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WC( and Catholic Church discuss Catholic membership: no decision reached V ATICAN: No decision has been reached on Catholic membership of the world Council of Churches. A joint working group of the Roman Catholic Church and the WCC after a week-long study that it was not realistic at this time oncluded c attempt to set a date for an answer to the question of Catholic to embership. m
The group—with 24 representatives from both sides—is in itself powerless to make such a far reaching decision. Its purpose has been to study and provide guidance. The final decision on Catholic membership is in the hands of the Pope and members of the WCC, which holds its next general assembly in 1975. During the Rome meet- secretariat was preparing testify to the credibility ings, which Dr. Eugene a study on regional and of the Christian Church. Carson Blake, WCC gen- local levels of co-operaThe mixed group also eral secretary, and Card- tion between the two studied proposals for Willebrands, organisations. inal Jan ecumenical action, makhead of the Vatican Secing greater u s e of CO-ORDINATION retariat For Promoting women, not only in Christian Unity, attend- Participants in the joint church circles, but also ed as observers, both working group agreed on i the need for more effi- n social fields. groups stressed the need A commission was apfor continuing co-opera- cient co-ordination of relief and assistance pro- proved to study education and development. grammes by Church tional problems of the A special committee agencies to avoid organi- young. This commission was set up to draw up sational frictions and dif- will be composed of concrete recommenda- ficulties. It was stressed specialists from the Vatitions to make co-operathat basic co-operation in can administrative tion easier and quicker. this field was needed, offices and the WCC It was announced also both to ease relief and headquarters staff in that the Vatican's unity assistance work and to Geneva.
UN members divided on population problems UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (NC) : As demonstrated in vigorous debate at a recent session of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) , member countries of the United Nations ore not only divided but splintered in their attitudes toward population trends and problems.
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Disputes focusing on a The cleavage of opin sis on birth control and Proposed World Popula ion was most marked be fan ily planning. tion Conference in 1974 t ween those who hold Those in the latter fac have aired the existing that the UN has not done ton, ranged from Latin differences in religious, enough to meet the chal- American countries — Philosophical, traditional lenge of the so-called largely Catholic — to and social approaches to population explosion and Moslem lands and a numthe questions involved. those who protest that ber of Communist naThe dominance that na- it has done far too much tions, including the Sovtional self interests play —especially in what they iet Union. is also apparent. claim is an over-empha- In the opposite camp, advocates of the acceleration of activities by the UN and its agencies on behalf of programmes designed to reduce high birth rates included most of the industrialised nation-, and some of the hardest pressed of the developing countries.
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Michael O'Brien and John DeLuca painting the houses on Victoria Square that become the Catholic offices. The last Mass in All Saint's Centre will be said this Friday and the building will be vacated preparatory to demolition.
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Plan study on common market LONDON (NC).— Eng- English and Welsh bishlish Catholics will study ops' Peace and Justice means for sharing the Commission for dealing that problems growing prosperity of with the European Common should be of concern to Market with the Third British Catholics. The groups will report World of underdeveloped recommendations their countries, This is a study topic at a meeting of the peace for one of six working and justice commission groups set up by the in September.
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