Evening star., 1949-02-22
Trial OF Profestants
Also 10 Be Mimicry,
0'BoyIe Tells 1900

0'Boy|e Tells 1900
The trial Of IS Protestant min
isters in Bulgaria will be another
mimicry of justice. the Most Rev.
Patrick A. OBoyle. Archbishop Of
Washington, declared today at
citizenship ceremonies in st. Mat
thew's Cathedral.
Archbishop O'Boyle told 1900
officials, educators and students
that the Protestant ministers are
new victims of the Communist
philosophy which defies God and
the sacred character of the indi-
vidual in order to defy and en-
throne the omnipotent state. May
God give these ministers strength
to bear their heavy burdens"
When from behind the rude
wall of the Iron Curtain" Arch
bishop O'Boyle said. II catch faint
voices of an oppressed people
silenced under fictions of goddess
laws, thank God I am an Amer
lean, whose forefathers forged
into iron law that man is a crea-
ture of God. Gods own property.
and endowed in the equality of
human nature with rights that
none may deny, despise or
despoil."
Asks Prayers for Victims.
He asked prayers for those who
suffer persecution for Justices
sake.
I'VE do not sing the stupid
praises of dictators as if rights
come from them alone" the prel-
ate declared. land we have been
moved and shocked at what
citizenship exacts of others behind
what the world has learned to call
the Iron Curtain"
He said the Iron Curtain is grim
and foreboding, a hard and cold
impasse which forbids light for
anything else in it's stern unyield-
ing barrier.
Archbishop O,Boyle made his at
tack on religious persecution in
Eastern Europe after presiding at
Solemn High Mass this morning
in the Cathedral for the welfare of
America. 1t was the George
Washington birthday even at the
Cathedral.
Before the archbishop spoke,
the Right Rev. John K. Cart
wright. rector of st. Matthew'S,
also attacked the Communist
philosophy in the principal sermon.
Behind the Iron Curtain, Msgr.
Cartwright said, millions of serfs
are guaranteed no rights but
physical existence. This des-
potism, he declared. Is enforced
by the prisons and truncheons of
O brutal police.
The Catholic Prelates, Arch
bishop Alojzijc Stepinac of Yugo-
slavia and Josef Cardinal Minds
zenty of Hungary and Bishop
Lajos Ordas, Lutheran primate of
Hungary, represent God. the soul
and freedom, the Monsignor con-
tinued. Therefore. he said, in the
exact logic of an evil policy they
must be destroyed.
.Msgr. Cartwright told the as
semblage that if George Wash
ington were to return today his
knightly sword would come out
of its scabbard to salute the
kindred hero soul beneath the
bishops cross of Mindszenty."
Participants in Mass.
In the mass that preceded the
sermons. the celebrant was the
Rt. Rev. Patrick J. Mccormick,
S.T.L., rector of Catholic Univers-
ity. Other participants in the
mass were: The Rev. Titus
Granny, O.S.A., chaplain of the
Newman Club at Howard Univers-
ity, and the Rev. Alban Mcguire,
O.F.M., Chaplain of the Newman
Club at the University of Mary
land, deacor1s of honor to the
archbishop; the Rev. John A.
Smith, S. j., Georgetown Univers-
ity, deacon; the Rev. Aloysius K
Ziegler. Catholic University. sub
deacon; the Rev. Walter j.
Schmitz, SIS, master of cere-
monies, and the Rev. w. Louis
Quinn, assistant master of cere-
monies.
Before the mass members of
the senior classes at Catholic Uni
versity, Dunbarton College of Holy
Cross, George Washington Uni
versity, Georgetown University,
Howard University. the University
of Maryland and Trinity College
marched in procession from CAL
vert School into the cathedral.
The senior students wore caps and
gowns and members of the teach
ing stats were in academic cos
tune. Members of the Fourth
Degree knights of Columbus,
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