7.UDIT 4UREAU IRCULATION
No 3296. PERTH, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1967.
(Registered at the G.P.U., Perth tor transmission by post as a Newspaper.,
NO "SECRET MESSAGE" GIVEN POPE AT FATIMA
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UASHING rumours Pontiff's intentions. It to the contrary, is a customary gift in V atican Radio denied Religious houses where that Sister Lucia, the there can be only spirionly surviving witness tual 'treasures.' " Question: "Was there of the Fatima apparitions, confided the so- any writing, any mescalled "secret message" sage on the parchment to Pope Paul VI during addressed as a letter to their brief encounter at the Holy Father?" Answer: "No—neither the shrine in Portugal. on the parchment nor noted, however, It that the Carmelite nun on the container nor had expressed a desire anywhere else. There nothing except "to say something to the was Pope alone." The Pon- what I have mentioned. tiff told her that it was Nothing that could be "not the moment," and an expressed communisaid that she should cation of ideas." Question: "Did Sister r ather convey any mesPICTURED here are Vatican Council and sage to him through her Lucia have any private has been reported that some of the pr:ests current theo logical conversation with the he also has read it. own bishop. from the Archdiocese t hinking, Father Although there were The French-language Pope? Did she talk to of Perth and the Dio- O'Shea received rapt unoffi c i a 1 announcebroadcast was in the him in private?" cese of Bunbury who attention from the, ments Fatima before at form of an interview Answer: "No.I was at a clergy during the lecin participated with Father Paolo Al- his side as interpreter the Pope arrived that he four-day seminar last tures. meida, ,S.J., the head of throughout the conver- would grant Sister LuOne senior priest week. Vatican Radio's Brazil- sation. At a certain cia a private audience, F ather Kevin remarked that this ian section and a tempo- point Sister Lucia ex- the officials who arO'Shea, C.SS.R. (pic- was the best thing to rary official of the Vati- pressed a desire to say ranged the trip are tured on the right of have happened in the known have deliberto can Secretariat of State, something to the Pope M c K eo n ), West for the past Bishop who acted as the Pope's alone, but the Pope re- ately avoided any prithe semi- fifty years. conducted interpreter when he plied: 'As you see, this vate meeting between When this photonar, gave all the lecwent to Fatima on May is not the moment. If the two, largely to avoid taken. capably re- graph was and tures about a 13 to mark the fiftieth you wish then to com- speculation plied to questions some priests who had anniversary of the ap- municate something to "secret" or "end-of-thewhich arose from the long distances to traparitions there. me, tell it to your world" panic such as vel had already left groups. discussion "I was present at all bishop and he will con- has occasionally cropped Based on the docu- the. Retreat House. connection with up in conversations of ments of the Second North Perth. the vey it to me. Have great Holy Father," he said, trust in your bishop; be Sister Lucia's letter. "except the one he had obedient to him.' The with Premier Antonio Pope blessed Sister Lude Oliveira Salazar of ca as a father would Portugal, when they bless a dear daughter THE CHANGES in the Liturgy which were alone and spoke in whom he will undoubtCHRISTIANS MUST BE A PRESSURE GROUP TRYING TO SECURE French. Sister Lucia edly never see again." were announced lost week and which apmet the Pope only at the FAIR TREATMENT FOR IMMIGRANTS IN ENGLAND, AN ANGLIplatform next to the pear on Page Two in their detailed form NO SECRET Papal throne and near CAN CLERGYMAN TOLD A CONFERENCE IN LONDON ON THE this week, do not come into effect in the altar where he celeQuestion: "Do you brated Mass. The Pope have something to add? CHURCH AND IMMIGRANTS. Australia till they have been approved was sitting and Sister Is there perhaps a point Observing that the West Indians in particu- by the National Bishops' Conference. The conference was Lucia knelt bef ore on which you may not him." organised by the Catho- cost of living is higher lar, do not go to church, speak?" Answer: "No, there is lic Institute for Interna- for immigrants, Father Father Wood said: MANY IGNORED THE FOURTH PARA"Look at it from the Wood said: "Unless the I NTERVIEW absolutely nothing sec- tional Relations. The clergyman, the immigrant is free from immigrant's point of GRAPH OF THE NEWS STORY. WHICH The interviewer ask- ret. During the Pope's Rev. Wilfrid Wood, sta- economic slavery of this view. He realises that GRANTED THE POWER TO ALLOW THESE journey to Fatima ed: "Can you tell us all everything took place tioned at the Anglican kind, society is creating the Church is a body of CHANGES TO THE ''COMPETENT TERRIthe Pope said?" church of St. Stephen a man who has nothing people. In everyday life Father Almeida an- Iin the light of the sun— and St. Thomas in Lon- to lose. In other words, he sees these people TORIAL AUTHORITY." WHICH IS THE with the greatest simswered: "Certainly. plicity. You know it as don, said that such a a second-class citizen." putting forward strong, NATIONAL BISHOPS' CONFERENCE. There was no secret." Referring to the in- irrational views about C hristian pressure Q uestion; "What well as I. The modern group is the only solu- dignation he said many race relations, and he This meeting for the Australian Bishops is about talk of a letter Church wishes to pre tion to racial unrest in church _members show sees no reason why they scheduled for July 10-14. They will set the date said to have been given sent but one thing to Britain. any different be should ecause immigrants., b to the Pope by Sister the world—truth." when they are in church. for the changes and name the approved translaLucia?" The precision of the tion if they concur with what has been made So he doesn't go. Answer: "No, there questioning and of the possible by the instruction sent from the Holy w as no letter. This is answers was obviously See. What happened: Sister intended to banish once It is quite definite that no, changes are to be Lucia handed the Pope and for all any rumour made by individual priests until this authority is a kind of leather con- of another "secret" like PROJECT Compassion contributions to Project for the Archdiocese Compassion, which was given. tainer, a flat square box. the one already associthroughout As she could not open it, ated with Fatima. This of Perth has so far conducted The news and the details are given advance Lent, indicates that the she took a penknife out refers to the letter con- brought in $8,098. because of the necessity to have the publicity response This in the last Archpasses year's of her pocket and her visions tried cerning knowledge of what could come about and pretotal to this date by diocese will be well that way, but it was Sister Lucia which enEWS was received no $400, and there are still above last year's figure. use since she was too by Father J. Mul- paration for the changes be made, which will ex- trusted to her bishop 36 parishes to send in This has been typical cited. I opened it myself several years ago to be parish priest., of alter many habitual actions associated over many lins, and Sister Lucia pre- opened either on her their collections to the through o u t Australia, Myaree, of the death of years in the celebration of Mass. according to reports in sented it opened death or in 1960, which- Church Office. In places where the recommendations of the The number of par- other weekly Catholic his mother, Mrs. Bridget Pope, who was to the ever came first. Mullins (78), on Sun- Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the ishes yet to send in their papers. all the time . . .smiling day, May 21. In the The message was sent Liturgy have been ignored or badly implemented, container was a pall— Pope John XXIII. Father Mullins will some of the changes could be that is to say, a square to without much point. according to the who, offer a Requiem Mass on Where the piece of linen effort has been made, the changes, if which is best information availMonday. May 29, at 9.30 Placed over the chalice able, read the "secret" a.m. in Corpus Christi adopted for Austraila, w.11 benefit both priest during Mass to and people in their realisation of the living protect in 1960 and decided it BISHOP J. Toohey of has approved the nomi- Church, Myaree. thee contents. Sister Lu- was not for publication. Maitland, Secretary nation of His Eminence Mrs. Mullins, the Liturgy cia had embroidered it. In a recent talk in Rome of the Australian Epis- Cardinal Gilroy, Arch- widow of the late Mr. She also It must be remembered that the Liturgical carried a Alfredo Cardinal Otta- copal Conference, an- bishop of Sydney, and Denis Mullins, who died Commission Parchment which was viani, is working on a complete revision His Archbishop Grace pro-prefect of the nounced this week that in 1937, lived in Kells, What we call a of the Liturgy and by publishing the reforms by 'spiritual Congregation. Cahill Canberra and Rubin, Ladislas of Doctrinal Bishop Kilkenny, Ireland. She treasure listing so said the letter was be- Secretary General of Goulburn, as represen- had ten children, of stages, it will help considerably the understandlnanY Communions, ro- ing kept in "one of those the International Synod tatives of the Australian whom four are priests ing and implementation of the desires of Vatican saries and sacrifices of- bottomless pits in the of Bishops, had advised Episcopal Conference to or Religious. Council II on the Liturgy in the life of the fered for the Supreme Vatican archives." Itthat the Holy Father the Synod. May she rest in peace. Church.
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