Some French Bishops and the War

IN a recent issue America speaks of the gallant courage of the Archbishop of Lemberg, Count Andreas Szeptyki, who, when urged to fly before the approaching Russian army, replied: "The shepherd must remain with his flock," and steadily declined to move. He is now, we hear, a prisoner in Russia. The same devotion to duty was displayed by the French bishops, whose dioceses have been invaded by the Germans though belonging to hostile nations, the Austrian and the French churchmen are united by a common devotion to their high vocation and by a similar sense of the responsibilities that are entailed upon them as pastors of souls.