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Perth, Thursday, May 5, 1960
The Town Hall is opposite
Mass For Nurses' Guild;
Mass Inaugurates
Annual Mass Of
Kindness, Tact, Consideration
Bank Employees
Brazil's Capital
All Catholics employed in banks are invited to
attend the Annual Mass in St Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday, May 10, at 5.15 p.m. This
follows
an
Aus-
tralia -wide pattern on this day, under the patronage of the Australian Associated Banks. Holy Communion may be received under the normal fasting conditions for evening Masses. It is the wish of His Grace that all connected with the Banking Profession attend.
Brasilia, Brazil: This new capital of Brazil was solemnly inaugurated with a Mass celebrated by a Papal Legate. Inauguration
day,
April
21, began with the celebra-' Lion of midnight Mass on
Brasilia's central esplanade. The ultra -modern city was wrapped in darkness as the Mass started. Only a small light remained on the outdoor altar to focus attention on the Mass, offered to draw down God's blessing on the new capital. Then, at the moment of the Elevation, the lights of BrahiONNIP4114114NPI,PIPINFIV`004.01,4,4,04 silia flashed on. Among the thousands preNURSING SISTERS Remember the sent for the Mass were ENTER THE Brazil's President Juscelino KIMBERLEY CATHEDRAL Kubitschek, who started plans to carve this capital GROUNDS APPEAL out of the jungle wilderness On Sunday last some 130 nurses in colourful uniform walked in when he took office in 1956, Do not let the his wife Sarah, and Vice procession along Victoria-sq. to the Cathedral for the 9 o'clock Joao Goular. Mass where they were joined by approximately 40 religious Sisters Missions close down. President His Eminence Manuel from St. John of God Hospital and St. Anne's Nursing Home. Cardinal Goncalves CereThe occasion was the always a Christ like atti- unless nurses have these vir- A National "Bob -in" jeira, Patriarch of Lisbon, Annual General Communion tude towards their patients. tues in abundance they are who came here as Legate of Appeal. of the Catholic Nurses' Guild particularly the difficult not good nurses in the fullest His Holiness Pope John for In their tender min- sense however great their of W.A. on Florence Night- ones. the inauguration, celebrated The Mass istrations of the sick one has technical skill. ingale Sunday. Further donation list the inauguration Mass. After Mass the nurses par was celebrated by their come to expect kindliness, The Pope also broadcast a next week. Chaplain Rev. P. McCrann tact, consideration, under- took of breakfast at St. greeting from the Vatican and the occasional sermon standing and devoted cheer- Joseph's Convent, Victoria to the people of Brazil on was preached by V. Rev. J. ful service and to feel that Square. the occasion of the inauguFarmer S.J., Rector of St. ration of the new capital. In Louis Jesuit School Clare the message-in Portuguese Mont. he expressed happiness The preacher suggested that in the inaugration "emthat God expected more phasis will be given to cerefrom from members of cermonies of a religious nature, invoking God to grant new tain professions than from others and among these, he blessings and favours to the Theirs whole nation." numbered nurses. was a vocation rather than In addition' to the Papal Missionaries in charge. Lome, Togo: Togo's Bishops have express- Word a job for their work placed The Vatican directed this Delegate, three other Cardicontact them in constant participated in the cerejoy in a joint pastoral letter that this new missionary group to nals with the sick, the suffering ed their pick put German priests monies. They were Their and the dying, with people country hos become Africa's newest indepen- from its ranks and send Eminences Carlos Cardinal de Vasconcellos Motta, Archwho needed help. them to this area. dent state. He exhorted them to have Divine Word Missionaries bishop of Sao Paolo; Jaime activity here Catholic mis- opened stations along the Cardinal de Barros Camara, A former United Nationals trust territory under French sionaries have stressed edu- entire coast, reopened the Archbishop of Rio de JanRECOLLECTION administration, Togo became cational work. One of the abandoned Atakpame mis- eiro; and Augusto Cardinal DAY fruits of their efforts is the sion in the interior and da Silva, Archbishop of independent on April 7 of Bahia. Day The monthly Located on the west coast fact that 37 of the 46 mem- opened another inland misRecollection for the Togo is a bers elected to the territory's sion at Palime, Only in 1913 continent, First Year Mass the of of Deputies two after governmental restricclergy of the metrocountry of 21,200 square Chamber In a speech after the Mass ago were Catholics. tions were removed could years politan area will be of a population miles with Premier Sylvanus Olympic. the Aledjo Mission be open- Cardinal Goncalves Cereheld at the Redemp1,115,000. Catholics in the jcira recalled that the first ed far in the north. torist Monastery, nation's two Sees-the Arch- is also a Catholic. Mass celebrated in Brazil North Perth, on TuesThe of the Church history By 1913 the there and were of Lome 20,407 diocese in 1500, the year the day, May 10. Time of total in Togo goes back to 1860 Catholics and catechumens was Sokode diocese country was discovered. The commencement is 10 204,220. They are served by when the Vicariate Apostolic in Togo. Mass was celebrated by a 76 priests. The Church oper- of Dahomey was erected by o'clock. Franciscan priest, Father Invaded In War ates 394 schools with a total the Holy See. It included Henrique Soares de Coim................................. the area south of the Sahara enrolment of 36,295. With the outbreak of bra, one of the six Francisfrom the Volta River in World War I the German can missionaries who acIn their pastoral, Arch- Ghana to the Niger River in colony Doctor's Death bishop of Togoland was in- companied the Portuguese Joseph Strebler, Nigeria. vaded from both discoverer of Brazil, Pedro sides by S.M.A., of Lome, and Bishop This area was entrusted to English and French forces. Alvares Cabral. Lingenheim, of the Society of African MisRecalls Libel Case Jerome The German government At 8 a.m .the Cardinal bein Sokode, declared: "With a London: Dr. Halliday heart overflowing with joy sions from Lyons, France, Togoland surrendered on stowed his blessing on the and in 1862 missionaries August 27, 1914. new city and blessed the Sutherland, noted author, we thank God for having contacted such Togoland Three years later a cable- Brazilian flag. medical consultant a n d brought our country through coastal villages as Anecho. gram from London ordered The very cross which was past of vicissitudes Catholic apologist, died all the Porto Segouro and Lome. all German missionaries in erected at the first Mass here on April 17 at the age centuries to break the chains From Lome they went 100 Togoland to be transported offered in Brazil stood again of servitude and go forward miles inland to Atakpame. .f 77. to the Isle of Man (Britain) at the inauguration Mass. A convert Scotsman, Dr. to that state of political as prisoners of war. They Made of native brazil -wood, Sutherland was the suc- maturity a n d prosperity were never to return the cross is preserved as a to their Germany Under cessful defendant in a 1922 which has today earned it missions. precious relic in Portugal. When fetish priests at legal battle with Dr. Marie independence, the benefit of After World War I the Accompanying it on the Stopes, who sued the phy- liberty and the confidence Atakpame saw their own in- former German colony was plane were descendants of cisian-writer for libel of the world. Let us thank fluence waning in the pre- politically divided by the Alvares Cabral, after he had publicly cri- God for having been the sence of the missionaries British and French into Later in the day-when ticised her promotion of guide and support of the who cured ills with medicine British Togoland-now part the sun was well up in the birth -control clinics. The liberators of the fatherland." instead of magic, they gave of Ghana-and French Togo - sky-the formal installation case was appealed to the Asking the nation's Catho- poisoned palm wine to the tenet The French Togoland of the executive, legislative House of Lords, which lics to put their country priests, killing one immedi- missions were once again and judicial powers took cleared Dr. Sutherland. under God's protection, the ately and Incapacitating entrusted to the Society of place. President Kubitschek An expert on tubercu- Bishops said: "We are Chris- another for life. The Atak- African Missions by the raised the national flag over losis, the physician was tians and we have a right rime mission had to be holy See. Brasilia and received the also a prolific author. He to be proud, because of all abandoned. Development was rapid credentials of Ambassadors In 1884 Togo-including after World War L When to Brazil. was best known for two the factors that aided the books of reminiscences: rise of the Togolese people territory that is now part of Bishop Jean-Marie Cessou President Kubitschek and "The Arches of the Years" it was precisely Christian neighbouring Ghana be- died in 1945 after heading other top members of the civilisation which propelled came a German colony. The the Church in French Togo- government and diplomatic end "A Tim,. to Keep." He was the father of them most directly and Holy See eieht years later land for 24 years, he left corps looked on as Archfive children. one of them rapidly towards their raised the Toen m,srions to behind him 8131,000 ratho- bishop Jose Newton de Althe status of a Prefecture nas, 200 chusehes and 191 meida Batista was formally now a priest in the London destiny. During their century of Apostolic and pt'-re' rtwine s^horl, with 11 MO area. installed by the Papal Leg.
Bishops Hail Independence Of Togo In Joyful Pastoral
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ate, Cardinal Goncalves Cerejeira. Archbishop Batista had been Archbishop of Diam in Una, the President's home town, until Pope John erected Brasilia as an archdiocese and named him Ite first Archbishop early in March. The Papal Legate also attended a joint session of the Brazilian Congress <nd shared with President Kubitschek and Israel Pitheiro, president of the government agency that built Brasilia, long and thunderous applause from the thousands of spectators. As infant Brasilia is still unfinished, and most government offices will remain for a time in the old capital, Rio de Janeiro so too does Archbishop Batista have to start from zero in organising his See.
Father McKeon Receives Title Of Monsignor
llis Grace the Archbishop has announced that the Rev. M. McKeon has received the honour of being made a Privy Chamberlain. Information of this was received from the Apostolic Delegation on April 28. The conferring of the honour will entitle Father McKeon to be addressed as the Very Reverend Monsignor. Monsignor McKeon, the son of the late John and Bridget McKeon, of Drum min, Westport, Co. Mayo,
was ordained from A 11 Hallows College, Dublin, on June 22. 1947. Ordained for the Perth Archdoicese, he arrived in February, 1948, and was appointed curate to the parish cf Maylands2;nglewood. This appointment lasted till 1952, when he was appointed to St. Mary's Cathedral staff. In 1954 His Grace made Father McKeon Director to the Pontifical Mission Society for the Archdiocese, and in 1956 added the directorship of the Catholic Episcopal Migration for the Archdiocese. Monsignor McKeon eontinues to hold these offi'res, which.he contsols from the rpth,,,i, (74,0,e