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Archbishop John C. Heenan of Liverpool has issued a four-point educational plan to keep Britain from cultural and economic bankruptcy.
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MASS FOR START OF LEGAL YEAR His Grace the Archbishop offered Pontifical Moss in St. Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday morning to mark the opening of the legal year. Pictured heading th?. procession of lawyers into the grounds of the Cathedral are (left) the Honourable Mr. Justice Jackson, senior Puisne Judge of W2ste:n A ustralia, and the Honourable Mr. Justice Dunphy, of the Commonwealth Industrial Court (Melbourne) and senior Judge of the Supreme
Medical Association (Doctor D. E. Copping) and the Law Society (Mr. P. Adams).) The occasional sermon was preached by the Very Rev. Father Alphonsus, 0.D.C., of
the Carmelite Priory, Morley Park. His Grace was assisted at the Mass by Rt. Reverend Monsignor J. Hogan, Administrator of St. Mary's Cathedral.
Court, Canberra. On the Right: Representafives of the Police Force, Army and Navy talk together after the Mass. They are (left to right) Mr. J. O'Brien, Commissioner of Police, R. N. Brigadier Davis, E.D., and Lt. Roach, H.M.A.S. Leeuwin.
He called for quick action to provide: MORE centres of higher education; IMPROVEMENT in teacher status, including the payment of adequate salaries; CONTINUED growth of parent -teacher associations; IMMEDIATE steps to meet the national shortage of university enrolment. Archbishop Heenan was speaking to 800 teachers at a big "campaign for education" rally organised by the Liverpool Teachers' Association under the chairmanship of St. James Mountford, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Live:pool. Stressing the need for continued State spending on education, the Archbishop said: "Too many politicians fail to see that if we continue to fall behind other countries in education the whole of our economy will suffer. Without more widespread opportunity, it will be impossible to hold our own in the world. Other nations invest in education in the sure knowledge that it will produce dividends. If we continue to be neglectful now we shall become culturally and economically bankrupt." Calling for urgent measures to p.ovide for the
A simultaneous service was held in St. George's Cathedral.
thousands who will need and deserve university education during the next decade, the Archbishop said the key to the problem is improvisation. It should be possible to run two shifts for undergraduates taking university courses. The short university terms could be extended, he said, and evening courses should not be despised. Criticising people who suggest that the government is spending too much on defence ami too little on social service, Archbi.shop Heenan said: "It is of course pitiful that any community should have to spend so much of its resources on the means of destruction and leave itself too impoverished to house and educate its citizens. "But the dull fact is that national defence is the govverment's responsibility. Until, please God, universal disarmament comes, it is the plain duty of governments to risk the accusation of wasteful expenditure rather than betray national security. "Place yourself in the position of the government minister. If the security of citizens depends upon you personally, would you in fact abolish all service ministries and give all the money to the Ministry of Education? Would you be prepared to proclaim to potential enemies that Great Britain is no longer disposed to defend itself?"
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Besides the jw_liciary an:1 lawyers, there were representatives also from the State Government (the Honourable Ross Hutchinson, D.F.C., M.L.A., Minister for Health), the Opposition (the Honourable Eric Heenan, Australian M.L.C.), the
SENIOR OBLATE PRIEST ON FIRST VISIT TO AUSTRALIA
ONE OF TOP THE OBLATE FATHERS OF ' THE WORLD ARRIVED IN BRISBANE RECENTLY TO BEGIN A CANONICAL VISITATION OF HIS ORDER IN AUSTRALIA. He is FATHER JOSEPH FITZGERALD, 0.M.I., the A ssistant -General of the Oblate Fathers, who arrived by air from Rome. Father Fitzgerald, originally from County Limerick. Will visit Oblate foundations IT) the dioceses of Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Sale ( Victoria), and Adelaide Perth, and will go Japan, to Philippines, Laos, Ceylon and the British Isles. Father Fitzgerald, who is being accompanied on his Australian visitation by Father W. J. Cagney, 0.M.I., formerly of Lesmurdie, the
• New Provincial will tour too newly elected Australian provincial, studied for the priesthood in Rome and was ordained in 1940. FRANCE AND AFRICA His first appointment was as a professor at Notre Dame de Lumieres Seminary in Southern France, which was a truly international house at the time, accommodating many refugee students, mainly from Alsace and Poland. In 1948. Father Fitzgerald was appointed rector of the Oblate Seminary at Cedara, South Africa, where Australian Oblate students have done their studit.s. An Australian Oblate who
trained there, Father Brian Pitts, 0.M.I., formerly of Melbourne, has latterly become the fi:st Australian Oblate to be assigned to the Order's African missions. Father Fitzgerald was for many years the national chaplain of Catholic university students of South Africa and organised the first PanAfrican Seminar for African students in 1957 at Ace:a, Ghana. ROME POSTS In 1959, Father Fitzgerald was named the first Englistispeaking rector of the Studium Generale, the international Oblate seminary in Rome, with 26 nationalities
and where Australian students are now the biggest proportional representation of any Oblate province. Later the same year, Fitzgerald F ather was elected to his order's administration in Rome as Assistant-General to Most Rev. Leo Deschatelets, O.M.I.
Father Fitzgerald's duties take him to four Canadian Provinces, three South African, Australia and the B:itish Isles. In the past two years Father Fitzgerald performed visitations in Canada from Nova Scotia to the Yukon, the Congo and the Republics of the Carryeroons 'and Tchacl. • Oblate Houses in the Perth Archdiocese are St. Patrick's Fremantle, Beaconsfield parish and Lourdes Monastery, Lesmurdi e. Father Fitzgerald will arrive in Perth on Tuesday. March 26, and will stay till April 11.
The Most Rev. M. McKeon, Auxiliary Bishop to His Grace the Archbishop, returned to Perth last Friday. His Lordship, who attended.the Second Vatican Council, has been on a trip to his native Ireland, England and America since the conclusion of the first session of the Council. In Ireland he visited his birthplace, Westport, where he was given a liturgical reception. His Lordship has two sisters living in Ireland, three brothers in England and one in America.