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CLANCY SPELLS OUT FIRST CHALLENGE OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA
The first challenge of a nascent Catholic university today is to be truly Catholic, Cardinal Clancy of Sydney told the Notre Dame Austrainauguration lia audience. "Its contribution to higher education will relate to its success in meeting that challenge," said the cardinal who is president of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference. A vacuum of value impoverishment has developed and it is for the Catholic university to
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NDA Chancellor Terry O'Connor, Governor of Western Australia Sir Francis Burt. Cardinal Clancy, Fr Edward Malloy and Edatation Minister Kay Hallahan, listen to the Julian singers under the direction of Joan Hind. "With the sudden by the utilitarian universities fill that vacuum, he said. acksiae. Gen. Norms, advocated would become in the late advent of glasnost and Art. 2.2). Church. "A university is not Tracing the part the 20th century with their perstroika. the public genuinely rendered "It must also be institu- Catholic Church played emphasis on 'skills' and lament of the Soviets was Catholic simply by tionally faithful to the in the development of Information'." that they had now found enabling-legislation, nor Christian message, universities Cardinal Universities throughout themselves bereft of by the proclamation of recognising and adher- Clancy said: the world have done us moral values, and that an embossed letter-head, ing to the teaching great service, and espe- this had brought their "History proclaims that cially have they made a system to its knees. nor even by a declaration authority of the Church from pope or bishop. in matters of faith and there is an onus on the major contribution in Catholic perspective to providing us with the "Significantly, they "A university can be morals. reassert itself in Higher means materially to were turning to the "One can expect that Education. Contemporsaid to be truly Catholic only if the community significant numbers both ary culture manifests improve our way of life. Church for these values. "Universities are not that it comprises is of faculty and of the that the time to do so is spectacularly in science totally responsible for committed to the student body will seek to now. The time is ripe for and technology. "But these advances culture, but they do play Catholic ethos, and "car- steep themselves in the this endeavour here in have far outstripped the a major hand. The securies out its research, history and traditions of Australia. world's moral principles larisation of universities, teaching and all other the Church. and have a He said Cardinal New- and terms of reference with the consequent activities with Catholic deep personal commitideals, principles, and ment in practice to the man "was spared the for making wise and marginalisation of the Christian influence, has attitudes" (Ex Garde Gospel way of life as pain of seeing just how fruitful use of them.
a lot to do. I believe, with the value impoverishment of our society today. "A vacuum has been allowed to develop, and it is for the Catholic university to fill that vacuum. "It will not do so from an adversarial stance visa-vis the secular universities, but will rather seek to complement the work of these universities and work side by side with them in a relationship of mutual respect and of cooperation for the betterment and enrichment of Australian society.
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