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iniLATION
THE DUKE OF MUSIC
Bishops' Call to Catholics in Australia:
PREPARE FOR CONGRESS C atholics all over Australia should try to make the country truly "The Land of the Holy Spirit" by intensive spiritual preparation for the 1973 40th International Eucharistic Congress allotted to Melbourne. In a four-page mes- shores to begin life anew sage to all Australian in our country." "We should promote Catholics, the Australian social justice to lift unConference Bishops' derprivileged people said: throughout the world to
Anglicans To Seek Communion With Rome
"This is the second a standard of living in time that this signal conformity with their honour has been con- human dignity. ferred on Australia. CONFIDENT "In September, 1928, the Holy Season of "As the 29th International we approaches, Congress was held in Lent Anglican Archbishop Michael Ramsey of Cantermake our own the words Sydney. Enin his Paul bury, has said the Church of England is seeking "The solemn and me- of Pope 'Mysterium morable celebrations cyclical, de- communion with the Catholic Church rather than were characterised by in- Fidei'—'It is to be organisational unity. faithful, tense devotion, and pro- sired that the great and in day, every duced enduring results Answering a question Catholic Church, the situin the faith and life of numbers, actively par- put to him during a re- ation may become differsacrifice of the ticipate in the Catholic people of interview, Arch- ent." the Mass, receive Holy cent Australia. bishop Ramsey said: "We with a pure Communion He is scheduled to visit "In 1973, Australia will heart, and give thanks to are not seeking unity of be called upon again to Christ Our Lord for so organisation but are look- New York next month ing for a possible goal with his wife to give render this service to the great a gift'. three lectures on the Universal Church. "Calling to mind the where there might one future of the Christian characteristic love of day be communion be- Church to some 80 Protween these Churches. TASK Catholics in Australia to testant Episcopal Church Eucharist, we the Blessed "On the 1870 definition "It is evident that bishops at New York's painstaking preparations are fully confident that of the papacy alone, I Trinity Institute. will be needed to carry the spiritual preparation doubt if union would be the International possible. But if the colWhile there, he will out this task effectively. for While technical matters Eucharistic Congress in legiality aspect of the also attend a reception Foot -tapping, finger-snapping Duke Ellington entertaining the masses at Subiaco authority con- given by Terence Cardiand logistic arrange- 1973 will be made with Popes fervour tinues to grow within the nal Cooke of New York. O val on Tuesday night. A full report on his performance on Page 15. West ments will be mainly the unprecedented Photo by Robert Butcher, & Ce r esponsibility of the host and devotion." city, the spiritual preUnited States. We took it press got wind of what paration, which is so fundamental, is a matter in on the chartered plane we were doing and cam of concern to every Caththat brought Msgr. Dom- begging for seats on the olic in Australia. inic Conway and the rest plane. Sometimes we carof the papal mission into ried them in and some"An early explorer times we did not, for at Biafra. called our country "The "On the basis of what that time we were afraid Land of the Holy Spirit". the papal representatives of too much publicity. We should endeavour to Pope Paul VI has desaw. Caritas Internation- The press saw things for r ender it truly such by British Member of Parliament Woodrow Wyatt was "talking through his alis began its large-scale themselves, aroused our intense spiritual pre- scribed the Church as "a liberating obedience." feelings relief programme. This humanitarian paration for this sacred He called this a para- hat" when he accused Catholic missioners of spreading pro-Biafra propa- had nothing to do with throughout the world, event in life of the Unidoxical formula, not very ganda, any Biafran official. and then the thing carversal Church. according to one of the missioners. attractive at first sight, "From then on, the ried itself along." but it deserved examina"Our people were suf- bias and that one of the From the very beginRENEWAL tion. fering desperate hunger, main causes for this were ning the relief operation Speaking at a general and we asked the world the Catholic missionaries was missioner to mis"The interim period, therefore, should be one audience, he said: to get food to them," said in Biafra who had been sioner, he asserted. of earnest renewal so "That the Church is an Father Dermot Doran, going about putting out that we may render fit- obedience in the general CSSp, who helped organ- propaganda. Father Doran and ting homage to Christ in sense of the term is clear. ise the massive airbridge Father Doran said the Father Fintan Kilbride, the Blessed Eucharist, We know that the Church that brought about 60,000 missioners' efforts to like him, a member of truly a Mystery of faith, is a society, a com- tons of food and medi- draw attention to the the Holy Ghost Congregahope and charity." munion„ a pastorally cines to the blockaded plight of people in Biafra tion, got the first shipIt went on to say that organised and governed zone. often aroused opposition ment of medicines into what was then Biafra in the purpose of the Con- people. All this implies a "You can't call that from Biafran authorities. February of 1968. gress was to "deepen our defined adherence, an propaganda. You can't f aith in the Blessed obedience. BAD "That six and a half "This on a horizontal call that political. WhoEucharist". "They felt we were tons of medicine was ever this Woodrow Wyatt plane, to use the current 'As your Pastors, we term. All the more on the is, he's talking through making Biafra look bad given us by a missionary exhort you to deepen vertical in the eyes of the world," organisation and by plane. The his hat." Your faith in this august Church manufacturers in the he said. is the sign, the Mystery; to cherish the SLANTING sacrament, the bridge be"Some Biafran officials hope of future immoralwanted tween God to play down the and I n the Commankind House of ity of which it is the . . . God's will—His new mons on January 26, sufferings of their people. OTHER PAGES Pledge, and to recipro- will for mankind, which Labourite Wyatt attacked Some of them went cate Christ's love by Page carrying out His New is charity—becomes a Catholic missioners and pretty far to stop us. In 2 Archbishop's message Commandment — 'Love very demanding relation- Catholics in key posts in no way, and at no time, 5 ship." were the British mass the media missioners Without Apology exone another as I have He said proof that for allegedly slanting Ni- ploited by the Biafran 6 loved you'." New Mass explanation obedience was part of the gerian news in favour of government. series It said that to honour Church's The missioners spoke constitution Biafra. 7 Women, Page Christ, "we should inten- was "found in every He also claimed that what they saw, and tried "Cars have been my life for a long time. 14 & 15 Entertainment sify our efforts in favour catechism and in every the British mass media to relieve the sufferings My 17 years experience in all phases of the of those who come to our book of spirituality." had shown a pro-Biafra of their flock." motor business means I can give you the right
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