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The Seafarers, Church and the Community
Seafarers pay taxes but are probably least able to enjoy the community benefits that their taxes support, according to two priests closely associated with maritime workers.
S. dedication as truly a vocaMonsignor Francis The work of the ApostleFrayne, a Vatican official tion. ship of the Sea was changco-ordinating work for sea"Personal service and the ing because the majority of farers, said this week that quality of being available seamen were now from the seafarer was least likely are what is needed," added Third World countries and to enjoy the cultural and Father O'Shea. the majority of them nonwelfare results of his taxes, "It's easy to give money," Christians. principally because he was at he said, "but not so easy to sea or in a foreign port. give personal service." (• CONTINUED PAGE 2) He said that it was the resposibility of the maritime industry and the civil administration to do more tohelping wards seafarers ashore. In industries on the land, companies accepted their responsibilities in this regard and the same should apply to shipping interests.
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"Brutal persecution" of the Church under communists VIENNA (NC).— Czechoslovak exiles here and in Germany recently charged that the Church suffers "brutal persecution" under communist rule in their homeland.
At a Press conference here, Jiri Starek, a former cultural attache of the Czechoslovak Embassy
in Vienna, who has lived in exile since 1963, charged that in communist Czechoslovakia "hun-
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dreds of priests are . . deprived of their licences to function . . . and now are forced to eke out miserable existences as common labourers." As a result, he added, "hundreds of Catholic parishes are vacant." Mr. Starek also charged that the majority of priests are refused permission to practise their calling.
NUNS IN FACTORIES
Women Religious, h said, were drafted as workers in the factories "where their wages amount to but one half of the ordinary wage scales." . Those unable to perform physical labour were confined to "concentration convents" where they must pay rent nearly double the monthly wages of those who could work, he said. (• CONTINUED P. 2) 4•41 .4 , 004,411 , 041.~4.#4.4.44141,4,0414,...
In a comment on this point, Father Sean O'Shea, • Father SEAN O'SHEA Fremantle director of the ( left) Fremantle Direc- Apostleship of the. Sea, said tor of the Apostleship that very little support had of the Sea, is pictured come to his mission from shipping companies. with the wooden plaque theMonsignor Frayne was in he presented this week Perth after having attended to Monsignor FRANCIS in Sydney with Father FRAYNE (right), Rome O'Shea the national conferco-ordinator of the Ca- ence of the Apostleship of tholic apostolate to sea- the Sea. men in 76 countries, Himself a lay worker in who was on a visit to a Stella Mans Club at Liverpool before his ordination, Australia. Monsignor Frayne became port chaplain at Liverpool and national director of the apostleship in England.
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His Rome office currently co-ordinates the work of 500 chaplains in 76 countries, working through 150 Stella Regrettably, complaints Mans Clubs and other loare still received from time cal centres. The responsibility of a to time of The Record not being on sale at parish community towards seachurches or there being farers was great, he said. If a large number of miinsufficient copies for late Masses, or of not being grants arrived in an area, prominently available at the community had to take an attitude towards them — all church entrances. not always the correct one. Seafarers came in much greater numbers, he said, ON INSIDE PAGES but in fragmented groups Calendar 4 and were not seen by the community. Classified There had to be the AposAdvertising 10 tleship of the Sea because it Letters 9 was part of the mission of the Church and its aim was News In Pars 4 total welfare, physical and 10, 12 spiritual. Sport particular characterisTheatre 9 ticThe of Apostleship of the T.V. & Radio 8 Sea workers was to see their
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