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IhUDIT
No. 3507.
PERTH, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1971.
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Catholic Schools Crisis
HE Federal Catholic Schools Committee expressed considerable concern that due to the rapidly rising running costs, particularly for the salaries of teachers, and also the cost of capital development and maintenance, the Catholic community is finding it impossible to build and maintain new schools in new areas both city and country throughout Australia. The Committee also noted that the precise problem faces Government Education administrators.
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A t its meeting in Sydney on April 30, the Federal C atholic Schools Committee representing the Bishops, Clergy, Religious and Laity of every State in the Commonwealth, expressed deep concern for the educational needs of all Australian children. The members of the maintained in the past, Committee noted the in the parallel developbeing ment of educational facmoves strong ilities in expanding areas. teachparents, by ade m ers and administrators, However, whilst Catholic from pre-school to ter- parents in new city and tiary level, to improve country areas of develthe quality and over- opment maintain their for come the deficiencies traditional desire for schools which beset every educa- Catholic tional venture in this their children the present problems are so country. The Committee wishes great that this developto associate itself and ment is not possible the whole Catholic com- without further considthese erable Government aswith munity moves. In particular the sistance Committee stresses the LIMIT REACHED urgent necessity for the The Committee wishes Federal Government to act without delay on the to point out that CathoSurveys of Need provid- lics are prepared to coned by the State Govern- tinue to play their part ments and Independent in developing educational facilities. However, Schools. while Catholic parents ANALYSIS are willing to contribute Analysis of these sur- financially to the limit veys shows that similar they can afford, the costs problems of great mag- of modern education nitude face both Gov- are now such that conernment and Indepen- tinuous and increasing dent Schools. support Government Major problems in- alone can make it possible for Catholic schools clude: • Coping with growth t o continue to exist and to cope with the continr ate. • Inner city redevelop- uing growth rate. ment. SURVEY OF NEEDS • Supply and training The Committee be- Archbishop James Gleeson was installed as Archbishop of Adelaide in St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral last Saturday. Here a leading Adelof teachers. lieves that, if the Feder- aide layman, Mr. Bill • Pressure Brewer, kisses his ring after the ceremony. Th?. former Archbishop of Adelaide, Archbishop Matthew Beovich, is at new al Government acts on of techniques and ris- the Surveys of Need, the left of the picture. The priest by the Archbishop's throne is Cathedral administrator, Fr. Robert Aitken. Mr. Brewer is chairman of ing educational ex- then real relief will be Adelaide's Lay Apostolate Liaison Committee and a member of the Diocesan Pastoral Council. pectations. given to all those con• Provision of admin- cerned with Education. istrative and ancil- T'ie Committee will lary staff. make strong representa• Provision of research tions to the Federal Govand planning facili- ernment and to State The new Bishop of The resignation is the rare distinction of ties. Premiers to this effect. announced of Bishop becoming a bishop with- Ballarat, Bishop Ronald The Australian Parents James P. O'Collins of out first having served Mulkearns, is the youngPARTNERSHIP Council has been fully as a parish priest. est member of the AusThe Catholic commun- informed of the delibera- Ballarat, Victoria. In 1942 he was trans- tralia.n hierarchy. ity wishes to continue tions and plans of the The Bishop, who is ferred from Geraldton to the partnership with Federal Catholic Schools 79, announced in a Born in Glenhuntly. become Bishop of BalGovernments, pastoral letter to the it has Committee. Victoria, he was educatlarat. people of the Ballarat ^ ed at the De La Salle Bish • 3 O'Collins' famdiocese last Sunday College, Malvern. He that Pope Paul had ac- ily provided the Church studied for the priestwith many vocations: cepted his resignation. hood at Corpus College, sisters beHe will be succeeded t wo of his Werribee, and was orcame Brigidine nuns, dained from May 1 by his coadfor the Melbrother. Father one bourne Archdiocese in jutor, Bishop Ronald Michael O'Collins of the 1956. Mulkearns, 40. Columbana served for In a plea for a prompt "Early indications Subsequently, he did Bishop O'Collins. born many years in the misreturn of Project Com- from Diocesan Promot- in Port Melbourne, was studies in advanced in China, as sion fields passion Boxes, Arch- ers are that the returns a late vocation to the Rome and law in canon another brother, did bishop Gleeson, the Epis- are running level with, Father William O'Collins was appointed coadjutor copal Deputy for Aus- or slightly higher than priesthood. S.J.. who died in Mel- to Bishop O'Collins in tralian Catholic Relief, comparative figures for C AREER bourne last November. October, 1969. Pointed out that the last year. What is needed He studied at St. Colwork of the many hun- now, if we are to achieve dreds of parish and Dio- our hoped for half-a-mil- umba's College, Springcesan Promoters of Pro- lion dollars income this wood and St. Patrick's ject Compassion is made year, is that all families College, Manly, before further going on to difficult by the slow LOS ANGELES (NC). explained that the high re- r eturn their boxes as studies at the Propaganturn of family Lenten soon as possible. The Franciscan Sisters cost of a nursing school, self-denial da College. Rome. He of the Sacred Heart have graduate education and boxes. FOOD & PIE WARMER 120 pie was ordained in Rome in had clinic "The National Advssold their 404-bed Queen charitable experience December. 1922. "Previous c apacity, thermostat control of Angels Hospital here made it impossible to orY Committee of Aus- has been that Parish Mel- and announced that they modernise the 45-yearto Returning tralian Catholic Relief Promoters are delayed has he served at are undertaking a pro- old hospital which has a Also in already allocated in returning their money bourne, BAIN MARIES East gramme of health care payroll of 1,000 employand YarraviIle $450,000.00 out of th's to -Diocesan level by a DEEP WELL FRYERS stock Brunswick and in 1930 for the poor through ees. Year's anticipated in- small percentage of late TOASTER GRILLERS Bishop aupointed was he The Sisters, she said, come and as soon as the returns. I appeal, thereclinics in Negro and LOW OVEN RANGES Money is Geraldton, W.A. of neighbourMexican are not changing direcreceived at the fore. to all those families National HOTCUPBOARDS tion, merely emphasis, in He was the first Manly hoods. office, it can be who have not yet returndistributed The Sisters establish- their plan to revert to and put to ed their Project Compas- former student to be Work in the one more personal care of hundred sion Boxes to do so as consecrated a bishop (a ed the hospital in 1926. Projects we are Sister Timothy Marie, patients through the few weeks before the financing this year," said Arch- soon as possible." con- late Mc- OSF, major superior of health clinic programme Archbishop bishop Gleeson. Guire) and he also had the Franciscan Sisters, for the poor. cluded His Grace.
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