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No. 3383.
PERTH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1969.
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(Registered at the (3.P.O.. Perth ,or transmission by post as a Newspaper. )
Price 8c.
TIMES OF CHANGE
The Australian Catholic Relief Lenten Appeal for 1969 is in the last stages of preparation. A leaflet has been issued and should be in all parishes of the Archdiocese Religious teachers from the metropolitan area gathered in St. Mary's Cathedral last Friday for a Mass celebrated by Archbishop L. J. on the Sunday before the commenceGoody for the commencement of the school year. There were about 500 Religious present. Of general interest after the Mass was this ment of Lent, February 19. group of Sisters of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto Sisters) who were wearing the new (experimental) habit of the Order. The appeal which had S400,000 available last One of the Sisters is wearing the old style. year, is aiming at half a million dollars this year. It seeks self-denial in the home during Lent, so that others can be helped to help themselves.
PERSONAL
Church versus State in Brazil
The Church in Brazil is by the Braziilan govern- regime.
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Since legislation concerning specific fast and united a s never before in ment, said Father Henri "For many people Arch- against them was subver- ously, they must pay abstinence requirements has been dropped, the t he face of a "regime of Guillemin, the Church bishop Sigaud and his sion, and support for dearly." role of individual persons doing penance has been espionage and denuncia- has become the centre men—the movement that guerrillas. They confess"In Brazil if you preach s tressed. The Bishops of Australia, in line with tion," according to a pro- and symbol of resistance calls itself The Society ed to the charges. But the Gospel, if you speak vincial superior of the As. t o the strangulation of for the Defence of Tra- then the Archbishop of of the resolutions of MePractices in overseas countries for many years, congregation due process. dition, Family and Pro- Belo Horizonte iJoao Re- dellin. if you talk of the devised "Project Compassion" as a means to help sumptionist who went there to defend But he pointed out to zende S.D.B.), de- council's texts on social people hit by floods, earthquake, epidemics and four Assumptionists jail- Archbishop Gerald() de perty—are the principal clared Costa, that those confes- justice. you are subverreason behind the arrest s tarvation. ed by that regime. Proenca Sigaud, S.V.D., of the Assumptionists. sions had been wrung sive." Emphasis has been on assistance to produce or With the severe curtail- of Diamantina, as the from the Assumptionists Yet the churches, he improve already existing production methods. In ment of political rights prophet of the right-wing Certainly Archbishop Sig- by torture," Father Gullaud supplies the regime said, remain the only other cases, outright grants have been given for lemin explained. with some of its theoretiplaces where the regime's some sudden and dire need. cal underpinning. When Father Guillemin said excesses are publicly deDuring 1968 Australian Catholics helped: the regime wants theolo- that after the arch- nounced. gical support it goes to bishop's public accusa• Land clearance at Mabiri Agricultural School, Father Guillemin said him. The only theology tion, the army annulled that when three young New Guinea. the government allows to the first inquiry and be- girls from Belo Horisee light in the press is gan Cattle raising and farming at Mt. Hagen, New a new one. "There is zonte were arrested and pre conciliar theology, Guinea. no precise charge against held incommunicado for such as Sigaud's." them now. Yet the Rio three months, • Dairy and poultry farms in Kerala, India. prayers (Before leaving Brazil, de Janeiro daily 0 Globo The 1958 Nobel Peace placed persons. He conwere offered publicly for • Rice-bank in Thailand. Prize winner, Father Do- ceived the idea of build- Father Guillemin sent a has published a charge by them in two churches of Sugar cane, tapioca, coconut and coffee grow- minique - Georges Pire, ing special 'European Vil- letter to the Brazilian a priest that Father Mi- Belo Horizonte. ing in India and Ceylon. 0.P, 58, died on January lages" for them. These Bishops' Conference ex- chel Le Ven taught Marx"This is the only way. • Training 30 after surgery at the villages were to be com- pressing his sorrow that ism at the Central InstiYou can speak openly in native nurses at Veifa, New Guinea the conference did not tute of Philosoph y and hospital of the Catholic munities "glued into a • Model have the courage to pro- Theology at Belo Hori- the churches Yet the sefarm at Fiji. Universit yof Louvain. city" rather than separtest government interven- zonte. This priest wrote: cret police record all ser• Trade Born February 10, 1910, ated from it. schools in Tonga and New Hebrides. tion in Church affairs). "For Father Michel. the mons. Arrest remains a in Dinant, Belgium, he He founded seven such serious danger. Cottage industries in Thailand. Father Guillemin, supe- only salvation for Brazil studied classics a n d villages for the economic "is congressman came Marxism • Wells, pumps, tanks, pipes is rior rooted of the Bordeaux in the profor irrigation and philosophy at the College and human re-integration to me by night and said: Gospel". vince the of Assumptio drought relief in India and New nde Bellvue, then entered of refugee families. Guinea. "We thank your congreists, flew to Brazil from the Dominican Order in • Medical and hospital equipmen gation and the Church, t in Korea, 1928. He studied theolFrance to investigate the "SUBVER SIVE" PEAC E Malaysia, Phi lippines, India because the Church is the arrest of three French Asand New Guinea. ogy at the Dominicans' The co-ordinating or- sumptionist priests, Fath• And many other "You must understand only force for freedom in Pontifical Athenaeum Anganisation that he found- ers Michel Le Ven, Herve that for the military re- the country." Soon afterAustralian Catholicprojects. gelicum in Rome, where Relief, which is headed Ny ed in 1949, Association of Groguennec and Xaviar gime, the teaching of the wards all his political he was ordained in 1934. Aid M.r. William Byrne as to Displaced Persons. Berthou, and an Assump- Second Vatican Council rights were suspended." National Director, this year Having obtained a docaims to use developed a system of tionist deacon, Brother is communist. The rethe half-m illion dollars it hopes torate to in theology in 1936, r aise to: aid that helped 18.000 re- Jose Geraldo da Cruz. gional superior of the As- SWEET he studied social and fugee FREEDOM families. • Increase sumptionists asked perThey had been arrested political science at Loucrop yield. He also set up four on November 29 and had mission to give books to Father Guillemin said vain. From 1937 to 1947, • Conserve homes for aged refugees been held at Belo fodder. Hori- the prisoners. He was that the Brazilian conhe was a lecturer in in Belgium. • Improve told he could, but not gress itself drew courage zonte since then. moral theology and socimedical facilities. I conciliar n 1960. he documents, or from the Church's resisestablishe d ology at the Dominican Give instant assistance "We are insisting if disaster strikes any- Studium de la Sarte Huy. the University of Peace trial for them", he on a Pope Paul's VI's encycli- tance. said. where. in Belgium to teach cal The Development of The arrest of the AsProv;de young people from all People. Also, the resoluC AMPS more OVER water GLOSS for irrigation . sumptionists of Belo Ho• Breed over the world methods tions of the Latin AmeriIn 1938 he began the better cattle, pigs and sheep. Earlier in January the can bishops' conferenc rizonte "saw the 400 of working for peace. e first of many charitable priests of Belo Horizonte superior general of the at Medellin, Columbia Give People new skills. , in standing In 1962 and 1967, he Assumptionists activities with the foundas one man with in Rome,
PEACE PRIZE WINNER DIES
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SUPPORT
All this depends on how well Catholics in Australia support the Lenten Appeal. A circular J. Goody letter is being sent out by Archbishop to all parishes urging them to give 111,1r support to this appeal which is still using Positive the name "Project Compassion" state. in this
"Islands of Father Wilfrid J. Dufault, September, 1968, are held their bishop. And this ation of open-air camps founded to give under -privileged Peace" in Pakistan and a native of Spencer, suspect. In some book- unity, this dynamism in children vacations in India to stimulate rural Mass., reported that the shops, police confiscated the face of the arrests, all copies of the Novemvillagers to help themrural areas. showed the Church's three Frenchmen are hop- ber issue of SEDOC, a great selves and to promote strength. During World War II, ing for a court trial ra- documentary magazine, he joined the Belgian un- his ideas for attaining ther than deportation. containing the Medellin "It is a regime Of esderground and set up an peace. "These men want jus- resolutions. He was awarded the pionage and denunciaescape system for downNobel Peace Prize in 1958 tice whole and entire, tion. What a relief to be ed Allied fliers. "Father Michel told me back in a free country. and Denmark's Sonning without favour. Their deAfter the war, his at- Prize in 1964 for his con- portation would simply in prison: "Tell the bish- You cannot imagine how tention turned to the tribution to European paper over the whole af- ops to measure their sweet freedom is until plight of Europe's dis- culture. words. When priests and you live without it." fair," he said.