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A PACKED ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL PAID TRIBUTE TO THE LATE PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, A SSASSINATED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, LAST MONDAY EVENING. Chicago-born Father J. M. Loftus, 0.S.M., Superior of the Servite Fathers in Western Australia, preacha moving panegyric at the end of the Mass, at the conclusion of which everyone stood in silence while the organ played "The Dead March from Saul." At the Mass, Captain P. T. Dunn represented His Excellency the Governor, the Hon. C. D. Nalder, M.L.A., Deputy Premier, represented the State Government, and Mr. A. Curlewis, Deputy Mayor, represented the Perth City Council. U.S. CONSUL The United States Consul in Perth, Mr. C. T. Mayfield and his family were at the Mass, also Dr. I. Argento, Italian Consul in Perth, representatives of the Australian-American Association and members of the Armed Forces of the United States. His Lordship Bishop M. McKeon was present in the Sanctuary and a large number of priests were present to sing the Requiem Mass. Celebrant of the Mass as Monsignor J. Hogan, assisted by Father L. Baccini as deacon and Father P. McCrann as sub -deacon. Father F. Walsh was master of ceremonies. PANEGYRIC Father Loftus took as his text: "The man who had received five talents went and worked with them until he had made a profit of five talents more." He continued: "If ever there was a five-talent man, it was the late John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was born to things most men strive towards all their lives—wealth, status, education, leisure. It is said the Boston Kennedys can bury their talents,in stocks and bonds, the interest and live on double their investment the easy w ay. They need to God, if they speak only John Kennedychoose. But chose to speak to the people and tell them of his ideals. Citizens of his liked what theyhome State heard and elected him to speak for them in Congress and later the Senate. "Finally, ted him toAmericans elechome and lead them at overseas. represent them On taking the oath of President office, Kennedy American proposed to the adopt his people that they not what code of life: 'Ask your country can do for you, but what you Can do for your country. Ask not what Fan do for yourthe world country, but what your country can do for the world.' If the t•S• were a thoroughly Christian country he
might have added: 'Ask not what Christ can do for you, but what you can do for Christ.' "The New Frontiers were born with national and international peace as its objectives. The Peace Corps, Food for Peace, Disarmament, Ban the Bomb followed rapidly, sparked by John F. Kennedy's thought, courage and prudence. "In Time • Magazine a pundit wrote lately: 'Pope John XXIII opened the door with his encyclical on peace, and John Kennedy walked through.' Both had the same goals. Judging from world reaction to President Kennedy's death, he had indeed made a profit of five talents more.
"As the Kennedy orphans grow up to read about their father in history books, Caroline and John, Jr., will ask their mother repeatedly as children do: 'What was Daddy really like?' The President's widow can stir their memories with: 'Don't you remember, Junior, that you used to scramble up the gangplank of the President's plane to be swept into his arms?' She can ask Caroline if she reremembers the time she broke into a press conference wearing her mother's spiked shoes and he led her away gently. She can recall also that the President broke the news ten- A recent picture of the late President John F. Kennedy taken as he receives a facsimile of derly of the death of their what is believed to be the oldest written records in the United States. Father M. Gannon • Continued on Page Two. director of the Mission of Nombre de Dios in Florida is with the President presenting him with the first entry in the parish baptismal register dated June 25, 1594.
Panels Improve PreCana Conference Engaged couples who attended the recent PreCana Conferences which concluded last Friday expressed particular appreciation of the panel discussions on preparation for marriage. Mr. Noel Gorne said that the panel discussions gave those attending the conferences the opportunity to air their own views and straighten out differends of opinion with members of the panel. His fiancee, Miss Imelda Hullet, of Applecross, said: "The Pre-Cana Conferences have been helpful in clarifying my ideas on preparing for marriage." The present series of c onferences began on Sunday, November 3, with 23 couples attending. They continued on the following three Friday nights. PANEL DISCUSSIONS The most significant change in this conference
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was the extensive use of panel discussions instead of individual speakers. Medical aspects of marriage were given fuller treatment than in previous conferences. The panel on finance was made up of a bank manager, an insurance manager, a registered builder and a married man of some years experience. The chairman was a qualified economist. The panel on adjustment in early marriage consisted of Father J. Loftus, 0.S.M., Father J. Russell, Director of the Catholic Marriage Guidance Council, and a young married couple. The chairman was a previous Pre-Cana speaker. Father J. Loftus, who before coming to W.A. studied marriage guidance counselling in the United States, remarked among other things, that the main quality young couples look for in one another is understanding.
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DRAFT'S MAIN POINT IS BE BETTER CATHOLICS By PATRICK RILEY, N.C.W.C. Reporter. VATICAN CITY.—The Ecumenical Council's draft decree on ecumenism urges all Catholics to heed this era's divinely inspired efforts among virtually all Christians to achieve that full unity willed by Christ. It urges Catholic Bishops everywhere to promote this ecumenism diligently and guide it wisely.
that the ecumenical movement got under way with the help of the Holy Spirit. It urges ,within the Catholic family itself, a proper liberty in various forms of spiritual life, in the liturgy and in the presentation of theolgical truth.
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This liberty will make the Church's genuine catholicity more obvious and will open the door of the Church wider to all, it No direct quotations Spirit, faith, hope and says. The draft was prepared from the document were charity—some visible eleavailable because it is still ments that help to show from three documents oriunder council secrecy. the Church's unity, and ginally prepared by three council preparaChristian rites that can different The draft says that God bodies—the Commistory surely 'produce a true life speaks to Catholics sion for Eastern Churches, through their separated of grace. the Theological CommisAll baptised Christians brethren. This seems to sion and the Secretariat echo the saying of St. An- are sons of the Church, the for Promoting Christian selm that came readily to draft says. Unity. The preparatory the pen of St. Thomas commissions were succeedRecognise Every Aquinas. truth, ed by council commissions, wherever it is found or Catholics should, for and the two, with the unity whoever utters it, comes their enrichment, secretariat, took :-_sart in own from the Holy Ghost. gladly recognise the au- drawing up the new draft The draft also says that thentic goods of Christ and through a mixed commisthe first duty of Catholics the gifts of the Holy Spirit sion. towards the ecumenical to be found among the The last chapter, on reseparated brothers, the ligious movement is to be better liberty, cleared draft says. Catholics. what was regarded as the It does not try to define last major hurdle when it This seems to echo the the ecumenical movement was approved by the Theosaying of St. John Chryso- because it is a movement, logical Commission. storn which the late Pope consequently difficult and While the draft does not John XXIII called the key- to explain precisely. The speak of Protestant bodies note of his pontificate-- draft contents if we lived like Christians, a description itself with as Churches, it does point of ecumento their open confession of there would be no pagans. ism. Christ, their zeal for Holy It calls on Catholics to The draft is divided into Scripture and their Bapco-operate with others in five chapters. The first tism—bond of unity among remedying the evils of our deals with the principles all Christians, but just a times. of ecumenism; the second beginning of the bond of Without speaking of with ecumenism in prac- full unity which is found Protestant bodies as tice; the third with sepa- in a complete confession Churches, it says that some rated Eastern Churches of Faith and in Eucharistic of the elements that go to and, in a separate section, Communion. make up the Catholic w ith Protestants; the The draft mentions their Church can be found withfourth is on the Jews; and Christian community of in them. It mentions the the last chapter is on reli- life, fostered by belief in life of grace and other ingious liberty. Christ, belief in Holy Writ, terior gifts of the Holy The draft makes it clear and Baptism.