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Man of the Year ~ Or. ftMiWHS ®oHf, eenfer, receives the

-Catholic Man of Year award of the Catho­lic Men's Luncheon Club from Gerald L.

Emerick, left, chairman «#"!•*• ®er®*«fng committee, and secretary of the club, and William Downey, newly elected president.

Dr. Richard Burk, Named Layman Of the Year, by Luncheon Club

A young doctor, who has Ijiffered from a Polio attack llnce 1948, was chosen the outstanding Catholic layman of the year here last week by the Catholic Men's Luncheon Club.

Dr. Richard D. Burk, who With his wife and four chil­dren are members of Immacu* late Conception parish, exem­plifies the ideal Catholic lay* •nan" according to Gerald Em* •rick, chairman of the screen­ing committee, who presented the award.

The "man of the year" is active in parochial, inter-parochial and professional groups throughout the area despite a crippling at­tack of polio in 1948 which still forces him to rely on crutches for •ttpport.

A native of Sterling, Colo., and a graduate of Regis College, Den­ver, Doctor Burk served three years as a naval officer during World War II.

Following the war he received Ms medical degree from Creigh-ton University in 1951.

He came to Columbus in 1952

Abp. Cushing Asks Support Of Best Movies

BOSTON — (NC) — Support the best in motion picture

entertainment instead of a nega­tive approach to the cinema was urged here by Archbishop, Rich­ard J. Cushing of Boston.

The Archbishop spoke at the premiere of "The Bridge on the River Kwai" at the Gary theater. T h e p r e m i e r e w a s a b e n e f i t allowing that brought the Boston Archdiocesan Charity Fund a to­tal of $25,000. • Archbishop Cushing said it is tfrne to get audience support for the best in visual and audio en­tertainment instead of merely aingling out the morally bad productions for criticism. He stressed how important it is for youth to see meritorious enter­tainment.

as a Post Graduate Fellow of the National Foundation ^jf Infantile Paralysis.

Doctor Burk is active in his parish Holy Name Society, As­sumption Council of the Knights of Columbus and the Little League Baseball program.

Professionally Doctor Burk is, in addition to his duties as

Delaware Hosts First CCW Institute

The first .of a series of four Institutes will be conducted by the Columbus Diocesan Council of Catholic Women on Sunday, Jan. 12, at St Mary's Schopl, Del­aware.

Mrs. Leo Jennings, Diocesan Council President, will preside at the General Session at 2:30 p.m.

Following this sessiori, mem­bers will have an opportunity to attend workshop sessions which will be conducted by the chair­men of the nine Diocesan com­mittees.

Registration for the Institute will begin promptly at 1:30 p.m. and a dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. All women in the West­ern Deanery are invited and urg­ed to attend the Institute, which aims to give individual Catholic women a clearer idea of the pur­poses and programs of the DCCW organization.

Arrangements for the West­ern Deanery Institute are be­ing handled by the Deanery of­ficers: Mrs. Charles D. Faurot, President; Mrs. Sarah E. Brail-er, Vice-President; Mrs. Cecelia Hendricks, Recording S e c r e-tary; Miss Alice Caufield, Cor­responding Secretary; and Miss Josephine Roundtree, Treasur­er. Similar Institutes will be held

in the Southern Deanery on Jan. 19 at Chillieothe, in the North­ern Deanery on Jan. 25 at Dover, and in the Eastern Deanery on Jan. 26 at Zanesville.

an assistant professor of Physi­cal Medicine at Ohio State Uni­versity, a member of the Ohio State Medical Association, the American Congress of Physical Medicine, the Society of Physi­cal Medicine and Rehabilita­tion, and is on the staffs of both University and Children's Hospitals. In addition he organized and

is medical director of the Ohio Rehabilitation Center, medical di­rector of the school of Physical Therapy, member of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Frank­lin County Muscular Distrophy Foundation, Medical consultant at the Veterans' Hospital at Dayton and has recently been named Medical director of the Magnetic Springs Foundation.

The Catholic Men's Luncheon Club, which meets at the Virginia Hotel on the first Friday of the month and is open to any Catho­lic man, began the selection of an outstanding layman last year. John Igoe was the first award winner.

Says Religion, Military Career Complementary

CAMBERRA, Australia — (NC) —Religious practice can intensify the appreciation of a military career, according to Archbishop Eris O'Brien of Canberra and Goulburn.

He made this point in an ad­dress during the annual gradua­tion Mass of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, celebrated at St. Christopher's Pro-Cathedral.

Religion need not create divid­ed loyalties for a career officer, the Archbishop told graduates of the military school. In fact, he said, the fundamental ideals and aims of religion and military serv­ice are similar and complemen­tary.

A sincerely religious soldier, the Archbishop declared, has a double dedication to the service of his fellow men.

Catholic Neivg Briefs INew NCWC Secretary

WASHINGTON — (NC) —* Msgr. Paul F. Tanner has boon named general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference.

He succeeds the Most Rev. Howard J. Carroll, who has become Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown.

Msgr. Tanner has boon assistant gontral secretary since 1945.

Father Francis T. Hurley has been named assistant general secretary. He has been assistant director of the NCWC Department of Education. ^

Beatification Document PHILADELPHIA — (NC) — Archbishop John F.

O'Hara, C.S.C., of Philadelphia, has forwarded to Rome a petition signed by many members of the American hierarchy, asking for the beatification of the Venerable John N. Neumann, C.SS.R., who was Bishop of Phil­adelphia from 1852 to 1860.

The petition, was sent to His Holiness Pope Pius XII and to the His Eminent* Gaetano Cardinal Cicog-nani, promoter to the cause.

Fight Anti-Obscenity Law BURLINGTON, Vt. — (NC) — A Burlington group

headed by a University of Vermont professor plans a court fight against this state's obscene literature law.

Prof. Georgory A. Falls of the university speech de­partment and three other Burlington men issued a state* ment claiming th« law If ambiguous and probably Mi* constitutional.

./..'Missionary-Colonizer GRAVtLBOURG, Saskatchewan — (NO — A mon­

ument will be erected here to the memory of Father Louis Pierre Gravel, missionary colonizer of this com­munity.

Father Gravel carried on his colonization work from 1906 until his death in 1926. The town of Gravelbourg stands today as a living testimonial to his heroic work among the French-Canadian colonizers of southwest Sa»-katchewan.

Pastoral Psychiatry OTTAWA, Ontario — (NC) — Priests and seminar­

ians of the Oblate Fathers' Holy Rosary Scholasticate here have just completed a course in pastoral psychia­try, given by one of Canadas' leading psychiatrists.

The lectures were presented by Dr. Victor Szyryn-ski, professor at the University of Ottawa and the School of Social Welfare at St. Patrick's College.

Magazine Report Tells Why Laity Become Lax

NOTRE DAME, Ind. — Thevtwo major reasons why Catholics fall away from the Church are an inadequate re­ligious life in the home and lack of adequate instruction in their faith, declares AVE MARIA magazine in a special report on fallen-aways—those who have ceased to practice their faith. The report is based on a year's research into the problem by the national Catholic weekly published here.

A Kansas priest told Hie AVE MARIA that "the Christian fam­ily is fast disappearing and we will have to have more funda­mental teaching about it and less Boy Scout business." A Parish Visitor of Mary Immac­ulate commented that "Our ob­servation of the problem . . . leads us to conclude that the root of this problem lies in a lack of adequate instruction in, and consequent lack of under­standing and practice of, the f^ith, in the home."

Bishop Charles Buddy of. San Diego reported that "Often lay people, some of them college graduates, have complained to me that they do not know the funda­mentals of our religion. In fact, this experience would be true of a large proportion of Catholics in this area. Different priests assign different causes. A generally ac­cepted cause appears to be the system employed in many high schools and colleges to continue teaching Christian doctrine by means of the question and answer catechism on an elementary lev­el."

The AVE MARIA found that determining the actual number

of fallen-aways is all but impos­sible due to the fact that few good studies have been made of the problem. Estimates of from 10 to 50 per cent in certain areas were given.

Father Leonard B. Nienaber, of the Guild of St. Paul in Lex­ington, Kentucky, told the AVE MARIA: "This problem is far more alarming than most of us realize, I think ... I have heard Bishops and others say that one-third of the people of our parishes are lapsed, and I feel that such is true in this vicin­ity."

A West Coast diocesan chancel­lor reported his "guess" ihat "in some of the city parishes, the fallen-aways would amount to from 10 to 20 per cent. In the suburban and rural districts, the number of fallen-aways will run as high as 30 to 50 per cent."

Father Daniel Moore, editor of the St. Louis Review, said that "In our census we catalogued some 25,000 fallen-aways in the archdiocese (of St. Louis). This •umber, we all feel, was only a percentage of the actual number. In other words, we feel that the recent figures . . . are pretty nearly correct — that is, that one out of three falls away."

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Lourdes Centenary-Unity Octave

§ Pope Praises Unity Octave Personally autographed ietter from His Holiness

*.feftd Atonement Friars of Graymoor, N.Y., of the Pon­tiff's wish that the Chair of Unity Octave should spread imore widely than ever throughout the world. Shown ^looking at the letter are from left, Fr. Titus Cranny, Hs.A.; Fr. Bartholomew Paytas, S.A., Director, central of­fice, Unity Octave; V. Rev. Angelus Delahunt, S.A.,

^Father General; and Fr. Jerome Gallagher, S.A., Assist-' f jant Director. His Holiness wrote the letter on the oc-skasion of the golden jubilee of the movement which be-sJgan with Graymoor's founder, Fr. Paul, in 1908.

GARRISON, N.Y.' — By "happy coincidence" the cen­tenary of the apparitions of the Blessed Mother at Lourdes and the golden ju­bilee of the Chair of Unity Oc­tave are observed this year, it was pointed out by Father Titus Cranny, S.A., of Graymoor Mon­astery here.

Father Cranny is national di­rector of the Octave, observed annually from Jan. 18 to 25. The eight days of prayer are for the intention of the union of Chris­tendom and for the conversion

Jews and non-believers. "It is singularly fitting that

the two anniversaries should co­incide for reunion will be realiz­ed principally through the pray­ers and love of Our Lady whom St. Augustine called Mother of Unity," Father Cranny said.

He pointed out that Father Paul James Francis founder of the Octave, had a marked devotion to the Biassed Mother, •specially as the patroness of Christian unity. Father Paul founded the Octave while his community, the Society of the Atonement, were members of the Anglican church. A year afte«- he foiled the prayer movement, his community in

a body was received into the Church.

"Our Lady has ever been the leader and guide in bringing souls to God," Father Cranny said. "Pope Leo XIII called her "the most zealous guardian of unity.' St. Pius X said that 'there is no surer or easier way of unit­ing men with Christ than Mary.' Father Paul said that the prayer of Christ 'ihat all may be one' was so often repeated by Our Lady. Indeed the military vic­tories of the past—at Belgrade in 1|456, Lepanto in 1571 or Vien­na in 1683—are expressions of the power of Mary in overcom­ing the forces of evil and of unit­ing souls with God."

Father Cranny said that as the Mother of all men it is the function of the Blessed Mother to unite men with her Son and added it is a "discredit to her that some feel that Marian de­votion is an obstacle to reunion."

The Ca*holic knows the charge that the Blessed Mother impedes reunion is not true, Father Cranny said. He ob­served: "It is a mother's duty to keep her children together; or if they are see'rated to bring them together again. For

as love of Mary increases so will the apostolate of unity. It has often been said that our era is the Age of Mary. Sure-ily, as least it is the begin­ning of this age of which the saints have spoken." Father Cranny said that as a

development of the Unity Oc­tave, the Church has blessed the League of Prayer for Unity at the Graymoor Monastery here H e e x p l a i n e d : " I t i s a p i o u s

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Price Ten Cents; $3.00 A Year

Chinese Reds Stage Accusation of

Try to Discredit Bp. Tang At Post-Chris

HONG KONG — The Chi­n e s e c o m m u n i s t r e g i m e , which has been frying for y e a r s t o d i s c r e d i t B i s h o p Dominic Tang, S.J., acting head of the Canton archdiocese, has now staged two "public accu­sations" against him, it was re­ported here.

The demonstrations — tau chang — were reportedly con­ducted by the Canton Bureau of Religious Affairs and the so-called Patriotic Association of Chinese Catholics, the group organized by the Reds in an «f. fort to split the Church in Chi­

na from the Hofy See. According to information reach.

.mas' 'Trial'

ing here, the meetings were held on December 18 and 23. On both dates, it was understood, the 49 year-old Apostolic Administrator of the Canton see and a number of priests were ordered to pre­sent themselves to the authorities.

They were taken both times before a large audience com­posed mainly of Catholics and Bishop Tang was publicly ac­cused of a long list of crimes. It was understood here that the

priests were not molested nor accused, and they they took no part in the verbal attacks on the Bishop.

The main speaker at the post

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Masses Offered Here For Three Priests

Requiem Masses were offered here this week for three priests stationed in the Diocese who died this past week.

Bishop Edward G. Hettinger, offered a Pontifical Requiem Mass Saturday in Sacred Heart Church, Mil-ford Center, for Father Robert Beckman, C.P.P.S., pat-tor of Sacred Heart and St. Joseph Church, Plain City, who died Jan. 2 in Union County Me­morial Hospital, Marysville. A Solemn Requiem Mass was

Fr. Beckman

sung Tuesday at St. Patrick's Church for Father Paul Gerald Corbett, O.P., 57, assistant pastor, who died Jan. 2, in Mt. Carmel Hospital. The Office of the Dead was offered Monday night in the Church.

Father Joseph Sheehan, O.P., a teacher at Aquinas High School for 16 years, died last Friday eve­ning in Jersey City, N.J., where he had gone for the Christmas holidays.

Mass for Father Beckman, who was 43, was offered in Sacred Heart Church, Milford Center. The Office of the Dead was sung.

Additional services were held Tuesday in the Chapel of the As­sumption, St. Charles Seminary, Carthagena, O.

He was buried in the St. Char­les Seminary Cemetery, Cartha­gena.

Father Beckman, a member of the Society of the Precious Blood, was ordained in 1942, at the Chapel of the Assumption, Carthagena after completing his philosophy and theology cour­ses at St. Charles Seminary there. He also had attended St. Joseph College, Collegeville, Ind.,

Coincide union of prayer and good works for unity undei the patronage of Our Lady of the Atonement, whose feast is July 9. It is the wish of the Holy Father, express­ed a short while ago that the Octave be as widely observed as p o s s i b l e a n d t h a t t h e U n i t y League under Our Lady increase in membership day by day. For devotion to Mary is the unfail­ing means of promoting the cause of Christian unity."

Gets Used To Watching for Pythons RIBERALTA, Bolivia — (NC) — It isn't so easy to

dive beneath your boat to fix its twisted propellor shaft when you know that the river is infested with alligators and man-eating piranha fish.

It takes a lot of courage,! too, to stop to fix a flat tire in the middle of a jungle infested* — with pythons and jaguars.

Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beckman; five brothers, August, Conrad, Char les, Frederick and Gregory, all of Loretto, Tenn., and three sis­ters, Mrs. Chester McMullen of Unity, Pa., Mrs. Anthony Beuer lcin and Mrs. William Lamprecht, both of Loretto.

Assisting the Bishop at the Mass were Father Joseph Stanton, dea­con; Very Rev. William O'Brien, dean of the Western Deanery, as­sistant priest, and Father Clement Alt. C.PP.S., sub-deacon.

Masters of ceremonies were: Msgr. James J. Carroll, Chancellor of the Diocese of Columbus, and Msgr. George F. Schorr, Vice-Chancellor. The preacher was Father James Kelly, C.PP.S.

Noted as a preacher and teach­er, Columbus-born Father Corbett spent much of his time in St. Pat rick's Parish.

He attended St. Patrick's School and ~was graduated from Aquinas High School in 1918. Aft er his ordination on June 4, 1926, his first assignment was as a

Fr. Corbett

teacher at Aquinas, where he re­mained until 1932.

He returned to St. Patrick's in in 1945 and remained ther» until his death. He entered the hos­pital Dec. 31.

Father Corbett was a graduate of Immaculate Conception Col­lege (the Dominican House of

But this is almost "old-hat" to Maryknoll Brother Dismas, a for­mer Houston, Tex., truck-driver and mechanic.

Brother Dismas' job is to act as land and water chauffeur for the Mrryknoll Fathers work­ing in this mission area and he

has covered most of the ter­ritory during his years here.

On an average mission trip, Brother Dismas is gone from six weeks to two months, covering almost 1,600 miles by water.

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Studies) in Washington, D. C. He also held a master of arts degree from the Catholic University of America, Washington.

Between 1932 and 1941, he was a member of his order's Southern Mission Band, doing missionary work in the southern states and working out of headquarters at Houston, Tex., and Louisville, Ky.

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Bishop Christmas demonstration was John Fong Shek-mui former head-master of the Sacred Heart Cath­olic Church in Canton, according to these reports. Mr. Fong is said to have accused the Jesuit Bishop of being in agreement with Rome and not obeying the government's mandates concerning the Church.

According to reports, Bishop Tang was specifically forbid­ding members of the Legion of Mary to sign a government pfa-pared document describing the legion as a reactionary organiis-tion engaged in espionaoe for the U.S. The Legion of Mary it a lay association whose aim it to strengthen the spiritual life of its members, reclaim fallen-away Catholics and make new converts.

It was reported that Bishop Tang was further pilloried for advising his flock to have noth­ing to do with the Patriotic As­sociation of Chinese Catholics and for forbidding the priests of the Archdiocese cf Canton to join the association. Mr. Fong is said to have wound

«p his tirade by calling Bishop Ifang unfit, and by demanding that Canton's Catholics appoint another bishop in his place.

(Another instance of the step­ped up pressure on the Church, it was reported here, is that the "patriotic association" has now deprived Canton priests of their monthly stipend of $15 each. The government has assigned the duty of collecting rents from Church property—a major power over the Church's purse — to the "patriotic association."

(Meanwhile, the Red regime continues its propaganda to the effect that freedom of religion goes on. A government broadcast from Peking has reported that more than 3.000 worshippers crowded the Catholic cathedral in that capital for midnight Mass on Christmas. It said that Bishop Alphonse Tsung Huai-mo was the "officiating" clergyman. Bishop Tsung, a Franciscan vko is Bishop of Chefoo on the Shan-" tung peninsula, is listed by the Annuario Pontificio. the Vatica# yearbook as being "impeded" it the exercise of his office.)

Mass Offered For Sacristan At Holy Cross

A Solemn Mass was offered last Tuesday in Holy Cross Church here for Mrs. Mary Teresa Dau-bert. 81. who had served more than 60 years as Sacristan at &• South Fifth Street Church.

Father Joseph Hakel, pastor, was celebrant of the Mass and was assisted by Msgr. Georqe Schorr vice-chancellor of the Diocese, deacon and Father George Fulcher, assistant at ft. Joseph's Cathedral, subdeaccm. Msgr. Francis Schwendemarm, pastor of St. Leo's parish aipl Dean of the Central deanery, preached the sermon. Mrs. Daubert, who had been

baptized, received her first Holy Communion and was married is Holy Cross Church, was a charter member of the Tabernacle Soci­ety and has been sacristan of the Church up until two months ago when she became too ill to fulfill her duties.

Mrs. Daubert is survived by a daughter. Mrs. Florence Erb. a sister, Mrs. Emma Boyle, and a brother, Albert Koenig. 11 grand­children and 16 great-grandc|pl» dren.

WLW-C To Sho*f New Film Seriei About Church p

Two thousand years of Chris­tian history will be told in four half-hour films when NBC-TV's "The Catholic Hour" televises

"Home Eternal" on the Sunday at 8 a.m., Jan. 12, 19. 26 and Feb. 2, over WLW-C, Channel 4

The first chapter of "R«ma Eternal" is entitled "The City of Peter". Scheduled for Jafl. '2, it tells the story of tHep transition from paganism to Christianity. ' The second chapter, "The C%

of Faith," will He seen J?n. 19. Tt portrays the growth of Christian-itv in its early days—the victory of Constantinople at the Milvian Bridge, the liberation of the Church, and the studies of SL Jerome.

"Renaissance Rome," on Jaj 26, will show how Christian arl flowered durina the Renai sance. Highlights will inc'*;<fe olimoses of the treasures the Vatican museum, the Boc» r

gia apartments and the art «| Michelangelo.

An audience with the Pope:Jt the main feature of "Our Moment m Time," final telecast, on Feb. 2.

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