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Library Has Striking Mural
A FURTHER INCONVENIENCE TO THE USE OF ENGLISH IN THE MASS SCHEDULED TO COMMENCE ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, WAS RECEIVED ON TUESDAY. A telephone call to Sydney enquiring about the arrival of the Engl ish texts brought the surprising news that they had not even been despatched. They were expected to leave Sydney on July 18. A further telephone call said that despatch would be effected by road transport this Thursday, which will take at least ten days. Parishes throughout the State have been preparing congregations over the last four weeks for the use of English. Priests, who possess the booklet, have been teaching the children in the schools and some have been giving commentaries to special gatherings of the parishioners. A temporary measure for the next two Sundays has been effected from our own resources. However, it is pointed out that this will not replace the booklets.
Modifications Priests of the Archdiocese were notified by letter last weekend of some modifications in the liturgical changes in the Mass. Some of the changes already publicised have to wait for their implementation pending the release of a General Instruction from the Holy See. The modifications are as follows: • The psalm "Judica me" is to be left in the Mass and all the prayers at the foot of the altar are to be in Latin for the time being. • The Epistle, Gradual and the Gospel are to be read in English facing the altar. The previous direction had allowed them to be read facing the people. • The priest and people will recite the Nicene Creed when a creed is stipulated in the rubrics. It is not yet permitted to use the Apostles Creed. • The Secret Prayer, the "Libera nos," the prayers at the "fractio panis" and "commixtio" are in Latin and follow the present rubrics as to parts said aloud or in silence. • The Last Gospel to be r etained and said in Latin for the time being. In practice, the modifications mainly affect the c elebrant. The laity will use their English texts c ommencing.on the second Page at the "Kyrie" in English. The booklet has the text of the Nicene Creed as well as the Apostles Creed. For the time being, the Parts of the Mass in English will be: Introit, Kyrie. Gloria, Collect, Epistle, Gradual, Gospel, Nicene Creed, Offertory verse,
Orate Fratres, Introduction to the Preface, Sanctus, Prelude to Our Father, the Our Father, Agnus Dei, Ecce Agnus, Dei, the Communion Rite, Communion Antiphon, Post Communion, Dismissal and Blessing.
Papal Honour
Three Cardinals and presidents and delegates from 200 col leges and universities were present for the dedication ceremonies o f the new Memorial Library at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals celebrated the Solemn Pontifical Mass in front of Cie 13-storey central portion of the 8 million dollar building. A magnificent granite mural, "Word of Life," appears in the ba:kground. Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis blessed the building following the Mass and academic convocation. Nc
Party Opinion Changes On Education Aid SAN FRANCISCO: The Republ :an Party has veered away from its traditional stand on Federal s :hool aid to reflect in its 1964 campaign platform the position of Sen. Barry Goldwater. The Arizona Senator, nominated on July 15 on the first ballot of the party convention as its presidential candidate, has said repeatedly that he opposes federally directed assistance to education. However, he has also added that if, over his opposition, a programme of federal school aid is adopted, he would favour having its benefits go to all non-profit schools, public and private, secular and parochial. The Senator has stated this view on the Senate floor and in letters inquiring about his position. The 1964 platform is silent on traditional school aid proposals such as federal assistance for public construction in school needy areas. There is no mention of the issue of aid to children in non-public schools.
A GENERAL AND HIS WIFE received papal honours at a private ceremony in the chapel of the residence of Archbishop Gerald T. Bergan, in Omaha, Nebr. General Thomas S. Power, commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command was invested as a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester. Mrs. Power received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Medal. Citations accompanying the awards lauded their role in the construction of a parochial school for Catholic children near Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. —photo N.C.
TAX CREDITS The campaign document calls for tax credits against f ederal income tax for certain college costs, "selective aid" to higher education and a plan to transfer to States the revenues of certain federal taxes which could be used for pressing local problems such as
housing, juvenile deln qw-ncy or schools. Also confirmed was prespeculation convention that if Goldwater becamc the candidate, an easterner — probably a Catholic — wraild be chosen as vicepresidential nominee. Selected was hard-driving William E. Miller, a New York Congressman of 14 years' service, national -hairrn=ln of the party since 1961 and a Catholic. He was Goldwater's per onal choice. M.11er, a product of parochial schools and Notre Dame University, from which he was gradu nted in 1935, is the first Catholic ever nominated by the Republican national convention. Gold water is an Episcopalian. Before the conventic-. opened, one of the groups represented before the platform committee was the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the U.S. Bishops' secretariat. Addressing themselves to the issue of federal school aid, a priest and a lay spokesman stressed the N.C.W.C.'s belief that if federal aid for schools is supported by the Republican party, the party should call for all children, includ-
ing those in parochial and other non-public schools, to be beneficiaries. The A.F.L.-C.I.O., the nation's largest union organisation. also supported inclusion of all children in federal aid, but the National Education Association appealed only for aid to public schools. In 1960, the Republican platform proposed federal support to primary and secondary schools for school construction, based on the "real needs" of individual school districts and requiring State approval and participation.
Bishop Dies
THE death was reporton Tuesday of Bishop Joseph Basil Roper, who was retired and living in Ararat. The late Bishop was formerly Bishop of Toowoomba, and left that See in 1952. Born in Warrnambool, Victoria, in 1888. he was ordained in Sydney on November 30. 1911, and consecrated Bishop by the late Archbishop Mannix at Ballarat on October 28, 1938. Solemn Pontifical Mass will be offered for His Lordship on Friday, July 31. at Ballarat. May he rest in peace.