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It*s Time to Rehew Your Subscription to The Catholic Tinies Vol. IV, No. 18 Carmelite May Become First Canonized Martyr For Catholic Journalism By Thomas F. Doyle (Staff Writer, N.C.W.C. News Service) A preliminary process just started in the Netherlands Diocese of s’Hertogenbosch may result in a Dutch Carmelite priest, who died in Dachau concentration camp early in the war, becoming the first modern martyr for Catholic journalism to be canonized. His Eminence John Cardinal de Jong, Archbishop of Ut recht, was the first witness in the cause of Father Titus Brands ma, 0. Carm., who ran into trouble with the nazi occupation regime in the Netherlands when he blocked its plans to make Cath olic papers mouthpieces of its racial doctrines. Cardinal de Jong told of Father Titus’ courageous defen e of the rights and duties of the Catholic press. Other witnesses are expect ed to relate stories of his exemp lary spiritual life and his zealous charity, especially toward his fel low-prisoners in the “hell of Dachau.” Still others will have much to say about his work as a university professor, a writer of religious books, and the organizer or leader of a variety of Catholic enterprises, among them the first Marian congress ever held in Hol land. Father Titus died at 61 in the infirmary of the Dachau camp on July 26, 1942, a victim of the phys ical ills aggravated by brutal treat ment at the hands of his nazi jail ers. it was on that same data in (Continued on Page 2) Osservatore said that an aposto late Christian turned communist official had been quoted as stating that the Chinese Reds want to save, not destroy, the priests be cause they have “a social value,” are well educated and disciplined, and once' reclaimed from their ‘‘imperialistic tendencies” would be of great value to the movement for a new China. "It won't work, but that's the way they think," '.'Osservatore" commented. "It is a returr to the The statistical report, announced this week by Msgr. William E. Kappes, diocesan director of hos pitals and charities, also revealed that two sets of twins were given new homes. The twins, Monsignor Kappes said. were kept together in accordance with a policy of plac ing brothers and sisters in the same family. The growth of the Bureau’s pro gram, which ranks second in the number of adoptions among agen cies in Columbus and Franklin County, is indicated by statistics embracing a seven-year period. The Bureau placed 25 children in both 1948 and 1949, 27 in 1950. 40 in 1951, 26 in 1952, 37 in 1953 and 42 last year. The procedure which the prospective parents must follow to adopt a child is relatively simple. Both of them must make personal application at the bu reau office at 246 E. Town St. It is necessary also for them to be Catholics in good standing, to have a recommendation from their pastor, and reside in the Columbus Diocese. In the subsequent investigation by the bureau’s case workers, the spiritual, emotional and economic environment of the family is put under scrutiny. Then, after the home is studied and approved, an adoptive committee, composed of a Fr. Titus Brandsma Red China’s Nationalist Appeal In War Against Church Invalid VATICAN CITY (NC) The battle against Catholic ism in Red China is the same as in other countries, but the Chinese communists have a special advantage. They can ap peal to nationalistic sentiments in their war against the Church. This was pointed out by Osservatore Romano, Vatican City newspaper, in a front-page article which declared, how ever, that the appeal made by the Chinese communists has no valid basis. The article, signed by Frederico Alessandrini, one of the Osserva tore’s editors, was prompted by re ports that four Chinese priests had been shot by communist authori ties at Hanchow for alleged “crimes against the state.” It is a simple, direct nationalism which explains the expulsion of missionaries in spite of the Church's known practice reaf firmed by His Holiness Pope Pius XII in two recent documents— that of setting up native hierarch ies in mission countries as soon as this can be done. Osservatore declared that the Church, as Pope Pius showed had already set up a hierarchy in Chi na. It said that the Church’s organ ization there as in other countries, was such that the Church would gradually become autonomous, with native priests supplanting foreign priests. Referring to two other “auton omies” demanded by the Reds of the Catholic Church in China self-support and self-propagation— 1900 Revolution without blood. (Continued on Page 2) Welfare Bureau Seis Record Forty-two children found new homes, new parents and new playmates last year, thanks to the benevolent adop tive work of the Catholic Wel fare Bureau. The figure is an all-time record for the Columbus Diocese, and brings to 222 the number of chil dren placed for adoption by the bu reau in the past seven years. In line with a long-standing Bureau policy to place children for adoption at the earliest pos sible age, 25 of the 42 young sters were five months of age or younger. The youngest baby, incidentally, was three weeks old, and the oldest youngster, 10 years of age. 42 Children Placed for Adoption ■1 New School Opens at Holy Name The new eight-classroom Holy Name School, which will provide facilities for 320 students in grades one through eight, opened its doors for the first time this week Com pletion of the school reduces to nine the number of projects under construction in the Columbus Dio cese. The one-story, salmon-colored structure, built at a cost of $184, 869, is located at 154 E. Patterson Ave., the site of the old church school. Designed by Floyd F. Glass, Columbus architect, the school is fireproof, has indirect lighting, and steam heat. The general con tractor was the Sever-Williams Co. of Washington C. H. The new school is staffed by the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs. Meanwhile, expansion at two other elementary schools in Colum bus is nearing completion. The four-classroom addition to St Leo’s School is expected to be complet-1 ed during February, and a similar addition to Immaculate Concep tion School will be completed about March 1. Construction on the 900 pupil Bishop Watterson High School on Cooke Rd., in North Co lumbus is expected to be complet ed by March 1. In addition, five new churches are under construction, and an other is undergoing extensive re decoration. In Columbus, the new St. Augus tine’s Church is expected to be ready about May 1. and the new St. Mary Magdalene Church will be completed by Christmas. The main church construction in St. Agnes Parish will be completed by March 1. In Marysville, Our Lady of Lour des Church, rectory and social hall will be completed by Easter. Also under construction in Granville is a new St. Edward the Confessor Church. -----------------o---- Many Marriage Cases Processed Free by Holy See VATICAN CITY —’(Radio, NC) —The Holy See spent about $30,000 in 1954 in the processing of 55 free-of-charge marriage cases be fore the Sacred Roman Rota, it was learned on good authority here. Judgments numbering 251 were handed down during the past year, 245 being in marriage cases. Of the marriage decisions, 131 upheld the nullity of the marriage, while 114 sustained the validity of the marriages it was sought to have annulled. Terminated during 1954 without a formal decision were 377 cases. Cases which were given some or other kind of attention or action, but not a final resolution, num bered 1,260. Mr. and Mrs. William R. Jones of 2357 Neil Ave., are shown with their new son, Jerry, one of the 42 children placed for adop tion last year by the Catholic Welfare Bureau. Like many other childless couples, the Jones' had been on the bureau's waiting list many months before this child was born. Pictured at left is Miss Alice Reed of 62 S. Ogden Ave., a caseworker for the diocesan agency. member of the staff and one board member, matches the child and the parents, and placement is made as soon as possible. Because there are not nearly enough babies to satisfy the im mediate demand, Msgr. Kappes said, couples must wait as long as 18 months to 2 years for an adop tive child. Although the agency places a re markable number of very young babies, Miss Helen McDaniels, a casework supervisor declared, the trend is toward older children. In general, however, parents’ requests are flexible. "Th* mon usually want boys, and the women seem to favor little girls," Miss McDaniels said, "but most of them will readily accept either one." Nevertheless, there are some couples, she added, who seek a “well-mannered little girl between 2 and 5, and who are “unwilling to consider a mischievous nine year-old boy.” When the child is placed, the agency continues its interest in the youngster until the adoption is fi nal. The law requires a six-month interval, but recommended stand ards are closer to one year. It is also possible to adopt more than one child. After each application, however, the par ents' names are placed at the bottom of the waiting list. Assisting Monsignor Kappes in this work are Father Lawrence Cor coran, assistant director of hos pitals and charities Miss McDan iels. and Mrs. Joanne Corcoran, al so a casework supervisor. Members of the casework staff are Miss Pat Maier, Miss Alice Reed, Mrs. Mal colm Rank, Miss Mary Evelyn Ruet ty, Miss Janet Killcoyne and Miss Dolores Andreotte. The ^dtiiolic Times Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, February 4, 1955 Catholic Bible 'Week TW WnhOf and Eternal Asserting that the recent Edu cational Policies Commission book let made this evident, he said: "Now their real intent is re vealed to the country. They are attempting to establish a com mon universal state education which will place every child in every place in a public school. “This was the policy of Hitler. This is entirely contrary to the policy of our country. There is no freedom in this. The booklet exag gerates greatly the merits of pub lic education and casts grave re flection on private education. The booklet is historically wrong: it gives a false impression of educa tion. It is un-American and its pro posal is not the mind of our Found- Red Prisoners Reliving Days Of Catacombs DETROIT (NC) John H. Noble, 31, home after 10 years as a prisoner in Russia, related that religious services were held on Sundays and holydays in the slave-labor camp at Vorkuta, where he was confined for four years. The repatriated non-Catholic, who finds freedom and liberty strange after his long captivity, told an N.C.W.C. News Service reporter here that ne was kept at the Vorkuta prison for Tout years. He said that a Lithuanian Catholic priest and a Russian Orthodox priest officiated at the clandestine religious services for the slave la borers. The Vorkuta area, dotted with slave-labor camps and mines, is a region of arctic climate in the northeast corner of European Rus sia. If only one guard was on duty at the time, Mr. Noble said, the services went on without interrup tion. But if more than one guard was on duty, the guards would not allow the services. He explained that it wet ap parent that each guard feared that his failure to stop the serv ices would result in his being re ported to his superiors. The guards, he said, did not trust one another. Mr. Noble added that when the priests were prevented from offer ing Mass, the slave laborers, them selves. would conduct prayer serv ices. MW February 6 to 13 will be observed throughout the United States as Catholic Called ‘Un-American, Hitlerian’ by Cardinal LOS ANGELES (NC) Any attempt to force all Amer ican children to attend state-sponsored schools is hitlerian and un-American, His Eminence James Francis Cardinal McIntyre told some 1,200 Holy Name men at their annual Communion breakfast. The Cardinal-Archbishop of Los Angeles charged that the Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association has bSgun an open at-, tack on the rights of parents in the field of education. The specif ic target of the attack, he said, is the Oregon decision of the Su preme Court of 30 years ago which unanimously upheld parental rights in education by outlawing enforced public school attendance of all chil dren. “In our United States today there is prevalent a tendency to bring about complete education of all children in public schools,” the Cardinal declared. cf fad Bible Week, as announced by this attractive poster circulated by the Catholic Biblical Association of America. New Education Booklet ing Fathers or of the Constitution.” Cardinal McIntyre also declared that the booklet’s proposals are a threat to liberty and constitute a real problem. Keynote speaker at the breakfast was Superior Court Judge John J. Ford, former president of the Christ the King parish Holy Name Society. In his talk, Judge Ford de clared: "The state has no right to monopolize education. The func tion of the state is only to supply those services which private en deavor does not or cannot pro vide. “Accordingly, the rights of the state are limited. All other agen cies interested in education must recognize the rights and duties of parents, and serve only in the ca pacity of those to whom the parents have delegated authority.” The question whether there may be freedom to evade some taxes can be decided only by looking at how and why taxes here in the United Jesuit said. "You don't look why they are levied elsewhere or in the past. That's why you must be sure that any moralist who defends this freedom to evade is talking with full knowl edge of conditions in our own country." are collected States, the at how and Father Land contended that of ten moralists who justify evasion on the grounds of graft, waste or wrong purposes of taxation, thinking of conditions absolute ruler greedily people at will. “Altogether different uation,” he continued “Here you see the people's chos en representatives and president working over weeks and even months to get out a budget hoping to include only justifiable expendi tures, and then wrestling again with the complex problems of get ting tax revenue for that budget in the fairest way possible.” where taxed The editorial asserted that those "irresponsible* in both production and exhibition" of the films have traded on the bas est instincts in humen nature and that they acknowledge no obligation to anything but "the quick dollar." The release of the “sex hygiene, exploitation films,” the editorial pointed out, contributed to the film licensing bill introduced a week ago in the Ohio legislature as a substitute for censorship. The Ohio Association of Juve nile Judges, noting that “wide spread alarm” has arisen as a re sult of court decisions declaring Ohio film censorship unconstitu tional, said many movies previous ly censored and forbidden, are be ing shown in Ohio. “As a result,” the judges said, “children and youth are encourag ed to see these pictures which con tribute toward the normal break down of our children and youth of today, and is causing and will cause an increase in delinquency, throughout our state and will of ten be responsible for the criminal in adult life.” The judges added that they "daily see the tragic and pitiful consequences to children coming before us" and are "conscious of the menace to the youth of our state resulting from the indis criminate showing of motion i ures depicting sex end crime ." In conclusion, the association urged the Ohio Legislature to en- Religion in Schools Urged by Japan's Education Minister TOKYO, Japan (NC) “The religious spirit should be the spirit of education. Neglect of this point is responsible for our present mor al decay.” This statement was made by Ja pan’s new Minister of Education, Dr. Masazumi Ando, a Buddhist, in a lecture at the Protestant Rikk yo University here. Commenting on the difference between religion and politics, Dr. Ando expressed regret that many people today look upon religion as something unimportant. He said the teaching of religion is forbidden in public schools, but added that, in his opinion, it is es sential for proper character train ing. It is appropriate to stress re ligious training in private schools, he said. Citizen Has No Moral Liberty To Evade Taxes, Priest Avers ST. LOUIS (NC) Taxpayers in this country have no moral liberty to evade taxes because they think (1) the tax money goes into grafter’s pockets (2) it is swallowed up in in efficiency and waste or (3) taxes are levied for unreasonable purposes. This is the opinion of Father Philip S. Land, S.J., assistant professor of economics of St. Louis University, and a member of the Institute of Social “There is a fearful chance that those Vho take the road of private determination of obligations will bring us to that unhappy state in which a country like France finds itself where a man’s proud boast is how much tax he succeeded in dodging,” Father Land said in an interview. less, after due consultation and with the necessity to act, they have come up with prudent decisions about objectives to be pursued (budget items) and have fitted to those ends the best means (taxes) they know how at the time.” The priest posed two questions about these legislative decisions: Are not moralists who demand more than good prudential judg ment setting a most unreasonable standard of efficiency and ab sence of error or abuse? Of what other human group is such per fection or judgment of behavior required? “I find it hard to conceive what more could be required of a legis lature for a law binding in con- Sunday's Announcements are an his This Sunday is known as Septua gesima, that is, seventy days (in round numbers) before Easter, and is the first of three pre Lenten Sundays. Violet vestments are worn and there is no Gloria in the Mass. The second and third col lects (or orations) are in honor of St. Titus, Bishop Confessor, and St. Dorothea, Virgin Martyr. Benedi camus Domino replaces Ite, Missa Est at the end of the Mass. sit- is our When our legislators act with care and deliberation, he said, “I contend that they have given us a good prudential judgment. True, there are mistakes of judgment, compromises, yielding to pressures or political necessities. Neverthe- Friday, February 11, is the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Next Sunday, February 13, is the second Sunday of the month, and, in most parishes, the regular Com munion day for the members of the Holy Name society. This week. February 6 to 13, is being observed nationally as Cath olic Bible Week. Trade Paper, Judges Condemn Upsurge of Lewd Movies in Ohio An upsurge in crime and sex films in Ohio was roundly condemned this week by a motion picture trade paper, and Juvenile Court judges throughout the state. The “Motion Picture Daily,” published in New York City, declared in an editorial that Ohio promoters are “plugging the sex hygiene films in the most lurid manner possible, in both text and photos.” act laws “which will conform to the constitution in protecting the pub lic morals of the youth of our state by making it impossible to show within the State of Ohio those pictures determined as unfit for distribution or showing.” The resolution also urged church- Church’s Views On Industry Will Be Forum Topic Fr. Augustin* Winkler Tickets for individual lectures for the Assumption Forum (which is sponsored by Assumption Council, No. 3727 of the Knights of Colum bus) may be obtained at the door. Father Winkler is pastor of Saint Edward’s Church in Gran ville, is professor of economics at Saint Charles Seminary and mod erator of the Columbus Interracial Council. He is well qualified to explain the program outlined in the Papal Encyclicals for the reconstruction of the social order and will ex plain especially the Industry Coun cil System which recent Popes have proposed as the solution of the social problem in our day. Order. science. At any rate, the gravest burden of proof lies on the citizen who challenges it,” he said. “Besides, there are roads open for improving upon'the year’s tax measures. There is the ballot box and the typewriter.” turies ago. Learn the Catholic Viewpoint! Support Your Catholic Press Prica Ton Confs $3.00 A Yoar es, fraternal, civic and service or ganizations and the press to ask the Legislature “to put the value of youth above the financial gain re sulting from the showing of lewd, harmful and destructive motion pictures.” A new bill, similar to the one introduced in the Ohio Legislature earlier this year, this week propos ed the licensing of motion pictures. The measure, reported to have the approval of Gov. Frank Lausche, defines “obscenity” and actions tending to incite to crime.** Under the proposed law, exhib itors would be subject to fines ranging from $24 to $300 if they showed unlicensed films and dis tributors would be subject to simi lar fines if they refused to delete objectionable sections of pictures o di- Father Augustine W'mkler, ocesan director of social action, will give the fourth of a series of lectures on Assumption Forum. Sunday evening, Feb. 6, at 8:30 p.m., at Saint Michael’s school hall, High and Selby, Worthington, O. Father Winkler’s lecture will be “The Church Looks at Industry.” A question and discussion period will follow. The public is invited. Educator Lists Catholic School Svstem Aims NEW YORK (NC) The Catholic school system aims to “produce students who will be a credit to their Faith and to the great Republic in which they live.” Thus writes Msgr. F. G. Hochwalt, director of the Edu cation Department, National Catholic Welfare Conference, and secretary general of the National Catholic Educational Association, in an article in the latest issue of “Systems For Educators,” new bouse organ of Remington Rand company. The noted educator discusses the aims, purposes and functions of the Catholic system of education, saying its importance was recogniz ed as early as 1829 when the U.S. Bishops met in Baltimore for their provincial council. He quotes the figures prepared by the N.C.W.C in 1952 which re veal that the Catholic school sys tem embraced 3,684 447 students taught by 123.386 teachers in 11, 590 schools Statistics now in prep aration will show an enrollment of over four million in 1954. he adds. Catholic schools are not pro test schools, Monsignor Hochwalt states, and they do not exist to divide them, but to add some thing not usually found in edu cation offered by state schools. That is. he adds, a completely religious curriculum in which all subjects are taught according to an integrated plan that is intend ed to fit the whole man for life here and hereafter. He concludes that American Ca tholics are striving continuously to make their schools effective, philosophically sound, and relig iously integrated. “The measure of their success is found in the capable scholars and citizens who have come from their great educa tional system.” he adds. o ..... Campaign of Prayers Begun for Viet-Nam CHICAGO, ni—A campaign of prayers for Viet-Nam has been launched by the International Catholic Auxiliaries, lay mission ary society with headquarterg heie. New Basilica of Annunciation Destined to be one of the largest churches in the Middle Last, work will begin in April on the new Basilica of the Annunciation (modeled above) which will replace the present humble church built over the Grotto of the Annunciation by the Franciscans two cen