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A Good Catholic
Is a Well*
Informed Catholic
Vol. V, No. 16
ter cam*
Excise Tax Issue
Is Controversy in
House, Treasury
By John Daly, Jr.
(Staff Writer, N.C.W.C. News Service)
WASHINGTON The excise tax question stijick
Congressional hearing here like a bolt out of the blue.
Result9 A stand by the subcommittee chairman that
he favors exemption for private schools and the announce
ment by a Treasurv official
any such relief
Rep Aime Forand of Rhode
Island favored the exemption,
terming the issue “very, very im
portant.” He heads the subcom
mittee which will prepare a final
report on excise taxes sometime
in the third week of January.
Dan T. Smith, special assist
•nt on tax policy to Secretary
•f Treasury Humphrey, said the
agency opposed the exemption
as a matter of policy The
mat­
up in routine question­
ing.
Federal exrise taxes cover such
items as schoolbuses, gasoline,
sports equipment. typewriters,
long-distance telephone calls and
travel costs of school groups or
individuals.
To cite two instances of the
tax cost public schools do not
have to bear, one Catholic uni
versity has paid about $47,500 on
communications in the past five
years and in the same length of
time another school has a total nf
about $56,380 for various taxable
items.
illustrate it another way,
public school basketball
and a non public school
were to play in a tourney
distance away, the pri-
To
If a
team
team
wme
vat*
school would have to pay
♦ax on
the co*t of transporting
Its team, while the other school
would not be charged.
The Treasury Department's dis
approval of any exemption for
private schools, said Mr. Smith,
was based on the grounds that
other groups would clamor for
similar treatment and the De
partment would he open to dis
If the exemption were grant
ed, it would not be discrimina
tion against other groups af
fected by the tax, but rather
the righting of an already exist
ing discrimination, Mr. Forand
declared in an interview.
As for the pressure the Treas
ury Department fears. Representa
tive Forand commented that he
has been under various pressures
since he entered public life in
1922 “But if I think that some
thing is right. I am going to do
it. regardless nf the pressure
and if something is wrong. I am
going to stand in opposition to
it.”
The loss in revenue the De
partment pointed to, continued
the Congressman, would be an
“inconsequential amount”
taxes go in today’s world
Bishops of
$5-Million for Poor
United
States government in such
A check for $10,000 to foster youth activi
ties was presented to th* diocese, by the Ohio
State Council of the Knights of Columbus at a
dinner meeting held in the Neil House last
week. Pictured as they presented the check to
Monsignor Harry S. Connelly, pastor of St.
Joseph Cathedral, who represented Bishop Ready
at th* ceremonies, are, left to right, Henry J.
U.S. Seek
In Collection Mar. 11
WASHINGTON (NC) The tenth annual Bishops’
Fund campaign to assist the hungry, homeless and needy in
all parts of the world will be conducted nation-wide on Lae
tare Sundav, Mar. 11.
million.
Baltimore's Archbishop
cis P. Keough, chairman
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference administrative hoard, in
a letter to the nation's Cardinals,
Archbishop* and Bishops, said
“At the annual meeting of the
Bishops in Washington it was
agreed that a collet tion in behalf
of the Catholic Relief Services
would bo tak(in un on Laetare
Sunday. March 11. 1956. As Your
Excellency knows, this collection
makes it possible for the Bishops
to support the work of our Relief
Services of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference and to assist
the Holy Father in his many char
ities.
"With th* funds received, it
has been possible during the
pest year to take advantage of
the goodness of the
goal has been fixed at $5
The
Fran-
of the
million needy men, women and
children. Recently the Secretary
of Agriculture has declared an
even more generous distribution
of farm products could be ex
pected for next year.
“Cnder the leadership of the
Catholic Hierarchy, more than
10-million pounds of clothes have
been given during the past year
to the needy as a result of the
Thanksgiving Collections With
Your Excellency’s generous as
sistance from the l^etare Sunday
Collection, we shall be able to
support our Catholic missionary
Bishop and priests with many
more millions of dollars worth
of basic food for the needy and
hungry people under our care.’’
The assistance distributed
world wide by the Bishops’ agen
cy of mercy is given solely on
the basis of need—regardless of
race, religion, creed or country
of origin.
a
way we were able to maintain a
program that served over 32-
Diocese Receives Gift for Youth Work
Tito Forbids
Slav Tribute
To Pope Pius
GRAZ, Austria (NC)
Organizing of public celebra
tions in Yugoslavia for His
Holiness Pope Pius XII’s 80th
birthday on March 2 will be
regarded as “an ad of con
spiracy” against internal se
curity. Marshal Tito's politi
cal police have warned Catho
lic Bishops and priests.
a
that his department opposes
crimination and subjected to
pressure
He said the move would result
in “a progressive series of ex
emptions” that would “ultimate
ly have appreciable revenue
costs.”
Representative Forand said he
was “very much surprised at the
attitude taken by the Treasury
He called it a weak position that
doesn’t make much sense.”
In addition, it is learned here,
propaganda departments of the
pnlitburos in Zagreb and Ljubl
jana have issued confidential in
structions to local branches of
the League of the Communists to
counter “reactionary Catholic in
tentions and plans to stage pro
Pope demonstrations."
“You are at libertv to break
up any Catholic meeting held on
Match 1 or 2 outside the church
es the confidential instructions
said
In Slovenia, a predominantly
Catholic province of Yuqlo
slavia, the communist-controll
ed Provincial government at
Ljubljana has turned down all
requests by clergy and laity
for oermission to hold oublic
gatherings in honor of the
Pope's birthday. Clergy in many
oarishes have been warned by
the police "not to make any
propaganda" among the par
i'hioners in connection with the
birthday.
A copy of the confidential in
structions
1 jitblians
out of Yugoslavia, says in part
“Comrades, a test of strength
v ill be hrlfl throughout Croatia
between the communist worker
and progressive peasants (farm
ers) on one hand and the Roman
Catholic priests and their stupid
followers on the other at the be
ginning of March when the Pope
observes his 80th birthdav
“The duty of every comrade
is to see to it that all pv, ,?one
anti workers manifestations fail”.
a s
pri
suf­
Parents with children in
vat* school* are already
ferina und*r a "double burden"
because they pay their fair
share of taxes for suppoi of
public schools and also contrib
ute to the support of their
child's school.
“At least these people should
be allowed relief from the ex
cise taxes.” Mr Forand stated
by the Zagreb and
Politburos. smite led
Holy Name Rally Plans
Coiiipleted by Deanery
Catholic men and boys of high school age throughout
the Central Deanery will attend the annual Holy Name
Rallv at 3 p.m. Sundav in St. Joseph Cathedral
The rallv. scheduled in observance of the feast of the
Holy Name nf Jesus, will include
recitation of the Rosary, renew/al
of the Holy Name Pledge. Bene
diction of the Blessed Sacrament,
and a sermon
Speaker for the occasion jvill be
Father James
chancelloi nf
ocese.
Carrell. J.C.D., vice
the Columbus Di-
Singing of the organization's
hymn, “O, Holy Name of Majesty
and Powei.” will open the event.
Afterward Monsignor II. E Mat
tingly. pastor if Holy Rosary
Church, and Father Albert E. Cul
liton. Holy Name I nion director
and pastor of St. Christophers
Church, will lead the assembly in
the recitation of the Rosary and
the renewal of th? Holy Name
pledge.
Father Carroll will celebrate
Benediction following the ser
mon. The religious demonstra
tion will also include the sing
ing of hymns by the congrega
tion as well as the St. Charles
Seminary Choir.
All men in th* deanery are
urged by Bishoo Ready to re
ceive Holy Communion the
same morning in their respec
tive parish churches. Each so
ciety, moreover, is requested to
carry its parish Holy Name ban
ner at the rally.
Joseph E. Tritschler, diocesan
Holy Name president, has named
Kondrat of Cl*v*land, stata deputy of th* K. of
C. Thomas Andrews of Marion, past deputy and
originator of th* Knight's state youth program,
and Thomas Dowd of Kenton, stat* warden.
State and local officials and grand knights of
the 22 councils in the Columbus diocese at
tended th* dinner.
The Catholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio Friday, January 20, 1956
.«•
mt
August C. Grodrian. Holy Name
Union treasurer, as general chair
man of the rally. Assisting him
will be Ralph J. Kramer, sr.. co-
Father James Cerroll
chairman John A. McAndrews,
finance chairman, Edward O. Ry
an, program chairman: Charles E.
Leach, Henry A. Reinhard,
Charles P. Gilbert. Edward P.
Wolf, Roman Eyerman, and Leo
C. Walter, members of
rangements committee.
the ar-
speaker,
arts de-
Father Carroll, the
earned his bachelor of
gree at St. Charles Seminary in
1942. and completed his studies
for the priesthood at Mt. St. Mary
of the West Seminary. Norwood.
He was ordained by Bishop Ready
Ocl. 27. 1945. and was named as
sistant pastor of St. Mary’s par
ish, Marion. Father Carroll also
served as assistant pastor of Holy
Family Church, Columbus, before
being assigned to duties in the
Chancery office June 15. 1950. In
January, 1952. he was named as
sistant chancelloi of the diocese,
and last June 17 he was appointed
diocesan secretary. He was named
hy Bishop Ready last October as
Judge Instructor Certain Cases
in the Diocesan Tribunal
In addition. Father Carroll
earned a doctor s degree Canon
Law last May, after three years
of study at the Catholic Universi
ty of America, Washington. D.C.
Receives $2 Million Loan
WASHINGTON (NC) Mar
quette University. Milw a u kee,
Wis.. has received approval from
the Community Facilities Admin
istration on its application for a
loan of $2,890,000 to build a dor
mitory for men. the House and
Home Finance Agency here has
announced.
Architect's Drawing of New Bishop Hartley High School
Reports of Stubborn Faith
Of Russian People Persist
Stories Explain the Constant Shift
In Anti-Religious Tactics of Soviets
ROME NC) Reports of “miracles” and of the
stubborn faith of the Russian people that have come from
behind the Iron Curtain heln to explain the constant shift
in the anti-religious tactics of the Soviet regime.
Collections of these reports have just been printed by
two publications here One. in Osservatore della Domenica,
a weekly printed in Vatican City,
dealt chiefly with the “miracles of
the icons.” ®aid that however
cautiously these “miracles” ought
to be regarded, the recurrence of
the reports and the many sources
from which they come “certainly
indicate that something has hap
pened
A report in “Notizic Russe.”
bulletin published by the Russi
cum College here, reaches the
conclusion that after 38 years of
temble persecution of Christians,
“the communism of the Soviet
Union has had to admit that it
has not been able to succeed in
realizing its first postulate (erad
icating religion) in a satisfactory
and definitive manner.”
Posing the question “How does
the Church stand in Russia to
day'”’, the bulletin asserts:
''The real Russian people
have always had Christ as their
ideal. They defended that ideal
in the 13th and 14th centuries
when they stopped the Tartar
wav* thet threatened to engulf
ell Europe while th* Wert re
mained an indifferent specta
tor. They fought for their ideals
against the Red revolution
while the West remained still
an indifferent spectator. There
fore, we Catholics must now»
have understanding, sympathy
end Christian love for the Rus
sian people.”
The “miracle of the icons’’ is
the story of how, in many parts of
Rutsia and for many years, the
ancient religious images venerat
ed by the Russian people have
suddenly become new and shin
ing. Painted surfaces have return­
New High School Will Be Named
In Honor of Bishop James Hartley
ed to their original luster, scratch
ed and broken pieces of wood
have been restored, and tarnished
and blackened metal surfaces
have become clean and bright.
In the village of Krolevitz. near
Vladivostok, on September 23,
1923, an old, torn and crumpled
picture of Christ that hung on the
wall in a peasant's shack appear
ed like new again The “miracle”,
whimpered about the village, in
evitably came to the ear- of the
Soviet secret pobce Breaking in
to the shack, policemen tore the
picture frorh th* wall and ripped
it to shreds with their bayonets,
bur the torn image mended itself
immediately before their eyes.
The report of what had happen
ed had «uch an effect on the peo
pie of the village that the authori
ties had to confiscate the picture
to avoid manifestation of “super
stitious fanaticism.”
“Miracle?
della Domenico “We
repeat what Cardinal
Prefect of the Sacred
tion of Religious until
in 1936. wrote in his tract 'The
Miracle’ ‘One can admit that
in an exceptional manner and in
isolated cases, the miracle occurs
o' ‘side the body of the Catholic
religion, the Holy Spirit being
free to select his instruments
where he will’ this above all
when there is need ‘to furnish
new proofs of the existence of the
supernatural.’
A half dozen scrolls, discovered by an Arab boy near
the Dead Sea in 1947. substantially support the integrity of
the Old Testament, the vice rector of St. Charles Seminary
declared here Sunday.
Delivering the second address in the Borromeo lecture
series, Monsignor George Wolz
described the finding of the 1900
year-old scrolls as “one of the
most important archeological dis
coveries of the century
Monsignor Wolz, widely
known Scripture scholar and
professor of biblical languages,
asserted that the differences
in th* texts of the Dead Sea
copy of the book o Isaias and
the text of present-dey bibles
are ''very minor." Differences
in sense, he continued, are of
ten "so trifling that it would
be difficult to express them in
an English translation."
The text of the Dead Sea scroll
is older by 1.000 years than the
most ancient copy previously
known, and was written 400years
after the book's first compilation
Thus, it provides a check of the
accuracy of present day Bibles.
Monsignor Wolz explained
Another important contribu
tion the Scrolls have made to
scriptural studies, th* prelate
continued, is that they' refute
♦he contention of a "school of
radical critics." These critics,
he said, have maintained that
when our Lord is reported as
speaking in terms of light end
derkness, truth and falsehood,
he is using the language of Sec
ond or Third Century Hellen
ism or paganism.
Their conclusion, therefore, is
that any Gospel (such as St. John)
cps
asks Ozservatore
can only
Lepicier.
Congrega
his death
Commenting on the present
condition of th* Church in Rus
sia, the Russicum College bul
letin reports that in th* past
two or three year* there have
been frequent incidents be
tween the propagandists of the
Communist Party and the peo
ple, especially in rural areas.
But the surprising thing, con-
(Contmued on Page 2)
Scriptures' Integrity Believed
Supported by Scroll Discovery
cannot merit respect as a trust
worthy historical source.
But, Monsignor Wolz contin
ued, the newly-discovered non
biblical religious lite a tu e
clearly shows that Our Lord
used the language of his time
and pla^e.
The manuscript discovered in
1947 and in the years since fall
into three classes, ‘he prelate de
clared. There are some copies of
the books of the Old Testament,
commentaries on these books’, and
a large mass of religious litera
ture.
The task of fitting together lit
erally thousands of scraps of
parchment and papyrus is being
done by Catholic, Jewish and
Protestant scholars in the Pales
tine Archeological Museum in
Jerusalem. Monsignor Wolz said,
adding
"We may see th* work fin
ished by 1965—or by 2000."
The lecture, sponsored by St
Charles College in cooperation
with the Carohan Club, was pre
sented as an educational and cul
tural aid to the public.
The next address in the series
will be given at 8 p.m Sunday
at St. Charles by Monsignor Paul
O’Dea, dean of studies at the sem
inary. His subject is 'National
ism.”
The lectures, open to the public
without charge, art scheduled on
successive Sunday e v e n in s
through Feb. 5.
In the same unit are music
rooms (under the stage), and lock
er rooms for boys and girls on
each side of the gym A one-story
wing north of the gym provides
■■■■■......—.......* .... .. 1 "i—i
Most Powerful Weapon
In Battle for Peace
la Prayer
of con-
School
facili
Bishop Hartley High
will include four main
ties in its modified L-sheped
form, designed by Columbus
architects Emerick end McGee.
The $900,000 school plant will
include a residence for 31 teach
ers a ehapel seating 100 students,
a two-story academic wing con
taining 18 classrooms three com
meicial classrooms two home
economics rooms, three science
laboratories, and administrative
nf
The third unit include® a
bran. which flanks the mam lob
by a cafeteria study hall accom
modating 350 persons and a Little
Theater seating 175
In addition, there is a comb
bination auditorium gymnas
ium. The gymnasium can be di
vided into two smaller courts
by a curtain, and will have fold
ing bleachers seating 1500. The
stage is located et the west end
of the main court. When used
a* an auditorium, 1000 addi
tional folding chair* can be
placed en the basketball court,
raising th* seating eapecity to
2500.
Price Ton Cents $3.00 A Year
Architectural Plans
To Be Ready Jan. 31
The new Cathobc high school to be constructed in the
southeast section of Columbus will be named in honor of
the Most Rev James Hartley, fourth bishop of the Co
lumbus Diocese
In announcing the school’s name this week. Bishop
Ready also disclosed that the
high school will be dedicated in
honor of St James, patron saint
of the late Bi.»hop Hartley
Architectural plans for the 900
pupil structure are expected to
be completed by the end of Jan
uary Contractor* are expected to
submit bid.- within four weeks,
enabling construction to begin
soon after the awarding
tracts March 1
rooms for art, photography and
crafts.
The teachers’ residence faces
north on Livingston Ave. The re
mainder of the units will face
Zettler Rd and extend some 725
feet youth of Livingston. On the
same plot will be the athletic
field
Of steel construction, the
building will have exterior
walls of red brick. Lobbies will
feature the generous use of
glass and brick, and interior
walls will be of masonry.
Multipurpose planning is used
throughout the building to insure
a more efficient use of all facili
ties. The science classrooms, for
example, are readily available for
academic subjects with a new type
of furniture. Use nf the cafeteria
for study purposes was incorpor
ated intn the plan by completely
soundproofing and ventilating the
kitchen from the main room. The
Little Theater can be used for
dramatics, music groups, visual
aids, study hall and smaller as
sembly groups.
As a result of this multi
purpose plan, per pupil cost*
will average less than $1000.
This is in a striking contrast to
th* average of $1500 per pupil
found throughout the country
in new secondary school build
ings.
BishoD Hartley, after whom the
school will be named died Jan.
12 1944 at the age of 86, after
serving 61 years as a priest, in
cluding 40 years as Bishop of the
Columbus Diocese
Born in Columbus July 26,
1858 he was the son of Edward
Hartley an early member of the
Columbus Police Department, and
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Catholics Are Advised
By Prelate in Attitude
Toward Non-Catholics
NEW YORK (NC) Catholics were advised to steer
a clear course between the extremes of broad-mindedness
and narrow-mindedness in their attitude towards non
Catholics bv Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of Boston in a
sermon here.
On the one hand, the Archbishop stressed. Catholics
must not lose sight of the fact that there is only one true
Church, the Catholic Church
founded by Jesus Christ, but on
the other hand. Catholics must be
willing to live in friendship and
good will with those of other
faiths.
In his sermon opening the
Church Unity Octave observance
in St. Patrick's Cathedral. Arch
bishop Cushing contrasted the
modern tnlerant attitude with
that-ef the Middle Ages.
“We have fallen a little too
deeply.” he said, ‘‘into the atti
tude that religiou convictions
and loyalties upon which they
rest are of secondary import
ance. that in an atmosphere of
social harmony all religious ques
tions will somehow settle them
selves.” he said
"No one likes to describe this
olive-branch form of brother
hood as religious indifferent
ism. Yet if we are honest with
ourselves we must admit that it
is but a short step from being
indifferent toward the plurality
of religions to being indiffer
ent towards the ori n i I e
♦hemselves upon which relig
ious beliefs are based."
which
The proper spirit in
Catholics should approach the
“other «heep.” Archbishop Cush
ing suggested, is “a spirit of love
for the truth of God’s revelation
regarding His Church a spirit
of tolerance born of love of the
truth and nurtured in supernatu
ral charity a spirit of zeal for
the triumph of the truthover the
disintegrating influences of hat
red and dissensions
“It is not enough,” he said,
“that we seek union with our
separated brethren because we
hope thereby to make the world a
better place to live in, or because
we want our churches to be filled,
or because we fear the scandal of
dissension among those who pro
fess their love of God Our pro
grams of convert-making should
be constructively based on the
basic truth of Christ’s teaching on
the unity of His Church, and on
the exclusive right of the Church
to present the teachings of His ordinance was passed.
revelation and to sanctify men
through the dispensation of Hi*
grace.
‘‘We must not water down the
content of the dogmas of faith to
meet the demands of an over*
critical and self-indulgent intelli
gentsia. We must not dissimulate
the sterner truths of the exacting
requirements of Christian morali
ty, and the penalties of eternal
punishment, by emphasizing more
appealing doctrines such as the
mercy of God and the glories of
supernatural life in the Mystical
Body of Christ. We must not pre
sent the Church merely as a hav
en of refuge for non-Catholics
who are disagreed among them
selves on the interpretation of
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Lewd Magazine
Sale on Increase
Despite Ordinance
SPRINGFIELD, O —(NC)—The
sale nf immoral magazines is on
the rise here, a survey of local
new sstands showed, despite a well
publicized city ordinance ban
ning them
Last year students of Catholic
Central High School campaigned
against unmoral publications, with
the, result that the Springfield
City Commission adopted an anti
«mut ordinance. Officials predict
ed that the law would rid the
city's newsstands of the most ob
jectionable publications.
The survey, however, showed
that while there seems to be a
falling off in comic book sales,
this has been offset by an in
crease in the number of pictorial
sex magazines*
The survey showed that at least
two local retailers, both Catho
lics. did not offer any objection
able material for sale, but that
some of the city’s busiest stands
had bigger displays of lewd pub
lications than they did before th*