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VATICAN CITY.—His Holiness Pope John XXIil has said that the work of rewriting draft resolutions for the next session of the Ecumenical Council is moving swiftly but quietly. At an audience granted to R ome's Mayor Glauco Della Porta, the Pope also said that he hopes the council's second session, scheduled to open on September 8, will be its last. Pope John said: "The work of preparing the second and, if God wills it, the last session continues at an accelerated rhythm, but almost silently.
"We trust in the prayers and the active collaboration of the laity, which has already been shown in many ways and which has been welcomed." Pope John then referred to his plan to centralise all offices of the Rome vicariate, which is responsible for administering the Diocese of Rome, in the Lateran Palace. He said this step is "intend-
Church Grants Stopped BOMBAY: The Catholic Church in Goa has complete religious freedom. but it also has money problems, a Catholic lay leader has said. A Soares, president of the Catholic Association of India, recently returned from a trip to the former Portuguese territory which India took over in December, 1961. "Religious liberty obtains all over the land," he said. Be noted that there has been no interference with
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Church activity, apart from minor incidents. Catholics make up a third of Goa's population of 650,000. The feast of St. Francis Xavier has been declared a public holiday, he said, and visitors continue to go to the saint's tomb. Last year's visitors included non-Christian national and State government officials, he added. The Church in Goa received £73.500 a year from the former Portuguese administration, but now does not receive any subsidy.
Old Christmas I Cards Lseful WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE CHRISTMAS C ARDS YOU RECEIVED LAST YEAR? DID YOU HOLD ON TO THEM, OR THROW THEM AWAY? EITHER WAY THEY HAVE SERVED THEIR PURPOSE. The wish was made and the warmth of it will be cherished—perhaps even until NEXT Christmas. It you hoard them they will only take up valuable space; if you burn them that is waste, because you probably know that good usc can be made of apparently "useless old cards." Old Christmas cards can help to build (believe it or not)— * A CHAPEL * A DISPENSARY
A SCHOOLROOM They could also assist in maintaining an Orphanage and in good works beyond number on the Mission fields. HOW? — Missionaries, aided by wiling helpers. r econdition them and sell them in the marketplaces. We know of one address where cards may be sent: Rev. J. Pujol, S.J., St. Francis Xavier High School, Bombay, India. 1 The best way to send them is to make them up into parcels up to 21b. in weight and mark them - Printed Matter Only." Parcels must be packed securely or they can be easily damaged. DO NOT R EGISTER THE PARCELS. Your cards can be of real value if you dispose of t hem in this manner — whereas if you burned or hoarded them they serve no purpose. A simple gift like this must bring spiritual rewards far in excess of the monetary value gained by those receiving it. Let us conclude by saying: IT IS REALLY WORTH THE EFFOR'sr!
ed to bring back the respectful and joyful attention of Rome and of the world to the Basilica and Apostolic Palace of the Lateran."
Plan Encourages He said he also hopes his plan will "encourage in Rome and everywhere in the modern world the solution of many pastoral problems arising from modern times and revive those well-ordered activities which are intended to represent the Church to all people as it is in the designs of its Divine Founder, as the mother and t eacher, the light of peoples."
Local Priest's Father Dies
• News came from Ireland of the sudden death of Mr. Richard Phelan, of Co. Kilkenny. Ile died on Monday. January 7. Mr. Phelan is survived by three sens and a daughter. One -if his sons is Rev. Thomas Phelan, parish priest of Wembley Downs and City Beach. who reAdes at St. J oseph's Orphanage. Wembley. R.I.P.
MICHAEL KEATING was ordained at Propaganda College, in Rome, on December 22, 1962, by His Eminence Cardinal Gregory Agagianian ( shown at the "imposition of hands'). Five Australians were ordained, with 20 other candidates from 15 nations.
JEWS, BY RELIGION ONLY
J ERUSALEM, Israel.—Israeli's Interior Minister has asked the Foreign Office to instruct all Israeli diplomatic and consular missions not to give "immigrant" cords to persons who cannot prove they are Jews. The request by Interior Minister Haim Moshe Shapiro followed hard after the ruling by the Israeli High Court that a Jewish-born Carmelite friar is not entitled to Israeli citizenship simply because of his Jewish heritage. The Shapiro request made no mention of the case of the Carmelite priest. It referred to the fact that the -Law of Return" allows any Jew to immigrate to Israel and receive automatic citizenship. It noted, however, that many such immigrants turn out to be non-Jews, and so reveal themselves on such occasions as marriage and divorce. Shapiro made it clear that diplomatic and consular officials should refuse immigrant visas under the Low of return to persons who have been converted from Judaism to another religion. In the High Court decision, the judges ruled four to one against Father Daniel Rufeisen's suit to make the government of Israel recognise him as a Jew and grant him an immigrant card under the Law of Return. Father Daniel. now 40, became a Catholic while being sheltered from Poland's Nazi conquerers during World War II by Carmelite nuns. The High Court's decision marked the first time Israel
has tried to give a legal definition of a Jew. The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) has never officially decided whether a person becomes Jewish by birth, religious observance or belief. Israeli's immigration authorities have previously held the view that anyone is a Jew who professes to be one and does not hold other than Jewish religious
Jewish Origin Before the decision, Father Daniel had stated: "My ethnic origin is and always will be Jewish. I have no other nationality." Israeli authorities told him he could become a naturalised citizen, but . that the government would not recognise him as a Jew. The High Court's ruling upheld that position and means that a Jew cannot be converted to Christianity and then come to Israel and claim automatic citizenship under the Law of Return. The court expressed sympathy for Father Daniel and gratitude for his work in saving Jews from Nazis in occupied Poland. But Justice Moshe Silberg said in the majority opinion that the court's gratitude did not give grounds "to desecrate the name and the con-
tent of the concept of Jew." Father Daniel was born Oswald Rufeisen in 1922 in the village of Zywies in Southern Poland. He was taken into the German army as an interpreter by officials ignorant of his Jewish birth, but had to flee for his life when it was learned that he
had arranged the escape of 300 Jews scheduled to be killed. The Carmelite nuns then sheltered him for 16 months. He joined a partisan group in Belorussia and when the Germans fled that region in 1944 he entered a monastery. He was ordained in 1932.
Percentage Pass In Junior Examination
An analysis of the Junior Examination results for 1962 shows the following figures for Catholic schools in Western Australia:: ,
No. Candidates
No. Passed
No. Failed
Percentage Passed
1,444
1.115
329
77.2
The percentage pass in previous years as been as follows: 1957 . . . . 73.6 1958 . . . . 75.4 1959 . . 78.9 1960 . . . . 80.6 1961 . . . . 81.2 The percentage pass for 1962 may actually be high than the above figures shcw. since in the publication of results candidates listed as having passed two or three subjects may not necessarily have failed.