No. 3243.
PERTH, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1966.
Price 8c.
(Registered at the G.P.O.. Perth for transmission by post as a Newspaper.)
Experts Meet To Set Up Church Agency AUST. PEACE For World CORPS Social Justice
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A SPECIAL committee
E XPERTS from various parts of the w orld have been summoned to Rome by the Holy See for a four-day meeting to. pave the way for the creation of on a gency of the Church for social justice a mong nations. The meeting takes its cue from the Vatican Council's Constitution econd S on the Church in the Modern World.
is expected to be set up within the next week in Perth to promote what has been described as an Australian Peace Corps. Mr. Bill Armstrong, formerly a Y.C.W. official in Perth and now Assistant Director of the Overseas Service Bureau, is a leading figure in this move. Returning from a visit to Malysia and India, Bill Armstrong will address a meeting at the University on Monday evening, May 23, at 8 p.m. on his work for Australian Volunteers Abroad; the meeting will then discuss a proposal to form a W.A. i for A.V.A. t Above is an artist'sI Committee The committee is ext impression of a new building to be erected s pected to draw together all those individuals and for the Stella Mans rganisations who are Seafarers' Club in o in the work interested Victoria Street, * Queen * of A.V.A.
THE document said: cent of the world's en"The Council, con- tire income," he said. sidering the immensity "Neither is it only a of the hardships which question of getting techstill afflict the greater nical and economic mapart of mankind today, chinery in motion. It is regards it as most oppor- a question of furthering tune that an organism of the complete and harthe universal Church be monious development of set up in order that both the human person to * Fremantle. the justice and love of enable each individual • * * Work is expected to t Christ towards the poor to live a life in keeping GOVERNMENT AID with his dignity as being developed be t begin on the project, t m ight s * which will cost in the t e verywhere. The role of created to the image Last year the Overt vicinity of $100,000, such an organism would and likeness of God." seas Service Bureau arbe to stimulate the Cathnext month and should ranged for over seventy CABLE from Dunolic community to proAustralians to go and be completed by the T RAGIC mote progress in needy work in underdeveloped dalk, Ireland, last end of the year. r egions and international INSUFFICIENCY Monday morning inThe two-storey build- countries, and in recogsocial justice." formed His Grace the ing will have a ball- nition of the value of The Pope emphasised Archbishop of the sudthis undertaking to Ausroom, canteen, restaurSome of the men who tralia in the internaant, bar lounge and took art active part in "the tragic insufficiency, den death the previous tional scene the Computting that paragraph whether long or short day of Monsignor games room on the monwealth Government into the constitution took term, of all existing aid Thomas Francis Ahern, ground floor. part in the meeting for programmes which in- parish priest of Northam A chapel which will has begun to give finanternational organis a- and Dean of the Avon cial assistance so that its implementation. t a ccommodate 100 peotions, national govern- Districts, the work of O.S.B. can Auxiliary They are s pie is situated on the Bishop Edward E. Swan- ments and various / first floor. Also on this , be increased. Monsignor Ahern had The meeting will be strom of New York, church groups are able floor will be house i three weeks presocially only offer the to held in Lecture Room of executive director flats for the Club chapi coun- viously arrived in Ire6. in the Arts Building, Catholic Relief Services- underdeveloped lain, manager and land to commence six the entrance to which is National Catholic Wel- tries." s housekeeper, three self- Z from the Hackett Drive * "What is to be done months long leave. H. fare Conference, his as% contairied double rooms • 4 parking area. Anybody 4 sistant James E. Norris. then," he asked. "to was on a visit to hi, t and eleven singlet interested in promoting and Father Arthur Mac- fight conditions of life in sister in Dundalk when • i MOMS, this important work is Cormack. an English the world which are in- his sudden death robbed ; nvited to attend. Adp•Anorirm."""..~0~,......... i Mill Hill miisionary compatible with the dig- the Archdiocese of one and demographer. nity of the human be- of its most respected Among the others are ing? What is to be done priests. Father Francois Holt- to prevent men from HIGH ESTEEM tart, Belgian sociologist: dying of hunger? What Father Louis Joseph Le- can be done to fill up Highly thought of in bret, 0.P., French ex- the chasm between ricii Northam, where he had pert on international peoples and the poor? been parish priest since aff airs: Monsignor Jean What can be done to June 28, 1957. MonRhodain, president of further justice in soli- signor Ahern had the the world-wide Catholic darity? gift of making strong charities organisation. 'Experts would say it friendships wherever he Caritas International: would be necessary to was. and Monsignor Luigi change the whole world Two years after his Ligutti, permanent ob- economic and financial appointment as parish server of the Holy See system," he said, "and priest of Northam and at the United Nations find new sources of sub- Dean of the Avon ValA sketch of Monsignor Ahern. Food and Agricultural sistence . . . and new ley. he was honoured Organisation. A Requiem Mass will methods capable of mul- with the title of Domes- where he stayed as parish priest of Belmont be offered for the repose tiplying p r o ductivity tic Prelate. after Carlisle was made of his soul on Monday. SURVEY OF and transforming the Monsignor Ahern a separate parish until May 23, at 11 a.m. in S intermechanism of WORK DONE born in Waterford, Ire e 's Church, , national commerce—all land, on November 22. his appointment to the St. Josph new parish of Manning Northam. The celebl ant are not which things On the group's agenda 1910. His early educaWhile of the Mass will be His competence. tion was received at Park in 1954. Was a survey of the within our holding this appoint- Lordship Bishop M. Mcrebe which should but St w ork already done in and Waterpark ment, he was also chap- Keon. <_°11 0.471 1-41 _ 11141 , ed,149/fri /049/ the field of international membered by those who John's Colleges. He was lain for a time at Aquiin directly engaged are priest the social justice by the to rdained o nas College. This apUnited Nations, various this work in a selfless hood on June 20, 1935. pointment lasted until way." national governments and came to the Perth the move to Northam in He said that while the Archdiocese on Novem- 1957. w orking singly and together, and other inter- Church cannot aspire to ber 26 of that year. His national organisations. take any "spectacular" first appointment was as CHAPLAIN P ELLETS Lamenting the vast action, it nevertheless assistant priest, Nedevery offer intends to disproportion in the disFor many years Monlands. lure snails and slugs from all HE record of the visit In 1936 he was ap- signor Ahern was chaptribution of the world's contribution it can to over your garden. And then wealth, Pope Paul told the solution of thes(, pointed to Coolgardie, lain to the Diocesan of Anglican Archkill every single one of 'ern. those taking part in the "anguishing problems." where he stayed two Union of the Holy Name bishop Michael Ramsey Perfectly safe to use—longmeeting that neither inhis until appointduring the Society and years Pope of Canterbury to Church action the The lasting—even works BETTER dividuals nor communi- intends to take, he said, ment as locum tenens at World War he served as Paul VI has been pub when it's damp. (Only snails ties have a right to keen is to "make the stark Mosman Park for a year part-time Air Force lished in booklet form can smell it!) such wealth to them- reality better known. in 1938. This was fol- chaplain. in English and Latin selves when others are helping in revealing its lowed by a similar apHis Silver Jubilee of by the Anglican Church starving. A VAILABLE EVERYWHERE gigantic dimensions, in- pointment to Midland ordination was cele- Information Office in "It is not only a ques- dicating ways of rem- Junction for a year and brated in Northam on London. It includes the tion of reducing the ap edying it and above all a half. June 20, 1960. His Grace addresses and common Palling and growing dis- arousing a lively awareHis first appointment the Archbishop and declaration made by the DAVID GRAY proportion which places ness of the obligation5 as parish priest was to about 20 priest friends Pope and Dr. Ramsey 15 per cent of mankind 1 deriving from man's the parish of Belmont- I were able to be there for and the Service R AILWAY POE WEST PERTH of in possession of 85 per ,iniversal brotherhood." Carlisle in August. 1940, the celebrations. Prayer.
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