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CARDINAL KNOX ON THE
LITURGY
The work of the renewal of the liturgy was coming to a completion but a great deal had to be done to assimilate what had been achieved, the head of the Vatican Congregation for Sacraments and Divine Worship said in Perth this week. "Do we know and under- delicate and intricate task," pointed Archbishop of Melstand sufficiently the struc- Cardinal Knox said. bourne in succession to the ture of the new rites?" ask"While making allowan- late Archbishop Simonds. ed Cardinal James Knox, ces for the local needs of He was the driving force originally from Perth and the people, there has to be behind the 1973 Internationthe first Australian to reach substantial unity in the rites, al Eucharistic Congress in a major position in the Ro- using elements that are not Melbourne and, after nearly man Curia a head of a con- in conflict with the faith." seven years in Melbourne, gregation. was elevated to his Roman Cardinal Knox is in Perth NEW CONGREGATION post. on a holiday visit to his faNow back in Italy, which Cardinal Knox's Vatican mily, en route to Melbourne congregation is a reconstitu- he knows well, Cardinal where he was archbishop for ted body embracing two for- Knox, says that the liturgy nearly seven years. merly separate fields Sa- there has gone very well. He said that the deeper craments and Divine Wor"I am very much an opunderstanding of the liturgy ship. timist," he said. related particularly to the Its world-wide memberCONTINUED PAGE 4) abundance and the number ship is made up of 25 carof chokes available in the dinals and seven bishops, in Liturgy of the Word and addition to many collaboraWhile stopping at St. Mary's Cathedral residence this week, other alternatives available tors and consultors around Cardinal KNOX (right) had the opportunity to meet again in the rite. the world. Sister Mary CELESTINE, now retired at Victoria Square Convent. As a new congregation, it who was the cardinal's teacher when he entered St. Brigid's School, LECTIONARY had held its first plenary seMidland, in the second grade, many years ago. "If the dates aren't "The strongest point of ssion last November, the entirely accurate, there's no-one around to say I'm wrong," said the new liturgy is the lec- cardinal said. Sister Celestine. The congregation's work tionary and the Vatican Council wished that the is not only on liturgy but in Word of God should be the administration of sacramade available much more ments as well, especially abundantly than previously," marriage. Cardinal Knox said. He did not sec any likely CAREER The return of Cardinal revision of the lectionary in Knox to a permanent office the near future. "It is already quite an in Rome is typical of a lifeachievement, and people ou- time that has carried him ght to be given the oppor- far from his native Perth tunity of knowing and as- and the New Norcia diocese similating its contents," he for which he originally entered the priesthood. added. After studies in Rome and Asked if the work of the Vatican liturgists would now ordination to the priesthood At a time when the total and Catholic populations of Australia come to an end. the cardinal he received practical prepasaid that there was enough ration for the Church's dip- are increasing fairly rapidly, the Religious population is decreasing work for a generation to lomatic service and was sec- just as rapidly, according to a national report released today. retary to the Apostolic Delecome. A 181 -page analysis of the age of Religious, the the Sisters, He referred particularly gation in Japan before be- Australian Religious Broth- survey says that the Sisters' But, the survey continues, to Numbers 38 to 40 of the ing made an archbishop and ers and Sisters says that group has proportionately the decline in vocations is Liturgy Constitution that being appointed Apostolic while in the ten years 1966- more of the over -sixty age a world wide phenomenon. provide "for legitimate va- Delegate to British East and 76 the total population in- group than male Religious, Compared, say, with Ireriations and adaptions to di- West Africa where he was creased by 14 per cent (pro- and this matches the trend fferent groups, regions, and stationed for nearly four jected) and the Catholic already discernible in the land the rate of decline of entrants for two recent fivepeoples, especially in mis- years. population by 17 per cent, Australian (and Catholic) He spent the next ten the Religious population has population, where there are year periods is much the sion lands." same (43.3 per cent for Inter .as Apostolic "Adapting the liturgy to years decreased by 13.1 per cent. 875,000 more males than Australia against 46.5 per different cultures is a very Nuncio to India and was apThe larger part of this females over 60. cent for Ireland). Turning to the Australian decrease (9.4 per cent) has The total number of Sisoccurred in the five years States, the survey notes that ters in Australia for 1976 1971-76 at a time when the distribution of the Cath- is given as 12,619. the Catholic population in- olic population is unequal The Mercy Order leads crease was equal to the total the Catholics being high. population increase (6 per er than the Slate percent- with 3,446 followed by cent). ages in N.S.W. (39.7 against Saint Joseph 2,295, and 37.2 per cent) and Victoria Presentation 844. Among the top ten, NEW CONGREGATIONS (29.2 against 27.5 per cent). known in W.A., DominiThe survey was compiled Western Australia with USED by research workers for the 8.1 per cent of the Austra- cans (468) and Brigidines Major Superiors of Austra- lian total population has on- (465) are sixth and seventh lia under the direction of ly 7.8 per cent of the Cath- largest respectively; Saint John of God (289) are the Sister Carmel Leavy O.P. olic population. tenth on the national list. Another trend noted in In Religious population Christian Brothers lead the survey is that the decline South New Wales is well the men with 1009 memis occurring at a time when and bers, above the average twofollowed by the Marseveral new Congregations are being introduced into thirds of all Religious are ist Brothers (656). concentrated in the States There are 57 Hospitaller Australia. In the past ten years. 12 of New South Wales and Brothers of Saint John of Victoria. God (recently arrived in new Congregations of Sisters have come to Australia, The survey notes the se- Kalgoorlie) and 32 Brothers bringing the total number vere decline in entrants to of Saint Gerard Majella of female congregations to the Religicius life (61 per (represented in Sunbury). 1308 Albany H/Way. 88 1826 CANNINOTON: 131. cent) in the past decade the FULL REPORT, tic 0891. 4881 On the vital question of sharpest decline being for PAGE 6)
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