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The Tide Must Be Stemmed
Seventy-sixth Year.
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Perplexing Apathy Places and Arab refugees is perC.W C. News Service.) CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 22 (N ). plexing and unsatisfactory. He
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LONDON, Sept. 22.-The num- grants divorces, they add, are able to every married couple in ority of Catholics," Christians reason why the Christian nations throughout the world have have no wish to support the ber of divorce petitions in Bri- the result of a broken marriage, the land. tain next year is likely to be not the cause. "The cost to the taxpayer of shown little or no interest in the Arabs in safeguarding the Holy --pro"Our conclusion on the tragic So said Addel Places in Palestine, which are higher than ever before giving legal advice to the people Holy Places. bably ten times greater than in problem of divorce," they re- who want to end their mar- Azzam Pasha, secretary general held in sanctity by both ChrisThis con- port, "is that the best chance of riages will be enormous. Surely of the Arab League, at a press tians and Moslems. any pre-war year. By "a minority of Catholics," clusion is reached by Frederick stemming the tide lies in better it is not unreasonable to spend onference here. Azzam Pasha believes that the Azzam Pasha said, he meant to Redman and Joseph Garity, who preparation for marriage, and a fraction of this money in sayhave been investigating the more help in bringing about a ing marriages before they break attitude of Christendom as a refer to the Papal Mission for Msgr. whole divorce picture for the reconciliation between couples up. whole to the question of Holy Palestine, headed by a secular who feel their marriage is Thomas J. McMahon; the Amer"Sunday Pictorial," ican Catholic Near East Welbreaking down. The great need tabloid here. Their forecast is based on the is for sound advice and guidance fare Association, of which Monpassing by Parliament of the before these domestic tragedies signor McMahon is national secLegal Aid and Advice Act, reach the divorce court. retary, and the Catholic Belgian mission, Palestine. which has received the Royal "The National Marriage Guided in causing the expulsion of By ISABEL ROBALINO Assent, thus becoming law in ance Council now gets a State Monsignor McMahon recently August. Under the provisions subsidy of £5,000 for this work, (Correspondent, N.C.W.C, News 18 million people from their met Azzam Pasha here and told homes." Peace cannot come, he Service). of this measure free legal aid and has helped to form nearly him of the work of these three FRANKFURT, Sept. 1,-Mass warned, "unless this terrible in- organisations, will become available to every- 100 marriage guidance councils and the latter exMuch smaller meetings attended by tens of justice is corrected by those who pressed great admiration. one earning up to £.8 per week, in big towns. He a figure embracing perhaps 50 subsidies are also given to the thousands have acclaimed the have perpetrated it." While the also showed appreciation of the U.S. Congress has set a limit of per cent or more of the work- Family Welfare Association and Rev. Emmanuel J. Reichenber- 205,000 advocating for the D.P,'s to be ad- Papal encyclicals internationalithe Catholic Marriage Advisory ger, of Glen cross, South Daking population of Britain. and proper ota, when he visited his native mitted as immigrants, little true Up to the present the average Council. sation of the Holy Places. "In our opinion the subsidies country after a ten-year exile thought is given to the fact that cost of an undefended divorce "If Christians have no wish petition has been around £70. are piffling and the need is en- from Germany in the United 11 million German expellees that Arabs should continue There should be at States. The priest has acquir- were crowded into over -popu- to bethe Now, say these investigators, di- ormous. guardians of the Holy vorce will be available to a great least twice as many Marriage ed a reputation as one of the lated Germany, he charged. Places," he added, "the least expects Father Reichenberger The official Guidance Councils, with skilled, outstanding champions of the mass of people. return soon to the United that can be expected by the "grounds" on which the courts commonsense help freely avail- millions of Germans that were to expelled from the eastern terri- States to resume his campaign Arabs is that they (the Chris_ tories of Germany and from to arouse understanding among tians) support the internationCzechoslovakia under. the Pots- the American people for the alisation of Jerusalem to ensure expellee problem, which he con- free access to it by followers of dam agreement. Father Reichenberger, whose siders one of the most serious the three main religions-Christianity, Islam and Judaism." writings are widely quoted in arising from the war. ernmental decree which abolish- the German press, was officially By MAX JORDAN (Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News ed obligatory religious teaching received by the Bavarian Govand ordered parents to declare, ernment. Service). Auxiliary Bishop BUDAPEST, Sept, 15 (Radio, verbally or in writing, before Johannes Neuhaeusler, of MunSeptember 15, whether they de- ich, greeted him and expressed NC).-The great majority of Hungarian parents have regis- sire religious instruction for deep appreciation of all Father tered their children for religious their children or not. Reichenberger had done for According to the "Catholic In- whom he terms the "Potsdam instruction in the nationalised State schools, following the gov- spectorate of Religious Teach- displaced persons." Foremost ing," the number of children re- among those expressing gratigistered for religious instruction tude to the priest were the GerAnnounce the opening of Is estimated at a minimum of 87 mans of the so-called "Sudetenand a maximum of 98 per cent land," now crammed into the Pope Blesses of the total enrolment of school western zones. children in the various districts. In his addresses, Father ReichInvalid's Marriage Final results are expected with- enberger appealed for support of the German Christian parties, LONDON, Sept. 15-(NC).- in a few days. The decree abolishing obligaand warned his listeners not to Lying prone on an invalid carriage, 29 -year -old Ian Ander- tory religious instruction was be deceived by the promises of son, former university student issued by the newly formed Pre- either Communism or socialism and Royal Air Force pilot, was sidential Council of the Hungar- which, he said, "have co-operatmarried in Glasgow Cathedral ian People's Republic. to a 23 -year -old phone operator. She Miss Sheila McFayden.
Germans Hail D.P. Champion
Hungarians Adamantine
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disability interfere with his stuThough flat on his back, dies. he continued with his course in chemistry, doing his practical work in a tiny laboratory in back of his bungalow home. He obtained his chemistry degree last year, and now tutors students in his home. His Holiness Pope Pius XII, sent his blessing to the couple.
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Egypt's `Moliere' Dies
CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 16(NC, Fides).-About 50,000 persons attended the funeral of Naguib Rihani, known widely as Kish kish Bey, the Egyptian Moliere. Syrian -Rite Bishop Joseph Bakhache, of Cairo, presided at the obsequies. Many did not know that this writer and egyptologist was a Catholic.
"Part .Of Divine Creation"
(By N.C.W.C. News Service). to Christianity from technology DUESSELDORF, Germany, is attributable to human preSept. 15 (NC).-A more positive sumptuousness in seeking to attitude of Christianity toward make man the master of creaDom Bede Griffiths, 0.S.B., technology, "the strongest mod- tion, he added, but this danger Prior of Farnborough Abbey, ern influence in the world to- can only be curbed by a more Hampshire, has received into the day," was urged in an address positive attitude of Christians Scott -Montagu, before the annual meeting of toward technology. Church Paul Archpriest and Patriarchal Le- the Society of Gejnan Engi"Natural sciences and techgate of the Western Orthodox neers. nology must be included within (Schismatic) Church. He is a the fullness of Christian life and The speaker, Professor' Soer55 -year -old Scotsman, who re- ensen, of Augsburg, held it in - faith," Dr. Soerensen said. "Beceived orders in the Western comprehensive that godless re- cause so many people lack comOrthodox Church at the age of gimes succeeded in making tech- prehension of technology, large 50, and was a member of the nology part of their view of life, numbers of natural scientists Order of Christ Our Most Holy while those States where Chris- have been alienated from ChrisRedeemer. Educated at Eton tianity is still able t6 function tianity." College and Oxford, he served often appear to forget that techIt is the task of the responin the British Army in World nology, too, is part of the Divine sible engineer, he said, to opWar I, and was in Russia dur- creation and a gift of God to pose the widely -held, false being the revolution. He later man. lief in redemption through techbecame a sailor. Proper appreciation of tech- nological progress with the nology, he said, is often imped- sober reality that human needs Printed and Published by ed by the view common among can be met only by faith in the Keith Francis Spruhan, at many Christians that technology redemption through Jesus "The Record" Office, 450 Hay menaces the Christian founda- Christ and adherence to Divine Street, Perth. tions of our time. The danger law.
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