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Jesuits Banned By Prejudice Endures BASEL, Switzerland, April 8.-Members of the Society of Jesus, which is formally banned in Switzerland under a provision of the constitution, may not even deliver sermons over the air, said Dr. Karl von Steiger, a member of the Federal Swiss Government, in replying to Werner Schmid, a Zurich deputy, who had raised a question in the National Assembly at Berne as to whether the constitutional provision was being heeded by the authorities. The Swiss Constitution goes back to 1874. The 51st. article, which bans the Jesuits from Switzerland as a community, and prevents individual members of the Society to engage in any kind of activities in both churches and schools, was a result of the bitterness engendered by the Sonderbund war. Dr. von Steiger stressed that under this provision Jesuits may not even arrange for spiritual retreats, public or private, or whether they are attended by clergy only or They may lay people as well. not replace secular priests in pastoral duties or address public gatherings. This does not mean, of course, that individual Jesuits may not reside in Switzerland. As a matter of fact, numerous Swiss nationals are members of the SoJesuits ciety and even foreign may reside in this country and apply for Swiss citizenship. However, their Society is not allowed to function as it does in other countries. In replying to Dr. von Steiger, Dr. Karl Wick, Catholic member of the Diet, and editor of the daily, "Vaterland," Lucerne pointed out that while Swiss Communists who recently have proclaimed open treason as their policy enjoy the protection of the Constitution, it is being denied to Religious merely because they belong to the Jesuit Society. No other country, Dr. Wick said, west of the Iron Curtain, subscribes to such a policy.
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St. Bernard Monks To Swiss Open Hospice In Asia
CATHOLICS ON THE STAGE. He had been informed by an eminent author that the number of Catholics on the stage was far greater, in proportion to their numbers, than those of any other religion, said the Bishop of Kilmore, Most Rev. Dr. Lyons, at the conclusion of the Cavan Drama Festival, The reason was that the Catholic religion had so much drama in its ceremonies. "I would like to see, not one hall, but as many halls as would be required in the parishes throughout the country for producing plays and other forms of entertanment," he said,
TZECHUNG, Yunnan, April 7.-(NC).-An apostolate of hospitality, exercised for centuries .in the Swiss Alps at a pass between Gallic and Latin Europe, is taking a new lease on life along a hazardous trade route over an eastern spur of the Himalayas., near the China Burma border, which links Asia's two great ethnic blocs. A refuge for travellers will soon be completed by the Canons of St. Augustine, from the great St. Bernard Monastery in Swit-
zerland, on the slopes of Mount Latso, 12,600 feet high, in a range between the Mekong and Salween rivers west of here. The refuge was inspired by an MEXICO CITY, April 9.- appeal of Archbishop Jean -Baptiste de Guebriant, late Superior (NC).-Spiritual retreats for deaf-mutes are being given in the General of the Paris Foreign Missions. On missionary excursign language at the Church of San Hipolito here by the Rev. sions in the high Yunnan -Burma Father Rosendo 011eta, C.M.F. border mountains, he was moved by the arduous, dangerous life of traders and their servants. "Porters, in endless files, climb through the mountain range, under crushing burdens, and over snow-capped trails," he wrote. 'After exhausting days they have only a crude lean-to, open LONDON, April 8.-(NC).- to the icy wind, for their night's The Catholic Marriage Advisory rest." Council has received from the The St. Bernard Monks are exBritish Government an interim pert skiers, and trained in rescue grant of £750 work.
NUNCIO CORRECTS CHURCHILL By MAX JORDAN (Staff Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News Service). Bt -\,-,EL., April 6.-Refuting a reference of Winston Churchill in his memoirs, Archbishop Filippo Bernardini.. Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland, in a letter to the Zurich newspaper that is running the book in serial form, states that "the Berne Nunciature never received a peace proposal on the part of Hitler, through the Papal Secretariate of State, and never transmitted such a proposal to the Secretariate of State or other diplomatic offices." Mr. Churchill says in his book that such a message had been sent to his Government by the Vatican "via Berne." Arcbishop Bernardini adds in his letter that he is "sorry to have to make this correction after so many other corrections had to be made with regard to the reliability of the memoirs of the eminent statesman."
Paris Honours Pope In Aged Poor PARIS. April 9-(NC).-Celebrations here marking the golden jubilee of the ordination of His Holiness Pope Pius XII. included a most unusual event, a banquet attended by 3,000 73 -year-old men, the same age as that of the Pontiff. They came from parishes, hos- tables for 12, each headed by a
pitals and homes for the aged in prominent person. These inthe Paris area. Secours Catho- cluded the poet, Paul Claudel. lique, which arganised the affair, At the end of the banquet a also invited old people under the telegram from the Holy Father care of the Salvation Army. was read, It expressed the PARIS, April 8-(NC).-Archbishop Joseph Slipy, His Eminence Emmanuel Car Pontiff's affection for those preof Lwow, 57 -year -old Ukrainian Metropolitan, has been dinal Suhard, Archbishop of sent and congratulated Father so brutarlly treated by the Soviet police in a Siberian lab- Paris, and Archbishop Angelo Rodhain, general secretary of Nuncio to Secours Catholique, for having our camp, that his arm and several ribs have been Rcncalli, Papal France, presided at the banquet. organised the affair. broken, "La Croix," Parish Catholic daily, reports. The old men were seated at The Eastern -rite Catholic preVALENCIA, April 8,-(NC). late was deported from his see -A Monstrance, about ten feet to Yenisseisk, Siberia, and conhigh and weighing a ton, which demned to eight years of hard displays over WO engraved char labour when the Soviets forced acters of the Old Testament and Ukrainian Catholics to unite the Apostles, is to be used for NEW DELHI, India, April 7.-(NC).-The Indian of Most Rev. H. Ryan, Bishop of with the Russian Orthodox the first time in the Corpus Queensland, will Church a few years ago. Townsville, Minister of Finance, John Mathai, condemned artificial Christi Procession of the Holy leave Australia about the midYear in Valencia. The Mon'birth control as a means for the economic stabilisation of strance is valued at three dle of this month on his first million SAFETY SLOGAN ad limina visit to Rome. His the country. pesetas (about £58,000), Lordship will be accompanied by Noss honestly, what's the Mr. Mathai, member of a SyrRev. F. Rush. hurry? ian Christian family, stated in a speech in the Dominion Parliament here, that the intelligent use of science to speed up production of food stuffs will go a long way toward solving the proLONDON, April 8-(NC)-The general mission for blem of economic scarcity irl the land. Increased population will England and Wales, launched last month, is being carBy MAX JORDAN in the long run be only a source BUENOS AIRES, April 9-(NC).-Communism of strength to the nation, he said. ried into 52 gaols and penal institutes, including the two has, in effect, been outlawed in Argentina by the new He could support ori,- that birth national prisons of Dartmoor and Parkhurst, it was ancontrol which is based on self- nounced here. Constitution. control, he added. The Rev. John Heenan, Super- toted and organised, including Article 15 stipulates that "the State does not acknowledge, reior of the Catholic Missionary the lists of volunteer priests takgardless of their aims, national Society, and director of the 1,000 - ing part, help offered by lay and international organisations priest campaign, will himself groups, publicity and other matters. upholding principles opposed to give the first such mission in the individual freedoms recogBASEL, April 7.-(NC).-The Walton Gaol, Liverpool. nised in this Constitution," or LONDON, April 7-(NC).-- Rev. Joseph Bova, widely known His Grace the Archbishop of opposed to its democratic system. London Dominicans are planning as one of the most popular Swiss Father Heenan is directing a Adelaide, Most Rev. Matthew campaign from operation head- Beovich, celebrated the ninth Another article says that any- to establish a unique "House of composers, has just retired as a one taking office must swear to Hospitality," to cater to poor member of the faculty of the qoarters in London's north- anniversary of his episcopal con-. carry out his duties in the name people suffering from nervous teachers' college of the Canton western suburb of Hampstead, secration on Thursday, April 7.. breakdowns, to children whose of Fribourg. of God and the Holy Gospels. He is 70 years w here, like an army commander, Dr. Beovich, at the time of his Those belonging to organisa- mothers are ill, to families need- old. He was choir director of he follows "troop movements" elevation to the Hierarchy, was tions described in Article 15 can- ing a free holiday, and to those St. Nicholas Cathedral in Fri- on hundreds of forms and files director of Catholic education in not hold office in any State agen- "who have in some way or other bourg, and has written many spread on a large table. Every- the Archdiocese of Melbourne. got out of gear with life." cies. oratorio. thing connected with it is tabu - Ad rnultoa annoe
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