No. 3231. PERTH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1966.
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SOME VOLUNTARY ACT Doctor States 'Pill' Not OF PENANCE CALLED FOR Solution
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CATHOLIC medical
A scholar and psychia-
trist told a St. Michael's College audience that the "pill" will not solve problems of population growth and food shortages. Dr. Frank J. Ayd, Jr., of Baltimore, the first American layman to serve on the faculty of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, speaking on "Fertility Control," said no contraceptives yet devised would have any appreciable effect in controlling population in the The Pope reduced the number of days requiring both fast and abstinence to next decade or two. two — the first day of Lent and Good Friday. But at the same time he restated "Many of the nations that have the greatest Dr. Frank J. Ayd Jr. the Church's teaching on the need for penitence, whose basic requirements population problems just do not have the sures for sterilisation consist of "prayer — fasting — charity." He therefore urged that the peoples doctors nor the educa- and abortion, and predicted they would be of the world's richer nations practice self-denial and charity on behalf of "their tion to make birth con- increased. He said he ,trol programmes effecbrothers who suffer in poverty and in hunger, beyond all boundaries of nation tive. In more sophisti- was personally troubled cated socities, the side- by court decisions reand of continent." effects have caused quiring Jehovah's WitALL Catholic memTHE Papal decree sets Thus, durin,_; the six- following approved lo- "Following the Mas- many women to stop us- nesses to have blood bers and retired ransfusions even t 14 as the age at month period the epis- cal custom, "some" food ter," he said, "every ing pills," Dr. Ayd dem embers of the their it is against though may copal conferences can taken also be in the clared. which children are Police Force are inreligion. bound by the Friday determine what they morning and evening. Christian must renounce vited to be present BAD PRESS legalised law of abstinence from wish to do on these spe • The constitution con- himself, take up his own "Suppose at the Annual Holy cial dispensations and former tinues the age meat. The former law abortion were against cross, participate in the Communion of the "The rhythm method. the convtictioni of an required children to ob- then "by way of infor- bracket within which Catholic Policemen's ufferings of Christ." s approved by Catholic individual. Is it farserve the meatless Fri_ mation . . . communi- the fast law is obligaGuild at the 5 p.m. theologians, is effec- fetched to think that a day rule starting when cate to the Apostolic See tory—for persons from Mass in St. Mary's tive," he said, "but it's what 21 they have deciduntil the beginning they became seven. court would order one? had a bad press. Too It cou!d happen. It does Cathedral on Sunday. of their 60th year. February 27 and to The decree also does ed . . ." many doctors just have However. the Pope Virginia, St. Joachim's Hall, in The Pope warned not understood its work- happen away with the old reof the days of Victoria Park, afteragainst purely formal ing and consequently where Catholics have quirement that adults stated adherence to penitential people who have turn- been sterilised against wards. observe fast and partial Lenten penitence that observance' laws, and said that the ed to them have been their will," he said. abstinence on the nor- 'substantial 4.4,041.4,11.4411.~4.4.44,41.#4,11 , 41.4NIPANIP, the law of 'obliges mal weekdays of Lent "peril" of pharisaism is confused." gravely.' INVOLVED and the quarterly ember recurrent. He stressed Dr. Ayd cited presPastors have the right days. that the basic facet of question of "This While technical and penitence The Pope's new pro- to give individuals and is not necesnew St. Norbert control is deeply birth families dispensations explicit in part, the visions, contained in an sarily self-denial, but Pope Paul accepts a sil- involved with personal and priory in College from fast Papal and abstindocument conapostolic constitution rather in the faithful en titled Poenitemini, ence requirements. Re- stantly stresses the spi- performance of one's ver replica of the two- t freedom. It is a paradox Treasure Road, Queens today when childbirth is Park, will be officially which was dated Feb- ligious superiors enjoy rit of penitence rather daily duties. wheeled trash cart used safer than it has ever opened by Bishop M. the same right in than regard simple adherence ruary 17 and made pubThe Church insists by Rome street clean- been in history that McKeon at 3 p.m. on lic the same day, keep to Religious under their to the letter of the law first of all, he said. "that there is such drum- Sunday. February 27. of fast or abstinence. ers from the workers the ancient tradition of jurisdiction. the virtue of penitence beating to legalise aborAll are invited to atThe Pope's The decree, Pope cited the Friday abstinence. And be exercised in perse- president, Giorgio Griit repeals "all privileges which went into effect ancient traditions of vering faithfulness to t maccio, when the Holy tion for socio-economic tend the opening and reasons," Dr. Ayd de- inspect the new buildAsh Wednesday fasting in Old Testa• and indults" of the past on the duties of one's state Father proclaimed to a clared. ings afterwards. (February 23), specifies ment times, and the under which -some catethrough which in life, in acceptance of t crushing gories of persons and that abstinence applies fasts throng of s difficulties arising from even whole nations only to flesh meat, and Christ Himself set the one's work, and from workmen he was visit- t not to eggs or dairy proexample for those who 4 were released from the . human co-existence, in rig: would follow Him. "The dignity of la- •t general fast and absti- duce. And it spells out that While restating some the patient bearing of nence requirements. t he law of fasting does of the former manda- the trials of earthly lite bour, the work of man, t not mean the ancient tory prescriptions con- and of the utter insecu- t is a thing worthy of total fast, but the more cerning fast and abstin- rity which pervades it." iunbounded respect, s recent concept of the ence. Pope Paul VI The Pope also urged since the the Church A Vatican spokesman Church—that only one urged Catholics to prac- more recourses to the said this means the abo- full meal may be eaten tise self-denial and mor- Sacrament of Penance 4 was founded by a % lition of the centuries- on a fast day, but that tification voluntarily. itself. See Page 10. old dispensation given • to Spain—and by derivation to Portugal and countries formerly under Spanish or Portuguese rule — from the law of Friday abstinence. It would also repeal the dispensation from the meatless Friday rule enjoyed by members of the U.S. and Australian armed forces since 1941, and that granted in recent years to some travellers. However, this abolition does not go into eff ect until six months after promulgation of the document, and sets out that it is "the task of episcopal conferences to: • "Transfer for just cause the days of penitence, always taking into account the Lenten season: • Substitute abstinence For Supplies for churches, schools, and other Catholic and fast wholly or in institutions contact Mr. Gerry Fuller on 28 3611 at_ part with other forms of penitence and especially AILIZIATI'n works of charity and the exercises of piety." .041,4•4.4NONINIAP4.11,11,4,4.4.41,04.41 , 04,1•4^04,11`4,1 ,
OLD LAW CEASES TO BIND
Pope Paul VI in his wholesale revision of the Church's rules of fast and abstinence stressed that the goal of penitence is renewal and reform which is not only interior and individual but also external and social.
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