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Bishop is ESPERANCE FOLK the chief teacher
The bishop of a diocese is the chief pastor and therefore he is the principal teacher of the faith, Archbishop Goody told 70 Catholic primary school principals and religious coordinators at a conference last week.
"The bishop delegates principals and staff to teach education in faith in his name and so they are ultimately responsible and accountable to him for the success of religious education programmes," he said.
"Hence this gathering; hence the responsible position of my deputy, Father Gerard Holohan, director of religious education." Archbishop Goody said that it was his task to assist teachers as well and as much as he could and for that reason he had established a department of religious education which would assist and evaluate the teachers' performance. He said that he had also directed the development of guidelines for primary and secondary schools so that teachers would know what they were supposed to be teaching. Archdiocesan resources were subsidising the levy from school funds for the support of the Catholic Pastoral Institute in the religious training of teachers. "Naturally, our material resources are limited — always — but you teachers are our best and most valuable resource. "It depends on you, more than on any other person, to make y ours a truly Catholic school, by the standard of its religious teaching and by the way the school community acts and lives out that teaching. "St Augustine said: 'Be yourselves what you teach' " Archbishop Goody urged the principals to make sure that the decisions regarding the use of resources truly reflected the purposes and priorities of the Catholic education system. He repeated a concern he had expressed to the Catholic secondary school religious education conference in July last year: "I am concerned at the inability ot many students to recall the fundamentals of the teachings of our faith. I am concerned not merely with learning by rote or by heart but with the ability to r ecall what they have learnt — and that may be the same thing. "No student can be considered educated in the faith if he or she cannot recall the fundamentals of the faith. "Just as a student cannot be considered to be educated in mathematics if he or she cannot recall the multiplication tables, or history without facts and dates, or physics without formulae, or reading and writing without grammar and spelling, so a student cannot be considered to be educated in the faith if he or she cannot recall fundamental truths about the commandments, the sacraments and the many other basic beliefs that emerge from the Word of God. "Where the content of religious education is concerned, make sure that you present to your students the faith as taught by the Church and not the speculations which are appropriate to the reflections of professional theologians."
ORDINATION TENSIONS LONDON (NC) — Tensions within the Church of England over the ordination of women came to the surface again after three Anglican bishops received Communion from a woman priest who had been ordained in New Zealand during the annual conference of the Movement for the Ordination of Women. The celebrant was the Reverend Janet Crawford, who is s tudying at Yale Divinity School. Eucharists celebrated by Anglican women priests ordained outside England are looked on with disfavour by authorities of t he Church of England, which does not allow ordination of w omen in England. In parish churches eucharistic celebrations conducted by a w oman are illegal, but private celebrations have been allowed. The Church of England's General Synod has rejected suggestions that women priests ordained abroad should be allowed to officiate in England, but the question is scheduled to come up again when the synod meets in July. On the agenda is .a motion asking for special permission for such women Priests to celebrate in England on special occasions.
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Renewal in unity call If we lose sight of the broad dialogue that is going on between the Catholic Church and a wide range of other churches we get too partial a picture said an English priest who is a staff member of the Vatican secretariate for the Promotion of Christian Unity. Monsignor Richard Stewart who "For my first address in an Angliwas on a four-day visit to Perth can church hall in 1961 I was said that we were more aware of warned by my archbishop to join the dialogue with Anglicans but it in only the recitation of the Lord's was also necessary to view this Prayer. against the dialogue going on "A lot of headway has been made between the Orthodox, Lutheran, because there is a certain will for World Methodist Conference, the unity and a certain expectation of Alliance of Reformed Churches, unity among a lot of Christians. the Disciples of Christ and the "Yet it is not possible to look at Pentecostalists. work for unity all by itself. It has to Monsignor Stewart, who has a be linked with renewal in the special interest in the dialogue Church. between the Catholic and Anglican "This renewal is concerned with Methodist churches, is concerned conversion of heart and with misalso with national ecumenical sion. A good definition of ecumenc ommittees and will be attending a ism is: The renewal of the Church national meeting of Australian in unity for mission. c ommittees in Sydney as well as "The changes of attitude since the the Australian Bishops Confer- Second Vatican Council have not ence. been geared simply and solely On the recent final report of the towards unity of churches, which Anglican Roman Catholic Com- admittedly was one of the four mission (ARCIC) Monsignor Ste- aims of the council. wart said "We are finding "The Church has been taking agreement on matters that 17 or 18 stock of her mission in the world, years ago would not have been trying to be more faithful to Our Lord's will. within striking distance." He cited the early 1960's when the "It is that, among other things, first Catholic priest to preach in an that has led us to look in a positive Anglican church got a front page way at the growing points of unity picture on The Times and his between ourselves and the other address reported in full. Nowadays churches. the event is not even in the local (Continued Pg 16) press.
There are a lot of happy people in Esperance at the moment but none moreso than the parish priest, Father Pat Rooney (pictured above), who has led his community through the exercise of building a new church, presbytery and convent complex which was blessed and opened by Bishop McKeon on April 26. The building cost $500,000 of which $220,000 was offset by the sale of church land in Dempster Street and the Esplanade. The parish is committed to finding the balance. (See story Page 2).;
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