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est The half yearly meeting of the Australian Bishops Conference in Sydney last week has protested against the ready availability of abortion and the growth of on abortion mentality in
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ops' statement is on page They have also deplored six. funding pf abortion In other items the bishops through the national health gave their support to *A. scheme. Year of the Child next year, The bishops have sent a to Y.C.W. detainees, a cl to letter to the Prime Minister, efforts to have closer links the
Mr. Fraser, on the subject between themselves and lay of abortion but its contents groups. have not been made public. Reports of the conference The full text of the bish- are on Page 6.
Cathedral Mass In Saint Mary's Cathedral this Sunday (3rd), Mass at 11 a.m. will be celebrated by Archbishop Goody to mark the commencement of the ministry
of Pope John Paul I.
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Let Pope John Paul (above) be the disarming Pope, the tear whose infectious smile belies a Spirit that in each recent pontificate has set the Church on a new but decisive path. Will the man who could chat with a quarter of a million people and laugh with embarrassment at the office he had assuMed, be the sign of a new era of communication between the Church and tlie.iast world beyond its ecclesiastical frontiers?
Will the one-time journalist, the avid comittimicatto(; the bishop with the down-to-earth approach to be a boost to a Churelywhich-htts seen its pontiff buried and his successor hailed instantly in practically ... every.television set on the globe? Those who have hoped for the Sec -of Peter to be filled by a man from the ranks, by a priest from the parishes by a bishogilirom a provincial diocese now have the pontificate of Pope John Paul aheid of them. His very lack of experience of the Roman Curial "scene may be the very ingredient needed in the evolution of the Church that has rapidly seen local bishops and local bishops' conferences and the Syitod become truly a
shared responsibility with their chief Bishop and Pastor. In such a context no longer will it be the Pope whc can fatuously be summoned to answer every whim and every problem of 'God's If parishes are dull and lukewarm in their prayeri, liturgy, Christian concern for the poor, and lacking missionary zeal, no.,Pttpe can ever cure that.
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