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Australia is `disadvantaged When Australia experienced a massive migration programme from 1851 to 1861 there were priests and Religious to care for them but the situation has not been the same for the recent period of migration according to a statement by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. the impact of migration on Australia is the theme studied by a booklet released for Social Justice Sunday, September 25, on behalf of the Bishops of Aust-
ty of the parish clergy," it should be seen
not as a problem but rather as a re"To this extent the Cath- source or teaching aid. olic immigrant from non"Such diversity brings English speaking countries home to children the rich is disadvantaged," it says. variety which exists within ralia. The statement goes on to the unity of Catholicism." The statement cites the ask how the migrant groups The statement also fact that the recent influx will be able to maintain at the work situation looks of miof migrants has boosted the their spiritual heritage in the grants; it points to the over Catholic proportion of the parish of today. 100 language groups that population to nearly one A solution, it is sugegst- are involved, and this does third, but the Catholic ed, may arise in the basic not indicate the very uneven system, for school example, communities that were pro- distribution of skills among has not been able to cope moted by Pope Paul in his them, including the fact that with this culturally diverse statement on Evangelisation migrants from Southern increase. and which are seen as the Europe, Turkey and LebanIn the last decade, the answer to much of the im- on have been mainly seminumber of Religious in the personality of modern par- skilled or unskilled. schools has declined, com- ishes. "Only from a position of pounding the Church's probstrength and self confidence lems. can the migrant begin to in"The children of migrants tegrate into the host parcontinue to be disadvantagish," it continues. ed. Objectively this situation In the matter of religious is unjust, though the solution is not obvious," the education, the statement says that formation in the Archbishop Goody statement says. school must build upon the Comparing the days when religious culture of the on Tuesday issued the following statement on the major part of the Cath- home. olic migrants was Irish and "This involves not only homosexuality and cucould relate to the Irish tearing prayers and hymns rent discussion of the clergy and Religious com- in one's mother tongue, but subject. ing in numbers, the state- also the basic religious in"The daily Press often dement says that the same has struction. mands of a bishop to give not been true for other mi"It is quite unjust if the a response to current moral is that such acts be Ito less they are performed in grant groups. practices of the parents are and legal debate. longer subject to police in- public to the detriment of "The migrant chaplains ignored or ridiculed even "To refuse to comment is vestigation and possible sub- public decency or one of often have neither the when this is done in ignorsequent prosecution in the the parties is violated against numbers, status, or authori- ance. Religious diversity to avoid responsibility and civil criminal courts. his or her will, I don't bealways appears to favour lieve that the civil law the 'status quo'; to give a "The difference between should intervene and prosereply is too often open to a crime punishable by civil cute. grave misinterpretation belaw and a gravely sinful act cause of the brevity demand_ is not in its objective grav- MINORS ed by modern journalism ity a moral turpitude but in and the disruption of the its relationship to "Homosexual acts are abpublic delogical sequence .of the arg- cency or to public social normalities which if delibument which results from erate are, I believe, perverorder. abbreviation and attempted sions of the moral law and topical 'encapsulation' and "SIN" AND "CRIME" objectively gravely sinful the promotion of sensational but if they are performed in in "Drunkenness private headlines. private by consenting adults, is a sin but if it is public I do not believe that the 'UNFORTUNATE TERM' and disorderly it is also a persons concerned should crime punishable "The present debate on be investigated, pried upon "A couple of centuries and prosecuted as criminals. the decriminalisation ,,t homosexual acts between ago a non-attendance at pit "Quite the opposite shouconsenting adults in private blic worship on Sunday in "WherequalitycornesfiNc" Logland was punishable b), ld be the case if the perveris a case in point. 385 Canning Highway. Melville. sion of minors is involved, the cis it law. Not long ago "Legalisation" is an unPhone 39 1711 Lic. No. 3371. and adultery it either party is unwilling, fortunate term which im- fornication plies for many that the acts were punishable crimes, at or if such acts were perin question are approved or least if committed by a formed in public. HONDA woman. at least condoned. "There would then be a "What is being proposed, WMP-7 "Such acts are, I believe, grave offence against public unless I have completely just as sinful today if com- morals and common decenmisunderstood the debate, mitted by anyone; but un- cy and the civil criminal says.
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law would have a duty to intervene for the protection of good social order. "A tendency or inclina-
tion towards homosexual behaviour may quite likely be not a rare condition: "The inclination would not be sinful if resisted; in fact temptations overcome strengthen the moral fibre of the person tempted.
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