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SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR
Churchill Hails Church Catholics May be Proud of Derby
as Universal Defender Where the Nuns Care of Liberty
For 250 Lepers
Australians Wanted Ilk Marching at the Head of Civilisation for Heroic Mission, By RICIVI FATHER D. BRESLIN, rural areas than in suburbia, Long and close contact with infected persons is necessary before it is It was a proud moment for Bis- taken. Strangely enough, conjugal hop Raible when the authorities infections ars so rare that some came bat in hand to ask him to doctors recommend that wives be alallow the St. John of God Nuns to lowed accompany :heir infected hustake over the Government Lepro- bands for psychological reasons, sarium at Derby. Many years. ago There are two distinct types he had asked permission to open among the patients, the neural and Contin- the leproniatos-the latter one, but it was refused, is the ual trouble with staff caused this disfiguring kind. It is remarkable One feels of front. new change that neuritis generally accompanies very proud of being a Catesolic in leprosy. The efficiency and selfDerby. All modern drugs and methods sacrifice of the Nuns in tending the known to modern science are used 250 victims of this dread disease at Derby. A course of chasimooamaze all who visit the settlement. gric oils is the most successful, A The Catholic lepers number 80 and cure is very slow, but if taken in there are about 40 undergoing in- time the disease can in the majorBISHOP RAIBLE, P.S.M. struction. Wen here in this home ity of cases be arrested. A quick of suffering humanity the superior- and certain cure has not yet been some children were asked to ,v ice ity of the Catholic Mission training discovered. about a mystery of the Lesary. One If a boy is needed to is evident, The poor sufferers are devoted little girl chose the Finding in the run the garden, act as plumber, :0 the Sisters. I was amazed to Temple. She explained it bus: electrician, cook or carpenter, the find that many of the lepers show Our Lady and Sr. Joseph lost the Beagle Bay boy must be put in no noticeable sign of the disease. Diane Child. Heartbroken, they charge: the other natives coming Sevently per cent look quite norsought Him everywhere-they askCHURCHILL. earlier centuries." from Government settlements and real, except for a few scabs. Twenty ed the Police, sought the help of cattle .stations are just drovers per cent, are obviously infected, and In fact Churchill's own predecesthe Red Cross and the Boy Scouts, Mussolinian invasion route in the and stockmen. sor, William Gladstone, gave the the remaining ten per cent, are re- but nothing came of it. Then St, of sacred domain of the family and Leprosy threatens to wipe on: the pulsive. Catholic Church the credit have organThe Sisters had a happy inspiration.. of Hitler's aboriginal. It is very widespread, ised an orches:ra-a twenty-one Joseph mending at the head of civilisation the individual. All "At, Blessed Mother," he said,. threats and persecutions left the and there is great difficulty in bringfor fifteen centuries, piece. They put on a concert for "we never thought of St. Anthony Catholic Church imperturbable. ing in those who have contracted it. myself and Father Albert, Abbe Arthur Maheux, archivist of P.S.M., And kneeling down they said tio-e "Of course there were found men The poor sufferers prefer to die the Laval University, Quebec, Cantheir devoted chaplain. It is im- Hail Marys to St. Anthony, aria Catholic in name, to admire the rather than leave their friends. The ada, commenting on Churchill's re. possible to describe adequately my what do you think, straight away But terrors of Hitler and Mussolini, regime unspeakable has unknown mark in the Montreal "Dail Star," emotions as I listened to those poor they found the Holy Ch,141," Protestantism also had such men. for them. A police medical patrol hem= outcaste--the low August 10, 1916, writes: sad music His Lordship is looking anxiously They were, in both cases, excep- scours the bush at regular intervals Mozart "Having been brought up in the tions, equally to blame and equally and does the best it can to bring of humanity interpreting for young men of heroic mould, genand Beethoven. I confess I looked faith of the Church of Rome, my blamed, the lepers in for treatment. The at them and though: rather than erous and willing, who at Brothers personal opinion is in accord with will help him and the priests to "On the other hand, respect for disease itself Is a mysterious one. listened. that of the eminent Protestant that minister to those who sit in darkIts origin and cause are unknown. the the rights of and individual The spread of leprosy among the is Winston Churchill. Had I writness and the shadow of death, The The aboriginals contracted it pro- aboriginals will family exerdoes not prevent the have a good effect ten the same expression of opinion most urgent need in his diocese is bably from Jap and Malay pearlers. from the by whether of authority, cise the point of view of spreading in this column, some primary (eleBrothers. Here is a glorious Whe op- The native mode of life and lack of the Faith. or by the Church, State The convert lepers taken mental) individual would have with elementary hygiene: their habit of when cured return to their tribes chance for young Catholic men who anarchy, mean posite would conthe state to it upon himself to for all. passing food and tobacco from and cattle stations full of zeal to do not wish to study or enter the trary that the Catholic Church is its disastrous consequences Priesthood to work for Christ-to mouth to mouth have caused the disAvenues of "The difficult point is to distin- ease to spread Nike wildfire. They convert their fellows. essentially Fascist and authoritarcarry on His work in :heir own ian. Is that not what is said and guish between authority and au- seem to be very prone to this: as approach to the pagans closed to State. With the Pallottines a BroHere a per- a matter of fact they seem to have the Missionaries through bigotry or ther is in every sense of the word is of ten writoen in our Protestant thoritative excess. But Mr. Churchill sonal factor, that of temperament, very little resistance to while men's difficulty of access are now being a m-adjutor to the Priest. periodicals? They The father holds au- diseases. It is not hereditary, al- opened up in :his perhaps provi- occupy the same quarters, share the He shows that intervenes. does not think so. the Church of Rome became the thority over his family, but he may though children of leprous parents dential manner, same same clothing, eat at the Three weeks in Derby and the table, assist at the same champion of individual dignity and abuse that authority, whether he be have a predisposition to it, religious Men came to say farewell, I am time atheJew, or liberty, which is the exact opposite Catholic, Protestant, exercises Each young man is al. are more susceptible than women, Religious lcwed work at any trade that The employer has authority It can lie dormant for five or six deeply grateful to my of Fascism and Nazism and which ist. would Superiors who gave pe the oppormay but he authoritarhis employees, to over is definitely opposed It is more often found in tunity of :visiting the North-West benefit the Mission, A trial peryears. his whatever dictator. that authority, and abuse tyranny ian practices, iod of six months is passed before and seeing at first hand the won- the young aspirant makes religious faith. And thus it is with ship. or is heroic lives of the Pallet derfully authorwith entrusted persons all ciple enunciated by a group on the bound by any promises. A letter "The greet politician could have tines and Sisters of St. John of God. or religious civil in ity, whether saying on the other hand, one hand, and, to the Bishop at Beagle Bay, W.A. completed the picture by the manner in which certain indivi- From Father Francis, in isolation at will bring a quick response. The that the Catholic Church, in addi- matters. Lambardina among his blacks, to climate is trying but not unhealthy is as Let fainnew. Pt principles. nothing the "That is duals apply these protects and tion, respects We must us learn to condemn the individual Father Albert, in daily close con- The lovers of sunshine and the outily, which it considers to be the old as human nature. tact with his lepers, I shal 1 often true social cell; the family natural be ever on guard to correct or pre- who abuses his rights, without con- think of Father Alphonse and Bro- door life would find conditions conbenial. Christ the Kin calls for continuation of the individual man. vent authoritative excesses, but in demning the group, which is really ther at the new Mission where the volunteers: "Come follow Me." The Catholic Church has always a manner not to wreck authority. not responsible for the folly of the they mail never comes but for which Robust health, the wish to love and been on guard against the en- Of two evils we will choose the individual. the lesser in Between authoritative ex"On this occasion Mr. Winston go 200 miles twice each year, serve the Sacred Heart, and freecroachment of the State His Lordship Bishop Raible, in dom from obligations towards the sphere of the family and the in- cess and anarchy, which are two Churchill distinguished and placed It has openly evils, the former is assuredly the himself apart from the welter of his old brown hat, coatless, in trou- support of neer relatives, are signs dividual person. one which of necessity must be primaries. Glancing swiftly over sers of most unclerical hue, shall of a vocation. The reward will condemned such encroachments, the history of the past four cen- never be forgotten. Neither will I come, full measure, a hundredfold "All the wheedling of Mussolini chosen. of ever let us the steadforget the delightful story of events noted current clearly Church turies, be this life and eternal life herein "In :ridging failed to prevent the Rome from standing athwart the distinguish clearly between the prin- fast role of the Church of Rome." Pt, Anthony he bold me, It seems after.
From the "Globe and Mail" (London) of a recent date, we cull a remark made by Winston Churchill in an address before the Dutch Parliament: "Sinop the estrangements between Protestants and Catholics in the 16th, and 17th, centuries, there has arisen at least one important sew fact that every one should bear in mind. The Church of Rome bee ranged itself on the side of. those who defend the rights and dignity of the individual as well as the canoe of personal liberty all over the world." You will note that Mr. Churchill refers to this as a fact that has. existed "since the estrangements between Protestants and Catholics in the 16th, and 17th. centuries," but the best authorities on Mildle Age even in history would declare stronger language that the Church stood for tile "rights and dignity of the individual all through the Middle Ages as well as through the