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No. 3632. PERTH, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1973.
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Church Plans urged to give pledges I option on abortion help to LONDON ( NC ). — Catholics should develop programmes that will make abortion as unnecessary as possible, according to the Month, Britain's national Jesuit journal which devoted an entire edition to abortion. Social workers in Brit- It is easier to deplore the a new Catholic strategy ain, the journal said, had situation than to suggest in waging a campaign a widespread tendency to what should be done," against the worldwide increase in permissive think of abortion as the the journal said. first and only possible The danger in Britain, abortion legislation. solution to every diffi- it added, was that aborIt presented and anscult case. tions might become to be This resulted not only regarded as a simple wered the usual arguin abortion on demand matter of routine. If this ments for abortion and but also put pressure on happened, "we will have delved deeply into the a pregnant woman to transformed our view of arguments against. have an abortion even if man and society" and the But it criticized the she did not want to have very future ,of society "rhetorical overkill in would be at stake . . . one, the journal said. which Catholic propa"Those who oppose gandists frequently inA pregnant girl who was thinking of an abor- abortion have an imper- dulge . . . language which tion, it was said, should ative duty to be concern- makes it quite impossible be counselled in such a ed about the quality of for their opponents ever way that she became life throughout the whole to listen to them." aware of other available of our society," Month To talk of mass muroptions. The girl must said. der, genocide, the masbe helped to make her RESPECT FOR LIFE sacre of the innocents own decision, and a decis"It will not do to de- and Nazi death camps ion that she could live fend respect for life in made opposition the with. the womb while over- grow indignant, did not Those opposed to looking the disrespect help reasoned debate and abortion, the Jesuit jour- for life manifested in by it emotionalism "gets nal said, had a duty to slum housing, degrading in the way of reason." insure that the condit- conditions of work, polions for a truly human lution, motorway folly, The case against aborlife were provided for the the exploitation of immi- tion would have to be child. The child needed grants. argued philosophically, care, attention, affection "There are encourag- the journal said, because and the unmarried moth- ing signs that Christians theological principles er could not always pro- are increasingly seeing were not much use in vide these, the journal these inter-connections. pub& argument. said. To raise one moral quesThe philosophical argu"At this point, society tion in depth is to raise arguing meant ment has to step in and pro- all moral questions." principles and from first vide them, but since Jesuit journal The 'society' as such is an ab- dealt at length with the would include medical, straction, this duty falls sociological, psychologic- psychiatric and socioloin an especial way on al, theological and many gical evidence in the prothose who have refused other aspects of abortion cess of reflection. the facility of abortion. in an attempt to develop
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"It means, above all, making sure that one is asking the right questions, on the right level and in the right order," the journal said. If one does that then one can appear without apology at the bar of ieason. Such clarification, supposing it to be a service to the whole community, Lira]ist which quite literally does not know what it is doing when it says `Yes' to abortion."
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Now that the parliamentary battle concerning abortion on demand has, for the time being, been resolved in the negative, I consider it our duty as Christians to do something positive to help towards a solution of this grave moral and sociological problem. Consequently, publicly and without reservthe ation I pledge resources of the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth — resources both personal as well as financial— for the assistance of . an women faced with unwanted pregnancy. In more detail: any. mother-to-be, Catholic or non-Catholic, is guaranteed immediate and practical help, confidentially and at no expense to herself if, of an unwanted pregnancy, she is prepared to allow the baby to be born and not aborted. This help includes, if her baby after birth. All that needs to be done is to write to Father B. Hickey, Catholic Family Welfare Bureau, 25 Victoria Square, Perth 6000, or to telephone him on 25 6644. L. J. GOODY, Archbishop of Perth.
TELEVISED CATHEDRAL MASS
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It will be a unique and memorable occasion on Sunday when the televised Mass from St. Mary's Cathedral at 11 a.m. will be sung by a combined choir made up of various Reaching up out of a setting that explains the description of the area church groups who have been attending the Royal by its name Woodlands is the stainless steel cross (pictured above) whose School of Church Music point stands 106 feet above the new church of Our Lady of the Rosary at Guildford Grammar that was blessed and opened by Archbishop Goody last Sunday. In a separate article on School this week. It had been intended Supporting the cross is ible for the Dominican what the world bishops The celebrant of the are saying and arguing Mass will be Archbishop the immense curved wall House of Studies, Can- to provide more than primary this amount of seating t h e Goody.' and abortion about 100 ft in length of Tood- berra, Month praised in particuThe combined choir yay stone that grows schools in Adelaide and but parking needs put a ceiling to the number to lar the bishops of the will sing Evensong in St. into the central portico Auckland. seated; as a result, be United States for stating George's Cathedral on and tower 84 ft. high. Doubleview new The and other their case carefully, cons- Sunday night. The design of the build- church has a ground area ample aisles cious that they lived in a The Mass will be tele ing was conceived by a of 900 square feet and open space allow for a society, and vised direct on Channel 2 large overflow crowd on pluralist Dominican priest, Father has 929 linear feet of special occasions. avoiding the appearance a t 11 a.m. Bonaventure Leahy, 0.P., seating—which is intendThe project took two of sectarianism by bas11E14.061:2 who is at present in Ire- ed to cater for 550 people ing their case on the years to complete and six segin arranged — land recuperating after ON INSIDE PAGES U.S. Constitution and the the cost of the church period of illness which ments fanning from the a Calendar 5 United Nations Declarabuilding, including furnChildren's World 9 overtook him towards sanctuary twelve seats ishings, was $190,000. tion on Human Rights. deep. Editorial 5 the completion of the Father A. T. Costello The longer axis of the 1 1 church. "Their appeal is a uni- Letters 0.P., parish priest of He had been personally church is 125 ft. in length. . 11 versal one," the Month Music Our Lady of the Rosary Doubleview for the past added. "It validates their News In Pars 5 supervising the construcChurch becomes the sec three years, said that a tion at the time and the claim to be speaking not New Norcia ond largest suburban substantial part of the. project was completed only as representatives Treasures . 7 cost of the church was • church by ground-floor under the direction but of religion of a single 7 Senate of Priests defrayed by a land trans- • capacity after St. seating Mr. George Thompson. as spokesmen for and Salvado Joseph's Subiaco, 951 lin- action as a result of teachers of a whole nat- Sport 1 0, 12 Father Leahy studied ear feet (25 seats deep) agreement between the arguments Theatre ion. Their 1 1 1 architecture for two and surpassing St. Mary's Dominican Fathers and t ranscend the pluralism TV, Radio 8 . years before joining the Leederville, 888 linear the Archdiocese of Perth. ( • Continued Page 6) Order and was respons- feet (31 deep). ENDS of American society.
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