IIUDIT
No 3381
PERTH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1969.
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(Registered at the 0.P.O.. Perth tor transmission by post as a Newspaper. ,
Abortion problems attacked in three of [astern States W.A. CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY
THREE STATES other than Western Australia have been involved in campaigns c oncerning changes in laws relating to abortion. From Sydney Melbourne and Adelaide, Catholic papers have carried lead stories of protest from Cardinal Gilroy, A rchbishop J. Knox and Adelaide's Christian Life Movement. ADELAIDE, similar to campaign. It is being con- healthy children would moves being made in ducted on the lines of have been destroyed for Western Australia, is or- similar movements in fear of deformity. One ganising a petition to be Britain and the United expert has stated that presented to Members of States of America. A vari- three healthy children Parliament. ety of arguments are would be killed for every Meetings there are be- used to promote the cam- deformed child eliminating arranged in parishes paign. The number of ed. If they had their way, to inform people of the women seeking abortion what would have happenimpending legislation and illegally is quoted con- ed to those children born Archbishop M. Beovich stantly, and through re- blind or deaf who have has written to all his petition achieves accept- giv en wonderful expriests asking them to ance in some quarters. amples to us in their efsupport the meetings. We may well ask how is fective efforts to overthe calculation made? come their disabilities The difference in the and live happy, useful figures quoted from dif- lives?" IN SYDNEY, Cardinal ferent sources would lead Gilroy denounced aborone to doubt their accution as murder and ap- racy. Then there is the pealed to all decent peo- question of backyard IN PERTH, the cample to oppose every effort abortions and the dan- paign to collect signato legalise it. gers involved. Here, too, tures for presentation of "The life of the child is there seems to be a good a petition to members of as sacred before birth as deal the Lesgislative Assembly of exaggeration. it is after birth. is making steady pro"The compassion cases "To destroy that life in gress. Meetings have been an unborn child deliber- of rape and incest and the held in some parishes possibility of deformity ately, an action that is and most will be receivare used a great deal to called abortion, is nothplay on the emotions. In ing petition forms this ing other than murder. week. "Just as murder of an all these, little attention is paid to the The petition forms are rights of adult is a crime crying to heaven for vengeance, so the unborn child. If some expected to be completed also is the murder of an protagonists of abortion and returned by the end had their way, many of February. unborn child.
Sydney
Perth
Organisation
W . DROSDOWSKY (C.B.C., Highgate).
R. SCOLARO (C.B.C., Fremantle).
E XHIBITION W INNERS students of Catholic colleges were T HREE among those granted government university general exhibitions this week. They are J. .1. Plante, of Mercedes College, Victoria Square -she passed in seven subjects with six distinctions; R. Scolaro, of Christian Brothers' College, Fremantle—he passed in seven subjects with five distinctions; W. Drosdowsky, of Christian Brothers' College, Highgate—he passed in seven subjects with five distinctions, receiving a special subject exhibition in mathematics. • See Page 12—Mission boys' success. J. J. PLANTE (Mercedes) .
BOOK TO ANSWER CRITICS OF PAPAL Civic Reception ENCYCLICAL SOON
"There is a planned organisation in Australia, as there has been elsewhere to make legal. abortion— that is. the commission of murder T HE Vatican Secretariat concerns medical opinion supervised by the Secre- to modify its study in the of the unborn on the subject. tariat of State. "L'Osser- light of evidence containchild. of State is preparing a has published ed in the White Book. vatore" Party politics as such volved in public affairs "All decent people must The same sources say messages of approval and were no business of the but "it was a field that White Book on "Humarecognise the awful there will be a section denature of abortion and op- Church, but the Church was full of reefs and nae Vitae," according to voted to messages and gratitude, mild objecPose any effort to legalise came into contact with shoals. Party politics as reliable Vatican sources. articles in support of the tions and a series of articles explaining and dethe political life of the such would be avoided it. encyc lica I. Objections fending the encyclical at not through indifference, "Australia needs popu- community in many ways Pope Paul may have will be reported and various levels and anlation and every child which made political in- but to be impartial." made a reference to this these will be answered swering objections to it. conceived volvement necessary. He said that there in his speech on Decem- anonymously. Bishop in Australia The White Book could Should be This was said by were so many social, ber 23 to the College of Carlo Colombo, the welcomed as a sheaves of mescontain citizen of Archbishop L. J. Goody cultural, educational and Cardinals: "We are aware Pope's "personal" theolothe nation. sages of approval plus moral matters, which inat a civic reception in IN MELBOURNE, of the different reactions gian, has been preparing previously unpublished timately concern religion aroused by Our pro- these replies. speaking at Mass on the his honour at Council support from bishops. Feast of House last Monday. The that the separation was nouncement. We noted the Archbishop Holy Family, reception was attended rarely complete between them all with the respect PASTORAL Knox Plans for the White denounced current moves by over 250 people of the two. we have for all and with may be modified by Secretariat The of Book State THE PRIESTS of the to all denominations and Archbishop Goody said the proposal to make the has recorded all the cor- publication of a similar legalise Archdiocese, through said that abortion. He callings. that he was deeply in- necessary replies at the respondence it has receiv- survey of reactions preChristian tradiballoting, have selecttion had terested in the principle The Lord Mayor, Mr. right moment, particular- ed following "Humanae pared by IDO-C, the Docualways opposed ed Father P. Quinn to abortion. He welcomed of subsidiarity. He said ly on the level of pastoral Vitae." It seems likely mentation Centre on the quoted from T. Wardle, be their nomination the "Diciache," local that government and introduced preoccupations." Archthe White Book will aim Concilar Church which composed ' for the position of in the bishop Goody. He was was an excellent exam to show substantial world has its headquarters in Vicar General. first second half of the supported by the Hon. pie of the use of this Vatican sources claim wide agreement with the Rome. century, the precept: 1rchbishop L J. principle. ' Thou shalt not "It must be that the White Book, as encyclical and provide reprocure S. Bovell, M.L.A., Mina Goody has accepted said. planned at the moment, sponses to difficulties rehe The Vatican White Boc,i-c ister for Lands, repre- preserved, bortion." this nomination and senting the Government "strengthened but never will contain some unpub- garding it, particularly, should have appeared bea ppointed Father and the Hon. J. Tonkin, exaggerated." lished documents. One as Pope Paul said, on the fore Christmas, but preQuinn as his Vicar paration of it is dragging. MLA., Leader of the After the welcome and would be an acknow- pastoral plane. General. It is likely that IDO-C Opposition. response Archbishop ledgement by birth conArchbishop Knox said: Archbishop Goody Goody was introduced to trol commission mem"L'Osservatore Ro- will beat the Vatican to Father Quinn. a Doc"During the last twelve thanked the Lord Mayor the Councillors and tor of Canon Law and their bers that their task was mano's" handling of reac- the punch, so that it will Months, for the the movement and Councillors for the wives and the guests purely consultative and tions to "Humanae Vitae" seem that the White a Licentiate of Sacred Theology, is the parish abortion legalisation of reception. He said that were offered refresh- that they would adhere may provide a clue to the Book is a response to the has whatever decision White Book, particularly IDO-C publication rather priest of Mirrabooka. Droportions assumed the it was a good thing for ments by the City Coun- to of a real the Church to become in- cil. Pope Paul made. 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