VA Where are the obstacles to ecumenism today, asks John Cahill, recently in Adelaide. Page 3.
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John Paul in Calabria
New Mass book produced by local musician June Fitzgerald will be launched by Dame Mary Durack on October 31. Page 5.
A former African missionary gives his view of the liberation t heology tension. Page 6.
CHALLENG 1"0 1111A Fr' A ROME (NC) — Pope John Paul II called for a Church-led attack on social problems and condemned the Italian underworld during his visit this week to the economically depressed southern ItaLian region of Calabria. The pope said the Church should be in the "front lines" of the war on social problems, and described organised crime mentality leading to arrogance, vendetta and oppression." l i flThT r1I1P1m7Th11 meeting with hundreds of inmates in a Calabrian prison, a rousing welcome by thousands of youths in the central square in Reggio Calabria, a tall( with workers at rwo industrial plants and dinner with a small group of Carthusian monks.
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For all the groups. the pope's message had a single tI .me: the call to a more deeply liwd religion and a more fully practiced social justice. The response of Calabrians to the first papal visit in eight centuries was sometimes dramatic. In Catanzaro, thousands cheered the pope's call for government aid to the region, but booed and whistled when the pontiff W S S joined on the platform by local politicians.
Some of the 168 acolytes instituted by Archbishop Foley during Mass in St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday. It was the seventh such ceremony since the acolytate was established in Perth archdiocese in 1974 and brings the number of active acolytes in the diocese to over 750. See page 16.
Throughout the visit, the pope was greeted with placards, banners and chants urging an end to government corruption and the creation of more jobs. The most dramatic gesture of all came from the Calabrian underworld, the target of ringing denunciations by the pope at nearly every one of his stops. As the pope was returning kidnappers to Rome. released a 10-year-old boy for whom the pope had prayed publicly the day before
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