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The Road To
True Peace Leads
Through Mary
Vol. No. Ill, No. 34
Sacred Heart, Columbus: 39
graduates Ceremonies at 8:00 m.
in Sacred Heart church Speaker,
Father Thomas Sabrey. St. Charles
Seminary.
Rosary, Columbus: 84 graduates
Ceremonies at 8:00 p.m. in Holy
Rosary church Speaker, Father
Thomas E. Reynolds, pastor of St.
Mary church, Norwalk. O.
Rosecrans High School, Zanes
ville: 70 graduates Ceremonies at
8:00 p.m. in St. Nicholas church
Speaker, Father Francis Riehl,
pastor of St. Ladislaus church, Co
lumbus.
St. Francis de Sales, Newark: 41
graduates: Ceremonies at 7:30 p.m.
in St. Francis de Sales church
Speaker, Father Augustine 'Wink
ler, administrator of St. Edward
Chapel, Granville.
St. Mary. Delaware: 4 graduates
Ceremonies at 7:30 p.m. in St.
Mary church Speaker, Father Wil
liam C. O’Brian, pastor of St. Mary.
Catholic Central High School,
Chillicothe: 21 graduates Cere
monies at 4:00 p.m. in St. Mary
church Speaker, Father Michael
W. Welinitz, pastor of St. Mary
church, Shawnee, O.
St. Mary, Lancaster: 49 gradu
ates Ceremonies at 3:00 p.m. in St.
Mary church: Speaker, Father Ben
net Applegate, Diocesan Superin
tendent of Schools.
Holy Trinity, Somerset: 13 grad
uates Ceremonies at 4:00 p.m. in
Holy Trinity church Speaker, Fa
ther Patrick Conaty, O.P., pastor
of Holy Trinity church.
Tuesday, Jun* 1
Three schools will conduct grad
uation exercises Tuesday. June 1:
Our Lady of Victory, Columbus:
24 graduates ceremonies at 8:00
940 Will Receive Diplomas
From Diocesan High Schools
Typical of the 940 graduates of the grade and high schools of the Diocese of Co
lumbus are David Engle and Nancy Downey of St. Mary High School, Columbus, whoso
Catholic training has fitted them to face the future confidently and joyfully in the know
ledge that the Cross of Christ goes always before them with the same assurance of victory
as was guaranteed to the Emperor Constantine: "In hoc signo vinces" "In this sign shalt
thou conquer."
High school diplomas will be awarded to 940 graduates from Diocesan schools this
year. Of that total, 551 young men and women will be graduated from schools within the
city of Columbus.
Graduation ceremonies will begin Sunday May 30 and will end Tuesday evening,
June 8.
Nine high schools will conduct graduation exercises Sunday:
St. Mary, Columbus: 74 graduates Ceremonies at 4:00 p. m. in St. Mary church Speak
er, Father Francis Riehl, pastor of St. Ladislaus church, Columbus.
p.m. in Our Lady of Victory
church Speaker, Msgr. Francis J.
Schwendeman, pastor of St. Leo
church, Columbus.
Aquinas, Columbus: 118 gradu
ates Ceremonies at 8:00 p.m. in St.
Joseph Cathedral Speaker, Father
Vincent J. Martin, O.P.. Dominican
House of Studies, St. Joseph Pri
ory, Somerset.
Notre Dame, Portsmouth: 37
graduates Ceremonies at 8:15 p.m.
in Notre Dame High School audi
torium Speaker, Father George A.
Fulcher, assistant pastor of St. Jo
seph Cathedral, Columbus.
Wednesday, June 2
The St. Charles Seminary Prep
aratory Department will conduct
graduation exercises at 8:15 p.m.,
Wednesday. June 2.
Sixty-five graduates Ceremonies
at 8:15 p.m. in the campus gym
nasium Speaker. Father Arthur
Dimond, assistant pastor at St.
Registration Set
For Watterson
All students who intend to en
roll at Watterson High School
next September, including those
who have previously registered,
must complete their registration
Saturday morning, June 5. The
registration will be held at our
I^ady of Peace School, 22 E. Do
minion Blvd., from 9:00 a. m. un
til 12:00 noon. Students must
bring their grade cards with
them to register. Watterson High
School will accept only a ninth
grade class in September.
At Pius Consistory
Hi* Holiness Pope Piu* XII leave* the Vatican Consistory Hall,
accompanied by some of the Cardinals, following the. -brief meet
ing which approved the canonization of his predecessor, Pope Pius
X, to be canonized at St. Peter'*, on May 29. Cardinal Canali (right),
lead* th* group.
Francis church, Columbus.
Thursday, Jun* 3
Three schools will conduct grad
uation exercises Thursday, June 3:
St. Vincent de Paul, Mt. Vernon:
20 graduates Ceremonies at 8:00
p.m. in St. Vincent de Paul
church Speaker, Msgr. Francis J.
Schwendeman. pastor of St. Leo
Church, Columbus.
Holy Family, Columbus: 50 grad
uates Ceremonies at 8:00 p.m. in
Holy Family church Speaker, Fa
ther Michael W. Welinitz, pastor of
St. Mary church. Shawnee, O.
St. Mary of the Springs Acad
emy: 48 graduates Ceremonies at
3:00 p. m. in the Little Thetaer of
Erskine Hall Speaker, Father Ur
ban Nagle, O.P., chaplain of St.
Mary of the Springs.
Friday, June 4
Twenty-four young persons will
be graduated from St. Aloysius
Academy, Friday morning, June 4,
at 9:30, in the Academy chapel.
The speaker will be Father Arthur
Dimond, Assistant pastor of St.
Francis church, Columbus.
Sunday, June 6
Five schools will conduct gradu
ation exercises Sunday, June 6:
St. Euphrasia. Columbus: 2 grad
uates Ceremonies at 3:00 p.m. in
the school auditorium: Speaker,
Father Arthur Zuber, chaplain of
Good Shepherd Convent.
St. Mary, Marion: 47 graduates
Ceremonies at 4:00 p.m. in -St.
Mary church Speaker, Father Ed
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He went into detail to explain
how he lacked the qualities needed
in a Vicar of Christ. But his humil.
ity was more impressive than his
eloquence, and on August 4. 1903,
he was elected Pope, taking the
name of Pius X.
This weekend it becomes an
indisputable fact that the humble
Pontiff had been given an even
greater dignity. He had been
raised to the elect in Heaven.
The solemn proclamation assur
ing th* faithful throughout the
world that Cardinal Sarto, later
Pope Pius X, is a Saint is being
pronounced by Pope Piu* XII in
a colorful ceremony in St. Peter'*
square.
Pope Pius becomes the first oc
cupant of the chair of Peter to be
proclaimed a Saint in 242 years.
He is the first Pope in more than
six centuries to be canonized by a
successor who knew him personal
ly. The last Pope previously can
onized was St. Pius V who reigned
The Catholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, May 2t, 1954
To the Reverend Clergy, Religious,
and Faithful of the Dioct^e of Columbus.
My beloved Brethren:
Church and State (POAU), now
pending in Franklin County cir
cuit Court. Th* suit seeks to bar
Catholic nun* from teaching in
Kentucky public school*.
The editorial, entitled “Protest
ants Protest Too Much,” related
that Covington’s Bishop W’llliam T.
Mulloy laid the cornerstone for a
new $800,000 Catholic high school
in Newport, Ky., and mentioned
that another new Catholic high
school to serve Covington is under
construction in Park Hills, Ky. The
editorial continued:
“These institutions are financed
by members of the Roman Catholic
Church, over and above the taxes
they pay, like everyone else, to the
public school systems.
“There is pending at the present
time a suit to enjoin state school
authorities from permitting Catho
lic nuns to teach in public schools,
based on the constitutional concept
of separation of church and state.
Yet there exists a serious shortage
of teachers, and the teaching nuns
are unquestionably fulfilling a
need.
“Because Catholics believe so de­
Pius X, ‘The Children’s Pope’
Gained High Place In Heaven
Almost 51 years ago a short, stocky man begged his fellow Cardinals not to elect him
to the chair of Peter because, as he put it: “I am not worthy.’
Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto had come from Venice to take part in the election of a suc
cessor to Leo XIII, but with a return ticket in his pocket. As the balloting for him became
stronger, his face became troubled. There were tears in his^yes and his voice trembled as
he pleaded writh fellow Cardinals
not to elect him Pope.
from 1566 to 1572 and was pro
claimed a Saint in 1712. The last
Pope to be canonized as soon after
death as St. Pius was St. Celes
tine V, who died in 1296 and was
raised to the altar in 1313.
Genuine Wealth
St. Pius died on August 20.
1914 His last will and testament
had stated: “I was born poor, I
have lived poor, and I wish to die
poor.” But his solemn canonization
this weekend gives proof to the
Catholic world of the genuine
wealth that awaited him at death.
The humble Pontiff had not only
amassed spiritual w'ealth in Heaven.
He had left the riches of an in
spiring example on earth. It led to
an official inquiry into his life
with a view to beatification only
nine years after his death. In 1951
he was declared a Blessed by the
Church. This declaration was ex
ceptional since the Pontiff had
been dead only 37 years. Normally
no one may be proclaimed blessed
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Official
Sunday, June 6, is the Feast of Pentecost. The entire Liturgy of the
Church for that celebrated day bespeaks the loving providence with
which the Eternal Father in heaven fulfilled the promise of Hi*
Divine Son, Jesus Christ, to send forth the Holy Spirit upon the
Church and dwell there forever. “The Paraclete, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in My name. He will teach you all things,
and bring all things to your mind, whatsoexer I shall have said to
you (Gospel) and there apneared to them parted tongues as
it were of fire, and it sat upon ©very one of them and they were
all filled with the Holy Spirit” (Epistle). What the soul is in our body
such is the Holy Spirit to the Body of Christ, the Church.
Traditionally, in the Diocese of Columbus, the clergy and
people, like their predecessors in the Upper Room at Jerusalem
prepare for the Feast of Pentecost in a novena of prayer to the
Holy Spirit. The great feastday itself is devoted to fervent prayer for
the young men of this Church of Columbus who are now in our
seminaries disciplining their minds and wills for the glorious day of
their ordination to the Sacred Priesthood. 1 urge you, beloved breth
ren, to life up your hearts to God petitioning Him to bless this
Diocese with increased vocations to that holy state and to bestow
upon our priests the grace of an arduous love for the works of His
Sacred Ministry.
I assure you, my dear people, that the clergy of this Diocese
remember with profound gratitude in their daily Masses the bene
factors of our Seminary. W’e are especially thankful for the help
given us through the wills, bequests and donations of many kind
and beneficent lay people. Without these gifts we would be unable
to keep up the high standards of training exacted in these days of
specialized apostolic work. I encourage you to continue your
generosity.
With my blessing and prayers during these days that the
Holy Spirit fill your hearts with a burning love for the things
of God,
Protest Too Much?
May 19, 1954
Devotedly in Christ,
MICHAEL J. READY
Bishop of Columbus
Protestant Editor Hits
Kentucky School Suit
COVINGTON, Ky. (NC) Using the cornerstone lay
ing ceremonies for a Catholic high school as a springboard,
a non-Catholic editorial writer for The Kentucky Times-Star
counselled his fellow Protesters that there is such a thing as
protesting too much.
Th© writer paid tribute to th*
devotion of Catholic* to their
school system and to the nun*
who teach in them. The writer
alto criticized a suit inspired by
Protestant* and Other Ameri
can* United for Separation of
voutly in their Church that they
are willing to build new schools
and become teachers to propagate
their faith, Protestants and others
are frequently fearful of them, and
because they are fearful, critical.
"Th* writer of this editorial
happen* to be a Presbyterian,
but our advice to anyone fearing
ultimate Catholic domination of
th* educational process**, and
thus of the nation, is to stop
cavilling at them and try to match
their devotion, dedication, and
zeal.”
June Schedule Of
Bishop Hettinger
June 1, Tuesday, 7:30 P.M.—
Confirmation, St. Patrick, Lon
don.
June 2, Wednesday, 4:00 P.M.
—Graduation, St. Charles Pre
paratory School. 8:00 P.M.—
Commencement Exercises, St.
Charles Seminary.
June 3, Thursday, 8:30 a.m.—
Ordinations, Josephinum.
June 6 .Pentecost Sunday—
11:00 A.M.—Pontifical Mass. St.
Joseph Cathedral. 3:00 P.M.
Confirmation of adults in St. Jo
seph Cathedral.
Card. Costantini
Named Chancellor
VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC)—
His Eminence Celso Cardinal Cos
tantini was named today to be the
Chancellor of he Holy Roman
Church. The office has been va
cant since the death of Cardinal
Tommaso Pio Boggiani in 1942.
Appointment was made by His
Holiness Pope Pius XII. Cardinal
Costantini becomes the forty-first
occupant of the post since a Cardi
nal was named to it by Pope John
XXII in 1319.
The function of the chancery is
the preparation and transmission
of Pontifical Bulls for ecclesiastical
benefices, the erection of new di
oceses and chapters, and other se
rious matters. It does work for and
under the direction of the Consis
torial, Propaganda and Oriental
Congregations and for the Pope
himself.
Cardinal Costantini, who is 78
years old, was elevated to the Sa
cred College in January, 1953.
‘’Voice’ Lauds
Catholic Labor,
Social Outlook
WASHINGTON—(NC) Catholic
social principles were contrasted to
Red slave labor policies in a Voice
of America Broadcast beamed to
hundreds of Iron Curtain captives.
The broadcast used Papal En
cyclicals on labor and social
problems as examples of a just
and balanced method for solving
the world’s problems of poverty
and inhumanity. Opposed to such
justice, broadcaster Liston M. Oak
said, is communism which violates
the worker s right “to worship in
freedom, his right to free choice
of a job, his right to a decent live
lihood sufficient to fill the mater
ial, cultural and spiritual needs of
his family.”
Th* Voice of America pointed
out that in addition to condemn
ing th* immortality of commun
ism, the Pop* also rejected "lai*
*ez fair* capitalist individual
ism which result* in the exces
sive accumulation of vast wealth
in the hands of a few capitalist*
who abuse th* power it give*
them."
The broadcast said that Catholic
labor leaders, working with mem
bers of other faiths in the Free
World have succeeded in remov
ing “most of the excesses, evils and
abuses of laissez faire capitalism/
“Such evils as child labor, the
sweatshop, the speed-up, peonage,
the brutal suppression of the rights
of labor, are bad memories in a
dark past,” Mr. Oaks said. “It is
in the Soviet world, not in Ameri
ca, that ruthless exploitation of la
bor prevails—even to the extreme
of millions condemned to a living
death in slase labor camps.”
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Priest-Workers To
Continue Working
In Modified Form
PARIS (Radio, NC) The
Church wants to continue the
priest-worker movement, but under
a modified form. His Eminence
Maurice Cardinal Feltin. Arch
bishop of Paris, has stated here.
Asked to discuss the priest-work
er problem while attending a din
ner of the Economic Geography So
ciety of France, the Cardinal said
that Marxist influences had led
certain priest-workers astray. They
had made some priest-workers
adopt improper attitudes and ac
cept labor union responsibilities
that were none of their affair. The
Church, however, wants to continue
the movement in a modified form,
he stated.
Certain priest-workers, he added,
have not yet understood the ne
cessity of this, but on the whole
the priest-workers have submitted
and are currently seeking along
with the Hierarchy for new means
of carrying on their apostolate.
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Pius Postage Stamps
VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC)
—Commemorative stamps in three
denominations are being prepared
to mark the canonization of Pope
Pius X.
Construction Projects
Mark Record Growth
Of Church In Diocese
The phenomenal growth is re
flected, too. in the annual school
report submtited to Bishop Ready
this week by Father C. Bennett
Applegate, diocesan superintendent
of schools.
A total of 21,870 children are
now registered in diocesan schools,
father Applegate aid pointing
out that this figure is an increase
of 2,086 students over the 1952-53
school year. Morever, the number
of teachers increased in this same
period from 674 to 730.
Population trends, the report
said, indicate that this growth will
continue steadily during the next
decade.
New churches are planned or un
der construction in St. Augustine,
Holy Spirit and St. Agnes Parish
es in Columbus, at St. Edward the
Confessor Parish. Granville, and
Our Lady of Lourdes Parish.
Marysville.
A new St. Augustine Church, be
ing constructed by Leo Ruisinger,
Inc., is expected to be completed
in May, 1955. The brick and stone
church, situated at Hudson and
Greenwich Aves., was designed by
Columbus architect Louis Karl
berger, and will have a capacity of
650. The project will cost $237,100.
The present church, now located
in the elementary school, will be
converted to a cafeteria and parish
hall.
Also in construction is a new
$60,000 church for Holy Spirit Par
ish. to be located at E. Broad St.
and Yearling Rd The General
Maintenance Construction Co., fol
lowing architectural plans drawn
by Al Tynan of Columbus, is ex
pected to complete the work the
first part of July.
The modern brick structure will
provide space for 620 parishioners.
St. Agnes Parish, established
earlier this year by Bishop Ready,
will have a new church early in
1954. Architects Ramsey, Croce
and Abbot of Columbus already
have drawn plans for the structure
to be erected on an 8.8-acre tract
on W. Mound St., west of Wheat
land Ave. and east of Wayne Ave.
The building also will contain
a church hall, which could be used
Ground Broken For St. Augustine Church
Father Earl Holtzapfel, pastor of St. Augustine parish, shovel in hand, prepare* to break ground
for the new $237,100 brick and stone church expected to be completed in May, 1955. Pictured with Fa
ther Holtzapfel, are Father Kenneth Wise, assistant pastor, and Father Hugh Murphy, procurator of
St. Charles Seminary. The ceremonies took place Sunday afternoon at Hudson and Greenwich St*., site
of th* 650-seat edifice. Th* parish serve* 1200 families. The present church, located in the school build
ing, will be converted into a cafeteria and parish hall. Plan* for th* new church were drawn by Louis
Karlsberger of Columbus end th* contractor is Leo Ruisinger, Inc., of ^Zolumbu*.
Made
Easter
Price Ton Cents $3.00 A Year
New Churchs, Schools
Included In Program
The Columbus Diocese is undergoing the most expansive
building program in its 86-year history in order to keep pace
with the spectacular growth of the Church.
The extent of the building program was brought to light
this week by a survey which indicated that 21 projects total
ing approximately §3,205.000 either have reached the archi
tect’s drawing board or are in actual construction.
When completed, the diocese
will have five new churches,
three remodeled churches, two
new parish halls, five new schools,
four enlarged schools, three new
rectories and an expanded rectory.
In addition, two new parishes have
been established recently by Bish
op Ready.
The necessity for such an intensi
fied building program is found in
statistics contained in the 1954 Of
ficial Catholic Directory which
notes that Catholic population in
the Diocese has climbed to 121.360.
a new all-time record. This repre
sents a gain of 7.393 Catholics in
I comparison with the previous year.
later for classroom space, and will
be constructed in such a manner
as to be easily expanded. The
church will ha\e a 400-seat capa
city.
Although the contract has not
yet been awarded, it is estimated
that the cost of the building will
be in the neighborhood of $125,000.
In Marysville, construction began
two weeks ago on a new church,
rectory and social hall for Our La
dy of Ixnirdes parish. The three
unit-, which will cost $115,505. will
be located on Rt. 33. north of the
city. The new church, which will
seat 210, will replace the present
structure which was built in 1869.
Yarrington and Fleck of Marys
ville are the general contractors,
and Emerick and McGee of Colum
bus designed the building.
The fourth new church under
construction is for parishioners of
St. Edward the Confessor Church,
Granville. Architect Walter Litwin
of Washington, D.C, drew plans
for the structure which will seat
240. approximately 170 more
parishioners than the present
church. Construction of the $63,500
stone and brick building, which
wa, begun May 17 by Buckeye
Bros., Inc. Newark, will be com
pleted sometime in November.
Elsewhere in the diocese, St.
Mary Church, Lancaster. St. Joseph
Church. Sugar Grove and Our Lady
of Lourdes Church, Ada. are being
renovated or enlarged.
The sacristy already has been re
constructed in the 96-year-old St.
Mary Church. Lancaster, and work
men are now laying marble floor
ing in the sanctuary. The complete
task, which also includes decora
tion of the church and redesigning
the altars, will cost approximately
$100,000. The project is expected
to be finished by Christmas.
Nearing completion is the reno
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Have You Ever
Been Confirmed?
It i* the wish of th* Most Rev
erend Bishop that all adults In
Franklin County who have not
yet received the Sacrament of
Confirmation be confirmed at
Saint Joseph Cathedral on Pen
tecost Sunday, June 6th at 3:00
p.m. This applies not only to
converts but to those Catholic*
who. for one rea*on or another,
were not confirmed as children.
Those adults, therefore, who
have not yet been confirmed are
requested to be at the Cathedral
for instruction and rehearsal on
Sunday, May 30th at 7:30 p.m.
The confirmandi will be requir
ed to present their baptismal
certificate* at *hat time.