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4;,RuE1,;:,r„„ No. 3277. PERTH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1967. iiiiiRCULATION16
LAYMEN, WOMEN TO WORK IN NEW CURIA POSTINGS
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LONG SERVICE REWARDED
POPE PAUL VI has established two new Church offices to foster the lay apostolate and to deal with special studies for justice and peace throughout the world.
consultors The members and con- group of The establishment of the two offices, which sultors will assemble in drawn also from bishwill have central offic- Rome when it is deem- ops and laymen. es in Rome, fulfills two ed necessary but will In both eases the r ecommendations made remain at their present Pope chose members Vatican posts. The administra- and consultors on the Second by Council Fathers to meet tive officers, with the bass of geographical the demands of the mod- exception of the presi- representation and pardent, Cardinal Roy, will ticular competency in ern world. Among members and live in Rome to carry the various fields inconsultors of the two out the work of the cen- volved. Both organisations are bodies the Pope has tral offices. The motu proprio, en- "erected 'ad experimennamed bishops., priests and laymen, among the titled Catholicam Christi turn' (as an experiment) administrative officers Ecclesiam, was dated for five years," the doche has broken with Vat- January 6, but was ument specified. "Pracican tradition and chos- made public at a Vati- tical experience may en two lay people, one can press conference suggest suitable changes in their aims and of them a woman, Miss on January 10. The Council on the final structures," it said. Rosemary Goldie of Administrative offiN.S.W. Laity will consist of 12 Miss Goldie's nomin- lay members and a cers, that is., the president, vice president, secretaries and sub-secretaries, will hold office for five years but can be re-appointed by the Holy See if desired. Permanent
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A t a well-attended social last night Mr. Tom O'Brien received a presentation from past president Marty 1 Cavanagh on behalf of the Irish Club for the service; he has rendered to the Club for many yearc.
The motu proprio al"We for hereby declare ended as C ommission from today the 'vacatio Studies on Justice legis' (the period beand Peace, estab- tween the promulgation of a document and its lished by Pope implementation) c o n Paul VI, is Mgr. cerning the conciliar themselves available for I AY CATECHIST Joseph P. Gremil- Decree Apostolicam Ac- II" WORK, FORMERa half-hour visit each tuositatem (Decree on week to a Government lion. the Apostolate of the LY ASSOCIATED school. MISSION WITH COUNLaity). The bishops In Perth alone an adand episcopal conferenc- TRIES ONLY, IS NOW ditional 200 could be es shall provide for the AN ESTABLISHED and spread over three 7.30 p.m. It will con- absorbed to give further tinue for ten weeks implementation of the FEATURE OF THE EN- years. vigour and permanence decree in their dioceses TIRE CHURCH. The Lay Catechist every Monday night. to the execution of and nations." This is understand- school will commence command to Christ's MEN TOO The aims of the Coun- able, since the whole its 1967 courses on Monmediate His Word to cil on the Laity were Church is meant to be day, February 13 at Christ's command to those who have not (Continued on Page 7). missionary, and active 7.30 p.m. teach His Gospel and heard it. ation ranks her as the catechetically. The course will have take His Word to all Catholic woman holding In this Archdiocese, to give more compe- did not distinguish be the highest office withapproximately 200 Lay tence and assurance to tween men and women in the administrative Catechists instruct a those enrolling for the In this Archdiocese te offices of the Church. time. Trainees date., this work ha, big number of Catholic first children mostly in Gov- who are commencing been done mainly by In a motu proprio (a ernment Primary Lay Catechetist work women but a small document drawn up on schools. the Pope's own authorThese Cate- this year should send group of men are mak chists have taken a their names to Father ing a significant contri ity) the Pope has ordminimum form of train- J. Nestor, Catholic Edu- bution and more wouiC ered the establishment ing, at a Lay Catechetist cation Office, 77 St. be welcome. of a Council on the Laity Elsewhere many met, and a Pontifical Comschool which was estab- George Terrace, on or before February 6. The are engaged in cateche mission for Studies on lished in 1963. school opens at Merced- sis. They include pro Justice and Peace. The training course to es College (formerly fessional and self em Although the two orRECORD 20,242 Viet ernment . centres around date has consisted in Our Lady's College), ployed men, insuranct ganisations are separate Cong members de- the country. Among three ten-week courses Victoria Square on Mon- and business represent by the nature of their fected from the commu- these who returned in of one evening a week. day, February 13 at atives, who can mak,. programmes and goals, they will have the same nist ranks in 1966, U.S. the week were 368 milipresident and vice pres- officials announced in tary, 217 from political ident, Maurice Cardinal Saigon. . This brings the groups and 17 others. Roy of Quebec and Ital- total defections to the The objective of the ian Bishop Alberto Cas- government .of .South Chieu Hoi programme telli, former secretary Vietnam to more than is to entice Viet Cong of the Italian Bishops' 48,000 since the Chieu military and civilian HOLY SEE has ' daily. In summary it will add an equal de Conference respectively. Hoi (Open Arms) pro- political groups to give altered its practice contains three principal gree of further merit gramme .began . under t hemselves up to the of granting indulgenc- revisions t h e from its own treasury. of Monsignor Joseph President .Ngo .dinh South Vietnam es for prayers and Church's tradi good governtional A considerable r€ Gremillion of the U.S. Diem in 1963. ment. works, emphasising the practice: duction in the numbe Catholic Relief ServicThey are promised necessity .of .personal Partial indulgences of plenary indulgenc€ The total for 1966 a es, who is from the mnesty and then piety go and will playing no longer be count- which can be gained down Alexandria, La., diocese, was 82 percent above t The lay general has been chosen as per- that for 1965. when hrough an indoctrina- the necessity of extern- ed quantitatively in tion manent secretary of the 11.124 returned to sup- sent course before being al objects or places as days or years. Instead will be that only on, Commission for Studies port the South. The tive back to their na- conditions for gaining a qualitative norm will plenary indulgence may villages. Some of them. be used, based on the be gained in any one on Justice and Peace. biggest surge in defecThe changes are con- dispositions of the in- day. An exception i, Because this commis- tions came in November, the returnees are forced sion, will not be an op- with 2,505, and in De- in to spend a long time tained in an apostolic dividual and the per- made for the hour of the indoctrination constitution en titled fection with which he death, when a plenar: erative organism and in- cember, with 2,516 Viet centres because to re- "Indulgentiarum p o c - says a prayer or per- indulgence may stead will concentrate Cong leaving the ranks be , turn immediately to trina" (The Doctrine of forms a good work. To granted even though anon studying the prob- of the communists. their native villages Indulgences) dated Jan. this quality of personal other has been acquirlems of justice and In the last week of would mean Viet Cong 1 and published Jan. 9 merit known only to ed on the same day. peace no subsecretaries 1966 a total of 602 Viet reprisals against them in L'Osservatore Ro- God, according to the Conditions for gaining . have been named. Cong reported to gov- and their families. Vatican mano, City constitution, the Church (Continued on Page 7). tary of the
new so specified that
OPEN ARMS POLICY PAYS OFF
LAY CATECHIST COURSE FOR 1967
lake A Date with LAY LOOK CHANG E FOR INDULGENCES Feb. HE T 24 to 26 See Page 4