The ReI II' jr=s4P,246 No. 3430.
PERTH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1970.
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A MARK OF PROGRESS
John Cardinal Heenan said today's permissiveness was due to the decline in religious beliefs. He said sexual laxity tended to destroy moral resistance in the whole fabric of human behaviour. The creation of a moral code could not be left to the majority opinion of politicians. of The Archbishop Westminster was giving what is known as the S AIGON. Although many explanations may be "Watford Lecture", an given of what allegedly took place at My Lai on adannual Important dress by a distinguished March 16, 1968, no number of explanations can personality at the tech- amount to an excuse. nology college at Watford Vietnamese Catholic because it was an excepnear London. His subject bishops and priests hold tion. Permissive "The was the same view — that From personal experiSociety". of ence, the chaplains know He said: "It is hard to the deliberate killings morally war is a dirty business is civilians see, and here we inevitably enter the area of wrong and cannot be ex- and that civilians get controversy, how a de- cused under any circum- caught in the middle But they point out this clension of morals can stances. Atrocities, whether on situation is different be avoided when religion a large or small scale, from the deliberate killitself is in decline. "Whether valid or not, cannot be tolerated and ing of civilians. the standpoint of believ- are condemned unequivThey also realise that ers is quite clear. Man is ocally. There can be no not his own master. He moral justification for any adverse criticism of cannot make his own deliberately killing civil- the military will be well publicised. None doubt ians in cold blood. law. t he alleged incident at that. is suggestion "My Horror My Lai would be an exwithout an eternal lawThe horror of the al- ception, an isolated incigiver, there can be no certain principles upon leged massacre in the dent, but even so, not which human legislators small Vietnamese hamlet one to be condoned. The chaplains pointed can base their own laws." Is that women, children Making a wide-ranging and old men were said out that there were some review of "the moral to have been deliberately U.S. soldiers now in priThe son for deliberate violacrisis of 1969," he de- killed in masses. clared that the whole moral implications of tions of the war rules, nation must ask itself if any atrocity, even a and also pointed out that it was satisfied with its single one, are never in this was proof that the moral standards, and ex- doubt. U.S. military did not conamine its conscience re"We do not measure done deliberate violagarding the behaviour of the gravity of an atroc- tions. the young. ity by its size. They are "Are we satisfied that. all morally wrong," said Pamphlets by legalizing the be- Father (Lt. Col.) Daniel They said every U.S. haviour of citizens, poli- Byrne of Norwich, Conn., military man arriving in ticians thereby make it US. Army Republic of South Vietnam was given moral?" Vietnam (USARV) de- two small leaflets. One Parliament had legal- puty command chaplain. of which gives nine rulized homosexual acts beR. es for the proper behavWilliam Father adults, tween consenting Fitzgerald, of Washingbut it never intended to ton, D.C., command chap- iour toward the civilian make such actions praise- lain of the Military As- population. The second, worthy, he said, and sistance Command Viet- titled "The Enemy In in growth states the Hands," Pugin's soaring Gothic ises added that since they nam (MACV) and senior Your plainly and unequivo- Revival arch suitably Church thinking on the were no longer illegal. chaplain in Vietnam cally that U.S. soldiers frames the scene of an status and role of BishYoung men without relisaid: must comply with the Episcopal Ordination. ops, both as pastors and gious guidance would Geneva Prisoner of War In panorama and con- leaders. easily think homosexual Fallen Morality Conventions of 1949. The decade that has tent, it epitomises the Practices were no longer to a close was in "If are the reports drawn made progress collosal Wrong. The National Salvation :in up-dating the Church fluenced predominantly It was not enough to correct, it means there Front of Sen. Tran van say that, provided there was a breakdown, a mor- Don — one of the chief during the past decade. by the Second Vatican In charour collapse. al was no injustice done to The altar — facing the Council's decision to up political rivals of PresiThe ancr.her, everyone was acter guidance lectures. — the shortened date the Church. people f ree to behave as he we set ethical standards. dent Nguyen van Thieu and much more relevant sharing of the responsiand, in church, we — issued a statement on liturgical rites, new for- bility for the spread of 'wished. Christ crucified." its findings on the al- mulae of blessing and the Gospel and the govpreach plausible This was a My thesis but not tenable. "We do not detpte the leged massacre at consecration, and the gi- ernment of the Church The cardinal con- morality of war in gen- Lai that said: gantic advances made in by both Pope and Bishcluded: "I believe that eral, or the morality of "Beyond any doubt, participation by the peo- ops was a new approach the 'Sunday Telegraph' is any particular war. Our there was a mass killing ple, seem enshrined with- which will have reper :ight in attributing the job is to look after the mostly of women and in the towering struc- cussions the within revolution in morals to spiritual welfare of the children, on March 16. ture. Church for many decadthe decline of religion. If men," Fr. Byrne added. 1968." Mitre-like, it symbol- es to come. Children are not well There is general disbetaught by word and ex- lief that the number alAttitude ample both in the school legedly killed is as big condemns severely t I and in the home it is as reported. "the guilty criminals, alsmall wonder that they though the massacre repdiscard the Christian Sceptical resents an isolated case," c ode of morals. Vietnamese priests and the government's at"The nation while adamantly main- titude "in refusing its whole Atheist Madalyn Mur- rielse and his wile, who must ask itself if it is taining that all atrocities responsibility and guilt ray O'Haire of Austin, turned their Lansing, Ill., satisfied with its moral are morally wrong, are in the massacre," and re- Texas, has 646,000 Ameri- basement into headquarstandards. It must ex- skeptical about the numcommended the govern- cans opposing her latest ters to mail out and colamine its conscience re- bers. ment set up a joint U.S.- battle against prayer. lect signatures to petigarding the behaviour of control tions. The couple mailed the young who are the forHaving lived with war Vietnamese 23 years, they are board over military opPetitions bearing the them to churches hope of the future. It shocked to think such a erations to avoid such in- signatures of the more throughout the nation. must ask itself this thing could happen. than a half-million citicidents in the future. question: Does morality The campaign was (rig prepared also are They zens from coast to coast matter? Tran van Don organis- were presented to the gered by a court snit to believe that it was "Perhaps the theolog- possible, that a moment ed his front after the Space Agency, supporting brought by Mrs. O'Hair ians are really putting of madness could take first wave of the 1968 the right of astronauts to to ban future religious the same question when hold. Viet Cong Tet (lunar new read biblical passages or activities in space broad„ht_eY ask 'is God dead?' U.S. chaplains, with- year) offensive, and did say prayers during trans- casts after the Appollo 8 foe two are aspects of out exception, also point- not President missions from space. join astronauts read biblical passages while orbiting !he same reality. Destroy ed to the moral outrage Thieu's National Social ialth _ and you destroy the and said the alleged mas- Democratic Front formThe support for prayer the moon last Christmas. ?.11$15 of morality. Hence sacre was getting so ed from six political par- in space campaign was The suit was dismissed me moral crisis of 1969." much publicity precisely ties last May. organized by Steve Gab- by a Houston court.
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