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No. 3589.
PERTH, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1972.
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Missions are still needed
From PATRICK RILEY ROME ( NC) : Why must the Church's own missionary administration — the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples — defend the need for the missions? Why is the enduring need for missions questioned? Why is Christ's miseing b sionary commanded to go out and teach all nations being questioned? Is the pilgrim Church no longer missionary by nature?
The very sad fact is derstanding of the digthat the Church must de- nity of non-Christian refend the need for the mis- ligions, of the truths sions. A rising cloud of they teach and the vir• doubts, stirred partly by tues they inculcate. Some a new approach to non- missioners even maintain Christian religions and that their job is to make partly by new app,°ach- Buddhists better Buddes to Christianity itself, hists and Hindus better has obscured the need Hindus. for missionary work, that But does such an end, Is, for carrying the Chris- however noble, justify tian word and Christian the sacrifice of leaving works among non-Chris- land and loved ones for tian peoples. a lifetime? Of course, morale on the • Some see the mismissions is bound to sufsioner's first task as cre- Nonagenarian Mrs. L. Davies, retiring chaplain Mons. A. T. Langmead, C.W.L. State President Mrs. D. Downey, and retiring fer. Missioners have be- ating conditions for a decome fewer and older. international secretary Mrs. R. Green. cent life, making possible Replacements are thin- the minimum of human ning. The missions are comfort necessary for sential truths of the threatened with slow parthe practice of virtue. Christian alysis. faith both But is that a job for among Catholics and priests and religious? CRISIS other Christians. There is no antagonIt is commonly said NON-CATHOLICS ism, as the Second Vatithat today's missionary On Wednesday, July 5, 150 members of the Catholic Wornens' League paid tribute to service • The ecumenical can Council emphasises, crisis is a crisis in mismovement has taken the between ecumenism and over a long span of years — amounting to 85 — at a luncheon in the Highgate parish hall. sionary motivation, that steam out of the attempt the quite distinct work A t the top of the celebration was the 90th bir thday of Mr . Lucy Davies, l ife member of the is, on the motives that send a person onto the to reunify Christianity by of preparing those who league and its foundation treasurer, a positio n she held for 27 years. attracting individual non- want to enter full Cathomissions. This stems, it Mrs. Davies is the only place as chaplain to the made a presentation to on Tuesday, July 18, at is said, from several Catholic Christians to the lic communion. surviving member of the league is taken by Fr. P. each. Catty Lie Church. 12.30 p.m. sources: Aside from the unique group of ladies assemb- O'Mara, parish priest of COMING EVENTS The Leederville branch The ecumenical move- case of ecumenism, the led by the late Arch- Dianella. Forthcoming C.W.L. meets at St. Mary's Halt • There is a less semen advanced reasons is, for toin fact, a very bishop Prendiville in 1936 The third special guest events: Nedlands branch on Tuesday, July 18, at; vere and rigid underspecial case. It bears the day's crisis in missionary to bring the league into at the luncheon was Mrs. meets at the parish hall 1.45 p.m. standing of the dictum Rita Green, stepping that outside the Church marks of God's handi- motivation betray a still existence. there is no salvation. work. It has already deeper crisis — a "risis The Countess of Hemp- down after ten years as secretary Why then sweat out one's brought about an examin- of faith. tine, World President of international of conscience life in the bush to bring ation To keep missionary Catholic Women's Move- to be succeeded by Miss salvation to those who among Catholics, and un- motivation strong and ments, was visiting Aus- K. O'Connor. less impeded will certain- dynamic, it is not enough tralia for the Adelaide In this office, Mrs. can be saved anyway? Green handled all the ly bring about a clearer • There is a deeper un- understanding of the es- to build a wall around it Congress in 1936. As a correspondence from the against the religious re- result of the meeting of lativism that would en- Catholic women with her world union of Catholic feeble it or the secular- in Perth in September women and acted as liaiisation that would drain that year, the league son officer between the it of all religious content. was formed in Perth in city and country branches up to the establishRather, the faith which May, 1937. ment of the Bunbury diois its lifeblood must itMrs. Davies lifetime of cesan coiAncil that now self be resistant to these charitable work stretches looks after its own counviruses. back 60 years to the days try USUALLY COME BACK FOR branches. when Clontarf OrphanMrs . Green has been a TWO KINDS ANOTHER . . . AND ANOTHER age was still at its Glen- member of the IngleThere are, very broad- dalough site. AND ANOTHER . wood branch for 20 years ly speaking, two distinct She and is still an is active currently presidkinds of faith. worker for the Clontarf ent. One sees religion as 41••■•• and Castledare causes — The State president of the staff of life, on which and she can play a keen the CWL, Mrs. P. Downey pilgrim man leans as he weekly Frame of bridge spoke appreciatively of toils up the tortuous and the work that all three rocky paths of this earth. EX -ARMY MAN had done for the league It sees religion as a conAlso feted at the lun- over many years and solation, drying the tears cheon was Monsignor of suffering mankind in Albert Langmead, retirthis vale of sorrows. It ing spiritual director of sees religion as an ideal, the league and retired inspiring man with a pastor of Leederville, love of what is right and now living at the Home good. of the Little Sisters of This view of religion the Poor, Glendalough. cannot long suffice as the Monsignor Langmead Eucharistic Congress 3 with Vitamin C added mainspring of a mission- had just come out of the Calendar THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN ary vocation. 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