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Veteran Thmas Cooke Hostel resident Denis McCrann found out what it means to have all his Christmases arrive at once when he won the bumper raffle at the Southern Cross Homes Christmas party. At left helping him tot up the proceeds is Jack McEvoy of the Prindiville Village, North Perth. See story page 3.
VATICAN CITY: If there have been failures they have not been the fault of the Second Vatican Council. They have emanated from neglect of the Council or from misinterpretation of the Council's spiritual teaching.
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This was said by Australia's representative, Archbishop Rush of Brisbane, at the two week Extraordinary Synod of Bishops. "Secularisation in the West, and increasingly in every part of the world, is one significant phenomenon
sought outside the Church, along ways only loosely related to the Church, the Church that
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calls herself the "Sacrament of Salvation".
Archbishop Foley speaks out in official statement on Bullsbrook shrine. See page 4.
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vision of the Church's mle in the world of our time. "Too many people, even among Catholics, find the Church peripheral to their concerns. "In Catechesi Tradendae the Pope John Paul wrote of the secularisation of our society. He &scri•bes ours as a world which largely ignores God. A world in which too often there is indifferentism or even contempt for religion as if it were incompatible with scientific progress "It has been said already but it cannot be exagger-
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ated: the task of translating the Council's theology of Church into action has only begun." On the pressing topic of the relationship between Rome and the local bishops' conferences, Archbishop Rush said "The question of collegiality and the relationship of the local Church with the rniversal Church is a major internal question causing sufficient anxiety and wasting enough energy to distract the Church from what should he its maior concerns."
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