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A Good Catholic
Is a Well.
Informed Catholic
Vol. IV, No. 49
Delivering the keynote talk at a
Solemn High Mass in St. Joseph
Cathedral, opening the annual dio
cesan principals and teachers meet
ing, Monsignor McManus gave num
eroas statistics which pointed out
what he described as a “decade of
progress.”
"This year," he said, elemen
tary enrollment will soar to a
new high of 20,000, some 6,000
more than in 1945. High school
enrollment will pass the 5000
mark—1300 more than in 1945
During the decade, $6,000,000
was Invested in new buildings,
additions and renovations. This
year the cost of operating the
Catholic schools of this diocese
wi.' exceed $2,000,000."
The Washington. D.C. prelate
also noted that during the decade,
"70 or more young men were or
dained to the priesthood,” and
"more than 250 young women
pledged eternal love of God, be
ginning with a lifetime of service
as teaching sisters.”
He also cited the record of pro
fessional developments including
the work of curriculum commit
tees, the institution of the guid
ance center, participation in the
federal school lunch program, and
the “cordial relations” with public
school groups and with professional
and ousiness organizations.
Monsignor McManus also praised
Bishop Ready, describing him as
blessed with the particular talents
an experience so useful in the ad
ministration of an expanding
school system.” He asserted
“You have had the leadership
of a Bishop whose capacity for ap
preciating big and good ideas is
surpassed only by his willingness to
respond tirelessly to the inspira
tions of God’s grace.”
Commended also were the re
ligious communities of men end
women who have supplied "some
of their best talent" for the
schools, pastors and their assist
ants who have encouraged their
first he was refused permission to
see the Cardinal-Archbishop of
Zagreb. When the reporter persist
ed. he was given permission only on
condition that he not attempt to
speak to the prelate.
The newspaperman was taken to
Cardinal Stepinac’s native village
of Krasic under the watchful eye
College to Continue
Family Allowance
STEUBENVILLE. O. (NC)
Students from large families who
attend the College of Steubenville
here will this year continue to re
ceive reduced tuition rates under
a family plan allowance, it was an
nounced here.
A 10 per cent discount on tuition
is given to the second child in one
family attending the college, a 20
per cent discount to the third child
and so on. Thus, it was explained,
in the event of the matriculation
of four children in one family, a
total reduction of 50 per cent on
tuition would be possible.
The
School Expansion in Diocese
Praised by Msgr. McManus
In Speech at Teachers Meet
Approximately 800 teachers from throughout the diocese gathered at St. Mary of the Springl
last week to attend the annual principal and teachers meeting. The two day meet was opened at St.
Joseph Cathedral with a Solemn High Mass, coram episcipo. Bishop Ready presiding. Pictured above
are some of the teachers with the Bishop and Monsignor William McManus, assistant director of
the NCWC Department of Education, who delivered the sermon at the Mass. Pictured left to right
are Father Bennett Applegate, diocesan superintendent of schools Sister Altjiaire, S.C.N., of Our
Lady of Victory Sister Marie Clara, O. P., of St. Mary, Lancaster Miss Anna Mary Cline, Our
Lady of Victory Monsignor McManus Bishop ady Sister M. Christina, 0. S F., Holy Rosary
Sister Joan Clare, 0. S. F., St. Mary, Columbus, and Sister Mary Marcia, R.S.N., Holy Family.
The tremendous growth of the school system in the Columbus Diocese during the past
10 years was cited here last week by Monsignor William McManus, assistant director of
NCWC’s Department of Education in Washington C.
flocks to support Catholic educe
tion, and the faithful who have
"doubled and trebled" their
contributions for education.
Monsignor McManus, forecasting
continued growth of the school sys
tem, said that statistics indicate
that 10 years from now elementary
schools in the diocese must find
accommodations for twice the
present enrollment, and that high
school enrollment will at least
double” in the same period
In the talk, the prelate cited a
growing trend among Catholic,
Protestant and Jewish parents to
ward the recognition of the import
ance of religious education. As ex
amples, he noted inc^ased de
mand for Sunday or SabtTjh School
classes, for released time in public
schools for religious instruction,
and for combined religious educa
tion and recreation programs dur
ing the vacation period Declaring
Requiem Offered
For Sr. Bernadette
Solemn Requiem Mass for Sis
ter Bernadette (McArdle), O.P 82,
was sung Wednesday in the chapel
of St. Mary of the Springs convent.
A uominican nun since 1899. Sis
ter Bernadette died Monday at the
convent. She had been an invalid
for many years.
Born in. Ireland, Sister Berna
dette came to Columbus in 1897
to enter the novitiate at St Mary
of the Springs. Her long career in
religious life included assignments
at St. Joseph Convent, Somerset
Blessed Sacrament School, Newark
St. Mary's Academy, New Haven,
Conn., and St. Vincent Ferrer and
Mary Immaculate Schools in New
York City.
Surviving are a brother, Michael
McArdle and two nephews in New
Haven, Conn
Burial was in the convent ceme
tery.
Cardinal Stepinac Still Held
By Reds Spends Days in Study
ROME (NC) His Eminence Aloysius Cardinal Stepin
ac spends his days in quiet study, a correspondent for Quoti
diano, Rome daily, reported after a visit with the prelate, con
fined by the Yugoslav Reds tolhis native village
The correspondent said that at
of a chauffeur and two other peo
ple “who by coincidence joined the
ride and who by coincidence knew
how to speak Italian.”
The living quarters of the Car
dinal are modest, the corres
pondent noted. He lives in two
rooms, a bedroom and study. In
the center of the study there is
a desk with books and papers.
Here every afternoon the Cardin
al works at a Croatian version of
the Bible which he is translating
from original Latin and Greek
texts furnished by the Vatican.
It is in this study also that Car
dinal Stepinac holds his interviews,
when they are allowed by the com
munist authorities. He consents tc
interviews, but constantly admon
ishes his visitors to “write what
I say in the form that I use.”
The Cardinal's day begins early
when he goes to the little village
church of Krasic. During the first
Mass he hears confessions.
On Sunday, when the Cardinal
celebrates the 11 a m. mass and
preaches the sermon, almost all of
the village’s 2,000 inhabitants
crowd in and around the church.
that secularism is “losing ground,”
he said
"The essence of secularism it
that religion is irrelevant to the
individual's every day life. The
current mood of the American
public and particularly of par
ents is that religion is indispen
sably relevant to every phase of
their lives."
In conclusion, the speaker out
lined this eight-point program as
a guide to Catholic teachers.
1. Dedicate ail of your teaching
to the greater honor and glory of
God. Catholic education must be
first and foremost a work of relig
ion.
2. Conduct an intensive crusade
of prayer for vocations to the relig
ious life.
3.
Remember that as religious
our first duty is to give every Ca
tholic child a reasonably conven
ient opportunity for religious in
struction by a competent teacher.
4. Maintain cordial and coopera
tive relations with your public
school colleagues in the teaching
profession.
5.
Continue to maintain the high
professional standards that have
won such great prestige for our
schools
6.
Seek out the children most in
need of Catholic education.
7. Give enthusiastic support to
your home and school associations
by taking an active part in their
programs.
8.
Religious superiors should rely
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Peron’s Offer
To Church Will
Not Be Accepted
BUENOS AIRES—(NC)—“We do
not wish to see profane hands
touch these wounds of the Church.”
With these ringing words, one of
Argentine's most respected prelates
has fold why ecclesiastical authori
ties have rejected the offer of the
Peron regime to restore churches
burned and looted by peronist
mobs during the June 16 revolt.
“These semi-demolished walls,
these accumulated ashes, these
images brutally profaned, these
missals aand books destroyed are
sacred to us,” declared Msgr. Gus
tave J. Franceschi in Cnteno, the
Catholic magazine of which he is
editor. “We alone have the right
to staunch the flood of these
wounds.”
The monsignor, who was him
self seized and jailed overnight
by the peronist police, went on
to ask: "Why should the state
take upon itself this task? Was
it, by chance, because the state
itself had burned, directly or
indirectly, these buildings, these
archives, these robes, these books
of the Cardinal of Buenos Aires
and of his priests?"
Monsignor Franceschi said that
“if the old union of Church and
state had been maintained.” it
might have been proper and logical
for the state to repair the damage
to the churches.
“However,” he added, “both
chambers of the Congress have
adopted legal measures to sever
the bonds which united these two
institutions, and the executive
power has sanctioned them: The
Church could not do less than
spur i the money offered to her.
This is something that even a pag
an can understand. Personal dig
nity ought never to sacrifice itself.”
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, Saptombar 9,1955
Escaped Slav
Reports on Red
Persecution
FRANKFORT, Germany
(NC) Czechoslovak Reds
tried by every possible means
to get priests recently released
from jail to promise they
would never again say Mass,
according to “Expulsus,” in
formation bulletin issued by
the Catholic refugee center of
Koenigstein near here.
The information came from a re
cent escapee from Czechoslovakia.
He also reported that Archbishop
Josef Beran of Prague is being
moved from one jail to another.
The prelate is now said to be in
the neighborhood of Kohn.
Auxiliary Bishop Anton Eltschk
ner of Prague still manages to ad
minister the Sacrament of Confir
mation.
Bishop Stephan Trochta of Leit
meritz is gravely ill. He, too, is re
ported to be jailed in the neigh
borhood of Kolin.
Bishop Josef Hlouch of Budweis
was released from jail, the inform
ant says, but is not permitted to
function in any capacity, except to
i say Mass privately.
All clergy and faithful are for
bidden contact with the Holy See.
'under the most severe penalties.
A large number of the clergy
are still in jail. All monasteries
and convents some 700 in all
—were closed down. Very few
Sisters engaged in hospital work
are allowed to carry on their
work. The majority of them
must do forced labor in factories,
coel mines and various state
controlled institutions.
The laity is deprived of all their
former religious associations, all
Catholic societies having been sup
pressed The faithful are constant
ly spied upon and harassed
The young generation is exposed
to a relentless stream of atheistic
propaganda Religious instruction
in the schools is practically impos
sible
They are Bishop James E. Walsh, M.M., executive secre
tary of the Catholic Central Bureau of China, and Sister
Theresa of the Child Jesus (Stella
Duguay), a Carmelite nun.
Their freedom to leave commun
ist China was announced here fol
lowing negotiations- between Unit
ed States Ambassador U. Alexis
Johnson and Chinese Ambassador
Wang Ping-nan for the release of
some 41 civilians admittedly held
by the Reds.
(Bishop Raymond A. Lane, su
perior general of the Maryknoll
Fathers, stated at the communi
ty's headquarters at Maryknoll,
N.Y., that Bishop Walsh does
not want to apply for an exit
permit. He feels it is his duty to
remain in China until he is ex
pelled, Bishop Lane said. Be
cause of reports of Bishop
Walsh's ill health, Bishop Lane
said, it is hoped he will now re
turn to the United States.)
Sister Theresa is the last Amer-
holic Times
Meaning
Believed
Vatican Envoy
Appointment
rged by Solon
ROME (NC) Represen
tative Victor L. Anfuso oi New
York, Italy as a guest of the
Italian government to inspect
social and economic condi
tions. has said here that he
would give full support to the
appointment of a United States
benvoy to the Holy See.
The congressman, who was
^granted an audience by His Holi
ness Pope Pius XII. noted that the
United States is the only major
power, with the exception of the
Soviet I nion and communist Chi
na. that is without representation
at the Vatican
1 Mr Anfuso also asked demo
cratic organizations the free
world to help combat communism.
He said that individuals and organ
izations with vast resources and
wealth at their disposal should aid
anti-Red political parties in any
countries where communism is a
threat He stated he would recom
mend such a program at the next
session of congress
During his stay in Italy Mr An
fuso visited summer camps operat
ed by the Pontifical Assistance Or
ganization
In reporting the tour the Vati
can daily, Osservatore Romano,
took the occasion to praise the in
terest of such American personali
ties as Congressman Anfuso in
Italian works of charity, recon
struction and welfare
Missioners in Civilian Group
Reportedly Released by Reds
Father Frederick Gordon, O.P.,
Of Somerset Still Being Held
GENEVA, Switzerland (NC) Two of the last 17 Ameri
can Catholic missioners left in Red China are among the 12
American civilians who are now free to leave that country.
ican nun left in Red China She
was born in New York Dec. 30,
1893. of French Canadian parents.
She attended the Ursuline convent
in Three Rivers. Canada, and then
entered the Montreal Carmel at
the age of 20. She had been in
China since 1922 or 1923 Accord
ing to the last letter received from
her, she is in poor health.
Including Bishop Walsh and Sis
ter Theresa o nly 17 American
Catholic missionaries remain in
China of the nearly 500 who were
serving there before the Reds seiz
ed power. Two of the 17 are Bish
ops and 14 are priests. Sister The
resa was the only nun.
One of the priests still being
held is Father Frederick A. Gor
don, O.P., a native of Somerset,
who has been in China since
1927. He has been In house ar.
Peron Speech Carries
Hint That He Will Make
No Peace with Church
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (NC) President Juan
Peron has strongly intimated that he has no intention of
mating peace with the Catholic Church in Argentina
The intimation was seen in his speech to the peronist
rally in the Plaza de Mayo here in which he withdrew what
was obviously a spurious offer to resign.
Peron’s resignation offer had all
the earmarks of a strategy design
ed to afford opportunity for a show
of peronist strength. It deceived
nobody—least of all Catholic lead
ers—since it was submitted, not to
the Congress, but to the pro-regime
General Confederation of Labor,
and the Peronist Party. Long be
fore it was announced, arrange
ments had been made to pack the
central square with peronist fol
lowers all groomed to demonstrate
against Peron’s offer.
In his speech, Peron complete
ly repudiated the “pacification”
policy he had announced shortly
after the abortive June 16 revolt.
Instead, he served notice on his
opponents that hereafter he would
“answer violence with greater
violence” and that “five of them
will fall for every one of us.”
Although ho made no direct
reference to the Church, there
was no doubt Peron had the
Church in mind when he listed
religion among the "various pro-
text*"—along with liberty and
justice which his opponents
have been "using as a shield."
It seemed equally obvious that
Peron was thinking of the Church
when he linked ‘trouble-makers
with their pamphlets” with opposi
tion political leaders who have
been making speeches “as super
ficial as they are insolent.” and
triggermen who
ing down poor
streets.”
labelling his
eral as “oligarchs” who were try
ing to turn the clock back to 1943,
Peron declared:
"We have the right to repress
this violence, and with that we
set the standard of conduct for
our movement. He who tries in
any place to disturb the peace
may be killed by any Ar
gentina. The watchword for ev
ery peronist is now as it was in
1945: answer violence with
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have been
policemen
14 Novices Don
Dominican Habit
In Somerset
“shoot
in the
opponents gen-
SOMERSET In the first cere
mony of its kind in St. Joseph’s
Priory since 1924, 14 young men
received the traditional black and
white habit of the Dominican Or
der last week in an investiture cer
emony conducted by Father Mat
thew Hanley, O.P., Prior.
For many years St. Joseph’s was
a house of studies for candidates
who had completed their noviti
ate at St. Rose s in Kentucky Last
month the teaching staff and 25
philosophy students were moved
to the new house of studies in Do
ver, Mass, and St. Josephs was
named as the province's new no
vitiate.
For a period of one year the
novices will be thoroughly ground
ed in the spirit and ideals of St
Dominic and the Order of Preach
ers ffi order to prepare them for
their vows next year After their
profession they will begin the
philosophical course leading to the
priesthood
Brother Mark Dreese. son of Mr.
and Mrs Alphonse Dreese New
Lexington O was among those in
vested. He has a brother. John,
studying for the priesthood at
Catholic University. Washington.
D.C, and a sister. Sister Georg
anne. in the Canton. O convent of
the Sisters of Charity of St. Au
gustine. AH three are graduates of
St. Aloysius Academy in New- Lex
ington
rest In Foochow since August,
1953.
After close to 30 years of serv
ice in China, Father Gordon was
serving as vicar provincial of the
Dominican community in the Foo
chow area at the time he was
placed under house arrest He had
been refused an exit permit by
the Reds in 1951. He is now con
fined to the servants’ quarters of
the American Dominican house in
Foochow along with two other Do
minican priests. Father Joseph
Hyde and Father James G. Joyce.
No communication has been receiv
ed from him since August, 1953
Representatives from 23
counties in the Columbus Dio
cese will attend the annual
convention of the- Diocesan
Council of Catholic Women,
Oct. 11, at the Neil House, Co
lumbus The meeting will
mark the 10th anniversary of
the founding of the council by
Bishop Ready.
The theme of the convention, as
announced by Mrs. Frank H. Vogel,
president of the D.C.C.W., will be
“To Cast Fire on the Earth.” The
words are Christ’s when he told
His disciples, “I am come to cast
fire upon the earth, and what will
I but that it be kindled?” (St. Luke
12:49).
The sessions will officially open
with a Pontifical High Mass eele-
of Dignity of Man
Key to Good Life
Addressing a throng composed
mainly of AFL. CIO and indepen
dent union officials and members,
Father Corridan said Christ taught
men the value of “God like dig
nity” in various ways.
He elaborated
“First of all in His Birth, Christ
taught us that man's God like dig
nity is not dependent on the
worldly position of his father not
dependent upon the race or nation
of which he is a member is not
dependent upon the place where
he is bom
"In the second piece, Christ
taught us the value of men's
God-like dignity by deliberetely
choosing to live His life as a
worker. Christ worked at a car
penter's bench »o teach os the*
in work as tn prayer we act like
God. In work we imitate God's
creative power. We join with
God in improving in somg slight
way Hie tremendous universe
created by His fiat.”
This God like dignity as taught
by Christ, the priest continued,
gives us the basic meaning of La
bor Day. He emphasized:
“In speaking to you this Labor
Day morning. I speak to you as
much more than workers or union
men or even family men I speak
to you as members of Christ’s Mys
tical Body. You are the flock of
Christ. You are the Church of
Christ
“The Church is strong or weak
as you are strong or weak in the
realization and fulfillment of your
God like dignity.”
Father Corridan whose efforts
to obtain social justice for men
who work on the docks were pub
licized in the recent motion pic
ture “On the Waterfront.” stressed
that the Church from the days of
Plans Laid for DCCW Convention
Monsignor Roland Winel, chancellor of the Diocese of Columbus and moderator of the Dioceson
Council of Catholic Woman, discusses plans for the organization's annual fall convention with Mrs.
Frank H. Vogel, council president, seated, center Mrs. John 5. Dunkle, general chairman of the con
vention, standing, and Miss Patty Corbett, general secretary of
will take place Oct. 11, at the Neil House, Columbus.
brated by Bishop Ready in St Jos
eph Cathedral at 9:00 a Regis
tration at the hotel will take place
immediately following the Mass.
The day's activities include a
12:20 luncheon, a business meet
ir^g at three and a banquet at 7.00
p. m. The
announced
Robert R.
will serve
banquet.
guest speaker will be
at a later date. Mrs.
Richards of Galloway,
as toastmaster at the
Mrs. John S Dunkle, general
chairman of the convention, has
announced that two workshops will
be conducted during the day-long
event.
Chairmen of the workshops in
clude Mrs Franklin J. Eyerman of
Corpus Christi parish, religious
activities Mrs. J. Harold Breen, St.
Christopher parish, Catholic char­
Most Powerful Weapon
In Battle for Peace
Is Prayer
Price Ton Cents $3.00 A Year
Father Corridan Cites
Labor’s Rights, Duties
The meaning of the dignity of man was termed by New
Yonc City’s famed “waterfront priest” here this week as the
“one supreme lesson that Christ taught us by His life.”
Joseph Cathedral, Father John
Corridan S described man's dig
nity as a “God like dignity The
43-year-old Jesuit declared:
"All man must respect that
Speaking at the eleventh annual Labor Day Mass at St.
God-like dignity in themselves
and in others or answer to God
for it. In the last analysis in the
sight of God we will be success
es or failures, we will be re
warded or punished, not by the
measure of our annual income
whether it be in wages or prof
its, salaries or fees, dividends or
coupons, but by the way we re
spected our God-like dignity in
ourselves and others while earn
ing that income."
Pope Leo XII has “unhesitatingly
proclaimed the rights of workers
based on their God like dignity.”
The Church, he said, has advo
cated the “right to form unions of
their own choosing, the right to
collective bargaining, the right to
a saving wage and decent working
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Secularism
Seen Cause of
World’s Chaos
AZELO. The Netherlands
(NC) Today’s chaos origin
ates from the failure to make
Christ the center of modem
life.
This was the conclusion of
Catholic scholars from 16
countries gathered here for
the sixth congress of the In
ternational Society for a Chris
tian Renaissance after a week’s
discussion of the conference
theme, “The Theology of Evil.”
They agreed that society as it
now is rejects Christ as the center
of the world in its private, pro
fessional and international life.
To achieve the aim of their
organization the re-Christian
ization of Europe the dele
gates said it was not sufficient
to Christianize only the profes
sions. Christian ideas, Htoy it*,
listed, must penetrate the fields
of communication press, ra
dio, film and television.
Miss Hedwig von Skoda, the so
ciety s president who founded It
in 1950 at Friedenweiler. Schwarz
wald. Germany, outlined its pro
gram
1) The furtherance of the Chris
tian spirit of lay people and the
application of that spirit to daily
life.
2) The deepening of the individ
ual's spiritual life
3) The extension of theological
training.
4) Christian activity in profes
sional and family life
5) The furtherance of the Chris
tian spirit in international life and
the deepening of Christian friend
ship and international contact.
I
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s
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the council. The day-long meet
ities Mrs. John E. Stattmiller. Holy
Rosary parish. PTA Mrs John R.
Holden, Christ the King parish, so
cial action: Mrs. Robert R. Rich
ards, Sts. Simon and Jude par
ish. West Jefferson, international
relations
Mrs. Michael Ryan. Jr. St. Ca
tharine parish, civil defense Mrs.
William F. Ryan, St. Mary parish,
Lancaster, family life Miss Marion
Swickard. St. Joseph Cathedral par
ish, organization and development
Miss Dorothea Greene. Immaculate
Conception parish, public relations,
and Mrs. Anna Marie Cline Sacred
Heart parish, adult education.
Mrs. Dunkle has appointed the
following committee chairmen:
registration, Miss Mary McManus
hospitality, Miss Rose Forquer,
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