Archbishop Rohlman Funeral Friday * • • New Strength for Card
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Rftsubscribing? Plccm Write Teen Page Resumes • Name Exactly at Printed Above Witness Publication, See Page 12 A Jotjriui Devoted to tha Interest* of the CatheKc Church You shall be witnesses unto me, Aeti 1, I SEPTEMBER 19, 1957 DUBUQUE. IOWA VOL XXXVII, NO. 33 Archbishop Rohlman Funeral Friday * • • New Strength for Card. Stritch German Christian Celebrant of Democrat Party Funeral Mass By Father Placid Jordan, O.S.B. Bonn.—(NC)—Germany s grand old man, Konrad Adenauer, Iii5 Eminence Samuel Cardinal Stritch, Arelibisliop of and his Christian Democratic party won an overwhelming vic Chicago, will be the celebrant of a Solemn Pontifical Re tory in the West Germany parliamentary elections Sunday. quiem Friday, Sept. 20, at 12 o'clock CST, at St. Raphael's With more than 30 million voters going to the polls, 50.2 Cathedral for the Most Rev. Henry P. Rohlman, retired per cent endorsed the policies of the 81-year-old Catholic states man who engineered Germany's Archbishop of Dubuque. spectacular rise from rags and 407 member Bundestag, or West Archbishop Rohlman died Friday, Sept. 13, at 10:43 ruins to new riches and prestige German parliament DST, at Xavier Hospital, Dubuque, where he had been a This again insures an absolute Healthy Margin patient since Aug. IS. He was 81 years old. A special bless majority for the Christian Demo Chancellor Adenauer's party will crats in the new parliament The hold 270 seats, the socialists 169, ing from Pope Pius XII was received by the Archbishop socialists pulled 31.8 per cent, the Free Democrats 41, and the Get- two da\s before his death. Free Democrats 7 7 per cent and man party 17, 249 seats make a ma Last Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock the body of the the German partv 3.3 per cent of jority. Archbishop was received at the Cathedral bv the Most Rev. the total vote cast. The smaller In a practical demonstration parties were eliminated from the of living democracy, tl per cant Leo Binz, Archbishop of Dubuque. The body will lie in • * • of those aligibla cast ballets In state until the time of the funeral • * an alaction that was a victary for Mass on Friday. Fourth degree Knights of Columbus maintained an evening vigil the right is a portrait of the lata Archbishop taken several years paaca. Masses and vigil services held each night of Archbishop Rohlman's wake at St. Raphael's Cathe ago when he invested three members of the Loras Collage fac during that time are described 3 Pontifical In a campaign that was waged dral. Surrounding the Archbishop's bier (left to right) ara Louis ulty with the robes oi a Domestic Prelate. elsewhere in this issue of The Wit | intensely by all parties, religious -Fautsch, Jack O'Neil, Jack Cam and Worth Slade.The photo to ' issue came to the fore only locally, ness. Masses for and were conspicuously absent on Bishop Fitzgerald to Preach the national level. Encyclical on Movies, TV and Radio... Prelates Voice Appreciation ... The sermon at Friday's funeral It was clear that the majority of Mass will be preached by the Most Archbishop voters is satisfied that the expert Rev. Edward A Fitzgerald Bishop ment undertaken at the end of of Winona. Minn Bishop Fitzgerald Three Solemn Pontifical Masses World War II to establish a Chris Statements on Death of was Archbishop Rohlman's Auxil will be celebrated in St. Raphael's tian party by the common effort of PopeLa udsMedia, Cathedral Friday, Sept. 20, for the) fiary from 1946 until his transfer to both Protestants and Catholics is a Winona in 1949 late Archbishop Rohlman who success. Following the funeral Mass on served at Archbishop of Dubuque Archbishop Rohlman Friday the Archbishop's body from 1944 until his retirement in But Asks Control will be placed in a receiving 1954 Following arc statements of sympathy and appreciation is vault at the cemetery chapel at The first of the three Massea Slain After Vatican City —(NO— His Holi trolled by set laws or moral safe sued on the occasion of the death of Most Rev. Henry P. Rohl Mount Olivet Cemetery, Key will be celebrated by the Most Rev. ness Pope Pius XII has issued an guards. man, Retired Archbishop of Dubuque. West. When final preparations Leo Binz, Archbishop Rohlman's Receiving at' encyclical letter which has been As in Quadragesimo Anno, are completed the remains of successor In Dubuque. The 7th and called here the Quadragesimo An- Pius Xl's groat encyclical of 1931 Archbishop Rohlman will be in 8th grade parochial school chil no of the public entertainment on reconstructing the social or From the Holy Father terred in the Memorial Chapel In dren of the city will attend thia Konrad Adenauar Sunday Mass dia der, Pius XII in Miranda Prorsus St. Raphael's Cathedral. Mass, which will begin at 8 o'clock The message declares that mo in clear terms outlines the prob Holy Father is grieved to learn of the death of Archbishop Three other Dubuque Bishops CUT. Indianapolis, Ind.—(NC)—A man tion pictures, radio and television lems, recommends solutions and Rohlman. He expresses his heartfelt sympathy and cordially are buried in the Cathedral; Bish At 10:90 COT me high school shot and killed his estranged wife should serve to give people a gives a plan of action for Cath imparts to your excellency and the clergy and faithful of the op Mathias Lora5, Bishop Clement children and other parochial stu Big Subsidy to and then threatened the life of a more respectful understanding" olic bodies. archdiocese his paternal apostolic blessing. Smyth and Archbishop John Hen dents will participate in a Maes parish priest here while a shocked of each other and to bring them The letter addressed to the hier Monsignor Dcllacqtia nessy. to be offered by me Meat Rev. congregation was leaving Sunday closer together archy of the whole world is the The Pallbearers for Archbishop George J. Biskup, Auxiliary Biah- Pennsylvania 39th of the present pontificate, and op of Dubuejue. Bishop Biskup Mass only a few feet away The Pope states that these inven Rohlman will be representatives N dated September f. t'"* fea^t "f served under Archbishop Rohl Mrs Nita Groover was shot on tions, while products of men's in The Apostolic Delegate from each of the ten city parishes, - the Nativity of Mary man as Chancellor and Vicar the steps of the rectory of Holy genuity, are * nevertheless the gifts of Dubuque They are. ' From Catholics Following is a copy of a telegram sent to Archbishop Binz by General of the Archdiocese. (ross Church and when Father of God, our Creator," and as such 4 Principal Parts Ed Graham. St Joseph's. Joe His Kxcellcncy. Archbishop A G. Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to The final Mass of the day will Philadelphia —(NC)—A Catholic Dennis Spalding, the pastor, should have as their first aim "to It is organized into four princi Rhomberg, Cathedral, William the United States. be offered by Cardinal Stritch of paper said here that Pennsylvania opened the door she screamed serve truth and virtue " pal parts a section on general in Bergman. Holy Trinity; Julius taxpayers are saved more than "Father, please help me He shot structions and one each devoted to Loosbrock, Nativity. Gus Meyer, Chicago at 1 o'clock, daylight sav Moral Safeguards Deeply grieved at tho death of His Excellency, Archbishop Rohl S153 million annually because me " motion pictures, radio and tele Sacred Heart. Carl Clark. St An ing time But at the core of his 13,000 word man, I join in warm sympathy with Your Excellencies, the Clergy, Catholi" citizens finance and con Cun Misfired vision thony, Ixo Dwyer. St. Columbkille, Bishop Willging Pontificate* encyclical, entitled Miranda Prorsus Religious and Laity of the Archdiocese in your bereavement. I shall duct their own schools in the seven The husband turned his .32 cali Television is particularly under Jake Ernsdorff, St. Mary, Tom Thursday's schedule includes a (Remarkable Inventions), Pope Pi offer the Holy Sacrifice for the repose of his noble soul that God dioceses of the state ber pistol toward the kneeling scored, as a new medium, for its Flynn, St. Patrick's and George Pontifical Requiem celebrated by us warns that films, radio and tele may grant him the eternal reward for which he labored so zealously Operational Cost priest, who prepared to administer marvelous powers for good as well Giellis, Holy Ghost. Bishop Joseph Willging of Pueblo, vision "will certainly restrict the throughout his many years in the priesthood and the episcopacy. An editorial in The Catholic Extreme Unction to the dying wo as its great powers for corruption Henry Patrick Rohlman was Colorado. Students of Loras Col people's true development and ARCHBISHOP CICOGNANI, Standard and Times, newspaper of man. The gun misfired, though, Comes Into Homes born March 17, 1876 at Appelhul- lege will attend this Mass. Bishop weaken their morals" unless con- Apostolic Delegate. the Philadelphia archdiocese, and the man fled. "This special puuer which tele sen in Westphalia, Germany When Willging was a close friend of stated that the archdiocese alone Three parishioners—part of the vision enjoys of Riving pleasure (Continued on page 3, col. 1) (Continued on page 3, col. 3) spares the taxpayer $83,612,278.50 dazed crowd who had just left 9 within the family circle." says the Archbishop Leo Binz • • • • • • each year o'clock Mass—chased him but he Red Mass at Pope, "is reckoned of very great The editorial emphasiied that evaded them.