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Criticize London Civic Authorities On Housing
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LONDON (NC)""':The Catholic Housing Aid Society .has criticized the failure of London's civic authorities' to provide houses for the growing number of homeless families. The society sent,telegrams to all 70 councilors of one central London borough objecting to plans to ,develop a $2.5 billon offices - and - luxury ~'apartments complex alongside the Thames River while the local poor and homeless wait for shelter.
WASHINGTON (NC) - The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) will hold its annual meeting here Aug. 27-31 on the theme of power and powerlessness in modern society. The LCWR convention will be attended by over 500 directors of Roman Catholic Sisterhoods. Archbishop Helder Camara, of Olinda-Recife, Brazil, considered one of rhe Church's outstanding advocates of the poor, will give the major address at the meeting. "How to sessions" are also on the agenda as well as a variety of workshops that will attempt to show practical present day examples of how to put the message of the Gospel inm action. The Sisters will el€ct new of· ficers and approve plans for action during the 1973-74 period.
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"Tht:) 10 largest London-based property companies now control assets in excess of the entire United Kingdom's gold and dollar reserves," commented society director, Douglas Pollard. The Catholic society's move followed closely upon the biggest and most successful national conference it has yet organized. This was attended by some 400 delegates from some 90 similar voluntary housing associations which are now becoming a major national force in providing homes through easy loans for low income families.
Opus Dei Ordains 51 to Priesthood
The conference at Nottingham University was attended also by Britain's Social Services Minister, Sir Keith Jose1)h, who told them: "Thoe tide is running your way. At last the government sees you can rl.'place the private landlord." Praising their infinitc drivc, enthusiasm and knowledge hc said the government is going to give them a strategic role in "housing action areas" proposed in a recent official "white paper." Analyzing the nature of Western society today, Benedictine Father Thomas Cullinan pleaded at the conference for a new attitude to private ownership. He stressed that the world's resources belonged to everyone and not to any individual to do with as he wished. "We are all tenants-not freeholders," he sa id.
Bookl'et Continued from Page One associated with the total healing, ministry of Christ as continued in His body, the Church." Care and concern for the sick is the responsibility of the whole Christian community, the committee says. "But all this will have little impact unless the pastoral implementation of the revised rites is accompanied by a catechetical effort comparable to the encouragement Pius X gave to frequent Communion at the beginning of thoe century." The booklet, entitled "Study Text 2: Anointing and the Pastoral Care of the Sick," gives the text of Pope Paul's instruction on the sacrament, the historical, theological and pastoral background for the reform of the sacrament, and suggestions for liturgy alld music in the rite of anointin~.
It is available through the Bishops' Committee on tne Liturgy at the U. S. Catholic Conference, 1312 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, D. C.
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ENVIRONMENT OF WORSHIP: The "environment of worship" institute is now in session in Santa Fe, N.M. Institute Director is Father Blase Schauer, O.P., center, shown concelebrating a Mass earlier this year in which some of the sacred appointments which will be discussed were used. At right, above, are words of a hymn which had been projected against an altar wall, eliminating the need for books. The Mass was held in'Immaculate Heart Parish where institute worship is being held. NC Photo.
Bishop Charges Marxist Infi Itration SAN SALVADOR (NC) - A conservative bishop has reopened a controversy here over alleged Marxist infiltration in a Jesuit-run school. Bishop Jose Castro y Ramirez of Santiago de Maria stated in a paid ad in a rightist paper that "this bishop will rather die than allow Marxism to infiltrate 0llr Catholic schools, as it has penetrated one in San Salvador." The controversy, which started as a purely internal matter between groups of parents of San Jose School, got national attention when the press and government took sides on the issue. A special commission of the Ministry of Education made an investigation but did not reach any conclusion. The controversy continnued. According to observers, the issue was raised for political motives against the Jesuits by some of the most conservative of the parents of students enrolled in the school. The school, along with making efforts to admit poorer students has been instituting a social studies program which includes field trips to slums and rural areas and a course on Communist ideologies and tactics. in an attempt to awaken students to . social challenges. The controversy seemed to be
settled after 11 vote was taken by which 93 per ,ceilt of the. parents rejected accusations and upheld the policies of the administrators of the school. Uphold Policies The San Salvador archdiocese called the charges "unjust arid subjective" and said that it lamented the attitude of those who ','conditioned py ignorance and lack of Christian spirit try to prevent teaching which takes into. account the national real· ity ... "The education given in the school is in 'accordance with the principles of faith and with the doctrine of the Church," the archdiocese said. The controversy continued, however, because it was feared that some of the foreign Jesuits would have to leave the country
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ROME (NC)-Fifty-one professional men belonging to the Opus Dei, a secular institute were ordained to the priesthood in Madrid Aug. 5. The new priests belong to 16 nations in Europe and North and South America. They have practiced their profession until reo cently for periods ranging from several years to several decades. Among them are journalists. lawyers, doctors, engineers and one linguist. Each of the professionals ordained has earned a doctorate in theology, philosophy or canon iaw in addition to their professional civil studies. The Opus Dei is a largely lay organization offering spiritual instruction to men and women seeking sanctity while continuing to hold secular jobs. Only about two per cent of its 60,000 members in 80 countries are priests. The organization has been ordaining professional men since 1943, but this group is the largest in the association's history, which dates from 1928.
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