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IlICE 11?eC01 No. 2,636
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Perth, Thursday, Jan. 21, 1954
Father Stormon, S.J., Tells of. Church's New Role
Jesuit Debates Europe's Problems At University
Of those who failed, a number may complete a certificate in next year's examinations. Corresponding results over the post five years show the following percentages: 81.2% 1949 81.1% 1950 1951 76.4% 81.6% 1952 79.4% 1953
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Speaking at the Adult Educaticie Summer School at the University on Jan. 9, the Rev E. J. Stormon, S.J., discussed what form of temporal action the Church might take now that Europe was rent in two, and the Western "way of life' wal menaced with extinc-
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Father Stormon next pro- Italy, the balancing of Among the 57 postulants Scores Successes The Catholic Church, said discuss a select wages and prices in France, of the Sisters of St. Joseph Father Stormon, was by ceeded to problems and the the housing of the increased Narrogin parishioners are of the Sacred Heart who renature transcendent of poli- group of in the ruined ceived the religious habit jubilant over the successful tical activity and social or- Catholic contribution to- population of Western Germany. cities solution. candidates and their their Junior wards the Excellency reservHis from it though ganisation, in the recent Of the attitude towards The chief Catholic contribuApostolic Delegate at Mount teachers ed the right to make criticthe made through tions were that he said examinations. These Junior Communism, reSydney, street, North isms on that level wherever DeChristian formed newly was attitude Aileen Blefford, were: Catholic the West eight were Christian cently, the of exercise the parties. The rise Sacred Hears Convent, HighAustralian girls. life was impeded, or Chris- one of irreduceable opposi- mocratic an imwas those parties was of St. Keane, Patricia opposition gate; (That tion. They were: Sister M. Stetian principles were flouted. the phen (Stella Cunneen), Sis- Joseph's Convent, KellerThe Church, though "other- farther -reaching than that portant phenomenon of last decade. McAuliffe, Libb many B o ter M. Domitilla (Kathleen berrin; worldly" in its orientation, manifested by Dawe), Sister M. Paula S.I.C., New Norcia; Roger held that man lived also erals and Socialists, who (Rita Kelly), Sister M. Den- Ryan, S.I.C., New Norcia; within a 'this -world" order found it possible to come to European Federation funTwo Tito.) social In France, Catholic Seminary, ise (Denise Casey), Sister John (a series of relationships terms with Makin, condifferent were damentally practice and theory in the which find expression M. Edith (Eileen Thelma Guildford; and Joseph MoIn some Prince), Sister M. Albertus naghan, Albany. Natural Law), which was ceptions of man and human markedly Left. cases, e.g., Les Chretiens and history were involved. (Audrey Cabassi), Sister M. divinely constituted, With regard to Com- Progressistes, there has even TITO: Liberals and Social- Veronica (Margaret Scott), are ex All canditates which must be observed by with ists found it possible to Sister M. Patricia (Nannette pupils of St. Philomena's both individual and com- munism in practice, there been some flirting made be to important An a distinction was Narrogin. Marxism. Convent, munity. Carr). with him. part was played in France come to terms The historic influence of Ouvriere Jeunesse the by formulathe in Church the Chretienne, by the Catholic tion of European ideals and Trades Unions, and by small in the constitution of Eurogroups, such as the Pretrospean civilisation was clearly . Ouvriers and the workers understood, and had been of the Mission de France. by outlined, particularly Father Stormon said of Christopher Dawson in his the creation of a European book, "The Making of Euwould form What Federation, that the cry rope." Participating in a forum of the Adult Education Summer was heard on all sides: "Il the temporal action of the faut faire 1' Europe." The School at the University, the Rev. E. J. Stormon, S.J., together with Church take, now that Eunational differences, and, Lord Lindsay of Berker and Professor A. Alexander, discussed the rope was rent in two, and indeed, jealousies and averthe Western "way of life" while Eastern Europe was menaced with extincsions, still existed, of course, theme: "Are Peace and Prosperity possible speaker. the asked tion, but the tendency to over- remains Communist?" come them was stronger. Father Stormon said it -the Communist one, into not going to disintegrate Church of Silence The chief problem was would be quite obvious to which Eastern Europe has under Communist pressure. The meaning given to the Father Stormon said we the achievement of some everyone who read the been incorporated, and that between terms of the question that other which was associated phrase then was obviously no longer had (i) a Cathorapprochement to It seemed lic Europe, in which the French and Germans. Here the most important thing to with a Western way of life- tactical. Church could exercise a unithe Catholics of Alsace-Lor- do was to arrive at some could continue side by side Stalin then that Russia and the West, more particularly one impinging the society, on enormouswithout influence help versal raine could agreement as to the meanor (ii) a Catholic -ProtestIt was no accident that ing of the words: "peace," harmfully upon the other, Germany, had reached a SCHUMAN: It is no acci- ly. ant Europe, in which a com- dent that the author of the the Council of Europe meets "prosperity," and 'possible." was expressed in the fam- stalemate, so that there was "peaceful co- nothing to be gained, for the munity of fundamental be- Schuman Plan is a Lor- at Strasbourg. and that the By "peace," he said, they ous formula, moment, by violent methods. liefs made for certain ulti- rainer, speaking both French author of the Schuman Plan should mean something existence." long-range aim of exa mate agreements, or (iii) was a Lorrainer, speaking more than the absence of and German. It was right to remind The the Revolution relargely "liberal" Europe, in both French and German. between them, said Father Stormon, porting conflict armed however, as subsewhich a number of import- between (a) the attitude Wars took place that, historically speaking, mained, countries. events showed clearly quent were ant religious values European Ethos taken towards the de facto in several phases-of which the formula belonged to enough. preserved in a "secularised" imposition of the regimes in it Discussing the possibility the military operations re- Stalin himself. He used When the opportunity form. By in 1925, when, after repeatthe countries behind the of the formulation of an ac- presented only one. came, Communist regimes On one side of the Iron Iron Curtain, and (b) the ceptable European ethos, "peace," then, he meant the ed efforts at disruption by were foisted, without any of was Father Stormon asked Curtain was a group of threatened importation absence of cold wars as the German Communist genuine reference to the there such a thing as a well as hot ones. Christian nations, for the the system into the West. Party, it became clear that will of the peoples concern'way of life" to Western most part Catholic, cut off all agree that would Hungary, They on Poland, Fails Compromise Eliot, S. which, say, T. from communication with the Weimar Republic was ed, Czecho-Slovakia, the greatIn the Iron Curtain coun- Winston Churchill, Francois by 'prosperity" was meant the West: Hungary, Czechoby well-being and Balkans, economic part of the er no organwas Mauriac, Herriot, the late Slovakia, Poland, the Slav tries, there European, and not, say, Eastern Germany. Balkans (with a modifica- ised public opposition to the Paul Valery, Thomas Mann, good They standards. Asiatic, At- Einstein, the late Benedetto regime. The phrase, "peaceful cotion for Yugo-Slavia), the Communist that prosperexistence," has been revivcould had in mind each particuBaltic countries, and, in a tempts had been made to Croce,. Guareschi, of which ity -essenin non ed in recent times by Malcompromise GerEastern lesser degree, have subscribed? lar country had shown itenkov, with a renewed inmany and the Soviet zone tials, in order to ensure the that said, he normal believed, He in capable to be self religious of sistence that the "revolution There religi- continuance of Austria. Such a "way there was. and not the bare is not for export." But one ous activity was being re- liberty. Those attempts had of life" was probably not times, that of well-being minimum noticed, of course, that those duced to a minimum, and not borne the desired fruit. susceptible of exact defini- saved a people from falling for now hoped words recurred during a utmost The religious influence on public tion, except in the most genperiod of approximate life had been practically was that minimum freedom eral terms. It must be one into despair. equilibrium between the It would be well at attach The Church of action required to keep comprehensive enough to aleliminated. Western and Eastern blocs the Christian faith alive in realistic meaning to of Silence was a reality. low Christians and non- athefairly They -a fact which should warn the hearts of the people. "possible." word Christians, Catholics and them against taking them. Seek Christian Aid There was no campaign Protestants, "rightists," 'left- should understand it as that too seriously. possibility practical Within two of the West- for a "Holy War," although ists" and ''centrists," to Forgetting for the moern nations, France and many thought that war was meet on common ground -- kind which is reasonably ment the purely tactical Italy, Communism was re- the only means by which even though they met there well vouched for by their present knowledge and exmeaning which "peaceful presented by powerful poli- their liberty could be re- for different reasons. perience-not a theoretic co-existence" seemed to In the Western tical minorities and pressure stored. possibility which belonged have for Soviet rulers, they In other nations, countries, there was posigroups. Role of French they which an order of to should themselves ask with the exception of Spain tive opposition to practical "I believe," concluded whether the phrase could and Portugal, it had a vary- Communism, with varying Father Stormon, "that many had little inkling. have a genuine content; ing ideological influence. degrees of vehemence. There Catholic writers, particularFather Stormon suggested whether, in point of fact, nuances to ly a number of those in as a general conclusion that On the other hand, with- were important EuEastern and Western in the attitudes be'observed reasons there were grave important France, have an in the Western nations, rope (and with Western those who belonged to the taken in France, Germany, part to play in the elucida- for doubting whether, withEurope they ought to in. tion and "mise en valeur" out profound changes in the Liberal, secularist tradition, Italy, Spain. elude America) could settle Regarding the achieve- of those civic and human nature of the Communist tended to seek support from down, as it were, side by justice, ideals of which the Western movement itself, peace and the specifically Christian ment of social side, each respecting the elements, in defence, e.g., of Father Stormon said a vast world is vaguely conscious, prosperity were possible, other's way of life, and regiven division the present under problems now, and which it is the human person. There array of social et fraining from acts of interSTALIN: Foram& was also a rapprochement, confronted post-war Europe. threats from an alien sys- between East and West. oriference or provocation. at certain levels, between These included agrarian re- tem, trying to make explicit The view that the two "peaceful eo-existenee" (Cont. on Page 4) great blocs, or systems ginated with hiss. form and unemployment in to itself." Catholics and Protestants.
Says Chance Father Stormon .
Of Peace With Reds Remote
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