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PERTH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1941.
NO. 2,998.
Spain, Argentine, Brazil FRENCH HIERARCHY SUPPORTS PETAIN Give Family Allowances Resists Single National Youth
Recent family legislation in Spain and in the Argentine was described in a Vatican radio broadcast, while later reports indicate that Portuguese influence has inspired a similar move in Brazil.
Movement "We wish for sincere and complete loyalty to the established powers. "We recognise the head of the State and warmly urge all France to unite around him. "We urge the faithful to work side by side with him in the work of renovation which he has undertaken in the sphere of the family, work and the nation." This statement was contained in a document drawn up in Paris by the Cardinals and Archbishops of Occupied France on July 24 and addressed to the Holy Father. "Beyond Politics." Inviting Catholics to collaborate in Catholic Action, the French prelates ask that they adapt themselves to the
In Spain, a new law for the protection of large families, which was drawn up by the Minister of Labour, has been approved by the Council of Ministers. A large family is defined as one in which there are five or more children below the age of 23 years, or even above this age if for any reason inLarge capacitated from working. families are subdivided into two classes, those with five to seven children, and those with eight or more children.
All these families are accorded spe. cial privileges and benefits, as compared with smaller families, in regard to education, taxation, travel by road and rail, holidays at the seaside and at
inland health resorts, treatment at sanatoria, and unemployment benefits. In the Argentine, the Archbishop of Santa Fe has sent a congratulatory message to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Santa Fe on the passing of a Bill providing for family wages and according special privileges to mothers of families who are compelled to work outside their homes to support their families (because, e.g., their husband is dead or sick). His Grace describes the measure as the most practical of the many acts by which the Argentine celebrated the fif tieth anniversary d. the publication of Leo XIII's Ency kcal, "Rerum Novarum," Brazil has also joined the ranks of the countries which are basing their social welfare on the solid foundation of the family. By a recent decree law marriage loans and family allowances have been introduced as well as other reforms, which show the influence of the Catholic State of Portugal on the daughter -country.
It is provided that marriage loans
must be used to acquire immovable property, the intention being to encourage young people to set up homes Other loans are availof their own. able for household effects.
Repayment of the loan is spread over 20 years, and there is a reduction of 10 per cent. of the initial sum on the birth of each child. When a child
GENERAL FRANCO. reaches the age of ten years, a further reduction of 10 per cent. is made if the borrower gives proof of proper care and education of the child. Provision is made for a moratorium on the monthly repayments in cases of sickness or unemployment. Where more than one child attends any higher school directed or oontrolled by the State, there is a reduction of 20 per cent. in the fees of the second child, 40 per cent. for the third and 60 per cent, for the fourth and subsequent children. All Federal, State and municipal employees of every kind, including soldiers and reserves, are to have a family allowance of 20 milreis (about 10s. at par) monthly for each independent child. A family allowance is also provided for unemployed 'fathers of families.
In the case of large families not coming into any of the above categories, a monthly allowance of 100 milreis is payable for the eighth child and 20 milreis for each subsequent child. wherever the family income is not sufficient to provide for all. Included as children for the purposes of this provision are all children incapable of work though over that age, and any person under 18, or over 18 and in-
capacitated, permanently care of another.
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CATHOLIC YOUTH IN LATIN
AMERICA The Vatican wireless recently gave a detailed account of the third Catholic Students' Congress of Latin America, held at Bogota, Colombia, at which representatives of Catholic youth organisations from most of the Latin American republics compared methods of Catholic Action in their schools and The Nuncio Apostolic, universities. the Archbishop -Primate of Bogota, the wife of the President of the Colombian Republic, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, were among the distinguished guests at the opening session in the Jesuit College of San Bartolome. The Brazilian Minister of Education stated recently that "the President of the Brazilian Republic has put an end to the rule of secularism and is introducing religion as an educational factor in Brazilian the school life of Brazil." education has suffered severely from the secularist measures in force during the last twenty years, he said, adding that "we must forget the ancient assumption in favour of secularism in the school. An educational system based on religion is the best system to form patriots." The President of the Eduardo Colombian Republic, Dr. Santos, in a message to the National Congress, referred to the good relations in his country between Church and State.
MARSHAL PETAIN. exigencies of the moment, but add that "we insist that the activities of the Catholic movement be limited to objects exclusively religious, apostolic and social-beyond all party politics," Referring to the youth movement, the French Cardinals and Archbishops say: "They speak more and more of a single organisation for youth. If this expression means that they ask for the suppression of our youth movement, of its spirit, of its method of formation,' we cannot accept it." "Youth united' in the service of country? Yes. A single organisation of youth? No."
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The French Cardinals and Archbishops insist on the necessity of a frank realism of a Christian character, namely, the care of souls according to the. traditional ideal, the multiplication of: efforts to restore a sound, strong France: to her place in a pacified Europe, the. capacity for facing events without the illusion of too easy hopes and the vain expectation of purely external intervention, and with the conviction that salvation must come from within: "More than ever we shall remain, solely on the religious level-above alt party politics, notwithstanding appeals that might be directed to us from any'y, party," they conclude.
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