( North Carolina Catholic
Volume III
Nazareth, N. C., Friday, February 11, 1949
Number 20
SCAPEGOAT OF SOVIET VENOM
Ill- lip
Flanked by guards, Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary faces death
as his Godless judges fake charges in the Communist-dominated coun
try. The victim of intense questioning and strong drugs, His Emi
nence appears tense while the events of the “sickening sham” (ex
pression of U. S. State Department) move on to a death penalty.
Story of 1st Catholic U. S. Newspaper
Recounted; Gaston of New Bern, Cited
MILWAUKEE—The founder of the Catholic Press in the
United States, Bishop John England, is the appropriate subject
of a new biography, “John England, American Christopher,” by
Dorothy Fremont Grant to be published this month, Catholic
Press Month, by the Bruce Publishing Company.
Catholic Pamphlets Sell
More Than 13 Million
A Year, Says Survey
WASHINGTON. — American
Catholic pamphlets are selling at
the rate of more than 13,000,000 a
year according to statistics compil
ed and published in “The Index to
Catholic Pamphlets,” which has
been released here by Eugene P.
Willging, director of the library
at the Catholic University of
America.
The 'Paulist Press of New York
is the leading pamphlet publisher,
the report showed. In 1947 this
organization sold 3,638,806 pam
phlets at prices ranging from 5 to
25 cents.
Mr. Willging said that The
Queen’s Work of St Louis rank
ed second among the pamphlet
publishers and the Catholic In
formation Society of New York is
in third place.
The most effective distribution
of pamphlets was achieved by the
Buffalo Diocesan Pamphlet Socie
ty, which has established 315 pam
phlet racks in parishes and insti
tutions and in 1947 distributed
182,380 titles, with an estimated
distribution of 200,000 during 1948.
Mr. Willging said that in “The
Index of Catholic Pamphlets,” 847
titles are listed.
It is the duty of the State to
encourage morally and intellectu
ally sound young people to enter
the teaching profession. Better
teacher salaries are essential if the
State is to fulfill its duty in this
regard
“The United States Catholic
Miscellaney,”’ founded by Bishop
England of Charleston in 1832, was
the first real Catholic newspaper
in this country, according to the
book.
Thus, the first newspaper to be
primarily Catholic in content as
well as in sympathy was Bishop
England’s “Catholic Miscellaney,”
the book states.
Bishop England’s objectives for
the “Miscellaney” were, says the
author, “to publish fair and simple
statements of Catholic doctrine
from authentic documents, togeth
er with plain and correct views of
the grounds and consequences of
those doctrines, all'to be inoffen
sively exhibited’; the refutation of
calumnies; the examination of and
illustration of misrepresented facts
of history; biographies of eminent
ecclesiastics and others connected
with the Church; reviews of books
for and against Catholicity; and
events connected with religion in
all parts of the world.”
Starting with limited funds, pro
vided largely by a loan from Wil
liam Gaston of New Bern, North
Carolina, a graduate of George
town University and leading lay
man of Bishop England’s diocese,
the “Miscellaney” had a hard time
in establishing itself, the work re
counts. “As an infant publication,”
the author writes, ‘it twice suffer
ed a close call with death owing
to the neglect of those for whom
it had been created; but after re
covery from the second close call
it survived until 1861 when the
upheaval of war and an historic
fire suppressed it permanently.”
In 1859, more funds having been
raised, the “Miscellaney” resumed
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Cardinal Mindszenty Gets Life
In Prison; Press Curbed at Trial
Power, Truth, Holiness
Of God, Also Found In
His Church, Speaker
Says At Bayboro Rites
BAYBORO. — This Church is
God’s' abode, the temple of His
worship, the house of prayer. It
is a dwelling, which we have
come to dedicate today, the house
of the Lord in which He comes
to men and in which men can
come to Him. “Behold the taber
nacle of God with men, and He
will dwell with them,” said Fath
er Michael O’Kieffe in a sermon
delivered to a congregation of 150
who attended, assisted at the Mass
of Dedication of St. Rose’s Church,
Bayboro, February 6th.
Preaching before His Excellency,
The Most Rev. Vincent S. Waters
D. D., Bishop of Raleigh and a
number of visiting clergy who as
sembled for the dedication rites,
Father O’Kieffe paid tribute to
Father Jude McCauley, Pastor say
ing' “As we congratulate Father
Jude for the work he has so far
accomplished, as we pray for
GoS’s blessing on the work he has
yet to do, let us remember that
this is the work of God and no
man dare oppose it. The power
of God is in his Church and perse
cution cannot destroy it; the
truth of God is in His Church and
error and ignorance cannot prevent
it from prevailing; the holiness
of God is in his church and it will
reach out to touch the- souls of
’ men.”
“Today let our fervent prayer
be the prayer of Solomon, “Oh
God, may Thy eyes be open upon
this house, night and day, upon
the house of which thou hast said:
My name shall be there; that thou
mayest hearken to the prayer
which thy servant prayeth in this
place to thee . . . and hear them in
the place of thy dwelling . . . and
when thou hearest, show them
mercy.” (3 Kings 8:29-30).
Following the blessing of the
new ediface by the Most Rever
end Bishop, the Litany of the
Saints and the prescribed psalms
were chanted by the visiting cler
gy.
Assisting the pastor who was
celebrant of the Solemn High Mass
were two Passionist Fathers of St.
Joseph’s, New Bern, Fathers
Berchmans and Peter.
Clergy Represented
As Father Jude is a member of
the society of priests known as
the Missionary Fathers of the Most
Holy Trinity, he was pleased to
have as his guests for the occa
sion, three of his religious super
iors, The Very Rev. Thomas O’
Keefe, provincial; The Very Rev.
Patrick Moore, Rector of the
Seminary and the Rev. John B.
McCarthy, Mission treasurer. All
three Fathers reside at Silver
Springs, Md.
Priests of the Diocese who at
tended the Mass were, Fathers
JohiT Joseph Endler C. P. Wash
ington; Matthew Fogarty M. SS.
T., Maysville; Loyola O’Leary,
Farmville; Julian Endler C. P.,
New Bern and the Chancellor,
Father Francis K. O’Brien, of Ral
eigh. The Rev. Brother David M.
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Many American newspapers have appeared with headlines
such as “Cardinal Pleads Guilty,” or “Primate Admits Responsi
bility.” These headlines, while technically correct on the basis
of the dispatches filed in Budapest, have tended to create the
impression that the head of the Church in Hungary was “guilty”
or admitted responsibility for “criminal” acts, as that term is
commonly understood in all countries not under communist
I
Senate Splits Federal
School Aid; Benefits
Health of Students
WASHINGTON. — The Senate
Committee on Education and La
bor has decided to divide the mat
ter of Federal aid to the nation’s
school children into two separate
bills, one following the formula
of the Taft Bill passed by the Sen
ate last year and the other provid
ing for health aid to children in
parochial as well as public schools.
A subcommittee consisting of
Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois,
Lister Hill of Alabama, Robert
Taft of Ohio and H. Alexander
Smith of New Jersey has been ap
pointed to draw up the health aid
measure. Proposals to set the
amount of this aid at either 25 or
35 million dollars are before the
subcommittee.
The education bill, which is
sponsored this year by Chairman
Elbert Thomas of the Education
and Labor Committee and 13
other Senators, would allocate
300 million dollars annually, leav
ing the question of inclusion of
non-public schools to the individ
ual States.
Provides Welfare Services
The Senate committee has had
before it a measure introduced by
Senators Brien McMahon of Con
necticut and Edwin C. Johnson of
Colorado which would have pro
vided health and welfare services
to children in all schools as an in
tegral- part of a 325 million dollar
a year Federal aid to education
program.
Senator Thomas, it is reported,
said that his committee’s decision
to split the Federal school aid
question into two parts was reach
ed by a nearly unanimous voice
vote. The committee also is fac
ed with the problem of revising
the Taft-Hartley Act, and has
been holding day and night ses
sions in that regard
Meanwhile, in Miami, the Exe
cutive Council of the American
Federation of Labor reaffirmed
that organization’s stand in favor
of a generous federal aid to edu
cation program, with provision
for health and welfare aid to chil
dren in all schools.
Chilean Bishops Keep
Ban On Dances, Games
Of Chance, for Money
SANTIAGO, Chile. — The Com
mittee of the Chilean Bishops has
agreed at its monthly meeting here
to keep its ban on games of chance
and dances as a means of raising
funds for Catholic enterprises.
The committee also warned
Catholics that beauty contests,
pervert the concept of human dig- \
nity and open the doors to immo
rality, are opposed to modesty.”
It renewed its demand that mod
est clothes be worn in churches.
domination.
It will be a long time before all
of the facts in a trial which ended
with life imprisonment for the
Cardinal will be known.
These reports should be read ha
the light of the cynical commun
ist efforts to prevent a true and
factual report of what hashappen
ed, and in the light, also, of Card
inal Mindszenty’s caution, when he
had the opportunity to speak his
mind deliberately, that future
“confessions” were, in view of the
hazards of his situation, to be dis
counted as false.
An analysis of the “trial” of His
Eminence Josef Cardinal Mind
szenty, Archbishop of Esztergom
and Primate of Hungary, before a
“People’s Court” in Budapest pre
sents many puzzling aspects and
still leaves many questions unan
swered. But these basic facts em
erge clearly:
, Aim is to Discredit
The “guilt” of the Cardinal de
! rives solely from his opposition to
the communist regime.
The “trial,” with its “confes
| sions” and abject expressions of
| “regret,” bears all the earmarks of
totalitarian methods of "justice”
and at once recalls the farcical
Moscow “trials.”
The obvious aim of the com
munist regime, to discredit the
Cardinal in the eyes of his people
and of the world, has utterly fail
ed.
From the day of the Cardinal’s
arrest shortly after Christmas, no
body doubted that he would be
found “guilty.” The world was not
fooled by the charges and it has
not been fooled by the sensational
“revelations” during the “triaL”
The virtually unprecedented ,
proceedings in a dingy Budapest
courtroom, where the Cardinal
was “tried” on charges of treason,
espionage and violation of foreign
exchange regulations, were cov
ered by correspondents of Ameri
can news services. However, only
one of these correspondents is an
American citizen. The others are
Hungarian nationals, pledged
round by the inherent personal
dangers if their reporting is frank.
No Repudiation of Note
It is the Cardinal’s alleged repu
dation of this letter during the
trial which appears to mariy ob
servers as the clearest indication
that the Cardinal svho^aced 'his
“judges” was not the same person
as the Cardinal who is Hungary’s
spiritual shepherd.
According to Vienna reports, the
Cardinal wrote, shortly before his
arrest, a message addressed to the
Bishops on the back of a used en
velope. He told them (1) that he
had never participated in any con
spiracy, (2) that he would never
resign his high office, (3) that he
would never confess, and that any
“confessions” even if they bore his
signature would result from
“weakness of the flesh.”
It is in the light of such con
siderations that American newe
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