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CHANGES IN COUNCIL: LAYMEN TO ATTEND V ATICAN CITY.—His Holiness Pope Paul VI has directed that C atholic laymen be admitted to the second session of the Ecumenical Council and that non-Christian as well as other non-Catholic representatives be welcomed as observers. POPE PAUL DISCLOSED THE FOLLOWING DECISIONS: • Admission of some Catholic laymen and some .representatives of the major international Catholic institutions which have been r ecognised by ecclesiastical right into the council deliberations. 0 Re-invitation of nonCatholic Christian observers at the council, increasing the number, and also inviting the representatives of non-Christian religions who were not invited to the first session. • Abolition of the present council Secretariat for Extraordinary Affairs and the appointment of cardinal delegates or moderators who will have the task of directing the work of the council. The disclosures were contained in a letter .dated September 22, addressed to the council president, Eugene Cardinal Tisserant. Regarding the first point, the council press bulletin Specified that the Catholic laymen who will be selected to attend will act in the capacity of auditors of the council. As "qualified repre sentatives of the Catholic lay apostplate they will be able to assist in the conciliar work and eventually they may even be called upon to give their advice to the conciliar commissions." International Catholic institutes would include organisations or movements that have achieved recognition in their endeavours in various fields such as education and relief. INCREASED NUMBER Regarding observers, the letter states that the Pope has already again "called to the Ecumenical Council observers of Christians separated from the Apostolic See and sought to increase the number (of them). Moreover, it has seemed opportune for Us to extend the efforts of the Secretariat (for Promoting Christian Unity ) previously established also to those Who are member of nonChristian religions." Regarding the third point, the letter pointed out that the Pope has to the collegealready named of the presidents of the council three of the cardinals who had been members of the now abolished Secretariat for Extraordinary Affairs. They are Stefan Cardinal WyszYnski, Primate of Poland; Giuseppe Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Geona, Italy; and Albert Cardinal Meyer. Archbishop of Chicago. The Secretariat for Extraordinary Affairs in fact had been superseded by the uornmission for the Coo rdination of the Council's Works, which Pope John had instituted at the end of the first session.
DIRECT ALL WORK L'Osseravtore Roman o, Vatican City daily, reported that the posts of moderators will be held by Gregorio Cardinal Agagianian, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith; Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy; Julius Cardinal Doepfner, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Germany; and Leo Cardinal Suenens, Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, Belgium. Cardinal delegates or moderators will direct all the work of the council, but the Council of the Presidency will continue to preside over all the individual general congregations of the council meeting according to the council press bulletin. It is to be noticed
that two of the moderators, Cardinals Doepfner a n d Suenens, were members of the abolished secretariate. The council presidency is charged with seeing that the standards of the council are observed. HIS WISH The opening passages of the letter were devoted to praise of Pope John XXIII for the calling of the Second Vatican Council, and to the wish that it be concluded and crowned with the success he wanted for it. Pope Paul repeated the hope that the council would result in the "benefit and increase of the Apostolic See and of the Catholic Church . . . for the greater prosperity of the life of the Church, for the hastening of • Continued on Page 16.
VICTORIAN BUDGET OFFERS 16,000 SCHOLARSHIPS
One of the most impreEsive ceremonies connected with t he Vatican Council II is the enthronement of the Book of the Gospels. Each day before the start of the deliberations, the Book is carried in solemn procession between t he rows of council Fathers and set in a place of honour. A different Bishop is selected each day. In the centre of this picture, taken during the last session, His Lordship Bishop L. J. Goody of Bunbury is easily recognisible.
Former Perth Girl Melbourne: A big increase in scholarships for students at State Appointed As and registered secondary schools is the highlight of the Victorian Budget for 1963/64 introduced by the Premier (Mr. Bolte) in the Legislative Assembly recently. National President CATHOLIC PUPILS TO SHARE IN £900,000 VOTE
THE GOVERNMENT HAS BUDGETED FOR A DEFICIT £2,476,578 OF TO PROVIDE FOR RECORD SPENDING ON EDUCATION AND THE POLICE. The number of Junior and Junior Technical Scholarships will be increased from 3,730 a year to 16,000 so that next year one student in every three in Form Two will get a scholarship. REGISTERED SCHOOLS On present school population figures, about 4,000 of the new scholarships will go to students in registered (mainly Church) schools, and about 12,000 to those in State schools. Mr. Bolte said the increase in scholarships was in line with the recommendations to the Government last year by a committee representative of all registered schools in Victoria. The committee had recommended that the number of Junior Scholarships should be equivalent to 30 per cent of pupils in Form Two in all State and registered schools. [Form Two is the same as Second Year in Western Australia.] When the new scholarship scheme was in full operation it would cost the Government an ex t ra £900,000 a year. BOOK ALLOWANCE As at present, the scholarships would carry in all schools a book allowance of
£7 in Forms Three and Four, £8 in Form Five and £17 in Form Six. At registered schools they would also carry as at present an allowance of £25 a year towards fees. This would be paid direct to the schools.
VERY GOOD A spokesman for the Catholic Education Office in Melbourne told "The Catho-
lic Weekly" of Sydney that the reaction to the scholarship plan in the Budget was generally very good. The scholarships, he said, would be a considerable help all round. They will become operative from the beginning of the 1964 sechool year. Of the £900,000 available scholarships, for about £225,000 will go to children from registered schools.
ARCHBISHOP TO COUNCIL ON MONDAY AFTERNOON, HIS GRACE THE A RCHBISHOP LEFT PERTH FOR ROME, WHERE HE WILL AT TEND THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL. The Lord Abbot of New Norcia, the Most Rev. G. Gomez, 0.S.B., and the Most Rev. Ivan Prasko, D.S.E.O., Apostolic Exarch of the Byzantine Rite in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, were also on the aircraft with His Grace. . The session begins on Sunday, September 29, and will continue until December 4. The Council will corn-
mence with a discussion on the revised draft of the controversial subject on which it closed last year, "The Nature of the Church." The draft of this proposal was revised by a co-ordinating commission during the recess. This same commission shortened and combined drafts prepared for the Council, cutting the number of projects from 70 to 17. The original draft on the subject of the nature of the Church was begun last session, even though Cardinal Ottaviani, president of the Theology Commission which drew up the project had urged that its discussion be postponed because of the short time left in the session.
IT WAS ANNOUNCED IN MELBOURNE LAST WEEK THAT FORMER PERTH DIOCESAN PRESIDENT
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(GIRLS) MOVEMENT MISS ROSEANNE BRODERICK HAD BEEN ELECTED NATIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE MOVEMENT. Roseanne began her career in the Movement as a leader in the West Perth branch, later becoming a member of the diocesan executive and was the Perth president in 1960-61. She often told other girls that she had been slow to join the Y.C.W. Finishing, her schooling at the Convent of Mercy, Lesmurdie, she was out of touch, with girls in the parish, but the local leaders persevered in calling on her until she eventually gave in and joined them in their work and was grateful to them for her vocation in the organised lay apostolate of the Church. The Hobart National Council of the Y.C.W. in 1961 saw Roseanne representiqg Perth so impressively that she was elected to membership of the National Executitve. In this capacity she visited branches in the Bunbury diocese and attempted to introduce the Movement to Geraldton. In June of this year, Roseanne went to live in Melbourne to take a more active part in National Executive meetings and there she began working full-time on
Miss ROSEANNE BRODERICK New National President the national staff. In this position she was chosen with a few others to pay the first official visit to a newly formed Y.C.W. branch in Sydney. In August she was in Adelaide for this year's National Council, then back to Melbourne and off to visit in Wagga. Her mother, Mrs. A. Broderick, of West Perth, said that she expected Roseanne home for a few weeks around Christmas time. Her brother, Mr. Bill Broderick, of Bunbury, was one of the first leaders in the boys' branch of the Movement in West Perth.