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Perth, Thursday, August 16, 1951.
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Stroke Fells Bishop Raible Pioneer of North Collapses Mission On Trek to Inland *
The Pallottine missions in the NorthWest have suffered a severe setback as the P. McGRATH (LEFT) winner of the result of a stroke suffered by the Most Rev. 1,500 Priests Liquidated by Reds York.-Figures, far from complete, compiled under 7 stone division in the C.B.H.S. box- Otto Raible, D.D., S.C.A., Vicar Apostolic of byNew the Inter -Catholic Press Agency, reveal the stagHis Lordship is 26. on July Kimberley, ing tournament, blocks and prepares to gering total of more than 7,500 priests elhninated by the Communists in the countries they control in Cen(Report, page 9.) confined to bed at the Beagle Boy mission. swing at R. Rowland. Dr. Raible was planning an extensive tour of his farflung Vicariate with the Rt. Rev. Mgr. A. R. Thomas, the national director of Pontifical Mission Aid societies. They had set out from the Beagle Bay mission in man to Confession and to a truck on the first leg of the Last Sacrament. Final- the jobrney to Lombadina. ly, Beauty, Strength, Dis- His Lordship had been un-
Nedlands Loreto Studints Stage 15th Century Play
tral and Eastern Europe. In the Ukraine. more than 3,600 priests have been put to death since 1946. An-
other thousand have been deported from Poland and their fate is unknown. In Czecho-Slovakia 300 priests have been gaoled and in Hungary 538 have been murdered or deported. An estimated 720 priests have been arrested in R umanla and 120 in Bulgaria These figures do not include thousands of monks and nuns who suffer persecution behind the Iron Curtain or thousands of the faithful imprisoned or deported to concentration camps for participating in religious organisations.
One of the most ambitious stage presentations ever attempted by a Catholic and the Five Wits well during the previous school was the presentation last Sunday of cretion Deeds night, and is believed to Good withdraw at once and confined Dr. "Everyman," by the pupils of the senior alone remains and supports have suffered from high ed Raible to bed for at least a Everyman and speaks for blood pressure for some month. down Paralysis school at Loreto convent, Nedlands.
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him at his judgment. "Everyman," a morality Fellowship, Kindred, CouThe Voice of God, Chorus play dating from the 15th. sin, and Goods, all refuse. was adapted for Good Deeds, though lying and Contemplative Group were other characters in a the convent's presentation "cold in the ground," weak by the nuns, Miss L. Cav- from neglect, agrees to go play which was grandiose anagh, elocution teacher; with him. Knowledge is in its conception and perand Miss Dorothy Fleming, invoked and leads Every- fect in its execution. dancing instructress. Groups were introduced for some of the characters, and singing and dancing parts afforded ample scope for the
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girls' talents. A crowded hall witnessed and applauded the play, staged in connection with the jubilee of the Loreto nuns in this State. Every girl in the senior school had a part in the presentation, one of the most outstanding features of which was the beautiful costuming of the girls. Costumes were designed by the nuns and made by the children's parents. The story of the play is that God sends Death to Everyman to summon him to judgment.. Everyman tries to bribe Death, but all he can procure is consent that he can take a friend on the journey. His friends,
time past. one side had supervened. Four miles from Beagle A further upset to the Bay, Bishop Raible collap- missionary work of the Palsed at the wheel and the lottines was caused by the truck hit a tree. Fortun- illness of the Rev. Ernest ately, neither passenger Worms, S.C.A., the noted was hurt and Monsignor anthropologist, who is parThomas drove the stricken ish priest of Broome, and Bishop back to Beagle Bay. has just recovered from an By good fortune, the doc- attack of pneumonia. It is believed that the tor from Broome happened to be visiting Lombadina Rev. John Herold, S.C.A., mission. He was summon- will go North to relieve the
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Most Rev. 0. Raible, S.C.A.
personnel shortage, and that the V. Rev. Bruno Kupke, S.C.A., provincial of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, will come from Engagements the East to assume charge of the Pallottine monastery August 19: at Rivervale. 7.30 p.m.: St. Kieran's, OsBishop Raible, who is 65 borne Park: Canonical Visiyears of age, was born in tation and Confirmation. Stuttgart, Germany. OrAugust 26: dained to the priesthood in 7.30 p.m.: St. Mary's Ca1911, he spent some years thedral: Renewal of Consein the Pallottine missions in cration of the Archdiocese the Cameroons, West Afto the Immaculate Heart of rica. In 1935 he was apMary, and Pontifical Benepointed Vicar Apostolic of diction. Kimberley. September 2:. His vast diocese covers an 2 p.m.: Opening of new area of about 120,000 square convent at Brunswick Juncmiles, inhabited by only DEATH CAN BE CHEERFUL and Eliztion. BRENDA HEAGNEY of Stanley street, 20,000 people. The Vicar7.30 p.m.: Confirmation Nedlands, took the lead as Everyman in the abeth Burt of Hobbs avenue, Dalkeith, who iate is divided into five and Canonical Visitation at parishes, three of which successful presentation of the 15th. cent- took the part of death in the Loreto play Harvey. native missions. September 9: tury miracle play by the, girls of the senior turns on a bright smile just to prove that contain Two other outposts also Opening of new presbypoint. serve the aborigines. school of Loreto Convent, Nedlands. tery, Bedford Park.
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