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MEETING Of AUSTRALIAN HIERARCHY
Paternal Interest THE HOLY FATHER A450 HAS DONATED TOWARDS THE WORK OF THE CATHOLIC ENQUIRY CENTRE IN AUSTRALIA. This was announced in a letter the director of the centre, Father T. White, received from the Apostolic Delegate to Australia and New Zealand. The letter read: "The Holy Father, who was informed of your report, has expressed his satisfaction with the excellent work being done by the centre to make known the doctrine and teaching of the Catholic Church to our A separated brethren. special praise is due to all those people, priests and laity, who dedicate their time and energy to this important work by their prayers and offerings. "The Holy Father wishes to give a tangible sign of his paternal interest, and has therefore sent the sum of 1.000 dollars for the centre."
Thirty-three members of the Australian Hierarchy assembled in Sydney last week under the chairmanship of His Eminence Cardinal Gilroy for what may have been one of the most important episcopal conferences ever held in Australia. There were 22 items on the Agenda, mostly concerned with routine business dealing with the various aspects of the Church's mission in the religious, educational and social spheres. Among many matters discussed was the question of implementing the Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, and particularly the question of the introduction of 'English into the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the administration of the Sacraments and other liturgical ceremonies. A statement issued at the conclusion of the conference said: "Mother Church earnestly desires that all the faithful should be led to that full, conscious and active participation in liturgical celebrations which is demanded by the very nature of the Liturgy. Since the use of the mother tongue is frequently of great advantage in this regard, the Council conceded to the National Conferences of Bishops the power to decide within certain limits the introduction of the vernacular. "The Conference of Australian Bishops has arrived at definite decisions permitting some use of English in the Liturgy. However, it is pointed out that until the Acts of the Bishops' Conference have been confirmed by the Sovereign Pontiff, no change whatsoever may be made in any liturgical functions as regards either the language or their structure." The statement said that when the decision of the Sovereign Pontiff has been received, each Bishop will communicate it to his own people. Meanwhile, the priests and people are urged to penetrate ever more deeply the Divine Mysteries that are made present through the Sacred Liturgy and to be mindful of the fact that the aim of liturgical renewal is the uniting of God's people with their heavenly Father through Christ the High Priest.
"STUDY IN PRAYER" . . . During the season of Lent we recall to mind, with sorrow and love, all that took place from the time when Our Lord was condemned to death to His being laid in the tomb.
STIR OVER PEACE PRIZE MILAN, Italy: A short, dark, dynamic Franciscan friar who has built an impressive arts centre here is a central figure in the uproar surrounding the awarding of this year's Balzan Peace Prize to the United Nations. He is 57-year-old Father Enrico Zucca, 0.F.M., who holds the post of president of the executive committee of the Balzan Foundation and who delivered in person to U.N. SecretaryGeneral U Thant a cheque for approximately 160.000 dollars this month as the foundation's 1964 award for world peace efforts. The late Pope John XXIII
was the recipient of the 1963 award. Charges of arbitrary decisions on the part of the executive committee immediately followed the announcement of the choice of the U.N. as this year's winner. The 11 members of the foundation's prize committee declared that they had not been consulted about the choice and that officers of the executive committee, particularly Father Zucca, had acted high-handedly and in conflict with by-laws of the foundation. President Antonio Segni of Italy and the president of the Swiss Confedera-
tion. Ludwig von Moos. both announced their resignation from the Balzan committee. So did the former Italian President Giovanni Gronchi. The Swiss government stepped in and froze the foundation's funds in Switzerland, on the ground that the charter of that foundation had been violated by its officers. Father Zucca. a dynamic man full of projects and activities, is well known in Milan. He was born in Vertova, in the province of Bergamo. in 1906. He joined the Franciscan community, was ordained in 1932 and served in a Franciscan friary at Monza for several years.
Heal Scars Of Algerian Conflict PARIS. — THE CARDINALS AND ARCHBISHOPS OF FRANCE HAVE APPEALED TO THEIR PEOPLE AND THEIR GOVERNMENT TO TAKE STEPS TO BRING ABOUT THE HEALING OF WOUNDS STILL REMAINING FROM THE ALGERIAN CONFLICT.
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Algeria won its independence from France in 1962 after close to a decade of Warfare. Extremist groups, both among the Algerians and the French, engaged in terrorist violence, and many of those arrested in France were sentenced to long prison terms. An estimated 1,000 former terrorists are still in gaol in France. The Assembly of the Cardinals and Archbishops of France in a statement made public on February
They call for understanding, sympathy and active charity on the part of everybody. "First, there are those who have disappeared in Algeria, men, women and 29 asked that amnesty be children, of whom no one given them as a "major possesses certain informatoken of solidarity and tion. Have they died, or national reconciliation." are they still alive? One The prelates also called can imagine the anguish of on the people of continen- their families in France. tal France to welcome the Investigations have al800.000 Algerian immi- ready been made; steps grants into their midst, have been taken on our and to give aid to all who part. The Church demands are in need. with urgency that searches be made wherever it may The statement said: "We be presumed that these want to call attention to persons might have been some unfortunate cases transferred. which are prolonging the suffering of a certain numThere are also the ber of families in France. wives and children who
have remained in Algeria of Moslem soldiers, civil servants and deputies who have sougl-it refuge in France. These families are suffering from their separation. It would be humane to enable them to be reunited as soon as possible. "In a broader way, our solicitude is directed towards the 800.000 persons who have been repatriated from Algeria. In our dioceses and through our assembly. urgent messages have been sent to all Christians, to the Catholic Action organisations and those engaged in charitable and welfare activities to receive these repatriated persons everywhere like brothers. Let everyone give them the assistance
and services of which they stand in need. Let them be received with affection in the midst of the national community of which they are a part. "Finally, we are thinking of all those who are expiating in prisons the sentences imposed on them at the time of the incidents in Algeria. The time has come to forget past discord. A broad amnesty should be the great act of national solidarity and reconciliation. In particular, the young people and the heads of families should be offered the opportunity of placing their energy and hopes at the service of the nation, which is so in need of the co-operation of all its children."
Nazi Murders ONE - THIRD OF POLAND'S PRIESTS WERE MURDERED BY NAZIS BETWEEN 1939 AND 1941, ACCORDING TO TESTIMONY GIVEN AT A WAR CRIMES TRIAL HELD IN THE GERMAN CITY OF FRANKFURT. Professor Martin Broszat, of the Munich Institute of Modern History, a specialist in Nazi race policy, said that another third of the Polish clergy was- gaoled and the rest were driven underground. Broszat testified at the trial of 21 former guards at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz who are charged with taking part in the slaughter of from two and a half to four million people there. Most of the victims were Jews, but there were also a large number of Poles. Broszat said that the killing and imprisonment of priests was part of a Nazi policy to enslave or exterminate the Polish people. He said the Nazis began to murder Polish leaders, including priests, as soon as they occupied that nation in 1939. Only a "very few" Polish priests survived until the war ended in 1945 and "there were practically no active Polish church groups remaining in Poland" by that time, Broszat declared. Of the hundreds of thousands of Poles sent to Auschwitz, he said, only 15.000 survived.