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Perth, Thursday, April 1, 1965
YUGOSLAVIA PASSES NEW LAW GOVERNING RELIGIOUS RIGHTS
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INDONESIAN VISITOR
By Patrick Riley from Belgrade
Yugoslavia has enacted a new "fundamental law" governing the rights of religion in the nation. This law is primarily a stopgap measure to bring the law into c onformity with Yugoslavia's federal constitution of 1963. The opposition of religious bodies to provisions of broader legislation on the status of religion has delayed enactment of more substantial changes. But broader legislation wi l l be ready sometime this month the N.C.W.C. News Service was told by Mato M. Radulovic, vice c hairman of the federal Commission for Religious Affairs. While most of the changes brought about by the newly enacted amendments are matters of terminology, penal sanctions for fines or imprisonment are also provided for various breaches of the law. Thirty days in gaol or a fine equivalent to about £ Al2 can be imposed on anyone who "bars citizens from participating in religious rites or other manifestations of religious sentiments," or anyone who restricts the rights of a citizen "because of his religious convictions, because of his membership in some religious faith or some religious community, or because of participation in the performance of religious rites and other manifestations of religion sentiments." The same punishment awaits anyone who: "Collects donations for religious purposes outside places designated for the collection of donations without permission" of the competent local civil authorities; Holds "processions and other religious rites out-
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COLUMBAN (O-FOUNDER ARRIVES CATHER JOHN BLOW' ICK, co-founder of St. Columban's Mission Society, with the late Bishop Edward Galvin, arrived in Perth by air on Wednesday for a short visit. Father Blol,vick, who c elebrated the Golden Jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood last year, has been visiting the ous houses of the society variy in Australia and New Zealand as part of a world tour. His last visit was in 1920 When there were only three Columban priests in the country. There are now 46 Columban priests from Australian and New Zealand working in the mission fields of South America, The Philippines, Burma, Korea, Japan and Fiji. While in Perth, Father Blowick will stay at the Society's only house in W.A. at Mt. Lawley.
side the places mentioned (in this law) . . . without permission" of the competent local civil authorities. Accepts as a seminarian "a person who has not completed the compulsory elementary education." In the previous law, which was passed in 1953, these offences were not specifically mentioned. The old law contented itself with specifying that aside from breaches constituting a criminal offence, infractions of the law would be punished by a fine of up to £ A6 or by imprisonment of up to 15 days. The new law in effect abolishes the gaol term for those accepting children for religious instruction without the permission of both parents. The old £ A6 fine is maintained in this case, however. The amended law abolishes a provision of the old legislation enabling a court to close a seminary for from one to ten years
because of an "abuse of religious teaching." However, "abuse of religious teaching" — in effect antiState propaganda — remains a criminal offence. Conspicuously absent from the new law is the suggested requirement that the permission of both parents be required for the baptism of a child. At present, the permission of only one parent is required. Another notable absence from the new law is a provision in the government's original draft bill that would have restricted the religious press to dealing with what the government itself judged to be religious matters. In practice this has meant that religious newspapers cannot publish articles dealing with the traditional Christian condemnation of abortion and the Church's teaching on certain other moral problems. Both these provisions had encountered strong opposition from religious authorities.
Dr. R. F. KATIDGAN talks with HIS GRACE the Archbishop and FATHER W. FOLEY, the diocesean director of Pontifical Mission Aid Societies.
POPE ASKS COMMISSION FOR AN EARLY ANSWER DOPE PAUL VI has asked the special commission studying family planning and population problems to give an answer as soon as possible. The highly secret group, whose membership has not been announced, gathered at the Domus Maria Conference Centre for three days of discussions. Subsections of the commission have been meeting in various parts of Rome in the. course of the past year in preparation for this initial plenary session. In a speech to the c ommission, Pope Paul said that the problem was urgent and the Church must give clear guidance to Catholics. He told them: "It is possible that the vivid
awareness of the need to let certain problems mature imposes reasonable delay on you. "But we insistently ask you not to lose sight of the urgency of a situation that demands very clear indications from the Church and its supreme authority. cannot
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Bayswater Couple Married 50 Years
-..avaglar Golden Jubilarians, Mr. and Mrs. JOHN KELLY, are pictured with their family ( left to right): Mr. TOM KELLY, Mr. JOHN KELLY, Mrs. LINDON, Mrs. PAGE and SISTER M. ST. MICHAEL of the Good Shepherd Convent.
A LETTER from Presi-
dent De Valera of Ireland was among the m an y telegrams and messages of congratulations received by Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly. of Garratt Rd.. Bayswater, who celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary last Sunday. I NININKAPANNINIP4,0411.4
To mark the occasion were married at Ballya special Mass was cele- castle, County Mayo, brated in St. Columba's Ireland. on March 28, C hur c h, Bayswater. 1915, and came to AusA fter the Mass the tralia shortly afterparish priest, Father J. wards. They have lived Russell, presented the at Bayswater ever since. couple with a Papal In the days when there Blessing. was no presbytery at Bayswater the priests Mr. and Mrs. Kelly always found a welcome
at the Kelly home. After the Mass the many friends and relatives of the jubilarianF_, including their five children and 18 grandchildren, gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Page, of Bayswater, to celebrate the occasion and talk over old times.
had full CHRISTIANS religions freedom in
predominantly Muslim Indones!a, said one of three Indonesians who visited Perth this week. He is Dr. R. F. Katidgan, head of the Catholic University of Djakarta. He helped found the university in 1960. Visiting Perth with him were Dr. J. E. Tulong, chairman of the Natidnal Council of Churches, a teacher at the Theological Seminary, Djakarta, and Dr. N. C. Nainggolan, head of the city health department. OWN PRIESTS Dr. Katidgan said: "We can work everywhere to spread our religion. We have our own Indonesian priests as well as missionaries from Germany. Italy and Brazil." The Perth visit was part of a goodwill mission to increase friendliness between Indonesian and Australian Christians. "We are returning the visit of fifty Australian c hurchmen to Indonesia last year," Dr. Katidgan said. "There were several Catholic laymen among them." 25 VISITORS A party of 25 Indonesians visiting Australian capitals and country areas are the guests of the Australian Council of Churches and Catholic Pontifical Mission Aid Societies. Dr. Katidgan, a doctor of laws and a former barrister, lectures in law at the university and has a private practice as an advising lawyer. "While in Australia, we have been visiting u niversities, high schools and primary schools, hospitals and clinics—there is a medical doctor among us— marriage guidance bureaus and youth clubs," he said. "But the mission's main work has been visiting churches and church people.In Indonesia. which has a population of 104 million, there were nine million Christians. three million of them Catholics.