„
WA • •4
i\
0/•‘\ \*, ‘.4 • :kev** / \/ N 4
(09)
fr/N
b
44
Ataxe'‘
\N Phone
N•
26 JOHN STREET, PERTH
328 1388
P.O. BOX 50 PERTH ABERDEEN STREET.
6000
•/,
•
o
/N+ Registered by posting as a NEWSPAPER Category "A” ( 1 1 )
Price 30 Cents
PERTH, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1980
No. 2187
Chastity, celibacy in today's life • By DOM FRANCIS, O.S.B. NEW NORCIA: A heavily sexualised world will never be converted unless our lives of chastity are truly lived, a major symposium was told at New Norcia last week. Salesian priest, Dr. Francis Moloney, from Melbourne, said that only in this way could Christians make the world wonder if it had not somehow gone wrong. "We will never convert the world by merely talking about chastity in a negative way which was the case before Vatican 1 1," Dr. Moloney said. The symposium on "Contemporary Spirituality" was held to mark 1500th birth of the founder of the founder of Western monasticism, St. Benedict. More than 120 people —priests, nuns, Brothers, laity and the local Benedictine community — a ttended from many parts of Australia.
We' o one ett on ANY DE
DORE
ODAY!
HOLDEN
BRAND NEW
2.8 litre manuals
$6990
c I
COMPANY
SAVE UP TO
DEMOS 1750 BRIAN GARDNER CANNINGTON4512333 MOTORS PTV LT11
1308 ALBANY HIGHWAY NH 457 4413
OIL 0891
A $66,365 extensive refit of the former Hay Street premises of The Record and Vanguard Press will provide a comprehensive city centre for the Cathedral parish and the archdiocese of Perth. The 800-square-metre former factory floor will be divided into: • A craft room and activity area for senior citizens with adjacent morning tea rooms and kitchen. • A theatre hall and stage to accommodate 100 people. • A meeting room for 110 people. • Six small meeting rooms. • A rehearsal room for St. Mary's Cathedral choir and a room for folk singers. In 1922 The Record moved from central Murray Street to the small building that was the Hay Street garage for Archbishop Clune's car. The building remained virtually unchanged until 1960 when extensions were built on the eastern side and later on the western side to accommodate the expanding printing operation.
noted scripture scholar, examined the traditional texts relating to celibacy. "A very important consequence of a re-reading of our traditional texts is that it gives the celibate every right to his place in society alongside all classes of men and women, married and unmarried," he added. "No longer can the celibate be regarded as deprived, deformed or in some way 'strange'. "No longer is the life of chastity a 'stiff-upper lip' and a 'gritting your teeth' business." (CONTINUED P.4)
With over120 Savings Centres throughout Western Australia, "Shattering we're near you. consequences" no other But of abortion building society comes near us.
Father Peter Mc CRA NN, chancellor, and Dean William FOLEY studyplans infront of the former flay Street premises of The Record that will become a diocesan and cathedralparish centre
New city centre
the fact that they were flesh and blood and therefore sexual beings, but because of it. Like Jesus, we are chaste because of the overwhelming presence of God's kingdom which "keeps crowding in on us." "In other words, our ongoing decision for chastity is intelligible as a decision which comes about within the context of a major religious experience, just as the decision for marriage comes about within the context of a similar experience," he said. Dr. Moloney, who is a
Dr. Moloney said that men and women were not s aved despite their belonging to the world of material things, despite
SYDNEY: "The existence of children is more in question than the existence of schools", Mr. Kim Beazley, former Minister for Education, told a Catholic secondary school principals' meeting at Kincumber. Mr Beazley pointed out that in a society where mothers in large numbers were willing to "kill their own unborn children", it was more than ever crucial that education should represent the child, born and unborn, "in its penultimate dignity as a temple of the Holy Spirit." "There will be 1,200,000 fewer children and young people than there would have been if they had not been disposed of as yet unborn in the clinics," he said. At the rate of 100,000 abortions annually, Australians were killing off their young in a manner which would have shattering consequences on the nation as a whole, Mr Beazley said. "Russian action in Afghanistan, considered as a possible threat to Australian security is peanuts
compared to this actual threat." he added. "Among other consequences, however, must be a decline in the demand for education. "It must also mean a decline in the economy because the economic demands created by the existence of children and young people are important. "Children are expensive, and therefore killed. "They are killed when our savings are at fabulous record levels, but the recession continues." (SEE ALSO P.11)
R ECORD Advertising Telephone 328 1388
Town & Country. Setting the Pace. Town & Country Permanent Building Society 297 Murray Street Perth Telephone 327 3333.