No. 3308. PERTH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1967
COMPLETE CHANGE-OVER FOR CURIA PATRICK RILEY writes from VATICAN CITY.
POPE PAUL VI, fulfilling a four-year-old promise, has reformed the central government of the Church. Time-worn channels of authority in the Roman Curia will be given modern pace and direction by major changes he has ordered:
R epresentatives of most denominations engaged in study and discussion of selected passages of the Bible during Bible Week had a special meeting last Monday. Pictured are Major G. H. Fisher, Divisional Youth Secretary of the Salvation Army, Bishop Myles McKeon, Right Reverend M. Owen, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church and Most Reverend G. Appleton, Anglican Archbishop of Perth. The passage discussed at the meeting of Church leaders was read from an historic family bible brought to Western Australia in 1830. It was brought out by Mrs. Stephen Parker, grandmother of Sir Henry Stephen Parker 0.C., the first Australian born Chief Justice of Western Australia. Mrs. Stephen Parker came out on the Hooghly and settled at York. The Bible, which measures 17" x 12" x 4" was loaned by the Battye Library for this occasion. Reports indicate that the Bible Groups have been mostly well attended.
• The Papal Secretariat of State, now to be known as the Papal The Consistorial Conand given broader powers, will be able to settle many adminiecretariat S gregation will be called strative problems that formerly burdened the Pope; the Congregation of the • Five-year terms for high Curia officials will replace the former Bishops, the Conrgegation of the Council will indefinite tenures that often became lifetime careers; be called the Congrega• Incorporation of diocesan bishops from around the world into Curia tion of the Clergy (and its competency includes leadership will alter the hitherto heavily Italian character of the admini- perma nent deacons). stration; (See Story Page Three.) and the Congregation on and Univer• Permission for use of modern languages in Curia communications Seminaries sities will be called the will speed Papal paperwork, though Latin still remains the official Congregation for CathoTHE United States lic Education, The Conlanguage; Food and Drug Adgregation for the Propaministration has ordered • Principal Curia departments will be reshuffled, renamed., and in tion of the Faith, while 11 drug manufacturers some cases placed in new combinations to meet 20th-century condttions; retaining its historical to run a new series of name., will also be calllong-range tests on all • A new tribunal will be set up to handle any disputes among the ed the Congregation for birth control pills now various Curia offices: the Evangeslisation of on the market, as well Nations. as those in the final • Administration of the Holy See's temporal possessions and financial stages of testing on In the new reform, resources will be united in an entirely new department. humans. precedence is given to the Papal Secretariat of But the order stopped ROPE PAUL'S reform prefects, members and M. Pinna, a judge of the State now known as the short of removing any high the Rota, of the Curia, which consultors of Curial de- Roman Papal Secretariat, and of the pills from the goes into effect on Janu- partments remain' in Church court, who (as to the Council for the market. secrewas developed) it with years, ary 1, was spelled out in office five Church's Public Affairs. The tests—which 'are an apostolic constitution eappointment at the tary of the top-secret The latter corresponds to be made on dogs and Regiinini Ecclesiae Uni- discretion of the Pope. cardinalitial commission roughly to the former primates, such as monversae (For the Govern- Prefects of congrega- for the reform of the first section of the Seckeys — were ordered ment of the Church Uni- tions resign at the death Curia. Until Monsignor Pin- retariat of State. 'which , after both types of aniversal) dated August 15 of a Pope, leaving only new the to was identical and made public three the Cardinal Camerlen- na's conference it had mals developed abnorsuppressed C o n gregamal breast tissue when go, the Cardinal Peni- only been known that tion for Extraordinary days later. Cardinal RoI given an experiemental Setting the theme of tentiary and the Cardi- FrancescoItalian, headed Ecclesiastical Affairs. I-contraceptive known as the reform. Pope Paul nal Vicar of Rome in berti. an THE LATE BROTHER P. SMITH commission Monsignor Pinna cornPope's the ; MK-665. This drug has office. quoted in his new docufor Curial pard the Council for the AN Friday, August 18. ticipate in a special never been available to ment from the dogmatic In the Papal Secre- of cardinals the public. constitution Pastor Ae- tariat a substitute will reform. Monsignor Pin- Church's Public Affairs Brother Francis 1writing competition. Car- to the foreign ministries last two years ! Peter Smith passed to terus of the First Vati- assume the prefect's na said that Andre the For DISTURBING can Council, the consti- duties temporarily. All dinal Jullien of France of secular governments. his eternal reward at St. Brother had ' Smith the tution that defined the the other major Curial and Anselmo Cardinal However, he said John of God Hospital. spent his necessary reAn F.D.A. spokesman infallibility of the Pope. officers are to leave Albareda, a Spanish word "foreign- could Subiaco. tirement at Castledare said in Washington that tile to made applied had be not . Benedictine their within three He chose this Two years ago Bro- . Boys' Home. Both C.B.C. . there was only a slight up the rest of the origi- Church's public affairs, passage: "Certainly no doubt months after -a new nal commission until because "in the Church her Smith celebrated his ;Kalgoorlie and Castle- ' possibility that the ab.Can be raised about the Pope is elected unless a dare have reaped the . normalities could be the their deaths. They were no affair is foreign be- Golden Jubilee as Brother forerunner of cancer, he reappoints them. need for the of I benefit Brother. Christian a is Roman replaced by William cause no nation experience, for but said the findings Curia. How :Smith's Pope already had Paul could the Born in New South Cardinal Heard, a Scot, stranger to her.Supreme he spent many hours were disturbing enough introduced various CuPontiff. The Council for the Wales, he commenced beautifying the gardens to make further tests of ed down by so weigh- rial reforms, notably-the and Efrem Cardinal many Forni, an. Italian. burdens, alone. Church's Public Affairs his studies at St. Mary's of both places. all such pills "mandaCollege, without r eorientation of the fory T raining features other advisers or will deal, on the Holy Among On Monday. August , tory:, mer Holy Office (now field. assistants, Strath bear that -reform See's behalf, with. vari21, Requiem Mass was burden which the Doctrinal. Congrega- of the Curial first. celebrated by the Castle i Drugs now on the arises from Smith governMonsignor Brother foreign by ous‘ listed tion) promoa towards 'd, were the care of h all the ments and will handle t aught at C.B.C., Lewi- dare chaplain, Father P market, tion of the faith and a Pinna were: ' suspected of encouragVincent's St. then equally Churches? It is r enewed emphasis on , sham relations. diplomatic mon Three Gavin. • Emphasis on qualinecessary that ing cancer already prethe Orphanage. South Mel- signors, together with a :sent, Roman Curia be the rights of authors and ties of piety and selflessalthough none is kept intact both in bourne. S.P.C., Ballarat, large of believed to cause it. All attendance LAYMEN its teachers whose opinions ness required of all Gee? basic Augustine's. St. Brothers. priests, come under suspicion. members of the Curia: carry warnings to that Close structure and its Under the new regu- long, -ClOntarf Boys' friends and the boys of effect. • Closer collaboration relationship with years the Roman between the Roman Cu- lations laymen may be ; Town and thirty career Castledare were prePRESS as an Pontiff. that called into the Curia as ' of his teaching sent at the Mass. the world's and r'.a organic !Tient he uses in instruwas at C.B.C.. KalgoorCONFERENCE bishops. "especially by consultors. The prayers at the exercislhg the supreme • . he. taught The Roman Rota as- lie, where means of the episcopal graveside were read by power oh, distinguished many He brought alsohas Which 'according te the sumes competency over conferences." ;Fathers Gavin, O'Reilly institution several non-Italians inof bo.Y5- . nullity co-ordinaof Greater of cases • all Christ i and Hickey (an old boy • • • to high Curia posts, thus he holds of C.B.C., . Kalgoorlie) Church.' "over the entire k eeping his promise to tion among the various marriage, whether dealMEMORY IN departments of the Cu- ing with marriages beA parish Mass was cele1 , . internationalise the 'Cu- ria "by means of mixed tween Catholics of the FIVE-YEAR in Kalgoorlie on 1 Kalgoorlie brated at 1961 In ria. Most recently, he meetings on various Latin or Eastern evening, Au- , TERMS provided that diocesan levels." Monsignor Pin- mixed marriages,Rites' anew hall at the College i Wednesday a children's and 23, the mem;gust to built was er bishops should be full na said that would avoid marriages between non- ory Although of Brother Smith. ;Mass on T h u r s d a y Mains the Latin re- members of each Curial a "dispersion of energy, Catholics. whether bap-- ; PAN - ASIAN conHis keen interest was in 'morning. guage, it is official lan- c ongregation: this pro- waste of time, uncer- tised or not. sus_ work, I Smith Brother hle Sst(.)eVieintyis school ss opfatu graee primary to "acceptable vision was incorporated The Congregation for particularly the `!skills." vived by a brother, Mr cent the t_coMmunicate with into .the apostolic con- tainty over competency, toman Curia in eventual clash be- Sacraments holds cornOne ofs•his classes re- J. Smith, 21 Grey St. will be held in '-Sydney °I the any stitution Regimini Ec- an decisions." tween Australia - wide ' Carlton, New Soutl- in August, 1968. This widely ceived dispensaover petency N known clasiae Universae. hewdern languages," the Among details of the lions for marriages rati- recognition for their , Wales, and Miss A. was announced by John A press conference constitution advises. e xplaining the apostolic reform is the renaming fled and non-Consum- writing ability and one Smith, 177 Sutherland Trew. president of the ofRegarding the tenure constitution was given of various congregn rnatPd. of his punils received a St. , Paddington, New I society's superior counCurial officials, trio •to Sydney. to par- 'South Wales. cil of Australia. • SEE PAGE 6. all by Monsignor Giovanni tions!
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