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SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR.
THURS DAY. MAY 30, 1940.
REDS COPYING THE NAZIS Impose Robber-Taxes on Religion London.
NAZI ANT-GOD OUTRAGES IN POLAND
As foreshadowed in the London Universe" last March, the Soviet attack on Catholicism in Poland is taking a financial course similar to that emploved by the Reich. f the churches that were ter the Russian occupation open again; but for permisrry on their work they are pay taxes which amount to
Rome. Marriage between Poles is forbidden, and the teaching of religion is banned
from the schools, states Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, in a second report on the Germans' anti-religious outrages in that country.
bery.
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'hurch of St. Mary Magdalen in being made to pay 12,000 rounth. Nearly all churches in ict are forced to pay thounonth, while their congregae been reduced to appalling with not enough money to th arest necessities of liv. lectris light, churches are asked ·ight times the amount paid in
privat house F r his private lodging a priest must For a pay ight roubles a month,
imilr lodging an ordinary worker pay onl 60 kopek. Nun: are a gain being allowed t d me teaching, provided that they di rd ny ·lothing that could be said » have religious significance, schools are being opened. abstaining from sending his ·hild t this school must pay 400 r mor roubles fine.
Another idea copied from the Reich that children at these schools are promised sweets if they catch and report their parents expressing dissatis faction with the State. i:
In aim
st ever respect Soviet per ution of th Church follow the ext by Hitler; the Church is not mpie penly outlawed, but the lif of anyone who openly remains faithful t th
'hurch is made a misery. Anti-God propaganda increas In one final respect also, the result f the persecution is the amt. A refugee just rut of Lwow states that before leaving he went to Mass in the Church of St. Nicholas. It was so full that there was standing room only; and at Communion the
whole congregation moved forward to the Communion rails.
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The Cathedral of Polplin has become a garage, the chapel attached to it a dance-hall. Hundreds of priests have been hot, and hundred more imprim I. A quarter a million people from one province have been forcibly evacuated under barbarous conditions and t a temperature of 40 degrees below zero. Many old people nd infants died in the truck Th population of Gdynia has dropp:d from 120,000 t 15,000. At Kalsz the parish priest was led
to his execution barefoot, Jews were
compelled to tie him to the stake.
FRENCH BISHOP IS CORPORAL. Bishop Benusart, Vicar apitular o Pari. wa mad n honorary c re in a French infantry regiment when h mad recent visit t the Maginot Line. H will receive his stripe Jul 14. Fran ' national holiday. a
MURDERED BISHOP MAY BE CANONISED. Peking. Testimony gathered in connection with the violent death under heroic circumstances, ten years ago, of Bishop Louis Versiglia, a Salesian and Vicar Apostolic of Shinchow, China, has just t ·en published. Within two years of the Bishop's death preliminary steps were taken for the introduction of the cause for his anonisation.
The publication of the testimony advances the proceedings to their second stage.
BRITISH SOLDIER IS SAVED BY FRENCH NUN. General Viscount Gort tells in a general routine order how a Fenoh nun saved the life of a British soldir Sh is a Sister of Mercy-Sister Hortense ·and she was collecting for the per ot France in a British camp. Seeing "a soldier with his clothes in flames." states the British mmander-in-Chief, "she seized a blanket, ran to the soldier, and wrapped the blankt round him until the flames were extinguished. ··Though imperilled by her voluminous clothing, Sister Hortense acted with complete disregard for her own personal
fety."
Portugal Has New Concordat
I s ee W tl• h H [oly
Rome I new oncordat signed on Tuesday morning, 7th, inst., between the Holy See and Portugal includes a provision that the Pope shall personally and directlv nominate the Bishops for Portugal and Portuguese possessions.
In several countries including Spain -it has been the custom for the Government to nominate Bishops for approval to the Holy See. Among the 31 articles
oncordat are the
lowing
i the
E.LUISINI 3d.
Recognition by the State of the un!re~j~ racer or i marase bond, R ·titution of property which the hurch wa dispossessed t the time f the Separation; Nomination by the Pope per mnall and directly of the Bishops. Relisiou: instruction t be establish ed in schools, The practice of religion ed in the Army. The Church to have authority t ound free schools Th Portuguese Legation at the Vatican is to be raised to the tatus o r Embassv.
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