Catholic Information From Abroad

VATICAN CITY PRIVATE AUDIENCES.—The Pope bus received in private audience recently Cardinals Carlo Rossi, Luigi Lavitrano, Domenico Jorio, Giuseppe Pizzardo ; Mgr. Joseph Lefebvre, Archbishop of Bourges ; Mgr. Salvatore Baccarini, Archbishop of Padua; Bishop van den Bergh, Vicar Apostolic of Lisilia; Bishop John O'Connor, Rector of the North American College in Rome; Mgr. Melee, Bishop-elect of Nuoro; Mgr. Giuseppe Fogued, Prefect Apostolic of Punki ; Abbot Peter Vorne, O.S.B. ; Fr. Bianchi, Superior General of the Sons of Mary Immaculate; Fr. Charles Boyer, S.J., Secretary of the Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas of the Catholic Religion; Superior General of the Little Sisters of the Assumption; Count Stanislaus Pecci, Envoy Extraordinary of the Military Order of Malta; Jonkherre Marco Van Weede, Dutch Envoy Extraordinary to the Holy See; and representatives of the International Confederation of Christian Trade Unions.
SPECIAL AUDIENCES. The Holy Father has received in special audience recently Mgr. Antonio Samore ; the Superior General and Foundress of the Daughters of the Cross; the Superior General of the Institute of the Sisters of Our Lady of Lourdes and her Assistant ; Mr. Frank Sullivan ; M. Augustine Basabe; Dr. Robert Gassian.
APPOINTMENTS. The Pope has appointed Cardinal Clemente Micara to be Protector of the pious Society of Turin of St. Joseph, whose Mother House is in Rome ; Mgr. Floyd L Begin, to be Titular Bishop of Sala and Auxiliary-Bishop of Cleveland
APPOINTMENTS. The Sacred Congregation of de Propaganda Fide has issued the following decrees: Fr. Firmino Courtemanche, of the White Fathers, to be Prefect Apostolic of Port Jameson, Northern Rhodesia; Pr. Montag Asagoro Wakida, to be Bishop of Yokohama, Japan; Fr. Daniel Li*
ton, of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, to be Titular Bishop of Drivasto and Coadjutor, with the r;ght of succession to Mgr. James Leen, Archbishop, Bishop of Port Louis, Mauritius; IV. Nicholas Verhoeven, of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, to be Titular Bishop of Ermontis and Vicar Apostolic of Manado, Dutch East Indies; Fr. John Lucck, of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, to be Titular Bishop of Attude and Vicar Apostolic of Aliwal, Cape Province; Mgr. Joseph Hagendorcns, of the Congregation of the Passion, Prefect Apostolic of Tshumbe, to be the new Vicar Apostolic of the new Vicariate of the same name.
THE SACRED Congregation of Rites has passed a decree tuto for the beatification of the Venerable Benildo, of the Institute of the Brothers of Christian Schools, and of the Venerable Roderico Pevoni, priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sons of Mary Immaculate.
BELGIUM
M. SPAAK, in a declaration of ministerial policy made on March 253 stated that a law giving votes to women was shortly to he introduced into the House. In Catholic circles in Belgium this is thought to be a long delayed reform ; many are of the opinion that it will notably increase the voting strength of the Christian Social Party.
BRAZIL
THE DEATH is announced from Rio do Janerio of Mgr. Gioacchino Mamede da Silva Leite, Titular Bishop of Sebaste, at the age of 79.
CANADA
MGR. LOUIS JOSEPH CABANA, of the White Fathers of Africa, was consecrated Titular Bishop of Sufetula and Vicar Apostolic of Uganda, in Quebec, by his older brother, Archbishop Georges Cabana, Coadjutor of a. Swaim. Pr. Jean Baptiste Cabana. O.M.L, a missioner in Eastern Canada, also is a brother. Bishop Cabana entered the White Fathers of Africa in 1919, the year his brother, the Archbishop, was ordained.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
OPPOSITION is mounting, in both Catholic and Protestant circles, to the proposed legislation in the Hungarian Parliament which would lower religion from an obligatory to optional subject in the schools. Mass demonstrations by students against the Bill, a solemn pronouncement by a Calvanist Bishop deploring it, and a declaration by the Protestant pastors of Budapest condemning it are some of the recent reactions aaginst the proposal.
EGYPT
THE POPE signed personally a letter of congratulation to Mgr. Igino Nuti, O.F.M., Titular Bishop of Pupiana, and Vicar Apostolic of Egypt, on the occasion of his episcopal jubilee. The Holy Father especially mentions Mgr. Nuti's work for the Christian youth in the building of schools and attributes to his initiative many of the improvements recently made in that respect in Egypt. Mgr. Nuti, who is an Italian by birth, was ordained in 1907 and consecrated on March 19, 1922.
HUNGARY A DEMAND that immediate steps be taken toward the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Hungary, has been made officially by Mgr. Stephen Kiss, Independent Party member of the Hungarian Parliament.
INDIA SIX VILLAGES in the Salem district of Namakkal have been converted in the last six months. On February 5 all the inhabitants of llimmankuritchi were baptised and confirmed. The
Sanreincat Ct ccufwagLicig weg fdActir Istered by Bishop Prunier. This is the sixth village that has become Catholic. Two other villages are about ready to enter the Church and eight are beginning to take instruction. The number of adult baptisms in the region of Nammakal has mounted to more than 1,000 annually. It seems that the figure could be doubled, but there is need of missionaries and teachers.—Fides.
MGR. ROSSILON, Bishop of Vimgapatan, Madras, died on March 21, following a heart attack in his house. Mgr. Rossilon, who was born in Savoy in 1874, was a missionary of the Congregation of St. Francis de Sales of Annecy and has been in India for the last 55 years. He was consecrated Titular Bishop when made Coadjutor, with the right of succession, in 1919, and succeeded, to the See in 1926. His Coadjutor, Mgr, Joseph Baud, sueoeeds to the See by right.
JAPAN
FR. THOMAS WAKTDA, writer and orator, formerly parish priest at the important naval base of Sasebo, has been named Bishop of Yokohama. In 1941 he wes assigned to make the apostolic visitation of the Marianas, Caroline and Marshall Islands. In November, 1942, the new Bishop carried on the administration of the Prefccture Apostolic of Kwaszu in Korea, which had been left without any administrator through the internment by the Japanese of the missionaries of St. Columba.
POLAND PRIEST'S in Poland, originally classed as hard-working, have recently been deprived of their ration cards. The regulation, while not specifically directed against the Church, shows that the regime is less anxious to win over the clergy.
A MARXIST weekly, Odrodzenk, asked its readers to name the best book of the last two years. The great majority of them voted for a book of a Catholic writer, W. Zukrowski, which pictures the experiences of Catholic priests during the was.