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A sum of $705 wil be heading in the direction of overseas underdeveloped countries as a result of the CBC andSt. Mary's senior schools' Aid Fete last week. Organised by a charity committee o120 students, it was by far the largest involvement of students in what has become an annual school event. During Aid Week the combined enrolment of 480 were put in the picture of the world aid situation at an open-air concert and on consecutive days they attended Mass, had a Third World quiz, ate a plain rice meal as their only nourishment for the day and finally held a fundraising fete.
The Vatican wants a major redistribution of the world's clergy. The Congregation for the Clergy has o rdered all bishops' conferences to set up two c ommissions: "one forthe better distribution of the clergy and another for the missions." The suggestion is contained in a new Vatican document "Directive Norms for the Collaboration of the Particular Churchs Among Themselves and Especially for a Better Distribution of the Clergy in the World," which says: "If we turn our attention to the world to be evangelized and, more precisely, to the non-Christian population, we cannot tail to be struck by the insufficiency of the means which the church has as its disposal today to conf ront the immense problem.
Uneven distribution
Schools ask for more
"In 1977, our planet counted 4,094,110 ,000 inhabitants, of whom only 739,127,000 were Catholics, jut 18 percent of the world population. "It we then wish to consider the number of priests, comparing it with the number of inhabitants in the world, we have this picture: for every 100,000 inhabitants there are two (priests) in Asia, four in Africa, 13 in Latin America, 26 in Oceania, 29 in North America, 37 in Europe." The document said that the uneven distribution of priests around the world had been aggravated by a sharp drop in vocations in the late that 1960s and the 1970s and by the large number of priests who left the active ministry in that same period. It viewed redistribution as only part of the solution, stressing that more priestly vocations and a renewed missionary awareness throughout the church were the more basic issues.
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The NSW Catholic Education Commission has printed more than 200,000 pamphlets e xplaining the need for increased funds from both Commonwealth and State governments. The pamphlet details the urgent need for increases in both recurrent and capital grants to Catholic schools. The NSW Catholic Education Commission is asking the C ommonwealth government for a significant increase in grants per pupil at both primary and secondary level. It also seeks an increase of 10 per cent per year in funds for building projects. From the State government, the CEC is seeking an increase in 1981 to $216 for each primary pupil and an increase to $366 for secondary pupils. It also wants the State government to extend interest s ubsidies to loans for construction of approved boarding school projects. It asks all parliamentarians to c onsider the following question: How do your funding policies align with the State commitment of all major p olitical parties to the continuance of non-government education opportunities at the present level?
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