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PERTH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1968.
CARDINAL CLARIFIES STATtMENT
(Registered at the O.P.O.. Perth tor transmission by post as a Newspaper.)
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Methodist support for Pope Paul The recent papal encyclical on birth
• JOHN A. GREAVES writes from LONDON.
control has not had any effect "one way
John Cardinal Heenan of Westminster has strongly rejected charges that the recent instruction of the English and W elsh bishops on Pope Paul VI's encyclical on birth control is an attempt
or the other" on the ecumenical movement, Methodist Bishop Fred Pierce Corson said in Philadelphia on his return f rom a seven-week tour of Europe in which he participated in four inter -faith
to water down or compromise on the Pope's ruling on contraception.
meetings.
The retired spiritual to relax his stand, would leader of Philadelphia's do it, but I'm sure that "The bishops were not concerned to Methodists and the for- he would issue any furmer president of the ther statements not beaway, still xplain less to contradict, e World Methodist Coun- cause of external prescil said that Protestant sure but because of the teaching of the Vicar of Christ," the leaders at the Methodist moral conviction." Cardinal declared in his sermon in Westand Anglican meetings Commenting on the he attended viewed the birth control encyclical minster Cathedral at the annual Red papal encyclical as a in relation to world povstrictly internal matter. erty problems, Bishop Mass for the Catholic members of the Corson said, "The Pope The bishop, who was legal profession at the opening of the didn't restrict Catholics one of the few Protesnew law term. tant leaders to commend on controlling births but on the methods of such the Pope on the issuance control. "I make no com- encyclical: 'No member The population of the encyclical, said. plaint," the Cardinal of the faithful could explosion is. also, only "The Pope understands one said, "that some organs possibly deny that that there is a Protes- elim factor to consider in of the secular press gave Church is competentthe inating world povin tant point of view and misleading accounts .of her magisterium erty. So far, birth conto inthat I endorse it.I com- trol what the bishops said. terpret the natural mended the Pope on his widelyhas been more This is understandable moral law.' exercised by moral courage in taking - newspapers do not those who could afford a position he knew to have "We had to consider u sually have moral more children would be unpopular." theologians on their not the doctrine laid than by those who are down but its application A rriving at Perth Airport on Tuesday for a 24-hour visit, Joseph, Cardinal Slipyj, staff, It is serious, howAsked if he felt the poor. Also, methods of difficult circum- was greeted by this small member of Perth's Ukrainian community in national Pope could alter his food production have ever, when priests and in laymen reading our stances. I want you to costume. At a Liturgical welcome for Cardinal Slipyj in St. Mary's Cathedral the position, Bishop Corson improved and we canwords fail to grasp their notice that we were not same evening, Bishop M. McKeon, Vicar Capitular of the Archdiocese, greeted the said, "I'm sure the Holy not assume that more advocating situation Cardinal and told the congregation that his first words as he stepped off meaning. the Father, if he could get food will not be availethics nor saying that aircraft bringing him from the Eastern States had been of sympathy for those new light to cause him able." "One Catholic perio- m orality is subjective. who had suffered in Monday's earthquake. On that day, said Bishop McKeon, dical rewrote parts On of the contrary we spe- "as we read the words of the 17th Psalm, the statement suggest- cifically pointed out that foundations of the mountains trembled and 'the earth swayed and quaked, the ing what the shook" in the morning prayer of the bishops this could be disast- Church, we did not think that later that same ought to have said. morning this thought would become This rous." a grim reality." is probably unpreceCardinal Heenan, who dented in Catholic journalism in this country. was addressing a conBut it is an added reason gregation of judges, barristers and lawyers, all whY our statement Should be wearing their robes of clarified. offi ce, continued: "What "We did * Are you getting the most out o doubt on the not cast then were we saying? Holy FaAs your camera? lawyers you are ther's claim to be as he familiar with the quessaid 'vindicating * Are you interested in processthe tegrity of the moral in- tion of diminished re- THE Holy See has diaconate is conferred ing committee for the law sponsibility. In practice Of ing your own film? upon granted candidate. a request of a permanent diaconate, in c marriage. We were this has usually come to the National Conference Now that the Holy accordance with guideoncerned only with our * Would you like to have consismean in courts of law a .of Catholic Bishops of , See has acceded to the lines and general resopastoral Ing the task of prepar- mental deficiency or the U.S.A. to establish request of the N.C.C.B., lutions approved at the tently good results? minds of our psychological priests and abnormal- the permanent diaconate the bishops' conference spring general meeting * What is it that makes a good ceive the people to re- ity. But it has a wider for married and unmar- is establishing a stand- of N.C.C.B. Sovereignteaching of the c onnotation. photograph? red mature men of Pontiff. An 0flusual problem years in those areas "If a person has been * Do you want to save money faced is for some r epeatedly assured that where they are needed. Yearsbecause or possibly make some? Joseph Bishop BernaL. the hitherto ac- a course of action is reilted discipline din, general secretary of rig ht he may have beof the Fitirch had been ques- come virtually unable N.C.C.B. , announced in WE HAVE COURSES FOR-tioned. speedily to reassess his Washington. judgment or suddenly to The permission, grant(a) Beginners B ISHOPS' DUTY alter his moral habits. ed by Pope Paul VI on FIRST-HA Dean ND the of acAvon DisUntil such time as he is the recommendation of ( b ) The experienced amateur and h count of damage in tricts, was able to re"Although, as the able by God's grace to the Sacred Congregar2Pe had move the Blessed Sacra( c ) Vocational courses for the pointed out, do one or the other his tion of the Sacraments the town of Meckering. ment from the ,`11e wrecked r esponsibil Monday's of ity centre diminis professional of the future. Rome. magisterium (the in provides: '4,"uren'S arthquake, was receiv- church late on Monday. e glority) teaching au- ished. • That, with the conAt Cunderdin, the itself was in v,i sent of the local bishop, ed by "The Record" on presbytery walls crackno dotii,13t, many who spoke morning Wednesday in THE PLACE OF the permanent diaco" Some ed. and some plaster Diasto nate may be established a 6 a.m. telephone call fell, and at York, St. drs or authority as C ONSCIENCE Father from J. P. WEST AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL where needed: ln,a led manytheologians Chauncy. parish priest Patrick's has several to believe at a "It was cracks. context in large this That • conit can be OF PHOTOGRAPHY change was of Cunclerdin. Meekerimmi- that l h'iilt. Hence sion in No extensive damaee the confu- ed the bishops remind- ferred only on married ing is a part of his 309A STIRLING HWY., CLAREMONT. 6010. the faithful that nei- and unmarried men of parish. the has been reported from ler g3r andminds of both ther the encyclical nor mature years; T elephone 3-5245. felt it our faithful. We The Church of St. the metropolitan area. any other document of Patric Meckering duty k. Cathedral That Mary's married • , men St. to offer the Church 1,)c;th,g Please send me free literature on your photodenied the Aationuidance and con- primacy of conscience who receive the diaco- went the way of the rest lost a stone cross from graphic courses. . to kik troubled This is not at all the nate cannot remarry if of the town. It was to- one of the eastern pin( Mr., Mrs., Miss they later become I tally destroyed. Only nacle, and the pinnacle same as asserting that s (We last year the parishion- itself was twisted. The 'villfIggest did not say or private judgment is a w idowers; Address that the • That unmarried ens celebrated the gol- Cathedral priests' resiindi- safer guide than the men who receive the ,den jubilee of the build- dence has an old crack Ctiga„1;,e°1-ild Post Code discount voice of the Vicar of diaconate cannot marry i ing. which was blessed widened and lengthened ttor set ance of the Christ. Pope fterwards. and opened by Arch_ through the two storeys. Age Phone No ,the,m.rn as the arbiter "There is no time here a oral law. At least a two-year bishop P. Clune, CSSR. From elsewhere, falls of to develop this point. It programme of training in 1916. Occupation rnself said The plaster and minor cracks in the SEE PAGE TWO Bar is suggested before the Father W. Browne, have been reported.
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