The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-04-18
Seminary Rector Came To
ST. Charles As Member
OF First Faculty There

The Rt. Rev. MSgr. Paul j.
Glenn, Ph.D., STD, completes 25
years as a member of the faculty
of st. Charles Seminary this Sat-
urday, April 10. The occasion will
be marked by Solemn Mass of
Thanksgiving in the seminary chap
ell Friday morning, April 25, and
by a testimonial dinner Sunday
evening, April 27.
Bishop Ready will preside at
the Mass. The entire student ros-
ter of the seminary and prepara-
tory school will attend. Priests of
the faculty will assist Monsignor
Glenn at the Mass.
All former members of the st.
Charles teaching staff have been
invited to the testimonial dinner,
which will be served in the semin-
ary dining hall. The Rev. George
WOLF, STD, vice rector, will speak.
MonSignor Glenn is famed as the
author of a set of textbooks in
philosophy and as an orator. He
has been professor of philosophy at
st. Charles since coming to Co
lumbus in 1927, and has been rec
= tor since August Is, 1945.
HOnored By Pope
A signal honor came to the st.
Charles Professor when Pope Plus
XII bestowed upon him the rank
of Domestic Prelate with the
title of Right Reverend Monsignor
in November, 1945.
Scottdale, Pennsylvania, was the
scene of Monsignor Glenn'S birth
in May, 1893. He was educated in
St. Johns parochial school there,
after which he went to st. Vincent
Preparatory school, Latrobe, Pa.
He entered college at st. Vincent's
in 1911 and completed his semin-
ary course there in 1919. He was
awarded the bachelor of arts de-
gree in 1915 and the master of arts
In 1917.
Ordained Dec. 81, 1918, by the
late Bishop J. F. Regis Canevin of
Pittsburgh, Monsignor Glenn re-
turned to st. Vincent's for post
graduate study in theology. He re-
ceived the doctorate in Sacred
Theology in 1922. A few years
later, after he had published his
first textbook in philosophy, he re-
ceived the Phi. D. degree from his
Alma Mater,
MonSignor Glenn served as as
sistant at st. Johns parish, Scott
dale, Pa, from January, 1919, to
July, 1920; at St. Mary's 46th St.,
Pittsburgh, from July, 1920, to
May, 1928, and at st. Catharine's,
Beechview, Pittsburgh, from May,
1923, until he went to Detroit in
July, 1923, to teach philosophy at
Sacred Heart seminary there. He
came to Columbus April 10, 1927,
and took up his work as member
of the faculty at the new st. Char
les diocesan seminary.
WrOte Texts
1t was in 1929 that Monsignor
Glenn's first textbook in philoso-
ply appeared. Published by B. Her.
der of st. Louis, it quickly won its
place among popular texts in the
field. Other books followed in
regular succession until the series
was completed in 1899. To this was
added another, Introduction to
Philosophy, published in 1914.
The books have run into many
editions and thousands of copies
have now become known in schools
and seminaries of the United
States, Canada, and England, as
well as in colleges as far away as
India and East Africa. In 1948 re-
quest came from the Catholic Uni
versity in Peiping, China, to trans
late two of Monsignor Glenn's works
into Chinese. Permission was read
lily granted.
Besides his Introduction to
Philosophy, Monsignor Glenn's
complete list of textbooks is as
follows: History of Philosophy,
1929; DiaIecticS, 1929; Ethics,
1890; ApoIogetics, 1881; Criter-
iology, 1888; Sociology, 1894; Psy-
choIogy, 1886; Ontology, 1897;
Theodicy, 1888, and Cosmology,