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Vol. IV, No. 10
Priest-Editor Protests
G. V. Alien’s Nomination
To High State Position
ST AUGUSTINE. Fla. (NC) —Protests against the pro
posed appointment of George V. Allen as Assistant Secretary
of State for Middle East Affairs have been wired to President
Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles by Fath
er John Fitzpatrick, executive editor of The Florida Catho
lic. newspaper of the Diocese of St. Augustine.
In his wire to President Eisen
hower Fall er Fitzpatrick charged
that Mr. Allen, while U.S. Am
bassador to Yugoslavia made
“shocking’’ statements regarding
His Eminence Aloysius Cardinal
Stepinac, “The hero of the Faith in
Yugoslavia.” The editor told the
President that Mr. Alien’s appoint,
ment to the post of Assistant Sec
retary of State "outraged the con
sciences of all Catholics and other
decent Christian people,” and that
he “cannot believe” Mr. Allen “has
any place in our government dur
ing these times of mortal crises,
when we so badly need unity.”
While spending his Thanksgiv
ing holiday? in Augusta, Ga the
President announced that Mr. Al
len was his personal choice for
the post of Assistant Secretary of
Bidiop Pacha
Of Rumania
Reported Dead
VIENNA. Austria ((Radio.
NC) Ihe death of 84-year
old Bishop Augustine Pacha of
Timisoara. Rumania, on Nov
ember 4. a few months after
his release from prison, has
been reported here.
Bishop Pacha, who was sen
tenced to 18 years of hard
labor by the Reds in 1951 on
charges of "treason” and “espion
age.” was buried in the crypt of
the Timisoara Cathedra! on Novem
ber 8. the report said.
Three years before his imprison
ment the Bishop had been “depos
ed" from his diocese by the com
munists, who then “suppressed”
his See.
Both before and after hi*
"trial" in Bucharest he was re
portedly forced to become a part
of a slave labor pang working on
a proposed canal linking the Dan
ube River and the Black Sea. It
was reported in 1952 that he was
injured in an accident during
the canal's construction.
Reports from communist Ruman.
la stated that the aged Bishop was
severely mistreated during his im
prisonment because he persistently
refused to assume leadership of a
schismatic “National Catholic
Church.”
In July the Rumanian legation
here announced that he had been
released from prison because of ill
health.
SAIGON, Vietnam (NC)
Vietnamese President N o
Dinh Diem praised as “heroic”
the refugees who “chose to
leave the north under most
perilous conditions.”
The 53-year old Catholic
President, voiced intense per
sonal admiration of his fellow
countrymen. non-Catholic as
well as Catholic, who have pre
1. abandon home and land
rr n slay under a commun
is! te.
‘Ii 'C ing liberty, they ha\e
d? l::i iruai the most fertile
pE1 s ol north and central Viet
nam.” he told this correspondent in
an interview here They have giv
en up the country's best ricelands,
bequeathed to them by their ances
tor* of the past 2,000. years.”
The departure of the refugees,
in spite of dangers and obstacles
placed by th* Vietminh, amount*
to "the most eloquent proof" of
what th* communist regime real
ly means, he said.
“These hundreds of thousands
of refugees and their mass flights,
especially under the dramatic con
ditions of recent weeks, constitute
an irrefutable verdict against com
munism.” he declared.
State. Mr. Allen is now serving as
U.S. Ambassador to India and
Nepal.
Three years ago. when Mr. Al
len was U.S. Ambassador to Yugo
slavia, he was quoted in a news
dispatch as saying that Yugoslavs
had adequate reason for their view
point for trying and condemning”
Cardinal Stepinac, Archbishop of
Zagreb.
A few months later, Mr. Allen
roturnod to this country and
when he was questioned after a
talk before th* National Press
Club in Washington, he denied
he had made th* statement. How
ever, in reply to a direct ques
tion declined to say whether
he believed Cardinal Stepinac
had be*.. imprisoned justly by
th* communist Yugoslav regime.
In his wire to Secretary Dulles,
Father Fitzpatrick protests “the
rumored appointment of Mr. Al
len,” and says the reason for his
protest is that Mr. Allen while
still Ambassador to Yugoslavia,
“took the communist line” in his
“shocking attack on the char
acter of that noble sufferer of
the Christian Faith who is Cardinal
Stepinac.”
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Carol Singing
Continues At
State House
The Holy Rosary High School
Glee Club will sing Christmas car
ols on the State House Lawn at
7:30 p. m. Thursday. The choral
program was arranged by the Dio
cesan Council of Catholic Women
as part of its project to “Keep
Christ in Christmas.”
The DCCW in operation with the
Junior Chamber of Commerce, is
providing carolers to sing Christ
mas hymn twice weekly in down
town Columbus. Hymns also will
be sung on the State House Lawn
on the Monday and* Thursday pre
ceding Christmas. Each program
will be an hour in juration.
Th* DCCW else announced
this week that Christmas pamph
lets will be distributed in all
parishes Sunday, instead of Dec.
19, as originally planned.* The
CYO will handle distribution.
The pamphlets relate the history
and give interpretations of popu
lar Christmas traditions and sym
bols.
Catholic Youth Praise
New Comic Book Code
WASHINGTON, D. C. (NC) The new comic book
code got a pat on the back from representatives of organized
Catholic Youth in a meeting here.
The national council of the Diocesan Section of the Na
tional Council of Catholic Y’outh took the action at a three-dav
gathering at headquarters of the
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence here.
Features of th* new code sin
gled out for commendation were
Ngo Dinh Diem
Lauds ‘Heroic’
Countrymen
"the sanctity of marriage and
the value of th* home, and ob
serving of respect for parent
hood, the moral code and hon
orable behavior."
The national council also pledg
ed its support, through Faith, to
the Bishops of the country in “the
fight against the onslaught of ma
teriahsm” and expressed gratitude
for the "wholehearted support” of
the American hierarchy in the last
National Catholic Youth Week.
Activities for the forthcoming
year and a program for the 1955
national convention in St. LouK
Mo., were discussed. It was decided
that slogan, poster and one act play
contests will be sponsored in con
nection with the Fifth National
Catholic Youth Week.
One of the reports given during
the sessions showed that the Youth
Council now has affiliations of 761
parishes in 31 archdioceses and
dioceses and that eight national
organizations are tied in with the
Council.
Present at he meeting were
Msgr. Joseph E. Schieder, Nation
al Director, and national officers
of the Diocesan section, regional
representatives and members of
the national staff.
The national officers attend
ing were: Joseph F. Crangle,
Buffalo, N. Y., president Mary
Kay Ruddy, Columbus, Oh:o, vice
president Dolores Dlugas, Tor
rington, Conn., secretary, and
Math Prom, Harvey, N.D., treas
urer.
Regional repiesentatives includ
ed Gerald Rourke and Mary
Flynn Boston Geneal Kram
er. Cincinnati, Paul Huetteman.
Detroit. Richard Barnes. Empire
State area, and Frank Zubick, Phil
ladelphia.
Released Time
Plan Periled
In Argentina
BUENOS AIRES (NC)
The future of religious instruc
tion in Argentinian public
schools appeared threatened
with a new decree issued here
by President Juan Peron.
The decree abolished the
National Department of Relig
ious Teaching and the Inspec
torate e n e a 1 of Religious
Education under which religious
instruction in the schools was car
ried out. This function reportedly
will now be taken oxer by the
Ministry of Education. However,
there was cottfusion over whether
and how this would be done.
The presidential decree also
changes abruptly the setup un
der which future religious In
struction, if any, would operate.
In the past the government sub
mitted the names of religion
teacher* either priests or
Catholic laymen to the local
Bishop for his approval The de
cree states that this provision
"curtails the executive power's
exclusive appointive authority by
subjecting it to prior approval
by ecclesiastic authorities."
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5,000 French
Military Honor
Mary In Paris
PARIS. France (NC) More
than 5.000 soldiers, sailors and air
men filled the nave and the side
bays of Notre Dame Cathedral here
at a Mass to mark the closing of
the Marian Year.
They had been invited by His
Eminence Maurice Cardinal Feltin,
Archbishop of‘Paris, who is Vicar
of the Military Ordinariate. “Nev
er, without doubt, in the Cathe
dral’s eight centuries has it wit
nessed such a spectacle,” he said
after the Mass.
A considerable number of men
wounded in Indo-China also attend
ed the Mass. Mme Jean de Lattre
de Tassigny. widow of the former
French Commander in Indp-China,
sat with them.
During the Mass, which was cele
brated by Father Pascal, chief
chaplain to the troops in Indo
China. a prayer was read in which
the pain and losses of all the men
and women who had suffered be
cause of the war in Indo-China
were offered up to God.
At the Offertory, a group of sai
lors came to the altar with the
bread, aviators offered the wine,
and soldiers brought the water.
The Catholic
Keeping Christ In Christmas
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, Docombor 10,1954
Commemorate The Greatest Gift
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On the first Christmas Day, Almighty God gave us His Divine Son, the Supreme
Gift. By sharing our fortunes with others then, we commemorate'in a special way this
act of God on the first Christmas Day. One of the most popular ways to show our gratitude
is the family practice of making up baskets of food for the poor. The practice is centuries
old, having many variations in different lands. It's a custom that all can participate in,
from kings to laborers. Pictured above is Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Eisel and their family of
St. .Mary parish, Columbus, preparing a basket for distribution to the poor. Standing,
left to right, are Mr. Joseph Eisel, Billy, Mrs. Eisel, Tom and John. Seated are Danny,
Joe and Jean. In the metropolitan area of the Diocese, the baskets can be brought to the
Catholic Welfare Bureau, 246 E. Town St. The baskets must be brought to that office by
Tuesday or Wednesday, Dec. 21 and 22. Those living outside the metropolitan area are
asked to contact members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society or their pastor.
English Text Of Ritual
For 3 Sacraments Set
For Publication Dec. 14
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (NC) The Collectio Rituum,
containing both English and Latin texts for three of the Sacra
ments. the burial rite and 26 commonly used blessings, in ac
cordance with the decree issued last summer, will be pub
lished Wednesday.
Archbishop Edwin V. O'Hara.
Bishop of Kansas City, Mo chair
man of the Episcopal Committee
of the Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine, announced the publica
tion date.
The contents forhe new book of
rites for the Church in the United
States were specified in th* deciee
issued by the Congregation of Sac.
red Rites which was read at the
15lh National Liturgical Confer
ence last August in Milwaukee.
It contains the rife in both Eng
lish and Latin for the Sacraments
of Baptism, Matrimony and Ex
treme Unction. According to the
Bruce Publishing Company. Mil
waukee, publishers of the Collcc
tio Rituum, where I-atin must be
used an English translation is also
provided so that any portion may
be repeated in English for the ben
efit of the laity present.
Also included are the English
texts of th* burial rite and 26
blessings most commonly used
by the clergy, including the
blessings of mothers before and
after childbirth, blessinas of
throats, of holy water, of the
sick and of children.
An eight-page appendix is de
voted to a Blessing for Wedding An
niversaries.” and in a supplement
bound with the text the various
chants for funerals are coordinat
ed with the new optional English
words
The new English translation was
prepared by liturgists from the
United States and other countries.
Work has been in progress since
1951 when the Bishops of the Unit
ed States a-ked the Confraternity
of Christian Doctrine to study the
disirability of asking Rome for
optional use of English in some of
the sacraments.
A petition we* sent to Rom* a
year ago through His Excellency,
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Ci
cognani. Apostolic ^delegate to
th* United States who received
word last summer that use of
English in some parts of ihe Sac
raments had been sanctioned.
"In the administration ol the
Church'* rite.” according to a
statemen: made by
the Bishops’i cese.
id
Committee, “the accompanying
prayers are not directed to dis
pose Go to grant graces, but are
aimed at the better psychological
preparation of the recipient (if
adult) and of those present.”
Because so many of the prayers
used in the administration of the
Sacraments are designed to attune
the minds of the faithful to the
event taking place and to help
their disposition for receiving the
saciai .ent. it has become desirable
to have certain parts of the rites
in English. The action which has
brought the new changes in the
language of the rites is part of a
widespread movement to increase
the participation of the laity in the
liturgy.
According to the decree on
which th* new ritual is based,
English may be used in the fol
lowing instances:
In the Baptismal rite all cere
monies of enrolling the catechu
men. including all the prayers and
question.ng. Only the three exor
cisms. the brief formulas of anoint,
ing and blessing and the actual
wojds of Baptism—"Ego te Bap
tize ...” need be said in Latin.
All the prayers and blessings
of the Confiteor of the Rite of
Extreme Unction may likewise be
said in English. Latin is retained
only in the prayer at the imposi
tion of the hand- over the sick per
son in the words of the anointing
and the blessings that follow.
In the marriage ceremony the
rite has Deen amplified and now
includes several blessings design
ed to impress those present with
th* solemnity and beauty of
th* grit sacrament. Psalm 127
—th* marriage psalm—and sev
eral invocations for the success
and fruitfulness of the new mar
riage follow the exchanging of
ring*. The entire ceremony is
now in English with the excep
tion of the blessing of th* ring*
and the word* "Ego Coniungo
vos ."
In funeral rites. English may be
used throughout defending on the
wishes of the Ordinary of the dio-
Times
"It is unique among the in
stitutions of our city in its car*
of the chronically ill patient*
as well as those usually cared
for in hospital*. This face give*
special distinction to the present
celebration and deserves empha
sis among the other outstanding
qualities for which St. Anthony's
is renowned."
Bishop Ready and Governor
Lausche were the principal speak
ers at the ceremonies, which her
alded the opening, scheduled Jan
1, of the first two floors of the
four-story west wing. The entire
project will provide 120 additional
beds.
In his address. Bishop Ready
termed the hospital “a shrine of
science, a shrine of religion and a
shrine of the dignity of man.”
Elaborating, the Bishop pointed
out that the hospital, serving in
the scientific tradition, is “staffed
Roils Assailed
For Coercing
Czech Bishops
VATICAN CITY (Radio. NC)
—Czechoslovakia's communist re
gime received sharp criticism here
for its political maneuver in mak
ing the Catholic hierarchy ot the
country direct appeals to western
Bishops to endorse the Soviet
“peace” plan.
It was announced some days ago
by the Prague regime that the
Catholic Bishops had directed these
appeals to Catholic Bishops in
France, Germany and Italy and
sent a copy to the Vatican Secre
tariate ol State The appeal urged
opposition to the western decision
to permit the rearming of western
Germany and called for support
of the Russian all-European' se
curity conference now under way
in Moscow.
Osservatore noted that six of the
16 signatories were those of Bish
ops. five of them supposedly still
“free.”
"But what kind of freedom
can they have," Osservatore ask
ed, "with vicars imposed on
them, spies ever in their com
pany and in their chancery of
fices, and ever subject to threats,
pressure and administrative an
noyances?"
The Vatican City paper pointed
out that there are 14 ecclesiastical
juris dictions in Czechoslovakia,
two archdioceses, ten dioceses and
two apostolic administrations. Yet
eleven Bishops are in jail or oth
erwise deprived of their personal
liberty.
Osservatore speculated that the
Red regime must certainly have
much more important matters to
attend than this “idle luxury” of
using the Catholic Bishops in po
litical maneuver.
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Bishop Lauds Hospital,
Nuns At Dedication Of
St. Anthony’s Addition
A salute to the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis for their “essential service” to the
city and community was voiced by Bishop Ready Wednesday at the dedication of the new
$1,000,000 west wing of St. Anthony’s Hospital
Describing St. Anthony's Hospital as a “mightv citadel of God s love as manifested in
the saintly lives of these humble
Franciscan Sisters.” Bishop Ready
noted that the institution has a
special claim to affection and sup
port. He declared:
by capable physicians and sur
geons. men abreast of the times,
well skilled in the soundest pro
cesses of their art.
“The Sisters he continued, “by
long training and experience are
of the highest competence in null
ing and management They, with
the other nurses who exelcise
kindly ministrations here, are
women of recognized ability in the
work, technically schooled, and
qualified by the proper official
registration and academic degrees.
"The physical equipment ef
the institution is complete. There
is lacking no essential or useful
article of what may be called
mechanical aids to diagnosis
and healing. Certainly then, it
is not mere fervid fancy that
applies to this hospital the title
of 'shrm* of science'. With this
new wing, and its splendid equip
ment, St. Anthony's is eminent
ly deserving of that title
Pointing out that it is a "cardi
nal requirement of the Christian
faith that we see in every man
a brother in the great family of
God,” Bishop Ready said the hos
pital is a shrine of religion be
cause "it serves God in serving
the needs of men—the images of
God.” He added:
“Here under one roof with those
who serve and those who are serv
ed is the dwelling place of Our
Lord and God. Here, day after day.
the Sublime Sacrifice is offered.
Here in His Tabernacle, the Lord
is ever present. And here the Sis
ters of the Poor of St Francis who
manage the affairs ot the hospital
live their dedicated Ines of prayer,
meditation and contemplation,
ceaselessly invoking divine biess-
ords Of Pins XI
To Be Featured
In Radio Series
The new "Hour of Holiness”
radio series that will he heard
over radio station WBNS begin
ning Sunday at 12.45 p. m. will
concern itself with the pontificate
of the presently reigning Pope
Pius XII.
His Holiness Has used every
media of communications, includ
ing the press, radio television,
letters, encyclicals, in an unprece
dented degree covering a wide
variety of topics in the moral and
social fields as well as the relig
ious.
Hundreds of thousands of Amer
icans have been priv ileged to hear
him speak personally as he address
ed pilgrimages from the United
States.
The series of programs, to be
called "Voice from the Vatican”,
will feature excerpts from manv
of Pius XII’s addresses, letters and
encyclicals v*ords that have a
permanent value and carry i last
ing message.
The series is being produced
by Father Thomas Duftj of St.
Charles Seminary.
A etc Shrine Of Our Lm/v Of Mercy Dedicated
The new Marian shrine named in honor of Our Lady of Mercy was blessed and dedicated by
Bishop Ready Tuesday, th* Vigil of th* Immaculate Conception The shrine is located on the grounds
of Our Lady of Mercy School for Retarded Children in Grenville. It is planned that th* shrine will
be a. focal point for a drive next year te raise fund* secessary to expand the facilities of th* school.
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ing upon their work, and endlessly
imploring God to bestow His gra
cious gifts upon the souls and bod
ies of their patients.”
The hospital, too, appreciates
th* worth and meaning of hu
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Priest Relates
Story Of Brutal
Red orture
WASHINGTON (NC)
A story of harrassment, arrests
and torture was told here as a
Hungarian Jesuit priest told
the* House Select Committee
on Communist Aggression how
the Reds suppressed the So
ciety of Jesus in that country.
The testimony was given by Fa
ther Francis E Toth, who escaped
from Hungary in 1948 as a Jesuit
seminarian and is now professor at
the Brooklyn Preparatory School,
Brooklyn. The testimony was bas
ed on the written reports of 49
Jesuits who had escaped from Hun
gary.
The priest disclosed that 50,
Jesuit priests. Brothers or semi
narians had been arrested and jail
ed for periods of three months or
more by the Hungarian regime.
The latest victim listed was one
Jesuit arrested in June of this year
on unknown charges.
The 65-page memorandum sub
mitted to the House committee al
so described some of the torture*
received by imprisoned Jesuits.
“They beat you all over with
one-inch trick rubber clubs.” the
memorandum quoted one Hungari
an Jesuit once jailed by the Reds.
“They concentrate on the head and
the soles of the feet, so that after
wards you cannot walk because of
the blisters. They are very careful
not to break any bbnes.
"They slap you in the face until
you fall unconscious. I received
about 100 blows this way. fainted
three times and finally signed a
confession I had no idea what it
was about.
“They hit you in the stomach
until you collapse, then keep kick
ing you all over. They make you
swallow a good handful of salt
which they make you believe is
dead’} nton nu non receive
any w'ater for 24 hour afterwards.
They threatened to kill me. They
said they would bury me alive and
so forth.”
5 Medical Research Grants
warded Georgetown U.
WASHINGTON. C. (NO
Five grants for medical research
have been awarded to Georgetown
University by the United States
Public Heal’n Sen ice it was an
nounced here bv the University’s
medical center.
The total amount of the grants
made to the physicians is $44,476.
All the grantees are professors at
the medical centers.
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