Surprise visit by Pope VATICAN CITY: Vatican officials were caught by surprise with the announcement by Cardinal Sin of Manila that Pooe John Paul II will visit the Philippines in November. Mrs
Imelda
Marcos is
President Ferdinand Marcos.
Paul's inauguration last October. But Cardinal Sin, who keeps a wary distance of
tions and radio stations have been shut by the government because of their criti-
trying to gain some credit During the nearly seven for the visit on the strength years that the Philippines of an invitation she extend- has been under marital law, ed when in Rome for Pope several church -run publicaJohn
President
Marcos,
is
ada-
mant that the trip is at the invitation of the Philippine Bishops conference to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the founding of the archdiocese of Manila that will be celebrated in Nos ember. It will not be the first Papal visit to the Philippines. The wide-ranging visit of Pope Paul VI through Asia and Oceania got world headlines when. in Manila, a deranged Bolivian artist, Benjamin Mendoza Amor,
cisms.
Earlier this year, Cardinal Sin described the church position as one of
"critical collaboration" re-
garding the government. He said
the
government
was
moving toward a totalitarian form.
"In the Philippines it is treason to aspire, to think of becoming president,"
lunged at the Pope as he arrived at Manila airport tut succeeded in only making a light flesh wound on the Pope's secretary Father Macchi. While in the Philippines, the Pone will beatify the first Filipino candidate for sainthood, Lorenzo Ruiz, said a spokesman for Cardinal Sin. Ruiz was a labourer of Filipino and Chinese parentage who was killed by the Japanese in 1637 after refusing to denounce his
MELBOURNE: Australians will have to answer for the stewardship they, have exercised, Archbishop Little warned recently on the subject of receiving refugees. -Christianity. About 85 per cent of the In a message in The Ad- ians where their responsi"The goods of the earth ics acceptance of refugees Philippine's 44 million pop- vocate he pointed to the bilities were: are for all peoples. Justice will mean greater unemulation professes Catholic - number of parishes and inand charity demand for ployment; strain on social hem dividuals who were sharing "The facts are clear. others a share in Aus- and educational *rvices A visit by Pope John Paul his concern for the refugees "We have a vast, empty tralia's bounty. and other resources; political could be politically delicate by parish sponsorship and country, occupied less than consequences; health and "We have no right to as Catholic leaders have grammes. 200 years ago with little ressocial problems; a change been highly critical of the But he warned Austral - pect for the original inhabi- amass so....much private in our way of life; the start property that the rights of of a flood; martial law rule of Filipino other assistance pro- tants. racial discrim-
others artr.Jsrfringed. Are ination. we doing sot with Australia? "There is some truth in sometimes heroic, develop"Catholic :moral teaching these and similar objections. ment. Yet look at the num- has alwayrzipsisterl that a ber of people . . only person in ettreme necessity "Yet the right to fife enough to touch hand to takes predominance over all of beor hand around our coastline ing inintic*,datager so, may take possession considerations. It is the first if we give each person a of another person's property right. It is there prior to metro -and -a -half. the formation of any coununder certain conditions: try, or right to property. "We occupy five per cent The necessity must be "This is_ a major right of the land mass of the genuine and 'extreme. to -life issue. world yet we have only Relief must first Inc "Perhaps ro other issue 0.34 per cent of the world asked. has more closely touched population. We are below Only -so much may be the heart of the nation. zero growth. population taken as to relieve present "Hear our Holy Father's appeal: Our mineral resources are need. Parishes. Catholic organes'imated to represent 15Relief must not be 40 per cent of the world's taken from,ope who In con- isations. religious communimost sought-after com- sequence may be reduced ties ant Christian families will find the means of exmodities, to extreme need. pressing their love for the "Our Lord's parable on "Most Australians with refugees.. -bet each one nut4,c the rich man, Dives, and whom f tclk belies that a personal commitment to the poor man, Lazarus, can we should recei"e many make a concrete gesture, as have valid application at more refugees. Yet many f^,r as individual generosity the level of nations as well objections era expressed. to,1 love -inspired creativity as of individuals. "According to these crit- allows."
"There has
A choir of 19 'Presentation Sisters wise sing just "for fun" won the St Mary's Ceiiiedral prize for the *pen church choir section at the national eisteddfod in Perth this week. They received a trophy and a $60 sheet music voucher and, the runners -u), the Mercedes College choir received a'$40 voucher. Father Peter McCrann, pictured above, mode the presentotion on behalf of Saint Mary's Cathedral which offered $200 in prizes far the eisteddfod this year. The previous evening, a junior section, the Mercedes College Year 8, also won a trophy and o $60 voucher as part of the Cathedral prize, presented on that evening by Dean Foley. Sister Paula Quinn, conductress of the Presentation choir said that the group took up singing "just for fun and for a bit of
community spirit. "There were no auditions, no scresni for good looks and anyon, from age 19 to 94 was welcome for the reiteorstifs each Sunday morning," she said.
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