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No. 3639. PERTH, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1973
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Q.C. points to crisis lacing the law The law today is caught in the cross-fire of political, economic and pressures, according to Mr. R. D. Wilson, Q.C., LIM., Solicitorocial s General for Western Australia. He said that at the and St. Paul's Letter to it is generated by the opening of his address at the Romans, a passage misuse of power or privthe ecumenical service was read from the writ- ilege in the selfish purheld in St. Mary's Cath- ings of the late Dag suit of sectional ends. "Even violence directed edral this week to mark Hammarskjold. the opening of the 17th Archbishop Goody gave against persons or propAustralian Legal Conven- a brief introduction of erty is becoming accepttion. welcome and also a final ed as an inevitable feature of our comomn life." The service was hon- blessing. "The whole fabric of oured by the presences of Taking his cue from law is threatened when a the Churches, heads of the newspaper story that Sir a young boy killed in habit of violation is perGovernor-General, Paul Hasluck, and repre- Northern Ireland recent- mitted, when wealth or sentatives of the State ly was "caught in the privilege confers immunity, when protesters howParliament. cross-fire," Mr. Wilson ever righteous their cause was cathedral said that in that boy's The can break the law with packed with a large atten- death the law stood con- impunity." dance of the legal pro- victed of its impotence to Mr. Wilson said that fession and their wives preserve his life. the dilemma of what to and interstate and over'Today millions of hu- do about diminishing reseas visitors. man beings, like in the spect would not be met At the request of the tragedy of that boy's by mere declarations organisers, death, today find them- about law and order or convention St. Mary's Cathedral was selves caught in the cross an assertion of the iminvited to be the host fire of contending forces portance of the rule of church and a committee and who are left lying on law. of the W.A. Liturgical the battleground, dead "I want to suggest to Commission, consisting or maimed in mind or you that in reality it of Fathers C. Ross, body or soul. evokes a crisis of faith, 0.S.M., P. G. J. O'Reilly, "There are political, a crisis which may be reP. Ahern, and Sister Maj- economic, social and solved by a renewed conella designed the ser- psychological pressures cern for first principles vice for the occasion. that produce 20 million concerning the meaning At the conclusion of a refugees at this very of existence. prayer read by Sir Ninian moment. Quoting the prophet Stephen, of the High Micah, he said that we "Here at home, despite were exhorted Court of Australia, the to do president of the Law all the material benefits three things: with affluthat come Council of Australia, Mr. ,0 "Do justice — not an P. F. Brinsden, Q.C., ence," Mr. Wilson added, abstract philosophical carried the Bible forward "the cross-fire is very d iscussion but a way of and placed it before the much with us. life in which we transassembly, as an action "More sophisticated in late our understanding symbolic of the presence its expression, it is lurk- of man as God intended of God and a reminder ing in the anonymity of him to be into responsible • Archbishop Goody is pictured greeting the Governor General Sir Paul Hasluck at the of the source of all au- our big cities. It is predecisions. It is freedom thority which has been sent in the tendency to- to be responsible; not entrance to St. Mary's Cathedral, on the occasion of the ecumenical service held there to mark vested in men. wards aggression, and freedom for man to do the 17th Australian Legal Convention of the Law Council of Australia. At the left is Father F. In addition to a reading self assertion in many of as he likes but as he from the Book of Exodus our social relationships, Walsh, Dean of St. Mary's Cathedral. ought. 0 "Secondly, love kindness — for the Jews, the law was to them a symbol of the mercy and the love of God. "To love kindness is to nourish the insights of faith needed to do justice. St. Thomas Aquinas said: 'Love without justice leads to disorder, justice without love leads to VATICAN CITY (NC). — The Vatican's Doctrinal Congregation reiterated the ruling that harshness.' '0 "Thirdly, walk hum- Catholics married invalidly may not go to confession or Communion unless they are living in a bly with God. Humility USUALLY COME BACK FOR so-called brother-sister relationship. will lead us to adopt the posture of a servant of A NOTHER . . . AND ANOTHER Cardinal Franjo Seper, only solution approved feel their previous mar- can directive was not One who is willing, even riage was not valid but aimed at the practices prefect of the congrega- by the Church. A ND ANOTHER . . . eager to spend His life of specific dioceses or That relationship is who cannot prove it in in the service of his fell- tion, sent to the bishops of the world a letter in one in which a couple a Church tribunal are of one nation. ow men. Cardinal Although allowed to go to Confes"Specifically in terms Latin on April 11 in involved in an invalid Krol intimated at that Comreceive sion and which he called attenunion consent to surof the lawyer's task, it time that the Vatican render their sexual munion. Here again the will find expression in a tion to: would launch a study of • "The diffusion of rights for permission to second marriage is not loyalty to truth and will the "good conscience" Church. the by "blessed" sacraopinions which frequent the exhibit a patience and new At least eight dioceses issue, the April letter of tolerance to opposing deny or call into doubt ments. States Cardinal Seper gives no views in the search for the teaching of the In such a case, the in the United other the intimation that practising were Church that truth. on the indis- Church does not "bless" being solutions are soluconscience" "good "In striving to serve solubility of marriage." their but tion at the time that studied. marriage truth he will be serving e Those who "live in simply allows them the Bishop Robert Tracy of At least one U.S. bisjustice. As Disraeli said: an irregular union" are sacraments even though, hop — Bishop Joseph it made Rouge Baton in ac truth '.Justice is to be admitted to the from outward appear- public in June, 1972, that Green of Reno—releastion.' " sacraments of Penance ances, they are living as his diocese was doing ed to his priests an unand the Eucharist only man and wife in a nor- so. translation of official when they subscribe to mal marriage relationON INSIDE PAGES The following August. the cardinal's letter. THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN Cardinal John Krol of Bishop Green said that 4 the "approved practice ship. Calendar of the Church in the inAnother solution to Philadelphia, president he did so because he 7 Children's World CARS ternal forum." "this problem was Catholics of the National Confer- knew many Classified According to a Vati- made public last year ence of Catholic Bis- (admitting to the sacraA UTHORISED GENERAL MOTORS Advertising 10 can source who knows but the Vatican asked hops, said that Holy See ments those in an inHOLDEN DEALER Letters 11 well marriage) has wanted dioceses to halt valid the mind of the that it be stopped. News In Pars 4 congregation, 1 308 Albany Hwy., Connington That is to the so-called practices "contrary to been a very pressing Cardinal Sport 12 Seper was speaking ex- "good conscience" case current discipline." one for many of you in PHONE: 68 1826 PHONE: 68 1826 Theatre 8 clusively of the brother- in remarried which Cardinal Krol further your pastoral care of TV, Radio 8 sister relationship as the Catholics who honestly specified that the Vati- souls."
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