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No. 3286. PERTH, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1967.
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CRUSADE A GAINST A UTHORITY BISHOP ATTACKS DANGEROUS TWIST By JOHN A. GREAVES from Cardiff, Wales.
ARCHBISHOP JOHN MURPHY of Cardiff l b.... -has attacked what he describes as a "new 1i opened A general view of the new retreat house in the grounds of the Redemptorist Monastery, blessed and Sunday. last McKeon M. Bishop c rusade against authority" led by "a mitred by been used Uneven clinker brickwork, rough-cut timber finished in creosote and form-finish concrete have t o depict the Church of the Poor. See more on Pages 8-9. a rmy of columnists, pundits, playwrights, producers, interviewers."
POPE'S OUTLOOK DESCRIBED AS PESSIMISTIC
The 61 -year-old Archbishop, in a pastoral letter read teaching. They question rection, dare to rob Holy in the 120 Catholic churches of industrial South Wales, said: distort the objective Scripture's testimony of or "IN the first place the task and a difficult de- Cambridge University) sense of truths taught its sacred and historical . . that the Church We cannot expect with authority by the character and try to inattack is not solely cision. everyone to understand will recover her traditroduce a so-called 'posthurch. C on the Church. It is on these decisions. But we tional look of assurance THE official Papal theologian, Father conciliar' mentality laity and and that they certainly i•irnong the Peop!e of all authority. Politicians can expect allpriests PRETEXT Luigi Ciappi, 0.P., has described Pope to to see that neither all hope certainly God. and policemen are suf- respect and to obey the Holy See nor the na"What would remain Church's pretext of on the outlook the "Under present Paul's fering just as much as them. tional hierarchies can be religious of the content of our adapting doctrinal problems as not fully opti- thought to a contempo faith, or of the theologi"It is precisely by pushed around." parents and priests." ::uch obedience to lawrary outlook, they pre- cal virtue that professes mistic. He said that there has ful authority that we scind from the guidance it, if these attempts, always been criticism, can restore to its rightcoin-iperiod's exegetic and of the Church's teach- freed from the support Ciappi, Fair Play Father we but added: "I think ful place the position ing, give the founda of the Church's teaching in the Vatican theological output." will have to admit that that authority and Calling for fair plav menting "L'OsservaHe said it is not easy tions of theological spec- authority, were destined daily, City in our generation, apart obedience have lost in all round, including fair tore Romano," on a e- to distinguish between ulation an historical di to prevail?" from the intensification, society. Even those dis- play for bishops ano Papal letter, said: the two:, yet he styled as it has taken a new and ciplines which do not clergy, the Tablet said: cent Pope indeed does "excessive opti mismdangerous twist. The involve the magisterium "The educated layman "The to be wholly the opinion that erroappear not new attack is not now ( teaching authority) of when he is inclined And how neous doctrines are few optimistic. just on those in autho- the Church are so inti- these days to indulge in could he be, he who and far between. while rity but simply on au- mate to the person of s weeping criticisms. calls himself, and is, the there is no real danger thority as such. There is Christ and to His should pause to reflect successor of Peter?" of heresy or of re-emergAts a real smell of anarchy Church that their re- that there only are The Papal' theologian, ing modernism. MONEY IS YOUR here.moval is best left to His bishops and clergy be- who bears the title of Pope Paul, in his apoVicar. And the celibacy IN SAFE HANDS
cause some men have Master of the Sacred of the clergy in the wes- been found to choose a Palaces, said the Pope's stolic exhortation on tern Church is surely much harder way of life let ter proclaiming the Sts. Peter and Paul, published on February of these. one than we educated lay- 19th centenary of the 22, said: The Archbishop demen have chosen for Martyrdom of Sts. Peter clared: "We have a duty "While man's religious ourselves. Very often and Paul sounds "the here to reassure the the sharpest- critics are vigilant pastor's clear sense today is in a deworld by our unquescline, depriving the faith and tioning loyalty The Catholic Church those who began the signal of alarm." of its natural foundaobedience that we hold in Britain has received upward climb to the fast without flinching to much publicity in the priesthood and then re- GOOD AND BAD tion, new opinions in exegesis and theology everything that has past couple of months. traced their steps, keepThe Dominican theo- often borrowed from been handed down to us Much of it has been de- ing- a natural tendency by an infallible Church. rogatory and critical of to find fault with the logian said good and bad bold but blind secular have in "Only then and out- the authority and the Church for whose se:- "are found in the Lord's philosopWes c o n cerning places found a way into side these limits are we structure of the Church. vice they found they vineyard h is post - conciliar the realm of Catholic willing to swing the It has shocked Catho- had no vocation.Church to the passing lic leaders, as Archrhythm of the day." bishop Murphy's pastoThe Archbishop claim- ral indicates. ed that it "is almost beThe Tablet, national coming a heresy in cer- Catholic weekly review. tain quarters to com- said: "At the present mend a priest or bishop. time the task of Church It is many moons since government is conductwe (the bishops) head- ed under a glare of pubed a popularity poll." licity with the television and radio . . . falling over each othe,to make the most of any little conflict of views or any sad defection." What is troubling, the Archbishop Murphy Tablet said, "is the condid point out, however, fusion of mind which that there "is a role for has been generated in Miss Rosemary Goldie, honest criticism, and the last few years in executive secretary for the e very man in authority, part, but only in part. Permanent Committee for Whether he be priest or as a consequence of the International Congresses of Parent, politician or Council and its upgradthe Lay Apostolate and Policeman, should wel- ing of the laity at an illSub-secretary to the Councome it." chosen moment when, cil of the Laity shows The Archbishop went for various psychologisome of her natural wit on to say that because cal and historical reaand charm as she answers the Church is not a de- sons, it has become the questions put to her at Inocracy, the contro- fashion to oppose and Trinity College last Friday. versies on birth preven- decry authority, so that tion and celibacy are a religion of authority Miss Goldie a guest in 110t to be decided by may be said to have A ustralia of the Catholic Popular votes or by been inviting trouble. Women's League was makopinion polls. "But we believe the ing a brief stop-over in - These things are de- great majority of CathPerth. cided by the Holy Fa- olics in this country ther in the overall in- share the hope of Father About 300 women were terest of the Church," Joseph Christie (acting able to attend the lecture. he said. "It is a difficult Catholic chaplain at See report page 7.
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