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PERTH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1968.
(Registered at the O.P.O., Perth for transmission by post as a Newspaper.)
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CARDINAL FOR PERTH AID: N.Z. MOVES FURTHER AHEAD CEREMONIES
NORMAN Thomas Cardinal Gilroy will fly specially from Sydney for the Enthronement of Archbishop L. J.
IN considering stepped-up assistance that ordinary wage-earning parents can pay in to independent schools the New Zea- school fees and to the that Religious tealand government is "simply being rea- load chers can carry. He said listic," according to Bishop John P. the critical nature of the situation was emphasised K avanagh of Dunedin. when the Religious themselves recently for the
The New Zealand government is cur- first time said that the on them is berently looking into the question of burden coming intolerable. making loans for independent school PROBLEM FOR buildings. and increased per capita ALL g rants. Bishop Kavanagh point-
Goody. He will return to Sydney by air directly after the ceremony, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Friday, December 20.
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Cardinal Gilroy will lead the procession from the Archbishop's Palace in Victoria Square to St. Mary's Cathedral. :He will be followed by a great concourse of clergy which wil l include visiting Archbishops and bishops, clergy and lay v isitors from other dioceses, as wel l as all the priests of the Archdiocese.
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Bishop Kavanagh, who is chairman of the New to see the problem mereZealand Catholic Educational Council, said at St. ly as one for Catholic Paul's High School, Auckland, that by giving time- parents. Even a few chilly assistance when independent schools are fight- dren added to an already ing for their existence, the government will save sufficiently large class in a State school would a large amount of money later.
mean that the children He said the alternative vate system is to ignore could not be taught proto State aid could well the realities of the situa- perly and the right of the be the closing of many tion," he declared. "If this State school parents independent schools. He happens the strain on the would be infringed, he then cited the conse- State system and the tea- added. quences of a cut-back in chers in it would indeed Considerable burdens the Catholic school sys- be heavy." would be added to the tem because of financial Bishop Kavanagh stress- State school system at a problems. ed that Catholics want to time when, Bishop KavaPROBLEM FOR retain their schools, and nagh said, the existing that the present crisis is State system needs more bishop will receive pledges of fidelity from the STATE not of their own making. teachers and buildings. Auxiliary Bishop, Bishop M. McKeon, from the The State school sysHe emphasised that In meeting the costs if Monsignori, and from representatives of the paro- tem would have the prob- the financial burden on Catholic pupils had to go chial clergy, Religious priests, Brothers and Sis- lem of coping with 40,000 the Catholic people and into State schools, taxters, representative laymen and laywomen, and Catholic children, which the religious teachers is payers would have to pay t wo representatives of Catholic schools. Bishop would require the em- becoming so great that substantially more than question arises: the modest amount curMcKeon will then give an address of welcome to ployment of more than a the the Archbishop, and the Archbishop is expected thousand additional State "How much of the sys- rently asked of the government by the indepento reply to this in his homily at the Low Mass teachers, the bishop said. tem can we retain?" "It seems to me in He noted that there is dent schools committee, a t which he will also be celebrant. these circumstances, to a limit to the amount the bishop emphasised. The address of welcome will be followed by the resist giving a degree of Antiphon of Our Lady, Patroness of the Cathedral aid to the struggling pri-
Cardinal Gilroy will be received at the main door of the Cathedral by the Administrator, Monsignor J. Hogan, and escorted to the Throne in the sanctuary. A rchbishop Goody will enter the Cathedral in a separate procession led by the Vicar General to the late Archbishop R. Prendiville, Monsignor E. Kennedy. During this procession the choir will sing a setting of the Te Deum by the late Ralph Vaughan Williams. At the entrance to the sanctuary the Archbishop will be tendered a Liturgical Reception by the Church, with the prayer sung by Archbishop Auxiliary Bishop, Bishop M. McKeon. Goody. An unusual feature will be that the enthroneThe place of the laity in the Church will be ment of the new Archbishop by Cardinal Gilroy emphasised at the Offertory, when the bread and will take place in full view of the congregation on wine will be carried in procession to the sanctuary the predilla of the high altar, on a throne erected by representatives of the people. for the occasion. Mass will end with the Solemn Blessing imFol lowing the enthronement, the new Arch- parted by the Archbishop.
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HOW CAN ONE KNOW GOD? MODERN man is
tormented by the "great question" — How can one know God? — Pope Paul VI told a general audience last week.
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Commenting on the THE laity commission of the English and theme of God's existence, Welsh bishops deplored in a statement which he has used as a central point during the issued in London any attempt to hinder past weeks, Pope Paul said that the question the sale of Catholic newspapers and facing modern man is— magazines. can we know of God's existence? The commission ex- standing of controversial Contemporary atheism pressed its wish to en- matters." The Catholic press in answers flatly no, he said, but added: "This answer courage a strong Catho- Britain — particularly its which seems so simple lic press and said such a three national weekly journals, the "Universe," produces a void in the thought and life of man, press is essential to the the "Catholic Herald" and the "Tablet"—are held in stirring up many and lay apostolate. generally high esteem in very grave problems which disturb both faith It stated: "Believing Britain. Privately owned completely conin thought itself as well that it is essential to the and as in a positive sense of ay apostolate that Cath- trolled by laymen, they olic news and informed are professionally edited Pope Paul declared that comment upon the life of and produced, and have highest standing "those who believe it pos- the Church should be the sible to base a humanism freely available, we wish among the many relion atheism in reality be- to encourage a strong gious papers issued in Catholic the country. They have a varied come prophets of nihil- and press. ism." total weekly circulation The Church, on the of about half a million. "We therefore deeply Proud of their indepenother hand, the Pope any attempt to dence, they can at times pointed out, does not deplore the sale of Cathdeny man's human mind impede be openly critical of the newspapers and official line in the Cathoolic arriving of "capacity the lic world. It was this outat the knowledge of God magazines. "We also recognise the spokenness which caused and, it should be noted, even by reason . . The value of the work of the a few pastors to ban faith certainly gives us a journals in keeping the their sales at churches at knowledge of God which Catholic faithful inform- the height of the recent "I Year at Mercedes College ends this week, and on Wednesday everyone went off to Rockingham is fuller and per se easier ed about the various con- controversy over the Or Mass t.'"ic• No uniforms to be seen as the girls crow Jed into the buses. They had been to the Novena but the faith itself siderations necessary for papal encyclical on bier I "rst though. their study and under- control. t affirms our teaching."