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Major Catastrophe Looms In China MEIER'S -
REQUIEM
DETROIT-(NC). The big new Red pattern covers three day had come-the day of divistates:: (one) "Kow Tow," mean- dends for the countless sacrifices
ing bowing the head in agree- made by 53 -year-old Mrs. Ervin ment; (two) "Yao Tow," shaking Deegan Platt, who used to teach the head in disagreement, and at the Marquette school here. In La Crosse, Wiz , at St. Jos(three) "Sha Tow," cutting off eph's Cathedral, Ira only son, the head. WASHINGTON-(NC). The for global thinking," the Arch- Day, more than 100 Catholic Robert, was being ordained to "In Communist China, the Catragedy of China threatens to bishop continued "In world af- priests and thousands of native tholic Church will be driven un- the priesthood, And here in become a major catastrophe of fairs, our global policy should, Catholics have been slain by the derground," he said. "'However, Detroit, Mrs. Platt, who had been "Communism, the sworn world history with one-fifth of above all else, be based on moral- Reds, ill a month, brought home ,was if there on the Continent remains We must take our stand enemy of the Church, is bent on the human race being forced un- ity. one small island of freedom-an from the hospital-to die. der Soviet domination, Archbis- in this world struggle on moral annihilation of religion in China," island for the Faith and freedom The day after the ordination, To -day, the basic issue he declared. hop Paul Yu -Pin, of Nanking, issues. The Archbishop said the Com- in a sea of Communism-there, the Reis Robert Platt offered his told the Far East Club of George- is not between 'the right and the first Solemn Mass in St. Rose's the will reCatholic missionary town University's School of For- left,' but between 'what's right munists have adopted a new main to carry on his apostolic Church here, and Mrs. Platt missstrategy toward the Church in and what's wrong.'" eign Service. ed the happiness of that occaSpeaking of the persecution of an effort to conceal their ultim- work." To -morrow, a Communist China The Chinese prelate conclud- sion, too. will be a "menace not only to the Church in China, Archbishop ate purpose of eliminating all re- ed: "It is not too late to save But the next day was a happy He explained that the Asia, but to the whole world. 1 u-Pin disclosed that since Val ligion. Where there is a will one for her. Her newly -ordainChina. This is a moral challenge to the there is a way." He pointed out ed son brought her Holy Comfree peoples of the world," he that there are still 150,000,000 munion to her sick room, An warned. He said the world issue Chinese in free China who are hour later she was dead. Father the versus "Russia is not to-day willing and ready to fight if they Platt also offered the Solemn Western World," but "atheism moral Mass of Requiem for her in St. received the necessary and materialism versus Faith and Rose's Church. "In favour of those who, when support. VATCAN CITY, May 27-By morality." "Our Christian concept make, Radio, NC),-The Papal Bull in Rome or on their way to officially proclaiming "a great Rome, through illness or 'death and universal jubilee to be held or some other just cause, are in this beloved city from Christ- prevented from completing er 1950," even beginning these visits, We mas, 1949, to Christmas, sets forth the following condi- reduce aforesaid conditions so LONDON, May 27-(NC).-The protests of the tions to be met by pilgrims in that, provided they go to Conorder to gain jubilee indulgences: fession and receive Communion, Czechoslovak Bishops against the oppressive tactics of "During this year of expla- they may gain the jubilee indul- the Communist -dominated regime find a striking illustration, to all the faithful who duly gence just as those who visit the PARIS, May 26-(NC).-After confess their sins in the Sacra- four above-mentioned basilicas. tion in reports depicting the methods used in seizing a the an interruption of 150 years, the ment of Penance, who receive "We also declare that in Prague. Goldsmiths' Guild of Paris has Holy Communion and visit once faithful may gain the jubilee in- Catholic girls' school revived an old custom called the on that day, or on different lays, dulgence either for themselves The school affected in this in- Only recently built, the school "May of the Goldsmiths." From in the order of their choice the or for the faithful departed as stance is a junior college and an is one of the best equipped and 1449 until well into the eigh- basilicas of St. John Lateran often as they fulfil the prescrib- elementary school for girls, con- most modern in Prague. Around Easter, the Sisters ducted by the Ursuline Sisters. teenth century, the Guild of St. Peter's in the Vatican, St. ed conditions." were notified that their school Goldsmiths and Jewellers met Paul's on the Ostian Way, amt would be taken over by the each year in May in the Cathe- St: Mary Major, on the EsquilState. The official explanation dral of Notre Dame to place a ine, and recite in each basilica given was that the Sisters had ribboned, green branch and an three times the 'Our Father,' failed to apply for teachers"peroffering at the foot of the statue 'Hail Mary,' and 'Glory be to the mits in time. Within a few of Our Lady of Paris. Father,' and as well one 'Our days officials appeared, who inwho person LONDON, May 26-(NC).-For every This year, on the 500th. anni- Father,' Hail Mary,' and 'Glory srected the buildings from celOur intenbelieves in Moscow materialism 100 believe in the Hollyversary, the tradition was re- be to the Father,' for to roof and told the Sisters After attending Mass, ticns, and will add in each basil - wood brand, "a far more insidious type," R. P. Walsh, lar vived. "under present conditions" the Guild members placed a ica a 'Credo,' We grant to be- editor of Britain's "Catholic Worker," told a meeting that they could not be allowed to magnicent golden monstrance as stow in the Lord the full indulteach. punish Park.. of all pardon at Worcester and their offering at the foot of the genre When it was pointed out to ment due for sins. statue, "In any Catholic parish you must keep up appearances, vying them that the Sisters' livelihood will find many devotees of Hol- with their neighbours' curtains, depended on their teaching aclywood materialism," he said. their cars and their jobs. tivities, the officials replied that "This is a far more dangerous old Sisters could "They do not differ from their go to the Moscow's. municipal poor house, than non-Catholic neighbours, They materialism while the Moscow's materialism will be de- younger ones should report for feated, but we have no indica- assignment of work to the State tion that the Hollywood brand- labour exchange. LONDON, May 28-(NC).-The British Catholic the love of money, the desire for Film Society has appealed for "prayers, payers, and playposition, prestige, ostentation, and luxury-is even being taken Traffic sense means less exers" to make a worthy film on the life of St. Thomas on." pense. More, one of the greatest Englishmen of all time, who
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Prague Hits At Schools
Goldsmiths' May Gift
Hollywood's Materialism
"PRAYERS, PAYERS & PLAYERS"
died for his Faith in the reign of King Henry VIII. The Very Rev. Father Hilary ted his script to a well-known
Missionary Puzzle
ST. COLUMANS,
Neb.-(NC)
Mother Aubert's Crown
Carpenter, O.P., Dominican Pro- producer here, and it is propos- This is the kind of a problem, vincial and chairman of the so- ed to pass it on to a professional strange and tragic, which a priest ciety, has already outlined a script -writer to polish up for could encounter only in the Far AUCKLAND, New Zealand, May 26-(NC).-The East. film script emphasising the mar- filming. Father Moran had arranged a only religious community founded in New Zealand, the tyr's life-long battle for freeThe Provincial estimates that con- Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion, has received final dom of conscience, and culmin- the film will cost about £250,000. wedding between two of his the ating in his triumphant execu- The small group planning its verts. After the ceremony, and was Papal approbation, according to word received here. a chill contracted groom tion in 1635. production want it to be the best Founded in 1892 by a French ing and charitable work among Father Carpenter has submit- film of its type ever made. They advised to take some cholera added woman, Suzanne Aubert de Lay, the needy and helpless of all intend to employ the best pro- drops. But he mistakenly prescripto his the Order has carried on nurs- creeds and classes To -day the ducer, director, actors and act- sufficient drops tion to make it a lethal dose, and Community numbers more than OTTAWA-(NC).--Major Gen- resses they can. 100, with several foundations in eral L It, La Fleche, who has by next morning he was dead. New Zealand and one in Austrabeen named Canadian High ComFather Moran's problem now, missioner to Australia, has been lia. besides trying to console the beserving as Canadian Ambassador Mother Aubert came to New reaved widow, is to find her anto Greece since 1945, and will Zealand in 1860 as a lay woman According to husband. other take over his new post in July'. to help Bishop Pompallier in his Chinese custom, he was to blame General La Fleche was born at LONDON, May 26-(NC)-- missionary work here. She left for what had happened, as he Concordia, Kansas. He is a dehcme secretly because her father Ronald Patrick had arranged the voedding. Also, The late James scendant of an old French-CanaLONDON, May 25-(NC).- according to custom, the young son Lyell, of Abindgon, Berk- had refused permission for her of dian family, and a graduate Georgie Wood, one of Bri- widow will have to accept a wid- shire, a Catholic, has bequeath- to become a religious. Mount St. Bernard College. In Wee After much work among the ed a collection of medieval manmusic hall ower. World War I. he served with the tain's most famous uscripts from the Austrian mon- Maoris here she went to Rome would "It Moran: reFather Said been has artists, famous French-Canadian unit, and radio of 77 to obsit back and do astery of Melk to Oxford Uni- in 1913 at the age the Royal 22nd. Regiment, was ceived into the Church. He is a be safer to the Pope's sanction for her nothing, but not taking an inter- versity's famous Bodleian Lib- tain in Italy Caught seriously wounded on the battle- personal friend of His Eminence Community. The bequest is the bigArch- est in arranging Catholic mar- rary. field, and decorated for valour in Bernard Cardinal Griffin, gest in medieval documents made by World War I, she could not often converts he new riages for whom Westminster, of the field. He held a number of bishop return to New Zealand until means handing dearly won souls to the library during this cen- seven sears later. On returnprominent positions in Canadian often helped when the Cardinal are The manuscripts A Catholic tury. his hack to paganism. life before joining Canada's dip- was administrator earlier in for fifing she continued to direct the the to from the eleventh fama pagan into marrying girl homes lomatic service, including that of career, of Catholic ex- works of her Order until she is as good as lost to the teenth century, and will be Deputy Minister of National De- destitute children in the Bir- ily died in 1926 at the age of 91 tremely valuable for research. Church." mingham area. fence.
Wee Georgie A Catholic
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