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easily-read leaflet of simple prayers to be read in the home and in air raid (*eters has been issued by Burns Oates at the request of Cardinal Hinzley. The leaflet consists of night prayers and the Missal prayers for peace, friends, enemies, sick, wounded, dead and dying-translated by Mgr. Ronald Knox. In large print, for subdued light, it is within the means of every Catholic at 10d. a dozen copies. The leaflet has been edited by two A priests, at the Cardinal's request. striking cover design has been drawn by Dom Theodore Baily, O.S.B. Family Prayer Plea. Cardinal Hinsley wrote to his clergy a few weeks ago: ''As the black -out has so much disturbed our evening services and Benediction we need more than ever increasing prayer. We beg you to urge the practice of family prayers, once so regularly recited in Catholic homes, that God may guide and bless our country and restore true peace." The leaflet supplements this request.
Albert Pleach, Counsellor of the Haitian Legation to the Holy See, and his bride, Leonia Caro, both converts from Judaism, received the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist and Matrimony on the same morning at the Tomb of St. Peter at the hands of Cardinal Tedeschini, Archpriest of St. Peter's. The godfathers at the Baptism and Confirmation were Mgr. Mella, Maestro di Camera to the Holy Father, and
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During last year the S. Roman Rota granted only 21 nullity decrees. Judgment was given in 76 cases, and in 55 the auditors held that the contract and ceremony had been valid. Vatican Radio, commenting upon these figures said: "Our listeners do not need to be told that the process is not equivalent to divorce court proceedings. The only condition on which the Church allows liberty to 'remarry' is when it is proved that there is no marriage from the start. "We may underline that 21 cases were recognised in 12 months among a world population of 332,000,000 CathoThat of itself testifies to the lics. sanctity of Catholic marriage. 31 Cases, No Fees. "Of these 76 cases, 31 were dealt with in 'forma pauperis'-that is, free of fee-and in 11 of these the decree of nullity was granted. In other words, the proportion of nullity decrees granted in the free cases was higher than in those where the advocates' expenses were paid by the parties. "This is another confirmation of what Catholics already knew but of what non-Catholics are slow to learn-that the number of decrees granted is infinitesimal and secondly that the poor and the rich get equal treatment before the tribunal."
Signor Camillo Corsanego, a Consistorial advocate, who also acted as the witnesses at the
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U.S. Archbishop Borrows £3,600,000 TO PAY PARISH DEBTS. Through practically all the banks in Detroit and from national insurance societies Archbishop Mooney-formerly Apostolic Delegate in India-has received a lump sum of about £3,600,000 (at the pre-war rate of exchange) to pay off the parochial debts of his diocese. The debts were incurred during the boom period from 1918 until the bottom suddenly fell out of the market in 1929. During that period Detroit was the fastest -growing Catholic diocese in the world. Debts of millions were piled up in the expectation that prosperity would go on unceasingly. The repayment plans have taken two years to work out. Insurance companies have invested 5,500,000 dollars in the refinancing through a 12 -year loan secured by mortgage notes on specific parochial properties. The First National Bank, which holds about 4,500,000 dollars worth of parochial obligations, is exchanging the present paper it holds for new 12-year notes secured by mortgages. The banks take the rest-about 8,000,000 dollarsan on eight-year loan covered by serial notes. All Parishes Co -Operate. With the co-operation of all the 200 parishes, the diocese is to try to repay the principal and interest in less than 12 years. To ensure sufficient funds, rectors have agreed to curtail their expenditure on imnrovements and renairs and to limit new loans and new building. Rectors of debtless parishes are to lend their surplus funds to the Archbishop, who has agreed to pay interest on their loans and eventually repay the principal. The minimum principal and interest payments in any year will be about 1,300,000 dollars.
Heavy penalties are provided for in case of default. As a point of honour, Archbishop Mooney has undertaken to repay the full amount which parishes formerly borrowed even though it proved necessary to seek some adjustment of interest charges. He regards this as fair dealing and welcomes it also for its salutary effect on the credit of the diocese. The 18,000,000 dollar debt mainly represents real estate and schools, churches, convents, presbyteries and other parochial buildings erected in more than 100 new parishes.
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His Eminence Karel Cardinal Has par, Archbishop of Prague, died on Monday, April 21.
Cardinal Kaspar, who would have been 71 years old last month, had been in poor health for some time. His Eminence was stricken in the summer of 1937 while on a visit to Rome, and returned home to undergo a serious operation. He recovered sufficiently to return to Rome by the end of the year, but he had recurring illnesses. In 1939, the German Gestapo invaded Cardinal Kaspar's residence and in. spected his papers. Cardinal Kaspar was born at Mirosoy, Bohemia, on May 16, 1870, the son of the headmaster of an elementary school. He studied for the priesthood in Rome, and was ordained at St. John Laterans on February 25, 1893. On April 11, 1920, Dr. Kaspar was solemnly consecrated Bishop of Hradec Kralove, and on October 22, 1931, succeeded Archbishop Kordac as Prince -Archbishop of Prague. He was proclaimed a Cardinal in the Consistory of December 16, 1935. Apart from a great number of books which he wrote on Canon Law and kindred subjects, the Cardinal was the author of many treatises on the Popes. The elevation of Archbishop Kaspar to the Sacred College of Cardinals was preceded by a great event in young Czechoslovakia's history, the "All-Catholic Congress," which took place in the summer of 1935, when half a million pious sons and daughters of the Church manifested their faith and devotion to the Holy Father, regardless of nationality and party allegiance, in obedience to Archbishop Kaspar's appeal.
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