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Missions Giving Increases Again FATHER W. FOLEY, DIRECTOR OF THE PONTIFICAL MISSION AID SOCIETIES, H A S ANA THAT NOUNCED HAS 30,069 £ OF OTAL T BEEN CONTRIBUTED TO THE MISSION SOCIETIES BY CATHOLICS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE DURING THE LAST 12 MONTHS. This was an increase of £ 3,724 on the previous year. He expressed his personal thanks to the people whose generosity helped achieve this very successful result. Father Foley said: "There is reason for great hope for the Church in Perth when each year brings t angible proof of growing dedication to Christ and His work in the world. The c ompelling need so many have felt in sharing the blessings of God with others, in a spirit of faith and charity, is an outgiving apostolic spirit in a world that tries to forget God."
Co-operation In publishing t hese figures he made clear that the results were due to the zealous co-operation of the priests in the parishes and the religious Sisters and Brothers in the schools, who by their example have inspired young their charges with concern for others not so favoured. Despite the great improvement in recent years, much still remains to be done. Father Foley remarked that many Catholics for some reason or other failed to renew their subscriptions during 1963. Last year nearly 765 out of 936 requests for special help could be granted, and even then only an average of 31.61 per cent of the desired amount could be given. "There are millions of men," he said, "who must be reached. They need the help of Christ through His
missionaries for their churches, schools, hospitals and leprosaria, etc. Your continued good faith and unending charity are the only reservoir Christ has on earth to care for His poor." • See PAGE 12
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MAASIN, Philppines: An altar boy here has been acquitted of slaying a drunken man who recently attacked the parish priest during Benediction. Father Manuel Gomez was performing Benediction when a drunken man emerged from the crowd and swung at the priest with a knife. The altar boy threw the censer at the attacker's arm and grappled for possession of the knife. The drunken man was killed in the scuffle. In a 13-page decision. the court upheld the constitutional right of religious worship and warned all to respect the Church, its ministers and ceremonies.
WASHINGTON: Father Francis J. Connell, C.Ss.R., said here he regards excessive cigarette smoking as sinful because people who do it endanger their health unnecessarily.
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The Redemptorist, former dean of the School of Sacred Theology at the Catholic University of America, said he regards the smoking of two packets of cigarettes or more daily as excessive.
JUDITH ANNE HARTIGAN
Will Teach In New Guinea Miss Hartigan, daughter of Mrs. G. N. Hartigan, was educated at Loreto Convent "Osborne," of
A new principal has been appointed to St. B rendan's College, Hilton Park, which will cornmence teaching on February 11.
SUMMARY OF DONATIONS PONTIFICAL MISSION AID 'SOCIETIES, 1963 - -PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH: Memberships, Mission Sunday, Donations, Legacies, etc 24.971 18 10 HOLY CHILDHOOD: Memberships, Donations 4.661 7 SOCIETY OF ST. PETER APOSTLE 436 3 30.069
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"We desire to recommend Our Missionary Societies • • . to Our most beloved diocesan and regular clergy . . . to those Who in different ways are dedicated to the most high interests of the Kingdom of God . . . and to all the Faithful. Let everyone, in accordance with his personal responsibility and his personal ability, in a spirit of faith and enlightened charity, contribute as generously as he c an to the development of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies." —Pope Paul VI, Mission 'Sunday, October. 1963.
Perth Airport on Thursday, January 23. The new school in the Beaconsfield parish to be conducted by the Fathers of the Society .of the African Missions will have an initial enrolment of 80, in t wo grades-4 and 5. In subsequent years, enrolment will be taken in grade 4, thus giving the college progressive classes up to full complement. Two Fathers of the Society have been here since February last year. They were Fathers Cornelius Murphy, B.A., H.Dip.Ed. (N.U.I.), and Martin Walsh B.A. (N.U.I.), M.A. ( Cantab.). They taught classes at Trinity College (Father Walsh) and the Marist Brothers' College in Subiaco (Father Murphy). Father Murphy has left Perth to take up a new appointment, The new superior and Father Walsh will be assisted at the new school by Brother Francis Murphy, S.M.A., who arrives at Fremantle on January 24.
Father Connell's comments were made in reference to the report given to the Surgeon-General of the United States by the advisory committee on smoking and health.
HAZARD SOME CASES The report said cigarette In some cases, he added, smoking is causally related excessive smoking could to lung cancer in men; be a mortal sin. that it is a health hazard He said this would be serious enough to warrant true in the case of a man remedial action; and that who disregards a warning the death rates for smokers from his doctor that he is increase with the amount likely to contract a serious smoked. ailment if he continues his Father Connell had a smoking habits. suggestion f o r smokers He held "moderate trying to cut down or stop smoking" to be morally entirely. permissive. -The risk is "They can make a virtue apparently slight and of their self-denial," he ,there would appear to be said, "by offering it to God some benefits resulting, at in satisfaction for their least psychologically." he sins and those of the of said. world."
Miss Judith Anne Hartigan ( pictured) 92 Nicholson-rd., Subiaco, will leave Perth on Tuesday, January 28, for the Divine Word Mission in Wewak, New Guinea.
New Order's New School: New Principal He is Very Reverend Father E. O'Shea, S.M.A., B.Sc., who arrived at
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which she was Dux in 1959. She is a graduate of the University of Western Australia, having completed her Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in History, in 1962. Since then she has been working as a librarian at Mt. Lawley. Miss Hartigan will serve as a lay missionary, teaching seventh standard in the mission school at Wewak. She said that she had often thought about mission work and had been in contact with Miss M. Flynn, who was in Wewak in connection with the training of teachers in the mission schools.
Extension Of Time VATICAN CITY. — The Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office has revised its ruling that priests planning to celebrate Mass must calculate the period of the Eucharistic fast from the beginning of the Mass. A new decision now permits the period to be calculated in reference to the moment of the priest's Communion. The decision was contained in a Holy Office decree dated January 10. Until the decree, under the provisions of the apostolic constitution Christus Dominus of 1953 and the motu proprio Sacram Communionem of 1957. priests had to calculate the threehour abstention from ordinary food and alcoholic drinks from the beginning of Mass. According to Canon 247 of the Code of Canon Law, the Holy Office exclusively is competent in all matters that relate to the Eucharistic fast for priests. ov••••••e.sse,•••••••••••••0•04
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER'S "LUCKY BREAK"
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: A FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER RECEIVED AN UNEXPECTED PRIVATE AUDIENCE WITH POPE PAUL VI. The Pope had to seek refuge from the surging crowd that hemmed him in while he walked along the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre here. The photographer, who did not wish his name to be used, said it happened this way: He was struggling along the narrow Via Dolorosa. a short distance behind the Pope, hoping to get a picture of him, when the Pope was lost to view in the seething mass of humanity. Fearing damage to his
stairs and opened a door. There sat the Pope—alone. When the photographer was over his astonishment, he asked for the Pope's blessing, then stuttered a question or two. The Pope replied that it had become necessary for him to seek s anctuary until the tumulcamera, the photographer tuous crowd settled down. He then commented that sought to escape the press of the crowd. He glanced since it was the other to the side and saw a nun. man's profession to take with a startled expression photographs, he was welon her face, standing in come to do just that. About the half -open door of a ten minutes later, several members of the Pope's enconvent. tourage appeared and led him from the building to REFUGE another route to the Holy The photographer edged Sepulchre Church. The his way in, and asked for photographer later learned refuge, preferably in an that the Pope had taken upstairs room, where he refuge at the sixth station could take pictures from a of the Via Dolorosa, in the window. Without saying a convent of the Little Sisword, the nun led him up- ters of De Foucald.