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LOWERED STANDARDS The Festival of Perth presentations had high standards but the same could not be said of the artistic and moral qualities of many other screen, radio and television presentations, Archbishop Goody said
last Sunday. Speaking at a special Festival Mass in Saint Mary's Cathedral attended by the Governor, Sir Wallace Kyle, Archbishop Goody said that the mainof even average tenance snoral and artistic standards was a responsibility that weighed heavily on many people,
The responsibility was not only on governments, bishops and ecclesiastical authorities, Archbishop Goody said, but on the public media and the entertainment industry.
Governments could only insist on unpopular restrictive legislation by the use of force, and spiritual authority would only be accepted by those who supported it, he said. Repetition in the incould media formation make one point of view prevail and make alternative views be rejected.
morality is a thing of the past and is no longer to be considered important in today's society. "A person being entertained by song, by sight or
"For men with a little authority in small areas to be able to force the acceptance of their opinions on the wide majority of the by speech often has all his community is a formula defences down." for disaster whether it be Archbishop Goody said in government, social and that Festival of Perth pro- industrial relations, the grammes offered many ex- spreading of information amples of how high -quality through the media or the entertainment could be purveyed without the un- purveying of entertainment and desirable morally de- to the passive masses." bilitating qualities which "It is quite unpleasant to were commonplace today. have to play the role of a keening critic or of a "spoil "FORMULA FOR DISASTER"
sport" Jeremiah.
"It would be much easier He called for a sense of to just regret the situation; responsibility in those who condemn it as the occasion controlled the visual, au- arose; be just negative and dible and printed matter leave it at that. sent into every home. 'This, too, would be to "The fact that there is abdicate from responsibility
a virtual monopoly of the and to make of authority the cowardly rubber stamp daily Press in almost every tacitly
condoning every city of Australia make it new evidence of decline even more difficult for the and corruption in our midst. "It has been said that a discriminating. big lie repeated often SLANTED PUBLICITY
enough becomes accepted as truth," Archbishop Goody said. "Is it not also probable that a half-truth will be totally accepted if the other half is constantly suppressed?" of "Ten supporters homosexuality will often receive more publicity than ten or a hundred thousand Christians who are opposed
to it. "Many will be led by slanted publicity to believe and accept that traditional
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was Increasing opposition from hotels and the like offering strippers, Bishop Quinn sold a Festival of Perth congregation in Saint
George's Anglican Cathedral. "These are achievements,"
acultural he said. "The tragedy is that our children will grow up in this debasing
atmosphere. "The children are confused; they are being educated to appreciate finer things yet they see popular shows attracting people to the opposite of what they are being told to believe. "For every concert, play and artistic performance put on by the Festival of Perth there will be in our daily media the persuasive invi- own day we spent more tation to see the latest and more on education, on the arts and on erotic film. many cultural activities; "Make no mistake," the irony again was that said the bishop, "we while this was happenare being conned." ing we also saw the The Bishop said that complete opposite being the search for beauty promoted and pushed. and the search for hapThe Bishop said that piness went on and on he felt the invitation to in mankind's history. speak in St George's At times it was helped Cathedral was both a by community stan- sign of friendship acid a dards, at times it was mark of the growing hindered by them. dialogue between AngliTo help them in our cans and Catholics.
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WARNING ON LEGALISING ADELAIDE: Legalising the use of cannabis
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Alcohol and smoking are seen as 'rites passage' from adolescence to maturity," Mr Elliott said.
could increase drug use at the secondary school level, diocesan 'We have to protect ,he "RITE OF PASSAGE" and parent organisayoung people within the tions were warned this schools." "Young peoples' first week. In informal discussions, smoke and first drink are Mr Tony Flliott, chairman of the SA Commission for Catholic Schools, issued this warning after studying trends that seem to he emerging from the Royal Commission into the NonMedical Use of Drugs in
he said, the commission on drugs conceded that some 18 per cent of people in Adelaide were using cannabis. Informal arguments put forward by the commission on drugs also imply that the SA. law should be changed beThe Royal Commission cause it is unable o be has now published four enforced effectively. The discussion papers Mr Elliott argues against Social Control of Drug this line of thought. ' Use, Education, Cannabis The law, he says, has a and Some Responses. three -fold impact:
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"GRAVE CONCERN" Mr Elliott said that it IMPACT OF LAW As a deterrent: The was clear from these papers that the drift of the com- existence of the present may dissuade mission's thinking was to- penalties wards recommending that some people from using cr distributing drugs. the present criminal law As a protection to sodealing with cannabis be ciety: If someone is prealtered. He said that some pas- pared, in spite of the risk,, sages in the commission's to sell drugs he should be report should cause grave removed from society aid concern to educators in imprisoned for the protezlion of society. Catholic schools. "The dispute over wheAs a rehabilitation ther cannabis is harmful )r process: Conviction, imnot, could affect the lives prisonment or other penalof the 10,000 Catholic sc,.- ties may lead to the ofondary students in this fender modifying his beState," he said. havioural pattern,
part of an initiation into society."
The commission on drugs concedes that cannabis could also become a "rite of passage" for adolescents and that there is no way they could control the drift to usage by persons under the age of 18. Legalisation of the personal use of cannabis may have consequences for all students in Catholic schools. 11111111111111111111111111111111111111
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