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No. 1972. PERTH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1976
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Questions on Church spendin Suggestions for discussion of various aspects of Church building and expenditure of Church money are contained in a report considered by the Diocesan Pastoral Council at a recent meeting. The report prepared for the Justice and Peace Commission, dealt with Church spending "in the light of recent social teachings of the Church" and the diocesan council considered that sections should be brought to the attention of Parish Councils with a view to some of the matters being discussed by the parish councils and discussion groups within the parish.
"FOR ACTION"
The report contained some "tentative suggestions • for action" and these included: 0 The documents "Justice in the World" and "Populorum Progressio" (and the Australian Bish°Ps' Social Justice Statement for 1974) be recommended for reading and de'tailed study by as many as ,possible, both clerical and lay people, Diocesan and Parish Pastoral Councils, .especially persons responsible for church monies. It is essential that this be the case when any building programme is being contemplated.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
When bodies are being consulted about any new building programme, for (CONTINUED P. 2)
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Project Compassion Sunday
This Sunday (February 29) is Project Compassion Sunday throughout Australia and, as in other dioceses throughout the country, Project Compassion boxes will be distributed to every Catholic home through the churches. These boxes will be a reminder to people of the traditional Lenten practice of alms giving. The offerings of money will be used by Australian Catholic Relief to. fund self-help projects in the developing countries. Archbishop Goody has once again called on all priests to promote Project Compassion throughout the archdiocese for 1976. In doing so he thanked all those who had been associated with Project Compassion in 197.5 in which $54,000 was contributed during Lent. (• See also Page 4)
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History was made last week when the Catholic Pastoral Institute began its first of a series of courses at Mt. Lawley Teachers' College. • On hand to meet the lecturing team was Dr. MAXWELL COLLINS, vice-principal (right) who is pictured greeting Dr. J. PRENDIVILLE, director of the institute (second from right), Miss MARGARET GOMES, head of the institute's department for teacher training (third from left), Sister ELIZABETH CURRAN, lecturer in Old Testament (left), and Sister JOAN SMITH, lecturer in methodology of religious education. Mr. Michael Hennessy, senior lecturer in education at Mt. Lawley, will also be assisting with lectures in methodology.
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Mt. Lawley College is very aware of its role in serving the general community, and commenting on the growing number of trainees now entering the Catholic school system, Dr. Collins said: "Part of our role in the academic community is to meet the demands of the academic market place; and in our planning to meet such demands we must look to our physical and human resources to decide how we can best use these, as part of our responsibility for spending community funds for education." The team 'members of the Institute were delighted at the good response and keen interest of the students.
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the completion of two years of in-service training at the Nedlands In-Service Centre. Some of the students are from other Churches and have joined the class out of private interest, or because they hope to teach religion About 45 students regis- Religious Education. They are also valid, for in other independent schools tered for the courses, which These units are credited the Diploma of Religious or in Government schools. comprise — Scripture, The- by the College for the Dip- Education, which will: be given by the Institute after AT CHURCHLANDS ology and Methodology of loma of Teaching. -
Two views on the deathof a hunger striker
This week, Sister Joan Smith began a course in the methodology of religious edChurchlands ucation at Teachers' Training College. Some 29 students enrolled. Teachers from outside both of the colleges were welcomed to the courses.
LEEDS (NC).— Majority opinion among theologians holds that hunger striking is suicide even when the person refusing food is convinced he is unjustly treated, an English Catholic bishop said here after the death of an imprisoned Irish Republican Army (IRA) man.
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In a statement issued after the death of I.R.A. striker Frank hunger Stagg in Wakefield Prison, Bishop Gerald Moberle.y, auxiliary of Leeds, said that hunger striking is considered suicide because "the hunger • striker is deliberately causing his own death in order to put pressure on the authorities." Stagg died on the 61st day of his fast. The bishop added: "lt is therefore wrong. "Life is in the hands of God and no one has a right to directly take his own." But Bishop Moberley also pointed to a contrary view that a hunger
striker simply intended to refuse all co-operation and that death is incidental and indirect, if inevitable. He . said: "In any particular case the Church gives the benefit of the doubt to the conscience of the person concerned and does not refuse her ministrations." Describing the 34-yearo1d's -death as "cause for sadneSs that another life should be sacrificed in the tragedy of Northern Ireland," Bishop Moberley asked that it should be "cause for neither recrimination nor revenge but a spur to work for peace."
When members of the Provisional wing of the I.R.A. threatened a bombing campaign in retaliation for the death of Stagg, one of the dead man's brothers appealed to them not to start such a campaign. striking to Hunger death has been a tradition among Irish prisoners gaoled for opposition to British authority. Among those who used that form of protest, was MacSwiney, Terence Lord Mayor of Cork, arrested in 1920 on charges reldted to his participation in the Irish Republican movement. He died in a London prison after a prolonged strike.
The chairman of the Catholic Education Commission, Father J. Nestor, said: "The extension of the Pastoral Institute's programme to include trainee teachers is most gratifying. "I hope that Catholic school principals will do all they can to bring this to the notice of trainee teachers. "I believe that within a few years, trainees who have taken the courses will have a clear advantage over other applicants for teaching positions in Catholic schools. since every teacher in a Catholic school is expected to have an understanding of its objectives, the way in which they are implemented, and their relationship to the educational aims of the wider civic community."