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The Road To
True Peace Leads
Through Mary
Vol. Ill, No. 50
Columbus Will Join
In Fight To Outlaw
Lewd Comic Books
Columbus Uns week joined with several cities in the na
tion in ciacking down on comic books which stress crime, sex
and horror.
Mayor Maynard E Sensenbrenner announced that a 15
member citizens committee will be appointed, probably with
in the next week, to assist in drawing up an ordinance out
lawing the objectionable comics.
In a radio talk Monday, the may
or denounced such books as “im
moral” because they “serve no
useful purpose,” and “inflame the
minds of our youth.”
The mayor said the primary pur
pose of an ordinance would' be to
‘‘keep such comics away from the
children.”
Safety Director George 0.
Doyle, who has been assigned by
the mayor to appoint the com
mittee, said he would name Cath
olics, Protestants and Jews to the
unit.
The first function of this com
mittee, Doyle said, is to draw up
the ordinance banning the sale of
immoral comics. The ordinance
then would be subject to the ap
proval of City Council.
Doyle said he would be open to
any suggestions in drawing up the
statute. He added that It is too
early to tell whether the work of
the citizens’ committee would in
volve censorship of the indecent
books.
“There may be some way to get
the publishers to screen their own
books,” Doyle said.
The anti-comic book drive also
gained impetus in other parts of
the country.
In Houston. Tex., dealers were
given 30 days to remove crime,
horror, and sex comic hooks from
sale after the Ctiy Council passed
an ordinance banning them. The
council’s action also banned other
publications which “prominently
feature” criminal acts illustrated
by photographs or drawings.
In Albuquerque, N.M., the na
tional president of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, E. Lamar
Buckner, announced that the or
ganization will set up commit
tees to investigate comic books
in every community. He warned
that “lewd and lawless" comic
books threaten to spread moral
decay among the nation's chil
dren.
Individuals were asked to "fol
low up” local drives against crime
and sex literature by checking with
store proprietors on whether they
are cooperating with clean-up
drives.
Archbishop John F. Noll, Bishop
of Fort Wayne, in the Our Sunday
Visitor, stressed the responsibility
of everyone to ask the store pro
prietor “whether he is selling
printed matter -which is doing
Fr. Harwick
Named Pastor
Of Holy Spirit
Father Robert Harwick, adminis
trator of Holy Spirit parish, Co
lumbus, was named pastor of the
parish by Bishop Ready last Sun
day.
In other appointments, Father
Robert Schuer, chaplain of our
Lady of Mercy Hospital, Mt. Ver
non, has been named administrator
of St. Francis de Sales parish,
Newcomerstown. Father Michael
Tabit, pastor of St. Francis de
Sales since 1947, has been granted
a leave from the diocese because
of ill health.
These appointments became ef
fective Sept. 15.
harm to the souls and minds and
hearts of those who read it.”
Archbishop Noll said that di
ocesan campaigns against indecent
literature have been successful
with as much as 70 per cent of
news dealers when individuals co
operated in the drive by doing “fol
low up work.”
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Catholic Knights
Of Ohio To Meet
Bishop Ready will celebrate a
Pontifical Low Mass at 9 a. m.
Monday, Sept 20. in St. Joseph Ca
thedral opening the Catholic
Knights of Ohio Convention.
The Catholic Knights, a frater
nal and insurance organization
formed 63 years ago. last convened
in Columbus in 1901. At the pres
ent time the 8172 members are
mostly in the archdiocese of Cin
cinnati and the diocese of Toledo.
In connection with the conven
tion, a traditional dinner will be
held Mondav at 6:30 in the Desh
ler-Hilton Hotel.
The true scientist, said Father
Bishop Ready
Will Preach At
Consec ration
Bishop Ready will preach the
sermon a* the double consecration
ceremony October 26 in Detroit
when Auxiliary Bishops-designate
Henry E. Donnelly and John A
Donovan of Detroit, will be raised
to the Hierarchy Jn Blessed Sac
rament Cathedral.
His Eminence Edward Cardinal
Moonev Archbishop of Detroit,
will be the conservator. Bishop
Allen J. Babcock of Grand Rapids,
and Auxiliary Bishop Alexander
M. Zaleski of Detroit will be the
co-consecrators.
In a statement concerning the
appointments. Cardinal Mooney ex
pressed his deep appreciation to
His Holiness Pope Pius XII “in
giving me the additional help of
two Auxiliary Bishops in the ad
ministration of this fast-growing”
Detroit archdiocese. He added his
confidence that the BisHops-desig
nate will prove "able co-workeis
in serving the more than 1,000.000
Catholics of this archdiocese.”
Serra Club’s First Officers Accept Charter
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Th* Columbus chapter of Serra International, an organization designed to foster vocations to th*
priesthood, end to further Catholicism through friendship emong Catholic men, was granted its char
ter Tuesdey night at a dinner at the Scioto Country Club. Dr. Frank Hanrahan of Cleveland, district
governor of th* group, presented the charter to Thomas Carroll, a member of th* Serra chapter from
St. Catharine's Parish. Speakers for the occasion included Bishop Ready and J. B. Haviland of Grand
Rapids, Mich., president of the Serra International. Shown above are five new officers of the or
ganization. They are (left to right) Patrick Kirwin, secretary Paul Lynch, treasurer Jarnos Visintine,
second vice president Larry Lorms, first vice president and John Igoe, president.
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4-2 OHIO STATE MUSEUM
Fourteen Enter
Saint Charles
Seminary Dept.
More than 10 per cent of the
June graduating class at St.
Charles High School have signified
their intention to become priests
by entering St. Charles Seminary.
Registration figures announced
this week indicate that 7 of the 65
St. Charles graduates were on
hand for the opening of classes at
the Seminary Monday. In all, there
are 14 freshmen enrolled al the
E. Broad St institution.
St. Charles alumni who are em
barking on a four-year course at
the minor seminary are Patrick
Dolan. 664 E. Fourth Ave. Joseph
Ewald. 1122 Linwood Ave. Rich
ard Janita. 1191 E. Twenty-Third
Ave. John Leach. 1930 W. Lane
Ave. Robert Sifferlin, 379 S.
Gould Rd James Walter. 606
Crescent Rd. and Thomas Hager­
New Philadelphia.
Other new students are Eugene
Arnold ot Zanesville. Joseph Schil
der of Chillicothe, Donald Scott of
Newark. Robert Sagan of New Lex
ington. Paul Fox of Lancaster,
Paul Raymond of Cleveland
Heights, and Santo Garzarelli, Jo
seph Savoia and Thomas Semet
kosky. from Ss. Peter and Paul Mis
sion House. 324 E. North Broad
way, Columbus.
A total of 13 sophomores, eight
juniors and 10 seniors registered
for the 1945-55 school year.
St. Charles Seminary, founded
in 1923 by the late Bishop James
J. Hartley, and maintained by the
Columbus Diocese, has trained 98
priests now stationed the Di
ocese.
Fr. Curran Tells Psychologists
To Exercise Humility, Caution
NEW YORK (NC) The psychologist who turns a pos
sible meory often untested and only vaguely defined
into a philosophy and way of life, tn some cases, almost a re
ligion, is not a true scientist and must be treated with a great
deal of caution.
So spoke Father Charles A. Cur
ran. professor of psychology at St.
Charles Seminary, in his address as
retiring president of the American
tatholi^ Psychological Association.
Father Curran returned to this
country for the meeting from Bel
gium, where, by virtue of a one
yea leave of absence granted by
Bishop Ready, he is teaching at
the University of Louvain.
Curran, approaches his subject
with humility and caution. “This
is all the more true when deal
ing with such a highly complex
and variable subject of investi
gation as the human person it
self," he said.
“The danger of psychology, like
the danger of rashness of anything
young, is to rush in. destroy quick
ly. because it thinks it has a vision
of a new world a new concept
of a scientific personality that
sadly has never been given any
careful testing and measuring it
self,” he stated.
But, he added, “psychology is,
fortunately, coming into maturity
when science is much humbler than
in the boastful days of its own
youth.”
Father Curran urged the at
tending delegates to convince
their fellow Catholics that “we
are true and sincere followers
and respecters of our science
without being any the less true
and sincere followers and re
specters of our religion."
This was the eighth annual meet
ing of the Association. It was held
at Fordham University in conjunc
tion with the meeting of the Amer
ican Psychological Association.
The Catholic Psychological As
sociation works to interpret to
Catholics the meaning of modern
psychology, to advance its accept
ance in Catholic circles and to
move toward the integration, of
psychology with Catholic thought
and practice.
Father Vincent Herr, S.J., of Loy
ola University. Chicago, was elect
ed to succeed Father Curran as
president.
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Six Priests
To Be Invested
As Monsignors
Bishop Ready will invest six
lidnbus priests with new title/ as
monsignors tn ceremonies schedul
ed at 4 p.m. Sunday in St. Joseph
Cathedral.
To be raised to the rank of Do
mestic Prelate with the title of
Right Reverend Monsignor are the
Very Reverend Monsignor Harry S.
Connelly, pastor of St. Joseph Ca
thedral. Columbus, the Very Rev
erend Monsignor Harold J. O’Don
nell, assistant chancellor of the
Diocese, and Father George Wolz,
professor at St. Charles Seminary.
The rank of Papal Chathberlain
with the title of Very Reverend
Monsignor will be conferred upon
Father William E. Kappes. dioces
an director of Hospitals and Chari
ties: Father Paul O’Dea. dean of
studies at St. Charles Seminary
and Father Edward Spiers, princi
pal of the new Bishop Watterson
High School.
Attending Bishop Ready as chap
lains in Sunday’s ceremony will be
Msgr. Francis Schwendeman. pas
tor of St. Leo’s Church, and Msgr.
Herman Mattingly, pastor of Holy
Rosary Church, Columbus. Father
George Schorr, vice chancellor of
the diocese, will serve as notary.
At Benediction, Father John Wolf,
professor of St. Charles Seminary,
and Father Lawrence Corcoran, as
sistant director of Hospitals and
Charities, will serve as deacon and
subdeacon respectively.
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Cardinal To Be
Released Soon
VIENNA (NC) His Em
inence Josef Cardinal Minds
zenty, imprisoned Primate of
Hungary, will be released
soon, according to a report
which circulated here among
delegates to the 43rd Congress
of the Interparliamentary
Union.
At a reception in the Hun
garian legation here. Sandor
Ronai, speaker of the Hungarian
national assembly, is quoted as say
ing that the official announcement
of Cardinal Mindszenty may be ex
pected soon.
Other Hungarian delegates stat
ed privately that the decision to
release the Cardinal had been
made, but the conditions of his re.
lease have not yet been worked
out.
It is understood that the regime
would like to handle the Cardin
al’s release in such a way that it
will favorably influence the coun
try’s farmers and spur the lagging
food production program.
Arrested in December. 1948, Car
dinal Mindszenty was "tried” and
sentenced to life imprisonment in
February 1949 for alleged treason.
Informal conversations be
tween Polish and other foreign
delegates at the meeting threw
no light on th* fate of another
imprisoned Cardinal behind the
Iron Curtain He is His Emin
once Stefan Cardinel Wyszynski,
Primate of Poland, arretted a
year ago.
holic Times
Pictured is the well known Columbus land mark, St. Francis Hospital, which will close
its doors next June according to an announcement by Bishop Ready. The 106 year-old
structure has been run as a hospital by the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis for the past 90
years. No indication has been given as to the disposal of the building when the Sisters
move to combine their staffs and equipment at the new and enlarged St Anthony's Hospital,
also in Columbus.
Quality Counts
The Holy Father spoke to the
delegates at an evening audience
in St. Peter’s Basilica. The audi
ence was attended also by several
hundred delegates to the World
Congress on Population and the
Third International Poliomyelitis
Conference, and by many thou
sands of tourists and pilgrims. In
all. probably 30.000 persons heard
the Pope’s address, which as de
livered in French.
Pope Appears Vigorous
Pope Pius, who looked better
and appeared more vigorous than
he has for more than a year and a
half, spoke to the socialists for
more than 15 minutes. He remind
ed them of the Apostolic Constitu
tion, “Bis Saeculari.” which he is
sued in 1948. and said it was a tru
ly basic document intended to gov
ern all Marian congregation activ
ities.
The Pontiff praised the theme of
the International Congress of Mar
ian Congregations “The Great
er Glory of God through Better Se
lection, Closer Unity with the
Hierarchy,- and Greater Collabora
tion with Other Associations of the
Apostolate.” He said it included
“in a few words the principal
Nine Deacons
To Be Ordained
At Josephinum
Nine fourth-year theology
students of the Pontificial Col
lege Josephinum will be or
dained deacons by Bishop
Ready Saturday in ceremonies
scheduled at 9 a. in the
seminary chapel.
In addition, 17 first-year theo
logy students will receive the
Tonsure the mark of admission
to the clerical state.
The sub-deacons who will be
come deacons are Francis Meuller
el Tiffin, O.. George Daly of Erie,
Pa., Bernard Dittman of Duquesne,
Pa., John Flattery of Danville, Ill.,
William Maul of Alton, Ill.. Robert
Reiss af La Notte. Iowa. John
Sand of Clarkstown, Wash.. Louis
Shea of Springfield. Ill. and Donaid
\oelker of Pittsburgh, Pa.
First Ukrainian Church
In England Consecrated
LONDON—(NC) A building
formerly used as i Protestant Sun.
day school was consecrated as a
Ukranian Catholic church at Cheet
ham, Manchester by Archbishop
John Bucko, Apostolic Visitator
for Catholics of the. Ukranian rite.
It is the first Ukranian church to
be consecrated in this .country.
Merger Of St. Francis, St. Anthony’s
Will Give City New 300-Bed Hospital
Pontiff Urges Spiritual
Renewal Of Sodalities
VATICAN CITY —(NC)— His Holiness Pope Pius XII has
called ior a spiritual renewal of sodalities throughout the
world strictly on lines of quality, not quanity.
This was the keynote of an address he gave to more than
10,000 sodalists from 60 countries who had come to Rome for
the first International Congress of Marian Congregations which
opened on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
points formulated by Us in the
Apostolic Constitution.”
He said that a more careful se
lection of members is “essential to
guarantee the desired renewal of
Marian congregations which are
not simple pious associations, but
schools of perfection and apostoli
city.”
Sodalities, or Marian congrega
tions, as the Bis Saeculari defines
them. are. the Pope declared,
“among the most authentic forms
of Catholic Action because they
strive purposely to make their
members feel with the Church He
said that such a disposition is high
ly necessary when it is a question
of collaborating with the apostolate
of the Hierarchy.
True sodalities, the Holy Fa
ther continued, do not keep
themselves apart or seek certain
spheres of activity exclusively,
but are ready to "work wher
ever invited by the Hierarchy.
They serve the Church, not as if
she were a foreign force or even
just a human family, but as the
Spouse of Christ inspired and
guided by the Holy Spirit Him
self."
Cooperation with other associa
tions of the apostolate Pope Pius
added, “is a clear sign of the
presence of Christ among those
who follow one inspiration alone in
action as well as in prayer.”
Holy S
The same order of nuns has op
erated St. Anthony Hospital at Tay
lor street and Hawthorne avenue
since its foundation by the Order
in 1891. A million dollar expan
sion program is in the process of
being completed which will facili
tate the merging of the two hos
pitals next spring
The new addition to St. An
thony’s will increase its capacity
by 120 beds. The hospital equip
ment now at St. Francis will be
moved to St Anthony's w hen the
former hospital closes The Sisters
from St. Francis will at that time
be added to the staff of the new,
enlarged St. Anthony's.
In announcing the merger. Bish
op Ready declared:
“In behalf ot the Administration
of Saint Franeis Hospital it is my
duty to announce the merger of its
facilities with those of Saint An
thony Hospital, effective June 30.
1955. Until that date Saint Francis
will continue the medical and sur
gical services under its skilled
stall The Hospital School will ton
tinue at its present address and
eventually wig come under the
Saint Anthony Hospital administra
tion
“The announcement is made
with sentiments of sorrow Saint
Franeis’ long history of devoted
service tn, the citizens of Colum
bus has merited the affection of
the whole community Fortunately,
however. Saint Francis is not clos
ing and thereby depriving Colum
bus of its excellent care of the
sick, especially the poor and dis
tressed. It is moving to a new but
well-known location and adding the
nursing -.tail of the Sisters ol the
Poor of Saint Francis and the
equipment of the hospital to those
of the new enlarged Saint An
thony’s.
"During the months of negotia-
Fr. Magri Named
New Rector At
Pl ME Seminary
Father Dante Magri P.I.M.E..
has assumed his new duties as
rector u' the Sts. Peter and Paul
Mission House. 324 E North Broad
way, Columbus, it was announced
this week
The new rector succeeds Father
Dominic Rossi who held that post
since the seminary was establish
ed in May, 1952. Father Rossi has
been named pastor of St. Francis
Church in Detroit.
Father Magri. a native of Milan.
Italy, came to the United States
two months ago from the society's
Milan seminary, where he was a
teacher of theologv.
The Pontificial Foreign Mission
Institute of Sts. Peter and Paul
numbers approximately 600 priests
and 112 brothers stationed in the
U. S., Italy, China. Burma. India,
West Africa. Japan Brazil and
Pakistan.
Bishop Ready invited the Society
to establish its first seminary in
the nited States in Columbu.- in
Sept. 1952 sion House.
writ Church Dedicated
The newly completed Holy Spirit Church, E. Broad St. at Yearling Rd., wee blessed Sunday by
Bishop Reedy. Assisting the Bishop at the rites were Fathers Raymond Bauschard, pastor of St. Mary
Magdalene parish, and Harry Estadt, pastor of St. Thomas parish, deacon and sub-deacon, respec
tively. The $60,000 church was built by the General Maintenance Construction Co., according t*
plans drawn by Columbus architect Al Tynan. Th* men of Holy Spirit parish, .under th* direction of
their pastor, Father Robert Harwick, did most of the inside work of th* structure. They constructed
th* sanctuary and communion rails, painted pews and built and tygished th* confessionals.
Every Day Should
Begin With The
Morning Offering
Price Tan Cents $3.00 A Year
St. Francis Hospital, long a city landmark in downtown
Columbus will merge its facilities with those of St Anthony
Hospital also in Columbus, it was announced this week by
Bishop Ready The merger will/ become effective June 30,
1955
Operated bv the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis, the
hospital ha- served the citizens ot the Columbus community
and surrounding territorv for almost a centurv It will con
tinue to ope ate at the present site
until the merger date next year,
Bishop Ready indicated.
The familiar Gothic structure at
the corner of Sixth and State
streets in Columbus opened its
doors in 1850 as Starling Medical
College. The Sisters of the Poor of
St. Francis took over the adminis
tration of lhe building as a hos
pital in 1865.
tion arriving at this decision,
Saint Francis has received the cor
dial help of President Bevis and
the authorities of Ohio State Uni
versity. The details of the closing
have been settled to the satisfac
tion of both the Administration of
Saint Francis and the University
which held ownership to the real
property under the terms of the
99 year lease.
“All of us who cherish Saint
Francis and what it contributed to
the welfare of Columbus express a
prayer of thanksgiving to God for
its splendid mission to the sick
through almost a century. We ex
press as simply but sincerely a*
possible our praise and affection to
the Sisters of Saint Francis who
have so well served Columbus.”
St. Francis' School of Nursing,
situated at 308 E. Town St., is owr
ed by the Sisters, and will con
tinue to serve as a residence and
training school for student nurses.
Eventually, it will come under the
administration of St. Anthony's
Hospital, which has never had a
nursing school.
St. Francis Hospital has long
been held in esteem in the com
munity for the charity extended to
the poor. Since it was established
1862. the hospital has handled
209.832 emergency cases, and has
treated 290.325 patients.
The hospital was founded by a
group oi Fianci'can nuns who
came here from Aachen. Germany.
They began their work in a small
building on Rich St. near Holy
Cross Church The quarters, how
ever. provided space for only 24
bed patients T”.o year* later anx
ious to expand the hospital, ’he
Sifters purchased liuee lots on E.
Main St Plan- for this building
did not materialize, as the Sisters
were given the opportunity to
lea.e the old Starling Medical Col
lege. owned by Ohio State Univer
sity The bunding constructed in
1848. was used bv Ohio State un
til 1862.
The Sisters moved'into the build
ing in 1865. As the occasion and
requirements demanded, improve
ments and changes were made. The
most notable change came in t891,
when a new chapel was erected on
the second floor and a west wing
was added.
The cornerstone for the new
Nurses Home was laid in 1929, and
the first freshman class was ac
cepted in 1931.
The new St Anthony’s Hospital
west wing will increase the hos
pital s patient capacity to 300. The
red brick addition, being construct
ed by I^o Ruisinger. Inc. 851 Fre
bis Ave., contains 120 beds, a kit
chen. cafeteria, dining room, and
a maintenance and storage room.
ill cost S931.OOO addition to
$29,000 for furnishings.
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Two Appointed
To Mission House
Father Joseph Lawler, C.M., su
perior of St. Vincents Mission
House and patoi of 3t Mary
church Groveport, has announced
the appointment of two new Vin
centian Fathers to the Mission
House.
The new arrivals are Father Ar
thur Colby, CM, formerly a mis
sionary in the southern Kiangsi
Province in China and Father
James McAvoy. They have as
.-umed then new duties at the Mia-
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