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ARCHMOCESAN PLANNING
A deepening of the faith of committed o widening of planning activity in the archdiocese are some of the proposals of n pastoral planning session last weekend.
Christians and
Sister Carmel Leavey, a quired to lead the Church Dominican research special- of the future. ist, led the weekend which He cited pastoral priorwas held under the auspices of the W.A. confer- ities brought up in the groups: ence of Major Superiors. Deepening the faith of Archbishop Goody told the gathering that any committed Catholics and further pastoral planning teaching out to the uninitiatives would have to take into consideration committed. work alreday being done r The integration of by the Senate of Priests and the Diocesan Pastoral pastoral planning and the Council. rationalisation of resources both personal and material. WIDER COMMITTEE Wider support for the As a result of the week- clergy in their leadership end's wider involvement of role. lay people and others, it is likely that a Ways and
Means Committee already in existence, and representing the Senate and the D.P.C. would become more broadly based.
Sister Carmel LEAVY (right) talks with participants at cluding, left to right, Jenni YORK, Jim MIOLIN, Linda the pastoral planning weekend inBAKER, Michael QUINLAN and Bishop HEALY.
More than half of the sixty people present for
o simple answers, says -
both Saturday and Sunday sessions were laity and this involvement of laity was "refreshing" according to ADELAIDE. A Father James Petry, chair- Catholic archbishop is man of the Ways and concerned at the tooMeans Committee. rapid
polarisation
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compis& problems but life itself was made up of many complexities and some matters it was a
In an opening segment, points of view, even question of grey rather bishops, priests, Religious among Catholics, and than stark black or white. and laity were asked in the lack of participaThe pilgrimage of the that personalities were more separate groups to survey tion by Catholic He was critical of Cath- Christian, he added, was lead- important than policies. to their view of the other sec- ers in olics writing to Catholic move ahead in the midst the of letters pages He gave the example of tors of the Church. who felt their prime such complexities. of Catholic publica- the recent Sydney bomb papers aim was to axe their opHe told the assembled Later they took part in tions. explosion that had, he said, ponents, instead of remem- religious editors that it mixed working sessions. obliterated any substantial bering that Archbishop Gleeson of they were dis- was not the Press itself Father Petry said that Adelaide told a joint Cath- reporting of the discussion cussing the Christian gos- that was important, but the the tenor of the two-day olic and Religious Press of the serious issues that pel. flow of information that it must have been undertaken A convention delegate provided. meeting was one of hope Association Convention and not a feeling of backs- that he was worried by the by the heads of the gov- asked Archbishop Gleeson attending. why apparently charismatic to -the -wall, as might be trend in the media towards ernments The public, he said, were movements in all Churches TWO-WAT. ROW superficiality and the conspurned. tending to sit back and de- were achieving rapid sequence that the public sucThis would be a twoHe noted that the train- wanted a quick Yes or No velop a mental sluggish- cess and at the same time an opportuning of youth to be leaders answer to every question. ness and there was need appeared to give people way flow ity for people to put their for a mass in the Church was consimedia educe satisfactory "Yes" or "No" views He complained that as well as to receive dered to be a high priority events now had to be pre- ion programme to enable answers to their many information. the public to be more cri- spiritual questions. as these people were re- sented sensationally and He said that in Adelaide tical of what they read, the establishment of a Casaw and heard. TEST OF TIME He replied that he would tholic Press and informa'PRIME AIM TO like to see the charismatic tion officer had been a reAXE OPPONENTS' movements assessed over a cognition of the need to communicate at every lead Turning to Catholics, longer period of time than Nrchbishop Gleeson said had been experienced so right down to that of the parish news letters. that he was disappointed far before making a judgIt had also developed a that church leaders did ment in this aspect. not use the letters pages He said that people of- greater respect for those working in the media. of Catholic papers to join ten wanted simplistic ansNEW OR USED CARS in a sharing of ideas. wers to what were very (SEE ALSO PAGE 3)
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