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CONSIGNOR LALLY li Joins People Together" Every Home Needs 'Times5 ^Bishop Says the Diocese. Bishop Clarence G. Issenmann, remind •ffi this week in a letter to all pastors. ty. THE BISHOP DESIGNATED February 21, as Catholic Times Sunday, and urged that all subscrip tions be forwarded to the pastors by subscribers on that day. THE CATHOLIC PRESS has place in the world today. Our people want to know thgir Faith our diocesan newspaper is a weekly source of instruction. Our people al io look to their Catholic paper to prepare them to explain to Others the correct application of God's moral law to the many serious considerations ot daily living," the Bishop pointed out. NOTING THAT in the past ytar The Catholic Times sup ped its readers with the en cyclical letters of our Holy Father, The Bishops' State- Mark Bishop's Anniversary Next Thursday, Feb. 11 fit the second anniversary Bishop Issenmann's in stallation as the sixth Ordinary of Columbus. Please remember his in tentions in your prayers. Those living outside the Diocese may subscribe mr renew directly by sending remittances to: The Catholic Times, P.O. Box 636, Columbus 16, Ohio. All regular subscribers are asked to watch the times for further information and to await the an nouncements of the pastors during February. They will also receive a direct reminder from this office the week of February 7. St. Vincent De Paul: Diocesan Society Gives Record Aid THE DIOCESAN St. Vincent De Paul Society fisited more than 3,000 persons last year and made More than 20,000 institutional calls, a report released here by Monsignor Lawrence Corcoran, assistant di rector of charities. THE SOCIETY WHICH has 400 members in over 40 con ferences. also distributed close to 28,000 pieces of religious literature during the year. One of the largest activities ef the Confreoences was the rid distributed by members during the flood which inun dated many parts of the Dio eese. THE. ST. VINCENT DE A U s o i e y o i i n a y founded by a Frederick Oza nam in 1833 has for its first purpose the sanctification of its members, by using the nofans of the spiritual and cor jffral works of mercy. MEMBERS VISIT homes to learn the spiritual and mater ial needs of families. They al so visit hospitals and other in stitutions to give solace £6 tile patients. LAST YEAR alone the Con ferences convnced more than 2,1)00 people to return to the practice of the Faith and help ed 31 students to return to Parochial schools, and aided more than 2,000 more to at tend religion classes on Sun day. IN OTHER ACTIVITIES the nkn aided people to obtain trork, helped transients to re turn home, secured medical m. iVfitr Professionathm I Today's Ca (Editors Net#: As a special feature for Catholic Press Month, tha editors of tha Ca tholic Digest askad Rt. Rev. Msgr. Francis J. Laily to re late his experiences as editor of a diocesan newspaper, for the February issue of their magazine. Full permission has been given by the Catholic Di gest and by Msgr. Lally to re produce it here for you). By Msgr. Francis J. Lally Editor, The Boston Pilot WHEN PEOPLE think of a Catholic editor they THE CATHOLIC TIMES should be in every home ment of the Catholic position regarding the debated ques tions of over-population, s weekly fund of instructive in formation concerning what is being done about wholesome entertainment, the curbing of indecent publications, religion as a test for public office, and many other Items of in terest too numerous to put down." 'THE CATHOLIC TIMES joins our people together in stronger Catholic unity by making all aware of what hap pen® in every part of the Dio cese," the Bishop noted. AS AN AID to readers in re newing their subscriptions and to pastors in handling the subscriptions, this year, every subscriber will be mail ed a renewal envelope which should arrive by the end of next week and should be re turned to the parish by Feb ruary 21. New subscribers may obtain envelopes at their parish. Subscriptions To Times Due Subscribers to The Catholic Times are urged to make renewals through their individual parishes dur ing February, Catholic Press Month. Sunday, February 21, will be Catholic Press Sun *Y, and parishioners will be asked to make remit tance on that day if at all possible. New subscriptions should also be obtained through the parish at the cost of $3.00 a year, which includes the 52 regular issues plus special editions. care for people and hundreds of other activities to aid the spiritual and material poor and needy. BISHOP ISSENMANN laud ed the work of the Society, no noting that the 300th Anniver sary of their patron's death this year should "inspire every Vincentian and every Confer ence to redoubled effort to spread the knowledge and in terest of the Society and its aim and work. THE WORK OF bringing children to religious instruc (Continued on Page 2) by Msgr. James I. Tueek ROME The Rome synod, which will doubt lessly prove to be the most important event of the year for Catholic Rome, evoked a "wait and see" attitude among the citys' clergy and laity. FOR ROME—and by unof ficial extension the rest of the Catholic world—the synod A I N K NFVSPAPTB DlVISrcw O I O 8TATF U 8 U S O are likely to nave me pic ture of an elderly cleric seated severely behind a polished desk writing detach ed editorials with a careful and exact penmanship. The facts are quite differ ent. IT IS MORE LIKELY that the average editor is not over 40, works in his shirt-sleeves at a speeding typewriter in the midst of a noisy office, and more often than not is no Cleric at all but the father of a young Catholic family. O N E I N i s e W about him, however, if he is putting out one of the better Catholic papers (and all of Here's How' Mr. and Mrs. Robert Axe, Marion, will be chair men of the housing committee for the DCCY con vention Feb. 13-14 at the Youth Center on the Ohfc State Fairgrounds. The young men and women at tending the convention will be housed in separate| dormitories adjacent to the youth center. Mrs. Axe is shown receiving strategic information from Edward Boudrie, Executive Secretary of the Diocesan Catholic Committee on Scouting, while Fr. Robert Reiliy, Central Deanery Moderator of the Council of Catholic Youth, looks on. Boudrie will staff a group of boy scouts who will act as messengers at the convention, as well as arrange the mechanical as pects of the Pontifical Mass. Bishop Issenmann Urges Participation In Youth Meeting Bishop Issenmann this week urged the pastors to encourage the young men and women in their parishes to attend the Diocesan Council of Catholic Youth convention and at the same time urged the pastors to adapt the CYC program in their parishes as much as possible. THE DCCY meet will be held next Saturday and Sun day at the Youth Center on the Ohio State Fairgrounds. *'IT IS MY earnest desire that the Council of Catholic Youth assist the pastors and priests of all our parishes in their concern for the young people under their pastorial charge," the letter said. "There is an age be tween childhood and adult hood, in which our young Men To Hear O'Kelly Today The Catholic Men's Lunch eon Club will meet Friday, February 5, at 12 noon in the Town and Country Room of the Neil House. Professor Bernard O'Kelly of the English Department of Ohio State University will speak. Professor O'Kelly is, at the present time, complet ing work for his Ph.D. at Hkrvard. would have a delayed effect However, there was relative ly little reaction in the Roamf? newspapers. But the seeds of reform were sown, and there was little doubt that the first Rome synod would accomplish what it had set out to do, namely: Return the Eternal City once more to its sacred character. THE ILLS TO BE corrected #tre long-standing and deep- .tor these day*) He is happily overwork ed, and is even oblivious of the fact that his own bosses haven't yet noticed it. FOR MORE THAN 10 years I have been assigned as a priest-editor of America's old est Catholic news v/eekly, The Pilot, and I have had a chance to observe con temporaries and to judge in some measure their labors. THE NEW PROFESSION ALISM which is so very evi dent in many diocesan papers and monthly magazines did not happen by chance it was only by training personnel and buying "know-how" that the "new look"' arrived in so many quarters. SUPERI O S and diocesan authorities have shown a far sighted view in selecting with ear*, and training with dili-. gence, the rising editors so that editorial opinion need never be merely tfc» printing •f platitudes but can take a grip on concrete social and re ligious questions wtih compe tence and effectiveness. U N U E S I O N A Y w e still have a long way to go but it is clear that even In a short time, we have com* a long way. There will always be leaders in the Catholic press, as elsewhere, but these are A men and young women are in high school and, later, de veloping into young mature adults a span of years when these young people no longer are children and are not as yet ready for the com panionship of older adults. Here the Catholic Youth Council supplies valuable helps to the youths themselv es in their spiritual, cultural, social and recreational activi ties." THE BISHOP'S LETTER, dated February 2, the Feast of the Purification, then ur ged the pastors to adapt the CYC program in their par ishes, insofar as possible. "The extent of these activi ties for the young people will vary according to the parish," he added. "The steady in crease in the number of par ishes in the CYC program, in whole or in part, shows that our pastors and priests rea lize the great help which they can expect in guiding the youth in their parishes." Most Important Event Of Year Synod Will Eventually Affect Catholic World rooted. The cure was expected also to be long in applica tion, and the synodal con stitutions had already shown that the cure would also have to strike deep. THE SYNOD DID not in fact legislate anything. In ef fect, the chief work of the three days of synodal assem blies was to review a pros pectus for future legislation. The articles set down in the working copy of the "Synodal Yugoslav court )r, Newspaper, Both Up-To-Dale not necessarily the oldest or biggest papers. They are, however, the papers that take themselves seriously and the ones that are not afraid to face difficult issues with hum ble and studious preparation. CATHOLICS do not have all the answers —only God has those but Catholics do have the means for finding clues to the solution of many of the perennial problems that beset humanity, and they have the revelation of Jesus Christ to apply to every age and to ev ery man. Catholics, and Cath olic editors, have a right to be confident without being cocky, to be critical without The Catholic Times Vol. IX, No. 19 Columbus 16, Ohio Friday, February 5, 1960 Price Ten Cents $3.00 A Year Inside News MEDICAL CLINIC at Mt. Carmel. Page 3. "THOU SHALL NOT STEAL" Page 4. "DIOCESAN FLY SWATTER" is title of Editorial by Business Manager Robert Wunderlin—Page 4. NEW FOOTBALL, Baseball Leagues discussed by Sports Editor Lou Fabro Page 6. ROSARY HIGH SCHOOL Steps Into Times, Youth Spotlight Page. 7. 4 SOCIAL EVENTS Calendar Page 8. BISHOP ISSENMANN will open National Com munion Crusade at DCCY Convention Page 9. Still Need Sponsors: Local Committee Settles 24 Refugees TWENTY-FOUR refugees found jobs and homes in the Columbus Diocese during 1959 due to the work of the Diocesan Resettlement Program, accord ing to a report released here this week. But the need for sponsors is still great. ACCORDING TO Monsignor Lawrence Corcoran, assistant director of Diocesan chari the 1950 total is mere Reds Give Priest Stiff Prison Term TRIESTE, Italy, (NC)— than 100 percent over the previous year's number. MONSIGNOR o o a n notes in report that nine cas es are still pending and should be settled in 1960. Monsignor Corcoran point ed out in his report that the World Refugee Year com mittee was formed on the Diocesan level and that the primary effort of this group has been to educate the pub lic to the need through the use of a speakers bureau, films, a newsletter and stor ies in the newspapers. has sentenced a priest to 15 years in prison on charg es of conspiring to over throw President Tito's com munist regime, according to information received here. REPORTS STATED that the priest, Father Rudi Jerak, O.F.M., was accused of organ izing illegal groups to work for the establishment of an in dependent Croatian slate. It was reported that 13 other de fendants drew prison terms. According to reports receiv ed here, the Yugoslav court said Father Jerak did the fol lowing: —Took advantage of Ills post as a priest and his resi dence it monasteries in Zadar and Zagreb to organize illegal groups. —Used his contacts wlHl youths as a teacher of religion to inflame them against the Yugoslav regime. ANOTHER REPORT receiv ed here stated that Yugoslav Reds were told they could have their children baptized and still remain communists. The report said, however, that communists must first make some attempt*to convert their families to atheism. It was disclosed that the ruling was laid down in Kommunist, of ficial communist organ. To Sheed and Ward CHICAGO —(NC)—Sheed and Ward, Inc., publishers, have been selected for the Thomas More Medal for "the most distinguished contribu tion to Catholic publishing in 1950." Constitutions" (a paper bound book intended for reserved use and, theoretically at least, still secret) would not become law until ratified by a decree of His Holiness Pope John XXIII, and then not un til some alterations had been made. The alterations were expected to be minor. Rati fication was not expected for a matter of months. The first victory of the synod was a personal one. Special efforts have been made to obtain sponsors for refugees during the year. Bishop Issenmann praised the work of the committee commenting that "Let us hope that the awareness of World Refugee year may help to support an even greater ef fort and increased results during 1960." Diocesan Bureau: OTHER MEMBERS of the Advisory Board are Father a e s K i e e y a e Michael Nugent, Charles Al len, Norman Altman, Jr., Mrs. William E. DuBrul, Judge John C. Duffy, Robert J. Gal lagher, John B. Hennessey, Attorney, Mrs. Anton J. Kel ler, Richard McCann, Francis B. 'Ryan, Dr. S. J. Telerski, and Mrs. R. Patrick West. THK ADVISORY O A His Holiness Pope John XXIII, by his words and by his man ner, firmly implanted in the minds of the priests and the people of Rome that he was their Bishop. As an individual, he endeared himself to them more than ever before. This too, it was believed, would gain for the acts of the synod quick acceptance and eventual effectiveness. Those areas of (Continued on Page being ca/ping, and to be spir itual without bfins at the same time sanctimonious. IT IS ONLY PROPER, I sup pose, in making reflections on the Catholic editor to take my own experience into account and, although all my con temporaries have their own little incidents of operation, I must perforce use my own for examples. A I E S -E I O a s an immediate hazard which in fact we never quite manage to resolve. To the priests, the priest-editor always seems to be something less than a priest to the editors, he al ways seems something less HE DECLARED that the Catholic conference has at tempted to be neutral in re gard to secular farm organ izations, but "complete neu trality can sometimes be come reprehensible'' Father Vizzard listed a num ber of issues on which the policies of the Catholic con ference and the Farm Bureau Add Six Members To Welfare Board SIX MEMBERS were added to the Advisory Board of the Catholic Welfare Bureau at the meeting held recently at the Fort Hayes Hotel. THEY ARE Father Clement X. Faistl, pastor of St. Dominic Church, Dr. William Bradley, Robert J. Farley, Treasurer, Preston Oil Co., Robert Freeh, Vice Presi dent Hanna Paint Company, Frank Orlos, Comptroller General Motors Ternstedt Di vision, Alois Thurn, Sr., butcher. members of the Bureau dis cuss questions of policy and practice and assist the staff of the Bureau with matters of public relations and financ ing. The six new Advisory Board members will serve un til January 1963. ACTION at the meeting January 28th included the ac knowledging of the allocation made by the United Com munity Council of S105,385 (Continued on Page 2) Two Dioceses Receive New Ordinaries WASHINGTON, (NO—Two Bishops in the United States were transferred to new di oceses in appointments an nounced today. Bishop Francis J. Schenk, bishop of Crookston, Minn., since 1945, has been named Bishop of Duluth. Bishop Laurence A. Glenn, Titular Bishop of Tuscamia and Administrator of the Di ocese of Duluth, has been named Bishop of Crookston. The transfer, made by His Holiness Pope John XXIII, were announced here by Arch bishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Apos tolic Delegate to the United States. than an editor. The priest ft preacher by profession arid yet a.« an editor he guards himself against "preaching." The editors of other journals who are not clerics are likely to think of him as a religious specialist and they are sur prised if he is professionally competent as an editor and religiously informed in the ology and philosophy. HE IS A MAN with his feet in two worlds, and while this may appear to be an awkward stance it is in some measure the true and effective pos ture for religious journalism. MOST PEOPLE are inclined (Continued on Page 2) Disagrees With Bureau: i Rural Life Leader Hits DES MOINES, Iowa A Catholic rural life official has expressed "deep distress" at recent policy statements of the American Farm Bureau Federation. FATHER JAMES Vizzard, S.J., acting executive direc tor of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, took exception to the federation's stand on such issues as dis tribution of farm surpluses in this country and abroad, unionization of farm work ers, and U.S. participation in mutual security programs. Father Vizzard's comments were contained in an editor ial appearing in the February issue of Catholic Rural Life, monthly publication of the Catholic conference. Tht Jesuit priest, who is also ed itor of the NCRLC monthly, said he takes full personal responsibility for the editor ial. He said he based his an alysis on policy statements appearing in the January is sue of Nation's Agriculture, official journal of the Amer ican Farm Bureau Federation. Federation are at odds. Among them are: So- called government "food stamp" plans under which U.S. farm surpluses would be distributed to the needy families in this coun try'. The Farm Bureau Fed eration opposes such pro grams. while the Catholic conference has repeatedly en dorsed them, he said. Programs for distribut- ing U.S. surplus food over seas. While the federation urges that this practice be terminated "as soon as the farm surplus situation will permit," the conference sup ports this form of overseas relief, he stated. Unionization of farm workers and establishment of compulsory collective bargjun (Continued on Page 2) Offer Masses For Parents Of Priests THE FATHERS of two Diocesan priests died this past week. They were Matthew W. Torer, father of Fr. Roland R. Torer, assistant pastor of Our Lady of Peace Parish, and Andrew Soltis. father of the Fr. John Soltis, pastor St. Matthew Parish, Gahan na. REQUIEM HIGH MASS was sung Wednesday at St. Ann Church in Cleveland for Mr. Torer who died Sunday at his home in Cleveland Heights. Burial was in Cal vary Cemetery, Cleveland. Father Soltis was the cele brant at the Requiem High Mass for his father which was sung Saturday at the Holy Name Cathedral, Steuben ville. Father Leo Benedetti was Deacon. Bishop John Mussio. Steubenville, gave the linal absolution. MR. SOLTIS died Tuesday, Jan. 26 in Steubenville at the age of 74. In addition to Father Soltis he is survived by two sisters and one bro ther. Burial was at Calvary Cem etery, Steubenville. 4 Nixon Hopes Religion Won't Be an Issue I A O N V i e President Richard M. Nixon said Her* that if he has his way religion will not be rais ed as an issue in the coming presidential campaign. H« told a press conference that if he is the Republican party's presidential nominee, he will not tolerate such a maneuver. He also said neith er the Republican nor Demo cratic party should pick a vice presidential nominee on the basis of religion, geography or other "ticket balancing de vices." "I share the views of the majority of Americans on this —there should not be a con sideration of religion for eith er office," the Vice President said. He added: "I am sure that this country has matur ed since 1928." That year the Catholicism of-Gov. Alfred E. Smith, of New York, the Democratic presidential nomi nee, became an issue in the campalf*