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Ceylonese Government Creates
More Difficulties For Religion New Delhi: The Ceylonese government, which nationalised 720 Catholic schools last December, has now ruled that catechism cannot be taught without a permit, even outside school hours. At the same time, according to reports from Colombo, the government of Premier Sirimavo Bandaranaike has also ruled that foreign teachers of religions must leave the island when their present residential permits expire. The Ceylonese government has also asked religious personnel living in predominantly Buddhist areas to migrate to Catholic districts, it was understood. Meanwhile, it was learned that Ceylon's Minister of Education has decided to build new schools to replace schools situated on church grounds. An investigating team was ordered to make on -the -spot inspections of all The team schools located close to places of worship. was told to specify which schools are so situated that from those separated be reasonably their grounds cannot of the adjoining church. Colombo authorities said that temporary school buildings would be constructed to replace such schools pending appropriation of the funds necessary for permanent school buildings.
Laotian Communists Maltreat Missionary Rome: Laotian Reds defamed a French missioner before his death and then sacked his mission, it was reported here by Fides, mission news agency. 4,ta
Fourteen Sisters of Mercy celebrated their silver jubilee this month with Solemn Masses and celebrations at the various houses of the Order throughout the metropolitan and near country areas and one at present in Ireland. The Sisters came out from Ireland to the West Perth community in 1933 with the late Mother Mary Ignatius Stritch. A papal blessing has been imparted to the fourteen They were professed on July 2, 1936, by His Grace the Archbishop. jubilarians. They are: Front row, left to right: Sr. M. DE SALES, Sr. M. GERTRUDE, Sr. M. KEVIN, Mother M. SCHOLASTICA, Sr M. ANGELA, Mother M. BERNARD. Back row: Sr. M. BERCHMANS, Sr. M. CELINE, Sr. M. BRIGID, Sr. M. RAPHAEL, Sr. M. BERNADETTE, Sr. M. AIDAN, Sr. M. DYMPNA. Inset: Sr. M. CELESTINE.
ANOTHER Father Joseph F. Richard, A.A., has been named as the new chaplain to American Catholics in Moscow. The 47 -year -old Assumptionist is replacing Father
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he applied for his visa the first week in April. It was
issued within two months. The present American Catholic chaplain in Moscow, Father Dion, waited more than three years for his SoLouis F. Dion, A.A., who has viet visa. He replaced Father been serving the American Georges Bissonnette, A.A., colony in Moscow since Jan who was summarily expelled uary, 1959. "I am going to Moscow was set down by the Rus- by the Russians in March, said. 1955, after serving as chapsians," he to say Mass, preach and ad"It gives me plenty of lain for more than two years. minister the sacraments to members of the American time to get there by ship The Russians later admitted The Russians that Father Bissonnette's and train. colony,"' he said. Father Richard will leave have been pretty generous." expulsion was in retaliation Father Richard said his for the refusal of the U.S. New York for Moscow on August 9. He must be in religious superiors asked him government to prolong the Moscow by September 1 at this spring to prepare for visa of a visiting Soviet the latest. "That deadline the Moscow assignment and clergyman. Father Richard asked in his visa application to be able to stay in Soviet RusNEW PRIMATE WILL VISIT POPE London: The new Angli- national ceremony in Can- sia between two and three can Primate said in a na- terbury Cathedral as the years. He said he expects tional television interview 100th successor (according to stay about two years. that like his predecessor, Dr. to Anglican belief) of St. By Agreement Geoffrey Fisher, he hopes to Augustine. visit His Holiness Pope John Archbishop John Heenan The Soviet Union permits XXIII at the Vatican. of Liverpool attended the an American priest to live "I have little doubt that enthronement dinner given in Moscow under the terms one day I shall be going to by the Primate that even- of the 1933 Roosevelt-Litsee the Pope," Archbishop ing in Lambeth Palace, his vinov agreement in which the Michael Ramsey of Canter- London headquarters. The U.S. granted diplomatic rebury, spiritual head of the Archbishop did not attend cognition to the Soviet Church of England, said. His the enthronement itself. Union. Father Richard will first objective as Primate is The Catholic prelate and be the sixth American priest Christian unity, he added. the Anglican Primate are -all have been AssumptionHe said he feels the best close friends and Archbishop ists-to take the Moscow thing now is to consolidate Heenan gave a private party post. The others were Fr. the work already done to a few days before for Dr. Leopold Braun, A.A., Fr. promote Christian unity. Ramsey before he left his George A. Laberge, A.A., Fr. Archbishop Ramsey was old Anglican See of York to Arthur 0. Brassard, A.A., enthroned on June 27 in a be enthroned at Canterbury. Fr. Bissonnette and Fr. Dion.
School Sisters
Might Strike London: Two English Bishops have said that if the National Union of Teachers carries out a proposed strike for higher wages, Sisters who are members may take part. Bishop Edward Ellis of Nottingham the told press: "My advice would be that if there were no other means of getting a satisfactory solution of a grievance, they should join in any strike called by their union. Teachers are members of a very specialised profession and would not go on strike unless their leaders thought it absolutely necessary." Bishop George A. Beck, A.A., chairman of the Catholic Education Council, also told reporters that where a union obviously has a case, Catholic teachers who belong to it should show their loyalty to the union. recent school In a strike in Scotland, teaching Sisters reported at schools to look after the children but did not accept pay and did not teach. See Foreign News: "Will Nuns Strike?"
The agency revealed details of the arrest in April Louis Leroy, of Father 0.M.I., who was later killed by the communist Pathet
Lao troops, according to a Saigon, reaching report Vietnam. Father Leroy was last seen on April 18 walking in the custody of Pathet Lao troops, Fides reported. The Pathet Lao forces had entered Ban-Pha-Teu, where Fr. Leroy had his mission, on April 15 following several days of fighting in the neighbourhood. According to Fides, Ow priest's disappearance and murder followed this chain of events. On April 18, following the offering of his usual morning Mass, the priest was ordered out of his chapel by Pathet Lao troops at which time he and his house were searched. A short time later that morning the priest was ordered to leave his mission in the company of a half dozen soldiers. He was seen walking in front of the soldiers, barefooted and bareheaded, dressed in his cassock with a crucifix and breviary. He told one of the villagers that he was going to see the Pathet Lao commandant who had asked for him. Later that day a large contingent of soldiers returned to the house with the priest's key, where they piltaking laged the rooms money, letter:, records, medicines and some Blms.
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PROFANATION PREVENTED From the house the soldiers went to the chapel where they took a missal and some altar ornaments. They asked that the tabernacle be opened, but did not insist when those in the chapel refused. Later that evening when the soldiers had left the grounds, a young woman went to the chapel and con-
sumed the Sacred Hosts in
order to prevent profanation. At 8 o'clock that evening the troops ordered the villagers to assemble where they were told that although the priest had not been killed, he was a traitor and a spy and would be replaced by a better priest later. Several days later the mission was again searched, and the religious articles in the chapel were completely destroyed.
PRESUMED DEAD On the day Father Leroy was taken prisoner, a woman
of the village Ban-Pha-Teu saw the priest surrounded by soldiers in a ricefield. A short time later she heard shots in this area and concluded the priest had been killed. Later several women collecting firewood in this area were chased away by the soldiers. The following day, when the soldiers had gone, a fresh grave was discovered. Because of the fear of discovery, it was not until the beginning of May that the grave was investigated. A woman from the village opened the grave and found what she believed to be the body of the French missioner.
N.S.W. Editor
Recovers The Editor of the "The Catholic Weekly," Sydney's weekly paper, Mr. James M. Kelleher, K.C. S.G., has now left St.
Vincent's Hospital where
patient for he was a some weeks following a Mr. coronary attack. Kelleher is now making a satisfactory recovery at his home.