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CARDINAL RELEASED BY COMMUNIST GOVT. PATRICK REILLY writes from ROME,
AFTER MORE THAN 15 YEARS OF INTERNMENT AND RESTRICTION BY CZECHOSLOVAK I 'S COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT, JOSEF CARDINAL BERAN OF PRAGUE WAS ALLOWED TO COME TO ROME THREE DAYS BEFORE HE WAS MADE A MEMBER OF THE SACRED COLLEGE BY POPE PAUL VI. His first statement on arriving here was to thank the Pontiff for his promotion and say it showed the Pope's "love for my dear country and all the Catholics of Czechoslovakia." The new cardinal came here only three days after he had been described by a Western newsman as "a virtual prisoner" of the communists. Cardinal Beran reached Rome's Fiumicino Airport in a Soviet-built Czechoslovak TU104 jetliner accompanied by Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, Papal Under-Secretary of State for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, the negotiator of last September's agreement between the Holy See and communist-ruled Hungary. Monsignor Casaroli has for months been negotiating also with the Czechoslovak government. POPE RECEIVES CARDINAL BERAN — Pope Paul VI presents a pectoral cross to the heroic Josef Cardinal Beran the day after the prelate emerged from 17 years confinement (NC Photos) behind the iron curtain.
No Recent Statement OnBirth Contra
glaring headlines in the Church will have to THE proclaim this law of God the early editions of the
"Daily News" last Monday gave the impression that His Holiness the Pope had intervened in a current, much - publicised storm about birth control. NO STATEMEINT HAS BEEN MADE BY THE POPE ON THIS SUBJECT SINCE THE ONE MADE IN JUNE, 1964. In this statement he said: "The problem everybody is talking about, that is, of so-called birth control: that is to say of population growth on the one hand and family morality on the other. "It is an extremely serious problem. It touches the source of human life. It touches sentiments a n d c oncerns which are closest to the experience of man and woman. It is an extremely delicate and complex problem. "The Church recognises its manifold aspects, that is to say the multiple spheres of competence. Among these, that of the spouses is certainly preeminent —their liberty, their conscience, their love and their duty. "But the Church must also affirm her part, that is, God's law, which she interprets, teaches, promotes- and defends. And
in the light of scientific, social and psychological truths which in recent times have had new and very extensive study and documentation. CAREFUL STUDY
"It will be necessary to look carefully and squarely at this theoretical as well as practical development on the question. And this is what the Church is in fact doing. The question is under study as broad and deep as possible, that is, in the serious and honest manner a question of such importance demands. "It is under study, we repeat, and we hope soon to conclude (this study) with the help of many eminent scholars. We shall quickly issue its conclusions in the form which is judged most adequate to the subject treated and to the goal to be achieved. "But meanwhile we say frankly that as of now we do not have sufficient reason to regard the norms given by Pope Pius XII as surpassed, and therefore not binding. They must therefore be considered valid, at least until we feel bound in conscience to modify them. "In a subject of such gravity, it certainly seems that Catholics should want to follow a single law, such as the Church authoritatively proposes.
"And it therefore seems opportune to recommend that nobody for the time being take it upon himself to speak in terms different from the norms in force."
The current publicity has been caused by two priests in England expressing their private views in an English paper. One has been suspended from preaching and the other, a Divine Word Missionary, is at the Order's Scholasticate at Lake Nemi in Italy. In a statement issued by the Order, the Society stated that the priest did not have the approval of either the diocesan authorities or his superiors and that his views did not "represent the views of this Religious Society." The statement said that the priest "was ordained last year at the age of 24. He had no further specialised training and holds no graduate degrees in theology or any other branch." His post was that of teacher of mathematics and geography at the minor seminary.
ANNUAL CONVENTION THE Annual Holy Name Convention will be held Trinity at College, Riverside Drive, East Perth, on Tuesday, March 9, at 7.45 p.m. A full representation of Holy Name men is expected to be present.
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Before he reached Rome, there was believed to be little hope that Cardinal Beran would be able to attend the consistory elevating him to the Sacred College. The Czechoslovak government had refused to allow news of his appointment to be published and r esorted to jamming for t he first. time in 18 month to keep the news of hi elevation, broadcast b:. Vatican Radio, from reaching Czechoslovaks. At the same time tighter restrictions were placed on the Cardinal himself. One news agency- was able to interview him by telephone shortly after his nomination to the Sacred College on January- 25, but after February 1 attempts to reach him by phone resulted only in the reply: "Mr. Beran is not available."
AT almost the same time had taken an oath of alleas the Cardinal's arrival giance to the Czechoslovak here, the Holy See an- Socialist Republic. The 7.6-year-old Cardinal nounced that at his request, Pope Paul had Beran was smiling as he named an apostolic ad- emerged from the aircraft IN the summary of the ministrator "sede plena" dressed in a red skullcap, new "Ritus Servandusfor the Prague archdiocese. thick shoes and a black sent to all parish priests black If the Cardinal's return to overcoat over his last week from the Austrahis See were foreseeable, cassock. lian Bishops' Committee, He drove from the air- there is an error this appointment would on Page Nepomuport to Rome's not have been necessary. Two, Number 79. Pararesidence graph 2. Line It pointed unmistakably cene College, the 3. The words to an agreement between of Czechoslovak students "making the sign of the where c ross OVER it" should read the Holy See and Czecho- for the priesthood, slovakia, whose official he will make his home "making the sign of the news agency announced t emporarily. cross WITH it." that Cardinal Beran Delicate MCMCV.WM-NNNNVICICNIMIC remain in Rome permaPosition nently.Throughout the years of An official of the college the Cardinal's confinement said the Cardinal would by the communist govern- not grant an interview to ment, no administrator newsmen because hi s was named. But the term "very delicate position" -sede plena" (while the made newspaper interSee is occupied) to describe views impossible. But the SYDNEY: the administrator means Cardinal did issue a public AUSTRALIANS in u s t that Cardinal Beran retains statement saying: share the blame for title to the Prague arch"On setting foot in Rome, current problems in Asia diocese. where I was last in 1948, and must help search for A Vatican source com- my first thoughts and solutions, Bishop Thomas mented that if, as seems grateful greeting go to the Muldoon, Auxiliary Bishop probable, the Holy See has Holy Father who, by call- of Sydney, has stated. yielded to the Czecho- ing me to membership in "I don't know how guilty slovak government on the the College of Cardinals, we are, but we certainly question of the Cardinal's desired to show his love are guilty for our -lack of return to Prague, the gov- for my dear country and interest in and a lack of ernment has yielded by for all the Catholics of sense of responsibility for agreeing to the appoint- Czechoslovakia. things Asian," said Bishop ment of an administrator "Then my affectionate Muldoon. whom it had previously thoughts go to all the inHe made the statement prevented from taking habitants of my land, for while officially opening the part in the government of whom I ask the Lord Newman Graduate Associa diocese. peace, prosperity and joy ation's 12th annual sumThe administrator, Bishop in fidelity to their glorious mer conference and the Frantisek Tomasek, had civic and Christian tradi- 1965 graduate conference not been allowed by the tions." of the University Catholic communist regime to fulHe added: "I am happy Federation of Australia. fil his duties as auxiliary to be in Rome." "On the three occasions bishop of Olomouc. ConCardinal Beran's pre- I have travelled through secrated secretly in 1949, sence in Rome recalled the Asia. I have seen those he was gaoled for a time, similar arrival here two millions and millions of but was allowed to attend years ago of Ukrainian eyes looking down to Ausall three sessions of the Rite Archbishop Josyf tralia, and in almost every Ecumenical Council at the Slipji of Lvov. U.S.S.R., case it was a look of hope Vatican. after 18 years of imprison- that from us would come He has been serving as a ment in the Soviet Union. the help and inspiration parish priest in Morayska The Ukrainian prelate was that they need • to solve Huzova. The Czech news also made a cardinal on t heir awful problems." the agency reported that he February 22. Bishop said.
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