.....
le?eCor OFFICIAL Lacites Hairstylist 1 KING ST. 21 7721
No. 3159
ORGAN
OF
THE
Perth, Thursday, Sept. 17, 1964 4111
ARCHDIOCESE
OF
ALL CLIENTS INDEMNIFIED TO The EXTENT of *1000
PERTH
(Registered at the G P.O., Perth, for transmirsion by post as a Newspaper.)
1111=1•111,
CONMEBRATION AT OPENING Of Eli THIRD SESSION
Price 9d.
POPE PAUL VI IN PROCESSION
Vatican City: The third session of the ecumenical council was opened on Monday with Pope Paul VI and 24 council Fathers from many nations and continents celebrating Mass together at the papal altar in St. Peter's basilica. Vatican Radio said that the concelebration—a liturgical form reinstated by the Constitution on the Liturgy approved at the end of the second council session last December—"expresses in the highest degree the unity of the priesthood in the unity and simultaneous act of offering the sacrifice of the Mass and, in this particular case, the unity in the episcopate of the Pope and the bishops." The papal altar, under position before the arrival Michelangelo's magnificent of the Pope. Pope Paul, attended by dome, had been enlarged to permit six celebrants to the College of Cardinals, say Mass at each side. vested for Mass in the Pope Paul ttood at the papal apartments above front central part of the St. Peter's and then, after altar with his back to- adoring the Eucharist in wards the bishops in the the Pauline Chapel of the council hall. The council Vatican, was carried in Fathers had a clear view the portable throne down the stairs chanting the of the Pope. Normally, the Pontiff hymn, Salve Mans Stella. The Pope, cardinals and c elebrates Mass at the papal altar on the opposite concelebrants entered St. side and thus faces the Peter's through the basiBut with lica's atrium or front congregation. c oncelebrants on all sides porch. Before entering the of the altar, the person of church proper, the Pope the Pope woad be obdescended from the portscured from sight of the able throne and walked more than two thousand down the nave of the great Fathers if he had followed church between the rows normal procedure. of standing Fathers. Aside from concelebraDuring the ceremonies tion of the Mass, the open- the Pope delivered a ing day ceremonies of the speech in Latin. third session were similar The first workday of the to those which opened the council was on September second session. No formal 15, when the 18th general procession of the council congregation of the counFathers took place. Instead cil discussed the schema they found their places in- on the nature of the dividually and were in Church.
Party Opposes Indian Congress
NEW DELHI, INDIA: THE official publication of India's right-wing Hindu party has asked the Indian government to halt plans for the 38th International Eucharistic Congress opening in Bombay on November 28 in the interests of law and order. It said foreign Catholics are not welcome in India, Where 98 per cent of the population is non-Catholic.
The front-page article appeared in The Organiser, a weekly magazine of the People's League Party, a Hindu - oriented political group which in 1962 polled about seven and half million votes. hi the past the Party has opposed granting visas to Christian missionaries. Under a headline which W arns of a 'papal invasion' In November, the magazine declared "India has no objection to Christ, but It has every objection to 'Roman' Catholics. India Will accept only 'Indian' Catholics. Anything else Will be a menace to the Security and integrity of
The article quoted what it alleged to be a sestion of Pope Paul's encyclical Ecclesiam Suam to the effect that Christianity is the one true religion, and it added: "Opinions and activities like these could provoke reaction among the 98 per cent non-Catholic majority in India. As such it could easily develop into a law and order problem. The government of India would be well advised to ban this invasion of India before feelings get any worse." The State and federal governments in India have provided financial !assistance towards preparations for the Eucharistic Congres. It is not believed the new attack will change the policy, since the ruling Congress party has consistently opposed the Hindu group.
Prayers For The Council
THE HOLY FATHER has
asked that Sunday, September 27, be set aside as a day of world-wide prayer for the success of Vatican Council H's third session. He also asked that all who are able to do so offer up the fast on September's three ember days, September 23, 25 and 26. The Pope revealed he chose the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, September 14, as the opening day of the Ecumenical Council's third session to point to the cross as a source of salvation and the source of the council's hopes for success. He also said he decided to concelebrate the opening Mass of the session with 24 council Fathers to show the union of hearts and souls in the council. The Pope spoke through a letter addressed to Eugene Cardinal Tisserant in his capacity as the first member of the Council of the Presidency of the Second Vatican Council.
For the opening of the third session of Vatican Council II, the Pope, attended by members of the College of Cardinals, vested in the papal apartments above St. Peter's, and went to adore the Blessed Sacrament in the Vatican's Pauline chapel. Then the Holy Father mounted the gestatorial chair and was carried down the royal staircase to the front porch of the Vatican basilica. Before entering the church proper, Pope Paul dismounted from the portable throne, and walked down the nave of St. Peter's between the rows of standing council Fathers.
SUMMARY OF WHAT WILL BE DONE AT SESSION PASSED: Projects on the liturgy and on communications media. DEBATED: Projects on revelation (withdrawn and new document up for debate at third session): on the nature of the Church (six chapters debated and to be voted on at third session and two chapters still to be debated, amended and voted on); on bishops and the government of dioceses (partly debated, but still to be voted on in final form and partly still to be debated); on ecumenism (three chapters debated and to be voted on, and declarations on the Jews and religious freedom to be debated and voted on). TO BE DEBATED AND VOTED ON: Projects on the lay apostolate and on the Church in the modern world. TO BE PRESENTED AS PROPOSITIONS and voted on without debate: Propositions on eastern rites, missions, Religious, priests, marriage, train ing of priests, and Catholic schools.
New Servite Superior CATHER CHRISTOPHER Bluff. Illinois, a suburb of M. ROSS, 0.S.M.. who Chicago. has been appointed the He is a former director Superior of the Servite of students for the AmeriOrder in Australia, arrived can Semites, and was born in Perth last week. in Chicago, U.S.A. He Father succeeds The Servites are in Joseph M. Loftus, who was harge of the parishes of c appointed Provincial of Joondanna and Wanneroo, the Chicago Province of and St. Philip's Regional the Order last May. High School, Tuart Hill.
FATHER ROSS Father Ross has held assignments in Milwaukee. Wisconsin and in Lake
• The clergy conference scheduled for Friday September 25 has been cancelled. • The Sacrament of Confirmation will be conferred on adults in St. Mary's Cathedral on Friday, September 25 at 7.15 p.m. Intending recipients of of the Sacrament should be present at the Cathedral at 7 p.m. It is also required that they possess a Confirmation Card duly stamped and signed by their parish priest. Persons not in possession of such a card cannot receive the Sacrament on this occasion.