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6—THE CATHOLIC TIMES Friday, Jan. 27,1956 Fr. Gordon, O.P., Raised to Rank of Preacher General Father Frederick Gordon, O P.. of Somerset. O.. who arrived in the United States last month, fol lowing 25 months of house arrest under the Chinese Reds, has been elevated to the rank of Preacher General of the Order of Preach ers. The ceremonies took place last week in St. Vincent Ferrer Church. New York City. Father Gordon and two other priests who were recently re leased by the Reds celebrated a Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving the same day. Father James Joyce. O.P., served as deacon and Fa ther Joseph Hyde as sub-deacon. The Mass was attended by more than 1.000 persons including 150 Dominican priests and nuts. -----------------o—--------------- Want ads can make more noise toi vour product than a brass band with 1,000 members. 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PH IS-IM Want ads are profit tested and proved OWL BAR AND GRILL ALL LEGAL BEVERAGES GOOD FOODS 295 East Mai- St. Phone 8070 Chillicothe, Ohio MARTIN HOUR CLEANING Extra QUALITY New Yearbook Reveals Red’s VATICAN CITY (NC)— Communism’s conti nuing warfare against the Church is indicated by the fact that once more the names of about 150 of the Bishops lis ted in the Vatican yearbook bear notations that they are imprisoned, exiled or other wise prevented from exer cising their ecclesiatical func tions. The first copy of the 1956 edi tion of the yearbook, called the Anuuario PoiiHficio. was nresent cd tn His Holiness Pope Pius XII by Msgr. Angelo DellAcqua. Sub stitute Vatican Secretary of State for Ordinary Affairs. It is a veritable gold mine of information covering the world wide organization of the Church from the Pope down to the small est mission area in some corner of Africa or Asia. The most important staistical changes in the new edition con cern residential diocesan Sees, which increased from 1,157 in 1955 to 1,212 in 1956. Metro politan residential Sees rose from 293 to 303, while apos tolic vicariates decreased from 237 to 202 and apostolic prefec tures dropped from 134 to 123. These changes were mainly due to the erection of hierarchies in French Africa, which chang ed the status of 51 vicariates and prefectures. The Amniario Pontificio lists the death of two Cardinals during 1955 Cardinal Jnnitzcr in Vien na and Cardinal De Jong in Utrecht. Netherlands During the yem 52 Archbishops and Bishops died. Frother Renovating A L’pholetering. 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Civics Club president Sandra Rieder, eighth grader, at right, discusses the possibilities for classroom activities with Pres Southworth, third grader, standing at left, and Averil Goode, second grader. Among the projects planned are a Bible quiz show, a playlet entitled, "The Bible in Our Home," a special edi tion of the school paper promoting the theme of the projects: making the Best Use of the Bible Today displays and skits. Ele mentary and high schools of the diocese are participating in a contest sponsored by the Diocesan School Office and Confratern ity of Christian Doctrine, the purpose of which is to create a deeper interest in the Bible on the part of all students: God Love You The Heavenly Father Feeds Them Through You by Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Did you ever become angry in the springtime when, after sowing expensive grass seed on your lawn, the little birds came in droves to devour some of that which you had planted? Are the birds real ly “stealing” your seed? when come to banquet, they the do you think of the words of Our Lord: “See how the birds of the air neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.” But how does the Heavenly Father feed them? In this instance, through you and your seed. It is so with the Missions. The Heavenly Father must care for our sisters who are nursing the blind in India, for our priests who are digging wells for the Moslems, for our bro thers who are leaching crafts to the people of Japan. God cares for them by inspiring you to “throw away” some of your seed a little for the birds of the air, a little for the U.S. Investigation Service Criminal Marital Personal Insurance Charles Edington Bonded By Appointment. AX. 1-0430 131 t. State, Columbus 15, Ohio Complete Outfitters for the Entire Family Missions. Maybe, as a result, your own house will have less comfort about it, perhaps the lawn will be less green, the luxuries less refined, the in stincts foi a smoke or a drink less quickly satisfied but somehow the Missions are there to be fed. In other words, gen erous souls are interested in the birds as well as in the lawn: the charitable person, hearing about the Missions, is interested in the Missions, as well as in his own property. The Heavenly Father feedeth them through you Have you any seed in the bank you would like to scatter on the lawns of Asia? Did you ever think that you would never have had grass seed for your lawn if the Heav enly Father were not good }o you then give a little to our birds the Missions. We help all of them through the Soci ety for the Propagation of the Faith. Thanks. GOD LOVE YOU to B. for S2.46. “I have been saving this money all year and I hope the Missions like it. so they can buy clothes, food and shoes. Today is my birthday and this is my birthday present to the Mis sions. I am seven years old.” ... to A.F.L. “Promised that if I won at Bingo. 1 would send you part so here is $10 for your Missions.” ... to Mrs. J.S.M. for $80. “Would like you to use this check for the missions. It represents the ‘first fruits’ of my husband’s chosen profes sion—culinary arts.” LOOK THROUGH THIS LIST: Bracelets! broken en gagement rings: Costume jew elry (in good condition): Cuff links Dentures: Dresser sets (silver combs and brushes) Dishes (sterling silver or gold) Earrings: Eyeglass frames (gold) Flatware (sterling knives, forks, etc.): lxekets Ixidgc pins Medals (gold) Necklaces Pins: Precious stones Stickpins Watches: Watch chains: Rings. Do you have any of the above? Do you know that they have mission value? Any jew elry or old gold that you no longer use can help the mis sionaries in five continents. If you will send them to us. we will resell them, and the money will go to aid the sick, hungry and homeless throughout the world. Cut out this column, pin your sacrifice to it and send it to the Most Rev. Fulton Sheen, National .Director of the Soci ety for the Propagation of the Faith, 366 Fifth Avenue. New' York lx. N.Y., or your Dioces an Director. Father James Kulp. 246 East Tow n Street, Co lumbus 16. Ohio. -----------------0----------------- IT PAYS TO USE THE TIMES CLASSIFIEDS For Advertising Rates Write: AD DEPT. CATHOLIC TIMES P. O. BOX 636 COLUMBUS, OHIO RflBNHJNPB Fr. Rigney Describes Red Cruelties During 4-Year Imprisonment (Following ts a resume of a book which Father Harold W. Rigney S.V.D., Divine Word Missionary, wrote tn Hong Kong following his release after four years of imprisonment and tor ture at the hands of China's communists. The Chicago priest went to China tn 1946 as rector of the Fu Jen Catholic University tn Peiping. Arrested in July, 1951, by the Reds, he was subjected to almost ceasless tortures until his release last September. Fr. Rigney left Hong Kong this week for New York City, via Singa pore and Rome.) “You are arrested as an American spy.” Tommy-guns pointed menacingly as the incredible charge v as hurled at Father Harold W Rigney. S.V.D.. in Peiping on July 25. 1951. I That was the beginninglof Father Rigney’s ordeal—a four-year trial by torture. The Chicago Sun-Times has released his own fully detailed ac count of it to the North Ameri can press. This is a digest of Father Rigney's story. "Arrested ... as an Amer ican spy!" The colossal absurd ity of the charge and its t^r rifying implications raced through the priest's mind as he faced the communist security police who had invaded his living quarters. For five years Father Rigney had fought to protect the Fu Jen Catholic University of Peiping, which he served as rector, from communist infiltrations and de- Father Rigney, S.V.D. structive tactics. He had striven to preserve the university as a citadel of learning and culture, independent of the government. Those “crimes.” the real his arrest. communist were his reason for him hand- His captors drove cuffed to the Ts 'ao Lan Tiu Hutung, where he was strip ped of his pocket possessions, most precious of which was his rosary. Soon Father Rigney found himself in a foul, rat infested cell, 11 by 10 feet. Six other prisoners, all Chi nese, were there. Bclorc he fell asleep that night on the single wooden kang (bed), which all seven prisoners shared, he was aroused and taken before a judge in the “People's mili tary court. “Now. tell me,” said the judge, “what crimes you have commit ted against the Chinese people This was Father Rigneys in troduction to the communist con cept of “justice,” the first of some 150 court sessions, day and night, he was forced to attend. Reds Are Finding New Ways to Strangle Religion BERLIN—(NO—lire east Ger man communist regime has taken two new measures to strangle re ligion. The Reds have issued instruc tions to local authorities to halt Church groups from purchasing land or building lots and to stop the erection of any new churches, chapels or rectories. At the same time the regime has enlarged its program of flood ing the market with low-priced editions of the writings oi 18th and 19th-century anti-clericals. These include the works of Fran cois de Voltaire. 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Through the aching mara thon of court appearances, the command to confess was inces santly hissed into his ears, in variably accompanied with death threats. Perhaps 50 times the judge threatened to have Father Rigney shot, the first under these con vincing circumstances. “Are you an OSS (Office of Strategic Services agent or a State Department agent?” the judge demanded. Father Rigney replied that he was an agent of neither. Staring steadily at the fettered, handcuffed priest, the .judge said writing on a sheet of paper: "You are condemned death." “I die a martyr to truth,” ther Rigney responded. “You die an imperialist spy,” the judge shouted. “Since I am going to die. 1 want a priest.” Father Rigney said “I am a Catholic and I want a priest before I die. You say you guar antee freedom of religion: there fore, you must allow me to see a priest.” “There is no time for such!” the judge thundered. to Fa- But Father Rigney was not to die by the judge's order, he soon learned, upon being led back to court. The death sent ence had been only a bluff aim ed at obtaining a confession. But it was a cruel barbarian bluff repeated at almost every court session in the next two years. Before the close of the first 60 da\s. the ordeal had taxed Father Rigney physical reserves. He was tortured by hunger. His ankles and wrists were sore and bleeding from fetters and hand cuffs. He was exhausted from lack of sleep. His clothing was falling to shreds and was intested with lice. He was subjected to endless humiliation and insults. The judge pressed ceaselessly for the confession he wanted that Father Rigney was an Amer ican spy. He introduced a new torture at the proceedings, order ing the priest to squat, a position of rest to the Chinese, but one of intense pain to the unpracticed Westerner. Father Rigney could not force himself into the position, in which buttocks rest on heels, without causing agony to leg sinews and increasing the pangs of gouged and swollen ankles. Thus wracked, he thought he saw a way out of his dilemma. “Now everyone knows I am not an American agent.” he said to himself, “but 1 am pressed to say it. It would be no lie to say lam because nobody would be de ceived.” Then, his head swimming and his body in pain, he said to the court: “1 am an FBI agent.” When he returned to his cell. Father Rigney felt thoroughly Grave Markers $45.00 Guaranteed granite includes let tering, delivery foundation erec tion in cemetery Full line of granite or marble DARDEN MEMORIALS markers and monuments 291 N. 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He was then driven to Tzu Hsing Lu, a prison factory, where he became a match box maker un der the continued persecution of the head pen chang (cell leader) who. acting under instructions of his superiors, proved a faithful communist “running dog” (in former). Sine. I’25 146 E. STATS The one way in which Fath er Rigney won favorable con sideration was by developing proficiency as a match box mak er. He increased his daily out* put to 4,000 boxes a day. Fu Each time that he confessed falsely under duress, he under went intense mental anguish. And on each admission, he sub sequently submitted a retrac tion. The recognition of that labor came to serve him in good stead. In mingled hope, bewilderment and dread, he was taken back on July 15. 1955. to Ts'ao Lan Tzu, where Freed a new “good ney’s |prison his ordeal had begun, of his handcuffs, he faced judge, who promptly cited reports” on Father Rig record. 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