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Local Actors Used For New Mercy High School Passion Play Performance "Unique Contribution
Towards Moral, Religious, Personal
Development''-(Archbishop) A further effort in the gigantic task of unassisted education in the Archdiocese was completed last Sunday when His Grace blessed the new high school for the Sisters of Mercy at Victoria Park. The new school, built by Mr. A. B. Power, cost £36,000 and will cater for 300 pupils. The school has nine rooms, apart from office accommodation and commercial and science instruction rooms. (See feature, Page 14.) The parish priest of St. Jfaachim's parish, Victoria Park, Rt. Rev. T. Lenihan, welcomed His Grace, who had just completed the blessing of the new building. Monsignor Lenihan acted as chairman for the occasion. His Grace, highlighting the problems of education today said: "Secondary education is not easy to organise today. The problem of secondary education is exercising the minds of educationalists here in Australia -and, in fact, everywhere. "The task of the Sisters who will staff this school is particularly difficult. They will be called on to prepare many of their girls to undertake studies leading to professionay careers because many more women are now entering higher educational institutions to qualify for highly specialised and professional work. And at the same time the Sisters are expected to cater for the special emotional and physical interests of the girls in order to prepare them for the vocation of running a home and rearing a family. In a word, the Sisters must at one and the same time prepare their students to be wage-earners and homemakers. And this is not easy to do. But the Sisters, with their qualifications and experience, will, we are indeed confident, be equal to the task.
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Experience Helps
leave a purely natural order in the world-as secular educationalists sometimes seem to believe. He elevated it to the supernatural level. And in keeping with this Divine P 1 a n, Catholic schools give religion and the
supernatural their rightful first place among the learning experiences of the student.
Great Advantage "Also the teaching Sister possesses two great advantages-vocation and permanency. She spends the whole of he; tetaehing life at this one task, and in this way she amasses a vast reservoir of experience. No method or technique can substitute for this experience. And in her dedicated celibate life there is no preoccupation with promotion, salary, retirement or other material benefits. Her full sympathy,
energy, adaptability and dedication are placed at the disposal of her students. Those who have passed through this school should consequently have the proper sense of responsibility towards the community and nation, a sense of responsibility, too, towards the extension of the Church which will, I hope, draw at least some of them to leave all things to enter the Religious life, and finally a sense of mission to sanctify whatever walk in life they will choose."
In replying to His Grace and thanking him on behalf the Sisters, Senator Shane of unique contribution towards Paltridge emphasised the the moral and religious de- contribution made by relivelopment-and personality gious orders in general to development of its stu- the task of education in this dents. State and in the whole of "Firstly, it comes closest Australia. to solving an urgent problem He said that since the of present-day educationhow to arrange and evaluate school of St. Joachim's had started, 7,000 children had the vast number of educational experiences which the been educated by the Sisters. student meets in the high Rev. J. P. O'Brien made school course. It does this by arranging these experiences an appeal on behalf of the as God arranged them at the Sisters of Mercy to help dawn of history. God did not meet the cost of the school.
"The special advantages of this high school is its
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A scene From a rehearsal of the Iona Passion Play, which will be staged at Perth Oval on Thursday and Friday, March 22 and 23, at 8 p.m. ANNETTE CLAYTON (Mary Magdalen), JOSEPHINE NOLAN (The Blessed Virgin) and
Pre -Marriage
TOM GOODE (John the Apostle) are pictured at the foot of the Cross. A performance will be given for Religious at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 21. For all performances the oval lights will go off at 8 p.m., so early seating is desirable.
EXTENSIVE
Conferences
The Central Preparatory Commision for the coming ecurneni.,a1 council has so far discussed 30 schemasoutline reports of matters to be dealt with by the council. The central commission has held four series of meet_ ings to date. The most recent one ended on February
TALKS for engaged couples around Perth will begin on Sunday, March 18, in the Victoria grounds of Square Convent, where a doctor and a priest will discuss medical and moral for questions those to be married. The other sessions of the I're - Cana Conference. v;ill be held on the two consecutive Fridays in the Catholic Centre, where the spiritual life of the married couples as well as economies in marriage and the marriage ceremony will be covered by lectures.
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Each schema i printed in booklet form by the Vatican Polyglot Press with wide margins so that commission members and consultors can make notes or additions. Some schemas comprise more than one booklet because of the length of the question under study. The schemas are prepared
Co -Operative Effort Catholics have joined other major British Churches in an interdenomination campaign to recruit a thousand teachers a year for the next five years for service in Africa. adequate salaries, and educational authorities in Britain are being asked to release volunteers for periods up to three years with a guarantee of reemployment on their return. Specialists are particularly needed for such subjects as domestic science, physical education and art as well as technical teachers. The committee, with the The Churches are asking help of British government employers and school pringrants, is planning to staff ciples, despite their own about seven thousand class- staff shortages, to encourage rooms during the next ten teachers to volunteer. They years. point out that the experiTeachers will be paid ence gained will prove a The interchurch commit-
tee-representing Catholics,
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Anglicans and other Protestant denominations pointed out in a statement that only 16 per cent of African children now go to school. In most areas more than 80 per cent of the school -age population get no education at all.
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by the preparatory commissions and secretariats deal-
ing with specific topics. To date four schemas have been submitted by the Preparatory Theological Commission, nine by the Preparatory Commission for the Discipline of the Clergy and the Christian People, five by the Preparatory Commission for the Oriental Church, four by the Preparatory Commission for Bishops and the Government of Dioceses, three by the Preparatory Commission for the Discipline of t he Sacraments, three by the Preparatory Commission for Studies and Seminaries, and one by the Preparatory Commission for Religious. The central corn -
WORK mission has also studied one general schema which dealt with problems concerning the invitation of non-Catholic observers to the council.
other preparatory
Four
commissions-those dealing with the liturgy, missions, lay apostolate and ceremonies and the preparatory secretarats for communications and the promotion of Christian unity have not yet had schemas considered by the central commission. The schemas represent a vast amount of work and cover an immense number of subjects. The schema of the theoligical commission on the deposit of Faith, for instance, is made up of 11 chapters in five booklets.
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Religious Fears Now Insinuated Into Common M arkel Planning THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, a small Calvinist body, recently
expressed "considerable
that apprehension" Great Britain's ties with
Catholinism would be the if strengthened csuntry joined the EuMarropean Common ket. The sect's "Monthly said in an RecGr d" editorial: "The countries in the Common Market are almost all and Roman Catholic any lessening of the r olitical sovereignty of Great Britain would tend to advance the pre -
tensions of the Pope to temporal as well as ecclesiastical supremacy." In London, meanwhile, all Members of Parliament received a leaflet warning them against "the Common Market and the Jesuit Menace." Distributed by a group calling itself the "Protestant League." the leaflet warned that the Pope controls the governments of Western Europe and that the Jesuits control the Pope. It asserted further that the Papacy had an alliance with Soviet Russia.