The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1951-12-28
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Deanery; and John w. Kerrigan,
Pastor of Sacred Heart Church,
Coshocton, and Dean of the North
ern Deanery.
Named Papal Chamberlains were
the Very Rev. Monsignori Harry S.
Connolly, Pastor of st. Joseph Ca
thedral, and Harold O'Donnell, AS
Sistant Chancellor of the Diocese.
To the Rev. George A. Fulcher,
now Assistant Pastor of the Ca
thedral, the Angelicum University
in Rome awarded the degree of
Doctor of Sacred Theology at the
completion of his studies there in
October.
In August the Capuchin Fathers
retired from two parishes of the
Diocese - st. Paul's, Westerville,
and Sacred Heart, New Phila-
delphia. Their house at st. Jo-
seph's, Dover, became a monastery,
having the required complement
of priests necessary for full OBJ
servance of the Capuchin rule.
In October a priest of the st.
Cloud (Minn.) Diocese came to CO.
lumbus to take over his duties as
chaplain at the Lockbourne Air
Force base. The Rev. Ut) Frank
H. Elmer reported that an estimat-
ed Is percent of the bases 1000
men were Catholics.
Throughout the year there were
many additions and improvements
in the physical structures of the
parishes In the Diocese, including
a new church and a new chapel,
two new schools, a new convent,
four rectories Zone of them new,
and a number of building prof.
ects begun or planned.
The new st. Peters Church, Chill
licothe, was dedicated by Bishop
Ready April Is. 1t replaced the
102-year-old building destroyed by
fire in 1947. The Bishop also bless
ed the new chapel of Holy Spirit
parish, Columbus, on April 8.
Work was begun early in the
year on the new Church of Corpus
Christi, Columbus, which will re-
place the crypt built in 1892.
Bishop Ready dedicated the new
Christ the King School, Columbus,
May 27, and laid the cornerstone
of the projected Our Lady of Peace
School, Columbus, June "a.
In the summer, construction was
begun on the proposed Notre Dame
Catholic high school at Portsmouth.
The new 16-room rectory of st.
Aloysius' Church, Columbus, was
begun in April, and at West Ports
mouth parishioners of Our Lady of
Sorrows Church purchased z
room house adjacent to the church
for rectory.
Seven-room houses also were
converted into rectories at st.
Francis de Sales Church, New
comerstown, and st. Monica's, New
Boston.
On April 30 Bishsop Ready bless
ed the new convent of the Sisters
of Mercy who teach at Holy Fam
lily schools, Columbus, and on Oct.
6, he performed the same service
at the new convent Of Our Lady of
Peace, Columbus.
The enlarged physical education
department at ST. Charles Semi
nary and Preparatory School was
dedicated at the opening of the
basketball season on Nov. 30.
Meanwhile at least three church
es announced plans for expanding
and improving their parish build
ings. They were ST. CoIman's,
Washington Court House: st. Vim
cent de Paul's, Mt. Vernon, and st.
Mary's, Lancaster.
One of the most remarkable de,
velopments of 1851 in the Colum.
bus Diocese was the $4,000, 900 hos.
pital expansion program affecting
seven institutions.
In May the Bishop blessed a new
6-story wing at Mercy Hospital,
Portsmouth, that doubled the inSti.
tutlon's capacity.
On Nov. ! he blessed the new
department of physical medicine at
Mt. Carmel Hospital, Columbus
representing the completion of .
floor in the new eight.story wing
under construction there.
In the same month he blessed
the cornerstone of a new four.story
wing at Mercy Hospital, Mt. Yer.
non.
New construction at st. AIMS
Hospital, Columbus, expected To
double its capacity, is nearly com
pleted.
An adjacent building formerly
occupied by the Carmelite Sisters
was added to st. Rita's Home for
the Aged and Infirm.
Also announced in the past year
were the proposed construction OF
Sl,600,000 wing at Good Samari-
tan Hospital, GAINESVILLE. and of two
new wings at St. Anthony's, Co
lumbuS.