
over, including the Diocese of Co
lumbus during the week of No
vember 22 to 29. Father William
Kappes. Diocesan Director of Char
ities. has been appointed by Bishop
Ready to conduct the drive in the
Diocese of Columbus. Goal of the
campaign has been fixed in ex
cess of the ten million pounds of
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The prelate also had written to
the President to record the pro
test of his faithful in the Washing
ton archdiocese over the Polish sit
uation. The Archbishop also wrote
a letter of protest to Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles.
In his reply. Secretary Dulles
pointed out that Poland, like all oth
er members of the United Nations,
pledged itself to “promote respect
for. and observance of, human
rights and fundamental freedoms
The Secretary added: "Th* de
liberate step* of the present com-
LN Investigation
Asked By CAIP
WASHINGTON (NC) The
UN. General Assembly should di
rect the Economic and Social
Council “to give a full airing” to
the “barbarous practice” of forced
labor in totalitarian countries, ac
cording to two committees of the
Catholic Association for Interna
tional Peace.
As a prelude to the 26th annual
conference of the CAIP here, the
associations Committee on Ethics
and Subcommittee on Juridical In
stitutions issued a statement call
ing for establishment of a perma
nent Committee on forced Labor
within the framework of the Unit
ed Nations.
Recalling that a joint U.N.-Inter
national Labor Organization tem
porary committee had issued a re
port focusing the attention of the
free world on the existence of
slave labor camps behind the Iron
Curtain, the CAIP groups declared:
"We believe open discussion
and debate on this situation in
the United Nations is long over
due."
Need For Continued Aid Stressed
CATHOLIC
BISHOPS
Pray to Mary
For Vocation* To
Diocesan Priesthood
Price Ten Cents $3.00 A Year
President Promises
To ‘Expose, Oppose’
Tyranny In Poland
(Jliief Executive Assured Reds
Cannot Subdue Poland’s Faith
WASHINGTON —(NC) In a strongly-worded condem
nation of communism, President Dwight D. Eisenhower has ex
pressed the conviction that Red tyranny never will be success
ful in attempts to subdue the religious faith of Poland and “ex
tinguish the national tradition in which that faith plays so
strong a part.”
“Until the Polish people regain
their freedom and independence,”
the President declared, “the peace
ful policy of this Government will
be to expose, and in every appro
priate way to oppose, the shameful
series of acts by which the Polish
people are being denied the free
exercise of their inalienable
rights.”
The President’s views were ex
pressed in a letter to Archbishop
Patrick A. O'Boyle of Washington.
The Archbishop, as acting chair
man of the National Catholic Wel
fare Conference administrative
board, had issued a statement of
indignation on the arrest of His
Eminence Stefan Cardinal Wyszyn
ski, Primate of Poland, and on oth
er acts of religious persecution by
communists in Poland.
munist regime in Poland directed
toward the tyrannous subjection of
religious organizations by the po
lice state clearly violate these
standards."
The Secretary said these acts are
condemned by the American peo
ple and that the U.S. delegation
has been requested “to make every
effort to see that this flagrant de
nial of religious freedom is effec
tively exposed before the United
Nations,” at the current General
Assembly.
The conviction that the develop
ments in Poland were “profoundly
discouraging” to those who look for
communist willingness to respect
the “basic, human rights of free
dom of thought and conscience”
was reiterated by President Eisen
hower in his letter. He also ob
served that the communists appar
ently are “unwilling to tolerate any
relationship with a non-communist
force, temporal or spiritual, other
than that of domination by violence
and the threat of violence.”
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New Bishop
Of Rockford
Is Appointed
WASHINGTON—(NC) Msgr.
Raymond Peter Hilliager, 49. rec
tor of Guardian Angels Orphanage
in Chicago, has been appointed
Bishop of Rockford, Ill., by His
Holiness Pope Pius XII, it was an
nounced by His Excellency Arch
bishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani,
Apostolic Delegate to the United
States.
Bishop-designate Hillinger suc
ceeds Bishop John J. Boylan, who
died last July 19. He will become
the fourth Ordinary of the Rock
ford diocese, which was establish
ed Sept. 23, 1908.
The Rockford diocese includes
11 counties spread over an area of
6.457 square miles across northern
Illinois. It has a population of more
than 610.000. including some 80,
000 Catholics.
There are 89 parishes with a res
ident pastor and 6 parishes with
out a resident pastor, in addition to
19 chapels with a resident chaplain
and 35 chapels without a’ resident
chaplain.
The diocese has 52 elementary
schools, nine high schools and
three seminaries. The needs of the
diocese are supplied by some 250
priests. 670 nuns and 25 Brothers.
URGfNTiy
THANKSGIVING
CLOTHING COLLECTION
THANKSGIVING WWK-NOV. 22-29, 1953
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This striking poster will be displayed in parish halls and schools
throughout the United States calling attention to the 1953 Catholic
Bishops' Thanksgiving Clothing Collection for Korea, Europe, th*
Near and Far East, the week, November 22-29. Clothing, shoes and
blankets will be collected at parish depots throughout the country
and from there sent to the warehouses of War Rleief Services Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference in New York, to be baled and
shipped overseas.
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