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No. 3306. PERTH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1967
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Against Religion Mounts In England
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Miss Catholic Tennis
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Carmel Walsh (pictured) has been selected Miss Catholic Tennis of Western Australia for 1967. Miss Walsh, of St. Mary's Club, Leedervile, was selected from five entrants in the quest at a social evening held at Leederville. She will represent W.A. at the Australian finals to he held in Adelaide at Christmas during the Australian Catholic Tennis Carnival. Mary-Jo Lowry, of St. Joseph Pignatelli, Attadale, won the title of Miss Charity Queen.
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AN all-out campaign against religious teaching in public schools in Britain was launched at the annual conference in Nottingham of the British Humanist Association. tion of more broadcastTheir immediate target is county and ing time to humanism. All forms of governcontrolled schools. ment support for reliHE present Education by the local education gious bodies, they de-
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In these clared, should be act schools only Catholic re- stopped. collective a makes of worship and non-de- ligious instruction is In the past, secularists nominational religious given. have made repeated THE Mass timetable instruction according to calls for the ending of POLICY religious instruction in a syllabus agreed on by for St. Mary's Cathall the churches except public schools. edral for Tuesday, AuThe policy statement the Catholic compulsory There is no desire in gust 15, Feast of the in the county schools, adopted by the British any of the political parAssumption is 6, 7, 8.15, Humanist Association the largest group of ties to change the pre9. 10 a.m., 12.10, 1.10 stated: State schools. sent act. and 5.45 p.m. "To bring children to Confessions on MonControlled schools are day. 12-1 p.m. 4-6 those where two-thirds Christian belief is not POLL p.m. and after devotions. of the managers are ap- the job of the county About two years ago, pointed by the secular school; for those parents authority, where agreed who desire it, it is the a public opinion poll resyllabus religious teach- job of the home and of vealed a large majority ing is compulsory, but the church or chapel or in favour of the retenwhere, in addition, two Sunday school chosen tion of religious teachperiods a week may be by the parent for the ing in State schools. devoted to denomina- young child or by the In May. 1967, the antional teaching. Con- older child for himself." nual conference of the trolled status has not The Humanists said National Association of been accepted by the they see the compulsory Head Teachers voted Catholic Church. act of worship and reli- unanimously to mainMost of the operating gious instruction as a tain morning worship costs of most of the Ca- violation of the rights and religious instruction tholic primary and sec- of parents who do not in the schools. ondary schools are met wish it for their chilThe British Humanist dren. They demanded its Association was started abolition. in 1963 as a joint enterThey also said they prise of the Ethical South-East State govHE diocese of Ogoja. will campaign for the Union and the Rationalabolition of the "en- ist Press Association. headed by Bishop ernor Essuene has been THE Catholic Church peace and progress of all kinds. trenched position" of re- which provided most of Thomas McGettrick. of visiting the area and a in Papua-New Guinea servant. civil "The army and the ligion in broadcasting the money. It has a the St. Patrick's Foreign senior and the religious clauses membership of about Mission Society, remains Michael Ani, has been has announced that it police force can help to in the Independent Tele- 3.300, plus as many divided. the Ogoja sec- appointed "sole admini- wholeheartedly supports preserve the peace, freevision Authority char- again belonging to 70 tor controlled by federal strator" with headquar the people of the terri- dom and order of the community. ter, and for the alloca- affiliated local groups. forces and the Abakaliki ters at Ogoja town. It announced tory in their aspirations A NEW era in the adsector still held by the has been that normal mail ser- for self-determination. Biafrans. DUTY ministration of the vices between federal diocese of Hong Kong in Biafra„ at occupied Ogoja and the Fighting "But it is the duty of was ushered in during The announcement was each person, no matter of the time part one July when three Chinrest of the country are Nigerian federation, has being resumed and let- made in a statement fol- where he came from or ese laymen, one of them lowing the annual consevon for going been a Protestant, were given ters are beginning to ference of the Catholic where he now lives, to eral weeks as Nigerian reach Lagos via Makstrive for peace, unity an official 'voting voice' bishops held at Mount and progress throughfederal forces have been urdi in the north. In its financial affairs. Hagen. trying to bring the disout the whole territory." They will serve along THIRTY deacons from the North Catholic back inthe Biafrans "While sident The bishops said that With three priests on a PARISHES Church refuses to iden- the economic welfare of six-man diocesan finanA merican College in Rome are spend- to the federation. tify itself with any par- Papuans and New Guicial committee recently Although reports inFUNCTION ticular political party in neans must not be proing six weeks of their summer vaca- dicate that the federal organised by Bishop something Papua-New Guinea, it moted as Lawrence Bianchi,, no believed, without winning, I t is troops are tion working in English parishes. P.I. everyone separate from their soME., and his consultors authorities on either confirmation, that the wishes to help solution cial welfare. side have made exten- outlying parishes—Kak - find a Christian The arrangement was made by Bishop to the social, economic, "Unless the social betand about Bansara wagom, statements sive EQUAL STATUS Derek Worlock of Portsmouth at the request Mbube—are functioning and political problems terment of the people the battles fought. be keeps abreast of their of Bishop Francis R. Refl, rector of the colThe laymen will have and Obudu. which had that still remain to solved," the statement social welfare, there lege. "It saves the students a long trip home equal status with the is proabandoned, be to REFUGE will be disastrous reClerical members of to the States," said Bishop Worlock. bably being serviced said. sults for the people," the committee and in the school Ogoja. The secondary from The U.S. deacons are gaining pastoral exthe bishops said. event of a "tie" the of the Sisters of the perience in parishes spread over five dioceses There is a strong rudetoo Stressing that TENSION cisive vote will be cast Society of the Holy mour, unconfirmed, that — Westminster. Birmingham, Portsmouth. much emphasis could be by the bishop. Car Jesus, Mount Child seconMaryknoll the Liverpool and Hexham and Newcastle. The bishops said they placed on the purely This mei at Ogoja is now a dary, school at Okuku. aware that a cer were increase opportunity to aspect of left refuge 280 Ibos for the "fruitfuleight miles from Ogoja, tain amount of tension economic ness of the bishops OWN SURROUNDINGS man's life, the the Biafran after behind severely damaged was cal policiesdiocese's fis"strategic withdrawal" at some stage of the was bound to be in evi- declared that economic and deciMeanwhile, 54 students from English semisions," as well as to peracross the Yahe bridge. fighting. However, all dence at this point in planning and endeavour the territory's history. naries finished a week's course. on "Tomorfor the laymento assume The mission has large mission personnel are However, they remind- must always be diocesan row's People" at the Notre Dame College of benefit of man. to be safe. known responsibilities rice from the supplies of ed all people of goodareas Education in Liverpool. Catholic Relief Ser'-- will that peace is essen"Man does not exist leprosy settlement's coexperiencewhere "their It included visits to Merseyside coffee bars. and leaderrepresentatives on the benefit of ecovices for feed to operative farm tial to progress. ship is centres, including the beat clubs youth and planning," the valuable sides of three, both the nomic and conflict these people and Pertinent," was emphaCavern, made famous by the Beatles. "People must be pre- statement said. "On the tailors are working full- have been instructed to 1S1 irtd by Auxiliary The aim of the exercise was to let these time making clothes for co-operate fully with pared to sink their tri- contrary, economic plan1 7s"0138 - elect Francis future priests meet the youth of today in their those who need them the Red Cross for the bal. regional and other ning is for the service of in announcing the f from school uniforms relief of distress among differences and work man., who is the source, own out their surroundings and to find needs ormation of the COM-iirtains and every ma- the civilian populations positively to create the the centre and the purItittee. and aspirations. in all sectors. terial available. conditions necessary for pose of it."
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FIGHTING Bishops Give AFFECTS Support For MISSION DIOCESE I ndependence