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Atlantic Pact May Break 'N.C.W.C. News Service). LONDON, April 1.-"If anything in the world can prevent war against the civilised world then this great American undertaking will do so," comments the "Catholic Herald," of London, to -day in a long editorial devoted to the Atlantic Pact. Pointing out that the pact rely on the Atlantic Pact alone in
must stand as a deterrent from this crisis is like relying on a war, as a defensive and not as an parasol in a thunderstorm." offensive structure, it adds, however, that with its signing "it has now been made as certain as can be that if Russia chooses and provokes war, then Russia will have frcm the beginning to face the almost inexhaustible resources of The "Herald" goes America." With final returns for 1948 now on: that "If the West can succeed in available, it is estimated of the two objects, one, the prevention more than 1,500,000 copies Justice, Social Statements on of another war, and, two, the restraining of any further hostile published annually since 19as, and act by Soviet Russia then it will have been sold in Australia surely have created conditions abroad. That on Socialisation recentwas praised reviewed and which must sooner or later bring about the disintegration of the ly in Belgian Catholic publications Soviet Empire. Already in the case of Yugoslavia we have had an example of an internal split which has notably weakened the ComGreat empires, . munist front, and especially totalitarian emThey pires, cannot stand still. Stagnation success. live by weakcreates all kinds of internal nesses, themselves the products of increasing human jealousies, quarrels, relaxations in vigilance, which must afford the opportunMUNICH, April 1-(NC).ity for successful action by the For the first time since the Revictims of tyrannies." formation, a Catholic religious "The Catholic Times," of Lon- Order has returned to Denmark don, more critical of the pact, with the re-establishment of the points out that "an indication ancient Monastery at Oem, Jutthat the Atlantic Pact is only land, by Cistercian monks. half the defensive need of the The report adds that there are West lies in the fact that even new the Name of God is not men- now only 22,000 Catholics in Denmark in a total population of charin the than tioned, anymore about 4,000,000. There are 90 ter of the League of Nations. Catholic priests stationed in the "We hear much of moral prin- country, and there is an average ciples, of an identity of culture year. between the participants, and of of 100 conversions a The news service also points the defence of the democratic All this is true- out in this connection that there way of life. but more and more insistently is but one Catholic to every 1,000 It says the news of the day contains the Lutherans in Norway. warning that the struggle is be- that 48 priests minister 3,500 tween God and anti-God. To Catholics in that country.
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BOSTON-(NC). -Not only did he declare that "the flame of Christian 'ethics is still our highest guide," but Winston Churchill also told the Mid -Century Convocation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology here, that "to guard and cherish it is our interest, both spiritually and PARIS, April 2-(NC).-Thirty-one priests of the first materially." the Paris Foreign Mission Society have been killed in Noting that "here I speak not Far East since 1940, according to a list published by the only to those who enjoy the blessings and consolation of revealed Society here. but also to those who Seven were shot in Indo-China in 1945; two were religion, face the mysteries of human desshot in China in 1940; one priest was murdered in Tibet, tiny alone," the noted English one in China, and three in Indo-China. One was tortur- statesman said: "The fulfilment ed to death in Japan in 1943, and three in Indo-China, of spiritual duty in our daily life is vital to our survival. Only two in 1945 and one in 1946. by bringing it into perfect appliin 1945. Another One was burned to death in Japan cation can we hope to solve for One missionary was killed ourselves the problems of this died in a Chinese prison. with a spear in Saigon. Another was beheaded last year world and not of this world alone." in Tonkin -China; still another strangled there in 1945.
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Little i; known of the conditions under which others met death. The report also states that 32 missionaries were seized as hostages by Indo-Chinese revolutionaries in 1946 and are still being held.
50,000 CHILDREN SEE POPE First Since Reformation
Bing Endows Library
By REV. JOSEPH J. SULLIVAN (Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News Service). VATICAN CITY, April 2-(Radio, NC).-Smiling happily like a father surrounded by his children who have come to pay him honour, His Holiness Pope Pius XII. received to-day-the actual 50th. anniversary day of his ordination to the priesthood-the greetings of more than 50,000 Roman school boys and girls.
for 60,000 dollars from Bing Crosby is the first contribution to a trust fund which has been set up for a new library building at The Gonzaga University here.
building will be called the Crosby Memorial Library, and will contain a collection of awards, honours, photographs, and keepsakes outlining the career of the schools' noted son.
PACELLI ST. BERLIN, March 31-(NC).Municipal authorities of this Soviet -blockaded German capital have decided to give the name of Pacelli Street to an avenue within the city limits on the occasion of the 50th. anniversary of the ordination of His Holiness Pope Pius XII. The Holy Father resided here for several years, when as Eugenio Pacelli, he was Apostolic Nuncio to Germany. The residence was destroyed In air raids during the war
"Peace
The children, arrayed in their girls delivered their well -learned Sunday best, gathered in the little speeches, and then they all belvedere courtyard of the Vati- knelt down to present the jubilee can And after the function went gifts from the children of Rome: home-each one munching con- a portable altar in a leather suittentedly a large sweet roll from case, flowers, and an album reVATICAN CITY, April 2.gistering the gifts of the Rome (Radia, NC).-The Vatican Inthe Vatican bakery. for school children the technical formation Service to -day said Officially termed an audience, it was really a family affair. And improvement of Vatican Radio. that a report from Prague that it was as a father that the Pon- He encouraged the timid, smiling- Bishop Stefan Trochta, of Litotiff addressed to the children a ly chatted with the little boys merice will represent the Catholic Church on a Czechoslovakian brief homily, reminding them and girls. preparatory committee for the so.. that there was no better way of called "peace congress," to be observing the occasion of his jubilee than by constantly re- Prisoners Confirmed held in Paris, is without foundation. membering the words of St, John: COLUMBUS, 0.-(NC).-BisThe report appeared in the "Love one another," which came hop Michael J. Ready, of Colum- Prague daily, "Lidova Demacrafrom Our Lord Himself. Then the Holy Father tool a bus, confirmed a class of 50 in- cie," acording to the Vatican serseat on his throne and watched mates of the London State Pri- vice. similar "peace congress," A smilingly as 14 boys and girls son Farm in the first ceremony flame to the platform erected in of this kind ever held at the in- largely attended by Soviet and satellite delegates, has just end.. front of him. Three boys and stitution. ed in New York.
Congress" Denial
LONDON, April 1.-Communist leaders of Eastern Trust Fund Made Europe recently met secretly at Nieborow, near Warsaw, SPOKANE-(NC),-A cheque
Churchill On Soviet Religion
.chiefly to discuss their war on the Catholic Church, an authentic Polish Catholic source has informed here. They decided not to attack religion directly, the informant reported, but rather to incite Catholics against
25 Years For Bible Reading
COLOGNE, March 31.-(NC). -Because they had arranged for
occasional Bible readings, 30 the Holy See. "Evangelical Brethren," Tendencies for independent "autocephalous," or na- German a Protestant sect, interned in a tional, churches, will be encouraged, this source said, and Soviet labour camp near Minsk, discord will be sown among Catholics by discreet but firm in Russia, have been sentenced to support for "progressive" or "democratic" priests and 25 years at hard labour, according to a report of "Kirchlicher other clergy. Nachrichtendienst," a Catholic news agency here.
Sign Of Cross Brings Priest
The defendants were prisoners of war. The court was said to have decided that their religious activities were acts of sabotage and anti-Soviet.
"Joan Of Arc" At Vatican VATICAN CITY, April 2.(Radio, NC).-The new projele tion room of the Pontifical Commission for didactic-religious cinematography was used for the first time recently at a preview of the film, "Joan of Arc," before it was shown to His Holiness Pope Pius Several Vatican prelates XII, and other officials also viewed the film. SOCIAL YEAR IN BELGIUM,
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Most Rev. A, Charus, Bishop 4 hold-up. He LONDON, March 31.-(NC).--When John Catterall, cinema manager in wounded, The Catholic Migration and Namur, has proclaimed 1949 a but been already had assistant manager of a Liverpool cinema, mortally wound- two more shots, in the chest and Welfare Association is always "Social Year" in his diocese. Speto hear of anyone with cial sermons, giving the Church's ed by a gunman, arrived at a local hospital, a nurse asked back, were needed to put Mr. anxious accommodation. We have des- teaching on modern social prohim his religion. Too far gone to speak, he tried to Catterall out df action. perate cases seeking houses, blems, will be given at the Sunday make the sign of the Cross. Three ships in which Mr. Cat- rooms and full board, both for Mass each month. Special con-
The hospital chaplain, the Rev. Timothy O'Driscoll, was at once telephoned and was able to adreinster Extreme Unction a few Catterall minutes before Mr.
died. Mr. Catterall, who was demobilised from the Royal Navy two months ago had tackled the gunman after he had fatally snot the
terall served during the last war married and single people. Please were torpedoed on convoy duty. contact us if you have any pro.. He received the Distinguished perties for sale or accommoda62 St. George's TerService Medal for his war service tion to let. race, Perth. B3338. in 1944.
ference of clergy are being held to discuss these questions, and the schools will make full provision for instruction among the senior students.