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Priest, Educator, Author, Orator
Many Pay Respects
To Great Churchman
A Solemn Pontifical Mass of Requiem was offered in
St. Joseph’s Cathedral Wednesday morning by Bishop
Ready for his college classmate, Monsignor Paul J. Glenn,
Ph D., S.T.D., Rector of St. Charles’ Seminary, who died
last Saturday morning of a heart attack.
Great numbers of priests, religious, St. Charles stu
dents and alumni and friends filled the great Cathedral to
pay their respects to a great
churchman whose illustrious ca
reer had been brought to a sud
den end.
Present also in the Cathed
ral at the Mass were the Most
Reverend Edward G. Hettinger,
D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of Co
lumbus, and the Most Reverend
Coleman F. Carroll, D.D., Aux
iliary Bishop of Pittsburgh.
Assisting Bishop Ready at the
Mass were Fr. Frank Glenn,
nephew of Monsignor Glenn, who
was deacon Father Vincent
Mooney, a classmate, subdeacon
Monsignor Paul O’Dea, dean of
Studies at St. Charles’, and Mon
signor Edward Spires, principal
of Watterson high school, as dea
cons of Honor to the Bishop, and
Monsignor H. E. Mattingly, as as
sistant priest.
The lermon wee delivered by
Monsignor George T. Wolz, S.
T.D., vke rector of St. Charlee.
Also in the sanctuary as
chaplains to Bishop Carroll
were Father Thomas Lappan and
Fr. Eugene Harkins.
Chanters at the Office of the
Dead preceding the Funeral Mass
were Father James Kraus and
Father Hugh Murphy, both of the
St. Charles' Faculty.
Pallbearers at the funeral were
Fathers James Kimberley, Hu
bert Rubeck, Earl Hotlzapfel,
Thomas Sabrey, Thomas Duffy,
Edward Healey. Augustine Wink
ler and John Wolf.
Burial was made in the priests’
plot of St. Joseph Cemetery by
the McNamara Funeral Home.
Surviving Monsignor Glenn are
two sisters, Mother M. Claudia,
Mother General of the Sisters of
Charity at their Motherhouse,
Seton Hill College, Greensburg,
Pa., and Miss Elizabeth Glenn,
of the family home in Scottdale,
Pa. Preceding him in death were
five brothers and one sister.
Among the other surviving rel
atives are Father Frank Glenn, a
nephew, who was deacon at the
Funeral Mass, and Sister M. Paul
ina, of the Sisters of Charity, a
niece.
The body of the deceased Rec
tor was received at the Seminary
Sunday evening by the students,
faculty and visiting clergy, with
Monsignor Wolz officiating at the
chanting of Vespers for the Dead.
Monsignor Glenn lay in state in
the sanctuary of the Seminary
Chapel until 9.30 Wednesday
morning.
Solemn Masses of Requiem
were offered at the Seminary
Monday and Tuesday mornings,
with Monsignor Wolz and Mon
signor O’Dea respectively, as cel
ebrants. Father Thomas Sabrey
delivered a sermon at the Mass
Monday.
Cardinal
i s Eminence Edward
Cardinal Mooney, Archbish
op of Detroit assisted by
Archbishop Gaetano Pollio,
PIME, Archbishop of Kaifeng
China will dedicate the new
ly erected Seminary of the
Missionaries of St. Peter and Pau'
(PIME) near Newark, it was an
nounced this week.
Bishop Ready will offer the
Pontifical Mass following the Sol
emn dedication of the order’s
first U.S. seminary at 12 noon
Sunday, May 12.
Cardinal Mooney will pay his
first official visit to the Diocese
since the National Catholic Rural
Life Conference here in Septem
ber of 1949.
Archbishop Pollio, who was re
cently released from a Red Chi
nese prison, will pay his first of
ficial visit to the Diocese. He is
visiting all of the houses and par
ishes of his order in the United
States.
Cardinal Mooney has served the
Vespers of the Dead were
chanted at 8 o’clock Wednesday
evening by the priests of the Sem
inary faculty, visiting clergy and
seminarians.
Scottsdale Native
Monsignor Glenn was born
May 3, 1893, at Scottsdale, Pa. and
attended St. John the Baptist par
ish school there. In 1908 he
tvent to St. Vincent’s, Ijitrobe.
Pa., where he began a long and
brilliant career as a student. He
completed the preparatory course
in 1911, the college in 1915, and
the seminary in 1919f
Ordained by the late Bishop
Canevin of Pittsburgh Dec. 18,
1918, Monsignor Glenn was as
signed to his own parish as as
sistant pastor. In 1920 he was
transferred to St. Mary’s, Pitts
burgh, and three years later to
St. Catherine’s, Beechview, Pitts
burgh. During this time he re
turned to St. Vincent’s for grad
uate work in Theology, receiving
the doctorate in 1922. Later, in
1928, following the preparation
of his first book. History of
Philosophy, he was awarded a
doctorate in philosophy by his
Alma Mater.
Taught in Detroit
In July, 1923, Monsignor Glenn
went to Sacred Heart seminary,
Detroit, where he served as pro
fessor of philosophy. April 19,
1927, just 30 years ago, he came
to St. Charles’ to take up the
same duties here.
Bishop Ready named him pres
ident of St. Charles College and
rector of the seminary Aug. 15.
1945. He was honored by Pope
Pius XII on Nov. 8, 1945, by be
ing named a Domestic Prelate
with the title of Right Reverend
Monsignor.
During most of his years at St.
Charles’ Monsignor Glenn served
as week-end assistant at St. Fran,
cis of Assisi parish where his
weekly sermons were cherished
by the people for their clarity
and depth of learning.
Renowned Orator
Known throughout central Ohio
as an able orator and educator,
Monsignor Glenn also became re
nowned for his radio addresses.
In recent years he had been a reg
ular speaker on the “Catholic
Hour,” national radio program.
He had also been an invited
speaker on the national "Church
of the Air” radio program as
well as numerous times on local
broadcast programs.
Author of Toxtbookt
Renowned as an educator, sac
red orator and columnist. Mon
signor Glenn is more widely
known as an author of series of
textbooks on Scholastic philoso
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Church in important posts on
three continents—Europe, Asia
and America.
He was named Apostolic Dele
gate to India following three
years as spiritual director at the
North American College in Rome.
Later he served in the same ca
pacity in Japan, before his re
turn to the United States to be
come Bishop of Rochester and
then Archbishop of Detroit. It was
during his Indian assignment that
the Cardinal noticed the work of
the PIME fathers, which he was
later to invite to the U.S.
As a member of the American
Hierarchy the Cardinal has been
known^for his exceptional admin
istration. He is an outspoken foe
of communism and secularism, a
vigorous promoter of Catholic ed
ucation and a forceful teacher of
the social doctrines of the
Church.
Though a native of Maryland,
the Cardinal spent most of his
early life in Ohio as his family
moved to Youngstown in 1887
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Vol. VI, No. 31
JUST AMONG
OURSELVES
Passing Comment
Considered or
Inconsiderate
(Editor's Noto: This is Monsignor Glonn's last column. Ho
has written thus weekly for our diocesan newspaper since 1940.
His scintillating and learned comments will be missed by a
widely scattered and greatly appreciative body of readers.)
Recently, in Father l^ahey’s admirable column which is a
feature of the Ave Maria,—“Bits Out of Life,”—we came upon a
new version of an old saying. The saying was the rule from
George Washington's schoolboy copybook, "Labor to keep alive
in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
And the new version substituted "reverence” for "conscience.”
And so to the quotation books to make sure of the right
word. Our tattered Benham, so ample and so reliable, ignored
the Father of His Country, copybook and all. So did the newer
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. But good old Bartlett had the
line. Only Bartlett rasped out own boyhood memory of the say
ing by omitting the word “called” and putting in a dash in place
of it. Thus Bartlett: “Labor to keep alive in your breast that lit
tle spark of celestial fire,—conscience.”
It is highly poetic to speak either of reverence or of con
science as "a little spark of celestial fire.” Perhaps the expression
is better justified in the case of reverence than of conscience. For
reverence is a virtue that may be present or absent, but a man's
conscience is always there. For conscience is not a virtue it is
the thinking mind, the human, reason. The reason is called con
sience when it is engaged upon moral matters and makes moral
decision.
To be sure, a man needs to labor to keep his mind active
and alert for the correct and prompt judging of moral matters. A
man needs to be alive to duty. And conscience, while it is in
evitably present, may be so dulled by laziness and evildoing that
it has little effect in determining a man’s moral conduct. Still,
it is never dead. The worst of men has some standard of conduct.
There are some things the most abandoned character will not
do. A man who would steal without compunction or perjure him
self in a court of law might still refuse to commit murder. And
many a murderer would balk at perjury.
A conscience may be warped. It may be a false conscience.
But it is not, while rational life endures, a completely dead
conscience. Now, reverence, in contrast, may be dead indeed,
or completely absent, which amounts to the same thing Therefore
we say that it is more accurate to speak of keeping reverence
alive,—for it is like a spark that will completely die if un
attended,—than to speak of keeping conscience alive.
In our unimportant opinion, Father I-ahey is justified in his
version of the famous quotation. And yet the justification is only
on one point: meaning. There is no justification of the “reverence”
version on the score of literary and historical accuracy. If we are
to quote the line Washington's young hand traced in his copy
book, we must quote the line as he traced it, no matter how we
could improve it by making a change. For the man who quotes
must have his own adaptation of the printer’s rule, which is, "Fol
low copy, even if it flies out of the window.”
We know, of course, that the young Washington did not
throw off that bit of good advice on his own authority. He merely
copied it. And yet that fact has got him into the enduring books,—
at least into Bartlett. We believe, and with reason, that Wash
ington approved the advice, and that he followed it himself. And
it is right we should so believe.
For it is right for us to hold national (and other) heroes
in an idealized light. We do not want false pictures of the people
we should admire but we do want somewhat glorified pictures.
Our heroes are meant to be inspirational figures. If they had
faults, and even grave faults, it is not for these that we admire
them. It is not their faults but their fine qualities that we find
inspiring.
The biographer and the historian must deal with fact, but
even so, there is no justification for stressing unpleasant things,
no matter how factual. But there is need, in inspirtational writing
and in popular accounts of persons worthy to be remembered
and admired, of stressing the fine and admirable things. The so
called debunker has no place in decent writing he used to be
known by the more accurate name of muckraker. And there is
surely no excuse for raking muck.
The debunker, when he deals in talk and not in writing, is
known as a gossip or a scandalmonger. He bears false witness,
even when he actually tells truths. For he omits other truths
that would be highlights in the picture he draws. In fact, he
draws a picture only in shadows. And while the shadows may be
there, they cannot constitute a complete and accurate picture.
We should have a completely false picture of King David if
it consisted entirely of ugly comment on the affair of the wife
of Urias. We should see the great penitent and holy saint pre
sented in terms of murder and adultery. And even though the
ugly facts are true, they are far from being the whole story
They are indeed only the prelude to the real story of the real
David. Yet the debunker and the muckraker (the same man, really)
would make the prelude (in G-flat minor) the whole story. Thus,
telling truths, he would tell a false tale.
Well, reverence and conscience are the topics we started with.
We may end with them too, recommending both to the studious
attention of the writer who inclines to, the cynical view of the
statesmen and leaders who have made our national history
glorious.
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Cardinal Mooney
when he was five years old.
The Cardinal was ordained in
Rome in 1909 where he received
Mooney, Archbishop Pollio Here May 12 For PIME
his degrees of Doctor of Philos
ophy and Doctor of Divinity.
Upon his return tb his home
Diocese of Cleveland he was ap
pointed professor of dogmatic
theology. He planned the Cathed
ral Latin school there and was
named its first headmaster.
After serving for a short time
as pastor of St. Patrick’s parish
in his home city of Youngstown
in 1922 the Cardinal was named
spiritual director of the Ameri
can College and subsequently
Apostolic Delegate to India and
Japan.
Following his return to the
United States in 1933 as Ordin
ary of the Rochester diocese, he
was named to the Administrative
Board of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference and chair
man of the Social Action Depart
ment, and served as chairman of
the administrative board for sev
eral years.
Following the death of Bishop
Michael J. Gallagher of Detroit
in 1937, the Diocese of Detroit
uie Catholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, May 3, 1957
WEST PORTSMOUTH—Bishop Ready
will dedicate the newly built Our Lady of
Sorrows parish church (pictured above)
here this Sunday. The Bishop will also
Former Pastor Of St. Leo's
Msgr. Vogel Dies
53 Years A Priest
Monsignor Bernard P. Vogel, for thirty-two years pas
tor of St. Leo’s parish, Columbus, died Wednesday morning
in St. Anthony’s Hospital, after an extended illness. He
was 77.
Bishop Ready will celebrate the Pontifical Funeral
Mass Monday, following the
chant of the Office of the Dead
at 10 a.m., at St. Leo's church.
Surviving Monsignor Vogel
are three sisters. Sister Clare
S.N.D., Hamilton Sister Aloys-
Msgr. Vogel
ius of the Blessed Sacrament
S.N.D., St. Joseph Academy,
Columbus, and Miss Margaret
Vogel, who resided with the
Monsignor at 1561 Roxbury Rd.,
Columbus.
Monsignor Vogel, who had re
tired in May, 1952, was a native
of Columbus where he attended
Holy Cross school. All of his pre
paratory and theological studies
for the priesthood were taken at
the Josephinum. where he re
ceived his Bachelor of Arts de
gre in 1898.
was raised to an archdiocese and
Cardinal Mooney was named to
head it, as the first archbishop
of Detroit. Shortly after the end
of World War 11—at the Consist
ory of February 1946 in Rome,
he was raised to the Sacred Col
lege of Cardinals by Pope Pius
XII.
Archbishop Pollio. a native of
Sorrento, Italy, spent more than
13 years in the Chinese mission
field before he was expelled by
the Chinese Reds in September
of 1950, after six months impris
onment.
Ten years after his arrival in
China, he was appointed Arch
bishop of Kaifeng at the age of
35, the youngest archbishop in the
world.
Early in 1949 the Communist
Chinese press published violent
articles against the “foreign im
perialist, American spies,” and
the Reds began confiscation of
the Catholic schools, convents and
hospitals.
Archbishop Pollio opposed all
Diocese Tops Past Record
In Mission Support Gifts
West Portsmouth Church Dedication Mav 5
He was ordained by the late
Bishop Hartley on June 10. 1904.
Pope Pius XII honored the
esteemed parish priest on June
19, 1942, by elevating him to
the rank of Domestic Prelate
with the title of Right Rever
end Monsignor.
Bishop Ready appointed him
prosynodal examiner Aug. 1.
1945, and renamed him to the
office in 1950.
He made two trips to the
Vatican during his pastorate at
St. Leo's, the first in 1935 and
in March 1950.
In his early years as a priest
Monsignor Vogel labored with
distinction in many small mis
sion parishes.
He spent two years at St. Eliz
abeth's. Roswell, and the mission
at Sherodsville. Then he was
named assistant at St John's.
Bellaire, and the mission at
Neffs. In 1907 he was assigned
to St. Francis Xavier Church.
Malvern, with charge of St. Pat
rick's. Mineral City.
A year later, he was appointed
pastor of St. Philip Neri Church.
Murray City, where he remained
until 1916. He then spent four
years at Our Lady of the Angels
parish. Barton, being appointed
pastor of St. Leo's parish, Co
lumbus, in 1920.
At the timo of his retire
ment in 1952 Bishop Reedy said,
"You are, and have been, the
good and faithful servant of
Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and
His Church. The church of Co
lumbus will continue to be edi
fied by your pastoral works and
will profit from your constant
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Archbishop Pollio
of this openly and finally the
Communists attempted to estab
lish a "schismatic Church of Chi-
administer Confirmation at this former
mission parish according to Father John
Graf, pastor.
Third Clergv
Retreat Starts
Mon., May 6
Father Ralph Eichman. C.M,
will conduct the third retreat
at the Shrine of the Little Flow
er for the Diocesan clergy begin
ning this Monday, May 6, and
ending May 9.
Priests assigned to this retreat
are:
Monsignors Patrick Kilgallen
and Harold O'Donnell.
Fathers Bennett Applegate.
James Berendt. Leo Brehm. John
P. Byrne. Herman Crock, Arthur
Dimond. Clarence Durbin. Rich
ard Engle. J. Arnold Favret,
Robert Gately, Charles Griffin,
Carl Heilman. William Huber,
Joseph Jerabeck and George Ken
nedy.
Fathers Robert Klee, Chester
LeBlanc, Edmund McCormick,
Wayne Meyer. Francis Miller,
Michael Nugent, William Patter
son. William Rardin, Raphael
Rodgers. Robert Schuer, Francis
Schweitzer. John Simon. John
Soltis. Patrick Sorohan and Will
iam Stecker.
The fourth- retreat will begin
May 13. at the Shrine the final
clergy retreat will be held at St.
Charles Seminary, beginning
June 17.
Confers Sacrament
To His ‘Old Outfit’
WASHINGTON. (NC) Aux
iliary Bishop Philip M. Hannan
of Washington conferred the sac
rament of Confirmation at Fort
Bragg. N.C.. on April 28. accord
ing to Msgr. (Maj. Gen.) Patrick
J. Ryan, chief of Army chaplains.
Bishop Hannan, a former Army
paratrooper chaplain, made sev
eral combat jumps with the 82nd
Airborne Division during World
War II. The Confirmation cere
mony followed a Mass offered in
the main chapel at Fort Bragg.
na He wrote a pastoral letter
forbidding Catholics under pain
of excommunication to join the
Red church.
The Reds retaliated by arrest
ing him and forbidding attend
ance at weekday Mass for any
Catholic. The Archbishop was re
leased only to be arrested again
on the third anniversary of his
consecration as Archbishop, April
1, 1950.
He was imprisoned on trumped
up charges and for the next six
months was forced to work at
hard labor until he came to trial
in September of 1950.
After the usual accusations he
was told that his “crimes” de
served death hut the People’s
Government had "indulgence’’
and it was decreed that after six
months imprisonment was ended
he was to be expelled from Chi
na forever.
Archbishop Pollio is now in
the United States to tour all of
the parishes and houses of the
Missionaries of St. Peter and Paul.
Price Ton Confs $3.00 A Year
Bishop Says
1956 Report
‘Amazing’
A new record of mission
zeal was set by the Diocese
last year according to the
report (see Page 9) of the
Society for the Propagation
of the Faith submitted to
Bishop Ready, and through
Bishop Fulton Sheen, nation
al director, to the Holy See.
A total of 5253,053.37 was giv.
en for the spread of the Faith
through the Holy Father’s official
mission-aid society for all. the
Society for the Propagation of
the Faith, exceeding ’he previous
year by more than $20,000.00.
In reply Bishop Reedy wrote
to Father James Kulp, diocesan
director: "It was heartening to
read the report of the diocesan
mission office for 1956. The
total financial gifts, under the
various titles ^of mission char
ity, was quite amazing. Like
wise success of your zealous
work in the cause was edify
ing. I commend you and I am
eager to thank all who helped
make the 1956 mission work a
good reflection of their ardent
faith.
"The growth of mission
knowledge, and consequently
of mission charity, among the
students in our schools was
especially noted."
Father Kulp, in his letter an
alyzing and submitting the re
port, noted as the biggest need
an increase in membership in the
Society for the Propagation of
the Faith Members are pledged
to pray daily for conversions an
Our Father and Hail Mary. "Self
denial, partaking the nature of
prayer, is likewise recommended
as a most effective way to help
spread the faith.” Fr. Kulp said.
WHERE IT GOES
All membership dues, dona
tions. and 91 of the Mission
Sunday Collection are dispersed
as follows. Under the direction
of the Holy Father sixty percent
is equitably divided among the
658 foreign mission areas. The
Congregation for the Propagation
of the Faith, a board of 17 Card
inals. is the Holy Father's secre
tary in these matters.
The Pope distributes nine per
cent of the Mission Sunday Col
lection in the Holy Lands, which
are again mission areas. The
Catholic Near East Welfare As
sociation is his agency reaching
the priests, religious and people
with this aid. Finally, the Holy
Father distributes forty per cent
among the home mission districts
of the United States.
His assistants in this distribu
tion are nine Ordinaries, headed
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The Big Ten
According to the Propaga
tion of the Faith 1956 report
the leading parishes in contri
butions are:
1. Holy Rosary, Columbus
2. Our Lady of Peace, Co
lumbus
3 Saint Mary, Lancaster
4. Immaculate Conception,
Columbus.
5. St. Aloysius, Columbus
6. Cathedral
7. Immaculate Conception,
Kenton
8. Christ the King, Columbus
9. St. Francis, Newark
10. Saint Catharine, Columbus
Our Lady of Peace, Colum
bus, and Immaculate Concep
tion, Kenton, are newcomers to
this league. This account re
fers only to the missions’ sacri
fices of the adults.
Seminary Dedication
The latest of these, the or
der's first seminary in the U S.,
will be dedicated May 12. It is
located between Newark and
Hebron off Route 79.
Clergy To Meet
Next Monday
The spring conference for Dio
cesan clergy will be held at 2 30
p.m. Monday at St. Charles Sem
inary.
All Diocesan priests will attend
the meeting, including those re
ligious order priests who have
care of souls in the Diocese.
Other members of religious com
munities who do not have an op
portunity to attend similar con
ferences in their own religious
houses also have been requested
by Bishop Ready to attend the
conference.
Canon Law and current Dioce
san policies will be explained and
discussed.
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