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PERTH, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1969.
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GOLDEN JUBILEE Divorce By Consent
Comes To Britain From JOHN A. GREAVES in LONDON.
LEGISLATION TO PROVIDE MUCH EASIER DIVORCE IN BRITAIN WAS PUSHED THROUGH THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND IS NOW EXPECTED TO BECOME LAW WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR. A bill amending existing law and described by its critics as allowing divorce by consent or divorce by compulsion was given a conclusive third parliamentary reading after a day and night marathon of 16 hours of hotly contested debate. parliamen- the bill, Catholics appear The controversial bill exceptional must now undergo the tary time for the bill to have been the only introduced privately by group singled for attack constitutional formality one member of Parlia- during the session. without official Jf debate in the House ment One Catholic opponent government sponsorship of the bill, Peter Mahon, of Lords, the upper They could have stopped said in the debate: "The chamber of Parl iament, it easily, as they often do women of this country and then await a pro- such "private" bills, for will detest and recoil in taking up too much of horror at the bill's implimised subsidiary gov- Parliament's time. cations." It would lead, ernment bill covering Not one government he added, to a spate of financial provisions for minister voted against it, divorce or broken homes and both Prime Minister and loneliness and uncast-off wives and chil- Wilson Edward happiness for many chiland dren before becoming Heath, leader of the Con- dren. The golden jubilarian, Monsignor J. T. McMahon, pictured after his jubilee Mass with from left: Bishop M. servative opposi tion, McKeon of Bunbury, Bishop J. P. O'Collins of Ballarat, His Grace the Archbishop who presided at the the law of the land. "CRUEL TRICKERY" were absent during the Mass, His Grace Archbishop M. Beovich of Adelaide, Abbot Gregory Gomez, 0.S.B., of New Norcia. Baroness Summerskill, The Lords, which in- crucial concluding third SINCE he becai-ne parish priest of South Perth 37 vich of Adelaide, who "Catholics through their clude the senior bishops reading debate for obvi- a non-Catholic and a former minister, made a years ago, Monsignor John McMahon has packed said that he had known faith strengthened by of the State Church of ous political reasons. the church a good many times. But he never Monsignor McMahon for the Holy Spirit, know England, can be expected Of the some 30 Catho- searing attack on the packed it with such a fund of friendship and almost fifty years during full well Christ's purpose to give it a further criti- lic members of the Com- government for "cruel in allowing goodwill as he did for his Golden Jubilee Mass which he had come to in His priests. They firm- cal drubbing, but their mons, few apparently trickery" such a big debate to be know him as one who ly believe that the priest had say much in to the on Sunday last. words will be wasted so had laboured zealously is indispensable to the marathon debate. Yet, sandwiched into the parFriends and colleagues came from all over the and effectively in the worship of God revealed far as legislation is constrangely, in view of the liamentary timetable. State and from the Eastern States as well. By no cause of Catholic educa- by Jesus Christ, and to cerned. strong lobby in favour of Continued on Page 3. means all were Catholics, but men and women tion in Australia. Arch- the bringing of salvation They cannot in fact who had worked with him or come to know him bishop Beovich said that to a world which He rehamper the progress of a as a friend over the years. he brought with him the deemed." bill once it has been Representatives of the Mass were Bishop James prayers and felicitations given the go-ahead by the a Conference of PASTOR University of Western O'Collins of Ballarat, of Commons and there apAustralia, on the Senate Bishop Myles McKeon of priests concerned in eduAddressing Monsignor pears to be nothing short of which he sat as a Bunbury, and the Lord cation which met recentunlikely resignaMcMahon directly, Arch- of the member for 27 years, in- Abbot of New Norcia, the ly in Adelaide. Monsignor the present govof tion bishop Beovich concludcluded Sir Stanley Pres- Right Reverend Gregory McMahon had been a to stop its ultiernment member of the first such ed by saying, "You have mate success. cott, the Vice-Chancellor, Gomez, O.S.B. been priest a faithful for conference in 1936. He Professor Sanders, of the O ther distinguished continued, "We have no fifty years; you have The Divorce Reform Education Department, Professor S. A. Grave, of lay guests included Judge doubt that Monsignor kept the Faith; you have Bill makes the irretrievthe Philosophy Depart- J. Lavan, Mr. G. J. Boyl- McMahon would have laboured zealously for able breakdown of marment, the Warden of St. son, Q.C., Mr. D. Heenan, been equally successful God, as a father, a physi- riage the sole ground for George's College. Dr. J. Miss Irene Davidson, in his scholastic labours cian, a brother, servant, divorce. It ends the longReynolds. and Mrs. Rey- Mrs. Irene Talton, Mr. B. were he a lay teacher, or victim. You have helped standing practice in this nolds, and Dr. L. Tauman, Prendiville, who read the professor, or writer. But so many in your own in- secular society of a direader in French in the Epistle, and Mr. D. FitZ- it is his priesthood which imitable way; you have vorce petitioner having harding. who read the stamps him and its jubi- taught others a mode of to prove a marital ofUniversity, and Mrs. TauIllan, Dr. Tauman added Prayers of the Faithful. lee that we are celebrat- thought, of prayer, of fence such as adultery. conduct, of feeling. May an unusual splash of coling." TRIBUTE The existing law has God grant you length of our to the congregation. His Grace the ArchThe Archbishop men- days and may His Im- many bad aspects which Re wore the robes of his bishop presided at the tion that there are those maculate Mother always could do with reform, indoctorate from the Sor- concelebrated Mass, and who now seek to denicherish you as her be- cluding dangers of perbonne. the sermon was preached grate the priesthood and loved son," and ended jury, collusion, hypocrisy Also present at the by Archbishop M. Beo- question its relevance. with a prayer for him. and bribery, as well as • the detailed publicity regarding intimate marital happenings permitted in the press.
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