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PERTH, WA: SEPTEMBER 9 — 15, 1982
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Largest intake of acolytes Housing poor
The 1982 Catholic Social Justice statement says that the housing system in Australia is structured against poor people and promotes poverty, that thousands of people are homeless and many more have housing problems.
The statement, House and Home: A Christian Call for Housing Justice, has been prepared by the Catholic Commission or Justice a nd Peace in readiness for Social Justice Sunday, September 26. The statement sees the government's first priority being to enable people to move out of the private rental market. It states that it is essential that the state housing authorities provide more accommodation for people on low incomes to enable them to move out of the private rental market and to offer them an alternative path to home ownership. In the statement, the commission is concerned that there is no national housing policy upon which all governments in Australia agree. Until the governments can agree on a national policy for nationwide implementation there is little prospect of substantial improvement in housing for those in need. The statement sees the development of a national housing policy as an urgent task. The statement is critical of government proposals to remove controls on the financial system. Government policy in the past has often excluded the poorest groups from the benefit of home ownership. Proposals that government controls on the financial system be removed will make the situation worse. The increased funds available for housing will be at a cost that the poorest people simply cannot afford.
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The scene in St Mary's Cathedrallast Sunday afternoon when the largest intake of acolyte candidates, 145, waited for the s tart of Mass during which Archbishop Goody instituted them into the lay ministry of acolyte. (See also Page 3).
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R OME (NC) — Now in its 15th year, the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is seeking a new episcopal adviser and considering a new Church status that could significantly change the movement's day-to-day operations.
A spokesman for the Laity S ince before the resignation earlier this year of Bel- Council said the Charismatic gian Cardinal Eo Suenens Renewal has not submitted a fora s episcopal adviser to the mal request for the new status, but has been discussing the possimovement's international bility with the Vatican for several office and council, leaders years. of the Charismatic Renewal But, the spokesman added, no have been holding informal such change could be considered talks with the Vatican's unless the Charismatic Renewal Counci l for the Laity about became a strictly Catholic making the movement a organisation. C athol ic international Father Mascarenhas, a native of o rganisation (CIO). India and a Charismatic since "That would involve quite a few 1972, estimated that only about structural changes — statutes, 20 per cent of the Charismatic membership lists, rules," said Renewal communities in the Jesuit father Fiorello Mascaren- world are ecumenical. has, director of the movement's "Because some of the major international office in Rome. Charismatic communities are "Some of the changes would be ecumenical, the impression has considered alien to the whole been created that the great majorspirit of the renewal," he added. ity are," he said. The biggest change would "But more and more often the involve dropping non-Catholic renewal is oriented to being in organisation, members from the and for the Catholic Church." or at the very least, forming If it achieved the new status, the C atholic and non-Catholic bran- Catholic Charismatic Renewal ches of the Charismatic Renewal. would join a select group of fewer "At the international level, than 50 international associarecognition of an organisation as tions and federations, including Catholic implies the approval of the World Union of Catholic the Holy See, which in this way W omen's organisations, the authenticates the organisation's International Catholic Union of participation in the apostolic the Press, the Legion of Mary mission of the Church and its hie- and the International Christian rarchy and confirms its adher- Union of Business Executives. ence to the doctrinal teaching of Redemptorist Father Thomas the Catholic Church," say 1971 Forrest, who heads the nineguidelines from the Laity member International Catholic C ouncil. Council for the Charismatic
Renewal, said the change would be desirable because the movement sees itself as "as service for r enewing the whole Catholic Church." "We don't claim a monopoly on the Holy Spirit's work of renewal," he added, "but the closer we can work with and in the Church as a very normal part of the Church, the better we would be able to fulfill our purpose." The Charismatic Renewal, which begain in Pittsburgh in February 1967, has some 10 million members worldwide, with strongly Catholic South America having the largest number and the United States running "a very close second", Father Mascarenhas estimated. The search for a new episcopal adviser is related to the possible change in church status, because the adviser to such a body would automatically be named by the pope. When the late Pope Paul VI asked Cardinal Suenens, now 78, and the retired archbishop of Malines-Brussels, Belgium, to take a special interest in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, it was an appointment "without precedent", Father Mascarenhas said. The cardinal submitted his resignation as episcopal adviser t o both the International Council and Office last February, less than a year after the office had moved from Brussels to Rome.
The council has no past experience on which to base the choice of a successor to Cardinal Suenens, said Father Mascarenhas, adding that the adviser will eventually be appointed or confirmed by the pope in any case. The council is also in the process of adding three new members — t wo from Asia and one from French-speaking Africa, further delaying the question of finding a new episcopal adviser. Both Father Mascarenhas and Father Forrest are based in R ome but travel frequently on behalf of the Charismatic Renewal., "Our main work is to safeguard and promote the Catholic orientation of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, to keep in contact with the leaders and to provide leadership formation," the Indian priest said. The International Office has "no authority in any place," he said. "The bishop is always the authority. But we are a service body -- we offer service to those who will accept it." That service might involve leading a charismatic prayer group t oward a more service-oriented outlook, informing bishops who are "not hostile but just indifferent" about the realities of the Charismatic Renewal, or coordinating plans for retreats or seminars drawing clergy or lay people from various nations.