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A Good Catholic
Ib a Well-
Informed Catholic
Vol. IV, No. 31
Holy Rosary parish, whose
phenomenal growth has given
rise to two other Columbus
parishes, and has produced 22
priests and 43 nuns, in the
short span of five decades,
will celebrate its golden anni
versary Sunday and Monday.
Just 50 years ago this week.
Bishop James J. Hartley appoint
ed Father (later Bishop) Francis
W. Howard as first pastor of a
parish which numbered approxi
mately 500 Catholics. Today, more
than 3300 persons make up a con
gregation which has had. from its
beginnings, a profound devotion to
the Blessed Mother.
To celebrate the jubilee, two
gpecial Masses, a dinner for clergy
and religious, Benediction, and a
reception have been scheduled by
Msgr, Herman E. Mattingly, pas
tor.
Bishop Ready will be the cele
brant at the Solemn Pontifical
High Mas* in Holy Rosary
church at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
Msgr. Matthew A. Howard, a
faculty member at St. Charles
Seminary, and a nephew of the
late Bishop Howard, will deliver
the sermon.
Msgr. Howard, incidentally, is
one of 12 priests taking part in the
ceremonies who are sons of the
parish.
Deacon of the Mass will be Fa
ther James Hanley, assistant pas
tor at St. Christopher’s Church,
Columbus. Subdeacon will be Fa
ther Robert Manning of Blessed
Sacrament Church, Newark.
Msgr. William Kappes, diocesan
director of hospitals and charities,
will be the assistant priest, while
the deacons of honor to the Bishop
will be Father Robert Atkinson of
Mountai air, N.M., and Father Jul
ius Falk of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Proposed building plans for
the new school building at
Our Lady of Mercy School for
retarded children, Granville,
were submitted to Arce of
Mercy Foundation officials this
week.
Completed plans for the
school will not be submitted
for final approval by school
were submitted to Acre of
Mercy drive throughout the
state is successfully completed.
This s estimated at mid 1956.
The recommended facilities, mod
ern and utilitarian in the small
est detai., were designed by Or
ville Verasso of Merle T. Orr and
Associates, Newark, who have done
outstanding work in institutional
and commercial building architec
ture.
As submitted by the architect,
tK' new school will be a fireproof]
Holy Rosary Notes Golden
The&°«l°
A Solemn Pontifical Mass will be offered in Holy Rosary church Sunday by Bishop Ready t$
commemorate the 50th jubilee of the parish. The first Mass to be offered in the parish church
was said on February 2, 1916. Previous to that time, Masses had been offered in a small church
school building. The church, pictured above, is Italian Romanesque in architectural style of the
twelfth century period.
Following the Mass, a dinner for
the clergy and religious will be
served by the ladies of the parish
in the reception hall.
Solemn Benediction of the Bless
ed Sacrament is scheduled in the
church at 7:30 p.m. The celebrant
will be Father Robert O'Brien. He
will be assisted by Father Robert
White, principal of Notre *t)ame
High School. Portsmouth, and Fa
ther William Connor of St. Joseph
Church, Sugar Grove.
The reception at 8 p.m. Sunday
is for all present and former mem
bers and friends of the parish.
The festivities will be climaxed
with a Solemn Requiem Mass at
The new regulations affect prin
cipally priests and others obliged
to recite the Roman Breviary ev
ery day. They have no effect what
ever on the Little Office of the
Blessed Virgin, which many of the
laity recite frequently.
Sensational stories carried in
soma secular newspapers to the
effect that the new regulations
would shorten th* time needed
for the celebration of Holy Mass
by about ten minutes are shown
Proposed School for Retarded Children
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Ponding tho successful completion of the Acre of Mercy campaign in Ohio, the architects of Our
Lady of Mercy School picture the new facilities as above. The new building will house dormitory
and special training facilities for
150 retarded children.
structure of reinforced concrete
block. The immediate front of the
building will house the administra
tion offices and the chapel. Two
separate two storied wings will pro
vide the facilities for the 150 re
tarded children, both boys and
girls. The lower story will be class
rooms and the upper dormitories.
A connecting, or center, wing
will contain an inside recreational
area, therapy rooms, clinic, kitch
en, and laundry. A self contained
heating plant will be in a sub-base
ment of this section.
Immediately adjacent to each
dormitory is the outside recrea
tional space for the children. Boys
and girls will be separated in the
living and classroom areas.
No definite site on the 357 acres
of school grounds has been select
ed. The present school building,
which is a converted farm home,
will become the convent of the Sis
ten of the Order of St. Francis,
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9 am. Monday for deceased
priests, sisters and parishioners.
Father Clement Faistl of St. Gabri
el s Church. Columbus, will be the
celebrant. His assistants will be F»
ther Robert Harwick, pastor of Ho
ly Spirit church, deacon and Fa
ther Francis Connor, Chaplain at
the Chillicothe Veterans’ Hospital
deacon.
From the .organization of the
parish in May. 1905 to the follow
ing March, parishioners attended
Mass in the chapel of St. Vincent’s
Orphanage. Meanwhile, construe
tion of a combination church-school
building was launched.
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Simplification of Breviary,
Missal, Calendar Announced
VATICAN CITY (Radio, NC) The Roman Brevi
ary, the Roman Missal and the Liturgical Calendar are to
be simplified and shortened by the Sacred Congregation of
Rites.
The decree has been published in the Acta Apostolicae
Sedis, official Vatican organ for the publication of decrees,
pronouncements and encyclical let
ters. Its provisions become effec
tive next January 1.
to be ridiculous from an exami
nation of the text itself.
In the recitation of the Breviary
there will be no longer required
the recitation of the “Pater,”
“Ave” and “Credo” before the
liturgical hours. The antiphons of
the Blefted Virgin will be said on
ly after Compline. The frequency
of reciting the “Preces” will be
greatly reduced. When called for,
they will be recited only at Ves
pers and Lauds. The Athanasian
Creed will be recited only on the
Feast of the Holy Trinity. First
Joliet, Ill., who are teachers and
administrators of the school.
Th* Columbus are* campaign
of th* Acr* of Mercy Foundation
to obtain th* necessary funds for
the new school was begun last
Wednesday. It will continue
through Sunday, May 22. The goal
for the. Columbus area which in
cludes Franklin County and the
surrounding 22 counties is $150
thousand. This money will be
raised through the sale of two
inch plots at $1 each in the Acre
of Mercy and through personal
industrial and professional solici
tation.
Only major cities in the Colum
bus area have been organized by
Acre of Mercy committees. Per
sons who have been contacted by a
worker can contribute to this
charitable and humanitarian drive
by mailing their contributions to
the Acre of Mercy office, 1641*
South Sand^ky St, Columbus.
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, May 6, 1955
Catholic Aims
Supported at
Bandung Meet
BANDUNG, Indonesia
(NC) A number of recom
mendations on world affairs
long urged by His Holiness
Pope Pius XII and other Cath
olic leaders received support
at the 29-nation Asian-African
Conference here.
So strong was the religious cur
rent here that China’s communist
Premier Chou En-lai was forced to
take account of it. He had not
planned to mention religion at all,
but later included a section in an
address falsely claiming that re
ligious freedom existed inside his
country.
In its final communique the Con
ference called for universal dis
armament, asked by the Holy Fa
ther in numerous addresses.
The Conference also urged im
plementation of the United Nations
resolutions on Palestine. Thes« in
clude the internationalization of
Jerusalem, which has been strongly
recommended in two pap^l encycli
cals.
Calls for respect for funda
mental numan rights and the
dignity of man made in the final
communique are in complete har
mony with Catholic thought.
in stressing the importance of
religious and spiritual forces.
many speakers at the Conference
voiced at least tacit agreement
with the Pope’s Easter message, in
which he said that only an active
synthesis of religion and life can
bring a solution of mankind's prob
lems.
Most of the nations represent
•d at tha Conference here are
either Moslem or Buddhist. The
only predominantly Cat holic
country present was the Philip
pines. In many of the Moslem
and Buddhist countries religion
plays a larger role in ordinary
life than does Christianity in the
West.
Vespers will be recited only prior
to feasts of the first and second
and Sundays.
Th*r* will no longer be sea
sonal orations in th* celebra
tions of the Mass. All commem
orations are to be so modified
that there will never be more
than two allowed at any one
time. Commanded orations ("©ra
tio imperata") which bind only
"simply" will not be in force on
Sundays, in Sung Masses or in
any Mess already having three
orations. There will never under
any conditions be more than
three oration*.
There will be more times in
which the “Dies Irae” may be omit
ted from Masses for the dead. The
Credo will be said only on Sun
days, feasts of the first class, feasts
of Our Lord, of the Blessed Vir-
gin, of the Apostles, of Evange
lists, of Doctors of the Church and
in Solemn Votive Masses. The last
gospel will always be that of St.
John except in the third Mass of
Christmas and on Palm Sunday.
In the Calendar all feasts of
semidouble rank with the excep
tion of the Vigil of Pentecost are
changed to feasts of simple rank.
All Sundays are given the rank of
doubles, and the Sundays of Ad
vent and Lent bpcome doubles of
the first class.
Only two privileged vigils re
main. those of Christmas and Pen
tecost. The only common vigils to
be observed will l?e the vigils of
the feasts of the Ascension, As
sumption, St. John the Baptist, Sts.
Peter and Paul and St. Lawrence.
All other vigils are suppressed.
All octaves except those of
Christmas, Easter and Pentecost
are suppressed. All the days within
the octaves of Easter and Pentecost
are raised to the status of doubles,
while the days within the Christ
mas octave remain unchanged.
The new regulations bring the
priest closer to the liturgical ideal
of reciting the hundred and fifty
psalms of the psalter each week.
They are so calculated as to help
the priest to concentrate more ef
fectively on his recitation of the
great public liturgical prayer of
the Catholic Church.
Thus the ultimate effect of these
new ordinances is not to make the
saying of Mass and the recitation
of the Divine Office any easier,
but rather to enable the priest to
pray with greater zeal and fervor.
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Bishop to Ordain
24 Sub-Deacons
At Josephinnni
Twenty-four theology students at
the Pontifical College Josephinum
will be ordained sub-deacons by
Bishop Ready in ceremonies Satur
day, May 7, at 9 00 a m. in the
seminary chape).
In addition, two seminarians will
receive Tonsure 18 will receive
the minor orders of Porter and
Lector and 26 will receive the min
or orders of Exorciat and Acolyte.
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year.
holic Times
Office of the Bishop
To the Reverend Clergy, Religious
and Faithful of the Diocese of Columbus
My beloved Brethren:
Official
The report of the Missions Office of the Diocese was inspiring.
Let us thank and praise God for His abundant blessings, so well
manifested in the faith and charity of the clergy, religious, and
faithful of the Church of Columbus. The mission apostolate is the
essence of Our Saviour’s commission to the Apostles and to all who
labor for the Kingdom of God on earth.
It is an especially great satisfaction to note the financial returns
from the parishes, institutions, and schools of the Diocese. Such
offerings do not stand alone. They are the outward sign of the apos
tolic character of the faith of our good people. May God bless
and increase their spirit of loyalty and sacrifice in His Service.
The hope of continued progress in the mssion apostolate of the
Diocese is founded on the school report. By the example and
encouragement of Pastors, Sisters and teachers our youth are
learning, through work for the missions, a very practical lesson
about the brotherhood of all peoples in the mystical Body of Christ,
the Church. Mission work will help in youth s overcoming the prev
alent spirit of selfishness and aid our fine young people in exercis
ing heroic virtues in following Jesus.
We pray through the intercession of Our Lady, His Blessed
Mother, for abundant blessings on all who have prayed and labored
and sacrificed for the missions at home and abroad. We need mis
sionaries to serve the rural areas of our Diocese and to cooperate
in the laudable program you have undertaken in the Confraternity
of the Christian Doctrine. The need here is urgent but it is not the
sole need. Throughout our country and in great continents across
the seas valiant lovers of the Lord must today, as in all Christian
past ages hold the Cross of Salvation to those who know not Christ
nor His Church
With my blessing and commendation to Father Kulp and all
benefactors of the missions who assisted him throughout the past
Devotedly in Christ.
MICHAEL J. READY,
Bishop of Columbus.
Pontiff Sets New Feast
In St. Joseph’s Honor
VATICAN CITY (NC) On what may well become
a historic day for the labor movements of Italy and the
world, His Holiness Pope Pius XII proclaimed May 1 as the
feast of St. Joseph the Workman.
The Holy Father, speaking with
exceptional vigor in an address
delivered from St. Peter's central
balcony, warned workers not to
be led astray by the false princi
ples which are still at work. He
denounced the “monstrous lie”
still being spread that “the
Church is allied with capitalism
against labor.
When the crowd’s cheers ended,
the Pope continued:
"Beloved workers, the Pop*
and th* Church cannot withdraw
from their divine mission of
guiding, protecting and loving
•specially th* suffering, who
ar* all th* mor* d*ar th* mor*
they need defense and help ."
“This duty and obligation We,
the Vicar of Christ, desire to re
affirm here on this first day of
May, which the world of labor has
claimed for itself as its own prop
er feast day, with the intention
that all may recognize the dignity
of labor and that this dignity may
be a motivation in forming a social
order and laws founded on the
Clergy Retreat
Set for 32
At the Shrine
Annual retreats will be
made by 32 priests of the dio
cese at the Diocesan Retreat
House, the Shrine of the Little
Flower, next week.
The spiritual exercises will
begin Monday evening at 6:00
p. m. and will end Thursday
evening at 6:00 p. m. The
retreat master willl be Father
Paul Waldron, S.S.C., of the Co
lumban Retreat House, Derby, N.
Y.
Members of the clergy who have
been assigned to the retreat follow:
Msgrs. Joseph Casey, Patrick
Kilgallen. Herman Mattingly and
Roland Winel.
Fathers Bennett Applegate, Leo
Brehm, George Buchmann, John
Byrne, William Connolly, Herman
Crock, John Dunn, Harry Estadt
and Clement Faistl.
Fatners Angelo Gallorini, James
Geiger, John Graf. Patrick Griffin,
Joseph Hake!, Paul Hammer, James
Hanley, Robert Harwick, Joseph
Jerabeck, and Jerome Kendzierski.
Fathers Albert Kessler, Paul
Laurinaitis, William McEwan. Ed
win McNulty, William Patterson,
Frank Riehl, Julian Schaefer, Rol
and Torer and Arthur Zuber.
This is the third in a series of
four retreats for clergy. The final
retreat will be held June 13-16.
Diocese Gives Record Amount
To Pope for Needy Missions
April 18 1955
equitable distribution of rights and
duties.”
“Acclaimed in this way by Chris
tian workers and naving received,
as it were. Christian baptism. May
1, far from being a stimulus for
discord, hate and violence, is and
will be a recurring invitation to
modern society to accomplish what
is still lacking for social peace. It
is a Christian feast, therefore, that
is a day of rejoicing for the con
crete and progressive triumph of
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LANCASTER An appeal
for Catholics to make known
their own four freedoms was
made here Sunday when Lan
caster public high school’s
spacious auditorium was filled
for the tenth annual spring
Council of Catholic Women
The speaker was Mrs. Anne
Fremantle, internationally
known lecturer and writer.
Bishop Ready presided at the
meeting and spoke to the women
at the close of the program.
Held on the first day of May, the
month of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
with the oldest parish of the dio
cese dedicated to Mary as host, the
program of the conference was
highlighted by a scholarly paper
on “Mary in the Modern Lyric” by
Sister Maryanna, O.P., of St. Mary
of the Springs College. Columbus
Mrs. Freemantle listed the four
freedom* of Catholic* which
Bishop Ready singled out the
example of the pastors sisters and
teachers in encouraging children
to support the missions.
“Mission work.” he said will
help in youth’s overcoming the
prevalent spirit of selfishness and
Bishop Will Bless
Our Ladv‘s Statue
At Mount Cannel
The new statue of “Our Lad} of
Grace that stands on the mall at
Mt. Carmel Hospital will be bless
ed by Bishop Ready in a ceremony
to lake place Tuesday at 7:00 pm.
The outdoor rites w ill be highlight
ed by Pontifical Benediction, cele
brated by the Bishop The nurses’
choir will provide the music.
Sculptured in Pietrasanta. Italy,
by Professor Amando Battelli. the
Carrara marble statue stands nine
feet in height.
Devotion to Our Lady of Grace
extends back to the early ages of
Christian worship. At her various
shrines throughout France, count
less favors have been obtained
through her intercession.
In August of 1832. when a chol
era epidemic was ravaging France,
the Sisters of Charity w ho conduct
ed a hospital at nearby Lille, or
ganized a pilgrimage to the shrine
of Notre Dame de Grace at Loos
and immediately the mortality rate
at their hospital fell off.
An invitation to the public to
take part in the ceremonies Tues
day evening has been extended
by Mother Constantine. C.S.C., ad
ministrator of Mount Carmel Hos
pital.
DCCW Holds 10th Spring Meet
E
Principals at th* tenth annual spring conference of th* Diocesan Council of Catholic Women
are pictured above with Bishop Ready. They are, left to right, Father Julian Schaefer, pastor of St.
Mary parish, Lancaster, host to the conference Mrs. Anne Fremantle, noted lecturer and writer who
addressed the conference Bishop Ready Sister Maryenna, O.P. of St. Mary of th* Springs Col
lege, and Mrs. Frank H. Vogel,
-esident of the D.C.C.W.
came as a result of our Redemp
tion, a* freedom from original
sin, freedom from fate and de
terminism, freedom of choice,
and freedom to tollow our last
end. The feast of Mary's annun
ciation, she said, is the day
which has been observed as the
beginning of our four freedoms.
Reports of the chair nen of the
standing committees of the Dioce
san Council were among the im
portant items of the Conference.
These were made by Mrs. Franklin
J. Eyerman. religious activities
Mrs. J. Harold Breen. Catholic
charities Mrs. John Stattmiller.
parent-teachers' associations. Mrs
John R. Holden, social action, and
Mrs. Robert R. Richards, interna
tional relations.
An appeal was made to help the
Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of
the Springs build a much-needed
infirmary Miss Patricia Lawler,
public relations director at St
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Bishop Lauds Faithful
For Gift of 8216,387
atholics in the Columbus Diocese sent more money to
the Holy Father for distribution to needy mission^ in 1954,
than in any previous year in history.
Father James Kulp, director of the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, and head
of the Diocesan Missions Office, an
nounced that $216,387 17 was given
to the Holy Father last year as Pon
tifical mission aid. The amount
exceeds contributions in 1953 by
approximately $40,000
F*th*r Kulp's report was Itrm
•d "inspiring" this w*«k by
Bishop Ready in a letter which
described th* mission apostolate
as "th* *ss«nc* of Our Savior's
commission to the Apostles and
to all who labor for the Kingdom
of God on earth." The Bishop de
clared:
“It is an especially great satis
faction to note the financial returns
from the parishes, institutions and
schools of the Diocese Such of
ferings do not stand alone They
are the outward sign of the apos
tolic character of the faith of our
good people.”
aid our Hine young people in ex
ercising heroic virtues in follow
ing Jesus.”
Th* Society for th* Propaga
tion of the Faith in the Dioc*s*
contributed $191,427 of th* total
amount, Father Kulp's report
noted. This figure included $33^
000 con ributed in the Mission
Sunday collection. The Associa
tion of the Holy Childhood, or
ganized in elementary school*
throughout th* Diocese gave $22
964, of which $10,506 was raised
through the sale of mission
Christmas seal*.
In addition to the cash contribu
tions. Father Kulp said, approxi
mately $20,000 worth of equipment
and goods was sent to the Holy
Father These gifts ranged from a
typewriter to tabernacles and chal
ices.
The parish which contributed
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For Seminary
Applications
Graduates of High School who
feel that they are called to
serve God in His holy priest
hood. and to labor in the Dio
cese of Columbus should make
application before May 15
through their respective pastors,
for admission to the Diocesan
Seminary of St. Charles, 2010
E Broad St, Columbus 9. Ohio.
Each applicant will be assign
ed a time for interview It is im
portant that application be made
without delay. Young men who
are in the senior class in high
school should not wait for their
day of graduation to apply.
For those under financial
difficulties, scholarships are
available: arrangements for such
scholarships are to be made by
the pastor of the applicant, who
will take up the matter directly
with the Most Reverend Bishop.
No young man who feels call
ed to the priesthood, or who
thinks that he may have a
priestly vocation although he is
not of decided mind, is to be
denied the full opportunity of
seminary training. Nor should
such a young man fail to heed
the divine invitation, or show
remissness in following where
it may lead. He should see his
pastor at once, and make appli
cation for admission to St. Char
les.
Mary’s spoke in behalf of the pro
ject, and her w ords were re echoed
later by Bishop Ready.
The Glee Club of St. Mary 's high
school. Lancaster, sang three se
lections durirg the program.
Mrs. Frank H. Vogel, president
of the Diocesan Council, conducted
the meeting. Mrs. Hubert F. Gan
dee. president of the Lancaster par
ish council, was general chairman
for the conference.
The afternoon's program came
to a close with Benediction in
the newly decorated and remodel
ed St. Mary's church. The beeuti
ful church received the plaudit*
of all present for the occasion.
Bishop Ready was celebrant at
Benediction, assisted by Father
Julian Schaefer, pastor, and Fathers
Herman Crock and Louis Hoffman.
Chaplains to the Bishop were Fa
thers Charles Foy and Maurice
Donovan.