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PERTH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1969.
NO SCHISM DANGER IN TODAY'S CHURCH SAYS CARDINAL
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QUESTION FOR MICHAEL
thy. When it is a matter of controversy in the Church, distinction must be made between what affects the tradition that is sacred and what deL eon Cardinal Suenens of Brussels said that he does not pends on purely human traditions subject to resee any danger of schism in the Church, because the primacy vision. 'God is not conof the Pope was not questioned at the Second Vatican Council servative', it was said recently. That's true, but nor has it been since the council. it does not mean that In an interview in the Christianity that con- current ecumenism is the there is no unchanging God: worship, impatience of the young truth." Brussels daily Le Soir, cerns Cardinal Suenens said the 64-year-old Cardinal prayer, the contempla- who want to go ahead, said that the central tive life. At the extreme, beyond the institutional in conclusion: "For mythe council in consequence of no and beyond unresolved self, if a choice must be point of opposition made between a state of was to place papal pri- longer being presented dogmatic macy "at the heart and except as the service of without troubling them- immobility and a state of at the centre of the epis- men, the Church would selves about communion tension, I prefer the latcopal collegiality that be reduced to a sort of in authentic faith. That ter, beacuse it is a sign spiritual Red Cross." is impossible. This ex- of vitality. Every crisis V atican II stressed. tremism of the left can it. I "It is a problem of Asked about his own lead nowhere. The first of growth involves went on, balance," he position with regard to law of true ecumenism believe we will have to live for a long time yet "between two comple- the two tendencies, Carmentary aspects, to be dinal Suenens said he is to respect the thought 'in a transitional state.' "Time is needed to simultaneously respect- places himself "at the of Christ concerning his ed." He added that, if extreme centre" and ex- Church and to strive to- break away from a certain image of the Church this balance is not being plained that, in his opin- gether to adhere to it." dialogue of a static and legalist Concerning found, it is because "the ion, "the two extreme conciliar texts and, even tendencies in conflict, as between the Church and type that was familiar to more, the spirit of the paradoxical as that may the world, the cardinal us and to see materialize council are not being seem, both suffer from said that "the Church is a more communitary embodied sufficiently in a real lack of faith. But confronted every day Church, nearer to men, with new human prob- more fraternally evanthe daily life of the for different reasons. lems. gelical, more prayerful. Church. I do not at all fear this "It is normal that the MUST HOLD "Everyone agrees in evolution. But on conprovide not does Gospel admitting the necessary dition that those who opt "The extreme left risks visible unity of the losing the purity of doc- ready-made, prefabricat- for the future, while Church, a unity that, at trinal faith. One is not ed answers to our many breaking away from a WHERE DOES YOUN; MICHAEL GO FROM HERE? This is the question posed the highest level. the or one is no longer questions. The Gospel is certain past, have a pro- by Father James Nestor of the Catholic Education Office in a thought-provoking (papal) primacy guaran- Christian if one does not the book of basic op found sense of complete article on Page 9 The need for trained lay catechists 7:: mounting each year in tees. But there is a dif- believe in a personal and tions, of orientations for Christianity and live it." proportion to the increasing numbers in State schools ference concerning the transcendent God, in the life. It does not dispense us from research into ways and means to be divinity of Christ, in the concrete applications. followed in the daily exLord's resurrection, in ercise of that primacy." the life after death, in Christians can differ in many earthly choices the real Eucharistic pres- while remaining loyal to O PPOSITES ence; in short, in all that their common faith. With The Cardinal then re the life of Christ in us to- good reason, our ancescalled two tendencies in day implies." tors made great use of the Church: the centralThe cardinal placed the saying: 'Unity in ising tendency, which. the lack of faith of the what is necessary, freehe said fears "any con- extreme right at the exis- dom in what is not, charcession to pluralism as tential level: "They do ity always. Unity is not a Dublin's shortage of house he had occupied a risk of anarchy," and not sufficiently believe. synonym for uniformity." adequate housing spark- with his wife and two the decentralising tenwith a living faith, in the ed a civil rights demon- young children. Dennehy dency, "that of the con- active presence of the C RITICISM stration here that result- went on a hunger ciliar majority," which Holy Spirit in today's With regard to contro- ed in a clash with the strike in gaol. Prefers laws forming a Church. True faith deversy, the cardinal said police on Dublin's main kind of framework inmands not only fidelity that "the call for certain thoroughfare. stead of "detailed legal OUTSPOKEN prescriptions" and which to the past, but openness revision, when it respects The trouble broke out welcoming of and a to A Jesuit priest, Father the very nature of the intends "to bring into Authentic Church, is often dictated as civil rights violence Michael Sweetman, adplay at all levels the prin- the future. was at a low in point faith issues forth in by a great love for the dressing the demonstraciple of subsidiarity." hope. It is necesary to Church. There are dif- Northern Ireland, where tors, said that Dennehy's Those of the centralis- trust all that is living as ferent kinds of criticism; the Catholic minority has imprisonment "in acing tendency, he said. a legitimate aspiration in that which seeks to puri- been protesting discrim- cordance with law preination by Protestants "carry on a dialogue the Church and in today's fy and to build is heal- Observers claim that. sents an extreme exam With difficulty" and "are world. For the two are ple of the sickness of unlike the events in the housing situation." enclosed in a perspec- linked: the Church is not Northern Ireland, the "He is in prison primtive that is outside of of the world, but it is in civil rights problems arily because and pretime, abstract, fixed, and the world. It opposes sin here are between factions cisely because he was too easily call on 'the' in the world, but it in the Catholic Church homeless," the priest tradition to wants to enter into the cover . . and not between Catho- said. traditions of when world, of the heart "What he did by a purely lics and Protestants. S AVINGS SHARES human squatting was not imit is a matter of collabororigin." Minimum Investment — 15. Normal developmoral." in human ating More than 1.000 deThose on deposit/withdrawal facilities with passthe other ment." () book operation. monstrators here deside, the cardinal said, Interest credited annually. manded action to cure have a "tendency to rethe city's chronic housIMPATIENCE duce the Gospel to its merely A Requiem Mass will ing shortage by staging With regard to ecumen human and social aspect the a sit-down on O'Connell offered for be \MEM:SW:Ma ical Cardinal dialogue, and to miniE. C. Bridge, blocking the mise or even Father of mother Suenens said: eliminate INVESTMENT SHARES the whole O'Shea, S.M.A., at the main traffic route across dimension of Minimum investment MC Interest "The gloomy side of the Liffey river. Police Church of Christ the c alculated on a daily basis is paid waded in with clubs to Beaconsfield, on twice yearly in April and October or King, clear the road. may be compounded. Thursday, February 6, British governThe a t 7.30 p.m. ACTION ment's ministry of housdied Mrs. O'Shea A leader in the de- ing has forbidden St. P.B.S.-An Authorised Trustee Investment. A peacefully in Tralee, mands for better hous- Raphael's parish at Sui P.B.S.-Established 1862. in Moslem newspaper tics rather than religious i Ireland, on January 21. ing has been the Dublin biton, Surrey, to raze P.B.S.-Assets exceed S40 million. saidDjakarta, Indonesia, missionary work.This news was receiTed Housing Action Commit- its church. that 2.5 million In1 New Generation said I II MI MI MI NO MI 1111 I at St. Brendan's Coldonesian Moslems have most of the conversions The parish wanted to tee, set up in 1968 to Write or call for been our package and information lege, Beaconsfield, from press the claims of sell the site and with converted to Chris- were in central and east investment forms. tianity in the past 10,000 families in the the money erect a larger three Java, formerly areas of ! r ather O'Shea who has Years. NAME been on a visit home city without adequate church. communist strength. It over the Christmas and ADDRESS homes. But the ministry desaid some of the converThe paper, New Pawed. Gen- sions may have resulted! New Year. clared the Italian Romdemonstration on The eration, said was anesque style church to O'Connell Street lem leaders that Mos- from revulsion against , Father O'Shea will are partly the slaughter of comtriggered by the gaoling be of special architecturto blame be returning to St. for the record munist of one of the committee's al and historic interest number of suspects by Mosthe at end Brendan's 25 BARRACK STREET, PERTH. 6000. TEL 23 2305 such conver- lemfanatics after the eaders, Denis Dennehy, and therefore not to be l sions, because they of February. Where Ikestsersoda stare millions: are attempted 1965 communwith. court tampered It defying a high for was 3 "Preoccupied with poli- ist coup. built in 1820. order to leave a vacant
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