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Supreme Court’s anti-prayer
decision and urged a constitu
tional amendment to permit re
citation of prayer in public
schools. The 1962-63 Catholic
Press Association Directory
reported U.S. Catholic news
papers at an all-time circula
tion high of 5,305,212. Anthony
J. Celebrezze, former Mayor of
Cleveland, took office as U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare, the 17th Catholic
to hold a presidential cabinet
post.
Consecrated were: Bishop
Sylvester W. Treinen of Boise,
Idaho, in Bismark, N.D.; Aux
iliary Bishops Thomas A. Mur
phy of Baltimore, Warren L.
Boudreaux of Lafayette, La.,
and Vincent J. Bladwin of Rock
ville Centre, N. Y., and Bishop
William E. Kupfer of Taichung,
Formosa, in Maryknoll, N.Y
Appointed were: Msgr. Ray
mond G. Hunthausen, president
of Carroll College, Helena,
Mont., as Bishop of Helena,
and Father Jose Esau Robles,
Montezuma (N.M.) Seminary al
umnus, Bishop of Tulancingo,
Mexico. Death claimed: Gio
vanni Cardinal Panico, 67, of
the Vatican administrative
staff, in Tricase, Italy; Acacio
Cardinal Coussa, 65, Sacred
Congregation for the Oriental
Church secretary, in Rome; and
Archbishop Edmond J. Fitz-
Maurice, 81, retired Bishop of
Wilmington, Del., in Wilming-
^ ton, Bishop Francis E. Reh of
Charleston, S.C., was enthron
ed.
Father Aniceto F. Alon
so, O.P., 67, a Spaniard, was
elected Master General of
the Dominicans in Rome and
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre,
C. S. Sp., of Tulle, France, was
installed as Superior General of
the Holy Ghost Fathers in Chev-
illy, France. Pope John made
the church of the Sacred Heart
of Jesus, Conewago Township,
Pa., a minor basilica. Catho
lic leaders hailed settlement of
the doctors’ strike against a
medicare plan in Saskatchewan,
Canada. Canada’s 1961 census
'showed a population of 8,532,
479 Catholics.
Other July events: Germany’s
Catholic Press Rebounds From
S upression,
Doubles Pre-
Hitler Strength
• . . C R S -
NCWC Tops
U.S. Voluntary
Agencies In
1961 Relief Ef
fort . . . Dem
ocracy Be
comes ‘Cari
cature’ When It Bans Prayers
In Nation’s Public Schools, Car
dinal Spellman Says . . . Mexi
co’s Bishops Warn Against Red
Threat.
August
The U.S. Hierarchy’s 1962
statement called the nation’s
Christians, Catholics and non-
Catholics, to a prayer cam
paign for success of the Sec
ond Vatican Council. Maronite
S. AND THE WORLD
Rite Patri
arch Paul Pet
er Meouchi of
Antioch and All
the East was
received by
President
Kennedy at the
White House
during a U.S.
VISIT. The
N.C.W.C. Education Depart
ment estimated 5,917,000 stu
dents will be enrolled in U.S.
Catholic Schools and colleges
in 1962-63 term.
Cardinal Cushing asked the
Knights of Columbus 80th con
vention in Boston to donate one
million dollars as a loan fund
to Church needs in Latin Am
erica. A survey showed there
are 983 Negro members of 109
communities of U.S. nuns.
Msgr. John E. Kelly resigned as
director of the N.C.W.C. Infor
mation Bureau.
Msgr. (Maj. Gen,) Terence
P. Finnegan, Chief of Air
Force Chaplains, was decor
ated with Distinguished Service
Medal as he retired after 25
years of military service. Con
secrated were: Bishop Raymond
G. Hunthausen of Helena, Mont.;
Auxiliary Bishops Gerald V.
McDevitt of Pittsburgh and Mi
chael J. Green of Lansing, Mich.
A meeting between Archbishop
Emanuel Clarizio, papal envoy,
and Gov. Luis Munoz Marin
in San Juan stressed closer
Puerto Rican Church-State ties.
Joseph Cardinal Frigs, Arch
bishop of Cologne, Germany,
opened an inquiry which may
lead to eventual sainthood for
Carmelite nun Edith Stein, Jew
ish convert who died in a World
War II concentration camp gas
chamber. Cardinal Spellman
warned the Order of Eagles
convention in Pittsburgh that the
U.S. faces “Twin evils” posed
by attempts to take God out
of public school and to take
children out of private schools.
Other August headlines: CRS-
NCWC Says It will Try to Con
tinue Aid To Haiti Because Of
'Desperate Need’ . . . Educa
tion Board Rules Prayer Prac
tice Will Continue in National
Capital’s Public Schools . . .
Management Institute Urges
More Top-Level Meetings for
Church, Calls Cuba ‘Red Flag
Warning’ to Catholics . . . Ka-
tholikentag, German Catholic
Convention, Closes with 200,000
Present In Hanover.
September
Therese Neu
mann, 64, stig-
matic for 36
years, died in
K onners-
reuth, Ger
many. Arch
bishop Patrick
A. O’Boyle at
W ashing-
ton’s 10th an
nual Labor Day
Mass urged organized labor to
take the lead in combating rac
ial bias throughout the nation.
With only minor disturbances
Catholic schools were integra
ted in New Orleans and Atlan
ta, Ga. Pope John elevated the
Vicariate of Alaska to the Dio
cese of Fairbanks with Bishop
Francis D. Gleeson, S.J., as
the first head. The Pope rec
eived in audience Vice Presi
dent Lyndon B. Johnson.
Archbishop James P. Davis
of San Juan lifted an order for
bidding Catholics in Puerto Ri
co from supporting the Popular
Democratic party of Gov. Luis
Munoz Marin. Pope John made
public the resume of regula
tions, governing the Second Va
tican Council. Catholic Relief
Services — NCWC rushed re
lief supplies to earthquake —
stricken Iran and typhoon-rav
aged Hong Kong. Most Rev.
John E. Taylor, O.M.I., of East
St. Louis, Ill., became the first
Catholic bishop consecrated in
Sweden since the Reformation at
rites in Stockholm. Death
claimed: Archbishop Giacomo
Testa, 53, president of the Va
tican’s diplomatic school, in
Cenate Sotto, Itlay; Mary C.
Duffy, former Supreme Regent
for 27 years of the Catholic
Daughters of America, in South
Orange, N.J.; Auxiliary Bishop
Thomas F. Maloney, 59, of
Providence, R. I.; and Msgr.
John M. Fraser, 85, founder
of Canada’s Scarboro Foreign
Mission Society, in Osaka, Ja
pan. Benjamin Muse, Manas
sas, Va., foe of school racial
segregation, and Eugene T.
Reed, Amityville, N.Y., lead
er in the NAACP, were named
for the 1962 James J. Hoey
Awards for Interracial Justice.
Other September headlines:
Archbishop O'Boyle Condemns
Virginia Hospital Program
Which Sterilized 50 Mothers in
2 Years . . . San Francisco’s
Cathedral Gutted In $2,500,000
Fire . . . CRS - NCWC Re
settles 60% of 42,000 Cuban
Refugees In U.S.
October
Pope John opened the Second
Vatican Council with 2,600pre-
lates, 49 from Red-ruled na
tions, in attendance. The open
ing procession drew more than
100,000 to St. Peter’s Square.
President Kennedy in a mess
age to the Pope expressed hope
that the council would promote
world peace. Earlier, Pope John
traveled 400 miles by railroad
to pray at shrines in Loreto
and Assisi for the council’s
success. Buffalo’s Bishop Jo
seph A. Burke, 76, died at the
council.
Washington’s Archbishop O’
Boyle was elected chairman of
the N.C.W.C. administrative
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board at the U.S. Bishops’ meet
ing in Rome. Pope John made a
special radio appeal to avert
the “horrors of war” in the
crisis caused by disclosure of
Soviet missiles and jet bombers
in Cuba. The U.S. Supreme
Court refused to consider the
following cases; one in Oregon
which held that the loan of
state-paid textbooks to private
schools violates the state con
stitution, and one in Kentucky
which sought to block an agree
ment under which nuns operate
a hospital built mainly with
public funds. A bomb blast out
side the residence of Cardinal
Spellman in New York caused
no injuries and little damage.
The 87th Congress ended its
second session without approv
ing any major U.S. aid-to-
schools legialation. HEW Sec
retary Celebrezze said U.S.
aid to church-run grade and high
schools in unconstitutional but
said he favors such aid to
private colleges. Father John
P. Donnelly, editor of the In
land Register, Spokane, Wash.,
was named director of the N.C.
W.C. Information Bureau. AFL-
CIO president George Meany
was given 1962 award of Cath
olic Association for Interna
tional Peace. Father William
Murphy, C.SS.R., Omaha-born,
was named bishop of the new
Diocese of Juazeiro in Brazil.
Other October headlines:
Protestants In Chile Grow From
240,000 to 620,000 In 10 Years
. . . Buffalo Diocese Survey
Shows Half Of Catholic High
School Graduates Prefer Sec
ular Colleges . . . Extension
Society To Recruit 500 Lay
Volunteers To Serve U.S. Home
Missions In 1963 . . . Council
Fathers Calls For Peace, So
cial Justice In Message To Hu
manity . . . Prosecutor Says
Wave of Smut Peddling, Por
nography Tied To Nationwide
Crime Syndicate.
November
Pope John, after observing
his 81st birthday and the four-
the anniversary of his coro
nation, was forced to bed with
gastric disturbances which
caused anemia. The Pope or
dered St. Joseph’s name in
cluded in the Canon of the
Mass beginning December 8.
He pushed a button in the Vat
ican library starting a pile
driving operation in New York
for construction of the Vatican
pavilion at the 1963-64 World’s
Fair. The second Vatican Coun
cil voted to adjourn its first
session December 8 and to open
its second September 8, 1963.
The Holy See granted the U.S.
Bishops the faculty for five
years of allowing meat to be
eaten on Friday after Thanks
giving Day.
A survey showed 558,221,000
Catholics constitute 18.2 per
cent of the world population.
Death claimed: Archbishop John
J. Swint, 82, Bishop of Wheel
ing, Virginia; Father Raymond
A. McGowan, 70, pioneer in
N.C.W.C. work and former di
rector of its Social Action De
partment, Kansas City, Mo.;
Mary Barron, “first lady of
the Catholic press,” who ser
ved the N.C.W.C. News Ser
vice 40 years, in Washington;
and U.S. Sen. Dennis Chavez,
74, of New Mexice, in Washing
ton. MSGR. Clarence E. Elwell,
educator, was named Auxiliary
Bishop of Cleveland; Msgr. John
J. Dougherty, president of Se-
ton Hall U., South Orange, N.J.,
and Msgr. Joseph A. Costello,
Newark archdiocese vice chan
cellor, were named Auxiliary
Bishops of Newark. Auxiliary
Bishop Jude Frost, O.F.M., 46,
of Belem, Brazil, was conse
crated in Chicago. The 13th
annual CRS-NCWC Thanks
giving Clothing Collection was
held nationwide.
Bishop Paul Robert of Les
Gonaives.and three priests who
opposed voodooism were ex
pelled from Haiti, making a to
tal of 3 bishops and 9 priests
banished from Haiti since 1959.
K. of C. Supreme Knight Luke
E. Hart was honored with the
Cardinal Gibbobs Medal by Cat-
olic University of America
alumni of Mount St. Mary’s
College, Emmitsburg, Me. Mrs.
Joseph McCarthy, San Fran
cisco, was elected president of
the National Council of Catho
lic Women, Dr. Edward Hayes,
Monrovia, Calif., was named
Catholic Doctor of the Year,
by the National Federation of
Catholic Physicians Guilds.
Other November headlines:
Ontario Bishops Ask Equal
Treatment For Catholic Educa
tion Remains of Mother Se-
ton Identified As Step Toward
Beatification....India’s Bishops
Ask Catholics To Back Govern
ment In Undeclared War With
Red China....Vatican Radio Says
Killing Of Deformed Child Can
not Be Justified.... Bishop’s
Committee Asks Legislation To
Bring Classification Of Movies.
December
Pope John canonized three
saints who lived in the 19th
century: Peter Julian Eymard,
a Frenchman who founded the
Blessed Sacrament Fathers;
and two Italians, Francis Cro-
ese of Camporosso, a Capuchin
and Anthony Pucci, a Servite.
In adjourning the Second Vati
can Council’s first session, the
Pope set Christmas 1963 as the
target date for the council’s
close. As more missioners
were expelled from Moslem-
ruled Sudan, the government in
dicated it will use armed for
ce to stamp out Christianity.
Notre Dame University fresh
man Peter R.
Kesling was
named “Out-
standing
Catholic Youth
of the Year.”
C a rdinal
Spellman left
on his 12th con
secutive
Christmas
visit to U.S. troops overseas.
He will stop in Alaska, Japan,
Formosa, the Phillipines, South
Vietnam, Thailand, Pakistan
and Germany. TV star Jane
Wyatt was presented with the
Poverall Medal of the College
of Steubenville, Ohio. The New
York State Court of Appeals
refused to reinstate three Cath
olic students of St. John’s Uni
versity, Jamaica, N.Y. who
were dismissed for participa
ting in a civil marriage cere
mony. Auxiliary Bishop Clar
ence E. Elwell of Cleveland
was consecrated.
NCWC annual reports showed
a commitment by the Catholic
Church in the U.S. to spirit
ual and social welfare on the
national and international
levels. Father Virgil C. Blum,
S.J., Marquette University po
litical scientist, ch|jfged that
the National Education-Associa
tion stands ready to crush any
proposal for U. S. aid, to pri
vate schools. Israel’s High
Court ruled that Carmelite Fa
ther Daniel, 40, is not entitled
to Israeli citizenship simply
because he is a Polish-born
Jew. Bishop Leo A. Pursley
of Fort Wayne-South Bend, head
of the National Office for De
cent Literature, charged that
a booklet by U. S. Supreme
Court Justice William O. Doug
las, challenging efforts to ban
publications which arouse
sexual desire, was “shocking”
and would "encourage smut
peddlers.”
Other December headlines:
Girl Dying Of Leukemia 10
Years Ago, Well Today; Case
May Speed Beatification of Mo
ther Seton . . . Tanganyika
Cardinal Offers Mass As Nation
Becomes Republic . . . CAIP
Leader Lauds African Leaders
As Controversy Boils Over
Senator’s Criticisms . . . Afri
ca Bishops Set Up Continent
wide Assembly At Vatican
Council.
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