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To Save Truth -Justice & Peace Confirms 70,000 Pope to Legislators ROME, Sept. 9-(Radio, NC).-Delegates to the 37th. Conference of the International Parliamentary Union were received in audience by His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, on the eve of their deliberations, and told they must work untiringly for the preservation of "truth, justice and peace." "Your institution rests upon "May, then, your institution. the fact of the identity, under in a special manner, as it has alall latitudes and in all climes. of ready done, exercise its beneficent the nature of man. influence on the power (so often "Thus it is We have been pleas- harmful) of propaganda to make ed to knovo that in your ranks are it serve on every occasion the representatives of all nations. truth that is whole and inviolable. From the contact of your ideas That would mark a great prothere will come forth a more gression on the road to peace spontaneous and a wider diffusion (Absent from the audience of sparks, not those of the condelegates from the Soviet flagration that starts and ex- were tends conflicts, but those sweetly sphere of influence.) luminous sparks that cause to shine everywhere the brightness of light in the respect of the rights of others.
Letter Escapes Censor PRAGUE, Sept. 11-(NC).-The Czechoslovak Hierat chy's letter protesting government interference with afTairs of the Church, was in the form of a memorandum to the civil officials, and was tacked to the doors of churches throughout the country. In some cases security police removed the notice, but in many others it remained, indicating- disobedience or laxity on the part of the police. In Prague the Ordinary's office received a call from the Ministry of Interior, demanding. removal of the notice, which was refused.
Dies SHANGHAI, Sept. 11.-A heart so imbued with the missionary's enthusiasm that it fought off age and painful illness beyond all human expectation. was still when Bishop Auguste Haoui-
see, S.J. (71), died suddenly here. When interviewed in 1946, Bishop Haouisee had just recovered
from a serious heart attack, but was leaving on a mission trip to the rural areas, where he was to confirm 500 that evening, At that time the Jesuit prelate had been a Bishop for 18 years, and had confirmed 70,000 persons. Bishop Haouisee, was born in Brittany, and entered the Jesuit Order in Canterbury. England. LONDON, Sept. 9.-A group He came to China as a scholasof 14 British pilgrims have re- tic 45 years ago, and taught at turned home after making a Aurora University, where one of 2,000 -mile, unique pilgrimage to his students Alas Wong Wen-hao, Our Lady's shrine at Fatima. present Premier of China. He They hired a coach. with driver later laboured as a parish priest LONDON, Sept. 9-(NC).-Medical supplies and and attendant, for 16 days at a before being named Coadjutor to of 1,300 dollars, and took it the late Bishop Prosper Paris, other necessities are being rushed to Archbishop Arthur cost from England, down through succeeding him in 1931. Hughes, W.F., Apostolic Internuncio to Egypt, in response France, across Spain to the famto his appeal for hundreds of thousands of Catholic Arabs ous shrine; and then back, stop- Intruder: In Kemalpasa, Turping at Lourdes on their return. key, surgeons removed from made destitute by the fighting in Palestine. They could not have made the Arson Tekkhanat's stomach a pilgrimage any other way be- foot -long snake that had slipped The Catholic Committee for Re- since an outbreak of typhoid, in LONDON, Sept, 9-(NC).- lief Abroad. which is sending the such centres as Jerusalem, Ram- cause of present currency export in as he slept with his mouth regulations. open. Two British Bishops will star in material. also is conducting a alah, Galilee, camps in The Lea 40 -minute documentary film in fund campaign, following receipt banon, Syria and Transjordan, colour, "The Sacrifice We Offer," of a letter from the Archbishop The Archbishop called attention now being produced in this coun- to His Eminence. Bernard Car- to the fact the Arab popltry by Alan Turner, Catholic hr dinal Griffin, Archbishop of West- lotion of thethatMiddle East industrialist, of Derby, who won in- minster, in which the situation is cludes millions of Christians, of ternational praise for his first Ca- described as "a ruin to the Ca- whom hundreds of thousands are tholic documentary. "Family Af- tholic Church." Catholics. fair." "For instance, the Archdiocese is practically nonSeveral priests are also taking Galilee The Belgian diocese of Liege part and Young Christian work- existent, 80,000 Arabs of Haita, recently adopted Arab refugees in ers are acting as extras in the including 30,000 Catholics, having Nazareth, and Archbishop film, which has for its central been obliged to abandon their Hughes said he hoped this will By MAX JORDAN theme the Sacrifice of Holy Mass homes without, as far as I can inspire Catholics in other parts linked with industry and daily see, much hope of ever return- of the world "to do something to (Staff Correspondent. N.C.W.C. News Service). working life. relieve the appalling distress of Excerpts from ing," the Archbishop said. Half a million refugees are these Arabs, High Mass demonstrate the glorincluding our FULDA, Germany, Sept. 12.-The disorders of our ious ceremonies of the Church as now living in misery, especially brethren in the Faith." day have their deepest root in the disturbed and partially well as scenes from other occa destroyed order of the relationship between man and God, sions in the Litlurgy. the Hierarchy of Germany declared in a joint pastoral This is Mr. Turner's third such adopted at their annual meeting here and later read from film. A second dealing with the consecration of a churchpulpits at Sunday Masses. "Domus Dei," also in sound and "Millions of people," says the people ever will be able to repay colour-was completely recently. pastoral. ..no longer figure with the god these noble nations have God in their lives. They don't done in the last three years." fight God, but just pay no atLONDON, Aug. 26-(NC).They are just beginning to rea- tention to Him. They sense no Msgr. John Devlin, Hollywood lise, too, he said, that it takes obligation and no responsibility Communists Trust However. without pastor and adviser to the Legion them twice as long to get their toward God. of Decency, interrupted a quiet money back on a film which the the right order in our relations to God, no real order can be esvacation in Europe and lectured Legion has classified as "objectablished and the quiet cannot Cardinal on the Legion's aims and met- tionable in part." come about which arises from LONDON, Aug. 12-(NC).- hods at the first annual summer Monsignor acts as a order-that is, peace." Londoners are again attending conference of Britain's Catholic liaison officer Devlin Piquant Incident in Milan. between the film The pastoral refers to two proMass in the Church of the Im- Film Society held in London. industry and the Legion. He Communist are smart. They maculate Heart of Mary and St. The Legion's purpose, Monsig- acknowledged the support given blems now in the forefront of don't even trust one another. Republic interest here: the currency Dominic Homerton, first of the nor Devlin said, is single-minded to the Legion by many Protest- reform and the dismantling of cehtly a group of men with a city's "blitzed" churches to be and has been strictly defined by ants and Jews. industrial plants under the war truckload of rice stopped at the reopened for use. the Bishops of the United States residence of Cardinal Schuster, reparations programme. For months parishioners had as the evaluation of feature Archbishop Milan. "We are spent spare hours clearing thou- length motion pictures according Cardinal Fringe, in his address. Communists,"ofthey told him, "and sands of bricks and tons of to the standards of Christian expressed Germany's gratitude are in charge Mission They morality. debris from its shell. Miners for the whole-souled help which rice belonging of a truckload of Co-related problems, to our Communist helped build a new sanctuary and such as the stars' private lives, came to it from all parts of the co-operative. temporary altar inside the re- and the books on which films may world immediately after the "You know how unsafe it is maining fire -stained walls, and be based, though recognised as LONDON, Sept. 2.-(NC).- war's end in Europe. He said: to leave large quantities of food relaid part of the floor with important, are outside the scope Sermons in English and Polish "Forever it will be a glorious anywhere overnight. Would your boards sawed from old beams. of the Legion's work. Its were preached each evening dur- page in history that since 1945., Eminence be kind enough to allow The church still has no roof. On strength lies in the support it ing a week's mission to coal when hostilities ceased, Christian us to leave it with you?" The rainy Sundays parishioners will gets from the Catholic public, he miners of 12 nationalities900 includcharity to the has come aid of a Cardinal said yes, and let them have to crowd into a small ad- said. ing 400 Irishmen, which ended crushed people-a people which unload the rice and place it in joining hall for services. Monsignor Devlin was in Lon- this wie,ek at Hardwick Camp, up to that time had aroused the one of his rooms for safe keepdon on his way to Europe after near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. antagonism of the civilised ing Technology: In Ann Arbor, visiting his birthplace, Cork, The Rev. J. Lepich, a Polish world. Hollywood producers are priest, was one of the presiding Mich., the city did a thorough Eire. "'T'hen, as now, there was and "Do you believe in clubs for job of resurfacing streets, later realists, he said, and so they are priests. Bishop Edward Ellis, is no peace-and yet a bridge of women ?" a friend once asked W. had to dispatch an expert with a most anxious not to offend the of Nottingham, visited the centre Christian charity bas been built C. Fields. "Yes," replied Fields, mine detector to locate the man- susceptibilities of any large during the retreat, preached, and between Germany sad other na- "if every other form of persuagroup of cinema -goers. holes. gave Benediction. tions. I doubt that the German sion fails."
Unique Pilgrimage
Arabs Live in Misery
Mass to be Filmed
Germany's Problems No Order Without God
Aims of Decency Legion
Blitzed Churches
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