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VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul ll appears to be regaining his strength, and has embarked on occasional public appearances and informal talks to crowds in St Peter Square.
On Trinity Sunday, concern at the growing ten- spends several hours each day in an easy chair and June 14, the assembly sion in Poland. takes short walks periodheard his customary He stayed for nearly five taped address before minutes at his window ically. the noontime prayer. enjoying music played by a One event Pope John He then appeared at marching band from Paul II missed was Leonard Bernstein's benefit his window and made Monte Urano. performance of three of his impromptu remarks to own works in the Vatican "all Romans and pil- He thanked all those Audience Hall. "particularly young the grims" in the square people of the world who in Bernstein was making his below, and offered his this period of suffering first appearance in Rome blessing to those pres- were especially close to me for nearly eight years and ent and the big in their affection and pray- at the end of the concert number watching the ers," in his taped message. the audience gave him a 10 minute standing ovation. ceremony on televisVatican radio reports that Over 6000 people paid up ion. the pope is saying Mass to $20 a ticket for the In Polish he said to a daily, concert. The prois receiving his clos- benefit group of pilgrims: "I am est collaborators in order ceeds go to constructing a with you. I bless you." to be briefed on matters of cario-surgical pediatric His remarks showed his importance. He also unit at Rome's Child Jesus hospital. Bernstein, who performed without a fee, said he wished the funds from the concert in honour of Pope John Paul to go to a childrens' project because of the young child which the pope held in his arms immediately before the shooting in St Peter's Square.
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Catholic Bishops of Australia must urge all their church members to reply to question 17 on the census sheet completed on June 30.
The questions asks: "What is each person's religious denomination?" It is the only question on the census for which a reply is optional.
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Heads of all churches are similarly expected to urge their congregations to fill in the question. (In the 1976 census 1.6 million Australians, 11.75 percent of the total population, did not answer the question on religious denomination). Archbishop Goody backed the Catholic Bishops' Conference recommendation saying that the information gained from the census would be useful to the Catholic Church for future planning. "The information gives us a statistical picture across Australia, a profile of the people in our Catholic parishes, their age and the number of children they have," Archbishop Goody said. "At local level the diocese and the parish can make better plans for pastoral care by knowing the number of Catholics in a district who need to be contacted, the number of children who need religious instruction in Catholic or state schools, the number of aged people who may require attention, and the number of young people moving towards marriage. "An accurate knowledge of the distribution of our Catholic population will enable us to plan more carefully the placement of priests and religious brothers and sisters, the establishment of new churches and schools and the use of other pastoral resources." (See Census Appeal, Page 4.)
The winner of The Record trip to the Lourdes Eucharistic Congress, Mrs Yolanda Jeffrey, of Marangaroo, pictured this week receiving her ticket from Mr Peter Fleay, of Paramount Travel, watched by Girrawheen parish priest Father Tom Gaine who helped to more than double the sales of The Record.
G irrawheen pari- tion has been booked prize when its circulation shioner, Mrs Yolanda by the international figures for The Record Jeffrey, has won The c ongress committee. more than doubled in response to competition R ecord prize of a free Mrs Jeffrey a compara- publicity. Lourdes trip to for the tively recent arrival in the The visit to Lourdes by International Eucha- Girrawheen parish and a Mrs Jeffrey is a unique ristic Congress from member of the parish prise for her parents, surMr July 16-23. choir, was selected from and Mrs Planken, who Girrawheen entrants after also live in the Girrawheen Mrs Jeffrey, of 14 Borden Way, Maran- the first drawn name, the Maloney family of Amos garoo, becomes one of Way, were unable to take t he 50 Austral ian advantage of the prize, delegates for whom G irrawheen parish special accommoda- became eligible for the
parish. They migrated from Holland in 1953 with three of their children and Yolanda was their only child born in Australia.
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