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Council have ordered a proposed statement on the Church's missionary activities to be rewritten. Few voices favoured the document which was brought Wore the Council for discussion despite the fact that Pope Paul had said that it needed only a little touching up. The debate followed the pattern set in discussions on the lay apostolate, the priesthood, and Oriental Churches. Only the Oriental Churches document was c onsidered good enough to make the grade as a Council statement after a number of amendments. The other two were given rough treatment and new texts are to be written,
Four Others A similar fate is likely for four more Council documents— those dealing with priestly training, Ca. tholic schools, marriage, and the religious life, The missions document was a revised version of a longer text.
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During the month of November a clothing collection is being conducted in all parishes throughout the United States to benefit children like this lad in Calcutta, India. Catholic Relief Services — N.C.W.C., which is conducting t he appeal distributes the clothing to less fortunate people of all races, colours and creeds in over 70 different countries. —Photo N.C.
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will be in an Air India four -engine Boeing 707 jet, Vatican sources reported. The direct Rome to Bombay flight will take s even and a half hours. It will leave the Fiumicino Airport in Rome on December 2 and arrive in Bombay the same evening. The return flight is scheduled to leave India on the morning of December 4 so the Pope will be in that country the Whole day of December 3, feast of f amous Christianity's most missionary to —St. Francis Xavier. India The car the use in Bombay Pope will Venice 9n November 9 left by ship. It ]s a white Lincoln, a gift to the Dame Pope from Notre University. It has no special fittings such as
priests arrived from "-9 Ireland on Wednesday commence to morning work in the Archdiocese of Perth. They are Father P. O'Reilly, son of Mr. P. J. O'Reilly and the late Mrs. O'Reilly( of Aiden Street,
Kiltimagh, County Mayo. Father T. O'Prey, son of the late Mr. P. O'Prey and Mrs. D. O'Prey, of Inniskillen. Both priests were ordained from <ill Hallows' College, Dublin, on June 21 this year.
Irish-born Bishop Daniel Lamont of Utmali, Rhodesia, said that missionaries had expected a "Pentacostal light" and had been offered "this little candle." They had looked forward to a document that would give them "modern weapons" and found they were to be given only "bows and arrows."
the efforts of all missionaries to promote harmony, work out better mission methods, and make more effective use of mission resources. Bishops were exhorted to make their own diocesan priests available for missionary work. And religious orders were to be told to adapt their form of religious life to suit missionary conditions. Cardinal Frings of Cologne, Germany, said that the Church's missionary life can't be compressed into a few propositions. He wanted "vaster" treatment of the subject at the Council's fourth session.
Central Mission He bracked the idea of a central mission board and urged annual world-wide collections for the, missions. Cardinal Alfrink, of Utrecht, Holland, noted that missionary vocations have decreased in recent years and there were still 2,000 million human beings who have not learned of Christ. He wanted a fuller treatment of the missionary vocation. Cardinal Suenens of Brussels. Belgium, said the Council statement should stress the need to form a self-sufficient local laity with missionaries gradually handing over responsibility to them.
Speaking in the name of many missionary bishops, the missionary said propoTwo African bishops sals included in the docu- called for recognition of ment were useful and the work done by catenecessary, but not enough. chists. He later referred to them A bishop from Uganda as "a few cold propositions as from a tract on missio- described catechists "the ears, eyes and hands logy." of the priests." In many The now-rejected mis- places, he said, the life of sions statement consisted the Church depends on of 13 proposals calling for them. greater missionary endeaBoth sought the formavour, particularly in face tion of a pontifical organiof changing social condi- sation to train catechists. tions triggered off by the end of colonialism, scientific progress and hopes for Christian unity.
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Appointments HIS GRACE the Archbishop has made the following clerical appointments: Rev. J. Lyons to be parish priest of Norseman; Rev. B. Harris to be assistant priest, South Perth; Rev. M. J. Foster to be assistant priest, Osborne Park; Rev. P. O'Reilly to be assistant priest, Leederville; Rev. T. O'Prey to be assistant priest, Shenton Park.
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"Christian charity urges us to open our eyes to the social scene of our times and to dispel blindness or selfishness which is concerned only with personal interest," he said. "Therefore the activity of the conferences of St. Vincent de Paul established by Frederick Ozanam is of incomparable value both in itself and because it represents an impulse for the modern forms of assistance." The Pope pointed out that the Confraternity of St. Vincent de Paul is the friend of the poor and as such is the friend of the Pope, who is the friend of the poor. Pope Paul spoke after Sunday. Mass at St. Peter's Basilica. During Mass he gave a homily on the day's Gospel, the parable of the weeds sown in the field of wheat. ''To vanquish evil it is necessary to fortify good," he said, -and instead of indulging in criticism and sad forebodings, to render strong and trusting testimony to good."
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V atican City: A group representing various conferences of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has been urged by Pope Paul VI to make the Gospel message on charity even more active in the world.
the throne that is in the car the Pope often uses in Italy. At the end of the Pope's stay in Bombay the car will be presented by the Pope as a gift, although the recipient has not yet been announced.
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The next morning he held an audience for members of the general council of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and in French he expressed satisfaction with the high aims achieved by the organisation. Referring to the annual report of the group's activities, he said the very eloquence of the figures "demonstrates the magnificent scope of the organisation, accompanied by a judicious adaptation to the modern world and an unexpected and happy influx of young memb,ers. "The most promising factor for the future is the realisation on the part of an ever more consistent number of Christians in every country of the 'Vincentian vocation,' as you call it. It is a demanding vocation, not content with bringing a word of comfort to material Misery, but intent upon opening hearts to the total dimension of true Christian charity."
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Everywhere It sought closer co-operation among missionaries working in the same area and called on the Pope and bishops to send missionaries everywhere. Missionaries were told to respect the culture of the people to whom they preach the Gospel and were reminded that humility, simplicity and poverty would make their message effective.
F ATHERS O'REILLY (left) and O'PREY
One key proposal called for the formation of a central board to co-ordinate
Bishop Paternus Geise, of Indonesia, spoke in the name of 75 heads of missionary organisations and 25 regional conferences of bishops when he asked the Council to reject the missions statement. He indicated that many ideas sent to the committee which drafted the document had been ignor ed. Bishop John Valesco, w ho was expelled from China, said that it would be better for the Council to say nothing at all than to say so little about such an important subject.