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No. 2012. PERTH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1976
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THE POPE'S 1977 MESSAGE
Peace and Life supreme values Pope Paul has called on the world to pursue Peace in the cause of Life and to fight against the evils of war, abortion and organised crime. It is the tenth annual posed as the sad triumph of principle of the sacredness Peace Message that the death. of life both to those who Pope has given. The Pope then turns to believe in God and to those Each year at this time the other alternative. who do not. the Pope calls on the "In the same hypothesis, For the former it is Church and all mankind to the privileged life of some spontaneous and instinctive. devote their prayers and can be selfishly and almost For the others, "this same energies to peace. idolatrously preferred, at sense of the sacred is and The Pope sees himself as the expense of the oppres- must be something sensed by virtue of human dignity. a leader of a pilgrim people. sion of others. "Is that peace?" "The voice of innocent "I am a prophet of peace", "If you want Peace, DE- blood cries out with hearthe says. FEND LIFE". rending insistence in the The Pope is not a pessi"Life is the crown of heart of the person who mist: "The idea of peace peace. If we base our ac- killed it. seems to have taken hold, tivity on the sacredness of "Inner peace is not posLocal Christion Broas an expression that equals life, war is virtually disqual- sible through selfish sophand perfects civilisation. thers pictured after their ified as a normal and hab- istries!" "You have seen how the itual means of asserting Lastly, the Pope turns to profession (from left): very achievements of prorights. "the hundred forms" in gress can be the cause of JEFFREY "In order to have an au- which offences against life Brothers conflict, and what conflicts! thentic and happy peace, it seem to be becoming norThree West Australians their profession at the Ros- Crooks. of Trigg and the After the last war, he WILD, MICHAEL LAis necessary mal behaviour: _ made their final profession trevor College Chapel, South late Lionel Crooks. He was says, peace was seen to be • to defend life, educated by the Holy FaLOR GERALD as Christian Brothers, at Australia. and ORGANISED victorious at long last. • to heal life, The vows of the professed mily Sisters at North Beach Aquinas College Chapel, "Where individual crime "There sprang up the works CROOKS. • to promote life." brothers were received by and later at C.B.C. Leederlast week. is organised to become coland institutions proper to appointments The Pope then turns to lective. Brother J. C. Woodruff, ville. His peace, like fresh spring The preceding evening provincial superior the three evils of the day: of the have been at Trinity and leaves. • Where the silence and Australians South two made Holy Spirit Province, arms race, abortion complicity which Fast Victoria Park. "The world does well to the of all citizens is and organised crime. covers Western and South Brother Jeffrey 'Wild reImposed. be proud of them and to ised in this way. "We denounce the false Australia. ceived his early education preserve • Where private vendettheir efficiency "Where violence rages, and dangerous programme At Aquinas, the Mass of at Norseman and later at and development. ta becomes a collective duty true peace ends. of the arms race. the profession ceremony ivas C.B.C. Kalgoorlie. He has and terrorism a phenom"But human where • Even if war does not enon of legitimate celebrated by Bishop Quinn. taught at Geraldton and social or rights are truly professed break out, how can we fail NEW CHALLENGES Brother Michael Lalor, Highgate, where he is now political affirmation. and publicly recognised, to lament the outpouring of son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. stationed. MELBOURNE. "It is impossible for peace becomes the joyful "But there are new chal- resources by each country In South Australia, makpeace to flourish where the and operative atmosphere The Catholic Education Lalor of Floreat, received lenges. to preserve its shield. his early education from their final profession, ing ommission of Victoria C safety of life is comprom- of life in society." "Peace seems to succumb "Peace and life support wants parents to in- the Brigidine Sisters and were Brothers Peter Gaughto a victory of the world's enormous burdens in order crease their participa- later at Saint Louis and win, who has been staincapacity to govern itself to maintain a peace foundAquinas. Since his first pro- tioned at Fremantle and is tion in, the running of fession he in and through peace. ed on a perpetual threat to has served at now at Highgate, and Broschool "Peace is a pinnacle that life. the Church's Kalgoorlie, Albany and ther Richard Cavanagh, who presupposes a complex inner system. Clontarf. was formerly at Adelaide supporting framework. There is unresolved an question achieving in a It distributed this month Brother Gerald Crooks is and is at present at BedFALLACIOU S "I reaffirm my conviction true relationship between peace and life, Pope through 475 primary and the son of Mrs. Patricia ford. "The constitutional chalPaul concludes in his 1977 message. that peace is a duty, peace secondary schools in Victorlenge which the arms race is possible". • it, an eight-page pamphlet sets up is a fallacious formFaith, he says, is needed to discover the system The Pope in his 1977 parents. to addressed of forces working within the human situation. ula. message links peace and There is an important exception, he says, to the "We praise the effort alAims of this initial publihuman life. cation and of four ,.planned ready begun to reduce and reasoning, stated earlier, that Life comes before "Peace and Life. They finally to eliminate this Peace, that Peace depends on the inviolability of Life. for next year are: are supreme values in the senseless cold war." The Pope asks if there is a higher good than • To Show parents the civil order. They are values The Pope then turns his life. role they could play and that are interdependent." There are values which surpass life itself, he attention to abortion. how they were and could answers. "Do we want peace? Then "Every crime against life be represented in the Cath"Truth, justice, civil freedom, love of neighbour, let us defend lifer is a blow to peace." olic education system; f aith.Over history, the Pope The Pope lists some of • To seek their views He quotes Saint John's Gospel: continues, these two terms, the alleged reasons in supand ideas concerning the "Anyone who loves his life (more than these peace and life, have been port of abortion: Catholic education of their involved in a struggle. • To slow down popu- higher goods) loses it." children; Peace must thought be of in relation to life. Peace is sought and won lation growth. • To encourage their coPeace must itself become the harmony that makes through conflict, he says, • To eliminate the malhuman existence ordered and happy, so that this operation and collaboration like a sad doom necessary formed. with priests and teachers existence must not be separated from the higher for self-defence. • Social dishonour. and with administrators and "If peace and life, how• Proletarian misery, and ends which confer on its primary reason for being. regional consultants of the What gives life its religious finality? ASK FOR GEOFF CHURACK, ever, can be separated, the like. four diocesan education offi"Give citizenship to love in its highest expresPETER FENNESSY OR PAT MURPHY. there looms on the horizon "Human life is sacred sion, ces in Melbourne, Ballarat. sacrifice." of the future a catastrophe from the first moment of "If sacrifice forms part of the plan of redemption, Sale and Sandhurst. of which Hiroshima is an its conception until the last commission also will it not regain peace? The eloquent proof and a proph- moment of its natural sur"Christ is our Peace. plans to hold public meetetic example. vival in time." "I wish peace to all those who with our blessing ings in each diocese next CANNINGTON: 1308 Albany H/Way. 68 1826 "Peace then could be imThe Pope applies this r eceive this our message of peace and life." MELVILLE: Canning H/Way. 39 1711 tic 0891. year
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