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No. 1985. PERTH, THURSDAY, MAY 2.7, 1976
WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
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Human rightsthe Pope 00 responsibilit VATICAN CITY (NC). — Pope Paul stressed the power and responsibility of the media of communication for educating and training people In their fundamental human rights and duties in his tenth annual message released for World Communications Day, Sunday, May 30.
• Visiting Scripture specialist, Jesuit Father William Dalton (right) is pictured during a break at this week's public lectures talking with (from left) Mr. Chris de Si lva, Mrs. Beverley Ravensthorpe and Mrs. Cynthia Furniss, Father Dalton wi,11 'lecture on the Holy Spirit at the Redemptorist Retreat House on Sunday _evening.
He spelt this out as "the tion. without which they -The Church," he added, rights to life, study and would not be aware of their "does not claim any special work; the rights to be born rights and duties. privilege in the field of mass and to exereise responsible He warned that the media media, but it reaffirms its parenthood; the right to could be used to violate right and duty to be present peace, freedom and social rights just as overt violence in it. justice; the rights to prac- could by "manipulating" (• Continued P.3) tise religion and share in people through a kind of decisions that effect the life "cultural oppression." of the individual or of the MAN'S "FIRST NEED" people as a whole." "Man's first need is to The Pope proclaimed master himself, to conduct "with equal -force and clar- himself responsibly," and ity' the corresponding du- this, said the Pope, should ties without -which, he said, be assisted by the media. VATICAN CITY (NC). there would be an imbalance He urged governmental — Pope Paul created 19 that would damage social authorities to promote cul- new cardinals in special life. ture through the media. ceremonies here that he He called for respect for CAUSES 'IGNORED' himself had stripped of He said tliat people need facts and opinions, a search much of their pagean- waited with their relatives nour, one begins with the • the support _Of public opin- for truth and "an enlightenand friends in the Pierluigi head." ion if they were to get their ed deference toward the su- try. The final ritual, the papal preme value of the person." In 1969, Pope Paul abol- Nervi Audience Hall, as rights. People, he said, should ished much of the finery of Pope Paul called together concelebration of- Mass with But, he complained; some the present college of car- the new -cardinals. took plaeauses were 'championed by be "watchfully critical" of the cardinalate. Pope Pius XII dispensed dinals in the Consistory ce in Si. Peter's -Basilica on the media' 7of communica- what they saw and heard with trains, but Pope Paul Hall, to inform them cere- Ascension Thursday. .. tion, while others, equally in the media. away with the watered monially of his decision. did It wis then t-it t the Pope Just and urgent, were ignor- CHURCH'S RIGHT silk robes. gave the cardinals their ed. He called on them to supHuge, red, wide-brimmed RED HATS ASSIGNED rings. The media, said the Pope, port what was good as well At the public consistory had almost alone the task as to oppose what was "con- hats, ermine caps and crimThey are no longer the of supplying-people with co- trary to truth and human di- son shoes with silver buck- in the huge audience hall, elaborately set sapphires of les also went the way of the Pope Paul assigned to the precouncil days, but plain rm and complete informa- gnity. cardinal's courts of the his- new cardinals their red hat. gold bands merely engraved tory books. or biretta, of office. with' Frope Paul's coat of The change coincided with The apostolic nuncios. el- arms. the Second Vatican Coun- evated to the Cardinalate — modest of Cardinals cil's emphasis on the spirit- those working in Austria means have obviously been ual rather than the material, and Portugal — did not re- glad to see the end of such but it also appealed to the ceive the biretta, since tra- excesses., which they paid simpler, more streamlined dition in those countries pre- out of their private funds. tastes of Pope Paul him- scribes that they be given Pruning of the cardinal's self, rather than the baro- the cardinal's hat by the re- wardrobe has also favoured que glories of the past. spective Heads of State. the poorer prelate. Present robes cost about SOME GLITTER LEFT TO PROD THE MULE $500, -Instead of the more Some glitter remains, howAlong with their birettas than $3;000 needed to outfit e\ er. they received the red cloth preconciliar cardinal. The three ceremonies as- and gold stick which the sociated with the elevation cardinals of those times used ON INSIDE PAGES to the College of Cardinals to prod the mule they rode MEDIA are the secret consistory at in solemn public ceremonies, ITEMS 2,3,4,6 8 which the Pope formally and believed to have been Calendar 10 creates the new cardinals, introduced by Pope Paul II Classified the public consistory at (1464-71). Advertising 4 which he gives the cardinals Pope John XXIII, in pla9,10 their hats and the concele- cing the biretta on the head Letters 11 brated Mass at which the of Cardinal Montini, now Music KEVIIS 4 cardinals receive their rings Pope Paul V1, explained the News In Pars 1 0, 1 2 custom by saying. 'When Sport rite 0104( eitzated ot4tite est e444/ of office. For the secret or ordinary one wants to offer a distin- Theatre 8 1308 ALBANY HIGHWAY CANNINGTON TELEPHONE 68 1826 consistory the cardinals-elect guished person a special ho- T.V. 8; Radio 11
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