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An All-Out Plan To Convert "The Right23.-(NC)Man ff
written to every diocesan priest in the country asking them to volunteer for the campaign. Official purpose of the mission is 'to strengthen the faith of our
nurses from Spain, Switzerland and elsewhere," the Portuguese leader went on. "We do not pretend we can fill our hospitals with our own nurses or schools with
LONDON, Dec. Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar,
Portugal's Premier, is "the right man for Portugal now, given the country and given the era," said the Rev. C. C. Martindale, S.J., own people and to give some in a speech at the Newman Interknowledge of the Faith to that national Centre, organised by Cawill consist of a mission in each vast mass of our fellow country- tholic university people here. By JOHN A. GREAVES Speaking of his impressions during the colder months men who are without any religi. (Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News parish during a recent trip to Portugal, and outdoor services in the sum- ous allegiance." Service. Father Heenan says it Father will be Martindale described the mer. LONDON, Dec. 23.-The cosuccessful 'only if it is solidly Portuguese leader as a man of Priests from religious communi- Lacked by prayer." He operation of every practising par- profound education, austere, deasks British Catholic is being sought ties, from seminaries and colleges, ish clergy to encourage especially termined, absolutely incorruptin the nation-wide drive launcoei together with the diocesan clergy, children and the sick to pray, rifer ible, with a dry sense of humour. here to make the Catholic faith will help in conducting the mis- Masser and Holy Communions for "He has been described as part known to every resident of Eng- sions. The participation of the "this vast spiritual effort." peasant, part mystic, part Oxford United States clergy has also been land and Wales during 1949. The mission's theme will be professor," he said. The campaign wilt' constitute invited. British pastors will ex- simple, aiming at enlightening the Dr. Salazar told him: "We are the greatest all-out plan to re- change parishes. British people on: (1) The existconvert the country since the The Rev. John Heenan, head of ence of God and the divinity of drastic State -sponsored Protest. the Catholic Missionary Society, Christ; (2) the problem of evil, LONDON, Dec. 22.-(NC)-ant "Reformation" of 400 years national clerico-lay organisation and (3) the evil of modern ma- Michael Derrick, member of the ago. The laity as well as the aiming at Britain's conversion, terialism and the Christian ap- editorial staff of the "Tablet," clergy have been asked to take has been placed in charge of this proach to it. British Catholic weekly, is a propart in this national effors, which nation-wide effort. He has already Lay people will aid this nation- spective Liberal candidate for a native Portuguese teachers. We wide drive by helping with local parliamentary division in Read- will go slowly because we will not preparatory work, publicising the ing, 60 miles west of London. Mr. put up with the flimsy or the missions through the Press, by Derrick's father, Mr. Thomas second-rate." Derrick, an artist, was a friend of circulars, and by word. Father Martindale added: "As The British Catholic Directory the late Gilbert Keith Chesterton. a purely supernatural coefficient placEs the Catholic population of to all the outstanding achievearr England and Wales at 2,406,419, ments of Dr Salazar, Fatima was according to official 1939 figures. going slowly," when the British needed. Dr Salazar could not approximate location of a church Total population at the last offi- Jesuit praised Portugal's By REV. WILLIAM A. new transform the spiritual imaginaand seminary that once stood on cial census in 1931 was 39,973,389. road KASCHMITTER, M.M system, schools, hospitals tion of the people as the appart. (Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News his castle grounds. A Shinto In 1944 the country had 3,991 dio- and research institutions. tions (at the great Portuguese shrine has been erected since then cesan and 2,039 regular clergy. Service.) "We must seek for trained shrine) have done." on the spot where the church OSAKA, Japan, Dec. 23.-Both stood, but the Government has the Church and the Japanese placed the seminary grounds at Government have honoured Taka- the disposal of Bishop Paul Tayama Ukon, scorned by the To- guchi of Osaka for the erection kugawa Shoguns of his time as a of a Catholic church. traitor, but recognised now as a The Government has also voted By MAX JORDAN (CorresponCathedral Provost Franz Raver true Japanese and a meritorious Christian daimio, or feudal baron. funds for the erection of a monu- dent, N.C.W.0 News Service) Sander, who was 82 years old, ment in honour of the great The Church in Japan has petiBERLIN, Dec. 23.-Seven of was left to die of starvation in a tioned the Holy See for the canon- Christian knight, who was a feu- the eight members of the Cathe- shack. Vicar -General Alois Mar isation of Ukon, who died in exile dal lord in Japan at the time that dral Chapter of the Diocese of quart died in Siberia, and the Rev. Krause died of typhoid fever. in the Philippines in 1615 at the Queen Elizabeth ruled England. Ermland (East Prussia), now virBruno Gross in a labour camp Father Switalski, formerly proage of 65. The Government, too, It was his saintly example that tually extinct because of the So- in the Volga area. Father An- fessor of philosophy at the has recognised his worth by desig- was largely responsible for Lie viet occupation of that former dreas Hinzmann nating his old castle grounds at froze to death Braunsberg Academy, and the German territory, have lost their Takatsuki, near here, as a his- conversion of another of Japan's lives as victims of brutal Com- in a barn, which was left to him Rev. Josef Steinke were shot and famous Christians, torical monument. Hosokawa munist persecution, according to as his only quarters. The Revs beaten to death, respectively, beRecent studies have shown the Gratia. reports now available here. Franz Heyduschka and Anton cause they had come to the aid of women and Sisters attacked by the Red Army soldateska. The Rev. Bruno Schwark is the only survivor of the chapter, and as CHURCH VANISHES FIRST NEGRO such appointed the Rev. Arthur who is now 65 years old, FROM ESTONIA BROTHERHOOD Kather, as Vicar Capitular of the cioThe Catholic Church has been cese, The succeeding the late Bishop first Negro congregation of virtually wiped out in SovietNEW DELHI, India, Dec. preme Court by appropriate pro- religious brothers in the United Maximilian Keller. ccntrolled Estonia, state reports (NC)-Ample guarantees are ceedings for the enforcement of States, whose first novices have Acconling to Bishop Julius reaching Stockholm. The churches ale closed, there provided for the rights of Chris- the rights." It also empowers the now received the habit, was start- Doepfner of Wuerzhurg, Bavaria, ed by former U.S. Army Ser- who has just returned from his are no services and few Catholics tians, and other minority groups Supreme Court to issue brders for geant Walter Pierre first visit to the Soviet zone secremain in the country. in India in the constitution now their enforcement. When the sergeant left the tors of his diocese, close co-operaBefore the war Estonia was a being During the debate on Article Army, Bishop Eustace invited him adopted by the National tion is being maintained among diocese with 2,000 Catholics, seven Constituent Assembly here. The 25, Father De Sousa called it the to test his ideas by helping in a Protestants and Catholics there. parishes and 12 clergy. copestone of the structure of funparish with a large of number Rev. Jerome The number of Catholics in those De Sousa, S J., prinIn the other Baltic States of parts having grown considerably Lithuania and Latvia the Church cipal of Loyola College, Madras, damental rights. By putting the Negroes. Sgt. Peirre and his friends were through the influx of refutzees, continues to fight for its life is the representative of the Chris- enforcement of these rights besuccessful and obtained the conmany Catholic services are being against an antireligious campaign tian community in the Assembly. yond the power of Parliament, he The constitution protects every said, they are made inalienable sent of Bishop Molloy of Brook- held for them in Protestant recently reported to be intensifycitizen against discrimination by and cannot be questioned by the lyn to start a novitiate in his churches. In one town the Cathoing. diocese with a Franciscan bro- lic Pastor resides in the ProtestIn Riga, capital of Latvia, even the State "on grounds only of re- legislature. If these rights are as novice master. ant parish house. street names derived from reli- ligion, race, caste, sex or any of safeguarded in this manner, no ther Bishop Eustace, ecclesiastical them," and stipulates that "no political safeguards will be needed gion are being altered. Hostility to religion continues superior of the community-the The Street of the Holy Cross citizen shall, on grounds only of for the Christian community, the Franciscan Missionary Servants to manifest itself throughout the Church has become Street of the religion, race, caste, sex, descent, priest -legislator declared. Soviet zone. Officials concentrate of Christ the King-gave the Future, Jesus Christ Street is place of birth or any of them, be Article 23, guaranteeing the habit to seven young Negroes. their attention on the public for ineligible any office under the cultural, rights of minorities, stiStreet of the Godless, and Bishop schools, banning whatever remState." Street is Darwin Street. pulates that "all minorities, whenants of religious influence they Another section already ap- ther based on religion, commuCommunist youths are threatmay be able to discover there. ened with expulsion if they do proved grants all citizens the nity or language, shall have the One Soviet supervisor is reported not actively fight against reli- right "to freedom of speech and right to establish and administer to have stated: "In the schools gion. expression; to assemble peaceably educational institutions of their there can be eithe.s politics a: rePriests are being punished for and without arms; to form asso- choice; the State shall not, in ligion. For us that's can be no "anti -State activities." ciations or unions; to move freely granting aid to educatoinal instireligion. Ther4 sr it IF hest to Religious education has beets throughout the territory of India; tutions, discriminate against any teach the children half of what abolished in the schools, but there to reside and settle in any part educational institution on the VATICAN CITY, Dec. 23.- they are supperot so knaw and has as yet been no direct inter- of the territory of India; to ac- ground that it is under the man- (Radio, NC)-His Holiness Pope to provide po'st'er for the balference with the administering of quire, hold 'and dispose of pro- agement of a minority, whether Pius XII has appointed His Emin- ance." the sacraments. perty; and to practice any pro- based on religion, community or ence Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, Physicians also suffer un le: the Churches can remain open only fession, or to carry on any occu- language, shall be discriminated Prefect of the Sacred CongregaCommunist terrar, since they are if they pay high rents, taxes and pation, trade or business." against in regard to the admis- tion of Seminaries and Universi- forced to apply Ltrth control electricity charges. Should any of a citizen's or sion of any person belonging to ties, protector of the Holy Name wholesale by applying the rule of Latvia's only seminary remains group's fundamental rights be in- such minority into any educa- Society., "social indication ' which can be open and there are three func- fringed upon, Article 25 guaran- tional institution maintained by interpreted as "shortage of ?pace tioning in Lithuania. tees the right "to move the Su- the State." Road safety means your safety. for larger families.'
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CANONISATION OF JAP BARON SOUGHT
Communist Brutality Kills 7 Priests
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