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TEN THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA JANUARY 4. 1958. FOREMOST EVENTS OF CHURCH IN U. S., THROUGHOUT WORLD (Continued From Page Nine) vation . . . Annette Dionne Is First Of Famous Quints To Mar ry .. . San Marino Red Regime Falls As Anti-Communists Take Power . . . 200,000 Pilgrims At Closing of 40th Anniversary Rites At Fatima Shrine . . . Luke E. Hart Reelected K. of C. Supreme Knight . . . Pope Inaugurates New Vatican Radio Station. NOVEMBER U. S. Bishops at their annual Washington meeting: issued a statement entitled “Censorship,” terming press freedom a basic right but insisting public morals must be safeguarded; called U. S. citizens to a traffic safety cam paign, and set aside December! 29 as a day of prayer for the i world’s persecuted peoples. Bal timore’s Archbishop Francis P. Kcough was reelected NCWC ad ministrative board chairman. vWith the death of Adeodato Cardinal Piazza, 73, Sacred Con- sistdrial Congregation secretary, thg Sacred College of Cardinals was reduced to 57 members. Death also claimed: Bishop John G. Bennett. 66, of Lafayette in Indi ana, who was succeeded by Coad jutor Bishop John J. Carberry; Rep. Augustine B. Kelley, 71. of Pennsylvania, in Washington; Ernest Leger, 81, father of Cardi nal Leger in Montreal; and An tonin Zapotocky, 72, Church pre- secutor four years as Red Czecho slovakia president. Salina’s Bish op Frederick W. Freking was con secrated in Rome. Diocese of Al toona, Pa.. was renamed Altoona- Johnstown. Auxiliary Bishop John W. Fearns of New York was consecrated. Trappist Abbot Augustine Moore of Our Lady of the Holy j Ghost Abbey in Conyers, Ga., was : •istalled. Catholic Theological! Society’s 1957 Cardinal Spellman j Award went to Sulpician Father! Gerard Telle of Montreal. Eugene Kennedy, Jr,, Boston, designer, j : ‘nd John McShain, Philadelphia,! builder of the National Shrine of i ‘he Immaculate Conception in ; Washington, were awarded Day- ton University’s 1957 Marianist Award. Mount St. Mary’s College, Kmmitsburg, Md„ marked its 150th founding anniversary. Hen- / W. Flannery, Washington, was reelected Catholic Association for; International Peace president. Catholic Church Extension Socie ty had its greatest year aiding U. S. missions, it w-s j-eocu-ted at the 52nd annual Chicago meeting. Sacred Congregation of Religious ruled men in religious communi ties may not take permanent vows before completing compul sory military service in countries where it exists. Other November headlines: Holy Father Composes Prayer For Priesthood Vocations ... Je rusalem Patriarch Protests Israeli Efforts to Make Christians Be come Jews . . . U. S. Bishops’ Relief Agency Aided 40 Million Needy in 53 Nations in Past Year, Report Says . . . New Anti-Church Drive Launched In Red China . . . India’s Bishops Condemn Red Anti-Catholic School Bill, Birth Control Campaign . , . Pope Gives j Advice On Intricate Problems Facing Anesthetists. DECEMBER Pope Pius established the Dio cese of New Ulm, Minn., and named Msgr. Alphonse Schlad- weiler of St. Paul the first bishop. The Holy Father also named: Msgr. Howard J. Carroll, NCWC general secretary, Bishop of Al- toona-Johnstown, Pa,; Auxiliary Bishop Clarence J. Issenmann of Cincinnati, Bishop of Columbus; Father Leonard P. Crowley of Minneapolis, Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul, and Msgr. Victor J. Reed of Tulsa, Okla., Auxiliary Bishop of Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Cardinal Spellman left New York on his annual Christmas visit to U. S. troops in Alaska and the Far East. Msgr. William J. McDonald was named rector of the Catholic University of Ameri ca. Auxiliary Bishop John M. Fearns of New York was con secrated. Margaret Ann Nichols, of Milton, Mass., a junior at Regis College, Weston, Mass., was nam-1 ed “Outstanding Catholic Youth! of 1957.” Pilgrims crowned the shrine of Beauraing', Belgium, on the 25th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady to five children there. Pittsburgh’s Bishop John F. Dear- den marked the silver jubilee of his ordination. Xavier University, Cincinnati, awarded the St. Fran cis Xavier Medal to Jesuit Father Aloysius J. Breen of the universi ty; Judge Edwin G. Becker of the Cincinnati school board, and Stan Musial. St. Louis Cardinals base ball star. A booklet by Columban Father Patrick O'Connor, NCWC News Service Far East correspon dent. reported that adult converts in South Korea had increased 10- fold to 31,912 since 1949. Other December headlines: Catholic Faith Spreads In Africa Diocese Where Mau-Mau Terror Raged, Bishop Says . . . Ger many’s Ruhr Has Its Own Diocese ; After 28-Year Wait . . . Chinese ! Bishops, Priests Deny Red Claims They Back Red-Dominated ‘Patri otic Association of Catholics’ . . . Governor, Other Dignitaries Pre sent At Rededication of Steuben ville (Ohio) Cathedral . . . Racial Problem Is Worldwide One, Card inal Stritch Declares . . . Census Bureau Head Says No Question On Religion Will Be Asked In' 1960 Census. Idlewood Kennels Expert Grooming and Boarding "THE WALDORF-ASTORIA FOR PETS" Since 1903 L. F. SHELVER, Owner 5433 ROSWELL RD„ N. E. BL. 5-1124 ATLANTA New Outbreaks Of Hostility CONTINUED RED PERSECUTION OF CHURCH BEHIND IRON CURTAIN MARKS PAST YEAR The Bishops of the United States called on the nation’s faithful to make Sunday, Decem ber 29, a Day of Prayer for the Persecuted. All Christians and other men of good will were urged to join in the observance. The following article reviews the abuses suffered by the Mystical Body during the past year. * * * By George J. Robinson (N.C.W.C. News Service) This year, the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution which cast the fire of militant atheism upon the world, saw the continued persecution of the Church in the Iron Curtain coun tries. It also saw new outbreaks of anti-Catholic hostility in other parts of the world influenced by the Reds and other forces hostile to the Church. A glance through the news re ports of 1957 shows that the Kremlin, not satisfied with its control over the satellite coun tries, inspired anti-religious ac tivity in places as far away as India. In Kerala, India’s most Catholic and literate' state, communists won control of the state govern ment in February and have since waged a battle to gain control of all education there and to pass laws that will enable them to take over all Catholic schools. The Moslem-controlled govern ment of the new African nation of Sudan began taking over Cath olic mission schools in its south ern region last April in an ap parent effort to minimize the in fluence of the Church on the Christian and pagan natives in that area. The Church’s missionary effort has also been greatly hindered by the extreme to which “apartheid” — racial segregation — has been pushed in the Union of South Africa. That country is stepping up its drive to bar non-whites from at tending school or even worship ing with their white co-religion ists. In the countries which have unwillingly come under the dom ination of Russia, persecution of the Church continued as a regular policy during 1957, although there was improvement in the Church’s position in Poland. The major incidence of com munist persecution was in China, where the government stepped up ! its efforts to alienate China’s! Catholics from Christ’s Vicar in j Rome by establishing a so-called ! Patriotic Association of Chinese Catholics. Formation of the Patriotic As sociation in Peking during the! summer apparently was one of | the opening guns of a highly or- | ganized onslaught against the Church. It was one more piece of evidence of the divisiveness of materialistics and atheistic com munism, working always to turn people against their most cherish ed traditions and beliefs to make them slaves of the state. Reports from China indicate that many of the clergy and lai ty attending the Patriotic Associ ation’s meetings were coerced into doing so. Observers abroad have expressed the fear that the new communist program in Chi na “foreshadows the most drastic persecution of Catholics in China since the Reds took over in 1949.” The Reds released two Ameri can Jesuit Fathers from years of imprisonment last spring, and al lowed them to go home. But the ranks of the foreign missionaries in China is now down to a mere handful, and in the course of the year the communists have ar rested and jailed priests and lay men on one pretext after an other, hitting hard at the clergy- most outspoken in their devotion to the Holy See. According to a report received from Bishop Dominic Tang, S.J., Apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Canton, he and his clergy and religious are being subjected to severe Red pressure. Special indoctrination periods are held twice each week and the clergy are forced to attend. Af terwards, each priest and nun at the meeting is questioned and asked concerning their opinion of what has been said by the govern ment speaker at the meeting. Bishop Tang, who has not ac cepted any., of the “invitations” to attend these meetings, has been called to the Government’s Bu reau of Religious Affairs and giv en detailed instructions as to how to conduct his archdiocese. Twice weekly the Canton ca thedral is the site of a meeting during which speakers sent by the Patriotic Association de nounce the Supreme Pontiff and j the Bishops of the Church. In Czechoslovakia, Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague, the coun try’s spiritual guide, has been held in detention since 1949. His whereabouts remain unknown and there is no sign at all that the government plans to release him. In late summer, two Domini can Sisters in Moravia were sen tenced to prison terms for “anti- state” activity. They were ac cused of harboring Father Vaclav Filipec who had earlier been im prisoned for operating a “spy ring.” Also sentenced in June were a group of Salesian Fathers and Sisters who were charged with anti-revolutionary and treason ous activity 7 . Certainly, even in the light of these few instances, there is no sign of any slow-down in perse cuting the Church in Czechoslo vakia. One authority on the Church in that country, writing in a French Catholic weekly, said that the Red government of Czechoslo vakia is favoring the creation and development of national church- (Continued on Page Eleven) CARTER THEATRES BUCKHEAD, GARDEN HILLS & BROOKHAVEN CE. 3-3361 3110 Roswell Road, N. W. Atlanta, Ga. LiPSGOMB-ELLIS CO. JA. 1-2182 90 FAIRLIE ST„ S. W. ATLANTA, GA. F. W. LAFRENTZ CO. JA. 5-S5SS ATLANTA. GA, Atlanta Federal Savings Bank Bldg., Room 806 %V. C. Caijc & Co.. 3i Offices nc. ATLANTA and AUGUSTA 787 WINDSOR, S. W. ATLANTA