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Swiss Missionary Expelled
By Chinese Communists
HONG KONG —NO- Another
foreign missionary has been expir
ed by the Chinese communists. He
is Father Adolph Lenz, a Swiss
priest of the Bethlehem Foreign
Mission Society.
The 45-year-old priest had been
In his mission of K’oshan Man
churia for 19 years. Up to the time
of his expulsion had had very
little trouble with the communists.
The order of expulsion seems to
have come from above, possibly the
provincial authorities. Ten days
before leaving he was called in
daily for questioning by the local
court Finally he was told that he
was being expelled for mistreat­
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The attack on Tsitsihar mission
started five years ago with the ar
rest and imprisonment of the Bish
op his priests, some religious and
lay people. Recently the various
missionaries have been expelled
as their prison terms came to an
end. There are four Swiss Fathers
left in Tsitsihar and one Dutch
Father in prison. There are six
more Bethlehem Mission Society
Fathers in Harbin.
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Polish Communists
Arrest 5 Priests
LONDON (RNS) The Chan
cellor of the Roman Catholic Arch
diocese of Cracow and four priests
of his staff have been arrested as
part of an “espionage organization
working for a foreign country,”
the Warsaw Radio announced.
The Polish Communist station
identified the Chancellor as the
Rev. Boleslaw Przydyszewski.
It said the organization, led by
the priests, had been liquidated.
But it added that an investigation
was continuing.
Warsaw Radio said $36,000 in
American money, five kilograms
of gold coins and “much foreign
currency" was found in the cellars
of the archbishop's palace.
(The Archdiocese of Cracow has
no archbishop at present. It is un
der the jurisdiction of Cardinal
elect Stefan Wyszynski, Primate of
Poland. Adam Cardinal Sapieha
was Archbishop of Cracow until
his death in July. 1951. No succes
sor has as yet been appointed by
the Vatican.)
Those arrested “took advantage
of their Church offices in their
anti-Polish activities," the radio
station said.
The four priests arrested with
the Chancellor were named as Fa
thers Wit Brzycki, Jan Pochopien,
Josef Lelito and Jan Szymanek.
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Acting as Bishop of a mission
territory of 22,000 square miles—
most of it dense jungle—among
20,000 white people and Indians—
many of whom are headhunters—is
not easy work.
That’s the opinion of Bishop Can
dido Rada of Pinara, Ecuador, a
member of the order of the Sales
ians of Don Bosco, who was a Co
lumbus visitor last week.
Bishop Rada, who is in the Unit
ed States to collect funds for his
mission, was accompanied by a
strange partner—a human head
shrunken to the size of a baseball.
Only th* Males
The head was the product of
savage headhunters from the un
civilized portions of his mission
areas. “The Jibaros (headhunters),”
the Bishop explained, “always cut
off the heads of their enemies,
but only the males.”
“They then clean the' skin and
cut it away from the skull. The
lips are then sewed together and
the head is boiled for five hours in
a solution of water and juices from
herbs.
“At the same time round stones
are boiled and, while very hot, are
applied to the skin of the head. It
shrinks to about one-sixth of its
former size.”
However, the Bishop was quick
to point out that the headhunting
practice is not carried on by the
more civilized Indians in the mis
sions themselves.
58 Years of Work
The area of which Bishop Rada
is spiritual head encompasses
about 20,000 square miles along the
watershed of the Amazon River
Gifts Of US GI s
Help Build
Kor’n Orphanage
PUSAN. KOREA “Dona
tions from American military
personnel financed the construc
tion of a new orphanage here,"
reports Father Joseph W. Con
nors, Maryknoll Missioner from
Pittsfield. Mass. "Bishop John
(’hoi of Taiku recently blessed
the two story concrete building
and dedicated it to St. Teresa.
Delegates from the U.N. Relief
Group, the Korean government,
and the U.S. Army attended the
ceremony.
Christmas is not an historical
event like the Battle of the
Marne something that hap
pened once and will not happen
again. Christ
mas is s o in e
thing that must
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to have peace.
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give Him a hu
man nature with which He could
pray, teach, suffer and redeem
the world. That union of God
and man was the first Bethle
hem. In the continuing Bethle
hem, the angels of grace ask
each of us if we, like another
Mary, will give to Our Lord our
own human nature, so that He
may so possess it as the truth
of our minds, the love of our
hearts, the fire of our bodies.
Not of course that we would he
united to Jesus as closely as the
human nature He took from
Mary, but that we would never
theless he made partakers of
His Divine nature through grace
and be in the truest sense of the
word “Other Christ’s”. It can
readily he seen that it does not
profit the world to have Christ
born in Bethlehem unless He is
also born in our hearts. The Son
of God became Man that we
might be adopted sons of God.
If the redemption of our twen
tieth century war-wrecked world
is to be wrought out. that Spirit
which dwelt in Jesus, that com
plete merging of His human will
with the will of His Father, that
passionate love tor all men and
all peoples must become our
common inheritance and our in
most possession.
Gracious indeed it is on this
anniversary of the birth of our
Saviour to be kind to our friends
by giving them gifts, but there
is no real Christmas until we
bring gifts to Babe Himself
—the gift of ourselves expressed
In sacrifice. He does not want
what we HAVE He wants what
we ARE. Rut He cannot live in
us unless we empty ourselves of
our selfishness and egotism. Oth
erwise we are like the inn at
Bethlehem—so full of the world
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Converting Headhunters Not Easy, Says Bishop
bounding with Peru. His order, the
Salesians, has been working among
the 20,000 Indians and Ecuadorans
there for some 58 years.
“We now have come 30 priests,
nine brothers and 35 sisters labor
ing there." the Bishop said. “We
have set up 31 schools for hoys and
girls, which now have an attend
ance of about 2100 pupils.”
“Five hundred twenty of them
are boarding students, whom we
bring to live in the mission villages
to isolate them from pagan influ
ences. We must pay their parents
a substantial amount for that priv
ilege.”
Bishop Rada, who is a native of
Chile but has spent most of his
life in Ecuador, said one of the
biggest obstacles in his mission
area is its enormous size.
Long Journey
“We must ride four days on
horseback to get from the last town
in Ecuador to our first mission
village.” the Bishop said. "This
includes crossing the Andes and a
great plain.”
Besides other difficulties, mis
sion work in Ecuador includes the
natural dangers of the jungle wild
animals, snakes and so on.
One of the most frightening of
God Love You
For Real Christmas, Christ
Must Be Born
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In Our Hearts
lion J. Sheen---------------
there is no room for Him. On
this Christmas He can enter only
the empty places like the aban
doned stables.
Would you empty yourself of a
substantial sacrifice to the poor
missions of the world in order
to bring to them the love of Je
sus and Mary? We want you to
have a Merry Christmas, but we
also know’ that we cannot be
merry so long as we are like an
inn. Give your egotism a glori
ous self-defeat by a sacrifice.
Cut out this paragraph, clip your
sacrifice to it and mail it to the
Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen,
National Director of The Society
for the Propagation of the Faith,
109 East 38th Street. New York
16, New' York, or your Diocesan
Director, the Rev. James Kulp.
248 E. Town street, Columbus,
Ohio.
These people will have a mer
ry Christmas. GOD LOVE YOU
to B.O. who sold coffee and rolls
to her fellow workers and sent
their money $(10) to the Mis
sions GOD LOVE YOU to
E.A.W. who sent $28.17 to the
Missions in thanksgiving to God
for His blessings and in repara
tion for his sins GOD LOVE
YOU to M.A.P., 10, whose muf
fins at the County Fair won a
blue ribbon and an award of $2
which she has sent to the Mis
sions GOD LOVE YOU to
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business and the doughnuts were
very low in production so 1
promised that we would give one
cent for every dozen we would
make. Since we made 1.355 doz
ens enclosed is a check for
$13.55" GOD LOVE YOU
to M.M.F. "This check ($6.00)
represents 5c a day set aside in
the name of my husband as a
birthday gift” GOD LOVE
YOU to Mr. and Mrs. C.Z. for
$10 which they^acrificed by buy
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Bishop Candido Rada of Pinara, Ecuador (right above) shows a strange-looking object to th* R*v.
James Kulp, Diocesan Director of th* Society for th* Propagation of th* Faith. It's a shrunken human
head, the work of savage headhunters of Bishop Rada's Amazon Rivkr Mission in Ecuador.
these is a 6 in. long fish which
the natives call Pirana. the Bish
op commented. It will not attack
men or animals until it sees blood,
then it is a maddened killer.
"I once, saw a crocodile wounded
by a bullet,” Bishop Rada said.
“Within three minutes a school of
Pirana had left nothing but its
bones. The water actually seemed
to be boiling from the rapid snap
ping of their jaws.”
Bishop Rada’s order, the Sales
ians, was founded by Don Bosco
of Turin, Italy, some 70 years ago.
It now has 17,000 members, most
of whom are engaged in education
and mission work in South Amer
ica.
“Before the war.” Bishop Rada
Ex-Ambassador’s
Book Used In
Attack On Bishops
LONDON The Polish Com
munist press and radio are using
a new book written by Stanton
Griffis, former U.S. ambassador to
Poland, as the basis for sharp at
tacks on the Roman Catholic
hierarchy.
Communist organs quoted Mr.
Griffis as saying in the book, Ly
ing In State,” that while in War
saw he often acted as intermediary
to convey messages from high
Church officials to the Vatican.
The Communist organs charged
that the Polish bishops were il
legally communicating with foreign
powers, thus violating the princi
ples of the 1950 Church-State
agreement.
Trybuna Ludu. official organ of
the Polish Politburo and the gov
ernment. declared that “we shall
not tolerate this state of affairs."
(In New York, Doubleday & Co.,
publisher of the book, said it con
tained a passage in which Mr. Grif
fis said he “occasionally acted as
secret messenger and mailman for
letters to the Holy See from the
high Catholic dignitaries fighting
for their very lives in Poland.”
(A Doubleday spokesman added
that in “Lying in State.” Mr. Grif
fis repeated a judgment he form
ed while in Poland. Mr. Griffis
said that “whether you are Catho
lie, Protestant, Jewish or of any
other faith, you must realize that
the great hope for a democratic
Poland lies in maintaining the
strength and power of the Catholic
Church in Poland.”)
said, “we received much help from
Europeans. Now we must turn to
the United States. Because we have
been working among the Jibaros
for such a relatively short period
of time, it will probably be three
or four more generations before
we gain many native vocations.
“We need your spiritual and
financial help.”
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British Catholics
Report Big Gains
LONDON (RNS) Roman Ca
tholic Church membership in Eng
land and Wales increased 40,700
during the past year to bring the
total to 2,878,400, according to es
timates in the Catholic Directory
for 1953.
There are now 2.895 Catholic
churches, 28 more than a year ago.
Private chapels increased by eight
to reach a total oi 918. Some 206
new schools were opened during
the year. The 2,125 Catholic schools
now serve 536.288 pupils.
Adult conversions for the year
totaled 11.360, a gain of 350 over
last year's figure. Baptisms, mar
riages. secular priests, priests in
religious orders and seminary stu
dents all showed increases over
previous figures.
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Duquesne Plans Expansion
PITTSBURGH (NC) A $13,
000,000 development program for
Duquesne University was announc
ed at its diamond jubilee home
coming celebration here in Syria
Mosque. Father Vernon F. Galla
gher. S.Sp president said the
university will build seven new
campus buildings.
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Says Catholics
Were Robbed
Of School Aid
MELBOURNE, Australia—(NC)
—Australian Catholics “have been
robbed of millions” by the with
holding of state aid to the schools,
but they w ill not ask “a penny res
titution” if governments tteat
them with justice in the future.
Archbishop Daniel Mannix of
Melbourne made this statement in
an address here in which he also
expressed the hope that relief
would come in his own time.
The Archbishop who is 88 years
old. referred to the fact that “The
Australian Labor Party for the first
time in its existence has committed
itself, on paper at all events, to do
justice to private schools, Catholic
and non-Catholic.”
“It is about time it was done,”
he added. “I hope that the other
party which shares responsibility
with the Labor Party, will be of the
same mind.”
The Archbishop was critical of
the “very small measure of relief
in the matter of education,” pro
posed by the federal government.
However he said, “something has
been done, and a principle has
been acknowledged.” Referring to
“the dreadful injustice that Ca
tholics have suffered for three
quarters of a century,” the Arch
bishop added:
“If the Sisters, and Brothers
teaching in Catholic schools were
to go on strike tomorrow and re
frained from teaching, what would
result? If our children sought ad
mittance to the state schools, cha
os would result as there is insuf
ficient accommodation and too few
teachers in the State schools even
for state school children. The State
Parliament would perhaps then
realize the position as it had never
realized it before."
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You still have tune to request our beautiful Gift
Card, telling a friend or loved one that you are hav
ing Mass offered by a Near East missionary at
Christmas or that you have given a sacred article
to a poor chapel in their own names. With the three
color card, we send one bearing pressed flowers from
the Crib of Our Lord at Bethlehem. Write in now.
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New Sees Made
In South India
MADRAS, India (NC) The
creation by the Holy See of two
new Dioceses in South India hag
been announced here.
One to be known as the Diocese
Tanjore, will consist of territory
detaches from the present Diocese
of St. Thomas of Mylapore.
The other, the Diocese of
of Vellore, will consist of territory
detached from the Archdiocese of
Madres.
The remainder of the diocese of
Mylapore and the Archdiocese of
Madres will form a single ecclesias.
tical territory to be known as the
Archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore.
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Redemptorist Fathers
Celebrate Jubilee
NEW YORK (NC) Gold
en Jubilee of the Redemptorist
missions in Puerto Rico is being
celebrated this week.
Announcement of observances
was made here by tlfe New York
Province of the Redemptorist Fa
thers which has given two Bishops,
two hundred priests and as many
Lay Brothers to the missions in
Puerto Rico during the past 50
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by the Archbishop of Jerusalem for ail our benefactors, as will tea
others Masses by grateful Near East missionaries.
GEORGE YOURS?
Can you adopt George, a seminarian in his first
year at the Syrian Seminary of Charfe in Lebanon?
It will cost $100 yearly for each of the six years of
his training. You may give this in any installments.
What a proud boast will be yours—to have made ma
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but good young man. You can make no greater
Christmas gift.
December 13 is the feast of St. Lucy, patroness of all with eys
trouble. Why not make a gift in her honor to the orphanage of the
Sisters of Charity in Jerusalem, where we have so many blind children.
ETERNAL LIGHT
Hour after hour the Sanctuary Lamp bums be
fore Our Eucharistic King in humble Near East
chapels. One costs $15. It can be given as a me
morial of your loved ones. It will protest your love
always for the Blessed Sacrament It will be the
gold of your love, like the gift of one of the Three
Kings. We need so many sacred articles for these
chapels. Why not write for “HOW CAN 1
HELP?"
From the poor of Jerusalem come urgent pleas foe help at Christmas.
Then there are hundreds of thousands of refugees, homeless on their
fifth Christmas! Toor etringleae gift will bind them by tie* of love.
WHITE CHRISTMAS!
Christmas will be white for our poor outcast lep
ers. But it will not be pretty white. Please do add
a mile to our DAMIEN LEPER FUND for the many
lepers we have at Green Gardens, Shertallay, India.
There the Assisian Sisters of Mary Immaculate and
Father Joseph Thomas, the chaplain, hope to make
these afflicted ones happy on the Lord’s Birthday.
We have not room for all of them.
Hundreds of NEEDIEST CASES at Christmas and Just not enourk
funds to help them all—hundreds of orphans, poor, bomeiem! Pteaaa
think of them.
MARY AND GABRIEL
Two weeks more and we shall celebrate again
the greatest day in human history, when the Good
News of the Angel Gabriel to Our Lady eame true
—’That which shall be born of Thee will be our
Emmanuel, God with us!" We have a Sister Mary
Gabriel, a novice with the Sisters of the Holy Hearts
of Jesus and Mary. Can you adopt her, giving $300
over two years?
Make your last will (»ods will by remembering Christ’s poor and the
Near East missions. You will be paid compound interest in heaven.
FATHER LEON'S CHILDREN
On Christinas morning Father Leon will be giv
ing Holy Communion to his orphan lota. First h*
will tell them to remember their Near East friends
in the moments that the Lord Jesus rests tai the
manger of their innocent hearts To think that only
$10 will support an orphan child at Father Leon’S
orphanage In Kena. Egypt. Even a dollar monthly
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