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Noted Jewish Author Becomes Catholic DEATH PENALTY FOR LISTENING TO VATICAN RADIO. Six persons, four men and two women, one of the latter 80 years old, were sentenced to death by the Soviet authorities in Lwow and executed because they had listened to Vatican broadcasts In the whole of the Western Ukraine short-wave receiving sets are being systematically confiscated to prevent the people from listening to the Vatican station. All the properties of the Most Rev. Andrij Szeptycky Bishop of Lwow, whose whereabouts are unknown, have been confiscated by the Soviet pact there.
Franz Werful, brilliant Jewish poet, novelist and playwright, has found peace and order in an exploding world. Chronicler and exile from the Europe now in flames, the author of the stirring "Forty Days of Musa Dagh" is now in the United States with a visa bearing testimony to another triumph He is now safe inside the walls at the end of the long road home --a convert to the Catholic Church. First news of his conversion to the Faith was made known by Benjamin Appel is, his roundup on "The Exiled Writers" in the October 19 issue of the "Saturday Review of Literature." In his story of those of the pen who have fled Europe's suppression by steel, Appel has this to say of Werful:
FRENCH BIRTHRATE INCREASE FOLLOWS FAMILY PROTECTION. There has been a slow but steady increase in the birthrate of France since the passage of social legislation protecting the family and assuring an adequate income, states the "Universe." In the second quarter of 1938 there For the same were 156,736 births. period in 1939 there were 157,155-an increase of 419. For the third quarter the increase was 1,085, and for the fourth, 1,713.
"Other writers witnessed the bombIn exile, they searched their minds and hearts for a meaning. Such a writer is Franz \Vertu', whose visa for Mexico describes his new faith as Roman Catholic. In France until two weeks ago, Werful, who it was feared, was taken prisoner by the Nazis, has just arrived in this country. His plans, literary and spiritual, had come close to being annihilated by the years of the bomb. "His new novel, 'Embezzled Heaven.' Book -of -the -Month for December, has chronicled the odyssey of a writer seekNEXT CHRIST THE KING CONing rootage that Fascism could not amGRESS FOR SPAIN. with shrieking steel. During Vienna.- "Schonere Zukunft," Ca. putate the story, Austria is Nazified, but Wertholic magazine here, says that the per. ful is mainly interested in the inner manent committee of Christ the King events, the inner travels of the writer congresses has announced that the next Odysseus, who finally finds permancongress will be held in Spain in Oc- ence in Catholicism." tober, 1941, and that the Spanish flierBorn in Prague, capital of conquered archy has approved. Czecho-Slovakia in 1890, Werful is the son of a rich and cultured Jewish manuRUMANIA PUTS -CHECK UPON facturerFirst famed as a poet, he RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES. later became known as a new prophet Only those religious communities esof spiritual renascence. And it is in tablished in Rumania before April 22, his latest book, "Embezzled Heaven," 1928, are permitted to remain in the Werful pens the story of how he country and keep their property ac- that came to the Faith. cording to a law promulgated under Berating the frenzied triumph of the the new regime deniers of the spiritual domain who The superiors and all the members exalted time, work and money to the of the permitted communities must he Rumanian citizens and reside in the place of the Divine Trinity, Werful strikes the keynote of his swift -paced country. novel in his epilogue line-"The Hea. New religious communities may be yen of which we have been defrauded established only by special government is the great deficit of our age " permission.-"Universe."
DUBLIN'S NEW ARCHBISHOP. Dublin has one of the youngest Archbishops in the world, in the person of the Most Rey. Dr- John Charles McQuaid. The new 45-year-old Irish Archbishop succeeds the late Archbishop Edward J. Byrne, who died in February. Dr. McQuaid is a member ,f the Congregation of the Holy Ghost and has been a professor at one of Iremost renowned secondary land's schools, Blackrock College, for many years.
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DI EV I, Christendom made repeated attempts to reconcile the diverse ideals of the soldier and the monk, ' it said. "One method was that of the armed monasticism of the Templar and Hospitaller Knights. Ignatius inverted that example by seeking to endow with the military virtues a body of men who should fight only with the sword of the gimE
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The "Times" editorial goes on: "The Jesuits undergo a training of the severest character, solely designed to make them proficient in wielding the arms required for their warfare-philosophy, theology, and the special dialectic of the Society. "Absolute obedience to the orders of their superior officers is the very essence of their discipline; and their readiness to shed their blood for their cause is attested by a long list of martyrs, which the tragedies of the present generation have shown to be by no means closed. "By the practice of th,ase virtues the they have made themselves main army of the Church and to them belongs the chief human credit for the survival of the Roman Church into the modern world."
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Jesus is paid in a "Times" article on the occasion of the Society's 400th, anniversary. The "Times" remarks that the society keeps its fourth centenary, as it kept its first and second, in the midst of European war.
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