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POPE PAUL VI's former personal theologian has challenged the laity to work out a balance between personal responsibility and docility to authority. In an address to the annual meeting of Catholic Action delegates, Bishop Carlo Colombo, president of the theological faculty of Milan's major seminary, said that the laity must be capable of rejecting the temptation of both absolute independence and servility. He asked laymen to develop "a profound supernatural added to a sense of concrete human reality. ense," s
PERSONAL GIFTS In the Ecumenical Council's Constitution on the Church, he said, "confirmation of a specific lay spirituality is given in its references to the sacraments, to the personal gifts with which each person is provided, and to the Manifold situations of life in which the layman finds himself. "The life of a layman has a greater need for the supernatural and the sense of the sacredness of things because, unlike priests and Religious, he is continuously exposed to unforeseen and unforeseeable situations. According to St. Paul, he must regard every situation as a gift of God to be used to collaborate in the growth of His kingdom." To strike the balance between responsibility and authority, the bishop suggested the development of the sense of faithfulness to both "the earthly city" and the Church and simultaneous development of personal initiative and the sense of community. Unless a profound spirituality is given, he said, there is a risk of imposing on laymen only models of external Spirituality.
MOST IMPORTANT Bishop Colombo said that the parish community is the most important of all. After this, laymen should be encouraged to participate in the mission of making the world Christian. with an awareness of their rights and duties—within the framework of respect for the hierarchy--of personal thought and initiative, especially in their specific fields of interest.
RELATIONSHIPBERLIN: to the C the atholic Church was central theme of the four -day in Bad discussions held Saarow by representatives of the World Council of Thirty Churches. theologians from 13 countries were present at the sessions of the countall's ecumenical RIfaith and committeo church constitution. ineetitng It was the first of an official b°4 of the World Council of to be held in theChurches east zone of Germany. OBSERVERS AThong theologians present at Kristen the meeting were Skydsgaard. Ed-
BODY MEETS mund Schlink and Lukas Vischer, official observers of the Second Vatican Council in Rome. Belgian Catholic theologian Father Paul Hammer attended as a Catholic observer. When the theses worked out by the committee have been studied by other specialists, they will be debated at a larger meeting next year. They include such subjects as the Eucharist as the sacrament of unity, the council of the early church, and the principles of biblical interpretation.
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Laurin* Phillips
( left) watches Jennifer Trinca receive her prize from the Governor, Sir Douglas Kendrew. —Photo Derek T. Large
FOLLOWING its success Monsignor J. Bourke, and duction of alcohol to chilin the under-16 section the State Sales Manager of dren to teach respect for of the "Youth Speaks For the .Shell Company, Mr. R. and develop control of the Australia" contest when Douglas, heard an impres- beverage and, alternative14-year-old Laurine Phil- sive series of ten addresses. ly, the reduction in alcolips was the State winner, A feature of the list of holic content of beer and St. Brigid's College, Lets- finalists was that all ex- liquor. murdie, scored a further cept one. Douglas SmallaThe adjudicators. headed notable victory when an- combe, of Merredin High by Professor Braybrooke, other pupil, Jennifer Trin- School, were from Catholic Professor of Jurisprudence ca (16) won the Under -17 girls' schools or colleges, at the University of W.A., State Final at the South both country and metro- acknowledged the diffiPerth Civic Centre last p9litan. culty of the speakers' task. Friday evening. Runner-up was Mary Mackin, a pupil of Iona The contest is conducted WIDE RANGE presentation College, Mosby the Junior Chamber of Topics selected by the man Park. Commerce and sponsored by the Shell Company of cccitestants included CenIn the W.A. Music Festisorship, the White AustraAustralia. A large audience, which lia Policy, Water and Its val held at the Perth Town included the Governor, Sir - Importance to Australia. Hall last week choirs from Douglas Kendrew. the the State Aid Question. St. Joseph's High School. Square. were Minister for Housing and Individualism and Litera- Victoria Labour. Mr. D. O'Neill, ture. The winner spoke on awarded first place in both the Maylor of South Perth, the Evils of Alcohol and the Primary and High Mr. W. Thomas. the Direc- suggested two possible re- School sections. It was the twelfth time tor of Catholic Education, medies—the earlier intro-
the primary choir had won and the fifth time for the high school choir. The choirs were trained by Sister M. Margaret and conducted by Miss Marjorie Wyndham. GOOD TEACHING The adjudicator, Mr. R. Shepherd, of Melbourne, said that W.A. entrants in the festival were competent and had shown good teaching. The choirs had been equally as good as he had heard in the Eastern States and a few cases, better. Another pupil of St. Joseph's. eleven - year - old Patricia Watson, of Subj. aco, won the under-12 violin solo. It was the first time she had entered the festival.
CATHOLICS* HIT BY Hints At New VIET AIR RAIDS SAIGON:
C ATHOLICS have fallen victim to both air raids and Viet Cong reprisals in several dioceses of Vietnam. In Phu-rieng in the diocese of Dalat, the aged parish priest and about a hundred of his parishioners were killed in a recent air raid. A number of Catholics were also reported killed in air raids at Phong Dien in the diocese of Cantho.
AVENGED Witnesses report that elements of Viet Cong have a venged themselves by pillaging or destroying religious esta_blishments in the plateau region of Central Vietnam. Father Francis Nguyen Ling Viet. parish priest of Phong Diem, reported to Bishopu Jacques Nguyen ngoc Quang of Cantho on the damage done and the
people killed or wounded in his parish on June 8. The church. presbytery. convent, school and grain stores of the parish were completely destroyed.
PRESBYTERY When bombs caused the presbytery to collapse, the priest reported, 115 people taking shelter there were killed. Three more died on Of the way to hospital. those killed, 78 were under 15 years of age. Fifteen of them had made their first Communion that morning. Of the Catholic families in the parish, 40 of them have had their homes completely destroyed. and nearly all have suffered at least some property damage. the priest wrote.
TRAPPISTS PLAN TO UPDATE CITEAUX, France: T WENTY - SEVEN Trappist abbots from all parts of the world have taken steps to modify some ways of life in their Order. The principal effect of the decisions appears to give local abbots more authority regarding ways of adapting the severely isolated life of Trappist monks to the demands of modern times. There are 4,200 Trappists in the world, including 30 in Australia.
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BERLIN: THE official communist radio station in Warsaw has declared it is time for the Holy See to normalise its relations with foreign States in some manner other than a formal concordat. Observers here believe that the Polish statement amounts to a concession that negotiations with the Vatican for a concordat recognising Poland's claim to territories taken from Germany after World War I I have failed. MANY SIGNS Monitored here, the Warstated: broadcast saw "There are many signs that the Vatican is giving up its previous concordat policy and will adhere to it only in places such as where Italy conditions make its success possible