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41111MAU *Pk
No. 3508.
PERTH, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1971.
Registered for posting as a NEWSPAPER Category "A" (ii).
CONFLICT GROWS I N SABAH
etice 10c.
'Deacon Ordained Priest At Bunbury
-EAST MALAYSIAN CATHOLICS HAVING TOUGH TIME SINGAPORE ( NC ) : Pressure amounting to persecution is being brought to bear on Christians in Sabah, East Malaysia.
Married Deacons Ordained
Christians of all de- ter to try and influence nominations there are from within." more than worried about Although there are no the situation. recent figures, the estiThe conflict, however, mated 600,000 population is not so much religious of Sabah includes some but political: the pre- 150,000 Christians, 80,000 LEEDS, England (NC). — The first married dominantly Muslim nil- of whom are Catholics. deacons in the history of the Catholic Church jag party seems deterThere are also some in England were ordained recently in St. Anne's mined to retain its power by a systematic 150,000 Kadazans, 60,000 Cathedral by Bishop William G. Wheeler, of Leeds. squeezing out of Christ- to 70,000 of whom are There are The new deacons are minister Baptism, help Catholics. ians. Communion, nominally the Rev. Maurice Pearce, distribute 60,000 over The head of the Sabah Muslim Bajaus, some 51, a civil service employ- assist at marriage, bring, Church is atholic C 110,000 people of Chin- ee and father of five the Viaticum to the dyBishop James Buis, a ese extraction (many of and the Rev. Anthony ing, conduct funeral and Dutch member of the read services, whom are Christians), Winn, a teacher of han- burial Mill Hill Missionary Socand preach. and Scripture children dicapped Muruts, animist 25,000 iety who heads the aposand a mixture of races, father of three. tolic vicariate of Kota The families of the including 1,600 Malays. inabalu. K t wo new permanent deaSTUDENTS He wants to retire, cons attended the cerehut when China-born There are 33 Mill Hill mony. Father Peter Chung, a priests still in Sabah, five Deacon Pearce said: Malaysian citizen, was China-born priests, four "It feels most unreal. We consecrated bishop to Malaysia-born Chinese shall have to strike a serve as coadjutor, with priests and one part- balance the between right of succession, the Kadazan, part-Chinese, duties of Church and authorities stepped in. priest. the for family, but They deported Bishop Church I feel this is a The Catholic Church move in the right direcChung, who now lives in adjoining Brunei and operates 159 of the 670 tion." The visits Sabah every few schools in Sabah. Deacon Pearce gave months for two weeks Government runs 337. up a position as a sales at a time on a visitor's in Newcastle Because of the short- manager visa. to Leeds moved and age of priests, and bedecided to because many nuns have after he PRIESTS DEPORTED come a deacon because Bishop Buis said: been forced to leave Bishop Wheeler was at "The day Bishop Chung half the Catholic schools that time the only preis allowed to live here, have been turned over late in northeastern EngI shall leave. But until to lay principals. land to appoint married then, I remain." A number of Cathol- deacons. He now works More than 40 mis- ics think this is the for the civil service here government and trained as a deacon of sionaries of various de- start nominations, including efforts to take over all in his spare time. Deacon Winn, who will 17 Catholic priests, schools. assigned to St. be have been deported in PROTESTS Joseph's parish in Ponthe past six months. as rBUNBURY.—Deacon Michael Naisbitt Last year, Mojuntin tefract, near here, said dained priest by His Lordship, Bishop Myles Christians and other Malaysian he planned to spend to non-Muslims are being wrote of Bunbury, at St. Patric-.k's Cathedral Tun much of his time among McKeon, Minister Pressured to become Prime F ,-iturday. on here Muslims. Several promi- Abdul Razak, protesting the sick in his parish nent politicians, includ- the discrimination evid- work. Originally the first to Offertory gifts to their ing Dato Donald Steph- ent in Sabah. He comBishop Wheeler said be ordained as a Perm- son. ens, former Catholic plained about a great someone had to start anent Deacon in 1966, he Below (from left): Rev. HONG KONG ( NC ).—The possibility of the leader of a now defunct many things, including the movement for the or- now joins the ranks of Frs. P. Cryan (p.p. Boy-up opposition party, have the expelling of mission- dination of married dea- the priesthood. Brook), Barnabas Brown Hong Kong diocese becoming the first in the aries without reason. become Mulims. Father Naisbitt, who OFM (Collie) Kevin Glov- Anglican Communion to ordain a woman to the cons and added: "We John priesthood suffered a setback when the Council (Esperance), There is no effective in Leeds been the Bishop's er fortunate has were Greatly admired by the opposition to the party priests, Mojuntin con- to have facilities for secretary since 1966, will Stockdale (Vic.) Stephen of the Anglican Church of South-East Asia In power, the United tinues his fight against training the men." continue to work in the Edwards (West Perth), ( CCSEA) decided to shelve the issue of women Sabah National Organis- the Mustapha and the diocese. John Lisle (Scarborough) priests. Bunbury are men 400 Over Fitzgerald John He offered his first and ation. ruling party. But wheth- training to be permanent The decision was made at the close of the er he can muster the de- deacons in the United Mass at Lake Grace, ( South Bunbury) celeDISSATISFACTION orwith the Mass family lives. brate CCSEA's four-day meeting here recently. his where viousness necessary to States. About 40 will be The main opposition survive in Sabah His parents, Mr. and daining Prelate, Bishop politics ordained this year. Party, the United Nationrepre- the priesthood it would The CCSEA The deacons will ad- Mrs Edward Naisbitt, at- Myles McKeon, and the is left to be seen. al Kadazan Organisation, priest, sents 10 dioceses, to- be acceptable to the tended t'-- a ordination. newly-ordained led by Stephens, was Michael gether with the Philip- ACC. Father His youngest sister, Sister Rev. liquidated But, Bishop Richard Maria Regina, came from Naisbitt. Rev. Father pine Independent last year When Stephens—who is Hardiman, the Master of Church. The 30 delegates Rutt, of Taeaon, Korea, Melbourne to be there. Part Kadazan—was perCeremonies, is on the to the meeting-10 bish- secretary of the CSSEA, Pictured: suaded to dissolve it ops, 10 priests, and 10 announced that the Top: Mr. and Mrs. Bishop's left. and become High ComNaisbitt presenting the Photo: Griffin, Bunbury. laymen — came from South east Asia Council SCALABRINIAN Father John Raccanello, CS, Malaysia, Singapore, the declined to endorse reraissioner to Australia. However, a popular former parish priest of St. Brigid's, North Fitzroy, Philippines, Hong Kong, solutions made by the Catholic Kadazan, now Victoria, will conduct the pastoral renewal proTaiwan, Korea and ACC at its Kenya meetPolitically Burma. ing on ordaining womindependent gramme among Italian migrants in preparation since UNKO's dissolu- for the 1973 International Eucharisctic Congress, The Hong Kong and en priests. tion, Peter Mojuntin, 31, Macao diocese, under The decision was not is thinking of forming Melbourne. Anglican Bishop Gilbert made on theological or another Baker had earlier re- sociological grounds but Father Raccanello, ap- lenge to involve Italian party. VATICAN CITY (NC)—The Vatican Press Office quested advice from the because Yet, ACC resolutiong despite wide- pointed to the Congress settlers in the Congress by and in the life of the has denied a report that Pope Paul VI will visit Anglican spread staff Consultative at Kenya on the subject dissatisfact !Ion, Committee Mo juntin—although Poland. Council meeting in Ken- of women clergy providhe Archbishop Knox, came Church. has already submitted an to Australia in 1958 after He said: "I see it as The report in Ii Tempo the Assumption, August ya on how it should pro- ed for consultation application for part of my job to help a right-wing Rome daily, 15, but would not go to ceed in ordaining wom- among the various Angrecogni- five years in America. tion—is not too sure if en priests. The Hong lican churches and for A fter a stint in NSW, priests involve Italian claimed Pope Paul would Moscow. another party is really he was parish priest of migrants in the forma- visit the former Nazi Alese.an_ Kong diocesan Ferdinando synod a report on the views of the North Fitzroy from 1968 tion of parish pastoral concentration camp at drini, head of the Vati- had approved such ord- such churches to be subanswer. (Auschwitz) can Press Office, said he inations in 1970. till early this year. As councils and to get them Oswiecim mitted to the 1973 meetlie said: "While they a member of the Mel- involved in the prob- and the Marian Shrine thoroughly investigated The ACC replied that, ing of the ACC. control the report's veracity be- if the Hong Kong diothe electoral bourne Senate of Priests lems of Catholic educa- at Czestochowa. The CCSEA decided to Machinery cause a recent visit to cese or any other dio- take no action on the and the he represents migrant tion. In general, I want Money, we have to help priests involve I i Tempo said the the Vatican by a Polish cese, acting with the ap- ordaining of women unlittle chaplains. real chance of victory at mission proval of their synods, til its next meeting in Father Raccanello sees Italians in adult educa- Pope would be at Czesto- governmental the polls. It chowa for the Feast of had lent it plausibility. should ordain women to 1974. may be bet- his new task as a chal- tion programmes."
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