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A Good Catholic
Is a Well-
Informed Catholic
Vol. IV, No. 35
Bishop Ready is shown with the nine young men whom
he ordained to the sacred priesthood in ceremonies Satur
day in St. Joseph Cathedral. The new priests are (left to
right), Fathers Robert Reilly of Lancaster, William John
son of New Lexington, Joseph P. Byrne of Columbus, Wil-
Th* Mass will highlight th*
Community Day program, which
includes a dinner honoring Bish
op Ready, public tours of th* nur
ses's home, a bazaar and a play
let, and a tea.
The playlet scheduled at 2 p. m.
and 8 p. m. will relate’ the history
of the school which opened in 1905
with a class of two girls. Members
of the medical auxiliary will serve
as hostesses at a tea from 2 until
4 p. m.
Thur-day will be Alumni Day.
The schedule of events includes
a special Mass for graduates,
tours of th* nurses's home, a ba
zaar, and a buffet dinner for
alumnae. Students will model
early school uniforms at th* din
ner.
Celebrant at the Solemn High
Mass will be Msgr. William Kappes,
diocesan director of hospitals and
charities. Father Andrew Hohman
and Father Richard Endres will be
deacon and subdeacon respec
tively.
Chairman of the two-day event
is Sister Mary I^iwrence, director
of the School of Nursing.
In charge of th* various com
mittees arranging th* observ
ance are Mrs. S. S. Daw and
Mrs. Georg* C. Malley, tea Mrs.
East German Refugee Nurses
Start New Life at St. Anthony's
Father Lawrence Corcoran, assistant director of diocesan hos
pitals and charities, chats with two German nurses who were brought
to this country under th* Refugee Relief Act. The nurses, Christine
Lingnaw (at left) and Helga Thiel, ar* doing "splendid work" at St.
Anthony's Hospital. Father Corcoran has just been named to th*
Governor's Advisory Committee for Refugee Relief—a committee
which will promote sponsorship of homeless men, women and
children.
Two young German girls, who not too long ago were
forced by the Communists to dig potatoes and pick corn in
the fields of East Germany, have found new homes and jobs
at St. Anthony’s Hospital.
Miss Christine Lingnaw, 25, and
Miss Helga Thiel, 21, are the first
two persons brought here under
the 1953 Refugee Act through the
efforts of the Catholic Welfare
Bureau at 246 E. Town St., the re
settlement office of the Columbus
Diocese.
For the two transplanted nurses,
the first four weeks in the United
States have not exactly been a bed
of roses (they confess they’re slight
ly homesick, and they are a little
chagrined at tke language bamerX I
Nine Priests Ordained for Diocese
Good Samaritan to Celebrate
Birthday of Nursing School
Good Samaritan Hospital’s School of Nursing will celebrate its fiftieth birthday next
week with a two-tiay religious and social program.
Bishop Ready will be the celebrant of a Pontifical Low Mass in the chapel of the Zanes
ville hospital at 10 a m. Wednesday. Assisting the Bishop as chaplains will be Msgr. Roland
T. Winel, chancellor of the diocese, and Father George Schorr, vice chancellor.
Chris Baum and Mrs. Paul
Schultheis, dance, banque. and
invitations Mrs. Herman Byers
and Miss Dorothy Ferrell, bazaar
Mrs. Fred Bohn, publicity Miss
Dorothy Ferrell, souvenirs Hel
en Strahler, dress uniforms of
early periods of the school and
Joanne Styers and Sue Hannum,
decorations.
After he opening of the school
1905, the next nursing class en
tered in 1908. when the course be
came a three-year program. A nur-
BUFFALO (NC) The Catholic Press was called upon
here to extend its influence in the life of the nation, and
three specific suggestions to this end were made to its edi
tors and publishers.
Some 250 delegates from all parts of the United States and
Canada and visitors from New Zealand and the Philippines
heard a Bishop who had been a Catholic editor himself say:
but it is a far cry from the days
when the Russians moved into East
Prussia during World War II. and
literally made servants of the peo
ple.
The one thing which Christine
best remembers about her existence
under the Communist regime is
that she was always hungry.”
She subsisted on a diet of two
pieces of bread a day, a potato and
a vegetable. Never during her three
years as a virtual slave laborer in
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liam Huber of Marion, Carl Clagetf of Columbus, Bishop
Ready, Edward McFarland of Columbus, Frances Shaefer of
Bay Village, 0., James H. Berendt of Columbus, and Rob
ert Lemon of Quincy, Mass.
ses’ home was completed in No
vember, 1914, at a cost of $10,000.
Five years later the Sisters ac
quired ‘he Cosgrave residence at
Myrtle and Forest Aves., and St.
Hildegarde’s Rest House, as it was
named, became the new residence
for nurses.
A three-story residence provid
ing quarters for 80 student nur
ses was built on Laurel Ave. in
1928.
The staff of nurses cares for
more than 7000 patients annually.
Bishop Offers Catholic
Press Three Ways to
Influence National Life
“Your primary concern should
be not only to reach souls but to
influence souls in Catholic thought
and Catholic action. It is not large
numbers of subscribers which you
need now. but readers whose lives
are directed along the right way.
the way of faith, because they read
your product.”
Delivering the keynote address at
the 45th annual Catholic Press As
sociation convention, Bishop Albert
R. Zuroweste of Belleville. 111., told
the Catholic journalists that they
should:
1. Explain and defend the Cath
olic educational system.
2. Promote the instructions of the
Holy Father regarding modesty in
fashions, in motion pictures and in
entertainment in general.
3. Help to produce lay leaders
by influencing readers in the prop
er approach to present-day Catho
lic problems.
Bishop Zuroweste, who is Assist
ant Episcopal Chairman of the Press
Department, National Catholic Wel
fare Conference, spoke at the end
of a day which saw a half-score of
separate meetings discuss problems
confronting Catholic newspapers
and magazines in this country and
Canada.
Bishop Zuroweste said “a field
in which the Catholic papers, maga
zines and periodicals have a most
important work to perform is the
legislative one.”
"Legislation introduced in lo
cal and state law-making bodies
which is prejudicial to the rights
of Catholics," he declared, "in
most instances is the result of
bigotry founded on ignorance.
"Laws or amendments to exist
ing laws proposed for the bene
fit of Catholic children immedi
ately are seized upon as a pre
text to shout from the press,
radio, and television that our
American Constitution and Bill
of Rights are being attacked.
Writers and commentators wail
loud and long that Catholics are
endeavoring to divide the coun
try attempting to destroy relig
ious freedom.
“These and many other false
charges have filled the air in re
cent months,” the Bishop contin
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The Catholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, Juno 3, 1955
COLUMBUS, Ohio —(NC)-—
A leader in the fight against
movie censorship in the State
Senate here has said he will
switch sides and support cen
sorship unless the flood of bur
lesque movies into this State
is stemmed.
Senator Charles A. Mosner from
Oberlin made this statement as
the House passed two censorship
measures recommended by the
Judiciary committee.
One bill specifically dealing with
movie censorship received approv
al by a vote of 105-10. The other
measure dealing with crime comics
and movies was passed by 124-3.
The movie bill would seek to re
store "prior censorship” of motion
pictures and it defines in specific
terms what is prohibited from pub
lic viewing. The bill, which has the
support of the Citizen Committee
•Spiritual Sickness"
Held Real Cause
Of Delinquency
He is Father Daniel Egan, S.A
of Graymoor Monastery, Garrison.
N.Y., who has given many teen-age
retreats and missions. Father Egan
testified before the Senate sub
committee probing delinquency.
Dealing with pornographic liter
ature, Father Egan said that such
printed filth was contributing to
teen-age violence and other youth
crimes.
“No teen-ager, unless he has ice
water in his veins, could look at
this material and not be affected
by it,” the Friar of the Atonement
said.
Declaring that as a marijuana
cigarette adversely affects on*
person, Father Egan said on*
vile picture can have a worse ef
fect on numerous children.
During the hearings here. Sena
tor Kefauver stated that the feder
al government must halt the flow
into this country of foreign-pro
duced filth, as well as all printed
trash transported by any means
between states.
“On the state level,” he contin
ued, “there is desperate need for
improved state statutes. Law en
forcement and the public interest
in this problem still tends to
spasmodic and insufficient.”
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Private School
Tuition Would
Be Deductible
WASHINGTON -(NO- A
bill which would provide for
income tax deduction for ele
mentary and high school tui
tion paid to private schools
has been introduced in Con
gress by Rep. Gordon L. Mc
Donough of California here.
“Parents should not be taxed
twice to «duc?te their children in
the primary and secondary’ school
grades,” the legislator said in dis
cussing his measure. “This is only
fair because a parent who pays
the public school tax when his child
attends private religious or edu
cational school is paying for facili
ties which his child is not using,
and the parent is therefore entitled
to income tax deductions for the
tuition he pays to the private insti
tution.”
The legislator pointed out that
at present the income tax law pro
vides deductions for contributions
to endowment funds of private re
ligious and educational institutions
which may use such funds to pay
the tuition of students. Mr. Mc
Donough’s bill would provide that
tuition .3id to the private schools
“shall be treated as a contribution.”
Lewd Films May Force Switch
By Leading Foe of Censorship
for Decent Motion Pictures in Ohio,
is the only bill which aims at pre
serving ‘he pre-censoring of films
in the state.
The comics bill would ban distri
bution and sale of indecent and
crime comics. It also prohibits ex
hibition of obscene films which
tend to corrupt the morals of per
sons under 18.
The burlesque movies referred to
by Mosher, which have not been
evaluated by the I region of Decen
cy, began to pop up in many of the
state’s drive-in theaters after the
Ohio riovie censorship statute was
declared invalid by the courts.
The Columbus Dispatch this week
commended the actions of the
House in an editorial. Commenting
on the so-called Putka Bill, the ed
itorial said, “The measure just
adopted by the House is definite in
its limitations, is obviously clear
in the kind of matter that would
be considered objectionable and,
unless the courts finally decide
that any kind of control is in itself
illegal simply because of its con
trol. should be able to stand the
test of judicial trial.”
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NEW YORK (NO An
crease in the number of police and
more recreational areas would
help, but the cure for juvenile de
linquency lies in the defeat of
“spiritual sickness,” a priest main
tained here.
The two diocesan summer
camps, Camp St. Joseph for*
boys and Camp St. Rita’s for
girls, will open for the ten
week annual vacation season,
Sunday, June 12, it was an
nounced this week by Father
Richard Dodd, diocesan direc
tor of youth activities.
Camp St. Joseph, situated on the
Big Walnut Creek 12 miles south
of the city of Columbus, will enter
its 29th year of providing camping
facilities for boys of the diocese
and central Ohio. The Camp with
facilities for 130 boys, is complete
ly equipped with chapel, modern
screened cabins, modern swimming
pool, dining room, an all-purpose
lodge for games and crafts, shower
rooms and facilities for outdoor
games including baseball, archery,
hiking, and sports of every descrip
tion.
The Camp is supervised by Fa
ther Dodd and is staffed by 12
seminarians of the Columbus Dio
cese under the leadership of
gene Yoris.
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Catholics Setting Pace
In Racial Integration
NEW YORK (NC) The gen
era) manager of a weekly Negro
newspaper told the Catholic Inter
racial Forum here that many
Southern Catholic schools by being
“pace setters” in racial integration
have “made it easier for pubnc
schools to act” on the U.S. Su
preme Court decision on school in
tegration.
Julius Adams of The New York
Age-Defender also told the forum
that the attainment by Negroes of
a “new status” in American life
calls for the development and
emergence of a new type of Negro
leadership.
Easter Duty
It is th* obligation of .every
Cetholic, under pain of grievous
sin, to receive the Holy Eucha
rist during the Easter time. Next
Sunday, Trinity Sunday, is the
lest day on which you can make
your Easter Duty.
Miss Alice Kiernan will again
Cardinal Stepinac
Reported Moved lo
Zagreb Monastery
MUNICH, Germany (Radio, NC)
—His Eminence Aloysius Cardinal
Stepinac has been transferred by
the Yugoslav authorities from his
native village of Krasic, Croatia, to
a monastery near Zagreb, accord
ing to Croatian informants here.
The informants stated that the
transfer had been ordered because
the “growing popularity” of the
Cardinal had caused Krasic to be
come “almost a Catholic pilgrim
age center.”
Cardinal Stepinac. who is Arch
bishop of Zagreb, was sentenced to
16 years’ imprisonment by the Tito
regime in 1946 for alleged “war
crimes,” but was released from pri
son in December. 1951, and order
ed confined to Krasic.
serve as head counsellor at St.
Rita's. She will be aided by a staff
of 14 voung women of the Colleges
and High Schools of the diocese.
The camp provides facilities for 85
girls.
Both camps boast of fine kitch
ens managed by experienced
sonnel. Mrs.
return to St.
Alma Vaeth
kitchen at St.
Eu-
the
Ex
for
Camp St. Rita will open for
33rd year of camping for girls,
cellent facilities are provided
an ideal vacation for the Catholic
girl. A beautiful chapel and lodge is
located on the camo grounds. Large
dormitory style cabins house the
girls and additional facilities in
clude a dining hall and swimming
pool.
Archbishop Cicognani
To Ordain Class of 9
At Josephinum June 4
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani
Peron Signs Legislation
To End All Church Ties
BUENOS AIRES. Argentina (NC) President Juan
D. Perun has cleared the way for what has been a major aim
of his six-months’ long conflict with the Catholic Church in
Argentina a complete renunciation of all the official state
recognitions the Church has
country.
disclosed
signed a
by both
Congress,
An official bulletin
that the President had
law, already approved
houses of the National
which provides for a general elec
tion to choose members of a Na-
Two Diocesan Summer Camps
Will Go into Operation June 12
per
will
Mrs.
the
Becky Newell
Joseph's and
will supervise
Rita’s.
Applications are being received
for the camps at the Youth Office,
246 E. Town St. Write the Rever
end Director or call CA. 1-5891.
The new St. Agnes church
will be dedicated by Bishop
Ready in solemn ceremonies
this Sunday. The blessing of
the church scheduled for 11:30
a. will be followed by a
Pontificial Low Mass.
Monsignor Roland T. Winel,
chancellor of the diocese, and
Father George Schorr, vice
chancellor, will serve as chap
lains to the Bishop.
St. Agnes parish was organized
in April, 1954, and Father Ben
nett Applegate was named admin
istrator. The area comprising the
parish was formerly divided among
St. Aloysius. St Mary Magdalene
and Holy Family parishes.
traditionally enjoyed in this
tional Assembly to re-write the
national constitution so as to sever
all ties between the Church and
the state. One effect of this would
be to abolish subsidies to Catholic
schools and certain financial bene
fits granted the Church for more
than a century.
The tame bulletin announced
that President Peron also had
signed the law enacted by the
almost completely pro-regime
Congress to end the tax-exempt
status hitherto enjoyed by all
churches and religious institu
tions.
The presidential actions were
announced as a new tension, caus
ed by clashes between Catholics
and the police in many centers,
gripped the country.
Reports from seven cities stated
that over 100 persons had been ar
rested following church sen ices to
commemorate the 145th anniversa
ry of the beginning of .Argentina’s
revolt against Spanish domination.
The disturbances occurred at Men
doza. San Miguel. Tucuman. Salta,
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St. Agnes Church to Be Ded:
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The first Mass for the new par
ish was said in the West Mound
Street School and services were
held there until the new church
was ready in March of this year.
Ground was broken for the new
parish pi ant on West Mound Street
between Wheatland and Wayne
Aves in September. 1954, by Father
Robert Schmidt who was appoint
ed pastor of the parish that month.
The cornerstone was blessed by
Bishop Ready in October, 1954.
The new parish plant, pictured
above, was constructed by Kent
Brothers Co. of Columbus, from
plans drawn by Columbus archi
tects Ramsey, Croce and Abbot. The
one-story bricjj multi-purpose build
ing has a cement block interior and
laminated wood beams. The brick
and limestone church, which has a
Ask Mary for Help
In Choosing Your
Vocation
Price Ton Cents $3.00 A Year
New Priests
8 Dioceses
The apostolic delegate to
the United States will come to
the Pontifical College Joseph
inum Saturday to ordain nine
young men to the sacred
priesthood.
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Ci
cognani will administer the sacra
ment of Holy Orders at a Pontifical
Low Mass scheduled at 8.30 a m.
in the chape! of the Worthington
seminary. The Josephinum is di
rectly responsible to the Holy Fa
ther, and as a consequence, the
apostolic delegate is also the ordi
nary' of the institution.
Member* of th* 1955 ordina
tion clast, all of whom had not
begun the first grade when
Archbishop Cicognani took up
his work in the United States,
will serve in eight widely-scat
tered dioceses in the nation. Five
states, including Ohio, ar* rep
resented in th* class.
The lone Ohicen is Father F.
Eugene Mueller of Tiffin. Assigned
to the Diocese of Mobile-Birming
ham, Ala., Father Mueller will of
fer his First Solemn Mass Thursday
in St. Joseph Church, Tiffin
Father Mueller, like his eight
classmates, studied for 12 years at
the Josephinum.
Two new* priests. Father William
R. Maul of Alton, Ill., and Father
Louis C. Shea of Springfield. Ill.,
will be ordained for the Diocese
of Springfield. Ill. Father Maul will
celebrate his First Solemn Mass in
St. Mary s Church. Alton, on June
12 That same
will offer his
in SS. Peter
Springfield.
date, Father Shea
First Solemn Mass
and Paul Church,
Also from Illinois is Father John
J. Flattery. He will offer his First
Solemn Mass June 12 in his horn*
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Austrian Treaty
May Clear Way to
Anti-Red Offensive
VIENNA (NC) The new
Austrian state treaty restoring this
country’s independence is regarded
by Catholics here as a better treaty
than they had believed possible.
Most of the clauses opposed by
Catholics in the treaty’s original
draft have been dropped from its
final version.
As a result Catholic circles are
taking a hopeful view of the fu
ture. They believe they can take
advantage of improved political
and commercial relations with the
communist-dominated countries of
eastern Europe to launch a Cath
olic counter offensive there.
They admit that better relations
may facilitate communist infiltra
tion of Austria. But, they add, they
will also be better able to carry the
teachings of the Church into “en
emy” territory.
cated Sunday
seating capacity of 400, serves ap
proximately 500 families.
Plans were announced recently
by Father Applegate, diocesan su
perintendent of schools, for the
formation of a new St. Agnes
grade school. The school, scheduled
to go into operation Sept. 6, will
accept first and second graders.
Classes will be held the parish
hall, the east unit of the new
church plant.
The new school will draw pupils
now attending St. Aloysius and St.
Mary Magdalene schools, helping
to relieve overcrowded conditions.
Two Sisters ot Notre Dame de Na
mur, who reside at St. Joseph
Academy, will teach at the school.
It is hoped that a school building
will eventually be erected on the
church plot