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PERTH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1971.
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Clarification of marriage report sought AT THE TIME of writing, clarification is being sought of an A.A.P. cable which appeared in "The West Australian" on Monday, December 6, on possible reform of Catholic marriage legislation. The newspaper kindly checked the accuracy of the cable and any further clarification must be awaited from the Roman end. Close reading reveals that it is only an advance notice of the preparation of a document which it is claimed wil l appear from the Holy Father early in the new year. Obviously the precise content of the document cannot be assessed until this appearance.
A regional gathering at Mirrabooka for the lay-reader training programme held with Liturgical Commission members, Fr. C. Ross, OSM., and Bro. J. Baldwin. Story on Page 7.
The conjectures about ably well in many cases, HISTORY making provision for only alternative The background to the the marriages in very remote matter is the long stand- would be a local registry The Record recently areas where a priest is ing legislation of the office ceremony. featured Toodyay, now not available, fit in with Church and how it has on the crossroads by the R EMARRIAGE thinking and practice in emerged into the present closure of a local industhe Church already. In the religiously plurday. try costing the jobs of al societies like our own Two concluding re60 men there. The school From the time of the where Catholics are a marks in the article reimmediately felt the imquire some correction Council of Trent by the minority, changing socpact of that event. decree 'Tametsi", the law ial pressures and convenand clarification. As in those days, the of the Church demanded tions have made it seem A MATTER that has been causing much concern to all parFrom October 1, 1970, that Catholics would a less than adequate law. Church today is under deArchdiocesan ties involved has been the subject of an the bishops have been marry before a Catholic pressure from the popuable to grant permission priest and witnesses. Many would take a cision announced this week. lation as it occurs and in special cases for marpopular view that a limHowever, in certain The Archbishop has written to the priests, Sisters and par- with exploding metroriage of a Catholic to ited concession was apareas this law was not occur in a place other pearing to be made by ishioners of Toodyay and Yerk reluctantly to advise them politan populations the than a Catholic church promulgated for a vari- which a Catholic married that the Catholic schools in the two towns will not re-open arguments from rural and city groups have an and before a person ety of local reasons and outside the Church and 1972. in tone that will irrefutable other than a Catholic the growing universal subsequently divorced awareness within the priest. religious presence in the ed in the early 1850's al- have to be discussed was unfairly obtaining had first decision The Church at the time no No most at the same time as much more, probably at This is a new situation doubt had much to do the opportunity of a new to be taken in the Cath- towns mentioned. the Cathedral and Fre- the level of diocesan indicated yet are plans olic Education Commisand, although it is under with a decree Ne Temere marriage. pastoral councils. sion of Western Austra- in this direction and ap- mantle parishes. close study by bishops, it in 1908 by which the law The mind of the lia, a body which repre- parently the hope is that is too early to see what would apply universally Church was not neces- sents all the bishops and Sisters will be in paspastoral trends may be throughout the Church. sarily that this should Major Superiors of the toral contact with the involved. In other words, happen but it was diffi- teaching Orders in W.A. people through catechetithe mere granting of inEspecially in European cult to legislate to cope The Mother Provincial cal and other interests creased authority to lo- countries where the mawith the anomaly. the Sisters of Mercy through the medium of of cal conferences of bish- jority of people were Caalso had to take note of the buildings that they ops does not answer all tholics, the law has apPRESSURE the greatly diminished will retain. questions. peared to work reasonnumber of pupils and to The decision comes In recent years there pressing needs elsewhere. hard in the midst of the has been a growing presThe Archbishop felt that sure in many Catholic the considered opinion of rural debate that besets so circles that a Catholic the commission mem- Australia today in of its life. aspects many marrying in other church- bers could not but be es be accepted as validly accepted. York and Toodyay parmarried although they He expresses a hope ishes are practically as USUALLY COME BACK FOR will be deemed as having the school closure would old as the Church itself broken a law of the not mark the end of a in W.A. They were foundA NOTHER . . . AND ANOTHER Church.
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