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No. 1973. PERTH, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1976
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The kindness, the generosity and the willingness to co-operate of the people of the Goldfields had been legendary and this was why people loved the Goldfields, remembered appreciatively the time they had spent there and looked forward to a return visit, Archbishop Goody said last Sunday.
He was speaking to a "The thousands of people large crowd who had gath- who have passed through ered to see him bless the this college in the past 70 new $1 million premises at years have been a credit not • 1906 was a vintage year for Christian Brothers College, South Kalgoorlie that are only to the college but have K algoorlie, when its doors opened on October 1. Time has scattered the new home of Christian been a benefit and enrichthe many foundation students, but three were able to take part Brothers College after 70 ment to the Goldfields and seventy years later at the opening of the new Kalgoorlie college last years at the old Wilson to the whole of the State Sunday. From left: HERB GODDARD, LOU and BILL SHOCKER. Street site. and the Commonwealth,' Archbishop Goody said Archbishop Goody said. that although the climate "This is one of the finest was sometimes harsh and group of Catholic buildings conditions in the past less I have seen in this archdiocomfortable than nearer the cese and it would be hard coast, it did not matter be- to beat anywhere in Ausrevolution in thinking and towards cause of the quality of the tralia with the juxtaposition Progress in attitudes thrust on the people. Church unity was a pilof Prendiville and C.B.C. Church by the reassessment "Today it is a responsi- grimage with all its hazof itself which was the main THE FIRST bility .of Christian and Ca- ards and dangers, Bishobject of the convening of He noted that the first tholic schools in particular, op Alan Clark, a world the Church and across the the Vatican Council by Priest came to the 'Fields in to support not only parents ecumenism, Churches. in figure Pope John XXIII." 1893 closely followed by the but what is a decaying civof opening situation also gives the at said "That Sisters of St. John of God ilisation," he noted. Bishop Clark said that the National Summer a great sense of possibility, the context of any discusand the Sisters of Mercy. School on Ecumenism of a strange and inarticu- sion on ecumenism — by The decline of Albany as LIP SERVICE IS optimism about the fuat Melbourne University. late which was meant the coma port was to Kalgoorlie's NOT ENOUGH ture which clashes with the mitment of every Christian advantage as the Christian the of pessimism It meant that Christians rampant "The teachers in our were "committed to the pur- western societies of the build into \ isible unity the Brothers closed the school of Jesus Christ they had established in the schools have to be much suit of reconciliation at all world and the fierce chal- one Church — must not be seen as the south and came to open more firmly based in the- costs," and there was no lenges coming out' of the movement itself or its obtheir school in Kalgoorlie in ology than they were a few room for the faint-hearted, new, developing nations. :ous implications in pracyears ago. October, 1906. the trivial or the superficial has happen- :ical efforts to achieve re"Something enthusiast. Fifty years later the ( 0 Continued Page 6) ed and we', e had precious union, as it was rightly Christian Brothers re-openBishop Clark, of North- little part in this primaey called. (0 See also Pages ed their school in Albany. ampton, England, was giv- work. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9.) ing the main talk — Ecu"It burst on the world in RENEWAL OF menism, what is it all stages and disclos- THE CHURCH varying about? 1948 and 1964 between ures obligations "There are The context was much the foundations and opportunities' for Chris- — between larger — it was the renewCouncil of World of the ti:ols today that were not of the Church and the Decree al chrnanded of or given to Churches and the Churches. of Vatican II. o r forbears," he said. It meant we were comTENSION "Born outside the Cath- mitted to the pursuit of re"Not unnaturally, this olic Church, the ecumenic- conciliation at all costs. c reated tensions, frustrations al moverw_nt received an in(• Continued Page 3) and bitter anxieties within calculable impetus from the
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