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National Highlights Of 1954
(Continued from Page li
worldwide Feast of the Qtiecn
•htp of Mary as a Marian Year
•reject. The Vatican Marian Year
Committee set aside as special
Marian days March 25, Feast of
the Assumption, for prayers for
the Pope's intention, apd April 4,
Passion Sunday, for prayers for the
persecuted “Silent Church.’’
FEBRUARY Concern gripped
the world as a siege of hiccups
afflicted Pope Pius, causing his re
tirement to a sick bed in his apart
ment and cancellation of his ap
pointments and audiences. The Pa
pal physicians diagnosed the ail
ment as a neuro-digestive disturb
ance. Prayers for the Pontiff s wel
fare went up from round the globe
and by the month’s end he was on
the road to recovery.
Despite his ailment, the Pope
joined President Eisenhower, La
bor Secretary James Mitchell and
others in messages hailing the ob
servance of Catholic Press Month.
Disgust of the free world was ex
pressed' as Hungary’s Primate Jo
sef Cardinal Mindszenty marked
the fifth anniversary of his impris
onment by the communists. Presi
dent Eisenhower called it “an un
principled attempt to destroy the
spiritual and moral influence” in
Hungary.
Notre Dame’s famous football
coach, Frank Leahy, resigned due
to his health and was succeeded
by Terry Brennan. 25, one of his
former backfield stars. In Atlantic
City, a Lutheran convention call-
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ed “practically unworkable" the
1953 Refugee Relief Act to admit
214,000 refugees to this country in
three years. Msgr. Maurice S.
Sheehy, Catholic University of
America religion department head,
was named a Rear Admiral, first
Catholic- priest to attain this rank
while on inactive duty as a Reserve
Navy Chaplain. Msgr. Richard R.
St. John, Catholic Church Exten
sion Society vice-president, died in
Chicago and Msgr. Thomas J.
Reed, long associated with the so
ciety and Extension magazine, was
named tn succeed him.
MARCH Prevented by illness
from taking part in rites marking
his 78th birthday and the 15th an
niversaries of his election and cor
onation, Pope Pius from his sick
chamber in the Vatican: appealed
to U.S. Catholics to be generous al
“cost of self denial" in supporting
the 1954 Bishops’ Fund for Vic
tims of War, which was conducted
successfully on Laetare Sunday,
March 28 named Detroit's Auxil
iary Bishop Allen J. Babcock to
be seventh Bishop of Grand Rap
ids Msgr. Clarence J. Issenmann
to be Auxiliary Bishop of Cincin
nati, and Msgr. Justin J. McCar
thy, South Orange, N.J.. to be Aux
iliary Bishop of Newark.
One of America's best known
priests, Fr. Daniel A. Lord, S.J.,
columnist, author, playwright, told
he had incurable cancer of both
lungs, commented: “God knows His
business." There are 457,966 U.S.
Negro Catholics, a year’s increase
of 24.000. and 108,364 Catholics
among the nation’s 343,996 Indians,
a Commission for Catholic Mis
sions among Colored People and
Indians report stated. Remarks
made by Canada’s Prime Minister
Louis St. Laurent in Tokyo on a
world tour gave rise to speculation
Canada may recognize Red China.
Msgr. Patrick J. Ryan was nom
inated by President Eisenhower
to be Chief of Army Chaplains with
the rank of Major General. Veter
an U.S. diplomat Jefferson Caffery,
Ambassador to Egypt and convert,
was named for the 1954 Laetare
Medal by the University of Notre
Dame. Bishop Walter P. Kellen
berg, former New York Auxiliary,
was installed as sixth Bishop of
Ogdensburg, N.Y., and Bishop Jo
seph Annabring was consecrated
seventh Bishop of Superior, Wis.
The 22nd annual National Catholic
Conference on Family Life was
held in New Orleans.
APRIL In his first appearance
before a large gathering since his
illness. Pope Pius, in his Easter
address before 200,000 in St. Pe
ter’s Square, urged an internation
al curb on hydrogen and chemi
cal weapons. San Antonio's Arch
bishop Robert E. Lucey threw open
all archdiocesan schools to all
Catholics, regardless of “color, race
or poverty."
Millions in the U.S. joined Cath
olics the world over in observing
Passion Sunday as a day of prayer
for the suffering Church of Si
lence.
Oldest member of U.S. Hier
archy, Bishop Edmund F. Gibbons,
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Albany Msgr. Joseph Permconr,
New York, was named Auxiliary
Bishop of New York.
MAY Al the Vatican huge
throngs from ail over the world
witnessed the ceremonies which
raised Pius X. “the Pope of the
Eucharist and the modern Father
of the Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine,” to sainthood. In Wash
ington. the U.S. Supreme Court
handed down a long-awaited de
cision and ruled racial segregation
in the nation's public schools is
unconstitutional. In Richmond, a
week before, the high court de
cision, Bishop Peter L. Irelon di
rected the opening of all Virginia
Catholic high schools to Negroes.
Mrs. Margaret R. Murray, wife
of a San Francisco painting con
tractor and mother of seven, in
cluding two priests, was named the
1954 Catholic Mother, while in St.
Cloud, Minn., Mrs. Catherine J.
Bartholome, mother of Bishop Pe
ter W. Bartholome, who was voted
the first Catholic Mother of the
Year in 1942, observed her 101st
birthday. Charles J. McNeill of
George Pflaum, Publisher, Inc.,
was elected president of the 44th
annual Catholic Press Association
convention in Chicago.
The 1954 ’Official Catholic Di
rectory listed 31,648,424 Catholics
in the U.S., a year’s increase of
1,223,409. Celebrating his goldeh
ordination jubilee. Wheeling’s
Bishop John J. Swint was given
the personal titlegif Archbishop by
the Pope. Msgr. Howard J. Carroll,
N.C.W.C. General Secretary, was
named to represent the U.S. Hier
archy on the Holy See’s Supreme
Council on Emigration. At the Vat
ican, Archbishop Gerald P. O’Hara,
Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta and
Papal Nuncio to Ireland, marked
his silver jubilee in the Hierarchy.
Death claimed Anne O’Hare Mc
Cormick, 72, distinguished journal
ist and 1944 Laetare Medalist, in
New York.
JUNE Five new names were
added to the list of Saints when
Pope Pius at a single ceremony in
St. Peter's Basilica officiated al
the canonizations of. Saint Dominic
Savio, 15. follower of St. John
Bosco Saint Maria Crocilissa di
Rosa, foundress of the Handmaids
of Charity Saint Peter Chanel, 28.
a Marist, martyred on the Pacific
iSle of Firtuna Saint Gaspar del
Bufalo, Italian founder of the Pre
cious Blood Congregation, and
Saint Guiseppe Pignatelli, who for
sook a life of luxury and became a
famous Jesuit. All died during the
19th century and they raised to 33
the number of Saints canonized by
the Holy Father.
Catholics total 472-million among
the 2,440-million inhabitants of the
world, a study by Father Adrien
Bouffard in The Priest And The
Mission, review’ published in Par
is, disclosed. Stricken ill while en
route to the canonization of St. Pi
us X, Bishop James Boyle of Char
lottetown. Canada, died in London.
England. Archbishop Gerald P.
O’Hara, Bishop of Savannah-At
lanta, who had been Papal Nuncio
to Ireland, was named Apostolic
Delegate to Great Britain. Arch
bishop Albert I^evame, veteran
Papal diplomat, was named to the
Dublin posl. Bishop Thomas Asa
goro Wakida of Yokohama, Japan,
visiting the U.S., warned that if
Korea goes communist, so will Ja
pan. Cardinal Paul Emile Lcger,
Archbishop of Montreal, confer
red an honorary degree of the Uni
versity of Montreal on Ethiopia’s
Emperor Haile Selassie, visiting
Canada and the U.S.
JULY The Pope made Bishop
Thomas J. Toolen an Archbishop
“ad personam” and changed the
name of his See to the Diocese of
Mobile-Birmingham named Fr.
Robert F. Joyce, Rutland, Vt., Aux
iliary Bishop of Burlington, and
appointed Fr. John J. Scanlan,
San Francisco, Auxiliary Bishop of
Honolulu. Bishop Leo Christopher
Byrne, 29, was consecrated Auxil
iary Bishop of St. Louis. Msgr.
Paul F. Tanner, N.C.W.C. Assist
ant General Secretary, was elevat
ed to Domestic Prelate.
Fr. Terence S. McDermott left
New York for Rome to serve as
Dominicans’ acting head after Fr.
Emmanuel Suarez, Dominican mas
ter general, was killed in auto ac
cident in France.
On visits to U.S. and Canada
came Valerio Cardinal Valeri from
Rome to act as Papal legate at
Canada’s Marian Y’ear celebration,
and Lt. Genevieve de Galard Ter
raube, ‘Angel of Dien Bien Phu,"
from Paris. A Berlin report said
the Czechoslovakia Red regime had
jailed for 25 years on espionage
charges Bishop Stefan Trochta, 49,
of Litomerice, and three priests.
The CPA 1954 Directory reported
all-time high of 20.201.412 sub
scribers to Catholic Press in U.S.
Cardinal Stritch in a pastoral urg
ed Catholics to refrain from engag
ing in religious unity assemblies
or conferences.
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Grateful For U.S. Aid
Rev. Peter Ryang (left) shows Bishop Peul M. Ro, Apostolic
Vicar of Seoul, a handful of replies to his appeal for aid for Korea.
Bishop Ro is visiting the United States to express his gratitude
for U. S. aid. Father Ryand has been in this country since 1947 as
the Bishop's representative.
munism, sounded by Cardinal
Spellman at American Ix’gion 36th
national convention in Washington,
reechoed by report of House of
Representatives’ committee investi
gating communist aggression. With
division of Vietnam, NC News
Service survey showed 63-million
Catholics among ftoO-million living
under Red rule in world.
Death came to His Eminence
Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Shus
ter, O.S.B., 74, Archbishop of Mi
lan Bishop Joseph P. Lynch. 81,
of Dallas-Fort Worth Alcide de
Gaspcri, former Italian premier
and Christian Democratic party
leader Emilie Dionne. 20, of fam
ed Quintuplets. The Pope named
Msgr. Jerome D. Hannan. Catholic
U. of America vice rector, fifth
Bishop of Scranton. The Pope ap
proved use of English in a num
ber of blessings and some parts
of Baptism, Marriage and Extreme
Unction ceremonies.
President Eisenhower vetoed a
movie censorship law for Guam on
constitutional grounds.
SEPTEMBER Amei•ica is too
complacent in the face of com
munist aggressions, Ixts Angeles'
Archbishop, James Francis Cardi
nal McIntyre, told Seattle news
men. Msgr. Maj. Gen. Patrick J.
Ryan. Army Chief of Chaplains,
viewed as high compliment an at
tack on U.S. military chaplains by
Red Star, Russia’s army magazine.
A Vienna report said Hungary’s
Reds soon would release impris
oned Primate, Josef Cardinal Mind
szenty.
The Pope named Msgrs. Henry
E. Donnelly and John A. Donovan,
Detroit pastors, as Auxiliary Bish
ops of Detroit.
Hit by lightning, swept by fire.
St. Columba Cathedral, Youngs
town, O., w'as total loss. A Marian
Year tribute at Soldier Field. Chi
cago, attracted 250,000. Charles
F. Murphy, New York magistrate,
a Catholic, named “czar” of comic
books, promised a strict decency
code for the industry. Yearbook of
American Churches (Protestant)
reported 59.5 per cent of American
people are church members. For
first time in history Maine voters
elected a Catholic Governor, Ed
mund S. Muskie.
OCTOBER Pope Pius estab
lished the Feast-of the Queenship
of Mary to be celebrated annually
on May 31. Two Cardinals—Fran
cesco Borgongini Duca. 70, former
Nuncio to Italy, and Domenico
Jorio, 87, prefect of the Sacred
Congregation of the Sacraments—
died. President Eisenhower and
Cardinal Spellman were principal
speakers at the 10th annual Al
Smith Memorial dinner in New
York.
With work to start at once, the
contract was let for building the
super-structure of the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Concep
tion in Washington. Sacred Heart
Cathedral in Newark, N.J., 50 years
in building, was opened formally.
A Franklin County (Ky.) Circuit
Court held nothing illegal in nuns
wearing religious garb while serv
ing as public school teachers. In
Washington 150.000 gathered at
Washington Monument grounds
and in New Orleans 125,000 pack
ed Sugar Bowl Stadium for Marian
Year rallies. St. Claud’s Bishop
Peter W. Bartholome was elected
president at the 32nd National
Catholic Rural Life Conference
convention in Davenport, la. In
Philadelphia. 30.000 witnessed cel
ebration of Divine Liturgy at nine
altars at once at National Eucharist
and Marian Congress of Oriental
Rites Armenian-Rite Cardinal
Agagianian ottered closing Pon
tifical Liturgy.
Pope Renews Appeal To Nations
To Do Everything To Avert Threat
Of Atomic Warfare Poles Re
build 40 Warsaw Churches Destroy
ed By Nazis Former Nursery
of Dionne Quints Transformed In
to Convent Where Praying Rosary
Never Stops Fr. Peyton Opens
Rosary Crusade In Spain Jo-
seph I. Breen Resigns As Head Of
s Motion Picture Code Administra
tion Archbishop John Dooley
a in Hanoi. Only Papal Envoy Be
ll
hind Iron Curtain Shortage Of
illO-Million Houses In Western Eu
"Irope Reported 3-Million U.S.
Youngsters In First National
Catholic Youth Communion Sun
day.
NOVEMBER U.S Hierarchy
at annual Washington meeting: is-
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College of Our Lady of Mercy—
the only Catholic women’s college
in Maine—announced it has bought
a 115-acre estate on nearby Lake
Sebago as a site for a new campus.
The new tract, only 18 miles
from Portland, already boasts a big
residence of Tudor design which
will be renovated to provide dormi
tory facilities for 32 students a
native stone guest house, a nine
hole golf course, and 1,800 feet of
sandy beach. The Superior, Moth
er Evangelist, said construction of
a new building to provide class
rooms, laboratories, offices and
other facilities will begin next
spring. She said the purchase price
for the estate was $56,800.
sued statement calling godless ma
terialism No. 1 world evil, renewed
faith in God its cure set Decem
ber 26 as day of prayer and pen
ance for world’s persecuted. The
four U.S. Cardinals, some 100
Archbishops and Bishops assisted
at Mass closing two-day Marian
convocation in National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception at
Catholic U. Cincinnati's Archbish
op Karl J. Alter was re-elected
N.C.W.C. Administrative Board
chairman. Fr. R. A. McGowan re
tired as N.C.W.C. Social Action De
partment director, was succeeded
by Msgr. George G. Higgins.
Catholic Church Extension Soci
ety’s 48th meeting in Chicago dis
closed fifth annual $100,000 gift
from Chicago philanthropist Frank
J, Lewis for home mission church
es. War Relief Services—N.C.W.C.
reported its $43-million, 1953-54
world aid program topped efforts
of all other U.S. voluntary agen
cies combined. Death came to Car
dinals Giuseppe Bruno. 79, prefect
of the Apostolic Signatura tribun
al, and Juan Gualberto Guevara,
72. Archbishop of Lima and Peru’s
first Cardinal Fred B. Snite, jr.,
polio victim who spent 18 of his
44 years in an iron lung, at Palm
Beach, Fla. Oldest U.S. Hierarchy
member, Bishop Edmund F. Gib
bons of Albany, retired, was suc
ceeded by his Coadjutor Bishop
William A. Scully.
President Eisenhower addressed
27th National Council of Catholic
Women's convention in Boston,
which elected Mrs. August G.
Desch, Chicago, president. George
Heneghan, St. Louis, was elected
president at 40th National Confer
ence of Catholic Charities meeting
in Pittsburgh. The Pope beatified:
Sister Maria Assunta. Franciscan
Missionary of Mary, who died in
China in 1905 Fr. John Martin
Moye, French founder of Divine
Providence nuns, who died in
1793.
Other November headlines: U.N,
Delegates From 32 Nations Attend
Mass In New York Let-up In
Persecution In Red Rumania Re
ported Cardinal Mindszenty's
Refusal To Ask Hungarian Reds
For Clemency Seen Delaying Re
lease Catholic Refugee Com
mittee Reports 1.788 Children, 569
Priests Brought To U.S. Top
Diplomats Attend 45th Pan Amer
ican Mass In Washington.
DECEMBER At year’s end.
anxiety gripped the world as Pope
Pius suffered recurrence of ail-
ment which plagued him early in
the year and was confined to his
sickbed. Prayers for the Pope's
recovery were intertwined with de
votions bringing the Marian Year
to a close throughout the Catholic
world. In Rome the Central Com
mittee for the Holy Year described
the world-wide observance of the
Marian Year as “magnificent.” De
spite his illness, the Pope sent
messages to several national Mari
an Year congresses.
In Chicago, Superior Court Judge
Gibson E. Gorman in a divorce
case ruled test-tube babies were
illegitimate and mothers who en
gaged in the practice guilty of
adultery if their husbands were
not the donors. Future of religious
instruction in Argentina schools
appeared threatened because of
controversy between Pre s i e n
Juan Peron and several Argentine
Hierarchy members a number of
priests were arrested. At CIO con
vention in Los Angeles, 1-abor Sec
retary James Mitchell denounced
the so-called right-to work legisla
tion.
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Pontiff Asks Blessinjjs
onimued from Page 1)
ing the Cardinals of the Sacred
College, the prelates and members
of the P.oman Curia, the members
of the Papal household Bishops,
priests and faithful everywhere,
but especially those suffering like
himself, or those imprisoned or en
during persecution behind the Iron
Curtain.
“With particular affection.’’ the
Holy Fathei said, would We wish
serenity and comfort to those es
pecially loved by Jesus, since He
has given them a share of His
Cross to all who are saddened
by physical and mental infirmities,
who arc alone in their grief and
misery With bleeding heart,
We implore heavenly consolation
and heroic strength for all those
of Our children v ho have been
forcibly isolated in prison and in
concentration camp, and who have
been found worthy to suffer for
the sake of the Faith, or truth,
and of justice."
Twenty-two broadcasting agon
cies or organizations war' hook
ed up with the Vatican Radio
for the Pope's broadcast. Some
made recording* for re-broad
casting purposes at more suit
able times. It was announced
that the Vatican Radio would
broadcast translations of the
Pope's message in 28 languages
during the Christmas period.
Another Christmas Eve message,
addressed to the Pope on behalf
of the Sacred College of Cardinals,
was issued by His Eminence Eu
gene Cardinal Tisserant. dean of
College, v ho declared that the past
Placet Council
To Organize
Squires Circle
CHILLICOTHE—Flaget Council
1071, Knights of Columbus initia
ted the Columbian Squires move
ment in this city at a breakfast
meeting held Dec. 19 at St. Mary
School. Catholic boys of high school
age are eligible to join and some
60 boys attended High Mass and
Holy Communion in a body at St.
Mary Church, after which they at
tended the breakfast meeting.
William Piedmont. New Haven,
Conn., Knights of Columbus na
tional chairman of the Columbian
Squires, was introduced as the
principal speaker by Ralph Mar
tin, local district deputy of the
knights. Mr. Piedmont explained
that the purpose of the Colum
bian Squire movement was to de
velop a strong aggressive, articu
late lay leadership in our commun.
ity of tomorrow. Each Columbian
Squires Circle is under the adult
guidance of a committee made up
of members of the local Knights
of Columbus Council. This com
mittee consists of a Chief Counsel
lor, a Father Prior, a Cultural
Counsellor, a Civic Counsellor, a
Social Counsellor, and a Phyhical
Counsellor. Every Squire is assign,
ed io a committee and Jven*a
specific duty or responsibility in
the sponsorship of all of the circle
activities.
The organization, otherwise, op
erates on its own and belongs to
the members, elects its own of
ficers. conducts its own meetings,
sets its own dues, etc. It has a
balanced program of spiritual, cul
tural, social, civic and athletic ac
tivities. Each member receives
a copy of the monthly magazine
“Columbia Squires Herald,” the
official magazine published in
New Haven, Conn.
Ed Mattingly, Ohio State Colum
bian Squires chairman, explained
the initial organization, initiation
and investure of charter members
into a Circle. Plans were made to
initiate a charter class ir the or
ganization by Jan. 15. The address
of welcome to the attending boys
was given by Leo Stark, grand
knight of Flaget Council.
Members of the local council
who have volunteered to ad as
guides for the new circle are John
Dobbins, chairman: John Ziccardi,
Richard T. Ward, Mr. Martin and
Mr. Stark.
year had been one of joy and suf
fering for both the Poy* and the
Church He said the Pontiff had
suffered in his own person, while
the Church had suffered through
persecution in many countries.
Joy. however. Cardinal Tisserant
declared, had come from the Mai
lan Year and the canomz-tion of
St. Pius X. which was one of the
shining events of the Year.
Prayer and suffering obviously
have had their effect
ening the Church and
since persecutors are
neued efforts through
er repressive measures and propa
ganda to “beat down the Church,”
Cardinal Tisserant added.
Because of his illness, the Holy
Father was unable persorally to
deliver his customary longer
Christmas allocution—the 16th of
his pontificate. It was announced
that instead the text of the mess
age would appear later in printed
form.
Pop* Pius was reported mean
while to be doing better than
holding hi* own in the serious
illness which first became ap
parent vhen he returned at the
beginning of Advent from his
summer palace in Castelgandol
fo. He is making a real, ’f ted
ious and slow, improvement ac
cording to all announcements
and other indications
Various reports confirmed that
while the Pope is not yet consid
ered out of danger, he is definitely
making progress along the path of
recovery. He has continued to re
ceive Msgr. Domenico Tardmi, Pro
Secretary of State
ary Ecclesiastical
Msgr. Angelo Dell
sick room.
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New Coadjutor Appointed
VATICAN CITY—(Radio, NC)—
Bishop Francisco Nuno, 49. of Za
catecas, Mexico, has been named
Titular Archbishop of Garella and
appointed Coadjutor Archbishop
of Guadalajara, now’ headed by
Archbishop Jose Garibi y Rivera.
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Dr. Mitchell To Speak
Doctor William Mitchell, founder
of the Brother Martin Home, will
be the guest speaker at the Jan.
7 meeting of the Catholic Men’s
Luncheon Club. The lunches are
held in the Virginia Hotel at 12:00
noon.
Worlds larqe-
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in strength
the faithful,
making re
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Pope Pius had earlier received
the Christmas greeting of the
red College, extended through
dinal Tisserant. Members of
diplomatic corps at the Holy
did not make the traditional
Christmas visit to the Pontiff, but
a message was brought in their
name by Ambassador Vladimir d’
Ormesson of France, and Ambass
ador Casimii Paper, of the Polish
government it exile.
“Holiest Father, on the eve of
1955. the heads of missions accred
ited to the Holy See.” the me -sage
read, “wish to extend to Your Holi
ness the respectful and ardent
wishes which they cherish tor the
complete return to health of a
person so dear and important to
them. They beg the Omnipotent
God to heed the supplications of
Your Holiness, and to bless your
beneficent labors for peace in the
world and for the sacred defense
of religious liberties.”
for Extraordin
Affairs, and
’Acqua, in his
rides and short
Daily automobile
walks in the Vatican Gardens have
now become a regular feature of
the Pope’s convalescence. His doc
tors have stressed that recovery
will be uneven, thus no special
significance has been seen in
fact that some nights he has
rested
slight
times,
called
and whole blood to help build up
his strength.
NCCM To Issue
Program Manual
For Parish Units
WASHINGTON. C. —(NC'
The National Council of Catholi
Men here has come up with wh#
it thinks will give an answer to
oft asked question “What will w
do at our next parish meeting?”
the
not
had
too well and has even
recurrences of hiccups
the Pope's treatment
for transfusions of plasma
It is a “Program Manual K
Parish Meetings.’’ winch featur®
15 topics arranged to stimulate
discussions and inform Cathoji1
men of the Church's basic (esc)
mgs regarding social problems*
Subjects in the manual wef
selected from among the mot
popular Fact Sheets” in tit
Council's monthly newsmagazine
Catholic Men. “Fact Sheets” pr*
sents information on current mon
issues.
Car
the
See
Martin Work, executive direetc
of the Council, predicts the manti:
will be ‘to the parish organization
of men what the first grade prtmf
is to firs! grade classes
The manual will be shipped oi*
as a free program service to th
more than 6 000 affiliated organ
zations of the Council. Philip
Finn. Jr. program director of th
Council, noted that the new mat
ual is the first program develop*
and distributed by the newl*
created program department.
Copies of the manual will b
available at a minimum price
organizations not now affiliate'
with the National Council of C:
tholic Men. Mr. Finn said.
The Council is the single. natiQi
al federation nt organizations
atholic Men in the United Stat?
and has lhe responsibilities of n?
tional Catholic Action among me
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