The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-16

part may be denied but all may be true patriots by making sacrifices of Q spiritual nature, More frequent prayer, daily Mass, more frequent reception Of the Saeraments, all these will purify our cause. All these will hasten the hopedefcr day os peace.
 with leaden hearts we face dread- sui days. Mothers and fathers, sls- ters and brothers, oil America will have its sorrows. But the noble America that is our country will loyalty serve in this hour of mori- flee and bear ell willingly in our great cause.
 IN THE WAR ZONE.
 War with Japan brings special difficulties Co the Church. Nearly 1900 Catholic missionary priests, Sis. ters and Brothers from the United States are working in the war area, While for those working In China war for years has been 6 terrible reality, for the rest the spread of hostilities, threatening 60 long, be- comes an unfamiliar catastrophe. Nest Rev. James E. walsh, Superior of the Foreign Mission Society of America, has announced concern Ing the iSS members of aiB come Ynunity working in Japan that while no word Of their safety has been rec ceived, at may be presumed that they are following the Catholic tradition of staying at their pests"
 It was four hundred years ago that St. Francis Xavier first preachs cd tho 0ospei in Japan However, chiefly because religious liberty was not granted there until ieee, among the total population Of 72,000, 900 there are but 2e2 900 Catholics.
 In the principal United states possession ln the Pacific, the phil- lipian Islands, a2,000, 600 of the i6,- O00,00O inhabitants are Catholic. The population of the Hawaiian iss lands is AiB,OO0 and i20,OO0 arn Catholic. Guam, tho heroic defense of which will become one Of tbe aAa~ gas Of American history, has R popus . iation Of sSioo0 of whom 10000 are Catholics.
 90 MASSES EACH DAY
 From the ether side Of our war; ring world a report carried by the London Catholic Times well iiiug- trates how mysterious Ase the ways of God St is one of the most Asnax. Ing narratives of the current war and it Is published on tho authority of tho editor of tho French weekly, CroiS do Fleurs.
 The report teig Of 6 German camp for French prisoners Of wRr where each day seventy Masses arc offered before congregations aveFAg : ing . thousand men. it tells of the same large number attending the daily night prayers and between 7,. GOO and 5000 attending the three High Masses on Sunday. Tho chapel erected in one of the barracks has Stations of the Croas by famous ar- tiStS also prlsonegs in the camp. in 6 village nearby the German chaps lain with the consent Of the CoEns nander of the camp has organized 6 society that supplies tho altar wine, the yegtmentg and tho altar linens, Suffering and dod's gFacel The trials of prison camp and exile are bringing many long lost back Co God ard tho happiness Of Ills service. FROM TOBRUK PARISH"
 Gunner Bill Mailoy was ore of tho first men to come back from To- hruk. interviewed by reporter oi the London Catholic Herald ho tohi moving story Of besicged Tobruk.
 we have . great lot of fellows and . really grand Q, o. MajoF FaFr who is Catholic. He likes fellows to attend services, Catholic or Protestant every Sunday, and does anything in his power to make this possible. There ig a marvellous spirit there. Protestant fellows on the gun team voluntarily take over from Us to lot us get to Mass"
 He told how c priest was the hero of one Of the most inspiring epi- sodes of the oiKe. Tt was ur around BarelaA" he said. 'gThore was . terrific battle on and when most Of us felt Gimpiy like crawling Into a hole and staying there, this priest raced through the thick of it to give the last rites to the dying. When look back on that scene-it was bad-Gnd think Of that priest tn among 1t, a!l can think is that he didn't know what fear meant Last I saw of him was helping a R. A. N. c. officer to perform a rapid operation on c badly injured man. Then he ran right out into the thick of 1t where he knew men wanted him. Me never came back"