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(NC).-Ai friends to work on the project built in with them. While some of the they can. Donations also come south-eastern France will be a artists are not Christians, such from various sources. One man museum of ultra modern art as Chagall, the painter, and the reecntly sent £19, one poud for when completed in August. It sculptor, Lipchitz, all were each year of happy married life. will serve as a parish church for eager to take part, Bonnard, LONDON, Jan. 13 (NC).-The the Council achieved a recon- Others have sent silver wedding thousands of tuberculosis pa- who died recently, contributed offerings. between a couple that tients in nearby sanitariums, a remarkable portrait of St. Advisory ciliation Catholic Marriage Unless a flow of new funds and will be dedicated to Our Francis de Sales. Henri Matisse Council, which last year saved had been separated for 15 years. from church collections and Lady of Mercy. gave a ceramic statue of St. at least 90 Catholic marriages "But in addition to this other sources can be obtained, from breaking up, is faced with work," Brigadier Frere said, Artists of advanced skills were Dominic. Theodore Stavinsky, oragnisers fear that the the having to close of son of the famous composer, did the prospect "the Council is undertaking andown through lack of funds.. other branch of marriage guid- Council will not be able to con- chosen to decorate the new mosaics of St. Theresa and St. and tinue. church, many induced Joseph. This is disclosed by Brigadier ance work, possibly more imA Dominican priest, Father Coutrier, helped to deFrere, head of the organisation, portant still. It is conductng sign the windows. in an interview this week in the pre -marriage courses for men in "Catholic Herald." the Forces, and plans similar INDIA NEEDS NATIVE CLERGY "The Government is anxious courses for engaged couples in VATICAN CITY, Jan. 7 lic here to -day to see the Council expand its ac- civilian life." The letter is the autograph (Radio, NC).-An increase in tivities and has made small JESUITS ARE The the organisers of Council clergy, epistle sent by the Holy Father the number of native grants, but most of the money needed has to come from volun- attribute much of their success, greater development of Catholic to His Eminence Norman Cartary subscriptions," said the not only to their "marriage Action, establishment of a Ca- dinal Gilroy, Archbishop of BEHIND TITO. counsellors," but to their "back tholic university, and an in- Sydney, Australia, who is the Brigadier. The total cost of the work of room" assistants: 52 convents of crease in the number of charit- Pontiff's Legate to the First MUNICH, Jan. 3 (NC.)- It the Marriage Council during nuns, each taking a week of the able and educational institutions Plenary Council of the Church the Jesuits again, They are be in in India, which opens in Banga- hind Tito. Church 1949 was some £2,000, saving year for unbroken prayer in be- are needs of the marriages at an average rate of half of the cases under current India, His Holiness Pope Pius lore to-morrow The official newspaper of the consideration and for the gen- XII. says in a letter made pub £22 each. USHUIA, Argentina, Dec. 28 Czechoslovak communist -contrDuring the year the Council eral success of the Council's (NC.) The southernmost olled youth organization says so, handled 900 cases, and the per- work. church in the world, newly -con- according to the Bistumsblatt centage of success is higher than Many of the people who seek Convert Norwegian of Passau, structed through the efforts of (diocesan paper) that of any other body engaged the help of the Council to save the Salesian Fathers and dedic- Bavaria, on similar work. In one case their marriages contribute what ated to Our Lady of Mercy, reAccording to the article, the May Be Saint places the humble chapel which Czechs say that the Jesuits were for half a century served inhabresponsible (NC).Jan. 12 BRUSSELLS, for the decree of the TITO'S BRUTALITY TO NUNS of itants of the remotest region of Holy See excommunicating Cacause The beatification support GENOA, Italy, Jan. 12 (NC). Holy Cross, and Daughters of Father Charles Schilling. who Argentina. It is in Tierra del tholics who knowingly died in 1907, at the Barnabite Fuego, at 54 degrees south lat- communism. They also are to -More than 500 Catholic Sisters Divine Charity. itude, where the average winter blame for Tito's at West Convent Mouseron, break with the have been ejected from their Sisterhoods also have been convents and forced to find shel- completely suppressed in the Flanders, Belgium, has been in- temperature e 32 degrees above Cominform, they add. (The Cuzero (Fahrenheit) and summer minform is the over -al: propagter with families or friends fol- Yugoslav Repubdic of Slovenia. troduced before the Sacred Conis of 52 above. anda unit and underground golowing Communist suppression A report some time ago stated gregation of Rites, it has been temperature The Government contributed vernment of all countries beof all religious Orders of women that 200 nuns were ordered to learned here. hind the Iron Curtain.) in the Yugoslav Republic of stop hospital work. Father Schilling belonged to a toward the cost of the church. Bosnia -Herzegovina, it Scores of nuns are reportedly While studying in Duesseldorf, was learned filial reports reaching still held in Yugoslav prisons. Germany, he became a convert, here. sures against the Sisters in Bos- and in 1868 joined the Barnabite CHINESE REDS "COOK" THE NEWS From 1887 to the time HONG KONG, Dec. 1 (NC). -At the same time, Communist work of spoliation begun by Order. Pei Chiang museum in Tien -Red authorities in 1945, it death, known was of his he was at The case of the Rev, Albert Ghe- the authorities have been searching sin. Last summer he received out the refugee Sisters in their pointed out here by persons Mouseron for his sanctified life squieres, French missionary in permission from Father Tsi, diwith the situation. Dur- and called the "saint of the Tientsin, who was sentenced to rector of the parental homes and ordering familiar Tsinku Middle Many pilgrimages to seven days at hard labour some School, to reoccupy a museum them to be arrested on charges ing the.past four years, they town." of "vagrancy." Some of the say, the Yugoslav Government his grave took place and mir- months ago by a Red court for room that had been used as a expelled nuns have been sent has suppressed all Catholic ele- acles were attributed to his in- allegedly locking two Chinese dormitory the previous year by In 1924 the re- students in a room was given some of the students. off to work on "volunteer" pro- mentary and secondary schools, tercession. jects such os roads and mines. old folks' home, orphanages and mains were removed to the wide publicity by the communist When the students returned in hospices. Barnabite church. press and radio. The facts in the the fall Sisterhoods suppressed by the they forced open the door case have now been received here Yugoslav Communists are: The brought in cots, Father Ghefrom other missioners there. and Daughters of Charity of St. are reported in the China squieres explained to the stuVincent; the Daughters of the UNIVERSAL CHARITY OF HOLY FATHER They Missionary Bulletin, now prin- dents that the room was again Child Jesus, the School Sisters being used as a museum and al CITY, Dec. persecution VATICAN are raging against ted here. of St. Francis; Sisters of the the students to leave, but (NC.)- Eight countries behind the Church, are among the 42 According to the story released asked Precious Blood, Sisters of the the "iron curtain," including countries to a hich His holiness by the communist Sin Wah News they refused. He then told the those where the pressure and l'ope Pius XII has sent Christ- Agency, the priest detained the students they would have to watch mas gifts of money and mater- students in an "atrocious man- their own belongings; he and the ials, according to word made ner,' set two "fierce, foreign - workmen would keep watch over museum The collection. Rabbits Say 'Ku -Ku' public at the Vatican today. bred" dogs on them, and later the defied the police "in the barbar- Fathers insist no door was lockea Austria, on KARASAKI, Japan, Jan. 12 the students. Pulgaria, CzechoslovAUCKLAND, New Zealand, ous manner of the imperialists." oilers a refreshing change from Jan. 3 (NC). Archbishop akia, Germany, Yugoslavia, Pol- This caused "unanimous indignthe flat clinches of other lan- Paul Marella, Apostolic Deleg- and, Rumania, and Hungary are ation" in Tientsin, the agency guages, reports the .vRe George ate to Australia, New Zealand among those countries receiving reported, and according to the J. Hirschboeck, Maryknoll Mis- and Oceania, will pay his first gifts which His Holiness caused agency, made various groups Queen Of Workers sioner from Milwaukee, Wis. MEXICO CITY, visit to New Zealand in March, to be distributed through repr- raise "indignant protests on Dec. 2.9 The Japanese, literally trans- 1950. Important events during esentatives in those countries. behalf of the oppressed teachers (NC.)- Our Lady of Guadalupe lated, for greeting an old friend, his visit will be the blessing Other countries aided were Alg- and students, insisting on ap- was proclaimed Queen of Workis "It's a long time since I've and opening of the additions to eria, Tunisia, Belgium, Luxemb- propriate punishment being meted ers by the more than 250,000 hung on your eyes," according the Provincial Minor Seminary ourg, China, Cyrenaica, Denm- out to Ghesquieres for behaving Mexican workers who took part Ethiopia, with imperialistic barbarity in in the tenth pilgrimage to to Father Hirchboeck. An in- at Riccarton, Christchurch; the ark, Egypt, Eritria, Guadalupe shrine organized b vitation to sit down is "Please Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Philippines, Finland, France, New China." Japan, Britain, Greece, India, hang your waist," and the Jap- Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, the According to missioners' report, the National Guadalupe Assoc anese for "Take it easy" is Provincial Major Seminary for Indonesia, Iran, Irak, Lebanon, Father Ghesquieres is head of iation of Mexican Workers. Pa"Honorable slowly, please." In New Zealand; and the blessing Syria, Norway, Holland, The workers marched in ai, Portugal, Soa sympathetic mood, "It's poi- and opening of the new Training lestine, Jordan, impressive procession which lason to my heart," will show College in Auckland for teachers maliland, Sweden, Spain, Switzsted from four in the morning of the diocesan Catholic schools. erland, Tripolitania and Turkey. proper concern. till one in the afternoon. The Japanese animals also have It is also hoped that his visit In some cases money was made 8,000. marchers carried thousands of available for purchases; in different modes of expression, will coincide wth the centenary others, food, clothing, medicines MANILA,- "Tremendous need placards depicting Marian lel_ adds Father Hirschboeck. Dogs celebrations of the Mercy Order. and other items were forwarded for more priests" exists in the ends. Later the walls of the large say "wan -wan," sparrows say Members of this Order were the annual Christmas re- Philippines today, according to basilica resounded with their "chan-chan," horses say "hin- the first nuns in New Zealand, a for Egidio Vagnozzi, singing of national songs and by the Pope in these Archbishop hin-hinhin," and rabbits, who band of Mercy Sisters from membrance Apostolic Delegate, interviewed in hymns in honor of Our Lady. speak not at all in the U.S., say Ireland, arriving in Auckland needy times. his temporary home in Manila. "ku-ku." in 1850. Children, as formerly, were Archbishop Vagnozzi, appointed Catholics have an obligaindicated as the chief benefic- last March, arrived here at the tion to bear witness, to make iaries, but others are being end of July: He served for ten their faith incarnate, to teP's, helped, incvluding refugees, the the Apoyears on staff of 15,000 NUNS WANTED! stify before men. A cultiunemployed and interned pers- stolic Delegation in Washington. MUNICH, Jan. 5 (NC). in a growing measure. The stat- ons, needy clergymen, students, His last post before coming to vated pretence or affectation There is an immediate need of ement is of particular impor- prisoners, the sick, the invalid the Philippines was in the Papal makes it difficult for our at least 25,000 Sisters in Germ- tance in view of the requests and emigrants. According to the Internunclature at Delhi, India. bodies to express what our any today, according to "Bayer- constantly received from re- information available here, partminds and hearts contain. Asked what he believed to be isches Klerusblatt", Bavarian ligious Orders in the United icular attention is being given to the greatest need of the Church If our faces and tongues 280 institutStates clergy organ. Some which would like to the children of Greece, where here, his immediate answer was and hands have been taught ions operating under the ausp- obtain Sisters from Germany. official statistics show that only "priests." to hide our true sentiments ices of Catholic charities had to Yew of these requests can be 45.000 out of 339,000 orphans beneath conventional de"For the 16,000,000 Catholics be closed down in recent years, met in view of the needs prev- are actually sheltered in orphan- of the Philippines there are only ceits, they will not be true due to the shortage of newyocat- ailing in Germany itself which ages. Over 36.000 are orphaned 2,000 priests," he explained. to us when we wish to use ions. Lay helpers are being hired must be given preference. them sincerely.-Ed of both parent. That gives each priest 8,000 Ca PARIS, Jan. 13 church now being
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