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Australian Priests and Bombed Site Gives fresh Clue Nuns Arrive in Japan VATICAN CITY,
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NAGASAKI, Dec. 10 -(NC). Giovanni Panico, former Apostolic -Six Sisters of the Good SamariDelegate in Australia, has arrived tan and three priests have arrivin Rome, where he will spend a ed here from Australia to open vacation before going to his new houses of their respective compost as Papal Nuncio to Peru. Archbishop Paola Marella, form- munities. The Sisters, who will open their er Apostolic Delegate in Japan, has been transferred to Australia first house in this country, were to fill Archbishop Panico's post. welcomed at the railroad station
Bishop Paul Yamaguchi, of Nagasaki. One of the first undertakings of the group will be the establishment of a clinic. All the Sisters had studied Japanese, and after perfecting themselves in the LONDON, Dec. 10-(NC).-A forgotten vault, dislanguage they will also establish covered oy chance near the bombed ruins of Chelsea Old a girls' school. Church, in London's West End, has led to a new attempt The Congregation of the Sit to prove or disprove the ancient tradition that the headless ters of the Good Samaritan was body of St. Thomas More was buried there after his execuestablished in Australia about 100 years ago, and their house in tion in 1535. Nagasaki is their first undertakded coffin and shreds of cloth, but when made was ing outside of their native counThe discovery were found to be of the try. a woman gardener working in the these exFurther century. eighteenth ancient churchyard caused a sud- plorations of the underground The priests to arrive were den subsidence of the soil, dis- area are now being undertaken. Father Bell, Fkrovincial of the to know never vault a closing Marist Fathers in Australia, and the authorities of the now ProFathers McKenna and Thibault, of the Congregation of the Blesstestant parish. It is known that after St Another Fatima Cure? LONDON, Dec. 10.-(NC)-The Hierarchy has in- ed Sacrament. Thomas More's execution on ORENSE, Spain, Dec. 9.- structed the Catholic Missionary Society, 'of which the Tower Hill, his daughter, Mar- (NC).-An aged woman of Cam- Rev. John C. Heenan is Superior, to preach a General KANGTING, Sikang, Dec. 9.severed the took garet Roper, recognition of his serpo de Becerro, near here, afflictIn (NC).-In bead to the Roper family vault ed with paralysis for 25 years, Mission throughout England and Wales during 1949. vices to China during 44 years of at St. Dunstan's, Canterbury, 60 has been reported cured after announcing it, Father Heenan said that some Religious mission work here, and the cremiles south-east of London. The praying before a statue of Our Orders in this country will invite volunteers from among dit that his devotion has reflectplace of burial of the martyr's Lady of Fatima, which is on a the American clergy. ed on France, Bishop Sylvian P. body, however, has been a mat- pilgrimage in this area. alentin, of Kangting, of the The reThe port states that the ter of much controversy. woman Father Heenan recalled that will naturally want some guaran- Paris Foreign Mission Society, most widely accepted theory is walked to the church in her town last year, during the Oxford tee of their ability. For this has been named by the Governthat the remains still lie in their to offer thanks for the extraor- campaign, two priests from reason volunteers will appreciate ment of France a Knight of the original burial place-the chapel dinary favour. Church authori- Chicago volunteered. that the C.M.S. must not only Legion of Honour. Bishop Valof St. Peter Ad Vincula, in the ties have so far reserved opinion Described as "by far the big- submit the names of volunteers entin, 68, left Europe for China. some old Tower of London, but on the reported cure. gest drive for the regeneration of to their local diocesan authori- in 1904, and has headed the authorities from the sixteenth the country," Missions will be ties, but also make enquiries as Kangting Diocese since 1927. century onwards have held that held in cities and towns from the may be necessary to establish Kangting is on the eastern edge the body was brought to Chelsea of Chinese Tibet. beginning of March to the end of their suitability for this work " Old Church. June and from the beginning of From descriptions given by to the end of the year. PARIS, Dec. 9-(NC).-Gen- October them it was believed to have been In villages and rural towns they interred in the vault beneath the eral Brisseaud-Dcsmaillet, noted will held during July and Augbe More family chapel there, under commander of an infantry divi- ust. I., has War World during sion St. by prepared epitaph an "The experience of the Oxford According to an anThomas himself during his life- just diedCampaign leads us to believe that When the church was ecdote, he had installed his com- many clergy not usually employtime. LONDON, Dee. 11-(NC).- children according to the Chrislargely destroyed by bombing mand post in the church of an ed in giving Missions will be able It means that pattern. during the war, the More Chapel evacuated village. The pastor services," Father His Eminence Bernard Cardinal tian their offer to the away to take of Westmin- parents will take personal care was the only part of the building sent a vicar Heenan said, in a circular to the Griffin, Archbishop Catholic had which and not hand Sacrament, children of the parBlessed ster, has called on to survive. When rebuilding was "The two essential rebut clergy. ents to resist State control of them over to others to be looked planned two years ago, this vault been left in the Tabernacle, to ability are, (1) quirements after. It means that you will was opened but nothing was the general wrote to the pastor: give audible and well -prepared their children. deciding "Let God be left with the infan- instructions on the Faith, and (2) found. "This is not the first time I take an active part in bethave not could the education which your upon He trymen. The new vault now discovered have spoken of the importance of out carry to zeal and health the and that, So the Blessed may, it is believed, be the actual ter company." Christian family life and the du- children are to receive vicar house -to -house visitation. send them vault in which the body was Sacrament stayed, and the ties and responsibilities of par- as Catholics, you will to acwilling diviin a the priests with "Parish educated trained' and chaplain to be A first exploration pro- became a placed. Do not ents their children. cept the services of volunteers allow for the State to relieve you of Catholic school. duced fragments of a brass -stud - sion. "It demands of the children these responsibilities because if you do, it will finally relieve you respect for their parents and of your children," the Cardinal fraternal love for the brothers and sisters of the same family. warned. "If you allow the State to "I do not think it is realised the apostolate," the broadcast monopolise the feeding, clothing how much increase in security declared that "this unexpected and education of your children," leads to a decrease in a sense of change in policy must be taken the prelate said, "it will do so in responsibility. Security is genit will accordance with its own ideas. It erally obtained by a loss of freeas a political move and deemed of is career it will the future when decide be modified hudecrease consequent "more and a dom NEW YORK, Dec. 11-(NC). munists have become their activity "to that a different policy would be your child, and finally direct him in responsibility, -Catholic missions in China look man," limiting (Communit which their work or industry value to to the rendering difficult if not abso- of more with "grave apprehension" on lutely impossible the exercise of ist) objectives." "It is for this reason that it considers best for the child and the community. You will have is so important that men should the decline of the regime of Genhave a much wider sense of reno say. eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and "But you have duties as Catho- sponsibility. Such a sense of re"all indications are that the li: parents to feed and clothe and sponsibility will be realised only shedding of Christian blood in I educate your child. This is not when men appreciate their digChina has not yet ceased," says This nity as workers and their respona duty; it is a right. Fides Agency of the Sacred ConAccording to only States. United 9.-(NC).-ToDec. CAIRO, means that you must train and sibility to God that their work of gregation for the Propagation Azhar the Al sources, role reliable mould the character of your should be well done. the Faith, according to an Eng- gether with the increasing affairs by University of Cairo, leading cullish -language broadcast of Vati- being played in world centre and seminary of the tural eviis there powers, Moslem the can Radio heard here. dence in this centre of Moham- Moslem world, has been requested Declaring that China's situa- medan culture of a new drive to furnish more ulemas and books to-day-politically, mili- to spread the Moslem religion on Moslem philosophy and thetion tarily and economically-is "as throughout the world. ology for these countries. tragic as any of the more dreadWASHINGTON-(NC).-Pub- Barry, Professor of Greek and However, in sharp contrast to lication of "A Lexicon of St. Latin at the College of Our Lady ful moments of the last war," ages past when Mohammedanism IN Thomas Aquinas," based on the of the Lake, San Antonio, Tex., the broadcast went on to say: was spread by the sword, the MOSLEM COMMUNITIES SWITZERLAND Summa Theologica and selected and the Rev. Ignatius McGuin"The Catholic missions look with new campaign is based on the de9. the on Dec. passages from other works of ess, 0.P, Professor of Theology grave apprehension GENEVA Switzerland, methods of Christian missionarcommunities the Saint, has been announced at the Dominican House of Stucline of the present regime, for ies. Ulemas, as the scholars of -(NCY.-Moslem it offered to the missionaries a Moslem religion and law are have recently been established in by the Catholic University of dies, Washington. sufficient freedom for the exer- known, are being sent to various Zurich, Lausanne and Geneva, America Press, an integral part On the centres of the globe to spread Switzerland, Protestant of the university. The work of the the cise of their apostolate. SAFETY SLOGANS other hand, the tragic winter of the teaching and law of the magazine, "Vie Protestante," of first in a series of five fascicles Pedestrians, look both ways. It It adds that and the remaining volumes will 1947-48 in the regions dominat- great prophet. this city, reports. three pays. ed by the Communists will pass Moslem scholars have recently missionary activity is now being be published at intervals of The authors are Dr. There's no danger in working into the annals of China as a per- been sent to Asmara, the capital carried on by Mohammedans on months. ." iod of bitter persecution. Africa; a large scale among Africans, In- Roy J. Deferrari, Professor of safely. East of Eritrea, in Straight thinking will prevent and Greek and Latin at the UniverWhile admitting that during Quito, Ecuador; the Kingdom of dians, Russians, Americans Inviolate most accidents. Mary sity; Sister recent months the Chinese Com- Hejaz; India; China, and the Europeans. ( Radio,
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