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PERTH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1969
PILGRIMAGE FOR PEACE
(Registered at the 0.P.O.. Perth for transmission. by post as a Newspaper.)
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POPE PAUL VI TRANSFORMED HIS A FRICAN PILGRIMAGE INTO A DETERMINED AND DRAMATIC EFFORT TO HALT NIGERIA'S TWO-YEAR-OLD CIVIL WAR.
In Kampala he carried out lengthy and unscheduled discussions with representatives both of breakaway Biafra and federal Nigeria, in an attempt to get both parties around the discussion table. The impromptu meetings taxed the Pope's already crowded schedule on the second day of his three-day African pilgr;mage. A final meeting with UGANDA'S ROLE THE SICK Nigerian representatives The Pronunciature's At a government polio lasted an hour and a statement described the clinic started by private half and broke up lengthy discussion late initiative Pope Paul shortly before midnight. that night as "cordial". blessed young patients Obote and whose limbs had all but Then there was a ses- President Uganda's Foreign Miniwithered away. About sion with a three-man
delegation from Biafra just before the windup of the papal visit. Pope Paul departed without making any public statements about the discussions. A statement issued at midnight of August 1-2 at the Apostolic Pronunciature in Kampala said Pope Paul and the Nigerian delegation discussed "the position of the Federal government about the possibility of negotiations to resolve the Nigerian conflict."
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ster Sam Osaka were one-fifth of the estimated there, along with Arch- polio victims in Uganda bishop Agostino Casaroli —which has a population and American-born Bish- of about 7,500,000—have op Paul Marcinkus, both been treated at the clinic for the Holy See, and Ni- since 1967. Uganda, gerian Minister of Com- through the president's merce Joseph Tarka. polio appeal and matchTwice within four days ing gifts from abroad, preceding his flight to has virtually abolished Uganda Pope Paul had polio through inoculation reiterated his determina- of the entire population tion to help halt the mur- under the age of five. derous strife in what had At the new Catholic been Eastern Nigeria. hospital on Rubaga Hill, The 71-year-old Pontiff site of the Catholic cathcarried out his resolution edral and the archby piling these difficult bishop's house, Pope discussions upon an al Paul chatted with Sister ready overburdened sche- Marie Aloyse, whose redule that began with an covery from pneumonic early morning Mass and plague in 1941 was accepepiscopal ordinations at ted as miraculous by offian outdoor ceremony. It cials of the Holy See and continued with his adattributed to the interdress to the Uganda parcession of the 22 martyrs liament, and was topped of Uganda, canonized in off with visits to no 1964. fewer than three hospitals, to a small shrine to A Pakistani physician two of the 22 Catholic who treated her, Doctor martyrs of Uganda, to a Ahmed, still practices shanty-town within Kam- medicine in Kampala. He pala and to a Catholic has often repeated his social centre. He also conviction that the Swiss gave an address to mem- nun's cure was miracubers of Catholic Action lous, and says he himself from throughout eastern begins every treatment of Africa. a patient with a prayer.
They also discussed the thorny problem of aid to the suffering on both Sides of the war. (Nigeria's insistence on daylight mercy flights into Biafra and Biafra's refusal to accept daylight flights have severely reduced the airlift of food and medicines for the ten millions or so in the isolated redoubt of Biafra. The International Red Cross halted its flights, although Catholic and Protestant organizations continued their joint operation.) The talks were reliably r eported to have been held earlier the day between PopeinPaul and the Biafran delegation, and Pope Paul and the N igerian delegation. Rowever, no official contitillation of these talks "There are no theolo- technology." "This is Was immediately forthcoming either from the gical implications to the good," he said, "if it is properly oriented." ?pal entourage or from flight," Apollo moon 11 tile Ugandan govern"Many people, from Ment. according to Father the President of the These earlier talks took Georges H. Tavard, A.A., U.S.A. to the astronauts Pla t _ce in President Oband their families menrhe's offices at the House ecumenical theologian. tioned prayer" in conneccp,if Parliament, after Pope Of the moon landing tion with the Apollo 11 ;:aul addressed the par- Father Tavard said: "It fligh t, "so maybe society The Pope left is a great technical ac- is not as secular as we 12arliament house about complishment." "But," he dli su hour behind schedule, added, "we are unable to might think." '1()ItlY after the princi- solve "However," he continhuman simple Pal • v gerian representa- problems. This is a good ued, "I think we are a',Ni_ communications sign of what can happen superstitious, not reli1fflissioner Anthony to a materially-orientated gious. Personally, I don't ahoro think we should pray for Strode from the civilization. this kind of thing. If suc1411 The Biafran television coverage The tieuded legati 16ing.on, which el in- proves that technology cess depends on compuarld Prof. Eni Njoku "is able to unite people ters and mathmatics, I 21-1_Dr.eme Court Jus- at least for some time.I don't think we need agyabriel Onyiuke, had think this means the prayer. We can't expect 11,34,„'_v_ in Kampala only whole world will be a miracle to bail out before. united more and more by science if science fails."
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On Saturday, August 2, His grace The Archbishop consecrated the Church of St. Aloysius, Shenton Park. T he ceremony of consecration and dedication consists of four parts namely, the blessing of the church; the placing of the relics in the altar; the consecration of the interior and altar, and the Mass of Dedication. The Inst churches consecrated in the Archdiocese were Hijhgate, and Carmel and the Convent Chapel, Victoria Square. These were consecrated about 1950. Above, the Archbishop assisted by Father M. Ryan, P.P., East Fremantle, Father T. P. O'Prey, of Kensington, and altar assistant, strikes the front door and demands entry in the name of the King of Glory. Present at the ceremony were local clergy, all priests who assisted in Shenton Park parish since its establishment, Dom P. Gomez, 0.S.B., New Norcia, religious Sisters and a large throng of parishioners.
Former Superior General of AFTER THE Christian Brot hers Dies MOON LANDING The death of Very Rev. Brother Edward Ferdinand Clancy, former Superior General of the Congregation of Christian Brothers occurred in Rome on Sunday, August 3. He was aged 82. Brother Clancy held the office of Superior General from 1950 to 1966. He was born in Clonmel, Ireland, in 1888. He attended the schools of the Christian Brothers in his native town and decidcd as a youth to join the Order. He trained for his life's work in Dublin and taught in several schools in Ireland before he was transferred to Rome in 1910. There he spent most of his life. In Rome Brother Clancy was on several occasions superior of the community at Marcantonio Colonna. Gradually he became involved in work at the Vatican. He was attached to the office of the Maestro de Camera and during the Second Wnrld War he was employed as Diplomatic courier of the Vatican Secretariate of
State. His fluency in French and Italian was a great help to him in his work at the Vatican. In 1948 he was appointed Acting-Superior General and in 1950 was confirmed in the office. During his seventeen years as head of the Order, the number of Brothers increased by fifty per cent, ninety-one communities were established, and schools were opened in five new countries—New Guinea, Rhodesia, Uraquay, West Indies and Zambia. In 1950, Brother Clancy visited the one hundred and twenty communities of the Christion Brothers in Australia and New Zealand, being the first Superior General to do so. In all places he was given an enthusiastic welccme, and was honoured by ecclesiastical, political and civic leaders. His warm and gracious personality won him hosts of friends and admirers. On relinquishing the office of Superior General, Brother Clancy was appointed Consultor to the Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes. Ill health prevented him from taking his place at the Special General Chapter of the Order held in Melbourne in December last year.