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LONDON (NC) — The wholesale violation of human rights in Vietnam, mainly in the form of arbitrary detention without trial, was found by an Irish lawyer, Dermot Kinlen, on a visit to the A sian country last year.
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oKAIUMBUR:tIISSION His visit followed a petition to the VietnaAll the time he was accompanied by Hoang Nguyen, s': , i t., ,5•Ce‘As CARSON RIVER mese government in 1978 asking about the Editor-in-Chief of the Vietnam Courier. • fate of those held in "re-education (detention) Among those he met when visiting Ho Chi Minh City c amps". 0 ,i, ' (.7 was Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh, who told him that ,i. pElf O m publicity given ollowing to the petition he was c.) F about 200 2 priests were detained. •ro ISSION• p M t.., F°ItMRIESSSTIOtNIVE • invited by Prime Minister Pham Van Dong to visit Broome The archbishop said they fell into three categories: W YNDHAM ,Pe Vietnam in April 1980. R 0 .... There were 22 chaplains to the South Vietnamese Army; Accompanying him were a psychiatrist, Dr Michael there were some who got involved in politics and supMulcahy, and French-Canadian Redemptorist Father ported reactionary movements; and there were some D IOCESE Gerard Gagnon, who had been expelled from Vietnam priests who were common criminals. in 1977 and who spoke fluent Vietnamese. Those priests in detention were not allowed to celeFather Gagnon had translated the Bible into OF brate Mass or to possess a rosary or a crucifix. Vietnamese. The visit of Kinlen and his companions coincided They saw only three camps, two near Hanoi and one with Easter, and they found the churches crammed to B ROOME near Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). They also overflowing. Religious education, he said, is now forvisited the Chi Hoa Prison in Ho Chi Minh City. Kinlen found that detainees had been held without bidden in the schools, but is given on Sunday after trial since the summer of 1975, despite the Vietnamese Mass. Some priests were members of the Communist government's assurance that no one would be detailed Party. longer than three years. No date for their release had been set, he added. "As a lawyer of 30 years' experience and as a prison visitor and having made a study of penology," wrote • An Abbey Nullius Diocesis (belonging to no Kinlen, "I am satisfied that there is a wholesale and widespread violation of human rights in Vietnam. diocese) is a territory over which the abbot of a "The retention of an uncertain but large number of monastery, even if not a bishop, exercises the full D IOCESE OF GERALDTON people without trial in detention and forcing them to do administrative authority of a bishop. forced labour and subjecting them to indoctrination New Norcia was made an abbey nullius in 1863 and depriving them of support and social contact with and in 1903 its territory was extended eastwards their families and friends, and providing inadequate to Southern Cross. In 1971 most of the area, which medical facilities, and denying them any spiritual included seven parishes, reverted to the archdio- Geraldton administration and allowing them no intellectual exercese of Perth and today the New Norcia Abbey cise other than the absorption of selected texts for the Nullius is a territory of 1200 square miles. purpose of indoctrination, are all negations of human • A mission sui iuris (in its own right) is a rights," he added. territory independent of a diocese and under the New Norcia• Abbey Nullius Considerable doubt surrounds the number of camps jurisdiction of an abbey nullius until it becomes an that exist and the number of people detained. independent abbey nullius. ARCHDIOCESE OF PERTH Perth Kinley was told officially in Vietnam that 40,000 In 1910 the Drysdale/Kalumburu mission sui people had been held in re-education camps but that iuris was detached from the diocese of Geraldton, with the release of 14,600 the number was down to founded in 1898. Bunbury DIOCESE OF BUNBURY 25,400. In the same year the Vicariate of the Kimberley, later the Diocese of Broome, was also cut off from But "generally informed opinion puts the figure at 400 Km 190 200 300 the diocese of Geraldton, Abbot Torres of New between 150,000 and 200,000," according to Kinlen. Norcia being consecrated bishop to be its first With about 900 people to a camp, that would mean well 160 200 300 Miles administrator. over 100 camps. The camps, he said, had been manicured for their visit A 10,000-square-mile section of the north of and he never had the feeling that people were speaking 4.4 freely to him. Western Australia will be transferred from the -
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T he territory includes the of Broome, piloted himself and the New * Benedictine-owned Kalumburu Norcia Apostolic Administrator Father ▪ Mission, the surrounding Aborigi_ Justin Bruce into Kalumburu to begin the nal reserve and the Benedictine- handover. On Thursday, June 18, the two leaders owned lease of the Carson River said Mass, spoke to the community and * Station, all of which have figured discussed canonical details of the transfer • * in this month's dispute. of jurisdiction. The transfer of the ecclesiastical terri* Apart from daily press reports no other * * tory will not affect Benedictine information is available whether there ownership. was a connection between the visit of • The Benedictine monks and the Bene- Bishop Jobst and Father Bruce and the • dictine sisters working at Kalumburu will walkout of Kalumburu natives reported • * now have status similar to the other reli- to have taken place on Monday, June 15, • gious orders working on various missions but which is also reported to have been * in Broome diocese. discussed a month earlier. Kalumburu is staffed by Fathers Sera• Father Justin said that the protest phim Sanz, Eugene Perez, Brother Dom group had dwindled to less than 30 when • Umberto, Benedictine Oblate John he and Bishop Jobst visited the Argon site • * Richards, five Benedictine sisters and sev- 9 km from Kalumburu. • eral lay missionaries. He attributed much of the discontent On May 31 the Apostolic Nuncio in to outside agitation by members of the -4( • Canberra, Archbishop Barbarito, Aboriginal Land Council and the Abo• * advised both jurisdictions to start arran- riginal Legal Service. • gements for the transfer pending the arriHe said an example of this was the • val of official documents from Rome. request by the Aborigines to do their own The transfer has been under considera- cooking_ whereas only in January this * • * tion since January this year when the year they had made a three-year agree* abbot president of the Subiaco Benedic- ment with the Benedictine sisters to * tine congregations, of which New Norcia supervise the mission cooking. • * is a member, took up the matter with the The terms of settlement between the * Vatican Council of Bishops which con- Aborigines and the mission are reported • trols the establishment and government to include the transfer of house titles to of dioceses. the Aborigines and the addition of 1400 * The move followed a directive of Pope hectares of reserve territory to the mis* Paul VI four years ago that abbeys nullius sion freehold. (See map, page 2). • * and independent sui iuris missions should Other reported moves include the * be incorporated into neighbouring Kalumburu Aboriginal community pur* * dioceses. chasing from the New Norcia Benedictine The New Norcia Abbey Nullius, community the lease of the Carson River • * reduced in 1971 to its present dimension, Station valued to $1 million and into * will retain its status. which Father Bruce says a great deal of On Wednesday, June 18. Bishop Jobst, money has been invested by his order.
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The pioneer monks dreamt of the day they would see "Drysdale City" grow up at the junction of the Drysdale and Barton rivers.River
But on the day of their arrival a close brush with the natives convinced them that because of the inaccessibility of the future city site they would be better off temporarily at Pago 25km closer to the coast. After nearly 30 years at Pago the decision was taken in 1937 to move the mission south to Kalumburu and in 1951 that name was given to the mission and the surrounding ecclesiastical territory which was under the jurisdiction of New Norcia. Early years at Pago meant for the monks either keeping warring tribal factions apart or medicating their wounds or even on occasions their own. The flash point came in 1913 when Aborigines attacked the missionaries and would have killed them had not a boy grabbed a rifle and fired it into the air. For the next nine months there was not a word to hint at the close shave the monks had. When the news broke, the government asked the missionaries to withdraw to safer surrounding but Bishop Torres backed the missionaries
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saying that their sufferings would win the day. Real physical isolation was broken when the first plane landed at the mission in 1935 followed by the start of the Flying Doctor Service the following year. But the other side of aircraft travel was not far away. Kalumburu became a vital point in northern Australian defence and on September 27, 1943, Japanese planes bombed and straffed the mission destroying most of the buildings and killing Father Thomas Gil and a native woman and four children as they took shelter in a trench. Eventually Kalumburu was rebuilt and expanded. In his 1975 book on the history of the mission Father Eugene Perez reported that in the period since the first Benedictine arrival there had been 590 baptisms and 50 Christian marriages. In 1975 there were 186 people living at the mission, 115 under the age of 25, 52 of them at school.
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and made dependent on the Abbey of New Norcia. T wo years later the bishops of Australia finally implemented the 1885 decision that there should be a separate diocese in the extreme north. Father Torres, like his predecessor Salvado, was consecrated bishop and appointed head of the new vicariate of the Kimberley later to become the diocese of Broome. He died in 1914 at the comparatively young age of 53.
Around the mission a 10,000-square-mile territory was designated the Bishop Gibney had French Trappists who had Drysdale River Mission wanted Salvado to repeat left the New Hebrides and the New Norcia story in the personally escorted them far north but the ageing north to establish the Beapioneer of the West Aus- gle Bay Mission. tralian Church was not Ten years later he went ready for the move. north again and saw the However it was only a desolation which had overmatter of time before his taken his mission dream successor, Father Fulgen- after the departure of the tius Torres, took up the Trappists. proposal of the Australian He was 63 but hoe in hand hierarchy that there should he led the band that be a mission in the area. included journalist Daisy Father Matthew Gibney Bates in clearing and first went north in 1878 marking out the land at and spent four months in Beagle Bay to which the the Roebourne area, osten- Pallottines would come in sibly to see the few white 1901. settlers scattered in the Meanwhile, in Rome just area but much more con- b efore he died, in cerned with the potential December 1900, the 87for Aboriginal work that year-old Bishop Salvado existed in the north. BISHOP ABBOT TORRES had virtually handpicked
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KIM BERLEY LAY MISSIONARIES WHAT ARE THEY? They start by being average practical Catholics prepared to share whatever expertise they have with the Aboriginal children and adults of the North-West of Australia. They serve the Church, placing themselves at the disposal of the Bishop, "as vicar and legatee of Christ'', (Vat II, P382), and assist him in a spirit of dedication. They give themselves totally for 2 years, living in groups, co-operating in fraternal love in the spirit of the Gospels, serving on isolated missions and townships. They are not attached to any religious order, fully accepting their Christian duty to evangelise according to their own individual abilities. Under the patronage and guidance of the Bishop they have their own formally constituted Association and elected Council. Lay Missionaries do not accept a salary, only their keep and pocket money. Their fares are paid and a small sum on completion of their service.
THE KIMBERLEYS or the Diocese of Broome is the far North-West part of Australia, roughly 3 times the size of Victoria. A subtropical region, with a 'wet' season through the summer months; of varied terrain with beautiful beaches but a large part taken by the Great S andy Desert. Since 1959 many admirable Australians have contributed in no small way to the personal growth and education of the Aboriginal people as lay missionaries. They have formed close and lasting ties. Others are needed to continue and improve existing services. GENERAL ASSISTANTS including Clerks, Tradesmen, Mission & Hostel Assistants, Store -Keeper, Accountant, Typist are needed for 1981 . NEEDS for 1982 include Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary, Domestic Science TEACHERS & GENERAL ASSISTANTS Orientation Courses — September 20, 1981 — January 3, 1982 Please Apply: Director, Box 7 P.O., MITTAGONG NSW 2575 or The Most Rev. J.Jobst, D.D., Box 76 P.O., BROOME. W.A. 6725
lea to unite in prayer Iwith pilgrims at Lourdes
With the International Eucharistic Congress taking place in Lourdes from: July 16 to 23 it is surely appropriate that all Catholics even those furthest: away like ourselves should be united in heart and prayer with those repres-: enting us in that famous centre of devotion to Mary, the Mother of God. :
Blessed Eucharist are high- tic Congress is precisely a It is not by casual chance lighted at Lourdes in the time for the involvement of t that Lourdes has been chosed as the rallying place This pastoral letter health giving spring water everyone in some significant; c l of all Christian people for from Archbishop and the worship of the way in these themes which: importance of Even indeed are Sacrament. Blessed them to show their faith, * love and devotion to Jesus Goody is being read more so, pre-eminently, on across all the boundaries of cultural and Our ons of sacrifice nati the Christ Our Saviour in the in all archdiocesan Calvary Lord's Body and Blood, differences. Blessed Sacrament of the we * Eucharist. Ever since Our churches on June accompanied by water flow- It is appropriate that the : celebrated recently showed side, have His from ing Lady appeared to Ber- 28. Blood and Body the his of of Feast application forth the nadette in the grotto at Redemption to us by Bap- of Christ (Corpus Christi). * Lourdes over one hundred : years ago, two phenomena shall give is my flesh, for the tism in water and our corn- May the Sacrifice of the of Sacrament the the with with Him Mass in munication have been outstanding in life of the world"? (John : the experience of the visiting 6:51) To the Samaritan life giving Sacrament of his the Blessed Eucharist, * Sayour perpetuate which Blood. and Body pilgrims: woman beside the well at presence with us, iour's in united Sichar Jesus said : "Anyone Let us try to be remain at the very centre of: The water from the spring at who drinks the water that I spirit with those giving our lives as Christian peopraying the base of the cave so shall give will never be thanks to God and ple. The Congress at eagerly sought by all thirsty again : the water that for our world at the Eucha- Lourdes will emphasize this: Lourdes. because of its curative I shall give will turn into a ristic Congress in to all who wish to see and * properties; and the spring inside him, welling up I ask you to have some spe- understand. May we be extraordinary devotion to eternal life" (John 4:14). cial celebration of Eucharis- among the very first to: to the Blessed Sacrament Indeed at Lourdes, the tic worship in your church express our thanks to God * manifested each day dur- beautiful Marian shrine in or chapel during the week of and to seek even better ing the procession and the Pyrenees, one is stirred the Congress July 16 to 23, e xpression through the: blessing of the sick when to particular joy and feelings either with Holy Hours, or intercession of our Mother, * most of the wonderful of thanksgiving to Almighty protracted Exposition. It the Immaculate Virgin: miracles of God's grace God who has wished to help would be good to involve Mary. take place. us once again through the parish pastoral councils, May God bless you all. * love and intercession of his religious congregations, youth groups, societies and Did not Our Lord say in the holy Mother. the children of our schools synagogue of Capernaum : these devotions of thanksin Sacraments great "I am the living bread which The two has come down from hea- and Mysteries of our Salva- giving and intercession. von", and "the bread that I tion : Baptism and the An International Eucharis- Your Archbishop.
Pastoral care of families Willis & Elliott At the mid-year meeting of the Diocesan Pastoral Council held last Saturday, Archbishop Goody laid upon each standing subcommittee the task of discussing and reporting on a plan of action for the pastoral care of families.
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T he plan of action is tructure to support develthe product of a series opment through to social of discussions held in costs affecting all areas of 1 980 by the Confer- family life, and increases in ence of Bishops and violence and crime. STRASBOURG, FRANCE (NC) — Church is well aware h eads of religious The the of current social problems Governments should "respect orders in W.A. on the and orientavalue field and the in leader convictions is a moral needs of the Church. of social intervention servitions of couples" in population mat-
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The care of families was ces. However, as a result of identified as the crisis group discussions concern ters, a representative of the Vatican IN THE BUSINESS OF HELPING PEOPLE... Point; the most pressing was expressed regarding told European population experts area of need. the attendant social costs during a recent meeting in It is expected that during of development. the next few months the Letters expressing the Strasbourg. e xpected letter from the concern of DPC will be Monsignor James McHugh, an American priest, Chapel Funerals pride themselves on their well-deserved reputation for providing pope written as a result of written to the Premier and member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, was the full traditional funeral services. Our funerals lack nothing in the qualities one the Synod of Bishops on to the Australian Industry Holy See's observer at the annual meeting (June 10-12) expects from the ceremony which commits a loved one into God's care. The Role of the Christian Mining Council, which of the Council of Europe steering committee on The only difference you will notice about a Chapel Funerals service is the size of your Family in the Modern will be meeting in July. population. account) W orld will be received. "Governments, in dealing with population issues, Our Chapels are tastefully furnished to satisfy even the most fastidious bereaved data technical A special sub-committee families. Full facilities are available to provide traditional Catholic services, should look not only to the scientific and also was appointed to including:supplied by population research, but should also respect e xamine and to report its the moral convictions and values of couples which are findings to the Catholic important for the welfare of society," Monsignor Education Commission on . McHugh said. the proposals recently He criticised a tendency in the 1960's "to describe V ATICAN CITY (NC) children in negative terms, that is, as burdens and issued on the accreditation — Cardinal Agostino responsibilities, rather than as a benefit to the couple of teachers in Catholic Please feel quite free to inspect any of our Funeral Homes or send for your private Casaroli praised the and part of their investment in the future." schools. copy of our obligation-free information package. late the of nce The guest speaker for the influe that period, "there was often a strong emphaDuring FREMANTLE MIDLAND MAYLANDS Father Jesuit, French 2 Helena Street day was Mr Arnold Katz, a 93 Market Street 196 Whatley Crescent implications of childbearing that placed Pierre Teilhard de sis on the social (opp. terminal) Rail/bus Stn) Railway (opp. lecturer at WAIT on social couples and inhibited their freedom in makPhone 274 4343 Phone 335 9788 Phone 272 6133 Chardin, in a letter pressure on Policy and planning. The McHugh said. Monsignor decisions," procreative ing marking the centenary SHORTLY OPENING IN VIC. PARK & SUBIACO subject of his talk was the He called on governments to "support and maintain of the priest's birth. S ocial Costs of the "eliminate the value of marriage and family life" and to C ardinal Casaroli, R esource Boom. injustice and the causes of poverty, disease, hunger and IIIIIII INN II= state, of secretary SIM NMI 1111111 MN EMI IMO MINI= 1111111 MN OM MN MN MN lin papal Benefits of mineral develthat have a serious effect on famiof Pope economic dependence behalf on wrote Manager, The size the on decide to couples opment were classified as lies and limit the freedom of Chapel Funerals, John Paul II. "A powincreased flow of money, of the family and the spacing of births." 196 Whatley Crescent, of intuition poetic erful wealth to individuals and governments to pay urged McHugh Monsignor MAYLANDS W.A. 6051. the deep value of more jobs required to supof development the in progress the greater attention "to Dear Sir, nature, a stimulating port the development. the natural methods of family planning, which not only Please send me without obligation, your information package: perception of the dynaHowever to the man in the enable couples to control fertility according to the dicvast a creation, of mism street these benefits appear Name: tates of their conscience, but also assist them in strengvision of world develto be rather communication." marital thening illusory. opment were combined Address: The costs of development He concluded by urging "greater concern for values in him with an undeniar ange from loss of funds discussions of population and in convictions ethical and ble religious fervour" Postcode required for basic need fertility, so there will remain a recognition of the dignity said the cardinal. 1.. WWI= IMO MINI OM MOMM 11011 IMO IMMO OWN NM 1015 mmill um mom MO areas to expensive infrasof the human person."
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It is curious that the loudest sounds sur-. rounding the visit of World Council of Churches representatives on an Aboriginal fact-finding mission should be over the amount of attention they are, or are not receiving from the politicians. Considering that the visit has been described as non political it might have been construed that meeting politicians of whatever colour was not particularly high on the agenda. However, people with political feelings on the matter may feel otherwise. Fact finding would seem to suggest ignoring the words of politicians and trying to delve From Frank Hrubos, Glen Forrest. into the very complex web of Commonwealth, State and church agencies through which Sir, much activity for Aborigines is channeled Sir, I would not have been today. With the celebration of the feast of Mary Help at the Municipal Officers'surprised AssociaQuite apart from the difficulty facing over- of Christians, Patroness of Australia, this Suntion strike action at the State Elecseas visitors on a brief visit, the most obvious fact is that it is not a field in which the average day June 28, we Australian Catholics should tricity Commission earlier this A ustralian is remarkably well informed. unite in fervent prayer and give praise and month if they had been commuIn a world where concern is measuredprin- t hanksgiving to God and His Holy Mother for nists and fellow travellers who cipally by the amount of headline publicity it don't mind imposing as much hardcan draw, the average Australian's apprecia- their continued preservation of Australia as a ship on the community as possible. tion of the land rights issue is likely to extend Christian country. Yet surely there must have been many Christians no further than the price of a suburban block and Catholics among them. We should also renew our From W.V.C. Thomas, Medina or a plot ratio in the parliamentary precinct. fervour, and strengthen As a Catholic I am not trying to impress on the ugh her rosary which she position, even in high plaadherents of other denominations but I must doubt Self determination may well mean no more our Catholic devotion to has repeatedly very much the practical application of the Christian than everyman's dream of escaping from the Mary, particularly thro- to say dailyenjoined us ces, and from where they and do have succeeded in eroding principles on the part of the Catholics. tyranny of modern living, taxation and penance for sin if we wish the moral fibre of our A country like Australia which is endowed with bureaucracy into which every Australian is to obtain the true and last- nation? such riches is struggling to achieve a good standard locked whether he likes it or not, and that ing peace she has promised Then would the cancer of of living and no Labor or Liberal philosophies are includes Aborigines. our strife-torn suffering abortion, rape and incest, going to get us out of the bog. world. t he plague of pornoThere is a lack of morals in the philosophy based The communication gap on Aboriginal Would that the bishops of graphy, the brutality of on Marxism and equally lacking morals is the philowork as far as the churches are concerned is Australia encourage and v iolence and wanton sophy based on private exploitation. caused partly because those people engaged promote greater devotion murder and the horror of One philosophy is based on hate the other on in the work are likely to be the doers who From Anne Little, to Mary as our Help of genetic engineering (test exploitation and neglect of those who cannot be want to get on with the job rather than sit Wilson. Christians, more priests tube experimentation with exploited. around theorising in armchairs. It is utterly amazing preach Mary and her human life) give way to a The Catholics who are the protagonists of those that the Benedictine rosary from the pulpit, and truly Christian way of life They are likely to be under-paid, under philosophies are not without blame.; Order at New Norcia more lay people join with justice, love, peace They are giving a bad example on one hand and financed and not embarrassed by the flood of can pay homage to Our together to say the rosary and unity abounding, in serving as a facade for the evils on the other. voluntary helpers enquiring if they can share the brotherhood of man Lady when women are in common. some of the frustrating burden. Then what an abundance under the Fatherhood of refused admittance to Nevertheless the times call for better public the enclosure simply of much-needed graces God. b ecause they are w ould not Mary, Mother Such a simple remedy as relations, more time spent explaining in of God, pour down on us the rosary for the sickness women. terms that can be understood by suburban If Our Lady knocked and our sick and ailing of sin self-imposed by A ustralia what the hopes goals and aspira7÷ man's own folly can only : Clothes, kitchen tables and chairs, s at their gates she would society! tions of Aboriginal causes are all about. How soon then would we come from Mary, our lov- E single and double beds and mat-= p robably be told A nother difficulty that arises with the visit politely, but firmly, not witness the routing of ing Mother, who is truly tresses, kitchen untensils, cutlery,E. of the church representatives is the very "I'm sorryIcan't let you the evil forces of darkness the sure Help of Christians a wardrobes, dressing tables, cots, and our certain led hope Satan by himself, of from understanding of the World Council of in, you're a woman". ra prams, pushers their deeply-entrenched salvation. 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The precise mission of these reputed leaders of churches overseas does not clarify the role of the WCC nor the national and state UNITED NATIONS (NC) — The world population will similar councils in Australia. stop increasing in 130 years and the number of people on Not until the representatives present their earth at that time will probably be over 10 billion, 21/2 findings and a response is heard from those churches on whose behalf they have come to times the present number, according to the 1981 populaA ustralia will a proper assessment of the visit tion report of the UN Fund for Popula tion Activities be possible. (UNFPA). Ironically their remarks will appear practi"If we are able to sustain the tempo of sation, with Mexico having a population cally on the eve of the national census in the present population programmes then approaching that of the United States. which Australians will be asked to declare stabilisation appears feasible at the --Africa, the only region to show no their membership of religious denomina- medium variant of 10.5 billion in the year signs of a population slowdown, will be 2110," said UNFPA Executive Director the last continent tions. How far that membership and alleto stabilise. By the time giance affects their view of issues such as the Rafael Salas. The UNFPA estimates that that in 130• Africa's population comes to a halt there A boriginal question is an interesting years the world population could be as will be more than four times as many speculation. high as 14.2 billion or as low as eight people as there are today.
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'II [II'•ESAN PRIESTS' jJIJijk1 INCREASE Catholic vocations statistics show a net increase in diocesan priests for the first time in more than a decade.
The 1979 data from the Vatican's Central Office of Church Statistics were released in conjunction with a Vatican-sponsored International Vocations Congress.
According to the statis- But that rate was far women religious was not tics, there were 258,663 lower than the average given any immediate diocesan clergy at the end decline of 1,600 a year in explanation. of 1979. The statistical office the previous five years. This was 212 more than Similarly, the number of released only summary the 258,451 recorded at the non-clerical men religious tables of the 1979 figures, V ATICAN CITY (NC) end of 1978. (brothers and professed with geographical break— A representative of It was the first net men religious not yet downs of the figures, but recently the Holy See increase since the post- ordained priests) dropped without commentary of urged European sports Vatican II vocations crisis by 901, an annual figure interpretation of the data. ministers to end all disof the mid-1960s. Since nuns around the lower than the average loss crimination against CINCINNATI: Only when St Francis was able to rid himself of the The number of priests in of nearly 1,800 a year in the world outnumber priests athletics. w omen in things he had acquired did he become completely free Mother religious orders declined previous five years. and men religious by about Teresa of Calcutta told 15,000 people at an outdoor Mass here. by 145 during 1979, to The number at the end of two-to-one, their unusuA rchbishop Antonio 157,733. ally high losses meant a net 1979 was 73,891. Innocenti, papal nuncio "Poverty, if understood Even in the Eucharist, she The figure for nuns in decline in the total number in Spain, headed a four properly, is a freedom. said, he comes to us "so 1979 was 964,742, a star- of men and women in the member delegation to God has given us things breakable, so small. And tling drop of 20,000 from Church living lives of the Third Conference of not to hold but to use and yet he is God." ordained celibate ministry the previous year. European Sports Minshare. Asking the congregation Between 1973 and 1978, or consecrated virginity. isters and addressed the Mother Teresa spoke at assembled to "come to the t he number of nuns On the other hand, if this conference on behalf of the invitation of the Fran- poor", whether they be the declined at a much lower is viewed in terms of the the Vatican. ciscans who were celebrat- materially deprived or rate, averaging slightly function of Catholic eduIn athletics "it is indising the 800th anniversary those who are sick, dismore than 10,000 a year. cation or catechetical pensable to overcome of the birth of Saint abled or feeling rejected, The number of perman- training — once a role all discrimination of a she emphasized the privi; Francis. ent deacons — a ministry assigned almost exclusexual nature," he said. "Money and property lege involved. re-established in recent sively to nuns, and still the don't make us rich," she years — continued a steady job in which most of the But he warned that said, encouraging her lis- "We owe the poor deep rise. world's women religious efforts to combat disteners to "pray for the gratitude for allowing us to There were 6,676 perman- are engaged — the loss of crimination should not grace to be free" of preoc- love God in them." ent deacons at the end of nuns in 1979 was compensignify "the negation of cupation with things. 1979, compared with 5,562 sated by the dramatic In her brief talk she also femininity, but affirm Francis was not the only deplored abortion, calling the previous year and 1,239 increase of nearly 25,000 it". model, she emphasized, it "a clear murder" and a in 1973. additional catechists. The Vatican delegate The number of full-time In geographical terms, noting that Jesus himself denial of God's plan. also criticized emphasis catechists reported in 1979 Europe was the main loser chose to enter the world as "God has created that on athletic developa helpless, dependent child to love and be loved." but the rod to teach them p overty, than having was also significantly in Catholic apostolic ment to the exclusion of workers in 1979, dropping other personal devel- infant whose first bed was He has sent the child "to how to fish. But people are nothing to eat," she said. higher. a manger and who died proclaim the good news to disabled, hungry, sick, "In India and Africa, peo- They numbered 198,427 from 831,721 in 1978 to opment. alone on a cross. the poor. We gather here rejected by society, com- ple are dying of hunger, compared with 173,835 the 822,285 in 1979. but in the West the hurt previous year. Africa was the source of today to proclaim we will pletely broken. love that child in the image "I will give them fish to and loneliness is a much The increase in the the greatest gains, with eat and when they are able greater disease, for loneli- number of diocesan pri- 171,577 apostolic workers of God." She was asked by a repor- to stand and hold the rodI ness there is o cure, only ests, following an average in 1978 and 191,278 in1979. North America (the US ter why she did not try to will give them to you to the consistent touch of decline of nearly 1,800 a year in the previous five and Canada) lost ground c hange the political teach them how to fish." love." " Being unwanted, "This is where I would years, plus the lower rates slightly, from 262,942 system. people say you unloved, forgotten is a like more and more people of annual loss in the apostolic workers in 1978 "Some BOSTON (NC) — The decline in priestly numbers of religious pri- to 261,445 in 1979. It had not give people fish much greater hunger than to get involved." vocations in the Archdiocese of Boston "is a should ests and brothers, gave sta- slightly higher numbers of g rave danger for us and a source of profound tistical proof to recent bishops, permanent deapredictions that the male cons and catechists, and sadness for the church," according to Cardivocations crisis was "bot- slightly lower numbers of nal Humberto Medeiros of Boston. toming out". diocesan and religious priCardinal Medeiros, in a pastoral letter appealing for The substantially higher ests, religious brothers, more prayers for vocations, noted that only nine priests loss in 1979 of and nuns. will be ordained for the archdiocese this year, compared (NC) — It takes more courage for a young man to enter annual to ordination classes of some 50 priests 25 years ago. CHICAGO Gerry Father said than it did a generation ago, He also noted that the archdiocese loses between. 25 the priesthood today missions now doing religious and 30 priests every year through death, illness, retire- C harbonneau, a veteran of the African work. ocations v ment or other causes. And he noted there are fewer than 60 students studying "Young people today ."There has been an "This is evident in the pert heology for the archiocesasn priesthood for the next who study for the pri- increasing question of sons who are becoming and this has or nuns. four years. esthood are more values, in virtual break- priests "But in so many persons resulted "This means that in four years we will have lost at least c ourageous because down of authority. Many the faith has become 50 priests without a replacement for them," he said. they are not looked young persons today tend weaker because it is not “Cardinal Medeiros, in the pastoral letter, stressed the as heroes when to reject the institutional- being nourished by prac- M ANAGUA, Nicaragua (NC) — The Nicarabasic obligation" of parents to foster vocations as well upon join a religious ized church. they tice, prayer and good guan Bishops Conference has told priests in as the value of family prayer. pray the can g overnment positions to quit or else face they said say ommunity," "They deeds". c V ocations to the holy priesthood are gifts from God, but it appears that God will send us these gifts only when priest, a Missionary of in their own way. Perhaps "And how many persons c hurch sanctions for disobedience. too are strong enough to live and if we ask for them," he remarked. faithful..,never to serve a The bishops' statement A frica (White Fathers) the church has granted external in freedom much their faith unless they are would affect three priests serhuman or factional ideolAnd so we need to pray for vocations if we want more with 23 years of faith." supported and guided by holding cabinet minipriests laboring in the harvest of the Lord". ogy," the bishops said. vice in northern practices of thePerhaps the their mothers and fathers, stries and several others their own way. "We had hoped that for He also urged creativity and imagination in approach- Ghana. ing young men who might be candidates for the "Becoming a priest years church has granted too by priests, sisters and lay in lesser positions. theological and pastoral much freedom in external leaders?" priesthood. reasons they would have was a big deal, but not Father Gharbonneau said "We declare that those resigned their govern"We must not allow the oppressiveness of our pagan ago longer, so a young man practices of the faith." any present at who priests has this breakthe for one reason In some cases seFular culture to stifle their freedom to answer with ment posts earlier." has to buck the prevailing resulted in a personal, deep down of authority in hold public posts and The bishops said they faith and courage the call of the Good Shepherd to lead and indifference of trend engage in factional funcsupported "the liberation his people in love to peace and joy with him and one that always takes cour- c ommitment to the faith, society is that "young people identify with the values, tions must leave them at he said. another," Cardinal of the poor but by a GosMedeiros said. age," he said. or nonvalues, of their once, and fully rejoin pel approach, not by temministry," peers, instead of with the their priestly poral power.". said the statement. values of their parents." The bishops' statement Another obstacle to a reli- "Otherwise we will conis similar to one they gious vocation, particu- sider them to be in open issued in May 1980. In larly a missionary one, he rebellion and disobe1980, the bishops said prisaid, is the atmosphere of dience to the legitimate S AN SALVADOR, El Salvador(NC) — El ests were allowed to hold surrounding ffluence a government posts temSalvador's security forces have killed more authority of the church. many children in the Uni- Therefore they become porarily because of the than 18,800 civilians in the past19 months, ted States. subject to the church e xtraordinary circumaccording to Socorro Juridico, the legal aid sanctions due in such stances in the post-civil agency of the Archdiocese of San Salvador. "If you tell a high school war era. the lifting of the curfew student about missionary case," it added. Of those 8,316 were killed It was established by the toll ws 2,311. The Many priests said they bishops said, "Obefrom January innocent many coinlowest, because life and its hardships and 1 to May 31, Archbishop Oscar Rom- May was the dience is not enforced were needed in govern1981, including 1,054 ero of San Salvador, who ciding with the congres- people were being killed. try to interest him in it submission btft a loving ment because there was a killed for when he has a car, camping allegedly violat- was murdered in 1980. It sional debate in Washing1ng a curfew under the state rarely gathers data on sold- ton that made government Late in May Bishop gear, an expensive stereo, adhering to divine will lack of qualified laymen and at the same time the for some public posts. Rivera Damas, of siege imposed by the iers killed or people control of secuity forces a Arturo administrator of and enough spending logical consequence of After consulting with m ilitary to postolic a aid further for will response his condition money, killed by combat believed the priest's own committhe Vatican, the bishops guerrillas. Salvador, reported be, 'No way! San States. United the from guerrillas. ment to his vocation. said last May that the priSocorro Juridico gathers after a long interview with The highest civilian toll "In the image of Christ, ests would have until evidence of the killings of this year was in January, Church leaders in El Sal- government members that "Too many young people he has been ordained to December 31, 1980 to non-combatants by secur- when 2,644 were killed vador have repeatedly they were considering have too many material resign, but that did not ItY forces from relatives after guerrillas launched a asked for an end to indis- relaxing the state of siege things and they always preach, celebrate the liturgy, and enlighten the happen. and seem to want more." associates of victims, major offensive. In April criminate repression and and ending the curfew.
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BOMBAY, India (NC) — Christian groups say discrimination against Christians in Arunachal Pradesh, a union territory in northeast India, is growing and causing grave concern and anxiety.
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Protest actions in 1981 discriminates against legal license to persecute have included a national Christians. Defenders of Christians. week of prayer by Cathol- the act say it is aimed at ics for suffering and perse- protecting unsophisticated Beginning in 1969 there cuted Christians, and tribal people from being has been harrassment of representations to the converted from their indi- individual Christians and national government. Most adult Catholics today were taught as children about the Sacred burning down of churches genous faiths. A Christian delegation Christians form a tiny in the area. In 1974 there Heart through the practice of the nine First Fridays and the promises made from Arunachal Pradesh minority in India. About 3 was wholesale destruction together with representa- percent of the 622 million of a large number of to St. Margaret Mary. tives of the Northeast India people are Christians. churches, Christians were fear, despair, calls us to Joint Action Committee About 83 percent of the beaten up, their homes set However what was once By Missionary of the SacredHeart, Father accept His love as a perseen as a for Religious Freedom population is Hindu. necessity the for on fire and domestic animPAUL CASHEN, parish priest of Hindmarsh. sonal commitment to me in recently met with governals taken away. Mrs practice of the faith has ..my own searching, and a ment officials, including The law, approved in Gandhi was prime minister lost its importance for Prime Minister, Indira 1978, prohibits religious at the time, but took no most — as observation about "How I see Christ" of us, for the pOorest,- challenge and responsibilindicates, even to the can be answered only with whoever we are, whatever ity to be shared with Gandhi, to present evi- conversions by means of action. others. extent that some are emba- the eyes of faith, a faith we might have done. force, fraud or inducedence of persecution. His heart is in and for The Catholic community ment. Critics say the terms In mid-1980 the Arun- rassed by the use of the that leads to deeper under- The Sacred Heart ceases standing of his presence in to remain just an image or those in need. hopes "some good will are so loosely defined as to nachal Pradesh say the words "Sacred Heart." a devotional practice. That is why it is precious, my life. come of these representa- virtually outlaw charitable Freedom of Religion Act The picture Rather of the the person sacred. Sacred of vision If is my limited on works implemented would by be in tions" to government offiChristian groups cials, said Archbishop and normal evangelisation all its vigor. A government Heart in most churches purpose or perhaps even Jesus, who understands It reflects the deepest of S imon Pimenta of through preaching the circular dated June 12, and many homes, shows defensive, it could be that those feelings of doubt, human values. 1980, "forbids construction "the Heart of Christ burn- we have closed our eyes. Gospel. Bombay. We live in a world of mass The main criticisms focus Christian groups say the of places of worship" other ing with love for men." communication that is on the Freedom of Reli- law has given anti- than those relating to the compounded by so much gion Act in Arunachal Pra- Christian sectors of the indigenous faiths of Arundesh which critics say A runachal government achal Pradesh. S YMBOLS, WORDS loneliness, of massive economic and technical achievement crippled by The symbols and words greed and exploitation. used to express the vision There is no need to go of St Margaret Mary have further than the TV to see changed little in the last the poor, materially, emo-' tionally, intellectually, three centuries. spiritually. They have and do lead The gospels clearly show people to Jesus Christ as a Christ living among and Claremont Teachers College in conjunction with the Catholic Pastoral Institute person, the Son of God, loving the poor. The following Catholic Education Studies will be available at the Claremont who loves all men and The undeniable message Teachers College, Semester 2, 1981 women. GRADUATE STUDIES He is giving His Church To belittle or reject this today is to do the same. GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION This course provides specialist training for teachers and other religious the faith in experience of That is where we will find educators. It includes a significant strand in Catholic Education emphasizing lives of so many for so long Him. Themes of Christian Thought, Christian Literature and current practices and would be wrong. principles of Religious Education. All studies are relevant to teaching in Catholic
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The name Cochrane is synonymous with Catholic charity w ork in Perth. J ack has helped to run more money-raising fetes than he can remember for places such as the Little Sisters of the Poor Home at Glenda lough, Clontarf and Castledare orphanages and the Catherine McAuley Centre. For 22 years he has been on the Glendalough Committee and the last fete raised $17,000 for the home.
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He, brother Bill and son Stephen used to visit the Metropolitan Markets by the dawn's early light three "Us old fogeys can't hold the reins forever," he commornings a week to pick up left over fruit and vegetables ments. "We must get young people interested, listen to for the Daughters of Charity soup kitchen —and the their ideas — of which they have plenty — and help men at the markets were marvellous in their generosity, them to carry them out. he says. The pioneers of the Daughters in WA — particularly Sister Veronica — have left an indelible impression on his memory.
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Fund-Raising Plan "The success of a street appeal, for instance, depends on the number of collectors who turn out.
"It would be a good idea for groups of young Catholics, perhaps at parish or youth organisation level, each He tells of his first meeting with the Nuns when he to take up a fund-raising plan for an institution they Mr John Edward (Jack) Cochrane, JP, was born at Jolimont in 1922. drove Sisters Veronica and Margaret from Guildford to decide on and make it their project for the year. He was educated at the Subiaco Convent, Sacred Heart Primary School at Perth to pick up some material for a jumble sale. Highgate, St Patrick's Boys' School in Perth and was one of the first pupils at "Successful fund-raising doesn't happen over-night In Fitzgerald Street Sister Veronica saw two shops so 12 months' work leading up to a fete or similar Christian Brothers' High School, Highgate. and said immediately: "1 want those for a soup kitchen." function should ensure its financial succecs. He joined the old-established painting business of his father, Mr Arthur Cochrane, on leaving School and served a five-year apprenticeship in the trade. Jack, like most of the other citizens of Perth, had only "Another idea would be for every Parish to conduct a the vaguest idea of what a soup kitchen was. His brother Bill is now a partner with him in the business and his son Stephen is raffle each year with the proceeds going to the Catholic also part of the team. He sent her to Stan ("Popsy") Heal, then M LA for the charity of its choice." Jack married Dorothy O'Brien and in addition to Stephen they have another son district, who was somewhat bemused by the Nun in the and two daughters. Jack reflects that there have been many changes in the unusual head-dress who descended on him. Raymond manages the ANZ Bank at Moora, Suzanne (Mrs Harris) lives in painting and decorating business since he entered it. Sydney and Marie (Mrs Gardner) is a Paraburdoo resident. With the pinpoint accuracy that distinguished him as Mr and Mrs Cochrane are members of St Peter's Parish at Bedord. As a first-year apprentice he got 12 shillings and one of the best wingmen WA football has produced, Technical went to the and sixpence for a 44-hour week Popsy passed her on to the Lotteries Commission. College for half a day a week. There the powers-that-be were impressed with the Apprentices now start on $105.06 a week in wages unadulterated charity that motivated the remarkable Nun and gave her an immediate grant of 250 pounds — plus a payment of $15.75 for fares. In his training days painters mixed all their own w hich was just as well because she had only ninepence in now they come in cans already made up. The LONDON (NC) — The number of abortions performed in colours; the kitty. quality of today's paint, he agrees, is better than when he England and Wales rose in 1980 for the fourth year in a Jack painted and renovated the two Fitzgerald Street started. row to 163,126, an increase of 10.6 percent over the house of his Then a citizen could have the outside shops free of charge and Perth had its first soup kitchen. painted for between six and 15 pounds and the painting 147,451 recorded in 1979 and not far below the 193 It produced an astonishing reaction. of both the inside and outside of an average new house peak total of 167,149, according to official figures People walked in off the street uninvited to roll up cost about 22 pounds. t heir sleeves and help with the work, others came in with recently released. shillings. A bedroom could be painted for 30 gifts of goods and money, and a fish merchant who Painting of the outside of a big home now costs about insisted on retaining his anonymity donated three $2,000 and to paint it inside and out will set you back There was a further sharp rise of 9.4 percent in the months' supply of fish. about $3,000. The price for painting a room is now in number of abortions on Jack was a foundation member of the committee set the vicinity of $150. women resident in Engup to help the Daughters of Charity with the soup The price hike is due to the increased cost of labour land and Wales. This k itchen and later the night shelter, and among the other and materials. brought the total from hard workers for the cause was Mrs Ann Cullity. A gallon of enamel paint now costs the painter $17.68 119,028 in 1979 to an alland in the shops it sells for 40 or 50 per cent more. time high of 130,264 in Techniques have changed, too. Throughout Australia heads of 1980. A ssistance Given Rollers and sprays are employed where possible churches will be encouraging all but therefore cheaper, quicker and because they are The 15.6 percent increase is still a lot of use of the brush. abroad members of their congregations to there from women in The late Bishop Rafferty gave invaluable assistance "We don't often take on apprentices," Jack says, "but having abortions in Eng- complete question 17 of the as did a number of other Catholics whom Jack is relucforthwe do we're very particular about the lads we land and Wales was almost when tant to name in case he inadvertently leaves somebody coming census. some our turning out select. This policy has led to entirely accounted for by off the list. is from this total infortradesmen." of Ireland, T heir statement However, he was surprised to find that non-Catholics excellent apprentices gave rise to the subject of his r esidents mation that churches, Talk of France and Spain. There reads: were in the majority in along with other comthe workers for the Daughters. brother Bill, who left his bank job in 1948 to start a was a 10.9 percent increase The late Councillor Alf Curlewis, for example, was an five-year painting apprenticeship and is now a partner in the number of women We, as leaders within our munity agencies, can indefatigable and most effective helper. respective denominaplan for a more effecfirm. from Northern Ireland The first night shelter was established in Aberdeen in the tions, urge the members tive and efficient provithe mile and half- (where the 1967 Abortion won athlete who noted was a Bill Street, but because it of our churches to sion of pastoral care would be threatened with demoli- mile State schoolboy championships in 1944 and the Act does not apply), bringtion when the city ring-road system was implemented it ensure that they comand other services championships over the ing this total from 1,429 to junior State Australian South w as moved to plete question 17 of the its present location in Mary Street, same distances in Adelaide in 1945. including health care, 1,585, and a 22.2 percent Highgate. census by indicating the s ocial welfare and Cochrane and Sons Pty. Ltd. lists among the big increase in the number A.J. Only 400 of the necessary 11,500 pounds for this denomination to which e ducation. jobs it has completed the painting of the former David from Ireland, bringing this move was in hand they belong. when it was first decided on, but the Jones store in St George's Terrace, the Boans stores in total from 2,767 to 3,380. As with all census informar emaining The Census provides a sta11,100 pounds was raisedin a month — an the Karrinyup and Bopragoon shopping centres, St tion, the individual indication of the are figures Irish The tistical picture of the financial expertise and sheer hard Apne's Hospital (a 14-month job), the Elders wool response is completely w ork the significantly as entire nation at the one Daughters were able to call on. c onfidential. Census stfDres at Fremantle, the Little Sisters of the Poor Home regarded underestimated because Sister Veronica decided after a time that premises in at Glendalough and a lot of work for the Church. time — a profile of forms are destroyed, no women only record they nearby Shenton where people are, what names or addresses are Jack finds his work as a Justice of the Peace pretty Street would be more suitable for the address. Irish an give who SOUp they do, how old they kitchen than the Fitzgerald Street shops, but constant, mainly in the signing of documents because he recorded by the Bureau Many Irish women who 20,000 pounds was required to buy the Shenton Street does not sit on the bench. are and their religious of Statistics, and only to England for an Property. denomination — thus t otal numbers are He says that people often find difficulty in getting come address the give abortion A nother approach was made to the Lotteries Com- hold of a JP on the rare occasions that most of them p roviding churches published. with relative English of an mission which, obviously convinced of the worth of the want one. with an accurate des- Accurate census informathey are staying. w ork the Daughters were doing, took the unusual step cription of their tion helps ensure that "All they have to do," he advises, "is to ring the whom of granting the full amount. membership. these services will be nearest Police Station who keep a list of the JsP in the The Spanish total rose by Jack says that he derives great satisfaction from his area." 15.3 percent from 16,433 to Although the question is provided where they Work for Catholic charities, but he laments the fact that not compulsory and will do the most good The conclusion of the interview left the writer with the 18,947, and the French too few young people have a perfect for the greatest number people are coming forward no.w to help at regret that there are not more Jack Cochranes in this total by 42.3 percent from fetes and other right not to answer it, it of people. 2,964 to 4,219. 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ABORTIONS RISE
Appeal made on census
SPORT WITH A DEADU TOLL One of the most dangerous sports in the w orld has taken a deadly turn for the worse with the recent tragic accidents on the F ormula One circuit.
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• The violent and deadly story of Formula One motor racing is the subject of Channel Nine's Havoc at 8.30 pm on Friday, July 3.
eye; Reutemann ran car spun off killed his mechanic over and aped when his marshal race a but during irack, a Lc practice session; and s killed and two others m echanic was between two cars atsquashed the actual rt. racing has become start of the race. otor igh-powered, precich a h such speed LE MANS EVENT n sport with slightest misthe that lved o And in France, at the rece lation can spell disaster. Le Mans 24-hour event, a In channel Nine's Havoc on driver and a mechanic iri.draat)erast killed in yet .another ol'eGntlesntnorFyorof t8heNvPim seriewseoref accidents. the recent and racing tor driver Jean introduce safety LaFosse died in a high Louis torts to into the sport. crash that also injuredspeed asures two marshals. In another piNIONS GIVEN during the same race crash during Belgian - hroughout the pro driver d river Thierry Boutsen tammes famous motor rac-
ing drivers will give their opinions on the dangers involved in top-speed car racing. Some of the top racing drivers who will talk about the proposed safety measures are L ance Macklin, Mario Andretti, Niki Lauda, James Hunt and Peter De Paolo.
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Nun and priest in radio sessions S ister Veronica Brady and Jesuit priest Father Bill Hewett feature in two ABC religious radio programmes this week.
lish at the University of Western Australia. In this series she draws on her forth-coming book, Acutest at its Vanishing — Australian Culture and the Question of Sister Veronica Brady God. of Perth takes up the She challenges the question of God in By notion that Australian The Way on 6WN at 10.20am Monday, Tues- culture is godless. The environment may day, Thursday and Fribe unfavourable to reliday this coming week. gion as A.G. Stephens Sister Veronica is a said in 1904 but not, in member of the Loreto Veronica Brady's view, to community at Nedlands faith. and is a lecturer in EngFocusing on works of
They included Star exceptions, with the leads Wars, Annie Hall, Satur- being played by John day Night Fever, and an Meillon, Rod Taylor, Australian comedy called John Ewart, Jeannie The Picture Show Man. Drynan, Gary MacDoChannel Seven will nald, Harold Hopkins screen The Picture Show and Patrick Cargill. Man on Sunday night Rod Taylor was shown the script while he was in (June 28) at 8.35 pm. The Picture Show Man America and he made stars an all-Australian arrangements (money, he said, was not important
• Robert Mitchum and Charlott Rampling star in Channel Nine's Sunday movie Farewell My Lovely at 8.35 pm.
Australian literature learn to contemplate, which have come to be Father Bill Hewett presregarded as classics, ents a method that will Marcus Clarke's For the appeal to the whole perTerm of his Natural Life son at a variety of levels. as well as on works by Each programme folmore recent writers such as Patrick White, Veron- lows the same three steps: ica Brady discusses what (a) a short invocation of she sees as the "inner" God history of Australia. (b) a simple prayer exerMeditation is made easy cise based on one of the by a Jesuit priest in the five senses, and eight-week programme (c) a petition in verse currently presented each based on the prayer exernight on 6WN at cise just done. 11.10pm. The theme for this week In a series of simple is: The God who comes exercises to help you close to us in Jesus.
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to him to make this picti4re),.to fly to the land of his birth and appear as the "baddie" Mr. Palmer, the damn Yankee. The story of The Picture Show Man concerns Mr. Pym (Meillon) who travels the outback roads during the 1920s, bringing to the towns the excitement of motion pictures of the silent era. His territory is invaded by a rival and former assistant, Palmer. The story is about their clashes and their adventures on the road.
Both men become involved with has-been vaudeville and circus stars who have become stranded (Cargill and European actress Yelena Zigon), inflammable film and the new-fangled sound equipment and romantic encounters. Written and produced by Joan Long, who also wrote the screenplay for Caddie, the Picture Show Man was filmed in the New England and north coast areas of NSW.
Harold Hopkins plays Larry, Pym's son, who is lonely and shy from spending years on the road with his father.
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Channel Seven presents a chilling murder melodrama, circa 2022, titled Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Chuck Connors and Leigh Laylor-Young on Thursday July 2 at 9.35 pm.
It is a time and in a city where 100 murders go unsolved each day.
Problems Both the victim, Joseph Cotten, and the detective had discovered a secret so horrifying that its very e xistence challenged their sanity. Edward G. Robinson • John Ewart as the quick-witted Freddie, with Harold Hopkins, in a scene from the entertaining plays the detective's A ustralian movie — The Picture Show Man — on Channel Seven, Sunday, June 28 at 8.35 pm. "book" — a kind of
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Over the past 30 years Chandler has adapted his stories to the changing audiences and cinemagoers have seen many different Marlowes emerge, from the romantic Humphrey Bogart to the sardonic Elliott Gould. Channel Nine's Sunday movie Farewell My Lovely is an update on Chandler's Murder My Sweet, again re-written by the original author.
Robert Mitchum takes the role of Phillip Marlowe in this story of the private eye who hunts for an ex-convict's lost sweetheart and uncovers more than he expected. Charlotte Rampling costars with Mitchum and
movie enthusiasts may recognise Charlotte from such movies as Orca, The Night Porter and Zardoz, while John Ireland and Sylvester Stallone also co-star in this mystery based in Los Angeles during the 1940s.
• Tormented by doubts and a sense of failure, Father Jack Menotti returns to Woolongong for a visit to his family in Menotti: Southern Exposure, on Channel Two on Wednesday at 8.30 pm. Jack hopes a period away from the presbytery will give him time to think but the visit does not provide the quiet he had hoped for. His mother is ecstatic about the visit from her son, the priest, and his father arranges a celebratory dinner. Jack becomes involved in problems on his father's building site and must face some truths about his father.
Detective faces forsidable task in futuristic movie Essentially, Soylent Green is a murder melodrama against the background of a burgeoning population, and Heston plays a detective faced with the impossible task of finding the killer of one of the remaining important members of the political heirarchy of Manhattan.
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Raymond Chandler's stories of the weary but incorruptible private eye were first screened in1942 with George Sanders as Phillip Marlowe in The Falcon Takes Over.
researcher and memory bank. The facilities we take for granted — power, light and heat — will no longer be available in 2022. Subways will be used for sleeping, useless vehicles will choke the streets and air transport will be grounded in the period in which this thriller is set. Women are referred to as "furniture" and everybody of wealth needs a bodyguard. The problems of the world at this time are so immense that there seems little that the men of scienc can do to avoid a catastrophic riot and the police are outnumbered thousands to one. The main problems of the governments are to
feed the people, and Soylent Green becomes the staple diet.
• Alan is invited to go bush with McLeod, a Queensland bullock y, and persuades his parents to let him go, in I Can Jump Puddles: Crutches Are Nothing, on Channel Two on Sunday (June 28) at 7.40 pm.
The detective stumbles on the secrets of Soylent Green and is so horrified that he has to find someone to confide in.
Murdered The murdered man's " furniture," Leigh Taylor -Young, comes under the scrutiny of the detective and they begin a love affair, with reverberations neither of them can foretell. The discovery of the secret of Soylent Green leads the detective to a dangerous situation at the climax of this futuristic movie. Others in the cast are brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Stephen Young, Mike Henry, Dick Van Patten and Whit Bissell.
Alan's observations of his fellow man and a long talk with an oldtimer awaken an interest in writing. He starts to take notes wherever he goes and listens eagerly to conversations. His destiny is beginning to take shape.
Charlt°n Heston and Leigh Taylor-Young in a scene from the 21st Century movie Soylent Green.
The Crutches are Nothing episode of I Can Jump Puddles stars Adam Garnett, Tony Barry and Roger Ward. Future episodes will star Terry Gill, Maurie Fields, Rosie Sturges and Lewis FitzGerald.
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YOUTH AID HAS LIT PAT'S LIFE Laughter comes easily to Pat Hackett when she recalls some of the lifetime of extensive social activities in which she has been involved. In herfirstcaper,during World War II, she secured a false identification card and a false birth certificate to enlist in the army b ecause she was under age. "What I really wanted to do was become a nurse, but then you had to be 18, I was 17, and they did a stricter security check than the army. It also could have been patriotism, I don't know," Pat said. "My parents knew what I was going to do. They didn't like it, but they had faith in me. "Thirty other girls and I from WA embarked for Ivanhoe Grammar School in N.S.W.
WOMAN OF THE WEEK
By ANABEL GOMEZ
Pat Hackett (nee Collins) was born the seventh of a family of 13 in Tuckfield Street, Fremantle and was educated at the nearby School of Our Lady of the Missions. At 17 she gave up work in a shoe store to enter the army. She was taught diimantle machine guns and decipher codes. After leaving the army how to she held various positions, eventually becoming Secretary to the HMAS Leeimin Captain. As a volunteer helper at the Stella Mans Club she met St Vincent de Paul worker Frank Hackett and they were married in 1952. She has been a catechist, a member of the Legion of Mary and the NIajellans, and is Secretary of the Applecross Catholic Women's League branch. Library work, writing and coaching netball take up her other free moments.
of the good times that I spent there," Pat says. "One particular New Year's Eve a Chinese fleet was in port, and I led the traditional C hinese ceremonial dragon through the streets of Fremantle in the early hours of the morning." Pat continued to have fun when she got married, but her early morning street dancing activities were over because of the births of her four daughters. CARAVAN LIFE
When she and Frank married they lived in a caravan on the site of their on Sunday morning work Pat thought that she had home. They later upgraded CIPHER SECTION shift, and told meIwas not had enough discipline and themselves by persuading "We attended the Signal allowed to attend Mass had no wish to re-enter a Pat's father and brothers Training Battalion in the during my shift, even if I strictly regulated nursing to help them build a house. cipher section. I learnt all did find some-one to cover community. Instead she did a course in secretarial During this time they about signalling, line and for me. helped to establish the St w ireless telegraphy, "Continually I would dis- duties and held various Benedict's School and switchboard operating, obey orders and attend positions with an exChurch. signal clerking, and Mass, and until this day I service Torganisation and "Our association with the thrown in for good mea- remain amazed that I later became secretary to the HMAS Leeuwin Com- school lasted 25 years, sure was how to dismantle wasn't put on the mat. before our girls were born an Owen machine gun." "To have to stand up for manding Officer. and while they attended Pat served mainly in my faith helped me acquire there," Pat said. NSW, and was superin- strength and grow. The " When the school tendent of a shift of the opposition I experienced opened facilities were not WA Signal Office. It was was real, but I thank God MISSION MEETING finished and during school here that she met her hus- that I had true friends break I would hear 100 litband, Frank. (including an atheist) who tle feet pounding through "I'll always cherish the gave me emotional sup- - While she was re-entering the bush track to be the time I spent in the army. I port. The friendships I society as a civilian, she first to arrive at our home was a regular visitor at the laughed, I cried, but most made in the army are still Stella Mans Seamens' and that of our neighbour's of all I grew spiritually and withstanding." Mission, where she met so they could use the emotionally," she says. When Pat left the army facilities. "Because there were only she still harboured the Frank again. Many girls met and mar10 Catholic girls in my sec- thought of becoming a tion, and I was the only nurse -- her first love. ried the St Vincent de NUNS' MEALS f ull-time practising But her ex-army compan- Paul's voluntary workers. Catholic, I encountered ions who had entered the Just as many girls met and strong opposition. field warned her of the married the seamen who "Sometimes the nuns' "A particular sergeant s trict discipline that went to Stella Mans. midday meals were prewould repeatedly put me existed. "I have many memories pared by a neighbour and something deep down," Murdoch University. ultimate the community, in myself and I would run Pat said. Some even came from and in giving them this their messages. "In all this time I felt sad o verseas. opportunity you receive a "It was through my close about how other Churches "When I started organis- greater reward," Pat said. association with the indi- could not get a full comple- ing the reunion in MarchI She learnt a multitude of vidual children and the ment of scripture teachers. didn't realise the snowball things when she compiled staff at St Benedict's that I It was hard everywhere, effect it would have," Pat the aged section of the started teaching religion possibly due to women said. report. on Sundays. working. Numbers were "It was exhilarating to see "Everyone must start to "Later I advanced to the down, and to me these so many people, so full of prepare for the time of State school as a catechist. children were not receiving love and unity, come retirement at least 15 years I endeavoured to get t he opportunity they together. It was a living before the event. Educatthrough the message of should have had as child- example of people belong- ing ourselves to re-adjust God to these pre-ordained ren of God. ing, as only in the family will enable us to maintain saints, possibly losing unit. Yet this is the unit our usefulness in society. more faith than anyone "Finally I took action, that society is so deter- "Education is most and although it was many will ever know. important. For our society years before I had the mined to annihilate." to be well balanced we chance to teach ecumenitake all age groups must HARD TIMES cally,Ifind it an extremely account. into QUA DRAPLEGIC rewarding experience. • "We must realise that the "They were hard times, "Many children are aged have a reservoir of but perhaps it really is not already receiving the faith Through her strong com- knowledge and skills, built meant to be easy. I was from their parents. I mitment to the family, Pa,t up over years of expeamazed and still am believe this is how it should learnt how to deal with dis- nence, which we should amazed by the large be. Parents must give the abled people -- both her endeavour to use and reap amount of subtle prejudice children something to live brothers were a quadra- the benefits of wisdom," C atholics are still up to and show example. plegic. It was in her capac- Pat said. experiencing. The family is a very impor- ity as international CWL She is a great believer in "As a cathechist I was tant part in a child's devel- Secretary that she was equal rights, whether it be confronted by adverse con- opment and it presents the chosen to compile a report for the disabled, aged, or ditions. I found myself child with a secure envir- on the disabled and aged Catholics. teaching in alleyways, onment and good exam- for the IYDP Committee. "I would like to tell youth toilets, cloakrooms, gyms ple." "Ringing out loud and that they can re-mould this and storerooms if all the Pat is a strong supporter clear, in the report, is the world into an equal one courclassrooms were being of a united family unit, and fact that the disabled have -- if they have the used." for this reason she orga- a strong need for recogni- age. All people must find Pat would teach an aver- nised a Charles Francis tion of their abilities and their paths and not be age of 25 children, from Tondut, John O'Grady and not their disabilities reali- pressed into things by, years one to seven, for half James Whitely family sation by us that disable- peers. an hour. ment does not mean the " Although at times I reunion. "The children were beau- In October last year foregoing of the whole could knock a few heads Pat Hackett and Dolores "Dolly" Horan (left) at Farwest Crippled tiful. However, some were about 1,000 people repres- person. together, I can safely say I Children's Home in Wentworth Street, Manly, while stationed at fractious. But I think that enting eight generations of "All disabled should be love everyone," Pat Northead Underground, NSW. Pat and Dolly still correspond. even these children learnt the family gathered at ensured of reaching their concluded. 10 The Record, June 25-July 1, 1981
Founder recalled
History came alive at a recent Young Christian Workers' camp held at Parkerville when the re-enactment of the work of Joseph Cardijn, the founder of the YCW movement, was presented in an original and entertaining way of Kevin Yuen (president) and Steve Barton, (treasurer).
This week in the Youth Office we had a power failure. When this happens it is usually our own fault. We either misuse our electrical equipment or overload the system in some way. On these cold mornings that can well be the case. As it turned out, this week it was the fault of the State Energy Commission; a sudden power surge caused the lights in the office to glow at double their brightness, the electrical heaters to burn twice as warmly and to add insult to injury, the Telecom system blew up. The reason was that in our small normally power-hungry office we had received too much electricity and everything stopped. The normal warning system should have been the fuse box. For some reason it failed. Had we received some other warning we could have turned off all the electrical equipment and saved ourselves considerable inconvenience, but we received no warning of what lay ahead of us. It made me think that sometimes we overload ourselves and are victims with a power surge. We overload ourselves with too much of a good thing and take no heed of the warning signals of nature and of the warning signals in our hearts and conscience. Thank God for the warning system of nature in our bodies which regulates our lives. If we have too much of a particular thing, we grow tired, weary, sleepy, aggravated or even depressed. We need a break — or else we blow up.
God's laws and the rules of the Church are also warning systems and regulators for every aspect of our life. They not only regulate our relationship with God, but are meant to regulate our relationships with people and help us keep our balance in life. At times we take little heed:, The sun no longer regulates man's working hours because with electricity we have the power to change night into day.
numerous activities and, In the play the particiBy group sessions and felt at pants on the camp took the Julie home. parts of Joseph Cardijn, his mother and father, the R anson Christine O'Regan and two popes with whom he Maryanne De Souza told was involved German soldme that the camp had given iers and other characters experience for all who took them the opportunity to life. in his who featured part. meet others and share the The aim of the camp was In the discussion groups situations of their lives t o introduce young the topics included such with their peers. workers to the YCW things as the pressures facing youth today, the work- Mary Cameron, who is a movement. It was organised by ing situation of young full-time worker from Gemma Wooltorton, Liz people, how they spend Albany, told me she really Chidlow, Fran Linton, their leisure and what part felt that the barriers that normally exist between Rosita D'Adamo, Kath Christ plays in one's life. Welch, Steve Barton and In speaking to Philip Bar- people were broken down Kevin Yuen. Together they ton and Susan Arrow, I and that she could feel made it a valuable learning learnt that they enjoyed the Christ alive at the camp. • Cardinal Joseph Cardign
It is now a double challenge to know when we have had enough of midnight oil burning to catch up on work or study. Television can entertain us for 24 hours a day. I regard it as one of my main sleep robbers. What is worse, I know that the time I spend in front of the box can be used far more effectively and creatively. The 10 commandments are still valid today and the rules and guidelines of the Church tell us how we should treat God and one another. We have the power within ourselves to determine the course of our own lives, taking special notice of the warning signals of nature and the laws and guides of Jesus Christ and his Church. • A 24-hour telephone service is operated • from the Catholic Youth Office, pictured left. The telephone number is 325 4055, and remember there is always someone there to help you.
YOUTH FORUM
The Embassy Ballroom is the venue for the Polonia Folk Dance group annual ball. (July 25 at 8pm). An orchestra recently arrived from Poland will play and the group will be presenting a new repetoire of dances. Tickets $11 single including supper and champagne. For reservations phone 298 8289 or 446 1250.
First ball was winner The Catholic Parish Youth movement held its inaugural ball at Leederville recently. The preparation and organisation for the ball was carried out by Lucia Britto, Francine Smith, Jo Vitale, Jackie Wong, Sam Carello and other young people from parishes in the southern region. The aim of the ball was and show their skill at old twofold. First, to provide time dancing. an entertainment with a The second reason was to difference, something difraise funds for the CPY ferent from the normal dismovement. cos and social life that would give both young On both scores it was a men and women the success. opportunity to dress up More than 200 young people attended from many groups in the metro area including Redbell, Medina, Fremantle, Dianella, Morley, Burrendah, Bassendean and Queen's , Park. • Pictured are just two of the couples dancing the night away.
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Dear Captain Bob, I live in Bahrain near Saudi Arabia. It is a very hot country. The Arab men wear thobes and the women wear black abbas. It is desert country and there is a tree believed to be the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden. We live in an expat compound called Awali. Oul house is opposite the church and school. This place is very different from Australia. Here are some jokes: Q. Have you heard the joke about the bed? A. I can't tell you; it hasn't been made yet! Q. What is yellow, has four legs and two beaks? A. Two Canarys!
Mum: Would you like some of yesterday's soup? Dad: Yes please! M um: Well, ask me tomorrow. I've just made it! Q. Which sailor has one eye? A. Pop-eye! Bye for now. Wendy Handyside GB AuHLFRAIN, ARABIAN
Dear Captain Bob, How are you? I went to Perth on the May holidays. We went to Kings Park, the Zoo and to Karrinyup Park and Girrawheen Park. The day I went to the Zoo we went to the Nocturnal House and we also got an ice-cream. On the long weekend we went to Kalgoorlie. It was great fun. Bye for now. Nereida Costick THREE SPRINGS Dear Captain Bob, Here is a joke for you: Q. What did the Pink Panther say when he got to a dead end? A. Dead end, dead end, etc. (to the tune of The Pink Panther). God Bless. Helen King TRIGG
Q. Who takes less for a trip — an elephant or a rAo.osAter? rooster. He takes comb, while the elep h his ant has to take his trunk! Q. What three keys l have legs but won't open locks? A. Monkeys, donkeys and ytQuo.rukForeaylsw! what man should ays take off your hat? Q A . Twhheab t adr bi der! the Health Inspector say to his Q assistant? ha t A. Hi-Jean! \What can you give away, but still keep? A. Your word! Q. How many apples can you put in an empty bag? A. One — then the bag is no longer empty! Susan Dilley COOLUP
Dear Captain Bob, L am very sorry to hear the bad news but I'll write a 1...._ letter to cheer you up. I . I _ hope you want to hear about the old school days. Well, if you do you're RIDDLE . Q. What never runs but going to find I'm trying my hardest in the wonderful Dear Nurse Kerry can be caught? contests of yours. I just I have some knock A. A cold! hope it gets in first. I made knocks and riddles: I I KNOCK KNOCK this knock knock up. I KNOCKS KNOCK Knock Knock! hope you like it Who's there? Knock knock! Knock Knock! Who's there? Olive! Who's there? Olive who? Open! Miss! Olive you, do you love me? Open who? Miss who? Open the door so I can get Timothy Mitchell I'm sorry, I missed the in! BUNBURY door. Knock knock! That's all for now. Dear Captain Bob, Who's there? Rosemary Bateman I haven't written for ages, Captain! but now I am going to BEVERLEY Captain who? Captain Bob is back again! write ...more. I thought would draw a picture and Dear Captain Bob, RIDDLES ' write some jokes for your We live in a small town. Q. What cup do you never Kids Page. have a small farm. I We 1 drink out of? Q. Why did the elephant can ride our horse a little Is i• A. An egg cup! cross the road? bit on my own. We have a Q. What begins with P, A. Cos it was the chicken's lot of pigs, cows and sheep, day off! grows and is green? and we also have two emus Q. Why did the elephant that belong to my Uncle A. Pea! Q. What did the loud go half way across the Geoffrey. That is all for _ now. Ghost say to the quiet road? A. He stopped to make a Love from Ghost? Name Ann Jones A. Spook louder, I can't trunk call! Tracy Capper C ALINGIRI hear you! K ARRINYUP A ddress Mandy Hall P/code COVE ALFRED Dear Captain Bob, Age Country readers have won Birthdates Dear Captain Bob, I've heard that you have nearly all of last weeks Here is a joke for you: been let down so to cheer ompetitions. Pemberton Q. What's green and got you up I've got you some c resident, Timothy O'Confour wheels? jokes. nell and Louise Malley, A. Grass. I lied about the Q. Where was Moses from Ballidu won the Odd wheels! when the candle went out? Ones Out competition. Love from Clare King A. In the dark! K atrina Maley from TRIGG Q. What should you keep Moora is one of Gatia's After haying the police in Manitoba search after you have given it to Puzzle winners. The other Dear Nurse Kerry, high and low for his camera the absentI am Selina Ruth Hytten. someone else? is the only city slicker to minded Captain realised that he hadn't left it 1 am eight and I am going A. Your promise! win any Smarties this in Manitoba at all, he had really left it in to be nine on September Q. What animal keeps the u wieeekR, and her name is LeoMontana. 13th. I am in grade three. I best time? from DiaWhen he telephoned he the Shining Mountains' of the farmland is used for was opened in 1883. This have got one brother called A. A watchdog! nella. NowIwant to see if a said: "Kerry, I've tra- and 'The Big Sky Country'. crop raising. provided transportation to Andrew, aged five. My sis- Q. What part of the fish country city kid will win d velled so much that all High rugged mountains The poorer soil is grass- the great cities in the east. ter is Naomi and is two. I weighs the most? next weeks competition. I these M's sound the cover western Montana, land where farmers rear In 18 8 9, Montana live in Rockingham at 29 A. The scales! wonder. same." Well thats all very where the highest point is large herds of cattle and became the 41st state. Ricketts Way. well, but I told him he Granite Peak (12,799 feet). sheep. Montana is rich in My 1900, the state grew We have got a sand pit shold be more careful Eastwards, the mountains minerals, especially petro- rich from its minerals and and yesterday I made a because his mistake thin out and the land leum and natural gas. its economy boomed in girl. . ...................... .......... meant that he had to becomes a grassy plain. Most of the state's manu- and after World War II. My hobbies are reading, travel half way across the facturing industries are r oller skating, doing About half of Montana's based on its agricultural world to get the camera sports. I belong to the rural in live people 682,000 back. and mineral resources. Squirrels Club as well. I go Now he tells me that the areas. Only five cities have The earliest known to Brownies on Tuesday. I camera doesn't even more than 20,000 people, inhabitants of Montana like playing netball at Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . work, well I ask you. In included Helena, the state were the Indian tribes. HAPPY BIRTHDAY: home. I have got a netball tribal Indian Seven capital. his letter he doesn't menFrench fur trappers were PAUL BELL of Kojon- ring. Address . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tion anything about the reservations lie within the active in the area in the up, MARIAN COOPER I have got a letter story. mess and a good thing state. The tribes include mid-1700's. American fur of Palmyra, DONNA Here it is. "We saw a plane. P/code the Assiniboin and Sioux, trappers built the first EMANUELL of Lang- It was carrying too. He writes: PPPs. We Montana, America's nor- Blackfeet, Chippewa-Cree, known permanent settle- ford, MICHELLE said we will CCCs the . Age Birthdate thernmost "Rocky Moun- Salish and Kootenai, ment in Montana in 1847. GI,ANCY of Dalkeith, plane. But it was not YYYs t........................................) tain" state, lies on the Crow, Northern Chey- By 1864, Montana was IAN GOSLING of Bays- because some BBBs were You have got to be in the Please print clearlY and water, BENJAMIN in the plane too. But they club Canadian border between enne, and the Fort Belknap created a territory. if you want to enter don't forget your date of N AMNIK of York, Idaho in the west and the Indian Community. stung us so we could not Indian wars continued m ec ompetitions ofh apnrdizewsi.n birth and a stamp so we .shiP 5 Dakotas in the east. It cov- Montana's 29,000 farms until 1877, when a federal ANDREA NERVA of have the PPPs. We said we some the super can send your member 1' P adbury, mbership JUDITH will TTTs the BBBs so we To join 'ship ers an area of 147,138 produce more than half of army crushed all Indian Me you. simply to form send the enter .r all square miles. the state's total income. opposition. Montana ROSE of Trigg, IVETTE did." completed coupon here to will Montana means moun- Wheat, barley, hay and prospered as a cattle- ROBINSON of Carine Love from, competitions. The Record Kid's Club, tainous in Spanish. Mon- sugar beet are leading raising territory after the and CHRISTINE SE- Selina Hytten, PO Box 50, Aberdeen Well, what are you wa tana is also called 'Land of crops. But only one-fourth Northern Pacific Railroad WELL of Girrawh e ROCKINGHAM Street, Perth, 6000. r
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< S taff and students Boys only attend the senior section (years of Xavier College (incorporating eight to ten) which has about 130 students and Our Lady Help of Christians) five lay teachers. "The main reason for the merger was because like to think in East Victoria Park of their new united it provided extra opportunity in curriculum school as a strong Christian development and allowed us to use special team c teaching methods," Sister Keely said. ommunity. "All-round development of pupils by inculcating the Christian principle is one of the Sister Mary main aims of our school," Keely, headmistress of the Primary school, said. "We
try achieve, to motivate our students to learn and respect and encourage them to have a loving for others," Sister Mary said. "Since our merger we have some indication that these ideals instilled in the children are being implemented by them. "Some the little older students take a strong interest in ones and many' friendships have been made among them." The school is in three sections, but the a dministratio n is united. The pre-primary section has about 45 students and two lay teachers. • About 220 !Ion of the students attend the primary secwe merger. school which was most affected by This section is now completely coeducational, °IllY up to whereas previously boys attended year four.
"Another reason was the severe shortage of places in senior boys' schools. At the moment only boys go up to year 10 but it is hoped that in the future we will have girls staying on till year 10 also." Musical instruction is conducted through all levels of the school and "plays an important part in the .school." Dave Way, of JT and the Jazzmen fame, is the school's musical director, and he teaches senior boys the clarinet, flute, drums, trombone and bass guitar. The school has three showbands which perform at special school functions, old peoples' homes and at other schools on request.
The band's repertoire includes everything from the Our Father to Star Wars. Dennis Kelly is in charge of the school choir, which consists of children from years five to seven. The choir also sings at the weekly school Masses which are celebrated by Parish Priest, Father Phillip Farrelly.
Mass liturgies are prepared by a different class each week. Another very important part of the school is multicultural educational bilingual programme which is conducted in conjunction with the Italian Consul. Each week all primary and pre-primary school children have an Italian lesson. "Actually the pre-primary centre resulted as an extension to the multicultural programme," Sister Keely said. "We found that migrant children needed special attention before coming to primary school, even more so than when they start primary.
Many nationalities "We have many children of different nationalities in the Centre, and Mrs Anita Owens prepares them for formal grade one learning." Preparation of both children and parents is organised by the Parent Interest Group. It organises social functions for children and parents so that they can meet each other. Apart from which they help in macrame and cooking lessons and in the libraries. About 5,000 dozen lamingtons are made each year by the special fund-raising committee. "Volunteers take over the parish hall and under the supervision of Kath Jackson the production starts," Sister Keely said.
"For three days and nights the fine art of making lamingtons is practised by these hard working people." Parents also help in the school during the monthly school board meetings. A common staff room had to be built and Tom Ruston, school board member, drew up the plans and supervised the operation. In order to give the children a full look at life, integration with the Millen Special School is practised during the week. Children from both schools travel back and forth to partake in folk dancing, cooking and swimming classes. This has proved a worthwhile exercise for both schools. The Xavier College students have access to two very well-stocked libraries and resource centres and they have a wide range of sports available to them. Our Lady of Help of Christians was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1936. Xavier College was a CBC enterprise founded in 1950. Many changes have been undergone by the school, but the most important move has been the uniting of both schools. "The merger has proved worthwhile in spite of any teething problems we may have had. Basically it has gone through quite smoothly and we are already reaping the benefits of this move" Sister Keely said.
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WANTED PIANO WANTED. A During his recent visit to Western Australia the piano in fair condition is sought by the Catholic Pro-Nuncio, Archbishop Barbarito, congratuWomen's League, Leeder- lated the lay apostolate on the extent of their ville, for use at Socials. Last month's first Price and general details to involvement considering the small population. r esidential weebe furnished to the Parish A mong those present Council, Mental Health women please contact your kend for the PauCouncil, Tel 444.2812. was a representative Association and N'gla to nearest CWL branch or line solo parents' contact our headquarters c ontingent of memb- mention but a few. group held at the at 49a Vincent Street, Mt E.T. RUSSELL & SONS ers of the Catholic These delegates assist the R edemptorist ReRegistered Builders work of these organisa- Lawley (328 4767) or (381 treat Women's League. House was FOR HIRE 6303). It is not necessary to Plans drawn, free quotes, in way whatever they tions The CWL was established l imited to an have specialised any for all building works PALMER'S HIRE in this State over 40 years c an and keep other knowledge, all talents can attendance of 21, Phone: 444 3860 344 3506 informed their of members SERVICE ago and is still expanding so that assistance be used to help the work of and applicants had All party equipment, OPPORTUNITY a nd attracting new activities a CWL branch and you to be turned away. MASTER PAINTER'for given. may be glassware members carry , etc on the to can be sure of a welcome all painting requirements. SHOP Crockery, cutlery, various activities with If you feel you would whatever your interests George Hickey, Reg. No. Assisting in the weeCabaret tables, chairs C LAREMONT which it has become enjoy working with other may be. 897, 444 1707. kend were Redemptortestles, coloured lights those during involved n eeds your good ist Fathers Reg Ahern Carpenter. Wants work. elec. urns, pie warmers years. and Kevin Henry, and used clothing, kitNo job too small. Will do cold plates, dance floors, Branches have been Melbourne Redempchenware, bric-ac arpentry, plumbing. marquees, etc. formed throughout the torist Father Frank brac, jewel lery, Perth Archdiocese, as far painting, bricklaying, and 1250 Albany Highway Smith who drove over books etc to continue tiling. Patios, gutters, away as Kalgoorlie and C,annington Phone with two people to be its work caring for Northam. cleaned and roof repairs. 458 2891 part of the presenting Doors and windows eased. the disabled. For col- Now the Diocese of BunWE CAN DELIVER. team. All areas Ph. 367 4065. lection call Mrs bury has seen rapid growth The two day proO 'Connor 367 2095 and many enthusiastic new members, prepared to gramme started on Fritravel many hundreds of evening and R ECORD Today's mammoth machines day to participate miles in finished on Sunday CLEVER CLASSIFIEDS SIMPLE functions. can roar across the paddocks all evening. FOR SALE mimeo mmanm Moran MIME= a dvertisements free. These include zone meet- they like but On Our Selection is Those taking part ings and annual conferen: MO GIMM DOM DINO OM GIMM urged to form mmman NIDOCIN MIMI= rammon Pay only if you sell. ces which provide a venue going to keep last century's were groups, to ascersmall Nag= OMEN ammo MIENIII3 $5 on items below for the exchange of news tain each other's needs A ussie Battler $ 200; alive $10 no on and matter views other items with M MIME M El WEBB 121 as solo parents and Catholic women interested what happens. MEM M OMON MOM MI &Men above $200. offer support. in the life of their communM O M RO a m m ma CLOSING TIME The reality was backLindNorman ity 1920's, and State. the First mail each WednesIMMIZIE11111311101ME A consistent problem breaking and often say's irreverent cartoons, GIG1I;1I i1 MINA 1:121311 IN MOON day. was that solo parents During its 40-odd years in of films Dave Dad and tragic; families sur- the PO BOX 50 MitiiIIIMS M MIMI! became engrossed in W A many charities have the late 1930's and the MCKIE EOM WIWI mum Perth Aberdeen St caring about their benefitted from the work vived in conditions never-ending radio serial children that they forof the Catholic Women's unbelievable by to- which has had a short got their own value as League members with the day's standards. revival. persons. various homes run for Out on Queensland's This latest production is a Before the Saturday children and the aged Darling Downs, Arthur rewritg, by Georg! Whaley Mass a ceremony of being close to their heart. Davis spotted the sensitive possibly testing how much anointing for healing The support of young humour which made them cocky chaff has blown into was conducted in conSeminarians also is a con- pull through and immorta- the ears of the modern junction with special tinuing interest to lised them in Steele Rudd's urban Australian. stories. prayer. members. Since the weekend a From CWL, delegates are Since then affection has Geoff Gibbs presentation committee has been sent to many other com- grown through a number of Dad Rudd with his batformed and plans are aid groups such as of transformations: Bert tered turned up hat had a The Sydney City Mission's new documentary munity being studied to make the Civil Rehabilitation Bailey's stage versions of fairly well worn stereotype to follow and he does it film The Forgotten People, which depicts the the Pauline groups a successfully and James long term programme plight of mentally handicapped people, has Bean as the hard-working, for solo parents to have droll and never-so-bright support and compangained wide interest from many sections of the Dave almost makes the ionship. community. part. Further information the group is about themso Not sure quite of Government depart- Mission in commissioning effort to bring before the from 330available selves are a range of lesser ments, churches, and making this film. people of our community, Sunday June 28 marks the 13th anniver- bush characters who are 5169 (a/ h) or 330 2662 Sydney City the Mis"To the fact that they are real c lubs and welfare sary of the death of Most Reverend Red- possibly too conscious of 44:11k, agencies have already sion, which continues to be people. voice expressing "These mentally-handi- mond Prenciville, late archbishop of Perth. an audience which has diga strong asked to use the film Archbishop Goody will commemorate ested massive dollops of community concern for the from as far away as welfare of the disadvan- capped people laugh and the aniversary during the 10am Mass in Oklohama and How The cry and feel like you and Perth. taged and the distressed of Saint mary's cathedral on the Feast of Our American West Was Won The NSW Minister for the community, I express in wide-screen techni"Hopefully the film will Lady Help of Christians. Health, Mr Kevin Stewart sincere appreciation of colour. bring before our governPriests and people are asked to pray durwho recently launched the these recent examples of But for all that, the ments, before people with ing their Sunday Masses for the happy film said The Forgotten practical help" said Mr Rudd's of yesterday probapower and the ability to repose of the soul of Archbishop bly won't mind if they are People was "a sensitive and Stewart. bring about change, the socially challenging film. the core of a bit of good old Mrs Merle Hurcomb, needs of these Forgotten Prendiville. "I think the film should associate executive direcA ustralian froth and People. JUNE serve as an excellent com- tor of the Sydney City MisP AINTING melodrama. The Forgotten People 28 Confirmation, Como. Bishop Healy. munity stimulator. The Playhouse producsion described the purpose colour film which runs for Quality work State Conference of the Catholic Womens "I acknowledge with of the film: "There was no tion is easy on the senses 20 minutes was shot in two League. Archbishop Goody. at the right price grateful appreciation. the script. The actors are realand something for a family days on a small budget. JULY concern of the Sydney City life people. It is a positive to enjoy if they are bored at John Freakley The director was John 5 10 am In St. Mary's Cathedral Mass for the seeing milk come out from Townend. feasts of Saints Peter and Paul. Archbishop a packet or eggs from a car361 4349 The production is availaGoody. ton and want a whiff of the ble on 16mm film of 3/4" Confirmation, Balcatta. Bishop Healy. old farm before it blows video-tape free-of-charge 7 Confirmation, Spearwood. Bishop Quinn. away forever. from the Communication 8 Confirmation, Morley. Bishop Healy. 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Saturday 9.00 a.m. WE ARE CASH BUYERS - PHONE 328 4988 The Chairman of the Committee of the associa- Tribute was paid to the tive basis. They had been industry the new associa- arrangements, the Greytion, Sir Desmond O'Neil, four retiring members of chosen for their expertise responsible hound Racing Industry has been appointed for an the Control Board. They and the contribution they tion would be of racing at now has the opportunity to initial term of three years. are the former Chairman, could be expected to make for the conduct central prove it has the capacity to nington Can the members other four he T Don Molyneux, Alan Tho- to the development of the become a viable and selftrack. are: committee of the mas, Nicholas ToIcon and sport. "Under the revised admi- supporting sport," the Pre• The Deputy Chairman, Ernest Digby. As well as controlling the nistrative and financial mier said. Mr L.J. Luff, who is a Mr Molyneux, had been c hartered accountant Chairman of the Board ( appointed for two years); during a particularly Mr W.J. Save11, Assistant stressful period when there Director of the Chief was much uncertainty over Secretary's Department the future of the industry. (two years); He had been a member of Mr H.J. Sattler, Presi- a three-man committee set Shenton Park won an exciting final over Attadale to capture the B Grade dent of the Canning Grey- up by the government last hound Racing Association year to examine the future pennant. It is the first WACLTA pennant won by the club since it joined the • • (one year); and of the greyhound racing Association in 1975. Mr N.I. Dawkins, Town industry in Western The match could not have When entries officially ladies' entries were down in Clerk of the City of Can- Australia. ning and a Member of the "The committee found b een much closer. closed on Thursday, June both grades and although Although the final score 18 for the Winter Pennant, C anning Agricultural, the sport was in a difficult was 7-5, there were only t he organiser, Peter he would be most reluctant : OPTOMETRISTS & OPTICIANS Horticultural and Rerea- position and it needed reto do so, he may be forced • tional Society (one year). organisation and financial two games difference and Messer, had received suffi- to run only one grade for Corneal Lens Consultants • four matches were decided cient entries for men's The Premier said three of assistance to overcome • the ladies' competition. 321 5344 the appointees, Mr Luff, serious problems it faced," on tie breakers - Shenton teams to conduct the com- Hopefully a few more • 16 PLAZA ARCADE, PERTH Park winning three of the petition in both A and B • C AROUSEL SHOPPING TOWN 458 4831 Mr SaveII and Mr Sattler, the Premier said. ladies teams entries may • DEMPSTER HOUSE, PORT HEDLAND . 73 1929 had all worked on the "As a result of the com- four. The final result being grades. However, the still come forward. • • 29 DURLACHER STREET, GERALDTON 21 3445 Greyhound Racing Con- mittee's report the govern- in doubt almost to the last • • trol Board which the new ment has taken a number point. • Committee replaces. of steps to get the industry The successful team conThe government was par- on a firm footing. These sisted of - Aiden Stockticularly pleased that Sir include a restructuring of dale (Captain), Eric Teune, Desmond O'Neil, who had debt liabilities and charges Pipa Daly-Smith and such a high standing in the under an arrangement with Cecile Leach. community and who was the T.A.B. knowledgeable about grey"However,Istress that no Final score was Shenton (ESTABLISHED 1888) hound racing, had agreed government money is to be Park 7-57 to Attadale 5-55. to become the first chairput into the industry. 68 STIRLING STREET, PERTH A Grade final between the man of the new associaALBANY HWY., CANNINGTON 1307 was teams Marys' St tion, he said. two "There is no new use of Sir Desmnd has a sound taxpayers' money and the not played. At this stage 7.10: Race 1 502 WANNER 00 ROAD, BALGA knowledge of the Man- arrangements that have the reasons are a little obs- 1. Blazenka Pride; 2. New .8.501 Race 6 durah Greyhound Club's been made protect existing cure as the weather on Sandringham; 3. Mister 1. Chantel Diamond; 2. formation and activities. debts incurred by the Sunday, the alternate day Embee. Wintammywin; 3. Waikiki Darling. This assists him to ensure industry to the taxpayer." after Saturday wash out, 7.30: Race 2 1. Dingaling Lass; 2. Gre- 9.10: Race 7 proper consideration of Sir Charles Court said the was near perfect. cian Giant; 3. Peca Rebel. 1. Widow Forture; 2. the Mandurah club's posi- members of the new associ328 7299 PERTH Tivessa Prince; 3. Tempas. tion within the total grey- ation had not been Pennant organiser was 7.50: Race 3 349 0100 BALGA Race 8 9.30: 1. Chief Vencourt; 2. Rithound racing operations. appointed on a representa- most emphatic that all ini; 3. Antillean. 4585017: 1. Super Wendy; 2. Justine C ANNINGTON matches would have to be Sam; 3. Glencoe Pride. played last weekend if 8.10: Race 4 1. Torrent Venture; 2. 9.50: Race 9 w eather permitted, Mary's Luck; 3. Dayna 1. Rapid Allegro; 2. Isn't because the next pennant Farewell. She Sweet; 3. 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The Record, June 25 -July 1, 1981
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St John of God
Sister Florence Holligan talks
DIGNITY OF LIFE MUST BE UPHELD The Church needs Religious involved in health care because there we meet people in real need, and we should respond to that need. Certainly there are mission as mature Chrismany other hospitals tian people. to meet these needs, They in turn will help us but the Church should to see where we can best still be there with serve them, those in need something extra to and the Church. When we look back to offer.
our founder, Bishop ThoToday life is being threa- mas Furlong, we see- he tened and not always responded to a need in his, respected — with abortion time — the care of the poor becoming more common, in a famine-stricken part of the threat of euthanasia Ireland. being legalised, and family life undergoing a real crisis. THE FOUNDER As religious, I feel we have a very important role to play in upholding the He founded our Congredignity of life. gation to educate and care By giving respect and care for the poor. That was in to the unborn, to the dying, 1871. and support to families in If the health care field crisis, we do this. was completely deserted by women religious today, I
FIRST 70 YEARS
In 1871 in Ireland, Bishop Thomas U urlong, and Sister NI ar) isitation ( Ianc founded a group of nursing and teaching religious who were dedicated to St John of Cod the 16th century Spanish founder of the famous order of pursing brothers Just 24 years later Bishop Gibney. of Perth. sent an urgent request to the order t o make a foundation in %estern Australia. They went out first to nurse the sick in their homes, and, in 189_7, answered the bishop's desperate call for nurses to work in the tphoid epidemic which had s truck the waterless goldfields of Kalgoorlie. They also conducted schools at K algoorlie and Subiaco until 1937. In 1907 they went to the Kimberleys to staff the leprosarium and natise hospital and orphanage. In addition to steady expansion of their Subiaco hospital, they w entlo Ballarat in 1915. Goulburn in 1916. Bunbury in 1927, Geraldton and .4iYer% ale in 1935, Warrnambool in 1940, Brighton (Vic) in 1949. Geelong in 1977;and Pakistan in 1981).
Recounting a story of vocation
A woman's realisation of her vocation to be a Sister of St John'of God is a greater thing on which to concentrate than the work she will do.
For the first 70 years in the history of the Sisters of I was fifteen when t he idea first came to me that I might become a St John of God in AustraReligious sister. lia, all the nursing was I always wanted to be a nursed with them for three the trials, but it is difficult. done by the Sisters themnurse while I was at board- years, so I got to know the When we had the high selves, and our Hospitals ing school in Ballarat good and the not so good convent walls, we were were completely staffed by where the St John of God — some I liked, some I fairly protected, but since our Sisters. Sisters had a Hospital. I didn't. Vatican II when we started But for a variety of reaused to see the Sisters andI with the world, we mixing sons, this scene has A series presented in conjunction with the Religious thought they were like are questioned and tested, changed — we no longer angels! and we have to be conVocations Council of WA. HUMAN BEINGS have the number of Sisters I did my nursing training vinced of the value of our with them but I no longer available to be bedside vocation. wanted to be a Religious. I nurses. We are therefore In the past, I have worried struggled with the idea for I learnt to view them rea- because our numbers were beginning to see ourselves listically and know they are getting smaller, and Iwonin a different role in the would hope some charis- knowing life is safeguarded She has the strength and six years. Eventually I felt the Lord human beings with all their dered would we go on into hospital. matic woman would say: and respected. support of this community was definitely calling me good points and their the future or not. We now see the impor- "We are going to have to life and her prayer life. and I said "O.K. Lord." faults, and I sensed there been such a tance of working in collab- get in there"- not specifi- If a woman already dedi- Hence when she goes to I have worked with the was something bigger and But there has and a revival oration with the laity in cally in a nursing role, but cated to the care of the sick the bedside in the hospital, Mental Health Services of greater than they behind it renewal congregation in within our our hospitals so that while to care for the whole per- enters a Congregation like as a member ot the health W.A. both as a nurse and all. last few years that I they remain St John of son — the spiritual, social ours, she comes to belong team, she has something chaplain, and I feel there is In the past, people the feel confident that the now God hospitals, we will and emotional needs that to a community which, in extra to give, because of a very big mission there. admired us for the hours has work for us to do Lord met are — not and being to t he tradition of our her own deep spirituality work with the laity to help we spent in the wards — in the future as Sisters of St them develop their own give people the security of founder, is very Eucharist- and her own relationship but now people say: John of God with our own centred. with Christ. "Anyone can do that — particular charisms. DIFFERENCES •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••ot have you something more Iam very convinced thatI to offer?" am where I should be, that • In our own hospitals, we People tend to see a crisis I belong in this particular are in a Christian setting in religious life, but per- congregation which might but outside become very haps it is just being tested be going through these aware of a different atmos- I see it as a period of trial, particular trials at this phere, particularly with but not a period of gloom. time, but I am part of that psychiatric patients. I think we are coming out — and I have a contribuOften they confide in a much stronger because of tion to make. 'religious' person readily in matters of a religious IIIIMMINIIIIIIIIIMIIHM011111111111111111111MIMINIIIIMI111111111111111111111111111111 nature, and I felt there In our congregation here in W.A. were times whenI was able to help them perhaps more we have Sisters nursing in general than another nurse. wards, in psychiatric wards and in The witness value of midwifery areas in the operating being in a setting like that very important —the Contact LENS CONSULTANTS theatres, radiology and pathology iswitness of someone who is departments, in administration, in a "fool for Christ's sake",I PERTH PICCADILLY ARCADE . . . . . 321 8151 office work, in the pharmacy, in the suppose. I had to start thinking PERTH 154 WILLIAM STREET catering department. about my vocation, why I COTTESLOE 19 NAPOLEON STREET 384 5605 We have Sisters working in the pastoral lived a life of celibacy, a life FREMANTLE 30 MARKET STREET . . . care, counselling and social work fields, and in community, and the rea333251 2563:4211 involved in the education and training of son for the things which I 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111000101 had perhaps taken for nursing students. granted. REPUTATION, • have Sisters working with the AborigiBecause I thought more • nalWepeople in the Kimberleys, in nursing, deeply about these things I PERSONAL TREATMENT, ° • teaching, community health and general became more convinced of TOTAL SERVICE, my vocation as a Religious, mission work. GREAT DEALS. and as a Sister of St John It was brought to our notice that the Church in of God. Therefore I grew Pakistan was in need of help in the health care area, stronger as a Religious so four of our Sisters who were actively involved in woman. hospital and mission work in Australia were withOur lives are the greatest drawn from these areas to go to Pakistan. to what we are, and witness • This may be the beginning of other missions for us, the greatest encourage•: DL 1011 because we are trying as a Congregation to respond ment to those who may immeminimi • • LANCE GIBBONS PTY. LTD 2325 ALBANY HIGHWAY to the needs of the people of God, wherever they are. want to join us. • 0 TELEPHONE 398 2211 AUTHORISED G M H. DEALER My view of the Sisters Edward Rzepczynski 1••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••1 was quite realistic — I
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