PICTURE OF A NEAR MIRACLE
nWC an) UCiVfC cuiu auci piDiuicg wmui opcan vi iuc uccu’iuuouu
lous." Upper photo: Six Missionary Canonesses of St. Augustine,
bound for North China, shown as they were about to board their
place with 24 other missionaries, in Brussels, Belgium. Below, the
wreckage of the same plane after it crashed, December 21, outside
Kunming, China. All the mission-bound Sisters and priests escaped
death. The plane did not take fire because'the co-pilot, Commander
ibeon Jude, who was killed, turned off the gasolene before the crash.
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'Fr. Smith Instructs
Jackson Recorded
For Benefit of Blind
NEW YORK — The volume,
“Father Smith Instructs Jackson,”,
by Bishop John F. Noll of Fort
Wayne and the Rev. Lester J. Fal
Ion, C. M., director of the Con
fraternity Home Study Service,'
which has been read by hundreds
of thousands of Catholics and non- j
Catholics wishing to learn what j
the Catholic Church really is and
teaches, has been made available
in sound by the Xavier Society
for the Blind.
Announcing the new book, the
Ref. John H. Klocke, S. J., nation
al director of the Xavier Socie
ty, said that braille and the talk
ing book are the two modern
methods of supplying reding ma
terial for the blind and that the
talking book is a series of phono
graph records used on a reproduc
ing machine supplied by the Fed
eral Government free to the blind.
, “Father Smith Instructs Jack
son,” comprising 20 double-faced
records, can be played in 10.
hours. The reading was done by
the Very Rev.- John F. Hurley, S.
J., secretary-general of the Catho
lic Welfare Organization in the
Philippines, and by Barry Hoig,
professional reader, in the sound
studios of the American Founda
tion for the Blind. The cost of
the book, approximately $2,100,
was a gift by the New York Coun
cil of the Society of St. Vincent
de Paul.
This is the first talking book
that the Xavier Society has made
since its publication 15 years ago
of the Gospels and the Acts of the
a gifts provided by various organi
Apostles as a talking book through
zations and individuals. »
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lished in '150 Automobile Work
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NORTH CAROLINA CATHOLIC.
Wrong To Condone
Unlawful Marriage,
Warns Archbishop
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, B.
W. I.—(NC)—“Flabby and ignor
ant” is the description given by
Archbishop Finbar Ryan, O. P., of
Port-of-Spain, in his Lenten pas
toral of Catholics who attempt
marriage in defiance of the law of
God and of all who condone such
attempted marriages.
Deploring the frequency of rev
intry-office “marriages” jn which
one party is a Catholic, the Arch
bishop issued a stern condemna
tion of those who .offer material
cooperation in this sin, by partic
ipating in social functions occa
sioned by it and offering felicita
tions on'it, thus making it appeal
regular and moral.
‘Heedless of the scandal thej
give to other Catholics more ~eni
lightened and conscientious, thej
make guilty parties imagine thal
they are doing no wrong, that di
vorce is lawful, that a Catholic
girl may marry divorced man be
fore the registrar and be con
sidered his wife, that the laws
of the Church may be’transgressed
almost with impunity, that the
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Card. Spellman To
Install Archbishop
M'lntyre In L. A.
NEW YORK — His Eminence
Francis Cardinal Spellman, Arch
bishop of New York, will officiate
at the installation of the Most Rev.
J. Francis A. McIntyre as Arch
bishop of Los Angeles on March
19, it has been announced here
by the Chancery office. Archbish
op McIntyre will leave here by
train on March 15 and is sched
uled to take canonical possession
of the Archdiocese of Los Anglese
on the afternoon of March IS.
Following the installation cere
mony in St. Vibiana Cathedral, on
Friday morning, March 19, Auxil
iary Bishop Timothy Manning of
Los Angeles will celebrate Pon
tifical Mass. Auxiliary Bishop Jo
seph T. McGucken, who has been
serving as administrator of the
archdiocese since the death of
Archbishop John J. Cantwell, will
preach.
Prior to his departure from New
York, Archbishop McIntyre will
pontificate at Mass in St. Patrick’s
Cathedral on March 14. In the
afternoon, Cardinal Spellman will
give a farewell reception for him
at his residence.
Stress Sanctity of
Motherhood To Offset
Divorce, Bishop Says
BUFFALO — Asserting that
“an overyhelming demonstration
of belief in the sanctity of mother
nood is called for this year,” Bish
op John F. O’Hara, C. S. C., of
Buffalo, in a letter to his clergy
called for the observance of Cana
Wednesday on March 10 through
out the diocese. The observnce
was .suggested by the Family Life
Bureau, National Catholic Wel
fare Conference.
In line with the suggested ob
servance, Bishop O’Hara called
upon his pastors and the faithful
to take part in special services for
the renewal of marriage vows in
their respective churches, which
he described as “a quiet, holy,
beautiful protest against the twin
evils that most threaten our so
ciety, divorce and birth control.”
Bishop O’Hara pointed out: “A
subcommittee of Congress has just
•been told by high-ranking mili
tary authorities of our nation that
women must be a permanent part
of our armed forces; one of -them
is quoted, as saying: ‘X am con
vinced that in another war they
(women) will have to fee drafted,
just like the men. The birth con
trol program that has robbed our
; nation of millions of men can ac
cept its share of the responsibil
ity for this pagan concept of the
function of womanhood, the draft
ing of women for war.”
civil function .dispenses with the
law of God. Against such immoral
conduct we enter our solemn pro
test,” he stated.
Christ In Business
Rev. Maurice Shean, C.O. „
In the early part of the last war, the soldiers of our country
were playing games. They had at times to practise their war
games with dummy weapons, wooden guns instead of real ones.
Many of us became Very much concerned about an army that
did not have the weapons to do -
its work.
Now honestly, the same kind of
thinking applies to everything
else that engages the attention of
man. If he has a job to do, then
he must have the tools to do it.
If he is supposed to go to heaven
when he dies, then men must
have the grace and assistance of
God while he is here on earth,
then he can get there. Man knows
he has that help, because God
told us he would be will us con
stantly, and only the other
Sunday, in the epistle taken from
St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthi
ans, He said “My Grace is suffi
cient for thee.” If God gives us
a task to do. . He gives us at the
same time, the grace to perform
that task.
If an organization has purpose
for existing then it must have the
use gf the means to carry out that
purpose. One of the purposes
of a union of working people is
to advance the material welfare
of the workers, so that the work-_
ers can have the things necessary
for the working out of their sal
vation. Therefore the unions of
worker have to possess also the
right -to bargain for their rights.
The old line—“Let them have
a union—that’s alright, but don’t
expect me to deal with.it. It can
be like a fraternal organization,”
doesn’t make sense. A union has
a purpose. rnereiore wnen it
exists it doesn’t do to go through
life pretending that it’s not there.
Because it is there,' and it’s there
because it belongs to the nature of
man and to our present form of
living to base our activities'upoil
mutual assistance and help. It‘s
a practical expression of the unity
of action which we exercise when
we pray together and worship
together. Therefore unions ought
to have the right to bargain for
, their people.
But it takes two people to bar
gain, because bargaining is done
in view to an agreement. There
fore both parties must bargain to-1
gether. Not one in one part of
the town and the others in an
other part of the town.
God gave all men a certain
amount of intelligence and good
will. He gave them tongues to
talk with and ears to listen with
afid hearts to feel with. If one
talks and no body .listens, then
nothing is accomplished. If one
listens and no one talks then we
are still no where. —
The love of God is found in the
hearts of our fellowman through
mutual understanding. The under
standing is acquired when people
work and pray together. The
principle of bargaining is only an
other way of saying the same
thing. Unions have a right to bar
gain, and employers have a right
to bargain with them, it works
both ways.
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1C of C/s Religion
Ads Draw 12,000
Replies In 2 Weeks
NEW HAVEN — More than 12,
X)0 letters and post cards were
received within two weeks in re
sponse to the Knights of Columbus
program of “advertising” Catho
lic truths in national magazines,
it has been announced here. And
most of them were in a friendly
and sincerely open-minded vein.
The first of a series of explana
tory ads sponsored by the K. or C.
Supreme Council, “You Hear
Strange Things About Catholics,”
appeared late in January in The
American Weekly, Hearst Sunday
supplement, and The Pathfinder,
a news magazine with a large ru
ral circultion. It invited readers
to write in for a pamphlet further
explaining Catholic teachings.
Many of those replying said
they had wanted to know gener
ally about the Church for many
years. Others sought information
on particular Catholic beliefs and
practices. A number deplored the
divisions among the churches and
urged the building of mutual trust
and confidence between Protest
ants and Catholics. A few were
sharply hostile to the Church.
The program of national adver
tising will be repeated on a local
scale. Units of the Knights of
Columbus in eleven- States and
two Canadian Provinces have ask
ed for mats of the series, in order
to display the ads in local dailies
and weeklies.
Birthplace of Japan's
Empress To Be Catholic
College for Women
TOKYO—The palace of Prince.
Kuni, father of the present Em
press of Japan, will soon house
Japan’s first full-fledged Catho
lic college for girls, it was an
nounced here. The palace itself
has already been bought by the
Religious of the Sacrqd Heart for
this purpose and negotiations with
the government for the purchase
of some ten acres of ground at
tached to the palace are expected
to be completed in the near fu
ture.
The palace contains about 40
rooms. Plans are already being
considered -for a1 l&rg^' concrete
building to be erected later, but
the present building will be ade
quate for immediate needs. Be
cause of its historic significance,
the building will always be pre
served as something of a monu
ment, and the room where the
empress was born will be main
tained without change as a Japa
nese guest room. The former
audience chamber has been desig
nated to serve as a library while
two other rooms, beautifully dec—
orated, will be combined to serve
as a chapel.
The Religious of tljie Sacred
Heart lost all but one of their nine ■
buildings by'fire during the war,
but such fs the esteem in which
they are held in official circles
that theirs was one of the five
girls’ schools in the Tokyo area
to be raised recently to the rank
of a fullfledged college and auth
orized tp grant the Bachelor’s de
gree in arts and sciences.
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