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MEMORIAL CENTRE PLANNED FOR
HEART OF THE CITY A chapel located in the very centre of Perth will be the result of a £65,000 purchase made by the Archdiocese last week. The property is the old "Daily News" office and was purchased from the Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd., who had acquired ownership of the premises. The building will bear the title ALL SAINTS WAR MEMORIAL CENTRE and will house a chapel, dedicated as a memorial to all Australians, of all creeds, who gave their lives in the two World Wars. The ground floor of the Blessed Sacrament will be building, having direct maintained until 5 p.m. Thus the chapel will access to St. George's Terrace, will be converted lend itself admirably to into a chapel which will anyone's desire for a few seat about three hundred minutes of quiet prayer, people. Holy Mass will be and it is hoped that city offered every day of the workers and shoppers will week at 12.10 p.m., except soon make it part of their Saturdays and Sundays, daily routine. and Exposition of the The building is of three storeys and the basement will be used as meeting rooms while the top floor will be able to accomHoly Name modate all the various Catholic organisation ofBegins fices. This will make them more available to those LONDON: The worldwide whom they are intended Holy Name Society, founded to serve. nearly 700 years ago in Renovations on this Europe, opened its first branch in England at Our centrally located building Lady of La Salette parish, will commence as soon Rainham, Essex, a few suites as possible and it is hoped to publicly dedicate the east of London. building early in SepAnd it was started by tember. Father Joseph Nolan, misHonorary Architects for sionary of La Salette, from the project are Messrs. the United States. Henderson and Thompson. e11,0#4.1.......04NP04.04.001/
Migrant Essay Contest
FIRST PRIZE of 100 dollars (£A95) and second and third prizes of lesser amounts will be awarded for an essay in connection with the International M i g r a Lion Congress to be held in July, 1963. Entries may be subin English, mitted French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Polish, and should not exceed five thousand words and should be typewritten if this is possible. Each entry is to be accompanied by a bio-
graphical note which will give the writer's name, age, address, .D ^c nation, country of origin and of immigration, duration of stay in the new country and the name of any voluntary agency which was concerned in the writer's immigration. The dateline for all entries is January 31, 1963, and they are to be submitted to the International Catholic Migration Commission, 65 Rue de Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland. The theme of the essay Is "What I have brought to the country which welcomed me."
ARCHITECT'S DRAWING of the proposed chapel, which will be on the ground floor of the Catholic Memorial Centre. The title of the building will be All Saints War Memorial Centre. The chapel should acommodate about 280 to 300 people.
CENSUS EXPERTS SHOW PRACTICAL WAY: COULD HELP HERE
all. It is based on the experiences of test surveys carried out by the Newman group last year in five
vey will help Catholic education authorities to decide where new schools should be built and how big they should be. The survey has already taken census of the Catholic school population and made estimates of the total Catholic child Population of the country. It has made special studies of the needs of teachers' training colleges, of Irish immigration and of
"guinea pig" parishes. what Catholic newspapers The survey's headquarters or magazines they read and, in central London keep reif converts, when they were cords of all Catholic schools received into the Church. throughout the country, anaA. E. Spencer, director of lysing the school population the survey, worked out the according to age, sex, counstandardised technique after try of origin, density in any five years of experimenting. given area and other statisDe said some questions that tical categories. were often ignored in earlier The present diocesan sur- university students. tests had been omitted or rephrased. One now omitted is whether the person quesWEEK tioned belongs to a trade union. The census will provide "THE RECORD" is proud to present this Catholic children get a the ecclesiastical authorities special five -question card book of great scholarship and extrawith avairate figures for asking the name of their ordinary timeliness, just published in a planning parish organisa- school and whether they fine English translation by P. J. Kenedy tions and schools. have been confirmed. and Sons, New York. Great stress is placed on It is being carried out by Known internationally the Newman Demographic the confidential nature of scholar, Archthe census. Father Daniel an of outgrowth an Survey, iaiosshe:ptotheegeprrehpaasrabte organisation of Catholic uni- Woolgar, O.P., a doctor of preparation versity teachers, students sociology, visits the parish for the Second Vatican and professors known as the concerned beforehand to reCouncil and has been proNewman Association. The cruit volunteers and brief them. They merely hand minent on its Secretariat census has ecclesiastical apover the cards, explain their for Christian Unity under proval. purpose, and receive them the presidency of Augustin The Newman Demographic back in a sealed envelope. Cardinal Bea. President of Survey reports that its team When the census is comthe German Johann -Adam Mohler Instiof ten statisticians and socio- pleted, the experts meet to tute for information about confessional logists is already completing collate the results. files for four parishes in the matters, he is regarded as an authority on The local parish priest London area and in some does not use the census to problems of reunification. other provincial parishes. check up on individuals but In large, whole passages from this most All parish surveys are be- to ascertain how various timely book, "The Record" will gun at the invitation of local sections of his parishioners the A'sbniasthuorpe h I priests. Further parish cen- are reacting. Some people expositionpresent of suses have already been ar- may be going to another Ecumenical Council, what the ranged. church outside their own Second Vatican Council may dis The team charges each parish for some reason. Cercuss to effect a renewal of Christian life, parish between £A90 and tain groups may be increasthe world-wide tasks confronting the It to size. X.A270, according ingly shunning certain lay visits every house inside the societies. Church today, the world at the end of whether parish bounds, the "colonial epoch," the unity of the The census has proved Catholic or not, to trace any Church and the question of reunion, the particularly useful where a Catholics, lapsed or otherspiritual condition wise. They visit hotels, new parish has been started of Christendom on boarding houses, hospitals or a new school, church or the eve of the and any other institutions to parish campaign is planned. Council, and other make sure the survey is acMr. Spencer said the ceneinteresting topics. curate. Each parish census, sus helps the parish clergy THE CRITICS HAVE SAID OF THIS BOOKwith the help of local volun- to know their people better need immediate and . Highly "Fills a great teers, takes from three to and to cater to the special five weeks, recommended as an intelligent needs of each group in the introduction to a subject which By Archbishop Every Catholic encounter- parish, such as newlyweds, ed is given a card to fill in. newcomers, the retired, chilbecomes increasing more inLorenz Jaeger, Entries include name, ad- dren in non-Catholic schools, . teresting and important dress, age and answers to 23 the unconfirmed and teenClear, fair, positive, without of Paderborn, other questions. These cover agers. polemics . An excellent Germany marriage, children, time of The nation-wide survey, example of the new, warm residence in the parish, oc- a pioneer in Britain in the approach of contemporary Romans to the Christians cupation (though not the field of religious sociology, of other traditions." name of the employer) and is intended to be creative education. Parishioners are and, once taken, ken+ on to also asked what Catholic date. It is not a set no, NeXT WEEK IN "THE RECORD' to he eornn1.0erl "'",.^ "4 *".they belong to,
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