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POPE PAUL ISSUES PLEA TO BRING PEACE TO CYPRUS' Nuns To Doff Wing Whit s" e " BITTERNESS PROBABLY
THE MOST DISTINCTIVE HEADDRESS OF ALL THE ORDERS OF SISTERS IN THE CHURCH —THE POINTED, STARCHED WHITE CORNETTE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY — WILL BE WORN FOR THE LAST TIME ON SEPTEMBER 19.
Pope Paul VI has urged Turkey, Greece and the government of Cyprus to restore harmony to the strife-torn island of Cyprus.
On Sunday, September 20, the first major change in the 300-year-old habit of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul will give the members of the community a simple blue coiffe with a white lining and edging instead. The new headdress will come to a point at the back, just below the shoulders. It will be similar to a three-corned scarf. It slightly resembles the headpiece worn by St. Louise de Marillac, who co-founded the community with St. Vincent de Paul in 1633. The Daughters new blue dress will be six inches from the floor and will have one box pleat in front and back. It will be one-piece with a small white frontpiece and will be more trim than the Sisters' present multipleated, shoe-length gown. The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul make up the largest world-wide community in the Church. They number more than 45,000 and are located in five continents. 62 countries and 52 provinces.
In identical telegrams destined for all the three governments the Pope said it is "the duty of his apostol ic ministry" to make known his anguish at the internecine warfare on Cyprus. Contrary to the usual custom, the contents of the t elegram were revealed by the Vatican press office. The telegrams, sent on the Pope's behalf by Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, Papal Secretary of State, were addressed to the Apostolic Nuncio in Italy, Archbishop Carol Grano, and to the Charge d'Affaires of the Internunciature in Turkey, Monsignor Luigi Bellotti. Archbishop Grano was charged with making the message known to the Ambassadors of Cyprus and Greece in Rome, while Monsignor Bellotti was charged with relaying the contents to the Turkish government.
ANXIETY AND ANGUISH The telegram said that "the Holy Father considers it the duty of his apostolic ministry to reveal the anxiety and anguish with which he is following the painful events in Cyprus which have so brutally struck those people and which upset peace and harmony between noble and well-loved nations." It continued: "The August Pontiff is pleased with the auspicious signs of relaxation of tension which have been manifested lately and, while he reconfirms his esteem and affection for all the interested countries, he is confident that thanks to the wisdom of their governments, further grief will be averted and a satisfactory solution to the controversy will be found through peaceful negotiations. To this end His Holiness sends his ardent prayer to the Most High."
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ANILA: Father Augustine Nguyen Lac Hoa, leader of the beleaguered villagers of Binh Hung, whose self-defence forces, the Sea Swallows, have kept their district in South Vietnam's extreme south out of Communist hands, has been chosen for one of this year's Ramon Magsaysay awards. Leopoldville. The Congo: Three days after the CONSTANT award was announced it LENAERS, W.F., anwas doubtful whether the other unidentified White 56 -year-old priest in his Father and an unnamed r emote parish had yet re- Congolese priest have been ceived the good news. killed by bandits in AlThere is no regular tele- bertville, according to graph, telephone or postal news reaching here. service into Binh Hung. Five other missionaries seriously wounded, According to the an- were reports said. Archbishop nouncement by the Magsaysay Award Foundation, Vito Roberti, Apostolic "Father Hoa is recognised Nuncio to the Congo, has had a doctor sent by the for extraordinary valour Red Cross to Albertville in the defence of freedom, to care for the injured strengthening among a be- missionaries, since no docleaguered people the reso- tors remain in that city. lution to resist tyranny." Five or six other missionaries are in the hands He is the foundation's of the bandits and are beselection this year for the ing held in a military a ward for public service. camp, reports said.
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A collection for Catholic Action in the A rchdiocese will be taken up in all churches at every Mass on the first Sunday in September.
Catholic Pilgrims Protest Action Taken By Communist Regime SOME 80,000 CATHOLICS MADE A PILGRIMAGE TO POLAND'S NATIONAL MARIAN SHRINE ON JASNA GORA AT CZESTOCHOWA ON THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEIR COUNTRY'S COMMUNIST REGIME HAS HARASSED MANY OF THOSE WHO MADE A SIMILAR PILGRIMAGE LAST DECEMBER. The harassment, during which many pilgrims were "treated in an inhuman manner," was reported in a protest sent earlier this year by the Polish Bishops to Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz. The protest also denounced the revival of secret police activity against the Church.
The bishops' protest was a sequel to a meeting of top communist officials at the Ministry of Interior in Warsaw on August 12, 1963. At that meeting the so-called Security Bureau was revived and plans adopted for a campaign against the Church. According to a report of the meeting published in New York by the InterCatholic press agency, the plans called for combating the Church by "exploiting internal discords" — by seeking to set the laity against the clergy and priests against bishops.
Police Persecution Signed by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland, and Auxiliary Bishop Zygmunt Choromanski of Warsaw, secretary of the Polish bishops' conference, the protest memorandum said the harassment of pilgrims amounted to police persecution. The text of the letter has just reached the free world. The bishops declared: "The command posts of the Citizens' Militia summon those Catholics who in December, 1963, went to Jasna Gora in C zestochowa to place at the feet of Our Lady of 'Books of Czestochowa Good Deeds for the Ecumenical Council,' and subjected them to (lengthy) hearings. "Such people are subjected to inquisitional, harassing hearings, ac-
Secret Collaborators CARDINAL WYSZYNSKI companied by intimidation and threats of punishment to extort detailed, personally written descriptions of the whole 'journey' and stay in Czestochowa. The persons subjected to these hearings are treated in an inhuman manner — they are shouted at, accused of lying, threatened and intimidated, held for hours on end, and required to give statements detrimental and incriminating to themselves and the parish priest."
This, the meeting was told, calls for the "establishment and utilisation of a network of secret collaborators" and the "carrying out of joint preventive measures (in co-operation with the Citizens' Militia and units of government administration) with regard to the hostile clergy.•' The bishops' protest said: -The unseemly methods of the fight ('operational activity') recommended at the meeting of Department Four of the Ministry of the Interior fill one not only with surprise, because * Continued on Page Two
VIENNA: RANZISKUS CardiF nal Koenig of Vienna has sent a telegram to Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski extending greetings to the Catholics of Poland and explaining that he was unable to take part in the great Polish pilgrimage on August 15 because the Polish government did not give him permission to enter Poland. The Austrian cardinal had been expected to attend the celebration of the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin at the Polish Marian Shrine at Czestochowa. He applied for an entry visa at the Polish Embassy in Vienna on July 3, expressing his intention to go to Poland on August 6. But the visa was not granted. There was speculation in Austria that Poland might grant a visa to the cardinal in September. This would presumably preclude a visit, as Cardinal Koenig must be in Rome for the opening of the third session of the Ecumenical Council on September 14.