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Chaplain Of Orphanage Dies REVEREND JAMES O'GRADY, Chaplain of St. Joseph's Orphanage, Wembley, died at St. John of God Hospital, Subiaco, on Thursday, November 1.
In
The Town Hall is opposite
Countries Present At Council
1948
Father O'Grady retired from Dardanup and became Chaplain of St. Joseph's Orphanage, in Wembley. Father O'Grady was Father O'Grady was born on April 15, 1888, buried in the same at Elton, Co. Limerick, grave as his brother, the Ireland. late Father Thomas He studied at St. PatO'Grady, who died in rick's Cofiege, Thurles, 1926, aged 39, and who and St. Patrick's ('alwas Editor of "The lege, Carron. Record" during World War I. On June 14, 1914, he A Requiem Mass will priest. was ordained When he arrived in be celebrated at Darin September, danup on Monday, NovPerth ember 12. 1914, he was appointed R.I.P. curate at Subiaco. Sub-
Price 9d.
Prelates From Iron Curtain
sequent app ointments were at Coolgardie and
Dardanup.
Neeewrstphitpefror,
Forty-nine bishops from Red-ruled countries secured permission to attend the Second Vatican Council, a survey has shown. Most numerous are bishops from Poland and Yugoslavia. But other bishops are from Cuba, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and East Germany. Only one of the three cardinals whose nations have been taken over by communism is present. He is Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland and ArchThP bishop of Warsaw.
other two cardinals are impeded in their duties. Among
the
conspicuous-
By FATHER PLACID
JORDAN. O.S.B., ssritiug from ROME. y absent are
bishops from
mainland China where brutal physical persecution of the Church and its officials con -
tinues and where the regime has set up a fake "Catholic
Church." Nineteen of the 21 Yugoslav bishops are here. The two who are not stayed home because of illness. Of Poland's 64 bishops, 36 reportedly applied to the regime for travel permits and 17 succeeded in getting them.
In Refuge Although Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary. still remains in refuge in the U.S. Budapest legation, the acting chairman of the Hungarian Hierarchy is present. He is Bishop Endre Ham vas of Csanad who is accompanied by Bishop Sandor Kovacs of Szombathely and Mgr. Pal Brezanocsy, Apostolic Administrator of the Eger archdiocese.
Cubcn The second cardinal from
Communist country who is not here is Manuel Cardinal Arteaga, Archbishop of Havana. The 82 -year -old prelate is in refuge in the Argentine embassy in Havana. a
STUDYING HARD!
Christian Unity Group Now Equal VATICAN CITY: THE proposals in the Council Assembly; the proposals will SECRETARIAT FOR be discussed, and edited, just PROMOTING CHRIS- like those presented by the TIAN UNITY HAS BEEN other commissions; and in mixed matters, the secreGRANTED A POSITION tariat will be invited to coEQUAoperate with the other comOF COMPLETE LITY WITH THE TEN missions on matters related its field. COUNCIL COMMIS- to The change in the secreSIONS. anwas tariat's status Archbishop by This action will have nounced three consequences-the secretariat itself will present its
Pericle
Felici,
secretary-
general of the Council.
India Voles For China's Admission a
To U.N. UNITED NATIONS. New York: The annual Soviet move for the admission of Red China to the United Nations was defeated by a General Assembly vote of 56 to 42, with 12 nations
abstaining.
It was the second year in
row
that the Assembly
stand against Red China had become more decisive. But despite the Chinese invasion of India's northern territories, India again voted for admission of China to the United Nations. The vote last year was 48 to 36, with 20 nations abstaining. In 1960 it was 42 to 34, with 22 abstentions.
Leaving students DOROTHY CHURACK, MAUREEN QUILTY and DONNA CLARK of Our Lady's College, Victoria Square, absorb sunshine and knowledge simultaneously between examinations.
Three members of the Hierarchy of Czechoslovakia are present, although Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague is confined by the Reds in an unknown place and all other surviving Czechoslovak Ordinaries are either imprisoned or otherwise res-
tricted. The only council Father from Bulgaria is Bishop Simeon Kokoff from the Sofia and Plovdiv apostolic vicariate.
Conditions Attached The delegation from East. Germany is led by ArchAlfred Bengsch. bishop Bishop of Berlin, who resides in the Soviet zone. He came with Bishops Otto Spuelbeck of Meissen, Auxiliary Bishop Friedrich Rintelen of Paderborn, who resides in Magdeburg. East Germany, and Auxiliary Bishop Bernhard Schraeder of Osnabrueck, who resides in Schwerin, East Germany. All the bishops who hold communist travel permits are restricted to a degree
Three bishops are here from Cuba, however. They are Bishops Jose Dominguez-y -Rodriguez of Matanzas; Carlos Riu Angles of Camaguey; and Manuel Rodriguez Rozas of Pinar del Rio. Exiled Cuban bishops are present, but their exact number was not determined under the country in which they have taken refuge.
since their re-entry permits are valid only for limited periods. There are other conditions. For example, the bishops from East Germany found it necessary not to attend a reception given at the German embassy to the Holy See. Ail visitors from behind the Iron Curtain are extremely reluctant to talk of their experiences, even on an off-the-record basis.
Priests Arrested In Sudan For Breaking "Law
NAIROBI, KENYA: TWO ITALIAN MISSIONARY PRIESTS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE SUDAN ON CHARGES OF BAPTISING CONVERTS ILLEGALLY AND A THIRD WAS GAOLED WITHOUT A N Y SPECIFIC CHARGES, IT WAS LEARNED HERE. The two charged with il-
legal baptising were arrested early in October and released on bail pending trial. They are Father A. Pozzati, F.S.C.J. (55), and Father M. Piotti, F.S.C.J. (32). Father Pozzati has spent 30 years as a missionary among the pagan tribes in the Southern Sudan, and Father Piotti seven years. third missionary, The Father A. Confalonieri (30), vice -rector of a junior seminary at Wau, in Southern Sudan, was arrested on Oc-
lies and perhaps three million pagans.
tober 9 and held in gaol without being charged. Father Pozzati and Piotti, both members of the Sons of the Sacred Heart-com-
-
monly called the "Verona Fathers" were arrested under provisions of the socalled Missionary Societies Act of 1962. This is a decree proclaimed last May 15 by General Ibrahim Abboud, head of the military junta which has ruled the Sudan since 1958.
Annual Listing The edict requires that every missionary society and all of its members be licensed annually by the Cabinet in order to carry on any kind of activity in the Sudan. It spells out as law that no missionary society or individual missionary may "bring up in any religion or admit to any religious order any person under the age of
18 years without the consent of his lawful guardian,
and that such consent must be put in writing in the presence of "a person appointed for that purpose by the province authority." The person appointed has generally turned out in praca Moslem police officer. The missionary society law is the latest in a series of acts by the government designed to replace Christianity in the South with Islam, the religion of the dominant North. The Sudan has a total population of about 12 million, and some eight million are Muslims. They are concentrated in the Arab -speaking North. In the South, the population is made up primarily of members of Nilotic and Negro Here the country's tribes. 470,000 Christians are concentrated. There are in the South some 300,000 Catho-
tice to be
No Church Schools
Since the Sudan won its
independence in 1956,
Church schools have been confiscated. No new Christian missionaries have been allowed to enter the country. Over thirty resident Catholic and Protestant missionaries have been arrested and
eventually expelled the past four years.
during
The Mission Societies Act, which went into effect on May 15, the day it was promulgated, further tightens restrictions on the Christian
communities. It requires that the Cabinet -approved licences which missionaries must have to work spell out the missionaries' locale. It leaves it to the Minister of the Interior to establish conditions for licence approval, and provides for government cancellation of the licence at any time. Continued on Page 15.