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PERTH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1968.
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Archbishop Asks For Compassion Box In Each Home
(Registered at the G.P.O.. Perth for transmission by post as a Newspaper.)
Precious Water
HIS GRACE the Archbishop in a circular letter to all priests of the Archdiocese strongly urged them to give the maximum publicity for a specific effort in this year's "Project Compassion." Lost year Australian Catholics subscribed $390,000 in the Lenten campaign.
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Cardinal Veuillot Dies In France
CARDINAL PIERRE Veuillot, 55, of Paris
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died on February 14 of cancer of the pancreas. He had been made a cardinal last June 26. He died in his resicience, where he had been brought during the day, after three months in St. Joseph's Hospital in Paris. His funeral took place in Notre Dame Cathedral on February 17. Three days before the Cardinal's death. Monsignor Pasquale Macchi, t he personal secretary of Pope Paul VI, visited him. Monsignor Macc'ni brought a special blessing and rosary from the Pope. Cardinal Veuillot had Archbishop been of Paris in his own right for only about a year. Maurice Cardinal Feltin, the former archbishop. resigned on December 21, 1966. Cardinal Veuillot had actually directed the Paris archdiocese since his nomination as coadjutor archbishop with right of succession on June 12, 1961. Cardinal Feltin, who is now 85, had given him the exercise of most of the archbishop's powers and acted only as an adviser. The son of a journalist, Francois Veuillot, the future cardinal, was born in Paris on January 5. 1913.
• Pr GRACE, in the which multiplies, also causes the world hunger 4 11•1 circular, said that taking into account the where economic and sopeople are to be re- fall in death rates of the cial advances do not minded frequently dur- young and increased life match advances in ing Lent that Church expectancy of the old medicine and hygiene. law now does not re- due to advances in Birth control on a masquire much fasting and medical science, the sive scale was not the self-denial, but God whole human family answer even to part of calls people to do pen- was increasing at a re- the problem, as figures ance. At least for the markable rate. It took and estimates of the six weeks of Lent all the human race up to United Nations OrganiCatholics, both as indi- the year 1650 to reach sation do not anticipate viduals and as families, the 500 million mark, any important drop in should make the effort and the population of rates of increase in the to deny themselves, to the world increased by world population by the do penance and through the same amount be- year 2000. this self-denial to help tween 1950 and 1962. those who call on them Projecting these figures, in distress. the world population by His Grace said that 1970 would be three and This makes it all the This young fellow and thousands like him, many in much worse condition every Catholic home a half thousand million, than he depend upon us for even things like water. Through "Project should have a "Project by 1990 five thousand more urgent to accelerCompassion" water drilling equipment has been sent to India. Other vital Compassion" box for million, and by the year ate economic growth a ssistance to help people worse off than ourselves is sent by the Australian 2000 it will have reach- and social advancement Lent. the undeveloped C atholic Bishops' Committee for Overseas Relief. ed six thousand million. in world. If hunger is to be It all comes from the results of Lenten self-denial. eliminated and a modest improvement in the nutritional quality of food In a statement releasHe said that the seri- is to be provided for ed by Bishop M. Mc••• Keon for the beginning ous side of these figures people in developing of "Project Compas- was that the population countries, an annual insion.' for 1968 he said explosion was taking crease of three per cent that the Third World place in the less de- in total food production Food Survey completed veloped continents of would be necessary. oso alleviation of in 1963 confirmed the Latin America, Africa This woud be on a short- COR the distress in and want and Asia. Sukhatme Report term target up to 1980. poor countries, AustraBishop McKeon said 1961 that 10 to 15 of As regards long-term per that to put it more striklian Catholics last year cent of the world's ingly, in 32 years from targets up to the year subscribed $390,000 in MEDICINE population, that is, 2000. total food supplies beHe studied medicine tween 300 and 450 mil- now 75 per cent of the of developing countries support of 80 different world's population will would have to be in- overseas projects of re- made possible by Cath- possible for them to before lion people were entering the under- be in the countries wlich benefited olic subscriptions dur- give to the poor, the seminary of the Catholic now creased fourfold and lief fed, and that up to half classified the population under- animal food supplies about one million peo- ing the Lenten Appeal, hungry and the desti- Institute of Paris, where of the developed as reached the needy peo- tute help which other. but better fivefold. There is rea- ple.. World, that is, ple for whom they were wise they could not get. he obtained degrees in million people, 1,600 classified as developing. son for optimism if suftheology philoand This is revealed in a intended. suffer By the end of the Last year, from actual cen- ficient effort is made and sophy. Ordained on Australian hunger of review or extended the to help the concealed tury, the population of the effort is sustained. UNITED EFFORT March 26, 1939, he bemalnutrition. hunger of Asia will be as large as The present technical C atholic Relief activities poor and distressed in came assistant pastor in has which 1967 during Guinea, Africa, New Inthe total population of knowledge He said Indivi d u al families the Parisian suburb must be been made available by dia. Singapore of Indo, the social that taking the world today. could not reach them, Asnieres. spread to give imme- Archbishop James W. nature of man Peru. nesia, Vietnam, into account Density was also a diate results and relief. Mobilised in the artilGleeson. Chairman of Pakistan and West but by united effort and ing in a and his liv- contributing problem. p ooling the money lery during family unit An Australian Catholic Irian. the Second the example of this was which might have been World War, Committee for he served Bishops' that ten million of Ar"Other bigger organi- spent during Lent on as a lieutenant and later Overseas Relief. gentina's population live sations have their repre- food, clothing and enin a few big cities and Archbishop Gleeson sentatives in all these tertainment, Catholics as a captain. Bishop McKeon said Professor of philotowns. This can also be that in aiding other said the aid from A.C.R. countries and they gen- have been able to do a said of other places of countries, we should not to distressed countries erously help us as we great work of charity sophy in the minor large populations and look on it as "charity." helped to meet such try to give in Christ's for men. vomen and seminary of Paris from 1942 to 1949, he obtaini but that we should. practical requirements name, food and drink, little children of many ed his doctorate in theothe Pacific is- nadequate resources. When all allowances through our sacrifices, as_food and medicine. clothing and shelter to nations and religions. land of logy in 1947 with a dated to Nauru, man- have been made and all give the type of help X-ray equipment and those in need," said To provide this year's thesis on "The Spirituaiftited Australia as a c omplexities consider- which will enable others ambulance, houses, hos- Archbishop Gleeson. funds for the continu- lity of St. Francis de Nations' trust ed, Bishop t McKeon said, to help themselves, to pitals, clinics, drilling erritory after ance of overseas relief Sales." World we come face to War II, them face furnish with rigs for water supplies, became an and enable Australian In 1949. he was called AMOUNT cattle. wells, Pendent nation on inde- with the reality of large equipment and training water Catholic Relief to meet to Rome to work in the ary 31, Janu- areas of the world in order to produce ducks for duck farms to The amount Father P. Clivaz, w of the expanding require- Papal Secretariat of m.S.C., here you have poorer their own needs. There augment food supplies. $390,000 which Austra- ments of needy coun- State. In the course of could What claim c ountries carpenters for tools and lian Catholic Relief was tries, the Lenten subject to must be no strings atfew other Appeal his work there, he made pastors p could tradesmen, and tractors able to spend in 1967 in —entitled boast—his parish opulation pres sures tached. Project Com- several trips to Africa embraced which equipment other are and for very serious An all-out war on the an entire nagiving this help all came passion — will again be and to Canada. He was tion. and which here and now causes of poverty is the farmers. through Project Com- conduced in Catholic part of the Papal repreare relatively overpopu- only immediate /lye Sisters ly effecpassion—an appeal con- c hurches throughout sentation at the coronaof the lated. c tive answer to world of Our Lady ducted in Catholic Australia. ofonimunity NO STAFF tion of Queen Elizabeth the World hunger and hunger and world povc hurches throughout The appeal commences in 1953. ?OberSacred Heart help world poverty, said erty. This conclusion is Archbishop Gleeson Australia during Lent. in mini- B on Ash Wednesday. On June 8. 1959, he stering Clivaz ishop McKeon, are the inescapable and this at- said there to the was no big Arehbisop Gleeson said February 28. and boxes named Bishop of Angers spiritual I leeds of central problems of our tack must be mounted staff in the Australian the fasting and self- for Lenten sacrifices and two years 1 4abitants the 5,000 in- age. later beSometimes it is this now, because the hun- Catholic Relief Organi- denial by individual will be of the available at all came Coadjutor Archs island. world Poverty that gry cannot wait. sation, but the gifts. and families made it Catholic churches. bishop of Paris.
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