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Pope will not receive, rebel archbishop
VATICAN CITY (NC). — The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Paul VI recently refused to receive the rebel Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, since the archbishop has mode "no serious act of repentance" for his traditionalist activities. In a statement from the Vatican Press office, the Vatican warned that seminarians training at the archbishop's seminary in Switzerland were preparing for a "ministry which is in direct opposition to the Church and its legitimate pastors." The declaration emphasised that Pope Paul "continues to hope that Archbishop Lefebvre will understand finally what is the single path to follow which is worthy of his faith and his episcopal ordination." This was so, added the statement, even though the prelate "is daring to organise a movement of priests, who are irregularly ordained, to exercise a 'ministry' in an autocephalous (self-governing) manner, and is trying to multiply by any means the institutions set up by this movement." Pope Paul suspended the archbishop last sum-
Ordination of 15 more students ECONE, Switzerland (NC). — Again defying his suspension from priestly functions, tradiArchbishop tionalist Marcel Lefebvre has announced that he will ordain 15 more students at his seminary here on June 29. The archbishop was suspended by Pope Paul from all exercise of his priesthood last summer, after he illegally ordained a group of his students to the priesthood. The Pope had personally issued orders forbidding the ordinations. Last September the Pope met the archbishop in an effort to reach a reconciliation, but the two churchmen subsequently disagreed strongly even on what had happened at their meeting.
mer after he conducted illicit ordinations to the priesthood in open defiance of the Pope. Since his suspension from priestly functions, the archbishop has continued to celebrate public Masses according to the pre-conciliar rite. The Vatican also condemned recent ordinations to the now obsolete minor orders conducted by the archbishop in February. The four minor orders — acolyte, porter, exorcist and lector — were not part of Holy Orders, despite their name, but they were preliminary steps on the way to the priesthood. Over the centuries any relationship between the minor orders and the functions they were supposed to serve had virtually disappeared.
"NO SERIOUS ACT . . . In post-conciliar liturgical reforms the minor orders were suppressed and replaced by the installation of priesthood candidates into two ministries, lector and acolyte Unlike the former minor orders, these ministries are intended to be functional and are also open to the laity. The Vatican said that, despite the archbishop's desire to expressed "work for the salvation of souls in full submission to the vicar of Christ," he has made "no serious act of repentance which would permit the Pope to remove the canonical censure from the prelate and to receive him under conditions which would not lend themselves to more serious misunderstandings." The Vatican stressed that Archbishop Lefebvre "has made no effort to fall into step with the judgments and wishes of the Holy See in this regard." "Far from correcting
the most improper statements made by him against the person of the Pope and the authority of the (Second Vatican) Council, he continues to make propaganda against the Holy See, the council and the Church communion," said the declaration. The archbishop has rejected most of the council decrees as heretical. The Vatican appealed to the archbishop's young seminarians to renounce connections with the archbishop. Vatican officials here said privately that a few young priestly followers of the archbishop had been reconciled to the Church.
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Presbytery "ratings" — for a handout
LONDON. — Did you know that presbyteries have "star" ratings? Not, I hastily add, bestowed by motoring organisations, but by
Vatican advocacy on worldS water
UNITED NATIONS (NC). — The Vatican has prepared a paper for the first U.N. Water Conference which emphasises that "human considerations "In a new world order eases such as typhoid, cholmust . . . outweigh all based on distinctive justice, era and dysentery. others" in providing development objectives must It points out how difficult man-centred and intend- and hazardous the disposal water to communities be ed primarily to give him di of human wastes becomes especially in rural gnity and a better way of in the absence of a sewer areas. life through, as a minimum, system.
The paper says that The Vatican paper, based access to those natural reorganisaon long-term research by sources which it is his hu- Church-related many Church-related agen- man right to have," the pa- tions have long worked to prevent parasitic diseases cies, will be presented at the per states. It adds: "The Church-re- caused by infected waters. current conference in Mar A sizeable - portion of the lated programmes of assistdel Plata, Argentina. It says that present hu- ance have always given a study is devoted to agriculman needs must be met with paramount importance to ture, irrigation and man'.-; food. an eye toward posterity and water. About 10 per cent of the "We look forward to the it urges an environmental land surface is culearth's conferen tudy. ce providing new s tivated. orientations strategies and The paper says: In areas where farmers of water supply to meet hu"Water has a considerable depend on manual work and man needs." impact upon the life and animal power, about two well-being of man and of In dealing with the prob- billion people live in about lem of community water 100 countries in great povhis livelihood. considerations' supply and man's way of erty. "Human must consequently outweigh life, the paper points out A mong these, thei Vatican all others in the provision that 86 per cent of the wor- paper says, about 800 milof community water supply ld's population does not haL lion are people whose life especially to the rural wor- ye a public water supply. condition has been qualified ld, where hundreds of milIt notes that water pollu- as "an insult to human dig-lions still live without it tion is responsible for dis- nity."
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CAPTAINS • SUE GOOD (left) and IAN KNOX have been elected school captains of W.A.'s latest coeducational high school, Newman College, Churchlands. Situated on the Marist Clmrchlands site, Newman Senior College is a shared venture incorporating Marist, Brigidine and Siena senior classes. Sue comes from Wembley Downs and spent three years at Brigidine. a year last year at Marist College and in her fifth year is a foundation member of Newman. Ian Knox, of Wembley Downs, has been a student since Marist Grade 5, and is now in Year 12.
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