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TAX CUTS Catholic Social Wel fare Commission and a Sydney Bishop hit out at tax proposals which will penalise the large poor f amilies of Australia See page 2.
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MEDITATION An Englishman who went to India to find the true spirit of meditation is shortly to visit Perth. Father Doug Conan writes about Bede Griffiths. See pages 4 and 5.
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DENIAL The Vatican resolutely denies that any message in support of US policy in Nicaragua was sent by the Pope as claimed by President Reagan See page 3
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Atheism is said to be on the increase in Australia and a threat to many people but despite efforts of dialectical materialism or secular humanism such efforts would not succeed, Bishop Hickey told the University Sunday audience in Winthrop Hall on Sunday night. Bishop Hickey said he was speaking in defence of animism that gave a vision to a material world and which allowed God to speak to people piritual s if they were silent and listened to His voice in the world around them. He analysed the atheism of today as an adjunct to the "privatisation of religion." "Since religion became a private rather than a social matter it has given rise to feelings of isolation, even of alienation from society in religiously inclined people," he said. "I cannot see that a society can frame just laws and defend human dignity if it pushed religion out of sight. Nor can I see religion fulfilling human aspirations if it does not animate the society in which we live. Religion cannot just be a private matter."
Alimmommomilimmomminie Bishop Hickey said today's humanism and practical atheism was a very real threat to many people. "It is a threat to the complex institutional structures we have built up in churches, parishes, schools, hospitals and welfare agencies and the A rchbishop Foley is bureaucratic administraattending his office this tive bodies that manage week, following heart them." surgery. He will have a He said that declining gradual return to light duties until he feels able to numbers were putting resume his full routine. strains on these strucHe said this week that he tures just as falling birthhad been encouraged and rates put pressure on supported by the great schools or declining number of messages and attendances put pressure offering of prayers not on football administraonly from the Catholic tion. community but from "It is also a threat to the other Christian church people. personal security of Archbishop Foley, 53, many.
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HOSPITALS This week Roslyn R oss looks at the effect of hospitalisation on children. See pages 10 and 11.
"Religion cannot just be a private matter" "It makes parents anxious when their children reject the faith they offer to them. It makes established churches uncertain and introspective and encourages the rise of messianic and eschatological cults." Bishop Hickey said that estimating the number of atheists had little to do with the consciousness of God. "Beliefs about God and revealed truths can be handed down from generation to generation even though they may not be
always accepted. "It is difficult though for atheism to be handed down from generation to generation because an awareness of God exists in the very depths of human nature and it will not be stifled for long. "This is a humanism that admits a divinity, that reaches to nothing less than infinity." Pointing out that efforts to suppress God cannot succeed and that God "speaks to us softly in silence", the bishop of Geraldton drew an exam-
New appointees City: Vatican of 28 Thirteen cardinals announced by Pope John Paul last week are officials in church administration and several of the remainder are in troubled Third World countries. European cardinals include the archbishops of Madrid, Bologna, Florence, Lyon, Utrecht, Munich, Wroclaw (Poland). In Americas: the archbishops of New York.
Boston. Quebec, Managua. Santiago. In Africa, Addis Abbaba and in the Philippines Cebu. Archbishop Lubachowsky who heads the Ukrainian church but lives in America is also made a cardinal. Church officials made cardinals come from the following countries: Italy ( 3), India, Nigeria, Czechoslovakia, Polish (2), Germany, Belgium, France, Venezuela, Austria. The pope can create only 120 cardinals under the
voting age of 80 for papal elections. Europeans still form the majority of the cardinals. The naming of 16 new Europeans will bring the region's total to 80. Of that number, 60 will be eligible to vote. Latin America has the second largest representation. with 24 and 20 votes. US and Canada have a combined 16, with 12 voters Africa has 16 with 14 voters.
pie from John Hawes. the priest -architect who eventually left Geraldton diocese for a hermitage in the Bahamas. "His superiors prevented him from living the hermit's life as fully as he wanted but the search for God, the irresistible call to union with God caused him to seek within himself the presence of God.
EJLD "If we cannot have an external hermitage, for that vocation is only for a few, we all have our hermitage within. "The trouble is we have been driven out of the garden. Our intimacy with God has been affected. We are tempted to adore false gods. 'And yet we know deep down that we yearn for something more." Bihop Hickey said animists who saw a spiritual vision in trees, rivers, hills and rocks gave us a world full of the divine, full of God. "If we listen, God will speak to us through music, through art, through the hearts of loving human beings. "This is not elitist. It is not just for a few. All can, if they wish, see God in a sunset or in the work of human hands."
Bishop Hickey addresses the audience at University Sunday.
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