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Rearrangement of schools and classes in 1973
At the end of the current school year, the Catholic schools at Norseman and Kensington will close and the secondary classes at Northampton and Donnybrook will be discontinued. will lie schooling for a greater College This is the result of Servite the continuing study by merge classes to provide number of children, raththe W.A. Catholic Edu- a wider range of acade- er than total Catholci schooling for a decation Commission of the mic subjects. small of problems • In the Wembley area, creasing proportion of schools. rationalisation will take these children. Present knowledge, place between St. Commission has The Brigidine however, does not justify had particularly to study T oseph's Subiaco, Our a recommendation for an the question of the small School, school the economic con- Lady of Victories Brigid- abrupt departure from tinuance of which depen- inc School, Wembley, and either primary or secondded on its having an all- St. Maria Goretti School ary grades. Religious teaching staff. ( within the Catherine McSome planned selection Auley Centre). of areas of concentration, This has been a par• In Bunbury co-ordin- depending on the conditicular problem in the school ation will take place be- tions and resources of a small country where it has proved ex- tween all the town's Cath- particular region, may be tremely difficult to re- olic schools, including necessary to make the Marist Brothers' College. most effective use of excruit lay teachers. isting resources the ComIn this connection, the mission says. Department Education has to rely on its bonding ( •See also Pages 6, 7, 11) system in order to guarantee teachers of equal merit being available to After a three-year surcountry and metropoli- vey of Catholic education tan schools. in Australia, the National In the metropolitan Catholic Education Comarea, the commission has mission has reported that asked school organisa- the Catholic school is the tions to assess the econo- preferred means for the mic viability of their education of Catholic SYDNEY (NC).—"The schools even to assum- children and says that ing that they have an all- such schools are possible Pope would dearly love lay staff and the fee to a considerable extent. to come back to Australia to attend the Eucharstructure remains reasonistic congress in Melable. The commission is con- It has also drawn at- bourne in February," Carnum- dinal tinually encouraging rat- tention to the rising Norman Gilroy said children here on Catholic of ber his return from ionalisation of resources, and in 1973 the following receiving part or all of Rome. beyond education rearrangements will take their Pope Paul, he added, Catholic schools and says would decide about the place: • La Salle College for that increasing attention trip before Christmas. Girls (formerly St. Brig- should be given to servThe 78-year-old cardiid's High School), Mid- ing their religious educa- nal, the former Archland, will join the cam- tion. bishop of Sydney, was in pus of the present La In practical terms it Rome for a meeting of Salle Boys' College. suggests it may be neces- the Vatican Congrega• St. Kieran's, Osborne sary to seek a substan- tion for the EvangelizaPark, and neighbouring tial proportion of Catho- tion of Peoples. The international Eucharistic congress will be held in Melbourne from February 18 to 25 next.
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These children • ( reading from left), Julie Bokor, Mark Kinsella, Catherine Whatley, Lyn Fitzgibbon and Joseph Coster are among the 48 students of Holy Cross School, Kensington. The majority of the school's pupils will transfer to St. Columba's South Perth, St. Pius X, Manning and Aquinas College next year as part of the reof programme organisation of schools undertaken by the W.A. Catholic CommisEducation sion. Holy Cross was originally St. Patrick's when in 1938 it opened as a small school and Mass centre to serve a growing part of the South Perth parish. Sister Attracta was the first superior when the opening enrolment was 30. It had grown to 160 when she left the school 12 years later in 1950. In 1952, two years after Kensington had become a separate parish, the name was changed to Holy Cross. Enrolments continued to increase until 1958 when the peak was reached with 207 pupils. At this time there were four Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart teaching at the school. Although for several years, numbers remained steady at about 160, from 1966, when the enrolment dropped to 122, there was a steady decrease in the number seeking enrolment. 41111111111111•11.
OPPONENTS OF MARCOS
MANILA (NC).—Although President Marcos's "new society" apparently' has been accepted by many Filipinos, small groups are meeting secretly, to discuss methods of combating the new situation. However, their num- Thirty-five Catholics, in- less, eternally changing: bers have been pared to eluding bishops and re- clothes." those dedicated enough ligious superiors, sent a Dr. Nemesio Prudente,.. to face imprisonment harsh reprimand to Pre- president of the Philipsfdent Marcos immedi- pines College of Comand possibly death. Many of Marcos' op- ately after he declared merce and an object of s the government's "wantponents have been ar- martial law. "Does the president ed" list, said from hisrested, including leading teachers, really care for the poor?" hiding place: "We would: journalists, students and political asked Carmelite Sister be more inclined to feel Jeanne Mary in an inter- that Marcos is serious activists. No longer can big de- view. She has lived for if he did a mea culpa monstrations — such as years with tribal peoples (my fault), confessed: the 30,000 members of and more recently in ur- some of his actions to. acquire wealth, and re-the Movement of Con- ban slums. of his cerned Citizens for Civil "The only thing I can turned some Liberty who marched on say," she said, "is what money to the state and: Manila's plaza two days the suffering poor say; the poor." before martial law was they won't believe land news reports Most proclaimed — build sup- reform until he gives from Philippines the port for opposition to away his own stolen pro- these days emphasiseMarcos. perty to the poor. They the sense of relief with However, a six-page won't believe pleas for which martial law has mimeographed newspap- simple living until Imel- been greeted, and this er written in the widely da (Mrs. Marcos) gives does seem to be an acspoken Tagalog — the up her jewels and count- curate accounting. national language of the Philippines — is being published and spread throughout the underground movement. (All Tagalog language newspapers have been closed by Marcos.) Leaflets opposing martial law are also being distributed. Community organisers continue to operate in the squatter slum areas pushing for land rights — despite government USUALLY COME BACK FOR efforts to move squatters into the hinterlands. A NOTHER . . . AND ANOTHER And some of the more radical students have AND ANOTHER. . . joind the New People's Army, the small Communist military organisation. But active opposition is not limited to traditionally dissident segments of the population.
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