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World Needs Transfusion
Pope On Religious Anaemia
Price Threepence
EDUCATION
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LONDON. June 23.-(NC)-Two members of the British Hierarchy have revealed that the 1944 Education Act, which Government officials reckoned would cost Catholics £ 10,000,000, will in fact cost them more than four times
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Edward Ellis of Not- i ''A measure of relief for their put the figure at existing schools, for which up to foreshadowed then they had mostly paid for a serious new battle between themselves; and generous treatVATICAN CITY-(NC).-The the Dominican Republic, Dr. said it was his mission to Britain's Catholics and the Gov- ment in the reorganisation of world is in need of a "spiritual Pedro Troncoso Sanchez. strengthen the already firm ties ernment over educational igsues. higher -grade schools as demandblood transfusion of the most "A great part of humanity, between his country and the In the 1944 Act the Catholics ed by the general educational unusual proportions," His Holi- still unenlightened by Christian centre of Christendom. counted on two things:regulations in the country. ness Pope Pius XII. said in his truth, and, unfortunately, also "I have to state categorically formal address on receiving the certain sectors of Christianity, that neither of these things has new envoy to the Holy See from show clear symptoms of a relicome to pass," the Bishop added. He gave three main reasons for gious and moral anaemia, just the present "grave and unhappy beginning or already developed," state of affairs": the phenomenal the Holy Father said. "We see and unexpected rise in building no way of remedying this ailcosts, increasing demand's by the ment except through a spiritual Education Ministry, and interblood transfusion of the most pretation of the Education Act unusual proportions." contrary to Catholics were LONDON, July l-(NC)- Leytonstone on the outskirts of led to believewhat The spiritual blood donor for when it was being VATICAN CITY, June 28- the world can be no other than Many conversions have resulted London. negotiated, particularly as re(NC).-His Holiness Pope Pius Christ Himself, the Pope stated, from the efforts of a group of The intentions for which the gards costs. The Bishop urged his listeners, XII. received in audience 400 recalling the utterance of St. Rosary is offered at these spots delegates to the World Health Thomas Aquinas that a single young ex -servicemen who for are: a just and lasting' peace; whatever their party, "to say to Organisation Conference in Rome drop of the Saviour's Blood can nearly a year have been leading the conversion of Russia; the re- the politicians that what we public recitation of the Rosary lief of persecuted Christians in want first and foremost is jusand told them that bodily health save the world from every ill. Sunday afternoons at Eastern Europe, especially Josef tice for our schools. We want here cannot be dissociated from spirHoly Father expressed Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park. save our children. We want itual health. They must be theThe Cardinal Mindszenty, and the to hope that the coming Holy ao ensure that our children are considered together to prepare Year may be an instrument in The effects of their prayers, it conversion of England given their education in the an atmosphere for true univer- bringing people closer to Christ is reported, have been especially schools of our desires, according sal peace, he said. LONDON, June 13.-(NC)- to our religious convictions." and obtaining for them "a rich noticed among lapsed Catholics. Eighty -fi Received in the Sala Regia of harvest of grace and peace." He added: "I would ask you Now, with the permission of Peter E. ve- year -old Archbishop Amigo of Southwark, not to be fobbed off this time the Apostolic Palace, the deleIn presenting his credentials Bishop Andrew Beck, Coadjutor the diocese of the south-eastern gates represented 62 nations, in- as Ambassador by so-called sympathetic hearBrentwood, this group has corner of England, has just orcluding several Iron Curtain and PlenipotentiaryExtraordinary of ings or with soft, evasive The Holy Father minican Republic, of the Do- started a second "pitch" outside dained his 1147th priest at the speeches. We had too much of countries. Mr. Sanchez the Green Man, a public house in diocesan seminary. spoke in French and afterwards that at the last election. chatted individually with those "Today most people recognise that the danger is not Rome but present. lack of religion, and that education in Catholic schools makes VATICAN CItY, June 28the most loyal, the most obedient (Radio, NC).-The arrival of the THIS ISSUE IS DEDICATED TO THE LATEST VICTIM OF RED and the best type of citizen." first Indian diplomatic represenArchbishop Joseph Masterson tative at the Holy See in history of Birmingham told Catholic is expected in July, according to mothers that free education the Vatican Information Service. would be more acceptable to TYRANNYHe will be Dhiralal Bhulambhai British Catholics than free specDesai, and will have the title of tacles-as provided in the preMinister. sent national health scheme. Bishop
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Public Rosary Wins Converts
Spiritual Health
ARCHBISHOP BERAN Blind Nuns Make Records
Litany Of Saints In Stamps
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Bulgaria Under The Lash
SisMILWAUKEE --(NC). ters Jeanne Madeline and Francis Terese, twin nun pianistes on the faculty of Cardinal Stritch NEW YORK-(NC). Bul- ligions, Orthodox, Protestant, College here, have recorded an the Balkan nation out of Jewish or Catholic. album of popular classical pieces garia, which very little news filters Recently Bulgaria came into for the commercial market. The nuns, bnd since birth, were con- through the Iron Curtain, is the headlines of the foreign undergoing a religious persecu- press in the trial of 15 Protestcert pianists before they entered tion as cruel and inflexible as ant ministers, but many digreligious life. Their album, "Con- that unleashed against the Ca- nitaries of the Orthodox Church vent Series," bears the label of tholics of Hungary and Rumania. also have been tried as enemies Joseph H. Conlin Records, Out of nearly seven million in- of the State. Brown's Lake, Burlington, Wis. habitants, the greater number All the above are statements of whom belong to the schis- made by Bulgarian refugees in a'
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LA GOSSE, Wis.-(NC).Among the saints pictured on The famous stamp collection of stamps are St. Gabnel, the Litany of .11e Sainte; which he stamps from 16 countries; St. put together over the past 30 Peter, on stamps from Malta and years has been packed by Msgr. Greece; St. Sebastian; on Belgian Ferdinand Cech, of St. Wences- stamps; St. (ho., on Norwegian laus' Church here, and turned stamps, and SS. Cyril and Metover to Bishop John P. Treacy, of hodius, on stamps from CzechoLa Crosse, for presentation to slovakia. His Holiness Pope Pius XII late this summer. The collection, valued at 10,000 matic Orthodox Church, at least press interview upon their arOne of them said the 100,000 are Catholics of the rival here. dollars shows that God Latin rite, who, in spite of the that in Bulgaria, as well as other Father has been honoured on Soviet satellite nations, the peovicissitudes of history, remain stamps from Greece, Brazil, and ple offer passive resistance, or NOTRE DAME Liberia; that God the Son has (NC).-In Leliefs of its patrons, but has faithful to Rome. Though their flee to the mountains or across 1949 been pictured in various ways: accepting the Laetare been a positive influence for good churches have not been closed, from Medal awarded her by the Uni- by taking religious subjects i.s persecution weighs upon the ex- the frontier. His Nativity on stamps ercise of worship. "The loss of freedom, poverty Italy, Estonia, and Hungary, His -ersity of Notre Dame, Irene its most popular theme." She Resurrection on a stamp from Dunne declared here that "when stressed that 'very few other Students and troops are pro- made worse by forced exports to Easter Island, Christ the Teacher a university of men honours a "chides of public information hibited from participating in re- Russia and other nations, religion stamps from Italy, Cyrenaica, soman, 1 see in it an echo of its and entertainment call in a reli- ligious feasts, which previously ous and political persecution, and Tripoli, the Eucharist on a original consecration, when higa sious leader to consult on the were so intimately linked with have sunk the Bulgarian people into a state approaching desperSan Salvador issue, and the Sac- upon its golden dome the univer- correctness of their presentations, the life of the people. Who is but our industry prides itself on Concentration camps and pri- ation," he said. "The fact that red Heart on a stamp from Bol- sity placed the Lady ivia. A representation of the Notre Dame. having religious counsel for reli- sons are filled with Catholic the Bulgarian Government has priests and laymen accused of been recognised by the Western "I might be tempted to regard sams pictures." Holy Ghost is on a Brazilian Powers and that jealousthis Laetdre Medal as a personal stamp. "One of our greatest tempta- acts of sabotage, black market- ly guards its IronRussia Curtain, renMonsignor Cech found that the tribute were it not for the fast tions is to believe our press clip- ing or sedition. ders any thought of liberation a At the same time there has Blessed Virgin has been honour- that I, like you, have been horn pings," Miss Dunne explained. as anti-religi sus mere fancy." ed on some 200 stamps issued in of Notre Dame," the screen act- "Happily, the Church has provid been loosed The Bulgarians, he emphasismore than 22 countries. Argen- ress said. "Everyone is born of ed the best antidote I know of campaign which ridicules all re ed, are not and never will be tina, for example, has honoured woman, not only physically but against believing our publicity, Communists. "Their profound her as the Star of the Sea; Boli- spiritually. In that conscious- and that is the daily examination University of America, D.C., sentiment, inherited via as the Eucharistic Madonna; ness, I know that the Laetare of conscience. Nothing cuts us s; oke, of the movie actress's de- religious from the Christian missionaries Colombia as the Madonna; and Medal is not for my honour 'sat down to proper stature like vout faith. He recalled when of the third century, their atLuzembourg as the Comforter of is rather first a tribute to woman - kneeling in a confessional box, she was making the picture. tachment to the land in a countho Afflicted. toed and secondly to my profes- for God reads only hearts, not ''Penny Serenade." He said she try of small land -owners, the press clippings)' called on him faithfully at 5 a.m. absence of large Printed and Published by Keith claimed that Miss Dunne Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, noted daily, so that she could attend and capitalists, the land -owners Francis Spruhan, at "The Re- the motion picture industry author, radio orator, and Profes- Mass and receive Holy Commun- organisation of familypatriarchal life-all cord' Office, 450 Hay Street, has on the whole, not only been sor of Philosophy at the Catholic ion before reporting to the studio this stands in open opposition Perth. free from wounding the religious
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