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The Road To
True Peace Leads
Through Mary
Vol. Ill, No. 13
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1953 Local Review
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The picture tells the story. It's a toss-up as to who is having the most fun out of this annual event at
St. Vincent's Orphanage, Columbus, the small-fry hosts or their distinguished guest, Bishop Ready. Take
It for granted, last Monday's visit will be long remembered by all concerned.
Development Fund Campaign
Listed As Year’s Top Event
The Diocesan Development Drive, instituted by Bishop
Ready, in which Catholics pledged $2,510,122 to build two
high schools and an orphanage, and help the missions oi the
diocese, was the outstanding achievement in the 23-county
area in 1953—a year packed w th events which contributed to
the growth and progress of the
Church.
E. Fabert Biggert of Columbus
directed the campaign which saw
3000 Catholic laymen canvass
Franklin County June 14. The so
licitation was officially launched
with an address by Bishop Ready
at a Memorial Hall rally. Firms as
well as individuals were asked to
donate, and the first report showed
that $1,700,000 had been pledged.
On July 30 it was announced that
the goal had been exceeded by
$10,122.
Bishop Ready participated in
ground breaking ceremonies. for
the first of the two high schools
on Oct. 11. The $1,000,000 struc
ture, to be built on a 16-acre site
on Cooke Rd., just east of High St.,
will provide for 900 students, and
will be staffed by Dominican Sis
ters. It will be named Watterson
High School in honor of Bishop
John A. Watterson, second Bishop
of Columbus.
Following is a list of other high
lights throughout 1953:
JAN. 2—The new’ convent chap
el for the Sisters of St. Francis of
Mary Immaculate at St. Mary Mag
ddlene parish, Columbus, was sol
emnly dedicated by Bishop Ready.
JAN. 12 The new convent for
the 22 Sisters of St. Francis of
Penance and Christian Charity who
teach at Holy Rosary grade school
and Rosary high school in Colum
bus, w as dedicated today by Bishop
Ready.
Jan. 18—An overflow crowd of
800 men of the Central DeaneiA at
tended the Holy Name Rally in St.
Joseph Cathedral. A similar rally
was held in St. Rose Church, New
Lexington, for men of the Eastern
Deanery. Earlier in the day. some
300 men from throughout the di
ocese attended the annual meeting
of the Catholic Laymens Retreat
League.
JAN. 15 -Mrs. Anne O'Hare Mc
Cormick. former Columbus resi
dent and alumna of St Mary of
the Springs College, von a Chris
topher award for her column “The
Night Before Christmas”, in the
New York Times.
JAN. 16 St. Joseph's Priory,
Somerset, has offered a land grant
to Perry County for the purpose
of building a general county hos
pital to be operated by a religious
order.
JAN. 20- The new two-story
brick rectory at Sacred Heart par
ish. New Philadelphia, was dedicat
ed by Bishop Ready.
JAN. 21 The Catholic laymen
of Council No. 400 of the Knights
of Columbus will sponsor a series
of 35 Catholic advertisements in
the Columbus Dispatch in an at
tempt to clear up fallacies com
monly believed about the church.
JAN. 23—The Delaware Cham
ber of Commerce named Father
William C, O’Brian, pastor of St.
Mary Church in Delaware since
1928, as “Honor Citizen of 1953.”
JAN. 26 Pontifical Requiem
Mass was sung in St. Joseph Ca
thedral by Auxiliary Bishop Ed
ward G. Hettinger for Monsignor
Thomas A. Nolan, pastor emeritus
of Our Lady of Victory Church.
FEB. 6 The Missionary Co
operative Plan, which will bring
missionaries to 44 parishes in the
diocese this year to appeal for
prayers and alms, was announced
this week by Father James Kulp,
diocesan director ci the Society for
the Propagation of the Faith.
FEB. 13 A mimeographed
handbook, aimed to standardize
policies and regulations of the 82
elementary -and high schools in the
diocese, was issued by Father C.
Bennett Applegate, diocesan super
intendent of schools.
FEB. 26—A Pontifical Requiem
Mass was offered by Bishop Ready
for Msgr. Tiburtius A. Goebel,
pastor of St. Mary Church, Ports
mouth. At 83. he was the oldest
priest in the diocese.
MARCH 1 The opening of
Ohio's Sesquicentennial celebra
tion was marked in the diocese by
two Pontifical Masses one of
fered in Chillicothe by Bishop Rea
dy and the other in Columbus by
Bishop Edward G. Hettinger. Rep
resentatives of city and state gov
ernments were on hand at St. Pe
tor’s Church in Chillicothe for the
first ceremony of the year-long
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Christmas Comes To St. Vincent’s Unity Octave Services
celebration. Bishop Ready was the
speaker.
MARCH 13 Sixty priests at
tended the Regional Priests’ Social
Action Conference in Columbus.
Principal speaker was Msgr. Wil
liam J. Flanagan, pastor of St.
Mary Cathedral, Lansing, Mich.
MARCH 13 Plans for a fund
drive to raise $1,500,000 for the
expansion of Good Samaritan Hos
pital, Zanesville, were announced
today.
MARCH 15 The new $550,009
Notre Dame High School in Ports
mouth was dedicated today by
Bishop Ready. The new school will
accommodate approximately 350
pupils. Nearly 2000 people attend
ed the dedication and blessing.
MARCH 20—Observance of the
Easter VigiG ceremonies the eve
ning before Easter Sunday was au
thorized in all parishes in the Co
lumbus Diocese by Bishop Ready.
MARCH 27 The Ohio Legisla
ture’s recognition of the need for
increased aid to the aged and
blind was commended today by the
Ohio Catholic Welfare Conference,
at the organizations semi-annual
meeting in the Deshler-Wallick Ho
tel.
MARCH 27 The men of St.
Elizabeth Parish, Roswell, are do
nating their time and labor to the
construction of a new cement
block church to replace the 50
year-old frame structure.
MARCH 28—Named to the Cath
olic Times all-diocesan basketball
team were Gene Naugle. Zanesville
Rosecrans: Ralph McIntyre. Dover
St. Joseph Dick Dreese, New Lex
ington St Aloysius: Mike Ander
son. Marion St. Mary: Ralph Rei
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Nativity Scene Depicted At Columbus Home
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The Nativity scene pictured above may be seen in front of the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Trott
and their family of Christ the King Parish, at 2432 Berwick-rd. The beautifully colored figures of
molded rubber are half-life size and the tableau is complete with the Holy Family, Wise Men, shep
herds, angel, sheep, a cow and a donkey. The display will be set up annually.
The Catholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, January 1, 1954
Will Center At Shrine
WASHINGTON —(NC)— Prayers that all may be united
in the One Fold of the Catholic Church will be offered through
out the U. S. during Chair of the Unitv Octave from January
18 to 25.
Taking part at the services in
the National Shrine will be nine
members of the Hierarchy, includ
.ing a Bishop of the Greek Rite.
One of the largest observances will be held in the crypt
ol the National Shrine of the Im
maculate Conception—whose great
upper church will be started in
1954 to honor the Patroness of
the United States.
Schedule for Chair of the Unity
Octave observances in the nation's
capital is as follows:
JANUARY 18—“The return oi
all the ‘other sheep’ to the one
Fold of St. Peter, the One Shep
herd Archbishop Patrick A
O’Boyle of Washington presiding
Father Edmond D. Benard of the
Catholic University of America,
preaching.
JANUARY 19—"The return ol
all Oriental Separatists to com
munion with the Apostolic, See:”
Auxiliary Bishop J. Carroll Mc
Cormick of Philadelphia, presid
ing Bishop Daniel Ivancho. Apos
tolic Exarch of Pittsburgh, preach
ing.
JANUARY 20 “The submis
sion of Anglicans to the authority
ol the Vicar of Christ Bishop
James A. McNulty of Paterson,
presiding Father David Gannon,
S. A, of Graymoor, Garrison, N.
Y., preaching.
JANUARY 21 “That the Luth
erans and all other Protestants of
Continental Europe may find their
way back to the Holy Church,”
Bishop Blaize Kurz. O. F. M., Pre
fect Apostolic of Yun Chow, pie
siding Father Alexander Wjse,
O.F.M., director of the Academy
of American Franciscan History
preaching.
JANUARY 22—That Christians i?
America may become one in com
munion with the hair of St. Pet
er Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Hed
ges of Richmond, presiding Father
Retreat Dinner
Set For Jan. 17
The annual retreat dinner for
the Catholic Laymen's Retreat
League, to be held Jan. 17. will be
addressed by a distinguished lay
man from Cleveland, Mr. Karl
Martesteck. This affair is the only
assembly of the men who make re
treats at the Shrine of the Little
Flower, the Diocesan Retreat
House. Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament will be fiven at St. Jo
seph Cathedral at 4:00 in. and
the dinner will follow at the Vir
ginia Hotel at 5:00 p.m.
Mr. Martesteck, an executive of
the Great Lakes Bridge and Dock
Company of Cleveland, is an en
gineering graduate of Notre Dame.
He is Managing Director of the
Catholic Information Center of the
Cleveland Diocese, lay adviser and
faculty member of St. John’s Col
lege and an ardent retreatant.
Members of Holy Name Societies
of the Central Deanery of Colum
bus Diocesan Holy Name Union
will hold their annual rally on Sun
day, Jan. 10. in St Joseph Cathed
ral. This event is in observance of
the feast of the Holy Name of
Jesus and will take place at 3 p.m.
Bishop Ready will preside and will
be celebrant of the Pontifical Ben
ediction that will bring the cere
mony to a close.
Urge All To Attend
In addition to the men of the
Central Deanery parishes, all
young mon of high school age are
Joseph E. Manton, SS.R., ol Bos
ton. preaching.
JANUARY 23—"The return to
the Sacraments of lapsed Catho
lics:” Bishop Bryan McEntegart,
Rector of the Catholic University
of America, presiding Father
Ignatius Smith, O. P., dean of the
Catholic University School oi
Philosophy, preaching.
JANUARY 24—"The conversion
of the Jews Auxiliary Bishop
John M. McNamara ol Washing
ton, presiding Father Victor Dono
van. C. P. of the Passionist Mon
astery, West Springfield, Mass.,
preaching.
JANUARY 25—“The Missionary
conquest of the world for Christ
Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of
Boston, presiding and preachm?
On Sunday. January 24 the
Liturgy according to the Syriac
Maronite Rite will be celebiated
b' Chor Bishop Mansour Stephen
pastor of Our Lady of Lebanon
Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Official
Episcopal
Engagements
Friday, January 10 a.m.—
Mass, Cathedral.
Monday, January 4th: 12 noon—
Catholic Men's Luncheon. 5:00
p.m. Closing Forty Hours
Devotions, Saint a a el's
Home.
Sunday, January 10th: 3 p.m.—
Holy Name Rally, Saint Jo
seph Cathedral.
Sunday, January 17th: 10:00 a.
m.—Mass and Confirmation,
Saint Matthew Church, Mount
Gilead. 4:00 p.m. Catholic
Laymen's Retreat League, Ca
thedral.
Wednesday, January 20th: 6:30
p.m. Catholic Women's
League, Fort Hayes Hotel.
Tuesday, January 26th: Ohio
Catholic Welfare Conference
Meeting, the Neil House, two
day meeting.
Wednesday, January 27th: 6:30
p.m.—Saint Francis Hospital
Circles, Neil House.
Sunday, January 31st: 11:00 a.m.
—Celebration of the Patronal
Feast of the Diocese, Saint
Francis de Sales, Pontifical
Mass, Saint Joseph Cathedral.
Central Deanery Plans
Holy Name Rally Jan. 10
urged to attend this demonstra
tion of faith, honor and praise to
the Holy Name of Jesus. At this
time of necessity for greater
strength in Catholic Action aefivi
ties, it is hoped that all Catholic
men, whether members of Holy
Name Societies or not, will unite
in making this function successful
by filling the Cathedral to capa
city.
Speaker for the rally will be
Monsignor Harold J. O'Donnell,
assistant chancellor of the Co
lumbus diocese. The program
will be opened with the hymn,
''Oh, Holy Name," and will
be followed by the recita
tion of the Rosary led by Mon
signor Harry S. Connelly, pastor
of St. Joseph Cathedral. Father
Albert E. Culliton, diocesan di
rector of the Holy Name Union
and pastor of St. Christopher
Church, will lead the assembly
in the renewal of the Holy Name
Pledge.
The hymn. “Veni Sancte Spiri
tus,” will be sung by St. Charles
Seminary Choir, under the direc
tion of Father F. Thomas Gallen,
Diocesan Director of Church Mu
sic. Following Pontifical Benedic
tion the religious demonstration
will close with the hymn. "Holy
God, We Praise Thy Name," by the
entire congregation.
Joseph E. Tritschler, diocesan
president of the Holy Name Union
has appointed Ralph J. Kramer,
Sr., as chairman of the annual
rally, and Edward O. Ryan, as co
chairman John A. McAndrews will
be program chairman and Charles
E. Leach, co-chairman. Aiding with
arrangements will be Henry A
Reinhart, Charles P. Gilbert, and
Leo C. Walter. August C. Grodrian
will be treasurer for the rally, as
sisted by Edward P. Wolfe. James
Rabbit will be chairman of ush
ers.
Clothing Drive
Results Pass
1952 Totals
The impressive total of
69.594 pounds of usable cloth
ing was collected in the Colum
bus Diocese during the Thanks
giving week drive for poverty
stricken people abroad.
Father William Kappes, diocesan
director of Catholic Charities, said
this week that.the drive already
has eclipsed last year's collection
by more than 3000 pounds, and the
total is expected to reach approxi
mately 75000 pounds when the re
mainder of the parishes send in
their reports.
Father Kappes said the clothing
was of “very good quality” and
that Catholics in the diocese, by
their contributions, furnished a
“magnificent example of concern
and charity for their fellow men.”
St. Mary Parish, Marion was
the leader among parishes in the
diocese, contributing 5100 pounds
to the drive. It was the second
consecutive year that the parish
has set the pace in giving cloth
ing, shoes, bedding and blankets
to the poor. Other too contrib
utors were Newark St. Francis,
2800 Dover St. Joseph 2622
Zanesville St. Nichols, ?c00 Co
lumbus Holv Rosary. 2260 and
Columbus St. Catharine, 2240
pounds.
The clothing was shipped to New
York, and then sent to Korea. Eu
rope and the Near East.
119 Dioceses In Drive
The drive was conducted by the
War Relief Services oi the Nation
al Catholic Welfare Conference
under the auspices of the Bishop
of the United States in 119 dio
ceses. Bishop Readv termed tne
drive a “necessity,” and pointed
out that conditions in Korea have
changed little since the truce,
that thousands are cold and hun
gry in Germany, and that uncount
ed thousands of refugees from
Soviet Satellite nations must de
pend on our charity.
Msgr. Eduard E. Swanstrom, ex
ecutive director of War Relief
Services declared that the drive
would probably top all records.
He added:
"The instant response to the
Bishops' appeal has been most
gratifying inasmuch as it will
alleviate the terrible sutferinc oi
people actually living in the streets
in those war-torn countries.”
Msgr. Swanstrom, who recently
returned from a tour of devastated
areas overseas, asserted that it
was no exaggeration to say that
thousands would die unless aided
by their fellow men.
Last fall more than 10.000,000
pounds oi clothing and bedding
were gathered in the national
drive.
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asting And Abstinence
The complete fasting and ab
stinence laws with a calendar
of days on which they apply is
carried for your convenience
throughout the year on page
three of this edition.
Pope Warns Emphasis
On Technology Is Not
Right Road To Peace
The Pontiff applied his counsel
pal 1 ly to the peoples of Eu
ront». He urged them to get away
fiorn a material approach to the
prolbiCITI of peace.” and to resist
*ceirtam busy peace agents who
thisik thait the whole peace prob
11111 he solved bv increased
nrrw n and higher living stand
In a moving appeal to Chris
tian statesmen, the Holy Father
asked them to take "reasonable
risks" in striving for the conti
nental union of Europe's peo
ples. He exhorted them not "to
aggravate social tensions" in
their own countries "by dra
matically emphasizing them." To
those who call for "a so-called
revolution in Christian con
sciences," he pointed out that
it is not Christianity that has
failed in the social field but that
the failure is "in the minds of
her accusers."
The greater part of the Holy Fa
trier s address v as devoted to set
ting forth the grave spiritual dan
gers arising from the false dream
of expecting a solution of all of
mankmd's problems from what he
termed the “technolo&cal spirit”
and the “technclogical concept of
life.”
The Pope m«ide clear that his
criticism should not be understood
“as a condemns lion of technologi
cal progress in itself.” which
“COmto 4
afxtG /-o it can
and ought to lead to God.”
Technology Has Proper Place
However, unless technology is
given no more than its proper
place in the hierarchy of values,
the Pope warned, "this era of tech
nological progress will achieve its
monstrous masterpiece, making
man into a giant of the physical
world, at the expense of his soul,
reduced to a pygmy in the realm
of the supernatural and eternal.”
In leading up to his appeal for a
union of the countries of Europe,
the Holy Father warned against "a
peace based on fear” arising from
a more or less equal distribution
of technical and economical forces
between two parties.
Urging the discard of "that false
autonomy of material forces which
today are hardly different from
war materials,” the Pope said:
"Secure and lasting peace is
above all a question of spiritual
unity and of moral dispositions
The present state of affairs
will not imprqve, unless all na
tions recognize common spiritual
and moral ends c, humanity
and mutually agree to oppose
the cause of division reigning
among them in the discrepancy
of the standard of living and of
productivity."
The work for a union of Europe
is strongly encouraged, the Pope
said, by “the manifest failure of
the contrary policy and by the tact
Marian Tear Opens In Rome
Mayor Rebechini of Rome is shown greeting His Holiness Pope Pius Xll at the famed statue
of the Immaculate Conception in the Piazza de Spagna. Pictured, left to right, are Mayor Nebechini
delivering his address Monsignor Enrico Dante, Papal Master of Ceremonies Cardinal Canali and
His Holiness Pope Pius Xll. The ceremony was part of the opening of the Marian Year in the Eeternel
City. (NC Photos)
May The New Year
Bring You Blessings
And Happiness
Price Ton Cants $3.00 A Year
Annual Message Stresses True
Peace As ‘Thing Of The Spirit’
VATICAN CITY —(Radio, N.C.W.C. NEWS SERVICE)—
His Holiness Pope Pius Xll. in his 15th Christmas Eve address
to a lear-ridden world, told mankind once again that true peace
is a thing of the spirit He warned against the false concep
tion of a new materialism that peace could be attained through
wlogical progress.
that the ordinary people in these
countries expect it and consider it
necessary and possible.”
'•Why continue to hesitate?” the
Pope asked. “The end is clear, the
needs of nations are obvious to
all Turning to those who, in ad
vance. ask tor an absolute guar
antee of success,’ the Pontiff said:
“The supreme incitement to ac
tion is the gravity of the moment
through which Europe is strug
gling. There is no security for her
without risk. To demand absolute
certaintv is to fail in good will to
ward Europe.”
In the course of his address the
Pope pointed out how the “tech
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Holv Hour Set
For Youth Of
Diocese, Jan. 3
The first monthly Holy Hour
of the Catholic Youth Adora
tion Society of the Diocese of
Columbus will be held this
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 P.M.
in St. Joseph s Cathedral. The Holy
Hour will be conducted by Father
Richard Dodd of the Catholic
Youth Bureau.
The local council of young peo
ple has been busy this past week
publicizing the Holy Hour among
the youth of the city of Columbus
and vicinity. Pastors are encourag
ing their young people to attend
this Holy Hour, the first of its kwid
for young people of high school
age in the Diocese.
The C'YA is a branch of a soci
ety that was begun in New York
in 1948 and which has spread
throughout many dioceses in the
country. The Holy Hour is in dia
logue form, the prayers having
been compiled by high school stu
dents. There is a meditation used
at the Holy Hour which is written
by one of the young people them
selves. A sermon and congrega
tional singing are also part of the
service.
The intentions included in the
»Holy Hour are many and varied.
The local branch of the CYA will
make especially a petition for
world peace and for an increase in
vocations to the Religious Life.
The Holy Hour, a special project
of the Catholic Youth Council for
the Marian Year, will be held in
Marian churches till summer. Feb
ruary 7. St. Mary Parish will be
host to the C'YA In March the Ho
ly Hour will be held at the Immac
ulate Conception Church while Ho
ly Rosary Parish Church will be
the scene of the Holy Hour on
April 4. The monthly Holy Hour in
May will be combined with the Di
ocesan Youth Rally planned for the
first Sunday of that month.