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Pope's fight for peace V ATICAN CITY: The terrible consequences of modern warfare makes it almost impossible to speak of a just war," said Pope John Paul as his plane winged its way from Cardiff back to R ome. Speaking to an impromptu press conference on the aircraft the pope said, the right to self-defence, cannot be denied but it was necessary to look for other solutions. Today it was necessary to exclude any war.-
A yellow ribbon day! Families affectionately tied yellow ribbons around that stands on Blackboy Hill in remembrance of those trees to be preserved and gum tree was ceremon- men. a iously planted on the site as a reminder to future During the inaugural ceremony the parish priest generations... Father Laurence pictured above planted a cross of rough timber which was brought to him in procession. Music was not left out of the ceremony and Mrs That's how parishioners of St. Anthonys parish Bel- Mowday provided accompaniment on a piano le‘ne inaugurated the site where their new church, hall brought especially for the occasion. and parish residence is about to rise on Blackboy Hill. The event concluded with a picnic lunch and a stroll , More than 400 people turned out on a Sunday morn- over the area that will eventually also accommodate ing as Sall atorian Fathers Laurence, Cormac, the parish school. A ndrew, Emil and With the sale of the former Bellevue parish premises John celebrated the first parish Mass in the on Great Eastern Highway, Mass will be temporarily outdoor setting. was probably the first time Mass had been said celebrated in St. Anthony's school, Beaconsfield t here since the days when World War I troops lived A venue, Midvale. .under canvas The Salvatorian Fathers have taken up temporary as they prepared to depart for the trenches of residence at 5 Fordham Drive, Swan View. Telephone France and the slopes of Gallipoli. !he 4 hectare site is adjacent to the memorial reserve 294 3504.
It is with these thoughts in mind that Pope John Paul leaves tonight (Thursday) for his 36 hour visit to Argentina where he will celebrate two outdoor Masses, one at the shrine to Mary at Lujan about 64 kilometres outside Buenos Aires. Plans at the moment include the pope being greeted at the airport by President Galtieri who along with his entourage intend to attend Saturday's Mass. This is in contrast with the decision in England that the pope would not meet with Prime Minister Margret Thatcher or other political figures in order to emphasise the purely pastoral nature of the visit. The Pope's Argentine trip has been hastily scheduled because of the Falklands fighting, and the purpose, according to the Pope, is to raise a "prayer for the victory of a just peace over war." The moral inacceptability of conventional warfare has been a steadily escalating papal theme since the fighting started. "War, which has always been a calamity, today brings with it an even more vast and terrible threat, because of the destructive power that modern technology has conferred even on so-called conventional weapons," said the Pope in a recent reference to the South Atlantic fighting. In England, he told 350,000 people at Coventry: "Today the scale and horror of modern warfare — whether nuclear or not — makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations." Pointing to the scarred ruins of Coventry's Anglican Cathedral the Pope continued: "War should belong to t he tragic past, to history, it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future." The theme of war and peace threaded its way through many of the talks given by the pope during
the visit. On at least a halfdozen occasions, the pope amended prepared texts to make reference to the twomonth old hostilities. Those who wondered
whether the Pope would skirt that delicate issue during his time in Britain had their question answered early:
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