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Torture Drives Priest Insane
Jugo-Slavia Persecution Continues Latest reports from inside Yugoslavia continue to give a dismal picture of the religious situation in that country, with scores of priests arrested, many sentenced to long prison terms, and others subject to long interrogations by the secret police who attempt to coerce priests into becom ing informers against their superiors and
OSAKA, Japan,
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(NC).-The Rev. J, B. Bousquet, veteran Paris foreign
missioner, who died in an Osaka prison six years' ago after having lost hit mind under torture of Japanese SAY police, was given a proper liturthe faithful. gical burial here. According to far from com- the library of the seminary at was sentenced to six years, and Arrested for his staunch oppce the Rev. Franc Planinsek to 13 'SCRAMBLED EGGS' plete statistics, the Communists Split have been confiscated, sition to what the militarists callThe latest victims of Commun- years on charges of aiding "banarrested during the year 1948 itt WUCHOW, China, March 24. ed the divinity of the Emperor, least 19 Religious Sisters, 40 ist persecution are the Revs, Al- -dits" and working against the priests and one Bishop, the Moat fon., Jarc and Viljem Savelli, "popular regime" of Yugoslavia. -(NC).-Seated at breakfast in Father Bousquet was subjected Rev Peter Cule, of Mostar. All who were tried at Crnomelj, near Father Planinsek allegedly "con- the Maryknoll mission here, the to such torture that he lost his nuns have been expelled from all Movi Mesto, on charges of collab- fessed" his guilt. Though Rev. William Morrissey, of mind and died insane, The persecution of priests has Brooklyn, recently arrived from Bishop Paul Taguchi, of Osaka, The Sis- orating with the Italians during hospitals in Slovenia was permitted to celebrate a ReBoth were sentenced reached,tparticularly severe pro- the United ters of Charity of Lichtenturn the war. States, ordered scram- quiem Mass for the have been evicted from the living to death. Their "trial" was con- portions in Slovenia, where 15 dead priest quarters of their convent; the ducted in accordance with the were arrested during the first two bled eggs in what he thought was at that time, only four Catholics could attend along with some 20 Newspaper months of this year on general perfect Cantonese dialect. Carmelite Sisters were expelled customary pattern. from their convent in Ljubljana, accounts omitted any references charges of "anti-state" activities. However, the house boy could members of the military police. Nothing has been learned of not understand him. The Maryand the Dominican Fathers and to defence documentation and the fate of Fathers from their testimony. the Very 12,v. Salesian Valer- knoller then tried his order in A similar trial took place last ian Ucak, 0.Teut , Prior of the houses in Zagreb. The sanitarium conducted by the Brothers of month at Ptuj. near Maribor, Teutonic Order in Yugoslavia, eight different Chinese language Charity at Kardija, Slovenia, and where the Rev. Vekoslav Skuhala ince his arrest in Ljubljana by tones. The house boy's face remained puzzled. In desperation S'ENDAI, Japan, March 24ONZA (secret police )agents, the new mizsioner turned to a vei- (Mail, NC).-The new pastor of eran missionary and asked in Sendai Cathedral has suffered his predecessor, LONDON, :.:arch 25-(NC) English how to translate "scram- the fate of Father Deslauriers, 0.P., who Britain's oldest Bishop, the Most bled eggs." was robbed four times while ittv John Toner, Bishop of DunWithout waiting for the older holding the cathedral post. Central Scotland, has celeVIENNA, March 2-1-(NC).-In weighing the pos- ke'd, brated his 92nd. birthday. He ntisioner to reply, the house boy the night of Ash Wednessibility that drugs had been used in the trial of His Em- has been a priest for 67. years and strode off to the kitchen and dayOn thieves took the new pasinence Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, the Austrian Catholic a Bishop for 35. tor's chalice and supply of vestcalled out in perfect English: ments, thus delaying the opening weekly, "Die Furche," notes that medical research shows "One order scrambled." of Lenten services.. that the drug process'known as "amytal interview" can go His predecessor, who is now as far 1E: impeding the will power of persons to whom Professor of Philosophy at Kyuit administered. shu University, in Fukuoka, had The weekly mentions the rebeen robbed first of his chalice at searches of Dr. Strotzka, as dethe ' cathedral here. Next a scribed in the "Wiener Medizinisnocturnal visitor took his bicycle, chen Wochenschrift" (Vienna the third his overcoat, and the In the absence of Cardinal fourth all his vestments. Medical Weekly), into the use of LONDON, March 2-(NC).Mindszenty, Hungary's Board of amytal interview, also known as Communism is not convertible, Pishops is meeting under the "truth serum" or "narcoanalysis," but Communists LONDON, March 25-(NC).- chairmanship are, Douglas of Archbishop Stabat Mater, the hymn sung which was discovered by Ameri- Hyde, convert ex -news editor of Sr Henry Slesser, former British Groesz of Kalocsa, who on Feb- throughout In the treat- R. itain's Lent at the Stations can psychiatrists. "Daily Solicitor General and Lord Jus- ruary 24 celebrated the 20th. an- of the Communist Cross was written in the ment, dosages of sodium pentho- Worker," told a rally of Catholic tice of Appeal, and a recent conniversary of his consecration. thirteenth century by a Frantal and sodium amytal, also call- trade unionists in Wales. sent to Catholicism, stated in a Mgr. Groesz occupied this posi- ciscan, Jacapone da Todi, who ed Evipan, are given to the subMost of the are etter to "The London Times" tion during the interval between called it his "poem of tears." ject, and, as Dr. Strotzka re- labouring under Communists the misapprehen- that in his opinion the British Cardinal Seredi's death and the Rossini, Astorga, Pergolesi, and ports, need no necessarily result sion that they are doing a good s_onstitution may offend the appointment of Cardinal Minds- other composers are statements that have set it to in eliciting work, and they can be won back United Nations Declaration of zenty. music, objectively correct. to the correct path, he addad. Human Rights because it is still At Liege, the Attorney General No one has a greater right than illegal in Britain for a Catholic of Belgium, said the employment Christians to campaign for social a) become Lord Chancellor. The of narcoanalysis "constituted a justice; Catholics have a moral Lord Chancellor is a top-ranking severe infringement of individual obligation to do so, he said member of the British Cabinet, freedom guaranteed by the conMr. Hyde was speaking on the who deals with legal and judicial stitution and the violation of a anniversary of his resignation matters. public right that the State has from the Communist newspaper. "The Declaration of Human to respect." Rights-that no person should his Th..: Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) has asked for Grace the Coadjutor -Archbishop of Melbourne, Most be penalised by reason of his Writing in "Juristiche BlaetThe Victorian State Govern- :aith-should bring to the atten- Rev. J. D. Simonds, D.D., Ph.D., as a member of the Auster," a 'Vienna law review, a Mr. ment has recently made a grant tion of Parliament and the Eng- tralian Delegation to the Third Regular Session of the Novakowski said that torture can Hof £2,000 to help in extensions of ish people that alone of public bend the free will, but does not Don Bosco Boys' Club and Hos- offices in this country that of United Nations General Assembly, which is to open at suppress it, whereas narcoanaly- tel, Sydney -road, Brunswick. The Lord Chancellor may yet prove Lake Success on April 5. sk transforms the human indivi- Premier, Mr. Hollway, in com- to be untenable by a Roman CaSorre important matters affecting religion and human dual not only bodilx, but also municating the news to Very Rev. tholic," Sir Henry wrote. mentally into a mere object. freedom will be brought up for consideration at the AsJ. Ciantar, S.D.B., wrote: He admitted that the oath "Die Furche" comments that "I am indeed p eased to inform against Transubstantiation-relic sembl.,-, and the Prime Minister wanted a Bishop as ad"it is evident that when this met- you that a grant of £2,000 has of bitter anti-Catholic days, viser to the delegation on these and other matters. His hod is applied on an increasing been made to Don Bosco Boys' which the Lord Chancellor should Grace Archbishop Kannix has gladly and graciously scale, one can obtain the com- Club and Hostel, and a cheque take on accepting office-has not plete suppression of free will, for this amount will be forthcom- been administered in recent years, agreed to release Dr. Simonds for this important duty. subservience of the individual en- in the next few days." but he doubted whether this disDr. Simonds left by air on Monday, 28th. March tirely deprived of his free perMr. HolLway's representative, continuance meant that the quessonality, and the application of Mr. McVilly, was a recent visitor tion had been cleared up. He any suggestion whatsoever." to the club, was supported in this view, Sir Henry said, by Lord Simon, "a formidable constitutional lawyer," who, as Lord Chancellor, "gave the House of Lords his view of the position some years ago." (According to the Catholic LONDON, March 24.-(NC).- Campion, was Governor of WestHe studied in Encyclopedia, the oath was PieThe Rev. Maurice Byron, parish ern Australia. scribed by the Test Act of 1672, TOKYO, March 24-(NC).-Japan's leading Catho-priest of Goudhurst, Kent, a few Rome, and became an assistant which compelled all holders of mires outside London, and direct priest at St. George's Cathedral, office under the crown to make a lic artist, Teresa Koseki, whose Madonna paintings have descendant of Lord Byron, the Southwark, London. against brought her world fame, has been forced to take a job "Declaration worked there throughout short washing dishes in order to support herself. poet, has died of a heart attack. theHeworst She apswearing Transubstantiation," days of the Nazi rains He was 42 years old His only on the capital and saw the Cathe- that "there is not any transub- plied for the job at the Tokyo Seminary. brother is heir to the present dral in the Sacrament of stantiation destroyed by enemy fire the Lord's Supper Miss Koseki, a convert from List ever to paint the Blessed Lord Byron, an Anglican clergy. bombs. at or after northern The poor and old peoJapan, is a graduate of Virgin wearing slacks. No irman, ple of ,the district loved him the consecration thereof by any the Imperial Art School. Since reverence was intended-tne Father Byron became a Catho- greatly. He did their shopping person whatsoever.") her conversion, she has confined working-class mother in Japan lic when he was 16 after the fam- for them and even took off his her work to religious subjects, regularly wears manpei, a Japanily had emigrated to Australia, coat to paint and decorate their Inattention may bring Police particularly the Blessed Virgin. ese version of what American where his uncle, Sir William rooms. She is regarded as the first ar- women would call slacks. Court mention.
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