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Perth, Thursday, June 10, 196.S0
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Missionary Murdered I ASTRONAUT AT MASS In West Irian
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FORT WAYNE, U.S.A.:
DETAILS OF THE AP-
PARENT MURDER OF A MISSIONARY PRIEST IN WEST IRIAN BY A M INOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL EARLY THIS YEAR HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO LIGHT IN A FORMAL REPORT HERE.
ing to Father Pitka, with Fijmbaj thereupon taking a revolver from his pocket and firing five shots, the last of which "entered the skull near the temple, bringing death at once."
ka said: `It was rather difficult to reconcile the general school policy of the government with the direct action taken in the village of Pirimapoon.The Catholic mission school and the Protestant school were simply closed by transferring all children to the government school, and this transfer being effected by the police." A native of the Netherlands, Father Smit was ordained in 1957. In addition to being superintendent of Catholic schools in the Asmat area, he was the pastor of a number of villages.
Father John Smit, 0.S.C., DIFFICULT 35, a member of the Canons Regular of the Father Pitka explained Holy Cross, was shot to that government subsidisadeath on January 28 after tion of mission schools was f ormally protesting against continued by Indonesia the forced transfer of Cath- after it assumed jurisdicolic and Protestant mission tion of former Dutch New school pupils to a govern- Guinea in 1963. ment school. He emphasised that the The official was arrested Indonesian government alimmediately by represen- so has continued a policy tatives of the Indonesian affording complete freegovernment and a trial dom of schools. Father Pitwas scheduled tentatively for "April or May." Disposition of the case has not been learned here. Details of the incident were related by Father Frank P. Pitka, 0.S.C., Superior of the Crosier mission project in West Irian (former Dutch New Guinea), in a • letter to Father Benno Mischke, 0.S.C., American Crosier CANBERRA: Commonwealth grants totalProvincial Superior with headquarters at the Cro- ling £869,224 have been made for science sier House of Studies here. The information was facilities in Catholic schools throughout Auspublished in "New Guinea tralia in the past year. Letter." a Crosier Missions This is part of a £5 mil- school in Western Austrapublication. lion grant by the Common- lia was X15.000 for science wealth to State and inde- equipment at Marist ColTRANSFER Events leading to Father pendent schools for science lege, Churchlands. Smit's death centred facilities for the year endThirty-one Catholic secaround the village of Piri- ing June 30. ondary schools in W.A. mapoon, on the Casuarine The Government has have been given approval Coast, where both Catho- granted an additional £ 13 for grants. lic and Protestant mission- million to cover the next The numbers of grants 1 Major James A. aries conducting three financial years, bewere McDivitt, U.S.A.F., the Catholic astronaut and command pilot of the Z4 approved for Catholic schools. space Gemini-4 ginning on July 1. craft launched on June 3 for four days in outer space, is shown with Z schools in other States are A local government auFather James Herlihy, pastor of the Cocoa Beach Church of Our Saviour near Cape Ken- Z The grants were New made South Wales 45, Victhority ordered a governnedy in Florida. The astronaut was beseiged by autograph seekers zfter attending Mass. Z ment school to be opened under the States Grants toria 22, Queensland 24, His wife, Mrs. Pat McDivitt, and their three children attended Mass the same day at their s at Pirimapoon. On January (Science Laboratories and South Australia eight and , home parish, St. Paul's in Webster, Tex., outside Houston. (Photo C.B.S. News.—N.C.) 25 the transfer of all pupils Technical Training) Act, Tasmania four. 3:WP.4.1 ,4,######~~4,11NOWN.MMN4P.P1MINIV,""11^41, 411.~4.4.04,41,INIMININININOWININNPOWNININIMMININIIN from the two mission 1964. up to the end of last INOW There have been four schools to the new govern- week. grants for Catholic seconment school was effected Up to May 21 approval dary schools in the A.C.T. under police supervision. had been given for expen- and one in the Northern Father Smit queried the diture of. £ 4,952,824 from Territory. Catholic mission school of- the current year's £ 5 milSANTO DOMINGO: studied at Si.. Louis, made fice of the Vicariate of lion. CUBAN Jesuit priest his tertiary year in DecaMerauke for a course of has died in a hospital tur, Illinois, and taught Of this, £ 3,618.900 had action in the situation. He here the day after he was until 1963 at Belen prepabeen approved for State Was advised to "lodge a s econdary hit by a ricocheting bullet ratory school in Miami. He schools, Protest." came here in September. at a highway checkpoint. Father Smit visited the £ 869,224 for Catholic secschool s, and Father Vincent Rodri- 1963. to teach at a Jesuit head of the local govern- ondary £ 464,700 for other seconschool. His brother, also a guez. 34. who had a ment, W. Fijmbaj, on Jan- dary Jesuit, is now studying in schools. master's degree from St. uary 27 and, according te Father Pitka's report, the Catholic schools so far Louis University and who Spain. taught in a Miami high Official "became very have been paid £744,624 ,••••••••••••••######•••m~.".."#~41 angry at Father Smit and of the. amount approved. . chool, died without reeven pushed him out of In WESTERN AUSTRAgaining consciousness. the office" LIA Catholic schools have He and another priest been paid £58,324 of a were driving through a LONDON: total approved grant of FIVE SHOTS checkpoint during a heaVy X 383,700. The next day the priest HE sale of Catholic pamphlets continues to decline rainstorm the afternoon w as summoned to the govpreviously and apparently in Britain, according to the Catholic Truth ADMINISTERED BY ernment office. He was failed to hear a Marine Society. The society's annual report revealed that subjected to a search and captain order them to halt. STATE questioning by Fijmbaj in distribution of pamphlets fell by 300,000 during The captain fired at their HE result of the Lenthe presence of another ofThe amounts paid for tyres. One bullet ricocheted ten Sacrifice Appeal 1964. ficial and two police offi- State secondary schools and struck Father Rodrifor the Archdiocese of cers, all armed. After the have been paid to State The Catholic publishing house reported that more guez in the back of the Perth was X1,662/8/5. interview, Father Smit was Treasuries. head. than 2,400,000 pamphlets of its were distributed This figute was reushered to a pier a short The actual expenditure Ameni c a n authorities during 1964. It said this total was -disappointing" distance from the office leased from the Church of the money is administerapologised for the accident and part of a pattern "which has been developing Office this week. and forced to kneel. ed by the State and while and, in co-operation with The appeal was a reAccording to Father Pit: it has been over the past few years and seems to be affecting Archbishop Emanuele Clasult of a National PastoI.ta's report, Fijmbaj proportion committed, the the Catholic sales literature." of all of expenditure rizio, Apostolic Nuncio to shouted at Father ral Letter read from all } Breaking down the total, it was revealed that Smit: which has taken place to the Dominican Republic, pulpits on the. first Sun- ' po you wish to go home, date is the responsibility doctrinal pamphlets replaced devotional ones as the were preparing to fly day of Lent. In this r do you wish to stay of State most popular category during the past year. PamEducation DepartFather Rodriguez to Puerto here?' From his kneeling letter, the Bishops rements. phlets on controversy were the least popular. Rico for treatment. Po.sition. Father quested a Lenten offerSmit reGrants to independent The society said ten liturgical and devotional Father Rodriguez was ing from every Catholic Plied: 'I wish to stay here schools are allocated by educated in Havana and books were withdrawn and new ones published in le continue to work family throughout the among the school authorities. -Spain. He was ordained in accord with the Ecumenical Council's Constitution Commonwealth to assist the Asmat people.' The largest individual Cuba in 1960 and shortly the destitute in other This exchange was re- grant approved and on the Liturgy. paid after left that country for lands. peated twice more, accord- to a non - Government the United States. He ....#41.11,41,11.4.411.#4.4.441.4.441,411,41\14,4,11d
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