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Vol. XXV. No. 3.
Published by the
Catholic Lay
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 31, 1944
Where Bombs Fell on Vatican Property
ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR
Nazis Claim Removal
Bombs dropped close to Vatican City in tl\p ae
known to have exploded in the Eternal City, four
the palace of the Holy Office, and damaged the A
which adjoins it, killing one and injurying another,
windows of the seminary were damaged and a wall
photo, a view across St. Peter’s Square, arrow sho
spot where bomb fragments fell into the courtyard,
rial raid on the evening of March 1. Of six bombs
fell in Vatican extra-territorial property, opposite
ugustinian College of Santa Monica and the Church
At the Propaganda Fide College, (lower photos)
of the Sisters’ convent was demolished. Upper
wing the Pope’s apartments, and (x) marking the
damaging many windows. (N. C. W. C.)
Holy Father Receives Greetings on
Fifth Anniversary of Coronation
TEN NEW CHURCHES FOR
KANSAS CITY DIOCESE
Nuns Killed in Rome
(Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY—Noting that
Vatican City has been hit again,
this time by an anti-aircraft shell
that fell and exploded in its
streets, Osservatore Romano
roundly deplores “a state of af
fairs which causes grave fears for
the Center of Catholiism.”
(An anti-aircraft shell fell in
Vatican City and exploded in front
of the Osservatore Romano ad
ministration building recently.
Workmen who were engaged in
unloading foodstuffs were injur
ed, two of them seriously. Many
windows in the vicnity were shat
tered.)
Meanwhile word was received
here that eight Sisters of the Sac-
ramenline community were killed
when a bomb scored a direct hit
on their convent during a bom
bardment of Rome on March 14.
The report stated thatt here were
nine nuns in the convention at
the time the bomb struck, and all
but one lost their lives.
It was reported also by Osserva
tore that the driver of a Vatican
transport truck was killed instant
ly and another Vatican workman is
near death from injuries received
in a bombing attack on the road
at Narni Friday, March 17. The two
men were aboard a truck, which
was part of a convoy of approxi
mately 30 Vatican vehicles which
at the wish of His Holiness, since
January 28 have been making bi
weekly trips to the regions in the
vicinity of Mache Umbria to
transport essential foodstuffs for
the population of Rome. The re
port stated that the truck con
voys have brought more than 3,-
500 tons of flour and other food
stuff into Rome since the ,start of
operations.
The report also stated that con
siderable damage and a num
ber of casualties were caused by
a bombardment in the Rome area.
“Thus once again,” says Osserva
tore, commenting upon this in
cident, “the territory of the State
of Vatican City, in spite of its
neutrality and even more the fact
that the Supreme Pontiff dwells
there and such great religious, his
torical and artistic treasures are
houses there, has been hit-
“This sad occurrence confirms
the inadmissability of a state of
affairs which causes grave fears
for the Center of Catholicism and
threatens, according to the words
of the Holy Father, to ‘turn Rome,
this dear city which belongs to
all time and to all peoples and
on which the Christian and civil
ized world is now gazing so anx
iously into a battlefield.”
VATICAN CITY, Mar. 20—The
destruction of two of the most
famous churches in the city and
the deaths of many persons in
the bombardment of Padua were
deplored by the Most Rev. Carlo
Agostini, Bishop of Padua, in liis
sermon at the funeral of the vic
tims.
HOLY FATHER HONORS
GERMAN PRELATE
(Religious News Service)
LONDON (By Wireless)— The
appointment of the Most Rev.
Clemens August Count von Galen,
Bishop of Munster, Germany, by
Pope Pius XII as assistant at the
Pontifical throne is "obviously of
some special significance,” accord
ing to the Universe, Catholic week
ly, published here.
Bishop von Galen has been an
outspoken critic of the Nazi re
gime, and enjoys a wide popularity
in religious circles in Germany.
He was appointed a member of the
special episcopal committee set up
by the German Bishops’ Confer
ence in Fulda last year to adminis
ter Catholic Church affairs in Ger
many during 1944.
The Universe points out that the
honor conferred upon the German
bishop is usually reserved to pre
lates who have completed fifty
years in the priesthood or twenty-
five in the episcopate. The Muns
ter churchman has been a bishop
only eleven years and was ordain
ed a priest less than forty years
ago.
(Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY,—His Holiness
Pope Pius XII received numerous
messages and attestations of hom
age on the occasion of the fifth
anniversary of his coronation, Os
servatore Rome announces.
Stating that particularly moving
messages were received from the
universal Hierarchy, Osservatore
makes special mention of the an
niversary greetings sent by the
Bishops of the United States, Cana
da and the Latin American Repub
lics.
Among those who sent messages
to Pope Pius on his anniversary,
Osservatore says, are the Presi
dents of Portugal, Brazil, Poland,
Venezuela. Ecuador, Paraguay,
Costa Rica, El Salvador, San Do
mingo and Haiti, the Grand
Duchess of Luxembourg and Gen
eralissimo Francisco Franco.
There has been deep and wide
spread reaction to the discourse
delivered by His Holiness on the
anniversary of his coronation, it is
evidenced by messages which have
poured into the Vatican from var
ious parts of the world.
Speaking from the balcony of
St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Pius XII
expressed the hope that Rome, the
Eternal City, may not be turned
into a battlefield, thus perpetrat
ing “an act as inglorious from a
military viewpoint as it would be
abominable in the eyes of God
and of mankind.”)
In Vatican City the words of
the Sovereign Pontiff were heard
by an enormous outpouring of
people. Rain that fell in torrents
all morning stopped shortly before
the Holy Father was scheduled to
appear on the Basilica loggia. The
occasion of the discourse was actu
ally an “outdoor audience,” which
the Holy Father arranged when it
was decided room could not be
found indoors for the thousands of
refugees who wanted to come and
thank personally the Pope for his
paternal assistance in their dire
need. Since many of these refugees
possess only the clothes they wear,
they had to seek shelter while the
rain poured down upon Home and
Vatican City. But, when the rain
stopped, they and others began
to pour into St. Peter’s Square to
hear the words of His Holiness.
ANTI-AIRCRAFT SHELL
FALLS IN VATICAN CITY;
WORKMEN ARE WOUNDED
VATICAN CITY,— An anti-air
craft shell fell inside Vatican City
at about 7:30 A. M.. March 17, and
exploded in the roadway before the
administration building of Osserva
tore Romano and the office of the
N. C. W. C. News Service Cor
respondent.
Shell fragments struck a group
of workmen who were engaged in
unloading foodstuffs. Two of the
workmen received serious injuries
and other received lighter injuries.
Numerous windows were shattered
in the vicinity. Other damage was
light.
(By Religious News Service)
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Ten new
Catholic churches, each seating 140
persons, will be built in as many
western and south-western Mis
souri towns, now without such
church facilities, as soon as build
ing conditions permit, Bishop Ed
win V. O’Hara, of the Kansas City
Diocese announced here.
The churches, to cost about $5,-
000 each, are a part of a program
the Bishop has outlined to carry
religious facilities to less provident
areas of the 20,000-square mile
diocese. They will be the outgrowth
of a street preaching program un
der which priests make weekly
tours of smaller towns to build
congregations.
Bishop O’Hara stressed the inter
changeability of design for the pro
posed churches, permitting use of
wood, rock, concrete block's, logs,
or any combination of those build
ing materials depending on what
is available at each site.
THE SPIRITUAL CARE which
the Catholic Church in the United
States extends to prisoners of war,
receives the highest praise in an
article in “Program Helps,” an
annual publication of the Wom
an’s Missionary Federation of the
Lutheran Free Church. The ar
ticle was written by Captain
Charles J. Berry, an American
Army officer assigned to Camp
Weingarten, Mo. Captain Berry
is a member of the Lutheran
Church.
of Military Targets j
From City of Rome |
(Radio, N. C. W. C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY, — German
sources in the City of Rome have
announced that instructions have
been given that there shall be no
military transit allowed across the
Eternal City.
The newspaper II Messaggero,
bearing the date of March 22, said:
“The German command, in the
days immediately following, will
remove scrupulously from Rome
everything that can furnish the
slightest pretext for aerial terror
ism, and will avoid still more mili
tary transit in the Eternal City.”
The statement expresses the be
lief that, henceforth, the v blame for
any damage to Rome will be shift
ed to Allies.
WASHINGTON, — A broadcast
by the Nazi-controlled Rome radio
asserting that “the German com
mand will proceed to transfer from
Rome everything that might be
considered a target” has been re
ported by the United States For
eign Broadcast Intelligence Ser
vice.
The broadcast as heard in this
country said this action “will take
place during the next few days,”
and declared that this step made
“it impossible for the enemy to
escape full responsibility” for air
attacks on the City of Rome.
It has been observed here that
this is at best a “unilateral declara
tion” of an “open city,” and has
no validity under International
Law.
Bulletins
THE JAPANESE, “barbarians
though they have proved them
selves,” have respected and saved
from bombing the city of Peiping,
known as “the Rome of China,”
the Most Rev. Paul Yu Pin, Vicar
Apostolic of Nanking, China, de
clared in a statement issued in
Washington on the grave situation
facing liis holiness Pope Pius XII
and the city of Rome.
THE GOVERNMENTS of Great
Britain and Japan have accepted
the services of the Vatican for the
dispatching of relief to civilian in
ternees, it has been revealed in
London.
REPORTS BROADCAST by cer
tain foreign radio stations, that His
Holiness Pope Pius XII is indis
posed are without foundation. The
Holy Father enjoys excellent
health and regular pursues his nor
mal activities.
DELEGATIONS FROM Con
gregational, Baptist, Episcopalian,
Universalist, and Methodist con
gregations were guests recently of
the Catholic clergy at St. Mary’s
Church, Claremont, N. II., where
they made a tour of inspection and
heard explanations of Catholic doc
trine and practice.
HIS HOLINESS Pope Pius XII,
when he observed the fifth anni
versary of his coronation, gave new
evidence of his deep solicitude lor
suffering war victims by provid
ing that 50,000 warm and substan
tial meals should be made available
free of charge to the refugees and
homeless of Rome, through the
medium of emergency kitchens un
der Catholic auspices in the Eternal
City. Pope Pius also sent a sub
stantial sum to His Eminence
Francesco Cardinal Marche tti-
Salvaggiani, Vicar General for
Rome, to be expended in the relief
of the poor and needy of tire
Diocese of Rome.
JOHN HENDRICKS, OF
RALEIGH, REPORTED
MISSING IN ACTION
(Special to The Bulletin)
RALEIGH, N. C.—Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Hendricks, members of the
Sacred Heart Cathedral parish in
Raleigh, have been advised by
the War Department that their
son, Private John Hendricks, was
recently reported as “missing in
action" on the Italian front. ,