SENTENCED PRELATES.
CARDINAL BOURNE PROTESTS
"MORE AWFUL THAN DEATH"
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 10 p.m.) LONDON. April 2.
Cardinal Bourne, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, preaching at Westminster Cathedral, protested' against the sentence of imprisonment imposed upon the Russian archbishop. "The ' whole world," he said "has shuddered at the news that he was sentenced, because he did his duty as a Christian, to ten years' solitary confinement—more awful than death itself."
The Moscow correspondent of the Daily* Telegraph states that commutation of the death sentence was granted to Archbishop Zopliak lest Roman Catholics regard the penalties as directed against, priests and religion generally, but Bishop Budekvitch, whose death sentence stands, used his status as a priest to participate in counter- j revolutionary plots.
The Soviet newspapers, justifying the sentences, resent foreign interference, and declare that the Anglican Church, which formerly executed Roman Catholics, has no right to protest, while British Labour leaders who dine with the King cannot be seriously regarded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18364, 3 April 1923, Page 5
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