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fUREAU OP IRCULATIONSA
No 3341.
PERTH, THURSDAY, APRIL 1 1, 1968.
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WHY THE CHURCH PASSION TABLEAU IS OPPOSED TO LIBERALISING ABORTION LAWS
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IT becomes increasingly clear that successful overseas campaigns for the relaxing of laws on abortion could be repeated in Australia.
The Tragedy of Good Friday in visual art form can be seen in the diorama display of the Passion and Death
In Victoria, the Liberal Party has already proposed a Of Our Lord Jesus Christ at the Christian Brothers High School, Highgate. Under the direction and supervision of Mr. J. Pace and Brother D. McMahon the boys of grade seven have work review of the law. A similar move has already been made ed for the past few weeks to have this display ready for Easter. The display is in the grade seven room, and depicts the Agony in the Garden, The Scourging at the Pillar, made in this State. The Crowning of Thorns, Veronica wipes the face of Jesus, the Carrying of the Cross, The Crucifixion, The
THE word "reform" Therefore, from the mo- di rect suppression.- t aking down from the Cross, and the Burial of Christ. The figures are made from plaster and measure from eight inches to two feet high. The diorama style used in the context ment of its conception, There can be no room of the present laws is a life must be guarded f o r misinterpretation of setting is broken by the violet drapes which are used for the divisions of the different stages in the story. misnomer. There is with the greatest care, here other than deliber- The lighting is arranged to break down the deep effect of the sombre violet. every indication that while abortion and in- ate. Brother McMahon has arranged the seating of the class so that an isle is formed, to lead the eye straight the word "relaxation" is fanticide are unspeakAccording to Catholic t o the central figure of our Lord on the Cross. more appropriate, since able crimes." teaching, the moral A fine exhibition of paintings by the boys can be seen on the side walls, the subject being the Easter Story. what seems to be sought What is abortion, and moral rightness of cerA tape recording explaining the individual statues gi ves the viewer an understanding of the Passion and by the reformers is a what does the Church tain forms of incidental wide permissiveness for teach concerning it? abortion not directly de- Death of Our Lord. the destruction of unsired is judged by what This display is of tremendous value in preparing children for Easter, for meditation, and prayer. The born children. is popularly call e ct display will be open day and night during the Easter period. "double effect." The introduction of a For example: a docter liberalised abortion law In simple terms, abor- could not abort a woin England was the result of a skilfully orga- tion is. the stopping of man because childbirth the life process in the might place an undue nised campaign, al- womb. There are three strain on her weakened though the enabling legislation, the Medical types of abortion: heart; this would be diTermination of PregSpontaneous abortion rect abortion. But after THE financial burden "A full and detailed -Catholic people and government applies adenancy Bill, was substan- ( or miscarriage) which all other treatment had on parents with chil- examination by compe- statemen are completely quate funds to our tially modified during a occurs because of a tailed he could, in anhard-fought Parliamen- pathological condition— other case, remove her dren at Catholic schools tent experts, as recom- unaware of the urgency schools, then Catholics tary campaign and pub- that is, as the result of cancerous womb, de- in South Australia will mended by the congress and gravity of the situa are relieved of an intolerable financial burden. lic debate extending a disease, illness, or an stroying the foetus in be eased soon —either delegates, is necessary tion." by government aid or in order for systematic "We are also empha"If this relief is not over 18 months. accident to the mother. the process. In this case, the collapse of the inde- corrective action to be tic.- he said, "that the available, then our sysfoetus death the of the In the past year three Indirect abortion, pendent school system, States in the U.S.A. which follows from a would be an incidental it was asserted in Ade- applied,- he declared. problem is, to a certain tern will vanish, which "This, however, may be extent, self - correcting also relieves us of the have enacted liberalised medi c a 11 y necessary effect of a medically laide. too late. If, on the one hand, the burden." practice necessary, to laws and there are treatment of the mother L. R. Pridham, presimoves to introduce simi- and which indirectly re - save the woman. dent of the Federation lar legislation in an- suits in the destruction of Parents and Friends' other 20 States. In Aus- of the foetus (such as an Associations of South tralia. active propa- operation to remove a Australian Catholic ganda for changes in the cancerous womb). Those who seek the Schools, said: "We are abortion laws has been if.rect abortion, which relaxation of abortion not fighting for justice disseminated for some intentionally kills the laws cite many distress- now. We are fighting time now. for ing cases of women and No doubt the present foetus directly, or girls whose life would survival." Neville John through removal of it Pridham was com- FATHER laws will, in time, be from the womb before it be irreparably damaged, menting Faulkner, 37, the son on a call to rereviewed. and of the late Mr. and Mrs. Modified. The perhaps is able to survive inde- physically or psycho- assess the Church's preextent pendently. This is gen- logically, by the birth of sent use of its resources John Aloysius and and nature of any modi- erally regarded as be- an unwanted child; in to educate only a por- Maude Faulkner, was fication will depend on fore the 26th week of particular in cases of tion of Catholic children ordained to the priestthe influence exerted rape. that had been made by hood in St. Paul's Basithe legislature by on development. inBut it would be diffi- the Australian delega- lica Outside the Walls Because of its proformed and conscienMarch 30. tious public found respect for the cult to convict the Cath- tion to the Third World in Rome on opinion. Holy Orders were life of the unborn child, lic Church of a lack of Congress of the Lay It is in order that pub- the Catholic Church has sympathy for the girls of Apostolate. conferred by Amleto lic opinion may truly be often been misrepre- all classes, and all reliCicognani on Cardinal informed The delegation had that "The cord," in common Re- sented. In particular, gions, who find them- questioned the ju'ifica- students from the Beda with this is so in cases of selves in such difficul- tion of the Church's College. where Father Other This sympathy heavy involvement in Faulkner was completsuch asCatholic papers, therapeutic abortion (an ties. liVeekly" "The Catholic operation to save the finds expression in the education, and also re- ing his studies. in the vast network of hospi- commended an expert "The Advocate" Sydney, mother)., where A sister of Father in Mel- Church has been said to tals and institutions set study of the present al- Faulkner, Mrs. Anna 113:urne, is putting up care to befor them and location of resources Klatt, and her daughter, e xercise a preference re readers an exami- for the life of the child their children. and a re-evaluation of Erin, were present in nation of abortion We must make clear. the present priorities from over that of the mother. a Catholic of Rome for the ceremony. I.Id a clear standpoint, In 1951, Pope Pius that in all these cases apostolic efforts. Father Faulkner, who restatement XII made the Church's there are two lives unOf was ordained for the traditional der Church consideration — not position teaching on clear thus: Diocese of Bunbury, INCREASING it "Never and in no case one. What in fact is beThe Second went to St. Columba's Vatican has the Church taught ing sought is permission '-012Cl' 11, Pridham claimed: C oll eg e, Springwood, C o n stitution that the life of the child to grant the "happiness" ;11 the "U nless immediate New South Wales, in Illodern Church in the must be preferred to of one human being, at and substantial govern- 1963. After 18 months World gives a that of the mother. It is the cost of the life of ment financial assist- there, he went on to the Western Australia and his vows as a Christian clear lead' "For God, erroneous to put the another. • ance is available, the Beda College, Rome. for t aught in Brothers' Brother and commenced L ord of life, has question CO It is often suggested, Catholic system, and the his schools in Kalgoorlie, his studies for the with this alterriferred theology. on men the native — s Castledare and Trinity priesthood. either the life particularly by some bulk of the Catholic sysurpassing At the 14, he age of safp, of of the child or that of medical men, that a tem, will vanish." The entered the Christian College. -6,4ardirir,ministry 1;f Father Faulkner is foetus is not at first a rate of disintegratio e n of Brothers' Juniorate in It was while at Tri- due back to receive his a the mother. Neither the human Which"must be being. Protago- the Catholic system in Strathfield, life of the mother nor New South nity College that he ap- appointment in the Bunin a Which that of the child can be nists of relaxation of the South Australia is in- Wales. After is worthy manner his profes- plied for and received bury Diocese in Sepof man. subject to an act of PAGE FOURTEEN Bur' creasing. he added. sion, he returned to his dispensation from tember.
Three Types
NO AID
Sympathy
NO SCHOOLS
Father N. Faulkner Ordained In Rome