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CHURCHES UNITE; RETAIN PROPER CENTRE SEAMEN'S START PERSPECTIVEARCHBISHOP
do so because God's Providence will always defend his Church. "They will certainly do by Kerry Doak, Esperance Correspondent so if we attack this problem with both divine and A unique joint venture by the Catholic and Anglican human means, because that is always required. Churches will soon provide the Port of Esperance with its "We seek God's help, first Seafarers Centre. and we must act as if I t is believed to be the first instance in Australia that the two denominaeverything depended on impossible and it is for the Church to exist today, crisis a in is tions have combined in their work to care for the needs of seamen. The world ourselves. Archinfluenced to some extent, His Grace, the be and not world in the "Let this prayer in the The building, which has year when it was decided Following months of family continue, and let negotiations, they have been used in the past by that there should be one bishop, said last Sunday. the devotions built up in finally procured an old the MRD, was to have combined community Speaking before a capacity crowd in St. Mary's Cathedral at a special so many generations of two-storey, six-roomed been demolished, appar- project to erect and conMass to mark Vocations Sunday, he stressed that the world had seen many God-fearing men and house on the corner of ently to make way for a duct a seafarers centre at women also be encourag- Dempster Street and the dual-carriage way along Esperance. c rises, which followed one another at various intervals, usual ly signal ling ed and strengthened." The meeting was attenthe Ring Road. Ring Road, Esperance. t he end of an era, and that people should not exaggerate its ponderousness The committee plans to ded by the Fremantle All discussions have See announcement on been under the guidance establish a new centre Flying Angel Club ChapPage 2. and seriousness. of the recently apointed later, preferably along lain, Reverend H. BamSeafarers Centre commit- the direct route used by ber, and the National Of course, he said, the tee, which includes the seamen to come from the Director of Catholic MisChurch had suffered sions to Seamen, Father Reverend B. Griffiths as wharf to the town. badly. This was due to The time limit on the John O'Shea. chairman, Mr. A. Foote its own members, some The two officials visitTreasurer, and Mr. R. building will depend on of whom had been inthe availability of finance ed Esperance in conjuncBower, secretary. fluenced by the spirit of and on the Main Roads tion with the visit of the the day. IDEAL SET-UP Department. Bishop Myles McKeon of But, he added: "We The committee will Bunbury who attended The Dempster Street should not fear these tenpremises, which is vested carry out fund-raising the meeting as episcopal dencies because, in themin the Esperance Shire with a view to the ulti- promoter of the Apostolselves, they can frequentCouucil, and the property mate establishment of ate of the Sea. ly be very good. At the time Rev. Barnof the Main Roads De- the new centre. "This emphasis on perIn this way, by the ber told the interested partment, is close to the sonal freedom, and on port area and is consider- time the centre is needed, Esperance people he had personal responsibility— ed ideal for the immed- it will be financially great hopes for Esperin themselves they are ance as far as the seaiate needs of seamen under way. excellent. The idea to establish a farers centre was convisiting the town. "And much of the ferA total of $12,000 will seafarers centre at Espe cerned. ment can be indeed to As many as 100,000 seabe needed to repair, reno- rance originated earl) the great benefit to the vate and furnish the old last year when Mr. Archie men passed through his rising and to the growth building and to build a Foote, of the Catholic own mission the Flying of the Church. new movable structure at Mens Society wrote to Angel Club in Fremantle the rear of the old one. the Lotteries Commission each year. "Of course, some of it Seafarers clubs kept The new building will inquiring into the posis exaggerated; we must be transported to a site sibility of financial assist- seamen out of trouble be careful to perceive, later to be chosen for a ance for the erection of and gave them the next have the perception of spirits that is mentioned permanent seafarers recreational facilities for best thing to actual seamen. family living, he said. In the Epistle of St. centre. He said that, after The funds will be raisPaul." MEETING many days at sea, the .Priests, Brothers and ed by a state-wide appeal The cause was later men were always thankSisters from all over the to organisations and taken up by Esperance ful and happy to see new State, and their parents, firms using the EsperCatholic, Father W. K. faces. attended the Mass. ance Port area. A local appeal to busin- Glover and the venture With the old building at ess houses and clubs will has since snowballed, ac- hand, the committee has Speed be carried out by the cir- cording to a committee stressed the urgent need The Archbishop's first culating of printed bro- spokesman. for work to begin as soon words as he stepped to A meeting to discuss as possible. chures. the ambo to deliver his the proposed centre was In this way, the Seahomily were: "What a PLENTY OF WORK conducted at the Catho- farers Club could begin wonderful response!" AHEAD lic Presbytery in July last Cont. on Page 2, Col. 6. He welcomed and Steps are now in hand thanked everyone present to prepare working Particularly the parents figures to enable the comof the Religious whom he mittee to proceed immegreeted as "fathers and diately. mothers of the Church." A spokesman said this He said we did not week the building should have only an eternal be ready to some degree Father in Heaven, but to accept visiting seamen also a father on earth, within two months. and priests whom we A lot of work was That's the way to do it. Here's Brother Terence Dwyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank called Father. Dwyer, of Wembley, teaching his pupils to play cricket at the Marist College in necessary in the meanHe said both the priest Bunbury. He is one of the many West Australians who hace entered the religious time to get the building and our parents shared life and are devoted to all aspects of education. into good order. in one way or another in The premises will comthe universal paternity prise a games room, readJohn Donovan of Christ. ing and writing room, a Our Lady, he said, was necessities shop, a kitpronounced the Mother chen and a coffee-house. of the Church, but not A bedsitting room will LONDON—Non-doctrinal factors, as well as serious doctrinal differences, be arranged later to acexclusively, for we called our mothers are keeping the Catholic and Anglican Churches apart in their attempts at commodate a full time "mother". unity, Auxiliary Bishop Christopher Butler, 0.S.B., of Westminster, said in caretaker.
SHOWING THE WAY
Irrelevancies Hampering Unity
Providence Reverend Griffiths said a national radio broadcast here. Both shared in the unithis week the port's versal maternity of Our the "Catholics cannot con- communion, he said, was growth indicated The non-doctrinal facBlessed Mother. tors cited by Bishop template full union with derived from the fact of need for such a centre in He said the fact that Butler included memor- a body which rejected, its being so very English Esperance. He said that, at the they were parents of a ies of past events like for instance, our doc"Must reunion involve moment, vocation was Providen- the Spanish Armada, the trines of the supreme seamen spent the loss of this? I do not tial. They had received killing of Protestants by authority of the Pope and most of their time in the seed of God's governments his infallible teaching see why it should. But it Esperance walking the word, Catholic Which was providentially and of Catholics by Pro- power," the bishop said. is hard to see it surviving streets or drinking in if the Anglican diocese of given, and planted, in the testant governments, difthe local hotels. "Given doctrinal Canterbury, York, Durfertile soil of their ferences of form and agreement and the res- ham, Winchester and so "Because this is a joint family, and grew. styles of worship and church and community tooration of visible unity on simply cease to exist." He believed many voca- even such minor things on the sort of terms that effort, the centre will be These Churches live known as the Esperance tions were given, but as the kind of clothes I have outlined, one because of lack of en- worn by clergymen. would hope there would side by side with each Seafarers Centre," he couragement these withbe a gradual drawing to- other and with Latin-rite said. Visible unity between ered and faded away. gether of the two, united Catoholics, he said. TEMPORARY two churches can find still distinct "The vocations that room for enormous div- though He believed comparThe committee managYOU represent grew up in ersity in the area of non groups and at some able arrangement would ed to obtain the building Your family. They will doctrinal factors, but future time a further be possible in England, on a temporary basis folgrow in more or less the visible unity is not pos- step might be feasible. the British Common- lowing a representation same way in the A great deal of the wealth and the United made to the Esperance future, sible without doctrinal and I am sure they will agreement, he said. prestige of the Anglican States. Shire Council.
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