University colleges are not for the idle rich says veteran Jesuit, Father Con Finn, who returned to Perth to look at the St Thomas More College, of which he was founding rector. See this page.
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Jesuit director of the Centre, Bioethics Father Bill Uren, replies to recent questions raised on IVF morality. See page 2.
At the opening of the St Thomas More College Murphy wing on Sunday the founding rector Father Con Finn SJ (right) claimed to be the "Oldest Old Boy" of the college. He was able to check his story with other pioneers of 30 years ago: (from left) foundation student Kevin Bartlett, Mrs Mollie McVittie who with her late husband Mac set up the domestic facilities and Pat Kirby who was one of the first five , students to take up residence in 1955. Also present on Sunday
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e —The vision of Catholic educational philosophy goes well beyond the secularist vision; it is concerned not only with the freedom to be but with the freedom to become." This was said by Bishop Healy last Sunday when he blessed and opened the 15 room residential block at St Thomas More College, named the Murphy wing because it was constructed by the $200,000 bequest of the late Stanislaus Murphy.
Pointing out that St Thomas More College is a Catholic college and not rust a series of dormitories for Catholics attending tertiary institutions, Bishops Healy said that university education in Australia was secularist and that St Thomas More would have considered this to be inadequate. "He would have approved studies in the humanities, in the social and human life
sciences hut he would not have appri wed of the limited education they reflect. He would have been attuned to the broader heritage of Catholic education which recognises human inadequacy and places greater emphasis on human gifts. Bishop Healy said Catholic philosophy of education represents a genuine alternative educational vision for any student wanting to accept it. Its basic differnce is the understanding of the human person as a unique individual created in the image and likeness of God. It recognises at every level the Os each individual has received and which reflect the attributes of the creator. The secular philosophy does not seek to promote the spiritual dimension of the human person. Bishop Healy said that .
when the I -niversity of WA granted land for the establishment of St Thomas More College there was no doubt of the hope that the Christian colleges would complement the secular vision of the university. Bishop Healy paid tribute to the Jesuit order which had provided the rectors and other staff for the college over its 30 years. He also noted the presence of Archbishop Go( Ay who as auxilliary bishop was chairman of the appeal committee which visited parishes raising funds to establish the college. Father Put Bishop SJ. the college rector said it was a rare occasion to open the wing in the 450th anniversary year of St Thomas Mores death and even rarer to open it debt free. "Thank God for Stanislaus Murphy". he commented.
was another pioneer student Brian Singleton. The notion of a Catholic University College was a foundation hope of the Newman Society under Dr MacMahon at its inauguration in 1924. The university granted a 5-acre site in 1933. Archbishop Prendiville launched a diocesan appeal in 1953 in all parishes and with the help of a donation of $27,000 from a legacy to Monsignor Moss the first section of the college and its chapel opened in 1955, under the planning of Father P. O'Mara. From an initial enrolment of 40 the college now takes 180 students; women were admitted in 1974 and now hold 84 places, 46 per cent of the enrolment. Over 30 years some 1760 students have resided at the college, more than half from WA country areas.
Father Finn's comments See page 4
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