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PRESIDENT EXPELS JESUIT COMMUNITY FROM HAITI
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The Haitian government of President Francois Duvalier expelled the entire Jesuit community from the country and automatically forced the closing of the nation's only major seminary. The 18 priests and Brothers of the Society of Jesus in Haiti, all members of the Jesuit province of Lower Canada, were forced to fly out of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, on Ash Wednesday. Two of the Jesuits had been held in prison incommunicado for 12 days prior to their expulsion. The Canadian Jesuits undertook the Haitian mission in 1953, after the Holy See requested them to provide the faculty and administration of the Port-au-Prince seminary. With their expulsion, the seminary was closed and the approximately sixty seminarians sent home. The 100-room Jesuit retreat house, which had provided spiritual retreats for some two thousand persons in the little more than four years since its opening, was seized by the government.
Canadian Protest On the day of the expulsion, Canadian Minister of External Affairs Paul Martin issued a statement in Ottawa declaring that the Canadian government was "very displeased by the decision of the Haitian government to expel a mission which has brought so much good to the Haitian people." Martin also said that "Canada could not be satisfied by the vague allegations about the activities of the Jesuit mission, which, to our point of view, have in no way been improper." The Foreign Minister further noted that he had ordered the Charge d'Affaires of the Canadian Embassy in Haiti, Charles Bedard, to lodge an official protest with the Duvalier regime for refusing to allow any Canadian official to see the two Jesuits who were held in prison. The two were Father Paul Laramee, S.J., and Brother Francois -Xavier Ross, S.J., who were arrested at the Port-auPrince airport on January 31 on their return from a trip to Canada. Arrested with them was Father Paul Hamel, S.J., who had gone to the airport to meet them. All were imprisoned in the notorious Fort Dimanche gaol. While Father Hamel was released several days later —following a protest by the Canadian Charge d'Affaires — Father Laramee and Brother Ross were held in gaol until they were hustled off to the airport on February 12 and ejected from Haiti. According to Father Jean d'Auteuil Richard, Provincial of the Jesuits' Lower Canada province, who went to the Montreal airport to welcome the ousted missionaries home, neither Father Laramee nor Brother Ross suffered any particular ill-treatment. The provincial said
however that the conditions at Fort Dimanche prison were obviously "deplorable."
AIR LIFT The Jesuit community flew out of Port-au-Prince in three different planes. One group of eight flew to Kingston, Jamaica, then to Miami, New York and Montreal. Another eight flew to San Juan, Puerto Rico, New York and Montreal. Two priests flew to Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. The two — Fathers Paul Chartiez, S.J. and Paul Lachance, S.J. — planned to go by ship to New York and then on to Montreal by train, because 64-yearold Father Chartiez has a heart ailment and prefers not to fly. SEE PAGE TWO air
Naval Officers and men wore black armbands when they attended the Mass at the Cathedral for those who lost their lives in the Voyager tragedy. A REQUIEM MASS WAS SUNG IN ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, FOR THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE RECENT NAVAL DISASTER — THE WORST PEACETIME TRAGEDY IN THE HISTORY OF THE AUSTY.CALIAN NAVY.
"Even though this was but a normal peacetime exercise," he said, "in the hearts of every Australian the men of the Voyager will be remembered and honoured as if they had fallen in defence of their country in wartime battle. "Their sacrifice will inspire others to follow and emulate them, and will awaken all Australia to His Grace the Archbishop was the debt we owe to the men and present at the Mass, which was women of our fighting services who are ready, in war and in peace, offered by Father P. Quinn. to lay down their lives that AusFather H. Brennan told those' present that the men of the tralia might be free." Voyager sailed and died under the Father Brennan told the many sign of the cross of St. George— relatives and friends of the West the sign and symbol of sacrifice Australians who died in the dissanctified by Him Who dies that aster that nothing he could say we may live. coul .1 fill the void in their hearts,
Visiting Jesuit Staying at St. Louis' College, Claremont is wellknown author and retreat master FATHER ROBERT NASH, S.J. Father Nash is in Australia from Ireland for 12 months and, while having a look at Perth and parts of the West, he will be giving some retreats. Some of the places will be at St. Louis, Loreto Convent and the Good Shepherd Convent. Father Nash has been much in demand in Ireland for priests' retreats for the last 20 years. He has written many books and hundreds of pamphlets. Some of the books well known in Australia are "The Priest at His PrieDieu." "The Nun at Her Prie-Dieu," "Everyman at His Prie-Dieu," "Marriage, Before and After." Father Nash will be in Perth till Saturday, March 7. He was last in Perth 36 years ago.
but he assured them that with them were all the people of Australia — the rich, the poor, the great, the humble — of all creeds and origins. More than twenty Catholics were among those killed when the R.A.N. destroyer Voyager collided with the flagship of the Australian Navy, H.M.A.S. Melbourne. The Catholic chaplain on board the Melbourne gave general absolution to the dying immediately after the tragedy had occurred and Father M. McDonald anointed the seriously injured as they were brought ashore at Jervis Bay. In Sydney, Father G. Lake offered Requiem Mass for the dead at Garden Island dockyard chapel the following day
Expert On "Birth Control Conflict" ST. LOUIS (U.S.A.).—"The conflict over birth control will be over in five years, maybe even in two years," an English author and expert on population, poverty and marriage predicted here. Father Arthur McCormack, a Mill Hill Father visiting in St. Louis, said in an interview that science is so near to perfecting ways to detect — and even to anticipate—fertile periods in women that birth prevention devices and chemicals will soon be out of date. In fact, he said, "in the next few years contraceptive devices will become as out of date as the Model T Ford." Father McCormack said that methods of perfecting the rhythm method "are in the laboratories and have gone even further.Medicine and science are working on several systems, but their aim is the
same—to devise a simple, easy, cheap and acceptable way to detect the time when a woman is likely to c onceive. This scientific development would even find ways to anticipate with certainty the time of ovulation in women, Father McCormack said. A couple would then know ahead of time when to expect ovulation to occur Another system being worked on, said the priest, is electronic. He described this as a minute transistor capsule that would reveal the status of a woman's ovulation cycle by measuring normal body reactions. The capsule would indicate its findings by some sort of signal.