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ThC. 11?eCO No. 2,705
(Registered at the G.P.O Perth. for transmission by post as a Newspaper)
Perth , Thursday , May 19, 1955.
DEPLORING NEGLECTED PLIGHT OF HALF-CASTE POPULATION
\Archbishop Acclaims Pallottine Move To Train Native Children
submitted on the projected Women's Page. Only next week remains for competition entries, after which a decision will be made whether there is enough interest to launch a Women's Page, and if so, what form it should take.
Mrs. Daws writes: Sir,-I am pleasantly anticipating the inclusion of a "Women's Page" in "The Record." My suggestions are: 1. A column for the women and girls in isolated places. This to be inspirational to help counteract the spiritual starvation of these people-such as: (b) A short sermon once a month. (c) Helpful hints for teeners living in the country after finishing school. (There is no N.C.G.M. nor sodalities for them ) (d) Two weeks' calendar of Feasts, etc., to help who get "The Record" days late. 2. An open discussion section. 3.
Readers' recipes and household hints.
4. Articles by an expert on bringing up the family. hoped, would one day he 5. News and stories of the world's outstanding Praise for the efforts of the missionaries and government to given them. women, both present and past. in and centre that In communthe in 6. Poetry, not necessarily religious; also a few words place their take to train the half-caste population throughout other missions of help and consolation for the aged. ity as useful citizens, was voiced by His Grace the Archbishop the State we were en- 7. A book list. Many widely advertised books are to make a praccrude. Books and authors listed could be taken when he officially opened the Pallottine Missionary Centre at deavouring tical and positive contribuas fit reading. tion to that complex prob8. A "This was Fun" section, in which readers and Riverton on Sunday last. by be supported to should inspiration lem. others may send humorous stories or events. The His Grace congratulated source of charity. They should and The process would ne editor to judge if they are worth printing. the Pallottine Fathers on them all. earn to trained be In the half-caste missions could slow. It would require faith the acquisition of the Misif but livelihood, own their with subsimilar But a patience. and sionary Centre. It would for children that was to be done facil- God's help and with conprovide accommodation for sidy was now being protraining tinued support from governEn for such the Fathers and Brothers vided as that allowed for ities be made available. ments and government defrom the various missions children of our own institu- should what was precisely That partments, with the public whenever they came south tions. That was a step forward, would be done at the Mis- conscience awakened, as Three Eastern States pre- P. O'Collins. Bishop of Balfor a well-earned rest or Centre. sionary to be remained much thank God it was becoming lates passed through Fre- larat; and the Most Rev. P. but purposes. for business The problem of the half- more and more awakened, mantle They had looked forward done before that blot on castes on Saturday last J. Lyons, Auxiliary Bishop Australia West in record, social Australia's they would eventually suc- aboard the Orcades, en to His Eminence, Cardinal tor some years to that day a very pressing one be- ceed. and now their hopes and would be completely re- was route for the International Gilroy. cause we had one -fifth of The Archbishop congratuThe prelates will repreambitions were realised. His moved. of lated Mr. Stan Costello, who Eucharistic Congress at Rio population native the His said building, to The Grace said he was glad sent the Australian HierJaneiro, Brazil. Australia. The birth-rate at the Congress. Durarchy be associated with them in Grace, incorporated a wing was very high. Since the had designed the building, and thanked him and the They are the Most Rev. ing the vessel's stay in port their joy on that occasion where boys from thebevariof the century tradesmen associated with beginning acwould missions ous of comthe them Archbishop and wished they were the guests of His they had more than trebled him for their fine workman- M. Beovich, fort and privacy they richly commodated while serving Adelaide; the Most Rev. J. Grace the Archbishop. numbers. their the in apprenticeships their ship. deserved in their new home. Their plight was a sorry Report, Page 13. The Pallottines had six city. to The Pallottines were to be ono' They did not wish yet missions in the north; in and blacks as be classed they that in congratulated of Tardun they had control they were debarred from a very successful mission were among the first of the
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Route To Brazil Prelates Congress Represent Hierarchy
Bishops' Right To Guide In Public Affairs Is Defended More than 600 men of the Holy Name Society last Sunday night heard the Rev. D. Lewis, 0.P., explain-and strongl defend of Australia to pronounce on the "conduct -the right of Bishops Church worked for his ad- only the exaggerated claims of public affairs." vancement in that sphere of Henry II and Henry VIII.
Father Lewis called on that one might think it was but had also resisted in deall Holy Name men to give her special object. All the fence of the Church's right "implicit obedience" to the time, however, the Church to examine and proclaim Holy See and the Bishops of was concerned with man's the rights of God over those Australia-a call which he eternal welfare, he said. of Caesar, and to instruct described as "of paramount men when "the rights of on powers, temporal The importance." Caesar encroached on the no had hand, other the a Diowas occasion The rights of God." cesan Rally of the Holy direct concern with in man's There was a good deal of fact, talk Name Society members in spiritual welfare these days about McSt. Mary's Cathedral. His they openly confessed their Carthyism and the smearmen in public places. Grace the Archbishop pre- unconcern. of ing For instance, during the Some Catholics even were sided. the military authori- sometimes afraid of being There were prominent war, representing the tem- labelled for "interfering in men who had criticised the ties, were very powers Father Lewis said. Bishops for their alleged in- poral about the troops politics," No Catholic should fear cursion into the political worried in women with associating that smear campaign. Christ field in their recent pastoral, houses of ill -fame, Father himself had warned His and one had even said that Lewis said. Catholics Church that it would be devout many What was their solution- persecuted as He was perwould resist that incursion, send secuted. Father Lewis told the rally. to license the houses, out patrols of doctors and When Our Lord was arBut all decent -minded provide the troops with raigned before two tribunals the safeguards against physical men would credit for the purpose of securing being honour- sickness. with Bishops are His death. He was accused Native girls from St. Francis Xavier Mission, Wandering, able men and would believe They provided temporal two counts, according to when they said they welfare for a man at the on pictured with Rev. Bro. Robert, S.C.A and two Sisters of Mary. them the make-up of the tribunal. the into were not entering soul, he his of expense Before the Sanhedrin of the society of white men. field of a political party, he pointed out. the Jews, whose interest for half-caste boys and girls missions to provide systemthey social status, added. no With to for left training therefore was It or ought to have been, and at Wandering in the atic vocational The right of the Bishops the Church to protect the was, were, generally speaking. religion and morality, He south of this diocese they the boys under their careequal idle and dissolute dwellers to "interfere in what on the spiritual or moral interests was accused of subverting conducted a similar institu- a system of training a purely consequently, man of in all respects to the recog- on the outskirts of country surface seemed Law; when he came tion. throughout the State. political matter" sprang Christ gave to the Pastors God's before Pilate, a pagan with Church and State had nised standards of the citi- towns a man that fact said the and from said, was It of His Church, not only the no interest in Judaism, He reason to be grateful to the zens of the country. damn the Archbishop could just as easily right but the duty to examproclaimed a political Pallottines and His Grace At some future date-and wrongly, that the half- his soul in a polling booth ine and to pronounce on was said he was delighted to His Grace hoped, before maintained, the the moral issues involved in agitator. it was and of as elsewhere, vices the inherited caste building parallel a So, in the 16th century, have that opportunity of long that both races. If the half- divine right of the Bishops the efforts of the temporal when men were deeply conexpressing publicly, on his would be erected on girls caste had displayed vicious to save men from damning powers to advance man's cerned with religion, the own behalf and on behalf 10 -acre site, where tendencies, that was due their souls anywhere, Father material conditions. Church was dubbed a subof the other bishops of the from the various missions more to environment than Lewis said. province, their appreciation would be accommodated. The novel idea of spirit- verter of the Gospel and out pointed Lewis Father parentage. to of the fine work the Pallot- Environment Factors authority vested in the today, in the face of a world Human nature was essen- that a Catholic might be ual powers, introduced hardly interested in God, tines were doing in that That convent would be the same and over- described as one who ren- temporal charge was changed to noble apostolate for West under the care of the tially to Caesar the things by Luther into Christian the bush dered unhygienic crowded, adopt- political subversion. Australian natives. of Mary, dwellings and scant charity that were Caesar's and to thought and eagerly Schoenstatt Sisters know, But with His Church as to reasonsIt was consoling obvious who arrived from Germany result in vice whether God the things that were ed-for the Archbishop continued, a few years ago and who wouldsubject by the temporal lords was with Christ Himself, the or God's. black was the now not only did not that governments were were doing such wonderful While St. Paul insisted on contrary to Christian teach- leopard change his spots, but he did becoming more and more work for half-caste girls at white. of ing. duty enconscientious the had God Almighty a'Beckett, not change his aim-to desThomas aware of their real respon- Tardun and Wandering. St. dowed those natives with submission to the temporal of Canterbury troy Christ and to destroy sibility to the native popuThose Sisters would be souls made in His own powers, St. Peter showed us Archbishop one- His Church was still the In recent years. More, lation. Thomas St. and to continue the train- image and likeness and they by word and action that of aim and the methods didn't through various depart- able at were no less entitled to save there came a time when we time Lord Chancellor started girls the of ing edudiffer, Father Lewis said. housing, faithful ments, better missions. That was an their immortal souls under must obey God rather than England, weret o.moreChristian "But if Holy Name men cation and social conditions the witnesses was dividing line than man-the their efforts to in conditions reasonable advance tradition-the are faithful to their pledge were provided. boys and girls their white brothers and the pre-eminence of the thought and loyalty to the State and of the on murdered His Grace praised the train the spiritual over the temporal one was their care to earn sisters. efforts of the government under altar steps of his Cathedral to God, they can go forward and to more welfare of man. livelihood would own they That their said and undismayed and unafraid directions in these Although she was not and the other exchanged their place in the com- easily do if trained to gainwhich may be that the advocacy of the take concerned with his chain of office for the by any labels directly if given citizens. and useful as employment munity ful Midto them." he addknife on Tyburn. attached natives' cause by Mr. status of full white man's temporal well-being, butcher's conthe fitting, not was for It ed. not (Commissioner They had resisted dleton which, His Grace so assiduously had the Native Affairs) had bees a tinued His Grace, that they citizenship
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