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Picture Of St. Joseph
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Price Threepence
Missionaries Barred From Germany
By MAX JORDAN (N.C.W.C. News Service). (Staff Correspondent, N.C.W.C. VATICAN CITY. July 19-' News Service). (Radio, NC).-The commission for the exhibit of sacred art of COLOGNE, July 21-(NC).held the last 50 years, to be A number of German missionaries who recently returned from here during the Holy Year of interan 1950, has announced China have been denied permisamong By Rev. Joseph J. Sullivan today. He said he is looking has also been invited to speak sion by British occupation aucompetition national painters for a picture of St. (Radio, N.C.W.C. News forward to his first visit to in Chicago and New York on thorities here to return to their Joseph, patron of the Universal Service) America and that he admires his way back toward Rome. homeland, according to si,ord reChurch. VATICAN CITY. July 18.- the "youthful spirit" and the His stay in the United States ceived from Holland. The picture chosen will be "power for good" that is hers. will be extremely brief, he The priests are now in a monrendered into mosaic and placed Father Ricardo Lombardi.S.J.. in Holland. One has not The United States could de- said. because he must return astery permanently in St. Peter's Bas- famous for his "positive" cruto preach a series of sermons been home for 50 years, another sade of preaching which is feat communism materially, in the altar first the ilica over for 20 years. For many weeks left transept, according to in- said to have won thousands but could not, Father Lombar- in Austria in his "crusade of they have been awaiting permisformation learned at the Vatican from communism in Italy, is di points out, take its place in goodness" on the return of the sion to cross the German border. "Only world to Christ and the GosSpecifications and de- going to the United States the hearts of men: to -day. On the other hand, some 238 tails of the competition are early in September for a ser- Christ and His Gospel can do pel. Catholic missionaries have been He has recently preached in granted permission since the end being printed and are scheduled ies of addresses in San Fran- that." He believes that unfor publication within a few cisco and surrounding com- der the universal impact of France and Belgium, and says of the war to return to their formunities, it was learned here communism on the world men he was most edified at the re- eign mission fields. Eighty-two days, it was stated everywhere are realising their ception that greeted his mes- are priests, nine lay Brothers, and need for Christ and turning to sage in both countries. Invi- 156 Sisters. Most of the priests tations have also been extend- and Brothers went to South AmHim. Father Lombardi said he ed to him to visit the Scandi- erica. while most of the Sisters navian countries. went to Africa.
To Preach Crusade In U.S.A.
Nuncio To Egypt Dead
ready wia But his outstanding quality was added charity. He Moslem Requests had learnt the art of loving God by serving men, but his immense activity was accompanied by a Prelate's Blessing real holiness. "At the best of times his work A LC,IERS, July 22-(NC).would have been hard, for he had The recently -elected President of to deal with seven different the Algerian Assembly, Salah A hi;Akader, a Moslem, has asked Rites.' By M. MASSIANI report proclaiming the incontestAs Regent of the Apostolic for the prayers of Archbishop Delegation in Egypt and Pales- Leynaud. of Algiers, to help him (Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News ible miraculous cure of a 45_ Service). year -old woman, Mme. Rose Martine for five years, he resided in perform the duties of his office From November, Jerusalem and Cairo. His Jeru- successfully. PARIS, July 22.-Two mir- tin, of Nice. In a letter sent salem house overlooked the Gar- to the Archbishop shortly after acles at Lourdes have received 1995, Madame Martin had suffered from cancer of the throat. She den of Gethsemane and through his election, the Assembly presi- both medical and episcopal rerey, folowing a heart attack. had been operated on twice withalong dent wrote: cognition. The death of this convert avid his garden ran the path Our Lord, after His ar"The aid of Almighty God is The cure of a blind and par- out success in February and Ocformer London parliamentary re- which by the Jews, was taken to indispensable to me in showing alysed four -year -old child, Fran- tober. 1946, in a Nice hospital. porter has robbed the Church in rest He was myself worthy of the confidence cis Pascal, has been officially pro- In April, 1947, the question of a the Middle East of one of her the Judgment Hall. newt operation arose. The surmost active and fearless leaders, held in the greatest regard by that has been placed in me by claimed by the Bureau of Medical geons decided against it because whose wide administrative tal- both Jews and Arabs, and never French Algeria and your venerat- Inquiry at Lourdes. At the same of the general state of the inand visited Jerusalem without calling ed blessing will preserve me from time Archbishop Charles de Pro -5 valid, which recognised were ents seemed to leave no human weaknesses." vencheres, of Aix-en-Provence, brought into play early in the on the Chief Rabbi. hope. After that she was treathas declared the cure of a mirapast World War in Africa when ed only with morphine. culous nature. Italian priests were interned. June 30, 1947, Mme. MarFrancis was stricken with men- tinOnwas in The Egyptian Ambassador taken to Lourdes in a ingitis in 1937. It left him blind very London commented: "This is a weak physical condition. She and paralysed his arms and legs. was tragedy not only to me personalShe was Jn August of 1938, after several able nearly in a coma. ly but to Egypt and to Arabs to make the trip only bebaths at Lourdes, his mother was generally. I know how Archcause she was given numerous carrying him away from the pool, bishop Hughes spent himself in when he suddeny pointed a finger injections of camphor. the cause of humanity. His charat a tricycle on the esplanade. His at After her third bath in the pool ity and dynamic energy will be Lourdes she stated that she hard to replace." KYOTO, Japan, July 21-(C). Saga ,it will be remembered, is doctors said that his vision was felt a definite improvement in her The Lebanese Minister said: -"The saga of Saga is still un- the town which asked for en normal and that there was no condition. That very evening she "We have lost a very great folding." reports Brother Clem- masse enrolment in the Catholic trace of paralysis. was able to get up herself. She friend and champion." ent Hannan, Maryknoll Missioner, Church. The doctors made a statement felt no more pain and recovered The Rev. Alfred E. Howell, stationed here. "Two months Brother Clement attended to the canonical commission of her appetite. her return to White Fathers' Provincial, said: after the first Mass was said in Saga's first Mass on March 13. Aix, saying that the cure was be- Nice, she was On examined by her "He wias a man of extraordinary Saga, 100 had received .baptism," He estimates that 1,000 persons yond medical explanation. surgeon, who declared that the ability. Brilliant as a student, he said. "Now, every Sunday, have been baptised since then. The Journal of the Grotto of illness from which she had sufhe always possessed charm and groups of 100 are being baptised. Saga has a population of 3,000. Lourdes has published a medical fered has disappeared. "In addition," Brother Clement said, "Saga's example has made the pagans in other rural villages clamour for catechisms. We have distributed thousands to people in rural areas recently..' (N.C.W.C. News Strtice) sand faithful attended the placSaga's magi conversions startBUDAPEST, July 21-(NC). ing of a picture of the Madonna ed when a former Mayor, wor-Led by Bishop Francis Virag. della Strada in front of the larg- ried about the inroads Communof Pecy, more than 10,000 pil- est church at Nagykoros in the ism had made among the Japangrims from neighbouring villages diocese of Vacs. ese, decided that only Christiantook part in services of reparaANTWERP, Belgium, July Social speaker of the lower ity could stop Communism. The tion and prayer for good harvests Following the chamber. populace agreed on Catholicism 18, (N.C.) In an attempt to at the shrine of the Precious as the most effective form of weeks -long failure of the form a coalition Cabinet with Blood at Bata, in the Pecy dio20,000 Women At Christianity, and petitioned Bis- Christian Social (Catholic) the Liberal party, he has run cese. hop Paul Taguchi, of Osaka, for party leaders to form a new against a decision by the latter Most of the pilgrims came on Catholic August cabinet, the Catholic press of party that they would collabinstruction. foot, led by village their 15, Feast of the Assumption, has Belgium expresses the Rome Congress view orate in a government aimed priests. They brought ears of been set as the date when Saga that the party would get 200, against a directed economy, corn which were blessed by the ROME, July 21-(Radio, NC). will be entirely Catholic. 000 to 300,000 more votes if but that they would not coBishop and taken back to their -About 20,000 women are atanother election were held. In operate if the first object of homes. At home the ears of tending the national convention the recent general election the such a government would be corn are hung near the crucifix of the Union of Women of CaChristian Social party failed the return of King Leopold as a symbol of prayer for good tholic Action, which is celebratto get a majority of the lower III. to the throne. The return crops. ing its 40th. anniversary. The Also, Bishop Alexander Kovacs, convention's theme is "The LISBON, July 21--(NC).- chamber by only two seats. of the king is one of the major Paul van Zealand, former aims of the Christian Social of Szombathely, has ordered a Christian Community in Our Archbishop Paul Yu Pin, of Nanholy hour for children to be held Time." king, prayed all night for peace Prime Minister and a leader party. of the party, gave up an atin all parishes of this diocese, His Holiness Pope Pius will re- in China during his visit to he Archbishop Julius Czapik, of ceive them in audience after the Fatima shrine in Portugal while tempt to form a new cabinet, Printed and Published by Keith Eger, has established a rest home dosing session, and it is expect- en route to China. In the morn- and Prince Regent Charles has Francis Spruhan, at "The Refor sick priests at Berefurdo, in ed that he will address the dele- ing he offered Mass in the chapel entrusted the task to Frans cord" Office, 450 Hay Street, his archdiocese, and several thou- gates at length. of the Apparitions. van Cauwelaert, Christian Perth.
(Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service). LONDON, July 19.-Archbishop Arthur Hughes, Apostolic Internuncio to Egypt, was buried at Bishop's Waltham, near here, after a Requiem Mass at StOneleigh, Surrey, attended by Godfrey, Archbishop William Delegate to Great Apostolic Britain. The 47 -year -old London -born prelate, who was a White Father, had returned home recently for rest and medical advice, died at his parents' home at Ewell, Sur-
Cancer And Blindness Cured
Mass Conversion Snowballs
10,000 In Reparation
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Fatima Vigil