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The Road To
True Peace Lead*
Through Mary
Vol. No. Ill, No. 32
Bishop’s
Appointments
The Most Reverend Bishop announce* the following appoint
ments:
Effective May 14, 1954
Reverend Leo Sullivan from Assistant Pastor, Saint Mary Per
ish, Delaware, to Assistant Pastor, Saint Francis de Sale* Parish,
Newark.
Rev. Joseph Stanton from Assistant Pastor, Saint Francis de
Sale* Parish, Newark, to Assistant Pastor, Saint Mary Parish, Dela
ware.
Reverend Lawrence O'Connor from Assistent Pastor, Blessed
Sacrament Parish, Newark, to assistant Pastor, Saint Patrick Parish,
London.
Effective June 5, 1954
Reverend William Rardin, from temporary assignment at Saint
Charles Seminary to a summer appointment at Corpus Christi Perish,
Columbus.
Effective May 1, 1954
Reverend John Grady., O.M.I. Chaplain of the Columbus Stat*
Hospital.
By Order of the Most Reverend Bishop
ROLAND T. WINEL
Chancellor
Catholics Of Zanesville Area
To Join In Marian Ceremony
ZANESVILLE Between four
and five thousand persons are ex
pected to join in an impressive
demonstration of devotion to Mary
in this her Marian Year when Ca
tholics of Somerset. New Lexing-
Dulles Expresses
Thanks To NCCM
For Their Support
WASHINGTON—(NO—Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles has ex
pressed his gratitude for the sup
port of the National Council of Ca
tholic Men who recently adopted a
resolution opposing recognition of
Red China and its admission into
the United Nations.
A letter written in Geneva by
the Secretary to Francis I. Nally,
president of the N.C reply
to a telegram sent him by the
N.C.C.M. said:
“I appreciae your support in this
matter With greater public under
standing, I am confident that our
position will win increasing ap
proval.” M. Dulles called the in
terest of the N.C.C.M, “most en-*
eouraging.”
ton, Dresden, Cambridge, Newark.
Zanesville and other surrounding
towns conduct a public ceremony
in Mary's honor here Sunday. May
23.
Plans are being made by the
Holy Name Societies of both St.
Thomas and Sts Nicholas churches
here for a public parade and cere
mony. The parade will move at
2:00 p. m. along the route from
the Big Bear parking lot on S.
Fourth St. to Main and from there
to the front of St. Nicholas Church
at Greenwood and Main.
There an altar will be erected
in front of the Church where a
May Crowning ceremony will take
place followed by Benediction of
the Most Blessed Sacrament.
The main address will be deliv
ered by Father Paul Corbett, O.P.,
of St. Patrick Church, Columbus.
Invited to participate in the cele
bration are the children of St.
Thomas, St. Nicholas and Rose
crans High School, the Bugle Corps
of St. Aloysius Academy. New Lex
ington. St. Nicholas Boy Scouts, all
women’s and men's organizations of
both Zanesville parishes and all
Catholic friends from the sur
rounding area.
Dignitaries Honor St. Aloysius
missioner of th* Ohio high scho
New Lexington St. Aloysius of
ficially closed its basketball season
last Thursday. May 6. And what
a closing it was. With over 450
“fans” looking on the Blue Knights
heard praise from Bishop Ready,
Governor Lausche. Harold Ems
wiler, Ohio State Commissioner of
high school athletics, Father
Maurice Donovan, pastor of St.
Rose church, New Lexington. Fa
ther William McEwan, athletic di
rector of St. Aloysius. Bob Fowle,
head basketball coach, and his as
sistant. Tony Lol Io. Judge D. C. Jen
kins of the Probate of Juvenile
Court was toastmaster of the af
fair.
The occasion was the recognition
banquet to honor the state class
basketball champions, sponsored
jointly by the St. Aloysius athletic
association, the New Lexington
Jaycees, the Lions club and the
merchants and clerks association.
Bishop Ready delivering the
main address quoted from St Paul
Ln saying, “All run indeed, but only
Church and government dignitaries gathered in New Lexington on Thursday, May 6, to honor St.
Aloysius stat* basketball champions. In the photo above, left to right, Bob Fowl*, head coach Bob
Sagan, captain Bishop Ready, Mik* Allen, star center Governor Lausche, and Harold Emswiler, com­
1 athletic association.
one receives the prize." The Bishop
said that athletics are another
form of education. "Education in
competition.”
“Athletics are just a part of your
education. In athletics you learn
obedience and reverence. You
learn to play the game according to
fixed rules. You learn to respect
your school, your team, your op
ponent and his school. You can
be a good hian unless these char
acteristics grow in you. Reverence
for and obedience to God s rules in
fulfilling your purposes in life are
essential for success.”
The Bishop observed that in
winning the state championship
the Blue Knights aie as well known
in their area as Notre Dame is in
other parts.
Referring to the championship
game, which the Blue Knights won
65-63. the Bishop said "We would
have loved you just as much had
the score been reversed and you
had lost by two points We wouldn't
have had the joy of this present oc­
Hospital Meet
Set May 17-20
At Atlantic City
Father William E. Kappes, Dioce
san Director of Charities and Hos
pital.-. will head a delegation from
the Columbus Diocese to take part
in the Catholic Hospital Associa
tion convention in Atlantic City,
N. J„ May 17-20.
Representatives of 1.400 Canad
ian and U.S. hospitals will attend
the 39th annual convention which
will open with a Solemn Pontifical
Mass at St. Nicholas Church and
will be closed with a Holy Hour
in mammoth Convention Hail.
Under the theme. “Fulfilling the
objectives of the Catholic Hospital,”
delegates will attend sectional and
general meetings, hearing such
speakers as Dr. Edward J. McCor
mick, president of the American
Medical Association, Msgr. Donald
A. McGowan, director of the Bu
reau of Health and Hospitals, N. C.
W. C. and Father Ignatii/s Smith,
O. P., dean of the School of Philos
ophy of the Catholic University.
Bishop Bartholomew J. Eustace
of Camden will be featured as key
note speaker on the convention's
opening day.
The Marian Year Holy Hour
which will climax the convention
will be conducted by Father Smith.
The convention will be dedi
cated to the memory of Father
Francis P. Lively, president of the
association, who died on March 15
of this year.
Msgr. Edmund J. Goebel of Mil
waukee, president-elect of the as
sociation. will deliver the presi
dent's message preceding the Holy
Hour services.
At a recent convention of the As
sociation's Western Conference in
Los Angeles the association’s execu
tive director. Father John J. Flan
agan. S.J cited the chronic need
for expansion despite the fact that
the nation's 1,000 Catholic hospit
als increased their capacity by
4,000 beds last year. Father Flan
agan said Catholic hospitals in the
U.S. now- have 124.000 beds but
many more are needed.
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Archbishop Marks Jubilee
SAVANNAH. Ga—(NO—Arch
bishop Gerald P. O’Hara. Bishop of
Savannah-Atlanta and Papal Nun
cio to Ireland, will observe the
25th anniversary of his elevation to
the episcopacy on May 20.
State Champs
STATE
casion in hailing your victory but
our admiration of you would have
been as great.”
Governor Lausche saluted the
state champs and drew an example
from the Blue Knights winning the
championship. "Who would have
thought that a small school in Per
ry county, with only 27 boys, could
win the state championship of
Ohio?” The governor said that in
life things happen that are so un
believable. so far from compre
hension that they are thought im
possible. “The championship that
these boys have won shows us the
things that can be done even when
they seem beyond realization.”
Governor Lausche condemned
the evil forces which profit from
the seduction -of youth by spread
ing obscene and lewd so-called
“comics” and “true stories.” He
urged the citizens to be alert to
the racketeers of vicious enterpris
es and to help the state authori
ties to protect youth and all citi
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The catholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, May 14, 1954
Th* impending canonization of Pop* Pius will increase the
importance of a letter in the Pontiff's own handwriting conferring
his Apostolic Benediction on th* Pontifical College Josephinum.
Th* letter, dated Apr. 23, 1908, was received on the twentieth anni
versary of the founding of the college. It hangs in a place of honor
in the main hall at the Josephinum. The Latin text reads: "Dilectis
filiis moderatoribus, professoribus et alumnis Pontificii Collegii
Columbensis fausta, quaequ* et salutaria a Domino adpraecantes, grati
et benevolentis animi nostri testem. A posto lie am Benedictionem
effuse caritat* impertimus. Ex aedibus Vaticanis die 23 Aprilis 1908
Pius PP. X." Translated, the text reads: "To our dear sons who are
the directors, professors and students of the Pontifical College of
Columbus, we grant out of the fullness of charity our Apostolic
Blessing, which is the witness of our esteem and benevolence, and
pray the Lord to give you every spiritual and temporal blessing.
Given at the Vatican April 23, 1908, Pius Pontifex, X."
Monsignor Montini Tel Is
Of Growth Of Atheism
By Burke Walsh (Radio N.C W.C. News Service)
PARIS Three hundred Catholic journalists represent
ing 29 countries assembled here for the Fourth International
Congress of the Catholic Press
In a message sent to the Congress. Msgr. Giovanni B.
Montini, Vatican Pro-Secretary of State, warned the journalists
that "an immense wave of
atheism is breaking over lhe
world.” Monsignor Montini said
that the Catholic journalist, "a son
of the Church, eager to sene his
Mother,” will "unmask error, what,
ever name it hides behind.”
The Congress, whose theme is
“The Catholic Press in the World,
its Mission and its Future.” open
ed with a Mass celebrated by Arch
bishop Paul Marella, Papal Nuncio
to France. Dr. Friedrich Funder,
editor of Die Furche, Catholic
weekly of Vienna, and correspond
ent emeritus of the N.C.W.C. News
Service, said the Congress here
was the realization of a dream long
held by many veterans of Catholic
journalism. He declared:
"We Australian Catholics—who
ar* at th* mom*nt between two
worlds—have a sent* of being de
fenders of liberty, dignity and
th* Christian faith of our peopl*.
If we have never lost courage,
even in prison, it was chiefly be
cause we have had assurance
that we were sustained by the
Christian world and by the spir
itual power that war our help—
the Catholic Press."
In his letter to Count Dalia
Torre, presiding officer, editor of
Osservatore Romano, and presi
dent of the International Union of
the Catholic Press, Msgr. Montini
said that because of the high mis
sion entrusted to it. the Catholic
press must be absolutely in the
service of the Church, and it must
be an instrument of quality and
a technically valuable press.
He said that if the Church asks
first a proof of real valor from the
Catholic press, it is because of the
irreplaceable service that the
Church expects from those of her
sons whose mission is to serve and
enlighten public opinion
Th* Catholic journalist, he said,
by th* objectivity of his writing,
by th* firmness of his judgment,
and by the humility of his re
spect for religious authority will
give salutary example and in
dispensable help to many in the
middle of th* whirlpool of inde
cision.
Meanwhile Catholic journalists
heard a report on the development
of the diocesan press in the United
States from Burke Walsh assistant
director of the N.C.W.C. News
Service.
“The Catholic newspaper press
in the United States has enjoyed
its greatest growth the last
three decade*.” Walsh said. ’Catho­
Church Shows Record Growth In Diocese
Blessed Pius Held In High
Esteem In Columbus Diocese
Blessed Pius X, who will be canonized May 29, is remembered as the pontiff who be
stowed signal honors on the Diocese of Columbus.
Bishop James J. Hartley was the first American priest to be elevated by the saintly pon
tiff. He was elevated Dec. 23, 1903 and consecrated the following Feb. 25.
lic newspapers have gained most
encouragingly in circulation, and
they have increased impressively
their effectiveness and prestige.”
Walsh told journalists from 29
countries that this growth has had
a lot to do with the fact tha* the
secular press in the United States
is devoting more space to Catholic
news than ever before. "Large sec
ular newspapers are printing the
complete texts of Papal Encyclicals
and pronouncements now,” he said,
"simply because the Catholic press
pioneered in this field and demon
strated the high news value of
these sometimes lengthy docu
ments.
Concluding his report, Walsh
said the “individual Catholic pa
pers in the United States are still
growing in circulation, revenue and
influence as they have for some
30 years. They are also increasing
in number, and they are providing
the Catholic Church in the United
States with an auxiliary that is con
tinuing to increase in effective
ness.”
3-Dav Retreat
Opens Monday
For 31 Priests
A retreat will open Monday at
the Shrine of the Little Flower for
31 priests of the Columbus Diocese.
The annual retreat, conducted by
Father Edward L. Colnon. S.J., of
Chicago will extend until Thurs
day evening.
This is the third of four retreats
for clergy scheduled this year.
Priests who will make the re
treat are:
Msgr. Robert Coburn. Msgr.
George Gressel, Msgr. Joseph Mc
Glynn. Msgr Harold O'Donnell and
Msgr. Anthony Schlernitzauer
Fathers Raymond Bauschard, Leo
Brehm. Jjiwrence Corcoran. Peter
Crelly. Richard Crosser. Valdemar
Cukuras. Maurice Donovan. Linus
Dury, John Eyerman, George Ful
cher, John Graf. Joseph Hakel.
James Hanley. William Hayes and
Richard Hoch.
Fathers Charles Jones. Peter Mc
Ewan. Edwin McNulty Vincent
Mooney. Hubert Rubeck Francis
Schweitzer, John Soltis. William
Spickerman. Michael Tabit. Ray
mond Totten and Kenneth Wise.
In the Columbus Diocese as in
many dioceses throughout the coun
try, there will be lasting memorials
erected in honor of Pius X. The
new chapel at Bishop Watterson
High School, now under construc
tion on the city's North Side, will
be dedicated to the Pope of the
Holy Eucharist, the Pope of Chil
dren.
Pius it not only th* firit
Pontiff to be canonized in over
two centuries but he remains
vivid in the memory of million*
of Americans—ranging in age
from those who arena's quite fif
ty up to our elder citizen*—and
more so for the scores, or more
probably hundreds, of living
Americans who were received in
audiences by the saintly Pope
who died in 1914.
The sanctity of Pio Decimo had
become almost legendary even dur
ing his lifetime. As early as 1923
the American Hierarchy petitioned
the Holy See asking that the cause
for his beatification be introduced.
The love the Pope had earned for
his simple piety, his wisdom and
paternal kindness during his life
did not flag during succeeding dec
ades.
Within month* after he had as
sumed the hair of Peter and dedi
cated his pontificate to “restoring
all things in Christ,” Blessed Pius
had issued his famous Motu Pro
prio setting guiding principles for
church music. It was in accord with
this directive—and in memory of
its saintly author—that Manhattan
ville College established the Pius
School of Liturgical Music, among
the first American institutions hon
oring Pius and probably the most
widely known
Hit beatification, three years
age, led to renewed displays of
devotion to Blessed Pius, with a
number of schools and churches
named in his honor. In 1952, un
der the aegis of Bishop John P.
Treacy of La Crosse there was
founded a new congregation
known as the Brother* of Bless
ed Pius X.
Throughout the country there
are special reasons for local devo
tion to the new saint. Bishop Char
les D. White of Spokane still treas
ures the breviary in which Pius
inscribed an'autographed message
during an audience on the day of
his ordination in 1910. Archbishop
Henry P. Rohlman of Dubuque has
never forgotten a word of advice
he received from the Pope in 1910
Then a member of the Dubuque
archdiocesan mission band the
Archbishop, with his fellow priests
was congratulated for refraining
from attacks on the religion of
non-Catholics. “It is not possible.”
Pius told them, "to build up the
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Mass Times Set
For St. Agnes
Beginning Sunday. May 16.
the schedule of Masses for the
new St. Agnes parish will he
7:00. 8.30, 10:00 and 11:30. The
Masses are being said in the au
ditorium of the West Mound
Street Elementary School. West
Mound St. at Belvidere Ave.
The growth of the Diocese was
further emphasized just last month
when Bishop Ready established
two new parishes to meet the needs
of the population gain in metro
politan Columbus.
The new St. Agnes parish was
established to serve the needs of
the Hilltop section of Columbus.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish
was organized in Grove City.
Meanwhile, construction work is
well under way on two new di
ocesan schools. Bishop Watterson
High School will be ready for the
freshman class in September of
this year and when completed in
1955 will accommodate 900 stu
dents At the same time, construc
tion is almost completed on the
new St Gabriel school which will
also be ready for occupancy this
fail.
This record growth is reflected
throughout the United State* ac
cording to the figures in the new
Directory. The Church hat grown
to 31,648, 424 members, an in
crease of 1,223,409 in th* past
year. The figures include th* to
tal* for Hawaii and Alaska.
The new total represents a ten
year gam of 8.228.723 over the
23.419.701 Catholics reported
Five
■'ccTOfiy mi
Construction was begun this
week on a new church, rectory and
social hall for Our Lady of Lourdes
parish. Marysville, on a 3.65 acre
tract of land donated to the Church
by a prominent Union County land
farmer. Mr. Ed. Radebaugh.
The three parish units will be
constructed in a “T” plan with the
rectory and social hall forming the
wings of the “T”. Entire cost of
the construction will be $115,505.
Plans for the building shown
above were drawn by Emerick and
McGee of Columbus Construc
tion is being directed by Yarring
ton and Fleck, general contractors
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Gains Throughout U.S.
Figures just released in the Official Catholic Directory
for 1954 reveal that the Church in the Columbus Diocese has
grown to a record population of 121.360 souls, an increase of
7.393 over the 1953 total.
The rapid growth of the Church in the Diocese is empha
sized when these figures are compared with the increase in
previous years. The population increase in 1953 over 1952
for example, was only 4.218
Converts to the Church in the
Diocese during 1954 totalled 1.284.
an increase of 241 converts over
1953.
This rapid growth is shown, too.
in the increase in the number of
students registered in diocesan
schools. There are 21,870 children
registered in our schools at the
present time. This figure repre
sents an increase of 2.086 students
over the 1952 53 school year.
1944 -1.097.771 of them converts
to the Church.
The new directory shows new
highs in the number of priests
and parishes. At the same time, it
indicates a record increase of some
180,000 full time students in Catho
lic schools and a 14 per cent gam
in the number of lay teachers
those schools.
The major structural change re
corded in the Church in the United
Sta'e* to rhe year i the erection
of the new Province of Hartford,
with Hartford as its Metropolitan
See and w ith Bridgeport and Nor
wich—two newly-created Connecti
cut dioceses—and Providence, R.
1 a Sufi asan See* Thus there
are now 26 archdioceses and 106 di
oce-c- uif!u(iin2 'ne Vicariate
Apostolic of Alaska).
Six archdioceses have Catholic
populations exceeding one million:
Chicago, with 1 815.976. Boston,
1.426.319: New York. 1 361,170
FT, adf r. i 250.469: Newark,
1 123.607. and Detroit 1,075,000.
Biooklyn. with 1 443 848 continues
as the largest diocese, while Pitts
burgh. 720.166. is second.
The 1954 directory lists 199
members of the Hierarchy the
greatest in the history of the Amer
ican Church Its figures are for
January 1, 1954 howevei and the
number of Cardinals. Archbishops
and Bishops is now 202.
An increase of 229 in the num
ber of the clei gy brings the total
of ordained priests to 45451. the
largest ever recorded, there are
now 28.611 diocesan or secular
clergy and 16.840 religious com
munity priests Four members of
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Diocese Responds Generously
To Bishops' War Relief Drive
An evidence of the great devotion on the part of the
people of the Diocese of Collimbus for their brethren now be
hind the Iron Curtain was shown in figures released this week
by the Chancery* Office of the Collection for the Bishops’ War
Relief Fund.
The totals from the five leading parishes, high school*
and elementary’ schools are as follows
Five highest parish collections
Holy Rosary Columbus $1 739 40
Christ the King. Columbus ... 1,630.44
immaculate Conception, Columbus 1514 62
Holy Name. Columbus 1.508.17
Immaculate Conception. Dennison ... 1.503.10
Five highest high school collections, with per capita gift:
Amount Per
given capita
St Mary of the Springs Academy, Columbus $1.000 00 $370
St Charles, Columbus 893.05 305
Our Lady of Victory. Columbus 300 00 2.80
St. Francis. Newark 551 02 2.25
Holy Trinity. Somerset ... 111.03 2.09
highest elementary school collections with
Our Lady of Victory, Columbus
Sacred Heart, New Philadelphia
St. Francis, Newark
St. Joseph Cathedral. Columbus
Sacred Heart, Columbus
Bishop Ready has sent a letter to all schools of the diocese
expressing his personal gratitude to all of the children for their
generous response to the Bishops’ War Relief Fund.
Aeic Marysville Church I nder Construction
LADY CF LOURDES PARISH
of Marysville.
Construction throughout will be
of Chesapeake-hue stone, a varie
gated quartzite stone, newly intro
duced in the Ohio building mar
ket. The stone will be used both
on the interior and the exterior of
the church.
Above the entrance to the church
northex will be a large tapestry
window of aluminum and colored
antique glass with a thirteen foot
high wooden cross suspended free
of the window by a device con
structed in such a way as to give
the cross the appearance of float
ing in mid-air.
gift:
2.57
2.12
1.97
1 80
1.76
per capita
550 00
546 00
94898
113.48
462.3g
The new Our Lady of Lourdes
Church, which will seat 210, will
replace the present structure which
was built in 1869. The present rec
tory was erected in 1876.
The new structure is being built
atop a 20 foot hill beside Route 33
just north of Marysville. Present
plans call for construction to be
completed by Easter of 1955.
The land upon which the new
building is being erected is large
enough for a complete parish plant,
and it is hoped that in the future
an elementary school will be built
on the site.