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OVER VICTORIAN REFUSAL The Parents and Friends' Federation, Victoria, has arranged a special meeting in Richmond Town Hall for Mondoy, November 13. This special meeting followed the publication in Melbourne's daily papers of the Victorian State Government's refusal to allocate £2,000,000 a year for the education of children attending non -government schools.
Federation officials have One of Victoria's Catholic Catholic education, but the Government did not have urged all Catholic parents to papers, The Tribune, anthe meeting to be the attend £2,000,000 to meet the meeting coming nouned this staged at Richmond. in a Page One article last request. It will consider means of The Government's present week. The Victorian request was policy was that it must sup- making renewed approaches port the State system, and to the Government and all made by a Federation deputation to Mr. Bolte, Premier, all the education funds were political parties and framing and Mr. Bloomfield, Educa- used to support that system. an appeal to all sections of Mr. Bloomfield said that the community to consider tion Minister, at the Preany spare money the Gov- the question of granting mier's office on October 26. The Federation represen- ernment had could be well education justice to the chiltatives were Mr. T. Roche, employed in the State Edu- dren attending all denominational schools. president, Mr. P. Gill, vice- cation Department. president, Mr. J. McKenna, secretary, and Mr. C. Gartland, treasurer. ALL Outlining the P. and F. case, Mr. Roche stressed IN common with most other dioceses in Austhat the request was made tralia,, there will be an All -Night Vigil of on behalf of the parents and Prayer at St. Mary's Cathedral on the Feast of the that the claim, which was purely a minimum, immeImmaculate Conception, Friday, December 8. diata requirement, and not The vigil will commence at 11 p.m. and continue to be"regarded as a final or till 5 a.m. on November 9. total statement of the CathoThe intentions for the All -Night Vigil of Prayer lic claim, was based on the will be the same as those of the Solemn Novena, educational needs of their which will conclude at the Cathedral on the night children. of December 8. "As parents," he said, "we are forced to act because we They are the safety of Australia, Christian unity, are concerned about our the conversion of communists and the success of children's education." the Second Vatican Council. This concern had been All societies are asked to attend this Night Vigil highlighted by the Catholic with at least a representative group. Education Office's recent instruction that no child under five years could be admitted to Catholic schools next year. This instruction had been caused by the serious shorof Hundreds Athens: tage of teachers-only 90 Greek Orthodox have exnew teachers would be pressed their sympathy to available to meet a mini- the leader of Byzantine Rite mum requirement of 200, he Catholics in Greece since a said. minor riot broke out in Mr. Roche added that the front of his new church here. indications were that the The disturbance flared situation might be even tried to disperse worse in the following year. when police about Mr. Bolte told the deputa- a protest march of 200 persons protest. 140 or tion that he was fully aware of construction ing against of the difficulties facing the Byzantine Rite Church the Trinity, Holy of the WARNING first new church of that Rite NEEDED in Greece in 500 years. IT IS ALTOGETHER The protest march began WRONG TO CONCEAL from the Orthodox Church THE APPROACH OF of St. Nicholas. The day DEATH FROM A DYbefore, every morning and ING MAN, A BISHOP evening newspaper in Athens HAS TOLD BRITISH published an identical an- are committing on Acharnon NURSES. nouncement that the Ortho- Street. The house of the Auxiliary Bishop George Craven of Westdox Bishop of Achai Pantal- 'Wolves' must never be comminster said at the aneon would preach a sermon pleted!" (Construction of the new nual meeting of the on the "Uniates" (Byzantine Catholic Nurses' Guild Rite Catholics) at the church had been halted in 1959 and again in 1960 by of Great Britain: "The That of St. Nicholas. Church chief objective of many church is very near the By- government order, after proby Orthodox Archbishtests who visit a dying person zantine Rite church now op Theokitos of Athens. In is to conceal from him under construction. the truth that his life is Handbills were pa§sed out both cases Bishop Gad, Aposfor Catholics ending. to those who came to hear tolic Exarch "Their action is kindly the Orthodox Bishop speak. of the Byzantine Rite in meant. But it is alto"The House of Wolves," Greece, successfully appealgether wrong and is was emblazoned in bold let- ed.) sometimes the cause of The leaflet was also disters across the top of the the patient's failure to tributed to worshippers at handbill. prepare for death."' "The Uniates are the great- other Orthodox churches Bishop Craven, who is est enemies of Orthodoxy," nearby. adviser to the nurses' Many of the parishioners the handbill declared. guild, noted that the "They belong to the Pope. of St. Nicholas church left patient's mind should be vestthe premises when they read they wear the same kept clear as long as ments as our Orthodox and the violent handbill. Others possible. But if there is they cunningly deceive the left during the Bishop's sergreat pain, a drug may mon, in which he called the faithful. be given for the primary "They now have under Byzantine Rite "a diabolic aim of killing the pain. construction a mansion at heresy." "These mattel-s are in From the greatly diminAcharnon Street, near St. the doctor's hands," the Nicholas Church, which they ished congregation only 200 Bishop said. mostly say is a church. A church people or less "If he is a conscientious yieldthat will be a centre of great women and children man, the nurse need ed to the exhortations of propaganda." have no fear that his The handbill urged: "Let the Bishop and marched to prescribed dose is inthe site of the new Catholic us protest decorously against tended to be lethaL" the wicked act that they church.
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ONE of the most interesting persons to attend the bi-annual conference of the National Council for the Blind to be held in Perth on November 13 and 14, will be Rev. Brother P. G. O'Neill, M.B.E., the President of the Villa Maria Society for the Blind. Rev. Bro. 0 Neill (pictured with children at St. Paul's), became totally blind in 1927 and he has devoted his life ever since to the care of the blind. Bro. O'Neill established the Villa Maria Hostel for the Blind at Prahran, Victoria, in 1938; the Villa Madonna Hospital for the Blind, Windsor, in 1948, and St. Paul's School for the Blind, Kew, in 1957.
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Under construction in Athens, Greece, is the new church of the Byzantine Rite Catholic
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They were led by 16 Orthodox priests, some fully vested and carrying crucifixes, and sixwingeds banners (poles surmounted by wooden or metal devices signifying orders of angels).
Police Wire Ready The police hat.: arrived before them. After members of the procession sang a to listened hymn and speeches condemning government officials who had given licences for the construction of the Catholic church, the police told the demonstrators to return to their church. They refused. Violence broke out, the police swinging their clubs and some of the demonstrators swinging their banners and religious symbols. No serious injuries were reported, but a few arrests were made. All those arrested were later released. No reporters from any of the Athens newspapers were present at the demonstration. Newspaper accounts of the march put the number of demonstrators at 5,000.
Byzantine Catholics in Greece, has asked the assistance by prayer and donations of Catholics throughout the world. Although news of immi-
nent national elections crowded out much other news, the newspapers treated their readers to highly inaccurate explanations of Byzantine Rite Catholics. "The Uniates are neither Catholics nor Orthodox, and surely not Protestants," the daily Kathimerini stated. "They are for Rome what the EDA and the PAME are for the Greek Communist party, that is to say they are an ecclesiastical organisation at the service of Catholicism within the breast of Orthodoxy." The EDA and the FAME are camouflaged remnants of the outlawed Communist party in Greece. Kathimerini said that despite this, "it does not mean that Orthodoxy must combat the Uniates with sticks and stones. Orthodoxy does not need such weapons. The Orthodox faith is enough for Orthodoxy. We therefore believe that the improper events on Acharnon Street will not be repeated."
Madness 'vattcan City: Vatican Radio commented that Soviet Russia's "mad decision" to explode a super bomb despite worldwide appeals reveals the true face of communism. A Vatican 7:adio news commentary branded the Soviet action "morally politically, socially, economically and humanely blameworthy."
It noted the "cynical refusal" of Soviet authorities to heed the appeals and protests of the United Nations, individual governments and scientific institutes. "The thought of God, judge of every free and responsible human act and avenger of every individual and collective injustice, did not - prevent this mad decision, for communism does not believe in God," Vatican Radio said. "The supreme principle of human co -existence and brotherhood did not prevent it, for
communism preaches hatred and class struggle. Neither did the anxiety of millions of women and children, for the materialism and totalitarianism of communism does not recognise the value of the human person. "The explosion of the superbomb confirms the true face of communism . a face in which there is absolutely no light of love and which reflects only the tenseness of hatred. The only resource of hatred is fear and terror." .