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THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1949 Seventy-sixth Year. Price Threepence
A Frame -Up The Archbishop Welcomes
Suspected
Submission Of Two Priests
Y.C.W. Delegates
(Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service) PARIS, Aug. 13,-Abbe Jean Boulier, denied the privilege of saying Mass after next September 14, lecause of his persistent association with pro-Communist groups, and because of the Whatever the true facts in the encouragement he has given the (Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service). decircles Vatican be, may regime in CzechosloCzechoslovakia has earned the case the sentence of the priest Communist has made submission to distinction of being the first nounce unheard vakia, and inadmissible an as authorities and the of ecclesiastical country to convict a priest meddling of the State in a privilege has been restored. "treason" because he allegedly of matter and exreligious strictly Following the arrival of the Eastern States Returning from a month's stay applied the spiritual penalties pressed fears that it may open laid down in the recent state- a new and even more violent in Czechoslovakia, he asked for Y.C.W. delegates on Saturday a Retreat was conRugBishop with Caaudience an on Office Holy by the ment chapter in the persecution of the On Montholics collaborating with Com- Church by the Communist re- gero Beausart, Vicar Capitular ducted at Aquinas College on Sunday. of Paris, and was received yesmunism. gime. at St. Mary's Mass was celebrated day morning assured He morning. terday termed Romano" "Osservatore There are already several, the incident-which may well hitherto unconfirmed, reports of Bishop Beaussart of his fidelity Cathedral by Rev. Dr. E. Sullivan, who also read a foland vows, becerme a cause celebre-an ex- new arrests of priests on similar to his sacerdotal ample of the outrageous miscar- "charges," and rumours of fur- lowing a two-hour interview the message from His Grace the Archbishop, who was riage of justice practised in ther violence in Slovakia, where Bishop removed the ban. Another French priest, Abbe unable to attend. The first session of the ConferCommunist countries. Other ob- Catholics sought to protect their servers in Rome and throughout priests against arrest. Commun- Marcel Grangier, of the Lyon ence was followed by a civic reception at noon. the free world viewed it as a ist papers, continuing their vio- Archdiocese, also recently de"I welcome you this morning doing so was the Catholic work clear indication of weakness on lent attacks on the Church and nied the right to celebrate Mass That this Young for the opening er himself. the part of the Prague regime. the Vatican in particular, treat and to wear priestly garb be- to this CathedralAnnual National Christian Wo{kers' Movement In Vatican circles it was re- their readers to stories of "sinis- cause of his activity as a speak- of your Sixth providentially raised to meet particuwas I welcome Conference: meetings, has marked that the sentence ap- ter plots" by an "Organisation er at Communist need is borne out by pears to betray fears on the part X" which tries to "provoke civil called at the residence of His larly the Chaplains and dele- athepressing fact that it is operating tothe Conhave crossed Eminence Pierre Cardinal Ger- gates who of the Prague regime that the war' in Czechoslovakia. lier, Archbishop of Lyon, for an tinent to join in this Confer- day in over twenty countries of sanctions imposed by the Church Rehashing stories which have audience, according to press dis- ence and to add their contribu- the world, and has been called "may have their effect among The Cardinal, how- tion to the success of the Con- by the Pope "the most perfect the not inconsiderable number made the rounds in Communist patches. for several years, ever, is away from Lyon for ference, which I hope and pray type of Catholic Action." publications of Communists who have not yet "Go forward, then, my dear Abbe Grangier's will give added impetus to this become indifferent to the mater- the Prague papers accuse His several days. Cardinal name often appeared alongside magnificent apostolate in our Young Christian Workers, with Francis nal calls and warnings of the Eminence couroge and confidence, placing midst-the Young Christian of New Archbishop Spellman, on posters that of Abbe Boulier Church." your reliance, not on merely So far, only the Communist York; the Very Rev. John B. advertising Communist -sponsor- Workers' Movement. human wisdom, but upon the "Living as you do to -day in an version of the incidents leading Janssens, General of the Society ed meetings. Both of these priests have ap- atmosphere of secularism, the wisdo,m and power of God. The to the conviction of the priest is of Jesus, and Msgr. Giovanni B. available. That this version may Montini, Papal Under-Secretary peared frequently at meetings of danger of evil influence is very secret of your power lies firstly Australia in your own self -development, omit important details, or that of State, of being leaders of the the "Rally for Peace and Free- real and menancing. the whole affair may well be a "Vatican's fifth column," whose dom" (Rassemblement pour Paix is largely a nation of city dwell- by which you become master of frame-up staged by Commun- attempts "have been foiled by et Liberte), a pro-Commudist ers, in which over 50 per cent. the skilful direction of others by of her total population, and two which you become their leaders. ist agents, becomes apparent the eternal watchfulness of the organisation. out of three of her workers, are You have the advantages of through Prague dispatches quot- people's democratic governYou have vigour and distributed. Living in such youth. ing a prominent churchman as ment." close and continuous contact the energy. You are filled with the Another Prague paper terms saying that priests have been spirit of industrial the age. worker is peculiarly You possess the sentence of Father Fajstl warned to beware of Communallergic to his environment; the the courage to dare and carry ists who might come to them "decisive proof to the Vatican great enterprises hazards and pitfalls to of modern a successful pretending to be Catholics seeks that we are not afraid of its decity life are bound to have un- conclusion upon your lusty crees and that we shall be mering sacramental ministrations. favourable reactions on his reli- shoulders. But, above all, you ciless in the defence of our The Communist version is as people's regime." QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 13.- gious and moral development. have the gift of Faith to enfollows: The Rev. Alois Fajstl, e After being buried for four days is precisely the problem lighten you, and the gift of grace That the threat's of the Com- under the ruins of the Cathedral that"This priest in Sobranice in eastern confronted your venerated to uphold you. If the truth Bohemia, was called to give the munist regime have failed to at Ambato, the Rev. Juan Bau- Founder, Canon Cardijn, when alone can make men free, then Last Rites to a 67 -year -old shake, in any way, the loyalty tista Palacios was rescued and he laid the foundations of the the Catholic Church, which is woman, Zofie Paclicova, who and obedience of the over- found still alive. Young Christian Workers 25 the pillar and ground of Truth, was gravely ill of pneumonia. whelming majority of priests in Father Palacios was instruct- years ago. How could the faith is the Magna Charta of all In answer to his questions, she Czechoslovakia becomes clear ing some 60 school children in of thousands of Christian work- men's liberties. dispatches quoting catechism when the earthquake ers be safeguarded, admitted membership in the through "You have diagnosed and how the Communist Party. The priest Church authorities as saying crumbled the cathedral and Could that Faith be brought to nature and cause of the disease that out of 8,000 priests only 12 buried all alive. Besides Father told her that, according to the bear on pagan environment? which threatens to It destroy our Holy Office decree, Communists have incurred disciplinary pun- Palacios only a mother and her was a weighty problem, the solu- civilisation, and you recognise and their sympathisers are ex- ishment because of refusal to two children were extricated tion of which would go far to that the cure is not to be sought communicated, and, on these heed the instructions of their alive. A supporting arch fell give future stability to the in the realm of politics only. grounds, refused to give her the Bishops. across the priest's body, shieldFor it is a well-known The remedy is in your hands; be Orders by the regime that ing him from the big stones of world. Last Sacraments. The woman fact that in this democratic and not unfaithful to the trust. You sent, through her son, her mem- priests must disregard the Holy the crumbled building. industrial world of ours, the alone have a sure guide. Amidst bership card back to party head- Office excommunication decree Help has arrived here from working class takes on an ever the confusion of the time, you have been defiantly rejected in many quartesrs to aid the thou- increasing quarters and then the priest adimportance. The ex- need not be confused by the ministered the Last Rites. The at least one Czechoslovak dio- sands injured in the unprece- tent to which this influential bale of voices, for you have woman recovered, and testified cese, Prague reports state, The dented disaster and the more sector of the world's population Divine Voice to assure you, Youa Apostolic Administrator of the than 100,000 rendered homeless against the priest in the trial. is imbued with the principles of have no reason to be dazed by Father Fajstl was sentenced to Diocese of Litomerice in ,North- and lacking food. His Holiness the Gospel will decide in large false lights or confused with eight years' imprisonment and ern Bohemia is said to have re- Pope Pius XII has cabled 5,000 measure the extent to which the vain theories when you the ten years' loss of civil rights. In plied, in effect, that the signa- dollars, it became known here. Society of to -morrow will be supreme light of faith have to make pronouncing sentence, the judge ture over which the orders ap- Gifts in identical amounts were Christian. To the founder the way plain, and of the principles declared that any priest who re- peared was illegible and that the also received from His Eminence your Movement it became adunthe Catholic Church to make fused religious rights to a per- orders constitute an "interfer- Francis Cardinal Spellman, dantly clear that if the warfare of footing your firm. The future ence in internal Church affairs, son because of political party Archbishop of New York, and against the powers evil should of the Australian worker lies in membership or loyalty to the with a commissar acting in War Relief Services-National be carried into theofcamp of hands. the your You are the salt purely religious matters clearly Catholic Welfare Conference, State, is in the service of an worker, the only one capable of of the good Australian earth, the enemy power-the Vatican- outside his competence." Earlier reports stated that 11 substance that can leaven the aiming to destroy the people's churches of the Ambato diocese whole mass. Be true to the democratic regulations of oar had been destroyed and six of Christian State." its 23 priests were killed. Other Devotion By Stealth noble callingBeof Young truly Catholic, Workers. Press reports from Prague reports now identify some of you must and of necessity be state that Father Fajstl refused these churches. Demolished BUDAPEST, Aug. 4.-(NC)God to testify in his "trial" on the BASLE, Switzerland, Aug, 4. churches in Ambato were iden- Unknown persons leave flowers true Catholic Actionists. grounds that he was bound by -(NC)-Ninety per cent. of all tified as those of Santo Domingo, each day before the large relief grant that you be not unfaithful confessional secrecy. The same contributions made by adher- San Francisco, La Merced, and in the wall near the front en- to the trust. "You are the salt of the earth. dispatches quote Church spokes- ents of the schismatic Orthodox the Church of She Josephite trance to St. Stephen's Basilica here. The relief, commemora- But if the salt lose its flavour, men as voicing suspicion of the Church in Soviet Russia goes to Fathers. wherewith shall it be flavoured." ting the 38th International Euchwhole thing, because, on the one the State as a tax, according to artistic Congress held at Budahand, a really militant Com- information received by the Published by munist would "hardly summon "Basler Volksblatt," local Catho- 4 There is nothing truly valu- pest in 1938, shows Cardinal Printed and Keith Francis Spruhan, at a priest, while, on the other, a lic daily. The clergy must keep able which owl be purchased Pacelli, the present Holy Father, "The Record" Office, 450 Hay real Catholic would never de- a careful record of funds re- without pains and labour.- blessing the crowds as Papal Street, Perth. Legate. Addison. ceived. nounce a priest in public trial,
"Salt Of The Good Australian Earth"
Evidence -Inconsistencies
Pope Aids 'Quake Victims
Soviet Rake -Off