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THE CHURCH 'MUST BE READY TO BE CALLED SUBVERSIVE'
BALLINTEER, Ireland (NC). — "The Church must be ready to be called subversive and Communist in the cause of justice," Archbishop Helder Camara, of Olinda and Recife, Brazil, told participants of the 1977 international conference of Pax Christi.
The archbishop was prea- charity must be to change ching at a Mass in St. John these conditions, to work the Evangelist Church, Ball- for the achievement of jusinteer, concluding the meet- tice. ing of the international CaWithout justice there tholic peace movement at could be no peace, he said. the Gort Muire conference The archbishop suggested centre in Dundrum. a moratorium in the Church Bishops and priests from on statements and West Australian born Sisconcluseveral countries joined sions, saying there had been ter Eliazbeth Murphy, who Cardinal Bernard Alfrink, plenty of these in recent has spent most of her life retired archbishop of Ut- years — and what was nee- as an educationist in this recht, the Netherlands, in ded now was some action. State, was this week in Sydcelebrating the closing Mass. ney elected Mother General Archbishop Camara, an "VIOLENCE IS WEAK" of the Sisters of St. Joseph outspoken champion of huArchbishop Camara not- of the Sacred Heart, known man rights in Latin Ameri- ed that it was often sug- also as the Brown Joseph ca, said that for too long gested that nonviolent ac- Sisters or Josephites. the Church had stressed the tion must ultimately be inThis is the first time a virtues of obedience and pa- effective. West Australian Sister has tience. "On the contrary," he been elected to the position. She was born in North This attitude, he said, ga- said, "I think of Mahatma ve great pleasure and corn- Ghandi and Martin Luther Perth, entered the congregation in 1939 in South Perfort to governments which King. th and made her profession stressed the importance of "I am convinced that they in 1942 at St. Joseph's Conmaintaining international were both subjected to vio- vent, Mount Street, North economic order. lent deaths precisely because Sydney. of the success of their nonShe spent six years at "ONLY DISORDER" violent leadership. Waroona, from 1943 to -In fact," said the arch'Nonviolence is in the 1949, and was at Margaret bishop, "there is no interlong run strong. Violence is River from 1950 to 1951. national economic order, i From 1951 to 1967 . she only an economic disorder." ieak." was at St. Gertrude's CollBut he added that, forTHEY "WILL WIN" ege, New Norcia, and in tunately, in recent years the Although the world was the following three years Church in Latin America had come to recognise that full of crushing injustices, she undertook full-time study the sufferings of the oppres- he said, everywhere small at the University of W.A. sed masses were not acci- groups of people were emer- and obtained a science dedental but rooted in struc- ging who were working to gree. She was superior of the change the structures of sotures of injustice. local convent and principal The situation could be de- ciety. of Kearnan High School, scribed as one of internal "They will win," said; the Manjimup, from 1971 to colonialism, he said. archbishop, "for Christ is 1976, and this year is depuAccording to the Brazil-- with• them. ty principal of Prendiville an prelate, it was the impossible that in a College, Kalgoorlie. is "It Church's duty to work for world created by the Father She is the daughter of the the liberation of the people, who is love, liberated by the late Mr. Frank Murphy and not merely to offer relief. Son who is love, and filled Mrs. Murphy, of South with the Holy Spirit who Perth. A SAINT — OR A is love — it is impossible A brother is Dr. Frank COMMUNIST that the last word can be Murphy, of Innaloo, and "When a priest or a bi- the 'no' of death and de- she has three sisters — one shop seeks to relieve distress spair," Archbishop Camara in W.A., one in Sydney and one in Canberra. by providing food or alms said. or building a hut. he is called a saint. "But if he criticises the structures responsible for human misery, he is called a Communist," the archbishop said. The United Nations recognised that two-thirds of humankind lived in subhuman conditions, he said, and today the great work of
W.A. SISTER HEAD OF JOSEPHITES
• A weekend catering seminar at the Redemptorist Retreat House last had 0 tour de force to conclude. Participants prepared a five-course banquet forweekend their later consumption under the skilled tuition of leading hotel staff. ABOVE: It was a lesson with a difference as Parmelia Hotel chef, Egon KONIG, recently named Chef of the Year (right), gave instruction to, left to right: Sister JOHN, of New Nord(); Sister MERCY, Sister CECILIA, Good Shepherd; Sister MARY BERNADETTE, of Bunbury, and Loreto; Sister WINIFRED, Loreto. (See also pages 2 and 6).
Vatican's more open human rights defence
V ATICAN CITY were transmitted by Vati(NC). — Both Pope can Radio. Paul and the Vatican An even more notable are edging away from shift has appeared on the their cautious behindpages on the Vatican daily the-scenes diplomacy newspaper, "L'Osservatore toward a more public Romano." defence of human The paper has consistentrights and religious • The coming review of Vice-President Walter Mon- ly placed stories dealing with t he progress made on the dale. called on Pope Paul. f reedoms. dissidents and human rights Helsinki accords, in
which The new public stress on nations pledged to respect issues prbminently on the human rights, which one fundamental rights, includ- CARTER SUPPORTED front page. Vatican diplomat termed a ing religious freedoms; Several Vatican people "change in policy," probabclose to the Pope say that • Stepped-up violence the Pontiff emerged from his NEWSPAPER SIGNS IY stems from several interagainst Church personnel hour of private talks with Recently, the paper even national events: and escalating religious per- Isiondale very impresse,d devoted most of page two • U.S. President Carter's strong emphasis on human secution in several nations. with the new administra- to an explicit attack on the rights issues in foreign potThe new Vatican empha- tion's human rights policy. beefed-up Czechoslovakian KY, coupled with the new sis on human rights declarSoon after Mondale's visit campaign a6inst religious militancy of Eastern Euro- ations began to surface, in series a of editorials in sup- education. Nan dissidents; early January when U.S. port . of the Carter policy (• CONTINUED PAGE 2)
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