No. 2683. PERTH. THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1974
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P and 11 to press for 80 p.c. subsidy The newly elected president of the Parents and Friends Federation, is Mr. R. P. Donnelly. He succeeds Mr. Maurice McGovern, who has held the position for the past six years and who did not stand for re-election. It was noted that expertise available for Mr. Donnelly was elected at the annual general some concession might the conduct of schools. be received meeting of the federa- already For the future, the tion held at Floreat For- where the children at- Minister said the GovSunday last and at- tended the same school um ernment would investitended by 45 delegates but it was not the case from some 30 ranches. when they attended dif- gate the continuance of the 20 per cent formula In attendance at the ferent schools, which and also other forms of afternoon session of the was the more typical sit- assistance. meeting were Bishop uation. He promised that the A resolution on grants Government Quinn and Mr G. C. Mcwould not Kinnon, Minister for stated that over the next allow the Catholic sysducation. five years the govern tem to be stretched E beOther members elected ment subsidies towards yound its resources in recurrent costs of nonto the new executive are the face of proposals schools foreshadowed Mr. Warren Pickering, government in the vice-president; and Mrs should be increased to Government's policy. Carmel Cottrell, secre- 80 per cent of the cost He noted that indeof educating a child in tary-treasurer. pendent school teacha government school. Councillors elected for ers could attend inserFigures were quoted vice the coming year are Mr. programmes with Lloyd Greenwood, Mr. at the meeting to indi- government teachers, Trevor Taplin, Mr. Ger- cate that fees could not and that Catholic authi ncrease to keep pace ard Leahy, Mr. John orities would be interFeighan, Mr Q. Gomes, with rising recurrent ested in the pilot proMr David Maughan, Mrs costs. jects for voluntary Joan Hodsdon and Mrs school attendance by GOVT. ROLE Ruth O'Hara. five-year-olds next year. Mr Mackinnon conFather J. Nestor, DirBishop Quinn said that ector of Catholic Edu- gratulated the Federa- the Parents and Friends' cation, is an ex-officio tion on its fight for the Federation may have member of the council. past 20 years to have been seen as a politically children educated withoriented organisation. in the Catholic system. FEES, COSTS This was only one aspect He said it was the of their work. Motions agreed to by the meeting dealt with Government's intention A united Church is not just designed for the the independent S ACRIFICE fees at Catholic schools that safe transit of souls to the other world, but also and an increase of gov- schools should be perThe P and F should be has as her mission to transform this earthly life erment subsidies to mitted to expand. leaders in community into the Kingdom of God, said Bishop Aristarchos Catholic schools. Although the Governbuilding since education On fees, it was resolv- ment accepted the Kar- was calling today for in St. Mary's Cathedral last Sunday night. mel programme, it was community ed that the Federation He delivered the ad"Yet we speak of the participatake the necessary ac- only a beginning and not tion, not in a monolithic dress at the service fo; Church of these times as tion to implement the the last word. community, but commu- Church Unity that takes having been One, United Proposal of a sliding He said that the nities bound by special place each year on Pente- and Undivided", he said. scale of fee reductions States What was the cause of should have bonds and having vari- cost Sunday. It is hekt for parents with child- greater autonomy in eduin each principal city schism? ety and collaboration. ren at more than one cation and that there church in rotation and "It was alienation from The bishop hoped that is attended Catholic school. by a united the Spirit of Christ, lack was local knowledge and parents would be big, congregation from all of charity and tolerance. enough to make sacra- these churches. and worldliness and fices for the schools, to pride," he added. accept the co-ordination Asking why the Church"Instead of just talkof schools and some- es were still separated, ing of Church unity, we Bishop Aristarchos said times to accept the closshould talk about unity ure of smaller schools in that the barriers of nator reunion with Christ". order to give service to ionality and barriers of Bishop Aristarchos thoughts and customs a larger area. had existed right from then compared the momFollowing the ideas in the beginning of the Ap- ent at the end of the Secchapter .2 of the Karmel ostolic ond Vatican Council era. report, he hoped that P hwen Pope Paul, in the and F would play an ac- "SLOW" resplendent basilica of tive part in the integra "What is the cause.- of St. Peter, and Patricarch tion of the classroom this slow in the progress ( to- Athenagoras, with the home so that wards unity)?" he asked. church of St. George the combined spiritual Turning to the Acts of ( "incredibly modest and efforts of the Catholic by conthe Apostles ("a danger- ramshackle school would secure that ous book if carelessly trast"), each read what their results would not read"), he said that it amounted to a mutual be smothered by the was a Book of instal- act of penitence. weight of this techno- ments in a story that "DEBRIS" logical age. had no ending, at least "What there counterpart not in the literal frame nearly a millennium ago of history. 'ought not to have don' "It is a dangerous Book these two were undoing because the image it and while their action tends to emboss on our was more symbolic than memories is one of a substantive, they were Utopian Church", • he clearing away at least said. some of the more conA LBANY HIGHWAY Calendar "Yet it was blemished; spicuous debris of human 4 C ANN1NGTON it had its confrontation history and human obClassified with the committee de- duracy". Advertising 10 mon; it had its pennyFrom the Acts, Bishop Education File 4 pinchers; people even Aristarchos drew the Letters 10, 11 fell asleep during ser- diagram of communion mons". (koinonia), service (diaMusic 6 He referred to the fact konia) and witness (apNews In Pars 8 that even the Apostles ostoli ), "If communion must discovered that deep and Our Historic Link 9 real differences divided remain an elusive ideal, Sister Philomena them; later there grew service and witness offer Earle 8 up the different schools a base of mutual concern common T ELEPHONE experiof ecclesiastical thought, and 68 1826 Sport 10, 12 like Alexandria, Antioch ence," he said. TV, Radio 9 and Carthage. ( Continued page 7)
Church unity; the barriers
• Pictured leaving the sanctuary of St. Mary's Cathedral at the conclusion of a service for Christian Unity on Pentecost Sunday, are some of the heads of Churches who attended: Auxiliary Bishop B. McDonald (Anglican), Archbishop G. Sambell ( Anglican), Bishop Aristarchos (Greek Orthodox) and Archbishop Goody.
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