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DIOCESAN PASTORAL COUNCIL MEETS re-constituted The Diocesan Pastoral Council for the next two years held its opening thering at the Redemorist Retreat House last weekend. On Saturday some 30 members held a day of reflection; on Sunday, a similar number met for the election of the executive and the first business session. . Pictured are some of the members newly nominated In the council by Archbishop Goody after their names had been submitted from parish and regional Meetings. After each name is the suburb of residence; DioCouncil Pastoral cesan members are not specifically representative of their parish or their zone. left to right. Front row: Father B. WHITELY, Hamersley. Miss LUCY ARITI, Wanneroo. Mr. ANTHONY POLI, Stoneville. Mr. GERARD OVERMAN, Woodlands. Second row: Mr. RODERICK THOMPSON, Armadale. Father GEOFF BEYER, Armadale. Sister M. A SSUMPTA,
'Cock and bull' charges, Ordination of women "will black bishop warns of again be denied" if S. African 'bloodbath' raised in 15 or 20 years
NEW YORK (NC). — Anglican Bishop Tutu of Lesotho, rejected "cock and bull" charges the accusations that Communists are behind as Mr, TORRENS HAWracial strife in South Africa. KES. Dianella.
Brother DES O'GRADY. Manning. Back row: Father ROBERT MATTHEWS, Midland. Mr. KEVIN BARTLE, Kalgoorlie. Mr. THOMAS JOYNES, Kalgoorlie. Mr. RAYMOND AYRES, Melville. Other newly appointed members not in the photograph are Miss NENNIE HARKEN, Manning, and Mr. KEVIN HOGAN, Bencubbin.
EXECUTIVE The newly elected executive of the Diocesan Pastoral Council: Chairman: Miss Patricia DOLAN. Vice-chairman: Mr. Frank BATIM. Secretary: Mr. Gerard OVERMAN. Members: • Mr. William HUXLEY Father G. BEYERS. Miss Lucy ARITI. Minutes secretary: Miss Kath MEALY. Permanent members of the Diocesan Pastoral Council are: Archbishop GOODY, Bishop QUINN, Bishop HEALY, Father Nicholas McS'WEENEY, Director of Catholic Missions. (0 CONTINUED PAGE 2)
Papua-N.G.'s diplomatic ties with the Vatican
VATICAN CITY (NC). — Papua New Guinea, a self-governing territory in the West Pacific, has become the 33rd nation to establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican during the pontificate of Pope Paul VI. The Vatican announced earlier this month that it would establish an apostolic nunciature in Papua New Guinea and that an embassy to the Vatican would be opened.in Rome. The territory, which was formerly under Ausadministration, tralian consists of the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and a number of islands off its coast. Catholics comprise 26 per cent of the population of 2.7 million. There are three archdioceses and 12 dioceses with 236 parishes in the territory.
He said here that "any o15- used and uses legalised and position to the Government institutional violence to opis branded as Communism" press them. in South Africa. "They have as they see Bishop Tutu warned "the it had no other option left options are fast running open to them but to resort out" for South Africa's to violence. And they have blacks. been flabbergasted at how Barring a miracle, he said, most of the Western world a bloodbath of possible turned pacifist all of a sudworld war dimensions would den." not be prevented, because "we will not be unfree forever." "FIRMLY COMMITTED" Bishop Tutu said: "DesWhile Bishop Tutu said perate people will use des- that he was firmly commitperate methods to obtain ted to justice and peaceful their freedom and self- radical change, "I can't go determination. on saying all these things when the other side is arm"NO OTHER OPTION" ed to the teeth and has no qualms about using its mili"Blacks do not hate tary and police might ruthwhites because they are lessly. white. "I believe fervently in the "No. They hate a white- role of the Church in our dominated system of injus- kind of situation not as a tice and oppression.. tool to maintain and per"This must be changed or petuate the status quo, but overthrown for the sake of to be the only real opposiSouth Africa, for the sake tion to injustice and oppresof all of its people. both sion. black and white. "I am commited to the "And it is because blacks liberation and freedom of in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), in South Africa and Namibia our people both black and (South West Africa) have, white because while one sect hey believe, tried every tion of society is unfree and peaceful means that they oppressed . . . the oppresshave been compelled reluctantly to resort to violence ors are themselves unfree to oppose a system that has and in need of liberation."
VATICAN CITY (NC). — If the question of priestly ordination of women comes up again in another 15 or 20 years it will again be denied, said Dominican Archbishop Jerome Hamer, in an interview on Vatican Radio. "The answer will be the same," said the archbishop, "because it is based upon tradition and not On some so(s.io-temporal circumstance." Archbishop Hamer is secretary of the Vatican the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith which issued the recent declaration of reaffirming the traditional banning of priestly women from orders. Pointing . out that the rights of Christians in the Church are rooted in Baptism, which is the same for all, the archbishop said that equality should not be confused' with uniformity. "The declaration," he said, "recalls that the fundamental equality of the baptised .does not prevent different roles for men and for women in the building up of the Body of Christ." He said that this truth should be kept in mine:, when the ordination of/ women was discussed. The archbishop stated that the declaration "was requested, approved and published on the orders of the Holy Father."
Thus, he explained, it was part of the teaching of the Pope and the authentic teaching of the Church, "to which the members should give religious assent." Archbishop Hamer stressed that the declaration did not propose any new teaching, but simply "re-stated with clarity and authority a well-
known position of the Church, and one which is founded upon tradition. "Thus, after the recent declaration, it is not simply a question of the doctrinal credibility of the competent congregation, but also a matter of the weight of the authority of the tradition of the Church."
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