The Record
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No. 3275.
(Registered at the 0.P.O., Perth for transmission by post as a Newspaper.)
PERTH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1967.
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L AST Thursday f our young women from the same parish made their Final Profession of Vows in the Dominican Order which had taught them as schoolgirls. The ceremony took place in the Scarborough parish church and the Mass was celebrated by Monsignor E. McBride. parish priest of Scarborough. Four seminarians at present on holidays, also from the parish, assisted at the Mass. The four professed were: Sister M. Agnes Leeson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Leeson, of Jennactibbine; Sister M. Mark I,aracy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Laracy, of Scarborough; Sister M. Stephen Huts. bert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hulbert, of Doubleview; and Sister M. Andrew Murphy, daughter of Mrs. M. V. Murphy and the late Mr. Murphy. Monsignor McBride said in his sermon for the unique occasion that it was an occasion of great pleasure that the parish had given these four vocations to God. He congratulated the riewly professed and their parents, who were present in the church. After the Mass, he presided at the profession ceremony, which was conducted in English. The Mass was sung by the children of St. John's, the parish school of Scarborough which the professed had attended. The Dominican Sisters sang the music for the Profession Ceremony. A great number of friends and relatives of the newly professed 'Sisters were present in the church and afterwards enjoyed morning tea with the Sisters in the parish hall. FROM TOP: • Sister M. Stephen pronounces her Vows to ,Mother M. Emmanuel, Provincial Superior of the Dominican Sisters. Sister M. Regina assists the Provincial. • Final Vows are pronounced by Sister M. Mark. • Sister M. Agnes receives the professed Sister's ring from Monsignor McBride. • The blessed veil is presented to Sister M. Andrew by Monsignor McBride.
"In the education of future priests," the Cardinal declared, -no one Poland were told publicwill replace us." ly by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski of Warsaw "There were times," on Christmas Day that he said, "when blows the Catholic Church will were struck at the not yield to its threats Church by people alien to close some seminaries. in faith, language and culture to educate The Primate of Poland priests in Prussian or spoke to a Christmas or Russian. The bishops throng in Warsaw cathdid not allow it. Many edral, where he also of them lost their posts, celebrated the Mass. but they said, 'non posContrary to practice, the FUMUS: " sermon was preached by the Primate's secre- have yielded from time I Catholics the governThe Cardinal was tary and the Cardinal to time to government ment's threat on the cheered by worshippers himself spoke at the end demands on such mat- seminaries. as he left the cathedral, ters as "inspections," of the Mass. many of them shouting, "There are events but last month stood !'We are with you." He SILENCE that force us to lie on fast against State insistresponded by saying, the doorstep of the semi- ence on the dismissal of To date there has been "Let us find strength in nary like a watchdog six seminary rectors. no public statement by the national treasure and endure whatever that is our religion." A joint pastoral letter government officials. may come to defend the of the Polish bishops The Cardinal. in his However, he addressfreedom of conscience of read in all the churches address, stated the our youth," he said. on December 18 ema- Church's position that ed season's greetings to The Cardinal's address nated from an emer- only priests must edu- those governing Poland„ was his first public gency meeting of the cate future priests, "not voicing the hope that statement on the Polish hierarchy held in War- the Ministry of Educa- they will assure the government's declared saw under the leader- tion, officials of the Of- Church of all its rights intention to closes at ship of Cardinal Wys- fice for Religious Af- and liberties. least four seminaries in zynski. The pastoral dis- fairs, security services, the most recent develop- closed to the country's or even the police." ment of the current con#4,41 ,41.4.#4.41 ,41.41,141,10#44110~ flict between the Church and State.
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"CANNOT" "On some issues, whenever the worldly authorities touch them, we will have to say that one must obey God rather than men,- the Cardinal said. "We will have to reply.. 'non possumus' (we cannot)." In the seminary controversy, the bishops have resisted any attempt at control ove: the teaching function of the seminaries. They
INSTANT CHURCHES
A SWEDISH firm is
now manufacturing low - cost prefabricated churches that can be p urchased by mail order. The Oresjo Manufacturing Company is producing wooden churches seating 120 that can be moved by truck or railway and set up in three days. These churches are intended to be used temporarily by parishes pending construction of larger and more permanent buildings. They are designed to last 80 years and can be moved several times, if necessary. Everything is made beforehand and the firm sends workers along to set up the churches, since local labour is in short supply. The idea also eases the problem of obtaining building licences. Additions such as kindergartens can be made later. The architect who designed the prefabricated , church is Torsten Hanson, a Member of Parliament. He said the Oresjo company has on the assembly line a similar - type of church for use in beach resort areas as summer chapels for tourists and campers. He said 15 parishes were interested in purchasing churches for this purpose in 1967.
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Birth Place Packed
HOUSANDS of pH, T grims from around the world thronged the town where Jesus Christ was born. The influx of pilgrims which began several days before Christmas THE editor of Vatican City's daily swelled to flood proportions on Christmas Eve. newspaper, in an editorial urging This year, as at the time Christ's birth about an objective appraisal of the war in 4 of two thousand years ago, Vietnam, has asserted that Catholic there was no room at the inn. Pilgrims withopinion throughout the world is out reservations were of luck as all hotels divided over the aims and methods out reported that they were completely choked. of that struggle. Pilgrims jammed the In the same editorial, Raimondo Manzini post office all day to said objectivity demands that the Pope's send Christmas greetpeace appeal "not be exploited in one direcings with a Bethlehem tion only." postmark. The editor of "L'Osservatore Romano- comLatin Rite Patriarch plained of "the silence on the part of one of Alberto Gori. 0.F.M., of Jerusalem, at the head the contending parties before Pope Paul's of a procession, made pressing, anxious and disinterested appeals t he five-mile pilgrimage to prolong the truce into an armistice heraldfrom his residence to ing peace." the city of the Nativity. He also raised the question "of how many The mayor of Bethlein democracy want sincerely to serve the hem and representatives cause of the negotiations that have been of the Jordan governappealed for." ment flanked the PatriManzini said the polemics over the Vietnam arch in the procession war offer "daily proof- of the difficulty of to the Basilica of the Nativity, built by St. arriving at an "objectivity about one's own Helen, mother of the ideological position." But he cited Pope Paul's Emperor Constantine, in warning that peace is the fruit of -conscience the fourth century of that strives to serve truth. the Christian era. He lauded -New York Times" corresponThousands packed the dent Harrison Salisbury's fact-finding trip to basilica for the Christbombed areas of North Vietnam as a "service mas Eve services which to truth." Salisbury's investigation was all began at 6 p.m. and conth‘ more praiseworthy, he said, in that it tinued until 2 a.m. might militate against "his own country's Protestants sang hymns propaganda efforts." He said it had already in the fields where the constrained Washington to make "admissions Gospel says the angel brought the tidings of and clarifications." Christ's birth to the After quoting a report that American public shepherds. opinion is disturbed over the bombings, he The weather, clear wrote, -Catholic opinion is equally engaged, calm, matched the and anxious and divided throughout the world calmness of the town over the aims or methods of this 'typical. which has recently been tragic, threatening' war, as it was defined by the scene of demonstraPaul VI. But the cause of peace would be tions by students against obtainable if all regimes truly wanted the the government of King liberty and independence of every man and Hussein of Jordan. The of .every people, in the real sense of these inter-religious friction which has marred some words and not in a manufactured or ambipast Christmases wa.:4 guous sense.4PIPIXINIPM.4.441.0.#00.411 , 11.#411WINININIVIINP4M+11.4.4,1P41.414 , 004,,,IP#040,0#4,41,,a , also absent.