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Vol. VI No. 18 Fire Guts Church 15 Below Zero •.-x-^gaawB nil w All of the lecture* are open to the public at no chargfe, ac cording to Msgr. Paul J. O'Dea, dean of studies, who will mod erate the series, and each lec ture will be followed by a question and answer period. Joseph Tritschler is general chairman for the series which i,s co-sponsored by the faculty and the Carolian Club. Mr. Ralph Leh man is president of the club and Fr. Hugh Murphy is faculty mod- NCCM Head Says Tito Visit Would Be Bad WASHINGTON If Marshal Tito visits the U.S. he and the Yugoslav Red regime will gain “immense prestige” but the ef fect “on the people whom he has crushed” will be disastrous. This opinion was expressed by Albert J. Sattler, president of the National Council of Catholic Men, in a letter sent to Jacob D. Beam, the State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs. Mr. Sattler’s letter was in reply to one Mr. Beam had sent to the NCCM. The State Department’s reasons for “sympathetic consid eration of an invitation to Mar shal Tito” were set down in Mr. Beam's letter. The Beam letter stated that “it might well further basic American interests as well as the cause of world peace to discuss prospective developments and possible future policies with Yugoslavia’s president The letter also said that a visit by Tito would not imply U.S, approv al of Yugoslavia’s system of gov ernment. Mr. Sattler s letter said: “While it is not intended that the formal visit of the head of a foreign state shall imply approval by the United States of the system of government or political princi ples prevailing in a foreign coun try, yet such a visit is an extraor dinary honor, indeed a privilege, which can only be construed, even by those untutored in the ways of diplomacy, as a sincere ges ture of friendship and a recogni tion of good deeds or as a con donation or even approval of evil deeds. 1 F' Montreal firemen battle 15-degree below zero tem peratures to save flaming 63-year-old St. Elizabeth du Portugal Church, in Montreal's old St. Henri district. The three alarm blaze completely destroyed the structure. Borromean Topics Set Begin This Sunday “St. Pius and the Modern Seminary will be the| opening topic for the Borromean Lecture Series which gins at 8:15 p.m. this Sunday in the Auditorium at St.I Charles Seminary, 2010 Ek Broad Street. The Second Annual series, co-sponsored by the Semin- inary faculty and the Carolian Club, will be opened by Fr. Ed ward F. Healey, spiritual direc tor of the seminary. Fr. Healey, who is also lay re treat director for the Diocese, answers questions weekly in the Inquiry Corner on page four of the ^Catholic Times. Following Fr. Healey on suc cessive Sundays in the. annual series, which was begun last year as an adult education program by the seminary, will be Fr. Thomas A. Sabrey, who will discuss “The Canon of the Mass and the Peo ple’s Offering,” Feb. 10 Msgr. Wolz, whose topic will be “Two Recent Books on the Old Testa ment,” Feb. 17 Fr. John Wolf, who will speak about “Emotions in Modern Living,” Feb. 24 and to complete the series Fr. James Krause will explain “Modern Eu ropean Methods of Teaching Re ligion,” March 3. seminary. ,, ....................... ,, most forgotten past. Today's Cath- While in Columbus. Momugnor pub|,cail(,ns Staunton served at Holy tamily,’ Our Lady of Victory, St. Cath arine, Christ the King parishes, all of Columbus, and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Buckeye Lake. The new Papal Chamberlain was ordained in 1942 and served parishes in the Archdiocese for three years before assuming his duties with the OCWC office here. The OWC, which represents the six dioceses in the state, con cerns itself with slate legislation and other public affairs affect ing the Church in Ohio. ----------------—o------------------ Catholic Men 4 Hear Fr. Walsh Fr. Richard Walsh. C.S.P. di-l rectof of Newman Hall at Ohiol State University, will be the guestl speaker for the monthly meeting] of the Catholic Men’s Luncheon Club at noon today in the Caval ier Room, Virginia Hotel. Father Walsh will speak on the “Preparation for a Catholic To morrow.” The Luncheon Club which meets on the first Friday of ev ery month is open to any Catholic men. No advance reservation is 1 necessary for the luncheon. The Catnoiic Times Laity Should Write, Read, Support It By Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Of Dallas-Fort Worth Episcopal Chairman, N.C.W.C. Press Department Another annual Catholic Press Month gives us a closer look at the printed periodical material and at the books currently coming off our presses in this country. What we see cannot fail to en courage us. Newspapers, magazines, pamph lets and books combine fine tech nical skill with excellence of con tent. Our press has reached an other high peak in its march to ward perfection. For this indica tion of continued progress we have reason to feel pleased. Such constant steady growth in perfection of technique and con tent does not come automatically It calls for constant study and ef fort. It demands frank self-criti cism. It requires hard work by competent journalists, authors and publishers. Just such a serv ice do we get from the dedicated men and women who produce our newspapers, magazines and books To them be given the honor, to them the credit for the fine Cath olic press we now present to the reading public. To some such praise of our present day Catholic publications may seem excessive. If so they must be living in the distant, al- oiic press differs from that of be-leven a quarter century ago as day Pope's Intention v .For Missions erator for the organization which I promotes interest in the college I Jjj Fr. Staunton Named Papal Chamberlain Noi’tll Vfl’icil While Central Africa has been called one of the world’s garden spots of missions, Northern Afri ca is the scene of a “cold war” be tween Christianity and the forces Father John C. Staunton, who for more than 11 years was exec- ___ utive secretary of the Ohio Cath-1 of Islam’,* "which" dominate ~‘the olic Welfare Conference until I countries north of the Sahara forced to leave the post due to I pesert and are definitely trying ill health last fall, has been rais-l^ pUsj1 the Mohammedan relig ed to the rank of Papal Chamber-|jon down jnto the central regions, lain with the title of Very Rever-1 As the .cold war» for the end Monsignor, it was announced I spread of lslam in A(rica con. this week by Aichbishop Karl jnues, the Holy Father asks our Aber. I prayers for the Church in North ................................... |ern Africa. I ---------------o------------------ New Campaign To Promote Clean |l Ads Gets Results I ALBANY. N.Y. (NO A week after the Communication Arts Guild of the Albany dio Icese inaugurated a campaign aim led at cleaning up offensive and I indecent advertising, it got re suits. I Richard M. Guilderson, guild I president, said the first positive 11 result was an apology from a 11 national advertiser for sugges lltiveness in one of its recent I weekly TV shows. The advertis er gave assurance that the direc tor of the show has been instruct cd to avoid any repetition of such Msgr. Staunton offensive actions. Mr. Guilderson is the advertis Monsignor Staunton, who while th EVANGE. stationed in this Diocese served L*T A|b6„ dj newspaper, at many parishes in Columbus that the licu. was appointed pastor »t Our Lady 1Dterested in clcaning up ot Loreto palish in Cincinnati! ovlfi advertising and the type “wSo thlS I of advertising found in some Head Says Lauds Journalists Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, February 1,1957 Price Ten Cents $3.00 A Year Press at New High Episcopal vt€ w Head On WLW This Sunday Msgr. John S. Randall, President of the Catholic Press Association, discusses special radio techniques with Jud Holstein, Associate Director of Radio and TV for the National Council of Catholic Men. Occasion was a pro duction meeting for "Report—Catholic Press," which will be broadcast on the Catholic Hour, NBC Radio Network during the four Sundays in February Catholic Press Month. from night. If you are one of the skeptic* about the worthwhile character of the Catholic press, we suggest that you put yourself right by having a present day look at the new look of our Cath olic press. That certain skills and compe tences go into the production of a worthwhile Catholic press seems clear. We may easily overlook. in- The Holy Father’s mission tention for February is Church in Northern Africa.” The situation of the Church in North ern Africa is quite different from tjiat which is found in the central regions of the African continent. “The The writer of the following dispatch is a veteran N.C.W.C. News Service correspondent who recently spent a fortnight in Poland to observe the chang ed political and religious cli mate there. By Father Patrick O'Connor Society of St. Columban (Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News Service) Russian tanks in the streets of Budapest last No vember decided the elections in Poland on January 20. In Warsaw at Christmas, people were s«(ying: “We fear the fate of Hungary." They knew that if they tried to throw out the communists the West would do nothing to help them while Soviet Russia would stop at nothing to crush them. Just before the election. Com munist party First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka warned s. Poles bluntly that if the party were defeated, Poland would be wiped out. China's Premier Chou En-lai, still an obliging satellite, had apparently iO* OFF Asks Women however, the fact that the reader of really worthwhile Catholic publications likewise must bring to his task a certain degree of skill and competence. He can build the structure of knowledge of his Faith only upon firm foun dations of religious truth and moral values previously laid. He will for the most part get a re (Continued on Page 2) On-the-Spot Writer Says Polish Election Was Decided by Tanks ‘h«'»ugh» a h»r«h romindor from Moscow. Some points may need clarifi cation: The National Front won against no competition. All 721 candi dates (two had been disqualified) were listed under the heading: National Front. In each area all candidates were picked and nom inated by one election commis sion. There was no Catholic party. The only parties allowed to ex ist were the communist (Polish United Workers) party, Peas ants' party and Democratic party, but only a subservient, fellow-traveling form of these. Individual Catholics, not mem bers of any party, were among candidates nominated by the election commissions. Of the 22 avowedly Catholic candidates, 12 won election to the Sejm, and except in the Warsaw constituency where Mr. Gomulka won the top vote, all of these 12 won more votes than any of the other candidates in their districts. Seagoing! Convent HONG KONG In the Bay of Aberdeen here can be will present the first of three reviews. Born in Australia, found one of the strangest looking convents in all the world —a 35 foot Chinese junk. The junk is the convent of The Little Sisters of Jesus, a counterpart of the Little Brothers of Jesus, a community planned by Charles de Foucauld. a priest who was killed in the deserts of North Africa in 1916. At the recent launching of the floating convent, Father Paul A. Duchesne, missioner from Co hoes, N.Y., celebrated the first Mass on board for the Sisters who will work and live among Lshing people of Aberdeen Bay. “Thirty-five feet long, the con vent is divided into three parts. One third is the chapel,” reports Father Duchesne. “Three pairs of crossed oars form the base of the altar and a replica of the lamps used on launches in Hong Kong harbor is used as a sanc tuary lamp.” .j v.X/' Americans at Delegates from the U.S. attending the International Catholic Office of the Film Congress in Havana, Cuba, are from left, John Fitzgerald, Motion Picture critic of Our Sunday Visitor Mrs. ""hemas F»r-ell, Jr., Executive Board, Ini' national Fed- Film Con uress eration of Catholic Alumnae Mrs. James F. Looram, National Legion of Decency Msgr. Thomas F. Little, Executive Secre tary, National Legion of Decency Robert Co kery and Arthur DeBra of the Motion Picture Assoc.ahon of America. To Aid Press WASHINGTON Catholic wo men of the United States have been urged to support the Catho lit Press, to their own and the press’ advantage. Recent events in troubled areas of the world, said Mrs. P.obert H. Mahoney of Hartford. Conn., president of the National Council of Catholic Women, make us appreciate our privi leges and opportunities, one of which is “the right to dissemin ate the truths of our Faith and to publicize the statements of our Holy Father and our hierarchy "Thanks to tho foresight and sacrifices of earlier gonora tions," Mrs Mahonay told af filiated organizations in a mes sage marking February as Catholic Press Month, "the Catholic Press in this country has been established on a firm foundation. But its effective ness today will be determined by the attitude of the laity." Is** Noting that the biennial con vention of the NCCW last fall in Chicago called upon Catholic wo men to support the Catholic Press, Mrs. Mahoney said: “In do ing so. we help ourselves. And by the support we mean not just to subscribe to our Catholic pub lications, but to read them, to inform ourselves and to help the Catholic Press achieve its pur pose.” Mrs. Mahoney said only an in formed laity can discharge the responsibilities of citizenship ef fectively. “Basic to the forma tion of a sound judgment on the issue of our times.” Mrs. Ma honey added, “is the develop ment of a Christian personality. Many factors, indeed, ha'*- a part in this molding reading is a major one.” Mr. Gomulka had not b«*cn a member nf the previous parlia ment. In the Cracow constituency where Premier Jozef Cyrankie wicz was a candidate, a Catholic biologist named Stanislaw Stom ma won the most votes. Mr. Cy rankiewicz. while elected, placed fourth for the constituency. Semi-official returns indicated that one “preferred” National Front candidate, a communist running in Nowy Saez in Cracow province, failed to receive the necessary 50 per cent vote. Few of the Poles who voted for communists did so because of any liking for communism. Commun ist successes are due chiefly to the limited choice of candidates, the fear of provoking Russian in tervention. and the popularity gained by Mr. Gomulfta not by be ing a communist but by standing up to the Stalinists and Russians. Since the end of World War II Poland has had to live under com munist rule. Here you are con fronted every day vgth evidence that it has not been a pleasant experience. What rankled most with the majority of Polos was the anti* Church campaign. An over whelming majority of the pop ulation are Catholics, and a high percentage of them are practising Catholics. True, the present regime has restored some important liberties to the Church. But the people know that it is still a communist re gime and that all cor .munism is based on atheistic principles. The fact that communism has been imposed on Poland by Rus sia is enough to make it distaste ful to the average Pole. Apart from these religious and patriotic considerations, the oth er realities of daily life under communist rule have bred a strong dislike for communism in Poland. These harsh realities can be grouped under three main headings: 1. Government In the heart of Warsaw you see a massive seven-story building, erected since the war with public money. It is the headquarters of the PZPR, the Polish United Workers’ party, which is the Com munist party. It is from this build ing, not from any government of fices. that Poland has been ruled. Elsewhere in the city you see buildings bearing the names of government ministries and com missions. There is a Polish par liament, the Sejm. But all these have had to take their orders from the party headquarters. Mr. Gomulka, the acknowledg ed ruler of Poland at the moment holds no government post. He ii secretary general of the party The Premier. Mr. Cyrankiewicz is a party member but he ii subordinate to Mr. Gomulka ii the party and in actual power. Mr. Gomulka has indeed prom ised a change. “We must creati (Continued on Page 2) GOOD read your Catholic press! Bishop Urges All to Read Catholic Press Must Support Free Press To Combat Evil Factions Catholic Press Month began across the nation and in the Diocese this week as Bishop Ready urged all out sup port of the Catholic Press in general and The Catholic Times in particular. In a letter read at all Masses in the Diocese last Sun- day. the Bishop prai-ed the uork of the press, in defending thr Church against unjust attacks and vicious misrepresentations.” "But chiefly," the Bishop said, "the Catholic press in forms its world audience about events and policies in which the -Church is engaged in spreading the Kingdom of God On earth." “This essential feature is the leason for its great importance to every Catholic.” the Bishop re minded. “Our Holy Father Pope Pius XII states that our Catholic papers and magazines are edited to enlighten nourish anh elevate minds and hearts, but the pre- cannot fulfill its precious duty if we do not support and read it, the Bishop added In reminding that February is Catholic press month the Bishop said, "During this time we should emphasize that the Catholic Press is dedicated to the high and important aposto late of keeping God and His Church in proo-sr focus amidst various worldly distractions." “Nowhere." the Bishop noted, “has the Catholic Press made such strides during the past half century as here in America. This has been due to the zeal and sac rifice of writers and technicians and to the unfailing support of a devoted laity The Bishop then turned to the problem of the free press in our society saying “The rights of a free press must be kept inviolable today especially. "Our Catholic Press," he add ed, "remains eminently free be cause it upholds the law of God and endeavors to apply it to the complex problems of the hour. To maintain that free- The 10th annual Critics Forum, sponsored by the Inter national Federation of Catholic Alumnae. Columbus Circle, will open Wednesday. Feb 20 at 8:15 in the Little Theater at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Frank Sheed. Catholic author, lecturer and publisher, will present tfhe first of three reviews. Born in Australia, Sheed was graduated from Syd ney University in Arts and Law. He has translated many works in addition to writing several books Communism and Man, Theology and Sanity, and A Map of Life. Moby Dick will be the subject of his lecture. Msgr. Paul O'Dea, member of the faculty and dean of studies at St. Charles Preparatory School, will present the second review Thursday, March 28th. Ordained in 1941, he earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree and Doctorate in Psychology at Ohio State University. Msgr. O'Dea will analyze the historical nov el, "The Last Crusader," by Louis DeWohl. The concluding review of the series will be presented on April 30th by Robert E. Christin, Jr. Christin is a graduate of Holy Rosary High School and received liis Masters degree from Notre Dame where at the present time he is professor of English Liter ature while studying toward a doctorate. He will review "The Great World and Timothy Cola," a novel depicting the life of a young New York lawyer, by Louis Auchincloss. Mrs. Donald Crowley, chair man of the Critics Forum has named Mrs. James Grady, Mrs. R. E. Christin, Mrs. Girard Ber ry, Jr. and Mrs. Ray Beery as committe members. Father C. Bennett *Applegate, diocesan school superintendent, is mod erator and Mrs. J. R. Echon rode is regent of the Columbus Circle of the International Fed eration of Catholic Alumnae. Tickets for the series may be purchased at the Cathedral Book Store or from Mrs. James Grady, ticket chairman. -.to y^a*s-^*8 THE CATHOLIC TIMES 246 E. TOWN 5T. COLUMBUS, O. dom Catholic edito.s and jour nalists have shown heroic cour age in the face of bloody ty rants and their pens have fre quently been mightier than the swords wielded brave people. “Its voice must said, “if evil is to conquer. This in itself is tribute enough for this great apostolate of the printed word.” to suppress illed,’’ he The Bishop reminded that on the Feast of St. Francis de Sales, patron of the Diocese and of the Catholic Press special Masses ocese this past prays fi apostol "It is appropriate, therefore," he said, "that we ask his inter cession in behalf of our Catho lic Press everywhere and special way for continued to our Diocesan paper, celebrated with hroughout the Di week. the Church the success of the press Catholic Times. “We express elation,’’ he .« have supporte help The With deep gratitude tention to the busint have added their advertising and patronage of them.” we direct at ss firms who support through we ask your In closing the Bishop asked all families in the Diocese “to per form their duty by seeing to it that they receive and read a num ber of good Catholic publications, and especially The Catholic Times.” Subscriptions for the Catholic Tunes are being renewed through the parishes which also ve a list of other Catholic publica tions to which parishioners may wish to subscribe. Tenth Annual Critics Forum Opens Feb. 20 atican Dailv Lauds Ike’s Mid-east Plan VATICAN CITY—(Radio, NO —President Eisenhower’s Middle East policy is a “. very firm answer to the real or possible attitude of the Soviet Union in the Middle East crisis." said L'Osservatorre Romano. Vatican City daily. An article by Federico Aless andrini. the paper’s vice-director, stated that the Suez crisis com bined with the resulting decline of Franco-British power had left a void in the Middle East This void, he said, cannot be filled by peoples who have al ready been colonized because they do not seem to have reach ed a sufficiently mature stage of economic and political develop ment. Russia would have liked to make use of this fact, said Mr. A.essandrini. but Mr. Eisenhow er’s action came just at the right time to blocking the extension of Soviet influence towards the Med iterranean and the Suez Canal o--------------- Requiem for Circus Clown GULFPORT, La—(NC) Re quiem Mass was offered here for Arthur Montaigne, 51. a retired circus clown known professional ly as Bozo Lamont He died of a heart attack Hi c. tareei in cluded work v.ith TrrTn: Broth ers and Barnun' Clyde Beatty and other shows. 1