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Dutch accord on major divisive issues in church V ATICAN CITY (NC): After 64 hours of meeting, over 500 statements by participants and over 100 pages of documentation the Dutch bishops' synod has ended with agreement on major divisive issues.
Project Compassion promotion committee members Peter GRAVESTOCK and Frances OTTS pictured handing appeal materials to Ken HOLYOAKE, of Belmont parish, and Vie CATLIN, of Mount Lawley parish.
Parish groups' interest in Project Compassion
The 1980 Project C ompassion campaign of Australian Catholic Relief has begun with increased interest by parish groups. T hirty five parish representatives attended meetings held on three nights last week at the Catholic Church Office to explain the motivation of Project Compassion and to share ideas on b etter promoting the campaign. Former local director of A .C.R., Father P.G.J. O'Reilly who has been s ucceeded by Miss M argaret CollopY. outlined the overall Philosophy of Australian C atholic Relief that aimed at full human o ment in its application of funds.
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some practical suggestions for promoting Project Compassion. In addition to the Lenten posters being prominently displayed in t he church, publicity material was actually distributed to the congregation while the priest spoke about the campaign in his homily. People using the weekly envelopes of Project Compassion were invited to hand them in as a gift during the Mass. Other parishes commissioned special lay people who would look after the distribution and later collection of Project Compassion of offerings. ings. Stress was laid on t hanking the people adequately when funds were handed in at the end of the campaign.
IMPRESSED Typical of awakened interest was the reaction of Mr. Dennis Vincent who attended the meeting on behalf of Hamersley parish. "Ihad not been involved in the organisation of Project Compassion before, but I was impressed with what came
through at the meeting," he said. He said that he was impressed with the suggestion of handing the material out during the sermon but this year the parish would not have sufficient material to go around in this way. (Parishes were expected to order their supplies for 1980 in a questionnaire that went out last June at the conclusion of the 1979 campaign.) But after becoming interested in Project Compassion he was now "giving his wife an earbashing".
RICH, POOR The important thing was to see why development was necessary, why there was an imbalance between the rich and the poor, the haves and the have-nots. Project Compassion p ublicity this year includes a 16-page newspaper style handout giving ideas for information and discussion by families during the weeks of Lent. Plenty of scope is given to explore whether aid is just a question of giving money, whether local unemployment is an important issue alongside overseas aid, and where justice and charity meet the highly complex area of trade and aid. Information on Project Compassion is available from the Catholic Church Office, 325 9557.
A 22-page document lists 46 points on which the bishops have come to an agreement, after a meeting that went four days over time. More important quotations from the document are on pages 10 and 11 of this issue. For Pope John Paul II, w ho summoned the synod, it was a joint consultative process resulting in an "accord on the content of Catholic faith according to the teaching of the magisterium -of the church." For Cardinal Willebrands, president of the Dutch Bishops' Conference, it was a reminder that "different currents everywhere oppose each other, but variety should always remain within unity."
FIRM HAND For the rest of the Dutch bishops it was a reaffirmation of their duty to guide people with a firm h and and to work together in overcoming idealogical differences. For Dutch Catholics, it was a call from the pope to "gather around your bishops in prayer and action" and a preview of pastoral changes to come in the Dutch church. For "critical groups" who dissent from church t eachings, it was an admonition to get in line. Observers predict that the impact of the synod's final document on the Dutch church would be long-term, not immediate.
CAUTIOUS They noted that the document was cautious and spoke more of principles than of concrete actions. For some of the Dutch church's most troubling c oncerns the synod entrusted final recommendations to commissions — which will take many months to study the issues and produce their reports. Nevertheless, some clearcut trends were evident. The role of Catholic la:, professionals working full-time in church pas-
toral work will be more restricted than before in the Dutch church, and possibly in other places such as Switzerland and West Germany, where the laity is also engaged in pastoral work.
OPPOSITION • The strong voice of the Dutch laity in determining church discipline will be muted. • Priests or priests organizations operating in opposition to their local bishop or the Dutch Bishops Conference have been alerted that such opposition will be met with less tolerance than before. • The bishops will taKe more direct control of the work of their bishops' conference staff, other national Catholic institutions and organizations, and the formation of their future priests.
NICE MEN But as one Vatican source with Dutch connections put it, many of the problems were unique to the Netherlands. Many feel that most of the Dutch bishops were "nice men who had lost control." They are described as not in favour of many influences affecting. Dutch Catholic life and
creating divisions, but "were not prepared, not strong enough," to cope with them. The synod marked the first time in church history that a national hierarchy formally met with the pope to solve the b ishops' local and national problems. If the "nice men" analysis is accepted, then the synod's most significant result was what it said about the pope's ministry to his fellow bishops, summed up in Christ's w ords to St. Peter: "Strengthen your brethren." One Press release early in the synod cited participants as saying that the basic problem is that of the exercise of authority and that "the pope is the only one who can and must strengthen his brother bishops." In short, the pope "strengthened his brethren through the synod, and they came out prepared to exercise their r esponsibilities as bishops. The wide-ranging 22page closing document, aimed at restoring order and discipline in the .Dutch church, showed that the participants had been able to reach agreement on nearly all of the
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1980 Lenten message of the Pope
Each year, as Lent approaches, the Pope likes to address all the Members of the Church and to encourage them to live correctly this season which is offered to us so that we may prepare for true liberation. The spirit of penance and its practice impel us t o detach ourselves sincerely from our unnecessary possessions, and even sometimes from our necessary ones, which prevent us from really "being" as God wishes us to be: "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also". Is our heart attached to material wealth, to power over others, to subtle ways of dominating? If so, we need Christ, the Easter Liberator, who,if we wish him to, can free us of all the bonds of sin that hold us fast. Let us prepare to allow ourselves to be enriched by the grace of the Resurrection, by ridding ourselves of all false treasures: the material goods that we do not need are often the very conditions for the survival of millions of human beings. Also, in addition to their bare subsistence, hundreds of millions of people are waiting for us to help them to give themselves the necessary means of development of their countries. But declarations of intent and simple gifts are not enough to change people's hearts. What is needed is that conversion of spirit that impels us, in the meeting of hearts, to share what we have with the least favoured members of our societies, with those who have been dispossessed of everything, even sometimes of their dignity as men and women, young people and children, with all the refugees of the world, who can no longer live in the land of their ancestors and must leave their own homeland. This is where we find and live most intimately the mystery of the Lord's redeeming sufferings and death. True sharing, which is a meeting with others, helps us to free ourselves from those bonds that enslave us. And because it makes us see others as brothers and sisters, it enables us to rediscover that we are children of the same Father, "heirs of God and coheirs with Christ" (Rom 8:17), from whom we have incorruptible riches. Itherefore exhort you to respond generously to the appeals that your Bishops, either personally or through those in charge of sharing campaigns, will address to you during Lent. You will be the first to benefit from those campaigns, for in this way you will be stepping out on the path to the only true Liberation. Your efforts, linked with the efforts of all the baptized, will bear witness to the charity of Christ and thus will build up that "civilization of love" that is so much desired, consciously or unconsciously, by our world torn by conflicts and injustices, and disillusioned when it no longer finds true witnesses to the love of God. I bless you, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1980
Thirty abortions a day ROME — A statement issued by the Rome diocesan Commission for the Family said that at least 25 percent of the pregnancies in Rome the previous year had ended in legal abortions. "The legal abortion data gives us a total number amounting to 11,000 abortions, about 30 abortions a day in this one city. This does not include clandestine abortions which seem not to have been diminished by the (abortion) law," the commission statement said. Ltaly's strict antiabortion laws were replaced in June 1978 with legislation that allowed state-paid abortions virtually on demand in the first three months of pregnancy for women over the age of 18.
It noted that the number of births in the city dropped from 47,680 in 1970to 31,288in 1978—a drop of 34 percent in less than a decade. • One effect, it said, has been an increase in the average age of Rome's population. Between 1971 and 1979 thepercentage of people over 65 rose from 8.85 percent to 13.1 percent.
The diocesan commission's statement declared t hat "in recent years
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"regression of the moral conscience." "Many are coming to the conviction that everything which is juridically legal becomes, by that very fact, normal and even moral," the statement said. "From the exceptional solution, as was intended to become a solution of convenience," it said. "We can realistically state that the abortion law, here as elsewhere, raises more problems. than it tried to resolve, and above allit absolutely is not a remedy for clandestine abortions," it added. (See also Pages 5, 7)
ACR's major annual fund raising effort is Project Compassion. Each Lent, Project Compassion offers the opportunity to learn about the needs of developing countries, the causes of poverty and gives the chance to contribute towards alleviating some of the problems of today's world. Funds raised are directed mainly towards self help projects. Australian Catholic Relief takes on a particular responsibility for countries in Asia and the Pacific. Many of these projects are functioning in New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, The Philipines, Pacific Islands, and also in Africa, India and Australia itself. In recent months ACR raised $1.5 million for Kampuchean refugee and resettlement assistance. Join in Project Compassion at your church. This Lent, take an envelope set or a Project Compassion box and give generously. What we share today, builds all our tomorrows.
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DAYBREAK funds Daybreak 1980 is an Australia wide vocations campaign sponsored by the Bishops of Australia and due to culminate in all dioceses in April. The campaign is being financed by voluntary contributions from the Catholic community. It has been suggested to parishes that they contribute $50 or $100 or $150 according to their resources. • Some priests have made personal contributions. Monies may be sent to DAYBREAK 1980, Catholic Church Office, Victoria Avenue, Perth. Materials for use in the campaign, such as discussion booklets and prayer cards may be obtained from the Catholic Church office.
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The priesthood and the religious life
The Daybreak 1980 plan for increased appreciation of the priesthood and religious life was outlined to representatives of 47 parishes earlier this month. A t Trinity College, ninety people attended the first of a series of meetings that will launch Daybreak 1980 throughout the archdiocese of Perth. This week teachers representing all metropolitan schools were briefed at sessions conducted by the Catholic Pastoral Institute. Next week clergy of the archdiocese will have a half day study on the programme. Addressing the people at Trinity College, Archbishop Goody spelt out the essential role of priests in the life of the Church and the value of Religious for the well-being of the Catholic community.
HUMAN The archbishop said t hat it was his belief that an appreciation of priesthood and religious life would help everybody to realise the importance of t heir own individual
vocation whatever it happened to be. Facing up to the experience people had of priests, he remarked that how the fact that priests had ordinary human weaknesses could help people see that there was more to the priesthood than the human beings who exercised it. The lay representatives came from as far away as York and Moora. They talked in groups about their own experience of priests and religious and studied some passages from the Second Vatican Council to revise their own knowledge of the Church's teaching on the subject.
nardine O'Sullivan talked about her being recruited as a young girl in Ireland toenter the religious life. To the suggestion that Religious have a secure existence, she responded with her own felt need from time to time to question herself on whether she had made the right decision about her life. But to an enquiry about whether she was happy to have entered religious life, her answer was an emphatic yes.
Commenting on the s tudy day that commenced at 9.30 a.m. and continued through the afternoon, the organiser, Father Jim O'Brien, said that it had been an interesting learning experience He suggested that parishes which intended to have discussion groups would do well to get their discussion group leaders together before starting groups. He said that he would be willing to help to prepare them for the task.
He expressed appreciation to the parishes that had co-operated by sending along the 90 representatives, the strongest representation being nine f rom Rockingham parish. H e also expressed thanks for financial contributions made by parishes, religious communities and individuals to cover the cost of the campaign. He said that as chaplain to the Catholic Women's League he was particularly appreciative of the part they had played in the day by assisting with the catering at the parish study day.
They keenly questioned the Cathedral assistant, Father Don Sproxton, when he told the story of how he came to be a priest. One question to which many sought an answer was what he did with his time, apart from appearing in public to say a midday Mass in the cathedral.
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BOSTON (NC) — A new school prayer law in Massachusetts, requires public school teachers to ask each morning if any student would like to volunteer to lead the class in prayer. If a student does volunteer to lead the prayer, student who do not want to participate are permitted to leave the classroom and stand in the hallway while the prayer is taking place. The measure replaces another Massachusetts law, in effect since 1976, requiring teachers to announce a minute of silence each day for either prayer or meditation. Opponents argue that the new law violates the separation of Church and State. The U.S. Supreme Court 18 years ago prohibited public schools from compelling the recitation of an officially prescribed prayer. A year later the court also ruled that recitation of the Lord's Prayer or readings from the Bible as an official part of morning exercises were also unconstitutional. But the Massachusetts minute-of-silence law was upheld in 1976 because it did not required students t o meditate or pray. just
Sister Joan CAR VILLE and Sister Norma Clare MCKAY pictured outside the new premises of the Catholic Pastoral Insitute in Leederville.
C.P.I. staff return
Two religious sisters have rejoined the Catholic Pastoral Institute staff after studies overseas sponsored by the Institute. Sister Joan Carville, Dominican, completed a n honours masters degree in religion and religious education at Fordham University with a thesis on The Adolescent and Authority, and she later trained as a consultant in the Tavistock Method of Group Relations. She is the one of four people from WA who have studied at Fordham recently. Sister Norma Clare M cKay, Brigidine, studied Pastoral Ministry at Berkeley California with special reference to t raining teachers for religious education and to adult education. Sister Joan was on the C.P.I. staff in 1976 and 1977 and Sister Norma Clare was in Perth during t he same years giving seminars in adult religious education.
HOLY LAND Both Sisters said that a visit to the Holy Land was a memorable part of their time abroad, Sister Joan teaching in schools in Bethlehem and Jerusalem and Sister Norma Clare as a Christmas pilgrim to Bethlehem. Sister Norma Clare believes that the particular time in which an individual lives has a vital influence on that person's perception of faith
and that the Church of any age has a special quality that colours faith and the handing on of faith. The faith being handed on is something of a metaphor: the reality is p assed on but the individual's perception of that reality is personal in terms of their own life experience.
FAITH Faith is concerned not s o much with what happens to us as with what we perceive to be the values in life around us. Handing on the faith today is a challenge and a new opportunity because of new insights into the nature of adult learning and education. Sister Norma feels that people today are meeting t he challenge with enthusiasm, optimism and dedication. "Many of the things people formerly associated with religion had more to do with culture" she commented. "Being part of 'Cat holic' faith was often a form of social conformity". The new challenge was no longer to live a routine life but to accept the challenge at the level of commitment. This was sorting people out. The sign of adulthood is
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TV EFFECT Religion comes to be seen as an imposition and indoctrination rather t han being set free to make meaningful choices in life. But, Sister Joan said, adolescents need boundaries to push against. They need satisfactor!, adults as models. Such adults have to work out who they are, and have values to articulate to the adolescent. M any adults, she believes, do not know why they do things and live a prolonged adolescence because they have n ot yet committed themselves. T he adolescent in contact with such people is floundering. She is disturbed that thousands of hours of
television viewing are making people dissociate their feelings from the killing and other evils they are watching. She cited one group of youths who had seen a film on gruesome concentration camp scenes being more concerned with the standard of photography or rationalising the behaviour of the guards instead of perceiving the horror of what had happened. B oth Sisters were impressed with developments in the role of the laity that they saw overseas.. Sister Joan saw how in Brooklyn the problem of an ageing clergy was bringing about more lay co-ordinators for various programmes, leaving the priest to be the real pastor. Sister Norma Clare studied the diaconate ministry programme in New York with wives integrated into the training course that had a n inbuilt screening process for candidates to do a candid review of t hemselves as they progressed. She was impressed also with the work being done by Father Sean Swain at the National Institute of Pastoral Liturgy in Carlow, Ireland.
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Potential priests at St. Charles
Within little more than a month of its opening the new St. Charles' Vocational Residence has seen f our men pass through on their way to other seminaries. The new facility at what was formerly the St. Charles' Seminary at 'Guildford will be a transitional residence for men thinking of the priesthood before moving on to seminaries in the Eastern States. 'The new director of St. Charles', Father Bryan Rosling, said that it had .been a matter of concern that WA did not have a local seminary any more. The Guildford seminary at its foundation in 1942 .had become a strong focal point for men interested in the priesthood, but now the nearest seminary was at Adelaide, he explained.
the advantages of the St. C harles' residential facility: Those who are unsure of their vocation will be given every opportunity to explore more deeply the Will of God in their lives. • Daily Mass, community prayer and directed studies will be a vital assistance in this process. .While getting assistance from a community life the
men will not lose cOntact with their work, tertiary s tudies, families or friends. • They will have the benefit of close spiritual direction from priests who live at the residence. • They will be free to take up residence at any time of the year and to spend as much time, up to twelve months, as they think necessary to think out their future.
Father Rosling said that any man thinking he may have a vocation to the priesthood should talk the matter over with his priest or contact Father Rosling at St. Charles'. "I cannot stress too much how each priest m-ust feel personally responsible for encourageing vocations in his parish or area", Father Rosling continued. "Sometimes for a man struggling with a decision it may need only a word from his pastor to help him take that step towards the priesthood."
EFFECT "This has had a depressing effect on priestly vocations, compounding a n already chronic shortage of men offering t hemselves for the priesthood", he said. "While St. Charles' Vocational Residence will not completely replace a seminary, it will be a reminder to local Catholics that God still calls men from their midst to serve people by a life in the priesthood." Father Rosling spelt out
Meanwhile, the visit to the Philippines continues to be delayed.
Majellans meeting launching Daybreak 1980 was launched at the Hilton Majellans first meeting for the year last week. Following Mass celebrated by their chaplain, Father Dowd, Carmelite, the group of eight shared their reflection on their own vocation in life. A panel was also present, chaired by Sister Assumpta, S.J.A. Members were Father Peter Slattery, Carmelite; Brother Pestana, of CBC Fremantle; a Nazareth Sister; Sister Emilie of St. Joseph's convent Kalamunda; Mr. and Mrs. Perror of Brentwood parish; Miss Alison Young, a student; and Mr. Michael Piggot. The panel members gave their experience of the idea of vocation and were q uestioned by the Majellan members. The Majellan president. Mrs. Margaret Piggot, thanked the panel and said that because of the sincerity and openness of the panel members the group had been awa,kened to a new appreciation of the priesthood and religious life, in their own faith and in the church.
Advice to midwives V ATICAN CITY (NC) of "service to life and to -Christians must op- families." pose laws which are "in That theme "is the essendirect contrast with the tial reason for the existgood of persons," Pope ence of your profession," John Paul II said in his the pope said, "and it is latest attack on Italy's lib- precisely in such noble eral abortion law. service that you search Addressing 200 midout the secret of (life's) wives from the Italian greatness." Association of Catholic He described the health Health Workers the pope workers as "the custodiurged Catholics to refuse ans of the human life t o participate in aborwhich renews the world, tions "Ardently defend bringing to it, with the human life and refuse to fresh smile of anew-born, cooperate in its direct the joy and hope of abetsuppression," he said. ter future." "There is no human law (On October 29, 1951 that can legitimize some- Pope Puis XII used an t hing so intrinsically address to Italian midunfair or obligeanyone to wives to reaffirm church submit to it." teachings on abortion "Sometimes a law is in and on contraception.) direct contrast with the Pope John Paul also good of persons and strongly reaffirmed Pope denies even the right to Paul VI's encyclical life," he added. "Humanae Vitae" (On "The midwives were Human Life), which reafmeeting in Rome for a firmed church opposition convention on the theme to artificial birth control. . • The Editorial deadline for copy for The R ECORD is the first mail on Tuesday for • the week of publication. No guarantee is given to include material received after that time unless prior arrangement has 4 been made with the editor. • Material should be carefully addressed • • to the Editor at the full and correct postal • address shown on page one. A name and • • contact address or telephone number s hould accompany al l material • submitte d. •
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Pope to go to Brazil; Manila trip delayed V ATICAN CITY (NC) —Pope John PaulII"will go to Brazil next July;and the visit is expected to take place on July 9-13 to coincide with the closing of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference's annual meeting. Brazil is the world's most populous Catholic c ountry. About 90 percent of its 110 million people professes Catholicism.
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V ATICAN CITY (NC) — Violence in professional sports is a "monstrous absurdity" which must be eradicated, Pope John Paul II told Italian sportsmen. " All human endeavours, but sporting events in particular, should evoke sentiments of brotherhood and solidarity, because sports in and of itself is about human solidarity, brotherhood, joy and peace," he said. The pope criticized spectators who engage in violence at sporting events. Professional sports too often "give vent to hatred, rivalry and revenge, changing the game and its enjoyment into moments of fear, terror and, ultimately, mourning," he said. In Italy, fan violence often occurs, especially at soccer games. Last October a fan died during a game in Rome when he was struck through the eye by a signal flare fired across the stadium. Professional sports, Pope John Paul added, "because they are a form of entertainment, are more susceptible to the ce;hilitt,
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Czech govt. steps up action against the Catholics; Jesuits
ROME (NC) — The Czechoslovakian government continues to violate religious freedom and "has intensified its action" against Catholics in the past three years, according to a report from the Jesuits' generalate in Rome.
Centrecare Catholic Migration worker, Mr. Guido VOGELS hands blankets to Mr Phan VAN TRA NH pictured with his nephews who have come to lodge with him and who willbenefit from the blanket gift.
Austrian blankets for Viet. refugees What has the village of Steinbach in Austria got to do with blankets in Lake Street, Perth? Absolutely nothing if it were not for Father Des Clifford, Redemptorist, who has been visiting Austria recently. As a result of Father Clifford telling his A ustrian friends about the assistance being given to Vietnamese refugees, the local youth group c ame up with a donation of 5300 The money has been put to work immediately in Australia and 5300 worth of blankets have been bought and are being distributed t o local refugee families.-
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Why people join the Catholic Church and why they leave OAKLAND, California (NC) — Marriage to a Catholic was one of the main reasons people converted to Catholicism, a priestanthropologist said he was finding in a national survey. Paulist Father Kenneth McGuire is coordinator of the national survey on e vangelization conducted by the U.S. Catholic bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on Evangelization. He said he also had found that a common reason people returned to the church was to assure a Catholic education for their children, while a f requent reason for leaving was that the church was boring. The director of the P aulist Institute of R eligious Research in W ashington, Father McGuire said these were merely preliminary observations and not conclusions of the study. The pollsters are looking for three categories of
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of the church on morality. But a somewhat similar n umber joining the church also say they don't agree with its moral teachings," he added.
Much of the report concerned the case of Jesuit Father Oskar Formanek, arrested on charges of anti-governmentt activities. The report also contained an overview of the religious rights situation in Czechoslovakia, where 133 Jesuit priests and 50 brothers work. Although the communist government was a signer of the Helsinki human rights accords, the report said, "all means possible continue to be used to hinder, to repress, to reduce even more the fundamental liberties of Catholics in the country." The Society of Jesus has known about the religious repression for some t ime, but hesitated previously to release the information for fear of harming Jesuits and other Catholics in Czechoslovakia.
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arrests, theqesuits said. their pastoral duties" they can "find themselves from "Father Formanek was one day to the next interrogated 12 times, transferred to a work requiring, at the end, to be place in some remote treated for grave shock," location, in some second- the report said. He was later hospitalized for ary parish," it said. Priests would not treatment of bronicalcelebrate Mass outside pheumonia, diabetes and their own parish without high blood pressure. According to the Jesuits, government permission, is charged with"having he would not visit parishioners freely and could spoken to several faithful not lead theological on the religious situation discussion groups, the in the country, condemning communistic athereport added. ism as a sin of hate against Violation of governGod and against religion; ment rules resulted in loaned religious having revocation of the priest's being in contact State licence to exercise books; with religious centres of his ministry, the report "western imperialism." said, and priests punished The report said that the in this way often ended up only contact with priest's or gardeners working as West in recent year, the porters. was a request to Canadian Jesuits for some religious books. Lay Catholics have not been free from government repression, the report said. Religious books, cassettes, records and other religious material was seized from the homes of those arrested, and 130 people were interrogated in connection with the
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UK bishops: Restore CHURCH IN SYDNEY SYDNEY, "basic human rights" New South Wales. 1803 Around unborn to the the LONDON (NC) — A joint statement "in defence of life against the evil of abortion" has been issued by the Catholic bishops of Scotland, England and Wales.
Unborn children in arguments could be used T he 4,500 -word d ocument asks the Great Britain are today a to justify infanticide, they general public to help legally disadvantaged said. The statement also restore "basic human class. They are weak. They area minority," said defended the right to life rights" to the unborn. the bishops. of the unborn believed to "The truly practical Without the protection be handicapped. and pressing problem" of unborn life "no other Selective abortion is is that "the vast human rights are secure," "equivalent to asserting majority of abortions they added. the essential rightness of carried out in Great The bishops noted that a euthanasia - the killing of represent a ritain B key argument favouring t he aged, infirm or massive and growing abortion is that women handicapped, with or have rights in respect to trivialization of human without their consent, life, an increasing their own bodies. The because some one judges a cceptance of the unborn have these rights that'they would be better as well, said the bishops. practice of killing on o ff dead," said the The statement also demand," it said. bishops. asked for more aid from The statement comes society and the church for Regarding the issue of while a bill is before women with unwanted abortion to save the mother, the bishops said Parliament to tighten pregnancies. such cases are now rare "Honest recognition by the conditions under which abortions can be others of their duties and because of advances in legally performed. The responsibilities toward medicine. When they occur, "a bill came to a vote in the pregnant woman and sensitive and upright her child would often the House of Comconscience must in these remove the pressures mons where chances cases be guided by the driving toward aborare good for its tion," said the bishops. fundamental principles passage. The bill then which govern all these T hey rejected the has to go to the House argument for abortion matters: Innocent life is of Lords for approval based on the risk to the n ot to be directly where the major efforts mental or physical wellattacked; the unborn child has an intrinsic right to defeat it are expect- being of the mother or of to life," they added. existing children. Such ed. Official figures show an increase in the number of abortions during 1979. Abortions totalled 123,438 during the first 10 months as compared to 115,975 in the corresponding period of 1978. For all of 1978, V ATICAN CITY (NC) — Commitment the last full year for w hich figures are religious life is "total, definitive and excluto a vailable, abortions sive," Pope John Paul H said at a Mass totalled 142, 343. celebrated for the men and women Religious The Catholic bishops of Rome in St. Peter's Basilica. call the present law The pope, during his the importance of the "grossly unjust." at the Mass mark- Feast of the Presentation homily "We cannot in coning the Feast of the Pres- of Our Lord to men and science remain silent entation of Our Lord, women Religious. While the most basic linked the religious com"The offering of your h uman rights of mitment of men and lives . . . finds its constant hundreds of thousands w omen Religious to model . . . in the offering of our fellow human Christ's consecration to that the son of God makes beings are ignored and God. of Himself in the hands of overridden by law and, "Your consecration to His Mother," he said. increasingly, by the God, total, definitive, and The pope also called on exclusive, is like a con- men and women ReliPublic policies and tinued growth and a gious to make their lives a everyday practices of splendid blossoming of "real testimony to the Our country," they that initial consecration eternal life . . which was said. place in the sac- vigorously recalled to you
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Beginnings Fr. Dixon assisted at the Mass, but the public were not allowed to attend. This colony, of course, is a penal colony. It is being used by England as a temporary dumping ground for clearing her overflowing prisons at home. The British Government does not encourage free settlers to come out here. The first fleet of ships to arrive here brought about 1000 people. Of these, 717 were convicts, of whom 300 are said to have been Catholics. Many people died on the journey out here due to the terrible conditions on board the ships.
Harbour The convoy was commanded by Capt. Arthur Philip R.N., a small, frail but energetic man. The convoy sailed into the harbour here instead of into the late Capt. Cook's Botany Bay, 8 km to the south. Capt. Phillip was amazed at the wonderful harbour he had discovered. "It is the finest in the world" he is reported as saying. The area was named Sydney after Lord Sydney, England's Secretary of State.
Convict at 14 The colony was run like a prison, by military forces under Governor Phillip. People were fed and clothed from Government stores. The lash was used- freely for punishing offenders. Among the convicts were forgers, highwaymen, pickpockets, poachers and so on. The majority, however, were not habitual criminals. "I've seen some as young as 14" says poacher John Little of Lincolnshire. They were under seven years sentence for stealing food such as sugar; or a watch; or a petticoat. "We poachers used to say we would rather go to prison than starve to death". Most of the convicts are victims of poverty resulting from this new age of machines.
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by the Second Vatican Council." "Also your lives, my dearest brothers and sisters, must be a light, enough to illuminate the word and temporal reality," he added. Participants at the Mass offered the pope traditional blessed candles.
Factories with machines that do more work than men are causing great unemployment, and workers' riots. Workers arrested in such riots, and radical reformers agitating for justice make up many of the convicts here. However, the largest number of convicts have come from Ireland since the rebellion there against England in 1798. Many of the Irish convicts are Protestant though most are Catholic. Latest figures indicate that Irish convicts number about 6,500.
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The other two were Fr. Peter O'Neil (since allowed to return to Ireland) and Fr. Jim Harold (a difficult character who has been banished to Norfolk Island for 7 years for abusing the freedom granted him here.) Fr. Dixon, though sympathetic to the Irish cause, has always counselled moderation. He has opposed any convict plans of taking over the colony by violence. "The Irish" says Governor King," are bigoted Catholics. "In the colony they are more than one in four". An artful priest may lead them to every action that is either good or bad. "They presented two or three petitions to me to have reglious services". "Not doubting Mr. Dixon's good faith I have allowed him to exercise his clerical functions once a month".
Mass Conditions
In allowing Mass the Governor has laid down certain conditions, as follows: 1. The congregation must avoid seditious conversations. 2. The services are to be conducted at Sydney, Pa.rramatta and Hawkesbury in rotation, once in three weeks. 3. Catholics may attend Mass only in the place where they reside. 4. The priest must see to it that congregations go home in orderly fashion. 5. A certain number of police will be on duty in the area during Mass. 6. The Law will punish anyone who disturbs a service or misuses any priest or teacher of a tolerated Sect. There is some anti-Catholic opposition by people such as the Rev. Sam Marsden.
Bonaparte? "It- is more than probable" he says, that, if the Catholic religion was once allowed to be celebrated by Authority, the colony would be lost to the British Empire in less than one year. "If Mass was celebrated, measures would be immediately concerted to overturn the present Government". "The likes of the Rev. Marsden have been scared by the recent French revolution" says altar server Mr. Paddy Murphy," but who does he think Fr. Dixon is, Napoleon Bonaparte?" Saint Peter was asked whether there was much chance of starting the Church successfully with a group of convicts who probably are not going to be too keen on Sunday Mass. E was ahvays quite at home withpublicans and sinners, or convicts. HE gave up HIS body and blood for them. By reminding people of those things the Mass reminds them of what HE was like. HE wants people to remember. `Do this' HE said, 'in memory of ME'. And HE is still the same now, on the shores of Sydney harbour, as HE was on the shores of Lake Galilee. Hopefully, in 100 years or more, some other priest will be reminding those convicts' descendants that it is the Mass that matters.
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Guatemala City (NC) — Fifty-two Jesuit priests were t hreatened with death by rightists and with expulsion b y the military government after publishing a denunciation of large export profits.
The Jesuits said that the profits were being made by exploiting the poor. They also denounced kidnapping, torturing .and killing of community leaders to repress popular movements advocating social justice. The death threat came from the Secret AntiCommunist Army (ESA), which in the recent past killed several political, labour and student leaders. The President's Office f or Public Relations 'issued a warning to the Jesuits, calling them -political clergy" subject to trial for misuse of their freedom and for "making irresponsible accusations." It cited consitutional limitations on the role of priests.
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DEATHS The Jesuits quoted a government agency reporting that death squads. killed 3,252 people in the first 10 months of 1979. They commented that "all these horrendous crimes remain unpunished; there are no political prisoners, only dead and missing ones."
The priests said that Indians in Guatemala, 54 percent of the 6.6 million population, produce the largest portion of the Gross National Product. "Yet they are exploited and discriminated both in the large plantations where they are hired to w ork in export crops, and in their own barren lands," said the Jesuits. Indians are also drafted by force into military service and harshly punished if they try to escape, the Jesuits said. "To close the eyes to this reality under the pretext of anti-communism is to
cover up for the oppressive condition brought about by capitalism," the Jesuits said. "We know that such statements as we make are shocking to the powerful and may unleash repression against ourselves. But we are followers of Jesus Christ and he said that those who follow him shall suffer persecution," they added. The public relations o ffice for President Romeo Lucas Garcia said that "the sectarian, political statements of the Jesuits lacked honesty and were full of contradictions," and that those who signed "are cynical for ignoring Pope John Paul II and his warnings against political action by priests." It said that the Jesuits were "feeding Marxist subversion.
At the Hamersley parish camp Top right: Music came from Sue KESTAL, Steven BARTON and John TOWNSEND. Below: Taking part in the camp were Father Kevin DAVIS, Katie MCADAM and Sister Leonie O'BRIEN.
At Hamersley camp comradeship, prayer
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It was the same tone -used by authorities in the expulsion last year of a -Spanish nun and a West German priest. Most of the Jesuits come from Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries. None comes from :the United States. In a statement published with the support of other members of the Society of Jesus in Central America, the Jesuits in Guatemala criticized the windfall profits of coffee, sugar and cotton exporters. The profits were between 30 percent and 100 per-cent in the past six months, said the Jesuits.
W AGES "Meanwhile wages for w orkers in the fields remain the same in spite ,of millionaire gains and in -open neglect of the health risks to the peasants . . . There are some improvements in government employees' income, but they are soon upset by sharp price increases in such basics as bread, gas, selectricity, water. There is w idespread unemployment, housing is miserable, and wage earners sink further day by day," they a dded. Such anguishing conditions are maintained by repression, in an attempt by the regime to forestall efforts by the workers to 'exercise their legitimate rights.
A camp held at Rockingham last weekend aimed at a deeper communication and trust among the Young Christian Students and Young Christian Workers of Hamersley.
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The camp was filled with love and the grace of Our Lord, with everyone reaching out to the Holy Spirit and friends. Without the help of Fr. Kevin Davis, Sr. Leonie O'Brien, Bob and Mary W right, Kerry and Glenda Larkan, and visiting friends the camp would not have been such a great success. Mary and Bob Wright said! "The young people had a superb opportunity to discuss, to pray, to share among themselves with others and learn something of comradeship. "Being oldies, we found them courteous, helpful and pleasant to be with". Sr. Leonie, retiring headmistress at Liwara school, said "Many of the members of this group I have known for some years and it has been a pleasant experience to hear them as teenagers discuss the values of life which are important to them. "I have been very impressed with the spirit of this group. "Everyone participated and co-operated and made new friends" said Gerry Molloy. "The discussions on communication gave us all a lot to think about" said Greg Reid. Greater things among the youth of Hamersley should follow as a result of this camp. SUE KESTAL
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Lenten self-denial: Start when young to make up for sin This week I watched some of the sporting events at the winter olympics held at Lake Placid. I was excited by the y oung ski-ers' deathdefying mountain descents and particularly impressed with Eric Heiden's record smashin the 5,000 ing metre speed ice-skating race. At 18 years of age Eric's seven minute and two second race won him a gold medal. Can you imagine the sacrifice and self denial that he inflicted on himself to achieve this high goal? Years of training, and rigorous self discipline must have touched every aspect of his life from his e ating. sleeping and social habits. For the next six weeks the Church invites us all to impose on ourselves rigorous self discipline, fasting, the practice of penance, saying more prayers and getting out to help the needy. These are all unpleasant sounds to our ears, but
they are age-old answers to an age-old problem, "SIN". We fast and make sacrifices not to win a gold medal, but because we want to make up for sin in the world. We do not just have to look at the world to recognise that there is sin. We can look into our own hearts and recognise that we are all sinners. Our Lenten efforts are a share of what is lacking in
the Cross and suffering of Christ. Of course, Lent is not just for the young but unless we begin now we may never start. If the athlete says he will start training tomorrow, he will never achieve his goal. How many of us will grow old still putting off doing certain things and never getting around to others? So the young must take up the challenge of selfsacrifice now, lest in old age, it remains an unfamiliar practice. St. Paul in his writings uses the image of a race as the best example of how to get to heaven. Just as the athelete makes sacrifices for his perishable crown, we all must act now with personal denials in order to win our imperishable reward —heaven. FR. JOHN JEGOROW
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"The only impact the first year students make on university life is to be insignificant" said Dean Moore in his Opening address to 63 participants at the University Catholic S ociety's Orientation Camp held at Sorrento last weekend. Dean Moore spoke of t he transition from school to tertiary life and highlighted how students could cope with lectures, tutorials, practical classes and study programmes. All this was quite a blow to the freshers' inflated egos so the organisers decided that the best way t o re-establish their confidence was to have
e veryone play earth games. Some parish priests may believe that the UCS is the protector of all that is good and proper.
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propiety the time and place prevent Me from saying more. Unlike the late Saturday m orning starts on previous camps the talk by Don Anderson, the Guild President, began on time.
THE UNION The next speaker, Paul Carrick, local Australian U nion of Students' delegate, bewildered the freshers by descibing himself as a representative of the "marshmellow leftish expression" on the National Executive. The final speaker for the m orning was Kate O'Sullivan from the Careers Advisory Centre. Later, small group discussions enabled older members to share experiences with the newer ones. Swimming and cricket took up Saturday afternoon and Sunday saw a wind-up session outlining UCS activities on campus s uch as theological discussions and social groups. The organisers deserve praise for an enjoyable and informative weekend. CHRIS STOKES 11111111119111111111111111111111111111111111111
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This Sunday afternoon, February 24, group discussion leaders for the Daybreak series are asked to meet at the Youth Offices, 29 Victoria Square, Perth, at 3 p.m. The series will continue for four Sundays, preparing discussion leaders for Daybreak 80. Parish priests or youth leaders are asked to send one discussion leader for every group of ten or twelve young people. Enquiries to Fr. John Jegorow on 325 4994.
GENERAL MEETING On Wednesday, March 5 at 7.30 p.m. the University Catholic Society will hold its first term general meeting at the UWA Chaplaincy. The Society farewells Josephine Cabassi, the retiring president, thanking her for all her work. The meeting's aim will be to elect a new president and Fresher's Rep. Coffee after the meeting.
CATHOLIC SINGLES Previously known as the Catholic Social Club and many years ago as the Xavierians, Catholic Singles held a general meeting on January, 15 and elected a new committee which will aim at renewed activity. The outgoing President, Brian Mason, who remains on the committee has handed on the president's hat to Bob Williams. Forthcoming functions : A HOME MASS at 28 Oakdale Street, Floreat, on Tuesday, February 26 at 8 p.m. Phone Janet Lalor 387 1872. ROTTNEST TRIP : On Sunday, March 2 commencing at Barrack Street Jetty at 8.30 a.m. on Rottnest Islander II. One day return $10 and bring all your own requirements. Enquiries to Bob Williams 323 4453 or A / H 444 9361. Tennis: Every Sunday night from 7.30 p.m. to 11 p.m. at St. Denis' Courts, Charles Street, North Perth. Cost $1 — tea and biscuits provided.
MIDLAND DANCE A disco dance will be held at St. Brigid's Hall, cnr, Morrison Road and Great Northern Highway. Midland, on Saturday, March 8, commencing at 8 p.m. Tickets from Ivan Banks, full-timer, 29 Victoria Square or Wayne Ball (294 3215) at a cost of $1.50.
MANDURAH PICNIC Y oung people from Catholic Parish youth groups south of the river are invited to a picnic at Mandurah on Sunday, March 23. The day will commence with Mass at 9.30 a.m. at Mandurah church, 63 Pinjarra Road. Bring your lunch; barbecue facilities available. Enquiries : contact Ivan Banks, full-timer on 325 4994.
CPY CRICKET In spite of a stirling effort by Peter Carpini and Tony Hewitt last Sunday, Wilson lost for the third time/ in an inter-parish cricket match. Queens Park with 116 off 23 overs, defeated Wilson 115. Best players for Queens Park were Peter Cox and Dale Pinto.
BREAKING BARRIERS The University Catholic Society, the Christian Union and the Anglican Society will be meeting for a social night on Wednesday, March 12, at 7.30 p.m .in the Northern Coffee Lounge of the Guild building. The aim is to promote inter-action between these Christian groups. A guest speaker has been invited and the evening will conclude with supper. Enquiries to Chris Stokes on 364 1933.
DESTINATION PERU During his 21 2 / year stay in Perth, Fr. Vincent Magro of the Society of St. Paul has been instrumental in the formation of two youth groups in Leederville and Victoria Park, known New Vision Youth Group. Members of these groups met for Mass last Monday, February 18, for a prayerful farewell to Fr. Magro who is soon to resume mission work in Peru.
DISC-JOCKEY Ex DYC member and co founder of CPY, Brendon Weselman called at the youth office this week. In the country areas of Bridgetown and Katanning he is known as Brendon Thomas the Disc Jockey for 6BY, Bridgetown. Six months' ago Brendon was a shop assistant in a large department store. He is now budding DJ and advertising salesman in the country. He said "I have reached a life-time ambition and it was only dogged persistence that did it". Brendon turns 18 this April, and hopes to join the local youth group in Bridgetown.
POLISH FILM Over 250 people attended the first screening of a Polish film in February at Maylands Town Hall. The film "Cholopi" (The Peasants) based on the Nobel Prize winning book by Wladislaw Reymont will be shown on Saturday, March 1 at 7.30 p.m. at the same venue. Funds raised help the Polonia Polish Folk Dance group which invites youth over the age of 13 to its regular practices every Sunday night. Further enquiries to Stan Majewski on 335 3400 or A ,'H 298 8289.
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CPY NETBALL The netball game between Queens park and Wilson parish youth groups last Sunday was a draw. Top scorers were Cathy (Queens Park) and Samantha Butler (Wilson). Both scored five goals. Best players were Monica Duff and Samantha Butler (Queens Park) and Joanne Carroll and Wendy Hewitt (Wilson).
Three months ago a smallgroup of youngpeople met in the sacristy of the Redemptorist Monastery church after the 6.30 p.m. Mass on Sunday. Now they have moved to Retreat House as numbers have swelled to fifty. Youth between the ages of 15 and 30 are welcome to attend.
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The Wilson youth group have lost two friends in Christian Brothers Peter Green and John Stirling who played an active part in their activities until recently making their first vows. Br. Stirling has returned to Sydney and Br. Green will continue his studies in W.A.
Y outh of the North Beach area are invited to a barbacue on Friday. March 7 at 7.30 p.m. in the parish church grounds, Kitchener Street, North Beach. BYO meat, salad and drinks. An initial youth group meeting will take place on Friday, February 22 at 7.30 p.m.
Inaugural meeting The Serendipity Association held its inaugural meeting last Sunday, February 17 at the Holy C ross Parish Hall, Kensington. The aim of the association is to provide a harmonious atmosphere in which young people can meet socially and practise "serendipity" -- the art of making pleasant discoveries. On Sunday evening, 28 y oung people from various parishes took part in entertainment
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ACCORD (from Page one) issues which divided them. Final action on such issues as lay pastoral workers, seminary training .and the division of -diocese will be worked out in specially appointed commissions, but certain agreements were reached even in those controversial areas. The Dutch church's 276 lay pastoral workers were told in the document that they cannot replace priests or perform priestly functions. The conclusion reaffirmed Pope John Paul's emphasis on the need fora clear distinction between priests and laymen.
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The conclusions called for reform of Dutch seminaries and set up a commission to review current practices in light of Vatican norms and to propose r ecommendations by September 1981. The synod participants expressed agreement with the principle of splitting some Dutch dioceses and t hus increasing the number of bishops. Another commission will study that question. Unanimity was also achieved on other potentially divisive issues regarding sacramental practices. The synod members sharply rejected interCommunion (sharing the E ucharist) between
Catholics and Protestants They insisted that general absolution without individual confession could only take place in extraordinary circumstances and under the stringent Vatican norms. They also stressed the importance of conformity with church law and discipline in liturgical celebrations and in use of official liturgical books. The closing document dealt with "the particularly difficult problem" of relations between the Dutch Bishops' Conference and the individual bishops in their own dioceses. It established a fivepoint progamme which includes praying together more and a greater sharing of ideas and concerns.
GESTURE In his 45-minute talk, the pope called the synod a grace for which the closing Mass was an act of thanksgiving. He thanked the Dutch synod members and Vatican officials who participated and praised their cooperation. As he tinished his talk he walked over to Cardinal J an Willebrands of Utrecht, head of the Dutch Bishops' Conference and one of the synod's presidents, and gave him a warm bear hug. The 300 or so people in
the chapel. including many reporters and Dutch lay persons, applauded enthusiastically at the gesture. After giving his final blessing at the end of Mass, the pope signed and formally published the synod's conclusions.
CELIBACY The most conservative member of the Dutch hierarchy, Bishop Joannes Gijsen of Roermond, was bluntly ordered to rejoin the other bishops in their national fund-raising programmes. Bishop Gijsen withdrew from these to show his disapproval of the projects being funded. The bishops unanimously backed mandatory celibacy for priests and insisted that the priesthood is a lifelong commitment. Beyond the official documentation, one major effect of the synod may be changes in the strict Vatican secrecy which previously kept such highlevel meetings hidden from the eyes and ears of journalists. During the synod, a five. member Press committee issued daily summaries, three Press conferences were held and -- in an unprecedented move -- a lay Dutch Press officer was admitted to all the synod sessions after the first day.
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What the Dutch synod decided
The following are extracts from the official document released at the end of the special Dutch synod and signed by the participants and Pope John Paul II.
We especially aware that the grave problems that confront us as pastors demand a unity, a profound sense of what must he an affective and effective communion: it is the very condition for the church to be able to accomplish its mission. We have considered this unity in its twofold dimension: • Unity of all the faithful, whose ideal is that of the first Christian community described in the Acts of the Apostles. • Unity of the pastors among themselves, an important model of which is found in the apostles grouped around Peter in Jerusalem to decide crucial questions at a decisive moment of the life of the newborn church. Fidelity to the teaching of the apostles being a condition of communion, the doctrine and discipline of the church therefore remain today the norm of fidelity to fraternal communion.
Communion
The communion of the church has a very specific character. It is at the same time local and universal. Then, it has an aspect at once institutional and spiritual. Finally, this communion is nourished by a historical tradition, founded on the apostles, while being called to realize itself in the contemporary world. The biblical word "communio" designates a specific community of faith, hope and charity, which unifies the believers with Christ and his Father, and aethe same time unites them to one another. It is the unique and indivisible Holy Spirit who, dwelling in hearts, unifies them in the same body of Christ. The word "communio" expresses therefore that each one of the faithful participates with the other faithful in the same vocation, the same faith, the same baptism, the same Eucharist, the same ecclesial community assembled around the legitimate pastors, the same mission of the church in the world, but this communion is also a community of human beings.
Tensions
This human aspect helps us to understand and not to be scandalized in the face of weaknesses, tensions, irritations and misunderstandings. These tensions can be manifested at different levels of the life of the church. They risk becoming real threats to unity and provoking ruptures. They are the lot of a church which Christ willed to be a spiritual community but also a human and historical organism. But these shocks can be overcome. The Second Vatican council taught us quite clearly that the life of the church is a pilgrimage, and that consequently it is "called by Christ to that continual reformation which she always needs, insofar as it is an institution of men here on earth." The bishops of the Netherlands express their unanimous will to deepen cordial and fraternal relations among themselves. They profess their agreement on the content of the Catholic faith according to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. They intend to announce in its fullness thecontent of revelation, interpreted by the magisterium, while taking into account the requests of the men of our times. The bishops recognize that there are different sensitivities concerning the pedagogy of the preaching of the Christian faith to the men of today.
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or with the conference. The bishops are preoccupied by the necessity of establishing constant personal contact with priests men and women Religious and committed lay persons. They agree that there be a study of a new demarcation of the dioceses in their country, which does not necessarily have to be realized all together and at the same time. The bishops will do everything so that the affective and effective communion among them may be deepened from day to day and to avoid being judged as divided among themselves. They commit themselves: • To seek occasions of common prayer and liturgy; • To mutually aid one another in putting into practice the decisions of the synod; • To have regular interexchanges in order to learn to know the ideas, initiatives and persons, so that all may draw profit for their own pastoral ministry and so that common dispositions may be made with better knowledge of the facts; • To abstain from declarations which could harm a confrere in the episcopate; The members of the synod are unanimous in professing the essential distinction between the ministerial or sacramental priesthood and the common priesthood of the baptized and the permanent character of the ministerial priesthood.
Priests' tasks, celibacy The bishops observe among priests a positive evolution: Priests speak more frequently and more easily than before of their spiritual life. The spiritual life of priests is threatened by the secularization of society, by overwork, and sometimes by too "functional" a conception of their tasks. Celibacy in view of the kingdom of heaven constitutes a great good for the church. The bishops are unanimous in their will to follow faithfully the decisions of the popes to maintain the rule of celibacy. Even when candidates are lacking. the members of the synod profess their confidence towards him who is the master of the harvest and he will send workers into his harvest (cf. Letter of Pope John Paul II Holy Thursday 1979): They attach great importance to the support that life in community or at least mutual help amongpriests can bring. They judge that celibacy will produce its effects fully, on the personal and pastoral level, only it it is lived as a true evangelical counsel, analogous with the other counsels which are poverty and obedience.
Vocations
The members of the synod have decided to promote a pastoral activity of priestly and Religious vocations, even while continuing research on the various forms that the apostolate of the laity can take. They will designate in each diocese a delegate who will remain in contact with the theological schools, with the community house of formation and with the students in theology who have the priesthood in mind. unless, of course, the bishop personally takes on this task. The presbyterate is represented by the priests' council, which is a consultative organ. Possible associations of priests cannot therefore be such that they obscure the hierarchical communion of their members with the bishop. If these associations take on the character of a labour union, they are incompatible with the structures and spirit of the church.
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Priestly formation can be assured only by true seminaries: or else seminaries integrally assuring formation — as is the case at Rolduc — or else community houses of formation themselves having all the attributes of a seminary, except that most of the teaching is done by a faculty or a higher school of theology recognized by the Holy See. These faculties or schools of theology must, if they want to be accessible to candidates for the priesthood, respond to various conditions. Here are some of these conditions: rights recognized especially of the local bishop — to in the bishops exercise in relation to these schools their role of teachers of the faith and guardians of orthodoxy; rights recognized in the bishops to exercise their authority in t he matter of the nomination and dismissal of professors, in the matter of programs and concerning the ccclesial atmosphere to be preserved, particularly in the matter of celibacy, finally possibilities given to t he bishops to regulate !he situation of married priests teaching in these schooi, tic:: responsibilitY The bishop; orc awar:,
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DUTCH SYNOD (from Page 10) concerning the expansion, and especially the very animation of the consecrated life and express their concern about the lack of novices. They propose to do everything pOssible so that the church and Christian communities may favour listening to the calls of God to the consecrated life and generous response to these calls. What is sometimes called emotional integration is the object of ambiguous interpretations. They recognize the importance of a healthy emotional life, understood in the sense of cordiality and fraternity in relations among persons. With regard to a sort of "third way," lived as an ambiguous state between celibacy and marriage, the members of the synod are unanimous in rejecting it.
Criticalgroups With regard to critical groups, the members of the synod — being aware that these groups also include priests and Religious — observe that these groups sometimes exercise too great a pressure on the life of the church. The same is true of several periodicals and other forms of publicity. This criticism emanates from groups opposed among themselves, on the one hand "progressive" groups, on the other hand "conservative" groups. The bishops recognize that the criticisms made are valid to some extent and are sometimes accompanied by reasonalbe desires and useful stimuli for pastoral activity. The influence of these criticisms is negative when there is generalization, fanaticism, aggressiveness, pressure, refusal of dialogue and unjust attacks against persons and institutions of the church. They then cause polarization and harm the exercise of the episcopal function and communion among the faithful; they undermine the atmosphere of fraternal love and joy which ought to characterize the Christian life. The bishops want to maintain contact with these groups in the hope of being able to play a moderating role and to remain informed in a direct way. But they also propose to denounce their divergences with regard to the faith and discipline of the church, so that true communion may be manifested. The synod proposes to study the various concrete forms that the activity of the laity in the pastoral work of the church can take: • The distinction between the respective pastoral tasks of the priest, the deacon and the lay person; • The suitability of a commitment on the course of the diaconate. • The specific tasks which are entrusted to the lay person in the church (particularly when they are fulltime and in a permanent way), so that there is no room for envisioning a new "office" or ministry — to avoid the creation of a parallel "clergy," which would be
presented as an alternative to the priesthood and the diaconate. Care will be taken to see that an event ua1 presentation to the community does not take on the character of an installation in a ministry. As far as priests dispensed from the obligation of celibacy are concerned, some of them function in teaching or pastoral activity. In agreement with the rules given by the Holy See: . Their situation will be regularized in the light of the instructions of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (particularly those of 1971 and 1972); • However, such a regularization will not always be able to be done overnight, for it will have to take persons and circumstances into account; • This regularization will therefore be entrusted to the pastoral prudence of the local bishop (helped by the advice of the episcopal commission in charge of the question of "pastoral workers" and by the advice of the bishops' conference).
Confession, absolution Despite the present disaffection toward individual confession, the bishops ask priests to seek, in preaching and catechesis, to restore the esteem of the faithful for the sacrament of reconciliation. They beg them, especially, to be willing to remain available to all for confession, paricularly in the form of personal colloquy, at fixed hours, and to be willing also to teach the young to go to confession. They express the hope of also giving its place, in the life of the faithful, to individual confession, which is the only ordinary means of reconciling them with God and with their brothers and sisters in the faith. Collective absolution is an extraordinary means, which the bishop may permit only according to the conditions prescribed by the new rite of the sacrament of reconciliation. The bishops have in view the preparation of good texts for catechesis and instructions based on the General Catechetical Directory, on the documents of the synod of 1977 and on the Apostolic Exhortation "Catechesi Tradendae." While appealing to the collaboration of experts and specialized organisms, the bishops desire, in this matter as in others, to exercise personally their role of (teachers of the faith). The bishop . of Roermond will resume his collaboration with the other bishops in the area of the Pontifical Missionary Works, the L,enten activity and the Dutch Missionary Week. The bishops are aware of certain difficulties existing between the bishop of Roermond and persons and institutions in the three areas mentioned. They are ready to help seek a solution to these difficulties.
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Community, pastor & council; needs for successful work W ASHINGTON (NC) — The ability of most parishes to develop a vital community with a clear sense of mission depends on the leadership of the pastor, according to an interim report by the Catholic bishops' ad hoc committee on the parish. W hile the pastor remains the "central leader" in the vast majority of parishes, it is also true, according to the report, that today's successful pastors have developed a clear structure for sharing responsibility with others on the parish s taff and with the parishioners. The report acknowledged that there were widespread misgivings about the usefulness of parish councils and that many effective parishes did not have councils. "Nonetheless," the report said, "we find that councils remain the best means of ensuring broad p articipation and accountability in the parish."
THE AIM The ad hoc committee on the parish, chaired by B ishop Edward C. O'Leary of Portland, Maine, is charged with overseeing the project for parish renewal, which the bishops began two years ago to provide practical assistance to priests and parish personnel. "It is our view that the renewal of parish life is a complex task that cannot b e accompl ished quickly,'the report said, but required at least three to five years of effort. Certain critical issues, n amely leadership, liturgy and spiritual development, the mission of the parish, and coordination of diocesan services, must be addressed. the report said.
Pastors deserve a special attention, it said, and should be helped in recognizing their leadership style. Parish councils were most effective when they were organized as councils of ministries or apostolates rather than simply as a board of directors, the report said, adding the success of such councils depended on how well developed the ministries were. "...It appears we need to adopt a more direct approach to. the development of liturgy and preaching," the report said nothing that while most people's evaluation of the parish was based on the quality of liturgy, the liturgy was least often addressed in parish development programs.
MISSION Turning to the "mission of the parish," the report said that to the extent that the parish leadership was not clear about its longrange mission or shortrange objectives there was likely to be less enthusiastic commitment by parishioners. "On the contrary, where parishes have developed a relatively clear view of their mission to the wider community and church, t here is much surer ground for inspiring enthusiasm, setting priorities and even generating financial and volunteer support by parishioners." The report says there is some evidence that parish
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Aust. spending on pet food Sir, The news item in the issue of The Record of February 14 was a typical example of the harm done by such reports. I refer to "Big Aust. spending on pet food.." Concerning pet food versus baby food, how much of the $231 million worth of food went to working dogs, guard dogs, cattle/ sheep dogs, etc? My wife has a guide dog which must have only first-quality pet food to keep in good health. Needless to say, we never stint our dog on all the lines the Guide Dog Association has recommended. Secondly, how much of the so-called pet food is eaten by our poor? Any food store keeper, especially in the poorer districts, will tell you that many families live on
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development will be effective to the extent it is, a diocesan-wide effort, whether mandatory or voluntary. "In stating these needs, the report concluded, "we' are assuming that the most basic resources for parish life are the Spirit of God and grace of the sacraments; the Word of God and faith; the people o f the parishes; the priests, deacons, religiouat and laity serving the parish community; and' the whole church under the leadership of the Holy Father and the bishops."
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Sympathy in Rome for banned Sakharov V ATICAN CITY (NCI' — The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has expressed "solidarity and sympathy" for banished Soviet physicist Andre Sakharov. The president of the p ontifical academy. Carlos Chagas, sent a telegram to the Soviet Academy of Sciences which said: "In the name of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences I send our s olidarity and our sympathy for the academic Andrei Sakharov, rejoicing greatly that he remains within your group and hoping that he is given, in respect of human rights, the fut.liberty of opinion,. movement and communication that is indispensable for the progress of k nowledge and of human and social development" The pontifical academy is a think-tank of prominent world scientists appointed by the pope. Chagas' telegram was an expression of Vatican feeling about the Sakharov case.
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r( ARENA JOTTINGS Norwood and North Adelaide in a match at Football Park, Adelaide, soon will inaugurate the 1980 5 400.000 Escort Champfootball series - the first genuine national competition.
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By BERNARD JAY soccer, indeed of world soccer, he is also a most pleasant and articulate man. His career was marked not only by his brilliant play but by his demeanor and behavior on and off the field. He was never reported and he was a model of all t hat a professional sportsman should be in public and in private life. It was notable that among the advice he gave about the game he wisely advocated that boys should not be subjected to intensive coaching when young but should be allowed to enjoy playing soccer as youngsters (as he was) and then be coached when about 15 or 16. It is to be hoped that this advice is acted on, as in these days when "competition" seems to be a key word in games there seems to bean unrestrained urge to try to turn young children into fierce competitors instead of allowing them to enjoy playing a game and playing it for fun and relaxation. *** Henry Rono, the worldranked Kenyan runner who is the only man to hold four world distance records simultaneously, b roke two national records and outclassed many rivals during his stay in Australia. His place as one of the world's greatest athletes should not be wondered at, as he and others like him who have attained world athletic fame come from an area where running is a way of life. Rono was a herder of cattle and he ran about 20 k ilometers to school every day when he saw the praise, sometimes adulation given to the great Kip Keino who visited his village. Rono was a member of the Kalenjin tribe and when he started running he had a tribal reputation t o uphold -fellow tribesmen were Keino, John Kipkurgat, and Ben Jipcho and all Olympic or Commonwealth Games champions. R ichard Sleeman continues the story in r ecent issue of the "Weekend Australian.": Their origins are in the Great Rift valley of Kenya. The valley, its lakes and surrounding snowcapped peaks, including the 5600m Mount Kenya, are among the most scenic in the world. And its thin air and fertile plains have harvested a crop of distance runners of s tunning pace and endurance. T he Kalenjin and another tribe, the Kissii, provide fewer than 15 per c ent of the Kenyan population but a hefty majority of its athelctes. The reasons are based in the relative backwardness of the area, providing fast running as the
quickest means of t ransport, and the mountain air which gives an invisible oxygen mask to runners going down to sea level. Physical characteristics of the people are ideal, too, for distance runners, theirs are pencil thin builds and extremely long thin legs. Rono is the strongest of the African contingent who came to Australia built up through the exercise programmes of his United States university training. James Maina, Rono's country-man who equalled the Australian 800m record in Adelaide is of jockey size. Where Rono and the o thers were raised, running is a way of life. From village to village, or to school and back, the best means of transport is by foot. Rono was carving out marathon distances daily from his first days of school at the age of seven. Incidentally, his running style is based on power, with elbows held wide of the body and legs pounding and is in strong contrast to that of the Englishman, Sebastian Coe, world record maker at 800 and 1,500 metres, who would be an equal favourite at the Olympic games. He is a precise, relaxed runner with a maximum of economy of effort with smooth arm and leg movements. *** The facts that Jack Nicklaus will not be playing, that the event will not be held-at the Australian course and that Kerry Packer will not be a sponsor should not detract at all from the $175,000 A ustralian Open golf c hampionship to be played at The Lakes, Sydney, in November. This obviously is the view of the Australian Golf Union which has
Dunhill Australia as the sole sponsor, following the breakdown of negotiations with Kerry Packer for a $500,000 DunhillPacker event. Mr. Packer was not satisfied with a modified proposal put by the union and withdrew. It is only slightly disappointing, generally, that Nicklaus will not be competing but his absence will be compensated for no doubt by the presence of many excellent American, British and Continental young players who have appeared on the international scene in recent seasons. And Nicklaus, although still a great player, is no longer the all-powerful force he once was, and, in fact, he has had limited success recently in the reduced schedule of tournaments in which he has played. * * *
PENNANT TENNIS Thirteen teams in two grades competed in the opening pennant series of t he West Australian Catholic Lawn Tennis Association on Wednesday night last week. Results. A GRADE: Brentwood, 4 sets 32 games d. Queens Park(I), 2 sets 26 games; St. Mary's (I), 3 sets 25 games d. Dianella, 3,20; Queens Park (2), 4, 29 d. St. Marys (2), 2, 23. B GRADE: St. Benedict's(I), 5, 33 d. St. Dominics's, 1, 22; St. Benedicts's (2), 4, 29 d. Dianella (2), 2, 20; Shenton Park, 4, 3, d. Dianella (1), 2, 25. The next meeting of the West Australian Catholic Lawn Tennis Association executive will be held on Tuesday, March 4, at the home of Marlene and Peter Verga, 70 Cawston Road, Attadale.
R ACE TALK PROFESSOR PICCARD showed he is holding form when a good third to stablemate Tsunami in the Hyperion S takes at Ascot on Saturday. After being second last in the field of seven on the t urn, PROFESSOR PICCARD ran on strongly and should have little trouble in bringing up another win for trainer Jeff Pike. FULMINEO showed his true ability on Saturday after being a little disappointing at his last start, when he easily a ccounted for the opposition in the Evaside Graduation over 1,500 metres. After being well back on the turn, apprentice Michael Pateman weaved his way through the field on FULMINEO and went on to score untouched by three quarters of a length over Jungle Royal and Carmen's Caper.
By ROD EVANS TIA MANA may have been a little unlucky when f inishing second to Kallyciden on Saturday and should soon pick up a middle distance event. After being perfectly ridden throughout by young apprentice Shayne Miller, TIA MANA appeared to lose valuable ground in the straight through hanging in but still went down by only a half head. GEORGIE COURT showed improvement at her first start with blinkers when a five length victor of the Sandown Handicap (ID) for two-year -olds on Saturday. Although caught wide for part of the journey, this Roy Edwards trained filly raced clear on straightening and won as she liked from Common Pattern and Bomdia.
GREYHOUNDS
MIXED 7.10pm Grades 4 & 5 - 530m 1 My Shy Guy, 2 Pezoporus, 3 Lady Tippytoe, 4 Go Fun, 5 Flying Benjie, 6 Benny's Gelati, 7 Alfred's Amazon, 8 Under The Bonnet, 9 (res) Blue Hill Tampu, 10 (res) Big Jackpot. Select: 8, 4, 5 GIFT (1) 7.30pm N on Penalty Non Awards - 530m 1 Gambling Casino, 2 Smooth Nymph, 3 Diacritic, 4 Eddy's Eagle, 5 Taquila Doll, 6 Panda's Big Boy, 7 Beryl's World, 8 Pemberton, 9 (res) Marshonero, 10 (res) Whisky Frost. Select: 1, 8, 2 GIFT (2) 7.50pm N on Penalty Non A wards - 530m 1 Fullamusic, 2 Dainty Margaret, 3 Jazz Leader, 4 Albany Drive, 5 Wintammywin, 6 Shy Gyfisy, 7 Count The Silver, 8 Bosco Jet, 9 (res) Brad's Mate, 10 (res) Casco Tien. Select: 1, 8, 4 CH'SP (1) 8.10pm N on Penalty Non Awards - 740m 1 Deep Devil, 2 Canary Farewell, 3 Cleo's R eview, 4 Princess Leonie, 5 Black Python, 6 Lunar Rose, 7 Baby A mazon, 8 Won All Over, 9 (res) King Toerag. Select: 6, 1, 4 CH'SP (2) 8.30pm N on Penalty Non A wards - 740m 1 Sir Clover, 2 Falcon Lissie, 3 Come On Pepper 4 Chase On Jason, 5 Charity King, 6 Spanish Waltz, 7 Miss Windgal, 8 Marks And Sparks, 9 (res) King Toerag. Select: 6, 1, 2 GIFT (3) 8.50pm N on Penalty Non A wards - 530m 1 Dark Gramoi, 2 Pearl King, 3 Cooby Joe, 4 Leica Bingee, 5 Hogarth's Eve, 6 Rheola Lee, 7 Bin Dero, 8 Wild Lord, 9 (res)
Soldier Mac, le (res) Jilbairn. Select: 2, 6, 8 GIFT (4) 9.10pm N on Penalty Non Awards - 530m 1 Willy Buck, 2 Instructor, 3 Howdy Geordie, 4 Shanghaied, 5 Willie Sam, 6 Snowy Wanderer, 7 Fashion Band, 8 Formal Scene, 9 (res) Bory's Babe, 10 (res) Jonathan Gordon. Select: 8, 1, 2 CH'SP (3) 9.30pm N on Penalty Non A wards - 74qm 1 Lady Pingdil, 2 Splice It, 3 Madam Soya, 4 Nordic Gent, 5 Reid's Reward, 6 Franjilay, 7 Flying Ginny, 8 Pulse R aiser, 9 (res) King Toerag. Select: 3, 2, 1 WINFIELD 9.50pm Grade 5 - 530m 1 I'm Fabulous, 2 Tanbairn, 3 Hunt's Reject, 4 Lord Commander, 5 Wiki Wiki Girl, 6 Splinterwood, Tina Wickham, 8 Fantasia Girl, 9 (res) Crown of Hope, 10 (res) Flying Justine. Select: 2, 1, 5 MIXED 10.10pm Qualified Maidens 530m 1 Smashing Point, 2 Battle Crown, 3 Cecil's Girl, 4 Tigmex, 5 W estcourt Craig, 6 Beyond Me, 7 Panda's Image, 8 Mr Conquelin, 9 (res) Imperial Imp, 10 (res) Medici. Select: 4, 2, 7
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