Peace at a price in Poland?

From a Special Correspondent AN acute conflict between the Church and the Communist State in Poland appears temporarily to have been averted with the publication of a short statement from the Primate's secretariate.
The statement reads: "On December 16 His Eminence the Cardinal, Primate of Poland, received Fr. Philip Bednorz and handed him the canonical decree which legalises the election of the abovementioned priest to the rank of Vicar Capitular of the diocese of Katowice."
This should lead to something like a short pause in the fight against the Church.
One cannot deny that it is a Cornmunist success. The Warsaw regime not only arrested four members of the Hierarchy (among them one Archbishop) without releasing one, but forced the Primate to accept as ruler of the Katowice diocese a priest who is said to be co-operating with the Communists.
The three Silesian Bishops were arrested at the beginning of November. Later, the Communist papers reported that Fr. Bednorz was chosen as "Vicar Capitular." On December 6 he took the oath of loyalty to the Warsaw regime. On December 13. Archbishop Baziak was arrested in Cracow. and it was not until that date that the Primate received the newly created Vicar Capitular of Katowice and gave him his approval.
Mr. Joe Loughran, the Southend (formerly Burnley) footballer, has been appointed organiser of physical education to the past Sussex Education Committee.
The 1,800 Catholics at Scunthorpe, Lines, raised £2,500 (about £.6 a family) for their new school in 1952. It has now been placed on the 1953 building programme.
The parishioners of St. Peter's, Winchester, have raised £786 in the past year for the school rebuilding fund, bringing the total to £3,479.
Fr. Stephen, 0.F.M.Cap.
Fr. Stephen (James Diffen), O.F.M. Cap., a member of the Capuchin cornmunity at Thirsk. Yorks, died suddenly on Monday morning.
After a successful academic career at the Franciscan College, then at Cowley, and at Oxford, he entered the Capuchin Franciscan Order in 1915, and was ordained at Southwark Cathedral in 1922 by Archbishop Amigo.
For several years Fr. Stephen taught in the Franciscan College, Penton. and was a professor in the theological faculty at Oltort.