'jam session,' 'jitter-bugs' and cannibalist rhythmic orgies We permit, if not freely endorse by our criminal indifference He then attacked current music as 'degenerated and demoralizing' saying: Speaking on the subject of 'Art for Youth and the Church' he claimed that 'evil forces' were fostering a type of art 'embodying evil and malicious propaganda' and that the church had to act. In 1938 Archbishop Beckman's concern for the future of America's youth led him to attend the National Council of Catholic Women meeting in Biloxi, Mississippi. (4) He became the national chaplain of the Confraternity of Pilgrims and led a Pilgrimage with others from Dubuque in 1938 to the Eucharistic Congress in New Orleans in New Orleans and the Minneapolis-St. He dedicated four churches in Dubuque, raised six others to the status of parishes, consecrated three bishops and witnessed 156 young men of his diocese ordained priests. He opened the midwest branch of the Catholic University of America summer school at Loras in 1934 and the Loras Institute of Liturgical Music in 1938. In the field of education, he gave LORAS COLLEGE a new document of administrative procedure, approved construction of the stadium, and promoted the arts. The Catholic Student's Mission Crusade that Beckman founded while in Cincinnati held its 1935 national convention in Dubuque. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY, Holy Name Societies, Rural Life Conference, marriage court, Conference on Industrial Relations, CATHOLIC YOUTH ORGANIZATION (CYO), and the Council of Catholic Women. As the spiritual and administrative director of the ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBUQUE he promoted the Legion of Mary and organized ST.

Photo courtesy: Paul Hemmer and the Telegraph Heraldīeckman was installed as archbishop in May 1930. Peter's Church of Cincinnati the following May and on Januhe was appointed the archbishop of Dubuque. On December 23, 1923, he was appointed bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1918 while rector of the seminary, Father Beckman founded the Catholic Students Mission Crusade, an organization that by 1948 had over one million members. In 1920 Pope Pius XI named him a domestic prelate with the title of Rt. He was then named president of the seminary, a post he held for ten years. Mary and taught in the philosophy department for five years. He received his doctorate of sacred theology in 1908.

Before beginning his teaching, he did post-graduate work at the University of Louvain in Belgium Munich, Germany and at the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. Paul's Church in Cincinnati and then was assigned to the faculty of Mt. Following his ordination in 1902 he served as assistant pastor of St. Gregory's Preparatory Seminary and later at Mt. Born in Ohio, Beckman received his early training at the St.

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