Bishop Louis L.R. Morrow

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344 BOLETIN ECLESIASTICO DE FILIPINAS in the preparation of a series of volumes on the activities of the Church and Pope Pius XII during World War II. The five listed as working in the State Secretariat in the 1970 Annuario are Sisters Luciana Mariani of the Ursuline Sisters and Rosa Pierina Turco of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, and three laywomen: Maria Fortini, Laura Serfini, and Angela Zanetti. The two nuns employed in the Council for Public Affairs are Sisters Maria Aristondo and Maria Luisa Dominguez of the Handmaidens of the Sacred Heart. Last month, the Holy See turned down the nomination of a new counsellor in the German embassy for the Vatican because she is a woman. At that time, an official at the German embassy said the Holy See had “expressed reserves” about the nomination of Dr. Elizabeth Mueller as a counsellor at the embassy. BISHOP LOUIS L.R. MORROW After thirty years of fruitful labour in Bengal, Bishop Louis Morrow has now retired from the residential episcopal See of Krishnagar and is transferred to the Titular Episcopal See of Valliposita. In 1922, Father Morrow came to the Philippines as secretary to H.E. Most Rev. William Piani, Apostolic Delegate, and remained for over sixteen years. Previous to this assignment, when he was in Puebla, Mexico, he found a centre called “La Buena Prensa” (The Good Press), to promote wholesome literature and motion pictures. In Manila, the Puebla “La Buena Prensa” became the Catholic Truth Society, with the address of the Apostolic Delegation. It had its be ginning in the distribution, throughout the country, of Catholic and other wholesome magazines that were mailed to him by friends and admirers in the U.S. Later, he published his first book, MY FRIEND, a prayerbook for children-and MY FIRST COMMUNION. Both have since gone over the thirteen million mark. Translations have been made all over the world, in forty languages and dialects. These were followed THE CHURCH HERE AND THERE 345 by a series of catechetical books, especially MY CATHOLIC FAITH (which has become OUR CATHOLIC FAITH) — and a series of Catholic readers entitled MY READER, which are still used in most of the Catholic schools in the Philippines. His popular vocational literature spread throughout the Philippines, Mexico, India, and also in Europe. His QUESTIONS ON VOCA TION was translated in Flemish (Ben Ik Geroepen), and bears the imprimature of H. Em. Cardinal Suenens, then Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Malines. Father Morrow took an active part in the organization of the Inter national Eucharistic Congress in Manila held in February, 1937, because of the fact that H.E. Msgr. Piani, the Apostolic Delegate, spent the entire year of 1936 in Mexico as Extraordinary Visitor. On May 25, 1939, Fr. Morrow was appointed Bishop of Krishnagar and was consecrated in Rome by H.H. Pope Pius XII in the Basilica of St. Peter. POOR NATIONS GETTING POORER According to the 1969 Year Book of Labour Statistics issued by the International Labour Office, the rich nations are still getting richer while the poor remain poor and get even poorer. It states that though threats of unemployment in industrialized countries “receded and a revival of prosperity was noted,” in developing countries “workers remained at a low standard of living which fell in creasingly behind.” In these countries “unemployment and underemployment continue to be wide-spread, the labour surplus is increasing and monetary difficulties in these countries are reflected in deteriorating terms of trade which diminish further their limited chances of creating enough productive jobs.” Compared to the figures for 1967 and 1968, employ ment in 1969 was up “in virtually every country" supplying information to the ILO. However, most of the information comes from the indus

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