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NOBEL PRIZE Sir John Carew Eccles, of Canberra, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for Medicine, is a distinguished Australian Catholic layman. Sir John, who is Professor of Physiology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, Canberra. shared the prize with Alan Lloyd Hodkin, of Cambridge, England, a n d Andrew Fielding Huxley, of University College, London. The prize is worth 265,000 crowns (about £ 22,850) and will be presented by King Gustav Adolf of Sweden in Stockholm on December 10. LECTURE TOUR Sir John, who was earlier awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific society, received news of the- Nobel award in Venice, Italy, where he is holidaying with his wife between lectures he is giving in Europe. Sir John lectured the previous week at the Congress of the Pontifical Academy of Science in Rome and was scheduled to lecture at the German Academy of Science before returning home via the United States, where he has lectures in New York and Los Angeles. Knighted in 1958, Sir John is an alumnus of Newman College within the University of Melbourne and was Victorian Rhodes Scholar in 1925, a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford (1927-34), Fellow of Magdalen College (1934 to 37), and degrees include M.B.. B.S. (Melb), M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon), F.R.S. and F.R.A.C.P. Before going to Canberra in 1951, he was Professor of Physiology at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. From 1937 to 1943 he was director of the Kanematsu Institute of Pathology at Sydney Hospital. He is a former president of the University Catholic Federation of Australia. Sir John and Lady Eccles have nine children. John during the first council session.
The ten bishops have called on liturgical experts to help them in their long range plan. They will bring in biblical scholars, musicians and experts in English style The Ecumenical coun- duce an Englisto help procil has already approved meets both h text which needs of in principle the use of public worshthe ip and high modern languages in these standard of musical and rites. The council's deci- literary staste. sions must be approved Archbishop Hallinan by Pope Paul VI before they go into effect. The pointed out that many council's action would give English texts are already national or regional groups available, and added: "As of bishops the power to soon as the national conauthorise the use of their ference of bishops authoarea's language in the rises 'enabling legislation' Mass and in administering for its area, a suitable selection of these translathe sacraments. tions can be approved for Mass and the Sacraments.One Australian The ten bishops, including one Australian—Archbishop Guilford Young of Hobart—are meeting regularly to plan a uniform English liturgical text. Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan of Atlanta, U.S.A., said: "It is reasonably estimated that this common t ext will be ready by the The experimental transfer of the Feast of Christ the King procession from Aquinas to Perry time the post - conciliar L akes Stadium last Sunday, proved a tremendous succe commission has completed ss. its revision of the liturgiA crowd of up to 20,000 Mary lined the inside of tion was given by His cal rites." But to offset this, —some observers put it as the procession route. Lordship the Bishop, as- easing of parking the Other bishops working and The procession moved sisted by Father P. Quinn o ther traffic problems on the text are Archbishop high as 22,000 — watched. Francis J. Grimshaw of or took part in the annual off at 3.30 p.m. and it was and L. Baccini, deacon and made for a more comfortBirmingham, Englan d; procession. more than an hour before sub-deacon, and Father F. able day. Archbishop Denis E. Hurall those taking part had Walsh as master of cereThere was almost unaniHighlight of the day was circled the areas and taken monies. ley, 0.M.I., of Durban, mous praise for the orgaSouth Africa; Archbishop the huge increase in the their positions in the Generally, the public nisers, who had so many Joseph Walsh of Tuam, number of schoolchildren centre of the Stadium. seeme d to approve of the new problems to overcome. Ireland; Bishop Leonard J. taking part in this public n ew - look procession, The religio us If there were any were Raymond of Allahabad, demonstration of faith. last to march with His Lord- though many said they plaints, they were comIndia; Archbishop Micha concl The Stadium proved the ship Bishop regretted the end of the cerned with the time lapse C. O'Neill of Regina, Canideal setting for the cere- carrying the M. McKeon traditional Aquinas cere- between the start of the Blessed Sacada; Archbishop Gordon mony and provided a colmony. assembling and the start (7' Gray of St. Andrews ourful spectacle, with the rament at the rear. and Edinburgh, of the procession. Scotland; various school uniforms, Fa ther F. They X. believed that there Brown, and Auxiliary Bishop n However, this will be ational groups, religious, 0.P.. preached the was not as much opportuthird orders, sodalities and sional sermon at the occafurther streamlined in nity comto meet old friends as future flower girls almost com- pletion of the proces years as the orgasion there had been in the colpletely filling the area in- and then Solemn Bened nisers overcome unexpectic- lege grounds. side the running track. ed bottlenecks. The decision to switch from Aquinas because of traffic and parking was an obvious success. The huge crowd arrived and departed with a minimum of trouble with so V ATICAN CITY: THE Christian cannot devote many outlets available. himself exclusively to his ROLE OF LAYMEN IN own profession in the THE CHURCH BECAME BOYS' BANDS world. He has clear-cut A MAJOR TOPIC FOR storation religio us duties as well. of the perma nent bond with the victory of The early crowd was Finally. t h e schema entertained by the boys' THE FIRST TIME AT AN diaconate. The chapter on Christ over sin through bands from the Marist ECUMENICAL COUNCIL the laity stresses that lay- the sanctification of his treats of the layman's relationsip with the hierBrothers' College a n d IN THE SECOND VATI- men share in the Church's life and surroundings. • His Eminence Cardimission to sanctify the archy. The layman, it nal Agagianian, t Clontarf. he world. SPECIAL PLACE CAN COUNCIL'S SECstates, has a right to exCardinal Prefec At 2.55 p.M. the Blessed OND SESSION. The duties of the layman pect all due care and asSacred Congre t of the The chapte r proclaims Sacrament was borne gation of Pr opaganda, has the laymen's participation deriving from his special sistance from the pastors through the tunnel enai.1place in the Mystical Body of the Church. On the Dur ing the week the in the priesthood of Christ "oneed that there will trance and placed in the be no council Fathers ended dis- It states that he, too, . are enumerated. He is other hand, he is also tabernacle on the altar in cussion is change in the of the second sanctified through Bap- obliged, the schema de- bound to respectful obediNational the Sir Thomas Meagher chapte PontificalDirector of the r of the draft pro- tism and Confirmation. clares, to make his contri- ence towards ecclesiastiStand. bution to the sanctification cal authority. He must reSo.cieties Mission Aid posal — or schema— "On Hence, in his own way, the and in Then followed hymns the Nature of the Church," layman shares growth of the Body of frain from unjust criticism ij,i s Lordship Australia. in the and motets by the Cathed- dealing with the hier- threefold office of Christ, for he has his own and he must pray for his Inomas, the Bishop A. Christ — new Bishop ral and school choirs while archy, and began debate priestly, by proper share in the ecclesiastical superiors. of Bathur partici st, will carry On. the the procession was as- on Chapter III, which con- in the sacramental pation Church's mission for the The people of God and life of policy and adsembled. cerns the laity. the Church; prophetic, in salvation of the world. the hierarchy, the schema ill.lnistration of the SoPart of the mission of declares, constitute one cieties at Prefects from Aquinas Major topics in the dis- his witness to Christ and least for an the layman, according to body, engaged in the comexPerimental outlined the letter forma- cussion of the second the preaching of Christ in period. the schema, is his co-re- mon mission of Christ and tion to be taken by the chapter were the collegia- his mileu, particu larly in sponsibility in preaching procession and Children of lity of the bishops and re- his family sharing undivided respon; kingly, in his the Christian message. The sibility before the world.
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ROLE OF THE LAYMAN IN THE CHURCH IS MAJOR TOPIC