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Historic Dutch synod ends V ATICAN CITY (NC) — The unprecedented Particular Synod of the Dutch Bishops is over, but its implementation has just began. In a joint pastoral letter the our difficulties" in the Dutch stimulated by the council, Dutch bishops asked Dutch church. gives us confidence that with Catholics to work together in They particularly urged us and all Catholics you will implementing the synod p riests — "our first assume your responsibility decisions "even if certain collaborators" — to help to bring the synod of your decisions seem to you them executive the synod's bishops into the life of the difficult to understand." decisions. Dutch church," it said. The letter, read in all Dutch " With enthusiasm you The bishops also made Catholic churches, said that a pplied yourselves to s pecial pleas to Dutch some of the decisions by the implementing the decisions Religious and laity to follow s ynod may not have o f the Second Vatican the synod decisions and corresponded to the wishes Council in the Netherlands," work for a new unity. of many Catholics in the they said. In an appeal to youth, they Netherlands. "Fifteen years after the end particularly asked those who It said that suggestions by of the council, we are the first had priestly or Religious Dutch Catholics before the to have reflected with the vocations to answer the call. synod "contributed to our pope, to have made an The Dutch church, which synod consultations. You examination of conscience, t wo decades ago had one of can be convinced of that, so to speak, on how we have the highest vocations rates in even if you do not recognize understood and applied the the world, currently has one your own thoughts in the council in the Netherlands. of the lowest. synod's conclusions." "Your first enthusiasm, (See also P.2)
POPE SPEAKS
The day that the Dutch bishops' letter was being read to their people, Pope John Paul II also spoke of the synod. From his study window o verlooking St. Peter's Square before the Sunday Father Petraglia is the Noon Angelus, he said that third Servite priest to be "faith in the presence of ordianed in Australia. Christ" was the guiding Present at the Joonpower of the I8-day synod. danna ceremony last "It also — I'm speaking of Saturday were the Servite this faith in the presence of general superior, Father Christ among us — allowed Michel Sincerny and us to make decisions in the Father Christopher Ross, SYDNEY: "For the Christian there is no defence for apartheid ", the hope that the grace of the formerly of WA who is at apostolic delegate to Holy Spirit will touch South Africa said recently. Present a general councilhuman hearts and fulfill the Archbishop Edward Cas- delegate to South Africa leadership of the Prime lor in Rome. work that we began together Minister, Mr Pik Botha. Ten Australian and sidy, an Australian, made the since 1979. in union with Christ," he three visiting American remark to a gathering of the Archbishop Cassidy told The most recent change had added. Servite priests concel- Catholic Transport Guild the group that the problems been the decision to abolish "I hope that, among the brated the Mass with while on a recent visit to of South Africa could not be the hated Pass Laws. many words that will be solved simply and peacefully These required blacks to A rchbishop Goody, . Sydney. spoken about the recent A rchbishop Edward over night.. Many people carry a passbook so that cosisted by three Servite synod now and in the future, was once a member of the were very ready to criticise authorities can check on, and Brothers. this word of faith and hope F ather Petraglia is NSW Transport Depart- South Africa, but did so control, the movement of will not be absent. originally from Denver, ment before studying for the without sufficient under- blacks from black to white LAITY Colorado, and has been a priesthood, after which he standing of the complexities areas. Servite Brother for over took up a Vatican diplomatic o f the South African Archbishop Cassidy said The synod called for career. problem. that Mr Botha had already numerous reforms in the (CONTINUED P.2) He has been, apostolic In any case, suggested lost electoral support for his Dutch church, including Archbishop Cassidy, it was move away from the old seminary reforms, restructdoubtful whether many of hardline policies ,of the uring of dioceses and the critics, if faced with the former Prime Minister, Mr stronger enforcement of South African situation, Vorster. general church discipline in could handle it any better. Mr Botha, howevr, had liturgy, the sacraments, The great need, therefore, assured Archbitp as- priestly life and Religious was to understand the sidy, and many o hers, that vows. complexity and, above all, to the changes must continue. It said that bishops were the pray for their resolution, said As Mr Botha himself said, final arbiters of faith and Archbishop Cassidy. "it is necessary if Sopth discipline, and it called for The solution to the racial Africa is to survive. clear distinctions between and other problems in South the ordained priesthood and Africa lay in the principles SUSPICIOUS' the laity, especially in the enunciated by Pope John Some black intellectuals, work of Holland's numerous Paul II at Drogheda in said Archbishop Cassidy, lay pastoral workers. Ireland, he said. w ere suspicious of the The synod also ordered the At Drogheda, the Pope had changes. most conservative Dutch spoken out clearly. They argued that the system prelate, Bishop Gijsen of V iolence would solve was only trying to save itself. R oermond, to rejoin nothing; but he pointed out "To some extent this is true" n ational fund-raising also, added Archbishop he said. programs he abandoned in Cassidy, that violence was "But, if the system did not protest to the projects they inevitable unless justice was attempt to "save itself." the were funding. It suggested done. inevitable result must be a ways for the bishops to work On South Africa itself, civil war, the effects of which more closely in their national Archbishop Cassidy observ- will be far more devastating bishops' conference. ed that there had been and terrible than anything The Dutch bishops' letter considerable changes in the w e have witnessed in called divisions, or "the lack apartheid laws under the Zimbabwe. of communion," the root of
Father Anthony PETRAGLIA, Servite, is pictured outside St. Denis church last Saturday after he had been ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Goody.
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