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AN OUTLINE PERSONAL MEETING F OR UNITY PROPOSO
A DELAIDE: THE MOVEMENT TOWARD C HRISTIAN UNITY WILL NOT BE PROMOTED BY GOODWILL ALONE, BUT ALSO BY PRACTICAL DEEDS AND BY BETTER L IVES, ACCORDING TO ARCHBISHOP MATTHEW BEOVICH OF ADELAIDE. "Nothing is more likely to deepen divisions than any example of Catholics that would hide from other Christians the true face of the Church," he said. Archbishop Beovich spoke at a South Australian Council of Churches luncheon meeting, chaired by the council's president, the Rev. J. D. Bentley, former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church .in* South Australia. His subject was the Vatican Council. Archbisop Beovich said that a Vatican Council project discussed last year had indicated the means for "practising ecumenism in the Church's sense." Voting on the subject will probably take place at the next session of the council, which begins in September. The Archbishop said the project includes: • A statement of Catholic principles—Christ's will for one united Church, the position of our separated brethren, and the need for Catholic unity efforts. • Inner renewal of the Church. • A genuine change of heart in all Christians, without which progress in unity would not be possible. • Prayer in common for unity. This would not include sharing religious services or common celebration of the Eucharist. It would be prayer in common on special occasions such as the week of prayer for Christian unity held in May, or at ecumenical meetings. • Better mutual acquaintances, including ecumenical instruction in schools and seminaries. • Collaboration of the different Christian churches and communities in the common service of the world, Particularly in social services, in combating hunger and disease, assisting developing countries and helping in preservation of peace. • Dialogues or interdenominational discussions between experts conducted with .the utmost charity. - The Council will probably decide that each Bishop will nominate his own experts," the Archbishop said. They will have the task Of presenting .the whole of Catholic doctrine—both what is held in common and what separates —in such a way that it can be understood by our brethren who start from different theological, cultural and historical presuppositions. "These dialogues should not be begun too hastily, but they will help us to know one another's minds."
When To Kneel, Sit And Stand At Mass T HE following is the list of
postures to be adopted at Mass with the introduction of the changes approved by the Australian Bishops: KNEEL for prayers at KNEEL for Canon. foot of altar. STAND after "Amen" at STAND as priest end of Canon and reascends altar steps and main standing until remain s tanding for a fter Agnus Dei. Introit, K yrie, Gloria, Collect. KNEEL after Agnus Dei SIT for Epistle until after the distriand Grabution of 'Holy Comdual Responsory. munion. STAND for Gospel and SIT during Ablution of Creed and Greeting Chalice. ( Dominus Vobiscum). STAND f o r Greeting, SIT for Offertory. Post -Communion and STAND for Introductory "Ite Missa Est." dialogue to Preface and KNEEL for Blessing. f or Preface and Sanc- STAND for priest tus. to leave altar.
On June 21st His Holiness the Pope visited the College of St. Peter the Apostle for the first t ime. Pictured with the Pope is Father Michael Keating, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Keating of St. J ames. He is a post graduate student at the college, studying for his doctorate in Canon Law. The Holy Father in his conversation with Father Keating said "Please tell those at home t hat I send a special blessing to your family and to your diocese."
AN ON TWO PAPERS
FLIXTON, England: Two major national Catholic weekly papers, the Universe and the Catholic Herald are banned from sale at the parish church of St. Monica here. The ban came from a
parish committee entrusted with organising the sale of Catholic papers at the church. Father James McVey, the parish priest, denied that he himself forbade the sale of the two papers.
Father McVey added that the committee made the decision after having received complaints by many parishioners on the manner the papers handled controversial issues, including birth control and issues now under discussion at the Ecumenical Council. Complaining that there was too much speculation about the council in the press, Father McVey said that "a lot of reports are without foundation, but ordinary Catholics and even many educated ones are not taught to sift the and later at the Austral evidence and distinguish Business College, Mel- what is and what is not bourne. He entered the true." On birtl? control, he deBenedictine Novitiate, at New Norcia, on March 12, clared he did not want his 1957, and there pursued parishioners disturbed. He concluded: "I am prepared his priestly studies. to accept whatever the Pope says, but we need a period of sobering down and of waiting and these things should not be discussed ad nauseum."
BENEDICTINE TO BE ORDAINED DOM ANSCAR McPIIEE, 0.S.B., will be ordained. by His Lordship Bishop Thomas of Geraldton in the Pro-Cathedral of New Norcia on Thursday, July 16, at 9 a.m. He will celebrate his first Mass on Friday in the same Pro-Cathedral, which is the Abbey Church. The McPhee family went to Melbourne from Beulah in Victoria, where Dom Anscar was born in 1939. the youngest in a family of nine children. Of the o thers, two are in the religious life—Father Brendan, 0.Carm., ordained in January and now stationed at the Carmelite Novitiate House in New South Wales, and Brother Matthew, 0. Carm.. who teaches at Whitefriars College, Donvale in Victoria. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hector McPhee, live in Mont Albert, which is in the Surrey Hills parish of the Archdiocese of Melbourne. Dom Anscar was educated by the Sisters of St Joseph at Our Holy ReSchool, Surrey deemer Hills, by the Marist Brothers, Marcellin College,
Major's Appeal By FATHER PATRICK O'CONNOR, S.S.C., from SAIGON. The wife of Major Matthew Dang Sy—the Vietnamese Catholic officer who was sentenced on June 6 to life imprisonment with hard labour after a trial regarded as unfair by many Vietnamese—has given birth to a baby boy. This is their eighth child. Their eldest is 12 years old. Major Dang is a greatgrandson of a martyr, Blessed Michael Ho Dinh Hy, who was beatified by Pope Pius X. Mrs. Dang Sy is a convert to the Catholic Faith. The government has not yet answered the letter presented on June 19, signed by 347 priests on behalf of the Vietnamese Catholic community, requesting a review of Dang Sy's trial. The letter pointed out the contradictions in the evidence and called the case "prefabricated." The press office of Prime Minister MajorGeneral Nguyen Khanh told the N.C.W.C. News Service on June 27 that it could give no information on the subject. Vietnameses newspapers were not yet allowed to publish the text of the priests' letter, which was made available to the press on June 26. According to official sources, newspapers were to be allowed to publish it in a few days.
SKULL TO BE ENSHRINED
AYLESFORD, England: The skull of St. Simon Stock, England's first Carmelite who died at the age of nearly 100 in 1265 in Bordeaux, France, will be permanently enshrined on July 19 by Bishop Cyril Cowderoy of Southwark in a new chapel of the recently restored 13th-century Carmelite monastery here. Bishop Cowderoy will take the relic from a niche in the wall of a small chapel in the cloister where it has been preserved since 1951 when Archbishop — now Cardinal—Paul Richaud of Bordeaux brought it back to Aylesford.
NEW BISHOP APPOINTED Information has been received from the Apostolic Delegate in Sydney that the Holy Father has nominated Father Douglas Warren, new Administrator the parish of Forbes, as Auxiliary Bishop to His Lordship Bishop Thomas Fox, of Wilcannia-Forbes. Father Douglas Warren was born in 1919 at Canowindra, in N.S.W., and studied for the priesthood at St. C,olumba's College, Springwood, and the Pontifical
Urban College, Rome. He was ordained on December 20, 1942, in Rome by His Eminence C ardinal FumasoniBiondi. On his return to Australia, he was appointed to various' parishes in the Diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes, and in 1947 became Chancellor of the Diocese. In 1956 he was made Administrator of the parish of Forbes, a position which he has held since that time.