4,-A, RuE%ro„ No. 3270. PERTH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1966.
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MISSION HOSPITAL MOS A DOCTOR FATHER M. OOMEN (pictured), a Bishop Galvin, was so to have a doctor Dutch Mill Hill missionary of Long San anxious on the mission that he Mission, Sarawak, sought contacts dur- was offering attractive ing his visit to Perth last week to conditions over a threecontract — full readvance his growing district. Especially, year turn fares to and from he sounded out the possibility of finding the mission, free board and lodging in his own a local doctor willing to serve there.
Back in 1948, the mis- task with an old build- house, an outfit allowsionaries, centred or ing with 20 beds. Be- ance of $500, a month's Miri. the site of the sides the regular mater- annual leave with pay three months on Shell Refinery for the nity cases, he says that and completion of the conBrunei State Oil, moved the majority of his tract, a monthly allow120 miles up the Baram cases suffered from T.B. ance of $280. River to found this new and dysentery. During Any doctor interested mission station. the latter part of his The trip today might stay there a new hospi- in further details should take only an hour by tal was being planned in the first instance plane, if you had one, and will soon become a contact Catholic Missions Office, 77 St. 'but for the missionary. reality. Terrace, Perth. George's it means three to four Financed by the Gerdays with an outboard man Catholic charity motor in good condi- Misereor and erected by tions. tradesmen Brothers of Father Oomen was a the Mill Hill Congregapioneer of a now vigor- tion with local labour., ous centre — a mission the hospital will fill a c hurch with three long-felt need. The hospriests, a bush school pital will be fitted with with 200-ode boarders" anaesthetic and surgical staffed by five Sisters, equipment, as well as and a medical centre. being assured of a reguA young West Austra- lar Government supply lian doctor recently of drugs. spent 12 months at the Father Oomen said in Mission. He began his Perth that his Superior.
First In Australia might look like a photograph of an ordinary large house . . . Tills It is A large house, but it has been turned into something out of
HUMANISM WORRY AT Dutch Will Hold UNIVERSITY Own Council
the ordinary by being the first hospital established by the Camilliant Fathers in Australia. It is located in Forrestfield at the foot of the Lesmurdie hills. In keeping with the:r plans for the development of their work of nursing the sick, the Fathers and Brothers will use this humble beginning in this Archdiocese. The story, as told in the speeches given on the occasion of the opening last week appears on Pages 8 and 9.
ouncil is reportedly planning a wide programme of reform and A CAMPAIGN to halt the swing towards updating of the Church humanism in British universities has OCIOLOGICAL survey'.., A. J. B. van Galen, 0. in the country. The countheological studies and Carm., and Piet Huizing. cil is expected to seek been started by the major churches, the spirit of the Second S.J.; Sister L. Simons, permission from Rome to Vatican Council will be Holland's first woman put the entire Mass into including the Catholic Church, through dominant forces behind doctor of theology; Miss the vernacular, to discuss a Dutch pastoral council L. M. Kokshoorn of the revisions both in the law a joint chaplaincy plan. announced in Doom, the Union of Dutch Catholic of celibacy and in the Netherlands, by Utrech's Women; and Theo van laws relating to mixed The new University of Lancaster Bernard Cardinal Alfrink. der Ven, a 21-year-old law marriages and to ask perw ill have the first pilot project in the student at Utrech Univer- mision for priests and The Dutch council was sity. people to elect lay campaign. described by the cardinal ; bishops. council's of the Much The newer universi- more than $400.000 is as "an adventure full of work will be devoted to As Cardinal Altrink exties, such as York, Lan- being raised to modern- risks." He said the Dutch the findings of two sur- plained, "If we fail, the caster and Essex, are re- ise an old building as a National Pastoral Coun-iveys recently conducted bishops will have to bear ported to be taking a new Catholic head- cil, which will open on , throughout the Nether- the responsibility for neutral attitude towards quarters for the univer- November 27, was called lands. Both surveys have that. But the bishops religion, with no official sity with a chapel and "not to solve the burning shown that the Church's think the test worth all issues of the internationprovision for church library. possible trouble." al Church but to make a g services. John Cardinal Heenan. small contribution to slowing down and that ! Observers in Holland ._chirLs, believe that the decisions The new University Archbishop of Westmind' of Sussex at Brighton ster, attended a lunch their solution." rapidly. Church attend- of the Dutch council will He went on to ask if nce and reception of the have a strong effect on on the South Coast has held at the Mansion the national council were a an interdenominational House home of LonEucharist have also taper- the European conference "meeting house" where don's Lord Mayor, to not "a manifestation of ed off. of bishops, which will the Holy Spirit, just as In an effort to counter meet in the Netherlands services can be held, launch an appeal or the the Second Vatican Counthese trends, the pastoral in July, 1967. and this is regarded by Oxford project. cil was?" humanists—a name now Strongly ecumenical in being used in Britain spirit, the Dutch council for the increasingly vowill have non-Catholics ciferous secularists or co-operating closely with atheists—as a recogniCatholic leaders. Cardinal Father Oomen wants a doctor tion of religion. Alf rink explained: "The A similar plan for leaders of the Protestant prayer meetings, and Lancaster has brought churches will take a part leading Catholic Action vigorous protests. in the council on equal programmes. The Lancaster human.. terms. They will have reAt the request of the ists reportedly claim presentatives in the comthat the land set aside mittees and on the board IN Douala, Cameroun, Bishops' Conference of Equatorial Africa-Camfor a new chaplaincy of the pastoral council, Africa, eight married eroun, Bishop Thomas there is for -indoctrinabut will have no voting tion rights on the council's men are preparing for Mongo of Douala iniin out-of-date HE General Superior the houses of the Soci- superstitions" and that IN 1967 a-seminary will final decisions." ordination to the perma- tiated the project of the open in West Berlin permanent dia conate. nent diaconate. of the Pallottine ety there. the site should be used for the first time since Fathers will be arriving This first experiment The General Superior for university buildings. 1941 when the Nazis The candidates include SURVEYS in Perth from Rome comes from the North The two teachers, two cate will serve as the basis churches are about December 15 to German province of the countering by proposing closed the city's first developsimilar The final chists, two school direc for decisions of visit Pallottine houses Pallottine Fathers. He is a $450,000 plan for a re- seminary a f ter two the council will be made tors, a hospital atten ments in other dioceses. years of operation. in Australia. The candidates for the a Doctor of Theology. ligious .centre to be used under a seven-person dant who is diocesan Until now, candidates board made up of three head of the Legion of diaconate are trained at specialising in Ecclesiasby Catholics., Anglicans, He is the Very Rev. eminars, which last for the priesthood from William Moehler, S.A.C. tical History. Prior to Free Churchmen and the Berlin diocese have priests, a nun and three ' Mary, and a building s lay people. The president contractor. All are tit.- from a week to a month His visitation will com- his election as General Jews It will have two and are given three studied in the seminary mence at the Pallottine Superior. he was a pro- consecrated chapels and of the Paderborn arch- of the board is Dr. Dries fathers of large families times a year. They will continue ir Mission Centre at River- fesor in the seminary of a discussion hall corn. diocese in that West G. M. van Melsen, lay At one of the semiprofessor of the philo- their professions whilt ton. He will later move the Pallottine Fathers in nlete with coffee bar. on the Methodists have guar- German city. Forty of sophy of science at the they function as dea- nars, the priests in to Wandering Mission, Schoenstatt, anteed $70.000 and Ca- them are now there. Catholic University of cons. Their functions charge of the training Tardun and all the mis- Rhine. At the Chap General will include teaching programme spoke to the tholics $225.000 future. West Nijmegen. for the I n the sion stations in the Kimter held in Rome last scheme. The board's vice-nresi- vpreaching and catecheti- wives of the future deaB erl in's seminarians berleys. year he was re-elected Religious chaplaincies will study for four yews dent is Father Edward cal activity: baptising: cons on the role of woAfter his West Aus- General for a third are also to be establish- in Paderborn and will Schillebeeckx, 0.P., pro- distribut i n g Commu men in the Church and tralian visit, Father term. He has now been ed in several other uni- spend the last year and fessor of dogmatic theo- nion: witnessing mar their collaboration In Moehler will go to the General of the Society versities. ne mission of their busa half in the seminary logy at Nijmegen. Other riages; presiding. in th Eastern States and visit for 13 years. At Oxford University in West Berlin. delegates include Fathers absence of a priest., over bands as deacons.
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