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No. 1709. PERTH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1974
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Parish Councils get new constitutio five years' stud A new Constitution for archdiocesan Parish Pastoral Councils has
been promulgated by Archbishop Goody, and becomes effective in all
parishes from January 1, 1975.
At the conclusion of the exist; however, "the parish Copies of the new constitution are available from period of experimentation priest is not a council in the Catholic Church Office, it was reported that very himself and he cannot perSquare, Perth, few parishes had forwarded form his pastoral ministry Victoria any additional comments effectively unless he profits priced 25 cents each. In a copying letter to for the committee finalising from the advice of his selected collaborators." clergy, the Archbishop re-. the draft. commends that each parish In his Letter of PromulThe document is divided councillor should have a gation, Archbishop Goody up into "Objectives." "Princopy of the new document refers to the fact that such ciples" and "Rules." The and that it should also be a constitution "must be Rules may be amended or made a‘ailable to the laity somewhat jurdical in form" By-Laws added by a twogenerally. in .parishes. but that "the intention of thirds majority vote on a The constitution is the this one is truly pastoral." resolution on notice. He continues: result of five years of exOBJECTIVES perimentation and consulThe objectives are as foltation by several bodies in "OPENNESS" the archdiocese. -Though the matter of lows: Twenty six young 'teachers now finishing their 1. To assist the apostolic Initially in 1969, an in- ultimate authority and the teacher-tralaing and due to start in Catholic schools work of the Church by pronext year, this week attended an orientation day terim constitution was in- possiblity of occasional disat the In-service Training Centre, Nedlands, in retroduced in the archdiocese, agreement had to be ment- moting the Christian forsponse to an invitation forwarded to prinicipals of being an approximate model ioned, a Parish pastoral mation of the people. enschooN employing new teachers next year. of a similar constitution council will work effectively deavouring to involve the They were eiven a series of talks and discussion on that had been drawn up for only if there is an openness whole of the parish in the Ilie Christian School. an Introduction to the Guideof conviction which can w ork of the Church. the diocese of Bunbury. lines • ,foi- Christian Education and on Childrens 2. To promote lead to the acceptance of comSubsequently, moves to the Liturgy. munication . between views of others." all :produce a new constitution members, sectors, and org- a Next sear the new teachers will attend special The Archbishop goes on reflecting actual experience anisations of the parish and in-service courses in the teaching of religion conducted at the Resource Centre. in the parishes were initiat- to say that the parish priest with diocesan and other To conclude the day, Bishop Quinn celebrated Mass ed in the Archbishop's is the only individual mem- bodies outside the parish. for the teachers and he is pictured above Meeting Senate of Priests and in ber of the parish council (from left), Terry Passa a graduate of Mount Lawley consultation with the Arch- without whom it cannot ( • Continued Page 4) diocesan Pastoral Council.
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Marriage guidance council supports Family Courts
EXPERIMENTS In the meantime. a decision by t h.: Senae deferred the finalisation of a constitution for 18 months while parish councils were given the liberty to experiment with structures and
.procedural details.
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"We believe this to be an excellent suggestion. It will enable measures to be taken to ensure that a marriage be saved if it is at all possible." This was said by Father strongest criticism was "The Standing Committee Barry Hickey, director of poor conciliation provisions. has recommended that the the Catholic Marriage They were almost the Judge can oblige conciliaGuidance Council, when same as those contained in tion where a marriage is discussing the suggestion of present legislation, which under two years. t he Senate Standing Com- had been shown to be quite "We have suggested that mittee on the Family Law useless. conciliation can be obligatHill that a system of Family C'ourts be set up through- , "A Senate Standing Com- ory in two other situations: "1. Where one pannei. out Australia and that the mittee recently presented iudge be given wide powers its report on the Bill in. objects. to being divorced to oblige parties seeking div- which it reiterated the crit- against his or her will, and "2. Where the welfare orce to appear before a icism of the marital conciliation Provisions." Father officer, after the compul-our! conciliator. Hickey added. sory conference over the Thf: council has made a "It suggested that a sys- custody of children has been submission to the Feder. l A ttorney-General, Senator tern of Family Courts be set held, believes that conciliaMurphy, the Prime Minist- up throughout Australia, tion could succeed. "Only if decisions arc -r. Mr. Whitlam, the Leader and that the Judge be given of the Opposition, -Mr. Sned- wide powers to oblige part- made- with the good of the den and the -Federal mem- ies seeking divorce to ap- family in mind can the Bill ber for Perth, Mr. Joe Ber- pear before a court coneil- be honestly called a Family Law Bill." inson which contain recom- iltor.mendations on the conciliaEnlarcine his comment on. ON INSIDE PAGES tion aspect. the suggested Family The Bill (now before Courts. he said: Calendar 4 Parliament having passed "We welcome the suggestthe Senate) had been strongthat Judges be versed in Ciassified Advertising 10 ly criticized • because it matters, so that deopened the way to easy div- cisions are taken with the o tters 11 orce and could underrnin•:, interests of the whole fam"c,vys In Pars 4 respect for marriage as Ay in mind. permanent institution. Fath "This will be possible sister Phi lomena Earle er Hickey said. since under the new Bill the 8 One of the features of the larried partners are not sport 12 Bill that had received- the litigants strictly speaking. , TV, Radio 12
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