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LONDON (NC). Lack of vision and purpose is the foiling of the Western church and Western civilization today, said Cardinal Hume of Westminster at a meeting launching a new organization, Christians for Social Justice. He also made it clear that an instinctive dislike of the objected strongly to idea of protesting or racial discrimination and speaking against something, associated violence. saying: "I prefer the role The organization, de- of affirming and working signed to develop and dis- toward a situation where --minate church social tea- every person can become ching, fills a gap left by fully human." the demise in 1967 of the Commenting on attacks Catholic Social Guild. on non-white immigrants in But Cardinal Hume sugBritain, he admitted that gested the importance of large minorities of aliens ecumenical co-operation in can create problems in any this field by liberally lacing society. his speech with quotations But little can be done to from the wartime Anglican reduce Britain's non-white Archbishop William Temple population "unless we revert whose work on social docfrom Christian and civilized trine did much to prepare and moral principles to the the British people for major law of the jungle," he said. post-war social reforms. While he did not menThe cardinal said that at the last world Synod of tion any political parties by ......alsops in Rome he had name, he had strong words become convinced that what against violence that were was lacking in the Western clearly directed at the Nachurch and Western society tional Front and some of was a sense of vision and its extreme left-wing opponents. purpose. When racism is associated The church can have no effective mission unless it with ''political objectives is inspired by a vision, he which resemble Nazism said, and its social doctrine more closely than anything must be built on firm theo- else," he said, the mixture logy that is based on that kindles a violent reaction. "When our political sysvision. tem is being attacked from The cardinal also took two violent sides, it is inthe occatdon to spell out his cumbent on all men of good position on race relations, will to refuse these pernicurrently a burning issue cious alternatives," he went U Britain. "It Is immoral on. to nourish and promote He also warned against racial strife and dishar- selective indignation at mony," he said. social ills, such as being He prefaced his remarks concerned about dictatorwith a comment that he has ships in South America
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while failing to heed the voices of men like Alex-
ander Sozhenitsyn, or "being occupied with the iniquities of apartheid and relatively little preoccupied with the tragedy that is Cambodia." "It is very important," said the cardinal, "that Catholic social doctrine should be objective."
-At the Festival Mass at Beaconsfield last Sunday, Father Michael
BROWNE Carmelite, isl ictured inducting Brothers Hugh McDONALD and Brian CALLAGHAN as presidents of.1 Fremantle Particular Regional Conferences of the Saint Vincent
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Racial or cultural Communist Party "tending to
intolerance slated
assume leaders p role
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by Scottish bishop
VATICAN CITY (NC). The Vatican daily newspaper said that the Italian Communist Party "clearly is tending to assume a leadership role" in governing Italy.
ABERDEEN, (NC). Bishop Mario Conti of Aberdeen sharply rejected racial or cultural intolerance during a Moss (March 12) marking the centenary of the restoration of
The paper. "L'Osservatore Romano", criticised the Communists in a report on steps toward resolvingitaly's current government crisis and on a speech by the party's general secretary. Enrico Berlinguer, the pre-
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the Scottish Catholic hierarchy.
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"There is a among ments in the United many today a growing Kingdom among antipathy towards im- which the openly racist migrants; their distinc- National Front is most tive cultures and religious notable but he also practices are sometimes spoke of more general treated with scant res- attitudes of prejudice or pect," the bishop said. hatred. "Attitudes to them are "Exception is somenot unrelated at times times taken," he said, to the demands of ultra- "even to our own Roman nationalist groups which Catholic schools on the foster a selfish spirit bent basis of their difference. purely on national in"The comprehensiveterest. ness shown in education, "I detect a growing inthe medical services, natolerance of all that tional insurance and unmight he called alien or employment benefits different, from another which have distinguished land or time or culture." the post-war developThe Mass at which ment of our country was Bishop Conti spoke was based on the highest the first official event in social principles. It came Scotland in a year -long from the desire to proprogramme for the cen- vide the widest opportenary celebration. Car- tunities to our people. dinal Gordon J. Gray of "It was not intended St. Andrews and Edinburgh celebrated the to lump men together in Mass, and most of the a dull, monolithic mass." Scottish bishops as well The basis of a strong as other dignitaries atnation was not confortended. mity to a stereotyped The bishop's remarks pattern, said Bishop seemed to be directed Conti, but its wealth of especially at anti-im- traditions and "the riches migrant political move- of the pluralist society."
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vious day. On March 4, Prime Minister-designate Giulio Andreotti, of the Christian
Democratic Party, met leaders of five other parties, including the Communists, that had indirectly supported the Christian Democratic government that resigned in January 16.
to work "in every sector lion of its indispensable preand dimension of society, of sence in the parliamentary civil life and of the State majority, is tending to asto carry out the very dif- sume a political role of ficult and arduous task of setting conditions for the saving our country and re- government. newing it." "And about this the ComCommenting on this sentence, L'Osservatore Ro- munist secretary makes no mano said it showed two mystery, things: In his speech, Berlinguer "The PCI (Communist stressed the fact, positive Party) seems to want to for him, that for the first manage, by supplanting the time a government is being unions, the socio-economic established that is 'sustained, dimension of the crisis. stimulated and controlled "Second, the PCI, by a qualitatively different strengthened by the affirms - majority."
THE POLICE
After the meeting the Christian Democrats agreed to demilitarisation of the police, while the Communist and other Leftist parties agreed that any police union would not belong to the country's major labour federations. The Christian Democrats agreed also not to use parliamentary manoeuvers to block passage of a less restrictive abortion law, which their party opposes. The day after the meeting, Berlinguer, the communist party chief, in s speech at a convention in Naples, urged the working class to shoulder the burden of Italy's present crisis. The Communist leader called on the working dais
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