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ASSOCIATION --- "A BULWARK IN SOCIETY"
Schools Need Urgent "lel
"You constitute the bulwark of our schools and indeed of the whole independent school system, by your unremitting e fforts for our education system, and by your vigorous and e ffective help in placing the needs of our schools before the w hole of Australia, both on the Federal and State levels." This was the way in which His Grace the Archbishop, paid tribute to the Parents and Friends' Association of Australia at the annual general meeting of the West Australian Division of the Association.
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NEW APPOINTMENTS
HIS Holiness Pope Paul VI has appoint11 ed the Most Reverend John Aloysius Morgan, Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, as Military Vicar to the Navy,
Army and Air For-Les of Australia. Bishop Morgan was appointed Auxiliary Bishop in Canberra and Goulburn on March 25, 1969. He served as chaplain in the A.I.F. from
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1941 to 1946 and saw active service in New Guinea. In 1959 he was appointed Chaplain General in t he Australian Military Forces and holds this office at the present time.
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Teachers In 26-35 Group
"The first reason for your existence," the A rchbishop continued, "is that you appreciate the importance of Catholic schools. It is most important that these should continue and it is equally important MORE than half the Brothers and a third that these should im- of the nuns teaching in Australian prove with the developCatholic Schools are under 35, accordment of technical and ing to report released this week. The other forms of educareport was prepared for Australia's tion." The fifteenth annual Catholic Bishops and Catholic education general meeting of the Parents and Friends' As- offices by the Director of the Federal Western sociation of Australia was held last Catholic Education Office, Monsignor J. Sunday at the South Bourke. Perth Civic Centre. It The most surprising findings of surveys the Was presided over by the State President, Mr. M. office took were those concerning the youthfulMcGovern. Dele gates ness of Catholic religious teachers. "The findings from 130 branches atwere encouraging and completely not expected," tended, marking an increase in last year's Monsignor Bourke said. "The largest number and membership. new proportion of teachers in each division of the A council was elected and all present members re- survey is in the 26 to 35 age group." The report was relea- operation in the future. tained their office. Dr. D. McKenna moved that a ed in Adelaide during the Representatives of reliSpecial Mass be celebrat- triennial conference of gious teaching orders ed at the commencement directors and inspectors would be chosen by the Of each academic year. of Catholic education. conferences of major reWhen other motions and ligious superiors. Each At the conclusion of general business was State would select two the conference the folfinished, His Grace the representatives, includArchbishop, the guest of lowing news release was ing a lay person. issued with the approval honour, was asked to "There have been secof Archbishop Gleeson, address the meeting. Secretary of the Bishops' tional meetings before," Committee for educa- Monsignor Bourke said, "but never meetings of tion. all the contributing secA National Catholic tions together." His Grace then wept Education Commission CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 will be set up in Austraon to thank the Associalia and is expected to tion for its loyalty and meet for the first time concern for the future of late this year or early in the Catholic school sys- 1970. tem. He the role then outlined Its membership will future that it must in include bishops, priests, develop in the life of the developing religious and lay people Church throughout the involved in various asAr chdiocese and indeed pects of education. t hroughout Australia. "The commission is " 'Y o u r organisation seen as a pressing need," fits in admirably, not in- Monsignor Bourke said. dependently, The Australian Bishops' not by itself and not as an orga- Conference had authorisnisation separate from e" the commission at re the workings of a parish cent meetings. They had Or a diocese, but co- asked the directors' con°,Perating with the other ference to continue with '°rIns that now exist, more immediate planLand which demand the ning. 41701vment of priests. The directors had rer eligious and people. No cognised the growing More vital field of acti- consultation and collaitY exists for our co- boration in the field of 0I3erati0n than that e of Catholic education. ducation." A national commission C ONTINUED ON PAGE 2 would increase this co-
Future Role
WORK tti EDUCATION
SYDNEY PLEA
Lunch-Hour Masses
Speaking to a State Aid meeting at Sydney Town Hall recently, Archbishop James Carroll, Chairman of t he Federal Catholic Schools Committee, made these In response to many Pictured after being points: requests, it has been deadmitted as fellows of 1. VALUE OF EDUCA- new sense of world cided to reintroduce the the Australian College CATION FOR AUS- membership. Whether lunch-hour Masses which of Education in the TRALIA. we place the greater em- came to an abrupt halt Bonython Hall last In this latter half of phasis on the develop- last year when All Saints' week are, from left, ment of national re- Memorial Chapel was Mgr. James Bourke, the 20th century, educasources, the preservation burnt out. tion is a national Mother M. Eymard As from Monday, June Temby and Sr. M. Cam- project. It is a gilt-edged of our Free Pluralist Soinvestmen, with an as- ciety or the spreading of 9, Mass will be celebratpion Jordan. sured return for future Christian values, educa- ed in St. Mary's CathedMgr. Bourke is dirtion, in a comprehensive ral at 12.10 p.m. on Mongenerations. ector of the Federal An integral part of the sense, is a national re- day, Wednesday and FriCatholic Education Ofrapidly changing world sponsibility and a work day, and at 1.10 p.m. on fice, Sr. M. Campion is of this present half-cen- of patriotism. Tuesday and Thursday. a lecturer in education One hundred years ago tury, Australia has been Friday, June 13, is the at the University of forced to adapt herself the position of non-Gov- Feast of the Sacred Adelaide and Mother to the new geographical ernment schools was ob Heart. Mass will be celeM. Eymard was first realities, with emphasis scured by conflicts which brated in the Cathedral principal of Christ Colupon the Pacific Ocean, now belong to the past. at 9 a.m., 12.10 p.m. and lege, a Catholic teaching the peoples of East and New factors have given 7.30 p.m. There will be college in Melbourne. South-East Asia, of North rise to a completely new Exposition of the Blessed Also made fellows of 2nd South America, of situation. Sacrament from after t he college were Bro. Oceania. At this stage of the the 9 a.m. Mass till 7.30 B. Manion and Bro. J. Australia's youth, there- 20th century it is in the p.m. L. Kelty of the Chris- fore, has been obliged to national interest that tian Brothers pictured achieve, in the course of practical steps be taken below. two or three decades, a to ensure an adequate education for every Australian child, whatever may be the parents' free THE grand total of gifts choice of school —Gov- to this year's Project ernment or non-Govern- Compassion Appeal will be published in "The ment. 2. FINANCIAL NEEDS Record" next week. Received this week INDEPENDENT OF were first donations toSCHOOLS. talling $2,269.32 from The Catholic school Bayswater, $220: Beagrave system faces a consfield. $148: Gosnells, financial crisi s. The $257.18: Hamilton Hillspiralling Jandakot, causes of $75.88; Kencosts of education are wick, $52.06; Melville, enough— post- $227.61; familar Midland. $215; war growth, the immiOsborne Park. $444; gration programme, need Shenton Park, $188.94; for higher qualifications Wundowie, $32: Manduand better salaries for rah, $39: Norseman, $110. teachers. 17; Northam, $100.36; Government schools, Anon., $20: Redemptorist for which the public Monastery, $139.12. purse already must proSecond and subsequent vide an annual average donations from parishes outlay of $300 or more this week amounted to a per child, are in need of further $2,166.45. making more finance. a total for the week of CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 $4,435.77.
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