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Pregnancy Help counselling set up in Perth Pregnancy Help, a counselling service by telephone for women in distress or who are worried about pregnancy has been launched in Perth as a new initiative of the welfare arm of the Church. Other agenices and social ally for further counselling In the presence of medical and social-work repre- workers were possibly deal- at the Catholic bureau. Archbishop Goody, in ofsentatives, Archbishop Goo- ing with similar cases thrody formally launched the ugh hospital contacts but ficially launching the serservice last Tuesday night. this service was advertised vice on behalf of the archInitially, the new phone specifically for this assist- diocese, stressed that, opposervice wil be available ance. sition to abortion and infrom 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. MonFather Hickey told the in- fanticide was not just Cadays to Fridays and it will augural . meeting that this tholic morality or a quesbe extended into evenings new counselling service was tion of Catholics pressing hours if the demand for the intentionally separate from their moral opinions on othservice during those hours the political lobby working ers. becomes apparent. Opposition to abortion, he to oppose the liberalisation Father Barry Hickey, Di- of the abortion laws. said, had been the sign of rector of the Catholic FamSuch a political lobby was civilised peoples emerging ily Welfare Bureau, said that desirable, he said, but it from their barbarism. the new service was an ex- was . considered more appr.o- In his view the tolerance tension of an offer to help priate to separate a coun- of the practice of abortion made by the Archbishop on selling service for women in today was a sign of decline two occasions in the past distress from political as- in civilisation. five years. sociation.
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UNANIMITY PROBLEM
HIPPOCRATIC OATH
Priest shortage; ideas for recruitment
He cited the Hippocratic For this reason, Father Oath of the 5th Century At that time the Archbilikely candidates as well as In six years' time shop, he said, pledged the .Hickey explained also that B.C. that pledged physicians their completing those of Archdiocese mathe been had s ',resources of the archdiocese investigation to avoid abortion and inschooling. to women in distress thro- de into setting up the ser- fanticide and also a 1948 Perth could have forty He gave notice of a Day vice as a community-based Geneva medical oath of the priests fewer than at ugh pregnancy. of Enquiry at the seminary would unanimity but • Some 200 people had al- effort World Health Organisation present. on October 24 for interestseady approached the Cath- have been hard to achieve that states: was the possibility could play a part by suggest- have considered the matter ed people. This olic Family Welfare Bureau on many issues. "I shall keep absolute re- put before all the priests at ing suitable candidates who previously. Archbishop Goody supIn Melbourne, he said, spect for human life from as a result of this offer. conclusion of their an- could then be given 'encour- In this way he had open- ported Father O'Brien's rethe under operated Their need in most cases the service the moment of conception." nual retreats by Father Jim agement, .by their . parish ed the seminary with twenty quest for a positive approahad been for counselling Catholic auspices, as in Per- Not only was abortion O'Brien in his report as Di- priests if the suggestion were students, of whom eight ch by all parties and said And support in their condi- th; in other cities, it was forbidden by the Command- rector of Vocations. were ordained, seven work- that since this had worked accepted. conducted by various pro- ments of Mount Sinai but tion. ing still as priests , and one in the past there was hope eight stuonly are There procedure, this Justifying The new phone service, life community groups. was repeated in the 1st dents as candidates for orthat it would work in the he pointed out that the for- deceased. Father Hickey said, was an Century Church and most dination to the priesthood in With the present trend to- present. priesthood to vocation mal DOPTION A attempt to make this parrecently by Pope Paul VI He stressed the importThe set-Nice was for both and his two predecessors, the next six years, while in came from the bishop on wards late vocations, Fathticular work of the Cathpriests of prayer and particuance ,that forty-eight suggested time, O'Brien that er ordinaman's. a the day of olic agency more identifi- married and unmarried wo- the Archbishop said. or even more may be lost don, but that external call lads who had left school larly of perseverance in pregnancy by distressed men able and visible to the genThe new service was an to obtain priests. . and not necessarily Catholic attempt to put action into from the active ministry by actually involved a long- should be considered, as prayer eral public. dispenor retirement death. on went that process term or of any denomination. the Church's spoken princi- sation. through the time of seminThe chafted attitude of ples. - ary training; that was the society 'meant that the unPregnancy Help was an LOSSES IN 1976 call of Christ through the married mother carried less effort to show not only deFather O'Brien invited his Church and there was good of a stigma over her condi- testation of abortion but altion and could more easily so an appreciation of the audience to count the num- reason for the laity, as part ber of priests lost from the of the Church, to play some adopt her child out, if she heart-breaking difficulties active ministry during 1976 part in calling 'a man to wished. encountered by women un, The married woman, with willingly pregnant if they al- — Father J. Depiazzi and serve as a priest, even if it TURIN (NC).— The pro- an unwanted pregnancy, on Father Albert Lynch have were only by making a suggressive cardinal of this the other hand, would rare- sourclowed nature to take died: Fathers J. McGillicud- gestion to the local reprenorthern Italian industrial ly seek Voption as a solu- Os course. dy and D. Brunetti and sentative of the bishop. City is taking a large Italian tion, and, so, she was un(ft SEE ALSO PAGES Monsignor Kennedy have news magazine to court for 2, 11) retired. • while two priests Dr. GOODY'S EXAMPLE der considerable pressure to Publishing a cartoon which have an abortion. have received dispensation Father O'Brien related he considers insulting to the Rome. ON INSIDE PAGES - from Pope. 'the clergy and the AVOIDING PRESSURE There is a probability of that when Dr. Goody, the Church's position on abor4 two or more priests retiring present Archbishop,, was reThe Pregnancy Help pho- Calendar tion. counselling a was service before the end of the year. cruiting to set up St. Charne Classified Seminary he had adoptThe court suit by the 73- session, offering a woman Advertising 10 In response to the situa- les' ed a very positive approach. Fadeveloped, has that year-old Cardinal Michele the opportunity to get awayy News In Pars tion ASK FOR GEOFF CHURACK. 4 Pellegrino of Turin was the from pressure from her ,'Boy ther O'Brien urged a posiApart from talking in PETER FENNESSY OR PAT MURPHY. 7 Music latest move by Church of- friend, family, neighbours or tive approach to the recruit- schools, he had sought ficials to oppose abortions doctor and talk to some- Sister Philomena ment of men for the priest- names of candidates from 8 hood and the involvement parish priests and spoken to Earle for pregnant women expos- one anonymously about her 12 10, Sport of lay people in that endea- the lads suggested about goed to a chemical known to problem. 7 vour. Produce a malformation in CANNINGTON: 1308 Albany H/Way. 68 1826 ing in for the priesthood. Phone contacts would be Theatre fetuses. MELVILLE: Canning H/Way. 39 1711 lic 0891. He said that lay people even though they might not 11 encouraged to call person- T.V. & Radio
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