PERTH, WA: February 25, 1988
Geraldton's Bishop Hickey in his Lenten pastoral letter says it is time we thanked our parents for what they have done for us. "Rarely do they receive thanks," he says. See story page 3.
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VATICAN CITY { C): Pope John Paul ll's second social encyclical keeps t e Church neutral in East-West confrontations by strongly criticising both political power blocks. East and West receive an equal s are of stinging condemnations for eir and dornesti c foreign olicies. These policies, according o h
m a nuclear pop , have result arms race threatening world survival, hind red Third World economic growth by tra sfernng ideological conflicts to underd velop d nations, and produced societies t home which seek material gain while downplaying spiritual values. In
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VATICAN C 1Y (NC}: Here is an ta-glance look a Pope John Paul ll's new encyclical "On Social Concerns". Dlssu d to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Pope Paul Vi's encyclical "On the Development of Peoples", which advocated greater development programs for poor nations. DSays hat in those 20 years there has en not progress but a widening gap between the world's rich and p r. DCalls the growing ap a threat to world p ac and says it is caus d by such fac or as use of he Third World as an East-West a legrou , t e growing foreign d b arm rather ment, and inad -
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qua e sharing of technol gical adv nces. D otes he Church's "critical a itude toward both liberal capitalism and Marxist collectivism" and says both ideologies need to be c anged and pdated. OCi es the ethical cons quences of world interdependence and calls for moving yond "a feeling of vague compassion or sh al ow distress" for p or nations o "a firm and per v rin determination o co mit n self to he common goo ''. DCriticises sta e- up co rol c mpaigns, often are pro nd re resen gainst hep
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