The Road To
True Peace Lead*
Through Mary
Vol. IV, No. 1
Nine DCCW Committees
Complete Programs For
Convention Workshops
Speakers and panelists who will participate in the nine
workshops scheduled at the forthcoming convention of the
Diocesan Council of Catholic Women were announced this
week. The conference, set for Oct. 21 in the Neil House, is
expected to attract an estimated 1000 women from 23 Ohio
Counties.
The workshops, to be held at
both the morning and afternoon
sessions of the convention, will
deal with a variety of subjects
ranging from family life to Catho
lic charities.
Discussions by the Religious Ac.
tivities. Social Action and Organi
zation and Development workshops
Reds Reported
Sending Nuns
To Siberia
LONDON (NC) The
Polish communist regime has
launched a new drive aimed at
liquidating religious institu
tions conducted by nuns. At
the same time there are re
ports of deportations of many
nuns from Poland, Hungary
and Czechoslovakia to Siberian
forced labor camps.
According to reports from Pol
and, the drive is mainly taking
place in the Polish western terri
tories and in the archdioceses of
Warsaw and Cracow. It is prin
cipally aimed at educational in
stitutions. orphanages and nurser
ies conducted by Religious. In
Warsaw, the Sisters of Mercy were
expelled from .Jesus Christ Hospi
tal. which had been in their care
for two centuries.
Reports from behind the Iron
Curtain received by Radio Free
Europe indicate that a number of
Polish nunsrhave been deported to
Siberia in August. A Hungarian
woman recently repatriated after
eight years in Soviet labor camps
said that more than 100 nuns from
Poland. Hungary and Slovakia live
under inhuman conditions in five
camps near Irkutsk, Siberia. In
one camp many of the Sisters are
said to have died of starvation and
will be held from 11 a. m. to 12:30
p. m.
Opening the Religious Activi
ties ptogram will be a talk by
overwork felling trees. (Continued on Page 2)
Sunday, Oct. 17 ...7:30
Wednesday, Oct. 20, 7:30
Thursday, Oct, 28 4:00
7:30
Monday, Nov. 1 7:30
Sunday, Xov. 7............7:30
7:30
Sunday, Nov. 21 ... 7:30
Tuesday, Nov. 23 ... 7:30
Sunday, Nov. 28 ... 3:00
Tuesday, Nov. 30 7:30
Father Thomas W. Sabrey, dioce
san consultant of the Religious
Activities Committee. His topic
will be "The Pla.e of Religious
Activities in the Program of the
DCCW."
Other speakers are Father James
W. Kulp, diocesan director of the
Propagation of the Faith, who will
offer practical suggestions for the
promotion of the mission: Father
Edward F. Healey, diocesan direc
tor of retreats who will speak on
“Our Blessed Lady and DCCW.” and
Mrs. Frank H. Vogel of St. Cathar
ine’s Parish, chairman of the work
shop, who will report on religious
activities of the past year and
make recommendations for future
activities.
Reports of the deanery chairmen
will be given by Miss Pearl Hughes,
Church of the Atonement. Crooks
ville: Mrs. Edward T. Huber, St.
Mary's, Marion: Mrs. Charles Bell.
Sacred Heart, Coshocton, and Miss
Mary Martha McMahon, Holy Re
deemer, Portsmouth.
Mrs. Adrian Durant of Holy
Rosary Parish, Columbus, will be
chairman of the exhibit.
The Social Action workshop
headed by Mrs. John R. Holden,
will feature two addresses. Fa
ther Augustine Winkler, diocesan
consultant for social action, and
administrator of St. Edward's
Chapel, Granville, will discuss
"Civic Education," and Father
John Staunton, executive secre
tary of the Ohio Catholic Wel
fare Conference, will speak on
the "Ohio State Legislature.'*
The Organiration and Develop
ment workshop headed by Miss
Manon Swickard of St. Joseph Ca
thedra! parish, will include talks
by Miss Jean Fondriest of St. Jos-
Fall Confirmation Schedule
Bishop Ready
p. m. Logan, St. John
p. m. Coshocton, Sacred Heart
p. m. Utica, Church of the Nativity
p. m. Johnstown, Church of the Ascension
p. m. Calmoutier, Saint Genevieve
p. m. Zaleski, Saint Sylvester
p. m. Jackson, Holy Trinity
p. m. Columbus, Saint Cecilia
p. m. Columbus, Saint Gabriel
p. m. Columbus, Saint Joseph Cathedral
p. m. Columbus, Christ the King
Bishop Hettinger
Sunday, Oct. 24 .... 3:00 p.
7:30 p.
Thursday, Oct, 28 7:30 p.
Wednesday, Nov. 3 7:30 p.
Sunday, Nov. 7 ... 3:00 p.
7:30 p.
Thursday, Nov. 11 4.00 p.
7:30 p.
Sunday, Nov. 14 3:00 p.
7:30 p.
Sunday, Nov. 21 3:00 p.
7:30 p.
m. Sugar Grove, Saint Joseph
m. Lancaster, Saint Mary
m. Wills Creek, Our Lady of Lourdes
m. Milford Center, Sacred Heart
m. New Boston, Saint Monica
m. Washington C. H., Saint Colman
m. New Straitsville, Saint Augustine
m. New Lexington, Saint Rose
m. Midvale, Saint Paul the Apostle
m. Wainwright, Saint Theresa
m. Glenmont, Saints Peter and Paul
m. Millersburg, Saint Peter
Lunch Workshop Set
The quantity and quality gf the food which this youngster
has on her plate will enter into the discussions at the fourth an
nual School Lunch Workshop, to be held Monday in St. Vincent de
Paul School, Mt. Vernon. A number of speakers, including repre
sentatives of the United States Department of Agriculture will be
heard at the al’day meeting, which is designed to encourage
diocesan school cooks and other school lunch personnel in the use
of surplus commodities, to better informe them of the federal
lunch program, and to aid them in the proper preparation of foods.
"Eat Well, Stay Well" is the theme of the conference. See pages
7 and 6 of this edition of the Times for further details.
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be held in every parish of the Co
lumbus diocese Sunday. Consider
ed together, the Marian Day festiv
ities will be the largest diocesan
demonstration of the year in honor
of the Blessed Virgin.
At the Pontifical Low Mass, to
be celebrated by Bishop Ready, the
sermon will be given by Msgr.
George T. Wolz, vice rector of St.
Charles Seminary.
After the Mass, the clergy, the
Seminarians from St. Charles Sem
inary. the children of the Cathedral
School, and the high school stu
dents of the Cathedral parish will
take part in a procession inside
the Cathedral. During the proces
sion, the Rosary and the Litany of
Loretto will he recited.
Bishop Ready will then crown a
statue of the Blessed Mother in the
sanctuary of the Cathedral. Follow,
ing the recitation of the Marian
Year prayer, the bishop will cele
brate Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament.
Authorization for similar cele
brations throughout the diocese
was given recently in a letter bv
Bishop Ready to all parish priests'
Of the festivities, he declared:
“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.”
The celebration will replace the
Holy Name Rally usually held in
early fall.
Sunday’s Marian Day observance
is one of three special events plan
ned in the di.icese during remain
ing days of the Marian Year. A
day for the sick is set for Oct. 17,
and a triduum or novena will be
held in each parish just prior to
the Feast of the Immaculate Con
ception, Dec. 8.
The special prayer composed
by the Holy Father for the Mar
ian Year and which will be re
cited as a part of *he ceremonies
in each parish celebration, is
printed above for your conven
ience.
The Catholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, October 8, 1954
‘Queen Of Peace, Pray For Us’.*
Holy Father s Marian Year Prayer
Enraptured by the splendor of your heaven)} beauty, and impelled by the anxieties
of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms. O Immaculate Mother of Jesus and our
Mother, Mary, confident of finding in your most loving heart appeasement of our ardent de
sires, and a safe harbor from the tempests which beset us on every side.
Though degraded by our faults and overwhelmed by infinite misery, we admire and
praise the peerless richness of sublime gifts with w hich God has filled vou. abo\e even other
mere creature, from the first moment of your Conception until the da\ on which, after your
Assumption into heaven, He crowned you Queen of the Universe.
O crystal Fountain of faith, bathe our minds with the eternal truths! O fragrant Lily
of all holiness, captivate our hearts with \our heavenly perfume! O Conqueress of evil and
death, inspire in us a deep horror of sin which makes the
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detestable to God and a slave
of hell!
O well-beloved of God. hear the ardent cry which rises up from every heart in this
year dedicated to you. ’fcend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the
tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten
harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect the holy Church, make all men
feel the attraction of Christian goodness. In your name, resounding harmoniously in heaven,
may they recognize that they are brothers, and that the nations are members of one family,
upon which may there shine forth the sun of a universal and sincere peace.
Receive. O Most Sweet Mother, our humble supplications, and above all obtain for
us that, one day, happy with you, we may repeat before your throne that hymn which today
is sung on earth around your altars: You are all beautiful. O Man! You aie the glory, you
are the joy, you are the honor of our people! Amen.
Churches Ju Diocese Planning
Special Marian Rites Sunday
A Pontifical Low Mass, a procession and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament
are scheduled at 11 a m. Sunday in St. Joseph Cathedral as part of the diocesan-wide Marian
Dav celebration
The observance will beltypical of the celebrations in honor of the Blessed Mother to
Mass In Honor Of Good Thief
To Be Said In Prisons Sunday
Special Masses in honor of St. Dismas will be offered Sun
day in more than 250 reformatories and prisons, including the
13 institutions served by priests in the Diocese of Columbus.
This will be the second annual Mass in honor of the Good
Thief, since it was approved
in 1953 bv the Holv See.
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Prison chaplains of 85 penal in
stitutions in the United States last
year petitioned the Holy See
through the American Hierarchy
for the use of the special Mass of
the Good Thief on the second Sun
day of October. Bishop Martin D.
McNamara of Joliet was appointed
Episcopal sponsor for the United
States. Through the initiative of
His Eminence James Cardinal Mc
Guigan, Archbishop of Toronto, the
privilege was extended to Canada
also.
St. Dismas—as the Good Thief
has been named by tradition—
has attracted the devotion and
aroused the hopes of men behind
prison bars. That Jesus Christ,
Himself, used one of the last
breaths that He drew on earth
to promise paradise to the thief
who was being put to death with
Him, has proven a consolation
and hope to those condemned by
society for their crimes, prison
chaplains say. They point out
that Jesus Christ is willing to do
the same thing for them some
day.
Prison chaplains have another
purpose in fostering honor to St.
Dismas. In prisons, as elsewhere
in American life, they say, there
is danger that the concerns of this
world may be emphasized to such
an extent that the transitory na
ture of man’s life on earth is for
gotten. The dramatic story of St.
Dismas. they add, puts the empha
sis back where it should be—on
the dominant importance of spir
itual matters.
Institutions in the Columbus Di
ocese where these Masses
celebrated are the Ohio Penitenti
ary, Columbus the London Prison
Farm, the Franklin County Work
house. Good Shepherd Convent,
Chillicothe Federal Reformatory,
Delaware Industrial School for
Girls, Friendship Shawnee Honor
Camp, Junction City Brick Plant,
Lancaster Boys’ Industrial School,
Hocking Honor Camp. Logan. Mar
ion Training School, Marysville Re
foimatory for Women, Roseville
Branch Prison.
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Fr. D'ityl etter s
Parent Dies
Florent D’uy.vetter, father of
Father Albert D’uyvetter, admins
trator of St. Dominic Church, died
recently in St. Maria Horebeke,
Belgium, where he had been mayor
for the past 25 years.
Father D’uyvetter, who was visit
ing his parent at the time, is pres
ently in Belgium studying. He had
not seen his lather for eight years
until he returned to Belgium last
June.
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Ecuador Rosary Congress
QUITO, Ecuador (NO —A
National Congress of the Rosary,
sponsored by the Dominican Fa
thers, has been announced to take
place here at the end of October.
Purpo.-e of the congress is to foster
daily recitation of the Rosary in
will be homes. i
The Pontiff devoted a large part
of his speech also to warning the
doctors against unwarranted medi
cal experiments. He declared that
neither doctors nor nurses can take
undue liberties with their patients
the matter of experiments. Nor,
he added, may they expose them
selves to experiments which may
lead to mutilation or suicide.
Pope Pius prefaced hi- remarks
on ABC warfare by stating that
“there can be no doubt, especial
ly in view of the horrors and im
mense suffering caused by modem
war, that to unleash it without a
just cause would constitute a
crime worthy of the most severe
national and international sanc
tions.”
In his reference to “a just
cause.” the Pgpe spoke of a war
“forced upon one by an evident
The first major project of the
Foundation will be launched in
Washington from November 8 to
10. This wifi be a National Con
ference on the Spiritual Founda
tions of Our Democracy. Religious
leaders from all parts of the nation
have been invited to attend.
Among the speakers will be:
Thomas E. Murray, of the Atomic
Energy Commission, Thomas Ma
honey, vice president of the
Catholic Association for Interna
tional Peace and Father Theo
dore Hesburgh, C.S.C., president
of the University of Notre Dame.
President Eisenhower has been
invited to address a luncheon
meeting of the Conference.
The founders of this new move
ment are the Rev. Dr. Charles
Lowry, formerly pastor of All
Saints Episcopal Church. Chevy
Chase, Md. and Dr. Edward L. R.
Elson, pastor of the National Pres
byterian Church. Washington, D.
C. Dr. Low ry is widely know n for
his books, lectures, and telecasts
on the subject of communism. Dr.
Elson is known throughout the
United States as “President Eisen
hower's pastor.”
A distinguished group of Amen-
A seven-week series of televi
sion programs dealing with topics
in American Church History will
be presented on WBNS-TV begin
ning Sunday, Oct. 10. The series,
to be seen on the program “Co
lumbus Churches” each Sunday
at 2:30 p. m., will be produced by
Father Thomas Duffy of St. Char
les Seminary.
On each program three coup
les will take part in an inform
al discussion of some aspect of
Pontiff Renews Pleas
Against Atom Warfare
CAST ELGANDOLFO. Italy iNC) In one of his longest speeches of recent months,
His Holiness Pope Pius XII again called upon the nations to use every means possible to
avoid the horrors of atomic, bacteriological or chemical warfare.
The Holy Fatherispoke to about 500 delegates from 42 countries who were Rome
for the eighth congress of the World Medical Association. In his talk to the doctors, who were
receivedin audience at the panal summer residence, here, the Pope reechoed an appeal for
thf et!e«pro.-'npuoi. i.: •,’ n- dik’d .\B ‘arlaie •. hu r. a ontanted in hisJEaster
message last April.
and extremely grave injustice that,
in no way can be avoided
He said th«f "the question of
the legitimacy of atomic, oac
teriological and chemical war"
could not be posed as a matter
of principles, "except when it
must be judged indispensable to
defend oneself n the circum
stances indicated."
“Even then, however,” he cau
tioned, “one must try to avoid it
through international understand
ings, or else by placing very clear
and stringent limits upon its use
so that its effects may not exceed
the strict exigencies of defense.”
“When this kind of warfare
escapes completely from human
control,” Pope Pius added, its use
must be rejected as immoral.
“In this case, no longer would it
Leaders Of 3 Major
Faiths Form Foundation
To Combat Secularism
Bishop Ready has accepted membership on the National
Advisory Council of a group of Catholic, Jewish and Protestant
leaders joined together to stress the spiritual foundations of
this nation s democracy and religious nature of its struggle
against Communism. Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle of Wash
ington, Chairman of the Department of Social Action. Nation
al Catholic Welfare Conteience. an
nounced the participation of Catho
lic leaders in this effort.
The group has formed a Founda
tion for Religious Action in the
Social apd Civil Order. The Foun
dation announces two ma jor aims:
1.) To stress the importance of
religious truth in the preservation
and development of genuine dem
ocracy 2.) To unite all believers in
God in the struggle between the
free world and atheistic commun
ism which aims to destroy both re
ligion and liberty.
cans has accepted membership on
the National Advisory Council of
the Foundation, including Herbert
Hoover and Henry Luce. Among
other Caftholic leaders who have
accepted membership are Bishop
John J. Wright of Worcester.
Priests on the advisory council in
clude Father Hesburgh and Father
John F. Cronin S. S., assistant di
rector of the Department of Social
Action. N.C.W.C. Among the Catho
lic laymen are Thomas E. Murray,
of the Atomic Energy Commission:
John Sullivan, former Secretary
of Navy: and Thomas Mahoney.
Vice-President. Catholic Associa
tion for International Peace.
In carry ing out its twofold pur
pose. the Foundation proposes to
use literature, broadcasts, telecasts,
and lectures in the effort to bring
its message to the American public,
it w as announced. Its program will
stress the importance of religion as
a vital force in society and also the
spiritual nature of the struggle
against communism.
The Foundation also hopes to
join with God-fearing leaders in
other lands in a united front
against communism, the great
enemy of God and man, the an
nouncement stated It hopes to
combat the neutralism and in
difference of many in the face of
this critical danger.
The Foundation has been incor
porated as a non-profit organiza
tion with offices the Dupont
Plaza Building, Washington 6. DC.
Dr. Low iv has resigned his pastor
ate and is devoting most of his
time tn promoting this twofold
crusade.
WBNS-T\ To Air Church History Series
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church history. This “study club”
will read over assigned material
each week. In preparation for the
series. Topics will vary from week
to week.
Each week, a priest will be in
vited to sit in on the program to
serve as discussion leader.
Sunday's topic will be the “Ef
forts of the French Missionaries
America,’’ and Father Hugh Mur
phy nf St. Charles Seminary will
be the guest.
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be a case of defense against in
justice or of necessary safeguard
ing of legitimate possessions, but
of pure and simple annihilation of
all human life within the range of
action This is not permitted for
any reason whatsoever.”
The PontL’i reminded his hear
ers of another talk in which he
had discussed the subject of ABC
warfare. This was a speech in Oc
tober, 1953, to dele_ ites to the
16th z. sii,. of the Internati nal
Office of Documentation for Mili
tary Medicine in which he declar-
"It does not suffice ... to
have to defend oneself against
any injustice whatever in ordor
to use violent war. If the dam
ages resulting from the latter
are not comparable to those of
the 'injustice tolerated/ one may
have the obligation to 'submit to
the injustice.'"
Going on to discuss medical ex
perimentation. Pope Pius told the
doctors they are not free, in the
iContmued on Page 2)
etcran Pastor
At St. Peter’s
Church Retires
The retirement of Father Fran
cis J. Kreuskamp. pastor of St.
Peters Church. Chillicothe, for
the past 33 years, was announced
this week by Bishop Ready. Due
to failing health, Fr. Kreuskamp
requested last March to be relieved
of his pastoral duties.
Father Kreuskamp. who will
mark his fiftieth year in the priest
hood next March, 'eft this week
on a two-month European tour,
which will include visits to the
Holy Land and to Rome. On his re.
turn, he will re-ide with a nephew
in Silverton, near Cincinnati.
During his long tellure at St.
Peter's a new church, costing ap
proximately $330,000, was com
pleted. This replaced the church
building destroyed by fire in June,
1947. In addition, a school build
ing. which has since been remod
e ed. was constructed in 1929. and
the convent of thp Sisters of St.
Francis of Oldenburg. Ind., has
been enlarged.
Kather Kreuskamp served as first
dean of the Southern Deanery from
August 1945 to July. 1949 and
was veil-known for his work at
Chillicothe Veterans' Hospital He
was visiting chaplain there from
1929 to 1934. and part rime chap
lain for the past 20 years. In ad
ministering the Sacraments, coun
seling the ailing veterans, and
making himse available for all
emergency call’. Father Kreus
kamp became somewhat of a leg
end at the institution.
Father Kreuskamp was ordain
ed at the North American College
in Rome, w here he studied for six
years being awarded rhe degree
of Licentiate of Sacred Theology.
Later he was pastor of Sts,
Peter and Paul Chinch. Newport,
O (1906-1910). and pastor of St.
Remy’s Church. Russia O (1910
1921) He became pastor of St. Pet
er’s in 1921.
Members of the study club in
clude Mr. and Mrs. Richard Klunk,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Daugherty,
Jr., and Mr. and Mrs Don Smith,
all of St Catharine parish.
Mr. John Cox, assistant public
service director of WBNS-TV will
direct the series.
Pictured above, preparing the
program format, are. left to right.
Father Duffy, Mr and Mrs. Smith,
Father Murphy, and Mr. and Mrs.
Daugherty.