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Pressure is mounting to have 38-year -old Columbian missionary Father Brian Gore put on trial not only for subversion but also for other charges of murder. This week Bishop have charges against wrongly applied to Father Fortich, of Bacolod, Father Gore with- Gore in this instance. There have been also other the capital of the Phi- drawn. top level talks going on lippines island of Father Gore's lawyers Negros, told Father have been pressing the between Church and Brian Morrison in court on the grounds that government leaders for a clear definition of what Perth that a judge had the charge "inciting to constitutes subversion. dismissed a petition to r ebellion" has been Bishop Fortich indicated that the latest decision by the judge leaves him little option but to order Father Gore to trial, although that step has not been taken vet. The role of the military. whose lieutenant Gallo first claimed to have found the hand grenade at Father Gore's residence, has now taken a more sinister twist. Bishop Fortich has information that the military were aware that the judge would have to reject this latest petition and they are now working even harder to find witnesses and sworn evidence that Father Gore was responsible also for nine other murders including that of Mayor Pablo.
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It was a real encounter of the marrying* kind when Roly and Eileen Bott of Manning,: and eight of their nine children togged: themselves out suitably for the Mass in St* Mary's Cathedral on Sunday celebrated by: Archbishop Goody and 20 priests to mark: the fourth annual convention of World Wide* Marriage Encounter held in WA for the first: time. The Botts are the latest couple to join: the teams presenting Marriage Encounter* weekends. World Wide Marriage Encounter: consultant Father Tom Morrow, of New: York, was present andhis interview appears* • on page 4. f***********
ROME: A close Soviet watcher believes that Pope John Paul would have liked to have made a Lithuanian bishop a cardinal instead of the Latvian named in the latest list but that it would have meant his expulsion from the Father Gore made no Soviet Union. No secret
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secret of his attitude T he Lithuanian panovicius, of Vilna, Instead, Pope John Paul son was Bishop Stepanovitowards the mayor who Roman seminary rec- who since 1961 has chose as his Soviet Union cius, although to have was commonly believed to nominee the 87-year-old named him publicly would be behind the deaths and tor Monsignor Tulaba b een impeded by administrator of Riga in have meant stepped up brutalising of peasants and said the choice would S oviet authorities Latvia, Bishop Vaivods. harrassment of the Lithuawho himself was later have been for 71 - from exercising his nian church. Tulaba said Monsignor year -old Bishop Ste- bishop's role. killed in an ambush. he heard reliably that Mos- Presumably now it was It is now being questioned Vat- felt that Bishop Stepanoviby Father Gore's connec- direct on-air interviews in must come under grave cow had informed the cius would give better serBishop if ican that tions whether the judge in the 6PR Brian Sattler pro- scrutiny for dishonesty. vice by being allowed to these preliminary hearings gramme wants the Austral- "Shortly a massive Steponavicius was named remain in his homeland face perwould he cardinal is stalling for time so that ian media to expose to the Australia-wide condemnarather than face expulsion the military can bring a Australian public the cor- tion will commence against manent expulsion from as a cardinal. case on the murder charges rupt methods being this insidious attack on the Lithuania, either in exile to Bishop Stepanovicius is a the West or to Siberia. as well as the original two employed. freedom of oppressed hero of the Lithuanian of possessing explosives This week 6PR sent the human beings in your On his election as pope in C atholic resistance 1978, Pope John Paul sent and inciting to rebellion. following telegram to the country." because of his enduring The Australian Embassy Philippines Ambassador The Philippines Ambas- his cardinal's red skull cap t wo decades of house in Manila is keeping in in Canberra: sador was in Perth on an to Vilna as a sign of his arrest in Zagar a different close touch with the pro- "Urgently request the official visit at the end of solidarity with the Lithua- part of Lithuania from his ceedings and first secretary immediate withdrawal of last year and official nian Catholic Church as appointed diocese and of the embassy Greg Poi- all charges against Father C atholic representation also possibly as a sign of without a travel permit or a son was due to talk with Brian Gore. Your own was pointedly absent from his intention to make residence permit for Vilna. Father Gore's lawyers this statements in Perth last official receptions to the Bishop Stepanovicius a His troubles began 20 cardinal. week and also if possible to year indicated that justice ambassador. years ago when he refused interview the judge of the would be done. It is believed that he was In 1979 when Pope John to ordain three candidates preliminary hearing. "It appears not only is the made certain of what the Paul named new cardinals for the priesthood nomiFather Brian Morrison, military case deceitful and Perth Catholic attitude he named one secretly (in who has been reporting full of lies but even the was to the events sur- pectore) and most Vatican nated by Moscow. (See also P13.) Father Gore's case through judiciary of your country rounding Father Gore. observers believe that per-