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A Good Catholic
I» a Well.
Informed Catholic
Vol. IV, No. 33
Msgr. Paul Glenn, rector of St.
Charles Seminary, will serve as
archpriest at the rites. Msgr. Paul
O’Dea, f‘ean of studies at St. Char
les, and Father Thomas Sabrey,
professor at St. Charles, will serve
as chaplains to Bishop Ready.
The St. Charles Seminary choir
Will sing during the Mass.
Members of the 1955 ordina
tion class are Fathers Joseph P.
Byrne, Carl Clagett, James H.
Bereidt and Edward McFarland,
all of Columbus, and Fathers Rob
ert Reilly of Lancaster, William
Johnson of New Lexington, Will
iam Huber of Marion, Francis
Schaefer of Bay VJIage and Rob
ert Lemon of Quincy, Mass.
Father Byrne will celebrate his
First Solemn Mass Sunday noon.
May 29, in St. Agatha's Church.
Solemn Benediction is scheduled
at 7:30 p. m., preceding a recep
tion in the parish hall.
Ministers of the Mass will be
Father tawrence O’Connor, dea
con Father John O'Rourke, sub
deacon, a: Msgr J. B. Donahie,
assistant priest. Father George
Kennedy will preach the sermon.
At the State Deputy’s banquet
Sunday evening, delegates and
guests will hear addresses from
Bishop eady and Luke E. Hart, su-
I
F.'
Jr
Thoma* M. Dowd
preme giand knight of the order.
Father Thomas Corrigan, CYO
Youth director in the Cleveland
Bishop Ready Will Ordain 9
To the Sacred Priesthood
In Cathedral Rites, May 28
Bishop Ready will celebrate a Pontifical Low Mass and ordain nine young men to
the priesthood in ceremonies scheduled at 10a.m. Saturday, May 28. in St. Joseph Cathedral.
For the new priests, the day will mark the climax of eight years of intense college
study and spiritual preparation for their work in the Columbus Diocese.
The new priest, a fllumbus na
live, is the son of Francis P. Byrne
of 2756 Andover Rd. He was grad
uated from St. Charles Prepara
tory School in 1946, and earned a
bachelor of arts degree at St.
Charles Seminary in 1950. He has
just completed four years study
at St. Vincent’s Seminary, l^itrobe,
Pa.
Father Clagett will celebrate his
First Solemn High Mass at 10 a.
m.. May 29, in St. Aloysius Church.
Solemn Benediction is set for 4 p.
m., with a reception to follow in
the parish annex.
Assisting at the Mass will be Fa
ther William Maloney, assistant
priest Father John Simon, dea
con and Father Ambrose Metzger,
subdeacon. Father Edward Healey
will preach the sermon.
Born in Leitchfield, Ky„ "ather
Clagett attended Christ the King
School in Louisville, Ky., before
moving to Columbus in 1942. He
attended St. Francis of Assisi
School, and was graduated in 1947
from St Charles Preparatory
Pontifical Mass to Open
State K of Convention
More than 800 delegates, members and guests are expec
ted in Columbus May 21-23 for the 56th annual convention
of the Ohio State Council. Knights of Columbus.
The meeting will officially open, Sunday, May 22, with
a 10:30 a. m. parade from the Neil House headquarters to
St. Joseph Cathedral where Bishop
Ready will be celebrant at a Sol
emn Pontifical Mass. Msgr. Roland
T. W'.iel Chancellor of the diocese,
will preach the sermon.
diocese, will speak at the Monday
noon delegates’ luncheon.
Th* convention, representing
54,000 members and 170 subord
inate Councils in Ohio, i» expect
ed to consider the problem of ex
pending its youth o a
through which over one-half mil
lion dollars has already been ex
pended in diocesan-approved pro
jects.
Resolutions will be introduced
on licensing and censoring motion
pictures, curtailing Sunday busi
ness operations, and the organiza
tion of a responsible state board of
education.
Thomas M. Dowd. Kenton, state
advocate, is general chairman of
the convention. Paul Lynch, Co
lumbus district deputy, and D.
Clarke Finneran, James Sheldon,
Charles Hoppenyan and Eugene
Walcutt, grand knights of the Co
lumbus Councils, are assisting in
the details.
Special programs have been ar
ranged for the ladies who will
make the trip. During the business
sessions Sunday, visits will be made
to the Rose Gardens, the OSU
campus and Newman Hall. On Mon
day, the ladies will lunch in the
Skyroom of the Deshler-Hilton Ho
tel and guests on the TV show
originating from there.
Cornerstone Laying Rites Set
Cornerstone laying ceremonies for the new St. Mary Magdalene parish church, South Roys ave
nue and Guernsey place, Columbus, will take place Sunday, May 22, at 4 p. m. with Bishop Ready pre
siding at the rites. Framework of the new church, with its fourteen elliptical arches of reinforced con
crete, arranged in cross form, is pictured above. The building has a 75-foot tower in the center. Out
side walls are being faced with Tennessee sandstone and trimmed with India la limestone. Father Ray
mond Bauschard, pastor since th* establishment of St. Mary Magdalene parish in 1929, reports that
this is the first church-type building the parish has erected. Father Bauschard also reports that th* par
ish now has nearly 900 milies with 520 pupils in grades on* to eight. A total of 100 families mad*
up th* original parish. Krause and Pagura, Columbus contractors, expect to complete th* new church
this au umn. Architects are Ramsey, Croce and Abbot, Columbus structural engineer is Raymond C.
Reese, Toledo.
School. He was awarded a bachelor
of arts degree from St. Charles
seminary in 1951, and took his
theological training at St. Mary’s of
the West Seminary. Norwood.
The new priest is the son of Mr.
and Mrs Carl P. Clagett, Sr., of
138 Clarendon Ave., Columbus.
Father Berendt, son of Mr and
Mrs. Anthony Berendt of 403 Forest
St., will celebrate his First Sol
emn Mass at 11 a. m. Sunday, May
29, at St. Mary’s Church, Colum
bus.
Solemn Benediction at 7 30 p. m.
will be followed by a reception
in the parish hall, ending at 9 p.
m.
Msgr. Edmund A. Burkley will
preach the sermon at the Mass and
wjll serve as assistant priest. Dea
con and subdeacon respectively will
be Father Aloysius M. Berendt, an
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Pre-censorship of moving pic
tures has not been declared un
constitutional by the Supreme
Court,” said Governor Lausche.
“Unless such a law is adopted in
Ohio, I can clearly foresee the
morally disintegrating influence
that moving pictures of the future
will have upon the youth of our
country.”
"To expect that the moving
picture industry will, through
self-imposed censorship, insure
the non-showing of pictures
which are morally bad, is plain
folly," the Governor wrote.
“My own belief is that the ones
that are now appearing are a mild
forerunner of pictures that will be
still worse in the future.”
(On Tuesday of this week, the
House Judiciary Committee rec
ommended for passage one bill
calling for the licensing and exam
ination of films in Ohio and an
other bill tightening the penalties
of the present laws dealing with
the exhibition of obscene motion
pictures to minors under 18.)
Meanwhile, in New York, the ex
ecutive secretary of the National
Legion of Decency charged that
film producers are introducing
more and more “morally offensive
material” into the movies, and at
The Catholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, May 20, 1955
Dedication Set
For New Holv
Name School
The new, modem, eight
classroom Holy Name School
at 154 E. Patterson Ave., Co
lumbus will be dedicated by
Bishop Ready at 4 p.m. Thurs
day.
The school’s 315 pupils, parents
and members of the clergy will at
tend the outdoor ceremony. Flag
raising by students will precede
the rites.
Constructed on the site of the
old church-school which was rax
ed in the spring of 1954, the one
story, salmon-colored building
cost $184,869.
Designed by Floyd Glass, Co
lumbus architect, the school is fire
proof, has indirect lighting and
steam heat. The general contractor
was the Sever-Williams Co. of
Washington C.H.
The new school Is staffed by
the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary
of the Springs.
Although the school was opened
last February, Msgr. John B. Don
ahie. pastor of Holy Name parish,
postponed the dedication because
of inclement weather
Coincident with the dedication
will be the opening of a new school
cafeteria, Msgr. Donahie announc
ed. Meals will be served in a near
by frame building, he said.
Lausche Sees New Low
In Films If Censorship
Laws Are Not Enacted
TOLEDO, O. 1NC) Ohio’s Gov. Frank J. Lausche,
said he believes that Ohioans will be in for a new low in mo
tion pictures if the State Legislature does not enact a censor
ship law conforming to the requirements of the pronounce
ments of the U.S. Supreme Court.
In a letter to The Catholic Chronicle, newspaper of the
Toledo diocese, the Governor said
he will do everything in his power
to procure the adoption of such a
law'.
the same time Hollywood’s own
Production Code Authority is okay
ing movies “which any code worthy
of the name would be expected to
exclude.”
Father Thomas little assert
ed that the condition is one “that
is gravely in need of prompt and
effective correction.”
The Legion official made his
charges at the annual luncheon of
the Motion Picture Department of
the International Federation of
Catholic Alumnae, whose review
ers provide the basis for the Le
gion of Decency’s classification of
films.
In his talk Father Little declared:
“All persons who understand
and appreciate the tremendous
moral influence of the screen,
especially upon youth, have
grounds for very real concern over
recent trends.
"It is well known that pro
ducers, as a matter of deliberate
policy, have been contracting for
a considerable amount of liter
ary material which is gravely of
fensive to the moral law. Start
ing production with such materi
al, the finished picture inevita
bly becomes sullied and smeared
with at least some part of the
original offensiveness."
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Austrian Catholics
Worried, Hopeful
About INew Treaty
VIENNA (Radio, NC) The
clauses In the proposed Austrian
state treaty which Catholics feared
might be used to outlaw Catholic
organizations, have been retained
in the treaty’s final form.
Article Nine of the treaty as
signed here by the Foreign Minis
ters of Great Britain, France, Rus
sia and the United States provides
for the dissolution of “all Fascist
type organizations.”
Austrian Cathoiics have express
ed fears that the Soviets or even
Austria’s own Socialist Party may
attempt to interpret “fascist-type
organizations” so as to include
Catholic groups.
On the other hand some Catho
lics are of the opinion that the
treaty will help abolish anti-Cath
olic school laws passed under the
nazi occupation and still in force.
The country’s Catholics are wor
ried by the treaty provision that
prohibits restitution to German in
dividuals or companies of property
legally acquired before the nazi
invasion. This provision is regard
ed by Catholics as against the natu
ral law.
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Belgians Petition King to
Veto Anti-Catholic Laws
BRUSSELS—(NC) Signatures
to a national petition asking King
Baudouin of the Belgians to veto
anti-Catholic school laws are being
gathered throughout the country by
the Catholic Committee for Free
dom and Democracy.
All citizens over the age of 21
are being asked to sign the peti
tion.
This is the latest step in the cam
paign being waged by Belgian Ca
thoiics against the attempts of the
Socialist-Liberal government to cut
state subsidies to Catholic schools.
It was a foregone conclusion that
the new law would be signed by
President Peron without delay. He
had already announced that he
would sign any measure aimed at
the Church.
In the meantime, the Senate
put through another bill to end
the tax exemption of Catholic
Lnurth property. This measure
would affect also Catholic pri
vate schools, most of which have
been tax-exempt because they
give free education to thousand*
ef poor children.
The measure, slated shortly to
go before the lower house, pro
vides for the abolition of all tax
exemptions, hoth municipal and
national, for “religious institut
tions, their temples, convents and
other dependencies.” It imposes
taxes on offerings received for
marriages, christenings and buri
als.
Non-Catholics as well as Catho
lic church properties are affected
by the bill. This was made clear
during a debate when Senator Cas
teniera de Baccaro declared that
the vague wording of the bill did
not mean that legislation was aim
ed at the Catholic Church alone.
She denied that the bill was de
signed as a measure of anti-Catho
lic persecution, asserting that “the
law does not recognize any distinc
tion between the various sects—it
applies to all beliefs.”
Congress is also weighing a
Peronist plan to abolish the official
recognition of the Catholic Church
as the one to which the vast ma
jority of citizens belong. This step,
which would require a constitu
tional amendment, would mean,
among other things, ending state
subsidies to Catholic schools and
certain emoluments to some of the
Catholic Bishops and clergy which
date back to the beginning of the
past century.
Th* introduction of the bill to
tex church properties coincided
with th* resignation of Roberto
Adolfo Carene, a Peronist depu
ty from Cordoba, in protest
against the government's anti
Church policies.
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Parishes
New Parish to Be Established
In North Upper Arlington Area
Th* architect's sketch ef th* first multipurpose unit to be erected for th* new St. Andrew's
parish, picture* above, shows th* future school classroom wing extending to th* left of the chapel.
Establishment of this new parish, to be formed from territory presently served by St. Agatha's par
ish, was announced this week by h* Chancery office.
Religious Instruction Banned
In State Schools of Argentina
BUENOS AIRES (NC) The Argentina Congress has given President Peron the
first clear legislative go-ahead sign in the campaign against the Catholic Church in this coun
try which he started six months ago.
Passed by the Chamber of Deputies by a vote of 125 to 10 was a bill already adopt
ed by the Senate without a single dissenting vote which abolished Catholic religious in
struction in the state schools. This
meant the abrogation of a law
passed by the Congress in 1947,
and the ratification of Ministry of
Education decrees of last Decem
ber suspending the religious train
ing and also dismissing teachers of
religion in the state schools.
The Chamber of Deputies re
fused, however, to accept Carena’s
resignation, and voted instead to
expel him for “lack of faith, loy
alty and solidarity.”
(In Rome, the independent news
paper, Il Tempo, published an in
terview in which President Peron
was quoted by the newspaper's
Buenos Aires correspondent as
stating that it is “absurd and ri
diculous” to talk of religious per
secutions in Argentina. He reiterat
ed earlier statements that “this is
no conflict between the Church
and the state but between “a part
of the clergy and organizations of
the Argentine people
Catholic Action Leaders Jailed
Bv Peron After Demonstrations
BUENOS AIRES (NC) The 6-month-old Church
Slate conflict in Argentina took a dramatic new turn when
leaders of Catholic Action, the nation’s largest Catholic lay
organization, were arrested by police here. The charges were
not immediately disclosed.
Other arrests took place two days later in the town of
Eva Peron, capital of Buenos Aires provinces, but the persons
involved were identified simply as
Catholics who had taken part in
an anti-Peron demonstration.
According to reports, more than
20 persons were taken in custody
in the capital, and at least 12 were
detained in custody. Among those
held were the president of the Ca
tholic Action, the president of the
youth branch of the organization,
and a membei*of the organization’s
central committee.
Their arrests came a day after
Catholic demonstrators had parad
ed through the streets in protest
against the recent anti-Church
measures of the Peron regime.
As soon as the arrests were an
nounced His Eminence Santiago
Luis Copello, Archbishop of Buenos
Aires, hastened to police headquar
ters, but was not allowed to talk to
the prisoners.
Th* Cardinal was reportedly
told by a police officer that th*
case was in the hands of Minis
ter of Interior and Justice Angel
Borlruehi and that "we arv simp
ly obeying orders." In reply, the
Cardinal expressed the hope that
"these people have not been de
tained on account of their relig
ious convictions."
The homes of all the Catholic
leaders detained were subsequently
searched by police officers.
The demonstration which preced
ed the Catholic leaders' arrests
ended in violence as mounted po
lice with drawn sabers charged
the crowd and arrested at least 40
persons.
Bishops" War Relief Fund
Report Issued by Chancery
Evidence of the generosity of the faithful of the Columbus
Diocese—adults and children alike—was jven this week in a report
of the recent collection for the Bishops' War Relief Furd. The
Chancery office this week listed the leaders in the parishes and
in the high and elementary schools.
Christ the King $1,653.96
Holy Rosary ................................................. 1-645.19
Immaculate Conception .................................—• 1.531.92
St. Christopher 1.505.00
Holy Name 1.477.35
St. Agatha ........................................................ 1,362.40
St. Nicholas, Zanesville .............................................. 1,297.15
Corpus Christi 1.225.00
St. Thomas, Zanesville 1,221.73
St. Patrick 1,213.40
High Schools Amount Per Capita
Holy Trinity, Somerset $223.83 $4.38
St. Charles Preparatory ...................................... 973.73 3.11
Bishop Watterson 365.65 2.25
St. Joseph Academy 493.76 2.08
St. Mary of the Springs 500.00 1.98
Elementary Schools Amount Per Capita
Sacred Heart, New' Philadelphia $629.70 $2.36
Our Lady of Victory 540.00 2.00
St. Francis 48?.00 1.91
St. Catharine 787.00 1.79
St. Joseph Cathedral 186.77 1.60
Amount
The crowd had gathered after
an evening Mass at the Metropoli
tan Cathedral and began march
ing down Call* Florida, one of
the city's most fashionable
thoroughfares, chanting the na
tional nthem and various Catho
lic hymns. After having march
ed for about 12 blocks, the dem
onstrators were met by a police
cordon and fights broke out as
some of the crowd tried to push
through.
During the demonstration many
of the participants knelt in the
street and recited prayers. A num
ber of persons were injured during
the encounter with the notice, but
apparently none seriously.
VATICAN CITY—(Radio, NC)—
The arrests of Catholic Action lead
ers in Argentina was denounced
here by Osservatore Romano, Vat
ican City newspaper, as a Peronist
measure “which constitutes a blow
at the Church as such in one of its
apostolates
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Development to
Be Dedicated
To St. Andrew
The Chancery Office an
nounces a new parish for the
north Upper Arlington dis
trict It will be dedicated un
der the title of Saint Andrew
and formed from territory
presently served by Saint
Agatha's Parish.
A ten acre plot at McCoy
and Reed Roads was purchas
ed by the Diocese of Columbus sev
eral months ago tn preparation for
the latest parish development in
the metropolitan area. The district
has an estimated 300 Catholic fam
ilies.
The proposed boundaries of
Saint Andrew's parish were an
nounced as follows:
On th* East: The Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad from Route 161
on the North. South to a point
which is directly West of Glenmont
Ave. on an airline: then East on
an airline tn a point on the Olen
tangy River, which is directly West
of Glenmont Avenue on an air
line: then the Olentangy River
South to a point which is directly
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Adult Confirmation
Scheduled for May
29 at Cathedral
In accordance with the wishes
of Bishop Ready that all adults
in Franklin County who have
not yet received th* Sacrament
of Confirmation receive this
Sacrament of the Church, con
firmation of adults will be ad
ministered in Saint Joseph's Ca
thedral on Pentecost Sunday,
May 29, at 3 p.m.
This applies not only to con
verts but to those Catholics who,
for one reason or another, were
not confirmed as children.
Those adults, therefore, who
have not yet been confirmed are
requested to be at th* Cathedral
for instruction and rehearsal on
Sunday, May 22, at 7:30 p.m.
The confirmandi will be requir
ed to present their baptismal
certificates at that time.
Candidates for confirmation
are required to receive three
instructions on th* Sacrament
from their pastor.
Commemorate New Feast Day
In the first church in America dedicated (1761) to the Immacu
late Heart of Mary, Father Louis S. Dougherty is pictured telling
two of hi* school children the story of :h* 110-year-old painting
of the Immaculate Heart above the main altar. Located in Para
dise Township near Abbotstown, Pa., the Immaculate Heart of
Mary Church is appropriately commemorating the new Feast of
th* Queenship of Mary (May 31) with a novena ending that day.