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No. 3436.
PERTH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1970.
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WA. CATHOLICS: SUPPORT PROJECT COMPASSION
His Grace, the Archbishop, has called on all West Australian Catholics to do their bit for Project Compassion 1970.
There are three self- Guinea, a treadle printing He said this at the help projects specifical- press for the diocese of eremony of the Blessc ly allocated to the Arch- Goa, in India, and a ing of Ashes and at Mass diocese of Perth by the health centre in 'Tuka in to mark the re-opening Australian Catholic Re- the diocese of Denipas lief, the national admin- in Indonesia. of the All Saints Chapel, istrative body directing Every home should have a Project Compas77 St. George's Terrace, Project Compassion. sion Box, which would yesterday, Ash WednesPROJ ECTS be a constant reminder day. These are a cattle of the need to share the farm for beef and milk- good things that we enThe Archbishop said ing cattle in the diocese joy with those less forthat as the theme of Lent was Prayer and of Mt. Hagen, in New tunate. Penance, prayer and sacrifice should be taken more seriously during the period. Sacrifice was an act of self-denial, and self-denial to each individual would depend on the prevalent circumstances. Pope Paul VI, in his address to crowds at St. As the Chapel would be eery o pened day Peter's Square recently, said sacred celibacy of throughout Lent, His His Grace, the Archbishop, distributes the Ashes at the re-opening Mass at All Saints Memorial Chapel Grace said it would be a priests was the capital law in the Latin Church. yesterday. tremendous opportunity He said it cannot be "And that is what renAIR for those working in the abandoned, or subjected ders it wholly apt for the City to participate in the to argument. That would vocation to the with the apostolic delefollowing prayers. be retrogress. of Christ alone, and apt gate. for the total reply of the "To me. Yad Vashem "It would be to fall SUPPORT discipline who leaves all again was an insight into He reminded the con- short of the fidelity of things to follow Him the bestiality of man and gregation that Project love and of sacrifice that alone and to dedicate at the same time the Compassion 1970 would our Latin Church, after himself entirely and exgrandeur of man," MI experience, be on for the six-week consumate A Catholic priest and a Jewish layman, who both lost close members of Klausler, clusively, with an una Lutheran with immense courage period, and asked them divided heart, to the Church- Missouri Synod and with evangelic serent heir families in concentration Nazi camps, part took memorial in a to support it. service ministry on behalf of his minister, commented to ity, has imposed upon itbrothers and the Chris a t Yad Vashem Martyrs' and Heroes' Shrine on Remembrance Hill in Jeru- NC News Service. His Grace also thanked self in the centuries long tian community. all those who had worked attempt at severe selecTo Mr. Klausler. one of salem, as an interreligious group of 60 American journalists watched. so hard to get the Chapel tion and perennial rethe most moving sights "All this makes of ecreestablished, and urged newal of its priestly mini- clesiastical celibacy a The commemorative under the wings of your work of the Pontifical at the hilltop shrine was the people to help in any stry, on which the vital- supreme witness to God's ceremony was held in the love," he prayed. "Still, Mission for Palestine and the rows of trees outside way. ity of the whole people of Kingdom, a unique and rectangular Hall of Re- the evil deed can not be the "post - conciliar" it dedicated by name to The Chapel had been God depends." outspoken sign of the membrance, on a sombre undone. views of apostolic dele- Christians who had tried gutted by fire in Decem"What can be done is gate to Jerusalem and t o shield Jews. He said it was certainly values of faith, hope, grey mosaic floor inber, 1968, and was later love, an incomparable scribed with that the we all live worthy of T'aiestine, Archbishop Pio names "I felt involved—it was described as "a complete a lofty and demanding condition for full pastoral of Hitler's 21 largest their memory. Their an- Laghi, as good omens. one of the most moving rule. Its observance deWrite-off". guish must compel par- While on the tour, Dr. experiences I had ever manded, besides an irre- service, a continual asce- death camps. The Religious Journal- ticularly us who are Lichten had a meeting had," he remarked. However, hard work vocable resolution, a spe- tic of Christian perfecistis' Middle East Confer- Christians to be on the and perseverance has cial charism, a higher tion. ence, a tour of Catholics, side of the perm,-.7 .. 1 borne fruit. and inner grace. "Yes, it is difficult. But Protestants and Jews, and never on the side c.f it is this very characterstood hushed around the the persecutors." istic that renders it atmemorial area. A wreath Mons. Oesterreicher betractive to young and was set on a raised slab came a Catholic when he ardent souls. And it is by Mons. John M. Oester- was a student at the Unimore than ever valid for reicher of South Orange, versity of Vienna. He was the needs of our time." NJ, Dr. Joseph L. Lichten, ordained in 1927. He fled of New York, and the Austria five weeks after POPE'S LETTER Rev. Alfred P. Klausler, Hitler came in, and twice The Pope said in a executive secretary of the escaped the Gestapo. Dr. Lichten, director of letter to Jean Cardinal Associated Church Press Intercultural Affairs of Villot, his Secretary of of Chicago. Mons. Oesterreicher, a the Anti - Defamation S tate, that many bishops and priests had im- Jewish convert in his League of B'nai B'rith, youth, read a prayer he lost his first wife and plored him "not to make had compiled, including daughter Belsenat any changes in such a some of the idioms taken Belsen, and his parents in venerable tradition" as from the daily Jewish other death camps. Atmandatory celibacy for prayer book. The priest, tached to the Polish Emthe priesthood. whose father died at bassy in the U.S., he a n d never returned to Poland. He said he wanted the Theresienstadt "Evrything is at the beDutch bishops to confer whose mother was killed with him on the matter. at Auschwitz, said he had ginning here," Dr. Lichalso brought away from ten said of the Christian"For our part, we are the shrine testimony Jewish dialogue and the more than ever desirous forms about other rela- gradually opening rapto seek with the sneptives and friends to be port with Islam. herds of the dioceses of filed in the Hall of Names He cited programmes Holland the means for at Yad Vashem. by the Sisters of Zion to the fitting solution of " Cars have been my life for a long time. "We trust that the mur- teach Hebrew to Arabs. their problems in a simiMy 17 years experience in all phases of the dered victims now live the intercreedal relief lar way for the good of motor business means I can give you the right the entire Church." s ort of advice about buying a good quality He said the reasons used car at the price you want to pay. given for a relaxation of P hone me on 61 6736, or call and see me the rule of obligatory Representatives of the Catholic and Anglican Personally." celibacy "do not seem to Churches in Western Australia will meet on Tuesus convincing". day for a series of theological discussions. He re-affirmed his deThree clergy and one Archbishop of Perth will termination to maintain layman from each de- be present at the inthe present discipline. nomination will take part augural meeting. "The bond, established in the meetings which Australian bishops of centuries will for the Latin by centre on the sacrathe two denominations USED CAR Church between priest- ments. began joint discussions SPECIALISTS hood and celibacy, constiPapers on the subject two years ago, and simi495 Albany Highway, Victoria Park Tel: 61 6736 tutes for her an ex- will be exchanged. lar conferences as the ' John Donovan Peter Atkinson tremely precious and irHis Grace, the Arch- one in Perth are being replaceable good." bishop, and the Anglican held during the country.
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