No. 3307.
PERTH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1967
New Law Will Reduce Man To Animal
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A CONGRESS Party delegate to India's Parliament warned fellow delegates in New Delhi that government plans to introduce compulsory sterilisation aimed at easing the notion's population crisis will cause a revolution. The board also proArjun Arora, speak- Board in the State of ing as a member of Uttar Pradesh has call- posed at a meeting in India's ruling party, re- ed for compulsory steri- Lucknow that abortion flected the growing con- lisation of all who have be legalised, subject to flict between the na- a third child before the the condition that it be tion's traditionally second one is at least performed only by a recognised gynaecologist. strong family life and five years old. the fact that India's population is far outstripping its food supply. As a result, the Indian government is considering two unpopular meaGEORGE ALAPATT of Trichur has sures. One would make sterilisation manadatory denounced black-marketeers and hoarders for all male parents of for making "excess profits" in exploiting the three or more children, "grave food situation"in Kerala State. and the other would In a statement read in all his churches, raise the age at which a Bishop Alapatt also urged the people and the girl may marry from 15 government to co-operate for a fair distributo 20. tion of the State's internal food resources and A Catholic newspaper. of supplies received from outside. The New Leader," in Madras has warned that the proposd compulsory OPPRESSION sterilisation will "cerThe statement followed the failure of talks tainly raise problems, if not riots." between the central government and a cabinet mission from Kerala which discussed the possibilities of restoring a 50 per cent cut in the B ASIC RIGHT rice ration of six ounces per adult. " The New Leader" Bishop Alapatt said hoarding and blacksaid the proposal. by marketeering in the present circumstances Health Minister &Tat' will be a -serious oppression of the people." Chandrasekhar to introHe called on Catholics to organise relief duce legislation for comthrough the St. Vincent de Paul Society and pulsory sterilisation of fathers after the birth of other parish organisations. BISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN coupled a Bishop Sheen said he the third child will "dedisassociated himself -The aim of these activities should be to harmony in prayers for racial for plea prive a man of the basic from those who carry distribute rice or other 'foodstuffs to deservright of procreation placards and spoke only ing families," the bishop declared. request to Prethe United States with a Which Almighty as a Christian. God, not the State, has given "May I speak only a: Johnson to sident Lyndon B. withdraw him." a Christian and humbly U.S. troops from South Vietnam "foe ask the President to anPointing out that sterinounce: 'In the name ot lisation is a mutilation the sake of reconciliation." God Who bade us love of the human body, the Paper said: "The State Preaching in Sacred cities throughout the our neighbour with our whole heart and soul has no right to Heart Cathedral in his country. mutilate, and mind, for the sake as it has no Rochester. the diocese, of reconciliation I shall Its subjects. right to kill, stressed that the Bishop CIVIL WAR withdraw our forces imbe treated Are men to President had asked like bulls to mediately from Southbe castrated Bishop Sheen characobserved that the day be compulsorily?" as one of national prayer terised the current ra- ern Vietnam,'" Bishop for peace and reconcilia- cial unrest and violence Sheen said. "The New Leader" JERUSALEM police re- holding the statue, and tion to end the racial as "Civil War II." called on the ported on August 3 removed jewels respect "all those who "What has happened America. human dignity," that "a boy or very while a Moslem guard strife in reconciliation in our nation in recent not merely "Is this Catholics, to small man" slipped into slept below. express to be limited only to our days is the fatal tell-tale their opinon the Church of the Holy citizens?" Bishop Sheen scar of a disease which Promptly, asked. "Could we not has festered and coremphaticallyclearly and Sepulchre, one of ChrisCOMPLEX against the tianity's most sacred Measure be reconciled with rupted until it finally also which will Although police be- our brothers in Viet- broke out in the open grade man to the de- shrines, to steal a jewellevel studded halo and plati- lieve the job was done nam? May we plead for all to see — the diOf beast." num earrings from a by local criminals fami- only for a reconciliation sease of national decaRISHOP PATRICK statue of the Blessed liar with the neighbour- between blacks and dence.," Bishop Sheen OPINION Mother. FRANCIS LYONS, hood, the church and whites, and not between said. Bishop of Sale, VicTo remedy this situaMeanwhile, Dr. Neither police nor the schedule of religious blacks and whites and Chan- church officials could services, they absolved yellows?" toria, died on Sunday tion, Bishop Sheen said. ed that an has announc- estimate the value of the the Moslem guard and last. He was 64, Bishop Sheen called the President asked for opinion poll Will be The late Bishop stolen jewellery, among workmen involved in on the priests, Brothers the day of prayer for '1' to conducted short- the thousands of pre- restoration from any and nuns in his diocese racial peace. Lyons was ordained assess the in Rome on January Bishop Sheen asked ()f men to his reactions cious and historic gifts complicity. to observe a holy hour proposal. made to the ancient 6, 1927, and was apAppointment of the each day for the next if the nation's public SPeaking in Delhi po'nted New guard, to children Bishop of the only month; laity school Moslem upon the would church. to a visiting team Christchurch, N e w According to Israeli man acceptable to all perform acts of mortifi- be permitted to pray °f U.S. college Zealand, by profes- police, the thief entered the shrine authorities, is cation, especially aid to when they returned to Pope rs, the Pius XII in 1944. His that 15 Minister said the church through a an indication of the the poor, during the their classrooms in Sepof India's 17 narrow slot among the necessary compromises month, and upon all to tember. He also asked ,State go consecration took place in Melbourne In favourvernments were scaffolding that has fill- that have made recent observe adoration in if "we are to pray only of compulsory ed parts of the shrine discussion of the new their homes around the with one another in this ster by the late Archilisation. of Jerusalem un- clock, especially during country" and not with for thief status The bishop Mannix in years. At the same time, the official forced apart the mould- der Israeli rule so com- the hours when racial "our brothers in VietJuly of that year. Family Planning ing on the glass case plicated. violence has flared up in nam."
FOOD RACKETS
BISHOP
ANTI - COMMUNIST BISHOP PLEADS TO STOP THE WAR
Holy Sepulchre Church Robbed
Youth Speaks And Wins Julianna Froudist. 17. of Brigidine College, Floreat Park, won the State Finals in the "Youth Speaks for Australia" Contest which has been conducted annually by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. This year the contest has been made a National Contest, sponsored by P. & 0. Liners who are offering a P. & 0. Pacific Cruise to the winner. Julianna leaves for Sydney on Auggust 17, to compete in these National Finals.
Bishop Lyons Dies In Sale He was transferred as an Auxiliary Bishop to Cardinal Gilroy of Sydney in April, 1950, and appointed to the See of Sale as Coadjutor Bishop with the right of succession in 1956. He succeeded to the See on June 16, 1957, on the death of Bishop Richard Ryan, C.M., who had prey iously been Bishop of Geraldton from 1923 to 1926. R.I.P.