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‘GOOD CATHOLIC—GOOD AMERICAN’
ANNOUNCEMENT has been at
the Apostolic Delegation in Wash
ington that His Holiness Pope Pius
XII has transferred the Most Rev.
Edward F. Hoban, Bishop of Rock
ford, to the Titular See of Lystra
and appointed him Coadjutor Bi
shop with right of succession to the
Most Rev. Archbishop Joseph
Schrembs, Bishop of Cleveland,
and has appointed the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Martin J. O’Connor, pastor
of St. Joseph’s Cathedral and Cicar
General of the Diocese of Scran
ton, Titular Bishop of Thespia and
Auxiliary to the Most Rev. Wil
liam J. Hafey, Bishop of Scranton.
REVIEWING MORE MOTION
PICTURES from November, 1941.
to November. 1942, than it did in
the previous year, the National Of
fice of the Legion of Decency
found slight decreases both in the
percentages of films that were
“unobjectionable for general pat
ronage” and those that were “con
demned,” and slight increases in
the percentages of pictures that
were “unobectionable for adults”
and “unobjectionable in part.”
HAROLD TITTMAN, American
Charge d’Affaires in Vatican City,
was among the members of the
diplomatic corps who attended a
Pontifical Mass of Requiem offered
In St. Peter’s Basilica for the late
Cardinal Sebastiao Leme da Sil-
veira Cintra of Rio de Janeiro.
The Mass was arranged by the
Brazilian Ambassador to the Holy
See. *
RESUMPTION of diplomatic re
lations between Mexico and Russia
—severed 13 years ago due to al
leged interference in Mexico’s do
mestic affairs by Russian diplo
mats now centers the spotlight
upon a question that has been
raised in the Mexican press and
has been a general topic of conver
sation in Mexico City for some
weeks: Why not Mexican diplo
matic representation at the Vati
can.?
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
ESTABLISHED BETWEEN
VATICAN AND CHINA
(Radio, by N. C. W. C. News
Service.)
VATICAN CITY.—Diplomatic
relations are now officially estab
lished between the Holy See and
China, it is stated in an official no
tice printed in Osservatore Rom
ano.
China’s nomination of Dr. Chou
Kang Sie, Chinese charge d’Af
faires in Switzerland, to be en
voy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to the Holy See,
has been approved by the Vati
can.
No definite date has been an
nounced for the new minister to
take up his duties here. However,
it is believed that the transfer
fer will be made soon.
The official notice appearing
Osservatore Romano said:
“The government of Chungking,
after having manifested the inten
tion of doing so many times in the
past, has formally expressed to the
Holy See its desire to establish
diplomatic relations with it.
“The Holy See, which had al
ways declared itself disposed to
give favorable consideration to the
eventual move in this sense on the
part of the Chinese government,
has accorded its desire and subse
quently given its approbation to
the nomination of Dr. Cheou Kang
Sie, Chinese Charge d’Affaires in
Switzerland, to be envoy extraord
inary and minister plenipotentiary.
Dr. Sie, who is well known for his
literary activity, has rendered val
uable service to hn country in pub
lic administration and in his dip
lomatic career."
Five-year-old Jackie Shea, of Cambridge, Mass., aided by his mother,
reads and re-reads the now famous letter which struck the hearts
of all Americans, the first and last letter from his hero daddy,
Commander John J. Shea, U. S. N., assistant air officer on the U.
S. S. Wasp, reported killed in action when that airplane carrier was
lost in the recent battle around the Solomon Islands. “Be a good
Catholic and you can’t help being a good American,” counseled his
father. (N.C.W.C.)
Charges Made by Fascist Editor
Against Myron Taylor Are Refuted
(Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—Vatican offi
cialdom is maintaining a calm and
unruffled silence in the face of a
vituperative attack by Roberte
Farinacei in his newspaper Re
gime Fascjsta of Cremona.
The Fascist editor intemperately
charges that Myron C. Taylor,
“Roosevelt’s Jewish emissary”,
took with him when he left Vati
can City information that led to
the bombing of Italian cities. When
called to task by the Most Rev.
Giovanni Cazzani, Bishop of Cre
mona, Signol Farinacei went even
further and asserted that the Vati
can harbors “an army of authen
tic Jews and well-known anti-
Fascists”. He put down the
“clique of Osservatore Romano” as
another special group to be con
demned. He asserted, too, that
Vatican City ought to rid itself of
all diplomats whose countries are
enemies of Italy.
In an apparent effort to bait,
Vatican officials into a reply, Sig
nor Farinacei contends “it is a
grave fault, if not a crime,” for
the Vatican to remain silent on
such an occasion.
CALLED ‘JEWISH
EMISSARY’
While the Vatican officials keep
their counsel and refuse to be
drawn into a debate with the Fas
cist editor, it is authoritatively
stated in the diplomatic circles of
Vatican City that the statements
attributed to Mr. Taylor by Far-
inacci are absolutely without foun
dation.
In an article which appeared in
Regime Fascista several days ago,
Signor Farinacei, the paper’s pub
lisher and editor, said “Roosevelt’s
Jewish emissary”, Mr. Taylor, de
clared upon his return to the
United States: “I have had con
firmation that a few bombardments
on Italian cities would be suffi
cient to break the resistance and
confidence of the people.” And im
mediately after Mr. Taylor’s return
to the United States, Signor Fari-
nacci says, Genoa and Milan were
bombed.
Signor Farinacei said Mr. Taylor
saw no one in Rome, and therefore
he must have been informed in the
Vatican. It was the duty of Osser
vatore Romano to intervene “and
set Taylor right,” the Fascist edi
tor said, adding that “to remain
silent on such an occasion is a
grave fault, if not a crime.” He
then said “the suspicion that in the
shadow of the walls of St. Peter’s
there is a nest of enemies who are
plotting our destruction with im
punity becomes a certainty.”
The Bishop of Cremona inter
vened in a sermon preached in his
Cathedral on the occasion of the
Feast of Sain Omobono, Patron of
Cremona. He prayed that the Pa
tron of the city would enlighten the
Editor of Regime Fascista and keep
him from casting “suspicion on the
Church and its pastor.
This sermon brought the reply
from Signor Farinacei that he dis
tinguished between the Church and
Vatican City, and he renewed his
accusation against Mr. Taylor as
something of which he was cer
tain.
ACCUSES
‘OSSERVATORE ROMANO’
“We believe wc had the right,”
he said, “to ask with whom the rep
resentative of the Jew Roosevelt
talked inside the walls. We didn’t
allude to either this or that pre
late. The accusation was general,
but it is justified. No one can deny
that within Vatican City there are
living and operating the repre
sentatives of all the States that
are our enemies, an army of au
thentic Jews and well-known anti-
Fascists, and, finally, the clique of
the Osservatore Romano.”
Charging Osservatore Romano
with being unneutral, especially in
the matter of bombing cities, Sig
nor Farinacei claimed that, before
the war, Hitler proposed a London
treaty banning the bombing of
cities, and that London’s refusal
“was supported by the silence of
the one person who could have
spoken with authority.”
Signor Farinacei suggested that
Mr. Taylor may have received his
information from some private
Briton, American or Jew in the
Vatican City. He contended that
the Holy See should have sent one
of its representatives to confer
with Mr. Taylor in Switzerland.
Portugal, or some other neutral
country.
Bishops of United States
Sound Call for Victory
Counsel on Durable Peace After War—Urge Future In
ternational Order Based on Principles of Pope—Be-
call Approvingly Pledge of President Boosevelt
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
WASHINGTON—A ringing call
for victory of the United -States
and its allies in the present world
struggle, with the-warning that we
are engaged against an enemy that
would create “a slave world” and
that compromise is impossible, is
sounded in a statement made pub
lic here on behalf of the Catholic
Hierarchy of the United States.
Entitled “The Bishops’ State
ment on Victory and Peace,” the
pronouncement was considered
and adopted at the annual general
meeting of the archi.bishops and
bishops of the United States held
at the Catholic University of
America here with 102 members of
the Hierarchy in attendance. It is
signed “in the name of the Bishops
of the United States” by the mem
bers of the administrative board of
the National Catholic Welfare
Conference.
Emphasizing the fact that Cath
olics are exerting every effort in
support of the government’s war
program, and will continue to do
so, the bishops turn to the peace
that will follow the current strife
and indicate the principles which
must underlie it if it is to be just
and lasting. “We urge,” the
bishops say, “the serious study of
the peace plans of Pope Pius XII
which insist that justice be in
spired by love—first, love of God,
and then love of every human be
ing.”
“Even while we meet here,” the
bishops point out, “the exigencies
of war have driven our armed
forces into unexpected areas of
conflict in Africa. Our president,
in letters addressed to the rulers
of all the friendly nations concern
ed, has given solemn assurance
that the United States has no de
signs of permanent conquest or
sordid interest. Our aim, he pledg
ed, is to guarantee to countries un
der temporary occupation as well
as to our own the right to live in
security and peace. We bishops
are confident that the pledge of
our chief executive, not lightly
made, faithfully mirrors the mind
and conscience of the American
people. That pledge is in full
harmony with the expression of
high purpose which the president
made to the Catholic bishops of the
United States when our own coun
try was plunged into war: ‘We
shall win this war and in victory
we shall seek not vengeance but
the establishment of an interna
tional order in which the spirit of
Christ shall rule the hearts of men
and of nations.’ ”
“Our country’ has been forced
into the most devastating war of
all time,” the bishops’ assert. “This
war, which is the absorbing inter
est of all the world, involves un
questionably the most important
moral issue of today. Some nations
are united in w’aging war to bring
about a slave world—a world that
would deprive man of his divinely
conferred dignity, reject human
freedom and permit no religious
liberty. We are associated with
other powers in a deadly conflict
against these nations to maintain
a free world. This conflict of prin
ciples makes compromise imposi-
ble.”
Recalling that “from the moment
that our country declared war we
have called upon our people to
make the sacrifices which, in
Catholic doctrine, the virtues of
patriotism, justice and charity im
pose,” and that “in every section
of our country the voices of our
bishops have been heard,” the
statement continues:
“In the discharge of our pastor
al responsibility, we are gravely
concerned about the world peace
of tomorrow.
“Secularism cannot write a real
and lasting peace. Its narrow vis
ion does not encompass the whole
man, it cannot evaluate the spirit
uality of the human soul and the .
supreme good of all mankind.
“Exploitation cannot write a real
and lasting peace. Where greedy
might and selfish expediency are
made the substitutes of justice
there can be no securely ordered
world.
“Totalitarianism, whether Nazi,
Communist or Fascist, cannot
write a real and lasting peace. The
state that usurps total powers, by
that very fact, becomes a despot to
its own people and a menace to the
family of nations.
“The Spirit of Christianity can
write a real and a lasting peace in
justice and charity to all nations,
even to those not Christian.”
Asking “our people to be united
and prepared to make every sacri
fice which our government deems
necessary for a just and enduring
peace through the victory of our
armed forces,” the bishops add
that “we are confident that they
will perform their wartime duties
gladly because they know that our
country has been the defender, not
the destroyer, of liberties and has
in the past always reestablished
the full measure of peace-time-
freedom, on the conclusion of hos
tilities.”
Reiterating their wholehearted
cooperation with the government
in the prosecution of the war, the
bishops assert that “when mothers
are engaged in industry a serious
child-care problem necessarily
arises, ’ and that “every effort must
be made to limit, as far as necessi
ty permits, the employment of
mothers in industry, particularly
young mothers,” They urge, too,
“that there be a wholesome moral
atmosphere wherever women are
employed.”
Expressing the concern of
mothers and their own concern
“about the youths of 18 years of
age who are now to be called to
the armed forces,” the bishops
hope “that special moral safe
guards will shield them, so that
they may serve their country with
out moral blemish.”
The bishops condemn the “mur
derous assault on Poland, utterly
devoid of every semblance of hu
manity,” and the “premeditated
and systematic extermination of
the people of this nation.” They
express “a deep sense of revulsion
against the cruel indignities heap
ed upon the Jews in conquered
countries and upon defenseless
people not of our faith.” They de
clare that “the full benefits of our
free institutions and the rights^ of
our minorities must be openly ac
knowledged and honestly respect
ed.” They “ask this acknowlge-
ment and respect particularly for
our colored fellow citizens.”
Sending “cordial greetings to
our brother bishops of JLatin-
America,” the statement says “we
bishops are anxious to foster every
worthy movement which will
strengthen our amicable relations
with the Republican of this contin-
nent.” They express “the hope
that the mistakes of the past which
were offensive to the dignity of
our southern brothers, their cul
ture and their religion, will not
continue."
A STUDY looking to the reor
ganization of the American Catho
lic school system has been launch
ed with a meeting of a special com
mittee of the Nation Catholic Ed
ucational Association just held in
New York City.