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No. 3258. PERTH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1966.
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Cardinal, Two Bishops Resign Sees
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Vladimir Kuroyedov, chairman of the government commission on religous affairs, said that Soviet law guarantees religious freedom and that efforts to suppress r eligion would be wrong. "It has long been established that any kind of ban or administrative pressure is not an effective means of struggling against religious ideology," he told the government newspaper, Izvestia. "Atheist convictions, like any other convictions," he said., "cannot be imposed by force, by decrees or other administrative means."
DISTINGUISHED LITURGIST
Archbishop Marcelino Olaechea Loizaga of Valencia„ 77, recently involved in controversy over the use of Valencian dialect in local liturgical celebrations, has announced plans to retire. At the same time, Avila's 76-year -old Bishop Santos Moro Briz made public his own plans to resign his See.
ITALY DROPS ABSTINENCE ,T ON FRIDAYS
HE Italian Bishops have dispensed their country from the universal law of Friday abstinence from meat except during the season of Lent.
Govern-
religious affairs defended freedom of worship and pledged non-intervention in church affairs —but at the same time warned that no violations of the strict law on separation of Church and State would be tolerated.
He is the first cardinal to follow the Pope's recommendation, which was contained in the August motu proprio, Ecclesiae Sanctae. The Cardinal's resignation, which was announced by the Bologna archdiocesan secretariat, is from the See of Bologna only. No mention was made of his presidency of the Consilium for the Implementation of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy.
A ND TWO IN SPAIN
Soviet
ment's top official on
GIACOMO CARDINAL LERCARO of Bolognia, heeding Pope Paul's recommendation to all bishops to resign at the age of seventy-five, has handed in his resignation about two months before reaching that age.
Cardinal Lercaro is well known as a scholar and a liturgist and is the author of several books on the liturgy. He has also written several books on church architecture, and in 1956 created the Organisation for the Study and Information on Sacred Architecture. In August, 1959, he was the principal speaker at the North American Liturgical Week, held at the University of Notre Dame. The Cardinal became internationally known as the founder of the famed "Flying Friars," young, specially trained priests who tour his archdiocese with sound trucks and speak against the communists. Cardinal Lercaro was born at Quinto al Mare, in the Genoa archdiocese, on October 28, 1891. He was ordained on July 25, 1914. In 1947, he was named Archbishop of Ravenna and was consecrated on March 19, 1947. He be-. came Archbishop of Bologna on April 19, 1952. and was made a cardinal by Pius XII on January 12„ 1953.
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UNUSUAL MISSION rOURTEEN clergymen
Photo Airport .Photographer T wo Oblates of Mary Immaculate spent a few days in Perth before leaving for Melbourne where they will attend t he Pan Asia ( Oblate) Provincials' Meet i n g which commenced on Tuesday, September 6. The Fathers are pictured at Perth Airport ( left ) Father M. A. Fernando 0.M.I., Provincial of the Oblate FathCeylon ers in and Father Chevrolet P. 0.M.I., Provincial of the Oblate Fathers in Laos. They were seen off a t the airport by Father E. Ryan superior of Lourdes Monastery and Father D. Hughes, rector of - Mazenod College. This Pan Asia Provincials' Meeting is the first fruit of the Second Vatican Council and the General Chapter of the Oblates held last year in Rome.
REPS. W ANTED
In its place they .re- prescriptions of the commend the substitu- C hurch's recently tion of other acts which penitential changed universal law ATHOL1C Lay Apos are, never- of fast and abstinence tolate Organisation. theless, left to the free as set forth in the Papal Choice of the individual. document "Paenitemi- who wish to be represented in an official Aus ni," published last FebSuch acts could delegation to tht: be "abstinence ruary, remain unaltered, tralian from spe- incl Third World Congress uding the obligtaion for the Lay Apostolate cially favoured or costly foods, one of the to fast and abstinence to be held in Rome fror• spiritual on Ash Wednesday and Works of or corporal Good Friday and absti- October 11 to 18, 1967 mercy, are invited to notify th the nence reading on all Fridays of ecretary, Episco pa' of S from sacred a selection Lent. Committee for the Lay scripture, a Pious The alteration in the Apostolate, exercise preferby Septem ably in the universal norms was apf arnily prayer, form of proved by the Italian ber 20, at the followinF address— acceptance in greater Episcopal Conference Box 716, G.P.O. Sydney carrying during daily its general as crosses, giving up The delegation will b a show or sembly, June 21-23, and limited to thirty per amusement, then Or other submitted to Pope sons. and delegates' CY acts of mortifiPaul VI for approval in cation." his capacity as Primate penses will be met b' The remainder the organisations the: of the of Italy. represent.
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of three denominations, including four 1 Catholic priests, are currently living in Stafford Prison to give a simultaneous mission to the 800 inmates there.
Two Monsignors Appointed In „ Archdiocese
. cr.ocesan priests were last week inT WO formed through His Grace the Archbishop
that. they had received the rank of Domestic Prelate granted by Pope Paul VI. They are the Right Reverend Edward McBride, .parish priest of Scarborough, and the Right Reverend John Murphy, B.A.. L.Ph.. Dip.Ed.. parish priest of Mosman Park. The alipointments are - dated July 28. 1966. Mons.gnor McBride was born in Kanowna in 1912 . and educated by the Sisters of St. T b f God, the Sisters of Mercy and the Christian Brothers in Kalgoorlie. His studies for the priesthood were carried out at Corpus I.
Monsignor E. McBride Monsignor J. Murphy
Christi College, Werribee, Victoria. He was ordained on August 1, 1937. First appointed to Palmyra, Father McBride was later parish priest of BayswaterWhen St. Charles' Bedford Park parish. Minor Seminary was opened in 1942. he was This appointment appointed Vice -Rector. continued till the parish of Scarborough was begun by Father McBride in 1948. Monsignor Murphy was born in 1913 in Ballydesmond,. County Cork. Ireland, and educated at St. Brendan's. Killarney. and St. Patrick's, Maynooth. He was ordained on June 19, 1938. His appointments have been Highgate, Claremont., South Perth and also living at Nedlands while he held the post of Diocesan Inspector of Schools to which he was appointed in 1941. In February, 1948, Monsignor Murphy was appointed locum tenens of Mosman Park and in August of the same year he was appointed parish priest.