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BY THE VERY REV.. DR. NICHOLAS BOER
other Catholic Rebirth, the great fighter the ring from crage number past with the present and
ቦን
many.
we
on their capital before it is with his family and church under eighteen; sevenly we wie Cardinal Minxiszenty became the Wrote, has aufered enough from
Ing the announcement that this Cathedral came Count Imre yet In this country UNTING Cliving and respect for the trudi dea that the human individual has
came
a
the worst time of year, when heavy rains are normal and typhoons can be anticipated. They will require time to be.
acclimatised-often dimcult
process--and would be most undesirable to make them live under canvas in the potential morass of the New Terri- tories.
strategic positions.
it
canmol
the
bruken, More than
OUT
of our old songs says:
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oceans set; those who do
this he
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ASETURSIVE
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Good Morning
A contemporary reported yes- terday that Europeans are watch- ing the disintegration of Shanghai, "which they took 100 yards to Assemble,"
Well, it's only natural some of them are making a run for it.
So the Kwangtung govemment
la going to Hoppo. Thought they would skippo soon.
mayor
With this Communist marrying Rita and the Khan wo can expect a chirrap from some Kenators soon about, un-American
Mexico Over the border down way there's very little if any gunplay, for they've just sold 10,000 machine guna to Israel.
ho Russians are sald to bo incensed that the results of tho Eastern, zone elections have not turned out as planned.
The electorate` should have been
Oh, the Irish they were Itish When England was a pup, As long as there's an England Thoy all will stay burnt up!
You
gun.
#
To find a currency for Berlin Needs the magic touch of Merlin.
Deporices who beat the gun by
however, the authorities ap- one constitutional factor is in their orgles in the valley of blooded into the great marshlands found and evangelle principles/Common away,
-
nino magnate
Important Tasks
In
progress.
›
XLVII, 43.)
Thio
great trouble great national trial and historical | bishops wrote, after some Intro-wedding procedure. is shown by the report of the uplicuval it has always been a ductory preamble, "we have al- Chief Medical Ouffleer of our prelate, a cardinal, who became ready spoken unfortunate capital:
of the means by ors than the unifying force in the disrupt which we can liquidate the Ir- moro of the fifty per cent.
summer ed national society and in whom responsible, mistaken and guilty canes of of dysentery end in death the people found hopefulness and past. We devote our present mes- where children and old people are strength. This is easy to under-enge to the problem of how the pre-stricken. my
This is the result of stand because the eternal ed to accommodate the in-decessors include Archbishop Ro-, undernourishment. Infant mor- timeless Church
and most peaceful and orderly future, represents the so greatly desiderated, must be creased Hong Kong garrisonbert, who hurled the thunderbolted tality, tuberculosis have doubled continuity of unbroken. history: built, We do not interfere in the will not come as much of o n
ecclesiastical punishment upon the compared to peace-time. Before the Church is able to merge the electoral contest, we do not side
Francis the war shock to the community at guilty king himself;"
the with any, party, but we must as the banner-bearer of Forgacs,
V.D. WAS
the Church future,
is the only large. Owners of
the principles of 'truth and in the whole country; social organisation which remains duty.
only sert buildings which are either who vallantly defended the Cantle today in Budapest alone there are intact even when national entitles The futura establishment of
of Nyhra. Another who enter capital we also know being kept vacant or put to
five times
Or the are destroyed. After the destruction state life cannot but follow demo- told that voting the way you want little use may, however, be here was George Szechenyl, at
that there of the fret world war
New It was cratic prinsiples. We have already to is sheer treason to the ofure about fifty thousand secret Cardinal Mercier who Love expected to give a fair imita- the age of ninety-five, a man of
the
the democratic ideal Order-beg pardon, we mean tho welcomed He prostitutes above the
of Belgian people the great watclf with confidonce number of great possessions and riches. He those registered. Half of them are word: rebatilssons! In the same tion of the beheaded rooster
in our former People's Democracy. was the miracle-man of charity in their attempts to realise
me pastoral letter. The to eighty Way after the second world war who,
The world, riches, supported of War of per cent. of these
and taken off their hands, follow-fiberation against the Turks, Tocarriers of infection. Ne one has Hungarian nation's hero in the manifestations in the recent past tyranny, and after recaling its Rounded the Carlyleon sense, personifying the the
pastorni letter continued: devastated, land. more premises will be seiz- Eszterhazy, who negotiated with dirge for
will, the longing for free Tyranny even denied
the baro We seek and do not find the true domu ed when the necessity arises. brilliant constitutional success the
Pragmatic Sanction,
Hungarian sorrow.
tions of the nation's past. It can any right to Independent achieve But we can great It was to be expected that
hear the gipsy's iddle,
denied the song not be
that agreement between the House of
Cardinal special arrangements would Hapsburg and
Cardinalment or to the free development of frantic galety.
1946 Mindszenty consciously But in 1945, took and lived this mission. In special profession." Hungary which
under ar his talents, inclinations and have to be made when a fur-brought to our
Japan thinks aho can get on her exhausted nation in the land of Hungary, as one
economie feet ig about 80 muni- ther 8,000 men were sent in two hundred years of rest and
"Musle is
Was inspired by Peter one contingent to the Colony increasing strength up 10 the is a liar," for it drowns the ever- Pazmany, the greatest Cardinal "Democracy pute an end to thiruns factories are not dismantled
of tyrannical power.
Od for reparations. These troops will arrive at brilliant climax of the thousandth present unforgettable truth: the of Hungary, who played a similar course, not the kind of democracy gangster to go places without a can't, after all expect a deep respect I look
role. When, after his installation, which replaces the unfettered rule nniversary of Hungary. With eggered condition of the country; he
upon Arch. the groans of prisoners in every he received, the priests of Buda- of one human being by that of bishop Joseph Kopary, who, more
part of the world, in prisons at pest for the first time, he already another; not the democracy which than a century ago, raised here, homeless and in exile, and those part and example, not so
home and abroad, the Hungarians
reference to Pazmany's
ysets up in the place of the selfish on the ruins of the past, the fore-
and libertine role of one human Looks like the U.S., Franco and most shrine of the nation in which
whose tearn wet the rags they use the capacity of a constitutional
libertine we can pray now for the better for pillows. With an irresponsi dignitary at of a prelate, "The Koup the similarly selfish and Britain will have to tripolice Lybia
Hungarian priest,"
power of for a long time. future of our country. I do not ble pursuit of pleasure, something this occasion, quoting Fazmany's another. The basic idea of true come to you with the severity of quite new is being initiated here:
democracy s Archbishop Robert:
the recognition of I want to a system of educating youth which words, in the midst of changing
principles of unimpaired be your father, a father oven to is alien to our bodies and souls. times never pottered in one place natura Princip
which ne human those prodigal sons who have A and youth Indeed in this which but always drew the conclusions ben led astray by the great temp funeral of its
seems to feel like dancing at the of the great events; these con-power may forcibly impede." The explained these clusions inspired him with new pastoral letter The obvious step would tations of these hard times.
country ideas, with new decisions
and thoughts at some length and then of Their blood, their language, their join the armies of
with new activities. After have been to rush up pre-constitutional batties, for we live amea inay be Hungarian,
brutand
Mulhi went on: "We shall be happy to fabricated encampments, snug in a constitutional chaos;
between the unhappy and the re tragic battles in which
... { and
In Tartars the service of this great effort Word in un-Americanism. They and dry, and placed at strong chains and delicate threads velling Hungary there are whole that Mohnes (these were the two see the Hungarian people enlisted deporting themselves, are the Inst
defeated not and Turks
the fun of Mankind. Our joy will be all make even Uncle Sam se rod. As in of legal continuity seem all to now what they are doing holders armles), the Hungarian the greater because this inter- the case of the new airport, have been
the with
surviving people, pretation
donocracy Hands ponds exactly with the wise, pro- A billion a day keeps the nad tears, above Bighs and de
und no reason foring, but the Primate of the court-
the deep forests, parently see
prayingi try I already at the place where solution.
with his people and sharing the which Pope Pius XII, the glorious |
Cartels should care...when the haste, perhaps for more rea- his predecessors afood. If, with
diet of roots und bitter forent
head of our Church sons than one.
rch, asserted in taxpayers pay! In peacetime the passing of misfortune, the
fruit. Following thic (no matter how lacking insanity of the nullon succeeds in
Peter the basis of the fature structure "As all the dams have burst, Pazmany, the works of Pet his Christmas message of 1942 no
Hungarian stability) the armed services milding a bridge above the rapids the shepherds of souls have the educ
educated the Hungarian genera of society. We welcomed the de- most important tasks.
Two fathers were discussing the tend to look down their noses your Archbishop, Primate and.
Where tion which liberated Buda from clarations made by the leaders of upbringing of childron.cs," atural and revealed law has been the Turks and rebuilt the whole the victorious powers whenever at the breakneck makeshifts by the right of more than
hundred years, senlor
haken in the heart, a deepening cou
said one, "a great deal depends sness those declarations consciousness country." employed during the war, of the country, will do my part.
specified the on the formation of early histo." eligious life means stemming the this mission, rooted less in his deeper pect for human dignity
i
"It does," agreed the other. and to avoid the speeding-as Pontifex or Bridge-Bulder. lood. For more than a quarter outdated constitutional dignity as a task for future democratie "My mother pald a Woman ta up techniques perfected in in the reconstruction and progress of a century i was a parish priest as first mognate of the country
wheel me about when I was a myself. I want limes of urgency. So what of Hungary,
to be n good though he was often reproached
"This
joy and confidence moved baby, and I've been pushed for function us to show in our May pastoral money ever since." shepherd who, if necessary, will with this than in his ever semi-permanent camps.
Not Wealth
lay down my life for the sheep as the head of his nation'
tem's letter our full sympathy with the may be erected, they will
(John, X. 15), for my Church and Catholle Church, it was his duty appearance of take shape in
do not bring to
Hungarian demo- unhurried,
you the Joh wealth of Szechenyi and Kupacay for my country. My dear broth to preclaim the dogmas of faith, eracy. True, we had certain an-state that we see in Hungarian In dignified fashion.
ren! For five hundred
- this the ycare theand yet how useful they would nation was a nation of glove the basic rights of freedom and ristics even at that date, but we publle life many things. which aro meantime. proper quarters be for this Hungarian nation.
for
the traditions of the Christion past.
past proferred to conaldor the good In sharp contrast to the principles are required-thus the re- poorer and worse despoiled today two hundred years if bled and suf-But
But all this determined also the which was manifested in several of pure democracy tored.
Thla twentieth century tragic development of Hungarian places. We put our trust in the
"It was shameful enough for than in the times of the Turkish has made our soil once again quisitioning.
history during the next three understanding for the work of our country that a year ago. this The authorities are going oppression! I may
to you valley of blood and misery.
weakness of our years. The immense tension be the Church which the representa- through the without grieving for the long of to considerable pains to make
nation of prayer. Itween the
the Communist ideology tives of this democracy expressed
then loaders, wo yielded on but without us be now this as painless a process as
we learn to pray once again, we which governed the state and in pollte words, fine promises, and a wide front to
the
aggression recognising as
whatever
ever shall find strength and conditience. the Hungarian Catholic Church, sometimes even in actions.. has happened without legal jus-I trust in the prayer campaign
foreign of possible, and to inconveni-
occupying forces. But of which stood, without Com ence as few people as they tification. Thoso earthly posses
"We waited long and patiently. now, at all events, we ought to millions and
rosary my promise, for Catholic Christianity. More than once we felt that we remedy the faults of the past by in the can, although this is not ex-
* conscientioun respect for humana but einsp even tighter. 'Cast not away rest on December 20, 1948. Doubt luctant to hinder the confidential the world's esteem. issued yesterday. It would to help the souls in Purgatory by therefore your confidence!
(Heb
lesa, the clash between the Com-and the Holy Mass;
of diligent efforts have been better to make a
the sufferers therefore are the rows, X, 85;) "Let us hold fast the munist ideology and the Christian | intentioned mon. But now we must i
faith without
hat fatth. representations,
at the Lame full statement of the posi- living and the important ecclest-rofesion of gub
wavoring." (Hebrews, X, 23.) time Western tlon, analysing the reasons siantlaat and cultural aims. In This we shall possess the strength with the heightened rhythm of why each building was taken any case, the Church always needful for the struggle awaiting dramatic strain. It was the climax over. The public will be in- knew how to bo generous towards us if the Lord Good our Father of the gigantic struggle for the terested to know whether the understandable life-demands us
or the Hungarian pooplo. To this and Maur Our Mother help us. I future of the Hungarian people.
want to be the conscience of my In
Communist OUTH AFRICA · PAKISTAN › INDIA '. CEYLON any of the flashy new dwell- the pages of
my in Hungary, also, history bear.eternal people. I knock at the door of ideology appeared with totalitar- ings completed since the war and
grateful witness; 10 also
soula
mbed lan demands due only to region. to skim off some easy money does the glorious
appointed lan BUCCCAB of w
watchman; against the prevalent it demanded and enforced not on the list.
Further, my predecessors, But if all wall
*****errora am bound to communi- only in state affairs but also in presumably a certain number the greatness of the
མ
Veszprem cate
cate the sternal truths to
to my social and private life the renil- of tenants will be involved; blahops who rose to be Primates people and to my nation. I wish sation of historical
materiallam Hungary were united In a
to awaken the hallowed tradi and of a creed determined to is alternative, accommodation single quccessor as it is not
tlons of our nation without make
of human to be found for them, or are it would be, alas, 100 little in they simply to be given an 1045, yea, woefully insuficient which individuals might live, but dividuality and dignity. Opposed
not the nation. O'Connell felt to it stood the unshakable ultimatum?
Today we are on the brink of a the approach of the
mortal' sun-late representing
Chrla One does not have to be frightening blind abyss; wounded set. He sat out for The Eternal tianity; against the dynamiem He only got as for as of the Communist Party he was sympathetic with the land- Hungary is struggling in the City.
st not
content to adopt ford class to feel apprchen- greatest moral, constitutional and Genon. There he wrote his last
4 purely slon about the scope and economic mulstrom of our his will and testament: When 1 am negative defence. In sermons that
tory. Our psalm is the De Pro-dead take my heart to Rome, my recalled the
the fulminations of the duration of military requis!- fundie, our prayer the Afterrere, body to the sweet soll of my Old Testament prophets or of tioning, having seen it in our prophet the wailing Jeremiah, homeland." Home and my coun- Savonarolo, with the hard, in- Wo try, you shall be the gulding flexible moral severity of the operation, here or elsewhere our world the Apocalypse:
alt beside the 'walers · of Babylon stars
with the mis- of thy life, I shall be happy Church Fathers; ever since 1939. Having and they demand a song from
we live our lives in this re-sionary spirit of St. Paul and St settled down comfortably in the strings of our broken harps... solution, and by these two vir-Francis Xavier he xtrove their quarters; the Services "Our greatest
trouble is not tues the spring of the Hungariancelablish in the country of St. are most loth to leave, and that war has burned the king's soil shall be renewed and we Stephen, alike in state, social can wind the date of their house and the house of the shall reach the happy refuge of and private life, a total Chris-
tianity. departure in so much -red people' (Jeremiah, XXXIX, 8), as eternal life."
the prophet bowalls Jerusalem;
Pastoral Letter tape that it requires some that the spoiler is fallon upon thing in the nature of an thy summer fruits and upon thy.
His great career reached its On November 1, 1948, the first penultimate stage on February general election. wan hel earthquake to get them out. vintage (Jerémlah, XLVIII, 03),
it took place nor that fear, and the pit, and 16, 1040, On that date Pope Plus Hungary. Before Only yesterday we were saying editorially that the the andre in our fate, (Jeremiah, Holy Roman Church. According pastoral letter. It revented com- created him Cardinal of the the Hungarian bishops Januod b troops must be welcomed.
to a mediaval Roman saying, the plotely and irrevocably the un here, and this is no switch unless it is absolutely reces- Cardinal's purple symbolises the bridgeable gulf which
the the Government of policy: The Colony has sary.
blood of Christ, bound to
that time and certain responsibilities to
the
We repro wards these lads, but con probably essential and un-Cros Cardinal Mindszenty, the Catholic
also_sosiced,_joyed and
Acitor versely the milliary author, avoidable. We merely hope, this
meaning in entenso, because it is 'a vitas. itles have certain respon- first, that requisitioning will ched the final stage of his standing of the first clash be
the it and profound pe
That is why he contribution to the proper under- reached of sibilities towards the civil not spread to undue propor| 200| population. One of these is clons, and secondly, that the altor which only the glory of the so-called young Hungarian meteoric carcomartyrdom tween Cardinal Mindszenty, and not to commandeer living completion of military camps Heaven can follow. The history democracy and business premises al will before long result in its both of the great nations and of "In our former collective pas.. ready in very short supply abandonment.
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