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PERTH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1969.
IMMIGRANTS NM MORt THAN PRAMS TODAY
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C hristian care for "New Australians," who are coming to A ustralia — and especially Western Australia — in greater numbers than ever before, must be down to earth and practical.
Perth gives a man to the Marists A young man from Western Australia was among eight Novices who made their first Profession in the Society of Mary during a Mass celebrated at the church of the Holy Name of Mary, Hunter's Hill, N.S.W., on January 26, at which the Marist Australian Provincial, Father J. V. Glynn, S.M., was principal celebrant. Desmond was He Sleight, a former student of Christian Brothers' College„ Leederville. After a holiday break he will resume his studies for the priesthood at the Marist Seminary in Sydney.
This was the theme • But for this last he try well in fore of imabundant help migration. eveloped by Father W. needs d from parish priests and But our increasingly Foley, Director of the people, not only by geneMembers of his family close relations with present at the ceremony Catholic Episcopal Mi- ral friendliness and well- South-East Asia are rewere his mother, Mrs. F. gration and Welfare As- wishing, but often in a fleeted in the number of H. Sleight, of Nollamara, really definite and pracsociation for the Arch- tical way, particularly migrants arriving — and his aunt, Sister Mary being helped — from InJohn, R.S.M., from Lesdiocese in an interview for those arriving from dia and all the Southmurdie and his sister, a country where tradiRecord" for "The with East Asian countries. Sister Mary Annunciata, tions and regulations For some of these the Migration Sunday, Feb- are very different, who is at presR.S.M., and transition to a new way ent stationed in Sydney. everything is complicatruary 23. of life must pose excepAnother who made the Most migrants to Aus- ed by a poor command tional problems which, journey from the West tralia are Government- of English. in turn, need more than was Father R. Josephs. sponsored or have everyaverage help to solve. S.M., of the parish of W ORK thing prepared for them 'Keaney House', North Desmond Sleight, of Nollamara (second from left 1, takes his vows of Roy - Belmont, the only MarA few migrants arrive by relatives and friends Perth, owned by the St. erty, Chastity and Obedience in the Society of Mary, in the presence of the ist parish in Western already here. But there with little save their Australia. Vincent de Paul Society, Sacrament. Blessed are others, and last year clothes and a suitcase or is one way in which exthe Archdiocese spon- two. Skilled workers tra help can be given to sored 425 of them. This usually have little diffimeans not only finding culty in finding jobs, t hose finding difficulty jobs, but also housing, though the question of in housing. In recent and, in many cases, the Trade Union recognition weeks two families with rudiments for starting a of overseas qualifica- children from Burma home all over again. tions does arise, both and a family from BahTune, money, a variety for tradesmen and ap- rain, as well as husbands of things from beds to prentices. Much of the who have come ahead of families, have pots and pans and not difficulty here is caused, t heir least the willing and ac- not by lack of skill, but f ound a temporary jectively supreme. And Pope Paul VI, asserting that man's human activity. Its voice this tive co-operation of all by scope which does not home there. Both the is especially true in loudclearer and grows C atholic Women's Leathe many Catholic social always tally exactly with of supernatural field the that united token to when "dimeasure er the in must be true gue and Legion of Mary organisations and indivi- Australian requirements. the law, hence that action, where reason of duals is needed to set Harder to place are are active in keeping in mension of conscience," also carefully of of legitimate authority. itself is not sufficient to People off to a good lower grade "white col- touch with migrants and "The voice of consci- interpret the path of the helpi ng where necessary. pointed out that conscience does not new life. lar" workers. ence is neither always in- good and must have reFor them all there is a Last year's 425 spon- b etter future; if, that is. c reate the standards by which it judges. fallible nor always ob- course to faith." sored migrants came THE LINK the Catholic community, "Conscience needs to unto itself without the from 12 different counIn all this Father Fo- tries, but the vast major- t hrough its organisa- be instructed," he said. bonds of other action upPope Paul was speak- on its own actions." ley is the link. It is ity of "New Australians" tions and individuals, through his hands that still come from Britain, plays its part. in helping ing at his weekly generHammering away at al audience in St. Peter's the same idea, Pope Paul all applications for spon- t hough some other coun- them to it. basilica. declared that conscience sorship must pass; he it tries, Italy, for instance, iS who meets immi- send a He first had to dispose "of itself is not the arsteady flow of grants when they arrive migrants, of the ambiguity in the biter of the moral value many of at the Fremantle Ocean whom Italian word for consci- of the actions that it already have relaTerminal or Perth Air- tives ence — "coscienza" — suggests." Rather, it is and friends here. Port and it is once again The past year has which can mean psychol- "the interpreter of an inseen Father Foley who sees a sharp logical awareness as well terior and superior norm increase in the that they receive what- number as what he described as which it does not create of Catholic imever help they need in migrants from "the intuition that every- by itself." Mauritius _ re - establishing body has of the goodness them- and a decline in those Speaking of the notion selves in their or malice of his own ac of St. Thomas Aquinas new from Poland, while Yuhomeland. tions." that conscience is engoslavia remains a counHe continued: "This di- lightened "by the intui mension of conscience— tion of certain normative constitutes man in the principles connatural in highest and most noble human reason," he referexpression of himself, de- red to "the subjective fines his true stature, and immediate intimasets him in the norma- tion of a law that we tive use of his freedom." must call natural, despite the reluctance of FUNCTION many today to hear talk America's moon orbitHe proceeded to set of a natural law." ing astronaut Frank Borman, on a good will tour some warning signals o f Europe, visited Pope about the nature and UPRIGHT Paul VI on February 15. the function of consciThe Pope received Col. ence. Conscience must be up"But we must make an right if it is to be c Borman and his wife and t wo sons in a private au- observation about the "valid norm of human dience shortly after Bor- supremacy and the mon- activity," the Pope said man gave a talk to the opoly that some strive "That is, it must be c ardinals living in Rome, to attribute to conscience sure of itself and true the diplomatic corps ac- in the guidance of human not unsure, not culpably credited to the Holy See, conduct. Often you hear erroneous. And that un and to clerics and lay- it repeated, as if it were fortunately comes about men working in Vatican an axiom beyond dispute. very easily, given the o ffices. that the whole of the weakness of human rea- Stopping over in Perth for a day on March 1 to meet At that talk a colour morality of man should son when it is left to it- Perth members of the Society of Jesus is Father Peter film was shown of the consist in following his self, when it is not in- Arrupe, S.J., General of the Society. Father Arrupe was born in northern Spain. He studied medicine beApollo 8 flight to the own conscience. And that structed. "Conscience needs to fore joining the Society of Jesus and until his appointmoon that Borman com- is affirmed to emancipate him from the demands of be instructed. The pega- ment as General his priestly life was spent as a mismanded. an extrinsic norm, or gogy of the conscience sionary and Superior in Japan. He is a survivor of the In the afternoon Bor. from deference to an auis necesary, a pedagogy first atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August man visited the Vatican thority that tries to lay is necessary for the 6, 1945, and was able to use his medical knowledge in observatory at the Pope's down law to man's free whole of man. the aftermath. At the end of the war with Japan Father summer residence in and spontaneous activity, "Conscience is not the Arrupe was saved from near starvation by Australian Immigration key man—Father W. Foley. Castelgandolfo. which should be a law only voice that can guide forces.
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