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NOVEL VOCATIONS DRIVE BEGUN The first Australian presentation of a unique vocations programme was given last week at La Salle College by a team who spent ten months preparing for the event.
The programme was sponsored by the Sisters Vocation Council and was the result of an idea known as the Caring Church programme, brought back from overseas by local Columban superior Father P.J. Kelly.
A combined team of pri- of pastoral care. ests, religious sisters and The team now hope to brothers and laity spent a make two further presenwhole week in the Midland tations of the programme college using the daily reli- later in the year, one in a gious instruction period parish where there is no for a variety of activities Catholic school and both in the classroom and another in a country a special audio-visual dis- centre. play area. Each of the 550 pupils at The team was invited to La Salle College had at the college by the principal least two sessions with Mr Clem Mulcahy who, members of the team. For along with the deputy prin- Years 8. 9 and 10 one sescipal Mr Brian Buzzard, sion was conducted in the a ttended the five planning classroom and another in meetings leading up to the the multi-purpose room week. which was fitted out with a Altogether the team had display of photographs ten three-hour meetings and posters illustrating o ver ten months. Several religious life and was also laity were prepared to take set up for slide and other part along with the reli- presentations. gious personnel but were Students in Years 11 and prevented only by their 12 were given a prodaily work commitments gramme which concento take part in the Midland trated more on discussion venture. both before and after the talk given by one of the S tudents' opinions team.
NEW HIGHER INTEREST. The team of the Caring Church programme pictured in a special display room at La Salle College: (Left to right) Sister Kathleen Da we (St Joseph), Father Bryan Rosling (St. Charles'), Mrs Jane Murphy (Cloverdale), Sister Gertrude (La Salle teacher), Sister Christine Westa way (Mercy), Sister Claire Small (Brigidine), Sister Pauline O'Connor (St John of God), Brother Kevin Johns (Manning).
Vatican ARCIC response disappoints
All students were asked to give their opinion of the week and team members are evaluating the analysts sheets which seem to indicate a high degree of acceptance by the students. Many of the senior students suggested that they had not been given sufficient time to talk with the religious team about the "This approach has the effect of making the doctrinal meaning of their commitposition of one church and its formulation of that posiment and said that they tion to be the criterion," added the archbishop. w ould like to resume the Archbishop Henry McAdoo, Anglican Archbishop The Vatican "methodology seems different from that subject later in the year. S tudents were asked of Dublin and Reverend Christopher Hill, Anglican of a serious dialogue founded on the gospels and on the frankly what they thought joint secretary of the commission, both made this corn- ancient common traditions," he said. of vocations to the reli- ment following the release of the observations on the "One has to ask whether the congregation's approach gious life and while some final report by the Vatican Congregation for the Doc- is really a live option as far as healing Christian divisions is concerned." had negative feelings most trine of the Faith. (A news report on the Vatican reaction is printed on said they would give Reverend Hill remarked: "The (congregation's) favourable support to a page 10 of this issue) observations frequently refer to the defined Roman friend thinking of the priBoth Anglican churchmen welcomed the congregaCatholic teaching and do not seem to reflect sufficiently estly or religious life. tion's appraisal of the final report as "a notable effort The Caring Church pro- toward reconciliation," but expressed disappointment the distinction between faith itself and its verbal formulation." gramme is for parents as about its criticisms. well as children and during He said justification for the commission's method The congregation's document, said Archbishop the week at La Salle a opening speech to representative group of 65 McAdoo, "appears to be on a quite different wave could be found in Pope John XXIII's John Paul II's address to the parents from eight par- length from that of the final report. This raised the V atican II and Pope commission when it was beginning its last year of work. ishes associated with the question of whether the report's method and objective In its observations the doctrinal congregation had been fully appreciated," he added. c ollege were given a thought the "substantial agreement" the commission c ondensed version of the The commission's method had been to seek conver- claimed to have reached did not yet constitute a subdiscussion and prayer seg- gence of views, but the congregation's document stantial and explicit agreement on some essential elements used with Year 1 1 implied that what was needed was not only a complete ments of Catholic faith, but it nevertheless called for a and 12 students. identity of faith but also an identical verbal fo rmulation continuation and deepening of the dialogue between the O ne of the factors of that faith. two churches. influencing the team's choice of La Salle College was the existence of the pastoral care group who are representative of all grades and who meet daily under t he guidance of to see if students a teacher have need I
DUBLIN: The Anglican cochairman of the Anglo-Roman Catholic Commission (ARCIC) says the Vatican has failed to understand the method and aims of the commission.
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