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BISHOPS' VIEW OF MIXED MARRIAGE

In a forthcoming statement on mixed marriage the Australian Bishops urge young people to "seriously consider choosing a partner of their own faith," but offset this with an acknowledgement of the couple's natural right to marry. The statement, to he issuIn VS.A. an additional ed -next Tuesday, was ap- restriction that the dispenproved at the August meet- sation would rarely be graning of the Bishops' Confer- ted if the non-Catholic parAQUINAS II.: ence. ty was the bride lapsed earSpecifically, it is written ly in the war years with the to support Pope Paul VI's pressure of departing serPROCESSION document on mixed marri- vicemen's marriages. IIII The annual Euch-!' age, issued in 1970. The Australia -wide re- ':aristic 'Festival ancl;. Historically, however, it quirement that five hours of 11'Procession at Aquin-1,11 will be seen in stark con- Catholic instruction be giv- :.:as College on Sunday,:.: trast to the last time the en was altered in W.A. to lillNovsember thellll Australian Bishops spoke twelve half hours and has of Christ2' 0 t on the matter, in 1937, at lapsed partly due to the King, commences at'" their plenary council meet- physical impossibility of a 13 p.m. punctually. ing. priest maintaining such a The statement takes for schedule among other dutiIII All participants are111 granted that a steady per- es. xasktad to be in their.: centage (half or more of total marriages) of CatholThe latest Australian Parish! II yams well in advance..: ics are marrying non-Cath- statement states that overall 11118PPmPriate olics and emphasises the in Australia, one in two Ca. the starting time. need for Christian motiva- tholics is marrying a non- II!(See page 3). tion rather than the nega- Catholic. tive dangers. Travellers by mill xshould time to arrive, 800 THIS YEAR I

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CONTRAST the perimeter Illjat The president -maned of Thus, the present docuIn the archdiocese of Aquinas College no the St. Vincent de Pad ment contrasts with the Perth, there have been 800 dater than 2.40 Society M. Joseph stern steps that the Aust- dispensations granted so fat 111It takes 1S minutes toll' ROUST began hie Ater ralian hierarchy took forty this year. Totals for the :-:enter the grounds,:.: trails tour In Per* last years ago in an aggressive past three years respectivepark a car a week, accompanied by pro.111 attempt to forestall what ly have been 1053, 1033 his wife .ctied to the various,, Madame Chanwas felt to be an alarming and 1086. The total in 1970 tal ROUST. 'Ill ongregetion points.' increase in mixed marriages. was 1171. Key to the new AustralHouse, LONDON (NC). In a radical move, the bishops of England and At Camillus Motorists are urged:-: No figures are recorded ian approach is the stateWales are to give deans and parish priests the power to give dispensa- East Perth, Mrs. Merle !Ito take advantage of111 showing the marriages celeMILLER, of Nollamara ment by Pope Paul in 1970 tions in certain categories of mixed marriages. (at right) is pictured prethat the Church "discoura- brated in Catholic churches ;.the eastern Manning'.'.: in the archdiocese. HRoads and approacha For marriages between giving the impression that ion laid down by Rome in senting, on behalf of the ges" mixed marriage. ;the REDMOND StreeC: Catholics and baptised non- the Church's concern is le- 1972 and 1973 "are not nor- society, a silk wart Traditional canon law Without including the dis- iintrance from UN-rl Catholics, priests will be ab- galistic': and tells them that mally verified in the non- screen printed with Aborstated formerly that the pensations for Bunbury, IIWIN Crescent, and!! le to give dispensations; in they should "never declare Catholic partner at a wedd- iginal designs to Mad"Church most severely pro- Geraldton and Broome dio. ''HOWARD Place cases where the priest feels the law of the Church with- ing in a Catholic Church ame Roust. as:':, hibits mixed marriage." ceses, the Perth archdioceshe mutt refuse the dispen- out explaining its pastoral in England or Wales." A set of Canasta cards as the northern Indicative of the mood of an total would be II close to 1111w" sation he is to refer the ma- purpose." with Aboriginal pictures .:routes. 1937 are the number of stiff half of the total W.A. Catter to the bishop. The new directory also on the reverse was predecrees that have been qui- tholic celebrations of marstresses the for need joint sented to M. Roust (at Marriages between CathM.T.T. buses leave III THE CHILDREN etly dropped in the mean- riage which for the past pastoral care of mixed maleft). time. House at:: olics and unbaptised persons t he directory stresses that four years are 2097, 2165, :':Council the clergy of This was an rriages by will still have to be referred appropriate Mixed marriages which 2289 and 2268 respectively. 11111.25, 1.55 and 2.25111 when the Catholic party is both involvdenominations xp.m., with a return:.: to the bishop. till then had been celebratasked to make a sincere eff- ed, and it "emphatically re- gift, as Mr. Rouses moed at side altars would ort "to do all in his power" commends" that priests dea- ther and father, who is The problem Is accentu- ilservic afterwards. UNLAWFUL BUT VAUD to have the children of the 90 and still an active henceforth be celebrated in ated by lack of information (The Church considers marriage baptised and brou- ling with a mixed marriage member of the society, the sacristy or the presby- on how many Catholics do marrriage without dispensa- ght tip in the Catholic should inform the parish play Canasta. tery. The law lapsed in the not enter marriage validly priest in the area where the tion between a Catholic and Church. this means doing late 1940's. before a Catholic priest. (C SEE ALSO P. 9.) baptised non-Catholic to be "all one can do in the actual tit CONTINUED PAGE 2) unlawful but still valid: ma- circumstances of the marrirriages between a Catholic age . without jeopardisDUBUQUE. Iowa (NC). and unbaptised person, cel- ing the marriage" and it unOne of the biggest prob- ebrated without a dispensa-- derlines that the non-Cathlems in American education ion are invalid as well as olic partner "is not required today was that teachers unlawful). to give any undertaking in -have been either unwilling In Australia, the custom this matter. formally or inor unable to transmit Chris- is to grant a dispensation formallythough of tian moral %alms" to their covering both contingencies, course he or she must he students, the new president since the baptism of the non informed of the Catholic's of Loras College in Dubu- Catholic is often hard to undertakings. USED que. -Pasquale di Pasquale verify. Jr.. said in his inaugural While the directory envisaddress. ages circumstances when a "You may frame the syl- MORE ECUMENKAL dispensation may be granted The new revised directory labus as you please." di from the "form." that is, Pasquale said, "but if we on mixed marrriages which the requirement to marry are skeptical, we shall teach the English and Welsh biin the presence of the Cath"Where quaky comes first" only skepticism to our pup- shops have just issued is olic priest, a firm line is 385 Canning Highway, Melville. ils, if fools only folly, it said to be more pastoral and taken on the matter of the Phone 39 1711 Lie. No. 3371. vulgar only vulgarity, if ecumenical that that issued non-Catholic receiving Cosaints sanctify, if heroes he- seven years ago in the wake of Pope Paul's statement on mmunion at a wedding. roism . . HONDA. "We shall all admit that the subject in 1970. 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