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The Road To
True Peace Leads
Through Mary
.Vol. Ill, No. 43
That he
Priest’s ‘Parishioners’
In his “parish” are approxima
tely 600 Catholics—in the world
but not of it—whu are afflicted
with the most frightening of all
handicaps—mental illness.
“There’s nothing at all exciting
or spectacular in my job.” modest,
ly explained the 44, ear-old New
York-born priest, as
key from his pocket
his daily routine.
Are The Mentally Ill |Projects
Every morning within the red brick walls of an austere
84-year-old building on W. Broad St., a Iter turns in the locks
of 28 wards, and a soft-spoken, cheerful priest goes to work
Assigned to a task which probably is one of the most dif
ficult and rewarding in the Columbus Diocese is Father John
F. Grady. O..M I first full-time
Catholic chaplain in the history
of the Columbus State Hospital.
he pulled a
and started
of corridors.
Through the miles
Father Grady walked, greeting all
the patients, counseling some,
cheering others with the statement
that “were going tc make
well, and let you go nome as
as we can.”
soon
is well-liked in
took ove. May
evident.
of the mimeographed booklet, he
discussed the differences between
habit and virtue.
you
Converts are few, Father Grady
said,
over
after
and
whom the institution is home are
too ill to take instructions.
the
1 is
position he
immediately
as well as Catholic patients wel
come him, and there have been
some instances where patients, who
have maintained a stoic silence
with the attendants, have conver
sed freely with him
Protestants
Only about 100 patients are able
to attend the Mass which Father
Grady celebrates every Sunday at
the institution,
them
altar.
The
four of
on the
Of these,
take turns serving
other 500 men and
ages are too ill to
women
attend.
of all
The Hospital stafi is not large
enough to give them the special
supervisory attention they would
need to meet in an assembly.
Father Grady also hears Confes
sions (which surprisingly are often
just as lucid as those on the out
side), and he finds time to write
an article xor “The Echo,” the
institution’s monthly publication
for its 2700 patients. In the July
issue, he explained the “Our Fa
ther.” and in the August edition
Indo-China Pact Viewed
With Concern In Rome
because of the rapid turn
(many patients may go home
30 to 90 days of treatments),
because the “chronics” for
The hospital, situated or. a 400
acre site, is headed by
R. Wedemeyer.
ROME (Radio, NC) Much concern is felt in Rome
Catholic circles over the possible fate of hundred of thousands
of Catholics under the Geneva agreement on Indo-China.
This concern was evidenced in comment appearing in II
Quotidiano, organ of Italian Catholic Action, which said, in ef
fect, that maybe there is a peace of a sort for others, but for
the Catholics it’s just more war
and persecution.
Referring to the confidence ex
pressed by Premier Mendes-France
of France that the terms of the
agreement concerning freedom of
conscience and religion will be ob
served, Il Quotidiano said:
Lancaster Priest
Completes 4 Years
Of Study In Rome
Father* James F. Cooney who
was awarded a Licentiate in Sacred
Theology (STL) at the Gregorian
University in Rome last month, has
returned to his native Lancaster
for the first time in four years.
Father Cooney went to Rome
shortly after earning a Bachelor of
Arts degree at St. Charles Semi
nary in 1950. He was ordained
Dec. 19. 1953 in the chapel of the
North American College by Bishop
Martin O’Connor, rector.
The following day, he celebrated
his first Mass in lhe Greek Chap-
1*
Father James F. Cooney
el of St. Priscilla’s Catacombs near
Ro—e
He offered his first Solemn High
V Sunday at St. Mary’s in
Lancaster.
,n Sept. 22. 1928. Father
Cooney was graduated from St.
Mary’s High School in Lancaster
in 1946. In the fall of that year,
he enrolled at St. Charles Semi
nary.
Father Cooney au ailing assign
ment by Bishop Ready, is visiting
his parents and Mrs. Paul
Cooney of 344 E Fifth A.e, Lan
cuter.
Dr. Marlin
served 10
publishing
Father Grady, who
years in the labor and
fields before entering the Oblates
of Mary Immaculate, attended the
order’s college at Newburg, N. Y.,
and earned
degree and
degree at
Washington.
Catholic U.
a bachelor of arts
bachelor of theology
Catholic University,
He was ordained at
in 1948.
of chaplain is one
The title
which he held for only seven
weeks before his assignment at
the State Hospital. He held that
position for a brief time at Jack
sonville, Fla. Air Force Base.
Since ordination, he also has
served in
Douglas,
Spencer,
stitutions
the Columbus Diocese as chaplains
are Applecreek State Hospital, and
Mt. Vernon State Sanitorium.
parishes in Buffalo, Ind.,
Ga., Ashland. Va., and
Ind. Other mental in
which have priests from
As chaplain at Applecreek. Fa
ther Bernard P. Jones says Mass
weekly for the approximately 600
Catholic patients in residence. He
also is pastor of St. Genevieve
Church, Calmountier.
Mt. Vernon State Sanitorium,
where Father Robert Shuer is
chaplain, is home for 600 mental
patients who have tuberculosis.
Of these, about 200 are Catholics.
Father Shuer also is chaplain at
Mercy Hospital. Mt. Vernon.
“Unfortunately, acceptance nei
ther of the Charter of the United
Nations nor the Declaration of the
Rights of Man has kept the Soviet
Union and the countries linked to
its system from oppressing and
persecuting Catholics.”
“This has been evident,” the pa
per commented, “from the way
Catholics have fared under the
communist Vietminh even before
the Geneva agreement.”
II Quotidiano declared that
the technique of oppression in
Indo-China has been the same as
that found in all other countries
dominated by communism, the
only variations being those "dic
tated by the needs of war." It
said that once things are consoli
dated, "phases of persecution
will repeat themselves, adjusted
point by point to experiences in
the same 'people's democracies'
of the West and the Soviet Un
ion."
Religion has always been hit by
the communists by means of vari
ous political and .social pretexts,
the Catholic newspaper asserted
It said the pattern in Hungary, Po
land. Rumania and elsewhere has
included accusations of a reaction
ary spirit, complicity with Ameri
can imperialists, terrorist trials
and press campaigns against re
ligion.
“if the exercise of religion is not
curtailed.’’ 11 Quotidiano conclud
ed, “it is taxed out of existence.
Preaching is restricted, it is forbid
den to teach the catechism, and
Bishops and other ecclesiastical au
thorities are harassed in the dis
charge of their duties.”
Another comment on the Indo
China agreement appeared in Os
servatore Romano, Vatican City
newspaper, which said that “the ex
tension of communism there means
for the Catholic Church and for
Catholics the extension of war.”
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Bishop Names New
Assistant Pastor At
Dover St. Joseph
Father Cyprian Gehrling. OFM
Cap. was appointed by Bishop
Ready this week as assistant pas
tor of St. Joseph Church, Dover.
As a result of the assignment,
Father Julian Patterson, OFM
Cap. exchanges positions with Fa
ther Cyprian, who has served as
chaplain of Rawlins County Hos
pital, Atwood, Kas., and head of
St. Patrick s Mission at Tully. Kas.
Father Cyprian, a native of Ger
many, will assume his new* duties
Sunday.
Integration In
N.Y. Housing
Cited
I NEW YORK (NC) “In
any of 56 housing projects in
New York City, you will find
Negro and white families liv
ing side by side in perfect am
ity.” George Gregory, a Negro
leader recently appointed a
commissioner of the municipal
Civil Service Commission, told
a social action forum of the
Catholic Jnterracial Council
here.
“Negroes now live in 50 com
munities where they never lived
previously and the transition has
taken place without any difficul
ty,” Mr. Gregory said. He reported
that public housing has given 70.
000 Negroes in New York City the
opportunity to move out of segre
gated neighborhoods in the last
nine years.
For m®ny years Mr. Gregory has
been director of Forest House, a
settlement house in a changing
area of the Bronx now populated
largely by minority groups. Forest
House led a community effort to
stop the neighborhood from
terioratmg. A “clean up. fix
paint up” movement, started
Forest House in anticipation
the opening next month of a low
rent public housing project the
area has been extended to the
whole area surrounding the proj
ect.
de
up,
by
of
Community action in the area
has already succeeded in securing
a new health center, new' schools,
better street lighting and other
improved municipal services, re
ported Mr. Gregory. He said he has
found that people are generally
eager to join a consistent program
for neighborhood improv e e n
when it is backed by pastors, mer
chants, teachers and other com
munity leaders.
concordat
the Holy
was
See
Domenico Tar-
Signed by Msgr.
dini, Vatican Pro-Secretary of State
for Extraordinary Affairs, and
General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
on behalf of the Dominican Repub
lic, the new' concordat reserves to
the Holy See the sole right to
make episcopal nominations.
It stipulates that before the
Holy See appoints an Archbishop
or Bishop in the Dominican Re
public, it will inform th* govern
ment
of its choice, but only to
whether it has
of a political
that while the
any objec
nature. It
Holy Seo
native Do­
tions
says
prefers to appoint a
minican to an episcopal post in
his country, it reserves the right
To name a foreigner if a suitable
native appointee is not avail
able.
The first article of the concordat
sets forth that “the Catholic, Apos
tolic. Roman religion continues to
ba that of the Dominican nation
and will enjoy the rights and privi
leges which are rightfully hers, in
conformity with divine law and
Canon Law.”
It binds the state to “recognize
the international legal representa
tion of the Holy See and the
Church’s character of a perfect so
ciety 10 which it guarantees the
free and full exercise of its spir-
Society Planning
Columbus Chapter
A 12-member committee has
been appointed Io organize a Co
lumbus Chapter of the National
Multiple Sclerosis Society, it was'
announced this week.
The Columbus Chapter will join
the national society’s 40 other units
in extending service to persons af
flicted with this baffling, crippling,
and so far, incurable disease of
the central nervous system.
On the committee are two well
known priests, Msgr. William E.
Kappes, diocesan director of Hos
pitals and Charities, and Father
Peter Grabaskas, assistant pastor
of Holy Spirit Church.
Also on the committee are Mrs.
Leo Rodenfels, Don Alban. Edgar
Wolfe, jr., Dr. Dwight Palmer,
Charles Y. Lazarus, Robert Wayne
Baer, Dr. Chester C. Shinbach,
George W. Kaufiman, Edwin H.
Davis and Robert Weiler.
While supporting the national
organization’s w’orld-wide research
program, the chapter will have as
its primary objective the establish
ment of a diagnostic and treatment
clinic in Columbus. A medical ad
visory board and a board of trus
tees will be organized at a later
i date.
The lolic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, July 30, 1954
Beautiful Back-Yard Shrine
A four foot marble statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
dominates the Marian shrine erected by Mr. Andrew Rozum in back
of his residence at 121 Riverview Park Drive, Columbus. The rock
shrine, which took three years to complete, is covered with ivy,
rose bushes and geraniums providing a beautiful setting for the
statue. Mr. Rozum has placed vigil lights at each side of the shrine
and these are lighted throughout the months dedicated to Our Lady,
May and October. Two evergreen trees, one at each side of the
shrine, provide a natural frame work. Father George Foley, pastor
of Our Lady of Peace, blessed the shrine
since that time, Mr. and Mrs. Roium and
it a practice to recite the family rosary
Friends and neighbors, too, enjoy making
Dominican Republic’s System
Of Naming Bishops Abolished
CIUDAD TRUJILLO. Dominican Republic (NC) The old patronage system under
which the heads of state in many Latin American countries have claimed the privilege of
naming Bishops has been abolished in the Dominican Republic under the terms of a new
concordat with the Holy See.
The Vatican-Dominican Republic concordat was signed on June 16, but the text has only
now become available. The agreement was the second the Vatican has signed in less than
a year with a traditionally Cath
olic Spanish-speaking nation. On
August 27, 1953, a
concluded between
and Spain.
itual power and of its jurisdiction,
as well as the free and public ex
ercise of worship.”
Other Rights
The concordat specifically recog
nizes the Church’s right to con
duct seminaries and other centers
of religious formation, as well as
Catholic schools and religious as
jpeiations. It pledges the state to
full acceptance of the civil effects
of Catholic marriages, respect for
the ChuKh’s holy days of obliga
tion, and the Church's right to
provide a spiritual ministry to the
armed forces and welfare institu
tions.
Qn the question of marriage,
the concordat says: "The Domini
can Republic acknowledges the
full civil rights of each marriage
performed according to the
norms of Canon Law, which in
validates any subsequent re
course to civil divorce and re
serves the adjudication of mar
riage cases, only to ecclesiastical
in May of this year and
their family have made
before the statue daily,
visits there.
courts. It will bt sufficient for
the pastor to record the mar
riage in the Civil Register."
In matters of education, the
state guarantees the Church ‘full
freedom of establishing and main
taining schools of any order
and grade’’ and says the credits
given students will be on a parity
with those given to students in
the public schools. In regard to
the public schools, the concordat
says that “education imparted by
the state must be guided by
the principles of the Catholic doc
trine and morals.”
The agreement says that stu
dents in the public schools shall
receive religious instruction, ex
ceptions being made for students
whose parents so request. Pro
grams and texts are to be approv
ed by the ecclesiastical authorities,
which also cooperate in the selec
tion of teachers, and in the super
vision of religious courses, the
concordat adds.
Visits To Churches Dedicated
To Mary Gain Special Graces
Plenary indulgences may be gained upon visiting any one of
25 Marian churches in the Columbus Diocese during the remainder
of the Marian Year, the faithful were reminded this week.
The churches where special favors may be obtained were desig.
nated by Pope Pius XII. Ail are dedicated to the Blessed Virgin
Mary.
According to the papal decree, a plenary indulgence may be
gained by the faithful, after confession and Holy Communion, as
often as they visit such churches or chapels and pray for the in
tentions of the Holy Father, or the feasts of the Blessed Virgin's
Nativity, Annunciation, Seven Sorrows, Assumption and on the
closing day of the Marian Year, Dec. 8, 1954. The same favor was
granted on the opening day of the Marian Year, Dec. 8, 1953. and
the Feast of the Purification. Feb. 2.
A plenary indulgence can be gained by the faithful, fulfilling
the above conditions (confession, Communion, and prayer for the
Pope’s intentions), if they visit these same churches on any Satur
day of the Marian Year and as often as they take part in a group
pilgrimage to these churches.
A plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful, fulfilling the
above conditions, who devoutly attend any sacred ceremony cele
brated in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. If they attend with
only a contrite heart (without confession and Communion) they
can gain an indulgence of ten years.
At any unusual shrine where the Virgin Mary Mother of God
is given singular veneration and which generally attracts large
and distant pilgrimages this spiritual favor is granted in addition
to those mentioned above. The faithful may gain a plenary indul
gence not only on Saturdays, but also on all other days of the
Marian Year provided that they have gone to confession and
Communion and devoutly visit the shrine and pray for the inten
tions of the Supreme Pontiff.
Marian churches in the Diocese of Columbus include Holy
Rosary, Immaculate Conception, Our Lady of Peace. Our Lady of
Victory and St. Mary of Columbus Our Lady of Lourdes, Ada St.
Mary. Bremen Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Buckeye Lake, O. St.
Mary, Chillicothe St. Mary, Delaware Immaculate Conception,
Dennison, St. Mary, Groveport Immaculate Conception, Kenton
St. Mary, Lancaster Our Mother of Sorrows, Lockbourne St. Mary,
Marion Our Lady of Lourdes, Mafyssille St. Mary, Mattingly
Settlement: St. Mary, Minerton St. Mary, Portsmouth St. Mary,
Shawnee St. Mary, Waverly Our Lady of Sorrows, West Ports
mouth, and Our Lady of Lourdes, Wills Creek
4 Bishops Held
Red Rebels
In Indo-China
HANOI, Vietnam (NC) No
'atholic Bishop is free in any zone
now controlled by the communist
Vietminh in Vietnam or Lios.
Four prelates—one Vietnamese
and three French -are now in re
gions held by the Vietminh.
Msgr. John Arnaud. French Pre
fect Apostolic of Thakheh Laos,
has been a prisoner since last Fei
ruary.
Bishop Felix Hedde French
Vicar Apostolic of Langson and
Caobang, Vietnam and his French
Coadjutor, Bishop Andrew Regi
nald Jacq, have been interned in
a village some distance from Lang
son for the past three years.'
Bishop John Baptist Tran Huu
Due. Vietnamese Vicar Apostolic
of Vinh, was taken from his resi
dence and has been held under
house arrest in a village for the
past year.
Scores of priests are impris
oned or under house arrest. Hun
dreds of the Catholic laity have
been imprisoned. It is obvious
ly impossible to estimate the
exact number, or how many have
been killed or died in prison.
The majority of the priests thus
victimized are native Vietnam-
the Vietminh do not ar
priest they obstruct his
work by demanding that
When
rest the
religious
he obtain a permit for every little
journey. Thus they hinder his vis
its to outlying villages*. In some
areas they refuse to allow priests
to go to the dying. The dying must
be carried to church for the last
Sacraments. Practically all priests
thus obstructed are native Viet
namese.
The policy obviously hinders
priests from contacting fellow
priests and at the same time cuts
off the Bishop from his priests and
people.
With all this goes the constant
indoctrination opposing and be
littling religion an indoctrina
ton forced on everybody from
school children to adults, includ
ing priests and Sisters.
Solon Seeking
UN Review Of
Prelate's Case
WASHINGTON (NO A re
quest that the case of Stetan Cardi
nal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland,
be brought before the United Na
tions has been sent to Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles by Rep.
Ray J. Madden of Indiana.
In an address before the House,
in which the request was revealed.
Rep. Madden said: “This week I
have received hundreds of peti
tions containing approximately
20,000 signatures from citizens of
East Chicago. Indiana, and adjoin
ing areas, asking that the case of
His Eminence. Stefan Cardinal
Wyszynski, and other priests and
religious co-workers under arrest
in Poland, be presented to and
investigated by the United Nations
when they meet in New York
on September 17.”
Rep. Madden, who is a mem
ber of the special congressional
committee for th* investigation
of communist aggression, told
the members of th* House that
the committee's finding revealed
that th* clergy had received
"more barbaric brain-washing
and torture than any atrocities
committed in world history."
“Cardinal Wyszynski,” he said,
“and Cardinal Mindszenty of Hun
gary, Cardinal Stepinac of Yugo
slavia, and hundreds of priests,
ministers and nuns have endured
untold torture, brain washing and
communistic cruelty in their fight
to preserve their church and re
ligion in these captive countries.
Six Bishops and several hun
dred priests were imprisoned from
Cardinal Wyszynski s diocese
which clearly Troves that even the
highest spiritual leader, voicing
the united opinion of more than
25 million faithful Poles, cannot
be safe and free to speak the truth
about the dreadful and deadening
communist police state in Poland
today.”
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Pope Receives
8 New Envoys
To The Y atican
VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC)
—Latest diplomats to the Holy See
to present their credentials to His
Holiness. Pope Pius XII are Dr.
Luis Oscar Boettner. Ambassador
from Paraguay, and Dr. A. Y. Hol
mi. Minister from Indonesia.
They make eight new ambassa
dors and two ministers who have
been received by the Holy Father
in recent days The diplomatic
resentatives were delayed in
senting their .credentials by
Pope's protracted illness.
good example.’’
of the image of God. The dignity
of the state is the dignity of the
its own proper authority. And,
inversely, for the individual to
abuse his own personal freedom
in contempt of his responsibility
towards the general good is to
ruin his own dignity."
Making reference to the general
theme of this year's convocation.
Congressmen
Hear Story Of
Red Atrocities
BERLIN (NC) Several
Catholic priests testified be
fore the U.S.
subcommittee on communist
aggression which has ended its
hearings here. Testimony tak
en both here and in Munich
gave evidence of persecution
of the Church in Poland, Hun
gary’ and Slovakia.
testified be-i
Congressional
A memorandum on the religious
persecution in Poland was present
ed to the committee jointly by
Canon A. Wrobel, on his behalf
and that of an Orthodox bishop
and a Protestant minister. Mon
signor Joseph K. Horvath, a leader
of the Hungarian Democrats, and
Father Vecsey gave testimony con
cerning the trial of Joseph Card
inal Mindszenty. Two Slovak
priests. Father A. Botek. director
o! Catholic Action, and Fr. S.
Nasalka, secretary of imprisoned
Bishop Jan Vojtassek
presented a picture of
in their country.
There I* No
Y acation From
of Spis.
conditions
Greck Ca-
Father J. Hrynoch. a
tholic priest, told the investigating
committee, headed by Rep. Charles
Kersten of Wisconsin that all
Bishops in the Polish territory
annexed by Russia were imprison
ed and hundreds of their priests
sent to concentration camps. Their
church properties were then given
to Orthodox priests who were col
laborating with the Soviet regime.
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Pakistan Catholics
Praise Goy eminent
KARACHI. Pakistan
Pakistan’s sole Catholic paper com
mended the action of the Pakistan
government in clamping restric
tions on Soviet diplomats in this
country.
Referring to the limitations im
posed on most foreign envoys in
Moscow, the Christian Voice here
said it was amazing that Pakistan
should have submitted for so long
to the insolence with which its ac
credited representatives are treat
ed in Russia.
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Catholic orkers
In Germany Unite
In Confederation
rep
pre-
the
According to the Vatican press
office, the diplomatic corps at the
Vatican now numbers 27 ambassa
dors, 15 ministers and one charge
d’affaires. Dr. Boettner was for
merly Paraguay s ambassador to
the United Stales.
MAINZ, Germany (NO A
confederation of German Catholic
worker movements has been form
ed here, representing more than
200.000 workers.
The confederation was formed
of the Union of South German
Workers, the West German Catho
lic Worker and Youth Association
and the Catholic Workers’ Union
of the Berlin diocese, which will
also represent Catholic workers in
the Soviet zone of Germany. The
confederation will be headed by
Joseph Gockeln, assembly presi
dent of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Your Religion
Price Ton Cents $3.00 A Year
Citizen’s Obligations
o Civil Government
Outlined Bv Pontiff
RENNES. France (NC) His Holiness Pope Pius XII
urged delegates to the Semaines Sociales Social Weeks) of
France to’ attack the moral immaturity that leads to crises
in the field of civil power.
“The true notion of the state.” he said, “is that of an or
ganism, based on the moral order of the world. And the first
task of Catholic teaching is to dispel those errors in par
ticular, juridical positivism which tend to break the emin
ently moral bond joining the state to individual and social
life by disengaging power from its essential dependence upon
God.”
The Pope said aspects of the
current lack of moral maturity in
clude indifference in public affairs,
tax evasion, sterile criticism of au
thority and defense of privilege
damaging to general interests. This
lack of civic virtue “soon becomes
collective.” he said. “In the neces
sary reaction against this state of
affairs, the Catholic must give
The
Pope
hs of Power and
itizenship.” the
jople deplore a
should first of
the fidelity of both
the individual and the state to the
essential requirements of palitical
morality One should not fear
many citizens,
I themselves
blame for so-
even some who
Recalling his Christmas message Christians, share i
of 1944. the Holy Father wrote: ciety's present coi
“The dignity of man is the dignity
grave aspect
Perhaps the n
of the crisis you
is the establish
and active groups
st—whether they
or workers,
professional and
organizations,
power that
exert great influ
and the
the Pope wrote.
moral community willed by God. ment of powerful
The dignity of political authority
is the dignity deriving from its be unions of employers
sharing in the authority of God.”
economic trusts or
And then he added.
social groups.” These
"In virtu* of this intimate con­ he said, have acquired
nection, the state could not vio­ enables them to
late the just freedoms of the ence upon the govrernment
human person without disturbing life of the nation.
The Church, he added, certain
ly supports the existence of
such groups, which do contribute
to the service of the state and
the common good. But "if they
cannot, out of loyal recognition
of what is just, sacrifice their
prestige and perchance their im
mediate advantage, they are
keeping the country in a harm
ful state of tension, they
paralyzing the exercise of
litical power and in the end
compromising the liberty of
very ones they pretend to serve."
po-
th*
The constantly recurring theme
of the I
Father*
cal order again be bound to the
moral order.’’ For far too long,”
he said uf.aiial -m-p has been
corrupted by the private interests
of individuals, classes, groups and
movements. The juridical order
must once again feel itself bound
to the moral order. .And please
God that he who commands as well
as he who obeys will from now on
have before their eyes only obedi
ence to the eternal laws of truth
and justice!”
The Semaines Sociales, to which
the Pope addressed his letter, at
tracted 2000 scholars to discuss na
tional and world problems from
the viewpoint of Church doctrine.
Mrs. Clara Renner
Re-elected Heacl Of
St. John Auxiliary
Mrs. Clara Renner, 834 S. Ohio
Ave., Columbus, a member of St.
John the Evangelist parish, has
been re-elected Supreme President
of the Ladies’ Auxiliaries of the
Knights of St. John.
The election and installation
ceremonies took place ct the na
tional convention of the Ladies’
Auxiliaries and the Knights of St.
John held recently in Detroit.
Mrs. Renner will begin serving
her ninth and tenth years as head
of the Auxiliary.
In addition to her work with the
Auxiliary, Mrs. Renner is secretary
of the Tabernacle Society of the
Sisters of Notre Dame, and a mem-
Mrs. Clara Renner
ber of the Daughters of Isabella,
the St. Francis Circle, and the St.
John Altar Society. She was for
merly on the board of the Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women.
The Joanette Drill Team of St.
Elizabeth Auxiliary No. 3 won
fourth prize in the drill competi
tion at the convention, and Com
mandery No. 98 took similar
honors in their field Both groups
are directed by Capt. Henry Webb,
473 Hanford St
an
The convention attracted
estimated 3000 delegates
members to the Motor City.
and