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"Little Council" Proposed By Dutch Cardinal By DONALD QUINN, reporting from ST. LOUIS, U.S.A.
Bernard Cardinal Alfrink said here his proposal for a central committee of bishops to c onsult with the Pope would be a "constant sign" of the collegiality of bishops with the Pontiff. The Dutch Cardinal was interviewed during his stay as a guest of Joseph C ardinal Ritter of St. Louis. He said his proposal for a central committee of bishops was meant to be a "little council" with the Pope. The proposal was discussed during debates on the collegiality of bishops and Cardinal Alfrink admitted authorship of the idea. "I was the first who uttered this idea," he said in clear English, "but many others have spoken for it now.", The central committee should not be called a "senate" or "parliament," he said, because such words carry the impression of a democratic body.
ratified by council decision. His central committee proposal would be an example of the "social collegiality, which shows all the bishops are brothers, all have needs for the labours of their brothers, all are connected by a collegiality of love, of interest, of help and of assistance." It is this same "social collegiality" which is shared by the priests and the bishop within the dioceses, he said. Such an idea of the presbytery of the ordained, said the cardinal, "should be present in all dioceses. It is in fact present in some. In many cases it could be better."
On Sunday last, His Excellency the Governor Sir Douglas Kendrew, officially opened extensions to Loreto Convent, Claremont. His Excellency is pictured with Mr. W. Mahoney, chairman of the organising committee, as he walks t hrough a guard of honour of schoolgirls. ( See page 9. )
Apprenticeship System Comes Under Close Scrutiny "CATHOLIC WEEKLY" EDITOR
CONSULTORS "This is not a question of democracy," he explained, "but would be an organ to act as advisers and consultors with the Pope." Such a body should be truly representative of all the bishops, probably with a maximum membership Last week was Trade Union Week in Perth of a hundred. "It needs to be representative, with and other capital cities. The week was orthe whole Church repre- ganised by the Trades and Labor Councils to sented," he stressed. young interest people the problems arising in A major benefit if such a body were formed, said f rom working conditions. the visitor, would be as "a • Very often an apprenc onstant sign of the colA highlight of this youth legiality of all the bishops week in Perth was a dis- tice does not receive "on with the Pope as succes- cussion and debate attend- the job" training from one sors of the apostles." ed by a large number of particular person in at apprentices in the Unity least one aspect of the Collegiality of all the Theatre. They confined work. Instead, he passes bishops "will be stated" by from one person to another the Second Vatican Coun- themselves to the prob- —each having different facing lems the young cil, Cardinal Alfrink said views on the job. A sugconfidently. "The text we worker wishing to learn a gestion made was that one trade. have is very good," he The present-day appren- person only should insaid, speaking of the ticeship system came struct the trainee in a parschema submitted to the under close scrutiny. A ticular part of his work. council Fathers. • Once an employee is great proportion of the delegates were apprentices, out of first year and proDIFFERENCE and they expressed many gressing towards his final lie pointed out the dif- and varied opinions on years of training, Ile is no longer considered a trainee ference between "theol.c,gi- this subject. but a qualified tradesman. cal" and "social" colApart from not receiving legiality. "Theological cola full training, he is not EXAMPLES legiality means all the paid for the value his bishops, with not one exConcrete examples were labour is worth to the emcepted," he said. quoted and among the This is the principle problems facing appren- ployer. • A conclusion reached which he expects to see tices today, the following was that there are not were the most common: nough apprentices being • In many cases em- e employed each year. As a ployers do not train their result there is a general apprentices in every aslack of skilled tradesmen pect of their trade. Some to satisfy the demand in fellows were trained in industry within Australia one part of their trade — therefore, the need to early in their training and bring migrants from overThe booklets containing were then employed on seas. the text for the English in that work for the remainthe Mass arrived in Perth RESOLUTIONS der of their apprenticeon Wednesday and should ship. There were several resobe available in all churches • The training received lutions made by the deleon Sunday. at technical colleges gates in view of the facts These booklets will reproved to be inadequate, forthcoming in discussion. place the leaflets which and especially out of date To further the investigahave been in use for the for an apprentice about to tion into the apprenticepast two weeks. commence work in his par- ship system, it was reticular field. • Continued on Page Nine
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DIES IN SYDNEY AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS
THE Editor of "The tion of "The Freeman's history of the Catholic " Catholic Weekly," Mr. Journal" and the "Catho- campaign for justice in James Michael Kelleher, lic Press," Mr. Kelleher, educational matters. Sunday in then Chief Sub-Editor of died last He said he had written Lewisham Private Hos- the 'Sydney "Sunday this book to point out to Sun," was appointed its Catholics their past mispital. He was 54. takes, and to try to imMr. Kelleher had been first Editor. He was one of the foun- prove inter - denominaa patient in the hospital for three weeks following ders of the Catholic Press tional relations which Association and a foun- were so often disturbed the recurrence of a heart condition. He died forti- der and first Master of by controversies about fied by the rites of the the Catholic Journalists' education. Guild. In addition to his other Church. In April, 1960, Pope activities, Mr. Kelleher The late Mr. Kelleher is survived by. his wife, John XXIII invested Mr. was an active member of Mrs. Irene Kelleher, and Kelleher with the ponti- the St. Vincent de Paul two sons, Michael and fical distinction of Knight Society in his home Commander (Civil Class) parish—the Holy Family, Dominic. Mr. Kelleher was born of the Order of St. Maroubra. Last year he made an in Maryborough, Queens- Gregory the Great. He had been for many extensive tour of Southland, and was educated, by the Christian Bro- years a member of the East Asia. Knights of the Southern His last contribution to thers. He began his news- Cross and had served on "The Catholic Weekly" paper career on the the Federal Council of —a review of a book on the history of the Papacy Maryborough "Chron- that organisation. Always active in Cath- —was written in icle" and subsequently Lewistransferred to the Rock- olic education matters, ham Hospital during his Mr. Kelleher was a mem- final illness. hampton "Bulletin." ber of several special Their Lordships Bishops He spent four years- committees formed 1932-36 — working in sociation with thein as- Carroll and Freeman, cur- Auxiliaries to His EmiAsia, part of that time as rent campaign to raise nence Cardinal Gilroy, Chief Sub-Editor of the £ 3,000,000 for "South China Morning education in funds for who is on his way to the Arch- Rome, attended the RePost" in Hong Kong. diocese of Sydney. quiem Mass last Tuesday When "The Catholic He was the author of a at Holy Family Church, Weekly" was formed in book, "Roman Fever," Maroubra. 1942 after the amalgama- published in 1962, on the R.I.P.