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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 8—THE BULLETIN, August 5, 1961 v.' >•?'' ■> Discovery By Nun: "Thar's Gold In Them Thar Coupons" WELCOME TO FREEDOM Madre Josepa (right), a mm who has spent 69 of her 84 years in the cloister in Cuba is met' by Sister Miriam, Dominican superior at Miami’s diocesan Spanish center, upon the former’s arrival at Miami’s International Airport. Madre Josepa, a third generation Cuban, was ousted by the Castro regime with 10 other members of her Poor Clare com munity. (NC Photos) Red Statistics Show Polish Religious Communities Grow Says Red Leader's Speech Blueprint For Conquest "Khrushchev's Mein (NCWC News Service) JERSEY CITY, N. J. — A nun who after the turn of the century served in the gold mining fields of British Col umbia literally has opened a gold mine for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Newark. Sister Joseph Marie, 84, of St. Joseph’s Home for the Blind some years ago set up a system for collecting merchan dise stamps and premium cou pons for the Sisters of St. Jos eph. The plan has resulted in an average income of $2,000 annually for the last four years. In 10 years, the com munity's coffers have been enriched by $10,000. Besides the actual cash, premiums have provided the table service for the community's novitiate at Englewood and several other institutions, and the organ in the Sisters' chapel at St. Joseph's Vill age, Rockleigh. Sister Joseph Marie began collecting the coupons when she was the general treasurer of the community in the 1930s. She recalled: “The first year we raised $250. Now look at us.” The appeal is carried on through St. Joseph’s Messen ger, published quarterly by St. Joseph’s Home here. For each issue Sister Joseph Marie writes a column and lists the coupons that are of value. Al though the magazine has lim ited circulation, responses have come in from all over the country. When the coupons arrive they are sorted, packed and distributed by Sister Joseph CORK, Ireland (NC) — A 17ih-ceniury painting of the Crucifixion, discovered in an unused room of St. Mary's cathedral here, has been tentatively attributed to Ru bens or Van Dyke. A Cork building surveyor named T. F. McNamara came upon the eight-by-five-foot painting while examining the acrhitecture of the cathedral. He said a preliminary exami nation by Professor John Reeves, curator of the Art Gallery of the University of Marie, who also writes a per sonal letter of thanks to the donors. Good natured, with a rea dy smile. Sister Joseph Ma rie is a niece of the found ress of the community. Mother Evangelista. She came to the convent as a student of 14 and at 16 de cided to join the community. She has seen the congrega tion change to meet modern conditions. With a twinkle she recalled: “The first habit was pale blue, like the sky. V/hen we washed it out it turned different shades, depending on how much of the dye came out. We changed to the more practical black so we wouldn’t look like a human rainbow.” One of her assignments took her to the British Col umbia gold fields for 10 years starting in 1896. She was one of four nuns who helped found Madame Mis- ericordia Hospital, which stall stands there. An accomplished pianist, she organized a choir of tough miners to visit the hospital and sing for the patients on special occasions. In 1906 she became editor of St. Joseph’s Messenger; in 1922 she was sent to Lansdale, Pa., where she pioneered in work for the blind, forming a choir and small orchestra among her charges, some of whom still visit her. She be came treasurer of the com munity in 1930 and served un til 1946 when she became a member of the general coun cil, serving until 1952, when she began her assignment here. Notre Dame, Indiana, indicat ed that Rubens or Van Dyke was the painter. Canon A. J. Kelly, admin istrator of ihe cathedral, has been searching the cathedral archives for evidence. He said he believed ihe painting had been donated by a Cork man living in London, and that it had been purchased from a reputable dealer in Cologne. Cork already has a Rubens painting, Rebecca at the Well, in the Cork School of Art. (NCWC News Service) BERLIN — A hostile book on religious orders in Poland, published by a state-operated firm there, reveals that the number of Religious grew 17 per cent from 1949 to 1958. The book, Religious Orders published by Ksaizkai Wiedza in Warsaw, said the Warsaw regime ordered all religious orders to give details of their membership and organization in 1949, allegedly with a view to regulating their legal status. The registration showed that Poland's 46 orders of men had a total of 7,457 Re ligious. There were 111 re ligious congregations of wo- 100 YEARS OF WAITING TUNGALO, Formosa (NC)— The Apostles waited nine days after Christ’s Ascension for the coming of the Holy Ghost. An old blind woman near the Maryknoll mission here waited a century. On Mrs. Lim’s 100th birth day, Father Maynard J. Mur phy, M.M., of Outremont, Can ada, pastor of St. Mary’s par ish here, called to pay his re spects to the oldest citizen of Tungalo. To the priest’s surprise he noticed on the wall above her bed a picture of the Blessed Mother and Child Jesus. Fifty years ago her grandson cut the picture out of a magazine and the old woman had had it framed. It has been hanging over her bed ever since. The faded picture, Father Murphy decided, offered him a perfect opportunity in the Catholic doctrine behind the Madonna’s image. After listening to Father Murphy for a couple of min utes the centenarian interrupt ed him with: “If you are sent by God, where have you been all these years? Why did I have to wait 100 years to hear this?” “T h e catechism questions and answers are simple com pared to the piercing wisdom of one close to eternity,” said Father Murphy. “After a few weeks of simple instruction, she was asked again if she wanted to be baptized. Her an swer was typical of a venera ble mind accustomed to go right to the heart of the mat ter: ‘I told you weeks ago I believed in God. I still believe. How much longer does your God want me to wait?” Mrs. Lim was baptized with the name Mary on the feast of Mary, Patroness of China, whose picture she had first honored about the time Father Murphy was memorizing his first Hail Mary. Patronize Our Advertisers men, with a total of 23,318 Religious. Among the orders of women were 18 called “secret” by the government. By ‘secret’ the government meant that their members wore no habits. These numbered at the time about 3,600 Religious. The author of the book, Czeslaw Stryjenski, said re ligious orders of men had 8,102 members in 1958. By that time the number of women Reli gious had grown to more than 28,000. From 1949 to 1958 ihe number of houses of men Religious grew from a little over 2,000 to about 2,5Q0. The combined growth amounts to 17 per cent. (NCWC News Service) QUITO, Ecuador — Ecua dor’s Bishops have called in a joint statement for a program of social and economic reform in this South American nation and also denounced the Red regime of Cuban Premier Fi del Castro. At the same time Carlos Cardinal de la Torre, Arch bishop of Quito, has issued a pastoral letter urging Ecua dorians to awaken to the in ternal threat of communism. The Bishops said: “A reasonable and properly based social transformation is indispensable and urgently needed in our country. The Bishops proclaim emphatically that it is necessary to care for those who suffer, to help those who are seeking homes, land and job opportunities to fulfill honorably God’s law to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brows. “But such a transformation must be brought by experts, with decision and with respect for the rights of man and the supreme laws of God. “It is our duty to denounce and condemn the inhuman, unjust and sectarian attitude adopted by the present gov ernment of Cuba against the Catholic Church. It is not a question of isolated deeds . . . or of a difference in viewpoint . . . The Church is undergoing a hard, impious and well- planned persecution. “It is disloyal and traitorous toward the Church when cer tain individuals sympathize or publicly acclaim a government which so openly has declared itself a persecutor of the Church. Only a culpable short sightedness or an absurd zeal for impossible balance can in spire the judgment of one who can be a good Catholic and applaud the communist revo lution in Cuba.” The Bishops urged a crusade of prayer and sacrifice that God “may free Cuba from the terrible trial it is experienc ing.” ‘ Stryjenski says the legal status of the religious orders has not yet been determined. He calls this “a condition in compatible with legal order.” Stryjenski further says that religious orders in Poland “have a very privileged posi tion.” Yet the Polish Commu nist regime has deprived many Religious communities of hun dreds of hospitals, schools, farms, orphanages and similar institutions. The Franciscans of the Warsaw suburb of Niepokal- anow lost their printing press es, where they had published Maly Dziennik with a circula tion of 150,000 and Rycerz Niepokalanej with a circula tion of 750,000. Cardinal de la Torre urged Catholics in his pastoral letter: “Awaken from your leth argy, the enemy is at the gates and has already taken the first steps to invade our soil.” The Cardinal warned against “revolutionary action groups” which are operating freely in Ecuador and noted the presence of Soviet sub marines off the Ecudorean coast. “Those ships, some of which have operated and are operat ing from Cuba, and between Cuba and Venezuela, rendered important service in the last year of the struggle of Fidel Castro against Batista . . . “In the name of the outworn principle of nonintervention, any intervention whasoever in Cuba is condemned as an un heard-of violation of interna tional American right; but no thing is being done to prevent Cuba from intervening in our country.” Ecuadorian leftists have pro tested against the Cardinal’s letter. Leaders of the Marxist Workers’ Confederation of Ec uador and officials of the gov ernment of Ecadorian Presi dent Jose Maria Velasco Ibar ra, have expressed their dis approval of the statement. Leaflets have been circulated attacking the Church and the Bishops. The government claims that there is no communist threat in Ecuador. But Cardinal de la Torre has warned that the country will perish without hope of salvation “if the citi zens cross their arms with criminal indifference.” 200 AFRICAN PRIESTS IN ANGOLA LUNDA, Angola (NC)—The ordination of Father Augusto Kambwa here brings the total of African priests in this Por tuguese west African territory to approximately 200. By J. J. Gilbert WASHINGTON — A pro fessor in a Catholic university has told senators that Nikita Khrushchev has given the world a blueprint of commun ist plans for world domination, much as Adolf Hitler set forth nazi plans in “Mein Kampf.” This is revealed with the publication here of testimony Dr. Stefan T. Possony gave before the U. S. Senate Sub committee on Internal Secur ity some weeks ago. Coming to light at this time, when world tension over Berlin is deepening, the opinion of Possony has special interest. Possony is professor of in ternational politics in the grad uate school of Georgetown University here and an asso ciate of the Foreign Policy Re search Institute of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. He has studied strategy, military affairs and communism for more than 20 years, keeping abreast of new developments in each field. Appearing at the invita tion of ihe committee, Pos sony told the lawmakers that a speech given by Khrushchev on April 6, 1961, was "Khrushchev's Mein Kampf." The speech was en titled "For New Victories of the World Communist Move ment," and was delivered in Moscow to representatives of Communist party organi zations entrusted with ideol ogy and strategy planning. He said the speech was care fully prepared well in ad vance of its delivery and was disseminated through out the world. Here are some of the con clusions Possony told the sen ators he has drawn from a study of this Khrushchev speech: Cooperative Housing Plan For Calcutta Catholics CALCUTTA (NC) — The Social Welfare Week held here under the auspices of the Catholic Association of Bengal has called for a cooperative housing plan to provide homes for Calcutta Catholics. According to a recent sur vey, 58 per cent of this Indian city’s more than five million people live in housing units of only one room. A committee to set up the housing project has been form ed under the direction of Clif ford Noronha, manager of the Christian Cooperative Credit Union here. The credit union, started eight years ago by Noronha with 40 members and a capital of $400, today has 2,500 members and savings amount to $140,000. The housing plan has the support of Archbishop Vivian Dyer of Calcutta, who gained experience with such projects when he served as vicar gen eral of the Bombay archdio cese where Catholics maintain several housing societies. Committee OKs Foreign Aid Legislation WASHINGTON (NC)—The Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee by a 13 to 4 vote ap proved the Kennedy admini stration’s foreign aid bill, in cluding the President’s long- range financing plan for de velopment loans. Debate, ex pected to be lengthly, was scheduled to begin on the bill before the Senate on July 29. The measure provides $4,- 326,500,000 for all foreign aid in the current fiscal year. It includes $1,187,000,000 for the first year of long-range de velopment loans; $1.8 billion for military aid; $380 million for development grants; $5 million for investment sur veys; $153.5 million for inter national organizations; $450 million for supporting assist ance; $300 million for the Pres ident’s contingency fund, and $51 million for administrative expenses. Regulation Of Consumer Interest Charges Urged WASHINGTON (NC) — A priest told the Senate Banking Subcommittee that only the Federal government could ad equately regulate consumer in terest charges. Father Robert J. McEwen, S.J., chairman of Boston Col lege’s economics department, testified (July 24) on a bill re quiring disclosure of financing charges and the true annual interest rate on time purchas es. He said that in general he favors the principle of local action to correct abuses, but that this would not work in the field of consumer interest charges. "The communists believe that the final decision in the world struggle, and specif ically the victory of world communism, will be attained in the present era of history. In their conception, this era seems to extend to 1975, ap proximately. “Armed struggle is inevita ble. Such specific forms of armed struggle as liberation wars, uprisings, and ‘pressure from below’ also are inevita ble. “A global thermonuclear war is not entirely inevitable. If the free world, and especial ly the strongest democratic countries like the United States capitulate, such a war may be avoided. However, while preferable, such a de velopment is unlikely. “The Communist parties in the free world and their sym pathizers must do everything in their power to facilitate nu clear blackmail by the Soviet Union and to prevent military resistance by the free world. “The Soviet Union and the Soviet block must not leave any stone unturned to increase their military power in order to fight the probable (albeit not inevitable) world war and to win a global thermonuclear conflict. "For ihe lime being, such conflict must be avoided. The turning point in history will come when the Soviet Union overtakes the United Stales, some time between (NCWC News Service) LEOPOLDVILLE, The Con go — Professors and students of Lovanium University were evacuated on 24 hours’ notice to make way for a meeting of the Congolese parliament aim ed at restoring unity to the quarreling nation. The formal governmental order for evacuation came in the wake of weeks of nego tiations between university officials, ihe Congolese gov- ernment and the United Na tions command. The university had plead ed that the meeting of par liament be delayed one week to July 22, to allow time for examinations. But the government finally de cided that parliament should be summoned as soon as pos sible, whatever the cost to the university. The Lovanium, a Catholic institution, is the only univer sity in operation in the Congo. The Congolese parliament was convoked to approve a proposed constitution giving a federal structure to the Con go, and to ratify decisions tak en by rival political groups who got together at Tanana rive, in the Malagasy Republic (formerly Madagascar), and in Coquilatville. Some of the key figures in Congolese politics held up the opening of Parlia ment by pleading illness and remaining in their own areas. Lovanium University was chosen as the site for this meeting of parliament because it is far enough removed (12 miles) from Leopoldville, seat of the central government, to be neutralized politically. Se curity can also be maintained here more easily than in any By Father Patrick O'Connor Society of St. Columban (N.C.W.C. News Service) ILOILO CITY, Philippines— “Due to the scarcity of priests in the Philippines, the clergy needs the help of lay cate chists, both men and women,” Archbishop Jose Maria Cuenco of Jaro emphasized, addressing a catechetical congi’ess here. He sponsored the congress, in which his archdiocese and the suffragan dioceses of Ba- colod and Capiz took part. The theme of the discussions was: “Catechetical Instruction Is the World’s Salvation.” His Holi ness Pope John XXIII used these words in speaking to Archbishop Cuenco in Rome last year ; “The Holy Father told me that to remedy the evils of the present time, to fight commu nism, to save Christian civili zation, the most effective wea pon is the catechism,” the Archbishop said. Archbishop Cuenco has al ready established the Pius XII Institute of Catechetical and Social Studies in Iloilo. The Philippine hierarchy have made it a national institution; Kampf" 1965 and 1970. Khrushchev ialks as ihough he conceives fhis competition in terms of an 'economic' production race. It is more likely that he is thinking about a race in military technology. Con sequently the great turning point in history will come when the Soviet Union, ir respective of per capita pro duction in industrial goods, achieves technologically su perior armaments and at tains a military force which, qualitatively and quania- tively, will be superior to the military forces of the United States." Dr. Possony said that in the “first phase” of the current era “the armed struggle will mostly take the form of lib eration wars and uprisings, plus deterrence by nuclear blackmail, on the part of the Soviets, of any military initia tive undertaken by the free world.” He said Soviet strategy is based, one, on achieving opti mal military power, and, two, on utilizing “massive decep tion to bring about through (a) the unilateral military weakening of the free world, (b) the moral paralysis of free world governments, and (c) the demoralization of public opinion — the capitulation of the United States.” "Failing in fhis siraiegy, ihe Soviet intends io destroy the United States by nuclear weapons," he said. of the bigger Congolese cities, most of which have become strongholds of one political faction or other. The argument that Lov anium was chosen as politi cally neutral and militarily defensible rings true to the ears of Lovanium's students. But they also suspect that a strong anti-Caiholic and anti-Belgian current among the international groups in volved in the Congo brought about the immediate evacu ation of the university, which is not only Catholic but administered mainly by Belgian personnel. Even while the professors assembled to receive the evac uation announcement of the rector, Msgr. Luc Gillon, U. N. troops were digging trenches and erecting gun emplace ments. An electrified barbed- wire enclosure 12 feet high was built around the maxi mum security area. This in cludes the central administra tion building, the students’ quarters, the university cha pel and the auditorium, where the parliament was to meet. A force of 1,600 United Na tions soldiers of several na tionalities garrisoned the uni versity. They were ordered to keep all armed Congolese sol diers or policemen out of the university grounds. The preservation of Lov anium University is univer sally viewed as essential to the Congo's future. But it is feared that the presence of a Congolese parliament at the university lends grave doubt to the continuance of the university at its present site, if not to the very exist ence of the university. it is recognized by the govern ments’ Department of Educa tion. One resolution of the con gress called for moral and fi nancial help for the institute and the enrollment of more students in it. Another resolution asked that religious instruction be made a required subject in the public school curriculum for those children whose parents request it. At present, religious instruction may be given, at the parents’ wish, during class hours in Philippine public schools, but school teachers are not bound to insist that the children comply with their parents’ wishes in the matter. Other resolutions called for active participation by the faithful in the liturgy, a course in all schools refuting the er rors of communism and special emphasis on Bible study. More than 1,000 persons, in cluding some from outside the ecclesiastical province of Jaro, attended the congress. It lasted for four days and was held in the University of San Augus tin. person -to - person Service j?or afl your banhiny needs SAVANNAH RANK & Trust Co. Savannah, Georgia Member F. D. I. C. CONGRATULATIONS—Hugh Grady, State Deputy K. of C., receives congratulations from Chris E. Hernandez and Dan Keane. VISIT OF THANKS In Taipei, Formosa, Ling Yuan, 15-year-old Formosan lad who lost both arms in a factory accident last year shows his friend, Maryknoll Father Michael O’Connor of New York, how capably he can use his artificial limbs. The boy was sentenced to a life without hope until Father O’Connor stepped into the picture and initiated a mission of mercy which resulted in the youth being outfitted with new limbs. The photo above shows Ling Yuan visiting the padre who was confined to a hospital. Four days after the visit, Ling Yuan lost his best friend—Father O'Connor died of a heart attack at the age of 43. (NC Photos) Painting Discovered In Cork Cathedral May Be Masterpiece Denounce Castro Regime Ecuador Bishops Urge Social Reform Congo's Catholic University Hastily Evacuated To Allow ley Meeting Of Parliament Catechists Needed To Solve Problem Threatening Catholic Life In Philippine Islands