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Sunday, October 27,1946
Nazareth, N. C., Sunday, October 27, 1946
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Number 4
Bishop Joseph P. Hurley of St. Augustine, Fla., Regent Ad Interim
of'the Apostolic Nunciature at Belgrade, rises and bows as Archbish
op Aloysius Stepinac enters the courtroom.
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
Holds Eighth National Congress
Boston, Oct. 25.—-(NC) — Attracting one of the largest assem
blies of Catholic prelates and laymen in the recent history of the
nation, the eighth national congress of the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine opened its five
day sessions here with upward of
14,000 delegates and their friends
in attendance.
A total of 65 sessions with 479
participants has been programmed
for the congress. There will-.be
196 formal addresses; 97 talks/by
discussion leaders; remarks by
69 chairmen and 65 presiding of
ficers, and 45 demonstrative talks
on methods of teaching religion.
From all quarters of the West
ern Hemisphere and from sever
al foreign nations, some 100 mem
bers of the Hierarchy have arriv
ed foi^the sessions. The theme of
the Congress is: • “Religious In
struction — the Basic Need of the
Peoples of the United Nations.”
The central event of the Con
gress will be an address via’ radio
from the Vatican by His Holiness
Pope Pius XII. In addition to the
Papal address, His Eminence
Francis Cardinal Spellman, Arch
bishop of New York, and Arch
bishop Richard J. Cushing, Arch
bishop of Boston and host of the
congress, will address two of the
most important events — one a
Solemn Pontifical Mass and the
other a general meeting in the
Boston Gardens, the city’s largest
meeting place. His Excellency
the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni
Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to
the United States, will be the cel
ebrant of the Mass.
President Praises
Rural Life Work
Green Bay,—“The dignity, in
dependence and freedom of men
can reach its fullest stature )n
the farm, not in the industrial
world,” Bishop Peter W. Barthol
ome, Coadjutor of St. Cloud, de
clared at the opening session of
annual meeting of the National
Catholic Rural Life Conference
here, striking the keynote of the
convention. A score of Bishops
and hundreds of priests, Religi
ous and laymen came here to at
tend the sessions.
President Truman sent a tele
gram to the delegates, in which
» he stressed the necessity of mak
ing rural life attractive through
religion and education. “As one
who was bom on a farm and has
actively engaged in farming,” the
President said, “ I have great
pleasure in sending you hearty
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AFofL Protests
Archbishop's Trial
Chicago.—(NC) — In a strong
ly worded resolution, the power
ful American Federation of Labor
at its annual convention here
adopted a resolution deploring
the conviction of Archbishop
Aloysius Stepinac of Zagreb at
the recent trial in Yugoslavia.
This pieta, the name given to statues of the dead Ch rist with the Blessed Virgin, is a reminder that the
month just passing is the month of the Rosary. Every Catholic is urged to say a daily Rosary. This
statue, which is in the national museum in Washing ton, D. C., was photographed by Louis Hoover, Char
lotte correspondent of the North Carolina Catholic.
Budenz Names Gerhard Eisler
As. Secret Communist Leader
Polish Cardinal
Hits at Reds
Warsaw—Catholics in Poland
were reminded that Poland is a
“democratic and Catholic country”
in a letter by Cardinal August
Hlond this week.
The letter said that some na
tions had turned away from God
and it urged that every Catholic
vote in the elections, scheduled
for January, and to cast his vote
for the party that would defend
his faith.
Cardinal Hlond’s letter, which
was read in all Polish pulpits last
Sunday, mentioned no personal
or party name. It was, however,
a clear blast against the Com
munists and would probably serve
to align Catholics with Vice Pre
mier Stanislaw Mikola jczyk’s
Peasant Party.
The Polish government has
been attacking Mikolajcznk in an
attempt to discredit him. They
have charged that he is a foreign
agent because he was reported to
have sought Anglo-American su
pervision of the January elections.
Meanwhile, Mikolojczyk has
been silenced by censorship.
G. Howland Shaw, former As
sistant Secretary of State, has
been appointed chairman of the
Commission on . Community and
Civic Organizations of the Nation
al Conference of Christians and
Jews, Allyn Robinson, North Car
olina director, announced today.
Formerly president of the NCCC,
Mr. Shaw began work with the
$tate Department in 1917.
New York. — (NC) — Louis F.
Budenz, former editor of the Daily
Worker, who renounced commun
ism to return to the Catholic
Church, has identified an Austri
an named Hans Berger as the per
son he earlier referred tq in a
radio broadcast as “the equiva
lent of a representative of the
Communist International in the
United States.”
Mr. Budenz declared that he
would elaborate upon Mr. Ber
ger’s activities and connections
when he is called before the House
Committee on Un-American Ac
tivities. Ernie Adamson, chief
counsel for. this committee, an
nounced in Washington that he
hds invited the former communist
editor to appear at a public hear
ing at a date convenient to him.
After Mr. Budenz had made his
accusation in a broadcast over a
Detroit radio station from Pitts
burgh, Frederick Woltman, of the
staff of the New York World-Tel
egram, said that he had establish
ed the identity of the man de
scribed by Mr. Budenz.
“He is Hans Berger, an Austri
an, a former member of the Ger
man Communist Party’s central
committee and an agent of the
Communist International since
1918. His real name is Gerhard
Eisler,” he wrote.
(In a Daily Worker interview,
Gerhard Eisler denied that he has
been a Comintern representative in
the United States, saying: “I have
been a member of the German
Communist Party but I have nev
er been a leader or representative
of the Communist International
during its existence.” He told the
Communist daily’s reporter that
he had been about to sail for Leip
zig but that his exit permit had
been canceled this week. Mr.
Eisler also denied that he is Hans
Berger.)
Sacred Heart
Starts Fund Drive
Belmont—The Alumnae associa
tion of Sacred Heart Junior col
lege and academy in a meeting
of its executive committee and
campaign workers at the college
launched a drive for t^p purpose
of raising $250,000 for its building
fund.
Mrs. Thomas Baugh of Gaston
ia, general chairman of the cam
paign, read a letter from Govern
or R. Gregg Cherry, a native of
Gaston county, in which the col
lege is located, expressing his in
terest in the campaign and con
veying his hope that it will be
successful. Mrs. Baugh announced
that the drive would be in prog-'
ress from October through March,
1947.
Mrs. Baugh also announced *hat
prominent business men and lead
ers in Gaston county and Char
lotte had indorsed the campaign
and had pledged their support.
Campaign workers will solicit
funds in the form of individual
donations, the founding of scholar
ships and the establishment oi
memorials. Pledges may be paid
over a period of three or four
years. .j
Sacred Heart Junior, College
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