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A Good Catholic
In a Well-
Informed Catholic
Vol. V. No. 20
pel from spiritists and clairvoy
ants of his days, the basic pnn
ci pie of which is reincarnation,
Was set forth in his Le Livre
Esprits (Paris, 1865 .’’
Father Parente continued, "and
it does not pre-exist union of
body and soul."
“The Search for Bridey Mur
phy,’’ by "’ore’- Bernstein, a
Colorado business mai, with hyp
notism for a hobby, is a story
which is hound to plague the
reading public for some months.
The book, serialized in newspa
pers throughout the country, has
been bought by Paramount Pic
tures to be made into a movie
Mr. Bernstein, who admits he
has read many books on hypno
tism, discovered he had some un
expected talents in the occult
field and decided to probe the
Named Member
Of Dominican
General Council
Sister Lauranna. O.P., vice
principal at Watterson High
School, has been elected a mem
ber of the General Council
Dominican Sisters of St.
of the Springs.
of the
Mary
Sister
A native of Newark.
Mauramia, entered the Convent
of the Sisters of St. Mary of the
Springs in 1930. She graduated
from St. Mary of th-0 Springs Col
lege in 1936 and received her
Masters Degree in French at Ohio
State University in 1943.
Sister is presently working to
ward her Ph.
Univ.
from Lavalie
vice-principal
classes began
She was named
at Watterson when
there in the fall of last year. In
1944- 45 Sister Lauranna had b-en
directress of the Academy at St.
Mary of the Springs.
A v u’.le renovation
and em 1 nt ol 33-year
old Or* adv of Victory
Church "'■'3 Roxbury Rd
was an1"th’s week by
Fathe’ Xme’-4 Favret, pastor.
Plans call for enlargement
of the •»ncf”ary and sacris
try, con« rrrl’’on of a new
baptistry :4o a’tar, two
soundr»-o ',onfecsionals,
widening of th® center and
aisles.
‘Bridey Murphy’ Hypnotism
Story Contrary to Teaching
Of Church, Authority States
WASHINGTON (NO) “The story of ‘Bridey Murphy’,” (now being widely
printed throughout the country and having to do with hypnotism, after-life and reincarna
tion) except lor the dramatization and publicity of the case, adds little or nothing to what
we have been hearing for nearly a century.
“Actually, since the days of Allan Kardec. who gathered what he called a new gos-
mystery oi death He led a hypno
tized subject back through the
years, he said, recording the ex
periments with the aid of a tape
recorder Hater available to the
public on phonograph i ecords).
des
Fa
fat
This was the statement of
ther Pascal Parente of the
Ulty of the Catholic University of
America, when asked to comment
on the “Bridey Murphy” hypno
tism case.
Father Parente has been teach
ing ascetical theology for the past
18 years and has lectured and
written several boons on the sub
ject He is one of the leading au
thorities on esceticism, mysticism
and spiritism.
“The Catholic Church teach
es that each human soul is cre
ated by God at the time of its
infusion into the human body."
In his experiments a local
housewife, Iowa-born Ruth Sim
mons. was taken back to the age
of one year by ordinary hypnotic
age-regression, he claimed, and
then the hypnotizer suggested
tha “the memory could go back
even further.’’ Tu Mr Bernstein's
surprise.’ he stated, his subject
did go back in time before her
birth and became “Bridey Mur
phy.” an Irish girl of the 19th
ADA Opposes
Religion in
Public Schools
NEW YORK INC) The
Board of School Superinten
dent’s statement on moral
and spiritual values in public
school instruction hit another
snag here in the form of op
position by the local chapter
of the Americans for Dem
ocratic Action.
The statement, which original
ly was adopted by the Board of
Superintendents, in November,
1955. is now under re-considera
tion by the superintendent's
board in the light of
various groups.
protests by
Democratic
here, in a
The Americans for
Action Chapter said
letter to the Board of Education
under which the Board of Super
intendent* functions, that it “has
always been for the teaching of
moral and ethical values” in pub
lic schools, but is “opposed to
extending this teaching to include
religion, under the guise of teach
ing ‘spiritual-values’.”
The nine-page statement of
the Superitendents called upon
the public schools to reinforce
the home and church in strength
ening belief in God. It stressed
the worth and moral development
of the individual and affirmed
the usefulness of the teaching
of spiritual values. It said public
schools should “cultivate a re
spprf for adherents of different
Religions and beliefs.”
Our Lady of Victory Church 1
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Above is the architect's sketch of Our Lady of Victory Church as it will look fol
lowing an extensive renovation and enlargement project on the 33-year-old structure.
A stent transept will be erected at the rear of the existing building to give the church
a err-- ’U-«* ^-'?ern as seen from the air. The transept is seen at left in picture above.
azza tile. Installation of new
pews will raise the seating ca
pacity from 225 to 325, Father
Favret said.
The enlargement of the church
will be made possible by con
struction of a stone transept at
the rear of the buildings A
tower also will be added.
The transept will connect the
church building with the rectory.
Beneath the structure, the en
larged basement area will pro
vide mor cafeteria space and an
assembly room.
new
and
sid?
In thp main, floors will be of
asphalt tile In the sanctuary,
howeve floors will be of ter-
Nevertheless the outward ap
pearance of the present struc
ture will change very little.
century. Efforts are being made,
he said, to check the facts she
told her hypnotizer while under
his influence hence the title:
“The Search for Bridey Murphy.
“The doctrine of reincarnation,
known as metempsychosis, is one
of the oldest errors both in re
ligion and philosophy.” Father
Parente stated “We find it in
Buddha’s as well as in Brahma’s
conceptions It appears later in
Greece and Egypt. It is mention
ed by Pythagoras, in Plato’s Di
alogue,- (Phaedoi The cycle of
U'r and death and ife again was
condemned by the Christian
Church when it condemned the
errors of Origen and of the Pns
cillianists. by decree of Pope Vi
gilius in 543. It was also denounc
ed when the Church condemned
the heresy of the Manichaeans in
the fourth century and the Albi
gensians in the twelfth century.”
Father Parente also points
out that the doctrine of rein
carnation "is directly opposed
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Judge Porter Sims. "It is the
woman within who ’caches. The
dress of the Sisters denotes
modesty, unworldliness, and an
unselfish life."
The decision extended also to
the salaries paid to the nuns. It
o Be Enlarged
Ki
IS
$
Matching native limestone will
be used on the exterior. Inside,
the stone arch trim at the win
dows wili be duplicated in the
new addition. The addition was
designed by Cincinnati architect
George E McDonald who drew
the plans for the original church.
The additional space, Father
Favret said, is needed for the
large number of parishioners. Ap
proximately 325 families belong
to the parish, he said.
March 1 is the deadline for
contractors to submit their bids
on the project. Construction is
expected to begin sometime after
Easter.
Th^ ^utholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, Februray 17, 1956
Church Group
Target of Reds
Paper Asserts
SYDNEY, Australia —(NC)
One of the mam targets in
the communist war against
religion is the World Council
of Churches. Protestant or
ganization whose central com
mittee recent! v me! here, the
Sydney Catholic Weekly has
warned.
The Reds. th.- newspapei said,
ha'e planted people to subxert
the Council various part*- of
th? world One of these, it ren
tinued. is Di Joseph Hromadka
of Czechoslovakia, who told
new-u.en during the central com
mitten's meeting here that
hniioves In the co-existence
Christianity and communism
he
of
of
in
Dr Hromadka. v bo is dean
the Pro'estant seminary
Prague, “is a conscious or uncon
scions tool of the Soviet scheme”
to subvert the Council, the
Catholic Wtfklv stated
Members who silently accent
Dr. Hromadka's presence on
♦he council's central committee
were severely criticized by the
"Catholic Weekly." It was also
critical of tht committee's de
cision to hold its next meeting
in Red-dominated Hungary.
Beca ise of this decision, it
said, “it is difficult to escape
the view that the World Council
will he walking right into the
Red lion’s mouth and giving the
Religious Cominform its hest av
enue of exploitation thus far
Court Upholds Right of Nuns
In Kentucky Public Schools
FRANKf ORT, Ky. (NC) Kentucky’s Court of Appeals has upheld the right
of Catholic Sisters to teach in the State’s public schools even though they are garbed in
religious habits.
blems do not deprive them of their right to teach in public
not inject religion or the dogma
of their church" into the class
room
The opinion accompanying the six-to-one decision said the Sisters dress and em
schools, “so long as thqy do
had been contended that such
salaries were unconstitutional be-
Opponents of the right of Sis- cause the State Constitution for
ters to teach in the State's public .bids the use of public tax money
schools are expected to take the for the benefit of ‘any church,
case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
They are principally members of
the Kentucky Free Public Schools
Committee, an affiliate of the
national organization known as
POAU (Protestants and Other
Americans United for the Separa
tion of Church and State).
"The garb does not teach,"
said the opinion written by
sectarian, or e n orr inational
school.”
But Judge Sims held that since
the Supreme Court has ruled that
labor is a property which the
owner has a right to dispose of
according to his will, the nuns
have a perfect right to accept sal
aries from the State and
them over to their religious
munities.
The court reaffirmed an ear
lier decision that public-school
money cannot be used to pay
transportation expenses for
parochial school children. It al
so reaffirmed a previous ruling
that county fiscal courts can
spend money from their gen
eral operating funds to help
pay parochial school children's
transportation to and from
classes.
There are about 85 nuns teach
ing in the public schools of the
State. In October, 1953, a suit was
filed bv the Rev. C. Rawlings,
a retired Methodist minister and
Dr. Clarence Forbes
To Open Critics Forum
A review of the novel “Ihe Cypresses Believe In God.”
bv Jose Maria Goronella, will open the 1956 Critics Forum
Senes, Thursday. Feb 23. in the Little Theater of the Co
lumbus Gallery of Fine Arts.
The reviewer will he Doctor Clarence A Forbes, a full
professor of classical languages
at Ohio State University.
Dr. Forbes, who joined the fac
ulty at Ohio State in 1948, is a
native of Callbrook. N.H He re
ceh ?d his bachelor’s degree at
Bate* College, Lewistown. Md.,
1922. and later earned his mas
ter’s degree and Ph. at the
University of Illinois
The Ohio State staff member
is the authoi of “Greek Physical
Education.” and has writfen sev
eral monographs on classical
language subjects—one of them.
“Teachers’ Pay in Ancient
Greece
of the Ken
School om-
nne time president
tu-kj Free Public
mittee
defense was
Attorney for the
M. B. Holifield, a prominent Bap
tist. Mr Holifield insisted that to
deprive the nuns of their right to
teach, just because they wore a
religious garb, was to deprive
them of a constitutional privi
lege.
Mr. Holifield hao argued that
“all good citizens wish to main
tain the wall of separation be
tween church and state, but in do
ing so we have no right to de
prive any person of his civil
rights to hold public office or to
engage in any public employment
through the Commonwealth by
reason of his religious beliefs or
practices so long as they do not
undertake to use their office or
public employment as a means
by which to teach or impose their
religious beliefs and practices up
on others.”
turn
com-
that
Finally, the Judges ruled
county school boards could legiti
mately rent the school buildings
from the Catholic Church provid
ed the Church exercised no con
trol over the conduct of the pub
lic school on those premises.
Indian. Negro
Young Adult Council to Hear
Talk on ‘Vocation of Marriage’
“The Vocation of Marriage” will be explained to young
Catholic men and women of the diocese Thursday at the
first in a series of five Marriage Forums. The program is
scheduled at 8:15 p.m the Virginia Hotel. Third and
Gav Sts.
Thursday’s topic will be dis
cussed by Father Thomas Duffy,
faculty member at St. Charles
S-riw mipstion and answer
period will follow’.
Parish Sets Rites
To Honor Pontiff
On 80th Birthday
Holy Rosary parish will mark
Pope Pius XIl’s 80th birthday
with two Solemn Masses.
A Mass to be attended by all
the elementary and high school
students of the parish will be
offered on Friday, March 2, the
date of the Pontiff’s birthday, at
9:00 a.m. Monsignor Herman E.
Mattingly, pastor, will preach the
sermon
A second Solemn Mass to com
memorate the event will be of
fered on Sunday. March 11, at
10:30 a which parishioners
will attend. Father George Buch
mann, Officialis of the Matrimon
ial Tribunal, will preach
The marriage forum is the sec
ond program of its kind to be
sponsored by the Young Adult
Council of the Central Deanery.
Last year’s highly successful for
um was attended by approximate
ly 125 voung people
The forum, to be conducted
on the Thursday evenings of
Lent, is designed *o acquaint
single young men and women
between the ages of 18 and 30
with the various aspects of
Christian marriage.
Father Richard Dodd, director
of diocesan Youth Activities, this
week urged al1 members of par
ish youth clubs to make every ef
fort to attend the forum. The ed
ucational and informative pro
gram will be of great
youth, he declared
value to
be given
on “The
Subsequent talks will
by Father James Kraus
Sacrament of Marriage”: Father
George Fulcher on “The Moral
Laws of Marriage”: Dr Joseph
Gallen on “The Physical Aspects
of Marriage” and Father Quffy,
“The Adjustments Marriage.”
Renew Your Subscription to The Catholic Tinies Through Your Parish
Pontiff Urges U.S. Children
To Be Generous in Giving to
Bishops’ Fund for Destitute
The novel '“The Cypresses
Believe in God" is based on
life in Spain around the time of
the Civil War it dispels a
Dr. Clarence Forbes
thousand mis-impressions of
Spain and reveals the great
Catholic nation as it really is.
Dr Vincent J. Ellerbrock will
act a* lav chairman for »he
vrw which takes place at 8 15
and will conduct the que*
tion and answer period which win
follow A reception will be held
in the Session Room of the Gal
lery at the conclusion of the lec
ture.
Hostesses for the reception
members of the International
Federation of Catholic Alumnae,
the sponsoring group include
Mrs. Echenrode and Mrs.
Joseph Brosmer
Mrs. John Kammerstein chair
man of the junior hostesses has
a^ked the following member- to
assist her for this forum: Mrs.
John Costello. Mrs Lawrence
Halloran. Mrs Fred Distelweig
and Miss Marjorie Dittoe
Tickets for the series may be
obtained at the Cathedral Book
Shop. McClelland s Book Store
or from any I.F.C.A. member
Mission Work
Aided in Sunday’s Collection
Missionary work among thousands of Indians and Ne
groes in the United States, plus the Eskimoes in Alaska, will
be supported by a special collection to be taken up in all
churches and chapels of the Columbus Diocese Sunday
The nation-wide collection, scheduled by the Third
Plenary Council of Baltimore, an
nually is taken up the first Sun
day of Lent.
Father James Kulp, diocesan
director of missions, asserted this
week that funds given in the col
lection will enable priests, nuns
and lay teachers to carry on their
work of spreading the word of
God to citizens of these races.
“Their task is a gigantic one.”
Father Kulp noted, “especially in
the U. S. Negro missions.” Of
15,000.000 Negroes, only 500.000
are Catholics, be said Encourag
ing. however, is the fact that of
400.00f American Indian- and Es
kimoes (who are included in this
program), 100.000 are Catholic*.
The Indian population is in
creasing far more rapidly than
other segments of the popula
tion, Father Kulp said, and the
chief problem is to prepare them
for leaving the artificial statu* of
(he reservation and take up a nor
mal life in society
Engaged in these missions
are more than 700 priests, 1,800
sisters, and 370 lay teachers,
plus a growing number of vol
unteer lay helpers. There are
moreover 470 parish and mis
sion schools situated among
♦he Negro population. In this
Diocese about half the total el
ementary students are non
Catholic in these schools.
Desegregation and integration
has long been the goal of the
Catholic mission effort and public
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The Holy Father told the
American -chool children that in
the ten years he had been ask
ing them to contribute to help
the world's needs children Not
once hare you allowed the hopes
of th? destitute to hr crushed or
Our ow n deluded Not once dur
ing these ten years have
failed them tho°e innocent
firns of a cruel war. flaming
at fir i and -till continuing
many, all too heartl?**
'“What do they need?" the
Pope said "Not surely the cold
solace that goes by the horrid
name of a 'hand-out.' The pen
nies and packages of the Chris
tion boy and girl, like the wid
ow's
more
dren
you.
works md
day, over and above the treas
ure you have to give them out
of your slim resources. We
have said it so often before,
and We repeat it again: Our
children can never know true
happiness, nor the world have
peace and plenty, from mere
money and machines—though
these gifts of God can work
wonders at the hands of those
who really love their fellow
men for love of Him."
must mean much
♦hat These
nothing lest
prayers and
sufferings of
than
need
your
Bishop Ready, too. this week
urged students throughout ths
Diocese of Columbus to help the
suffering people of the world
Bishops' Fund
At a dockside ceremony. Ed
mund E Pendleton. Jr., assistant
of Agriculture Secretary Ezia
Taft Benson, turned over the car
go of wheat to Archbishop Fran
cis P. Keough of Baltimore, chair
man of the Administrative Board
of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference
It was disclosed that the
shipment of wheat will be dis
tributed by CRS-N.C.WC. in It
aly for school and relief feed
ing. The shipment, it was esti
mated, will provide a month's
rupply of wheat to approxi
mately 800.000 school children
and to some 2,100,000 needy
persons.
Catholic Relief Services—N
W. C. is one of 18 private U.S.
welfare agencies participating
in the government's surplus foods
disposal program The agencies
Most Powerful Weapon
In Battle for Peace
Is Prayer
chil
than
good
tach
Price Ten Cents $3.00 A Year
NEW YORK (NC) In a radio address to the nearly
4-million youngsters in the nation s Catholic schools, His
Holiness Pope Pius XII expressed supreme confidence that
they will break ail previous records for generositv in lend
ing a helping hand to hungry, homeless and needy children
the world over during the Lenten season
The Pontiff s Ash Wednesday address was carried to
the country s atholic school students by the four major
•srjm HPf-.nrk- Muhia! RS
NB and AB' T're addres
marked th? start of the children's
phase nf thp annual Bishops
Fund Campaign
The Bi*hops Fund Campaign
i the principal source of rerenue
for maintaining Catholic Relief
Service- National Catholic
Welfare Conference th- organs
zation of the American
which aids the needy
world The adult phase
Bishop* Fund Campaign
conducted on laetare
March 11 pari*he* throughout
the nation
Bishops
of the
of the
will be
Sunday,
through prajer and self-denial
during the Lenten -eason.
The request by the Bishop was
mack? behalf of the Holy
Father who depends on chil
dren's donations and prayers in
accomplishirtg the mission work
of the church
The ne?ds of ths missions were
underscored in letters from Bish
op Ready to the teaching sisters
Catholic schools, and their pu
pils
To the Sisters. Bishop Rfady
called attention to the poverty,
homelessness hunger, lack of
freedom, and the “absence of
the Eucharistic Christ which ex
ists in many countries of a world
of surplus food and unimagin
ably comfortable living.”
Prayer, mortification and
alms are the answer to the
-Holy Father's plea in behalf
of these suffering people, Bish
op Ready said. All are import
ant.
you
vic
hot
for
To the school children, the
Bishop recommended attendance
at daily Mass and reception of
Holy Communion He asserted
“Children in persecuted coun
cannot do this During
holy season of Lent, there
make every day a day of
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tries
this
fore
DISPENSATION
Bv virtue of a special indult
granted by the Holy See to the
Bishops of the United States,
the faithful of the Diocese of
Columbus are hereby dispens
ed from the law of fast and ab
stinence on the civil holiday.
George Washington’s birthday.
Wednesday. Feb 22.
Those who avail themselves
of this dispensation during
this holy I^ntentide are ex
horted in charity to make an
offering to works that aid the
poor and needy.'
9,500 Tons of Wheat
To Go to Needy in Italy
BALTIMORE (NC) Destined for distribution to
the needy in Italy under the auspices of Catholic Relief
Services National Catholic Welfare Conference, a ship
ment of 9,5000 long tons of surplus wheat was loaded
aboard the freighter SS Argobeck here
The 354.666 bushels of wheat were the first east coast
shipment under the U.S Department of Agriculture's ex
panded surplus foods disposal
program. The grain which made
up the shipment was withdrawn
from the Agriculture Depart
ment's stored 'wheat fleet”
stocks. The wheat was acquired
under the mandatory price sup
port program
ROLAND WINEL,
Chancellor
under the expanded surplus pro
gram. are now distributing wheat,
rice, corn and dry beans, as well
as other surplus commodities tq
the needy in ®ome foreign coun
tries.
Catholic Relief Services
N.C.W.C. is the world wide re
lief agency maintained by the
Cardinals, Archbishops and
Bishops of the United States.
In the 12 years of its existence,
CRS N.C.W.C. has grown into
the U.S. agency maintaining the
largest world-wide relief pro
gram. In recent years, it has
been estimated that CRS—N.C.
W.C. has been operating a pro
gram of distributing food,
clothing, medicine and other
relief materials valued at $45
million annually.
Th? operation of CRS N C.
W. C. is mainly maintained by
contributions of U.S. Catholics
to the annual Bishops’ Fund
Campaign The campaign is con
ducted nationwide in parishes
throughout the nation on Laetare
Sunday This year the campaign
is conducted on March 11
... A free press must justify its pretention
to public acclaim by its unfeigned esteem for
moral values, rather than by its concern for the
technical perfection of its product.
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