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Australian bishops ponder the problems of today A borigines, racism, abortion, poverty and the needs of education were among national problems discussed by the 35 Australian bishops meeting in Sydney at their half-yearly conference last week. The president of the conference is Archbishop Freeman of Sydney. C op a s, offer its many agencies to Catholic children beyond Archbishop Catholic schools. M.S.C., of Port Moresby, serve the inquiry. representing the Bishops • LITURGY: It was ABORIGINES: • That Guinea of Papua-New decided that individual and the British Solomon the Aborigines had rights bishops would be given land to was obvious but Islands, and Archbishop power to approve hymns Klein, M.S.C., of Noumea, this newly-developed slo- to substitute for Enrepresenting the bishops gan was not a solution to trance and Communion problem. the Ownership, of the Pacific, attended songs for their own diothe conference as obser- employment, housing, ed- ceses. ucation and bargaining vers. power were also para6 EUCHARISTIC CONThe Apostolic Delegate, mount rights of the Abor- GRESS: It is a reason Archbishop Paro, addres- igines and "we should co- for great joy that the sed the conference and operate with them in Catholic Church and spoke of the importance street, factory, union and other Christian Churches of fusing tradition and school." are seeking ways of genuine renewal in the achieving unity, specifiChurch. The bishop's statement cally by endeavouring to Points made at the con- added: "Listen to the reach a common underAboriginal people . . ference included: standing of the Eucharist React against those who . . . We urge all follow• ABORTION: "There prey on the weak, wheth- ers of Christ to prepare is a line that cannot be er they be political ex- suitably for this event of crossed and where a halt ploiters, profiteers, land- national and must be called. Common internatlords, big companies or ional significance on the sense, our civilised tradipedlars of drunkenness." spiritual plane." tion, arduously built • See pages 2, 3 and 4. through centuries, and * RACISM: "Racism is our innate reflexes tell us an ugly thing . . . We are that. ON INSIDE PAGES against it because it is Both the metropolitan winner and runner-u p in the State Parliamentary Labor Party annual "To square opposition anti-human and anti- Bisho school award were students of Christian Brothers High School, Highgate. ps' Conference 2, 3 4 to legislation of attacks Christian. It is a sin The award is judged by the Education Depart ment and is assessed on the Junior examination Calendar .. . . 4 On persons, property and against God and man, result, with other factors such as conduct, in dustry, leadership capacity and sport participagood name with promo- South Africa, Rhodesia Children's World .... . 13 . . . 4 tion being taken into account. tion of abortion is a and Uganda are but a Editorial .... The award is granted to encourage interes t in political and public affairs and this year's Modern absurdity which few countries where it Letters .... .... .... .... .... 11 Missions to Italian winners were successful in a field of over 100 ap plicants. We absolutely reject." is rampant." Community .. . .... 4 • The metropolitan winner, Peter Edwards ( left) and the runner-up, Anthony Malkovic • POVERTY: "Let all News in Pars .... 11 being shown the Mace by Mr. Terry Burke, M.L.A., secretary of the EDUCATION: 100A • Parliamentary Labor Party, concerned make sure Radio, TV .... . . . 12 during a visit to Parliament House. that the Commonwealth page education survey School Vacancies 9, 12, 15 inquiry on poverty does commissioned by the The country winner was Jennifer Mattner and the runner-up Stella Ward, both of Albany High Sr. Philomena Earle 5 not stop there and that bishops in 1969 is to be School. YCW Quest . . 5 promptly. It action follows to lift the made public burden from the poor deals with the present p o si ti on of Catholic and suffering of oui schools, the content and country." method of religious eduThe bishops pledged cation, the objectives of that the Catholic Church Catholic education and SUVA (NC).—The Churches must not fall victims to a false religious Would co-operate and religious education for
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emphasis; they must balance evangelisation with development, the noted Marist anthropologist, Father G. W. Arbuckle, told a session of the Catholic Church and the Development of the Peoples of the South Pacific Conference here.
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Father Arbuckle, who values of his traditional tical advance had been has specialised in the life and those of the mod- commendable, the island problems of development ern world he learns nations were so small in the South Pacific, is about. He feels pulled to and internationally insignow lecturer in social maintain a set of values, nificant that they could economics at the recently so often in conflict with do little on their own to Melanesian the demands of modern bargain for satisfactory established Institute in Papua-New life, prices for their primary Guinea. goods. Some had turned to In a hard-hitting paper From JOHN KENNEDY tourism to help support that noted that some "Many cannot resolve their economies. Some missionary attitudes had, and still did to some ex- this conflict. More and hones had been realised tent, reflected oppressive more we see frustration here, but there were danattitudes towards the in- let loose in crime, in ex gers that must be avoidgambling, in ed if the dignity of the digenous peoples of the cessive drinking." people was to be preservPacific, Dr. Arbuckle, said Dr. Arbuckle said that ed and developed. that the South Pacific "One feels that some Islands were very often though the future of so the forgotten part of the much of the South Pacific tourists are attracted by lay in agricultural •oduca- what are called "primitThird World. tion and research, few of ive peoples," he said. "True." he said, "there the countries concerned "Opportunities for learnoppressive povis not the had well-developed educa- ing vital values in tradierty of India or South- tional systems that took tional life are avoided East Asia, but there are this into account. when tourists are encourconditions that make the Too often they were aged to look at local dream of many a Pacific burdened with educationpeople very much as inIslander to grow in al systems that were built teresting objects in a zoo. human dignity illusory. on Western models and "Tourists return home Yes, there is oppression. that even despised the supposedly refreshed, "Many a Pacific Islan- basic human values in- and enocuraged by the der is daily caught up in herent in local cultures. sunnosed greatness of the conflict between the 1 He said that while poli- their own cultures."
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