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ED GAINS IN ITALY THE LEFT" WENT WRONG. ROME: Communist gains in Italy's national elections will make it hard for the Catholicoriented Christian Democrats to form a stable government, observers here believe. They also regard election results as a repudiation of the Christian-Democratic opening to the left, the alliance of the left-of -centre coalition of Christian Democrats, Democratic Socialists and Republicans with the left-wing Socialist party, the former ally of the c9rnmunists. The Christian Democrats, Italy's leading party since the end of the war, remain the largest party, but its percentage of the popular vote declined from 42.4 per cnt in the 1958 elections to 37.2 per cent. The communists rose from 22.7 to 25.7, according to the latest r eturns.
RIGHT WINGERS CHANGE OVER Also scoring large gains was the Liberal party, a c onservative group despite its name, which rose from 3.5 per cent of the votes in 1958 to 6.9 per cent. Many right-wing Christian Democrats, displeased with the opening to the left, apparently voted for the Liberals. The Socialist party dec-lined slightly from 14.2 per cent to 13.8 per cent. Among the reasons for the communist gains, said observers. are the following:
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• Effective communist propaganda which led uninformed voters to believe that the Church has abandoned its condemnation of communism. The gestures of His Holiness Pope John XXIII towards peace and goodwill were exploited by the communists to convince voters the Holy See had relaxed its stand. • Internal migration which has led many persons to move from rural areas where the Christian Democrats are strong to industrial centres where the communists' strength is concentrated. • Votes of left-wing socialists who cast their ballots for communists rather than back the Socialist party's alliance with the Christian Democrats. 41 ,4.041,004.4 #0 , 11,..041 ,4141 ,4•04.#4,"INP
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NURSES AT MASS
Honour To Noted Missionary Bishop DARWIN.—Aborigines on Melville Island have raised a monument in honour of a missionary known as "the Bishop with 150 wives.- It is believed to be the first monument put up by aborigines to honour a wthite man. Bishop Francis Xavier Gsell, M.S.C., who was born in Alsace - Lorraine a n d worked among the aborigines in Australia's Northern Territory for 50 years, was Bishop of Darwin from 1938 to 1948. He was 87 when he died in retirement in 1960. Bishop Gsell got his "wives' when he was a mis-
sionary on nearby Bathurst Island. To save young aboriginal girls from 'the servitude involved in marriage to tribal elders, he went through tribal marriage ceremonies involving gifts of flour, sugar, axes, tobacco and cloth. The girls later married young men of their choice at the mission church.
Priest's Father Dies
Sandra Wright accepts the Archbishop's Shield on behalf of St. Mary's Convent Leederville, from Bishop McKeon.
A cable was received on Saturday last informing Father Sean Sorahan that his father, Mr. John Sorahan, had died suddenly in Longford, Ireland. Father Sorahan, parish priest of Kellerberrin, is the fourth of nine children of the late Mr. and Mrs. Sorahan. The others are Father D. Sorahan, 0.M.I., Michael, Peggy, Mary, Josephine, Kathleen, Rose and Patrick. A Solemn Requiem Mass will be offered in St. Joseph's Church, Kellerberrin on Tuesday, May 14, for the repose of Mr. Sorahan's soul. May he rest in peace.
Tiwi tribesmen, directed by Paru aborigine Albert Croker, built the monument in Melville Island's Paru village. In 1906, Bishop Gsell was made Apostolic Administrator of territory including the Northern Territory and adjacent islands. He was named first Bishop of Darwin in 1938 and retired ten years later.
• One hundred and sixtyseven nurses with representatives of the Religious Nursing Sisters of Mercy and Sisters of St. John of God attended the Mass for the commemoration of Florence Nightingale Sunday. The Mass was offered by Father P. MeCrann, the chaplain to the Catholic Nurses' Guild, in St. Mary's Cathedral at 9 a.m. last Sunday. The preacher for the occasion was the V. Rev. F. X. Brown. 0.P. After the Mass, light refreshment was served to the nurses at the Convent of Mercy, Victoria Square, where the chaplain gave a brief talk.
LAYMEN FOR 2nd SESSION? Z ARAGOZA. SPAIN,— SOME OF THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL'S COMMISSION'S
WILL HAVE L AY CONSULTANTS DURING ITS SECOND SESION, A COUNCIL UNDERSECRETARY SAID HERE. Archbishop Casimiro Morcillo Gonzalez of Zaragoa. one of the five undersecretaries, said in a broadcast over the Popular Radio station here on his return from the Vatican, where he attended a meeting of the
council's Co-ordinating Commission: "Catholic laymen, who till now have been only :attentive spectators at the council, will work as consultants because the doors of some of the commissions have been opened to th2m.The Archbishop also said that it is hoped that all redrafted council projects can be sent to bishops during April for study prior to the second session beginning in September, and that there NA111 be less, restrictions on council news during the second session.