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Holy Week Reaches
Sacred Climax Today
Msgr. Harry Connelly will be
assistant priest at this Mass. Fa
thers James Cooney and James
Kulp will be Deacons of Honor.
Rev. Robert Luchi will be dea
con and Rev. Raymond Lavelle,
subdeacon. Fathers Carroll and
Sorohan will be masters of cere
monies. Fr. Anthony Borelli will
be preacher and Fr. George Ful
cher will be commentate^.
The Schola Cantorum. compos
ed of diocesan students from St.
Charles Seminary. Mt. St. Mary
Seminary. Norwood and St. Vin-
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“It Is Consummated!”
Christ died to save all men from the Fires of Hell.
Today we should* meditate on this fact and ask God's for*
giveness for all the wrongs that we have committed
against Him. The above picture depicts the crucifixion
and is taken from a triptych of Duccio di Buoninsegna.
(Courtesy Boston Museum of Fine Arts).
Holy Week reaches its sacred climax today as Catholics
throughout the Diocese and the world meditate on the
crucifixion and death of Our Lord.
The liturgical function will begin at noon today at St.
Joseph’s Cathedral, with Bishop Ready presiding. Fr.
George Fulcher will be celebrant.
Rev. John Geiger, deacon, and
Fev. Robert Schneider subdea
con.
Deacons of honor are Fathers
Edward F. Healey and Fr. Thom
as Duffy. Fathers James Carroll
and Patrick Sorohan will be mas
ters of ceremonies.
Father Thomas Sabrey is the
preacher for the Tre Ore service.
Three deacons from the Pon
tifical College Josephinum will
sing the Passion.
Easter Vigil
The Easter vigil will begin at
10:45 p.m. in the Cathedral. Bish
op Ready will be celebrant for
the Solemn Mass which will be
gin around midnight (Attendance
at the Easter Vigil fulfills the ob
ligation of assisting at Mass on
Sunday.)
cent’s Seminary, Latrobe, Pa., will
participate in the sacred func
tion.
Easter Sunday
On Easter Sunday Bishop Rea
dy will preside at the Solemn
Mass offered in the Cathedral at
11 a.m. Msgr. Edward Spiers will
be assistant priest. Msgr. Con
nelly will be celebrant and Fa
tners Thomas Sabred and Arthur
Dimond will be deacons of honor.
Fr. George Fulcher will be Dea
con and Fr. James Cooney will
be Subdeacon. Masters of cere
monies will be Fathers Carroll
and Sorohan. Father Anthony
Borelli will be preacher.
On Holy Thursday Solemn Mass
was offered in the Cathedral at 5
p.m. with the Bishop presiding.
Msgr. Paul O’Dea was assistant
priest, Msgr. Harry Connelly was
celebrant for the Mass and was
assisted by the Rev. Kenneth
Grimes, Deacon, and the Rev.
Thomas Bennett, subdeacon.
Deacons of honor were Fathers
Hugh Murphy and Charles Ha
luska. Preacher was Father John
Wolf who also preached at Tene
brae services Wednesday evening.
Fathers Carroll and Sorohan
were masters of ceremonies.
Students from St. Charles Sem
inary filled the positions of minor
ministers during Holy Week.
Thousands Greet Bishop Who
Returns After 7 Year Arrest
KIELCE, Poland (NC) Kielce’s ancient 13th
century cathedral was filled to overflowing but still far
too small to hold the crowds who came here to welcome
Bishop Czeslaw Kaczmarek back to his see after seven years
under Red arrest.
Tens of thousands of the faithful from all parts of
the Kielce province packed the
cathedral square as the Bishop
officiated at his first Mass in his
diocese since the communists first
arrested him in 1950.
In his sermon Bishop Kacz
marek movingly expressed his
gratitude for the support given
him by his flock during his trial
and imprisonment and for the
heartwarming welcome on his
return.
He was arrested in 1950 on
charges of “anti-state” activities
which included “spying for the
Vatican and the United States.”
He was placed under house ar
rest and subsequently was impris
oned.
Brought to trial in 1953. the
Bishop allegedly “confessed” to
all the charges brought against
him and, because he had “betray
ed the peoples democracy,” he
was sentenced to 12 years at hard
labor.
Until September. 1955 Bishop
Kaczmarek. 61, was in Warsaw’s
Mokotow prison. Then he was
given six months’ leave from the
prison for reasons of health. In
February, 1956, he was re-arrest
ed and returned to Mokotow. The
following May he *as allowed to
live in the Capuchin monastery of
Rychwald in Pomerania.
Bishop Kaczmarek remained in
the monastery until September,
1956, when he was allowed to re
turn to live in Warsaw, but was
forbidden to return to his diocese.
After the change in Polands
government last October, and as
a result of the Church-state nego-
tiations following it, a retrial of
Bishop Kaczmarek was ordered
by the Polish Supreme Court.
After investigations, the case
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ROME (NC) Radio
listeners in eastern Europe
this year are being carried
in spirit to Rome during
Holy Week through a series
of radio broadcasts from the
free world.
The Voice of Free Poland, one
of the five stations operated by
Radio Free Europe, is conducting
a series of daily half-hour broad
casts which began Palm Sunday
and ends Easter Sunday.
In each a Polish exile commen
tator describes the spirit of the
day’s liturgy and how it is car
ried out in Rome. Listeners then
hear parts of the day’s liturgy
sung by Roman choirs.
The material assembled for
broadcast to Poland, which has
the largest Catholic population in
eastern Europe, is also being
used in various Holy Week pro
grams by other RFE stations
broadcasting to Hungary, Czecho
slovakia. Rumania and Bulgaria.
The “Holy Week in Rome” pro
grams were planned, RFE says to
bring to Rome in spirit the mil
lions of Catholics whom the Iron
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High Schools,
All Catholics'
Responsibility
CINCINNATI (NC) To
build Catholic elementary schools
is the responsibility of the indi
vidual parishes, but to build
Catholic high schools is the re
sponsibility of the entire Catholic
community.
This thought was addressed to
the Catholics of the Archdiocese
of Cincinnati by the head of the
See, Archbishop Karl J. Alter, in
a pastoral which announced a
goal of $6 million in a drive for
expansion of regional high
schools in the greater Cincinnati
area.
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An estimated increase of about
65 per cent in high school en
rollment by 1964 led the Al ch
bishop to ask Catholics to sup
port the drive. Three more re
gional high schools are scheduled
to be built and substantial addi
tions to three xisting schools
will be made. There are now 14
regional high schools in the arch
diocese, ten of them for girls.
“Even now,” said the Arch
bishop. “the registration of fresh
men classes for our high schools
in September far exceeds the ca
pacity to care for them Each
year the pressure will become
greater. There can be no further
delay. We must take action now.”
The drive for funds will be
known as “The Archbishop’s High
School Fund Campaign.” The
project will involve about 12,000
volunteers whose task it will be to
contact each of the estimated 63.
000 Catholic wage earners in the
Cincinnati area for contributions.
Mayor Urges City to Back
Catholic Charities Drive
NEW YORK—(NC) Mayor
Robert F. Wagner of New York
urged support of the 38th annual
appeal of New York Catholic
Charities in a radio address over
Station WNYC.
The Mayor also said that the
problem of helping those in need
“can best be met when all agen
cies. both public and private,
unite their efforts and resources
for the common good.”
By Father Alban J. Dachauer, S.J.
(The author of the following
article is assistant to the dele
gate director of the Apostleship
of Prayer.)
ROME (Nt) Leading
the movement to enlighten
the natives of the Belgian
Congo on the Dark Contin
ent is a vast system of Cath
olic schools.
With many more elemen
tary parochial schools there
than in the United States,
the Church has assumed a major
part of the burden of providing
an education for inhabitants of
that Central African territory.
Despite these facts, the Belgian
government has been trying, indi
rectly. to close Church-operated
schools in the Congo by taking
away their government subsidies
and constructing state schools.
It is with very good reason,
then, that His Holiness Pope Pi
us XII is asking that special pray
ers be said this month for the
schools of the Belgian Congo.
Their peaceful existence and
development is being threatened
by an anticlerical government,
which is setting up a new school
system in which religion and re
ligious teaching are looked upon
as entirely secondary, and not
belonging among the essentials
of education.
Latest statistics show a total of
17,596 elementary* schools in the
Holy Week in Rome Being Carried
To Millions Behind Iron Curtain
Curtain keeps from visiting the
center of Christendom. The idea
.sprang in part from the striking
aptness of many of the Passion
tide Masses, psalms, antiphons
and other chants to the position
of the persecuted Church and peo
ple behind the Iron Curtain.
Typical of tha material broad
cast was tha Communion anti
phon from tha Monday Mass,
"May thay blush and ba struck
with fright—who rejoica in my
ills, be they clad with shame
and fear who speak evil against
me."
On Tuesday were heard por
tions of the Passion according to
St. Mark such as Christ’s words
at Gethsemane “My soul is sor
rowful even unto death,” and on
the Cross, “My God, My God, why
have You forsaken Me?”
Holy Thursday’s selections
struck the theme of sacrifice, from
the Gradual of the Mass, “Christ
has become obedient for us, the
note of charity. “A new command
I have given you: that you love
one another and “Let us guard
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MARION Bishop Ready
lowers the cornerstone into
place for the new Marion
Catholic High School now
being constructed on a 15
acre tract of land at the
corner of Mt. Vernon Ave. and
Forest Lawn Dr.
The cornerstone ceremony was
held April 19. Looking on (at the
left and right, respectively) are:
Fr. William J. Spickerman, pas
tor of St. Mary Catholic Church
and head of the parish school, and
William O’Brien. V.F., pastor of
Pope Urges Special Prayers
17,596 Catholic Schools in Fact5
Congo and two smaller adjacent
United Nations Trust Territories
—Ruanda and Urundi—which are
I also included in this month’s Mis
sion Intention of the Apostleship
of Prayer.
The U.S. has 9,568 Catholic el
emetary schools, with a total en
rollment of about 3,600.000. Ac
cording to these figures, the av
erage school has 370 pupils.
In the Congo, including Ruan
da and Urundi, there are 1.245,
000 pupils in the elementary sys
tem. The average number of pu
pils per school is much lower—
71—but even so, a good number
of the schools have from 500 to
700 students and some as many as
1,500 pupils.
In area, the Belgian Congo is 80
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Cornerstone Ceremonies Held
At New Marion High School
Delaware St Mary Church and
dean of the Western Deanery.
The bishop was assisted in the
blessing of the cornerstone by
Robert Axe.
Bishop Ready expressed his ap
preciation to all those in Marion
who helped make the construc
tion of the new high school pos
sible.
He was presented a bouquet of
roses by William Robbins, presi
dent of the St. Mary senior class.
Students present from grades
7-12 honored the bishnp on his
for Congo’s
of Opposition
times the size of Belgium itself.
The state of New York would fit
into the Congo 18 tirrtes over,
with a lot to spare.
Of the total school population
of the Congo. Ruanda and Urun
di, 80 per cent of the children at
tend Catholic schools.
The total population of the
area is about 17 million, with 6,
500,000. or about 37 per cent
Catholic. As a matter of fact,
there are more Catholics in the
Belgian Congo than in all of
China.
Most remarkable aspect of this
missionary and educational work
on the Dark Continent is that it
has been accomplished in the past
60 years.
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No Time for "Mediocrity
In Spirituality,’ Prelate Says
ST. LOUIS (NC) Warning that this is no time for
“mediocrity in spirituality,” Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter of
St. Louis called for deeper spiritual formation of Catholic
women.
Addressing the annual convention of the Archdiocesan
Council of Catholic Women, he
urged council members to give
serious consideration to spiritual
formation as a council project.
“Action merely for action's
sake” is not enough, he added.
“The deeper the spiritual for-
against being divided in mind let
evil strife cease, let disputes
cease, and in our midst be Christ,
God.”
On Holy Saturday listeners
will haar such selections as the
prayer of Jeremies, from Mat
ins, beginning: “Remember,
Lord, what has happened to us:
look, and see our disgrace. Our
heritage is turned over to
strangers, our house to for
eigners."
The series ends on the note
of hope on Easter Sunday with se
lections such as the Introit of the
Mass, “I have risen,” and the
hymn, “Queen of heaven rejoice.”
Some of the music and many of
the typical sounds and proces
sions broadcast were recorded
in previous years. Most of the
music used, however, was espec
ially recorded this year by RFE’s
news bureau in Rome.
Professional advice and tech
nical assistance were given also
by personnel of Vatican Radio,
the Italian radio network and
the Rome studios of the Voice
of America.
mation of our women and men.
the more effective their Catholic
Action will become,’ he said. He
recommended they increase their
spiritual habits by adopting a
rule of life patterned after the
Third Order of St. Francis or the
Sodality of the Blessed Mother.
The Archbishop commented on
the recent withdrawal of an of
fer for the editor of American,
Father Thurston Davis, S.J., to
appear on a CBS “Church of the
Air” broadcast because his pro
gram “might awaken contro
versy.”
The proposed program dealt
with such issues as birth control,
censorship, parochial schools and
divorce.
“If these subjects create ten
sions between Catholics and non
Catholics it is because the non
Catholics do not know the full
facts, which in turn implies that
Catholics aren’t able to give an
exposition of the Catholic point
of view,” the Archbishop said.
He noted that non-Catholics are
afraid Catholics want to impose
their beliefs on them.
“This is wrong.” he said. “If
non-Catholics understood the
Church’s meaning on these sub
jects. they would welcome such
a philosophy of life and many,
no doubt, would accept it.
"That is your mission. You
art in tha arena of life whore
you can win people for the
Church. All may not agree with
you, but they will respect your
exposition of the Faith."
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MARION CATHOLK
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birthday anniversary by singin
“Happy Birthday” to him. Several
hymns were sung by the children
during the ceremony.
Fr. Spickerman noted that the
contractor hopes to have class
room facilities available within
10 days of the opening of school
this September. The auditorium
and gymnasium facilities are ex
pected to be ready by Dec. 1.
Cost of the building being con
structed by the Knowlton Con
struction Co. will be approxi
mately S750.000.
Local Students
Compete Today,
More than 80 Catholic students
are among the 250 entrants in the
Ohio Academy Science Day pro
gram today at Bowling Green
State University.
Only entrants who received a
superior rating at the district
fairs are allowed to compete on
the state level.
Watterson High School. Colum
hus, led the district entrants with
57 superior ratings.
Priest Vi ill Systematize
Training in Congo Schools
BRUSSELS (NC) The Bel
gian government has appointed a
Catholic priest to systematize the
teaching of religion in public
schools in the Belgian Congo.
Father Theophile Quoidbach. a
professor of religion at a state
operated high school in Brussels,
was named to make a two-month
visit to the Congo. He will estab
lish a regular system of religious
instruction, making it possible
for children, whose parents wish
it, to receive religious instruction
while attending state schools.
Above Father Michael Welinitz, pastor
wields the spade at the groundbreaking
for St. Brendan parish Church, Davison
and Dublin Roads. Assisting Father Weli
nitz, from left to right, were Fathers
George Kennedy, pastor of St. Agatha
Stressing the importance of
the layman's role in Catholic
Action, the Holy Father cited
current conditions in Rome as
an example of the need for lay
participation.
Toymen must shoulder their re
sponsibilities in the face of the
city’s rnushroomins o u
which is outpacing the construc
tion nf churches, he said They
-hould realize, he continued, that
in places where a priest cannot
function, “it is the faithful who in
a way represent the Church.”
“Their judgment, their atti
tudes and their decisions cause
the Church to be judged favor
ably or to be compromised, and
not without some foundation.” he
added.
The Pope warned that fbe ene
my of human nature is recruiting
ever more numerous disciples”
who are bent on “making the
laws matter prevail over
those of the spirit.”
It is the duty of every Chris
tian to cooperate in the great
task of the world’s salvation, at
least to the extent of giving good
example, the Pope said.
By taking part in the collective
effort of Catholic Action, he con
cluded. the Catholic can "modify
the mentality of his surroundings,
exert an influence on habits of
living and acting and obtain re
form of institutions so that not
only individuals but society itself
may become what it should be
according to the principles of so
cial order and Christian morals.”
Secretary Mitchell Speaks
At 47th CPA Convention
NEW YORK Secretary of La
bor James P. Mitchell will be the
main speaker at the 47th annual
convention of the Catholic Press
Association to be held in St. Lou
is. May 14 to 17.
The Cabinet member will ad
dress the gathering’s civic ban
quet on Thursday. May 16, Msgr.
John S. Randall, president of the
CPA. announced here. Msgr. Ran
dall is managing editor of the
Courier Journal, newspaper of
the Rochester. N.Y., diocese.
Begin St. Brendan Church
Price Ton Cents $3.00 A Year
Reds Unleash
All-Out Drive
Against Faith
Hungarian Bishops Discuss
Church-State Problems
VIENNA (NC) Hungary's Soviet-controlled gov
ernment has launched an all-out onslaught on the Church,
according to reports reaching here.
The renewed anti-religi n campaign, which has re
portedly been in preparation or at least six weeks, reached
Pope Stresses
Need for Lay
Participation
VATICAN CITY (Radio. NC)
The task of Catholic Action is
more urgent and important than
ever.” His Holiness Pope Pius
XII said here in an audience
granted to a group of French stu
dents.
its peak as Hungary’s Hierarchy,
led hy Archbishop Jozsef Groesz
of Kalocsa. met with the puppet
regime of Janos Kadar to discuss
Church-state problems.
One of the main issues of the
discussions, reports stated, was
the communist government’s Mar.
27 decree declaring that all ec
clesiastical appointments made
after Oct. 1. 1956. are “null and
void” unless confirmed by the re
gime’s Bureau of Religious Af
fairs.
Central figure in the new
campaign of persecution is Hun*
gary's Primate, His Eminence
Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty,
who is now living at the United
States legation in Budapest un
der right of asylum to avoid
further communist imprison
ment.
Hungarian bishops and promi
nent priests have been put under
strong pressure by the Reds to
“dissociate themselves from the
reactionary Mindszenty,” reports
from Budapest stated. Two hun
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NCWC Official
Warns Corruption
May Kill Labor
(NCWC News Service)
MILWAUKEE—The corruption
unveiled in the labor movement
by the Senate hearings may be
cancerous unless strong prevent
ive measures are adopted, a
priest specialist on social prob
lems said here.
The current “crisis” in labor
was discussed by Father John F.
Cronin. S.S., assistant director of
the Social Action Department,
National Catholic Welfare Con
ference. in an address at tha
Cardijn Center. His talk was en
titled “Prospects For Labor
Peace.”
Father Cronin called for the es
tablishment of special courts to
which workers could go with com
plaints about their unions. He
said there should be a court
where any union can go for re
dress in such cases as misappro
priation of union funds by offic
ials.
“It is painful to organized la
bor to have its dirty linen spread
over the headlines as it has been
in recent months,” Father Cron
in stated. “Unthinking persons
are likely to condemn the entire
labor movement for the faults of
a minority.”
“On the other hand.” he con
tinued. “the corruption uncover
ed by the Senate hearings can
be compared with a cancer. If
there is no radical surgery, then
the cancer might grow and ulti
mately kill the patient.”
A
parish, Ambrose Metzger, pastor of St.
Margaret of Cortona parish, Fr. Michael
Nugent, pastor of St.- Andrew parish and
Arnold Favret, pastor of Our Lady of Vic
tory parish.