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JOHN A. GREAVES writes from LONDON
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Catholic feecharging schools in Britain eventually may be integrated into the national system of education if the Labour Party wins the General Election next month.
C HANGES WILL BE MADE AGAIN THIS YEAR IN THE FESTIVAL IN HONOUR OF C HRIST THE KING.
Using last year's change to Perry Lakes Stadium as a guide, organisers have conferred and worked towards making the festival a bigger and more definite demonstration of faith. They have made changes that should increase the fervour of those attending the festival as well as cope with the ever-increasing numbers of people attending. Using the outstanding design of the stadium, with its planned traffic arrangements and huge seating capacity, the organisers consider that the new plan will enable the Catholic population to adequately and openly demonstrate their faith to the whole community and uphold this important feast in a manner fitting its importance.
Parish Effort On Sunday, October 25, parishes are asked to attend "en masse" to fill the whole seating concourse of the stadium. The seating blocks will be sectioned and clearly labelled with the names of the individual parishes. The organisers hope that each parish will be able to arrange for as many parishioners as possible to attend the festival and to be with other members of their parish. All entry gates will be opened to allow the nearest access and exit.from each parish block. The altar will be erected in the centre of the oval. The pavilion grandstand will be reserved for organised groups of school boarders and any Religious not r equired on the oval itself. The main mass of schoolchilden will accompany their parents to their parish blocks.
Family Pilgrimage The organisers hope by this change to make the event a true family pilgrimage to Perry Lakes to honour Christ the King. Broad timings of the programme will be: 2 p.m.—all gates opened; 2.30 —Demonstrations by Clontarf and Marist Bands on the oval. 3 p.m.—Entry of Sacred Host preceded by flag and banner bearers, the escorting sections and flower girls. The Sacred Host will be carried once around the arena track close to each parish block. 3.30 —Special address followed by Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. 4 p.m.—Dismissal. Afternoon tea stalls will remain open.
The first braille edition of the English text of the Mass to become available in this State was completed last week. Mrs. Gladys Lucraft of Como, ( left) who translated the text into braille presented the copy to Miss Kathleen Twomey of Inglewood. Miss Twomey is a blind teacher of shorthand and typing for the Braille Society. It took Mrs. Lucraft, a retired chemist, about three days to translate the text into braille. It is hoped to have about 18 more braille copies available shortly.
MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING THIS SESSION By PATRICK RILEY from VATICAN CITY
ROPE PAUL VI opened the third session of the Ecumenical Council with a ringing reassertion of the role of the Church's bishops as -the teachers, rulers and sanctifiers of the Christian people."
of Jean Monnet, one of the founders of the European coal-steel pool. The Pope also addressed non - Catholic observers, begging them not "to take it in bad part" when he invited them to "enter into the fullness of truth and charity." BALANCE
entered on the portable throne. His face remained serious. Clapping broke out, but he subdued it immediately with a decisive gesture, and began to bless the council Fathers as he was borne up the aisle. The Pope, as is customary in his Masses in St. Peter's, faced the nave of the church from the Altar of the Confession. The entire congregation-bishops, priests and people—gave responses in Latin and also sang the Ordinary Mas, in well-known Grego:ian melodies.
Just as the Second VatiAs if to back up his can Council will balance words by a striking action, the First Vatican Council's he concelebrated the ses- definition of papal primacy sion's opening Mass on with a clarification of the September 14 with 24 role of the bishops in the council Fathers, including universal Church, Pope Archbishop Matthew Beo- Paul balanced his own afPEOPLE'S PRAYER vich of Adelaide. firmation of the authority A high point of the Mas Several times and in of the bishops with a forthseveral ways he said in his right assertion of the came with the recitation opening address that the Pope's authoriy and of the of the "people's prayer" ATHENS: principal task of the third Church's need for centra- introduced into the liturgy by the council at its last ORTHODOX Archbishop Chrysostornos of Athens has session will be the central lisation. session. task of the Vatican Second urged Greek bishops not to attend ceremonies to be He said: "If our apostoPope Paul himself beCouncil itself — to round lic duty obliges us to imheld in connection with the return of a relic of St. out the First Vatican pose restrictions, to define gan this series of prayers: Andrew from Rome to Greece, it was reported by the Council's incomplete terms, to prescribe modes "We humbly beseech God the Father Almighty, beteaching on the nature of newspaper Ethnos. of action, to regulate the, loved brothers, that He the Church by explaining methods which concern Who has called together The relic went on display in Rome this week for the the nature and functions of the exercise of episcopal the pastors of the Church the bishops as successors last time. authority, you realise that in the Holy Spirit, may of the Apostles. this is done for the good The First Vatican Coun- of the entire Church, for pour forth abundantly on Pope Paul VI announced Orthodox -Catholic 'union.' all of them the gifts of His only in June that he would cil (1869-70) defined The the Church which has pro- holiness, through His only archbishop has send the relic back to this s teadfastly the primacy and the infalportionately greater need begotten Son." opposed the country at the request of sending of Greek Orthodox libility of the Pope. of centralised leadership Metropolitan Constantine observers to The Holy Father, adVatican as its world-wide extenSecond The the Vatican of Patras, where tradition Council the council already made sion becomes more com- dressing and has also Council spoke out says St. Andrew was mar- against the meeting in history by the Pope's de- plete, as more serious Fathers, said the council, tyred. Jerusalem last January be- clared intention of bring- dangers and more pressing in dealing with the subject of collegiality must A rchbishop Chrysosto- tween Pope Paul and Or- ing women into its deli- needs threaten the Chrismos, Primate of the Ortho- thodox Patriarch Athena- berations and by the actual tian people in the varying take some difficult theolodox Church of Greece, re- goras I of Constantinople. presence of delegated ob- circumstances of history, gical issues: portedly expressed the Shortly after the Pope's servers from other Chris- and, we may add, as more • The nature and mission fear that participation by June announcement, tain churches and commu- rapid means of communiof the Church's pastors; Orthodox prelates in the Metropolitan Constantine nities. cation become operative in • The episcopate's "conceremonies marking the thanked the Pontiff and titutional prerogaThe first woman named modern times." r eturn might be misunder- said his decision was "in- is Marie Louise Monnet, tives." Pope Paul opened his stood as indicating an spired by the Holy Spirit." of France. She is a sister arms in greeting as he SEE PAGE FOUR Sir
Ceremonies May Be Boycotted
Education Move In Election
This was indicated in the party's lengthy and detailed manifesto to the voters outlining its programme for legislation should the Labourites be entrusted with governing the nation. The Labour Party, the present major opposition group in Parliament. is generally considered by experts as more likely to win the election than the r eigning Conservative Party led by Sir Alec Douglas-Home. NATIONAL FUNDS One of the main specifically Catholic issues in the election is education. Catholics of England and Wales claim that the State should provide them, entirely from national funds, with their own independent schools inside the free national system. At present Catholics are paying millions of pounds a year more than their fellow countrymen towards schools, such building which the State will only take over and maintain if the Catholics provide 25 per cent of the capital cost. Out side the State systern are the large group of independent fee - charging schools patronised mainly by the middle and upper classes. Many of these are convent schools for girls and colleges for boys run by religious communities. Some Catholics, especially in the case of convent schools, have to send their children to these schools because no other Catholic schools exist in their district. REVOLUTIONARY The Labour manifesto, in a large section devoted to education, promises that if the party is elected, it will modernise the whole education system gradually but in a revolutionary manner. It will end the segregation of schools into junior ones for children up to the age of 11 and into secondary schools for students up to 16, and will go in for comprehensive schools for both boys and girls and for all ages up to university level, the manifesto pledges. Labour will also set up a trust to advise on the best way of integrating the big fee-charging colleges— the "public schools"—into the national system.