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A Good Catholic
Is a Well-
Informed Catholic
Vol. IV, No. 37
Leo Yassenoff, owner of the
chain, received written protests
from the Diocesan Council of Cath
olic Women, the director of the
diocesan Holy Name Union, Father
Albert Culliton the members of
the four Knights of Columbus
Councils in the city, and from the
diocesan director of youth activi
ties, Father Richard Dodd.
No announcement of the film’s
showing in the ctiy had been made
prior to Sunday's papers. The local
schedule apparently by-passes the
downtown theaters, for the time
being.
"Son of Sinbad" hat be,en con
demned by the Legion of Decen
cy which called it “a challenge
to decent standards of theatrical
entertainment" and "an incite
ment to juvenile delinquency
especially dangerous to the mor
al welfare of youth.*'
In a letter from Mrs. Frank H.
Vogel, president of the Diocesan
Council of Catholic women, Mr.
Yasenoff was asked “to cancel the
presentation of the ‘Son of Sinbad’,
the showing of which will be con
sidered as a complete disregard for
public decency and the moral wel
fare of youth.”
Th* showing of th* film come*
at a time when proponent* and
opponents of film censorship for
the stat* of Ohio ar* arguing
their cases before th* Ohio Stat*
Senat*. On* measure now before
Private School Foes
Catholics, he said, want to think
of Catholics and public schools as
"friendly partners.”
“Unfortunately, he asse e
gome public school authorities
“spurn our friendship” and "insist
upon dealing with Catholic schools
as competitors,” Msgr. McManus
said.
"These authorities therefor*
try to make things difficult for
our schools by maintaining a hos
tile attitude ... by calling them
names like 'divisive' and 'undem
ocratic,’ by unsympathetic and
heavy-handed enforce e n of
regulations that work a particu
lar hardship upon private
schools, and by advocating new
regulations that will impose an
even greater financial burden
upon u*
“Confronted with this situation,
Catholics may be forced to reply
in kind. Competition is a two-way
affair.
“If we Catholics must think of
public schools as a competitive en
terprise, we will be reluctant to
subsidize them by agreeing to in
creased tax burdens for their sup
port. This is only common sense.
"We do not car* to raise th*
salaries of person* who would
like to see our school* go out
of business. We do not wish to
float bond issues for elaborate
public school building* and then
be told that our Catholic school*
ar* required by law to be equally
elaborate.
“Let there be no mistake about
Pontifical Society
Set up to Promote
Religious Vocations
VATICAN CITY (Radio. NC)
—A Pontifical Society to Promote
Vocations to Religious Life has
been founded here, according to
documents published in the latest
issue of the official publication,
Ordinances of the Holy See.
The purposes of the new society,
which is under the jurisdiction of
the Sacred Congregation for Re
ligious, have been set forth in a
“motu propno,” a document issued
personally by the Pope.
The society will aim at encour
aging vocations to the various
states of religious perfection
through works of piety, penance
and charity.
Its prospective membership in
cludes religious congregations, sec
ular institutes, existing organiza
tions for promoting vocations and
individual members of the clergy
and laity who are especially inter
ested
in vocation work.
Strong Protests Are Lodged
As Theater Chain Schedules
Legion-Condemned Film Here
Four diocesan lay groups lodged strong protests this week with the owner of the
Academy Theater chain when it was announced that the Howard Hughes—RKO film “Son
of Sinbad”, condemned by the Legion of Decency, was scheduled to be shown in 11 Colum
bus area theaters beginning Wednesday.
a senate committee would set up
a three member licensing board
in. the Department of Education
and would restore "prior censor
ship." The bill also defines spe
cifically what is not to be shown.
The vagueness of definitions in
previous legislation caused the U.
S. Supreme Court to declare such
censorship unconstitutional.
Since that decision was rendered
complaints in Ohio have become
numerous because of the sharp in
crease in the number of morally
objectionable films brought into
the state.
In a recent speech before the
56th annual convention of the Ohio
State Council of the Knights of Co
lumbus. Bishop Ready cited the
imperative need for decent minded
citizens to emphatically oppose de
basing motion pictures.
Declared the Bishop, "It is
vain to dawdle with the notion
that producer* and publisher*
and purveyor* will control their
own areas of operation and will
conform to san* requirements of
common decency. They have had
years to give us some hope that
such good would com* from
them."
Meanwhile, two daily motion pic
ture trade papers have criticized
“Son of Sinbad” as poor entertain
ment and “an affront to public in
telligence.” The Hollywood Re-
Issued Blunt Warning
YOUNGSTOWN (NC) A warning to those authori
ties working to eliminate the private school from the Ameri
can scene has been sounded by Monsignor William E. McMan
us assistant director of the Department of Education, N.C.W.C.
In a commencement address to the largest graduating
class in Ursuline High School history, Monsignor McManus
said that Catholics are tiring of the un-American charges
hurled at their schools by a clique attempting to force pub
lic school education on all children
and that Catholics will not con
tinue to support school bond issues
if the situation continues. He said
the “tensions” which have arisen
of late between the two school sys
tems are not of Catholic making.
these remarks. We Catholics are
duty bound to pay our share of tax
es for public education, but in the
future our enthusiasm for propos
als firom public school authorities
will be in proportion to the degree
of their sympathetic, friendly un
derstanding of the Catholic school’s
contribution to the community’s
educational resources.
“We have no desire to quarrel
with public school authorities. We
wish they would stop picking
fights with us. In the long run,
antagonism between public and pri
vate school authorities will do
much more harm to public schools
than to private schools. We are
able to take care of ourselves, but
the public schools need our sup
port.”
The arrival of the 52-year-old
Bishop leaves 17 American mission
aries still in communist China.
Among the 17 are two other Bish
ops—Bishop James E. Walsh, M.M.,
w’ho comes from Cumberland. Md.,
and was formerly head of the now
suppressed Catholic Central Bu
reau Shanghai and Bishop Am
brose Pinger, O.F.M., of Chowtsun,
who hails from Lindsay, Neb., and
is now in a communist prison.
Bishop Donaghy spent rive
months in a communist prison—
from December 19. 1950 to May 21,
1951—ano on his release was kept
restricted in his movements and
forbidden to carry on mission
work. To support himself and his
mission, he was forced to begin
raising rabbits. When the bottom
dropped out of the rabbit market
he switched to ghicken farming
and then to towel manufacturing.
"There is no such thing a* re
ligious freedom in communist
Chine," the Bishop said. "The
communist* have devised a new,
mure subtle form of persecution
that seeks to avoid making actual
martyrs. They have sequestered
properties of eight mission* of
th* Muchow Diocese for their
own use. Only two of th* mis
sion chapel* are permitted to
hold religious service*. Two of
the Chines* priests ar* still pris
oners at hard labor. For almost
fb years, Christians have been
porter and The Daily Variety are
supported by motion picture ad
vertising and cater to readers with
in the industry.
In Omaha, Archbishop Gerald T.
Bergan has declared that any the
ater in his archdiocese showing the
film will be placed off-limits for
three months for Catholics.
In Youngstown, O., showing of
the film brought a joint protest
from the St. Vincent de Paul So
ciety and the Catholic Committee
on Scouting. The two groups, in a
letter to the manager of the Pal
ace Theater, declared that their
members would not attend the the
ater hereafter unless they receive
an apology and a promise “that no
pictures denounced by the Legion
will be shown at your theater in
the future.”
nings to hear the prayers and
hymns wafted up the ladder wells,”
Father (Lt.) Dennis C. Kane. O. P.,
of Dorchester, Mass., chaplain of
the USNS General Brewster, said.
“When the refugees prayed aloud
at Mass on the ocean deck, you’d
see the crew standing on the bridg
es and watching them. Our men
admired them for their great
faith.”
The Brewster (home port, San
Francisco) took its first refugees
aboard on September 16 and its last
on May 14, when nine adults and
one infant were taken aboard off
the coast. It was one of some 40
ships of Military Sea Transporta
tion Service that helped in the
Vietnam “Passage to Freedom.”
The U.S. Navy sent ships for
this operation at the urgent re
quest of the Vietnamese govern
ment. Some of these vessels car
ried as many as 5,000 refugees
on one trip, in all, 293,000 civil
ian refugees and 19,000 troop*
traveled on the American ships,
out of a grand total of 790,000,
of whom 608,000 were civilian*.
Father Kane’s experience was
typical of what all the chaplains
witnessed.
“For Mass, the refugees would
pack the deck so tightly that I
could hardly stir at the altar,” he
Reds Expel Maryknoll Bishop
17 U.S. Missionaries Remain
HONG KONG (NC) A Maryknoll Bishop from New Bedford, Mass., has become
the first American Catholic missionary to come out of Red China in nearly a year.
He is Bishop Frederick A. Donaghy of Wuchow, who arrived in Hong Kong after
having spent nearly five yearslas a virtual prisoner of the Chinese communists. Three days
previously, he had been tried by--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
a “people’s court” for alleged sub
versive activities and ordered ex
pe’led from the country.
under constant intimidation. Po
lice search their home* and
threaten them."
Bishop Donaghy added that, nev
ertheless the bulk of the Catholic
faithful has remained faithful to
the Church. The Chinese' priests
and Sisters, he said, have been
completely loyal and have frustrat-
jf
Bishop Frederick A. Donaghy
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Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, Juno 17,1955
’/Vone Are So Blind
,,
Faith of V ietnamese Refugees
Impresses U.S. Navy Crews
By Father Patrick O’Connor
(Correspondent, N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
Society of St. Columban
SAIGON, Vietnam The engine of prayer throbbed
ship carrying Vietnamese refugees south.
Thousands of Catholic peasants would chant their pra
Mass, weekdays and Sundays alike. In compartments below
by parishes or families, to say the rosary.
“It was wonderful in the eve----------------------------------------------|
said. “Their reverence at Mass was
very remarkable.”
A priest in navy khaki was a
novelty to the people. But when
Father Kane donned his white Do
minican habit and the Mass vest
ments, they knew him as a rna?
“Cha” (Father). Many of them
came from provinces evangelized
by the Dominicans in North Viet
nam.
The majority of the refugees
came aboard poorly dressed some
were dirty and bedraggled.
“I reminded the crew that these
people were not tramps,” the priest
said. “They never begged from me.
Some of them had given up com
fortable homes. But they had to
struggle through muddy rice-pad
dies and wade across rivers, to es
cape the Vietminh. When they got
a chance to wash aboard ship, they
ran for it. I told our guys that the
refugees were like GI’s after com
bat, muddy, dirty and exhausted.”
The sailors respected the refu
gees.
A Vietnamese team comprising
a priest, interpreters, nurses and
social workers was assigned to each
U.S. ship. The Brewster carried a
Buddhist bonze, too.
Father John An-Hoa, young
Vietnamese priest who made
more than ten voyage* with ref-
ed attempts to set up the so-called
independent national church.
The Bishop described economic
conditions in Red China as “dread
ful.” He said that even people with
plenty of money are unable to buy
rice at the food shops.
He said the people are disillu
sioned with communism and ar*
hoping for its downfall.
Bishop Donaghy had been in Chi
na for 26 years. He was ordained
in 1929 and left for the Maryknoll
mission field the same year. He
served as a missionary for ten
years in Kaying, South China, and
in 1939 was consecrated Titular
Bishop of Seteen and Vicar Apos
tolic of Wuchow.
HONG KONG—(NC)—A predic
tion made by a missionary from the
Tyrol 50 years ago that all foreign
missionaries would be expelled
from China has been recalled here.
The prediction is attributed to
Father Joseph Freinademetz, S. V.
D., whose cause for beatification is
now beihg discussed in Rome’
The Divine Word missionary pre
dicted also that China would be
converted to Christianity after the
country had been divided among
foreign powers. The priest died in
1906.
In 1949, missionaries in China
numbered some 3,500 priests, 2.500
Sisters and 475 Brothers, a total
of 6.475. Today, he said, less than
35 foreign priests and 15 foreign
Sisters, and only one missionary
Brother are still in Red China.
M.
"None Are So Blind That They Cannot See"
The three youngster* pictured above received their First Com
munion recently at the State School for the Blind. Father Anthony
Kleinschmidt, chaplain of the school, is pictured with tbe happy
trio. They are, left to right, Kenneth Brown of Cincinnati Ken
neth Weidenhamer of Defiance and Michael Ryan of Cleveland.
nightily in every U S Navy
ers together on deck dunng
iecks, they gathered in groups,
ugees, described the passenger*
as "pleased and grateful." Viet
minh propagandist* had told
^hem that American* would mis
treat them. They hadn't believed
it but some had come with mis
giving*.
“The moment they set foot on an
American ship, they realized that
everything the Vietminh said was
false,” said the priest.
From the start the refugees were
grateful. Last November one of
their priests wrote to the then skip
per of the Brewster, Captain Swan
son, his officers and crew: “My
peopl-' and I are most humble and
grateful May God bless you
and be with you always.”
BIENHOA. Vietnam—(NC)—Ten
Thousand Catholic refugees from
Haiphong vicariate attended the in
stallation here of a “pilgrim stat
ue” of Our Lady of Fatima that had
formerly stood in Haiphong ca
thedral.
Bishop Joseph Dai, O.P., Vicar
Apostolic of Haiphong, assisted by
refugee priests of the vicariate, of
ficiated.
Through morning sunlight a long
procession escorted the statue down
a road bordered by refugee vil
lages each with its cfiapel. Refu
gees recited the rosary and sang
hymns, walking under treasured
religious banners they had brought
from home. Countless papal flags
flew from home-made flagpoles
along the way.
Catholic refugees from Haiphong
in south Vietnam number about
70.000. it is estimated. There are
now 22 parish units from Haiphong
in Bienhoa area.
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Human Needs
Rank First,
Pope Stresses
VATICAN CITY (NC) The
growing importance of “hu
man relations” in industrial
management was stressed by
His Holiness Pope Pius XII in
a talk to nearly 3.000 delegates
to the World Petroleum Con
gress in Rome.
The Holy Father, speaking in
French declared that social prob
lems increasingly dominate purely
economic ones and that “nobody
has the right to isolate himself in
technical specialization or admin
istrative tasks.”
The Pope admonished industrial
managers to pay more and more
attention to man as such—not just
man as a worker. Employees, he
said, cannot be induced to bring to
the job all their talents and initia
tive unless management “first of
all takes care to meet those deep
human needs that neither a just
salary nor appreciation of profes
sional competence can satisfy.”
The Pontiff then applied to a
wider sphere the thought that so
cial and moral considerations out
rank economics.
"Th* natural riche* of a re
gion, country or continent ar*
not destined for th* exclusive
economic profit of a small num
ber but for improving living con
ditions first of all materially
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A solemn Mass, coram episcopo,
will be offered Monday at 10:00 a
in Holy Cross church by Father
Schneider. Bishop Ready will pre
side.
Father Frank T. Riehl, pastor of
St. Ladislaus parish and Monsignor
W’illiam E. Kapper, diocesan direc
tor of charities and hospitals, will
serve as deacon and subdeacon, re
spectively. Father Linus Drury, pas
tor of St. Nicholas parish, Zanes
ville, and Father Thomas Sabrey
of St. Charles Seminary, will serve
as chaplains to the Bishop. Mon
signor Edmund Murkley, pastor of
St. Mary parish, Columbus, will
be assistant priest. The sermon will
be delivered by Monsignor Francis
X. Schwendeman, pastor of St.
Leo Parish.
Father Schneider was ordained
by the late Bishop Hartley at the
Pontifical College Josephinum.
June 18. 1905.
His early education had been
gained at Holy Cross School, Co
lumbus, ano at St. Gregory’s. Cin
cinnati. He completed his studies
for the priesthood at Mt. St. Mary
of the West Seminary. Cincinnati.
Following hi* ordination, he
was appointed assistant pastor
at St. Nicholas parish, Zanes
ville. Other assignments includ
ed chaolain at St. Anthony Hos
pital, Columbus assistant pastor
at St. Mary, Portsmouth pastor
of St. Genevieve, Calmoutier
pester of Sacred Heart. Pomeroy,
and pastor of Holy Cross, Co
lumbus.
Then, shouting “Long live Peron,
down with the Pope,” the mob as
saulted the next door residence of
His Eminence Santiago Cardinal
Copello. Archbishop of Buenos
Dedication
Set Sunday
At Watterson
The sleek new Bishop Wat
terson High School, which will
provide educational facilities
for approximately 900 boys
and girls, will be blessed Sun
day by Bishop Ready. The cere
monies at the North Side school
also include Benediction of the
Blessed Sacrament and public tours
of the two-story $900,000 building.
A half hour program of choral se
lections by the Watterson High
School Glee Club will open the
program at 2:30 p.m.
Speakers at the ceremonies in
clude Monsignor Paul J. Glenn,
rector of St. Charles Seminary, who
will give the dedication address
Father C. Bennett Applegate, su
perintendent of schools, invoca
tion Monsignor Edward F. Spiers,
principal, w’ho will welcome the
assembly to Watterson: and E. Fa
ber Biggert. general chairman of
the 1953 diocesan Development
Drive which raised funds for the
construction nf two new high
schools and a new St. Vincent’s Or
phanage.
Bishop Edward F. Hettinger will
be the celebrant of the Pontifical
Benediction.
Another highlight of the pro
gram will be the presentation of
a statue of St. Pius X, school pa
tron, to the new school. The
statue is a gift from Watterson's
first class—160 boys and girls
who completed the ninth grade
three weeks ago. The statue will
be placed in the lobby of the
L-shaped, brick building.
Following the program, Watter
son students will serve as guides on
conducted tours of the building.
Staffed by diocesan priests and
Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of
the Springs, Watterson High School
is expected to be the largest sec
ondary school in the Columbus Di
ocese. In September, the school
will accept a freshman class of ap
proximately 175.
Three Diocesan Clergy
Will Celebrate Golden
Jubilees of Ordination
Three diocesan priests, who have dedicated their lives to the service of God in the
Columbus Diocese, will celebrate their fiftieth ordination anniversaries this year.
Father Peter Cornelius
year prior to his retirement. Fa
ther Angelo Gallorini, pastor of St.
Mary's Church. Bremen. O, and
Monsignor Edmund Burkley, who
has served virtually his entire
priestly life administering to the
needs of St. Mary’s parish. Colum
bus, will commemorate their fif
tieth anniversary of ordination.
Father Cornelius Schneider
He was paator of Holy Cross
parish from 1923 until 1940 when
he retired. Father Schneider now
resides at St. Francis Hospital, Co
lumbus.
The 74 year old priest is from a
family that was blessed by many
vocations to the priesthood and re
ligious life.
One brother, the late Father
John J. Schneider, who was a priest
of the Columbus diocese, died in
1915. Six sisters entered the re
ligious life
Sister Agatha, O.F.M., is sta
tioned at St. Elizabeth Hospital,
Dayton Sister Hildegard*, S.
N. D., who spent more than six
years in China, is now teaching
at St. Joseph School, Hamilton,
O. Sister Barbara, S.N.D., and
Sister Rosine, S.N.D., work at a
school for retarded and young
children at Villa Julien* Con-
Peron Mob Stones Cathedral
Police Arrest 400 Catholics
BUENOS AIRES (NC) The seven-month-old Church-state conflict in the Argen
tine erupted into violence here when a pro-government mob attacked a group of Catholics
who were trying to keep it out of the cathedral here during Mass.
The mob advanced throwing stones, but were prevented from breaking into the church
when its doors were barricaded.
Several gunshots were fired.
Aires A priests automobile was
burned in front of the episcopal
residence. The Cardinal was not in
the building during the outbreak.
No one was reported shot, al
though a number of people were
injured by stones and by tear gas
used by the police to break up
the riot. Later police raided the
Cardinal's residence and arrest
ed more than 400 of the 2,300
Catholics who had taken refuge
there.
The outbreak followed new gov
ernment charges against the
Church including “treason’’—
which were issued after Saturday s
Corpus Christi parade through the
Buenos Aires streets. The parade
had been held in defiance of a
government order banning outdoor
religious events.
There were no disturbances here
on the feast of Corpus Christi it
self. but reports from Cordoba
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Price Ton Coots, $3.00 A Year
Schneider, who served as pastor of Holy Cross Parish for 17
Monsignor Edmund Burkley
vent, Dayton Sister Margaret
teaches at Emmanuel College,
Boston, Mass., and Sister Natalie,
S.N.D., is deceased.
Two brothers, Robert and George,
live in Cincinnati and Columbus,
respectively. A fourth brother, Am
brose, is deceased.
Following the Solemn Mass Sun
day morning, a breakfast for the
clergy and close relatives of Fa
ther Schneider will be served in
the St. Francis School of Nursing
auditorium.
A reception for friends and for
mer parishioners will be held in
the auditorium from 1:30 to 3:00
p. m. Hostesses will be members
of the Hob Cross parish altar so
ciety.
Father Gallorini wilt celebrate
a Solemn High Mass in commem
oration of hi* golden jubilee at
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stated that some 40.000 persona
gathered in the square of the ca
thedral there after a Mass and
started a procession when police
intervened to disperse them.
According to an announcement
by the Interior Ministry, 287 Cor
pus Christi processions were held
in provincial centers, despite the
ban on outdoor religious demon
strations.
Meanwhile, three priests were
arrested by government police.
Two of them were seized for dis
tributing pamphlets containing “in
jurious expressions” against the
government.” and the third priest
was arrested for organizing a Cor
pus Christi procession without a
police permit.
The arrests brought to 78 the
number of priests who have been
taken into custody since Peron in
itiated the anti-Church campaign
last November.
Stronger Laws to Bar
Obscene Matter. Being
Sought by Post Office
WASHINGTON (NC) The Post Office Department
has told a Senate committee that the “steadily growing” vol*
ume of obscene matter in the mails is “a menace to public
morals, both adult and juvenile” but that defects in the law
are “a great obstacle” to department efforts to clamp down.
William C. O Brien, assistant so
licitor of the Department s Fraud
and Mailability Division, said that
con ictions under criminal provi
sions of the posfal law “have not
proven to be significantly deter
rent to the growing volume and
worsening character” of traffic in
obscene matter, “nor have such
convictions prevented purveyors of
pornography from circularizing and
selling to children.”
Mr. O'Brie said the present law
allows prosecutioh of mailers of ob
scenity only at the point of mail
ing “but not at points where de
livery is made and where the real
harm to the community is done.”
Passage of legislation to permit
prosecution where the obscene
matter is delivered would “great
ly help to end the comparative se
curity from prosecution which now
encourages and to a degree pro
tects owners of many enterprises
peddling obscenity to children as
well as adults throughout the coun
try.” he said.
Complainiing of “procedural
red tape" which he said hamp
ers the enforcement of the law
in other aspects, Mr. O'Brien
said court officers and psycho
logists are agreed that much of
the pornog-aphy entering the
mails is “extremely detrimental
to the morals of juveniles as
well as adults."
He said that while the Tost Of
fice Department recAves “numer
ous complaints," they represent
“an insignificant fraction of those
who have just cause for com
plaint.”
“Consequently.” he said, “the
frequency with which we are now
receiving such complaints from par
ents indicates to me a tremendous
ly wide distribution of obscene cir
culars and letters advertising dirty
books, pictures and movies.”