BARBARA WARD GETS POST IN POPE'S COUNCIL

By A Staff Reporter TWO new post-conciliar organisations, one to promote the work of the laity in the church and the other to deal with world peace, social justice and poverty were announced by the Pope this week. These commissions, the Council of the Laity and the Commission for Justice and Peace, will be staffed by clergy and lay people from all over the world.
They will operate on a five year experimental basis, and preparations for them have been in hand since July.
The names of five women are included in the list of members released by the Vatican. One of these is Barbara Ward (Lady Jackson), the British economist, who will serve on the Commission for Justice and Peace.
The others are Miss Rosemary Goldie, an Australian who will be vice-secretary of the Council of the Laity, Margaret Fievez, of Belgium, and Maria Vendrik and Margo Klompe, both of Holland,
CARDINAL'S ROLE The president of both commissions will be Cardinal Roy of Quebec, who will be assisted by Mgr. Alberto Castelli. Bishop Worlock of Portsmouth is named as a consultor to the Council of the Laity, and Fr. Gerald Mahon, Superior-General of the Mill Hill Fathers, a consultor to the Commission for Justice and Peace. Mgr. Joseph Gremillion, of the Catholic Relief Service in New York, is secretary of the Justice and Peace Commission.
Mr. Pat Keegan, the first layman to speak at the Vatican Council, will also be a member of the Council for the Laity. Other members will come from the Ivory Coast, Italy, France, Mexico, Spain, Argentina, the United States and Germany.
Both commissions have been formed as a result of the Vatican II document, "The Church in The Modern World". The Council of the Laity will promote the lay apostolate at international level and provide for its coordination and increasing integration in the general apostolate of the Church. It will act as a meeting point between the hierarchy and the laity.
The aim of the Commission for Justice and Peace will be "to arouse the people of God to full awareness of its mission at the present time, to promote the progress of poor nations and encourage international social justice, to help underdeveloped nations to work for their own development."