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STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. A CATHOLIC WEEKLY CIRCITLATING THROUGHOUT THE PRICE THREEPENCE Newspaper. a as Post by Transmission for Perth, G.P.O., the ESTABLISHED 1874. Registered at
Vol. LX
PERTH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1934
No. 2,807
Jubilee -- And Drama A Retrospect of 1933 Atlantic they first secured S tates, with episcopal chairmen direct- vote, two years of cowardly; and —.it- to fly the Holy ear has been full of dramatic themselves and their for blessings rule. anti-clerical out ing all departments of Catholic activr Catholics in Europe, says event.; they arrived in Chicago When ar planes. Spain from warning a took Brazil the "Ufaverse," in its review of the ity. New guilds and other organisaUnder the leadership of the after their splendid achievement, Gentime. well the and loaned, being tions are happcT .,_; : of 1933. Hierarchy a Catholic Electoral League eral Balbo led them into the Cathe-lral In h . hristmas allocution to the established societies are increasing taeir was formed this year to take .. Lion of the Holy Name for the Ts Deuni Collees a,. .dardinals, the Sovereign Pon- s trength. any anti-religious clauses that in thanksgiving. against an establshed South Africa this year tifi" 1, . ,• ,.. 'aimed the Year of Jubilee, to U.S.A., Russia, and the Pope. -NCWC"—and with no "colour bar" might be introduced into the propose aerate the 19th. centenary of new Constitution. Representatives ot at the United States, CaLooking Catholics. against native the a Only leinption of Mankind. tic societies ensured that the tholics find much to console and en400 some . to. moving are Scotland in Catholics later emissaries from Moscow few: well or- courage them. Many people felt wards the same goal:. thousands of men I Catholic voting strength was an intensive Anti-God camac- anxious when President Roosevelt was immediate for prepared and ganised , the of auspices the are to meet-,undef pa:sa in this country, due to be launchtion. about to grant official recognition to C.Y.M.S. nett year .to co-ordinate -their er at Easter. In the same Continent, the Catholics the Soviet Government. Then, when . 40 activities. ..Vhat happened? Another matter for congratulation: I of Mexico are still suffering, heavily recognition came, they learned that Mr. he Anti-God campaign in England Union of Catholic Mothers, with oppressed; the persecution, in fact, is Roosevelt had insisted, before all else, The sv a dismal failure. That has been than 10,000 members, is proving being aggravated. Millions are denied that Americans in Russia should enjoy more adiei sad by the editor of the Cornfacilities to practise their religion owing religious liberty equal to that which mu' • English daily paper. who pre- a magnificent success, and forms a ladto the microscopic limitation by the t heir own country gives. And the Prewark against the attacks of bum consick.. a the foundation of the League State of "licensed" parish priests. sident, as if to prepare the Soviet for trol advocates. during London in Atheists Mid:ant of But another South American coun- what it had to concede, declared his "Winter Has Passed." h oly Weak. try, Argentina, is planning the historic conviction, at a Catholic assembly, that This et.litor made a most significant The vast amount of progress the International Eucharistic Congress, to nations which attempt to stifle belief in admissioi : he said the scheme had And the Re- Almighty God eventually !discover that Church has made in this country ought be held next October. f ailed b.,:.causc: the Communto be a sufficient antidote to pessim- public is now negotiating with the t hey are tilting in vain against an unists had aassed their militant atheism, ism about the future. Cardinal MacVatican for the immediate erection of dying quality in the human race—" a He salsas diat •da' Leaelie had split Rory, Primate of All Ireland, preachnine new dioceses. quality which in every century has the Comsa - iaist me•dnnent from top to dig at the Liverpool Cathedral cereproved an essential to permanent proGreat Days in Austria. bottom. mony last Whitsuntide, at which he Coming back to Europe, we find Aus- gress." presided as Papal Legate, said: ''The Many people. too, :.aw a remarkable Consolations for "Reds." despentely poor economically, but tria winter has passed and the flowers have promising glorious Catholic develop- similarity between the President's inThey ie., ccins;,I.ng themselves appeared in your land. lie fair tree ment. Dr. Dollfus, carrying on the augural address and passages in the Ens omewhat s• eiag. ..1r, hbishop Wil' at the Catholic Faith, which had with. magnificent work of Mgr. Seipel, is pro- cyclical Quadragesimo Anno, liams stated ;... •..cntly, that, the State is the in dead cred and seemed all but The American Cabinet has a Cathofessedly laying the foundations of a gaining pry..c: ot the expense of fain' Dowry of Mary,' has bloomed again Christian State by putting into prac- lic member for the first time for 28 ily life and suit dity and that atioting under the freshening dews of a second He is Mr. :fames A. Farley, tice the principles of "Rertmi Novar- years. the A.,- c':!bisho again- the prastice of spring; and now, please God, the sum- urn" and 'Quadragesimo Anno.- God- Pdstrnaster General. r hri!7thinite a becoming more difficult mer and the harvest are at hand.is The Catholic Evidence Guild less textbooks have been banished from in nor t.- rialised .1nother word :ibout Communism. t he schools and the Government has spreading in the United States: seven A nothes thing that may console called Their local organisations are decreed religious instruction in the dioteses now have their outdoor then atelsehle • is the new Children • . cells." Catholics, too, have cells. In speakers. primary and secondary schools. and 'r or :`,,rsons Act, which Bishop the past 25 years-in this country, 32 Very little religious news comes out Portugal is rejoicing in the rebirth of Myers has described as "one nf the And established. Catholic activity, which is evident, in of Holland. But where the Churrch greatest menaces to the Catholic Church Carmels have been increased attendances at religious du- is concerned lack of news in the popuin thi:: country since the days of Em- Camels endure. Several members of the Irish Hierties, in the Press, the theatre, and the lar newspapers is generally good news. aniipation.- owing to the semi-secrecy that it is cinema. One important new develop- for it is anti-clericalism that makes the in which :ii:igistrates and public offi- archy have warned Ireland menaced by Communists. Dublin has ment is the formation of a Guild of headlines. The Dutch Cabinet has cials may nw decial the future of t wo "Red.' centres; but it is precisely Doctors. several Catholic members. children without taking first into act he Dublin diocese in which this year count their reigious beliefs] The Balkans. Catholic France. there has been a "shower" of new churBulgaria had a black day when King Official France continues to show in-Oontrasts. ches. And do the Communists in Irethe Church, Boris, bowing to the dictates of his Catho:ics ie this country did not land number anything like the mem- creasing goodwill towards are showing, •Ministers, allowed his infant daughter hear much of the voice from Moscow, bers of the Holy Family Confraternny and individually Catholics the Faith. to be baptised into the Orthodox to but they did hear the voice of the in Limerick alone—nearly 10,000 men greater public devotion inChurch after giving the holy Father a are priesthood the to Sovereign Pontiff calling them to Vocations communicants? and women, all regular R ome and well over 5,000 made the creasing enormously: in the Paris dio- specific promise—on the occasion of his Upheavals in Germany. j ourney to the Eternal City to gain cese alone the seminary students have marriage to Princess Giovanna of Italy Germany has been and is a storm increased since 1926 from 620 to 820. — to have his children brought up as the Jubilee Indulgences and pay homEarly in the centre for Catholics. Significant was the election of a Ca- Catholics. age to the Vicar of Christ. Government census Spores issued t year 600 Catholic newspapers were tem- tholic to represent 400,000 French railThe C.ommunists arranged anti-religiporarily supressed by the "nervy" Nazi waymen on the Superior Council of year showed that at the end of It OM plays to be given in various parts Chancellor. and later a big Catholic Labour. Previously the post had al- the Catholics in Czecho-Slovakia numof the country. Little enough was Congress was broken up. The Hierar- ways been held by a candidate of the bered 11,416.752 out of the total popula• heard of them. But the girls of the chy at one time had to forbid Catho- General Confederation of Labour, an tian of 14,729.551. The Catholic popu. . Grail astonished London with their lics to belong to Herr Hitler's party. organisation that was formerly "neu- lotion has increased by 499,284 in 10 amazing mass performance of "EveryAttacks on individual Catholics and tral" but has now become somewhat y ears. man" in the Albert Hall. London, begroups of Catholics are reported fre- anti-religious—and suffered in conseIn Yugoslavia the Papal Nuncio h fore an audience of 8,000. Catholic organisation suf- quence. quently. t a protest against. newspaper a., On the whole the people of this countre appear to have gone one step nearfered a bitter blow by the extinction A force of more than 2,000,000 Ca- on the Vatican: and the residence of the Centre Party, which in the days tholics was created during the year by the Archbishop of Zagreb aer to the position foreshadowed by Bismarck kept Catholics together the amalgamation of the Ligue Patrioti- lly police But is it lselievEsi • many Bishops and priests: in time they will be either Catholics or nonand eventually, by calm persistence, que des Francaises and the Ligue des troubles are not likely to lead foreed the repeal of anti-Catholic laws. Femmes Francaises. ous breach in the country's relation, Christians. A Concordat between the Vatican and In Italy, Church and State are work- with the 'Holy See. "NCWC" For England. the Reich has eased the. situation, but ing side by side in cordial co-operation. Swiss Victories. The next great task for the Church the sterilisation law due to be enforced The serious friction a few years ago Belgium has no upheavals to report in this country, already indicated by in the New Year seems to threaten an centred mainly on the care of Youth: the. Socialists and anti-clericals run members of the Hierarchy, is the consoupheaval. There is, however, one con- a few weeks ago the Minister of -Edtica• bad second in King :Albert's countr lidation of all the Catholic forces under solation: the anti-God Communists tion in collaharation with the ecclesiIn Switzerland Catholics and n the direct guidance of the Bishops—in have been crushed. astical authorities, authorised the ap- Catholics of the Basle Canton cr—' o ther words, the establishment of napointment of 544 chaplain,: for the Bal. Pc1 to defeat an official veto on re Spain's Triumph. tion-wide Catholic Action. We. may The Zurich Govery in the schools. Catholic Spaia gave its Communists ma. the Fascist youth organisation. Yet see in this country some organisaAnother example of cordial co-opera- ment now has its first Catholic memtion similar to the National Catholic and Masons a stashing blow only a feav Welfare Conference in the United weeks ago,- repudiating, by popular tion: When 100 Italian airmen set off ber since the Reformation. -0.0-1011 ,41Hb..041. • O.-14. -•••• 410. .0#1.- -4,40-404
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