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No. 3303. PERTH, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1967.
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Father Patrick O'Connor, S.S.C., writes from Vietnam.
M ARINE Corporal George A. Pace, 23, of Detroit, U.S.A., i.vas fatally wounded by a enemy shell fragment while serving Father ( Cmdr.) Joseph E. Ryan's Mass. Corporal Pace was Father Ryan's assistant. He and others had received Holy Communion at the chaplain's afternoon Mass and the priest had begun the Post Communion prayer In an interview in the newspaper when a shell burst near the chapel. Corporal Yediot Aharanot, Premier Eshkol was Pace was the only one was asked: "Will you agree that the While two seminarians from St. Charles' Seminary chant the Litany of the Saints, the Reverend Ean James lays hit out of a congregation before the altar prior to his ordination to the priesthood in his parish church in Scarborough last of 22. Churches could accept some control of prostrate Saturday. Father Ryan, a priest of the Boston archdiotheir Holy Places?" ceie, was knocked to He replied: "If this•is arrangements for the the ground by the blast. The chaplain and other what the Vatican de- Holy Places. The paper mands, we will concede emphasised, h o w ever, Marines brought the it, if only to prove we that Israel will oppose corporal immediately to are willing to assert the any request that it get nearby D medical comholiness of the Holy out of Jerusalem. pany, where he received Places according to their surgical treatment, but view. We have no necesdied four hours later. sity and no interest in Corporal Pace had possessing Holy Places served seven months in which are not ours; we THE BISHOPS of Australia met last No. 34 of the recent In- English Hierarchy be a line company of the struction on the Blessed approved for Australia. will take it upon ourMarine Regiment week for a special conference to discuss Eucharist, which comes The conference also Ninth selves to fulfil the with considerable comwishes of the various Archbishop Ieronimos the topics proposed for discussion at the into effect on August 15. gave approval for the bat experience before it was decided that peo- uses r eligious representa- Kotsonis of Athens, the instruments joining Father Ryan as of tives." Primate of the Greek International Synod of Bishops, to be ple kneel for the recep- other than the organ. his assistant. tion of Holy Commu- e.g. guitars (not elecOrthodox Church since He is believed to be April, said that he was held in Rome in September and October nion where there are tric) or trumpets at the first U.S. Catholic altar rails. Where there Mass. These are allowed chaplain's assistant kill"ready to support any this year. are no communion rails. with the permission of ed in Vietnam. His parmove" for the internaAustralian represen- verna, Wahroonga, un- they may stand to re- the local Ordinary. This ents are Mr. and Mrs. tionalisation of the Holy Monsignor Angelo Fe- Places of Jerusalem and tatives at the Synod will der the chairmanship of ceive Holy Communion. permission must be Edwin G. Pace, of Delid, Under-Secretary for that he had received be Cardinal Gilroy of Cardinal Gilroy. In the construction of sought on each occasion. troit. Extraordinary Ecclesia- backing in his decision Sydney and Archbishop The National Confer- new churches, the Comsical Affairs of the from other non-Roman Cahill of Canberra and ence of Australian munion rails may be Papal Secretariat of Catholic church leaders. Goulburn. Bishops decided that. omitted. State, has been in Israel In an interview held The feast of the Hoh The results of the owing to the latest meeting with Church on Euboea Island, where Australian Bishops' dis- changes in the rubrics Name be celebrated anand government offihe is holidaying, the cussions will be convey- for Mass, the people nually on January 1. cials. Archbishop said that he ed to the Synod. The should remain standing That the special ScripThe precise details of favoured internationali- Bishops met at the for the blessing given at ture reading for chilhis mission have not dren's Mass on weeksation because "it is Franciscan Fathers' Re- the end of Mass. been disclosed, but it is status treat House, Mt. Al- In accordance with days approved by the the have to better known that discussions indeInclude the disposition of the Holy Places political the pendent of of the Holy Places. situation." The "Jerusalem Post,He said that he had which often expresses endorsesd internationathe views of the Israeli lisation shortly after the Foreign Ministry, said cease-fire in the Middle circles who continue to that Monsignor Felici East last month in a A JOINT public letter by 17 seminarians take issue with the Will find Israel ready to previously undisclosed and student-priests criticising Pope Paul Pope's stand on clerical work out satisfactory message to Pope Paul. VI's encyclical on clerical celibacy celibacy. It is contended in Hol( Sacerdotalis Caelibatus) has been land that the arguments in the Papal docucalled insulting to the Pope and an used serve ment actually apology for it has been demanded by more to oppose celibacy than to sustain it, that two bishops. its assessment of celiTHE Episcopal Deputy for the bacy's place in Church of the Sea, Apostleship The letter appeared in the priesthood do not life does not square with Bishop M. McKeon has announced the Dutch Catholic daily understand the task and history, that the place that Father "De Volkskrant- and re- duty of a priest." John of women in the Church O'Shea, Port Chaplain ferred sarcastically to is not treated with full of the Pope's "understandAPOLOGY Fremantle, has been respect, and that priests aPpointed by the Naing of our situation." It who seek to be dispensreThe letter-writers tional Bishops' Conferwas signed by student, from their vows are ed ence as National Direcat the combined major sponded with a joint badly treated. tor of the appeared that Haarapology the of Seminary Apostleship of the Sea. lem and Rotterdam dio- in the newspapers and It also said that con• sultation should have ceses. Protesting against on the radio. The taken with bishops A Sister of St. John of God has been selected to atbeen "serious appointment with letter was the roade to But the two bishops around the world. replace Monand complete indignatend a Stockholm conference as the medical represignor E. But the document has sentative for the Diabetic Association of W.A. Bishops have called for a further were tion" AdininistratorDundon, of St. Mary's Theodore Zwartkruis of personal retraction from its defenders, too, in She is Sister M. Philomena Earle of St. John of C athedral, Sydney, who and Martin A. each of the students Holland. They are urg- God Hospital, Belmont who has taken a particular Haarlem tendered his saying that an insult to ing honest discussion of interest in diabetes Rotterdam. of resignation Jansen and the possibility of an oral at the the Pope is by extension the issue on a Christian method of Cathoconference held Another Dutch taking insulin. last week authority an Church of basis. in Sydney. and respectful lic daily, "De Tijd ." Sister Philomena, as well as being a registered nurse Father O'Shea, questioned the propri- insult to them requiring with full understanding has a bachelor of Was ordained in who science degree from the W.A. satisfaction. direct deciCouncil Vatican Volkskrant" of 1955, ety of "De Was Made Port University, a diploma of medical laboratory techThey field. this sionsin mous letter Despite unani the publishing Chaplain in in 1961. nology. and stated: "Anyone condemnation of the ap- point to the clear intent lnade In 1966 he was Father J. O'Shea She will attend the sixth conference of the Diabetic 'move the national Pope to secretary who insults the Pope proach the students used of the of Clubs International Federation which commencs on July and Welfare the Sea and Regional also offends the bishops in criticising Pope Paul's priesthood closer to C°''...-wission of 29. the Austhe West -.rid the faithful. These encyclical, there arc genuinely religious and tralian Apostleship of Director ofRedon. priests and students for those in Dutch Catholic less worldly basis. ' • alian
"WE are ready to accept a certain control of the Holy Places by the Vatican," Prime Minister Levi Eshkol of Israel said in Tel Aviv.
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