Priest aeeused of aiding rebels

Cardinal comments on Trail° case'
THE "Prado case", in which two Lyons priests were accused of aiding and abetting Algerian rebels in the commission of acts of terrorism in France, came into the news again last week when Cardinal Gerlier commented on it at a men's pilgrimage to Our Lady of Fourviere.
It was completely false to suggest that the bishops had been too indulgent to the claims of their consciences while lacking appreciation of their duties towards the nation. he said.
While he recognised the good intentions of certain personalities, they had no right to be lacking in respect towards the Church and in dutifulness towards all who had entrusted their spiritual guidance to the Church.
The Prado is a centre of the worker apostolate in Lyons. Two priests attached to it were questioned by the police, and a third, Fr. Carteron, was indicted on a charge of endangering the safety of the State in October.
He was specifically charged with raising sums of up to £5.000 a month for the benefit of Algerian rebel agents. and was accused by the police not only with acting as a " post office" for the F.L.N. the Algerian rebel organisation) but also with distributing funds for the F.L.N. "social services "—i.e. aid for the families of F.L.N agents in prison or on the run.
Documents
Cardinal Gerlier has now ordered the publication of documents " that give all men of good will the possibility of understanding what had been able to take them unawares."
One of these documents has been published in an abridged form by La Croix, the French Catholic daily. It is a letter from Fr. Albert Carteron.to his brethren, the priests of the diocese of Lyons.
In it Fr. Carteron declares he always based his work, which lay among the Algerian labourers in the city, on two principles: never to undertake anything without first informing his superiors and the Cardinal: and always so to act that he was regarded as an ambassador of the Church and not as a partisan among the Algerians, to whom the Church had sent him.
In 1949 Cardinal Gerlier had instructed him to occupy himself with the care of the 30,000 North Africans living in the archdiocese. Ninety per cent. of them were illiterate and were living in miserable conditions.