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Mr KEVIN, was elected the new A chairman of th oral Council during its meeting last Satur . e comes from farming generations at Bencubbin and is active in the Farmers Unita* as well as being director of two large farming cooperatives. He is in his third year on the council. The vice-chairman is Mr ANTHONY POLI, or Stoneville (second from right), who along with his family was active in Bellevue parish since their arrival. from England, in 1969. He served on the Bellevue parish council and is currently vice-chairman of the Mundaring parish council. He studied dentistry in WA and is married with one daughter. The secretary, Mrs Marie TRAVERS (left), a housewife and mother of six, who has taken an active part in East Victoria Park parish over 24 years, including terms of the Parish Council and school board. She is a former diocesan president of Majellans. (See also Page 6).
Other executive members are: Monsignor James BOURKE, (second from left) onetime Director of Catholic Education and the Catholic Education Office in Canberra and who is now parish priest of Mount Lawley and was appointed to the D.P.C. this year. Miss Lucy ARITE, of Wanneroo (right) is in her third year as a councillor and is well known at Pellegrini's store. She has served two terms on her parish council and is currently on the liturgy and finance committees. Mrs Jane MURPHY, of Cloverdale, (third from right), a housewife with three children, was appointed to the D.P.C. this year. She has been active in Cloverdale parish for over 15 years, including ten years as catechist and two terms as parish councillor; at present a member of the liturgy committee.
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POPE ENDORSES "THEOLOGY 99 - CITY OF LIBERATION
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the exploitation of man by man, or the exploitation of man by the State, of institutions, of mechanisms of economic systems and of regimes operating so often
(NC) Pope John Paul II endorsed "the theology of liberation" and the recent deliberations of the Latin American bishops during o general audi-
The Pope endorsed the double stress on evangelisation and liberation by the ence. third general assembly of In a strongly -worded the Latin American bishtalk at his weekly audience, ops, which ended in Poenthe Pope said that "the la, Mexico, last month.
theology of liberation is often connected, sometimes too exclusively, with Latin America. It is necessary, however, to grant reason to one of the great contemporary theologians, Hans Urs von Balthasar, who demands a theology of liberation on a universal radius."
The Pope linked the two. saying that in evangelisation and in the Gospel mes sage were found "the most profound source of the lib-
eration of man." Liberation
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foundly in the saving mis- witness of truth, Christ re- without sensitivity," acted sion of Christ, in the work peatedly opposed untruth." the Pope. "It is necessary to call of redemption, in his teachFather Hans Urs von ing. This theme has never Balthasar is a 73 -year-old by name ever social injustice, ceased to constitute the Swiss theologian. discrimination, violence content of the spiritual life inflicted on man He is a member of the against his body, against of Christians," he said. Papal Theological Commishis spirit, against his con"The conference of the sion and the author of Latin American bishops science and against his conmore than 50 books. victions," he said. witnesses that this theme In the past, Father von returns in a new historical "Christ teaches us a parBalthasar has warned that context. Therefore it must some theological trends be- ticular sensitivity to min, be taken up again in ;he ing developed in Latin to the dignity of the human teaching of the Church, in America are producing a person, to human life, 'o thelogy and in pastoral "false liberation theologj" the spirit and the human work," he added. because they look to Marx- body," he said. The Pope was interruptism as the answer for owed by applause several ing the region's social ills. "GREAT THEME"
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The Pope said that 'libThe Pope, at his general voice denouncing injustices audience. stressed the need eration in the social sense and declared that Christ for the Church to be in- also has its start in knowledge of the truth." was the liberator of men. volved in social issues. He called this a 'great "CALL BY NAME . . . LINK WITH TRUTH theme that has many as"This service to truth the Speaking of the need pects and, above all, many for a universal theology of as participation in the pro- levels," and said it would liberation, he said: "Only phetic service of Christ is be difficult to discuss v11 the contexts are differen', a task of the Church, aspects in a short talk. but the reality itself of the which seeks to accomplish "For now let us stop on liberty 'by which Christ has it in diverse historical con- this point. The theology of texts," said the Pope. liberated us' is universal. must above all liberation "It is necessary to call "The task of theology .s be faithful to all the truth to discover its true signifi- by their names injustice, about man in order to place cance in diverse and conin evidence, not only in the crete historical and conLatin American context temporary contexts." but also in all contemporHe added: "Christ himary contexts, what kind of self connects, in a -inn', reality this liberty is 'by ular way, liberation with which Christ has liberated the awareness of truth. us," said the Pope. 'Know the truth, and the He added that the Latin truth will make you free': CONTRACTOR American bishops meeting SWISS EXPERT "gives witness to the avail20 Mabel Street, Truth, he said, had "a ability" of the Church to SOUTH PERTH prophetic force. We find take up the work of liberatthis prophetic force of Phone 367 2716 ing man, freeing his enertnith in the teaching of gies for good and making Christ. As a prophet, as a him strong against evil.
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