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No. 3255. PERTH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1966.
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all-out effort to ANprotect the unborn
child's right to life was urged by Father Bernard Haering, C.SS.R., in an address to the C atholic Physicians Guild in San Francisco. R eferring to the movement in California to liberalise State abortion laws, the German moral theologian said, "We must not be idle in this situation." Father Haering called for the co-operation of doctors, journalists, and ' all those who influence public opinion to make known the dangers inherent in liberalising the law. If therapeutic abortion is legalised, he said, there are enough doctors who will justify abortion for almost any reason. "All doors will be open."
AMENDING the Constitution to permit v oluntary prayer in public schools "would be a profound mistake," the dean of the Boston College Law School told a U.S. Senate sub -committee in Washington. Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J., led off testimony before the Senate sub-committee on constitutional amendments, which is holding hearings on Senator Everett Dirksen's proposal to allow public school officials "to provide for and permit" voluntary participation in prayer. Four of the first five witnesses opposed the proposed amendment. Father Drinan called the amendment an emotional response to the Supreme Court decisions banning compulsory prayer and Bible-reading in public schools. A public school, he. said, "is a school whose only religious orientation is that it has no religious orientation."
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Crime itself is less harmful to society, he The Supreme Court decisions, he said, "merely said, than the acknowstripped away the widespread illusion that the ledgement of crime by people—Richard Kaupaudience when two Baraga, Mich., attracted attention at a papal Indian costumes American public school somehow combined piety law. pila ( left ) and Alice Jondreau—presented to Pope Paul VI an image of Bishop Frederick Baraga, first On the question of and learning in an eminently satisfactory way." Marquette, whose cause for beatification is being studied. Bishop of when human life begins, The amendment, he continued, is -an almost Father Haering said, irrational refusal to surreunder one of the most "There is the greatest illusion persistent myths in American life—the p hilo sophical probathat the public school can train future citizens bility that the new bein morality and piety." ing is, from the moment of conception, a human Rather than conduct prayers for children, he being. about said, the schools should teach students "This is a full human religion and its impact on the world. life, a person. It is the duty of doctors, of every "The absence of objective teaching about reliman, to promote human gion in the public school is one of the most serious life. It is the chief duty educational limitations of public education in this of the State," he added. country," he declared. "But we must not He said he was "requested and strongly urged" MORE THAN TEN YEARS BEFORE POPE JOHN XXIII ANNOUNCED simply say, 'This is what the Catholic to testify by "Catholic, Protestant and Jewish Church teaches,'" he PIUS XII, SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL, POPE THE HOLD TO PLANS individuals and organisations," of whom the overcontinued. "We must whelming majority "is strongly opposed to any show the internal reaconstitutional change in the First Amendment HIS PREDECESSOR, HAD ORDERED STUDIES FOR A COUNCIL DRAWN UP. sons—the dignity of the Which would permit 'voluntary' prayers in the 7'7 From JAMES C. O'NEILL in Rome. countries, all European human person, respect Details never before Public school." with the exception of for life, the concept of possibiliof the released motherhood, the conties of a Council in the desire to proclaim as the United States, Can- sequences for the ethics Lebanon, and and ada, been have early fifties dogma the Assump• OTHER VIEW of doctors." , published by Rome's tion of Mary could be of nine religious orders Father Haering denied Unless a constitutional amendment is passed to Jesuit magazine, Civilta apportunely aided by or congregations. that oppostion to liberaacA second phase of allow voluntary prayer in schools, the Supreme Cattolica. They were the calling of a Countivity was experienced lising the abortion laws cil. Court's "prayer" decisions "must operate to de- drawn from secret arfrom February through was an attempt to imDoctrinal stroy every surviving instance of public reverence chives of the July of 1949. The Pope pose the Christian conCongregation. STUDIES in the land," a different priest, Father R. Howes, named as president of science upon all CaliThat Pope Pius conrepresenting Citizens for Public Prayer. told the sidered holding a Counthe central commission fornians. Since the matThe Pope approved sub-committee. then Nuncio to Italy, ter touches on the right the cil is not news, for Domexploratory studies to Archbishop Francesco to life, the most fundaenico Cardinal Tardini conducted by the be Most major religious groups represented in twice in 1959 had Holy Office to pre- Borgongini Duca. and as mental of all human testimony before. the sub-committee opposed the spoken of Father rights, it is not a matter secretary the late serve maximum sec- its amendment as unclear, a threat to religious free- Pope's thoughts of sumrecy. After four Pierre Charles, S.J., of Christian morality dom, and an invitation to schools to ignore major moning a Council. Also meetings between dogmatic theology pro- only, he said. moral problems. in 1959, Ernesto CardiMarch and July, it fessor at Louvain Uninal Ruffini of Palermo was decided there versity in Belgium Rabbi Seymour J. Cohen, president of the disclosed he had asked should be five comSYnagogue Council of America, said the amend- Pope Pius to summon a missions — one for TENTATIVE ment - would place the force of government be- Council. The new ardogmatic and specuLIST ticle, however, discloses hind prayer:, lative theology, one not details number of a for practical theo"In a plural society, it is not arid should not The central commismade public until now. one for canoni- sion ,which was in effect logy, be the business of and government to aid religion, According to the arcal discipline and lit- composed of the cardiif it does assume that role, then in the very proRuffini, urgy, one for mis- nal members of the Holy cess and precedent it establishes, it does religion ticle, Cardinal with the in an audience sions and one for cul- Office, held six meetings a harm and disservice that will far outweigh the Pope on February 24. ture and Christian during the first half of intended 1948, told the Pope that benevolence," he added. action. the year. A tentative list Robert E. Van Deusen, testifying for the board he and Alfredo Cardinal It was also recom- of names of 65 bishops Ottaviani — then MonOf social ministry mended that a central from all parts of the of the Lutheran Church in signor Ottaviani, assesAmerica, said the commission be named world was drawn up for amendment is "a piecemeal sor of the Congregation approach to the to direct preparation a project to obtain ideas question of the place of religion of the Holy Office, and POPE PIUS XII of the Council. and suggestions for a in public schools." now pro-prefect of its A list of 36 names to Council. However, the as to combat various the Doctrinal It "clearly injects successor, government into the business although preCongregation, favoured errors, including com- compose a preparatory letter, of religion," said the pared, was never sent. Rev. C. Stanley Lowell, the summoning of a munism. had been commission associate director of Protestants and Other Ameri- Council to clarify variAdditionally it was drawn up and included cans United for Separation of Church and State. ous doctrinal points so argued that the Pope's representatives pf 18 SEE PAGE TWO NS" 4.4,1KINPANNP4444
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