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No. 1966. PERTH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1976
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Missions need support in a changed task
Missionary activity today no longer consisted in transporting a Western-style of Christianity to an overseas country but of implanting Christian faith in a local culture, Father Nicholas McSweeney, Director of the Perth Catholic Missions Office, said this week. Justice in land tenure was fore Tonga is sending its "Today all the funds that people contribute to the mis- still a problem facing this own missionaries to evansions are sent without strings small nation in which feudal gelise us on our priorities attached' so that the local kings and nobles still con- in life" Father Bonato said. Father McSweeney said Church can carry out its trolled ownership of the that Father Bonato was a own missionary effort in its land. (The whole of Tonga has good example of how misown cultural setting," he an area of 270 square miles sionaries were today going said. 90,000 from Western Australia to He made these remarks for a population of help local churches develop in releasing the total figures people). in other countries. facing problem Another of funds contributed to the Propagation of the Faith Tonga was for other countries to permit the migration appeals during 1975. THE LOCAL Tongans into their counof ($141,total The overall EFFORT tries. 027) was up $10,125 on last year's figure but this needed "There has never been a to be considered in the light QUALITIES THAT t ime in the Church's histof today's inflationary trends ory when men and women HELP WORK Fr. McSweeney said. did not leave their own Tongan qualities that fac- countries to bring Christ's ilitated the work of the message to others," he addSUPPLYING Church, Father Bonato said, ed. "Our efforts locally, in THE MEANS were strong family life in the wider sense of commun- recruiting personnel, raising An even greater need, he ity. and their love of solemn money, and showing our insaid, was to keep in front ritual and prayer which terest, are all a necessary of all members of the sprang from their being a part of providing these men Church their obligation to strongly religious people. and women with the means provide missionary countries "It will not be long be- to do their work for others." with the means to do their 1 4 0•MANIINNIFNIP4-41.4.4, .4,, t rit Work in expanding the with faith. • Father J. Bonato, a Marist missionary in Tango, farrnerly from Katanning, pictured He referred to informar ather N. McSweeney, Perth D'rector of Catholic Missions. tion supplied this week by Father John Bonato, a Marist priest originally from Katanning and at present Below, is a summary of income for the past two on leave from his mission of Perth Mission Aid Societies: years in Tonga. Father Bonato, as well as 1975 1974 Father was McSweeney among the 200 priests, RePropagation of the Faith ligious and laity who attend74,354. 38 Membership subs . .. . ... . . . .. 66,190. 76 ed the two-week theology Mission Sunday coufse at St. Thomas More 12,243 .60 .... 11,016 . 02 collections .. . ' College recently. 6,148 . 00 ... 10,951 . 90 Donations LISBON (NC) — The bishops of Portugal, calling its 20-month old revolution a 17,504 . 49 ... 14.581 .92 Legacies self02 . 3.455 Interest ... . . . .. . ... .... .... .... 2.874 . 78 mixture of good and bad trends, declared that it needed the moral values and THE CHURCH 624 . 00 . . 8.00 Other .. .. ... . . .. . . ... . . .. . .. . for the sake of "those They also asked that sacrifice of the citizens. Holy Childhood IN TONGA unjustly deprived of their a land reform of abuses bishops referred to PortPrimary school The bishops endorsed lands and homes". programme be corrected Tonga after 140 years was 18,304 . 95 20,188 . 33 pupils . ugal's Christian heritage austerGovernment's the a strong Christian country, Peter Apostle the as still relevant in ity programme designed Father Donato said, principSecondary school r evolutionary era. a disrupted econpull to 81 . . 6.509 1 56 .... 6,973 students . ally because of the work of omy out of its long crisis. When speaking of, dcthe early Wesleyan Christ141,027 . 38 $ 130,902. 14 TOTALS And they said in their colonisation and paying ian missionaries. year-end message that it tribute to the bishops and Catholic 14.0.41141411.4114MIJONO Today the was equally urgent "to missionaries serving overChurch numbers which restore moral and civic seas, they observed: about one-fifth of the popuvalues". lation, was very much a "It.. is unjust to conlocal Church with its own demn five centuries of "Patriotism may reTongan bishop and with national history." quire the sacrifice of Use our SCHOOL one's life, but never the most of its priests and ReCatholic missions were ligious also native Tongans. SHOP-SWOP to adver- sacrifice of one's consstarted by Portuguese reweeks three y Onl the Church However, cience," they added. Asia, missionaries in there still had a clear mis- main till school re- tise the goods that you and South AmerAfrica The message acknowsionary apostolate, he said. commences. have, but others want ica from the 15th centledged that the revolution ury on. "a about Search cupboards had brought Then the bishops spoke YNESPAN POL ON INSIDE PAGES and shelves for uni- process of democratisaof patriotism at home as tion, replacing the autoWAY "the acceptance of our . . 4 forms, books, musical cratic regime by particiCalendar inheritance." historical The local bishop and Classified instruments, sporting pation at all levels, and In an appeal for reconwideto ding correspon People had decided together 10 equipment, Advertising . ciliation, the bishops askscientific spread reappraisals" of that their task was to keep News In Pars 4 ed that the government econalive the simple Polynesian S ister Phi lomeno instruments, typewrit- political, social and grant amnesty to followomic aspects of PortuChristianity of the Tongan ers of the previous dict7 ers, Earle tope de owe tweed game ia eau! recorders, society. gal's People. atorial renime. no‘v ir 2 1 NNING HIGHWAY CA Sport etc. This would be done prison or in exil:!. 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