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Youth Topics …

“MAY THE WORLD NEVER AGAIN SEE A DAY OF MISFORTUNE LIKE THAT OF HIROSHIMA.”

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n a brief but passionate discourse the holy father pleaded for outlawing of atomic weapons and reminded his hearers that only christ can guarantee the supreme gifts of “brotherhood, peace and love”.

The Pope declared: “During these days, as you know, the entire world press has taken note of the twentieth anniversary of the explosion of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima.

UNHAPPY CITY “The terror, ruin, destruction, grief and pity of that tremendous event have been amply and justly commented on.

We have noted that official ceremonies in that most unhappy city, which has been modernly rebuilt, have been voluntarily and nobly without any political or polemical character whatsoever. And we have observed, looking at some publications which were sent to us, the picture of a group of persons who are crying and praying, honouring the memory of the innumerable victims of the infernal massacre and imploring humanity and asking God that this slaughter of human life, this outrage of civilisation, may never repeat itself again. This is a pious, human and moving gesture.

“And we, who many times have likewise in various ways desired that atomic weapons may be banned, unite ourself with that plea and prayer and with that hope with this our humble prayer... We pray that never again may the world see a day of misfortune like that of Hiroshima.

“We pray that men may never again place their trust, their calculations and their prestige in weapons so fateful and so dishonourable.

TERRIBLE ART “We pray that all may together and loyally outlaw the terrible art which knows how to produce, multiply and preserve them for the terror of peoples.

“We pray that that deadly device may not have also killed peace, although it was to have sought it; may it not always impair the honour of science and may it not have extinguished serenity of life upon the earth.

“We pray instead that brotherhood, peace and love may be granted and assured to the world. We remind you that only Christ can guarantee us these supreme gifts. He alone, our Saviour Who became our brother when Mary pronounced the words ‘be it done’ which we now in her honour repeat.” His Holiness then began reciting the Angelus, which he usually recites at Sunday noon audiences.

Q :I’ve only ever been out with one boy since I left school and now I’m 17. He wants to become engaged and I don’t want to for a long time as I don’t know if I love him enough.

I’m finding it difficult to tell him as I know he’ll be very hurt and think I don’t love him. How would I be sure he is the right one for me as I don’t want to make a mistake in a decision to marry as I want it to last.

A: If you were told that you could buy one coat and this one had to last you all your life, you would spend time in looking around, making sure you saw all the coats possible, comparing them, seeing which suited you best and finally making your decision knowing that it was the best possible.

Often we are much more careful when buying an important item than we are in making a choice of a partner for life.

As you have no experience of other young men you couldn’t possibly know if this boy is the right one. At the moment you have nothing on which to base your judgment. You need to make a wide circle of friends, mixing with other young men, so that you can compare the

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good qualities of each, and finally see all that you desire in the one. All young boys and girls should be free to have many friends and not be tied to any one person until they are ready to consider marriage.

Going steady with one, would give him grounds to think that you plan to marry him. It is better to face the problem now, and tell him you cannot make any decision for the present.

Suggest to him that you both be free to widen your social life, still remain friends but not exclusively so. In a year or so he may be the one you will marry, and you would be happier that the decision would be a mature one, which it could not be under the present circumstances. Sometimes we hurt people, not intentionally, but simply to rectify an earlier mistake. Looking back, you see that it was a mistake to cut yourself off from other friends, and even if he does not see it in this way, you have a duty to yourself. Talk it over with him, be firm if he tries to pressure you into continuing along the old road, as otherwise you may drift along until it is too late to take another course.

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CARDINAL CARDIJN ARRIVES JOSEPH CARDINAL CARDIJN , the founder of the world-wide Young Christian Workers’ Movement, arrived in Perth on Wednesday for a six-day visit.

The 83-year-old Cardinal who founded the Y.C.W. to win to the Church the masses of the working class, said at Perth Airport after his arrival that he no longer thought of the working class as separate from any other class, but as “a working people”.

“Young workers have a mission in the world and must be conscious of their apostolate,” he said.

“They must sustain each other and help each other.”

Call to Youth Cardinal Cardijn said that boys and girls must be more conscious of their responsibilities - and their parents, the priests and bishops must collaborate with them and help them. His Eminence, who has been attending the International Y.C.W. Council in Bangkok, said that today’s youth must also be educated to cope with the extra liberty given them.

Divine Origin “They must be conscious that they are not animals or machines, but that they are of divine origin.” On his way to the city, the Cardinal made a brief stop at St. John of God Hospital, Belmont, where he told the Sisters, nurses and patients assembled outside: “I bring you

all the blessing of the Pope himself ”.

“Before I left Rome,” he told them, “the Holy Father said to me, ‘You will give my blessing to the people of Australia, because I love that country’”. Cardinal Cardijn said that Pope Paul told him he regarded Australia as the greatest mission in the world.

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Another Y.C.W. visitor to Perth was the International president, Rienzie Rupasinghe, who addressed diocesan presidents last weekend.

He told them that today young workers in Australia do not face the problems of exploitation of labour as they did when the movement first began in Belgium, but they do face an exploitation exploitation which is

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even more poisonous and deadly, the exploitation of the human person largely through mass media such as television, radio and various publications with advertisements that encouraged harmful selfishness. “The Y.C.W.,” he said, “must study real-life situations in each country where it exists and the leaders must respond to different needs as they arise.”

• Cardinal Cardijn will address a public rally at the Orchestral Shell, in the Supreme Court Gardens at 7.15 p.m. on Sunday, February 13.

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Sisters and pupils of St. Joseph’s Joined in singing the praises of Mother Mary Mackillop during the Centenary Mass in St. Mary’s Cathedral on Saturday.

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Foot-tapping, finger-snapping Duke Ellington entertained the masses at Subiaco Oval on Tuesday night. A full report on his performance on page 15.

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COUNTRY PRIESTS’

TWO-DAY STUDY OF THEIR WORK

Twenty country priests of the archdiocese devoted two days last week to a study of issues related to the priesthood and the pastoral work of the priest.

Archbishop Goody and Bishop Quinn attended the first day of the conference, held at the Norbertine property “Kerrydowns”: Bishop Healy stayed on for a further half day.

The live-in conference was a decision of the priests themselves taken at zone meetings last year when it was felt desirable to come together to share more fully their ideas relating to the scattered areas they must serve.

NEW POLICY The auxiliary bishops were present as part of a new policy by which Bishop Quinn will take a particular interest in the Northam zone of parishes and Bishop Healy in the Merredin group with which he has had several recent contacts.

Ways in which the bishops would possibly relate to the areas are yet to be worked out. They would not exclusively attend parishes in those areas but might take a more active part in the zone meetings of priests, it was suggested.

LACK OF VOCATIONS Some reference was made to establishing a balance between the bishops’ administration duties and pastoral contact with priests and parishes.

Father Warren Ford, a Perth Columban priest on leave from the Philippines, gave an opening address on the priesthood.

Later the priests looked at the present lack of vocations and the need to give pastoral support to the present group of clergy.

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partures from the active ministry, they looked at possible deficiencies on their own part accepting the responsibility of priests to be more responsible for each other’s welfare especially in the area of pastoral activity.

Support could be given to priests by further study programmes and seminars, but it was feared that these programmes did not always attract the priest who might be most in need of their help.

CHANGING PATTERNS Looking to the future of the diocese, the priests felt that it was impossible to look further than 15 years because of the rapidly changing patterns of housing.

However, they felt that efforts should be made in some way to anticipate the strain on the priestly resources of the diocese in the next ten years or so.

In a further session, Father Ford led the priests in a discussion on aspects of justice, especially related to styles of living.

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The major part of the Entertainment Centre congregation was a representation of Catholic school children mostly from Catholic schools.

At right is a section of the contigent of 80 Catholic State school children who travelled in two buses from Whitford’s parish.

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CATERING SEMINAR SPIRITUAL AND PRACTICAL ROME (NC) – Pope Paul has opened the New Year with ringing condemnations of abortion and liberalised abortion laws. In the presence of Rome’s Communist mayor and diplomats accredited to the Vatican, Pope Paul issued one of the strongest and frankest attacks of his reign against those who seek abortion and against laws which permit them to do so.

“Is the life that at its very conception springs up in the mother’s womb not really and truly human life?

DEFENCELESS “Does it not need every care, every love, seeing that this embryonic life is defenceless, yet already inscribed in the divine book of the destiny of humanity?

“Who would suppose that a mother would kill her offspring or let it be killed?

What drug, what legal gilding can ever deaden the remorse of a woman who has freely and consciously murdered the fruit of her womb?”

The Pope’s words at the morning Mass were based on the theme he had chosen for the celebration of the Jan. 1 World Day of Peace – “If you want peace, defend life”.

In Italy, the question of abortion has taken on particular urgency in January because the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Lower House of Parliament) is expected to vote soon on a proposed liberalised abortion law.

Minutes after returning to Vatican City from the church in the southern suburbs of Rome, Pope Paul again spoke about abortion to crowds gathered for the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square.

“It is a sacrosanct obligation,” the Pope declared from his apartment window overlooking the square, “to have an important and sacred concept of what human life is – especially human life” about to be born, life which is the most

innocent and most mysterious, life which is newest and most in need of protection and assistance.”

The Pope urged Catholics to extend protection and help to “every other human life as well, especially to the poor and suffering”.

He said that “the peaceful life and order of society, good social relationship and peace in its fullest and most radical sense rest on

not a stable rock amid the waves of the stormy ocean of world history, but a floating ship that depends on many conditions and on the efforts of many to avoid shipwreck… Peace is always ‘in fieri’ (in the process of coming into being).”

“What we need to do, without in any way compromising the teachings of the Church,” he said, “is to recognise how crippling the

receive an unswerving reply on the value of human life from the first instant of conception.

“The voice of the Church on abortion is clear and unambiguous.”

On the other hand, he saw the question of assisting people facing abortion as an equally important Christian responsibility.

He said that there was a risk in being continu-

“STAND UP AND DEFEND LIFE” “If abortion can never be the answer, then we are challenged to discover other solutions,” Father Barry Hickey, Director of the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau, said this week. the observance of respect for life”.

The real basis of respect for life, he concluded, is “love, the ‘agape’ which Christ has taught us and which must be at the roots of human feelings, made superhuman precisely by faith and charity”.

During the morning Peace Day Mass, held in the mother church of the Pauline Fathers and Sisters, the Pope gave his formula for attaining world peace.

“Everyone remembers the saying that took root in the minds of people, ‘If you want peace, prepare for war’: This is a disastrous, despairing saying,” the Pope asserted. “Tomorrow it will be even more so, unless it is corrected and replaced with another saying… ‘If you want peace, prepare peace’.”

Peace, said the Pope, “is

pressures on a woman faced with pregnancy can be.

“Only then is one able to help.”

Father Hickey said that he was disturbed by an assumption that abortion was a problem only when political lobbyists chose to refer to the matter.

It was a much more constant and human issue, he explained.

The Church had two clear duties, he said: • To stand up in public and defend life.

• To come to the aid of those who were under pressure from pregnancy and to find a solution to the problem no matter how difficult was the task.

On the question of Catholic witness, Father Hickey said that if people wished to bombard the Church with questions they would

ally aggressive about the political and public issues of abortion; for individual people there had to be a maximum of understanding and support in their difficulty, he said.

“Listening to the problems that women have to face as a result of unexpected pregnancy, one begins to see how complex the question is.

“It is not sufficient simply to lay down the law, or, worse, to accuse a person of contemplating murder.

“Such an approach is heartless and insensitive.

“It may well turn a person away from the Church and from God and seek help elsewhere.

“The problems women face are real. They often make abortion appear the only way out of their dilemma.”

Everything from spirituality in the kitchen to the practical preparation of a fivecourse banquet dinner is to be included in a weekend catering seminar at the Redemptorist Retreat House later this month.

Leading this weekend study, aimed at those engaged in cooking, catering or managing food departments, will be Mr. R.G. Voight, general manager of the Parmelia Hotel.

Head chef of the Parmelia, Chef Egan and others will personally direct the participants in practically preparing the five-course banquet dinner which will close the gathering on Sunday, May 1.

Mr. Voight will also be showing short demonstration films during the weekend.

SPIRITUAL SIDE Spiritually, the weekend opens with Mass celebrated by Bishop Quinn on Friday, April 29, followed by an address by Father Kevin Henry, Redemptorist Rector.

Saturday morning will be taken up with a talk by Mr. W. Cooper, of Gibson and Paterson, on the subject of buying.

Later the participants will go by bus to his company’s showrooms, to see a display of catering equipment including crockery, linen and glassware.

Lunch will be taken at a school and this will be followed by a look at the kitchens there.

EQUIPMENT The Saturday afternoon session will be given by Mr. Murray Ferstat, a specialist in kitchen and general catering equipment. He will be discuss-

ing and demonstrating food preparation equipment, microwave ovens and other products with particular emphasis on reducing total food costs by minimising labour involvement.

Saturday evening will consist of a visit to a hospital kitchen, and supper there before returning to the Retreat House.

The first item on Sunday morning will be a talk by Mr. R. Tuggart, of Heinz Foods, on the subject of fast foods.

ONLY THE SECOND A general question time will follow. Brother Daniel, of the Redemptorist Retreat House, who is organising the weekend, said that it was only the second such gathering to be organised locally.

He is the local representative of the Food Research and Educational Centre for Religious Institutions that holds these seminars regularly in the Eastern States.

He said that the weekend was not only for Religious but also for the many laity who were involved in cooking and catering in many facets of Catholic life.

He said that the weekend would also be of value to bursars in their management of the food departments of their houses or institutions. Participants can live at the Redemptorist Retreat House if they wish.

For those living in, the overall cost is $25 and for those not living in $20.

Applications should be in the hands of Brother Daniel at the Redemptorist Retreat House, 190 Vincent Street, North Perth, W.A. 6006 no later than Friday, April 15.

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The new St. Charles; a time to think

The wheel had turned a full circle when in 1976 St. Charles’ first Rector, now the Archbishop of Perth, asked Fr. Jim O’Brien (one of the original 20 students in 1942) to take over as Rector of St. Charles’.

A new experiment was to be tried.

The few remaining students of St. Charles’ were sent to the seminary in Adelaide, S.A., to finish their studies.

Any new students for St. Charles’ (and the trend indicated there would be only a few) were to attend St. Charles’ for one year only.

The new rector was to organize a course of studies which would correspond to the Adelaide Seminary’s first year of philosophy studies.

In 1976 four students began this one-year course under Fr. O’Brien.

LECTURES He arranged for them to do a unit of philosophy at the University of W.A. supplemented by lectures given by himself at the seminary.

Fr. O’Brien also gave them lectures in Latin and Biblical Greek, English literature and fundamental theology.

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Fr. O’Brien was asked to comment on his experiment: “It was very hard,” he said, “to synchronize studies here with those in Adelaide where there is a full teaching staff.

“I thought it was unfair to the students. We really need a full three-year Philosophy course here in Perth; a oneyear course doesn’t work.

“The trouble is that the money needed to staff a three-year course would be too much out of proportion to the few students enrolled.”

Despite the ‘failure’ of the experiment it seems that it will have produced two priests from its having been tried.

INACTIVE The seminary remained inactive as a seminary during 1977-8-9. The buildings were used for weekend camps and various meetings venues, and for a school of Aboriginal children run by two Sisters of St. John of God who lived in the old convent.

In 1979 the Perth diocesan Vocations committee of Frs. O’Brien, W. Foley and B. Rosling, concerned about helping applicants for the Adelaide seminary to make a more informed decision, decided to try another experiment at St. Charles’.

NEW MAN

By January 1980 the seminary, which had long been in disrepair, was renovated to accommodate a maximum of six applicants and two priests.

The new Rector is Fr. Bryan Rosling. He is assisted by having Fr. Barry Hickey, as Bursar or financial manager.

Fr. Rosling was asked about the scheme: “We want to continue the presence of the seminary in Perth,” he said, “and to offer men thinking of the priesthood a chance to experience something of the life they would be in for.

“The time they spend here will be geared to the spiritual rather than the academic.

“They will attend Mass each day; recite some of the Divine Office, the priests’ daily prayer; and learn to meditate.

“There will be some lectures and discussion, on an occasional night, as an introduction to the Philosophy and Theology that they would have to study in a seminary.

“They will be expected to return here from work each day by 5.30pm except in special circumstances.

“I would like to stress that living here is open to any man interested in becoming a priest, no matter what his job or age.

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“Anyone who wants to discuss coming here with me can phone me on 279 1310 or leave a message with the Catholic Church Office.”

As at the end of January four men, who have been living under Fr. Rosling’s regime, have chosen to start at the Adelaide seminary this year, in February.

Another two or three are expected to move into St. Charles’ in March next.

One of the four who are going to Adelaide told me that he had found that living at St. Charles’ provided an atmosphere of discipline which assisted him to think and pray.

REACTION Fr. John Chauncy, parish priest of Hamilton Hill and himself a ‘late’ vocation, told me of people’s reaction to this latest experiment: “The re-establishment of the seminary in the original building is very encouraging,” he said.

“I have spoken about it to Religious and laity alike who are praying for vocations.

“They have all expressed genuine happiness over the re-opening of the seminary, albeit on limited lines.”

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New automatic phone service for Pregnancy Help; $1,000 gift.

A country reader of The Record saw an appeal from Pregnancy Help and has donated $1,000 to install a new automatic phone service in the Perth Pregnancy Help Office.

The new equipment was installed and connected last week.

The latest answering machine means that a caller, at any hour of the day or night, will be switched through immediately to the particular counsellor on duty.

Until now the phone has been attended directly only during office hours.

After hours a taped message had to be connected to the number of the counsellor at home.

OLD WAY The caller then had to listen for the duty number and make a second call, and it was feared that person in distress might have been deterred by this impersonal greeting.

The new system has a second

telephone circuit so that the incoming call is diverted to a particular counsellor’s number at home and the caller is immediately in live conversation with someone who can respond sympathetically to the call.

The Pregnancy Help service was first set up in the Centrecare offices following a pledge

by Archbishop Goody that the resources of the diocese were available to a woman distressed by pregnancy to the point of considering an abortion.

A second Pregnancy Help service has been commenced at Rockingham recently.

The Perth office is hoping that services will be established in other country centres so that people will only have to make a local phone call if they need help. Pregnancy Help depends on donations to maintain its

phone services, assistance to women, as well as a sustained advertising programme.

There is often a demand for napkins or maternity wear and these are bought if the need arises.

Advertising is another big expense. Newspaper advertisements cost $800 per year, and as much money is spent on drive-in cinemas as possible.

A recent advertising campaign on public transport cost $2,000. The address of Pregnancy Help is 25 Victoria Square phone 325 6644.

AUGUST 21, 1980 VATICAN CITY (NC): The Israeli Government’s formal decision to make a united Jerusalem the capital of Israel raises new questions for the Vatican, which only recently restated its position on the Holy City.

The Israeli action seems to move Jerusalem further from the status desired by the Vatican.

The heart of Vatican policy is a special status for the City, with some kind of international guarantees, which could recognise Jerusalem’s sacred character and its religious importance for Christians, Moslems and Jews.

The precise nature or arranging of the international guarantees is something on which the Vatican has shown a certain flexibility.

A key aspect is “that this be achieved through an ‘appropriate juridical safeguard’ that does not derive from the will of only one of the parties interested”, said the statement of the Vatican position published in the Vatican daily, L’Osservatore Romano, June 30, a month before Israel’s Knesset (Parliament) voted definitively to make Jerusalem the capital.

The Israeli decision makes it less likely that Israel will accede in the future to the 1947 United Nations resolution calling for internationalisation of Jerusalem or to any other special international juridical status that would be in accord with the Vatican’s desires.

The new law reunites the long divided city in a formal way.

The Vatican and many nations favour unification of Jerusalem but not through the unilateral annexation by Israel.

Jerusalem’s divided status continued until the Six-Day War in 1967, in which Israel occupied the Old City and the whole West Bank, Jordanian territory west of the Jordan River.

The Knesset’s declaration of a “complete and united” Jerusalem as the “eternal capital” of Israel, then, is a declaration that the part of the city occupied since 1967 is now an integral part of Israeli territory.

The Vatican policy statement published at the end of June argued that “the history and contemporary reality of Jerusalem present a unique case of a city that is in

itself deeply united by nature but is at the same time characterised by a closely intertwined religious plurality.

“Preservation of the treasures of the significance of Jerusalem requires that this plurality be recognised and safeguarded in a stable, concrete manner and therefore, publicly and juridically, so as to ensure for all three religions a level of parity without any of them feeling subordinate with regard to the others.”

It said that: “The Jerusalem question cannot be reduced to mere ‘free access for all to the holy places’, and listed six other principles which it said must also be met.

These are: (1) That the overall character of Jerusalem as a sacred heritage shared by all three monotheistic religions be guaranteed by appropriate religious measures.

(2) That religious freedom in all its aspects be safeguarded for them.

(3) That the complex of rights acquired by the various communities over the shrines and the centres for spirituality, study

and welfare be protected.

(4) That the continuance and development of religious, educational and social activity by each community be ensured.

(5) That this be actuated with equality of treatment for all three religions.

(6) That this be achieved through an ‘appropriate juridical safeguard’ that does not derive from the will of only one of the parties interested.”

The latest policy statement from the Vatican did not represent a return to the call for international action but, according to a wellplaced Vatican source, it represented a slight hardening of the Holy See’s position.

Proponents of Israeli rule point to the politicised nature of the United Nations and ask how well the religious rights of Moslems, Christians or Jews would be protected by U.N. member states who are sworn enemies of religion.

The Vatican statement makes clear that the Holy See regards some kind of effective international juridical structure as essential for Jerusalem.

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CAUSE TO REJOICE IN CHOICE OF BISHOP The Catholic people of the diocese of Geraldton have cause to rejoice at the appointment of their new bishop, the Most Reverend Barry J. Hickey.

As they come to know him better they will appreciate the enrichment he brings to their diocese. They have the answer to their prayers.

With a fair knowledge of himself and the diocese to which he has been called I can assure the bishop-elect he is will equipped to meet the pastoral needs of his new people. His past has prepared him well for the new pastoral service he has accepted in the Church.

The initial shock in the Diocese of Geraldton will be the distances to be travelled, the heat to be endured and the isolation of its towns and people.

The varying life styles one meets as well as the relatively small local communities offer advantages that more than make up for the difficulties to be encountered.

His early years spent in the Murchison and thereabouts, together with the personal caring ministry that has been a characteristic of his 25 years of priestly life, will enable the new bishop to quickly come to terms with the challenge.

And what of the quality of life of his new people?

Notwithstanding what one hears about conditions in the mining towns there are excellent examples of loving family life throughout the diocese. Of course there are tensions and a need for continuous growth in married love.

There are some very hurt people in his diocese who have sought escape from traumatic experiences back in their suburban homes.

I am sure there are few better equipped than he to strengthen Christian marrieds or to prepare the young engaged for their

married life together.

The day to day contacts in his life as a pastor, backed by the training and experience of his years in Centrecare, Perth, will mean encouragement to priests and people alike in this area of vital concern in the Church and the society of today.

At this time Catholics especially are asked to understand the deep seated aspirations of the Aborigines in the cities and country towns. This is true also in Geraldton Diocese.

The emerging Aboriginal leaders need to know they will be given respect and encouragement by the Church. Those within the diocese who are close to the Aboriginal people will take strength from their new pastor.

His priorities and his experience within the Archdiocese of Perth guarantee them genuine support and leadership.

The task of a bishop is to gather together as one the people of a diocese. As well, he has to maintain a unity with the wider universal Church.

The bishop-elect is a man of the Church. His vision and interest was broadened by his overseas travel and his contact over some years with students from every continent.

He has contacts throughout the Australian Church which were developed through his work on the National Catholic Welfare Commission.

There is no doubt he will call on this vision and these contacts to enrich his new diocese.

They will grow and develop along with Mother Church. Personally, I give thanks to Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, and to his Vicar on earth, Pope John Paul II, for this appointment.

I assure Bishop-elect Hickey of my prayer and support. He will experience, as I did, the warm acceptance of priests and people alike in his new diocese.

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GIVE THEM ‘A GO’

Pope John Paul, in an Immigration Sunday February 2 message, calls for “free, active, equal” integration of immigrants into the Churches of their adopted communities.

And the Australian bishops in their message make a strong condemnation of racism.

The Pope’s message this year focuses on immigrant integration in which he says the particular Churches “know they have a duty”.

Writing of migration – “one of the most complex and dramatic events in history” – Pope John Paul says the topic “merits all our attention”.

“It is cause for much anxiety.

“Recently, in fact, migration has frequently taken on the in-human aspect of persecution, be it political, religious, ideological or ethnic.

“This impresses its stigma on the faces of the refugees and the deportees, the exiles – men and women, young and old, even children, often tragically deprived of their parents.” The Pope says, however, it is “a mat-

ter of great consolation the Church is wide awake” to the problems of immigration.

It is able to propose solutions, “above all conditions in which to create an environment characterised by respect for the fundamental rights of man”.

“It is only in such an environment our brothers and sisters will succeed, less painfully, in overcoming the drama of integration.

“It is too often a traumatic experience for them because of their natural reserve, problems of adapting and the fact they are faced with a society at times hostile, narrow-minded and intolerant towards those considered different, or likely to cause social or economic discomfort.”

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