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Role of Laity
gets support Specialists in the field of lay and priestly spirituality have been visiting Perth :Intently. Jesuit Father Charles Mayne, of Adelaide, has met a
wide cross-section of laity during a three-week stay in Perth.
Mr Brian Moylan, of Adelaide, one of 26 members of the Vatican Council for the laity has spent five days in Perth on his way back from a Rome meeting of the council. He has been a full-time worker in the lay apostolate of the church for the past 16 years, and is at present secretary of the Adelaide Christian Life movement. In Perth, he has been discussing the lay apostolate
with priests, the Christian Life teams and members of the Diocesan Pastoral Council. Father Mayne has offered his wide experience in the lay apostolate to groups like the YCW, YCS, Christian Life, Diocesan Pastoral Council and training sessions for pastoral councils.
BIG RESPONSE
TO KAMPUCHEA RELIEF APPEAL By Tuesday this week Catholics had contributed $12,747 to Kampucheon relief appeal being conducted by Australian Catholic Relief. Many of the individual by Oxfam in Pnom Penh donations have been in re- and by Catholic Caritas in sponse to the half -page ad- Thailand. vertisement printed in The Superb musk will be put Record two weeks ago. to help the hampucheans So far, six parishes have in a benefit concert (doneconducted appeals which tioo at the door) at Highhave yielded a total of way Church, corner John $3231: Street and Stirling Highway, Bedford $1100, Rocking- on Sunday, October 28, at ham $632, Osborne Park 3 pm, by Jill Cole (cello), $500, Armadale $341, Co- Jack Harrison (clarinet), mo $337, Mirrabooka $321. John Harte (piano) and Further help is urgently Graham Wood (violin), needed and donations will playing trios by Mozart be received at Australian and Beethoven and a so-
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Pictured at a clergy meeting this week are visitors Father Charles MAYNE, SJ, of Adelaide, Father Frank MARRIOTT, of Victoria, chairman of the National Council of Priests; Mr Brion MOYLAN, member of the Rome Council for the Laity; tooether with Father Alex MORAHAN, of Bassendean, Mr Jim MIOLIN, and Father Roger McGINLEY, of Riverton.
POPE'S PEACI ESSA -
UNITED NATIONS, New York. There are two threats to peace in the modern world the unjust distribution of material goods and injustice in human rights, Pope John Paul II told the world forum during his historic visit7".. In a plea for world peace the Pope asked if the International Year of the Child, the world's children were to receive the arms race as an inheritance. "How are we to explain this unbridled race? Can our age still really believe that the breathtaking spiral of armaments is at the service of world peace?" he asked The Pope also called for a solution to the Middle East crisis, including an international, guarantee for Jerusalem remaining sacred for the three great monotheistic religions- Judaism. Christianity and Islam. The Pope spoke for 61 minutes to the assembly and passed over nearly one third of the full written text that was released later. ABSENTEES
There has been progress in the past 100 years, he continued. But there was still a frightful disparity between excessively rich individuals and the majority of the poor and destitute.
the athestic view of the Front the seat of world He said he came to the world which, he said, was assembly, the Pope said "I United Nations as a repreone of the signs of the send my greetings to all the sentative of the church of times. men and women living on Jesus Christ, who said his
Work was radically separated from property; the worker was Tinted to his work without feeling that he was working for any good for himself.
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AUSCHWITZ Pope John Paul II reiterated the call for peace and The abyss between the the abolition of war that his rich and the destitute existpredecessor Pope Paul VI ed between countries as well had made in the s ame United Nations hall in 1945. PEACE THREATS
The Polish pontiff remindThe future depended on whether belts of hunger, ed his listeners that he came malnutrition, destitution, un. from a country on which derdevelopmen t, disease the extermination camp of and illiteracy disappeared Auschwitz was located durfrom the economic map of ing the war. He called for the disthe earth.
appearance of such horrible to experiences and the various kinds of torture and oppression, either physical or in civilisation, moral, that were carried out progress there were still recurring anywhere, even if under the threats and violations of pretext of internal security civil liberty with no possi- or the need to preserve bility of appeal or remedy. peace. There were situations The Universal Declaration But this did not dimin- where, to exercise religious of Human Rights, the corish the moral responsibility freedom or freedom of con- nerstone of the United Naof people today, nor prevent science, condemned a man tions _Organisation, was to become a second or third "paid for by millions of our injustice and social injury. He called for an end to class citizen with the loss of brothers and sisters at the the exploitation of man, the career and even the educa- cost of their suffering and just distribution of goods, tion of his children. sacrifice, brought about by
Only the professedly atheistic Albanian delegation was absent throughout the Pope's visit. The Pope said that the inequity of distribution of the world's goods could be explained by historical and cultural circumstances.
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