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PORT CHAPLAIN FOR MANILA TO LAUNCH WORK The Apostleship of the Sea movement will make a new landfall when Father O'Shea of Fremantle arrives in Manila next week to help establish the work. Father O'Shea's presence There were Catholic searequested by the farces' clubs as early as the Philippines Bishops Confer- turn of the century in Brirace to help to get the tain, Scotland, Sydney and movement launched. in Fremantle during World His first task early in War I. February will be to conduct a training course for six 1922 START port chaplains who have reThe modern movement cently been appointed to the got off the ground in Glaswork. gow in 1922 when Arthur has been
After, that Father O'Shea Gannon started visiting will work with each chap- ships and hospitals on a lain, translating theory in- regular basis and giving to practice and helping them support to visiting seamen. learn the techniques of ship He took his cue from the visitation and, hopefully. Apostleship Prayer moveestablishing Stella Mans ment and named the new
centres.
Father Thomas GAINE, acting Fremantle port chaplain for the next six months, gets a warning from Father Sean O'SHEA that ringing the Stella Maris Ship's Bell means a free round at the bar.
work the Apostleship of the Sea.
IMPORTANT JUNCTION
The
present Fremantle Father O'Shea said that quarters were launched durthe Philippines had always ing the war and at first were been an important shipping administered by the Oblate junction for Asian traffic. Fathers.
However, only in the past ten years had Filipinos become involved in interna-
tional shipping, compared with the many who were employed on local
coastal
During six -months'
Father O'Shea's absence,
the
port chaplain will be Father Thomas Gains', who has been parish priest at Pinjarra for the past six years and who has now resigned to allow the parish to be incorporated in Bunbury
Bishops: Excommunication -
trading. ROME (NC) The Today there are 40,000 Italian bishops reafFilipinos on international penalty firmed the of ships and their contact with Diocese, excommunication for Apostleship of the Sea clubs in Australian and and abortion asked ON INSIDE PAGES other ports has prompted Catholics to assume 4 interest in establishing the Calendar their responsibilities to movement in the Philip- Classified Advert-
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of birth regulation. COUNSELLING CENTRES The document called for the establishment of family counselling centres and for
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rejected principle of civil tolerance nancies out of wedlock. existence. abortion on the in passing the abortion law. Such centres should teach A fundamental goal of ground that the unborn The application "is ille- the church's educational ac- natural family planning mechild is not yet a human gitimate and unacceptable tivity, it said, should be thods and be prepared to being. because the State is not the prevention of unwanted deal with the psychological "This concept is com- source of the native and in- pregnancy. problems of those seeking pletely unacceptable, be- alienable rights of the perabortions, it said. cause only a concrete hu- son, nor 'the creator and This should he an ob(CONTINUED P9) man being can originate absolute arbiter of these jective of timely, continuing (SEE ALSO PAGE 7) from conception," said the rights, but must place itself at the service of the person bishops. and of the community through the recognition, proSCIENTIFIC FACT and promotion of tection science confirmed Modern human rights." abortion." this because the process By authorising abortion, Last May Parliament from the fertilised cell to the document said, "the passed a law permitting the birth of a child was "a State radically contradicts abortion almost on demand unique and continuous indevelopment of the very meaning of its presduring the first three dividual months of pregnancy. maturation of the person," ence and most gravely compromises the whole legal said the document. "GRAVE CRIME" Excommunication was im- order." The first part of the posed on those who obtain- 'PHARASA IC Bishops' document restated ed or performed abortions Church teaching on abor- because the church wished MENTALITY' The bishops asked Cathtion and its regulation by to denounce "the gravity of the crime," it added. olics to struggle against the law. "Where quaky comes frsti It reaffirmed that the T he excommunication causes that favoured abor485 Canning Highway, Melville church "in the light of the presupposed grave moral tion, especially the sexual Phone 3391711 Lic. No. 3371. word of God and right rea- guilt on hte part of the one culture that set in oppoalways sition has judged or the the son, pro- obtaining performing exercise of sexucured abortion, that is the abortion and awareness of ality and the procreation of deliberate and direct inter- the existence of the pen- new life. ruption of the generative alty, the bishops said. It also criticised "the WW -7' process of human life, a The document said that pharisaic mentality" that grave moral crime." Parliament invoked the passed judgment on preg-
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