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. North Carolina Catholic Volume I. iN Pzareth, N.C., Sunday, January 19, 1947 Number 16 Father Joseph Callahan, only chaplain ever to win .the Congression al Medal of Honor, is shown here with his sister, Sister Rose Marie, a Maryknoll missionary serving in the Philippines. Father Calla han, now returned to civilian life, will speak before Catholic groups in North Carolina during Easter Week. Dates and places for the scheduled addresses will be announced later. Father Callahan.spoke last year at a meeting of the Catholic Men’s Club in Charlotte. Polish Elections Rigged for Reds State Department Says in Protest Washington—(NC)—With news from Poland leaving little or no doubt that the elections scheduled- for January 19 will be far from being as “free and unfettered as stipulated and promis ed in the Yalta and Potsdam agreements, the United States in a Bishop O'Hara Given Important Post In Bucharest, Rumania Vatican City. — (Radio, NC)— Bishop Gerald P. O’Hara of Sa vannah-Atlanta, has left Rome to assume the duties of Regent of the Apostolic Nunciature at Bucharest, Rumania. His appointment to that post by His Holiness Pope Pius XII has been announced here. In Bucharest, Bishop O’Hara will take over the duties which Archbishop Andrea Cassulo, Apos tolic Nuncio, relinquished when he was forced to withdraw because of reasons of health. With the exception of a recent few days visit to the United States, Bishop O’Hara has been in Rome since last May. He left this country with his secretary, the Rev. John C. Kirk, at a time v/hen unconfirmed reports stated he was in line to be named Regent of the Apostolic Delegation at Scutari, Albania. These reports dwindled to the doubtful class when later advices told of “strained relations” (Continued on page 7) strongly worded note to the War saw Provisional Government has declared that “the continuation of the present policy of suppression, coercion, and intimidation as ap plied to political opposition in Po land” violates the principle of the sanctity of international agree ments. The note, which was presented by U. S. Ambassador ^Arthur Bliss Lane, stated that the American Government “is especially per turbed by the increasingly fre quent reports of repressive meas (Continued on page 12) Protestants Protest Against Leaders Stand On Euthanasia Question New York.— (NC)— Dr. Harllee Bordeoux, general secretary of the American Council of Christian Churches, which includes 3,000 Protestant congregations in all sections of the United States, de clared in an interview here that he thoroughly endorsed .recent ly published statements of Catho lis priests and lay groups con (Continued on page 6) Love of God and Brotherhood of Man Only Basis for Peace, Says Cardinal * Cleveland.—(NC) — “I profess that only the love of God and the brotherhood of man can be the genesis, the basis and the soul of a sound, just and durable peace. To a wavering, death-sick world. America can offer a path of hope, a road to san t ity, a way to safety, pros perity and world peaces—for America stands before all na tions and peoples envious of none and fearing none, desirous of nothing from them save their re spect and cooperation in the re habilitation of mankind.” This was the message of His Eminence Francis Cardinal Spell / * man, Archbishop of New York, at the 21st annual institute of the Cleveland Council on World Af fairs here. Speaking at the con cluding session of the institute the Cardinal shared the platform be fore 12,000 people at Public Hall with retiring Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, and Mildred McAfee Horton, wartime commander of the WAVES and now president of Wellesley Col lege.' Cardinal Spellman told his au dience that tiie mission of the Church remains the same in (Continued on page 12) « Catholics All Over World Open Church Unity Octave Observance WASHINGTON —(NC)— Highlighting tiie annual observance of the Church Unity Octave here in the Nation’s Capital, a Celebration of the Divine Liturgy according to the Byzantine Romanian Rite by the only priest in the United States administering that Rite, will be offered in the^National ‘Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of the Catholic University of Arherica, on Sunday, January 19. The Most Reverend Vincent S. Waters, Bishop of the Diocese of Raleigh, was scheduled to open the observance in Washington with an address. The Church Unity Octave is a world-wide eight-day program of prayer for the intention of India's Caste System Disappearing, Bishop Visiting Rome Says ROME —>(NC)<— The movement for an independent India has brought about a crumbling of that nation’s once strict caste system, it was noted by Bishop James Mendonca of Trichinopoly, during a vist to the Eternal City. He disclosed that despite protests and admonitions of the clergy, the people once made a habit of ob serving the caste system even in the Catholic churches. He said they went to the Sacraments in order of caste precedent and occupied ■places in the churches in the same order. A marriage between per sons of different castes, he said, was a rarity. But as the movement for inde pendent India gained momentum, the caste system began to disap pear and now persons of low caste are welcomed even in Hindu tem ples, he said. 319 Catholic Books Published in 1946 Detroit Survey Shows Milwaukee.— (NC) — American book publishers got out 319 books tor Catholic readers during 1946, it is reported in the winter issue of Between the Lines, house organ of the Bruce Publishing Company. The information is based on a compilation made by Walter Rom ig, Detroit Catholic bookman. Mr. Romig’s study discloses that the books were put out by nearly 100 different publishers. The pub lishing houses leading in this work, according to Mr. Romig, were The Catholic University of America with 41 volumes to its credit, Bruce with 34, Thp New man Bookshop with 18 and Sheed and Ward with 17. The report places spiritual books at the top of the list with 51 volumes published. Biography was next with 49, and then came his tory with 38, belles lettres with 31 and fiction with 30. Benedictine Primate Dies in Eternal City Rome.— (NC)—Funeral services were held recently for the Rt. Rev. Fidelis von Stotzingen, Abbot Pri mate of the Benedictine Order throughout the world, who died hi Rome, comforted by the special Apostolic Blessing of His Holiness Pope Pius XII. Abbot Fidelis was head of the famed Maria Lach Abbey in the Rhineland at the time of his choice as Abbot Primate. the promised one fold and one Shepherd and is observed annually from January 18, the Feast of St. Peter’-s Chair at Rome, to January 25, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. Each year, the Celebra tion of Divine Liturgy according to an Oriental Rite attracts thousands from all parts of the East to the observance in the. Shrine in this city. Celebrant of the Divine Litur gy this year will be the Rev. George Babutiu of St. Helena’s parish in Cleveland, who also will deliver the sermon. The music will be sung by the choir of St. Josaphat’s Ukrainian Seminary in this city. Appropriately, the in tention of the day in the obser vance of the Octave will be “The Return of the Oriental Separa tists.” At services in the Shrine that evening, Bishop William R. Ar nold of the Military Ordinariate, will preside -and the principal speaker will be the Rev. Francis Moran, author and authority on the Oriental Rites. The observance in the Nation’s Capital is one of the outstanding of the Church Unity Octave cele brations in this country. New York, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Buffalo and Philadelphia and among other cities of the nation in which outstanding observances are held each year. United States Only Nation That Can Help Italy, Says De Gasperi WASHINGTON — (NC)— Des perately in need of outside help and looking to the United States as the dhe country which can give them that assistance, Italy is de termined to overcome its enormous postwar problems, Alcide de Gas peri, President of Italy’s Council of Ministers, declared during his visit here this week. "(Continued on page 6) Church Unity Octave Emphasized in Address On Eastern Rites NEW YORK —(NC)— Empha sizing the impending observance of the Church Unity Octave, eight day program of prayer from Janu ary 18 to 25 for the religious unity of all Christendom, the Rev. Alex ander Beaton, S. A., of Atonement Seminary, Washington, related “The Story of the Eastern Rites” last Sunday on the Catholic Hour radio program, which is produced by the National Council of Catho lic Men and carried in the Nation al Broadcasting Company network. (Continued on page 7) Veterans Program Not Complete, CWV Head Declares in New York New York.— (NC)—'While the existing^veterans program legisla tion is generous it by no means is a complete program, Max H. Sor enson, national commander of the Catholic War Veterans, declared here in a statement expressing disagreement with the views of President Truman as set forth in the chief executive’s state of the Union message to Congress. President Truman, in the perti nent passage, had stated: “Except for minor adjustments, I believe that our program of benefits for veterans is now complete,” and had character!zed 1 he $7,000,000, 000 outlay per year as “the most far-reaching and complete veter ans’ program ever conceived by any nation.” “We regret that we must disa gree with the President,” Mr. Sorenson commented, “and call upon the 80th Congress to ex tend continued consideration to the needs of veterans and their families. 80th Congress Gets Education Bill Proposing Funds for All Schools Washington.— (NC) — Among I the bills introduced in opening sessions of the 80th' Congress was a measure submitted by Rep. Rich ard Welch of California “to as sist in reducing the inequalities of educational opportunities in elementary and secondary schools” authorizing federal funds for both public and private schools. The Welch Bill authorizes an appropriation of $150,000,000 ini tially, rising to $250,000,000 in 1951 and in many features is sim ilar to the controversial Thomas Hill Taft Bill *-considered by the 79th Congress. It has been refer red to the House Committee on Education and Labor for public hearings. In comparing the Welch pro posal, H. R. 156, with the -Thomas Hill-Taft Bill, the following points of similarity stand out: 1) Federal control of the selec tion of teachers and of the school curriculum is explicitly prohibit ed. 2) The funds are- available only to the 33 States in need of federal assistance for the maintenance of minimum educational standards. 3) The formula for allocating the funds among the States corre lates child population, State-vhde (Continued on page 6)
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