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MARRIED MEN AS PRIESTS? FURTHER CALL PARIS (NC). — Bishop Guy Riobe of Orleans has restated his call for the ordination of married men to the priesthood. Bishop Riobe said in an faithful, either laity or interview with "Paris Onze", priests," he said. an ecumenical newspaper in The latest interview with Paris' 11th District, that a married clergy would serve Bishop Riobe appeared in to enhance the witness of Paris after the bishop's visit celibacy made by priests to Rome, but it was given who freely chose to remain by him before he met Pope _ Paul. unmarried. The Orleans prelate had In the interview, the biearlier called for a married shop said that his call for clergy in an interview in the a married clergy was based on the desire of members Paris daily "Le Monde". of small Christian communiIn March however, when ties he had encountered. Bishop Riobe and other "It is the very life of bishops from central France made their obligatory five- these communities which deyear visits to the Vatican, mands that we be willing Pope Paul VI told the group to raise clearly the question that he would permit no of ordaining married men," • In years to come these children will be part of history as they were change in the ban on ord- said the bishop. among [There are three married aining married men as last Monday when Good Shepherd school, Kelmscott, opened its doors for thethe first 76 children who attended first time. Left to right: David priest in charge of parishes priests. SALE, Benjamin ATKINSON, Nadia KOWALEFF, Katrina WILLIS, Soraya FERNANDEZ, Joanne KIRKBY, in the Archdiocese of Perth. Anthony INGRAM, Stacey HAMILTON and Darren MITCHELL. Their ordination was ap'MORE MEANINGFUL' proved by the Popel "Ordination of married ON INSIDE PAGES men and the freedom to love would only make the Calendar . . 4 witness of men and women who dedicate themselves to Classified Jesus Christ and their LONDON (NC). — Advertis ing 10 it requires less courage and Miss Chiara LUBICH 8 brothers in a celibate \life not more to create a fam- Letter: more brilliant and meaning(pictured), winner of 5 ful," said ily, or a family of families, Getting Married . Bishop Riobe. the 1977 Templeton in the light of a great vision Mass Time Tables 6, 7 "I'm not asking for any Prize for the Advancelike the Gospel, here in the News In Pars . . . 4 change regarding conseCratheart of the technologi cal Sister Philomena ment of Religion, has officially recognised lay in- president of the Vatican's ed celibacy — rather my Earle . . . 11 position is quite Promised to donate the stitute of the Church, but Secretariat for Promoting society, in the midst of I. to the Conprize money — 50,000 many of its members, ob- Christian Unity, described civilisation which to many Sport10, 12 trary," he added. On Saturday, April 24, itself seems be suffering to pounds, 9 or about serve special vows and live the movement's aim of tak- from loss of nerve?" the Theatre World Day of Prayer for "But celibacy must be in small communiti es. ing the Gospel seriously as TV and Radio $86,000 — to projects . 10 free." vocations to the priesthood cardinal asked. terving the poor, chief- They pray together and "a revolutionary programand Religious life, Arch114, The bishop said that, he bishop Goody will ly in the Third World. through their small com- me." celebrate had no fears that he Was Mass at 7.30 munities try to promote The cardinal p.m. in St. told the At an award ceremony in alone in his position. Mary's Cathedral, in the London's medieval Guild- sound family and commun- award audience that the noity values based on Christ- tion of giving a prize for presensce of priests, Brothhall, the 56-year-old Italian SMALL COMMUNITIES ers, Sisters and their fam-the advancement of religion Woman who founded the ian teaching. The Italian word "focol- "might suggest a claim to Worldwide Focolare move"I have never made a ilies. are" means "hearth" or interior spiritual knowledge ment said: public gesture — something Each priest, Brother and 'I shall use the prize mo- "fireplace" and by extension that only the Lord Himself which hurts me because Sister, is asked to invite his make." could ney to enlarge the maternity "household" or "family." temperamentally such acts or her family to be present wing of the hospital in the don't suit me — unless it at this special eucharistic But there was also a deelittle town of Fontem in the 'AS I HAVE LIVED . . is in solidarity with the celebration. per view of the matter, he Cameroun, to build two said. Lubich. Miss who now houses for those who are lilives in the small town of "Many public prizes are ving in the shanty towns, Rocca di Papa a few miles nowadays offered in many the `mocambos,' of Recife, achievements for Brazil, and to build the last from Rome, spoke in Italian fields, stage of a religious and so- with an English interpreter which are publicly manifest at the award ceremony. and of benefit to humanity. cial training centre for Asidevoted She her talk to ans at Tagaytay in the Phiexplaining how the Focolare COURAGE lippines. "A public prize like the "I will keep a part of the movement was born in warTempleton is more than a Trent, time out in Italy, of Prize for the 'town of charity' which the diocese a desire to live Jesus' new gain to the recipient: of Ro"It is a public confession nk is setting up for handi- commandment to love one another "as I have loved of a scale of values, a pubcapped people." lic witness that, as the Aposyou." IN 33 NATIONS It had spread to encom- tle Paul says, 'None of us Miss Lubich received the pass 2,400 members in 217 lives to himself, and none Prize itself from Queen Eli- communities in 33 coun- of us dies to himself.' " zabeth's husband, the Duke tries, she said, and it had In the course of a history of Edinburgh , in a private crossed denominational and that had been exempt from ceremony last week. religious frontiers to become stagnation, Cardinal WilleSince she began the Fo- rooted among Lutherans, brands said, it had always colare movement in north- Anglicans, Calvinists, Or- required courage to create ern Italy during World War thodox, Moslems, Buddhists a new community, a new It it has spread to 33 na- and others. family on the model of the tions. .. Cardinal Jan Willebrands Gospel. The moN,ement is not an of Utrecht, CANNINGTON: 1308 Albany H/Way. 68 1826 the Netherlands, • "But who shall say that 111111111111111 tic
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