.Zir. c No. 3331.
PERTH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1968.
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CARDINAL OTTAITIANI IIISIGNS FROM TOP CHURCH POSITION ALFREDO CARDINAL OTTAVIANI, the man who after It is known that Cardinal Seper's resignathe Pope, has been for almost two decades most responsible tion from the post of in 1952 was for the purity and progress of the Church's doctrine, has rector prompted by the sugresigned as pro-prefect of the Doctrinal Congregation. Pope gestion of ecclesiastical authorities, who felt it Paul VI has named Frani° Cardinal Seper of Zagreb, Yugo- would be better to yield to the Yugoslav slavia, to replace him.
regime's pressure and By that act Pope Paul lofty confirmation of he could not speak of the pressure of certain confided what is wide- your sensus ecclesiae the reason for his sum- politically minded stuly regarded as the sec- ( sense of the Church) mons to Rome. dents. ond most important of- have desired to put at Cardinal •Seper, who fice in the Church's our disposition the post studied in Rome from central administration of pro-prefect of the 1924 to 1931, speaks (after the papacy itself) Sacred Congregation Italian fluently and to a cardinal from a for the Doctrine of the French with precision. communist-ruled coun - Faith." His English is less perThe Pope remarked fect. try. He then became pasCardinal Seper was In that one act .the that the cardnal's decisPope combined two of ion was prompted "es- born in the Slovenian tor of the working-class the goals he set himself pecially by a growing city of Osijek, October parish of Christ the in reforming the Rom- weakness of eyesight." 2, 1905. His parents, King in Zagreb. While an Curia, the complex Cardinal Ottaviani has both in the tailoring pastor he was arrested of offices and tribunals been able to read only trade, took him to Za- by communist authoriBrother M. G. LEEK, Brother T. X. HANN and Brother R. P. SHERIDAN. which constitutes the slowly and with the greb ,the capital of Cro- ties on charges of vioChurch's central admin- help of a powerful mag- atia, one of the repub- lating the country's relics of Yugoslavia, ligious laws. He servistration. He gave a key nifying glass. The Pope said that he when he was five years ed a short term repaircurial post to a nonItalian (he had promis- is "certain that your ex- old. He completed his ing streets in a work ed to internationalise perienced wisdom and secondary educa t ion gang. However, the cardinal laughs off his enthe Curia's member_ your fervid zeal will there. counter with the police ship) who is a diocesan continue to spend themas an "administrative bishop (he had promis- selves without reserve and with great fruit fol. error." ed to bring diocesan or t h e holy Church., and fo:dinaries into In 1954, while hi, Church's central admin your beloved activity in former classmate Card, the apostolate and in istration). inal Stepinac was still He also brought into ; charity." Cardinal Otserving a sentence imecclesiastihis He did the Church's most im- taviani is the patron of cal studies at Rome's posed on him by a portant doctrinal post a a youth club and of a Gregorian University, Yugoslav court, Father orphanage, and man whose frankness ; at the Seper became coadjuwhile residing and levelheadedness has' takes an active interest German Hungarian col- tor. Upon Cardinal won The recent Christmas Day was a memorable one for the him admirers in both. lege. Following his or- Stepinac's death in 1960 among both conservahe succeeded him as 2hristian Brothers ihroughout Australia when, under a new dination in 1930 he retives and liberals. Durmained in Rome to archbishop, and in 1965 irrangement, five capital cities were the centres for cereing the Second Vatican complete his studies (he he became a cardinal. Council he spoke forthnonies of Perpetual Profession, associated with the Mass holds doctorates in philCardinal Seper, who rightly on atheism. reosophy and theology) was rector of the sem- -or the_ day. ligious liberty and ju,.in Acielai.ie. three short address, 131-other Leek will join teaching Ottaviani until 1931. Back in Za- inary at the time of Cardinal lice for the Jews. Durgreb he taught religion Cardinal Stepinac's ar- Brothers were profess- Levander congratulated staff of C.B.C. Wakehad been top man in ing the subsequent synhis classmate, rest, obtained counsel ed, in each of Brisbane the Brothers and their field St.. Adelaide. od of bishops he got the the Doctrinal Congrega- until largest number of votes tion (more precisely, in Father (later Cardinal) for Cardinal •Stepinac and Sydney seven Bro- families on the sigTerence X. Hann is Aloysius Stepinac was and put himself for- thers were professed. nal act of generosity predecessor, the in the election for the its second eldest son of the named coadjutor of the ward as a witness for and in Melbourne, nine involved in a profession. synod's doctrinal com- Holy Office) since 1959 Mr. and Mrs. Les Hann archdiocese in 1934. The the defence. He since A message from Rev. of Collie. He was edu' were professed. !nissiofl. and was named when he succeeded GiuStepinac has placed Cardinal Brother Loftus, Super- cated at St. Brigid's Its chairman by Pope seppe Cardinal Pizzardo Archbishop was College Aquinas made him one of his Stepinac's death mask ior General, was read Paul. as secretary of the consecretaries and confid- in the Zagreb cathedral, the scene of an impres- and each Brother re- Convent school and St. gregation. With the rewhen gathering Edmund's College in sive ed several jobs in the above the tomb. ceived a document con- Collie. He commenced form of the congregaBrothers were three curia diocesan to him Cardinal Seper had tion in December of Professed at a Mass by veying the Papal Bles- his formation as a sing. 1965, he filled the new- In 1941 he became rec- been elected president Father Ian James. Christian Brother at Edtor of the major semin- of the Yugoslav BishThe Brothers who mund Rice College Bunly created post of proThe Chapel at Aquin- made their Profession ary of Zagreb. op's Conference. prefect. as was filled by Bro- in Perth were M. G. doora in Feb. 1958 and The Pope paid tribute Cardinal Seper was thers and their families Leek, T. X. Hann and R. his teaching career has to Cardinal Ottaviani in summoned to Rome less been spent mainly in and friends of those be- P. Sheridan. a letter he wrote in his than three weeks before Melbourne. He is nearing Professed. The key.Favn hand to the retir- his appointment was ing the completion of note of the Mass was ing pro -prefect of the made public. During his PROFESSED his B.Sc. Degree. After the participation by all Doctrinal Congretation. three-day stay in Rome, Those professed in in the response and Melbourne were J. R. the vacation, to be The Pope's letter just before Christmas, ' singing of the proper D'Orsa, P. E. Richard- spent near Busselton, he gave every indication he had an audience with and comon of the Mass. son, P. J. Cronin. R. L. will join the staff of that Cardinal Ottavia- the Pope. News of this Trinity College in ,1's 11 Greening, A. A. McGee. Perth. His Grace the Archbishop announces the resignation had audience was not pubCEREMONY been voluntary. P. D. Mitchell, T. C He lished in L'Osservatore following clerical appointments: sPoke of "the very Romano, Vatican City Just before the Of- Lark. T. C. Coughlan Robert P. Sheridan is noble gesture by which daily. He left Rome tel- Rev. Fr. M. Diviney, parish priest, Pinjarra. fertory. in a simple, but and J. P. O'Neill. the elder son of Mr. and You, giving a new and ling close associates that Rev. Fr. J. Russell, parish priest, Beverley. dignified ceremony, the In Adelaide, the Pro- Mrs. John Sheridan of three Brothers each fessed were D. M. Phil- Como. He was educatRev. Fr. J. Petry, parish priest, Maddington pronounced the formu- lips, M. P. Coughlin ed at Aquinas College (new parish). la of Profession, thus and C. I. Comas, and commenced his for ENGLISH INSERTS FOR THE CANON Rev. Fr. B. Hickey, chaplain All Saints Mem- becoming for life Pro- Michael G. Leek. mation as a Christian Edmund at orial Chapel. Director Marriage Guidance fessed members of the the eldest son of Mr. Brother OF THE MASS Congregation of the and Mrs. George Leek Rice College., Bundoora Council. Christian Brother s. of Wembley, was edu- in 1958 and his teaching For Altar Missals: $1.00 each Rev. Fr. M. J. Foster. assistant, Applecross. Their dedication was cated at C.B.C. Leeder- 'career has been mainly signed and accepted on ville. He transferred to ;spent at St. Thomas' Rev. Fr. P. J. O'Reilly, assistant, Mt. Lawle:, For Small Missals: $2.00 per 100. behalf of the Superior -Christian Brothers in College, Clifton and St. Rev. Fr. T. O'Prey, assistant, Kensington. ( plus postage) General, by the Provin- Bundoora. (Vic.) in Joseph's Technical ColRev. Fr. T. Corcoran, assistant, Leederville. cial of the Province of 1958. In his teaching lege. South Melbourne. Orders accepted at — the Holy Spirit. Broth- career he has been sta- Brother is nearing the Rev. Fr. V. Conroy., assistant, Northam. er J. J. Levander. tioned at Clifton Hill completion of a Science Rev. Fr. L. E. James, assistant, Shenton Park. After Mass, all gath- and Yarraville, and is Desiree. After the vacaRECORD PRINT Rev. Fr. M. Ford. assistant, St. Mary's Cath- ered for morning tea nearing the completon 1 ...on to be held with his 450 Hay Street. Perth. and the exchange of of an Arts Degree. At- parents, he will join the edral. congratulations for the ter a vacation to be teaching staff at C.B.C. • newir Professed. In a spent in Perth, Brother I Fremantle.
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