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No. 3358.
PERTH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1968.
"CATHOLICS' OR NATURAL iftilifflul REACTION"
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IDEAS NOT WANTED
V ALERIAN Cardinal Gracias of Bombay has declared that while the Church in India welcomes foreign missionaries, it does not want them to import foreign ideas into the country. Making what observers felt was his first public criticism of foreign missionaries, the Cardinal said in a speech in Bombay: "We desire ardently the services of f oreign missionaries. But we do not want them to impose on us the thinking of their own countries." At the same time, Cardinal Gracias warned that advocates of an "Indian Church" may find themselves divorced from the Church's roots and claiming a national church.
FOLLOWING the publication of Pope Paul's Encyclical on the Regulation of Birth, "Humanae Vitae," Bishop L. J. Goody of Bunbury has written a Pastoral Letter to the priests, religious and people of the Diocese of Bunbury. The text reads:
Peter and his successor, the Vicar of Christ among us. My Dear Priests, My dear people, let Religious and not one of us, priest, religious or layman? quesPeople, tion the authority of The long-awaited deci- Christ's Church in matBrother D. V. McMahon needs all the help he sion of our Holy Father ters of faith and morals. can get in preparing for the Altar Servers Semina r to t ake place from September 3-6. About 700 Pope Paul VI on what She could not continue servers have already booked for the Seminar, and many to exist without this aumore are expected. Brother McMahon's helpers are licit and what are are left to right) Richard Kempen, Dean Schultze, Eddie R zepczynski, and John Neskuldla. All four illicit methods of family thority. Remember that wi l l be there themselves. Full details of the Semina we r can would be be found perhaps on Page 12. planning has been made public. Although the among the first to deABOVE ALL pronouncement of His plore, in lesser matters The Church, he deholiness may be found which might concern us clared, is neither nationa. "difficult saying" by less closely, the conal nor international. hut some, it will be the tempt or rejection of supranational. natural reaction of faith- lawful authority upon The Cardinal also ltd Catholics to accept which we would recogw arned against the spithat decision and to ad- nise that the whole ritual message of the here to it with religious structure of society deChurch being affected assent of soul. "This re- pended. by dialogue, adaptation, With great anguish of ligious submission of commitment and the will and mind must be soul, knowing the diffilike. shown in a special way culties and unavoidable Robert Pitman, colum"If you don't like OHN CARDINAL "We did not think it On a recent to the authentic teach- suffering of many, the rilst, writing in the what the voice says you him to Europ visit by HEENA N of was Westfor e, the Carus to pronounce ing authority of the Pope has finally had the have a simple choice. dinal said the West, Roman Pontiff, even courage to affirm that minster said on August a final verdict. It was "Daily Express,- mass- Either you grumble but more than vhen he is not speaking the teaching of the 4: "The whole doctrine for us to give a view on circulation national obey . Or you arrange a was passinever before, 'ex cathedra.' That is, it Church on the regula- of Christian marriage the evidence before us. g through secret must be shown in such tion of births remains cannot he contained in It was for the Pope newspaper, wrote: "I am your compromise with tests of hope and morn consci ence. Or you lity. People there, he a way that his suprem unchanged. To quote his one short encyclical let- alone to make a decision. baffled by my fellow you e can decide you've pointed out, are gettina magisterium is acknow- own words: "Therefore ter, so the Pope has Protes tants who are got the wrong number "In questions of ethics, accustomed to new ma ledged with reverence, having attentively sifted hinted this week that a and can dial making for such anothe it a is song not r the number, but and longer document giving laises, both cultural and the judgments made by the documentation laid religion. intellectual. him are sincerely ad- before Us, after mature pastoral advice will be the weight of opinions dance about Pope and that counts," the Cardiissued later." hered to. according to r eflecti Pill. on What on earth has and assiduous "The fact is that (out- of The only saving grace his nal added. manifest mind the West, the Cardiside and will" prayers, We now intend Cardinal Heenan, who "Majo r it y opinions it got to do with us? If South a few areas of nal declared, is its (Dogmatic Constitution by virtue of the manAmerica) the sowas writing on the subon the Church you are a Roman Catho, Chapter date entrusted to Us by ject of the encyclical in are notoriously unrelicalled population explo- charity which is the III, 25). only thing that can able in moral issues," he lic you belong to a sion has not been Christ, to give Our reply the "Sunday fired bring it out of Mirror," a said, pointing to Nazi The Papal the spirito these grave ques- popular national weekby any decision can scarcely decisions to sterilise the Church which regards Unless fuse from Rome. tual confusion reflected tions" (Ency c.. para 6). be of descri end course paper, also said, unfit and to byou in the slump ed as comple of vocaliquidate the Pope as Christ's suppose that the It is impossible, with- "Much remains tely surHindus tions, fall in to be Jews, as well as to Prising or even as en- out repeating the whole said attendance the Vicar among men. That in India's famine areas about love and martirely unexpected in churches and general recent British abortion is what makes it so speare secret Roman Catho- mor since, of the Pope's letter, to riage. There is still need law. repeatedly, he al decline. do cial. more than summ arise lics." has refor affirmed the lasting his teaching on the re- froma fuller document the Churc validity h, but of the previous gulation of births. The meanwhile we can be teaching of enti re encyc lical de- grateful for a voice in XII. When Pope Pius serves to be read and authority not on the side later, writers speakers began pub- studied carefully by all of moral laxity." licly to who wish to be properly cloctrine,question the old John A. Greases in ders and carried pages man and informed on this imporwith former editor after to those who passgreat Prudence he NO London writes: EXOD US of letters from readers, of the "Tablet," in the ed tant subjec t. it tirvestigation asked for while cartoonists, seeing "Daily Sketch," national under on to them often The whole problem of and advice the most difficult Cardinal Heenan said THE past week has the way !torn a the wind was newspaper. In it he material condit selected group of birth, the Pope says, that he did not think been a time of shock ions. the wie°10gians and lay blowin -The encyclical is a peo- must be approached in encyclical was likely to and confusion for Cath- and g, have poked fun pointed out: "If ever Ple. No derisio its n at the there was a time when moment of truth not entirety and not just cause an exodu from olics in Britain. anding a s Promise twithst on purely compassionate only for the Church but The papal encyclical Church. variably of secrec • in on biological, or psycho- the Church. "Anglicans required even- logical, or demographic. and nonconformists are on birth control with The radio and tele- grounds the Church's for the world outside. It tine_eiviwl.!lieh a.ffair s on mat- or sociological grounds. unlikely to welcome the international and vision followed suit with teaching might have is a reminder that the ili'dsice, are 'sub The whole of man's vo- converts seeking truth more particularly the interviews and discus- seemed to call for relax- mission of the Catholic cation ation it was in the Church is with the eternatura c and and holiness through domestic storm that fol- sions. ed bY sr ing onsider- earthly as well l f h A,_ middle of the last cen- nal destiny of the huas super- contraception," he said. lowed has largely domijudge), the 1_nginad of this tury. Then contracep- man soul. It is in the MODERATION and nated the national press. eternal group natural wchlaet an e tive devices were being light of man's real or Cardinal Heenan, who public by must be considered. The newspapers Almost all editorial c The two great reali- was pro-president of the splashed the encyclical comment has been criti- developed in France and final end that the Cathseribedo as only be dean open be- ties of married rayal life are final commission that on front pages at length, cal and so have most of would have brought re- olic Church has been t confide conjugal love and re- reported to Pope Paul running long texts in- the specialists, including lief to the immigrant commissioned to teach nce. oly VI on birth control, side—the "Times" car- ex perienced Father has sponsible parent h o 0 d. - priests, Catholic Catholics going in vast with authority about numbecs to America. By conjugal love in a stressed, as he did in a ried the full text—and journalists and others right and wrong and repeat edly "The priests who ac- Catholics are those who that _, dis ost painful form mutual personal gift of letter read in churches followed day after day Much of the comm . retra ent companied them respect. told accept that authority b r e( for 1aA that dis- self, the husband and on Sunday that the with big front-page re- has been generally antimem bers ul of comm the wi isfe tend authotowards both ports of developments Catholic or anti-Chris- them that they must ob- even when what it has si3;eawdrlitch is so personal perfection and sion did not regard with critical comment tian. A great amount of serve what the Church to teach them proves ttruck °day. Itwide- c has ollaboration with God themselves as a jury. and reaction from both it has been angry or told them about the sin- hard to obey. national and civic in the generation and : outers. it "A moral teaching overseas and in Britain. puerile, but much has fulness of contraceptive has confused education practices and a wonder- which looks to man's ; of new lives. been intelligent and after day, Day the Iitc1L_conafounded univer Because OTHER ful harvest has come 100 final end and sees his PAGES of their noble it ri.el papers have presented convincing. The Pope years later out of the sanctification schoolteach- role as collaborators Correspondence as the P.2 him self has usuall y been readers wih learned and lvori,Y ls a often heroic sanctity of main business and purwith knd to manycontinual His Almighty God in "End Boring Relipseudo - learned articles treated with moderation the immigrants of those pose of fathers continuing creative his terrestrial gious Classes ilie P.5 from bishops, theolo- or respect. of times. thes.h -,„".ers existence will of its naior has our fam- work, responsible pargians and experts of all "They were the ances- ture often conflict with it spared enthood necessarily imA ltar Servers' HARVEST earth T' est a kinds, Catholic and nontors of the 40,000,000 the current assumptions Seminar P.12 uthori Lae ty plies o that reason able n i very Power Catholic. Even the woOne of the most sober American Catholics who and fashions in thoug lindm ven t, of and conscientious deciht Theatre P.9 men's pages have not articles was written by owe their lives with all and feeling bY and sions of societi will es be made not Christ loosing exemp t. Editors Mr. Douglas Woodruff, its opportunity for hap- whic P.14 Music and TV. been to St. h rest on huma SEE PAGE 12 Bir have written long lea- a leading Catholic lay- piness here and here- and sexualist premis nist es."
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