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602 HAY STREET The Town Hall is opposite.
Presbytery Completes Mundaring Parish Plant
A reasonably constant temperature will be one of the most pleasing features of the presbytery blessed and opened in Mundaring on the Sunday before Easter. The presbytery has been built entirely of granite in its external walls and incorporates two bedrooms, lounge, kitchenette, dining room, office and bathroom facilities. The floors are of concrete, which eventually will be covered with carpeting, lino and tiles. His Grace the Archbishop blessed the building for the parish priest, Rev. T.
O'Kane. Speaking on the occasion, His Grace said that considering the present high costs of building materials, this presbytery had been built for a relatively low cost. For the sum of £3,200, a presbytery was built to complete the parish plant of church, convent, school and now a priest's dwelling place. His Grace said that the parishioners
Bombay Court Rules Parish Funds
Public Trust liable To Expropriation Bombay: The High Court of Bombay State has ruled that parish funds of Catholic churches "fall within the scope" of Bombay's public trust act and may therefore be expropriated by the government. The High Court's decision
rejected an appeal by Cathoauthorities lic Church against a two -year-old ruling by a city court. It means that any person with a legal interest in parish funds may inspect the uses to which they are put. It also compels trustees of these funls to invest at least part of them in public securities. The case arose when the charity commissioner ordered 96 Catholic churches in the Bombay archdiocese to register as public trusts un-
and to freely profess, practise and propagate their religion is unaffected by the Bombay Public Trust Act." The court declared that the civil expropriation of church funds on grounds of misuse would require only the "prior consent and approval" of the charity commission. "The alienation of Church property is a purely secular matter under the Constitution," the court stated. "The Legislature could provide
safeguards " (In Bangalore, Archbishop der the public trust act of This law was de- Thomas Pothacamury, gener1953. signed to prevent the abuse al secretary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, of money earmarked for public purposes by an insti- said the decision "must be studied carefully before any tution or individual. Catholic authorities ap- further step is taken." By law the decision can be pealed to the city court and then to the High Court on appealed to India's Supreme Court.) the ground that funds of the churches had been dediThe ruling of the Bomcated to God and His bay High Court is contrary the to legal opinions handed Church rather than to public good as defined by down by courts in several law. Indian states. They also argued that if In November, 1957, the the public trust act was ap- High Court of Madhya plied to Catholic churches Pradesh delivered a contrait would infringe on the dictory ruling in the apfundamental right of Catho- peal of a Catholic convent lics to administer their reagainst an order to register ligious institutions without as a public trust. interference. The Madhya Pradesh The High Court ruled that court declared: a Roman Catholic church is to the public, but to God, "a constructive trust and "Where dedication is not in any event an endowment and the money is handed out within the meaning of the not as a trust, but as someBombay Public Trust Act." thing to be used at the It contended that "the sweet will of the officers fundamental right of Roman concerned, there cannot be Catholics to hold property any public trust." .
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could be proud of what they had achieved. Tribute was paid to the generosity of the late Mrs. Reddy in donating the land and house which was used for many years by the priests, Father Linnane and then Father O'Kane, till they had done the rest of the parish buildings. The architect, Mr. V. Mucciarone, and the builder, Mr. P. Bertola, received a word of congratulation for the good job they had done. His Grace concluded by wishing Father O'Kane well for his holiday as he was leaving for Ireland for six months on the following Sunday. He expressed the hope that the same generous co-operation which had been given to Father O'Kane would be given to Rev. J. McNamara who was to be locum tenens till the
return of their parish priest.
Delegate Is Due Here On May 11 On Wednesday, May 11,
His Excellency, the Most Reverend Maxmilian de Furstenberg, Apostolic. Delegate to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, will arrive in Perth. His Excellency's arrival on the morning of the 11th will be private and informal. At 5.30 on Wednesday evening there will be a Liturgical Reception followed by Pontifical High Mass, at which the new Delegate will preside. On Thursday. May 12., His Excellency will call upon His Excellency the Governor (Sir Charles Gairdner), the Premier of the State (The Hon. D. Brand) and the Lord Mayor of Perth (Mr. Howard). On Friday His Excellency will depart by plane
for Adelaide, where he is scheduled to arrive at 5 p.m., thence to Melbourne on the Saturday, arriving in Sydney on Sunday, May 15.
Loy Apostolate Bodies Protest
At Insolent Threats Of Reds Havana.-Cuba's lay apostolate organisations have protested in a joint statement against the "insolent threat" to Catholics by the nation's communist leader. At the same time Coadjutor Archbishop Evelio Diaz y Cia, of Havana, has called on Cuban Catholics to observe Holy Week with special fervour ''without ostentation. b u t without fear" of the Red menace. Cuba's communist chieftain has threatened that Reds will attack as traitors to the revolutionary regime of Premier Fidel Castro those Catholics who oppose communism.
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Reds Will Use Force Juan Marinello, president of the Popular Socialist (communist) party, told 4,000 delegates to the national Socialist Youth Congress that a large majority of Catholic young people have gone over to Premief Castro's enemies. Communists, he declared, will use violence if they persist in their opposition to the revolution. Delegates who came here from 15 countries, in eluding the U.S., the Sovi.A Union and communist China -answered the Red leader with the cry: "To the wall" Under the Castro regime this has become the typical way of asking for the death of "counter-revolutionaries." The joint statement of Cuban Catholic Action and ,ther lay apostolate groups, which have a total memi,, ship of more than 20,J00, said that the Marinello threat was an attempt to sow confusion and discord. It added that the action of the communist leader, who was Minister of Education in the dictatorship of ousted President Fulgencio Batista, was "a procedure characteristic of anti-Christian totalita rianism." Arehbishon Diaz said in his Holy Week statement published in the daily Prensa": "I ask Catholics . . to celebrate thir ,reat we,k f,rvently nd not to cry "Crucify Him" a few days later when Red
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in the peacefulness of prayer in the silence of the church, but instead to confess Christ
publicly before mankind, without ostentation, b u t without fear, without boastfulness but without cowardice, even when the hour strikes that demands the indispensable sacrifice that the practice of Christian life requires." The lay apostolate statement said that the Marinello threat was "an insolent threat to the free religious expression guaranteed by the basic law of the republic." The statement also listed other constitutional rightsfree expression of one's opinions, free exercise of religion, freedom to give or receive requested religious instruction in private schools -and stated: "These rights have been publicly and repeatedly acknowledged by the revolutionary govern. ment, and no one can obstruct them without injuring the democratic principles of the country."
Anti -Communism
The statement continued: "We repeat our adherence to the principles of social justice, national sovereignty and public morality which inspired the Cuban revoluWe praise without tion. reservation all measures adopted by the revolution which are aimed at redeem ing the needy from hunger, poverty and exploitation by means of an equitable dis-
tribution of wealth. "For all of this, Catholics stand ready to make greater sacrifices. For this reason, we reject, because they are contrary to these principles, the doctrine and procedures of atheistic and totalitarian communism." "However," it said, "to protect a hypocritical and opportunistic anti-commnism in order to maintain injusttices .
. is as much to be rejected as communism itself However, !cf oppose for ideological (Contlinted.ses Paw It) .
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Eucharist Favour At Bishop's Will The Holy See has issued a decree making the reception of Holy Communion easier. This decree empowers the Local Ordinary to permit the reception of Holy Communion outside of Mass after noon, at some religious ceremony. Prior to this decree, Holy Communion could only be distributed at or immediately before or after Mass. Below is given the official translation of the text of the decree. The faithful are to bear in mind that the use of the decree depends on the permission of the Archbishop for this Archdiocese. Canon 867, paragraph 4, decrees that Holy Communion is not to be distributed outside the hours during which the sacrifice of the Mass may be offered, "unless a reasonable cause urge otherwise." By the Constitution "Christus Dominus.- of January
6, 1953, after the discipline of the Eucharistic fast had
been mitigated, there was conceded to local Ordinaries the faculty of permitting the celebration of Mass in the evening hours on certain days (n. VI); and in the instruction attached to the same Constitution by the Holy Office, it was declared that the faithful might approach the Holy Table freely within the aforementioned Mass or immediately before and immediately after it, the norms established in the same constitution concerning the Eucharistic fast being observed (n. 15). Next, in a "Monitum" of March 22, 1955, it was confirmed that this concession had been made "for the common good of the faithful," and therefore that the concession had to be kept within the limits of the common good.
Later, by the "Motu proprio Sacram Communionem," of March 19, 1957, local Ordinaries were given the faculty to permit the celebration of evening Mass even "daily, if the spiritual good of a notable part of the faithful of Christ requires this." To this question this Supreme Sacred Congregation has decided to respond that the above -mentioned clause,
although not formally abrogated, may now be applied very rarely, since, after the mitigation of the Eucharistic fast, a reasonable cause of this kind occurs with greater difficulty; nonetheless, since this cannot be entirely excluded and since it is not possible to celebrate evening Masses always and everywhere, local Ordinaries may permit what has been decreed in the preceding documents of the Holy See with regard to the distribution of Holy Communion in evening Masses, may be applied also, where Mass is not celebrated, to another sacred function, this to be determined by the local Ordinary himself and to be celebrated during the hours after noon in parochial and non-parochial churches and in the oratories of hospitals, prisons and institutions.
In this concession, while further provision is made for the common good, at the same time real care is to be taken lest pastors of souls be prevented by the frequent requests of the faithful from being able to satisfy the necessities of today's apostolate. His Holiness John XXIII, by Divine Providence Pope, in an audience granted to His Eminence the Cardinal Secretary of the Holy Office on Friday, March 18, confirmed and ordered the publication of this decision of Their Eminences, the Fathers of the Supreme, Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office.
ANZAC DAY MASS A Solemn
Requiem Mass will be celeSt. at Mary's brated Cathedral on April 25 (Anzac Day) at 8.30 a m Rev P. Nolan, 0 S.M will preach the occasional sermon. Representatives of the Commonwealth a n d ,
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the Armed Services .will be present. acid
PILGRIM STATUE FOR WEMBLEY On Sunday, May 1, at 7.30 p.m. a Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady will be enthroned in Our Lady of Vic-
tories Church, Wembley, for one week. Rosary and the Art of Consecration to Our Lady will be said every evening. Parishioners are urged to take the opportunity to pray the Rosary every night in front of the Pilgrim Virgin Statue from May I. to the 8th at 7.30.