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VATICAN CITY (NC). "People today are abandoning religion and do not give a ready hearing to our message," Pope Paul told the fifth world Synod of Bishops' 204 participants in opening the synod. In his homily at a conSeated alone under Mich- live is a prisileged time for celebrated Mass in the Sis- elangelo's "Last Judgment," proclaiming the Gospel and tine Chapel, the Pope quick- the Pontiff said that man- therefore our synod seems ly added that the need for kind seemed to be "hostile, opportune and providential." the Christian message was indifferent, and deaf to our (SEE ALSO PAGES 2, 8, 9) "today more pressing and words, even though in fact anguished than ever." one can often detect in this An oll-bunbury team, lea uy nar. erry nughes dna nors. Joan The Church, he insisted, attitude an unconscious Downes, gave the fifth Cursillo Weekend at Victoria Park to 17 "can still find a very warm yearning, a real and deeply people from Perth and widely separated country areas. Pictured welcome." felt search for God." are the Cursillistas relaxing after lunch on Monday as they come The opening Mass, mark"People today are abandto the close of their "quick refresher" course in Christianity. The ing the first time that the oning religion and do not next Cursillo Weekend will be held in March, 1978. Pope asked all synod mem- give a ready hearing to our bers to concelebrate with message because they are him, inaugurated the month- convinced, wrongly, that the long synod. It was called by immense progress . . of the Pope to discuss "Cate- technology and science rein cbesis Our Day with Spe- moves the need for religion," cial Reference to the Cate- said the frail Pope. chesis of Children and "Man-made religions are Youth." fading away," according to Speaking about obstacles the Pope, as men place their to catechesis (religious edu- trust in science. cation), the Pope said in his Yet in their desire to know sermon that "from a human the "mysteries of the cospoint of view our mind is mos, of thought and of life," filled with a sense of dismay men inevitably experienced which almost paralyses all "radical disappointment" in energy." the answers of science, said "It is not a question of the Pope. humility but of fear impellMen are searching for a ing one to look instinctively "word from on high," Pope for less demanding and less Paul asserted. risky functions," said the And only when that Pope. search was "satisfied by the The Church felt an over- Gospel, which is a truth not ADELAIDE. The Lutheran and Catholic Churches in Australia whelming inferiority" and contrary to but superior to have agreed to recognise each other's baptism. an "inadequacy that can that offered by science, will seem to he complete insuf- light return to earth," said The announcement folPreliminary meetings be - each other as brothers and ficiency" for the task of the Pontiff. lows more than two years of tween the two churches sisters in work of charity catechising, he said. "The present time is not meetings in Adelaide under were held in 1973. and social concern. But he emphasised that to he considered atheistic "our look at the world and but rather as one of faith," the auspices of two national The recommendation went "Our common prayer and bodies. the future must not produce he said. to the Australian bishops Christian witness to charity These were: sluggishness." "The time in which we in May last year and to the will help us along the long The Australian bishroad to mutual understandops' Episcopal Committee General Church Council of the Lutheran Church of ing and may, please God, for Ecumenism. to eventual unity." e The Lutheran Church Australia in September last Father O'Rourke also exof Australia's Commission year. on Theology and InterBoth churches have now plained the status of the agChurch Relations. formally accepted the reco- reed statement on baptismal doctrine. nunendation. THE DOCUMENT "This is a statement by Recognising each other's The two churches this baptism was a simple step the members of the dialogweek released a "recognition _according to Vincentian Fa - ue and expresses only Ibeir ther John O'Rourke. of opinion," he said. document." It is probably the first Saint Francis Xavier Semin"We consider that the mujoint Lutheran -Catholic doc- ary. tual recognition of baptism trinal statement in Australia. "But," he added, -it involves also the recognition Its core sentence reads: marks a clear advance in of common baptismal doc"The General Church declaring true unity that al- trine. Council of the Lutheran ready exists between the two "The agreed statement is Church of Australia and the churches. intended to show the depth Australian Episcopal Conof common doctrine in the "While still separated in ference of the Roman Cathtwo churches. olic Church wish to declare many areas of faith and "It is not a statement of that each church officially worship, we are united as complete agreement as there and formally recognises bap- baptised Christian commun- are still differences of intertism administered by the ities. pretation and understanding other church as being the "We can, then, join as which need further examinCANNINGTOH: 1308 Albany H/Way. 68 1826 sacrament of the gospel and one body in prayer to our ation." -eat lic 0891. instituted by Christ." common Father and assist VD SEE ALSO PAGE 2) 1
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