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IN GIGANTIC MODERN TASK VATICAN CITY: WITH THE SCHEDULED FINAL MEETING ON JUNE 20 OF THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL'S CENTRAL PREPARATORY COMMISSION, THE PRE PARATORY PHASE OF THE COUNCIL CAME TO A CLOSE. THE CENTRAL COMMISSION BEGAN ITS SEVENTH AND LAST ASSEMBLY EXACTLY A YEAR TO THE DAY THAT IT FIRST MET-JUNE 12.
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Although certain preparations for the council will continue through the summer at an accelerated pace, they will be immediate arrangements for the opening of the council on October 11. For all practical purposes, the work of nine preparatory commissions and two preparatory secretariats comes to an end with the end of the Central Commission's work. The Ceremonial Commission for the council, the council's Technical and Economic Secretariat and its General Secretariat will continue to function until the
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material; November 7-17, 1961-Second assembly of the central commission; December 25, 1961-Publication of the apostolic constitution Humanae Salutis, giving official notice of the opening of the council in 1962; January 15-25, 1962-Third session of the central commission; February 2, 1962-Publication of the motu proprio by which the date October 11, 1962, was fixed for the opening of the council; February 20-27, 1962-Fourth session of the central commission; February 22, 1962-Solemn audience in St. Peter's Basilica with papal discourse to members and consultors of the Central Preparatory Commission and all clergy residing in Rome; March 26 -April 3, 1962-Fifth session of the central commission; May 3-12, 1962-Sixth session of the central commission.
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council opens. But their work deals with practical and ceremonial arrangements for the council, not with the actual problems the council will tackle. In a discourse pronounced in 1960 on the Vigil of Pentecost, His Holiness Pope John XXIII outlined four stages in a council. "An ecumenical council develops in four phases," he said. "First, an introductory phase or taking of position, ante -preparatory and general; second, a preparatory phase properly so-called; third, the celebration of the august and general assembly, the council in its most splendid solemnity; fourth and finally, the promulgation of the acts of the council." The second phase is about to be closed. The last two remain. The significant steps that have been taken to date in the development of the council are: January 25, 1959-The Pope's first announcement of his intention to call a council; May 17, 1959-Creation of the ante -preparatory commission; June 18, 1959-A letter dispatched to all bishops of the world asking for proposals and suggestions on matters to be treated by the council; June 5, 1960 Publication of the motu proprio Superno Dei Nutu, which established the chief machinery for preparations for the council-the Central Preparatory Commission and other preparatory commissions and secretariats. This brought to an end the ante -preparatory phase November 10, 1960-Establishment of the Ceremonial Commission; November 14, 1960-Official beginning of the work of the various commissions and secretariats with a solemn papal audience in St. Peter's Basilica; March 19, 1961-Publication of an apostolic letter proclaiming that St. Joseph would be patron of the Second Vatican Council; June 12-19, 1961-First assembly of the Central Preparatory Commission; November 7, 1961-Creation within the central commission of a technical commission and three sub -commissions for regulations amendments and mixed
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Anniversary Celebrations Arrangements have now been completed for a representative of the National Spiritual Director of the Holy Name Society to visit the Archdiocese of Perth and the Diocese of Bun bury from July 18 till September 12: He is Rev. Father Albert Davis. O.P., whose visit is to commemorate the silver anniversary of the founding of the Holy Name Society here. Various centres have been arranged for Father Davis to meet men of the Holy Name Society. After Rosary, Sermon and Benediction,at which surround in; parishes will be invited, Father Davis will meet members informally. Branch secretaries of the Society have been given details sf the
itinerary allOating centres and parishes to bo invited.
The secretory of the Diocesan Union has appealed for members to apply for retreats en July 14-15, July 21-22, July 28-29 and August 11-12. All these retreats have vacancies.
DEBATE IN HOUSE BRINGS contraceptives prom ses a colossal margin of profit," she added. "Consumption .3f this pill would not be limited to r'omen suffering fruit a specific disease. All the powerful media of advertising and propaganda would be directed to the with a promise of LONDON: Baroness healthy without fear of Summerskill, woman doc- enjoyment consequences." tor who served as a Lady Summerskill, presiMinister in the post-war Labour Government, told dent of the Married Women's Association and a the House of Lords that oral contraceptives may non-Catholic, said she does have "the most serious not oppose birth control. But she said some members long-term effects." The Baroness, who as Dr. of the pharmaceutical inEdith Summerskill was Par- dustry must not be encouliamentary Secretary for the raged hastily to produce Ministry of Food from 1945 new products which could only be effective by inhibitto 1951 and Minister of National Insurance in 1950- ing the ovulatory process, 51, spoke out in a debate in Journal Doubts the House of Lords on the Speaking of one oral conproblems of the rapid poputraceptive, she said she lation growth in Asia. Lord Casey, former Aus- doubted whether any doctor tralian Minister for External would prescribe it for his Affairs, had opened the de- wife, subjecting her delicate bate by declaring that glands to the bombardment "family planning" is the of this compound. British medical journals had reonly solution to the rapid increase in such places as ported tha; suppression 1.4 ovulation over long periods India. Lady Summerskill said a was harmful to the endowoman who had had a crine system, she added. number of children might The Family Planning Assoconsume contraceptive pills ciation had called doctors regardless of the conse- who opposed oral contraceptives "fuddy - Buddies." quences, just as she might resort to an abortionist at Lady Summerskill said she was quite prepared to acthe risk of he:. "The marketin% of oral cept the label because she
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was in very good company. "There would be no shortage of customers for cheap oral contraceptives," she added. That an qral contraceptive may have the most serious long-term ill-effects will not deter some women desperately anxious to establish their short-term personal happiness." The Duke of Devonshire, Commonwealth U nder Secretary, told the House the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East is planning an Asiatic population conference. He said he does not think scientific research in relation to contraception could be undertaken in isolation from the causes of infertility. Much information about contraception was coming as a by-product of research into infertility and certain fields of cancer, he said. See Comment-Page Two. TWPWANNANNWPWW00.0 41.0414.0
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