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LONDON: The final report of the Anglican -Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) calls for Catholics and Anglicans to renunite, out of obedience to God's will, with the Bishop of Rome recognised as the "Universal Primate" of the Church.
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It calls, however, for many Catholics will think too changes in the common weak. to the final Catholic understanding of The introduction declares that Christ's dispapal authority and for report ciples "who have received the changes in the way that same word of God, and have authority is exercised, so been baptised in the same spirit that it will be seen more cannot, without disobedience deeply as a service of the (to Christ's will), acquiesce in a "unity and harmony" of state of separation." the communion of God's The conclusion says: in people which is the "The convergence reflected report would appear final our church. the establishing of a
to call for The full statement has not yet new relationship between our been released but information Churches as a next stage in the from the report is circulating Christian journey towards freely in Europe. high expectaare There ... unity The major new section of the tions that significant initiatives final report addresses prewill be boldly undertaken to viously unanswered questions our reconciliation and deepen about papal primacy, authority lead us forward in the quest for and infallibility. the full communion to which we On those issues, certainly have been committed, in obeones delicate most the among dience to God, from the beginfacing Catholic-Anglican and ning of our dialogue." Catholic-Orthodox efforts at reunion, the report challenges The final report — the product popular perceptions of the pap- of 12 years' work by an internaacy by both Catholics and tional team of scholars appointed by the Archbishop of Anglicans. It uses agreed language about Canterbury and the Vatican's the role and ministry of the Secretaritat for Christian Unity Bishop of Rome in the universal — includes several individual Church which, at first sight, reports that ARCIC has premany Anglicans will almost cer- viously published, plus two tainly consider too strong and major new documents.
AMALGAMATION OF NEW NORCIA TO ARCHDIOCESE The 115 -year-old sepa rate jurisdiction of the Abbey Nullius of New Norcia has come to a close and the remaining 1200 square miles of the ecclesiastical territory this Friday become part of the archdiocese o Perth.
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P, reparing for the opening of the fourth Youthcare residence, Guido Vogels (left), Centrecare co-ordinator of Youthcare, discusses the domestic details with (left to right) Leanne the house -leader and Julia and Debbie who are residents.
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"We believe that we have something to show and something to al/," said Mr Guido Vogels, of Centrecare, last Sunday explaining that although the new Youthcare residence on Salvado Road w as the fourth such venture it was the first official opening. He said it was also a matter of public accountability following the grant in 1981 which enabled the employment of Miss Sheryl Carmody at Centrecare, the employment of a houseleader for the new residence and also for s ome house alterations. "For the two years before that it was a fully self-supporting operation in terms of time and effort on the part of volunteers, as well as their
dipping into their own pockets." Last Sunday's opening was attended by federal and state politicians of both parties and representatives of the surrounding parish, Catholic education, hospital and child care v entures.
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The Benedictine monks will continue to minister to the people of the area as a parish of the archdiocese. They say Mass at the centres of New Norcia, Calingiri Gillingarra and Yerecoin. The amalgamation of the territories' was announced this week in a joint statement by Archbishop Goody and the prior administrator of New Norcia, Dom Justin Bruce. The dissolution of the separate territorial administration follows on a Vatican recommendation several years ago that the few abbeys nullius remaining in the world should become attached to the neighbouring diocese. "Abbey Nullius Diocesis" is a technical term meaning that a monastery is given charge of a surrounding territory that is "part of no diocese" and over which the local abbot assumes all ecclesiastical authority. New Norcia was granted an exemption from the recent Vatican instruction. A the time the abbey nullius of New Norcia also had jurisdiction over the territory at Kalumburu which last year was incorporated into the territory of the diocese of Broome. The merger of the Kalumburu and New Norcia territories into neighbouring dioceses only concerns Church jurisdiction and does not affect the ownership of properties or leases held by the Benedictine community in both areas.
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It is on authority in the Church that most attention will be focused as the report becomes public and is read by members of both Churches. It addresses four key issues that were left unresolved by the previous authority report. These are: • The interpretation of the "Petrine Texts" or scriptural passages about St Peter's particular role in the Church. • The meaning of the "divine right" ascribed by Catholics to the primacy of the Bishop of Rome in the universal Church. • The Catholic affirmation of papal infallibility, and • The nature of the jurisdiction, or legal authority, ascribed to the Bishop of Rome as universal primate. In each of the tour areas, the ARCIC calls on the world's more than 700 million Catholics and 63 million Anglicans to overcome polemical language of the past and see if they can agree on• language which adequately expresses the faith of both, without requiring either Catholics or Anglicans to compromise on what they consider essential.
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