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The Road To
True Peace Leads
Through Mary
Vol. Ill, No. 51
1000 Will
9th Annual
Convention,
An estimated 1000 women from
attend the ninth annual convention of the Diocesan Council
of Catholic Women, scheduled Oct. 21 at the Neil House.
Opening event of the day-long meeting will be a Ponti
ficial High Mass celebrated by Bishop Ready at 9 a. m. in St.
Joseph Cathedral. Registration at the hotel will immediately
follow the Mass.
Highlights oi the day include a
12:30 p. m. lunchedn. a business
meeting at which officers will be
elected at 3 p. m.. and a 7 p. m.
banouet. Name of tl e principal
speaker at the dinner will be an
nounced at a-later date. Toastmas
ter will be Mrs. Leo Jennings of
Zanesville.
Theme of the session is “Coun
sel is mine, prudence is mine,
strength is mine.” a quotation from
the Book of Proverbs in the Old
Testament.
Mrs. Alexander J. Glockner,
president of the Council, has ap
pointed Miss Margaret Clark of 65
S. Fourth St. as general chairman
of the convention.
Nine workshops will be held
during the session. They deal
with religious activities. Catholic
charities, P-TA associations, so
cial action, international rela
tions. organization end develop
ment, family life, adul’ educa
tion and public relations.
Respective chairmen of these
workshops are Mrs. Frank H. Vogel
of St. Catna ine’s Parish. Colum
bus Mrs. H. K. Thrailkill of St.
Colman’s. Washington C. H. Mrs.
James E. O'Lea-y of immaculate
Conception Parish,
Mrs. John R. Holden,
King. Columbus Mrs.
Richaids. Sts. Simon
West .Jefferson Miss
Swig-karri of St. Joseph Cathedral
Mrs. James P. Charles, St. Thom
as the Apostle, Columbus Mrs.
Anna Marie Cline. Sacied Heart,
Columbus and Miss Marie J. Ner
ny, St. John the Evangelist, Co
lumbus.
Columbus
Christ the
Robert R.
and Jude,
Marion
Nineteen women have been nam
ed to assist Miss Clark in planning
va-ious aspects of the convention.
They are:
Miss Nell Flautt, St. Aloysius.
program printing Miss M. Lucille
Powers. St. Francis, publicity Miss
Mary McManus. Holy Name, regis
tration Mrs. Henry V. DeVille,
jr., St. James the Less, and Mrs.
a me.. G. Gilmore, Holy Rosary,
hospitality Mrs. J. Harold Breen,
St. Christopher, and Mrs. C. L.
Chute, St. Rose. New Lexington,
special guests Mrs. Edward J. Mill,
er. St. Peter's, Millersburg, and
Miss Josephine Rountree. St. Fran
cis, Newark, exhibits.
Miss Mary Louise Black, Immac
ulate Conception. Kenton, and Mrs.
William Flemington. Holy Trin
ity, Jackson ushers Mrs. Edward
W. Huffman, St. Christopher,
banquet Mrs. Emil J. Wilhelm,
Fr. C. J. Gaffney
Assigned Chaplain
Al Lockbourne AB
Father Conrad J. Gaffney, a cap
tain in the U.S. Air Force Chap
lains' Corps, has been assigned
chaplain of the Ixjckbourne Air
Force Base here.
Father Gaffney, a priest of the
Milwaukee Diocese, has just com
pleted over a year's tour of duty
with the Air Force at Sondrestrom
Feiord, Greenland.
Attend
DCCW
Oct. 21
23 Ohio counties will
Holy Rosary, luncheon Miss Kath.
prine Bergin, St. Joseph Cathedral,
financial Secretary, and Mrs.
Franklin M. Quinn, Holy Rosary,
diocese parliamentarian.
Mrs. John B. Cassidy, Christ the
King, luncheon reservations Mrs.
Charles W. Lingo, St. Catharine,
banquet reservations Mrs. Nelle
McFarland, St. Francis, resolutions,
and Miss Mary L. Hendricks. St.
Mary. Columbus, information desk.
-----------------Q-----------------ediction
Fair (Campaign
Code Adopted
Bv Candidates
WASHINGTON (NC)
The national chairmen ol both
major U. S. political parties
have given their unqualified
endorsement to a code recog
nizing the moral obligation of
all candidates for public office
to observe and uphold the “bas
ic principles of decency, hon
esty and fair play.”
The statement is being distribut
ed to all candidates for the Senate
and House by the newly-formed
Fair Campaign Practices Commit
tee. It pledges the individual can
didate to condemn “any appeal to
prejudice based on race, creed, or
national origin any dishonest
or unethical practice.”
The new “Code of Fair Cam
paign Practices” also pledges the
signer to refrain from character
defamation, and promises that he
will “immediately and publicly re
pudiate the support of any individ
ual or group which resorts, on be
half of my candidacy, to the meth
ods and tactics which I condemn.”
The committee which is sponsor
ing the code is a non-partisan
group headed by Anna Lord
Strauss of New’ York, former na
tional president of the League of
Women Voters, with retired Su
preme Court Justice Owen J. Rob
erts acting as honorary chairman.
One of tis 13 other members is
Archbishop Edwin V. O’Hara, Bish
op of Kansas City, Mo.
A week earlier, Archbishop
O'Hara had joined with five oth
er religious leaders in the Unit
ed States urging all candidates
'•to prevent any expression of
racial or religious bias by their
adherents and to condemn pub
licly and emphatically every oc
currence thereof." Another of
the signers of that declaration
was Dr. George N Shuster, pres
ident of Hunter College and a
prominent Catholic layman.
Tne code of the Fair Campaign
Practices Committee which was
developed from recommendations
made by the Senate Subcommittee
on Privileges and Elections in 1951
—was signed by Republican Na
tional Chairman Leonard W. Hall
and hi^ Demociatic counterpart.
Stephen A. Mitchell, at a joint
press conference here.
Heading Convention Committee
Announcement was made this week of plans for the ninth annual Convention of the Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women, to be held this year on Thursday, Oct. 21, in the Neil House. Pictured
above are four of the group's Officers who are engaged in readying final plans for the meet. They
are, left to right, Miss Patty Corbett, general secretary of the DCLW Mrs. James E. O'Leary, diocesan
chairman of the PTA Miss Margaret Clark, general chairman of the convention, and Mrs. Alexander
Glockner, president of the DCCW.
Osservatore II arns
In so far
teachings
teachings
necessity
seen
Lay Theologians' Errors
Dangerous To Church
VATICAN CITY (NC) Lay theologians have reached
the point of “dangerous exaggerations and have fallen into
serious errors injurious to the very life of the Church, a front
page editorial in Osseivatore Romano, Vatican City newspaper
warned.
The article was not signed, but it occupied a prominent
place usually reserved for important comments, and it was de
scribed by the Vatican press office as “authoritative.”
The principal errors listed by
the editorial were: erroneous con
sents of the priesthood arid of
matrimony, of the Mystical Body,
oi the nature of the Church’s
teaching authority, and of her com
petence in the social and political
field.
This movement appears even
more dangerous, the article said.
as its patrons “present
under a seductive garb,
dictated by the
of calling problems of
the day to the attention of
hierarchical authorities.”
the
fact
XII
The editorial recalled the
that His Holiness Pope Pius
voiced concern over the matter
in a special allocution to the Car
dinals, Archbishops and Bishops
al the time of the canonization of
St. Pius last May.
Declaring that "recently what
is called 'lay theology' has sprung
up and spread to various places,
and a new class of 'lay theo
logian' has emerged which claims
to be sui juris," the Pope warn
ed that there has never been,
there is not now, and there nev
er will be in the Church a legiti
mate teaching authority of the
laity withdrawn by God from the
authority, guidance and watch
fulness of Jhe sacred teaching
authority (of the Church)."
The Holy Father went on to
say: “Everyone can see how great
a danger of confusion and error
there is in this ‘lay theology’ a
danger also lest others begin to
be taught by men clearly unfitted
for the t.. k. or even by deceitful
and fraudulent men. whom St. Paul
described: ‘The tijne will come
when men always itching to
hear something fresh, will provide
themselves with a continuous suc-
The .iolic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, September 24,
Priests Invested As Monsignors
Six priests of the Columbus Diocese were invested with new titles as monsignors in ceremonies
at St. Joseph Cathedral Sunday afternoon. Pictured above following the ceremonies are, left to right,
Monsignor George Wolz, professor at St. Charles Seminary, raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate
Monsignor William Kappes, diocesan director of Hospitals and Charities, raised to the rank of Papal
Chamberlain Monsignor Paul O'Dea, dean of studies at St. Charles Seminary, raised to the rank of
Papal Chamberlain Bishoo Hettinger, Auxiliary to Bishop Ready, who was celebrant at Solemn Ben­
Bishop Ready Monsignor Harry S. Connelly, pastor of St. Joseph Cathedral, raised to the
rank of Domestic Prelate Monsignor Harold J. O'Donnell, assistant chancellor of the Diocese, raised
to the rank of Domestic Prelate, and Monsignor Edward Spiers, Principal of the new Bishop Watter
son High School, raised to the rank of Papal Chamberlain.
cession oi new teachers, as the
whim takes them, turning a deaf
ear to the truth, bestowing their
attention on fables instead’ (cf. Il
Tim. 4,
3-4).
active participation of the
More
However, dangerous exaggera
tions have developed, the editorial
continues, “which have transform
ed zeal into excesses at times filled
with elements prejudical to the
very life ot the Church.”
Marriage, the editorial said,
in giving examples of some of
these errors, is made “to appear
in a light of insane mysticism,
as an almost indispensable com
plement of human personality."
The Mystical Body is considered
merely a gathering of the faith
ful for the liturgical co-offering
of the Sacrifice, which means
limiting the action of the Church
to a strictly sacred place only.
Another error is that, whether
in dogmatic or disciplinary ques
tions, the Church cannot take any
definitive action without long and
profound discussion between the
laity as well as the clergy. This,
said the editorial, made itself felt
at the .ime of the definition of the
Dogma of the Assumption.
Otheis, Osservatore pointed out,
have drawn a sharp distinction
between the temporal and the
spiritual and recognize subjection
to the Church only in the purely
spiritual field, while insisting on
the independence of the laity in
other fields. “No account is taken
of doctrinal implications that con
cern the competence of the
Church also in not a few political
and social problems,” the editorial
declared.
... ........—o ...........
Reds Threaten
Religion In Goa
Prelate Avers
LISBON (NC) “Christ
ian institutions in Goa are in
grave peril at the hands of the
communists,” Archbishop Jose
Vieira Alvernaz of Goa told a
Portuguese journalist whose
report of the interview has
reached here.
The prelate said the com
munists were 'prime movers
in the Indian Union of the so
called “Libeiation of Goa Move
ment'.”
Indian attacks on Goa are com
munist inspired and Christianity is
bein« threatened in Goa by coin
monism, the Archbishop said.
Archbishop Alvernaz told of
a leaflet published in Bombay
which contained threats to the
Goan clergy of being pro-Portu
guese and threatened clergy of
an Indian town who were alleg
ed to have opposed communists
during a recent local election.
As grave as the danger is, he
said. “I believe that Divine Inter
cession will eventually ensure a
solution of the Goan question.”
Pope Cautions
Population
Declaring that the Church is
laity in the life and work of the noj unaware of the grave prob
Church is a-phenomenon peuwlr#
Church
to these times, the Osservatore ed
itorial said. It is mainly due to Ca
tholic Action and to the impetus of
the Pones themselves who have re
peatedly emphasized the impor
tance of the laity’s collaboration
in the work of the hierarchy.
lems of’’population. and that many
declarations have been made by
the Holy See concerning family
life, the economic life of nations,
the relations between peoples,
etc., the Holy Father said: “We
hope that Cat1 olics taking part in
population studies will do if in
fidelity to Christian doctrine.”
The Pontiff stated that in such
activities, Catholics should be
"illumined by their reason and
by a sustained and just faith in
Providence."
said, is fully
cutties they
minds them
ward the community and esoe
cially of their obligation "to
respect the creative aspiration
which is found at the very cen
ter of love and of life."
The Church, he
aware of the diffi
confront, but re
of their duties to-
“The Church has always under
stood population problems in their
reality,” the Pope declared, add
ing that man has "a moral, per
sonal destiny which, by means of
courageous and bold action, in
time must find its fulfillment in
the eternal possession of God.”
ROME
Monsignor Montini's letter quot
ed frequently from Papal discour
ses, saying that “family questions
have been the preferred theme of
his apostolate of the word.”
“In reality.” Monsignor Mon
tini wrote, “the family is the great
invalid of this postwar period on
which the baneful consequences of
the last conflict still weigh, at
times in a tragic manner.”
The letter called for a prompt
and intelligent adaptation of the
family's position in a changing so
cial structure, so that it will not
be lost or left behind. The simple
defense of normal positions is no
longer sufficient, it added.
It is now necessary to realize,
the Monsignor stated, that “social
structures ’oday are very rapidly
changing toward a new order
which will be living and vital only
if based on the social doctrines of
the Church.”
“In the presence of such
change,” he continued, “it is neces.
sary noteless quickly to keep the
positions of the family in step, so
that that cell of society will not
remain alien to the plunging flow
oF life in the future.”
The family has four principal
needs according to he letter: eco
nomic security, moral health, right
ordered education with state help
and proper religious ’Mspiration. crimes.
special day for the sick, and a
in scheduling the diocesan-wide
Marian Day. Bishop Ready asserted
in a pastoral letter:
“Let it be a day when all the
devoted clergy, religious and laity
unite in one 'grand ceremony of
love and loyalty, of petition and
thanksgiving to Mary, our Mother.”
Because of the uncertainty of
the weather and the availability
of a suitable place, Bishop Ready
said, there will be no centraliz
ed rally. Instead, families will
gather together in their own
parochial churches to pay honor
and homage to the
gin.
All
CITY (Radio.
Church likes to
VATICAN
NC) The
see Catholics also interested
in population problems, but
expects them to be guided by
Christian principles.
This was the keynote of a
talk given by His Holiness
Pope Pius XII to a group of
Catholic participants in the
World Congress on Population
held in Rome who were received
in audience in St. Peter’s Basilica.
The text of the Pope's talk, which
was delivered in French was pub
lished bv Osservatore Romano, Va
tican City newspaper.
should partic
Christians Ait
Grievances
In Pakistan
This complaint echoed a sirhilar
comment made earlier this month
by American born Archbishop
Lawrence Graner. C.S.C., of Dacca.
East Pakistan, who said:
“The policy of the government
of Pakistan in regard to the Chris,
tions is perfectly fair. But
the application of the policy by
minor officials occasionally causes
difficulties.”
The memorandum quotes what
it calls a specific instance of in
justice in the allocation of lands
for cultivation. Representatives of
the Christians called on the Min
ister in May. 1953, with the com
plaint that Christians were not re
ceiving a fair allocation of land.
The order issued by the Minister
at that time was finally execut
ed in February of this year.
On the basis of population, con
tinued the memorandum, the allo
cation should have over 2.000
acres. However. Christians only re
ceived 411 acres, and all of this
was land previously alloted to
Moslems who had abandoned it as
useless.
Crisis In Family Life
Seen By Msgr. Monti ni
(Radio, NC) If the world is to survive the
present crisis satisfactorily and not labor in vain once more,
it must begin by rebuilding families
That is the thought of His Holiness Pope Pius XII. ex
pressed for him by Msgr. Giovanni B. Montini, Vatican Pro
Secretary of State, in a letter to
the Italian Catholic Social Week
here. Theme of the Social Week is
“The Family of Today and the So
cial World in Transformation.”
Monsignor Mont ini deplored the
fact that the family unit is not
only not helped, but even attacked
on many sides today by those who
should be aiding it
Pope Reminds
Pharmacists Of
Moral Dutie
CASTELGAN'DOLFO
His Holiness Pope Pius XII has
called on pharmacists to stand
firm and remain loyal to their
Christian duty in the face of a
great wave of popular immorality
which often seeks to make them its
accomplices.
He spoke in Latin to the Inter
national Congress of the History
or Pharmacy held here on the
525th anniversary of Pope Martin
Vs grant of help to the pharmac
ists of Rome. The audience was
held at the Pope's summer home
here.
“In our days when immorality
is so widespread and all law is so
readily broken, you are held by
human dignity and Christian law
not to fail in your duty,” the Holy
Father reminded the pharmacists.
“At times
clients will
you become
it may happen that
ask insistently that
accomplices to their
Diocesan Marian Day
Scheduled For Oct. 10
A Marian Day celebration, destined to be the year’s largest demonstration in honor of
the Blessed Mother, will be held in every parish in the diocese on Sunday. Oct 10.
The observance was one of three special events authorized this week by Bishop Ready
in a letter to all priests in the diocese. Also planned as a climax to the Marian Year are a
triduum or novena.
the Bishop said
Blessed Vir-
was given for
and celebra-
Authorization also
outdoor processions
tions including Benediction of the
Blessed Sacrament in each par
ish. The Bishop also suggested that
the Rosary, the singing of the Lit
any of Ijoreto. the recitation of the
Marian Year prayer, and a sermon
be included in the day's observ
ance.
ly scheduled during the early fall.
In accordance with the Holy Fa
ther's request for a world-wide day
for the sick, the Bishop designated
The
KARACHI. Pakistan—(NO—Six
teen Protestant and Catholic lead
ers of the Punjab (Province of
West Pakistan) have complained
of treatment given to Christians.
com
A memorandum submitted to
Provincial Minister of R. habilita
tion Nawab Muzzafar Ali Khan Qiz
albash said the Christians appre
ciated the Minister's fairness, but
noted a discrepancy between of
ficial policies and lheir implemen
tation.
in the parish
Persecution In
Czechoslovakia
LONDON (NO—Sir Win
ston Churchill repeated this
week the British Government’s
“abhorrence” of communist
persecution in Czechoslovakia.
Th- Pn^ZMa Al mister in hi.« reply
Anthonj Eden the Foreign
S i e?ary. in the House of Com
monv in November last year when
he aid that ’succ?ssiv e cov ci n
inein- have exj:aessed their abhor*
rence at the persecution of religion
and the denial of -human
anywhere in the world.”
Bishop IF ill Offer
Mass At Seminary
Bishop Readv will offer a Po
day in the chapel of St. Charles
Seminary. The Mass will be said
in behalf of the se Hinarians.
A total of 14 freshmen, 13 sopho
mores. eight juniors and 10 sen
iors have registered for the 1954
55 school year.
Mother Stepha
The Dominican Sisters suffered
a heavy loss in the death of Mo
ther Stephanie, O.P., last Sunday
at St. Mary of the Springs. Bishop
Ready presided at the,Solemn High
Requiem Mass held Wednesday
morning in the college chapel of
Chiist the King, Sansbury Hall,
and gave the final absolution. A
second Mass was said in the Con
vent Chapel for Mother Stephanie’s
S islets.
Known both here and abroad
tor her work as an educator and
administrator, Mother Stephanie
Mother Stephanie, OP.
was Mother General of the Domin
ican Sisters in Columbus during
the years 1923-1947.
Born Florence Lee Mohun, April
26 1868. in Prince George County
Maryland. Mother Stephanie was
the daughter of Richard Barry
Mohun and Clara Hanson Dorsev.
sisters, Edythe and
With her
Laura, she was educated at Ma
dame Burr’s French School in
Washington. D. C. She subse
quently enrolled as a student at
the Academy of St. Mary ot the
Springs.
In 1888, Mother Stephanie enter-) York.
Every Da* Should
Begin Vi ith The
Morning Offering
n a let
y, Lab
pariia-
be “no
of Her
of Brit-
The Prime Minister, i
ter to Fenner Brockwa
or Party member of
mem, said there could
doubt about the attitude
Majesty’s government and
islovak government's
ainst the Church was
persecution thr
Europe,” he ad
back
prom­
rights
Mr. Brockway, a Labor
bencher who has been a
inent campaigner for the
of local peoples in the British
colonies, had written, as a non
Catholic concerned with free
dom, asking the government to
express "the abhorrence of the
British people that freedom
should be outraged in this man
ner."
Price Ten Cents $3.00 A Year
he Sacraments on the
immediately preceding
’•In preparation for the close
of the Marian Year," the letter
continued, "each pariah and in
stitution within the Diocese
should arrange a solemn triduum
or novena prior to the Feast of
the Immaculate Conception, Dec.
8." This will be similar to the
devotions held prior to the open
ing of the Martan Year last De
cember.
The one-year celebration in hon
or of Mary which is approaching
its climax was proclaimed by the
Holy Father in the encyclical, Ful
gens Corona Gloria” Shining
Crown of Glory). Designed to stim
ulate earnest devotion to the Moth
er of God, the year marks the
100th anniversary of the definition
of the dogma of the Immaculate
-O
Bishop Dies
In Hungarian
Prison (’.ell
ICAN CITY (Radio. NO
Vatican has just learned
Hungarian Bishop died in
more than a year and a half
reached here that Bishop
Louis Meszylenyi, Titular
if Sinope, has been dead
953. He had been
the communists
Bisho
since
imprisoned
since June.
Bishop Meszlenyi was an assist
ant to the late Justin Cardinal
Seredi, Primate of Hungary, who
died in 1945.
In 1950. Bishon Meszlenyi
of
prioress. She also
ol authority in New
Haven, Conn.
wh
elected by the Esztergom arch
diocesan chapter as vicar capitu
lar of the archdiocese after th*
death of Msgr. John Drahos.
Monsignor Drahos had governed
the archdiocese since th* impris
onment of Cardinal Mindszenty.
Before he could take over his du
ties, the Bishop was arrested and
put in jail.
same thing happened to
Charles Gigler. who had
ected earlier as Monsignor
successor. To forestall fur
ests. the chapter agreed to
pnest who had the approv­
DrahO"
ther a
al of the communists. A short time
later, the Holy See intervened and
appointed Bishop Andreas Hamvas
as apostolic administrator for the
archdiocese with the consequence
that the priest favored by the com
munists ceased to rule.
lie, O.P., 86,
Dies At Springs
ed the Dominican Order. As a
young Sister, she suffered a
severe burn while extinguishing a
fire which threatened the students.
In 1892, her right arm was ampu
tated.
Despite the handicap, she accom
plished a prodigious
work.
amount of
held the
later of
positions
and New
At
St Maty’s she
prefect and
held
York
administrative
Despite arduous
duties.
Mother Stephanie found
time to write long and interesting
letters to the community. Follow
ing the example of her maternal
grandmother, the well-known
novelist. Anna Hanson Dorsey, she
also published fiction and poetry
under tne pseudonym of “Lee.’
She was the author of a juvenile,
Claire Lorraine, and a book of
poems.’ Drift iwod.
During her four terms as Mother
General, the community accepted
many parochial and grade schools
in this and other dioceses. Under
Mother Stephanie's guidance, the
Dominican Sisters opened the
College of St. Mary of the Springs.
Albertus
Haven.
Hospital,
Magnu
New
George
Cincinnati.
Stephanie
Mother
realized a
when she
long-cherished dream
sent the first band of American
Dominican Sisters as missionaries
Three years
seventy, she
and brought
to China in 1935.
later, at the age of
visited the mission
additional members.
the Blessed
She also, opened
Martin Mission in Amarillo. Texas,
lor nesfo children. In 1941, she
was unanimously elected President
oi the Conference of Dominican
Mothers General of the United
Surviving Mother Stephanie are
a niece, Mrs. Jennings Perry, of
lennesee. and three nephews:
Philip Hulme of New Jersey and
Rex and Peabody Mohun. of New