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POPE TO WALK A Harry Butler LINE FINE joins camp N ASIA
VATICAN CITY — As last-minute preparations are made for Pope John Paul II's visit to the Philippines next week (February 17-22) observers believe that on the strength of past trips he will walk a fine line between political involvement and gospel-based social commentary He has already sidestepped an earlier attempt by Mrs. Imelda Marocs, the President's wife, to turn the tour to her public advantage. The tour has been delayed for over twelve months as a result.
Father Jegorow has a way with Harry Butler, thirty lucky children (one of whom, Shelly Wilkie, is pictured with him) found out at Miami at Star of the Sea camp last week. Mr Butler had at first turned down the invitation saying that he could reach millions in one television appearance. But Father Jegorow won the day for his Inner City campers who have a holiday at the expense of the East Perth Rotary Club. Presentation Sisters Kevin Monaham and Catherine Ryan and trainee teacher Mr Matthew Faulkner supervised the children. Six years ago the annual camp started with an invitation by Father Jegorow, then at St Mary's Cathedral, to any child he met in East Perth, and Rotary and other benefactors have backed the project ever since.
pie: Publish accurate news V ATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul ll has called for accurate, objective and uncensored distribution of news.
" Without 'good information' there is no exercise of responsibility, for the responsible freedom of humanity depends on accurate understanding and a new coordination of information throughout the world," said the pope during a special audience with the Foreign Press Association of Italy. The pope prayed that accurate news would circulate throughout the world "withtit exception or limitation of any kind, without one-sided interpretations." He quoted Pope Pius XII on responsible freedom: "Certainly a first postulate of such freedom is to have access to the truth." Pope John Paul quoted Pope Paul VI in warning against political control or ideologically motivated slanting of the news: ."Defend always and everywhere the just rights and true freedom of persons, !ithout engaging in discriminatory partiality, as unfortunately happens by reason of ..4,1e political regimes in question or of personal choices that make us sensitive only to victims whose ideas or convictions we share." The pontiff also warned the press that journalistic freedom "is not synonymous with licence." „ Your readers have the right to count on you, on your sense of responsibility, on ,‘011Iplete faithfulness to all that which gives honour to your profession: objectivity, i Yalty and wise thoughtfulness in the presentation of the news, without ever losing iight of the possible consequences for your readership and the demands of society's `rue good," he said.
With over 140 Savings Centres Visit finked throughout Australia, to recognition Western we're near you. of Lorenzo Ruiz But no other building society comes near us. "If I were the pope, I'd look at my 'diocese,' which is the world, and I'd look to the East, to Asia, where more than half the world's population lives," said Jose Guerrero, third secretary of the Filipino Embassy to the Holy See. "And then I'd notice that 70 percent of all the Catholics in Asia live on a small archipelago of less than 120,000 square miles, and I'd say, "What can this country do, not so much in terms of making converts but to witness to the Christian Faith," Guerrero added. "I'd congratulate them on what they've done and then I'd give them a symbol of their witness like this martyr, Lorenzo Ruiz," he said. Pope John Paul has linked his Far East visit to the beatification of Ruiz, a Filipino layman killed for the faith in Nagasaki, Japan, on September 29, 1637. On February 18, during a ceremony at Rizal Park in Manila, Ruiz will become first Filipino to be beatified. Fifteen others martyred in Nagasaki between 1633 and 1637 — nine Japanese, four Spaniards, an Italian and a Frenchman will also be proclaimed blessed. "In Brazil, for example, the pope talked clear and straight to the civil authorities, telling them about their responsibilities based on his own vision of man and society and the State," Guerrero continued. "He told them to reject anything that is not worthy of freeedom and the human rights of people." Pope John Paul is scheduled next Friday to visit Tondo, Manila's notorious waterfront slum district. "Cardinal Sin has insisted that the pope see the seamy side of life in Manila, against the wishes of the government," said a Filipino priest in Rome. He said the slums were created when the poor were evicted from their homes to make way for highways under Imelda Marcos' Beautification programme. "If Imelda had her way, the pope would have a grand triumphal tour of her charities and anything disturbing would be kept in the background," he added. Guerrero, the Filipino diplomat, disagreed, saying the government wants to show off a model project in the country's "depressed area" which combines self-help with world bank aid. (See also Page 2.)
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