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V ATICAN CITY — In spite of a forecast of a long hospital c onvalescence Pope John Paul II obviously intends to resume his r ound of responsibilities as much as he can.
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A fter six days of a lmost total privacy and rest at the Gemelli P oliclinic, Pope John P aul taped an eightminute message to be played last Sunday, J une 28, at the Angelus gathering in St Peter's Square.
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VATICAN CITY: Church officials are still unsure of the reception that awaits the newly-appointed Archbishop of Canton when he eventually tries to enter his native China.
"Today, I invite everyb- apostles, prevents me from ody to pray to the Virgin being at the altar of St of the death of St Oliver Mary for the success of Peter's to celebrate the Plunkett, former Archbishop of Armagh and prithese peace initiatives." Holy Mass at his tomb," he mate of all Ireland. The 73-year-old Jesuit Archbishop Tang has The Pope was alluding to added. Full accommodation,: left Rome for Hong Kong where he will stay Metropolitan Melitone the shuttle diplomacy of including meals, for one: special U.S. envoy Philip The pope also broke his headed a three-member 4( female, for the eight* indefinitely. delegation ecumeniof the 4( days of the Lourdes: He received government permission to leave China Habib who has been tra- hospital isolation to meet for a year for treatment of intestinal cancer but must Eucharistic congress is velling to Lebanon, Syria Cardinal Timothy Man- cal patriarchate of Conand Israel since May in an ning, of Los Angeles, and stantinople, present in 4( available for any per-: return by November. son, even those already * effort to arrange a cease- an Eastern Orthodox Rome for celebrations of Principal opposition will be coming from the the feast of Sts Peter and in Europe. Bookings: National delegation. fire. Association of Patriotic Catholics which has .4( Paul on June 29. must be made with this 4( continued to make the Archbishop and Pope John Paul The Pope thanked those In the Angelus talk, the The pope spoke for a few well to "It me seems he office is and full cost -gt the target of frequent attacks. who have helped him "in Pope also spoke about the minutes with Cardinal 'OK details etc are available* and his spirits are up," the "Such a man is no longer worthy of being our these difficult weeks and feast of Sts Peter and Paul Manning who was on his Orthodox leader said after • from the Editor, 328 Bishop," said the vice chairman of the Canton Catholic months" and said that and thanked "all those way as papal representa* 1388. the meeting. 4( Association. "We should cast him aside." peace in Lebanon has been who --in consideration tive to the Dublin celebra(Cont. Pg. 3) a constant subject of his of my weakness --in tion of the third centenary (see page 5) prayers during the recov- various ways have helped ery period. me and continue to help "I know negotiations and me to respond adequately meetings are being held to to (Christ's) words (to restore peace and safety to Peter), 'Do you love me?'". the people of that nation, " As the successor of which has been suffering Peter, I want to be able to for a long time," Pope reply to these words, in John Paul said. particular during these dif"During these weeks of ficult weeks and months, my illness, I have never in which, by the will of the ceased to pray for the dear Lord, I am stricken by an nation of Lebanon," he illness which, even on the added. solemn day of the holy
With over 150 Savings Centres throughout Western Australia, we're near you. But no other The Catholic Women's League is concerned that cuts will take place in governbuilding society ment funding of women's refuges throughout Australia and wants government comes near us. support to continue. Pictured at this week's Catholic Women's L eague state council meeting (left to right) Mrs Joan Joyce, Bunbury CWL secretary, and Mrs Anne Power, Bunbury CWL president,' both of Kukerin, with Mrs Molly Indermaur, -state and archdiocesan CWL president, and Mrs Pat Baldwin, state and archdiocesan C WL secretary.
This was one of two motions passed at the annual state conference last Sunday and which will be forwarded to the national c onference in Tasmania later this year.
The other motion for the national conference was a recommendation that government funding of natural family planning centres be maintained. The second motion came forward from the Bunbury diocesan CWL which has given active support to the natural family planning movement and funded four t eachers of the method to go to Melbournme for further study earlier this year. The meeting last weekend said
also that it would assist the natural family planning movement through the related pregnancy help committee of which the CWL was now a member. M ore than 80 members attended the state conference, many coming from country centres such as Mount Barker, Kukerin and Waroona. Archbishop Goody attended the morning session of the conference and was presented with a cheque for $1200 for St Charles' Seminary. This is the highest annual donation given so far by the CWL, last year's gift being for $1000. In other discussions the conference looked at the question of lower alcoholic beer and voted that the government should
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impose a lower excise duty on it. from the Applecross branch as The motion came forward from did a motion urging the CWL to this year's Bunbury CWL confer- protest at the showing of distasteence which had studied the calo- ful adult features during childrific and protein contents of both ren's viewing time, the Everett grades of beer and considered Video programme being cited as that the price of the lower alco- an example. holic content product should be The motion from Applecross lowered. also called for the elimination of A lower price would encourage vulgar and obscene expressions people to drink the lower alco- used during interviews and calholic product and this would ling for high ethical standards to assist on the lowering of road cas- be required in such matters. ualties caused by drinking. Although it was a current issue, The conference also decided last Sunday's conference felt that that in the light of present discus- the subject of in vitro fertilisation sion on the subject it would send and artificial semination were its opinion to the Crown Law subjects on which more informaDepartment that the names of tion was still required and a comjuveniles accused of crime should mittee would be formed to gather be suppressed in public reports. information and study related That resolution came forward issues.
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