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A Good Catholic
I* a Well-
Informed Catholic
Father Antimo Boerio, pastor of St.
John th* Baptist church, is shown above
s he signed th* marriage license follow
ing the wedding of two Chinese students
last Saturday morning. Th* bride and
groom (left) are Mr. and Mrs. John F. L.
Lee, while th* witnesses, Miss Cecelia Mi
A tinge of the Orient was
included at a traditional wed
ding in St. John the Baptist
church last Saturday.
The Nuptial Mass was. of
course, said in Latin. But
the wedding ceremony was
read in Chinese by St. John’s
pastor, Father Antimo Boerio
P.I.M.E., who himself has
spent 15 years in Central
China.
Principals in the wedding were
♦wo Chinese students at Ohio
State University. Miss Theresa
Chang and John F. L. Lee.
Miss Chang, 31. holder of a
ehemistry degree from a Chinese
University, entered the United
States in 1948 to take a master’s
KSJ Wants
Immigration
Act Revised
The 50th International conven
tion of the Knights of St. John
held in Dayton passed a resolu
tion urging modifications in the
McCarran-Walter Immigra i o n
Act.
Delegates from the Columbus
area, representing St. George
Commandery No. 98, voted for
the resolution stating that change
was necessary to permit residents
of British controlled Malta to be
admitted with their families to
this country.
Under the present set-up, some
of the immigrants coming into
the country under the British
quota are forced to leave their
families on Malta, according to
a knight spokesman. A bill is
pending in the House of Repre
sentatives which would correct
the situation.
Other resolutions which were
passed by the group include: a
reaffirmation of the organiza
tion's acceptance of the Negro
social integration and a resolu
tion calling for a Congressional
investigation of alleged distribu
tion of pornography in the armed
forces. The Knights earlier had
passed resolutions for self-impos
ed restraints on “comics and mov
ies which appeal to man’s pas
sion and base instincts.”
The Knight* alto passed a
resolution in memory of
Charles W. Wallace, Columbus,
who bad been a knight for 50
yoars before his death late in
June of this year.
Mr. Wallace had also been a
Grand Knight of the Knights of
Columbus, national secretary of
the American Federation of Cath
olic societies, and regional direc
tor of the National Federation of
Catholic Societies and of the Na
tional Catholic War council.
Mrs. Clara Renner of Colum
bus, auxiliary president of the
international group, announced
that $10,000 had been donated by
the organization to the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Con
ception in Washington D.C.
A Rochester, N.Y., entry won
the drill team competition. Run
ner-up wras the Columbus entry.
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Fr. Roster framed Pastor
Of Virginia Parish
Fr. Robert Roster C.PP.S., for
merly pastor of Sacred Heart
Church, Milford Center, and St.
Joseph Church, Plain City, has
been named pastor of St. Patrick
Church, Lexington, Virginia.
T1
Wo Yuen i...l Will
Chinese Couple Finds Language
No Barrier for Marriage Rites
degree in biochemistry at the
University of Cincinnati.
Now she's working toward a
doctorate at Ohio State and also
is research assistant at the Uni
versity’s H. A. Hoster Research
Laboratory, which is primarily
concerned with the study of
Hodgkin’s disease. Miss Chang's
father, Eduard, is a professor at
the Catholic University in Peking,
China.
The bridegroom, who was born
in Shanghai, is an electrical engi
neering graduate of National Tai
wan University in Taipei, For
mosa. following his escape from
the Chinese mainland when the
Communists took over that coun
try.
He came to this country in 1954
to get his master's degree at the
U iversity of Minnesota. I^ee is
Diocesan Man
Receives First
Journalism Award
Howard E. Huntzinger, Our
Lady of Peace parish, has been
awarded the first annual Frank
M. Heller award for public af
fairs reporting. The award spon-.
sored by the Ohio State Universi
ty School of Journalism, was pre
sented by Dr. James 'E. Pollard,
dirqptor of the School.
Mr. Huntzinger, brother of Fa
ther Ralph Huntzinger, assistant
pastor of St. Nicholas parish,
Zanesville, had been forced to
leave Ohio State during his last
quarter of work just short of re
ceiving his degree.
He will receive a special cer
tificate and a bronze plaque with
his name and newspaper will be
mounted In the campus journal
ism building.
The plaque commemorates the
career of Frank Heller, who died
six years ago at the age of 80
after a long career as an Ohio
newspaperman.
Entries were judged by Murray
Powers, managing editor of the
Akron Beacon Journal.
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Bishop Gorman Jubilee
DALLAS, Texas (NC)
Bishop Thomas K. Gorman of
Dallas Fort Worth marked
the 25th anniversary of his con
secration with a Pontifical Mass
of Thanksgiving yesterday.
Bishop Hettinger announc
ed this week that contracts
have been let for the new
Sacred Heart School and
teacher’s residence, in Co
lumbus.
General Contractor for the
twelve-room school and the
U-shaped convent will be James
J. McCarthy. Other contracts
were awa-ded to th- Sheridan
Heating and Plumbing Co. and
the Electrical Power and Equip
ment Co. Architects for the pro
ject are Emerick and McGee.
school building will be
a direct addition to Ryan Hall
which lies parallel to Summit
Street. The teachers’ residence
will face Hamlet Street with the
two wings stretching toward
Summit.
The school will be made of
brick masonry with stucco trim
1 and will house both the grade
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V*y. V, No. *2 ________________________________________________________________._________ Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, July 20,1956
of LaCrosse, Wis., and Feng An Lee of
Baltimore, Md., look on. All are natives
of China and came to the United States to
study. Father Boerio, a native of Italy,
spent 15 years in China as a missionary
and speaks Mandarin fluently.
working for the Columbus and
Southern Ohio Electric Co.
The couple met in Columbus a
year ago when I-ee came here
work at the National Electric
Coil Co. They are both Chinese
citizens, the bridegroom is in the
country on a student visa while
Mrs. Lee is here as an exchange
student.
Bridesmaid and best man for
the wedding were Miss Cecelia
Mi. now a student medical tech
nician at St. Francis hospital, La
Cross, Wisconsin, and the bride
groom’s brother, Feng An Lee, a
civil engineering student at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Miss Mi was a classmate of Mrs.
Lee when the two studied in Chi
na. A reception for the couple
was held in the church hall fol
lowing the ceremony.
Bishop Sheen...
Says Home
Best Source
For Vocations
NOTRE DAME, Ind.—(NC)
The Christian home, but
tressed by the Universal
Church, is the best source of
vocations to the priesthood
and the religious life in a
20th century that “has sud
denly discovered the value
of souls.”
Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J.
Sheen of New York, national di
rector of the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith, made
this staterflent at the 10th annual
Vocation Institute at the Univer
sity of Notre Dame-.
Communism, unlike the imper
ialism of earlier cer iries, the
New York prelate asserted, “seeks
lands only secondarily” and in
stead strives to conquer the minds
and souls of men t) ough “propa
ganda, brainwashing, bureaucracy
and gendarmes."
“In other words,” he continued,
“it is seeking vocations for the
kingdom of anti-Christ. Since souls
are the prize, Christi ity finds
itself face to face with an enemy
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Editorial
Important Job
On the Home Front
The Federal Government, in it* action to clean up the PX
newsstands which serve our forces abroad, has set a notable
example for good citizens at home. We all need to be aroused
to strong and sustained activity for clearing away the filth
in print and picture which continues to disgrace news-counters
and magazine racks everywhere in America. Certainly, if
mature men in the service require governmental action to rid
them of this kind of contamination, our children at home stand
in still greater need of such ministration. And the need is im
perative. One glance at the magazine display in the corner
drug store ought to convince us of that fact. It will dn no good
to cluck the tongue, and sigh, and emit the wishful opinion
that something ought to be done. What is required is the earnest
determination to set about doing the thing that has to be done.
It is, in St. Paul's phrase, “time to rise from sleep.” For even as
we come to yawning realization of our duty, the shops in our
own neighborhood are dispensing lewdness at current prices,
and lurid lust at ten cents and up.
What sanity is to be found in locking carefully away from
common contacts those dreadful opiates or narcotics which
bring ruin to thousands, and, at the same time, offering in
open sale the more virulent poison which destroys millions?
Surely, the apathy of decent people in the face of a great evil
which is not merely impending but is present and feverishly
active does not illustrate our vaunted American Way. For that
people is not a free people which dully permits its innocent
young to be enslaved by the foulest of evils. That nation is not
a liberty-loving nation which unresistingly allows its children
to be lured into the slavery of a lecherous moral despotism.
That community is not one of good neighbors which bestows
its unprotesting patronage upon a local merchant who plays
the pander and supplies to young and old unlimited aids to
degradation and perversion. Real Americans will not permit
such an intolerable situation to continue in existence.
When Hercules was assigned the task of cleansing the
Aegean stables,—which housed 3000 oxen, and had not been
cleaned in 30 years,—he turned into them the surging flow
of two mighty rivers and thus quickly cleared away all the
filth. We can do our cleansing work as quickly and thoroughly
if we but turn to our purpose the rivers of alert interest and
determined action. If all the ordinary people in all the little
neighborhoods of America were this day to make energetic
protest to offending merchants, and give notice that nothing
whatever would be purchased at their shops until the offensive
merchandise was cleared out, then to-day’s problem would not
exist to morrow.
It is important that citizens generally lend their support
to the National Organization for Decent Literature.—the NODL.
as it is commonly called.—and to other established agencies of
its kind. But it is still more important for each individual adult
citizen to realize the power that is in his hands, and in his
hands only. This is the power that will quickly do the great
and necessary work. Without wtfting for organized action, let
each person who steps into shop to make a purchase look
around him to see whether the usual pornography is on display,
and if it is, let him quietly tell the merchant that he will
take his business elsewhere so long as filth is thus purveyed.
If all, nay, if a considerable number of purchasers were to act
thus, the clean-up would take place promptly and inevitably.
The Czech Red rulers are mak
ing life for these prisoners as
miserable as they can, it was
stated.
The former inmate of the camp
gave the following report:
The eimp i« built around an
old coal mine, which is also a
uranium deposit. Not even the
most elementary safety meas
ures are provided for inmates,
atholic Times
Clergy
Appointments
Effective July 18, 1956:
Rev. Fr. Robert Beckman, C.PP.S., pastor, Sacred Heart
Church, Milford Center and St. Joseph Church, Plain City.
Clergy Live in Red Hell
German Catholic Daily Says
BONN, Germany (NC) Nearly 1,000 priests and
Protestant ministers are interned in concentration camp at
Schwadonitz, Czechoslovakia, that is a living hell, according
to a returnee who has reported his experience to the Saar
bruecker Neueste Nachrichten, Catholic daily of the Saar.
New Sacred Heart School, Convent Plans Are Now
who are forced to do the heav
iest labor in day and night
shifts.
They work some 2,600 feet be
low the ground, in a constant
temperature of more-than 100 de
grees. There is no water and no
ventilation system in the mine.
The prisoners are in danger of
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81-Year-Old-Structure To Go
Statesmen Say
Battle Over,
Praise Priest
WASHINGTON—(NO Step*
being taken to rid the shelves of
post exchanges of objectionable
literature were lauded by two
Congressmen here.
Referring to the recent direc
tive from the Office of Secretary
of Defense Charles E. Wilson.
Representative Charles A. Vanik
of Ohio called it “a tremendous
victory for the forces of de
cency..”
Representative Michael A. Fei
ghan also of Ohio, in a letter to
Secretary Wilson expressed his
pleasure at the action taken by
the Defense Department “to in
vestigate the sale of pornographic
literature in Army post exchanges
in Korea and Japan
“Father Patrick O’Cnnor ren
dered the people of America a
great service when he called the
attention of the nation to the
highly objectionable reading mat
ter that was being sold tn our
Armed Forces personnel in post
exchanges in Japan. Korea and
abroad.
OMAHA (NO Fr. Pat
rick O'Connor says his old home
town could imitate the Army,
Navy and Air Force.
Father O'Connor agreed that
offensive “literature” offered at
newsstands here was as bad nr
worse than any noted in post ex
changes of the Far East.
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Court Rejects
.Groups Charter
To Win Catholics
PHILADELPHIA (NC) A
court here has rejected the appli
cation of an anti-Catholic group
to obtain a corporation charter
I “to persuade adherents of the
Roman Catholic faith that they
should give up their adherence
to the Roman Catholic Church
and its teachings."
In delivering the decision.
Judge William R. Toal criticized
the backers of the project for in
sisting on the inclusion of a par
i ticular statement in setting forth
their purposes. The group oper
I ates the “Conversion Center” in
Oakmont, a suburban community
here.
The disputed section states that
one of the purposes of the center
is for the “evangelization and
conversion of adherents of the
Roman Catholic faith providing
spiritual, temporal and financial
assistance especially to their con
verted clergy
“Why are the incorporators in
1 sisting upon the inclusion of the
1 objectionable paragraph when
they lose nothing by its exclu
sion?” the judge asked. Answer
ing his own question, he contin
ued: “We have a feeling such in
sistence stems from a desire to
cause resentment, to draw the
fire of the Roman Catholic
Church, the theory being that the
resulting publicity would attract
attention to the Conversion Cen
ter.
Bishop Ready Lays
PIME Cornerstone
Sunday at Hebron
Fr. Maestrini also named Fr.
John B. Boracco rector of the
seminary, and Fr. James Bre
fola. Dean of Studies for the
new school.
Fr. Chart** Sala
Fr. Saia was born in Trezze
sull’Adda. Milan. Italy, in 1916
He entered the order in 1928, was
nrdained ten years later and sent
to Ethiopia in 1939.
History Proves
Pope Says
Persecuted
Inspire All
VATICAN CITY (NC)—
His Holiness Pope Pius XII
told the persecuted members
of the Church behind the
Iron Curtain that their hero
ism has inspired “the entire
Christian family.”
In a special Apostolic Letter
the Holy Father exhorted the
bishops, clergy and faithful to
hold fast to their religion “so
that even your persecutors—the
command of Christian charity ex
tends also to them may obtain
pardon from Him whn expects to
embrace lovingly all His prodigal
sons."
The letter was explicitly ad
dressed to the Bishops clergy and
laity of Albania. Bulgaria. Czecho
slovakia, Hungary. Yugoslavia,
Poland. Rumania. East Germany
and “to the peoples of Europe
suffering persecution who are in
peace and union with the Apos
tolic See.”
Some of the “other peoples’’
to whom the letter is addressed
are referred to
Baltic countries
Oriental Rites.
as those of
and those of
dated June
The letter is
the fifth centenary of the Apos
tolic Letter of Pope Callistus III
“Cum His Superioribus Annis.”
which was published on the same
date in 1456. The letter was dated
the day after the workers of Poz
nan, Poland, begin their abortive
revolt against Red oppression.
The letter of Callistus III was
occasioned, the Holy Father re
called by similar threats to the
Church ia much of the same area
as that to which his present let
ter is addressed.
Carrent Movie*
Are Rated On
Page Seven
Price Ten Centa $3.00 A Year
Fr. Sala Gets New Post:
Two Others Appointed
Bishop Ready will lay the cornerstone, 3 m. Sunday
for the first permanent United States seminary of the Mis
sionaries of Saints Peter and Paul.
The new structure, which will bring together the society**
novitiate,
brothers
country,
500-acre
Diocese, inear
training school for,
and seminary in this
will be located on a
tract, provided by the
Hebron.
Bishop Ready announced the
Very Rev. Fr. Nicholas Maestrini,
PIME, superior of the United
States province has named Fr.
Charles Sala, PIME. present rec
tor of the seminary, temporarily
located on E. North Broadway in
Columbus, to the post of vice
superior for the VS. province
and procurator for the new sem
inary, as well as director of
the farm which adjoins the site of
the proposed new structure.
From left to right, Fr*.
Boracco, Sala and Bregol*.
He was taken prisoner by th*
British in 1941 and remained 1*
East Africa for three years, and
in England until 1946
He wet teacher and vice-re*
ter at the Seminary of Trevi**,
Itely, two year*. After being
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St. Stephen’s
Names Three
To Staff
Miss Margaret MacDonald hat
been appointed Program Direc
tor of St. Stephen's Community
House, it was announced this
week by William J. Santanich, di
rector.
Miss MacDonald was graduated
from St, Mary high school, Mari
on, and attended the College of
Mt. St. Joseph on the Ohio, th*
Cincinnati Art Academy and re
ceived an education degree from
Ohio State University.
She is an instructor of physi
cal education for girls at Bishop
Watterson high school and has
served as a cottage parent at th*
Juvenile Diagnostic center prior
to her appointment at St.
phen.
the
the
29.
st*.
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Mis*
Two group workers have
been hired at the center.
Judy Stattmiller, a junior at th*
college of St. Mary of the Springs,
and Gene Davidson, a junior at
Ohio State. A graduate of Rosary
high school and an active volun
teer in the programs of St. Vin
cent Orphanage and St. Ann Hos
pital, Miss Stattmiller is chair
man of the Social Service com
mission of the college and will
teach crafts and organized games
at the Community House.
Davidson attended schools in
Toledo and is also an experienc
ed teacher of crafts and boxing.
He has served as a volunteer at
the Nighborhood House, and will
also offer an active craft program
for adults.
Underway
school and the business high
school.
The convent will have an ex
terior of brick, which will match
that of the church, twelve rooms,
a chapel on one wing, with oak
wood interior and ceiling beams.
A cloistered garden will be sit
uated between the two wings.
Construction of the new school
will begin immediately and is
to be completed by February
1957.
The present twelve-room s ool
was built in 1875 and will be com
pletely demolished when the new
school is ready for occupancy.
On September 15 and 16 the
parish will have its annual fes
tival, the proceeds to go toward
the building fund.
The old school was at one tim*
the site of the beginning of St.
Charles Seminary, the present
seminary had not been completed
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