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TOKYO, June 16--(NC).-Bishop Thomas J. McDonnell, Auxiliary of New York, and leader of the United States group to the Xavier quadricentennial pilgrimage, recently concluded, officiated at the laying of the cornerstone of what is destined to be the first Catholic radio station in Japan. Present with Bishop McDon- mote the apostolate of the printnell, who is National Director of ed word (it has about 30 printin nearly a score of counthe Society for the Propagation eries tries), but now it is entering also of the Faith in the U.S., were the field of radio and the movies. the of Viscount Bojo, chief household of the Empress Dowager; Dr. Tanaka Kotaro, of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Japanese Parlia-
40 Priests Named Heroes PARIS, June 18-(NC). The French Goverment presented awards to 40 priests for their heroism during the war at a ceremony at the historic Hotel des Invalides, burial place of Napoleon and Marshal Foch. In the presence of the Secretary of National Defence, Paul Ramadier, four awarded generals one Legion of Honour Cross, a Medal for Escaped War Prisoners, and 38 Croix de Guerre.
Price Threepence
Marriage Cases Of 1948
VATICAN CITY, June 18- issue-No. 6-of the Acta Apos(Radio, NC)-The Sacred Roman tolicae Sedis. Rota has rendered decisions in Of these judgments, 48 were 124 cases concerning the nullity decided in favour of the preof marriage and one concerning existing nullity of marriage, 76 permanent separation during the against nullity or in favour of
year 1948, according to the re- a valid marriage. cord published in the current More than one-third of all cases were handled entirely gratuitously, according to the record. A Rota official explained that gratuitous handling means that neither the court itself nor the lawyers presenting the cases receive any fee what so ever. It is a rule that beMELBOURNE, June 16-(NC) fore a lawyer is admitted to practice before the rota, he must -When the Australian aircraft - agree to accept gratuitous cases ment; Doctor Sawada, former carrier Sydney arrived here, it and to promise to work just as Ambassador to Brazil, and a host NEW YORK-(NC). was learned that before its dearticles The began with a series of Soconscientiously Pious for those as for the of other friends of reports depicting parture from Plymouth, Eng- fee cases. Polish Communist regime has and radio ciety of St. Paul, which is under- launched a campaign to eliminof land, the Catholic chaplain on an example as Czestochowa taking the erection of the new ate Czestochowa, site of the superstition and backwardness, board received a silver chalice radio station. Polish national shring of Our and characterising its inhabi- and paten from His Eminence The Pious Society of St. Paul Lady, as a pilgrindge centre, tants as reactionaries and clog- Bernard Cardinal Griffin, ArchThis was established in Italy in 1914 the Inter -Catholic Press Agency calists, the agency says. Wide bishop of Westminster. play was given to "demands" presentation was made by Bisby the Rev. Jamese Alberione, here reports. who has made a unique record The ancient shrine is the most that "superstitious" pilgrimages hop Francis J. Grimshaw, of in the history of the Catholic famous Marian centre in Poland, to the centre be restricted, and Plymouth. The Cardinal took Church by founding four separ- and has a picture of the Blessed that the small businesses selling part in the centennial celebraate religious communities, all of Virgin painted on cypress wood religious articles there be closed. tions here last year. BOSTON-(NC).-The appalwhich are prospering. He is which is reputed to be the work ling number of suicides among now making the visitation of of St. Luke the Evangelist. Hunprominent people is blamed by the houses of his several com- dreds of thousands have gatherArchbishop Richard J. Cushing ed there during national pilmunities in the United States. as due, in part, to "this present grimages. period of morbid, paralysing Primary function of the Pious The Government's campaign pessimism which is sickening proto is Paul St. of Society situation to Washington, suggested that our generation." The Israeli -Arab Speaking before 1,000 nurses having reached a new deadlock, a "new approach" to the PalesMark Ethridge, American re- tine situation was necessary, the at the Spring Plenary meeting of the Archdiocesan Council of presentative on the Palestine Earl of Perth, Catholic member Nurses, at the Copley Conciliation Commission sitting of the British House of Lords, Catholic Plaza Hotel, the Archbishop said at Lausanne, Switzerland, has proposed that a commission that those same people appear WASHINGTON-(NC).- The informed President Truman that composed of Christians, Mosable to go through heroic experCommunist Party in the United the Commission will present a and Jews be put in control iences only to collapse in the States is directed exclusively by VIOLINS FROM RAf IER plan for the internationalisation lems of the Holy City and other Holy face of personal testing. aliens, and this is no accident, of Jerusalem to the United Na- Places under U.N. control. "I sometimes think," he said, Louis F. Budenz testified before MUNICH June 16-(NC).- tions Assembly in September. At the same time the U.N. "that half the presumed physia Senate committee here. Logs recovered, from the roof of While Mr. Ethridge, who came group for relief for Palestine re- cal ills of the hour stem from "It is the fixed design of Mos- a local church badly damaged fugees receive a joint message this sickly pessimism which cow to employ aliens in the most during wartime air raids, were from seven religious leaders in has so many persons under its responsible positions in every found to be 700 years old when nosthat assures Yon as nurses and we the Near East for continued aid spell. country. This examined by Franz Fuchs, a vioto displaced persons in that area as priests encounter it almost talgia and patriotism may be lin -maker of the Sudetenland, the every day of our lives." beyond November. reduced to the minimum in He has now a refuge here. steeled ranks of Stalin's ser- used them in the making of viovants," declared the former lins, which are said to be as "Daily Worker" editor, who left wonderful in tone as old Italian SHANGHAI, June 14.-(NC). the Communist Party in 1945 to master instruments. -Catholics in China, at the end return to the Catholic Church. The logs for the church roof of June, 1948, numbered 3,274,had been provided by lumber- 740, according to statistics just VATICAN CITY, June 17-(Radio, NC).-His Holiness men of Lenggries, near here, in released by the Bureau of Sinothe fifteenth century and came logique at Zikawa. The sur- Pope Pius XII. last night gave an audience to 7,000 persons, from fir trees about 300 years vey showed that 28,532 adults the majority of whom were pilgrims who witnessed the canold. Herr Fuchs came from completed courses of instruction onisation of Maria Giuseppa Rossello, foundress of the Schoenbach, near Eger, in the and were baptised is the pre- Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy. The crowd was so great Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, ceding year. An additional that it overflowed into the Sala Regia and Sala Ducale, a famed violin -making centre 194,712 were taking preparatory where the Holy Father's words were heard over loudERNAKULAM, India, June before the war. and sevHe 16-(NC).-The union of the eral colleagues, all expelled instructions. Students in Catholic schools speakers. two native states of Travancore from the Sudetenland, have es- numbered 319,444, according to Speaking to thousands, the out the lesson of her life, esand Cochin into one province tablished a new violin manu- these statistics on Catholics a Holy Father gave a discourse on ing pecially the "quality of mercy called the United States of facturing industry here.1 year the life ago. of the new Saint, point inspired by her truly theologiTravanscore and Cochin makes cal charity-that quality of the this new province the most Blessed Mother to which she deChristian in all India. dicated her Order." Of the 8,000,000 people in the "To love God," said the Ponprovince, 3,000,000 are Christiff, "in His adorable majesty tian, the vast majority of them paternal and goodness to love His The Catholic being Cathodic. image even in misery-that population of all India is estiLIMA, Peru, June 16-(NC). to His Eminence Juan Gualberto gives charity the particular than more maeted at slightly hundred year! after the Cardinal Guevara, Archbishop -Four imprint of mercy." five million. conquest, century sixteenth and Pontifical Legate to He concluded by commenting The new province also con- Aimaraes and Quechua Indians of Lima Congress, recalled the work on the marvellous endowments tains all the seven places where, gathered in the ancient capital the of evangelisation of the natives and supreme sanctity which enSt. tradition, according to the Inca empire publicly to by the Catholic Church during abled her to combine the qualierected of Thomas the Apostle in the Most the last four centuries. worship Christ ties of Martha and Mary, urging crosses and established Chris- Holy Sacrament in their own The Aimaraes are natives of Answering the claim of eu- Sisters and the pilgrims to foltian communities. native language, the EPUC, news upper Peru, who are believed to thanasia societies that most pain- low her example. service of the Catholic Univer- have been descended from the fully -ill incurables desire death, On the Feast of Corpus Chrissity of Lima, reports. celebrated dynasty of the Incas Mgr. Robert McCormick, pre- ti (June 16) the Pope gave first Communion and Confirmation At the ceremony, which took dating back to the eleventh cen- siding judge of the New York court, to a group of children of the diocesan matrimonial place on the day dedicated to tury. families of the Diplomatic Corps quotes the superintendent of one LONDON, June 13=-(NC).- His Holiness Pope Pius XII. durof the largest New York hos- and distinguished Roman famiThe Rev. Hugh Morrissey, for 20 ing the fourth National EucharAmong the children were lies. years until his retirement three istic Congress of Peru, Bishop VATICAN CITY, June 11.- pitals for incurables: "I have cared for thousands a grand -nephew and a grandyears ago pastor of St. Joseph's Santiago Hermosa, of Cuzco, and (Radio, NC).-The Vatican Press of His HolinessChurch, Reddish, near Stock- two priests addressed an im- Office has issued a denial of re- suffering from every kind of dis- niece port, Lancashire, collapsed as he mense crowd of natives from ports which assert that the Un- ease, incurable, miserable, agon- the son of his nephew, Prince Marcantonio Pacelli, and the finished reading the last Gospel near and far in their native ited States Department of State ising chronic conditions. "I have in nearly 30 years' ex- daughter of Prince Giulio Paat Mass, and died soon after- tongues. has opened negotiations with the wards. 4.fter the Communion Mass, Holy See toward securing Vati- perience, yet to encounter a pa- celli. Father Morrissey, who was 67, the Indians recited the words of can recognition of Israel in ex- tient who, fully aware of the retired because of ill health. He consecration to Sacred change for having Israel grant severity or his or her condition, Printed and Published by Keith the was offering Mass in the private Heart of Jesus, and sang religi- a special status to Christian re- has said or suggested to me, 'I Francis Spruhan, at "The Rechapel of his own home in Red- ous hymns also in their native ligious communities in Pales- want to die, put me to death.' " cord' Office, 450 Ray Street, Perth. -"Register." dish. He was ordained in 1912. idioms. tine.
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