The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1952-02-15

Iose who suffered persecution
Sees.
The shocking catalogue of names
hints anew at the plight of the
Catholic laity and clergy-from
Prague in the west to Peking in the
eaSt-who have been deprived of
their religious leaders. They have
been left flocks without shepherds
at a time when their Christian
faith is under the most concerted,
widespread and systematic attack
in history.
The compilation includes the
names of victims of persecution re
leased last week by the Vatican
Press Office, which it said COM
prised "the Church of Silence"
The phrase is taken from the re-
cent Christmas message of His
Holiness Pope Plus XII. However.
the NC list goes beyond this, and
catalogues victims established from
other sources.
List Not Complete
Exhaustive as it is, the NCWC
does not claim to name every Bish-
op or head of See who has ever
suffered at the hands Of the Reds.
II lists only those who have been
murdered, imprisoned, permanent
iy barred from their sees or grave
ly impeded in the exercise of their
office 1t does not attempt to men,
ton those who have suffered iso-
lated acts of violence or have been
obstructed in the exercise of their
office for only a brief time.
The honor roll of prosecuted
Bishops shows that the spotlight
must swing from Europe to the Far
East. Because of its swift and
ruthless defamation of the Her
archy during the past year, Red
China stands at the top of the list
in the number of victims of perse-
cution.
At least 81 Bishops and other
heads of Sees have been expelled,
imprisoned or otherwise impeded
in the discharge of their office in
China. In the group is His Emf
nence Thomas Cardinal Tien,
S.V.D., Archbishop of Peiping, who
is barred from returning to his
See; Archbishop Anthony Riberi,
Papal Internuncio to China ousted
by the Reds, and Is other Arch
bishops. Also included are seven
American Bishops and four Ameri-
can Projects Apostolic.
Behind Iron Curtain
Responsibility for the next larg-
est number of victims goes direct
Iy to the Soviet Union. The list of
martyrs shows that Russia must
assume liability for the murder,
Imprisonment OF exile CT 30 Bish-
ops and other heads of Sees. This
includes victims of persecution in
the great slice of territory grabbed
from Poland after World War III,
and in Lithuania, Latvia and Es-
tonia. These areas Moscow has in
corporated into the Soviet Union.
They do not include the so-called
satellite countries where Russian
communism dictates to puppet gov
ernments.
Other countries covered by the
list are: Albania, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Korea, Poland, Rumania
and Yugoslavia.
Albania shows four victims: two
Bishops executed, an Archbishop
sentenced to prison, another Bishop
under house arrest.
Czechoslovakia has seven vic
tins; four Bishops sentenced to
prison, an Archbishop banished,
one Bishop imprisoned without
trial, another Bishop forced from
his See.
Hungary shows four victims:
His Eminence Josef Cardinal Mind
szenty, Primate, and an Archbishop
sentenced to prison; one Bisnop
another reported in a
concentration camp.
Fire Victims In Korea
Korea lists five victims: two
Bishops and two Projects Apostolic
taken prisoner, another Bishop who
died in a Red prison. Two victims
are Americans.
Poland is obstructing the work of
two Bishops.
Rumania must take responsible
ity for Is victims of persecution;
one American Archbishop expelled
as papal representative, another
impeded, one Bishop
sentenced to prison, seven Bishops
without trial, one Bish-
op dead of communist maltreat-
ment, another forced from his See;
two Wears General imprisoned, one
deported.
Yugoslavia shows up on the list
with one Bishop murdered in pris-
on, another serving a prison term.
two Archbishops impeded in the