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Hie Road To
True Peace Leads
Through Mary
Vol. Ill, No. 38
‘Doni Let It Rain July 3rT
Sharon and Dale are hoping that the weatherman
them come Saturday, July 3. That's the date for the
phans' Picnic, the all-day affair on the Orphanage grounds that will
benefit the two youngsters pictured above as well as their friends
who stay at St. Vincent's. There'll be booths of all types and descrip
tions that will offer entertainment for all and a big ham dinner,
prepared by the Sisters, will be served from 4:00 to 8:00 p. m.
In the streets of Hanoi flag
polos and arches were orected
(For last Sunday's Corpus Christi
procession. For two hours and a
quarter, while artillery sounded
in the distance, the procession
of the Blessed Sacrament moved
for about a mile through the dec
orated streets. Benediction was
given four times at outdoor al
tars by Archbishop John Dooley,
Apostolic Delegate here, who
carried the monstrance, follow
ed by Bishop Joseph Trinh nhu
Khue, Vicar Apostolic of Hanoi.
Archbishop Dooley, who is Apos
tolic Delegate to Vietnam. Laos.
Cambodia and Thailand, resides
here with his secretary, a fellow'
Columban. Father Terence O'Dris
coll. Second secretary is Father
Romeo Gagnon, a Canadian Re
demptorist.
15,000 Take Part
Fifteen thousand Vietnamese
Catholics participated in the pro
cession, while thousands of non
Christians stood watching respect
fully from the crowded sidewalks.
The procession was preceded by
afternoon High Mass in the cathed
ral, which was packed to the doors.
French Catholics, military and civ
ilian, also participated.
The main part of the Vietminh
forces are poised on the edge of
the delta. They have well organ
ized units operating as guerrillas
inside the delta, even close to Ha
noi. Flying in here I saw two vil
lages burning near the city. They
had been bombed as Red guerilla
bases.
Under Reds Again
Hanoi remembers December 1946,
when the Vietminh massacred
Vietnamese anti-communists as
well as the French. Any Geneva
deal is likely to put Hanoi event
ually under the Reds again. If the
deal involves partilion. Hanoi will
certainly be in the Red area. If it
is some sort of coalition, it will
surely end in Red control.
Hanoi waits with more resigna
tion than hope.
Vietnam’s new Prime Minister,
Ngo Dinh Diem, is a Catholic lead,
er who is highly respected by this
county’s non-Cat holic majority for
his personal integrity and ability.
The Vietnamese press has voiced
hopes that Ngo Dinh Diem may
save an almost desperate situa
tion.
Hanoi daily "Giang Son"
the new administration
to "rapidly create a new
The
says
ought
movement ... to put an end to
Injustices and abuses estab
lish provisions for an assembly"
(Vietnam has no national as
sembly yet.)
The Saigon daily “Dan Ta” sum
mons the new administration to
make “revolutionary reforms in
political, economic and social do
mains.” The Saigon “Tieng Doi”
expects Ngo to make “great dem
ocratic reforms.” “Anh Sang” of
Saigon calls the Ngo appointment
the “playing of the last card.”
is good to
annual Or-
Hanoi Awaiting Outcome With
More Resignation Than Hope
By Father Patrick O'Connor Society Of St. Columban (Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service)
HANOI Hanoi, this capital city of North Vietnam, wails under a burining sun.
It awaits the offensive by communist Vietminh forces now assembled at several points,
each about 35 miles away. It awaits the decisions of the new French government. It awaits
the decisions of the new Vietnamese government, headed by the Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem.
It awaits the outcome of the bargaining at Geneva.
Hanoi is outwardly calm. You hear the thud of distant bombing occasionally. But
there is no sign of anything like siege conditions.
The city’s population, estimated
at 300.000. is swollen by refugees
to double its normal number. It is
believed that there are about 80.
000 Catholics here, half of whom
are refugees.
These typical quotations show
the desperate hopes that are built
on Ngo and the task facing him
when it is already past
na’s eleventh
too late.
Indo-Chi
still not
hour, but
Catholic
of an old
mandarin class, the
A member
family of the
new prime minister is the son of
a minister of the royal court of
Annam, a once independent king
dom now a Vietnam province. A
bachelor in his early fifties, Ngo
has lived in the United States and
France for the past five years.
One of his brothers was killed
The announcement made it clear
that the forthcoming proclamation
involves only the establishment of
a liturgical feast honoring the
Queenship of the Mother of God.
The proclamation of a feast is not
the same as the proclamation of a
dogma of faith, though the former
may well lead to the latter. It is
recalled that the Assumption of
Mary was observed as a universal
feast of the Church long before
this truth was defined as a dogma
of faith. Some reports have said
that the new feast of Mary’s Queen
ship will be set for May 1, but
there is no confirmation of this.
The Vatican press announcement
recalled that the inclusion of a new
liturgical feast in honor of Mary's
Queenship in the Marian cycle was
requested in a petition submitted
to Pope Pius by the Mariological
Congress held at Rome during the
Holy Year of 1950.
Also recalled was the fact that a
Marian Congress held at Rome in
1904 concluded with the crowning
of a statue of the Madonna by St.
Pius X, who placed an ornament of
ten diamond-studded stars on the
head of the image.
The press office release said that
the Virgin Mary’s liturgical title
of Queen of Heaven indicates het
functions in. and relations with
the Mystical Body and the uni
verse. It said that the Fathers of
the Church, the liturgy, and the
magisterium. or divinely appointed
teaching authority of the Church,
all attribute this prerogative to
Mary.
The liturgical feast of the
Queenship of Mary will be pro
claimed on the day on which an
International Marian Congress,
which begins intRcrne on October
24, will be brought to a close. The
A MINK
1 he ca
V IF0 STATE MUSEUM
Immediately after the signing
of the concordat, General Trujillo
was received in private audience
by His Holiness Pope Pius XII.
The audience was the first of its
kind since the Holy Father’s ill
ness.
Commenting on the concordat.
Osservatore Romano said that the
by the communist-led Vietminh
forces and another is Bishop Peter
Ngo Dinh Thue, Vicar Apostolic
of Vinh-Long.
Known as a strong nationalist.
Ngo Dinh Diem was premier of
Annam province for a time some
20 years ago and served briefly
as home minister in the Vietnam
cabinet --following the country’s
liberation from the Japanese. Chief
of State Bao Dai later asked him
to rejoin the cabinet, but he re
fused until his recent appointment
as premier.
Pope Will Proclaim New
Marian Feast On Nov. 1
VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC)
—A liturgical feast of the Queen
ship of Mary Most Holy will be
proclaimed by His Holiness Pope
Pius XII on November 1, according
to an announcement by the Vatican
press office. The proclamation will
coincide with the fourth anniver
sary of the Holy Father's infallible
definition of the Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin.
congress is in the charge of the
International Marian Academy and
will be under the auspices of the
Marian Year Committee.
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Rome Lr«ies
Increase Of
Film Offices
Division
Vatican and Dominican
Republic Fix Concordat
VATICAN CITY (NC) A concordat has been signed
here to regulate relations between the Holy See and the
Dominican Republic.
The text of the agreement was not made public, but an
announcement in Osservatore Romano, Vatican City news
paper, said it was “in harmony with the noble traditions of a
people whose history goes back to the time when, after the
discovery of America by Columbus, their island became the
first center for the expansion of Christianity in the New
World.”
The ceremonial signing of the
concordat took place in the Hall of
Congregations in the Vatican PaL
ace. The agreement was signed on
behalf of the Holy See by Msgr.
Domenico Tardini, Vatican Pro
Secretary of State for Extraordin
ary Affairs, and by General Ra
fael I.eonidas Trujillo, former
President of the Dominican Re
public. on behalf of his country.
After affixing his signature to
the document, General Trujillo
declared that it symbolized this
government's "confirmed adher
ence to the Catholic Church as
the protectoress of order and
Christian civilization in the
world"
See
VATICAN CITY—The Holy
has called for the extension every
where of national Catholic film of
fices for the purpose of spreading
a knowledge of the moral values
of films.
The appeal was made in a letter
to Abbe Jean Bernard, president
of the International Catholic Film
Office. The occasion was the three
day executive meeting of the film
ottice in Cologne.
The letter was written on behalf
of His Holiness Pope Pius XII by
Msgr. Giovanni B. Montini. Vati
can Pro-Secretary of State. It point
ed out the effective results Catho
lic film offices have had where
they have been established and ex.
pressed the hope that they will
not only be established every
where, but that they will be ade
quately equipped with the means
necessary for their work.
The principal work of these of
fices, the letter said, is both to pre
serve the faithful from occasions
of sin and to educate them in good
film values. In issuing a moral class
ification of films, Monsignor Mon
tini declared, the Catholic films
offices must give an objective
judgment on the moral values of
the film. Such a judgment will
gradually tend to sharpen and com
plete the education of the faith
ful so they can make moral deci
sions concerning films, correspond
ing to their conscientious duty.
The Vatican letter lamented par
ticularly the fact that the educa
tion of the faitful in films values
had been neglected. It stated that
the youth particularly are almost
entirely devoid of any sense of
moral judgment of the films they
see.
Columbus 16, Ohio,lFrldsy, Juno 25, 1954
past century had found the Domin
ican Republic dominated by men
opposed to religion. However, it
added, the signing of the new
agreement reflected the fact that
the present rulers of the island
fully recognize the place and the
rights of the Church.
As proof of this friendly attitude
toward the Church, Osservatore
pointed to the enactment of a law
in 1931 and the passage of the
supplementary 1 e gi s 1 a i o n in
1934 which recognized the juri
dical status of the Church in the
Dominican Republic and establish
ed religions education in the pub
lic schools.
"It is an undaniabla merit of
the man who have guided the
destinies of the Dominican peo
ple in recent years," the Vatican
City paper said, "that they have
known how to appreciate the
value of the religious and social
mission of the Church. They have
assisted the Church in her var
ioue works and have instituted
legislative reforms which were
of particular interest for the
Church."
The Dominican Republic, for
merly known as Santo Domingo,
octupies the eastern two-thirds of
the island which Columbus named
La Espanola. The remaining one
third belongs to Haiti The Dornin
ican Republic has an almost exclu
sively Catholic populatioq of
around 2,167,000. It was there that
Mass was probably offered for the
first time in the New World—on
January 6, 1494.
Santo Domingo was the site of
the first metropolitan see and the
first university erected in the New
World, that of St Thomas Aquinas
now known as the University of
Santo Domingo It was from Santo
Domingo that the Spanish conquis
tadores set forth on their con
quests, bringing with them mission
aries who spread the light of the
Faith throughout the New World.
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Vatican Names
Papal Nuncio
For Ireland
VATICAN CITY—(Radio, NC)—
Archbishop Albert Levame. a vet
eran Vatican diplomat who has
been serving as Papal Internuncio
to Egypt since 1949, has been ap
pointed Papal Nuncio to Ireland,
it was announced here.
He succeeds Archbishop Gerald
P. O’Hara, Bishop of Savannah-At
lanta, who was recently named
Apostolic Delegate to Great Brit
ain after having served as Nuncio
in Dublin since November, 1951.
Archbishop Levame, Titular
Chersonesus, is a native of the
principality of Monaco. He w as born
in 1881, ordained in 1905, and
raised to the episcopacy in 1933.
He was made Papal Nuncio to Gua
temala in 1934 and became Papal
Nuncio to Uruguay in 1939. In 1949
he was named Papal Internuncio to
Egypt to succeed the
bishop Arthur Hughes
unexpectedly while on
in his native England.
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late Arch
who died
a vacation
Birth Control
Sanctioned At
Lutheran Meet
LOS ANGELES. Calif. (NC)
Delegates to the 95th annual synod
of the Augustana Lutheran Church
here adopted a resolution approv
ing birth control when •‘practiced
in the spirit of love, of freedom
and of stewardship accountability
to God.”
The delegates represented 500,
000 members of the church and the
synod was one of the first of 18
Lutheran bodies in this country to
adopt such a resolution. The ac
tion was taken after the Lutheran
World Federation, in a report to
its women's section, said that
question of birth control was
in which clear guidance from
Christian Church was needed
gently.
the
one
the
ur-
The resolution contended that
married couples had the right to
plan their relations so that each
child “will be both wanted for it
self and in relation to the time of
its birth.*’ The resolution gave ap
proval to birth control methods
that are not intended to make mar
riages childless.
The delegates also voted favor
ably for artificial insemination
with the husband as the donor for
married couples unable to initiate
pregnancy otherwise, and condemn
ed abortions except “as a medical
method to save a mother s life.
.holic Times
Holy Spirit Cornerstone Laid
The cornerstone of the nearly-completed Holy Spirit Church at
E. Broad St. and Yearling Rd. was blessed and set into place last
week by Bishop Hettinger, auxiliary to Bishop Ready. The brick
structure is being built by the General Maintenance Construction
Co. according to plans designed by Columbus architect Al Tynan.
The $60,000 church, which has a 620-seat capacity, will be completed
the first part of July. Assisting Bishop Hettinger in the ceremonies
were (left) Father Robert Harwick, pastor of Holy Spirit Church, and
(right) Father John Wolf of St. Charles Seminary.
Reports erifx
Ill Health Of
Jailed Bishops
WASHINGTON (NCWC—An
official of the U.S. State Depart
ment has confirmed reports that an
imprisoned Yugoslav Bishop is suf
fering from tuberculosis, while an
oiher Bishop is still suffering from
shock as a result of a mob
sault.
Information to that effect was
also conveyed to a delegation of
U.S. priests of Croatian descent
who had a three-day round of con
ferences here with government of
ficials concerning the plight of
Catholics and other non-commun
ists under the Tito regime.
During their conference with
State Department officials the
priests brought up the case «rt
Bishop Cule who was sentenced in
1948 to 11 years in prison as an
alleged “fascist” collaborator. He
suffered serious injuries in a tram
wreck in 1951. while being .^hunted
from one prison to another.
Regarding 81-year-old Bishop
Budanovic, still in a state of shock
after having been beaten last Sep
tember by a mob, the official said
that according to information re
ceived by the department, the
Bishop is at present at his home
where he is attended by two com
petent local doctors.
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Nun Who Helped Organize
Hospital Association Dies
CHICAGO—(NC)—Sister M. Ver
onica (Ryan), 86, one of the organ
izers of
sociaion
Hospital
sister of
the Catholic Hospital As
died (June 17) at Mercy
here. She had been a
Mercy for 63 years.
The widely known hospital ad
ministrator was a fellow of
American College of Hospital
ministrators and in 1926 received
an honorary doctorate of laws from
Loyola University here in recogni
tion of her hospital work. She is
survived by a sister, two brothers.
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Bill Asks Special Day
Honoring Catholic A els
the
Ad-
Cardinals Attend
First Congress Of
French Religious
the first
congress
religious
here in
PARIS (NC) For
time in history a general
for members of France’s
communities was held
Paris, with 4,000 delegates repre
senting the nation’s 90,000 Re
ligious.
All French Cardinals attended
meetings of the congress, which
was presided over by His Eminence
Valerio Cardinal Valeri, Prefect
of the Sacred Congregation of the
Affairs of Religious.
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Papal Legale Appointed
VATICAN CITY (Radio. NC)
—His Holiness Pope Pius XII has
named His Eminence Valerio Car
dinal Valeri, 70-year-old Prefect of
the Sacred Congregation of the Af
fairs of Religious. Papal Legate to
the Canadian National Marian Con
gress. The congress will be held
at the shrine of Our Lady of the
ape at Cap de la Madeleine, Que
bec from August 5 to 15.
WASHINGTON —(NC)—August
18, 1954, would be designated Na
tional Catholic War Veterans Day,
“in honor of the distinguished
services rendered to the United
States bv the Catholic war veter
ans, both in time of war and in
time of peace." under the terms of
a resolution introduced in Congress
by Rep. William E. Hess of Ohio.
as-
De
im-
The official said the State
partment has learned that the
prisoned prelate. Bishop Peter
Cule of Mostar, is receiving med
ical treatment. The department has
also learned, he said, that Bishop
Cule is suffering from a blood dis
ease similar to that of His Emi
nence Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac.
(The following is the major
portion of the address delivered
by Monsignor Joseph Walen,
editor of the Western Michigan
Catholic. Grand Rapids. Mich., at
the annual meeting of the Ca
tholic Welfare Bureau tn Co
lumbus.)
Speaking of ‘charity’ and Catho
lic Charities, Monsignor Walen
said: “Any social service agency,
on its face, is expected to be
motivated by humaneness, by an
understanding sympathy of the
plight of a fellow man, by a will
ingness to extend either material
relief or considered council, within
the legal or constitutional limits
of the public or private agency,
respectively. If these natural con
siderations were not present we
probably would not have any social
service agencies, even at the gov
ernmental level. Any one with
even a primitive knowledge of the
structure of government knows
that men in society must join to
provide by collective action those
material needs and services that
individuals cannot provide for
themselves regardless of the
reason.
“From this premise I proceed to
say that the employees of Catholic
Chanties agencies would not be
holding down their present jobs
if they did not bring to these jobs
a true sense of charity. I ain not
saying that every employee of
every Catholic social service
agency is practicing charity to a
heroic degree. I am saying, how
ever, that the majority of our
employees bring to their profession
a supernatural motive of charity.
Experience with these employees
v ill show their sense of dedication
to their responsibilities, a sense
that brings to their daily tasks an
effort to keep chanty and religion
The regime used the “trial as a
sounding board to denounce what
it called “the conspiracy of the
Vatican against the Czechoslovak
people's republic.”
Slander Renewed
Both the "trial' and the renewed
slander attack against the Holy
See appeared to observers here to
be contrary to the “go-easy-on
religion” policy set down only last
month by the communist party
monthly. Nova Mysl.
The Red publication set down
the line that the workers should
not be persecuted because of their
religion, but should be taken into
the party and re-educated. The
of force to eradicate religion,
organ reasoned, only divides the
the workers.
(The Nova Mysl policy paral
lels that proposed recently by
the Yugoslav communist leader
Monsignor Joseph Walen, editor of the "Western Michigan Catholic," standing above, was the
principal speaker at the Catholic Welfare Bureau's annual dinner held this past week at the Fort Hayes
Hotel Pictured with Monsignor Walen are, left to right, Father William E. Kappes, diocesan direc
tor of Catholic Charities and Hospitals Mr. Chester Cross, chairman of the Bureau's advisory board
Miss Joan Balmert, supervisor in the Welfare Bureau, and Mr. Hugh Graves, member of the advisory
board.
in the forefront.
“Any thoughtless accusation
against Catholic Charities agencies
regarding the charitableness of the
staff indicates an unfamiliarity
with agency procedures and legal
limitations, for one thing, and an
ignorance of the attitude of the
employees for another. It is one
thing to rattle on blithely about
the old fashioned, personalized ap
proach of charity of fifty or even
twenty-five years ago. It is an
other thing to handle the problems
of individuals and families today,
without a multiplicity of regula
tions which govern the methods of
agencies today. For my part, the
charity of the agency today is as
personal as the old-fashioned, so
called. charity.
“A refusal to take children under
care is frequently an occasion of
the allegation that an institution ol
agency is uncharitable. All of us
here, I am sure, appreciate that
a negative decision is often the
charitable decision. The affirma
tive might very well be the most
uncharitable.
cuser might
point.
“I am not
workers, or Directors for that mat
ter, are infallible in their decisions
But the chances of making a mis
take are much less in welfare
matters by the agency than they
are bv the “grandstand quarter
back'’ who would like to change
the rules of the game, which can
not be changed.
“We thus come to our second
point, prudence and Catholic
Chanties.
“It might seem to some people
dealing with our agencies, that
there is too much red tape and
Bureaucracy connected with the
even though our ac
not appreciate this
saying that Charities
There It N o
N acation From
our Religion
Price Ton Cents $3.00 A Year
Reds Violate New Plan,
Sentence Three Priests
For nderground* Roles
VIENNA (NC) The Czechoslovak communist regime
by sentencing two priests and a layman for alleged “under
ground Catholic activity” seems to have breached its recent
ly announced policy of non-violence in religious matters.
Father Kristof was also accused
of “underground Catholic ac
and of performing
Church marriages. Mr.
charged with failure
these “illegal activities” to
authorities.
The victims of Red “justice” were Fathers Josef Kristof
of hrast near Chrudim and Josef
Blahnik of Prehrad. and Francis
Kradl. described as the former ec
clesiastical secretary of the Region
al National Committee.
Father Blahnik was charged wHh
being an "underground Bishop
and of having clandestinely ad
ministered the Sacrament of Con
firmation.
ity”
clandestine
Kradl was
to report
the
Father Kristof received
eight-year prison term. Father
Blahnik and Mr. Kradl each re
ceived nine-year terms.
fight against religion should ba
carried on without shouting. He
urged that Catholics be permit*
ted to enter Red trade unions
and cultural organizations, where
they could be more easily sep
arated from their religion, he
said.)
Bursting At Seams
PIEDMONT. Ohio—(NC) A
apel set up here for the conven
I Sunday morning fisher
becoming so popular with
s that the pastor is
enlarging the chapel,
rth side of U.S. High
rame structure
i King Mussio
1949 purchased
ihermen. When
ier for the sixth
fishermen jam
n Mary of the
lence
men
Ohio
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On the
way 22 is
which Bi
hot
for a chapel
it opened this
season, nearlj
med into the
use
the
Edward Kardolj. A vice-presi
dent of the Yugoslav executive
council, Kardelj, stated that the
Monsignor W alen Addresses Welfare Group
er. Father Charles
his bait for fisher
fish. However, he
he “may yet have
of angling” to sat*
S. Sargus sets
men—not for
confesses that
to learn the ai
atican Lax Official Dies
VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC)
—Baron Bartolomeo Nogara. gen
eral director of Vatican monu
ments and galleries, has died here
(on June 19) at the age of 86 The
veteran Italian archaeologist had
held the Vatican post since^ 1920.
(He was scheduled to be buried on
Wednesday, June 23.)
work. Now, we all understand
that persons in trouble want to
have the trouble solved as quickly
as possible
clients and
the agency
difficulties
the hour.
that hasty action especially
where families and children are
involved, does not provide the time
to decide what is right and proper.
There is no more red tape to be
found in a Catholic social service
matter than there is tor a* corres
pondingly serious matter at the
rectory oi Chancery.”
Consequently, many
their intercessors want
personnel to resolve
over-night, or, within
But experience shows
Regarding the need to serve
people in the communities where
they live. Monsignor Walen pointed
out. “In recent years, fortunately,
nearly al? dioceses with fairly
large communities within their
boundaries have taken the pro
gressive and effective step of es
tablishing branch offices. The
Church, after all. brings the priest
and erects a church or a school
where the people are. Inasmuch as
Catholic Charities services are a
phase of religious service it is only
logical to have as a corollary that
Catholic Charities personnel also
bt stationed where the people are.
“However, as the sacrifice must
be made in behalf of the church
and the schools for the people of
the entire diocese, also branch
offices, wLere-ever feasible, should
be brought to communities where
Catholics can have ready and quick
access to social service rendered
by the Church.”
Turning to another important
matter. Monsignor Walen observed,
“It is trite to say that to be a good
Catholic you must also be a good
citizen. Hence, Catholics have a
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