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No. 3319. PERTH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 9, 1967
ENROLMENTS SURE TO BE IFFICULT
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Price 8c.
Priest Dies
ER FINTAN F "1 MADDEN, 0.F.M., of the Franciscan Priory, Collie, died of a sudden heart attack in the Priory on Monday night. His body was flown to Box Hill, Victoria, for burial. A Pontifical Requiem Mass was celebrated by Bishop L. J. Goody of Bunbury at the Franciscan Fathers' parish church Some of the students who welcomed guests to the Open Day. in Collie on Wednesday morning. Father Fintan was widely known in Victoria for his excellent retreats. He had been a priest for 22 years. He came f r om Trentham in Victoria and both his father and mother had predeceased him, He was Other two hundred the staff. He paid tribute pal celebrant. 56 years of age and people attended the to the work that all had concelebrants w e r e arrived in Collie had AbMcKeon, results of M. and the Bishop done St. "open day" at in March, 1966. Charles' 'S e minar y, the seminary in the bot G. Gomez, Father This campaign was planned and actually commenced be- Guildford, last Sunday priests produced and D. F. Bourke, C.M., J one of the functions also the excellent lay- Russell, J. O'Brien, F. j youth to accept the yoke fore the announcement of the Budget provision of Premier as to mark the silver jubi- men it. had produced as Dillon, T. O'Neill and of Christ in answer to Bishop the call He made to a G. Crocetti. Brand for $10 per year for primary school children in non- lee of its foundation in well. Mr. Mangini pointed Goody was assisted by chosen few. Monsignor 1942. Government schools. Several speeches were out that long before Deacon Michael Nais- , McBride pointed out that even though it made, including one by Vatican II he a layman bitt. This Budget provision is, at the time of going to press, Bishop L. J. Goody and had been co-opted in the Fathers J. McNamara. : might be considered a Mr. W. Mangini, who vitally important work P. McCrann and P. G. sacrifice to serve as a being debated in State Parliament. had been on the original of assisting in the for- O'Reilly acted as mas- priest or Religious, it mation of priests. He ters of ceremonies. Stu- was certainly a consolLast weekend, news- more easily face the ex- Catholic school popula- teaching staff. papers sought informa- pensive assistance of tion at the primary Bishop Goody recalled said that he had been dents of St. Charles' ing one. He asked those tion from the Catholic lay teachers. Hence ex- level, one should con- the early decision made chosen by the Arch- Seminary served the present to follow Our Education Office about isting schools have gratulate teachers and by the Bishops of the bishop for this work Mass and St. Mary's Lord's advice and pray difficulties Catholic par- t ended to grow larger, parents on what has Province to establish a and he had been happy Cathedral Choir sail.: constantly that "labourents were experiencing but small and marginal- been a phenomenal seminary and the diffi- with his early associa- the Mass. ers would be sent into in enrolling children in ly economic schools overall growth. culties which had to be tion with the seminary. Monsignor E. McBride, the Harvest." Catholic schools. After the Mass, about The Pontifical Solemn the first vice-rector of have been closed to perTo that growth in the overcome by His Grace School authorities are mit the use of Sisters last ten years, lay tea- the Archbishop in par- Concelebrated Mass on St. Charles, preached sixty priests had a bufwell aware of the scale for a larger number of chers have increasingly ticular and himself as Tuesday evening had the occasional sermon. fet tea at Trinity Colof this difficulty, so schools. He called on today's lege, contributed, t hough rector and the others on Bishop Goody as princi'The Record" asked The change of fee- o ver whelmingly the M onsignor James structure to $1 per weight of these schools Bourke, chairman of family at parish schools rests on Religious teathe Diocesan Council of run by Sisters (well be- chers. Education, to expand on low cost), may have had In 1956. lay teachers the comments made. were relatively few in some small influence. Between 1950 and schools. In 1966, 33 per 1966, Catholic school cent of teachers in boys' Archbishop Justin Daniel Simonds LAYSTAFF enrolments ha v e inschools and 11 per cent creased from 15,827 to who resigned as Archbishop of MelWhile existing schools of teachers in girls' and 3 1,030, an increase of 96 grow larger, the • ex- mixed schools were lay bourne in May this year, died on Per cent, made up of teachers, with 17 per uccessive annual in- pense of building cent overall. The teachschools in newer subFriday, November 3, in the Mercy creases. urbs, and the greater ing force of Religious Hospital, East Melbourne. There was still an in- difficulty of obtaining orders has continuously crease of 153 between Religious staff and/or increased, but not in reThe late Archbishop, who had succeeded to 1965 and 1966. but it is financing lay staff has laton to the demand. t he See of Melbourne on the death of ArchHow many Catholic 3ignificant that the in- reduced the possibility bishop D. Mannix on November 6, 1963, had crease was compounded of enrolling children in children are excluded been in indifferent health for a long time. He of a secondary increase Catholic schools. It is from Catholic schools? of 574, coupled with had been in hospital for almost a year when Catholics were 25.6 a in these suburbs that Primary decrease of 394 primary school popula- per cent of the five to 19 he suffered a cerebral thrombosis on Thurschildren. tions will largely be age group in the 1961 day night. census, so in 1966 there located. Archbishop J. R. Knox, who was in Perth Cathobe should 45,573 PLENTY for the funeral of his aunt, left on Thursday's Marginally economic lics in the school-going night flight for Melbourne. schools (economic in The possibility of this population. Some 29,500 The Requiem for Archbishop Simonds was Priinary decrease being a terms of teacher use) Catholic children were have been closed down held last Tuesday at 7.30 p.m. in St. Patrick's characteristic of the schools. Catholic age at Cunderdin, Mandu- in structure Melbourne. The principal conceleCathedral, of the school 16,073 about Hence LoPulation was checked. rah. Beverley, Herne were at other schools. A brant was Archbishop Knox and Cardinal Hill, North Fremantle. This was not so, as Gilroy presided. Representatives of the Fedthe (Nannup and elsewhere considerable number of §tate eral and Victorian State Governments and school population in the Diocese of Bun- this last figure were outincreased the Melbourne City Council were present. at both secon- bury.) Two closures are side Catholic schools by clarY and primary levels choice and Bishop F. X. Thomas of Geraldton repreparental expected in 1968: Guild---2,274 in would not return even secondary ford and Belmont. sented the Province of Perth at the Mass. Pupils and 3,763 in priMany children have if school places and teamary pupils. Children been accommodated in chers were available. are obviously there SCHOLAR if nearby Catholic schools But it is certain that schools and teachers were resources avail where possible. Archbishop Simonds was consecrated Archwere available. On the credit side, able, a large increase in bishop of Hobart in 1937—the first AustraThere are four reathere are at least five Catholic school enrolXXIII to the Commission for Seminaries. lian-born Archbishop. He was appointed Cos school why primary "motor -missions" oper- ment would take place. Studies and Schools. He attended all thc Archbishop of adjutor Melbourne in 1942. populations are ated by two nuns per To maintain even our of Vatican Council II, even though sessions ten4ling to fall: He was born in 1890 at Glen Innes in New mission. They give present proportion, an his eyesight was severely impaired by cata 5 e secondary school weekly instruction son of an Wales, the South Irish-born schoolto additional 7.590 places 111,21d.Y introduced in racts on both eyes. For a scholar of his in Ordained 1912, Dr. teacher. Simonds was 1 ,300 Catholic children and 220 more teachers t °3 has relieved " undoubted ability this was a heavy burden pres- in country State schools. are estimated to be the first priest to complete his studies in this ; 1,, 1re 0n secondary c ourageously borne. necessary by 1976. country. He continued his academic studies -1ftis. which have con Looked thesc at in and P obtained first-class honours in three deA fter the last session of the Councd, HENOMENAL tinued to expand. terms, it may well bc grees at Louvain University in Belgium. He Simonds' health deteriorated markedly and ,Larger schools, either While indicating that even more difficulty hwas rector of St. Columba's College. Springi a higher fee „„th he was several times in hospital before his struc- there has been at leas4 secure places in Cathy wood, Victoria, in 1934. Or simply because last illness. larger numbers can a temporary pause in lic schools in ten years In 1962 he was appointed by Pope John May he rest in peace. time. the expansion of the
CHILDREN APLENTY: SCHOOLS, TEACHERS SCARCE
The campaign to attract attention of all interested parties to the plight of the school situation faced by Catholic parents ABOUT is continuing.
Hope For Our Future
Archbishop Simonds Dies
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