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POPE'S VISIT SHOWS CONCERN FOR SUFFERING
NATIONAL CHAPLAIN OF Y.C.W. IN PERTH FATHER BRIAN BURKE, the National Chaplain of the Young Christian Workers (Girls) Movement, arrived in Perth from Melbourne this week to study the youth movement situation in Western Australia.
By Father John P. Donnelly HIS face bathed in tears and sweat, his slippers covered with mud, the Bishop of Rome m oved about in the midst of the flood-victimised people of Prima Porta, Italy, extending his compassion and blessing. THERE HAS BEEN NO SCENE QUITE LIKE THIS SINCE POPE PIUS XII WALKED THROUGH THE
He will spend about a month visiting Y.C.W. branches in the Archdiocese and the Diocese of Bunbury.
BOMBED RUBBLE OF THE SAN LORENZO DISTRICT OF ROME DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
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OPE PAUL left his summer quarters at Castel Gandolfo with little prior notice and travelled over thirty miles to the north Roman suburb of Printa Porto, a stone's throw from the raging River Tiber.
The small labouring community was the most hard hit in Italy's week-long onslaught of torrential rains and electrical storms which have left nearly a hundred dead or missing. As Pope Paul rode in an army jeep among victims digging out their 600 devastated homes, men in hip boots and covered with mud stared in blank silence with faces mirroring their misery. Some women wept silently; other shook their fists at the hastily assembled entourage of civic officials, police and journalists who followed in a motorcade. "Why didn't you come when we needed you?" cried some women. "Whero were you when the water almost took our children a way?"
Tragedy Reflected Though some observers said they heard taunts addressed directly at the Pope, the majority at least seemed only to reflect the s tory of a tragedy so great that it struck at anything in sight. Throughout the journey Pope Paul's face was drenched in sweat from the hot sun. At nearby could times, those contort with see his face grief, and tears cheeks. stream down his Inquiring lars of the about particutragedy from local and parish priests,officials he promised to send more financial aid to bolster the undisclosed sum he sent after first hearing of the fl ood. Cries of "Viva Ii Papa" ar.id the shouting and clapPing which usually attend a .Papal visit were conspicuously because lacking, perhaps beneath of the fear that the rubble some-
one might still lie buried. Stopping briefly at the e ntrance to the city, the Pope addressed a small group which had begun iO gather. "Beloved sons," he said, "I have come to see you with my own eyes. I do not hold in my hands remedies for the present crisis, but I want to share in the sorrow and anguish which such pain has brought you. "I greet you all. We will try to increase our aid. We will do everything possible to help in this sorrowful hour. This morningIprayed for your heavenly comfort. I bring you the blessing of the Lord."
Comforted Many Pope Paul then climbed into the seat of an army jeep and began a two-hour tour of Prima Porta and its neighbouring community of Labaro. He stopped many times along the way to comfort a crying family, or to bless men digging out buried rubble, or sorting out broken furniture and drenched clothing. As he passed, some looked up from their brooms and shovels, others doffed their hats, but when the Pope stopped they silently pressed close to receive his blessing.
Father Burke, who last visited this State in 1960, said that the Y.C.W. had greatly increased in size, and one important activity being undertaken by the movement at present was to encourage the involvement of Y.C.W.'s in extension activity in Papua and New Guinea in the form of lay volunteers in the Missions.
Pope Paul VI visited for an hour and a half with 230' children suffering from polio at t he Spolverini Pediatric Institute at Ariccia, south of Rome. The Pontiff said he came to bring the Lord's blessing and to ask divine grace for the children in their suffering. NC Photo
He also said that th Overseas Service Bureau was keen to have Y.C.W.'s working for Papuans and New Guineans with the Local Government Councils, Co-operatives and other indigenous organisations. When he returns to Melbourne, Father Burke will prepare to attend the Y.C.W. International Council in Bangkok in November. Ninety-two countries will be represented at the council.
H.N. RALLY IS TOLD NEW ROLE FOR MEN Watch
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SOME 350 MEN OF THE HOLY NAME SOCIETY HEARD FATHER JOACHIM O'BRIEN, 0.F.M., TELL OF THE PROPOSED NEW ROLE OF THE SOCIETY AT ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL LAST SUNDAY EVENING.
These men were representatives of parish Holy Name Societies which were still in existence or had come from parishes where it was now nearly defunct. They all had the same purpose—to find our if the new role would be able to make the Society function with the strength it had previously.
At one point Pope Paul left the jeep when he heard a woman wailing and en- FATHER JOACHINI point- needed their men. A men's tered the home to comfort ed out that there were organisation in the Church many causes of this dis- that embraced the greater her and her family. integration, number of men of the He blessed a 15-year-old "We were trying to carry parish was imperative. boy who was credited with ten heroic rescues during on a Church geared to a CALL FOR ACTION the height of the flood. He past European civilisation There was undoubtedly talked with a woman who and we were finding that had hung on to the rafters it could not measure up in today a call for action, said of her home, her baby many ways to modern city Father Joachim, which had WO Vincentian Fathers life. come from the Popes and clasped to her breast. "The advent the of car, celebrated the Silver of late from the Second With only brief exceptions throughout the jour- of ready travel, the chang- Vatican Council. Jubilee of their Ordination He quoted extensively ney, the Pope spent the ing pattern of life, the comlast week. entire time leaning pre- ing of radio and especially from the section concernThey were Father E. J. cariously from a standing television, all this and ing the laity in the Constiposition in the front seat of more was taking away the tution of the Church put Clancy, at present Rector the jeep. His clothes were people from the churches," out by the Council, and it of St. Charles' Seminary, was in this sense that the Guildford, and Father R. rumpled, and sweat was he said. Father Joachim said that Holy Name Society coull Maguire. who is the parish beginning to seep through furthermore, as regards the find its revitalised power priest of Medina. them. Holy Name Society, many and activity. Both the jubilarians were A short while ago, he people were going to Holy The preacher outlined ordained on September 8, rested spneared from his C ommunion now not 1940. brief holiday in the Alban monthly, but even weekly. the duties of the Holy Father Clancy has spent Name man: Hills, but after this trip his "Why then the Society?" To attend the confraternity 18 years at St. Charles', face was strained and he Mass and receive Holy not all of them as Rector. seemed to be completely He said that the priests Father Maguire came to exhausted. and bishops knew they • Continued on Page Two. the Archdiocese this year.
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