Opposition to new US bomb S YDNEY: A committee of Catholic bishops has e xpressed its opposition to the American development of the neutron bomb and wants the Australian government to ask the United States government to review its decision. The six-member Bishops Committee for Development and Peace of the Australian Bishops' Conference also w ants the Australian government to m onitor similar developments in the S oviet Union.
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The bishops' statement issued last week reads: "The decision of the American administration to go ahead with the production of the neutron bomb represents an escalation of the arms race that only increases the possibility of nuclear war. "The neutron bomb, which, through enhanced radiation, destroys people but leaves property intact, underscores the devaluation of human life which the growing sophistication and spread of nuclear weapons represents. "This Bishops' Committee for Development and Peace recalls the words of the Second Vatican Council, that the arms race is an utterly treacherous trap for humanity.
"It recalls the words of Pope Paul to the United Nations: If you want to be brothers, let the weapons fall from your hands. "The risks of nuclear war are now so great, the potential effects of such a war, even if limited to a confined theatre, are so enormous, that a true commitment to disarmament in this decade requires great courage and considerable risk. "These risks are the price of peace in an age where whole civilian populations are the potential targets of military action. "The US commitment to go ahead with the production of the neutron bomb, in a reversal of the policy of former President Carter, represents a retreat from that necessary risk and another turn in the armaments spiral. "We urge the Australian government to use its good offices with the US administration to have the decision reviewed. "We further urge the government to monitor possible similar developments in the Soviet Union."
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LONDON (NC) — The Catholic Church and Anglican Communion may soon face the challenge of agreeing that they are essentially united in faith. The challenge is expected to come from the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), which will begin its final meeting at Windsor, England next Tuesday.
The session will conclude 12 years of exploration of the issues separating the two communions. Bishop Alan Clark of East Anglia, England, Catholic co-chairman of ARCIC, hinted at the challenge earlier this year in a lecture at Westminster Abbey. "Our question is simple but momentous," he said of ARCIC's work. "Is what we have written consistent with our conviction that we are one in faith? Or perhaps with more modesty, have we sufficient agreement for our reconciliation? What is the mind not only of our authorities but of the churches they lead in the faith?" he asked. According to this interAs far as ARCIC is con- problems arose over parcerned substantial agree- ticular claims of papal pri- pretation, these issues ment exists on the essential macy, notably infallibility could be argued within a issues. the claim to universal united church rather than between two separate Its first statement, pub- immediate jurisdiction. ' lished in 1971, recorded ARCIC's final report, to churches. Bishop Clark pointed out substantial agreement on be drafted at the Windsgf the eucharist, a question meeting, is expected to that some of the reservacommonly assumed to continue the discussion of tions felt by Anglicans divide the churches. these issues of papal about aspects of the papacy were inherent in the Its second, published in authority. 1973 did the same for the The hope is that it will theological debate within equally contentious issue record at least some pro- the Catholic Church, of ministry and ordination. gress towards common "particularly in the area of the infallibility attributed Its third, published in ground. 1976 discovered an impres- But the impression to the pope in the exercise sive degree of agreement Bishop Clark gave in his of the wider and more proon authority in the church. lecture in April was that, found ministry to which he It accepted a balance against the background of has been appointed." between conciliar and pri- the substantial agreement What Bishop Clark prematial authority and rec- on all the other matters dis- sumably meant was the ognised the place of a cussed by ARCIC, dis- varying interpretations by universal primacy such as agreement on particular many Catholic theologians that exercised by Rome. issues need not be seen as of what papal infallibility But, while consensus grounds for keeping the actually means. existed on basic principles, churches apart. (Cont. Pg. 2)
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There was a bigger attendance than usual at the Cathedral Senior Citizens' group, which meets after mid-day Mass each Friday, when many friends gathered to farewell the future bishop of Geraldton, Dean Foley. He is pictured with well-known cathedral parish identities (left to right)John Sullivan, Pat O'Leary, Bill Schocker and Michael Garrity.
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The 1981 OC1C-Australia trophy awarded by a National Catholic Film Office jury to the film among those entered for the 1981 Australian Film Awards which "best promotes positive human values" has been won by Peter Weir's Gallipoli. The jury citation reads: "While it strikingly portrays the ethos, bravado, horror and frequent futility of war, Gallipoli mirrors many facets of Australian culture: Landscapes, mateship, shrewd innocence, national feeling. "In a wealth of sharply-defined charac-
ters and telling detail, we are offered a context for Australian memory and reflection." Films competing for the 1981 trophy were: Centrefold, The Club, Fatty Finn, Gallipoli, Grendel Grendel Grendel, Hoodwink, Roadgames, The Survivor, Sweet Dreamers, Winter of Our Dreams and Wrong Side of the Road. Previous winners of the -0C1CAustralia trophy have been My Brilliant Career (1979) and Manganinnie (1980).
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Mark Lee is young, idealistic Archy Hamilton in Peter Weir's epic a dventure Gallipoli.