No. 3380. Jewu _eLATIc4"A j,uDlr
Registered at the 0.P.O.. Perth .or transmission by post as a Newspaper. )
PERTH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1969.
Price 8c.
flITt YEARS IN PRISON FOR PRIM
A SOVIET court at Lvov in the Ukraine has senr• tenced a Catholic priest to n. f ive years at hard labour, 18 it was reported from Bonn. 1/
K.N A., the German Catholic news agency, . r. reported that Father Antin Potochniak, 56, was indicted for "leading activity in a prohibited sect." He had ministered to members of the Byzantine-Rite Catholic Church, which has been ma banned in the Soviet Union for the past 23 , years.
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Seated: Sister M. Vianney, Parramatta: Sister M. Dolores, Adelaide; Sister M. Regis and Sister M. Monica, Victoria Square. ( cousins): Sister M. Colmcille, 0.P., Cabra, Adelaide; Sister M. De Lellis, Toodyay.
Standing
REUNIO PECIAL N S HURC STRE HES SS C SERIOUSNESS OF Al-EAST TROUBLE
The court found the Priest guilty of: CARDINAL SLIPY1 • Having conducted "illegal" divine services. A FAMILY reunion with Cumberland Park, South lics and the Russian OrAustralia, a first cousin. • Of having preached thodox Church. a difference is at present Sister M. Monica's third to large numbers of CathWhen the Soviets occut aking place at the Con- sister is already with her olics who were thereby pied the territory in 1939, She is kept from "useful work." vent of Mercy, Victoria at Victoria Square. they began a programme Sister M. Regis. Between ma • Of having warned of harassment and supS quare. them, these five ladies of -'Children against atheistic pression. In 1945 they set the Barry family have i t is a reunion of the given over two hundred Indoctrination given in up their own groups of schools. Cath olic collaborators, Barry family. years of life in religion to , The last charge wfw which in 1946 convoked a God. On Friday. December considered the most dam- synod to establish a "reNor indeed is this the 27, three members of the union" of Catholics with aging, the report said. Three Christian leaders ably "disaster to the na- being insufficiently fed family arrived at Perth end of the story, for anthe Russian Orthodox other Barry sister, Sister Church, which they had of Egypt have called up- tions of the Middle East," and sheltered. It said Airport to join Sister M. NO CRIME Cannel, died at SubiM. possible and "confrontaArab that young men, Monica Barry. They were been able to control. on 'fellow Christians" of tion between the great "taught to hate injustice _. Asked by the court Sister M. Monica's two aco in 1923. Whether he was going to the United States to urge powers" and an explosion and to respect the dignity sisters, Mother Dolores, Sister M. Monica celeDENIAL --plead guilty into a world conflict. of all men," now find it of the Sisters of Mercy in brated the Diamond Jubito the government "to U.S. the , charges, Father Potoch- In July, 1967, Byzantineeasy "to learn to hate the Adelaide, and Mother lee of her profession last REFUGEES niak said: "I have not Rite Ukrainian Catholic press the United Nations hand by which injustice Vianney, of the Convent May. Last week, by kind I committed any crime and prelates sent a letter to with the awful seriousTr., letter cited as is done." of Mercy at Eastwood. invitation of Mother AtoinI feel innocent of the the world's bishops in New South Wales. With tracts, many other memness" of the Middle East "even worse than the con"We have seen hundreds which denied they the Charges." tinuing threat of vio- of thousands of innocent them Mother bers of the Barry family came • Recently, • there has legitimacy of the so- situation and "make a lence" in the Middle East eople," the letter said, Columcille. 0.P., of the and friends joined in the been an increased outcry called "incorporation" of great effort to arrange a the "deepening sense of P "the great majority of Dominican Con ven t, reunion. -1 in the press their rite into the Rus- settlement based on jus- injustice and the growing them -women, children rt against theSoviet growing "un- sian Orthodox Church. conviction that there is and youngsters, languishAderground activities" of Prompted by celebra- tice," no solution outside war." ing in our crowded refu_Jibe banned Catholic East- tions in 1966 among the It recalled the hard- gee camps, displaced ern Rite. Russian Orthodox mark- In a letter to Dr. R. H. ships of refugees, declar- from lands and homes to In 1946. the Soviet ing the 20th anniversary Edwin Espy, general sec- ing that another genera- which they long to re Union forced a "reunion" of the 1946 move, the let- retary of the National tion of Arab children is turn." Vet Byzantine-Rite Catho- ter said Catholicism in Council of Churches, lea11 li_ca with the Russian Russia is "more alive ders of the Catholic Copthan ever in the Ukrain- tic Rite, Coptic Orthodox d Orthodox THOMAS CARDINAL GILROY, ArchChurch. ian catacombs and in the and Coptic Evangelical tifteen Catholic bishops hearts of millions of the bishop of Sydney, received more than 200 Were Churches in Egypt voiced imprisoned or do-- faithful." the fear of imminent war telegrams, cables and letters after the announceto Siberia. The The prelates appealed again in the Middle East, : 1,0r1IY one still living is ment that he had been created a Knight Com„ 13sYr Cardinal Slipyt, to world public opinion bringing with it "further to help restore religious suffering among the inno' n'c'w in exile in Rome. mander of the British Empire in the Queen's New IPriests and laymen who freedom in the Ukraine. cent of both sides,- prob The family, not the cover its educational, Year Honours List. i ' fused to join the Ortho, lox Church were impriState, must be the seat of moral and religious func;cried or persecuted, and tion," Pope Paul said. No official announcement has been made on the educational, moral and "The family nucleus thus -Alany were killed. Many mode of address to be used for the first Cardinal.Priests fl r eligious instruction, becomes once more 'ac- Knight since the Reformation, but some authoried to Poland. Pope Paul VI told a gen- tive in forming the new ties say both "His Eminence Sir Norman Cardinal generations." F ORCE Gilroy" or "His Eminence Norman Cardinal eral audience. The The Pope said that it is Thomas Cardinal Gilroy, K.B.E.," would be cor% BYzantine-Rite in Speaking to a group a "great comfort" to rect. -* Part of the Ukraine alder composed mainly of new- know that an awareness The bishops of England tive versions of Soviet rule bethe : it .c3veen the two world and Wales have approved Canon. The changes were ly married couples, Pope of the family's responsiHowever, the Cardinal-Archbishop of Sydney pars Was persecuted. the new changes in the introduced in the U.S. Paul said that the "family bilities is taking place in has said that whatever form is acceptable to every3ut it seems to have been dis- countries where there is one else is Canon of the Mass pre- at the start of the year. acceptable to him. I ioviets Was not until the pared pensed" from some of its no religious freedom. by the Internationannexed the part His The Australian Bishops' Eminence, 72, has been Archbishop of SOprimary functions. ,l_ the Ukraine that had al Commission on Eng- Conference which meets In such countries, Pope ney since 1940. ` r1 under Polish rule lish in the Liturgy. He said that children's Paul said, the family in Sydney during April be,,,, let.,ween World War I They will be introduced for a two-week confer- education, their medical The award recalled his remarks when the late comes an "intimate sanc"'u World War II that on February 23, first Sunan ence will consider the care and their recreation tuary, the training Pope Pius XII created him a Cardinal in 1946. On k ttempt day in Lent. proposed changes for use seem to have been taken griound of virtues and the that occasion, he said his elevation was a signal Circe . was d reunionmade between The changes consist es- in the Church throughout over by the State. to organising centre of the honour to the Archdiocese of Sydney, the Church '• '' Byzantine-Rite C,athe- sentially in three alterna- Australia. "The family must re- zniritual life." in Australia and the whee Australian nation. -.0
GOOD WISHES POUR IN
IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY
NEW CANONS APPROVED
NORMAN