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Official Organ of theArchdlocese of Perth A CATHOLIC WEEKLY CIRC1TLATING THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. ESTABLISHED 1874. Registered at the G.P.O., Perth, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper. PRICE THREEPENCE
No. 2,811
PERTH, SATURDAY, MARC-1 3, 1934
Vol. LX
Intensity of Mexican Persecution Government's Shameless Violation of Agreement with Holy See Deepenino in severity and hatred as they increa,: . the regulations against religion an being augmented by the Mexican Co s. 7nment. The Gvc nment recently issued fresh orders that no priest, unless duly authorised. should offer Mass in any way whatsaever; that if any ,.vere f ound doing sea he would hs punished to the full of the law. The Archbishop of Mexico City must minister ah‘oe to the Cathedral parish, offering threo hfassesdaily, learineconfessicme. attending calls from the sick. doina all the parish wark alime The Areh' ,Hh• ,p has asked for a priest to be authorised to serve in his place if he were aahen ill. The Gahernment has es a7-sitlY denied his regaest. The then President, Portes Bil. at the time ths Aniat)lic Delegate to Mexico. the Mo-t Rev. Leopold.) Ruiz y Flores, Ar hhh:hon of Morelia ancopted his agrec: •nr. announced publicly that the Gnvernment would give to the laws of Mssieo concerning reliaicua w orship an interpretation that would allow adequate opportunity for public 'religious an-ship. and ag-eci. mereover, to return to the Cherch all the properties that the Church had had lit use prior to the suspension oi nuhlic w orship: ato!. while acting fasouriblv on a new i,r.tHoti from the Catholiien r
the Congress would modify all the laws unjust to the Church. Only on these assurances did the Holy See allow the Mexican Hierarchy to resume public worship. 1he Mexican Government has not only not fulfilled its promises. but has arbitrarily reduced the number of priests who may officiate or administer, in such an absurd manner as to establish, in some parts of the Republic. one priest lot each 100,000 Catholics. Moreover, in the Federal District the priest can act only in one of the 25 churches. He may rot under any circumstances, officiate :n another church. Hardly a month has passed in the last Year. in which at least one priest has not been gaoled on the pretence that he was officiatina in a church for which he was not authorised. Week by week new presidential dc. crees close Catholic churches and turn the buildings over to the State or to Recently the some non-Catholic sect Church of Jesus and Mary in the Capital was so closed. and it is reported here that the Government will turn it over the Jews of tlr,t vicinity to be nsed as a synagogue. The Church of Santa Catalina has been given to the Protestants. The Suprceme Court has reversed the favourahle derision of the
The Holy See's Activities What the Vatican Directory Shows The Anntiart.-k. Pontificia Or official Vatican directory for the current rear, Which has just been published, is recarded with particular satisfaction by Catholics because it shows an increase in almost all the activities of the Holy See despite the financtal difficulties that the world depression brought in its wake.
t o Apostolic Vicarates. The new ones are in Chumatien and Suntachfin in China, Montagnosa. in the Philippines. the Bahama Islands and Beawada in India. • Missions increased from thirty-two to thirty-five, three new ones being created at Kodok in the Sudan, Loangra in Central Africa, and Yanku in China. The present Year opens with fifty-six A t the beginning of 1933 the States C ardinals in the Sacred. College against with diplomatic representation accreditfifty-three at the beginning of 1933. ed to the Vatican totalled thirty-six, Of the Cardinals of the Curia, twenwhile at the beginning of 1934 there are ta are Italians and three non-Itailans, thirty-seven, as a result of the addiof whom Cardinal Lepicier is French. tion al' the legation of Estonia. Cardinal Segura is Spanish. and CarThe Holy See's diplotnatic representadinal Ehrle is Germ:Intl tions abroad have increased from Of twentv-eight non-Italian- Cardinals thirty-two to thirty-four as a result of six are French. four are American. lout the creation of a single nunciature for are German three are Spanish. two are Polish. and one each belongs to the 'Honduras and San Salvador and an f ollowing nationalities' Belgian, TriSb, internunciature for Estonia. Hungarian, Portuguefle, Austrian. CanT welve States are represented by adian. Brazilian, English, and czechoemhassies accredited to the Holy See. Slovakias. namely. Argentina, Belgium. Bolivia, During 1933 seven new residential Brazil, Chili, Colombia, France. Gerdioceses and nine new titular ones man,a Italy. Peru. Poland, and Spain weve creatri. Twenty-five States .,re represented by The Anostolic Vicariate, which num- legaticns. namely: Austria. Bavaria, bered 253 at the beginning of 1933. had Czechoslovakia. Costa Rica, Estonia. increased to 259 by the beginning of Great Britain. Haiti, Honduras, Hun19:4 The new ones are French (tai- gary, Ireland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Liana in South America. Oungven Ya- beria. T,ithuania. Monaco, Nicaragua. e21,2w and Shankhai in China. and Lake t he Order of Malta. Ifanama, Portugal. rt in Central Afriea Prussia, Rumania, San Salvador, Santo .A.I3 San Marino, and Venezuela 105 toQstolic prefectures increased from Domingo. 106 . Derina 1933 some sixty ishops and Five new ones were created durina the rear since four went ta Archbishops died, while about 100 new l'ePlace apostolic prefectures promoted ones were created.
District Court in the amparo against
Next in paucity of olerical personnel;
matics. The six churches in the Federal District authorisel for the foreign colonies still remain open for public worship.
tion of 528.654. is permitted only frau pi jests or one to every 132,03 persons
the handing over of the Church of St. according to the figures, comes the I Joseph of the Labourers to the schis- State of Chiapas, which with a popula-
. lite most recent figures relating to State legislation in Mexico limiting the number of clergy reveal that only 1.024 priests are permitted to minister to the spiritual needs of 15,01Z573 persons throughout the vast :n-ea of 1,671,704 square kilometers.
Vera Cruz, domain of the persecuting erstwhile Governor. Adalberto Tejecla, is ranked next, with one priest to every 105,8EC of population, but since the State is populated with 1.376.476 citizens, 13 priests are permitted withiti its confines.
The State of Morelos hag a law oi restriction. but is better equipped The figures obtained in this survey' under its law than the other States in show that laws restricting the number the matter of clerical facilities. The of clergy have been -nacted in every law in Morelos allows one priest to single State and in all the Federal dis every 3.31S of population: With it§ tricts of the country. ind that in prac- 132.723 people, the State is' thus entically no political division of the na- abled to enjoy the work of 40 priests tion is the number of slergy permittei within . its borders. in any sense proportionate to the de .1 little wore, than 'lie lot of More tnands made upon clergy by the extent arc the conditions in the States of of the areas and the size of the populations. Some Statea are less severe Nayarit. Tlaxcala and Colima, Nayarit nermits the same number of priests as in their restrictions thln others. Morelos-40--but has a pr nalattoit of The State of Tabasco. a king-stand- 167.721 or one religious to every 4.193 ing centre of bitter persecution against Tlaxcala, with a population of 907):;7s the Church. is notable for such legis- is permitted 36 priests. or one to 5.710 lation, since only one priest is perCIIim:1 falls 'within this mitted there. He most carry omit his group. with 12 priests permitted there spiritual mission among 224,168 soul •(.6?,301 1,t1.rscr,s. or one to every 5.191
Futile and Impracticable :-tcriiisation as a method of eugenics was criticised as futile and irnpractio able by Dr. Alexander Fraser. professor of Pathological Histology at New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. in an article appearing in the current issue of thz. 1.inacre Quarterly, official organ of the Federated Catholic Physicians' Guild of that city. The article is a sumefai y of an illustrated lecture given by Dr. Fraser at tha Fall meeting of the Manhattan Dr. Fraser is a convert to Guild. the Catholic Church. The futility of sterirsation as a method to advance the cause of eugenics. Dr. Fraser says, is based on the biological fact that it requires two "recessive defective genes" in the same pair "to give the individual characteristic, so that a person may have one of such defective genes and be perfectly normai." "A person that has defects in both genes of any pair that has tq do with the formation of the brain will be ' feeble-minded. he adds, "but a person having only one surii gene in the pair will be normal tar perhaps superion." Declaring that eugenics can 7ucceed "only if it eliminates from the race defective genes." Dr. Fraser points nut that it is impossible at this time t detect defective. gene in normal persons Continuing, he says that "the great bulk of the feeble-minded come not from the mating of feeble-minded persons. but from the 'carriers.' that ;c. Persons who•are normal or even superior, but carry in their chromosomes a -ingle defective gene which, when mated with a similar gene from another
1-7'cr: will give rise to a te(bI, • With our sent knowledge. Dr. l'rLcer says. js no war of detecting" the so-called "carriers." since "such persons are nornos! (17 e re-% silperior. in •!eir phenotepical tharacteristies.The engenist exhibits "an-Ither fundamental fallacy.- Dr. Fraser goes on, w hen he regards "the inherited genes as independent entities.- He then points out that there is an interdependence between genes and environment, that environment affects appreciably the functioning of the genes. "In the case of our over -numerous Young American criminals." ha adds. "we are dealing with a make-up of such 'pliable' genes—which in an environment of Fcvertv with consequent loss of opportunity, had home ssarroundings, materiali ti- education. lack of moral and, above all, of religious training, give to all arades af defectives.—depondents. rielinouents, and all of criminals, whereas the same genes in an entirely different wholesome environment would develop the characteristics of the idea!, model citizen.' "In conclusion." he declareA. "we may say that the ideal of eugenics is a worthy one, but that the measure sn f ar Prcrc-seil for its acaamplishment are impracticable,. even when then are Even if we could by i t immoral. means of some .hfippv discovery detect all the hidden defective genes in the race, and bv some other happy method aet rid of theln all, we hive abundant e vidence that they are being manufactured in normal indisaAnaiQ aesasa, as fast as we could possibly get rid of them." I,
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