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SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
PERTH, THURS DAY, MAY 29. 1941.
NO. 2,974.
Hundreds of Catholics Die
Clydeside Raids London
SPAIN BANS CIVIL MARRIAGES.
The aaj6rit
TOO BAD.
and Clydeside-1
tholics. Whole milli, were killed. A Merseyside priest and three servants sheltering wdth him under the presbytery we killed by a bomb which destroyed his church. He is the eighth priest killed in raids. A Clydeside priest was injured and several others were cut while ministering to sufferers.
It is reported from Switzer-
Madrid.
land that the Soviet Russian censor has forbidden the importation of eight books hostile to the Catholic Church, which appeared in Germany. They are held to be pornographic and contain a falsification of athe-
An order has been issued here banning drill marriages in Spain except between non-Catholics.
Non -Catholics must prove, by producing documents or signing an affidavit, that they were not baptised in the Catholic Faith.
ism.-"Universe."
"What Hitler Sells Wholesale, Australia Sells Retail" "The present world war, like every phase of the political and economic unrest in the world to -day, was but a symptom and a result of a more deepseated disease," said Rev. L. Rumble, M.S.C., DD., speaking to over 6,000 members of the Holy Name Society at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, on Sunday, 18th. inst. "The thing that could produce a Hitler or a Stalin was more important than the troubles such men had produced.
"The disease of secularism," Dr. Rumble continued, "is rampant in our midst. We do not have to send an expeditionary force overseas to meet it. It is the enemy within the gates. What Hitler sells wholesale, we sell retail. What he wants to impose on nations we impose on ourselves.
"Hitler works on the fundamental principle that one may do whatever he
finds useful, whether it is right or not. Even God and religion do not really matter. If they do not suit you, ignore them, or even suppress them.
"That principle is very widely acHitler has merecepted in Australia. ly pushed to its logical extreme in the international field what is accepted here by multitudes of individuals within our own nation-the pagan way of life and the abolition of moral obligations.
'Of that paganism and immorality
we have evidence enough in the flood
books, magazines, and even, at times, in some of our Australian daily Some of and Sunday newspapers. our newspapers intersperse with their otherwise harmless contents tit -bits of immoral filth and dirt opposed to all ordinary decencies, catering for the animal, sensual, and beastly instincts of a certain class of reader. of
"Were not the demand for such a type of reading matter, filthy pictures, cartoons, and jokes so extensive, it would not pay to publish them. And that there is such an extensive demand indicates how far-reaching and malignant is the growth of the disease we must try to eradicate. The Church, upholding the cause of Christ and denouncing rationalism, Socialism, and atheism, must live and try to function in a world that hated it and would be rid of it." Although Dr. Rumble has been back in Australia for some weeks now, he will not be resuming his Question Box Session on Station 2SM, Sydney, for some time, In an open letter to the Catholic men
of Sydney, Dr. Rumble explains that on his return to Australia he was asked to undertake a series of missions for the particular benefit of non-Catholics
throughout the metropolitan area DR. L. RUMBLE, M.S.C.
For Value and Service
Sydney.
of the victims of the intense air raids on Merseyside dead, 1,300 injured-are believed to have been Ca -
of
Hearing a bomb e4plode nearby, a parish priest on Clideside at once gave general absolution to parishioners who were taking part in a whist drive for a Polish relief fund in the parish hall, The assembly-including Polish soldiers-then hurried to shelter. One Clydeside church was reduced Three other churto a total wreck. ches there were so severely damaged that Mass cannot be celebrated in them. A Liverpool church was destroyed; presbyteries and schools were
badly damaged. One Soots pariah lost its church, presbytery and school. A home for sick children in Scotland was wrecked. No children were there at the time and the four nuns in the building escaped uninjured. For hours on end Clydeside priests worked furiously ministering to their stricken people. Most of the clergy, already fully trained in first -aid, were at the rest centres and first -aid posts at the height of the blitz. A non-Catholic minister in one badly affected area said to a "Universe'' reporter: "The blitz gave me the opportunity to work side by side with your Catholic priests and your Catholic people, and I cannot praise them high lc I have nothing but admiratikli for the priests; they welt magnificent in the face of danger." While bombs were falling, four young priests were seen visiting homes, seeking out their parishioners. A Catholic who was sheltering asked for a blessing. The priest paused and gave it to him. The man told the "Universe" that that gesture had a very deep effect upon the non-Catholic bystanders. Three Clydeside priests and a number of men parishioners fire -watching at a school were blown across the room by bomb blast. One of the priests was badly shaken,
but before he would go for treatment
he assured himself of the safety of another priest who was ill and then groped his way through debris to remove the Blessed Sacrament from the church.
A Catholic Truth Society mobile canteen went into action as soon as
the Clydeside blitz began. whose A Liverpool Benedictine school was hit-was speaking to two men at a street corner when a bomb They were killed, but he was not fell. even injured. Another Merseyside parish church was considerably damaged when in-
cendiary and high explosive bombs fell The church was savin the district. ed from complete destruction through the vigilance of the parochial fire watchers in tackling incendiary bombs. DUTCH NAZIS DEFY BURIAL BAN. A report has reached Dutch circles in London that by order of the German authorities a member of the Dutch Nazi Party was buried in the Catholic cemetery at Bleyerheide (Limburg) in violation of a ban by the clergy and after the refusal of the sacraments. ONLY CATHOLIC IN CHURCHILL GOVERNMENT.
With his appointment as Joint Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Duke of Norfolk becomes the only Catholic in the present Government of Great Britain. His Holiness Pope Pius XII has named the Duke a Knight of the Grand Cross in the Order of Pius in recognition of his representation of King George VI at the Coronation of the present Pontiff. His Excellency the Most Rev. William Godfrey, Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, visited the Duke's Arundel Castle to bestow the insignia. King George has given the Duke permission to wear the insignia on public occasions.
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