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No. 1931. PERTH. THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1975
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Crucial point 10 Churches' unity dialogue
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One of the chief problems of practical ecumenism is that it should proceed from both ends at once — from the highest level of authority in the search for doctrinal agreement and at the grass roots, too, in the local church. An exception to this unin an unending series of conand exciting reserve had been dialogues ferences, the bilateral permission to joint commissions. pubNsh the two "agreed CONFIDENTIAL statements" of the Anglican. Catholic InternaRoman Since these meetings and dialogues were still contin- tional Commission on the uing and views are express- , Real Presence and Sacrified on either side with the cial aspect of the Holy Eugreatest honesty and frank- charist and the subsequent ness, the details of these dis- so-called Canterbury Statecussions must remain confi- ment on Ministry. These statements had dential until the findin2s and agreements, or absences shown a remarkable doctriof agreement, had been co- nal commence on subjects mmunicated to the authori- which had been bitterly disties of the participating puted between Anglicans Churches and the findings and Catholics for 400 years. are authorised for publicaADVANCE tion, he said. These statements the ArGreat embarrassment could result if an "agreed chbishop ,aid, were agreed to by the members of the statement" were published joint commission and showby a joint commission and ed a notable advance ir t hen repudiated by either or mutual understanding beboth of the Churches contween all the members but cerned. they were not statements of Hence, much of what doctrine on the Eucharist THE VATICAN went on at a plenary meet- and the priesthood which 0 Archbishop Goody is pictured above during a meeting he had with Pope Paul just two SECRETARIAT ing of the secretariat was were necessarily considered A rchbishop Goody occu- confidential because it was definitive by many Angli- weeks ago when he was in Rome with the first a rchdiocesan pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Rome. pies a position of advantage "unfinished work in pro- cans or Catholics, much less by the authorities of the Cafrom which to judge the gress.On the Frith.* of their He describd as impi,s- Year visits to the four major hern. Get hsemane, the CeliThis fact often caused tholic or Anglican Church. Progress of church unity as This was what was meant sive the "humanity. kind- basilicas, passing through acce and the Holy Sepul- week's stay, the pilgrims a member for the past seven e mbarrassment to members made the traditional Way of Years of the Vatican Secre- of the secretariat on their when we said that there ness and cheerfulness of the' Holy Doors and recit- chre. Besides three visits to the the Cross, taking it in turns tariat for Promoting Christ- return home from a meet- was a notable convergence His ,Holiness, especially in ing the appropriate prayers the manner in which he paid during the Mass celebrated Holy of doctrine, ing. ian Unity. Sepulchre Church, to support the large wooden One could even agree Particular attention to var- at each church. "the goal of the pilgrimage" cross carried by pilgrims. Earlier this year the ArThey also attended Mass according to the Arch'THE AGREED with all the paragraphs of ious groups present in the Because of pressure of chbishop attended his sixth large audience hall" (see in the catacombs of Saint bishop, the other most duties Archbishop left the t he brief statements and Plenary meeting of the sec- STATEMENTS" CallistuS. still quite reasonably dis.. page 6). memorable occasion. he pilgrims last week to return retariat in Rome. People wanted to know, said, was a holy hour of to Perth last Saturday, while Indicating something. of The Archbishop explain- and the media, in particular agree that the "agreed statemeditation at the rock of the main body went on to ed that in addition to those wanted to publish points of ments" of the commission he pressure under which C ARDINAL Gethsemane, conducted by other European shrines. who attend the annual plen- exciting progress, announce- a dequately express Cath- he Holy Father is V, Oa ing olic (or Anglican) belief on during the Holy Year. Arch- KNOX himself Monsignor and arY meetings, the permanent ments of great breakthe Eucharist or Ministry. 1:nat Knox. a fortm•r McMahon and Dean Walsh. ( • SEE PAGES 6 and 7) bishop Goody said that on secretariat staff is in con- throughs which, unfortunthe same day on which the \Vest Australian now a stant contact with represen- wely, , were usually impossTHIRD STAGE Australians had assisted at , senior. Vatican executive. tatives of 'other Christian ible to provide for publicaApart from this hopeful an audience of 10.000 peo- met the pilgrims and assist- bodies and with the Jews. tion. progress made in discuss- ple, there had been a fur- ed in 'their obtaining fronting our beliefs regarding ther group whom the Pope row the positions for • he Eucharist and Christian addressed in the square of 1-0.000-strong audience with ministry with our Anglican St. Peter and later he met Pope Paul in which they friends, there was the third a special 4,000-strong group were singled out together stage of the dialogue which of Germans in one of the with the Archbishop, for was going on now. • . particular mention. Vatican courtyards. This third stage concern- Before -reaching Rome, -d authority in the Church. the pilgrims had spent a Almost .as a shout inter- 10,000 RECEIVED week in the Holy Land. \'ening now into the friendThe Hol!, 1-a1het- ‘.%tts • commencing with Mass at talks was the question going through this sort of - Jaffa, the scene of St. Peter's lf Papal primacy, he said., routine two and possibh vision, and then at Mount How could there be re- four times a week, the Arch- - Carmel. Nazareth, Bethleunions between us, as much bishop added. as we hoped and prayed t in the following week the for it. until this great hurd. ON INSIDE PAGES Pope received a group of le had been surpassed? 10,000 Croatians — the big- _Calendar 4 gest group to come so far Classified INFALLIBILITY 10 Advertising The overtones of magis- from a Communist country. ieritim and infallibility here They were partly transport- Education File 11 ed in 650 large buses that imposed themselves also. 11 Letters the to double park had "As such sienificant mu4 Pars . In tual convergence and ap- length of .the Via della Con- News the Tiber Sister Philomena down to -iliazione proach to each other's way 9 Earle of thinking and expression d ie moat 01.4aredIttiNte eK Caul 10,12 W.V. LEADING GROCERS flitirirt,, their seven-day :Sport' had been possible in the CANNING HIGHWAY stay in Rome, the Austra(opposite Boans,Melville). ( • Continued page 2 ) lian pilgrimage made Holy ; TV, Radio Phone 391711 9 This was said by Archbishop Goody in a special statement written this year for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity which has extended from Ascension Thursday to Pentecost Sunday (May 18). If one or the other was neglected, the Archbishop said, there was a danger either of the academic agreement on the possibly sterile heights of a theological discussion, or of an enthusiastic and thoughtless cameraderie ignoring and neglecting (._hristian truth without which the church — united or disunited — had no meaning. Doctrinal agreements must not be pre-empted by a thoughtless plunge into mtercommunion when the functions of unity had not yet been re-established.
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