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! QUESTION BOX
(By David Q. Liptak)
Q. My question is: Credulity
is surely no crime, but be
lief in the “angels” as ex
pounded in your column two
weeks ago (i.e., that the angels
are “created bodyless intelli
gences” and real persons like
ourselves, etc.) is degrading to
those who believe and to those
who promote belief. How could
you, an educated person, com
pose or print such an in
telligence-insulting article?
A. It is not clear from the
v above question whether cre
dence in the existence of an
gels is “intelligence-insulting”
or whether the objection refers
only to the specific challenged
column and/or the phraseology
used therein. Regardless, how
ever, the article was factual:
angels do exist; they can be des
cribed as “createdbodyless in
telligences,” and every angel
is really and truly a person
(i.e., an individual substance
of a rational nature). To de
fend the contrary of any one
of these propositions would do
violence to revelation or what
can be deduced therefrom.
WHICH PROMPTS a greater
question; namely, how can one
logically accept some portions
t of revealed truth and reject
or ignore others? If Christ
actually rose from death after
forty hours in the tomb—pre
cisely as he predicted he would
in proof of his Divinity—doesn’t
it follow that all the doctrines
(not just some) which Christ
left with us must be affirmed
in faith? Of course it does. And
“ Christ did rise from the dead,
thereby demonstrating beyond
the slightest doubt that he is
Post Office
Reports New
Convictions
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WASHINGTON, (NC) — The
Post Office Department, in a
report on activities between
February 3 and March 2, has
cited convictions of four men
in various parts of the country
on charges of violating postal
anti-obscenity laws.
The convictions were ob
tained against men in Haverhill,
Mass., Grand Haven, Mich.,
Fayetteville, N. C., and Cin
cinnati, the department said.
The Post Office also noted
that during the same time a man
was indicted on postal obscenity
charges in Pittsburg, Kan., and
two Fresno, Calif., men plead
ed not guilty in Grand Rapids,
Mich., to a 19 count obscenity
God.
YET CHRIST not only preach
ed about the angels (both ex
plicitly and implicitly) but about
Satan and the devils as well.
As he taught heaven, he taught
hell. For parables such as the
Prodigal Son and the Good Ghief,
there are those about Dives,
the Sower and the Seed, the Re
jected Wedding Guests, and so
on.
THE PRACTICE of sifting
out the “easy,” convenient or
allegedly "sophisticated” doc
trines from the whole of Chris
tian revelation, while, at the
same time, ignoring the others-
the “hard saying” (to borrow
St. John’s own phrase) and the
intellectually taxing dogmas
(the Eucharistic Presence, for
example, or the Mystery of the
Blessed Trinity) is, in the ulti
mate analysis, a from of eclect
icism totally inconsonant with
traditional Catholic doctrine.
COURAGE OF
ARCHBISHOP
PRAISED
NEW YORK, (NC) — A Pro
testant minister, praising the
“fortright courage” of Arch
bishop Joseph F. Rummel of
New Orleans for ending seg-
ragation in parochial schools
there, called on his congre
gation to pray for the southern
archdiocese.
The order integrating the pa
rochial schools in New Orleans
is slated to go into effect next
fall.
In a statement read from the
pulpit (April 1) of the Broadway
Congregational Church, the
Rev. Lawrence L. Durgin des
cribed the Archbishop’s act as
one of “foresight” as well as
courage.
“I am sure that you would
want me to’ join in the general
applause and expression of ap
preciation for this decision,”
the minister said. “Whatever
the considerations may have
been or may continue to be,
we are bound to be grateful for
this act of forthright courage.
“In the hard days ahead I
urge you to join your prayers
with their own for strength
and to beseech for them the
peace of God which a segre
gated society can neither give
nor take away.”
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New Bishop Of Kansas City-St Joseph
Service To Non-Catholics Is
Pledged By Bishop Helmsing
KANSAS CITY, Mo., (NC)
—The Most Rev. Charles H.
Helmsing pledged himself to
the service of non-Catholics
as well as Catholics as he
was enthroned here as Bishop
of the Kansas City-St. Joseph
diocese.
Joseph Cardinal Ritter,
Archbishop of St. Louis, offi
ciated as the enthroning pre
late at the afternoon services
in Immaculate Conception
cathedral, which was filled to
capacity.
Thirty-two archbishops and
bishops, four abbots, 57 pro
vincials of religious commun
ities and other high ranking
Church officials were pres
ent. Among the prelates was
Coadjutor Archbishop John
P. Cody of New Orleans,
whom Bishop Helmsing suc
ceeded as spiritual head of
HELENA, Mont.-The stunned
Diocese of Helena has paid
final tribute to its spirit
ual leader for the last 26 years
Bishop Joseph Michael Gilmore,
dead at age 69.
Funeral services with Solemn
Pontifical Mass of Requiem in
St. Helena’s cathedral tentative
ly were held April 11th.
Bishop Gilmore died(April 2)
of a heart attack in San Fran
cisco. He was stricken while
attending a dinner which hon
ored the Most Rev. Joseph T.
McCucken on the event of his
enthronement as Archbishop of
San Francisco.
The shock over the death of
Bishop Gilmore was compar
able to conditions which pre
vailed here on February 19,
1936 when he took over the reign
as fifth Bishop of Helena. At
that time the diocese was re
covering from the effect of a
devastating earthquake—a fact
mentioned by Amleto Cardinal
Cicognani, now Papal Secretary
of State but then Apostolic Dele
gate to the U. S., who offi
ciated at the consecration of
Bishop Gilmore.
The words spoken byCardi
nal Cicognani to the stunned
faithful on that February day
were recalled by some in the
shocked diocese today—“Tem
poral misfortune has united all
in the strong bond of charity,
and this bond will become even
stronger with the advent of
your new bishop.”
Bishop Gilmore a pioneer in
the work of the National Catho
lic Welfare Conference and
episcopal chairman of its Immi
gration Department at the time
of his death, was born in New
York City on March 23,1893.
He was a boy of five when his
Irish immigrant parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John J. Gilmore, mo
ved to Anaconda, Mont. The
future Bishop attended paroch
ial school in Anaconda and later
St. Joseph’s College(now Col
umbia College) Dubuque, Iowa.
After he was graduated from
college with high honors, he
went to Rome where he studied
at the Urban College. There he
received his doctorate in sac
red theology at the age of 22
and with a special dispensation
was ordained to the priesthood
the following year when 23.
Upon his return to the Uni
ted States in 1915 he began ser
vice in the Helena diocese as
a member of the faculty of Mount
St. Charles (now Carroll) Col
lege in Helena. In 1925 he was
assigned to parish work and in
1927 he was named Chancellor
of the diocese. He continued
in this office until December,
1935 when he was appointed to
succeed the Most Rev. Ralph
L. Hayes, now Bishop of Daven
port, Iowa as Bishop of Helena.
When Bishop Gilmore took
over as head of the Helena dio
cese, the Catholic population
the Kansas City-St. Joseph
diocese which has some 137,-
000 Catholics in a total popu
lation of 1,148,000.
Climax of the enthrone
ment rite came after the
reading of the papal bull of
appointment when Cardinal
Ritter led Bishop Helmsing
to the gospel side of the altar
and presented the Bishop
with the crozier, symbol of
authority.
Before offering Solemn
Pontifical Mass, Bishop
Helmsing preached a brief
sermon. He disclosed that the
crozier used in the ritual is
“a most precious gift” given
to him 13 years ago by Card
inal Ritter when Bishop
Helmsing was consecrated to
serve as Auxiliary Bishop of
St. Louis.
“It was donated by the peo-
was slightly more than 41,000.
Today the faithful number some
84,000 in a total population of
some 335,000 in the diocese.
Fr. O’Brien
(Continued from page 4)
me, invited me to their socials
and did everything to make me
feel at home. Once when the
service was longer than usual,
the Methodist pastor drove me
back to the academy and ex
plained to the authorities why
I was a little late.
“The Catholics neither
greeted me nor invited me to
any of their socials. I was
just a stranger to them, and
I never received a word of
welcome or even a ‘Hello.’
I felt frozen.
“Fortunately, I was able to
return to Notre Dame Academy
for my two last years and there
I took the advanced courses in
religion, getting A’s in them.
I read a number of Catholic
books, including Chesterton’s
‘Orthodoxy.’ I made the de
bating team and won third place
in the tournament. More im
portant, I began to pray and
said the rosary daily. That
brought me still closer to God
and the Church.
“It was clear from the Scrip
tures that Jesus, the Messias
and the Son of God, founded
a Church and conferred upon
it the power and authority of
teaching all nations in His name.
He appointed Peter the head
of His Church, saying: ‘Thou
art Peter, and upon this rock
I will build my Church, and
the gates of hell shall not pre
vail against it. And I will give
thee the keys of the kingdom
of heaven...I (Matt. 16:18-19).
The long line of pontiffs from
St. Peter to the present pope
constitutes the title deed of the
Catholic Church, giving it alone
the right and authority to teach
in Christ’s name. That title
deed clinched it for me. I was
received into Christ’s true
Church by Father Bernard Fla
nagan at St. Francis de Sales
Church in Sherman Oaks.”
(Father O’Brien will be glad
to have converts send their
names and addresses to him
at Notre Dame University, No
tre Dame, Indiana, so he may
write up their conversion sto
ries.)
MASS FOR SHUTINS
WASHINGTON—A“Mass for
Shut-ins” will be presented in
color on television station WRC
here on April 15.
Father William P. Anderson,
director of the Washington arch
diocese's Office of Radio and
Television, said he believes
the presentation will be the
first in this country of a Mass
on color television.
pie of St. Patrick’s parish I
here in Kansas City and was
officially presented to the
youthful Bishop John Joseph
Glennon on June 29, 1896 in
the ceremony that made him
coadjutor to Bishop John J.
Hogan, the first Bishop of St.
Joseph and the first Bishop
of Kansas Cit y,” Bishop
Helmsing said.
Authority and service were
the key words of Bishop
Helmsing’s sermon. The au
thority given by Christ to
His Church, Bishop Helmsing
said, was “given initially to
poor fishermen to teach,
govern, sanctify and save
precious souls” now is trans
mitted to their successors, the
Catholic Bishops of the
World.
“Above all I need not apol
ogize for this authority,”
Bishop Helmsing said. “The
Church at times is criticized
and condemned for being au
thoritarian. That charge I
deny categorically if by au
thoritarian is mean dictatori
al. Indeed, unless we admit
as Sacred Scripture so clear
ly teaches that ‘all authority
is from God,’ the only al
ternative to the loving rule of
authority is the type of dic
tatorship that has enslaved
all who deny God, or whom
in practice exclude Him from
their daily earthly affairs.
“No, we need not apolo
gize for authority or for
claiming to inherit authority
from the Apostles in pursu
ing the spiritual welfare of
mankind,” Bishop Helmsing
continued. “The great sin of
our age, we can repeat with
Pope Benedict XV of blessed
memory, has been and is the
rejection of authority in all
spheres of life: in the fam
ily, in the state and in the
Church.”
Bishop Helmsing said it “is
my fervent prayer” that “I
may be of some little service
to every soul in the confines
of the Diocese of Kansas
City-St. Joseph, Catholic and
non-Catholic alike, the laity,
the Religious and especially
our devoted priests.”
The Bishop said it was to
“this end” that he offered the
Solemn Pontifical Mass of the
ceremony. He told his people
that as “you unite yourself
with me as the minister of
Christ’s priesthood” and offer
the Mass “may we all realize
that one with Christ and His
Mother, we are slaves of love,
in our families, in our par
ishes and schools, our insti
tutions and organizations, as
well as in our personal lives.”
“May this oneness with
Jesus make us instruments
of charity,” Bishop Helmsing
said, “helping others con
stantly to help others.”
“Great Day
For
Christians”
KANSAS CITY, Mo.,
(NC)—An Episcopal bish
op saluted the enthrone
ment of Catholic Bishop
Charles H. Helmsing of
Kansas City-St. Joseph as
“a great and happy day”
for all Christians in this
area.
Bishop Edward R.
Welles of the West Mis
souri diocese of the Epis
copal church, in a letter
to Bishop Helmsing,
wrote “In view of the gra
cious leadership of Pope
John coupled with the
deep desire of more and
more of us to forward the
growth of charity and bro
therhood among Chris
tians leading in God’s own
time to the reunion of all
His children, I write to as
sure you that on the day
of your enthronement you
will be especially in my
personal prayers.”
Bishop Welles said
“your cathedral and mine,
both built in the last cen
tury, are separated by
only one city block.” The
Episcopalian churchman
said that during his 12
years here a number of
buildings had been torn
down “so that the two
cathedrals seem closer
than they were.”
“I pray that this may be
an omen of the growing
closeness of us all who
seek to serve the God and
Father of our Lord, Jesus
Christ,” Bishop Welles
wrote.
In reply Bishop Helm
sing wrote Bishop Welles
“I will always cherish
your message” and even
more than the message “I
cherish your prayers for
me as I assume the
weig h t y responsibilities
placed upon me by the
Vicar of Christ, Pope
John.” The Catholic pre
late said: “Your senti
ments of deep piety and
fraternal charity so evi
dently founded on our
faith in our Lord Jesus
Christ bids me reciprocate
your prayerful good wish
es.”
STUDENT MASS
LISBON-Eight priests distri
buted Holy Communion to 2,000
students from Lisbon Universi
ty at a special Mass in St. Roch
church here offered by the head
of Portugal’s Catholic Action
organization, Auxiliary Bishop
Jose da Silva of Lisbon.
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