Ankbishop Bern Jailed by Reds Since 1950 Supplement to the Denver Catholic Register National National Letter to Hero, 'Address Unknown' Section Section “ Vatican City.— Pope John the place of Archbishop Beran’s out bis pastoral activities in Archbishop Beran was an out­ troops as they advanced acrosf THE XXIU addre^ed a special confinement has not b ew known World War B land his efforts at spoken foe of both Nazism and Germany. In 1950 the Archbishop was letter of praise and s^pa- since his arrest.’ ’ - . , reemstrnetton in the postwar Communism. He was rector of ^ to Conununist-banished “ We are tally •iware,” - the period. P(ve Jbhn d e c la ^ : banished from his archdiocese the Prague Theological Semi­ by toe Communists because of Ambishop Josef Beran of Pontiff assured - T^year^ld ‘Unfortunately, h o w e v e r , Ardiblshop* Beran, “ of the ar­ while you spent yourself for the nary when named to the Prague his “ negative attitude” toward P ra g u e, Czecho • Slovakia. dor of your faith, your Intelll- good and honor of the Church See in 19M. His anti-Nazi stand toe neWly enacted church con­ The ocdudon marked the and country, carrying out many caused him to be arrested by trol laws. This came after he R EG ISTER prelate’s 50th anniversary praiseworthy undertakings, you toe. Gestapo, in and sent to frequently udenounced Red at­ eg ordination. ArcbUsfaoil Beran were removed from your a i^ the Dachau coneentration camp; tacks apdnst tthe C h u r ^ ‘and kas bora under Red arrest in diocesan see with a gesture of He- was liberated by. U. S. mligion.:tNCWC Radio] THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1961 i i unknown place since June, dishonoraUe injustice and taken use. to an unknown place, where for r^ o tin c tliat tile golden anni­ more than 10 years you have' versary of ordination should be yearned in vain to return to joyous occasion, the Pontiff your flock.’’ * <■ fliU: “ Your prolonged captivity iniquitous Station > Now ^ rryin g ip d isolation requires us to con- ^ “ In Csecho-Slovakia,* as la yon. Be assured you tave other regions, aa iniquitous acted rightly. IJiie harsh tea t- situation prevaiOs a g a i^ the m»it you have suffered is in Church. Religious coagrega- one way. a reflection of what itlons are being suppressed, country has been sub­ private schools abolished, the jected to.’’ l e a r n e d Catholic press b prohibited, "Then the Pope cited the words religious are hindered in every iif Christ in the Sermon on the way, while the young are ex­ ICbunt: “ Blessed are they Who p o ^ to systematic atheistic ftffer presecution for justice’s blasts.” Reds Killed 6,832 s ^ e , for theirs is the kingdom Meanwhile, the Pontiff contin­ of heaven. .Rejoice and ex­ ued, “the Bishops on the tilt, because your reward is whole, are being prevented S ^ t in heaven.’’ Archbishop Josef Beran Priests, Religious; from carrying out their work ly Votieon Radio geace, and your seal threugh or have been imprisoned or "Pope Jidin’s letter was broad­ which, supported by God,, you banished to unknown places. e n in the Czech and Slovak have carried out many good The same applies to other ec­ Today Stifle Them languages by the Vatican Radio, woriu in the . long period of clesiastics. Some are forced to By Maoa. J m n U n m a iT n ie station explained that “ un­ your pastoral ministry.’’ live, as workers without any fortunately it could not be After reviewing the prelate’s hope of carrying out their Madrid; Spain.—A new epoch for the Church g ^ e d to its destination, since years as a priest and singling priestly duties.” in Spain began 25 years ago with a terrible blood­ bath when, on July 18,1936, Generalisrimo Fran­ cisco Franco led a rebellion against the Madrid ICongressional Group Wants government, P The entire world was horrified to learn that in the first two week? of the Civil War that fol­ fSchool Loan Bill Scrapped lowed—between July 18 and July 31—1,109 priests and religious were assassinated ! 'Washington.—Six Repnb- with amendments aiihed at get­ Kennedy himself has not com­ in the part of Spain controlled ting votes for the Kennedy ad­ mented on the special purpose Man members of the House by the Reds. Question anddLabor Com- ministration’s piiUk sdiool aid construction loans, but toe De­ Busque Issue partment of Health, Education, In August an additional S,S13 Biittee, which approved sp^ bill, not at improving the origi­ and Welfare, in co - operation were killed. Thus, with 1,631 fital purpose loans to pri- nal NDEA. ^ Prodieft Vote with the Departmoit of Justice, priests and religious killed in Used to Cloud W te schools in a bill to extend 43 days, there was an average The President’s campaign aid that its opinion is t ^ thdy the Natkmal Defense Education of 84 martyrs daily, figures un­ statement of belief in absolute are constitutional and tiikt Con­ Act of 1996, urged that toe bill precedented in tlw SO-century- separation of Church and State, gress has toe power to provide be scrapped and a more mod­ old history of the Church. Spunish Wor “ where no Church or Church for them. ’ est GOP extension be substi­ Russia leaned a great deal school is granted any public Madrid, S p a in .-^ p p ort- tuted. lie Republicans also charged fa Spain, indndlag the follow­ funds or political preference,” ers of the so-called Loyalist In the fonnal report of toe that the loan program is “ dis­ ing: To deport, to oppress is, they said, “ considerable rea­ forces in the Spanish C!tvil criminatory,” because its pro­ legally, to hnpoverish, to tpy, epm ^ttee on the bill, which son” to exp^ a veto by Ken­ vision for use of federal funds to slander, and to make the War point to the fact that passed that body, 11-11, with all nedy of the NDEA bill because to build gymnasiums and lundi* activities of priests aseless Basque Catholics fo u ^ t on except one R ^ b lic a n voting of its loan program favoring rooms at private schools is not without killing them « masse. the side o f the Conununists. with the minority, toe six farochial and other private matched in toe bill’s assistance Latvia, Ltthhaala, Pdand, Moreover, ftiey say, Franco schools. charged that the biU is loaded to public schools. and Coho ate j^eot that today troops shot 14 Basque The Democrats, on toe other the Comnraalsts preta* to gag priests < the O nreh and silence It lih hand, argued that the loans These priests, It most be Infuse Chripiutt THiougAf “ will result in the same type stead of drowning It in blood. admitted, w p e shot n jostly The IQling &t jniests and ^ - of stimulation and strengtoening and fw very qnestioaable po­ gious v w not owing to hatred in these disciplines (science, litical reasons some months of the Church by the Spanish In Movies, Pope Stresses mathematics, and foreign lan­ after the Rasqne .jmthmallsts guages) for toe 7,000,000 ele­ peo]de, ,as is sometimes alleged. Vatican City, — Pope John nor directly, toe Pontiff said had joined forces with the mentary and secondary students Hatred^might explain .a sudden X X m has called on Catholics “ We exhort you to use every Loyalists. But certainly they in private and nonprofit schools stabbing, a pistol shot in a to. bring “ a direct influence of suitable means to strengthen cahaot balance the s c a l e s as is resulting freun grants for moment of violent emotion, a Christian tboujdit on motion pic­ toe efforts of all who are en­ Holocaust to Red Hotred against tim SA3B martyrs ef public schools.” body left in ' the street by a the Church killed In the Red-' ture production itself.” He urged gaged in bringing the positive murderer, white wito ragO; Little noticed la toe contro­ Hw foolish dam or to give recogntthm and controlled part of the country. a more active program of study intrtontion of Christian values them as tiuy dried. Forced to walk a gant­ Organiz^ Mnrdtr in fields of pyschology, pedag­ the-art of movie-making and versy over aid to public and “ respectability” to the fradulent Communist let of students who beat him with sticks, The Basques are respected regime in CUna ignores completety its loqg But when there were 84 mar­ ogy, and criticism and a more to dieck decadent shows. private schools is an admini­ stones, and refuse, he strolled undaunted throughout the w o r ld . The' record of insane hatred and fury loosed tyrs a day — martyrs who had thorough knowledge of arfistic “ This is a problem of the stration bill to assist colleges, and unhurriedly as In a procession. Church has never given a po­ against humanity and the values Inherent la to be searohed out one by one problems. greatest Importance. It in­ which also is before the House After hnmlHnUng treatment la the over­ litical judgment, on Basque na­ human nature. American-born Bishop Fraa- from thefr hiding places, coh volves instructing, educating, Rules Committee. crowded and filthy crib of Communist pris­ tionalism as such, or has it dis­ This Papal exhortation came cif X. Ford, M.H., felt the full impact of lected in trucks, taken to ceme­ and formlag toe conscience of This bill is a $1,800,000,000 ons, where he slept on the bare stone floor cussed the fervent Catholicism to a letter to Archbishop Mar­ their fury.