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Telephone link for Sunday's Marian rally
What is said to be the largest sound system ever used in Western Australia will be a crucial link in the Marian procession and rally on the Esplanade on Sunday afternoon (November 30).
Presentation Order's bi-cenlenary The Premier, Sirii Charles Court, was, principal guest ofli honour at the Festival Mass concele-1 brated by Archbishop Goody and 55i priests in St. Mary si. Cathedral last Tues-! day morning to;; mark the bi-centen-' ary of the founda-:I: t ion of the Presentation Order. • Archbishop is ° seen greeting Sir Charles Court out-i s ide the cathedral!' a fter the function. ! ( See also Page 3)
QUINLAN DECISION APPROVED LEGALLY, BUT WASHINGTON (NC).— The decision to keep Karen Quinton alive by mechanical means has drawn general approvai from theologians as perhaps the best decision, legally speaking, that could have been handed down in the circumstances. But the entire affair drew some stinging rebukes concerning the way it has been handled from the start. . The sharpest criticism of the case came from Dr. Andre Hellegers, director of the Kennedy Centre for Bioethics at Georgetown University, who said: "The losers in the case are Karen Quinlan and her parents. The machine is doing nothing for
her. She is being used." "I suspect the judge could not have ruled otherwise, given New Jersey law," said Dr. Hellegers, who had harsh words for the doctors and hospital involved in the Karen Quinlan case. "It is paradoxical that a Catholic hospital handled the case that will introduce euthanasia to the United States," he said. The effect of the episode, according to Dr. ellegers, will be "unl vise legislation."
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"Legislators will atempt to write laws coyring all possible situations, and these attempts vill fail to achieve their lurpose," he said. "The decision may have been the best possible in law, but it is horrible in ethics. "It takes the family out of the decision, and hands it over to the doctors." Jesuit Father Richard A. McCormick also of the Kennedy Centre for Bioethics said, "I don't think the case should have ever got to the courts. "These things are • andled thousands of times a day within the
pat lent-doctor-family relationship. "Bringing it to the courts makes it part of an impersonal process." Although "no real good can come of such a decision," the Jesuit said: "I will say that the decision probably did the least amount of harm that it could have done once it went to court. "With the decision as it is now, it could strike fear into doctors who wish to withdraw extraordinary means," said Father McCormick.
IF IT HAD GONE OTHER WAY
"But had it gone the other way, it would be read as permitting euthanasia," he added. "I would have serious objections to the judge's ruling that such a decision is a medical one — if that means it is the concern of the doctor alone," Father McCormick noted. Father W. Smith of St. Joseph's Seminary. Yonkers, applauded Judge Robert Muir's finding that "there is no constitutional right to die." He pointed to pressures being mounted in favour of allowing those who are ill to die.
With the help of Deacon would cause distress to It would also considerDavid O'Brien, Executive anybody, in the event of ably lessen the impact of Officer of the Catholic any emergency, St. John the occasion. Radio and Television Ambulance officers would "We want participants Council, who is a former be immediately on hand to radio station chief engineer, assist at any point in the in this function, not spectators lining the streets," an approach was made procession. he added. "It is a significearly in October to Purviant Catholic occasion of sonic to help solve probcontinous prayer and hymlems associated . with the NO POINT Father Lyons added that ns in procession with which procession. The provision of sound there would be little point as many Catholics as posalong the route has been in trying to conduct a short sible should be identified. solved by the hiring from procession say, half the "It will be the coming Telecom Australia of tele- length of planned one, as together as a diocese of phone cables at 11 outlet this would eliminate partici- the parishes since August pation by some thousands 15 have undertaken the points along the route. of people and would de- spiritual preparation of this stroy the concept of a revival of devotion to the CONTROL In addition, special con- procession through the city. Mother of God." trol boxes have been airfreighted by Seebtirg to link the telephone outlets to the public address vans stationed along the route. Business premises nearby have donated their electrical supplies to feed the systems.
I3v this means, simultaneous transmission is guaranteed to the con•u-egation on the Esplanade and to the marchers at all points along the processional route.
NOT TOO LONG
The chairman of the Crusade for Mary Organising Committee, Father J. B. Lyons, answering suggestions that the route of the procession was rather long, pointed out that any person who was not physically able to accomplish the 1.2 miles of the procession would be accommodated on the Esplanade and would be able to participate in the whole programme because of the modern electronic sound system which would operate simultaneously for all sections of participants.
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Further, Father Lyons said, the distance the procession would travel was rather shorter than that of processions or marches usually held- in the city. While it was not anticipated that the distance
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