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PERTH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1971.
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SYNOD AGREES ON CRISIS BUT NOT CAUSES, CURES In the Record today
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THE ANNUAL EucharProcession at istic Aquinas is on October 31. We have received many suggestions since Father Patrick Ahern's taunting letter a few weeks back. Turn to Page 11 for another letter on that subject.
VATICAN CITY (NC) : The opening speakers in the Bishops' CELIBACY, the priestand the Synod: Synod currently in session have generally agreed that there hood the Editor comments— is a real crisis in the priesthood, but have differed on its Page 4. causes and cures. *
From reports coming out of the closed meeting hal l during the first WHY do students go week, there emerged four dominant themes on which Synod participants to Mass? Is it because either agreed or disagreed. They were: of conscience? Fear? Read what youngsters •What is the crisis in Leo Suenens, of Belgium, the crisis of the priest- themselves think about the priesthood? was reported to have hood, even if, among the Mass — Page 15. •How extensive is it and criticised the delay in clergy and laity, confus* how should the Synod the discussion of the ion has arisen." He THE FEAST of St. try to remedy it? issue. laid the blame on the Teresa of Avila falls to•What is the relation news media and some He was in favour of ormorrow, St. Teresa: A and difference between daining married men. He theologians. the ministerial priest- was quoted as saying he Cardinal John Dearden, Guiding Light is on hood and the priest- hoped local hierarchies of Detroit, president of Page 1 1 . * hood of the laity? would establish a com- the U.S. Conference of •What should be said of mission to carry the Catholic Bishops, in an RECENTLY a joint maintaing celibacy for study further, benefiting exclusive series of week- Cathol ic-Anglican compriests of the Western in the process from the ly Synod reports for NC mission announced in Church? experience of other News, said the Synod London it had reached While there were other Christian Churches that would not solve the considerable agreement • Every muscle taut. Every muscle strained to the limit. Christopher Curnmuskey, points made, these four allowed married priests. priesthood and world on the Eucharist — a a Leaving student of CBC Fremantle, shows the strain of competition as he streaks topics drew the most atjustice questions on its touchy and complex home to win the under -17 400 metres at Sunday's Associated Cathol ic Colleges Cardinal George Fla- agenda. tention and apparently subject. One of the a thletics meet at Perry Lakes. set the stage for further hiff, the Archbishop of He said: "As an advis- members of the com- Christopher also won the under-17 800 and 1500-metre titles in fine style. urged the ory body, whose task is thought during the Winnipeg, mission writes about CBC Highgate romped home with the Aggregate Trophy, the Senior, Intermediate small group discussions. Synod to recommend to to make recommendathe 'agreement' on Page and Relay Cups at the end of the day. And its star performer was Kevin McGinnity, Coming in the wake of the Pope the immediate tions to the Pope, the 9. who won the 1500 metres 'open' in 4min. 13.8secs., breaking the old record by setting up of a commisreports on Sunday that Synod cannot come up * * one second, and the 800 metres in 2m1n. 0.5secs. the participating bishops sion to study the pos- with the final answers to This, and more, in to- Marist College won the Junior Trophy. CBC Fremantle took the 1500 metres team had voiced 'unanimous sible ordination of the question before it. day's issue. t itle. (More pictures on page 16. ) women. support' for the existing on celibacy for priests, but favoured ordination of married elderly men under limited circumstances, Cardinal
However, in an earlier talk on the priesthood, Cardinal John Heenan, of England, said the Synod should "not exaggerate
THE ST. COLUMBAN'S Mission Society has urged all Australian Catholics to write to the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, the Foreign Affairs Minister and local parliamentarians protesting the Federal Govern-
ment's relief efforts for the Pakistini refugees. The Society's director Father C. O'Mahony, of North Essendon, Victoria, in a circular to the Catholic Press, various news media, and organisations, said he had decided to open a
He wrote: "This is not an appeal for St. Columban's Mission Society. Our members do not IF EVER there were a time when Christians work either in Pakistan were challenged to be more than ever before or in India. But one of 'a light to illumine the world, a city on a hill, the functions of a mission society is to act as a salt to give savour to men's lives, surely that
IT'S A PITY
The Holy Father adds: "For we are the antidote to the pessimism, the gloomy foreboding, the dejection and fear, which inflict our time."
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the Synod will not solve the questions on its agenda — in the sense of MISSION SUNDAY MESSAGE: developing neat, packaged answers to complex problems."
Catholics urged to People who 'WRITE TO AUTHORITIES' CALL TO AUSTRALIANS make greater Buy Holden from sacrifices KEVIN JAMES Pakistan Relief Fund.
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USUALLY COME BACK FOR ANOTHER . . . AND ANOTHER AND ANOTHER . . .
We had 'Good News' the total requirement, it and all Christians must is not because your gifts feel impelled to broad- have become less genercast this news to the ous, but rather because 'ends of the earth'. of the speed with which "No one of us Christ- the work of the Gospel ians — be he Pope, has been proceeding and bishop, priest, Religious the enormous expansion or layman — can dis- in the works of social claim responsibility in development undertaken regard to this essential by the missionaries." Christian duty". Outlining the PontifiNevertheless, he said THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN cal Mission Works (now he felt constrained to CARS sometimes called Papal urge Catholics to make Mission Aid) which has yet greater sacrifices for AUTHORISED GENERAL MOTORS been running for almost the Faith, and "not only HOLDEN DEALER a century and a half, the those in the more prosPope said: perous societies, but 1308 Albany Hwy. "If it is indeed sadly those also who, like the true that the Pontifical widow so highly comCannington works now find them- mended by Christ, must 1PHONE: 68 1826 PHONE: 68 1826 selves unable to meet give 'out of their povmore than a fraction of erty'."
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