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Catholic Enquiry founder dies Thousands entered Church over decades through Centre established by priest. ONE of the great evangelisers of the Catholic Church in Australia and the founding director of the Catholic Enquiry Centre, Fr Tom White, has died in Melbourne aged 86. The Irish-born Fr White, a priest of the Archdiocese of Melbourne. died last Sunday; his funeral took place in Melbourne on Friday. In 1958 Fr White answered the call of the bishops of Australia to undertake work to establish the Catholic Enquiry Centre. The bishops of that time intended that the Centre would reach out to non-Catholics who wished to learn more about the Catholic faith, with a particular focus on non-Catholics who were marrying Catholics. After spending several months in England studying that country's enquiry centre, upon which tile Australian centre was modelled, Fr White became the founding Director of the CEC in 1959. The regular outreach of the Centre. including advertising across every form of media and correspondence courses for those interested in becoming Catholic, saw many eventually decide to enter the Church. Although the numbers of those who became Catholic are not known precisely, it is believed many thousands entered the Church after encountering the Enquiry Centre. Its outreach continues today in areas such as advertising in cinemas, newspapers and television and, in the age of the Internet, providing information online. Thomas Augustine White was born in County Tipperary, Ireland in 1923 and ordained to the priesthood in 1948, aged 24. The following year he arrived in Melbourne to begin his long ministry.
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Edward Kennedy Ill cries over the casket of his grandfather US Senator Edward Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, on August 29. The Catholic funeral was controversial because of Senator Kennedy's record of support for legalised abortion and same-sex marriage, but Cardinal Sean O'Malley defended his own role at the funeral, pictured below, in his personal blog, the text of which is carried below. PHOTO C114 111., YOUNG POOL VIA REUTERS
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ugust 29 was the 39th anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood, at St Augustine's Church in Pittsburgh by Bishop John McDowell, who is still going strong today. In the Church's calen-
dar, the feast day for August 29 is the Beheading of John the Baptist. People usually take note whenI tell them that 1 was professed to religious life on Bastille Day, fitly 14, and ordained on the feast of the beheading. Not that I am superstitious. On August 29 1 attended the funeral Mass for Senator Edward Kennedy. Fr Donald Monan Si, former president of Boston College, celebrated the Mass and Father Mark Hession, pastor of Our Lady of Victories in Centerville, preached the homily. The music was outstanding with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus enriching the liturgy along with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham who later sang an absolutely striking renPlease turn to Vista 2-3
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PEOPLE and Catholic offices or outreaches across the nation are increasingly turning to The Record, often requesting permission to republish its reports and analyses. They include community radio announcers, a State Catholic education office and several dioceses around the nation. Last week the Diocese of Sandhurst
in central Victoria contacted The Record seeking permission to republish Record journalist Anthony Ranch's comprehensive reports and interviews on the changes to the Mass that Catholics in Australia will he praying by 2011. His report was the first time a Catholic newspaper in Australia has carried the long-awaited texts of the
way the Mass will be prayed using new liturgical translations mandated by the Vatican. Regular readers of The Record will have noticed last week's letter to the Editor from Mrs Maureen Federico of Frankston in Victoria, who reported in part on how she regards the paper as the hest of its kind in Australia. Mrs Federico also wrote telling
how she uses The Record's news items for her own weekly Catholic radio program on local community Radio 3RPP in that state. In July The Record was contacted by the Catholic Education Office of Victoria seeking permission to use Record writer Deirdre Fleming's materials from earlier this year on Please turn to Page 2