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CONGOLESE troops have murdered 11 missionary priests and seven African Sisters in the worst outbreak of violence against the Catholic missions since the strife -torn nation
became independent a year and o half ago. The priests and nuns were killed along with a large number of Africans in the
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sionist Katanga province, according tl reports reaching Leopoldville. Reports of the Kongolo massacre were conflicting. Some said the priests and nuns were killed by central government troops. Others said the assassins were soldiers loyal to Antoine Gizenga, the pro -communist leader of Oriental province and ousted vice -premier of the central government, who was placed under house arrest by central government soldiers in Stanleyville, the capital of Oriental province. None of the reports identified the victims. The only missionary priests in Kon15 golo, however, were Belgian priests of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost. There was also one Holy Ghost Brother, also a BelKongolo is the See gian. city of Bishop Gustave Bouve, C.S.Sp., a native of Belgium.
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There were 34 Sisters in the city belonginli to the congregations of the Doughters of the Cross and of the Sisters of the Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary. According to dispatches the massacre was reported to Archbishop Louis Van Stecne, W.F., of Bukavu, by who had missionaries escaped from Kongolo to Bukava, 225 miles away. Reports stated that the murders took place on January 1. On that date President Moisc Tshombe of Katanga said that Katangese troops had evacuated Kongolo and that central government troops had invaded the area, killing hundreds of persons and burning villages as they advanced on the city. Missionaries reaching Bukavu reportedly said that
the bodies of all 18 murdered priests and nuns had bean recovered. Another missionary was taken away, they said. and has not been heard from since. The missionarics were said to have told Archbishop Van Steene that the troops involved were those of the central government. They said the soldiers beat the priests and nuns before they killed them with automatic weapons. In Leopoldville, the Congo Cy rille captial, Premier Adoula of the central government said he had reports that troops led by Colonel Joseph Pakassa; Gizenga's cousin, were responsible for the slaughter. A broadcast over the Belgian radio indicated the troops loyal to Gizenga were responsible. A week after the massacre, a report from Karnituga in Kivu province said that two people were injured when a mob attacked a group going to church and threw rocks at the church doors. The Kongolo killings occurred after a lull in the anti - missionary violence that took place earlyin 1961. [A survey of the events of 1961 with regard to the Church in the Congo is featured on rage Five.]
THE FIRST RECEPTION TO BE HELD BY THE SCHOENSTATT SISTERS OF MARY AT RIVERTON WAS HELD LAST SUNDAY. The Most Reverend J. Jobst, S.A.C., Vicar Apostolic of the Kimberleys, received two Perth girls into the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary. They were Miss Maria Oorschott (Sister Mary Anita) and Miss Helen Ockerby (Sister Mary Helen). Sister Anita is the daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Th. J. Oorschott, of Tuart Hill, and Sister Helen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ockerby, of Como. His Grace the Archbishop was present in the sanctuary for the occasion, and he was accompanied by Rev. J. Luemmen, S.A.C., and the Rev. P. Quinn. In his sermon. His Lordship told the parents and the many friends and guests present of the splendid history
TRAINING AID MAKERS
aim and world-wide mission. The Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary were founded 35 years ago by Reverend Father J. Kentenich, S.A.C., and were given official ecclesiastical recognition as a Secular Institute in 1948 by the Holy See. The General Motherhouse is in Schoenstatt, Germany. The Institute counts, by now, more than 2,300 members and has established itself in many countries of Europe, in South and North America, in South and Central Africa and in Australia. Inspired by the idea of the world-wide apostolate and in deep devotion to Our Blessed Lady whom they honour under the title "Mother Thrice Admirable and Queen of Schoenstatt." the Sisters seek to fulfil their Marian and apostolic task in all ways which are adaptable to women. They work in all kinds of schools, in kindergartens. orphanages and hostels, they do hospital and home nursing, they engage in social welfare work and especially in parochial work. In order to sunport the apostolic activities, a number of the Sisters devote themselves to Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary have as their task the linking of two worlds-religious and secular. The education of the Sisters and their spirituality is ,itich that it aims at the forming of the perfect Christian in the world. Most of the Sisters live in the community and wear a religious dress. while others work in secular dress in various fields of the Catholic Apostolate. In 1951, the first Sisters arrived in Western Aust-ilia. At present, they are working in this diocese at Wandering, St. Francis Xavier's Mission. and are conducting the parish school at Riverton. Their head house and novitiate is in Sydney. '
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hierarch government bowed when he spottee the ancient image. Then he turned his eyes away. The image of Our Lar'y of Vladimir bears its name be cause of the fame it g ned in the Russian city of V adimir, where it was t ken from Kiev in 1155. It be came so famous for wo' jers and gained such reve 'nee the that it was enshrined Orthodox Cathedral of the Assumption in the Kr nlin in 1395. Prior to the Red revolution, all the tsar and patriarchs of Russia vere crowned in itS present- In Brezhnev-who is titular 1919 it was moved t the superior to Premier Nikita Tretiakov Gallery in MosKhrushchev in the Soviet cow.
President Leonid Brezhncv bowed when he seas eonfrmted in Bombay with a reproduction of the icon of Our Lady of Vied!. mir, Russia's most sacred image. The chief of Mate of the Soviet Union and his wife came face to face with the the image of ancient Madonna and child during the Bombay phase of their official visit to India. The Brezhnevs were in a motor procession when they came upon the 25th 11 -mile walking procession sponsored by Bombay Catholic's. Scvl'at
GAINED FOUR STUDENTS .af Catholic schools were among the 31 who gained exhibitions in
the recent Leaving Certificate examination. They were: James Joseph Hewitt, of St. Charles' Seminary; Christopher Alan Bagley, of C.B.C. Aquinas, Raymond John Cole, of Marist Brothers. Elizabeth Jean Doherty, of St. John's, Sear. borough.
of the young community, as well as of their apostolic
Helen Smith and Pauline Rowe of Claremont, Agnes Ward of Loreto, thdlancls and Mary Kinsella of Vie. Park prepares some training aids for use at the teachers' Seminar at St. Thomas More College.