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Father Healey answers
Your Questions On
Page Four This Week
Vol. VI, No. 36
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The Holy Father warned that
in determining a sentence, it is
no longer enough to consider on
ly the traditional attenuating cir
cumstances dictated by juris
prudence and by Christian and
natural morals.
“It is also necessary,” he said,
“to take into consideration the
value of factors recently made
evident by the science of psy
chology which in certain cases af
ford the possibility of admitting
a considerable reduction in re
sponsibility.” At the same time,
the Pope warned against reduc
ing to a minimum “the practical
possibility of free determina
tion.”
Referring to the sufferings en
dured by prisoners, the Pope out-
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Well imagine the plight‘of the high school teachers
who will have to keep these fifteen sets of twins ideftti*
tied next fall. The twins are just a part of 1920 eighth
grade Diocesan graduation class this year which will be
VATICAN CITY (NC) His Holiness Pope Pius
XII appealed to society as well as individuals to grant real
forgiveness to convicts who have served their sentences.
He made the plea in an address to Italian jurists and
members of prisoners’ aid societies in which he stated
that in meting out punishment
for crime, the findings of mod
ern psychology on the extent of
the criminal’s responsibility must
be taken into account.
The Pope also urged that
persons dedicating themselves
to aiding prisoners should give
effective Christian help with
out destroying the effects of
penalties justly imposed on
those who have violated the
laws of society.
Even though those who come
in contact with prisoners would
like to alleviate their sufferings,
this would not be in line with the
intentions of the authorities re
sponsible for seeing that sentenc
es are carried out, the Pontiff de
clared. This is not a case of
adopting a hardhearted and in
different attitude, but more of
finding “a happy medium and
avoiding any kind of deviation in
either direction.” He added:
“Actually, the very attitude of
letting the condemned man see
that his sufferings are taken in
to consideration and that, there
fore, society is not his irrecon
cilable enemy, constitutes com
fort for him in his affliction.”
Speaking of the meaning and
goal of a prison sentence, the
Pope stated that punishment can
be considered in the light of a
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John Burns To*Be Ordained
Tomorrow In Washington D.C
A Diocesan man will be ordained tomorrow at the Na
tional Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington,
D.C.
John E. Burns, son of the late James A.. Burns and
Mrs. Gertrude Burns now residing in Washington, D.C.
will be ordained into the Mission
ary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
by Bishop John M. McNamara.
Father Burns, who has a bro
ther and six sisters in religious
Father Burns
orders, will celebrate his first
Solemn Mass at 10 a m. June 16
in Corpus Christi Church, 1261
Lin..oou Ave.
Fr. Albert V. Kessler, pastor, Fa
ther Kenneth Grimes, will be
deacon and the Rev. Mr. James A.
Burns, S.J., West Baden, Indiana,
brother of Father Burns, will be
subdeacon.
Other members of the family
include six sisters, Sr- Veronica,
OSF„ Joliet, Illinois, Sister Alicia,
OSF, St. Francis Xavier, Chicago,
Illinois. Sr. Mary Agnes, Poor
Clares, Washington, D.C., Sr.
Julia, OSF, St. Paul the Apostle,
Joliet, Sr. Kathleen, SND, Read
ing, Sr. Mary Leo, SND, Reading,
and a brother, Mr. Francis Burns,
Columbus.
Father Burns attended Corpus
Christi elementary and high
schools until 1947. He graduated
from St. Charles Preparatory
School in 1949 and attended John
Carroll Universtiy for one year.
His training under the Oblates
of Mary Immaculate include one
year at the Preparatory school at
Newburgh, N. Y„ from 1951-52 at
the Novitiate at Ipswich, Mass.,
and the last five years at the
Oblate College in Washington,
D.C., where he will return for
further training following his or
dination.
There will be a public recep
tion at Corpus Christi Social Hall,
Archpriest for the Mass will be Sunday evening, June 16.
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So, You Think You Have Troubles
Convicts
Pope Urg
To Accept Suffering
Society Must Forgive
lined the difference between an
invalid and a man convicted of
crime. “The invalid has a right
to try to alleviate his sufferings,”
he said, “whereas the convict
must suffer so that specific ef
fects may be obtained.”
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filling the freshmen classrooms of our high schools next
September. Now turn to Page three to see how well
you did in matching the twins.
Holy Father: In Connecticut:
Church Work
Brings Pain,
Strength
VATICAN CITY—(Radio, NC)—
The person who disregards per
sonal interest in working for the
Church will surely meet difficul
ties, but will also receive special
strength from God.
This advice was given by His
Holiness Pope Pius XII in a spec
ial audience granted to about 250
members of the Society of the
Helpers of the Holy Souls, whose
founder, Blessed Mary of Prov
idence (Eugenie Smet), was beati
fied on May 26.
The Pope extolled the life and
virtues of Blessed Mary of Prov
idence, stressing her charity and
souls in purgatory.
Recalling the foundation of the
Helpers of the Holy Souls by the
blessed, the Pope then pointed
out that while the congregation
was spreading in Europe and
abroad, its foundress was “living
her own Calvary, suffering the
merciless tortures of disease.”
“Whoever acts in this way, with
disregard of all personal inter
ests and forms of selfishness,” he
added, “dedicating himself to the
work of universal salvation, will
know suffering and tribulation in
the same way as did Mary of
Providence. But he will'also have
the unshakeable certainty of him
who depends upon the strength of
God Himself, and awaits with
humble faith the hour of limitless
triumph.”
Present at the audience were
Mother Mary of the Cross, Su
perior General of the Helpers of
the Holy Souls, and superiors and
representatives of the congrega
tion’s houses all over the world.
The Helpers of the Holy Souls
are represented by almost 200
Sisters in the U.S.
Above are the ten 1957 graduates of
St. Charles College Seminary pictured with
Monsignor George Wolz, acting rector of
The Catholic Times
Columbus 16, Ohio, Friday, June 7, 1957
School Bus
Bill Passes
HARTFORD. Conn. Connec-I
ticut’e controversial school bull
bill has been passed by the state I
House of Representatives by al
single vote. I
Previously passed by the state!
Senate, it was signed into a law I
by Gov. Abraham Ribicoff of Con-1
necticut shortly after House pas-l
sage. The deciding vote was cast!
by Speaker of the House Elson I
Brown, who broke a 133-133 dead-1
lock. I
The bill permits Connecticut!
municipalities to decide for them-l
selves whether to provide bus!
transportation for children at-l
tending nonprofit private schools. I
Chief beneficiaries are about I
70,000 children attending Catho-I
lie schools in the state. II
The bill’s passage was a signifi-l
cant victory for the Catholic Bish­I
ops and laity of the state, whol
had vigorously supported it. On
May 26 the Bishops issued a pas­1144
toral letter urging the state’s
Catholics to observe carefully the
action taken on the bill. They
stated that the matter was ‘‘of the
most acute concern since
more than 62 per cent of the
children born in Connecticut in
1956 are Catholic.”
The letter was signed by Arch
bishop Henry J. O’Brien, Bishop
Lawrence J. Shehan of Bridge
port and Bishop Bernard J. Flan
agan of Norwich.
Forty Hours Close
At Carmel Tomorrow
Forty Hours will close at the
Carmel of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary, 2065 Barton Place, to
morrow evening at 7:30 p.m. Ben
ediction and sermon will be held
tonight at the same time.
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New Directory Shows
Over 1,000 Converts
The Diocesan Catholic population has increased to
more than 140 thousand according to latest statistics re
leased here by the Official Catholic directoi
The annuel official directory, publish*
I edy and Sons, lists 140,861 Catholics in the total popu
lation area of 1,431,546 in .the Diocese of Columbus as
of the end of 1956.
More than a thousand converts
to the Faith are recorded in the
Diocese during the year by the
directory, which gives all of the
vital statistics of every Catholic
I Diocese in the United States.
Catholics in the United States,
Alaska and the Hawaiian
now number 34.563,851,
I |ng to the directory.
I The new total shows
I crease of 989,834 over the sta-l
I tistics reported by the directoryl
I last year. There now are 34.386,-1
1351 Catholics in the 48 states and I
I the District of Columbia and I
1177,500 in Alaska and Hawaii, it I
I was reported. The 10-year in-l
I crease in the number of U.S.I
I Catholics was placed at 9.295.6781
lor 36.8 per cent more than the I
125,268.173 reported in 1947. I
Islands
accord-
For the eleventh successive I
year, the number of converts I
entering th Church in each I
year exceeded 100,000. It was I
reported that during 1956 adult I
baptisms numbered 141,525, an I
increase of 2,192 over the pre- I
ceding year. This figure brings I
the total conversions during I
the last decade to 1,252,854, the I
directory reported. I
The directory listed 26 arch-1
dioceses in the United Statesl
with a total Catholic population!
of 16,346,425. The number of di-1
oceses, including the Vicariate of I
Alaska, listed in the new direc-1
tory, is 110 with a total Catholic!
population of 18.217,426. Erec-1
tkm of the new Diocese of Rock-1
Ville Centre, N.Y., announced
Apr. 18. brings the number of di­I
oceses to 111.
Other major changes in the
structure of the U.S. Church dur
ing the past year included: the
new dioceses of Atlanta. Ga.. and
Gary, Ind., and the Byzantine
Exarchy of Stamford, Conn.
making four instead of three Sees
in Missouri—the St. Louis arch
diocese and the dioceses of Jef
ferson City, Kansas City-St. Jo
seph and Springfield-Cape Girar
deau and the changing of the
name of the Diocese of Natchez
to Natchez-Jackson.
Catholic population increases
in the 26 archdioceses were re
ported at 572,015 and in-the 110
dioceses, 417,819. Archdioceses
with Catholic populations of more
I than 1-million were listed as:
Chicago. 1.942.710 Boston, 1.511,
New York. 1,491.019 Phila
I delphia, 1,365.633 Newark, 1,259,-
Fast, Abstinence
June 8,12,14,15
Tomorrow is the Vigil
of Pentecost and a day of
fast and partial abstin
ence. Meat may be taken
once.
Next Wednesday, June
12, Friday, June 14 and
Saturday, June 15 are em
ber days and the fast
laws must be observed on
all three days. Partial ab
stinence from meat on
Wednesday and Saturday
and complete abstinence
on Friday.
the Seminary. The ten men will receive
assignments for further training later this
summer.
Catholics In Diocese
by P. J. Ken-
121 Detroit, 1,200,000, and
Angeles, 1,112,358. Brooklyn
tinued as the largest diocese with
a population of more than 1-mil
lion, followed by Pittsburgh,
786,839 Buffalo, 741,787, and
Cleveland, 701,000.
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Substantial increases wara
reported in 117 Seas, no chang
es in nine dioceses and slight
decreases in 10. Largest increas
es reported were: Newark, 79/
652 Detroit, 75,000: Hartford,
47,445 Chicago, 43,353 Cleve
land, 41,725 Philadelphia, 39,
893 Los Angeles, 37,358: New
York, 32,779 San Francisco,
30,000 St. Paul, 29,042, and
New Orleans, 26,617.
The directory listed 217 mem
bers of the hierarchy, the larg
est number in the country’s his
tory. They included four cardi
nals, 33 archbishops and 180
bishops.
An increase of 1.376 in the
number of the clergy brought the
total of priests to 49.725, largest
ever recorded. They included 30.
481 diocesan priests—an increase
of 747—and 19,244 in religious
communities—an increase of 629.
Listed for the first time were
2.087 newly ordained priests.
Four archbishops, six bishops and
711 priests were listed in the
I necrology.
I Professed Religious recorded
I included 9.300 Brothers, an in
I crease of 432, and 162.657 Sis
Iters, an increase of 3,112. Full
I time teaching staffs of all educa
Itional institutions under Catholic
auspices increased by 4.657 or 3.4
I per cent to a record total of 140,
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Well-Trained Men
Women Staff
Diocesan Camps
A staff of veteran counsellors aided by various
members will be on hand to conduct the program at Camp
St. Joseph and St. Rita when they open for the summer
season, Sunday, June 16th.
Reverend Mr. Edward Trenor, a fourth year Theolog
ian at Mt. St. Mary Seminary of the West will return as
head counselor of the thirty-one
year-old Camp St. Joseph for boys
at Lockbourne, Ohio. Mr. Trenor
is in his fourth year at the Camp.
Assisting him bn the staff are
other seminarians of the Colum
bus Diocese plus a number of
young laymen chosen for their
ability to work with youngsters.
All the members of the staff
of the boys camp are mature men
interested in the welfare of the
youngsters in their charge. They
are also skilled in many areas of
camp craft and are capable of
leading the campers in the many
phases of the busy program.
Miss Dolores Egger, a member
of St. John the Evangelist par
ish and a fourth year student in
the College of Education at Ohio
State University will begin her
second year as head Counsellor at
Camp St. Rita for girls at Canal
Winchester, Ohio.
Miss Egger is also associated
with the Catholic Youth Bureau.
Assisting her at the thirty-four
year-old girls’ camp will be many
fine young women including vet
erans Jeanine Reiser, a third
year student in the College of Ed
ucation at the University Virginia
Horde of Dayton, and a student in
the College of Fine Arts at Mt.
St. Joseph in Cincinnati, and Miss
Joan Horvath of the Catholic
Youth Bureau.
Mrs. Alma Vath and Miss Cath
erine Payne will return to Camp
St. Rita and Camp St. Joseph to
head the kitchen department.
Both camps are under the su
I pervision of the Catholic Youth
I Department and are a part of the
Diocesan Youth program.
I They offer a ten weeks season
Ito boys and girls of the Diocese
land Central Ohio of splendid
I camping in a Catholic atmos
Iphere. The program offers the
I youngsters the opportunities of
I group living experience and the
I association with the outdoors The
I camp periods are seven days be
I ginning and ending-on Sunday.
I Boys and girls may apply at
I the camp office located at 246
I East Town Street in Columbus
i for registration at the camps.
Read "Who Doos Ho
Think He Is?"
Page four this week.
Price Ten Cents $3.00 A Yeer
Annual blessing of the Gulf shrimp fleet out of Biloxi,
Mississippi, gets underway as Father Herbert Mullin of*
ficiates from the prow of one of the trawlers. Fishermen
and their families kneel on the decks of their boats as
Father Mullin goes from boat to boat invoking a blessing
for calm seas and an abundant catch. The traditional
ceremony was brought to the U.S. by devout Portuguese,
Norman, and Dalmatian ancestors of today's fishermen.
Vocation Days Begin
At St. Charles
The sixth vocation day series will begin at St. Charles
Seminary, 2010 East Broad St. this Sunday.
The sessions open to any high school graduate or
those men entering the junior or senior year of high school
who are interested in learning about seminary life
Seminarians of St. Charles will
assist the faculty is explaining
the various facets of life in the
Diocesan Seminary according to
Fr. Edward F. Healey, prefect of
seminarians.
AU three sessions will begin on
the second Sunday of each of the
summer months. Young men are
invited to attend any or all of
these sessions, Father Healey
said.
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There is still plenty of room
for all of the ten one week per
iods but reservations are coming
in fast. For information write
the Reverend Director Fr. Rich
ard Dodd or call the office at
Capital 1-5891.
Father Tobin will take part in
Maryknoll’s 40th annual Depar
ture Ceremony the following day,
Sunday, when he will officially
be assigned to the missions of
Peru.
Father Tobin will celebrate his
first Solemn High Mass on Sun
day, June 16, at 11 a.m. in St.
Mary’s Church, Marion. Fr. Wil
liam J. Spickerman, pastor of the
parish,
priest.
will assistant
Other
officers of the Mass will
Anthony V. Rodrigues.
Maryknoll Missioner home on
furlough from Bolivia, deacon
and Fr. Elmer P. Wurth, M.M.,
stationed at Maryknoll Seminary,
Clarks Summit, Pa., sub-deacon.
Father Terence M. Tobin. O.F.M.
C.. of Catholic Central High
School, Toledo, brother of the or
dained. will deliver the sermon.
A graduate of St. Mary’s ele
mentary and high school. Father
Tobin entered the U.S. Navy in
February, 1946. He served in the
Special Service Dept, of the Navy
until discharged in December,
1947. He then enrolled in the
University of Dayton for two
years before entering Maryknoll
in 1949.
Father Tobin has four brothers
and five sisters. In addition to his
brother, Fr. Terence Tobin, he al
so has a sister in religious life,
Registration will begin at 2 p.
m. each day of the session. None
of the sessions will last more
than three hours and will include
conferences, question periods
and benediction followed by ad
journment.
The first vocation day this Sun
day will be conducted by F. Hugh
Murphy. The other two vocation
days will be held on July 14 and
Aug. 11.
No advance registration is nec
essary.
Father Tobin Ordination Set
For Saturday Goes To Peru
MARYKNOLL, N. Y. Father
Robert V. Tobin, of Marion, O..
will be ordained a priest of the
Catholic Foreign Mission Society
of America on Saturday. June 8,
at Maryknoll Major Seminary
here. Bishop Joseph F. Flannelly,
auxiliary of New York, will be
the ordaining prelate for this
year’s class of 32 deacons.
Sisters of
St. Mary’s
Sister Moira, of the
Charity, teaching at
School, Cincinnati.
the Mary
Father lo-
Before leaving for
knoll Mission of Peru
bin will have a short vacation at
home with his family.
In Peru, the Maryknoll priests
are stationed in the Diocese of
Puno. called the “Roof of South
America” because of its location
24 miles above sea level in the
Father Tobin
Andes Mountains. One of their
most important tasks in Puno is
building up a vigorous national
clergy for the area. They conduct
the diocesan preparatory semi
nary. teach in schools and staff
parishes for Quechua and Ay
mara Indians.