Catholic Welfare Orders Banned By Communists
LONDON, August 1 (Rec. 11 a.m.). —The Associated Press correspondent at Bucharest says that all Roman Catholic congregations in Rumania have been dissolved as from today in a decree published, in the official State bulletin. (Rumania is under Communist control.) About 15 congregations have been dissolved. They are welfare orders, the best known being the St Vincent de Paul order. The congregations are mainly devoted to charity, hospital and other social work among Rumanian. Roman Catholics. The Catholic priests, monks, and nuns enrolled in these orders have 15 days in which to choose: 1. To retire to the three cloisters and two monastries assigned to them. 2. Enter an old-age asylum. 3. Quit clerical life, become laymen and apply for jobs at the local employment bureau.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1949, Page 5
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