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The Road To
True Peace Leads
Thrdkigh Mary
Vol. IV, No. 2
Former Red Official,
Bella Dodd, To Speak
At DCCW Convention
Dr. Bella V Dodd, who severed her Communist ties to
embrace Catholicism in 1952. will be the principal dinner
speaker at the ninth annual convention of the Diocesan Coun
cil of Catholic Women, to be held Oct. 21 in the Neil House.
Mrs Dodd, who will speak at the 7 p. banquet climax
ing the day-long conference, was formerly a legislative repre
stnUlive for :h Communist Party
in New York, and a member of the
party's .date committee, state board
and secretariat. She was received
into the Church Apr. 7, 1952, by
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
Born in Italy, the younges' of 10
children, she was a Phi Beta Kappa
at Hunter College, where she earn
ed a bachelor’s degree. She earned
a master’s degree at Columbia Uni
versity, and became a Doctor of
Juris Prudence in 1930 after study
at New York University, She was
admitted to the New York Bar the
following year.
Mrs. Dodd taught political science
at Hunter College from 1926 to
1938. It was during this peiiod that
she organized and became the leg
islative, representative of the New
York Teachers Union. She was also
active in the affairs of tne Amer
ican Federation of Labor
Currently engaged in law prac
tice in New York City. Mrs Dodd
also is a teacher at St. John’s Uni
versity Law School,
Dr. Bella V. Dodd
An estimated 1000 women from
23 Qhio counties will be on hand
for the convention, which will get
underway with a Pontifical High
Mass celebrated by Bishop Ready
at 9 a. m. in St. Joccph Cathedral.
Kiev Radio recently reported
that 800 anti-religious lectures, ac
companied by films and slides, had
been given to workers in Kiev
Province alone during August and
September.
But there are complaints in
the entire Soviet press, from
Moscow's Pravda, the official
organ of the Communist Party,
to the smallest provincial paper,
against what are called the short
comings of the scientific-atheis
tic propaganda.
Komsomolskaya Pravda, a news
paper for young communists, rais
ed this cry: "A determined fight
mist be waged in the new school
year against the remnants of cap
italism in the minds of youth,
against harmful superstitions and
traditions of the old societv, and
against all manifestations of bour
geois ideology.”
Only the realization that relig
ion still survives in the land of
Lenin and Stalin could have
prompted such a challenge.
This realization was clearly re
flected in a reoort in Sotsialistik
Kazakhstan official dailv publish
ed in strongly Moslem Kakazhstan.
It said:
“In villages and backward re
gions. people have stayed away
from work to celebrate ihe Isla
mic festivals or Khorban Bairam.
and have slaughtered several ani
mals and harmed the work of the
communitv The harmful rem
nants of religion, and of old cus
toms—such as the visiting of
shrines, praying, the holding of
On the agenda are a 12:30 p. m.
luncheon and a 3 p. m. business
meeting, and nine workshops fea
turing panel discussions and ques
tions concerning Catholic charities,
religious activities, adult educa
tion, organization and develop
ment. international relations, social
action. Parent-Teecher Associa
tions, public relations and family
life.
Theme of the convention is
“Counsel is mine, prudence is
mine, strength is mine,’’ a quotation
from the Book of Proverbs in the
Old Testament,
Mrs. Alexander J. Glockner,
Council president, has named Miss
Margaret Clark of Columbus as
general convention chairman. Mrs.
l.
eo Jennings of Zanesville will be
toastmaster at the panquei.
Registration for the convention
is scheduled at 10:30 a. m. Ad
vance registration for women in
the Central Deanery is urged in
order to make it possible for the
workshops to begn. on schedule.
Program
Pontifical High Mass 9:00 a. m.
Bishop Ready, celebrant
St. Joseph Cathedral
Delegates and guests are asked to
receive Holy Communion at this
Mass
The Neil House
Registration 10:30 a. m.
Mezzanine
Workshops 11:00 to 12:30 p. m.
1. Religious Activities
2. Social Action
3. Organization and Development
Luncheon 12:30 p. m.
Junior Ballroom
Workshops 1:30 to 3.00 p. m.
1. Committee Cooperating with
Catholic ChariDes
2. International Relations
3. Family Life
4. Adult Education
Grand Ballroom
Business Meeting 3:00 to 4:00 p. m.
Workshops, 4:30 to 5:30 p. m.
1. Parent-Teacher Associations
2. Public Relations.
Banquet 7:00 p. m.
Main Ballroom
Guest Speaker—Bella V. Dodd
Anti-Church Campaign
Flounders, Reds Admit
LONDON (NC) “The believers are on the offensive.”
This significant admission was made recently by the Soviet
Union’s Office for Religious Affairs in a report submitted to the
Kremlin in Moscow. I
What it means, in effect,lis that the new full-scale anti
religious propaganda campaign in
itiated throughout the length and
breadth of Russia several months
ago, is proving to be a sore dis
appointment to the Soviet leaders.
There have been indications be
fore that the new wholesale at
tempts to ram atheistic propagan
da down the throats ot the Russian
masses had served only to ex
pose a deep, unJerlying resistance
among them to the “spirit of mil
itant materialism.”
New reports reaching here only
serve to confirm the impression
that the Soviet propagandists are
having a hard time in their battle
against “religious superstitions.
funerals, and the circumcision of
children—are still practiced.”
There had been other newspaper
articles previously denouncing
workers for “neglecting” their du
ties to take part in services of the
Russian Orthodox Church.
It is noteworthy that these and
thousands of other articles do not
mention clergymen of any denom
ination. It is the laity—"the be
lievers”—who are being attacked
because it is they, the common
people of the Soviet Union, who
practice their religion with more
fervor than ever before.
The Soviet leaders are partic
ularly concerned because more
and more young people are be
ing found attending church serv
ices with their elders, and many
are "addicted” to superstitious
practices." They have blamed
this largely on lack of zeal on
the part of leaders of the com
munist youth movements.
From one end ot the Soviet Un
ion to the other, newspapers are
churning out camplaints ^gainst
schools and school teachers, hold
ing that they are chiefly respon
sible for the survival of religious
“prejudices” among the young.
Not long ago men in the Krem
lin prided themselves on the fact
that it was only among the old
people that religion continued to
be practiced.
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Eden To Be Asked
To Seek Release
Of Polish Cardinal
LONDON—(NC) Britain's For.
eign Secretary, Anthony Eden, will
be requested when Parliament
meets later this month to ask the
Polish communist regime to re
lease Cardinal Wyszynski, the im
prisoned Primate of Poland.
The request will be submitted by
David Logan, veteran Catholic MP.
who will point out that more than
a year has elapsed since the Car
dinal was imprisoned. Mr. Logan
asked if the minister is aware “how
perturbed Catholics are as to the
Cardinal s whereabouts.”
The complete text of Monsignor
Wolz's sermon it carried on page
two of this edition.
shown with a broom in her hands.
By what authority do we always
think of her as kneeling at a prie
dieu at the moment of the Annun
ciation?” Monsignor Wolt ques
tioned.
"It it much more likely that
the angel came to her while she
was busy with tome household
task," he said, "gathering wood
before dawn to fire the outdoor
oven for the day's baking, lifting
the heavy water jar to her head
at the village well, bent over the
handmill grinding the grain for
the next meal, sweeping, dusting,
sewing, weaving, doing any one
of the thousand duties that were
part of her responsibility as a
housewife."
At the Mass, offered by Bishop
Ready, representatives of school
children, youth groups and adult
lay organizations filled the Ca
thedral and received Holy Com
munion and participated in devo
tional exercises honoring the
Mother of God which followed the
Local College
Protests Nat’l
Debate Topic
St. Mary of the Springs this
week became the third Ohio col
lege to protest the national col
lege debate topic selected by the
Committee on Inter-Collegiate De
bate and Discussior. of the Speech
Association of America.
This year's topic is “Resolved:
that the U.S. should extend dip
lomatic recognition to the Com
munist government of China.”
Edna Nagy, student coach, writ
ing to the committee headquarters
at Oberlin. O., isked the commit
tee to “reconsider” this year's top
ic because debaters at St. Mary
of the Springs “cannot with sincer
ity take the affirmative.” It was
pointed out that the topic would
be an effective means for the
spreading of Communist propa
ganda.
Miss Nagy suggested two substi
tute topics, one lealing with inter,
racial education and the other con
cerning the problem of the par
titioning of West Germany.
.The action of the college came in
wake of a similar protest made
by the College of Steubenville and
Mt. St. Joseph College, Cincinnati.
SION
SIM
EO
Pictured above is the architect's drawing of the new St. Agnes
church now under construction on West Mound St. between Wheat
land and Wayne Aves. Present plans call for the vdifice to be com
pleted by Eastor of 1955. The churca will have a seating capacity
of 400 and the social hall, contained in right wing of the structure,
may be used to seat an additional 100 parishioners. The social
New Petition Proposed
For Our Lady’s Litany
A new title, Queen of Housewives, has been proposed for
the lengthening litany of praises to the Blessed irgin Mary.
In St. Joseph Cathedral, Columbus, during a diocesan-wide
Marian Dav celebration which was held in all the parishes and
institutions of the Diocese. Sunday, October 10. Monsignor
George T. Wolz, S.T.D., Vice Rector of St. Charles Seminary.
Columbus presented the Mother of God in this simple, at
tractive category of women.
“1 wonder if it would seem in
congruous if the Litany of Loretto
were one day to include the invoca
tion, Queen of Housewives, pray
for us.” Monsignor Wolz asked. Re
ferring to the artists who have tra
ditionally presented the Virgin
Mary in the gorgeous robes oi a
princess, with smooth features and
long, elegant hands. Monsignor
Wolz said they have done an in
justice to the real character of
Mary.
“How often is she not pictured
as kneeling in prayer? She prayed,
of course, but it would be true to
the facts if. she were sometimes
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Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, October 15, 1954
Architect’s Drawing Of New St. Agnes Church
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Mass. Climaxing the Marian cere
monies in the Cathedral, Bishop
Ready placed upon an enthrone
statue of Our Lady a crown of ros
es symbolic of her Queenship of
Peace.
Monsignor Wolz’ closing words
were devoted to Mary under the
title of Queen of Peace. Primarily,
the Catholic world turns to her
with that blessed name on its lips
to beseech her aid in averting war
among nations. “But this does not
exhaust the meaning of peace in
the petition,” Monsignor Wolz said.
“Most of you have lived through
a time of war. and you know from
bitter experience what a night
mare of anxiety and mental tor
ment war can be. But again ask
your experience whether war is the
worst of torments you ever knew,
is war always the thing most de
structive of your interior peace?”
Monsignor Wolz queried.
“Is not the greatest enemy of
peace the ever-present, gnawing
round of every-day worries that
are an unavoidable part of every
humin life, but an especially
prominent part of family life—
matters which often perhaps are
trivial in and by themselves, but
not trivial because of their con
stant presence, their wearying
habit of following one upon an
other, scarcely is one gone when
another comes to take its
place?
Whatever be our difficulties,
Mary understands because she
either faced them herself, or she
shared them with others Mary
is always Queen of Peace, and she
is that not only because she under
stands the trials we face but be
cause she also shows us the way
of peace,” he concluded.
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Sister M. Victoria
Will Mark Golden
Jubilee Tomorrow
Bishop Ready will offer a Pon
tifical Low Mass at line o'clock to
morrow morning in the Chapel of
St. Francis Hospital to mark the
golden jubilee of Sister M. Victor
ia. who has been a member of the
hospital staff for 44 years.
Sister Victoria entered the relig
ious congregation of the Sisters of
the Poor of St. Francis at St. Clare
Convent. Hartwell. Ohio, in 1900.
and made her profession of vows on
Oct. 15, 1904.
From 1904 to 19)0, she was as
signed to various dutie.: at St.
Clare Convent and St. Elizabeth
Hospital. Covington, Ky.
In 1910, Sister was assigned to St.
Francis Hospital. Columbus, for the
collection of alms, a task which
she most faithfull: and conscient
iously performed for the past 44
years. Sister could be seen daily
making her rounds to the various
stores and markets and was al
ways rewarded by donors and
friends for her efforts in behalf
of the poor and sick
Benefactors and friends are cor
dially .nvited to attend the Mass
tomorrow morning nr tn call on the
Jubilarian during the day.
Branding th* throat of inter
national communism as "the
most difficult problem of our
times," the Senator pointed out
that in just 37 years the Reds
have built their forces from a
mere 100,000 persons to a point
where they now control more
than a third of the world's pop
ulation and one-fourth of the to
tal land area.
“As an American.” Senator
Bridges asserted, "it is embarrass
ing to review the things which we
have allowed to happen in the last
nine years. The Korean war, the
arrest and detention of William
Otis, Robert Vogeler and Angus
Ward, the betrayal of China, the
extortion of the Berlin airlift, the
Yugoslavia plane incident, the
numerous Russian plane incidents
and the payment of $120,000 ran
som to the Hungarian government
for four members of the U.S. Air
Force are pitiful spectacles be
smirching the glorious history of a
free people.”
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WLW-C To Air
Series Written
By Fr. Nagle
“Uncle George and Uncle
Malachy,” a couple of favorite
characters for years in the
field of religious radio broad
casts, created by Father Ur
ban Nagle. O.P., chaplain of
St. Mary of the Springs Col
lege. will come to life over
WLW-C, Sunday morning.
Father Nagle, former producer
and director of the Blackfriars
Theater in New York, says the
characters are a composite of var
ious people he remembers from
his boyhood in Providence. R.I. The
two form a perpetual debating so
ciety. arguing everything from
baseball to religion.
Starting Oct. 17 through Nov. 7.
Father Nagle's fictitious uncles
will appear on The Catholic Hour
on Television, produced by the
National Council of Catholic men
and carried on WLW-C from 9:00
9:30 a. m. The telecasts will pre
sent Jack Hartley as Uncle George
and Alan MacAteer as Uncle Mai
achy in the series written by Fa
ther Nagle.
Father Nagle has said of his fic
titious uncles: “I thought they were
giants. When I got older and met
more people. I know thev were
characters. And when I stand on
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hall may be shut off from the church itself by means of folding
doors. At the present time, St. Agnes parish cares for approximately
500 families. Plans for the new church were drawn By Ramsey,
Croce and Abbot Architects of Columbus and the general contrac
tor is the Kent Brothers Company of Columbus. The cornerstone
for the church will be blessed on Sunday, Oct. 24.
it’s Time Reds
Feared Us,*
Solon Asserts
MANCHESTER. N H—(NC)
“I’m tired of being afraid of
the Russians, it’s about time
the Russians started to be
afraid of us,” declared U. S.
Senator Styles Bridges of New
Hampshire, in a speech at St.
Anselm College here.
As principal speaker at the
formal opening of St. Anselm s
Civil Defense course. Senator
Bridges demanded an end to ap
peasement and compromise on
Tundamental principles. He said
the United States should return to
rhe days of the “Don't Tread on
Me” rattlesnake flag “so that the
communists will not only be afraid
to attack, but will be afraid to
take any action which may pos
sibly call for strong measures on
our part.”
An expert surgeon is required,
he states, because of the extreme
delicacy of such operations.
Psychosurgery may be used
only as a last resort, he declares,
after other less radical types of
treatment have been tried and
found to fail.
It may be used only in cases
where the patient is likely to ben
efit from it. he continues He
gives as an example the case of a
hopelessly insane person who,
since he starts with such a handi
cap. can only stand to gain.
There must, he concludes, be
proper post-operative care. The
operation s curtailment of the pa
tient's emotional powers, he says,
does not make him incapable of a
human act or of recognizing re
sponsibility, but it does mean that
the patient needs a long period oi
postoperative care and re-educa
tion.
Father McCall notes that if
psychosurgery took away all will
power as some people believe, then
could be no question of its
being allowed. But. he writes, the
will and the intellect remain sub­
th: old battleground these days,,
I begin to think they were titans.”! Mr. Hoffmarvn, the father, prisoner of war in Russia for three years Angela, 18, and Edith, 12.
I
"After all," Wiley continued,
"it has been well recognized
that the worldwide struggle to
day is a conflict of ideologies
—a conflict between the forces
which recognize man as the spir
itual child of God and those
which deny both the existence
Psycliosurgery Is Held
As Morallv Permissible
NEW YORK (NC) Psychosurgery, delicate brain
operations whose morality has at times been questioned, is a
justifiable procedure given the proper conditions.
That is the opinion given by Father John McCall. S J.,
of Fairfield University in an article. “The Morality of Psycho
surgery." in the current issue of the Newsletter of the Ameri
can Catholic Psychological Associa
tion.
5 Conditions
Father McCall lists five condi
tions to be fuliilled before psycho
surgery can be judged morallv per
missible.
Due permission is necessary, he
says. That is. the patient must con
sent to the operation if he is capa
ble of doing so or the consent of
those immediately responsible for
him must bt obtained.
stantially unchanged by psycho
surgery. "Yet.' he states, "because
it does aftect the personality so
deeply it can only be allowed if
the due conditions are observed.”
Father McCall cites the opinions
of a number of other theologians
in support of his own ppSltion He
quotes Father Gerald Kelly. S.J.,
as saying that psychosurgery may
be used for the treatment of other
wise incurable pain as well as for
the treatment of serious mental
dividers when the five conditions
he lists are observed.
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Cornerstone Rites
At St. Augustine
Church Set Sundav
The cornerstone for the new St.
Augustine church will he blessed
by Bishop Ready. Sunday morning,
following the 11 o'clock Pontifical
Low Mass celebrated by the Bish
op.
Ground was broken for the 650
seat* brick and stone edifice in May
of this year and construction is
expected to be completed by
March. 1955. The parish serves
1600 families.
The present church, located in
the St. Augustine school building,
will be converted* into a cafeteria
and parish hall upon completion of
the new building.
Plans for the church were drawn
by Louis Karlsberger of Columbus
aqd the contractor is Leo Ruism
ger. Inc., of Columbus.
First American A isas For Expellees
The Karl Hoffmann family of Berlin, (above) forced to leeve their home when the Communists
took over are the first expellees to receive an American visa under the 1953 Refugee Relief Act. The
family will go to Chicago where Mr. Hoffman will work in his brother's bakery. Mr. John T. Crow
ley, Senior Emigration Officer for War Relief Service* NCWC, Berlin Office is shown w th the
group.. Left to right: Mr. Crowley Guenther Hoffnann, 16 Mr*. Hoffman, the mother Bernhard, 20
Every Day Should
Begin With The
Morning Offering
Price Ton Confs $3.00 A Year
Mill, I II
Solon Lauds Poles’mm'n„ii,..,nihi....
Deep Faith In Face
Of Red Persecution
WASHINGTON (NC) The chairman of the Senate
Foreign Affairs Committee this week praised the “renowned
and awe-inspiring piety’’ of the Polish people, and describ
ed the red-enslaved nation as the “sternest battleground be
tween atheistic communism and reverence for Almighty God.**
Sen. Alexander Wiley writing
the foreword to a 147-pagc study
of Poland, prepared for the Senate
by the Library of Congress. assert
ed that “no section of the report
is more inspiring than that which
relates the story of the Church's
resistance to the Godless Krem
lin.”
The Wisconsin lawmaker describ
ed the Catholicity of the Polish
people as "particularly worthy of
note” by men of all faiths “Pol
and yields to none .n its devotion
to the religious faith of its fath
ers,” he declared.
of God and the sacredness of
human life."
Issuance of the report on Poland
was timed to coincide with the cel
ebration of Pulaski Day by the
more than 6.000.000 Americans of
Polish descent.
“The new faith of the Marxist
Leninist materialism,” the study
said, “has forced the Polish Cath
olic to deepen his own religion. Un
der persecution, as always, the
Church gains in depth what it los
es in externals.”
After detailing the ways the com
munist regime in Poland has weak
ened the powers of the Church,
“limiting its influence and discred
iting its members. the report
comments:
"But all the communists can
touch are the external trappings,
the outward show of things.
What the Church has lost in of-
ficial importance, it ha* gained
in the heart* of t^e faithful."
“The complete eradication of re
ligion is a long-range objective of
the communist master plan.” the
report said. “The hesitation of the
Polish communist regime to begin
immediate’*- with a direct frontal
attack on religion is the best proof
of the fullness of the measure of
Polish piety.”
But even during tms early per
iod when “the communist leaders
tried to wrap themselves in the
cloak of sanctity the State was
elaborating a policy which when
finally revealed was far more sub
tle and effective than the use of
crude force. The regime s plan w as
to push the Church hierarchy out
of the national life, to isolate it by
making it somehow non-Polish’
and Foreign
The report went on to say that
the Reds attempt to oppose the
clergy to the Bishops and to detach
the clergy from the Holy See and
the unity of the Church. "To this
end all governmental information
sources pour out a continual stream
of vituperation against the Papal
See
Th* March, 1950, confiscation
of Church proo rty over 250
was probably the prelim
inary step, »ay» the report, in
the process of strangling the
Church slowly in a legal noose.
"Most of the Church's sources
of income are now under state
control."
“This was followed in February,
1953. by a decree requiring all per.
sons named to ecclesiastical posi
tions to take an oath to the Peo
ple's Republic, and empowering
the state to remove priests for
acts judged illegal or contrary to
the regime'.”
Then, continued the report, the
commuists resorted to other and
more brutally direct measures.
“The most eminent victim of the
regime is Cardinal Wyszynski. Pri
mate of Poland.” who was arrest
ed on September 26, 1953.
“In addition to the dramatic ar
rests of members of the higher
clergy.” continues the report,
“there has been a continuing
stream of priests and seminarians
who have neen arrested or have
disappeared without publicity or
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