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No. 2913
1:6211 991 I
(Registered at the 01..0 . Perth, for transmission by post as a Newspaper)
Perth, Thursday, February 18, 1960
Well Versed Dominican Brilliant To Speak In Social Week Girl Exhibition
Result
In Leaving Gets
St. Thomas More College at the University
will
be the venue of this year's Christian Social Week. Prominent speakers have been invited to lecture on various aspects of "The Lay Apostolate" which will be the theme of the Week. A good attendance of people engaged in apostolic work is expected. All Catholics are invited. The lectures and discussions will be held in the open air if the weather is
unduly warm.
The Week
will begin on next Tuesday night, Feb 23, at 8 p.m. An enrolment fee of 2/6 will be charged for the four
nights, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. On the opening night the speaker will be Rev. E. O'Sullivan 0. P. of North Doubleview. Father O'Sullivan has been in Perth only a year. He completed his theological course at the Dominican House of Studies in Dublin and for five years was engaged in lecturing and retreat work in Cork. Father O'Sullivan has previously been a guest speaker at conferences on the lay apostolate and for some years was review editor of "Doctrine and Life," an Irish periodical dealing with spirituality for lay people and religious. The Christian Social Week has rarely been able to provide a speaker so well qualified to deal with his subject which will be the Theology of the Lay Apostolate. Other speakers will be M.% Brian Low, former State
Engaged Couples Hear Of Changes
In Home Building Young couples planning marriage should face up to the financial struggle before them not light h ea dedly but lightheartedly. This was the tenor of a
talk given by Mr. H. Childe
at the Pre -Cana Conference held in the Catholic Centre last Friday night. Over fifty young people attended this opening session of the talks. Mr, Childe said that he had spoken t engaged couples five year's ago about the economic preparation for marriage. "In those days," he said, "it was essential for a couple to buy a block of land and find a builder, "Since then the pattern of home building and home purchase has changed considerably in your favour. This c h an g e has been brought about by increased availability of both finance and building materials." He then gave details of various means of obtaining finance for home building. The couples attending the conference were deeply impressed on the same evening by the Rev. P. Cunningham's exposition of the spiritual aspects of married life. The talks will be continued on the next two Friday nights and conclude on Sunday, February 28.
president of the Young Christian Workers' Movement and Rev. M. McKeon, diocesan director of the Propagation of the Faith.
Father McKeon, besides being chaplain to a branch of the YCW (Girls) is also spiritual director to the
Comitium of the Legion of Mary which is the top local body of the biggest organisation of the lay apostolate in this State. His subject will be "The Spirituality of the Lay Apostle" on Friday night. On the final night representatives of the Legion of Mary, St. Vincent de Paul Society and the YCW will outline the scope and spirit of their own particular activities and general coverage will be given to other apostolic organisations. The final speaked will be His Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. Rafferty, D.D. who will preside at the closing of the Social Week.
Mutual Love In Marriage Builds
Miss Annette Fitzpatrick obtained seven subjects. English, French, German, Maths A, Maths B,
Physics,
with distinctions, in the recent Leaving Certificate examination. She w a s awarded a General Exhibition, also a Commonwealth Scholarship. Annette is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Fitzpatrick of Hines Hill and received her secondary education at St. Brigid's College, Lesmurdie. Music, five
Something Other Than The Partners
"A man and a woman marry because they love each other. But, they marry in order that together they may build something other than themselves the family. Their glory is to share together, as the ministers of God's omnipotence, in the making of new immortal
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Positive Guide
Introducing the topic of marriage morality, the speaker said that the true Christian approach to marriage should be based on a firm resolution to use it in accordance with God's plan, to seek ardently the fulfilment of such a glorious destiny, to observe the moral law from an ardent -conviction that for husband and wife their marriage is the means of saving their souls .i-the way that leads them to their eternal destiny. In this way, he said, there was formed a mentality which abhors anything which was contrary to the dignity and beauty of the married state. The teaching of the Church regarding the responsibilities of marriage was then seen, not as a series of prohibitions, but as
Nixon Pledges Not To Raise
He told a press conference
that if he is the Republican party's presidential nominee he will not tolerate such a manoeuvre. He also said neither the Republican nor Democratic party should pick a vice presidential nominee on the basis of religion, geography or other "ticket balancing devices." "I share the views of the majority of Americans on this there should not be a consideration of religion for either office," the Vice President said. He added: "I am sure that this country has matured since 1928." That year the Catholicism of Gov. Alfred E. Smith, of New York, the Democratic presidential nominee, became an issue in the campaign.
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The building, which has been in use as a church for the past two years, now contains three large classrooms, a room for the Sisters and the usual amenities and facilities. A wide verandah running the entire length of the building provides ample playtime shelter for the children in inclement weather and protection for the classrooms from the afternoon sun. The parish priest, Father Stinson, welcomed His Lordship and explained that the new school had opened this week with an enrolment of 55 children and a staff of two Sisters of Mercy, who
Migrants
Late Sister Francis Retired From Work After 60 Years The death occurred on Sunday night, February 14, of Sister Mary Francis Xavier (McCormack) of St. Joseph's Convent, South Perth. Sister Francis, who was 85 years of age, only retired from active work in 1957 when she came down from Boulder to South ack, Parish Priest of Clare Perth convent. Sister Mary Francis was born in Ireland on July 12, 1874 and entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart in 1897 at Boulder. She was professed on Nov.
mont parish. His Grace Archbishop and His Lordship Bishop Rafferty were present for the Solemn Requiem Mass
21, 1899.
last Wednesday morning. Ministers for the Mass were Rev. P. Kelly, celebrant; Rev. J. Chauncy deacon, Rev. A. Morahan subdeacon and Rev. F. Walsh, master of ceremonies. The clergy of the metropolitan area supplied the choir for the Mass and representatives of religious orders of the diocese were present. May she rest in peace.
Spending most of her religious life as a teacher on the Fields, Sister was stationed at Boulder, Kelleberin, Manjimup, Brown Hill, Trafalgar and again at Boulder. In her later years, although not bedridden entirely Sister was in illhealth and had to be taken to the Chapel on a wheel chair. A brother of Sister Francis is the Rev. J. McCorm-
Altar Will
Religious Issue Chicago,- Vice President Richard M. Nixon said here that if he has his way religion will not be raised as an issue in the coming presidential campaign.
Additions to St. Laurence's Church School, at Westminster were blessed by His Lordship, Bishop Rafferty, on Sunday, the 14th inst.
The annual collection for the Federal Catholic Immigration Committee will be taken up at all Masses on Sunday, February 28.
a positive guide to a virtuous
and happy life. In this way, he continued, the moral problems which arise in marriage would be seen in their true perspective, against the background of man's destiny, which was worked out in this life, and achieved in eternity. Dealing with specific problems by the application of these principles, Mgr. Sullivan pointed out that there was no obligation on anyone to have the maximum number of children. People sometimes tended to think the Church was engaged in organising a huge Stork Derby-one without any prize. This was quite incorrect, but people with a just reason for limiting their family had to choose moral means of doing so. -
School Additions In New Suburb
Collection To Aid
beings."
This quotation was the theme of a talk on "Christian Marriage," given by the Rt. Rev. Mgr. E. Sullivan, at the Applecross Cana Conference last week. The primary purpose of marriage, Mgr. Sullivan reminded an attentive audience, was the procreation of marriage; t h e secondary purpose, mutual love and consolation. He emphasised, however, that the secondary end of marriage was bound up with the primary end. "The whole of marriage should be the expression of this mutual love," he said. "God has annexed to His plan for the procreation of new life the attraction of the sexes, and the most complete expression of mutual human love." Mgr. Sullivan went on to quote from the Encyclical of Pope Pius XI on Christian Marriage: ". conjugal faith, most aptly called by St. Auguseine "the faith of chastity," blooms snore freely, more beautifully and more nobly when it is rooted in that most excellent soil: The love of husband and wife, which pervades all the duties of married life, and holds pride of place in Christian marriage."
Recall Pastor A token of respect and gratitude to the memqry of their first parish priest will be marked on Sunday, February 21, by the people of St. Mary's parish, Leeder-
ville.
A new marble altar, erected by the parishioners to the memory of the late Rt. Rev. Monsignor J. F. Moloney will be used for the first time. High Mass will be celebrated at 10.30 a.m. Evening devotions at 7.30 will feature a procession of the Blessed Sacrament a n d 'Benediction. Six priests who served as assistants to the late Mgr. Moloney will be present for the occasion.
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602 HAY STREET The Town Hall is opposite.
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will live at the convent in Osborne Park and travel to and from the school each day. His Lordship congratulated Father Stinson, and the people, on the acquisition of the new school. The district was growing rapidly, and there was a large number of children approaching school age for whom school facilities so close to their homes would be invaluable. He felt that the Catholic parents of the area, knowing, as they did, the immense importance of a Catholic education for their children, would appreciate fully what had been done to provide for their needs. He pointed out how
fortunate they were that Father Stinson had succeeded in obtaining a staff, and he expressed on behalf of all, deepest gratitude to the Sisters of Mercy of St. Brigid's, West Perth, who had found it possible to
make a staff available. "We have here," concluded His Lordship, "a heavy investment on the part of priest, people and Sisters, but I have no doubt that the dividend will be a rich one-rich in the speccial blessings and graces which a Catholic school invariably brings to any parish, and rich also, we fervently pray, in the fruits of the seeds of vocation to the religious life which will be planted in the hearts of many of its pupils. May God grant that the sacrifice of the Sisters will fructify especially in this way, and that from the rooms of this school will come others, imbued with the same spirit of sacrifice, who are prepared to take their places in the ranks of our teaching Religious, without whom there would be no system of Catholic education." Rev. Father Toop, who accompanied the Bishop, spoke in Italian for the benefit of the many Italian parishioners who were present.
Physical Relations In Wedlock
Tuesday at the Applecross Cana Conference the main speaker was Dr. M. Connaughton. The subject was: "Christian Attitude to Sex in Marriage" and discussion was lively. The following points were made during the evening: We as an Australian community were rather out of touch with the importance of the smaller things, compliments and suchlike, that were important for the success of marriage. Particularly on the male side, it was typically Australian to neglect the smaller courtesies and indications of affection and respect towards the opposite sex. It was false to assume that a great deal of knowledge was necessary to achieve happy relations between husband and wife. A natural display of affection and true love for one another was far better than anything worked out studiously and systematically. A common error often tended to arise where there was some need to limit the number of children. Some
thought that Catholics were bady off because they were governed by strict laws. Actually they were often far better off and their marriages were more satisfactory in every way than those who had not the same guid-
ance, The use of mechanical contrivances to prevent conception brought with it a cold-blooded and ruthless approach to marriage relations which was not natural and very often felt by those using them to be
rather distasteful.
Proper medical science has exploded many popular ideas about the dangers involved in childbirth but false rumours still circulated about women not being capable of bearing children if they suffered from tuberculosis, high blood pressure and similar diseases. Rarely if ever would sickness or weakness make it really dangerous for a woman to bear a child if she was given proper care and attention. Oft repeated advice to the contrary was frequently on ignorance.