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Reds. Continue To Attack Religion On All Fronts China, but continued throughout the world as it Reds for Jugendweihe, services, initiation rites that has since militant atheism became freedom's greatest amount to a secular confirmation of East German "Communism is not love; it is a hammer foe 41 years ago. youths between the ages of 10 and 14. Both Catholic which we use to destroy the enemy." Com- But in certain areas of the Church of Silence, the and Protestant prelates have vigorously condemned persecution was more pronounced. Behind the Iron these services. munist boss Mao Tse-tung of China made Curtain, where the Church has more than 52 million Two other regions of the world have been under the statement, and nowhere in the past year adherents, Catholics in East Germany were a prime severe Red prsecution in the past year: northern target of the Reds. Vietnam and the State of Kerala, India. has the hammer of Red ideology been wieldAccording to recent statistics only about 500,000 of Persecution In East Germany ed more effectively against its No. 1 enemy Priests, nuns and laymen were arrested; Catholic the 1,500,000 Catholics in Vietnam are now living in Catholicism than in the vast empire institutions were closed or stopped in the midst of the Red -dominated north of the country. The conbeing constructed; and East German Reds stepped up tinued expulsion of foreign missioners has reduced of China. their number in north Vietnam to about eight. One their programme of "youth initiation" rites. The Chinese Reds' most powerful wedge in cleaving of the latest prelates to be expelled was Coadjutor Among some of the incidents were the following: the faith of Catholics in China is the schismatic Apostolic Vicariate Four Jesuits were arrested at a retreat house near Bishop Andre R. Jacq, O.P., of the Patriotic Association of Chinese Catholics. According Caobang. and Langson of Berlin and gaoled. to news reports received in Hong Kong, at least 32 Tactics used by the Vietnam Reds are similar to Father Joseph Hugo Hermes, a curate in Bad KoeChinese priests have been "elected bishops," and of employed by the Chinese Communists. Under those sen in the Soviet zone, was sentenced to 16 months these at least 15 are known to have been illicitly the guise of an organisation called the Patriotic Assoin literature prison "Fascist" and for possessing consecrated. ciation of Vietnamese Catholics, the Reds discredit opposing Red youth dedication ceremonies. The Reds have to use severe methods Two Catholic children's homes in East Germany and presecute the Church. of physical torture on the most recalcitrant priests Whereas the Chinese Communists give indoctrinawere closed, and two nuns who conducted one of against the Church, and faithful in China, but their present intensified the homes were given suspended sentences of two tion courses to influence clergy accusation meetings drive against religion is concentrated in the sphere the Vietnam Reds organise mass and three months. a method used in the earlier stages of propaganda, and their avowed aim is to force all priests A new decree of the East German department of against of the Church in Red China. Catholics to join the Patriotic Association of Chinese persecution the of teachers from school education has restricted State Father Denis Paquette, Catholics. Redemptorist to According teaching religion. from north Vietnam the expelled was who of Quebec, Repetitive, tiresome indoctrination courses are Eleven Catholic laymen, from the industrial city past October. the Communists take from two to three spearheading the Reds' attempts to win over the of Rathenow were convicted of "espionage." faithful. The effect these courses have on the par(Concluded on P4) An intensified programme was launched by the ticipants were detailed in a letter sent to Hong Kong from a priest in China. OTHER PAGES "These indoctrination courses are deadly, there is Pope Grateful to Perth no escape," he wrote. "You couldn't imagine how 3 Local News .. rapid, rabid talkers can force you to think, repeat, 5 Witnesses of What concede, admit and at last get you on their side to Science Discovers prattle the same misleading ambigious statements as Creation 7 Radio Replies they spit out. They insist, repeat, insist again and East Bishops on Far again always on the same statement-wearing us out, 8 Marxism religious life, following Third of her family to become a nun, the 10 breaking us down-until unable to hold out any the lead of the other thrc c Children's Corner 11 of the Pope's Xmas Message longer one is finally prepared to say 'Well, have it Josephine Crocetti was received into the Pre- living member family. your way.' " The seriousness of the Catholic situation in China sentation Convent, Mosman Park, by her is revealed in the attention given to it by the late brother, the Rev. G. Crocetti of Bunbury, on Blue Army Finds Activities Are Pope Pius XII and his successor, His Holiness Pope 8. December John XXIII. Hampered Through Lack Of Funds Pius XII issued a special encyclical, "Ad ApostoKnown in religion as Sis- the Presentation Sisters. The first is Sister Immaculta, lorum Principis," which was secretly circulated ter M. Emmanuel, she is the On January 5, the diocesan committee second, Sister Maria among the bishops, priests and faithful of China. -oungest daughter of Mrs. the the Blue Army of Our Lady held its of Crocetti, and the late Mr. Goretti. The encyclical condemned the Patriotic Association C. Sister Emmanuel was edu- monthly meeting. G. Crocetti of Bunbury and -most of Chinese Catholics as an organisation which aims took the name of Sister M. cated by the Presentation Great satisfaction was ex- of membership "at making Catholics gradually embrace tenets of Emmanuel. Mary Sisters at Beverley, and pressed at the beauty of the gratifying. Miss surroundings of the May atheistic materialism by which God Himself is denied Foran, daughter of Mr. and later at "Iona." After the death of her lands shrine on the occasion T. EDWARD'S WIN Mrs. E. Foran of Listowel, and the principles of religion rejected." Co. Derry, who arrived in father in 1956, she worked of the rally held there reAn outstanding achieveThe encyclical also stated that excommunication Perth in May, 1958, took the for two years with her cently. ment was gained by Terence is automatically incurred by anyone who is illicitly name of Sister M. Gemona mother on the staff of the A vote of thanks to the Edwards who has been at Sister Emmanuel's two Bishops' House, Bunbury. Rev. J. Lynch, P.P. for the LeedervWe Christian consecrated a bishop. older sisters are already in In May she decided on making the shrine and the Brothers' College for Ave Forty -One Years Of Militant Atheism occasion available was pass- years, when he was awarded first in the aggregate ed with enthusiasm. At the recent consistory in which 23 prelates were The chief matter under placings in the. First Tear made cardinals, Pope John delivered an address that discussion, and a matter of examinations. dealt largely with the plight of the persecuted faithful Terence is the only son concern, was the some in China. He declared that "Catholics throughout finances of the Blue Army. and eldest child of Mr. and H. J. Edwards of ScarMrs. At the moment debts the whole of China have been living under the most He has two youngamount to £25 and there borough. difficult circumstances," and called on Catholic er sisters. is no cash in hand. Morea distinction obtained. He bishops of the world to prescribe public acts of over, recent fund-raising in nine subjects averaging prayer and penance for the faithful of China. schemes have not proved 93% and obtained first place The outspoken papal denunciations of religious pervery profitable. geography English and, in Members must not be and equal first place in secution have been boldly opposed by Chinese Red alarmed, therefore, if some Latin and arithmetic in all leaders. Their most recent move has been to arrest approach is made to them Christian Brothers' schools Bishop James E. Walsh, the last American missionary in the near future by cir- in the State. in Red China, whom they have accused of violating cular letter suggesting a His hobbies are tennis and simple form of direct giv- chemistry and he hopes to the country's laws. The U.S. State Department has go in for accountancy or ing. said "every effort will be made to obtain freedom" are joining chemistry when be grows Left to Right: Sr. M. Immaculate, Mrs. Crocetti SrNew members for the Bishop. the Army of Our Lady up. Red persecution of religion in 1958 was not confined Emmanuel, the Rev. G. Croeetti and Sr. M. Goretti. every day and the increase*
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