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No. 3257.
PERTH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1966.
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MISSION IS HIT AUSTRALIA) LINK WITH PAPUAN BY SEA TRAGEDY EXPULSION
THE eight foreign nuns who CATHOLIC MISSION, YULE ISLAND, PAPUA, SUFFERED A were expelled from their THECRUSHING SETBACK TO ITS APOSTOLIC ACTIVITIES THIS LOSS OF ITS LARGEST COASTAL VESSEL, YEAR THOUGH convent in Peking on Sun- REPORTS BISHOPTHE EUGENE KLEIN, M.S.C., VICAR APOSTOLIC OF day night are Franciscan YULE ISLAND. In the early hours of winch engine. Even so aries of many nationalithe of July 21, these are damaged by ties, including fifty AusMissionaries of Mary. This and morning tralians. The established in heavy seas, the sea water. The St. Francis was method of cargo transit Yule Island Mission St. Francis, manned built by Bjarne Halvor- was by St. Francis from was learnt in a cable receiv- boat by a crew of Papuan sen of Sydney in 1961 at Port Moresby to Yule seamen, struck a sub- a cost of, $50,000 and Island, where it is reed on Tuesday by Mother merged reef about ten had done excellent work packed and sent by miles from Yule Island in carrying Mission sup- launch to coastal stawas badly holed. In plies to and from Port tions or by chartered Paul Rene, Superioress of and the struggle to reach Moresby and along the aircraft to mountain stathe shore two lives were Papuan coast as well as tions. To Bema, a newly as well as most of native passengers and opened mission in the the Franciscan Missionaries lost the cargo and passen- their produce to markets primitive Kuku - kuku area of the Gulf District, in Port Moresby. gers' effects. of Mary at Victoria Park. To have its lifeline so almost all cargo had to Heavy seas in the Cessna area, while hampering suddenly and disastrous- be dropped by
Officials of the Chinese Foreign Min- salvage operations, fin- ly severed has imposed Planes, a very costly istry said that the nuns had been ex- ally broke up the vessel a complex and weighty mission enterprise. and it is a complete loss. p roblem on Bishop DIRECT UPKEEP pel led for espionage activities. They By working for three to Klein and the Mission much more Naturally, c laimed the nuns had used the cloak of four hours each day at Manager. Father Fraix. than direct upkeep of from tretching inland the tide, Brothers S low of rel igion as a cover. They have also been headquarters at missionaries must be the the Missionaries of a l leged to have distributed documents Sacred Heart, with a Yule Island over an area considered. Since its arband of helpers, were of 10.000 square miles rival in the Territory and spread rumours. from France in 1885, al-
The eight nuns were the last of the foreign able to salvage parts of are 22 central stations missionaries in China. They had been conducting the main engine and . staffed by 180 missiona school for more than two hundred children of diplomats until it was taken over by the teenage Red Guard last Thursday. A little over eight years ago the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary had 65 convents throughout Sister M. Cana—she has been expelled from two China, but the nuns have been gradually expelled countries. from their hospitals, institutions and schools. 1 Mother Paul said that 1 the eight nuns nevei knew ‘vrien they would see a priest. Sometimes they had to go without hearing Mass for weeks. However, priests had consecrated a large number of Hosts for REIGN OF TERROR FOR ALL PEOPLE OF RED CHINA ASSO- them and the Mother Superior was given speCIATED WITH BOURGEOIS IDEAS RATHER THAN A FRESH cial permission by the PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH IS INVOLVED IN THE CLOSING Vatican to distribute OF PEKING'S FAMOUS CATHOLIC SOUTH CATHEDRAL BY THE Holy Communion to the other Sisters. COMMUNIST PARTY'S YOUTHFUL RED GUARD. This is the opinion of The Chinese capital's allow reporters to enter PROVINCIAL SISTER Hong Kong's most ex- cathedral was taken the church, but newsOne of the nuns experienced observers of over on August 23 by men saw that some win- pelled, Sister Enda, is a This picture of the "St. Ca thol ic affairs in mobs of youngsters in dows had been smashed sister of the Mother Pro- Francis" was taken soon China. Despite their and that communist slo- vincial of the Francis- after it was grounded. greement, they said it gans had been painted can Missionaries of Since then heavy seas and is too soon to attempt a GERMAINE SWAIN on the cathedral walls. M a.r y in Australia, pounding on the reef have full assessment of the Peking's South Cath- Mother M. Fergus. For broken up the vessel. R EPORTS FROM new situation there. But edral — dating back to many years now Sistei they added that they HONG KONG the time of Father Mat Enda has only been perw onder how far Peking teo Ricci, 16th-century mitted to write an occacan rely on the stability o f its "deliberately support of the govern- missionary to China-- sional letter to her stirred-up" revolution- ment's new drive was kept open by the mother in Ireland. At ary students and school- against bourgeois influ- communist party to mis- present. Mother Fergus is visiting her mother ences, including reli- lead tourists into believ- and arrangements are children. ing there is religious The current attack on gion. Red flags were the Church comes as no hoisted over the cathed- freedom in Red China. being made for Sister HE Australian Najoin them. surprise. It has been ral's dome and western A European woman Enda to tional Catholic Radio A number of Franbuilding up for more tower. The youthful de- tourist told the N.C.W.C. and Television Centre Missionaries of ciscan than a year. monstrators refused to News Service here she Mary now working in has begun a training a ttended Mass in the Australia were among programme to fit priests, cathedral on August 14. those expelled from Religious and laymen She said several hun- China eight years ago. for this section of the dred Chinese were at One of these, Sister M. Church's apostolate. the Mass, mostly old Cana, at present in New Some few week;; ago. people, but some young South Wales, was in 'cultural revolution,' 13 priests, nine nuns men and children. Perth in 1964. She was and -five lay people comlet loose to impose a If they were not com- one of four nuns who menced the "Television more rigid observmunist party "actors." came here after being Techniques" course at ance of the teaching they will suffer because expelled from Ceylon. of Mao-Tse-tung to the North Sydney Techof their religion, which takeover of guarantee a greater When asked if any of nical College. is labelled a feudalistic the nuns expelled from ' Christian churches popular progress, The two-year course in Peking by Red now shows itself—if and capitalistic tool. China this week would comprises the whole Chinese teenagers has agency news reports The tourist returned be coming to Australia. television field — scriptbeen condemned by are exact — with a on August 20 after tour- Mother Paul's only re- writing, direction, camthe City violence which ofVatican ing Peking, Canton and mark was, "You never era work and producdaily as offending fends and destroys Hangchow. She said: know. It is amazing how tion. and destroying the for the people the "By the end of our tour God opens up new By this means the people's "inalienable first fields." and inalienable few of a us were dishopes to have at centre human right" to be- human right, that of gusted with the continuits disposal a group of lieve in God and wor- believing in God and ous stream of cultural Catholics who will have ship Him in His of ALLAWAH freely honouring revolutionary propaganin the varicompetence ' churches. Him in His churches. da the guides felt duty ous phases of Catholic GROVE t Commenting on the With the purging of bound to cram down our television production. news accounts of the the intelligence there collective and individual The Australian centre AND ITS A ugust 23 events in is desired the consethroats. A couple of us feels that this is an imPeking, "L'Osserva- quent, and ruthless C HALLENGE dished it back, VIt portant step in its efforts ' tore Romano" declar- coercion of the freecould not get the Ma, to implement the Vati• SEE PAGE 11. t ed: "The Chinese dom of conscience, . . needle off the sound can Council's Decree on track." Mass Media.
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