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"Symbol of Poland" on third visit Cardinal Wladyslim Rubin, polish confidante of Pope John Paull II, and one-time army prisoner of w ar in Siberia was in Perth last 1,* eek on his third visit to Australia to make contact with Polish Catholic expatriates. "The tear-filled eyes of t he large crowd who welcomed him made me realise that he was a symbol of Poland to Australian Poles who suffered as he did", said Andzej Pyka. In St. Mary's cathedral during Mass concelebrated by Archbishop Goody, Bishops Quinn and Healy and eight priests, vigorous Polish inging raised the roof.
Resurrection and to stay close to the teaching of the Church. As well as meeting various Polish association dignitaries at a reception at the Sikorski Club. Bellevue, Cardinal Rubin renewed contact with Polish priests now in Perth. A conference at the Maylands Polish Catho-
lic Centre included Franciscan Fathers Boleslaw Smok, Jan Praw inski and Simon Bienias as wc.11 as Salvatorian Fathers Andzej Pyka and Kazimier2 Stuglik. Others who were glad to meet him were West Australian priests Fathers John Jegorow and John (CONTINUED P.9)
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At the Bellevue teception Cat dinai RUBIN had a special word of thanks for Joanna GRYGORCEWICZ who had recited a poem of welcome.
The cardinal, now stationed in Rome, urged his fellow country men to be the best Catholics in their local churches and in the local Church of Perth. Especially now that they had a Pope from their own country he urged his listeners to teach and proclaim the message of C hrist's Death and
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"Although it does not settle the outcome of this litigation," said Bishop Thomas Kelly, "it can hardly be taken as an indicator of total openmindedness on the part of the court — which, after all, is the same body which legalized abortion on demand in the first place." Bishop Kelly said that what was at stake in the court's consideration of the Dooling decision was "whether citizens who object to abortion in conscience shall or shall not be forced to subsidize
taxes." In New York, Cardinal Terence Cooke called the decision "yet another step in the tragedy" begun with the 1973 Supreme Court abortion decision. "Now not only does the court remove the protection of law from the unborn, it in effect r equires millions of American citizens to violate their consciences by contributing their hardearned money in taxes for the destruction of human life. " The argument is offered by some that this
the poor.Iam firmly convinced that the destruction of unborn life, funded by the government, isanexploitation of t he poor and of all members of society. "To claim abortion as a right for all and as a solution to some of the problems of poverty is an insult to poor and rich alike," Cardinal Cooke, said. "To use public funds to finance what millions of people in conscience believe to be agravecrime against human life is a blatant misuse of judicial
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