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FATE OF ARABS Vatican Warns INDESCRIBABLE
Of False Hopes LONDON, March 10-(NC).-The Western World
fools itself when it believes that the changes in the SoAMMAN, Trans-Jordan, March made the appeal in letters sent of 750,000 refugees from the re- viet Foreign Office indicate "some kind of conversion among these fanatics of social revolution," says an Italian 11-(Radio, NC).-Unseasonable to the,Federal Council of Chur- cent hostilities. "Indifference and inaction will language broadcast by Vatican Radio heard here. torrential rains, snow and cold ches of Christ in America, the bittertor National leave a trail of Catholic inevitably Welfare Conhardships renewed are adding "This is a vain hope -which rope and the world is sealed." thousands of homeless, displaced ference ,and the Synagogue Coun- ness to rankle dangerously in the Referring to "the infinite cil of America. minds of the Arab millions and may end in a slackening of vigArabs Declaring that the plight of make them ready for totalitarian ilance, a waste of precious time, variety of interpretations" put and a weakening of unity among on the personnel changes in 10- these refugees is "beyond de- propaganda." NEW YORK, March (NC).-An appeal to all religi- scription" and that they are dy- He asked the various groups to the healthy forces of the world," Moscow, the broadcast declared it "likely that it is all part of ous faiths to come to the aid of ing "at the rate QQf 1,000 a day," adopt a common statement "in the broadcast said, adding: "Politidans may rise and fall the usual bluff with which men made Mr. Rosenwald &Med: "To avert that spirit of compassion and 750,000 Arab refugeet homeless by the Palestine war a major human catastrophe, ele- brotherhood which is a cardinal under the sign of the hammer who manage public affairs in has been made by Lessing J. mentary justice requires that in tenet of our common Judeo- and the sickle, but their pur- those parts try to confuse their If the men in advemaries,. Whatever happens Rosen*ald, president of the Am- addition to adequate relief there Christian heritage," and added poses remain erican Council for Judaism. He must be early repatriation, reset- this this would have "a profound the different governments fail and whatever is launched in the to understand, the fate of Eu- Kremlin's shadow, it is almost tlement and social rehabilitation moral effect." unthinkable that it would have any purpose other than to press forward with the realisation of .
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By ISABEL ROBALINO (Correspondent N.C.W.C. News Service).
world revolutnon, the affirmation of Marxist materialism, and the destruction of capitalistic reaction."
with the application of democratic principles in matters of religious education Herr Schmid did not explain. QUITO, March 9.-The SecThe fundamental issue reond National Eucharistic Congress will be held here from mains whether the new German PARIS, March 3.-(NG.-The a reto June 16 to 19 according constitution is to be strictly "secularistic," or inspired by best-known bell -maker of Europe, port of Archbishop Carlos Maria The lat- Joseph Paccard, has died at his Christian convictions. de la Torre, of Quito, president of the central council, which Cologne. For the first time, the Bavarian Hierarchy, ter obviously involves the right home in Annecy He was 75. M. Paccard made some of the inceremonies. to have religious of parents promotes the too, was represented. "If during a century of rebelstruction imparted to their chil- largest bells now hanging in the be given parents the will of past years, the All the trials of the dren. That is all the churches belfries of French cathedrals, lion and apostasy against God, notably the great bell in Strasthe Ecuadorian people proceeded the resolution added, would be proper recognition in order that are asking for. In their resolution the Bishops bourg, which weighs 20 tons; the to publicly and officially conse- fruitless if the state were not their children will be educated in crate themselves to the Divine deprived once and for all of the accordance with their preference. of Western Germany also insist large bell known as "la Savo Heart and to proclaim to the faculty of interfering with the The Declaration of Human again that the German Concor- yards," which rings in the camworld the social sovereignty of freedom of conscience. Rights of the United Nations is dat with the Holy Sea. be given panile of the Basilica of Sacre So far a majority made up of quoted in this connection as in- full recognition in the new con- Coeur de Montmartre here, and Our Lord Jesus Christ . they A compromise to be the bell in the Cathedral of likewise were the first-follow- liberals, socialists and Communes dicating that the principle pro- stitution. ing the example of the first in- ists has successfully blocked all posed by the Christians of Ger- submitted to the plenary meet- Rouen, which was cracked during and of both Protestants efforts ConEucharistic by all As- a bombardment in the last war. accepted ternational many is fully ing of the Constitutional Catholics to have provisions in- civilised nations, with the excep- sembly made up of representaHe also made carillons of 43 gress" the prelate said. Three historic dates of. Ecu- corporated in the constitutional tion of SovieL Russia and her tives delegated by the diets of and 52 bells for the sanctuaries of parrights draft whereby the in satellites. Recognition of this the 11 Western German States dedicated to Our Lady at Blois ador are to be commemorated involve the appears to satisfy this request. and near Lyon. the coming religious event: erec- ents would be recognised as principle would M. Paccard was constantly tion of the Quito diocese by natural law valid beyond all right of parents to establish pro- The socialists feel that the Conjurisdiction. vate schools. cordat need not be referred to consulted by Frenchmen and from Pope Paul III. on January 8, governmental that true insist churches The abroad on the installation of bells 1545, its elevation to a metroCarlo Schmid, who heads the ,pecifically in the constitution, as politan rank by Pope Pius IX. on democracy is inconceivablo un- socialist delegation, has taken nc reference to other diplomatic and the making of carillons. He January 13, 1848, and consecra- less freedom of conscience can the stand that his party would instruments of this kind is being was the head of a veritable dyntion of the Republic to the Sac- be exercised by the citizens in "not be afraid to take up the contemplated, but the Bishops asty of bellmakers, and all the red Heart of Jesus on March 25, matters of religious education. cudgels in this new Kultur- insist that suitable guarantees members of his family have been All the churches ask for is that employed in this industry. 1847. kampf," if the Christian parties be provided. The insist upon a show down. socialists, he said, are not against They affirm the prinreligion. ciples of religion, he claimed, What but "Oppos: clericalism." SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, March 10-(NC).-The "clericalism" should have to do Bw R. TEJEDA LAWRENCE Catholics, which is to say hostile Bishops of Puerto Rico have warned in a joint pastoral the holy Church, to its rights that this island's problem of congested population cannot (Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News to of teaching, and to its morals," Service). be solved by birth control and sterilisation, as is now the Archbishop had warned. SANTIAGO, Chile, March 12,advocated by government agencies. Cardinal Caro pointed out that in the swamped were Communists the right to anffrage entails the The pastoral branded abortion declared that it is also moral when duty to vote, through which citielections parliamentary solution true if The social. and as a ctime, sterilisation, even Chileans elected 147 deputies and zens take part in the administravoluntary, as a sinful mutilation to poverty, they said, cannot he MEXICO CITY, March 12.- 29 senators. tion of public services, in the preof the body and contraceptive found in artificially cutting the (NC).-A six-month campaign The four parties in the Governpractices as a violation of the size of the poor families but in against immorality in motion ment won 76 of the chamber seats paration of laws and in everythe poor. of lot The social the raising Commandment. Sixth pictures is to be undertaken by and 11 in the senate thereby as- thing that those who govern are programme Mexican Catholic Action. government Bishops also called on the new The This suring their victory. The Na- called on to do for the common Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis gives rise to the suspidon that will include spiritual offerings, tional Democratic Front of the good ,the happiness of the people and the prosperity of the country. the Alonoz Marin, to take a public officials wish to maintain prayers Masses, Communions, whose party was Catholics should conscientiousThey re- present unjust economic order in and the promise not to attend Communists. stand on the issue. seated September, last outlawed ly copsider their electoral duty called that in his political cam- the island, the Bishops added. indecent shows. and no senators, deputies six only and prepare themselves to carry pledged In 1937 the Insular Legislatpaign he repeatedly Unless motion pictures bein the old Congress the it out in a Christian way, looking himself to uphold the Christian ure legalised dissemination of come moral; human society will whereas and 15 deputies had solely to the interests of God's Now doily become more corrupted Communists birth control literature. traditions of the island. The balance of glory, Cardinal Caro admonished. senators. The pastoral was occasior.ed a propaganda drive has been and 'children will turn into the five among distributed were the seats Back in 1865 a Catholic states.. by the issuing of a government launched calling for "voluntary foremost propagandists of deman, Don Abdon Cifuentes, pleadThe propaganda linquency and vagrancy, Mexican, other parties. report which, after citing many sterilisation." statistics, declared that this "de- gives rise to the suspicion, the Catholic Action says in publish- ..The election had particular im- ed that the vote should be grantportance because for the fi:-t ed to women, a gesture which monstrates the frightful situa- Bishops said, that there have ing its plan. was repeated in 1917 and 1935 by time women went to the polls. tion that would arise should our been involuntary victims of this godWhen the Catholics went to the other Catholic legislators. of hands at the population continue to grow." mutilation The law giving them the vote LISBON, March 10.-(NC).- polls, they had been reminded by Puerto Rico, the smallest of less surgeons in hospitals freBishop Jose Alves Matoso, of His Eminence Jose Maria Cardinal was recently enacted and Presithe Greater Antilles, has a popu- quented by the poor. of of Santiago, Gabriel Gonzalez Vldela said the celebrated his Caro, Archbishop dent Guards, Portugal, lation of over two million inThe pastoral called on habitants within an area of government to use its prop& 90th birthday by presiding at a the right and duty to choose the to a group of women at the time: "Your primary and fundamental 3,435 sfuare miles, or close to ganda to inculcate in the people Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving in best candidates. "It would represent treason duty is to better the domocracy The aged Bishop 600 people per square mile. a sense of responsibility and ad- his cathedral. Christian and the God for almost 65 against . . . to humanise Chilean policy, has been a priest principles, The Bishops criticised govern- herence to moral ment agencies for considering which would cut down on the years, and this month will mark Faith to give the vote, no matter and to give to it a more sincere only "scientific" and "economic" high rate of illegitimate chit- the 34th. anniversary of his con- what the reason, to persons hos- character of brotherhood and jostile to faith in God, or to anti- tics." secration. solutions to the problem, and dren. .
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FRANKFURT, March 11.-Under no circumstances will the Catholics of Germany renounce their demand that the rights of parents in matters of religious education be given fu;I protection in the new German constitution now being drafted at Bonn, says a resolution adopted at a special meeting of the Hierarchy of Western Germany under the chairmanship of Cardinal Frings, Archbishop of
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Eugenics No Solution
Women Oust Chile Reds
Mexican Catholic Action