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4UREAU AfIRCULATIONI,
No. 3251 .
PERTH, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1966.
(Registered at the G.P.O., Perth for transmission by post as a Newspaper.)
Price 8c.
Widely Known Priest Dies BRITISH GOVT. In Ireland PROPOSES TO BE
EVEN MORE JUST ON EDUCATION
received on Sunday morning inNEWS formed His Grace the Archbishop that
Father John William Lynch, B.A., had died in Ireland on Saturday, July 16. He is the second priest from the Archdiocese to die while on leave in Ireland within two months. Monsignor T. Ahern of Northam died on May 18 while on leave. Father John Lynch had been appointed as parish priest of Shenton Park in May, just prior to his trip. He never actually took up residence in his new parish. Previous to this appointment he was parish priest of Rivervale, where he was appointed in 1964. The late Father Lynch was renowned for his great devotion to the Mother of God, and at one stage in his long priestly life, he had intended to retire to Fatima. His work in spreading devotion to Our Lady was promoted through his establishment of the Blue Army here. The Marian Shrine at Maylands is one of the results of Father Lynch's work. The day of his death was coincidentally the commemoration of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Father Lynch was born in Shinrone, Co. Tipperary, in April, 1894. He received his education at the Cistercian College, Roscrea, Al!.Hallows, Dublin, and the National Universiity, where he secured his Bachelor of Arts degree. He was ordained in All Hallows, Dublin. and arrived in Perth on September 17, 1922. His first appointment was assistant priest at St. Mary's, Leederville, where he stayed until 1925. He went briefly to Northam, and then was locum tenens at Narrogin, then Pinjarra and districts until 1933. From 1933 till 1937 Father Lynch was with
THE British Government has published a parliamentary bill increasing State aid to THE LATE FATHER JOHN LYNCH
Catholic and other denominational schools from 75 to 80 per cent.
the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He returned to the Archdiocese in 1938 and was appointed parish priest of Bridgetown. He was successively parish priest of Northam, Midland, Palmyra, Maylands. He was chaplain at St. John of God Hospital in 1963 after long leave. He was locum tenens for a short time at Gosnells and then was appointed parish priest of Rivervale in 1964. Father Lynch was also chaplain to the r acecourse.
The bill, expected to their own comprehen- (that is, a denominahave an easy passage sive schools more corn- tional) school and those through Parliament, ful- petitively with their completely controlled fils a pledge by the La- secular rivals, by the State. bour Party Government Catholic schools when The Catholic Educalast February and wel- built inside the national- don comed at the time by ised education system ChurcC ouncil, the h's negotiating the opposition Conser- retain their religious inblody in Britain, also vative and Liberal Par- dependence, but are run said they decided not to ties. and generally maintain- press for an 85 per cent It will provide an 80 ed by the State. Catho- grant "in the interest lics have so far had to! of public harmony." per cent grant towards • MASS the cost of building new find 25 per cent of tho Repay Catholic schools, enlarg- original cost. A Pontifical Requiem Mass will be celeSOME ing existing schools or ments on bank loans and brated at St. Augustine's Church. Rivervale, interest run some to miltrans ferring schools COMMENT to on Monday. July 25. The Mass will comnew sites. The bill also lions of dollars a year, mence at 10 a.m. crippling other Church The new bill has alprovides extended faciliMay he rest in peace. aroused some ties for loans to cover development in England ready anti-Catholic comment the remainder of the and Wales. In Scotland, the State and is likely to produce cost. pays the whole cost of more before it is signed Catholic schools, but the by the Queen, INCREASED present school tax for Catholic "aided" Catholics in England is schools inside the State EXPENSES not likely to be lighten- system number about Catholics are not like- ed above the new 80 per 2,000. The Catholic auly to benefit financially. cent grant in the near tI2orities appoint twoAs government aid has future, thirds of the governing increased over the years, Education Minister bodies of such schools the Catholic side of Anthony Crosland told and have the say in kp schools expenses has in- Parliament last Febru- pointing teachers, in recreased with extended ary that a further in- ligious instruction and building. This latest crease above 80 per cent other matters. In 1963Church's doctrine on original sin to the modern move- will enabla "might call into ques- 64 State grants towards Church authorities to go tion the distinction be. Catholic schools amChurch's foremost theologians and Scripture ahead with plans for tween a voluntary aided ounted to $22,500,000.
Church's Scholars On Original Sin THE problem of presenting the w orld has brought some of the scholars together in a small town outside Rome.
POPE PAUL himself theology and exegesis of By. . launched the four-day original sin. Symposium on original PATRICK RILEY The Vatican press ofsin at a special audience fice summary of the from Rom e. in the Vatican for the Pope's discourse said: dozen participants. His "Paul observed, VI Speech, briefly sum- University of Munich: among other things ,that marised by the Vatican Father Roderickt Mac- Catholic exegetes and Press Office, went un- Kenzie, S.J., Canadian- theologians are given all published for a few days born rector of Rome's that liberty of research thereafter. Vatican au- Pontifical Biblical Insti- and of judgment which thorities insisted that tute; Father Pierre Be- is required by the scienexcerpts appearing in noit, 0.P., director of tific character of their the Italian press were the Ecole Biblique in studies and by the pasfrom an early draft of Jerusalem; and Father toral aim of the salvathe speech and were Maurizio Flick, S.J., tion of souls, but that subject to misinterpreta- professor of theology at there are limits which tion. the Gregorian Univer- theologians cannot and must not imprudently The rector of Rome's sity. overstep, limits drawn Pontifical Gregorian the Church's ma isby HAPPPILY U niversity Belgianteriurn. born Father Edward APPROVED nhanis, S.J., was chairCATHOLIC man of the symposium. According to Father Which was held in the DOCTRINE the Pope "haptown of Nemi. Partici- Dhanis, "Finally, the Holy pily approved" the sumpants included Mon- moning of the sympo- Father emphasised parsignor Charles Moeller, sium. ticularly the irreconL ouvain University The focus of the meet- cilability with genuine theologian who recently ing was Catholic theo- Catholic doctrine of the became under-secretary logy and Biblical exege- explanations given to of the Doctrinal Congresis concerning original original sin by some gation, the former Holy sin and their relation to modern authors, such as Office; Monsignor erto Masi, rector Rob- modern science, especi- those who start from Pontifical Roman of the ally the theory of evolu- the premise of polySemi- tion. There was a search- genesis to deny, more or zary for Juridical Stu- ing examination of the less clearly, that the sin dies; Father Karl Rah- findings of anthropology was first of all and proAer, S.J., Christian professor of and paleontology and perly Adam's disobedithought at the their impact upon the ence.
ORDAINED LAST WEEK
Fathers John Flynn (left) and Laurence Finnegan talk to Esther Nicholas (left), Bronwyn Sesar (centre) and Valerie Thorne of the Pallottine Mission, Riverton, after they were ordained to the priesthood in St. Mary's Cathedral last Saturday. Bishop J. Jobst, SAC., of Broome perfnrmed tNe ceremony. Int!I the sw priests are members of the Society ot t'-Arostotate (P,11,,tttn. r-ohers).