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Fremantle, Melville, Attedale, Palmyra, Willem,
share of W.A.
Osborne Park, Joondanna, North Doubleviow,
East Fremantle, North Frementie,Beeoonsfie4d,
Scerborough, North Beach, Karriny up,
Hilton, Hamilton, Spearwood,
Bateau., Glendalough, Yokine,
Medina, Rockingham, Wanneroo, Mirrabooka, HanueSMY, Mandurah.
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Cathedral, Highest., Mt.Lawtey,
Results of the census of an increase of 1,105 to gory "Hebrew" in WA, 1976, recently issued by the 14,450 (1.3%), Lutherans up down 117 since 1971. Australian Bureau of Stat- 125 to 7,123 (0.6%). On the other hand, the istics, show that Catholics There is no way of judg- presence of many Asian mithat year, 283,240, made up ing how much movement grants will account for the 24.7 per cent of the State's is taking place in the high- rise of Muslims from 1027 population. ly publicised lesser Christian to 1894 in the intervening This is down 1.3 per cent sects, five years. on the 1971 figure of 26 per Does the Commonwealth The census lumps all cent, to which there had
been a steady climb espec- "Other Christians" (90,437) ially in the wake of the together at 7.9% of the post-war migration from State population. Europe Where are the people 24.4% in 1961. from the major denominaSOLE INCREASE Lions drifting to?
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V ictoria Perk, East Victoria Park
Leederville, West Perth, Bedford,
Catholics in Western Australia hod a nett increase of 15,250 between the years 1971 and 1976 but their share of the total State population has begun to slide downwards.
Whitfords, Cloubleview.
Como, Rivervele, Cloyerdele,Carlisie,
Inglewood, Morley, Maylends,Diarielle,
Bentley, Belmont, South Perth ,
Bayswater, Embleton, Bassendeen, Guildford, Midland,
Kensington, East Cannington, Manning, Riverton,INilson,
Bellevue,Mundaring, Subiaco, Shinto° Park, Wembley,
Lynwood, Maddington, Maids Vale, Katamunda,Carlia,
Floreat, City Beech,Nedlands,Claremont, Swimbourns,
Lesmurdie, Queens Park, Thorntie, Pinjarra, Apt:decrees ,
Cottestoe, Mosman.
Brentwood.
statistician know more about the Catholic Church than the parishes?
Reliable figures are hard to come by at the parish level
and diocesan
figures
from that source have not little solace for the They may be moving in - been collected for some Catholic Church is that it to the lesser known sects. years, Como parish this year did alone of the major denoma thorough house -to-house inations showed any nu- NEGATIVE canvass of the 3000 resimerical increase at alL More likely they are dences in its boundary. Anglicans dropped 2,422 drifting into the limbo of Their tally is 958 Cathand now stand at 31.5%, people who no longer feel olics. On a calculated guess down 3.7% from their 1971 attached to any denominathis would be about 10 per position of 35.2%. tion or faith. cent of the civilian popuThe 1976 figures were In 1971, 8.7% of the lation. recorded before the inauguration of the Uniting population were listed as Church and at the time having "no religion"; a HOW MANY AT Methodists had lost 8,273, further 5.9% are declared MASS? down 1.5% to a 1976 posi- "not stated". Yet the Shire of South tion of 6.7% of the State Five years later, 119,507 population. West Australians (10,4%) Perth is said by the Comcensus of 1976 monwealth declared that they had no LESSER SECTS religious denomination and to be 22% Catholic 6675 distributed across the a further 136,597 (11.9%) The
Pope honours Italy's Eucharistic Festival +
two patron saints
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On the Feast of Christ the King, November 26,
the Diocesan Eucharistic Festival
will take place at Aquinas College.
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Participant, are requested to be assembled in Pope John Paul II travelled :the parish groupings illustrated above by helicopter lost week to Assisi and by car iso that the one -hour ceremony may commence across Rome to honour the patron saints of punctually at 3pm. Italy, St Francis of Assisi and St Catherine of The whole congregation takes place in threel Siena. short processional ROME (NCI
by
4tages around the central
At Assisi 80,000 people greeted the Pope who, after praying at the cathedral tomb of St Francis, told the crowd from the balcony of
to
our
difficult
critical
times,"
"We are coming near to the year 2000 after Christ. Will they not he times that the Franciscan residence prepare us for a rebirth of that he went to Assisi for Christ, for a new Advent?"
altar. +
i+theBanners, emblems, etc. are welcome among+
parishes. Acolytes may attend in albs as a: guard of honour. + The theme of the celebration is "Jesus ist +Lord". Leading the prayer will be Archbishop, a "spiritual birth". said the Pope, :Goody who will have returned from Rome and; had nothing to state on parishes of South Perth, Returning to Rome, the :an official visit on behalf of the diocese to Pope+ Kensington, Como and "And therefore, on this their census form. Pope to went the Basilica Manning approximately. Sunday, I come as a pil+John Paul II. At the other end of the How many of the nom- grim to Assisi, to the feet of 'Sant* Maria -Alla Min- +
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Presbyterians took a nett loss of 5,737 finishing up at 3.7% of the population before they merged with the Methodist and Congre- spectrum. Christian observinal Catholics are seen at gational churches. ens will be intrigued at the Mass? In the smaller denomina- fact that there are only Last Day Christmas dons recorded, Baptists had. 2,885 people in the cate121,696 Catholics attended Mass, an encouraging 52% of the archdiocese's Catholic population of 230,017. But, on an average, Sunday the Mass attendance slumped to 58,322 only 25%. A count in 1973 produced approximately the same result.
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of the holy poor man Fran- erva, a 13th century church *+++.:.+4+++++++++.:++++++++++++++++++ cis. who inscribed the gos- built near the ruins of the pel of Christ in the hearts Temple of Minerva, a Roof the people of his time. man goddess. St Catherine of Siena, the It is no wonder that his mystic who fellow -citizens have wished Dominican to consider him the patron helped end the etdle of the Popes in Avignon. France, of Italy," said the Pope. was buried in the basilica
As Bishop of Rome, the Pope said that he needed the help of St Francis. The Franciscan message, he said, had spread throughout the world.
Adelaide recently it was stated that an average "We cannot fail to recall 58.878 people attended Sunday Mass 26.4% of here that, indeed, from this magnificent trunk of Franthe Catholic population. ciscan spirituality blossomed (SEE ALSO PAGE 2) Maximilian Kolbe, a special patron in our difficult times," said the Pope.
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when she died in 1310. He was applauded and cheered by the crowd of about 5,000 packing the small square outside the basilica. In the basilica, after he had assisted at Mass he addressed the congregation and the crowd outside, saying that St Catherine was "a' visible sign of the mission of women in the
ON INSIDE PAGES Father Kolbe, a Polish church." Calendar 4 Franciscan, offered his life "The church of Jesus Classified Adverin place of a fellow pris- Christ and of the apostles tising 10 oner at Auschwitz, the Ger- is at the same time a Letters 10, 11 man concentration camp, in church that is mother and 1941, sponse," he said. Music 6 Praying to St Francis, the "These biblical expresSport 10, 12 Pope .
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