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The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23

BISHOPS OFFICE
98 East Broad Street
Columbus is, Ohio
November 81, 1851


TO the Reverend Clergy, Diocesan and Regular
To the Members of the Religious Communities
And to the Faithful of the Diocese of Columbus.
4 My beloved Brethren:
nuay all the parishes of the Diocese of Columbus for
worthy
BY Clergy people pay day the
Holy Father The offerings taken the first Sunday
year possible Bishop Holiness gener
une and devoted loyalty the Church Columbus
Christ These offerings enable the Faithful of the Diocese assist
the Holy Father in the many and varied works charity of the Holy
See
The second purpose the special collection is the support of
the Catholic University of America Washington Only history will
record the invaluable contribution of the University the works
the Church in this country Leaders part of the United
States-Pre Religious Laymen-have special
training the Catholic University strength vitality of the
in large from the University which should be the pride
and joy of all American Catholics Our annual contribution for the
University should reflect appreciation this great ns
Accordingly the annual collection for the Holy Father and the
Catholic University of America will be taken in all the churches and
Diocese the First Sunday Advent December End
Furthermore take this opportunity faithful parcipa
ton in the spirit of Advent It is time of penitena preparation
for the great Feast commemora the Birth of Our Divine Saviour
Jesus Christ
Unfortunately the the Nativity popuary regarded
worldly holiday rather than essential Christian hday
significance greedy spirit
of commesm Its sacred character has been destroyed by silly
sentimentasm.
urge people celebrate Advent and
Christmas according the mind of the Church and the tad
ons of all worthy Christians is high time that we do all we can
to defate sacrlegous holy
beyond all bounds in its appeal make this time of exrava
giant xhibonsm The meaning OF Christmas has been lost sight OF
commercial interests profit from the religious
Importance of fundamental Christian belief Even the name
binge mdNovember and continues unabad until the
anniversary of Saviou birth Every seulariSt device
identify the hoydays with practices And good
Christians make the whole thing possible by patronng
their the Divinity of Jesus Christ
Christians rejoice Chsts Birth by and and
appropriate gifts which the family and
spirit peace Christmas be observed by
worship HolsMa Let Christ give
peace and to all love in the reception of His in
Christ in Christmas and then estab
peace lives and families and all men,
Mary bring all the particular blessings
of the Holy Advent Season and the enduring OF Christmas
With my blessing
Devotedy in Christ,
MICHAEL J. READY
Bishop of Columbus
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
Bishop Blesses
Cornerstone OF
Hospital Wing

The work of organized Christian
charity in the Columbus Diocese
took another stride forward We'd
nesday when Bishop Ready offici-
ated at the blessing and laying of
the cornerstone for the new four
story wing under construction at
Mercy hospital, Mt. Vernon.
Also taking part in the cere-
monies were the Rev. Hubert A..
Rubeck, pastor of st. Luke's
Church, DanvilIe, and the Rev.
Robert ]. Schuer, chaplain of the
hospital, who served as chaplains
to the Bishop; the Rev. Eugene F.
Dunn, pastor of st. Vincent de Paul
Church, Mt. Vernon. deacon; the
Very Rev. Harold O'Donnell, as
sistant chancellor of the diocese,
sub-deacon; and the Right Rev.
Msgr. Roland T. Winel, secretary
to the Bishop, master of ceremon-
les.
Members of the hospital staff,
including physicians, nurses, aides,
and the Sisters of Charity of Naz-
areth who conduct the institution,
also took part. Sister Catherine
Mary is superior of the hospital.
Placed in the cornerstone were
a history of the hospital, pictures
of the Pope and of the Bishop, a
description of the Bishops coat
of-arms, a medal of Our Lady of
Mercy (patron of the hospitaD, a
Holy Year medal and prayer,
picture of the original hospital
building, the first issue (Oct. 5,
1851 of The Catholic Times and a
current issue, current issue Of the
Mt. Vernon Nelos, lists of staff doc
tors, nurses, and sisters, and cur
rent coins.
The new unit marks the third
phase of the hospitals $1,500,000
postwar expansion program. 1t
will more than double the present
capacity of the hospital, raising the
total number of beds from II to
144.
The new wing also will include
administration offices, doctors
staff room and library, record
room, employees cafeteria, nurses
lounge, clinical laboratory, and
X-ray facilities. The Sisters con-
vent will be on the fourth floor.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
Student Choir
To Be Heard
At Convention

Two distinguished music direc-
tors will take leading roles in the
convention of the Ohio Unit of the
National Catholic Music Education
Association to be held in Columbus
Nov. % and 30 and Dec. /.
They are the Rev. F. Thomas
Gallen of the faculty of st. Charles
Seminary, Columbus, who will be
the organist, and Prof. John Feb
ring. of the faculty Of Mt. st. Mary
Seminary, Cincinnati, who will di-
rect the 700-voice choir that will
sing for the Pontifical Mass open
ing the convention.
Bishop Ready will pontificate at
the Mass in ST. Joseph Cathedral,
Friday, Nov. 80 at 9 a. m. Sew
enth and eighth grade students
from the Columbus parochial
schools will form the large choir
for the occasion. They will sing
the Ordinary of the Mass. The
Propers will be sung by the st.
Charles Seminary choir.
The Very Rev. James ]. McLar-
ney, 0.P., of st. Joseph Priory,
Somerset, will preach the sermon.
This will not be the first time
Father Gallen and Professor Feb
ring have collaborated. Mr.. Feb
ring has been the professor of
church music at Mt. st. Mary Sem
mary, Cincinnati, for many years.
Father Gallen completed his
studies for the priesthood at this
institution and was the organist
during his student days.
NCMEA speakers include: Rev.
Walter Rees of the Josephinum
College; Rev. Thomas J. Quigley,
superintendent of schools in the
Pittsburgh Diocese; Rev. Robert
Harwick, principal of Rosecrans
high school, GAINESVILLE; Rev. Jul
ian Schaefer, pastor of st. Mary's
church, Lancaster; and Rev. Ron
aid Reagan, assistant principal of
Ursuline high school, Youngstown.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
Bishop Will Open
School Fund Drive
AT Mount Vernon

MT. VERNON - Bishop Ready
has accepted the honorary chair
manship of the st. Vincent de Paul
school building fund campaign, the
Rev. Eugene F. Dunn, pastor of
st. Vincent's Church, has announc-
ed.
The Bishop also will give the
principal address at the opening
campaign meeting Sunday after
noon, Dec. Is.
The Rev. Joseph F. Jerabeck,
assistant pastor, has been named
treasurer of the campaign.
other appointments announced
by Father Dunn include the gener-
al chairman, Robert ]. Hall, and
eight vice-chairmen: O. c. Adel-
man, John Collins, w. E. Edgeli,
Robert L. Lee, Paul v. McDon-
ough, Howard Niggles, Charles v.
Schlairet, and James w. Tighe, Sr.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
Drive To Raise
Funds Starts at
Washington C.. Fl.

WASHINGTON c. H.-A nd
raising campaign will get Under
way at St. Colman's church here
Sunday, Dec 2, the Rev. Otto F.
Guenther, pastor, has announced.
The kickoff meeting of the COM
mittee will be held in the after
noon, and the solicitation will be-
gin in the evening.
The campaign is expected to pro-
vide funds for a proposed addition
to the church. The goal of the
drive is $4,000.
Badly needed seating capacity
will be provided by the new addi-
ton to the present church. Four
ample rooms for catechetical in
struction, large hall for plays, So
cial gatherings and parish meetings
will also be a part of the contem-
plated construction.
Assisting Father Guenther. hon.
orary chairman, are Edward Cum
ningham, chairman; Edwin Ducey,
vice Chairman; DR.. Robert Hagerty,
Robert Helfrieh, Andrew Loudner,
John O'Connor, Walter 0'Brien,
Joseph Peters and Harold Schlue.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
Ohio Stations to Garry LIST
Catholic TV Network Program
National Council of Catholic Men Sponsors Coastto-
Coast Telecast, Sunday, December 2 Over 45 Stations

The first coast-to-coast Catholic
television program in U. S. history
will be broadcast from New York,
Sunday, December 2, and will be
carried 'live" by at least two Ohio
stations. It will be under the spon-
-sorship of the National Council OF
Catholic Men.
A total of As stationS-virtually
all the outlets in the big National
Broadcasting chain-will carry the
half-hour program. Twenty-seven
of them will take the program
''live', and 18 will broadcast a
Kinescope film recording the fol-
lowing Sunday.
WLW-C, Channel 3, of Colum-
bus, will carry the program 'live"
at / p. m. Sunday, December 2. At
least two other Ohio stations,
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23

trict of the Asian sub-continent.
They are the Rev. James w. Cox
of Columbus, who is to be ordain.
ed Dee. 3, and the Rev. Daniel T.
Rice of Glouster, who was sched-
uled to be ordained Nov. 81.
Bishop Ready will celebrate
Mass in st. Joseph's cathedral at 10
o'clock on Sunday, Dec. 2, for the
parents and other relatives and
friends of the Rev. Mr.. Cox. His
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James w.
Cox, live at $50 East Broad street.
A former member of st. Peters
parish, Canton, he attended st. Pet
er's parochial school and st. John S
high school there. He entered the
Society of Jesus in 1888, and after
his novitiate at Milford and philos-
ophy studies at West Baden Col
lege, Indiana, left for India in 1945.
He will be ordained at DeNobili
college, Poona.
Father Rice is the son of Mrs.
Catherine Rice of Holy parish,
Glouster, which formerly was in
the Columbus Diocese but now is
in the Steubenville Diocese.
The Rev. Albert v. KessIer, pas
tor of Corpus Christi Church, CO.
lumbus, who was pastor at Glous-
ter when young Daniel Rice at
tended parochial school there, was
scheduled to celebrate solemn
Mass at Holy Cross Church Thanks
giving morning for relatives of the
newly ordained priest.
At Father Kessler's suggestion,
Father Rice went to st. Charles
preparatory school, Columbus.
After two years of college work at
John Carroll University, Cleveland,
he entered the Milford novitiate of
the Society of Jesus in 1899 and
went from there to West Baden col
lege for philosophy.
His ordination was to take place
at st. Mary's college, Kurseong,
India.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
Bishop Ready To Invest
Two Carmelites Saturday

Bishop Ready will give the habit
of Discalced Carmelite nuns to two
young women of the Diocese Sat
urday, Nov. "a, at the Carmel of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Columbus. They are Miss Suzanne
Bartruss of st. Mary's parish,
Portsmouth, and Miss Margaret
Carroll of st. John Evangelist
parish, Columbus.
The Bishop will celebrate Mass
at $50 at the Carmel on Satur'
day, which is the Feast of ST. John
of the Cross, co-founder with st
Teresa of Avila of the reform OF
Carmel.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
Holy Name Contention States
address by NCCM Official

will open the meeting at 9 a. m.
when he celebrates Pontifical Mass
in St. Joseph's Cathedral. He also
is scheduled to speak at the ban
quet.
A native of California, Mr.. Work
was graduated from Loyola Univer-
sity, Los Angeles, in 1887, and lat
er received a graduate degree from
the University Of Southern Cali
fornia.
Mr.. Work first began his profes-
sional career as a member of the
faculty of Loyola University and
then became associated with sew
eral of the national radio networks
in capacity of writer and producer.
His first association with NCCM
was in 1941 when he produced the
unusual radio series entitled, "The
Living God"
During the war years he served
as program consultant for the Ma
tional Catholic Community Service;
special consultant to the Secretary
of War and finally in uniform as a
Major in the US. Army, and Com
manding officer of the Armed
Forces Radio Services.
After the war Mr.. Work joined
the advertising agency of Young
and Rubicam; and Immediately be-
fore returning to Washington to
become the program director of the
NCCS he was the advertising Sales
Manager for a national manufac-
turing company.
Mr.. Work was born in 1915; is
married and has one child - a
daughter.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
Name Bishop Ready Chairman
Of Motion Picture Committee

Bishop Ready was named chair
man of the Committee on Motion
Pictures at the annual meeting of
the Bishops of the u. S. in Wash
ington last week. He succeeds Aux
iliary Bishop Raymond A. Kearney
of Brooklyn.
His Excellency has been Esipco-
pal Chairman of the Press Depart
ment for five consecutive one-year
terms and was ineligible for re-
election. His post is taken by Bish-
op Thomas X. German of Reno who
had been serving as assistant chair
man.
The committee on motion pic
lures was set up in 1888 to bring
about an Improvement in the quail
ity of motion pictures. 1t directs
the National Legion of Decency.
Foreign films Jared worse than
Hollywood productions in the Le-
gion of Decency's ratings last year,
according to the report ef the Bish-
ops Committee on Motion Pictures,
made public last week.
The committee also made it clear
that morally bad pictures contrib
ute material aid to anti-Christian
and anti-American forces, and that
such movies are a substantial fac
tor in the breakdown of public and
private morality.
The report disclosed that of 356
feature length American pictures
reviewed last year by the Legion of
Decency, only 1876, or 81 percent,
were classed as morally unoEjec-
tionable for general patronage.
Another 162, or A percent, we're
caassed as suitable for adults, and
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
TODedicate
St. Charles
Gymnasium
Bishop Will Bless Enlarged
Physical Education
Department Nov. 30

Bishop Ready will bless the new
gymnasium at St. Charles seminary
and preparatory school, Columbus,
Friday, Nov. 80, at 7:45 p. m. Cath
olic youth leaders and civic Off
cials will take part in the cere-
monies opening the expanded
physical education department, and
the gym will see action immediate
ly after, when st. Charles and St.
Mary's high school basketball
teams put it to the test.
Guests at the event will include
the Right Rev. Edmund A. Burk-
ley, pastor of st. Mary's Parish, Co
lumbus; Mayor William A. Schnei-
der of BexIey; Mayor James A.
Rhodes of Columbus, and H. E.
Emswiler, Ohio High School Ath-
letic Commissioner.
A message of greeting from the
Right Rev. Msgr. Paul ]. Glenn,
STD, rector of st. Charles, will
be read, and Louis Casteusrin,
president of the st. Charles Stu
dent Council, will deliver an ad-
dress of welcome.
Expressions of appreciation will
be given by the Rev. Edward F..
Spiers, Ph.D., Director of Athletics
at st. Charles and Chairman of
Athletics, Catholic High School
Conference, Diocese of Columbus;
the Rev. Vincent Mooney, Youth
Director, Catholic Youth 0rganiza-
tons, Diocese of Columbus; and
the Rev. Richard Dodd, Director
of Athletics, Catholic Elementary
Schools, Diocese of Columbus.
Castellarin will introduce the
players to the Bishop and guests,
and Bishop Ready will toss the bas-
ketbaIl to st. Charles Capt. Rich
ard DeShetler to begin play.
The gymnasium will provide en-
larged facIlltleS Tor lnter-parocnIaI
basketball games and CYO con-
tests. It's seating capacity of 1900
is more than double the former
gyms. In addition to the main
court measuring 48 by 80 feet, two
cross courts may be used, each
measuring 81 by IS feet.
The building also houses increas-
ed locker and shower facilities,
lobbies, and rest rooms.
The 25th annual reunion of the
st. Charles Alumni Association
will take place Friday, Nov. 80, in
conjunction with the dedication of
the new gym.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
Requiem Sung for Father
OF Rev. John ID. Grabowski

Requiem Mass was sung Monday
in st. Florian's Church, Ham
tramck, Mich, for Joseph Grabow-
ski, father of the Rev. John D..
Grabowski, u. S. Navy chaplain
and former assistant pastor of I'm
maculate Conception church, Den
nison.
Burial took place Tuesday at St.
Ladislaus Cemetery, Natrona, Pa.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
US. Bishops Warn OF Materalism, Moral Decay
Bishop Asks Return
To Christian Aduent

Bishop Ready this week appeal
ed to the people of the Columbus
Diocese to celebrate Advent and
Christmas according to the mind of
the Church and the pious tradi-
tions of all worthy Christians in
= letter announcing the annual
collection of the First Sunda of
Advent for the Holy Father and
for the Catholic University of
America.
The Bishop pointed out that Ad-
vent which begins Dec. 2, is "a
time of penitential preparation for
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23

tie great Feast commemorating
the Birth of our Divine Saviour, Je-
sus Christ"
Unfortunately" he went on,
"the Feast of the Nativity is pop
ularly regarded as mere worldly
holiday rather than an essential
Christian holydsy. The true sig
nificance of the Feast has been
lost in a greedy spirit of CONNER
cialism. Its sacred character has
been destroyed by a silly senti-
mentalism."
The text of the letter follows:
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
3 Bishops, II Foreign
Missionaries jailed

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS po-
lice are holding three Bishops and
II foreign-born missionaries in the
jails of Tsingtao, China, it has now
been learned here. Six Chinese
priests are also sharing the bleak
ness of Red prisons there with their
foreign co-workers.
All other foreign priests and
Sisters were placed under house
arrest in Tsingtao during a weeks
concentrated campaign to separate
the Catholic Church from Rome,
which lasted November 2 to 10.
Not one of the priests or Sisters
had been heard from since their
arrest.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
Diocese to Air TV Series

A series of religious telecasts
under the auspices of the Dio-
cese of Columbus will be pre-
sented from WBNS-TV begin
ming Sunday, Dec. 9 and con-
tinuing each Sunday from 2;3O
until 8 p. m, throughout the
month.
The programs will be built
around the central theme of the
coming of Christ and the effect
of this event upon the world.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23

Delegates to the Diocesan Holy
Name convention to be held in Co
lumbus Saturday, Dec. / will hear
an address by one of the nations
leading Catholic laymen, Martin H.
Work, executive secretary of the
National Council of Catholic Men.
Mr.. Work will speak at the banquet
in the Virginia hotel closing the
one-day conference. Bishop Ready
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23

The clergyman, the educator,
the doctor, the politician, the en-
ployer, the employee, husbands,
wives and children are alike strict
ly bound" says the Bishops State
ment Issued after their annual
meeting here, the document is en-
titled Gods Law: The Measure of
Mans Conduct"
Drawing parallel between our
times and the conditions of the
Roman Empire 1,500 years ago
''barbarism on the outside, refined
materialism and moral decay with
in"-the Bishops ask: Does our
conduct reflect the sobriety of citi-
zens who are conscious that bell
may be tolling for them and for
civilization"
We have sent our young men on
military expeditions to far-off lands
so that justice and freedom may
be kept alive in the world; and
yet at home we have become care
less about the foundations of jus
tice and the root Of freedom. It
cannot 60 well with us If we con-
tinue on this course"
Again and again the Bishops
stress the fact that there is only
one moral law and that all human
rights and obligations are mean
ingless unless they have their
source in Gods law. That "singIe
standard" they say, "applies to
every conceivable situation in
life" They warn against the false
notion that there are "two stand
ards of morality notion which
etempts man to live his life on two
/ levels" and theguiIes him into
thinking that this can be done
without any compromise of moral
principles"
The Bishops are particularly out
spoken in applying this single STAN
dard of morality to the field of
politics. Speaking about the "scan-
dalous anomaly, evident at times
IL our national life, of pay rs lip
service to God while failing COM
pletely to honor His claims in daily
! life" the Statement declares:
"One and the same standard COW
ers stealing from the cash register
and dishonest gain from public Of
flee One and the same stand
ard prohibits false statements
about private individuals and false
statements about members of mi
nority groups and races"
''In politics." the Bishops state,
''the principle that anything goes
simply because people are tn uFht
not to expect any high sense of
honor in politicians is grossly
wrong. We have to recover that
sense of personal obligation on the
part of the voter and that sense
of public trust on the part of the
elected official which give mean
ing and dignity to political life"
Those who are selected for pub
lie office, the Bishops emphasize.
are bound, in their speech and in
their actions, 'by the same laws of
/ justice and charity which bind pri-
vate individuals in every other
sphere of human activity"
Dishonesty, SANDER, detraction
and defamation of character" they
add, "are as truly transgressions
of Gods commandments when re-
sorted to by men in political life
as they are for all other men,"
The Bishops Statement draws
sharp contrast between the life of
those who conform to the will of
God, as expressed in the moral
law, 'only when it serves their
selfish purpose" and an Integral
ed" life patterned after a "single
standard of morality"
"Such life" the statement says,
Continued on Page p
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
India Missions
Claim Local
Jesuit Priests

Two you n 6
Jesuits who left
Ohio in 1945
and sailed to-
gether to India
on a freighter
h a v e reached
their common
goal of Holy Or
ders and are
about to begin
their careers as
missionaries in
the Patna dis
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
Complete Text

The complete text of the
statement issued by the Car
dinals, Archbishops, and Bish-
ops of the U. S. at the close of
their annual meeting in Wash
ington last week is printed on
page 10 of this issue.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23

Sc, or Is per cent, received the
Legion's 'B' rating-morally OBJ
jectionable in part. Only one was
condemned.
Among the II foreign films re-
viewed in the same period, 13, or
II percent, were condemned, and
19, or Is percent, were classed
as morally Objectionable in part.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-11-23
Call Moral Law Only Guide
of Public and Private Action
See Parallel Between Present Conditions
And Rome 1900 Years Ago

WASHNGTONNC)-The have voiced clear
call for the recognition Of the moral Law the
reliable guide for human actions in private and public
In their Statement by Administrative board of
the National Catholic Welfare Conference behalf
the United States the American people serny
there only standard of morality Goods
no time is man excused from obeying the law.