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DUBLIN, March 31 (NC.) John Kyne of Meath has and scope of sins defiling the Bishop and unveiled a huge earth to -day Some of these blessed cross rosity from a fellow passenger as sins, he said, "are so unheard of Holy Year aat memorial for the aboard the SS. Atlantic when it historic Millmount and cruel that new words are Tower at docked here. Drogheda. needed to describe them." "With The fellow passenger turned Erected by the Drogheda muall the ardour of Our paternal out to be His Eminence Francis heart, We exhort you to a sin- nicipal council, the cross is 40 Cardinal Spellman Archbishop feet high and is four -armed and cere repentance of past faults, By G. R. BRUNST of New York, returning from a full detestation of sin and a firm gleaming white. It is illuminaHoly Year pilgrimage to Rome. ted (Staff Correspondent, N.C.W.C. News Service) electrically at night and can resolution of amendment. ." When the Cardinal learned that be seen far out at sea-an outsVATICAN CITY, March 27.-His Holiness Pope Pius XII, The Pope counselled the faith- tanding landmark on the east Josef Brandi, 46, a farmer, his wife, and their 14 children were united in prayer with the faithful all over the world, called ful not to fear penance as a coast. aboard, he consented to pose on Christians this Passion Sunday to take the first step toward melancholy veil of sadness hidAddressing the large gatherwith the for news photos a moral renewal of decadent society through the spirit and ing the joy of living Rather, ing of priests and people at the aboard ship. he said, penitential denial of Mass in St. Mary's Church, works of penance. were After the pictures In a mdving sermon from the moral decadence a "false hum- self is an indispensable condi- Drogheda, Bishop Kyne said it taken, the Cardinal had a talk crowded St. anity and anti-Christian in- tion for achieving inner glad- was "a noble thought of the city with Mr. Brandi, who disclosed Papal. altar of the fathers to set up this cross." A supreme dulgence which overthrows the ness. that he and his family were Peter's Basilca, "To know how to bear life!" good laity, he declared, could do hierarchy of moral values" and being brought to this country shepherd exhorted his flockhe exclaimed. "It is the first an immense amount of good for and sin to him excuses prearound the point of those gathered under the auspices of the Cathe senting it "as a normal expan- penance of every Christian, the Christianity and he urged the tholic Committee for Refugees. those scattered through first condition and first means of living of a fuller Christian life Somehow, Mr. Brandi let it slip world-to lead "the great return sion of the faculties of man and sanctity and sanctification. With in which the cross would not be out that he and his family were of rebellious humanity to the as almost an enrichment of his that docile resignation which is an empty symbol. own personality." entering the country penniless. laws of God and the Church." After Mass the Bishop, clergy proper to him who believes in a "This world-wide day of penThe Pope stated he fully re"I would rather land in ance truly to the cognised the weakness of human just and good God and in Jesus and members of the council, corresponds money than America without robes of office, urgent needs of the society nature and miserable living con- Christ, the Master and Guide of wearing their have you land in the country most in procession, accompwhich we live," the Pope said. ditions as serious causes of the hearts, embrace with courage marched without funds," the Cardinal in In anied by the local band, to the the often heavy daily cross." accordance with the peni- present, widespread immoralsaid. He emptied his pockets Tower, which was decorated His Holiness invited all with national and gave all his money to the tential spirit of the occasion, the ity; but he reminded that man, and papal colors. Pontiff entered the basilica on gifted with free will and assist- Christians to unite themselves Hunger an. Millmount Tower, standing foot instead of being borne on ed by divine grace, is still re- with him in prayer and sacrifice, The br andls, who have eight assuring them that sufferings about 200 feet above sea level, He walk- sponsible for his own actions, sedfa gestatoria. sons and six daughters, were the on the southern bank of the the entire distance in procesThe Holy Father invited his accepted in Christian resigna- river Boyne, is an ancient moexpelled from Hungary and ed sion the tion along central nave, past can restore a Christian lived for a time in Windsbach, the crucifix of St. Marcellus listeners to ponder the number countenance to whose history goes back fallen humanity, nument Germany. Each Sunday and pre -Christian times. In and will be a counterbalance to to Holy Day, they walked three erected before the altar of the modern sin on the scales of divine jus- rule-it days-under British miles to Church to attend Mass. Confession, and then ascended was always garrisoned tice. Brandi children range in age the Papal altar. and 1916 was used as a tempCARDINAL HAS The Pope concluded his ser- oraryin jail. Obedient to admonitions, from two to 22. The present Mayor broadcast over the loudspeakers mon with a prayer to Jesus cru- of Drogheda, Alderman L. in six languages, including Engcified "to extinguish hatred and Walsh, and the town clerk, J. ish, the enormous crowd re- SECOND AUXILIARY rekindle love, to dispel with the Carr, both of whom attended the from the customary ac- It was announced from Syd- powerful breath of Your Spirit ceremony, were prisoners there HELP FOR PILGRIMS frained claims of "Viva it Papa!" ney on Monday last that a sec- the schemes and desires for following the Rising of 1916. Speaking vigorously and ac- ond Auxiliary Bishop had been domination, destruction, war." COLOGNE, Germany, March 31 (NC.) gesture of good centuating his remarks with in- appointed to assist His Emin- "Grant bread to the little ones," will toward Catholics in the tense and frequent gestures, the ence, Cardinal Gilroy, in the he prayed, "homes to the home- fore the crucifix of St. Marcelpreponderantly Protestant coun- Pope depicted "the deplorable administration of the See of less, work to the workless, con- lus. He was then carried from cord to nations, peace to the the basilica on the sedia gestatry of Denmark is reported in spectacle of a world In decay world, and to all the reward of toria. the Katholischer Beobachter, because of the ruin which has eternal happiness. Amen." Later thousands of Romans Catholic daily of this city, which been wrought in it on the fundamental moral structure of The Holy Father then knelt joined in the procession carrysays the Danish National Bank The outrage to divine on the faldstool at the foot of ing the crucifix of St. Marcellus has authorized letters of credit life." the Papal altar as the Litany of back to its permanent home in to be issued up to 500 Danish law, the Pope said, is all the Saints was chanted and also the Church of St. Marcellus. The crowns to persons who wish to more inexcusable in our time other prayers proper to St. crucifix, a life-size sculpture in go to Rome for the Holy Year. when knowledge is widespread Peter's as the "station church" wood, dating from the early This permits Catholics to take and ignorance no longer an exfor Passion Sunday. The con- fourteenth century, has been the approximately £.20 out of the cuse, The Pontiff decried as one of country, which is short of fogregation was then blessed with object of Roman piety for sevthe basest manifestations of this reign exchange. three major relics of Christ's eral centuries. It was the only Passion-a fragment of the lance object that escaped a terrible of Longinus, a piece of the True fire which totally destroyed the .Cross, and Veronica's veil. Church of St. Marcellus in 1519 After this the Pope imparted and has since stood as a symbol OTTO SEES DARK FUTURE the apostolic blessing and knelt of divine protection to Roman In the immediate future the for a few minutes in prayer be - citizens. COLUMBUS, 0. (NC.)
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outlook for the Church benind the Iron Curtain is not bad, but if the communist domination continues over an extended period it will be dark, Archduke Otto of Hapsburg declared here. "As far as the immediate a vacuum, because after all years ahead are concerned, the communism is a religion, the outlook for the Church is a religion of materialism," he
one in Europe under declared. "Hence, where real Soviet domination. religion is gone, communism is Religious reaction to the bound to come in. That is what good
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MADRID, Spain, March 27 "Other worthy prelates have (NC.) The ecclesiastical tri- temporarily transferred their bunal in the beatification ca nse Sees", I dared to insist. of Bishop Anselmo Pol inco "They, surely, must have Fontecha of Teruel, has begun reasons that I do not have." its hearings here, with Bishop "But, Bishop: valor and Leopold Eijo Garay of Madrid, heroism are one thing and tepresiding. Bishop Polanco Fan- merity another." techa was put to death by the "If this were so", the prelate Marxists on February 7, 1939 concluded, "no one would at Gerona, Spain. remain in the trenches nor on The Rev. Filiberto Die?. the battlefields. My trench and Pardo, magistral canon of the sheep-fold are none other than Cathedral of Toledo, one of the Teruel. God and Spain wish witnesses who will testify, t 'lc! it so." of a conversation he had with the Bishop shortly before he
present communist regime has we are witnessing everywhere been extremely vigorous. For today. example, in such places as "This is one of the main Hungary today, church at- reasons China fell. It is tendance is infinitely stronger also one why reason why India is in than at any time in the past 30 such grave danger. For this Sydney. His Lordship, Bishop years" he explained. Christianity is the only Patrick Francis Lyons, of Christ"But, if we look beyond the reason remedy to communist aggres- church, New Zealand, is being next nine or ten years, assum- sion in Europe. But Christianity, transferred to take up the new ing that these countries are while preserving and giving position. still under communist domina- the its supernatural Born in Melbourne in 1903, tion then, the situation might truths world and values, ought also to Bishop Lyons was educated by was murdered. become very dangerous because SEAMAN NEED by that time a completely work together with all other the Christian Brothers. He made "It was in Buenavista de forces and all believers his ecclesiastical studies at St. atheistic communist education religious Valdavia, province Vaof in God. Patrick's College, Manly, and at of youth would have dominated Father Diez Pardo EVENING MASS for a whole generation. And "It is worthy of note that Rome, where he was ordained in lencia," "and I remember exactly that generation would then only a few days ago, one of 1927. Having served at Col- said, 28, 1937, feast the date: August The high of the 12 Inhave little or no notion of God the outstanding leaders of the lingwood, Geelong, Brunswick of St. Augustine. I still see ternational point of the Himself. Then the future of the Moslem world, the Crown and St. Patrick's Cathedral, he before me the amiable Bishop Apostolate of Congress the the Church and Christianity in Prince of Saudi Arabia, called was appointed Cathedral Ad- Polanco Fontecha in his ances- unanimous approvalSeeof was a resoEastern Europe would be dark upon his followers for a defini- ministrator in 1938. In the fol- tral home, where he was spend- lution to petition the Holy See indeed." to understanding between Mos- lowing year Father Lyons was ing a few days. for special privileges for seamen Otto, pointed out that Chris- lem and Christians in the com- appointed Vicar General of the you see that to stay in similar to those granted mili"Can't tianity is the only force in mon fight against communism. Archdiocese of Melbourne. In means to run the risk tary personnel during the war. Europe today which has any I think that such an tinders- April, 1944, he was named Bis- Teruel of falling into the hands of It was the concensus of the power to oppose the spread of tanding would broaden the hop of Christchurch, and was these bandits?" congress delegates that the communism in the realm of scope of our Christian action consecrated by Archbishop Man "I know it", he replied. evening Mass and mitigated spirit or thought- rIn fact, he against communism and give nix. "However, do you think it right fast are both practical necessiadded, religion is the only real us a greater opportunity in the The confidence which the Holy for me to abandon my sheep in ties and would be fruitful answer to communism. future to organize the world on See reposes in His Lordship is circumstances only be- advantages for men who sail "Where religion is gone corn- the high and lofty principles of reflected in the onerous duties these cause the wolf is marauding the seas. Delegates from 25 munism comes, as it were, into Christian statesmanship." which his translation will entail. around?" countries attended. ,