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DUBLIN: Instead of reacting to events the conference of Catholic bishops aims to implement a more positive policy especially regarding tensions over the catholic mixed marriage practices.
This week, St. John of Cod Sister Genevieve DWYER (right) a jubilarian of 1979, had to take a seat on the sidelines and watch her two sisters. Sisters Ambrose and Vincent celebrate their 50 years of religious profession. They were members of a family of 15 children in Warrnamb000l. Sister Genevieve set out for Melbourne ostensibly to take a closer look at the Presentation Order but prevailed on her parents to let her come west to the Saint John of God congregation which she had seen advertised in the paper in Ballarat. A year later she wrote to Sister Vincent then w orking in her parents' shop to come across so Sister Ambrose said: "If you go I'm going too", passing up a career to teach a high school commercial class. They both reached Western Australia and entered in 1927. "I've never regretted a minute of it", said Sister A mbrose this week. (see also page 7)
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Cardinal O'Fiaich, president of the conference said that the violence was no excuse for postponing excumenical activity in Northern Ireland. Regarding mixed marriages, he said the bishops w ere preparing new guidelines which would e mphasize personal rather than legal considerations. But radical changes should not be expected because tensions would continue as long as there were different churches, he warned. Mixed marriages were a main cause of practical difficulty in Irish interchurch relations. Protestants had been c omplaining because Catholic Bishop Lucey of Cork, Ireland, insisted on a written statement by the non-catholic partner that the children would be reared as Catholics. He is the only catholic bishop to insist on the written statement.
The aim of the new guidelines would be to insure uniform regulations in all the dioceses, said Cardinal O'Fiaich. He said that he was also hopeful that a joint agency would be established to oversee implementation of recommendations made by joint Catholic-Protestant bodies on social and community problems. One of the cardinal's major regrets is that there is little common prayer or worship between catholics and protestants in Northern Ireland.
ECUMENISM He is encouraged by the many ecumenical services that take place in Ireland, but feels that there is r oom for much more cooperation. More ecumenism was needed on the local level, he said. Cardinal O'Fiaich suggested closer relation-
ships on the parish level between protestant and Catholic, clergy that would ensure "cooperation at the spiritual le\
METHOD This could be done by having one congregation pray for the recovery from illness of members of another congregation, he said. Cardinal O'Fiaich said that ecumenical services and cooperation for social justice would be easier in Northern Ireland if peace were restored. However, he seemed impatient with people who use the continuing violence as an excuse for "not advancing in the religious sphere." The ecumenical picture is also brightened by recent appointments in (CONTINUED P2) (SEE ALSO P 11)
POPE DEFENDS INFALLIBILITY OF THE CHURCH VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II has defended the infallibility of the church as a "Gift of Christ" during Sunday Angelus talk. The pope declared that "to believe in the infallibility of the church does not mean — in any way — t o believe in the infallibility of man, but to believe in the gift of Christ — in that gift which allows fallible men to proclaim infallibly and to confess infallibly the truth revealed for our salvation." He continued . . . "the church in our times — in this difficult and dangerous epoch in which we live, in this critical age -must have a particular certitude of the gift of Christ, of the gift of power, of the gift of holiness, of the gift of infallibility." "The more it is aware of the weakness, sinfulness
and fallibility of man, the more it must guard the certitude of those gifts which come from its r edeemer and bridegroom." It was the first time in his pontificate, several sources agreed, that Pope John Paul had referred in any public discourse to the Church's infallibility.
PAPAL LINK The belief in the infallibility of the church — its inability to err when, as a whole, it professes its faith -- is distinct from but closely linked to the ecumenically troublesome catholic belief in papal infallibility. The pope commented on the church's infallibility
in the context of discussing the lenten theme of conversion to God, and the grace of God for conversion." conversion/is not, in fact, a unilater aspiration," he said. "It is not just an effort of the human will, intellect and heart . . ." "Conversion is above all acceptance." "It is the effort to accept God in all the richness of his 'conversion' ('turning toward') to man." "This conversion is a grace." He said that the church, "strong. holy and infallible" was instituted by Christ as a gift among "weak, sinful and fallible men" as a sign and instrument of salvation."
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