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PROMISES Of STATEMENT ON PROBLEM By PATRICK RILEY, N.C.W.C. Reporter. from VATICAN CITY.
POPE PAUL VI REVEALED THAT THE C HURCH IS IN THE PROCESS OF A MAJOR R E-EVALUATION OF THE QUESTION OF B IRTH CONTROL AND SAID THAT FOR THE PRESENT, AT LEAST, THE PRONOUNCEMENTS ON THE QUESTION BY POPE PIUS XII MUST BE CONSIDERED V ALID AND BINDING FOR ALL CATHOLICS. Pope Paul spoke out with the apparent intention of ending the current controversy over the possible legitimacy for using certain recently discovered hormone pills which can prevent conception. He did not refer explicitly to the "pill." But he said that the Church is being aided by "many eminent scholars" In an intensive study of the question, and that s findings will be revealed as soon as possible. Pending a further pronouncement, he said, nobody is to "take it upon himself to speak in terms different from the norms" laid down by Pius XII.
Review PAUL VI'S statement came in the course of a 5,000-word discourse before a group of cardinals on the eve of the feast of St. John the Baptist, his baptismal patron. He took the occasion to review the first year of his pontificate. In the course of his talk he also revealed that the Catholic Church is returning to the Orthodox Church of Greece relics of St. Andrew the Apostle, which were looted by Latin Crusaders during the sack of Constantinople in 1204. The Pope spoke warmly of his meeting last January with Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constaninople, spiritual leader of the Orthodox world. He also referred to the forthcoming third session of the Ecumenical Council and the International Eucharistic Congress to be held in India in November. He talked, too, about world peace.
Pius XII BUT the bombshell of his discourse was the reference to the birth control controversy and his promise to reveal the findings of the current investigation as quickly as possible. For the time being, at least, he demanded adherence to the findings of Pius XII, whom he had served as collaborator for many Years. Pope Pius XII's detailed pronouncements on birth control reaffirmed the Church's condemnation of active interference with the Procreative purpose of the marital act. He also reiterated the illegality of direct sterilisation—any deliberate attempt, either as an end or a means, to make Procreation impossible. Pius XII did not, however, condemn every act that would bring about
sterilisation as an undesired effect, such as the surgical removal of diseased ovaries. Shortly before he died in 1958, Pope Pius dealt with moral problems connected with pills that prevent ovulation. He described this effect as "temporary sterility." This is a judgment which medical and moral specialists have been closely examining and disputing. Pius stated that the woman who takes such a pill as a necess*ry remedy for an unhealthy uterus or organism, rather than, to prevent conception, "provokes indirect sterilisation, which is permitted according to the general principles governing acts with a double effect." This traditional distinction of the "double effect" refers to a cts using legitimate means and having a licit goal, but which could have a secondary result which would in itself be illicit. Speaking to participants in the seventh International Haematological Congress in Rome whom he granted an audience at Castelgandolfo on 'September 12, 1958, Pope Pius stated that it would be immoral to take such a pill if the goal were simply to prevent conception. "But a direct, and therefore illicit sterilisation is provoked when ovulation is stopped so as to prevent the uterus and the organism from the consequences of pregnancy, which it is not able to sustain," he said. "Some moralists maintain that it is permissible to take medicines for this reason, but they are wrong." To
Midwives
PIUS XII had said in 1951, addressing Italian midwives, that the socalled rhythm method of birth control—the use of the natural infecund per(Continued on Page Two)
Pictured with their ordaining Prelate, Bishop L. J. Goody of Bunbury, and their famil ies' parish priest, Father J. McCormack of Claremont, are newly ordained Fathers Lynn Whitely ( left) and Leon Russell . Both offered their first Mass at St. Thomas' Church, Claremont, last Sunday.
WA. Bishops Decide On English In Mass
ON FRIDAY, JUNE 26, THE
BISHOPS
OF T H E ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE OF PERTH MET TO DECIDE ON THE MANNER OF IMPLEMENTING THE CONCILIAR DECREE ON THE LITURGY.
Present for the meeting, were His Grace the Archbishop, the Bishop of Bun-
bury (Most Rev. L. J. Goody). the Bishop of the Kimberleys (Mot Rev. J. Jobst, S.A.C.), the Bishop of Geraldton (Most Rev. F. X. Thomas), the Auxiliary Bishop of Perth ( Most Rev. M. McKeon) and the Lord Abbot of New Norcia (Rt. Rev. G. Gomez. O.S.B.).
HOLY RELIC WILL BE RETURNED VATICAN CITY: ROPE PAUL VI HAS ANNOUNCED THAT HE WILL RETURN THE RELIC OF ST. ANDREW, THE BROTHER OF ST. PETER, TO THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN PATRAS, GREECE, WHERE TRADITION SAYS HE WAS MARTYRED. The Holy Father told an assembly of cardinals that the transfer of the relic is being made at the request of Orthodox Metropolitan Constantine of Patras. The relic, said to be the head of the Apostle. was taken from Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 so that, in the Pope's words. "it might be worthily preserved next to the tomb of his brother, St. Peter. with the intention that it might be returned one day. God willing." His gesture, the Pope said, testifies "to our veneration for the Greek Orthodox Church and to our intention to open our
brotherly heart to it, in the faith and charity of the Lord." Pope Paul said the council Fathers would venerate the relic at the third session of the Vatican Council, and it would then be taken to Patras by a papal mission. Christian tradition credits St. Andrew with preaching the Gospel in Asia Minor and Greece, and an early tradition holds that he was crucified in Patras. In the fourth century the relic was taken to Constantinople. and in 1204 to the Cathedral of S4. Andrew in Amalfi. in Central Italy.
In a statement released by His Lordship Bishop Goody, secretary to the Provincial Bishops Conference, the Conference resolved that all the English permitted be introduced into the Liturgy as from the first Sunday of August ( August 2). By that time it is hoped that the booklets being published with the people s part in English would be available in every parish. In effect, almost all those parts of the Mass which are commonly audible to the congregation will be in English. The only exception is the Preface to the Canon, which will remain in Latin. MISSALS It was emphasised that no English Mass book or missal was prescribed for the use of the people. They will be able to use the books which they already have. All Sacraments and Sacramentals will be administered in English as soon as the New Ritual being published in England is available—a matter of a few weeks. It was also resolved by the Conference that there be a public renewal of Baptismal Vows by all the candidates for Confirmation immediately before the reception of the Sacrament of Confirmation. OTHER DIOCESES The Archdiocese of Sydney will have the Epistle and Gospel in English for the Sundays. .Tuly 5. 12 and 19. The remainder of
the liturgical changes will commence on Sunday, July 26. The Archdiocese of Hobart, waiting on the arrival of the translations for the people, has not yet set the date. Archbishop G. Young has forbidden Masses every half-hour on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation, so that Masses will not be "a quick mumbled murmur." He has also forbidden Mass being celebrated at side altars while the principal Mass is being offered at the main altar. Confessions during Mass are also forbidden. The Archdiocese of Adelaide will commence with the priest reading the InEpistle, Collect, troit, Gradual, Gospel and the Offertory, Communion and Post - Communion prayers in English, as well as reciting the Lord's Prayer with the people. This is on July 5. The rest of the changes will follow on Sunday, August 2. The Archdiocese of Melbourne has made the use English compulsory of from Sunday. July 26. Priests are allowed to introduce the use of English on the first Sunday of July if the brochures containing the authorised text are a vailable. Archbishop Simonds has informed the priests of his all that Archdiocese Masses at which English is used must be Dialogue Masses. It would appear that most of Australia will be using English in the Mass by A ugust.