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Stalin on Germany's New Horror Camps Index Gestapo was "Child's Play" Archbishop's Blue Road VATICAN CITY, October Radio, NC).-Commenting
By MAX JORDAN (Staff Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News Service).
BERLIN, Sept. 30-"Nazi gas chambers almost seem child's play compared to the methods now practised in Soviet concentration camps in Germany." according to a broadcast over the American -controlled station here which was heard throughout the Soviet zone. The broadcast fully confirmed charges made already in January, 1947, by His Eminence Josef Cardinal Fringe, Archbishop of Cologne, as Chairman of the Fulda Conference of German Bishops.
LONDON, Oct. 7.-4 NC).-Archbishop Thomas D. Roberts, S.J., of Bombay, India, has arrived at Portland in a tanker, as a supernumerary member of the crew. As such ships may not carry passengers, the Archbishop followed the usual custom of signing on as an honorary member of the ship's company. Archbishop Roberts, with the blessing of the Holy .See, is making his tour on behalf( of the Apostleship of the Sea, the world-wide organisation for the spiritual and temporal welfare of seamen.
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reports to the effect that the writings of Joseph Stalin have been placed on the Index of Forbidden Books, but that the Holy Office had not deemed it opportune to make this decision public, "'Osservatore Romano" remarks that these reports evidently emanate from sources that are unfamiliar with the pertinent rules of ecclesiastical discipline. "In fact," "Osservatore" declares, "reading of such works is prohibited 'ipso jure' according to Canon 1399 and, hence, a new specific condemnation is not necessary."
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According to the broadcast, group to which all children atthere are now 13 such Soviet tending public schools had to becamps in Germany and "hundreds long. She said that in her camp of thousands of people go alone there were some 18,000 prithrough these camps, and trans- soners. ports constantly move East, most- A woman, who was arrested ly at night, to unknown destina- because she entered the Soviet tions. zone to join her fiance, said she It is recalled that the German was subjected to unspeakable inBOGOTA, Colombia, October 1. The expert in jurisprudence GENEVA,, ill, (NC).-The Bishops received not even an ac- dignities by Soviet secret police -(NC).-Every paragraph of can "easily transform the social knowledgment by Soviet authori- agents in the Buchenwald camp. the encyclicals, "Rerum Nova - content of the encyclicals into Rev. Charles Patrick, member of ties of their protest last year, in Many of the women detained rum" and "Quadragesimo Anno," legal terms," the official ad Is. the Society of the Missionaries of which the Bishops cited many in- there, she said, had their heads furnishes a basis for social legis- "To a great extent, this has hap- the Sacred Heart, and an accomstances of young people being shaved and the hammer and sic- lation on salaries, the function of pened in the democracies in the plished pilot, is finishing test kidnapped off the streets in So- kle emblem tattooed on their property, and the obligation of last 10 years without the legis- flights in a Cessna 140 which he viet-controlled areas. Td this shoulders. Quite a number of the wealthy toward less favoured lators being aware of it. What- will take soon to his mission staday thousands of families in Bar- women were held as hostages for classes, Dr. Eduardo 7.aleto ever we find of the hest in real tion on Manus Island, in the Vizlin and throughout the Soviet their husbands and sons who had Angel, Minister of Foreign Bela stability and authentic valour in ariate Apostolic of Rabaul, his zone had no word about the fate fled to the we,tern zone of Ger- tions, declares in the daily, "El social legislation corresponds to Provincial Superior, the Rev. Joseph J. Janssen announced at of their children who disappear many. Liberal." Christian social doctrine." the mission seminary here. ed in Soviet camps. Father Patrick, who will cover The broadcast cited the experiNew Britain, New Ireland, New ences of a young girl who was Hanover and the Admiralty held for three years in one of Islands in his plane, studied aviathese camps only because she had been a member of the Nazi girls' By JOSE RICHARDS had anything to do with the plot. The :hind priest, the Rev. Victor (Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News Service). Jorge Farias, also a Navy ChapPeace Effort Prayer According to a report which appeared locally in the lain, is still being detained pendpress recently, among 21 persons who were arrested in ing further investigations. NEW YORK-(NC).-Prayers the Argentine in connection with an alleged plot to asWhen arrest of the priests wus for United Nations General As- sassinate President Juan Peron and his wife, were three first announced, the Argentine sembly efforts to conclude a "just priests. Hierarchy issued a statement deTwo of the priests were subsequently cleared of and lasting peace" were offered nouncing the plot and barring the WASHINGTON-(NC).by congregations attending Mass- the charges, while the third is still being detained, pending priests from exercising their min Permission to offer the The following is a report received istry pending clarification of their es in all churches of the New further investigations. Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Catholic from N.C.W.C.:York Archdiocese. alleged complicity. in an airliner high over the throughout the church bells Atlantic has been granted After Judge Palma announced BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 2.-Two Judge Oscar Palma Beltram, Archdiocese rang simultaneously to the Rev. Paschal Boland, for five minutes between 9.55 and of the three priests arrested by in charge of investigations, de- the release of two priests, His 0.S.11,, of St. Meinrad's AbThe prayers for Divine Argentine authorities for alleged clared that there is no prima Eminence Jaime Cardinal Copello, 10 a.m. bey, Ind., who is flying with guidance of the General Assem- connections with the reported facie (direct) evidence that the Archbishop of Buenos Aires. is a group of American pilbly delegates, meeting in Paris, plot to assassinate President two priests, the Revs. Fidel Hor- sued a statement expressing joy grims to Fatima this month. were offered on the recommen- Juan Peron and his wife have acio Moreno, Navy Chaplain, and at the judge's decree and restor1 portable altar will be indation of the New York Chan- been cleared of charges by the Carlos Grandi, parish priest at ing the faculties of Father Grandi. stalled in a Pan American decree of a Federal Court. the Church of Our Lady here, a priest of his archdiocese. The cery Office. Airways plane, and Father Cardinal also criticised those who Boland, is editor of newspapers and radio stations "The Grail" magazine, will which had used the allegations say one Mass just after against the priests as a basis for leaving La Guardia Field, attacking the Church. New York and another the "The deep sorrow which sadnext morning just before dened our soul at the arrest of arrival in Lisbon. three chaplains, reportedly involved in a plot that we most energetically condemn," the Car- tion for two years at the Lewis (N.C.W.C. News Service). dinal said, "gives way to the College of Science and Technolprofound joy at the decree ogy, Lockport, Ill. He earned VATICAN CITY, Oct. 2 (By Radio).-Regard for the of preoccupations of an entirely most of the Federal judge granting these licences and ratings: people's conscience and respect for their desire for secur- different order. freedom to two of these priests. Private and commercial pilot; ity should be the first considerations guiding public fin- This state of affairs, coupled . Because one of them belongs flight instrlctor; pilot, multi -enancial policy, His Holiness Pope Pius XII. told public fin- with more widespread under- to our archdiocese, we grant to gine, land; mechanic; ground ,n standing of financial matters, the the faculties to exercise structor; helicopter pilot with ance leaders gathered here from seven European countries. Pontiff continued, leads the in- him inagain his sacred ministry. We rights; instrument and Brazil, Argentine and Turkey. The Holy Father warned dividual to look with suspicion leave to the scrutiny of people of structor's blind flying. of a loss of moral conscience among people of all classes in upon even the wisest measures of sound judgment the treatment His plane was donated by the regard to the public welfare, particularly in financial mat- financial policy, and this sus- that some papers' and radio Missionary Sisters of the Sacred picion in turn is the reason for broadcasts gave to these virtuous ters. and noted that the Church cannot remain aloof from the Heart of Jesus, Bernharts, Pa general loss of conscience in priests and to the Church. and this moral issue. was named "Our Lady of the matters of public good. We order that in the Masse, Sacred Heart." In one of its His Holiness told the financial tivity of the State, too often die Pope Pius urged his listeners to said on Sunday (October 3) in all cross-country tests, Father Patleaders, gathered here for a con- tated by false or unsound ideolo- abstain from measures that, de- the parishes and churches of the rick flew it to Mexico City, where gress of the International Insti- gies, transforms political finance spite their technical cleverness, Archdiocese, thanks be given to he attended the crowning of the tute of Public Finance, that and particularly taxation pokey offend the people's sense of jur God, Our Lord, for what the statue of Our Lady of the Sacred unlimited extension of the ac- into an instrument at the service tics and injustice. judge has found." Heart at San Jose Church.
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