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Vice-Director of University Conservatorium

Italians who want to emigrate to Australia will have preferential consideration, stated ' -Sir John Storey, Chairman of the Australian Consultative Council forjmmigration, when he met the Italian Premier, according to the. Catholic Herald (Lohdon). He told Signor de Gasperi that Italians already settled in .Australia' have givejo an /excellent account of themselves, and get on very well with the English-speaking people. It is suggested that ~ 50,000 Italians should be among the 2,000,000 immigrants Australia will accept in the next ten years. Father Thomas Gill, the Cape Town priest who was the first to be penalised under South Africa's recent racial legislation, has successfully appealed against his conviction. In March of this year Father Gill was convicted of officiating at a marriage ceremony between a European and a woman described as being "slightly coloured," so contravening the Mixed Marriages Act He was fined £20. Now the three judges of the Cape Town Supreme Court have unanimously set aside the conviction.

Rev. Patrick O'Connor, of St. Kilians parish, Bendigo, has been appointed parish priest of St. John the Evangelist' parish, Euroa, in succession to the late Very Rev. William J, Armstrong, who died on September 25. Father O'Connor in recent months was administrator of Wodonga parish during the absence of Rev. Joseph T. Awbum, on the Holy Year pilgrimage. When Father Awljurn returned to Victoria, 'Father O'Connor's appointment to Euroa was announced. Miepoli, Longwood, Ruffy, and Creighton's Creek form part of the Euroa parish. * * * Mr. F. D. Mann, who has been honorary solicitor to the Ballarat branch of the R.S.L. for more than twenty years was entertained last Monday night by branch members before his departure to take . up residence in Melbourne. Mr. Mann was also secretary and delegate for Ballarat with the Catholic War Veterans' Association. * * * Archbishop Stepinac, Primate of Jugoslavia, is suffering • from tuberculosis of the lungs, according to reports received by Church officials in Vienna. Dr. Stepinac was sentenced to, 16 years' imprisonment in October, 1946. The reports say that the medical treatment he is receiving in prison is inadequate. * * * Mme. Ceeile Sorel, for over 30 years a leading actress of the Comedie-Francaise, became a Franciscan tertiary recently at the Capuchin convent in Bayonne. It is stated that she hopes in a year's time to be a Franciscan nun. Mme. Sorel, now well over 70, retired from the Parisian stage in 1933. She went to the Comedie- Francaise in 1889. She is living in retirement at a villa in Biarritz. * * * A remarkable tribute has been paid to the Church by a Protestant minister forced into exile by the Communists. In the fight against Communism, the minister declared, the Catholic Church "is the one Church which has recognized the monster for what it is" and "had the courage to raise its voice against the enemy." The tribute appeared in a book, Communisms Challenge to Christianity, by Dr. Arthur Voobus, exiled Estonian clergyman, now Professor of theology at the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary.

"The City of No Conversions," Wuchow, in the Chinese province of Kwangsi, has in the past year become , die centre of a conversion movement which has brought 2304 adults into the Church. Most of them have been instructed since the Communists occupied the Wuchow diocese last December. There are 3811 catechumens awaiting baptism. Wuchow has an American Bishop, Monsignor Donaghy, with eight Chinese priests and 24 Maryknoll mission- The Right Rev. Monsignor Harold Joseph Devine, P.P., V.F., parish priest of Young (N.S.W.), died on Sunday, October 8. Monsignor Devine was born at Narrandera, the son of Thomas Devine and Mary Ann Cahill, on November 7, 1887, His early education was received from the. Sisters of Mercy at Newtown, Albury. : He entered St. Patrick's College; Manly, and continued ecclesiastical studies at the Irish -College, Rome, where he was ordained on April 22, 1916, by Archbishop Cappitelli., In July, 1916, he returned to the Diocese of Goulburn. In each of the parishes where he laboured, he established a bursary for the education of Australian priests (totalling £8300). Monsignor Devine served in the parishes of Tumut (1916-1923), Cootamundra (1923-1925), Adelong (1925-1929), Braidwood (1929-1942) and Young, where he was appointed parish priest in 1942. In that same year he received the further appointment of Diocesan Consultor and Dean. Other offices entrusted to Monsignor Devine im eluded those of Pro-Synodal Examiner, Director of the Priests' Eucharistic League, Treasurer of the Manly Union, membership of the Council of Architecture and Sites, arid in April, 1946, he was elevated to the dignity of Domestic Prelate by his Holiness the Pope.

Rev. Percy Jpnes, Ph.D., Mus.Sac.Doc. (See story below)

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