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M ADRID, Spain (NC) — Catholics, 99 percent of Spain's population, cannot in conscience use the country's new law permitting divorce, the -1:‘ nation's bishops have declared. The first divorce law in Spain in according to the Gospel for those in a new 42 years was enacted by Parlia- situation with whom the Church wants to deal as the mother she is," the bishops ment on June 22.
It legalises civil divorce by mutual con- said. The Christian Democratic faction in sent or on grounds of adultery, cruelty, desertion, alcoholism, lengthy imprison- parliament failed in attempts to tighten ment of one partner or failure to fulfil the law by giving judges more power to refuse divorce applications, especially if conjugal duties. It also allows civil annulment of mar- they judged the divorce would cause riages by minors or by non-consenting undue harm to children or one of the spouses. The Christian Democrats are adults. Prior to enactment of the law married still trying to introduce reforms, but couples wishing to end their relationship observers doubt parliament will act on had legal -recourse only to a separation them. The commission announced that spewhich did not break the marriage bond. The Justice Ministry, which sponsored cial guidelines were in preparation and the law, estimates that 500,000 couples should be issued soon after the implemenwho are separated will flock to the courts tation of the law at the end of the summer. Parliament still needs to pass companto terminate their marriages legally. Most of them are baptised Catholics who con- ion legislation establishing procedures for implementing the law. tracted sacramental marriages. A new Spanish Constitution approved " According to their conscience, Catholics cannot make use of the possibilities by 90 per cent of the voters in 1978 recoggiven them by this law of civil divorce. nised a right to civil divorce but provided Those who divorce are placing them- no specific legislation to govern such selves in an irregular situation before God proceedings. and the Church. Early the following year the Vatican " We seriously regret the enactment of a and the Spanish Government signed an law that harms the stability of marriage agreement making major changes in the and leaves its dissolution in such a broad 1953 concordat. Among the changes, the form to the whim of the partners," said Church gave up its ability to block civil the permanent commission of the Span- divorce. ish Bishops' Conference in a statement on Spain had a divorce law in the 1930s, June 27 at the end of a special meeting. but the government of Gen. Francisco " Placed before God, the Church cannot Franco abolished it in 1939. approve of the dissolution of sacramental This left couples wishing to end their marriage or recognise a second mar- marriage with the options of legal separariage," the commission added. tion or Church annulment. The country's previous constitution " We must find at all costs a pastoral approach to tend to the divorced persons, did not recognise civil divorce. It recogwithout failing the law of God or betray- nised only Church-granted annulments. ing the Christian demands imposed by The country's 1953 concordat with the the sacraments," the bishops said. Holy See gave the Church the right to " Our intent is to offer orientation block civil divorce proceedings.
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Bishop Joseph also said bishop Tang, upon arriv- the Holy See," he added. that the influence of the ing in Hong Kong, said: "I Very few Catholics in National Association of was surprised to hear I was China take the patriotic Patriotic Catholics is exag- made vice-chairman...bec- association seriously, he gerated in the media ause that is an office that I said. can never be responsible beyond all proportion. Archbishop Tang, impri- for. I am more than "People do not want anysoned for 22 years, was amazed now to know that thing to do with them, and recently appointed archbi- they have taken away that it never penetrates the shop of Canton and is at title from me." countryside," he said. present in Hong Kong But Taiwanese Bishop Tibefore returning to China. Kian rejects the influence "For us," he noted, "they Since the appointment a claimed by the association are only instruments of the month ago, patriotic asso- and other moves towards c ommunist government. Very few people are in the ciation spokesmen have Archbishop Tang. made the Vatican, Pope The government and the association. John Paul and Archbishop Communist Party will "The free world knows so Tang the target of frequent attempt to manipulate little about it, and for those A rchbishop Tang's of us who attacks. know better, we "Such a man is no longer appointment to make feel it is a pity that it has w orthy of being our themselves look good, such an (influential) image. bishop," said Liu Hanchi, Bishop Ti-Kang said. The mass media has misrevice chairman of the Can- "We should not confuse presented the patriotic ton Catholic association. the political and the reli- association, exaggerated "We should cast him gious," said Bishop Ti- (it) beyond proportion," Kang. aside." the bishop said. In Hong Kong the pro- "I think the pope's actions Peking newspaper, Wen are pastoral and that the A ccording to Father Wei Po, said that delegates holy father and the Holy Matthias Lu, the Oakland from the Canton Patriotic See did not have in mind to diocese's vicar for Oriental A ssociation decided to improve relations between peoples who was present strip Archbishop Tang of the Vatican and mainland during the interview, only his see and his vice- China in the political 80 people were members of chairmanship of the sense, but rather to help the association among Catholics there who have Peking's 300 ,000 Catholassociation. Asked to comment, Arch- suffered for their loyalty to ics when he visited in 1979.
NAUMAN GROUP ONLY AS GOOD AS COMMITTEE
Majellans must offer supportive interaction through monthly meetings but should also have a deeper commitment to service and the lay apostolate, the retiring Majellan state president Mrs Margaret Bennison, told the annual general meeting last Sunday.
T his would come tunity to do something in a "It may have been a misabout through each positive way to counteract take in timing. g roup's committee the influence of a material- "I would ask group presiistic and negative society. dents to reflect carefully meeting, she said.
"In our visitation of "Membership of a Majel- before answering the quesgroups we have found that lan committee is often the tion: When will your group group and the central com- established at Dianella by At the Majellan annualgeneral meeting last a group is as good as its awakening of a member's -be ready to share real expe- mittee members visited a members from Morley, at Sunday flowers were presented to Mrs Marriences of gospel living? committee. A majellan awareness to her responsigroup only if invited. Osborne Park through the garet Bennison (left), who concluded nine group that tries to survive bility in the wider com- "The sharing of a gospel , Names and addresses of efforts of a former Queensyears on the central committee, five of them reading at a committee the committee members land without a committee is munity. as president, and Mrs Eve Day, of Armadale, Majellan and at Belonly doing half of what is " Without this small meeting is not an optional could be found in the levue by a former member a central committee member for seven expected of Majellans," beginning, communities extra and it may be done in monthly newsletter. from Hillarys. years. Making the presentation is central she said. are being denied the influ- various ways. The method During the past year cen- Referring to the forthcommittee member, Mrs Leola Loughnan, suggested in the Majellan tral committee members coming "To do justice to the work ence of good women." who has been since elected state president retreat for women of original members and Mrs Bennison referred to newsletter is only one of had visited groups at Cool- on July 17 at the Francisof Majellans. the ways." also to the women who are a recommendation, that bellup, Dianella, Hamers- can Retreat House, Mrs looking for ways to serve members share a reading Mrs Bennison said that ley, Morley, Osborne Bennison said that wee- house 361 3459. Majellan central committheir fellow members we of the Word of Life which there had been some criti- Park, and committee meet- kend retreats were one of At the conclusion of last tee, Mrs Bennison said that must offer both the is distributed monthly, had cism of lack of contact ings at Subiaco and the most successful Majel- Sunday's meeting, Sister she had received support, monthly meeting and the been received with mixed between the central _com- Belmont. Ian services for women. Adrian asked Majellan interest and enthusiasm committee meeting," she feelings by some groups. mittee and the local Country visits had been Attendance had averaged members to publicise the from committee members said. "Quite possibly, Majel- groups. made to groups at Mor- 3 1 at each retreat and it retreats and the days of and that it had been a very "A group existing with- lans were not ready for an She pointed out that the o w a , Mullewa and had been decided to prayer and reflection that real pleasure to have been out a committee is failing alternate method of shar- a mount of contact Northam. arrange one retreat during were held regularly at the of service to an organisato offer women the oppor- ing the gospel," she said. depended entirely on each New Groups had been each school term. Further ret,rea t house. tion which she held in such information on bookings is Stepping down after five esteem. available from the retreat years Is president of the
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WASHINGTON — According to an FBI spokesman the death of four missionary nuns in American women missionaries can be linked to two Salvadoran National Guardsmen and that ballistics and fingerprint tests increase the chance of a conviction. The fingerprint, found on the churchwomen's van,,is said to match that of a National Guardsman, and ballistics tests are said to match a casing found at the scene of the killings with a rifle registered to another of the guardsmen. The two men said to be linked to the murders are among six members of the National Guard, El Salvador's army, who have been arrested. At the time of the killings President Jose Napoleon Duarte attributed the murder to rightist squads. The killing of the four missionaries — Maryknoll Sisters, Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister, Dorothy Kazel and lay worker Jean Donovan — led to a junstuas.pension of U.S. military aid to the Salvadoran
The aid was restored during a guerilla January offeneveryone, especially the poorest of the sive. Since then the Reagan administration has poor. increased the aid saying it counters weapons provided She received Marquette University's She implored her listeners to find the the guerrillas by Soviet-bloc nations. 11111111111111181111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIII 1981 Pere Marquette Discovery Award poor in their own families and communialso received a contribution of $150,000 ties because love begins at home. She also donated by the people in Wisconsin after acknowledged that not everyone is called 5 the announcement she would receive the to wholehearted service to the poor. "It is = E Marquette award. not how much we do but how much love = — She said later that the bulk of the we put in the doing," she said. about money received would go to help lepers. = a "This is the discovery that the poor are 38 WICKHAM STREET, EAST PERTH She also asked people to pray. "Pray g = somebody, that they are Jesus. They give that we may not spoil God's work; that it 50 cars operating in all suburbs I I' us the opportunity to love God, not just in remains his work for the glory of his name If you are: * a concerned Catholic: * in good health; All dual controlled for your safety words but in action," she said in accepting and the good of the poorest of the poor," * willing to do a 4 weeks training course; * prepared --r. the honour. she said. 5_ to commit yourself for 2 years; * ready to serve F. She asked her audience to see God in At a later press conference, when ques- E others; * over 19 years of age... 5. = all people: Lepers, alcoholics, the suffer- tioned about her views on abortion, she E. r.-BECOME A ing and the lonely. But she issued a special said: "We have abortion because we are = call to love Christ through the unborn afraid to give one more life a chance." = .7.-. -. child. Mother Teresa said that fighting abor- 2 a.-"Today no one is more unwanted than tion is not enough and that making childworking with the unborn child," she said "Yet it ws the ren wanted by adoption is essential. "If 1-: unborn one in the womb of Elizabeth you know of unwanted children, send a: r_ leaped with joy at the presence of Christ. them to me, we will care for them," she 5 For me, abortion is the greatest poverty added. EPart of our Big Fleet of Cars -- All Duel Controlled for Your Safety :.-... that a nation can experience," she stated. She refused to comment on the govern5. "People are not just hungry for bread, ment's role in helping the poor but noted, = For Free Instructional Pamphlets to make E. ir.. -they are hungry for = love. They are "It is not and you just I that the make governyour written rule test easy naked for a piece of clothing, they are ment. Too often people talk about what E. in WA :J.."... naked of human dignity. They are not just the government or someone should be E Contact: Director of Lay Missionaries 85 Gregory St Phone: 325 3633 — All Hours .'.1 homeless for a room made of bricks, but doing for the poor. We should consider 1- — GERALEITON 6530 MIIIMIIIMIMIIIMIW1111111811111111111MININ ll111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111lig because of rejection," she said. what we should do," she said. a 2 The Record, July 9-15, 1981 • •
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Miss Clare Bowler, of Derby, has been awarded the papal honour Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (For Church and P ope) for her 20 years' service as Pallottine lay missionary.
For the past 12 years she "When we got to St tribution was giving stabilhas become known Joseph's it did not look to ity and guidance to a t hroughout the Kimber- be in good shape and with- fluctuating changing comleys for the hospitality she out help we faced an munity of children and lay dispenses at the Derby impossible task. missionaries. presbytery to callers from "Clare laughs about it "It is wonderful that the missions, cattle sta- today, but it was not a bit recognition has been given tions, the out-back, to funny. to her faithful service and those with no money, no "Her first two years in our thanks we should job, or just in need of a turned into eight and pray that God will protect chat. among many tasks that she and strengthen her in her Originally from Ade- took on her greatest con- work." laide, she trained at Millgrove, Victoria, along with 13 other Pallottine lay missionaries. Her first appointment_ was to the St Joseph's hostel for Aboriginal boys and girls at Derby. Father Joe Clare Bowler with one of her Aboriginal proteges at the St Joseph's hostel, Derby. Butscher, now at the Rossmoyne Pallottine Centre this week recalled those first days: "It's a wonder she ever unpacked her bags when C entrecare Child- He travels the state to find again, to get a State Hous- tion to their lives." towns. There is nothing to advancement." she and her companion, ren's Cottages is try- the parents and bring them ing Commission home and The Chairman of the identify them as institu- C entrecare Children's Margo Toohey met at ing to make itself news of their children. He settle down so their child- board of management, tional children. Cottages is a co-operative Broome" said the priest redundant. encourages them to visit ren can be reunited with Father Barry Hickey, said, "The progress they make venture, combining the talwho was to be their mis- Based in Beverley, it cares the children and bridge the them. "The scheme is unique in once they come to us is ents and dedication of sion superior. for 35 children of Aborigi- gap that might have been Owen said: "Aftercare is Australia. It is not an insti- amazing. The Church can A boriginal and non"A few questions to me nal descent in five cottages built up since they went so important. When par- tution. Children live in be truly proud of this con- Aboriginal people. ents are reunited with their normal houses in country tribution to Aboriginal into care. would have revealed that I in country towns. had been on the missions It's policy is to reunite Many of the parents live children they often need a for only six months, that I children with their families in very sad conditions. lot of help from us and Some are homeless, some from the Department for had never seen St Joseph's as soon as possible. hostel, that I was not sure Mr Owen Hansen, the are staying with relatives in Community Welfare, othof the way and had my family liaison officer, is overcrowded conditions. erwise the children can find At Beverley the children go together Over the past year eight childdriver's licence for a full working full-time on this He encourages them to themselves back in care. ren have been referred to Cen- as a family. The school is small enough get back on their feet That is yet another disruptwo weeks. work. trecare Children's Cottages for the teachers to give them all personal because of persistent truancy. attention and to worry if they don't turn up. They are all going to school regA little-known development has been ularly and willingly. quietly taking place in Centrecare Children's Cottages. It is staffed almost Part of the reasons for truancy was the entirely by people of Aboriginal lack of discipline at home. The other descent. reasons had to do with the schools Of 16 staff positions, 12 are held by Father Sean O'Shea, of themselves which were large and imper- noongahs. Noongah is the name by the Stella Mans Seafarsonal, where Aboriginal children felt which Aboriginal people in the lower ers Club, Fremantle, foreigners. half of the state describe themselves.
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Fourteen telephone operators are required to work t wo-hour shifts, especially in the evening from 7pm. Six bus drivers are needed from 6pm until the club closes at I lpm each night. C anteen helpers are needed at all hours. Father O'Shea said this week the services of the Fremantle Catholic club had been stretched to the limit by the arrival of several United States Navy units over the past few months. In a four-day period last month 6,000 men visited the club and the preceding One sailor who wanted to somewhere to relax. their ships at the end of the week 4,500 men visited talk with Father O'Shea Many sailors said they evening. during a similar four-day said that an ordained priest had found nothing like the In addition to the switchstay. should not have to be tied services of' the Fremantle board operators, bus drivThey kept Father O'Shea to answering the phone but club in other ports. In the ers and canteen helpers, busy on more than 1,000 there were no other helpers U SA, seafarers clubs there was a pressing need o verseas phone calls from available. offered little more than for other volunteers to be 7.30am till after midnight information. on hand to welcome the each day. Some of the Father O'Shea said the Drivers for the club's two visitors and make them feel callers reversed the charges canteen staff needed a small buses were particu- at home. for up to an hour's w eek's holiday after the larly necessary because Last month there were c onversation. thousands of meals they more ships were berthing only six lady hostesses to Just keeping up with the s erved during peak in Cockburn Sound than greet over 4,000 American service at the club meant periods. in Fremantle, said Father visitors. the volunteers had ilittle The Fremantle club was O'Shea. People wanting to help t ime to stop and talk with p opular because it pro- Crew members needed once a week at Stella Mans the visitors which was one vided what visiting navy transport to Fremantle should contact Father of the main aims of the men needed: A meal, infor- when they finished duty at O'Shea on 335 1958 or 335 club. mation, company and 6pm, and a lift back to 6836.
STELLA MARIS OPEN DAY
S tella Mans Seafarers' Centre will con- overcome misgivings about sailors and dispel myths duct its annual open day on Sunday, July about seamen's behaviour and the function of the 1 2, from 2pm till 11pm, when everyone club. The other is to recruit volunteers. Community involvement (in the form of volunteers) w ill be welcome to be guided through the is desperately needed by the club c lub and to attend a dance starting at 8pm and understandingopen day will generate some of this and it is hoped the at the centre. involvement.
Run in conjunction with the open day is an apostoGuided tours will be conducted through the club's lounge bar, restaurant, post office, canteen, souvenir late of the sea collection in churches. and religious shops, library, chapel and rooms. Apostolatus mans (apostolate of the sea) was A fternoon teas and snacks will be served on com- founded in Rome in order to promote understanding of seamen. It is hoped that the open day will be pletion of the tours. One of the two main aims of the open day is to beneficial to both Stella Mans and the community.
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With Apology To Saint Paul A s the most exposed bride in history Lady Diana Spencer looks like having an uphill battle to please everyone, judging by the fuss surrounding news of the words to be used at her wedding.
Pain affects strikers from Peter Bertola, Bremer Bay
Sir, The Irish hunger strikers have put theologians in a quandary as to the morality of their "playing with death" strategies.
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Positively amazing was the phony concern whipped up over what would not be said. In unctious tones it was reported as if like some The little I have read of A hunger strike could from Joyce Siudak, Morley .naughty girl she would not be following the the debate has not menti- begin a bluff and then ceremonial in which since 1662 generations oned the physical aspect of developas into a different Sir, of Anglican brides have promised to love hunger striking that is, action because of physical For those who, like Sister Florence (The Record, June honour and obey their husbands. starving and the onset of f actors affecting the 18), are "fools for Christ's sake", I thank God. striker. Reporters often appear to have learnt all dying. For anyone to under- Anyone who has expethey know about religion from the last late As a psychiatric patient who has over ters certainly do have so much more to stand or appreciate rienced a high degree of the years needed long treatment Iknow to give and this fact is recognised movie they have watched otherwise they by discernunger-s.triking where h prolonged pain or suffer- my cost the pressing spiritual needs of ing specialists who have come to would not have failed to notice that since rely on death ensues would require ing could probably under- these patients is only too frequently this special help for their 1927 an alternative wording has been availapatients. to have had some expe- stand a process or overlooked. ble to Anglicans. I have journeyed in dark places and the rience of having stared evolution of the situation fact that I am now well on the way to We also could have done with an Anglican death in the face through to a wanting-to-die process Fortunately for me, during the past five recovery is due in no small measure to the spokesman knocking a few heads together illness, pain or emotional because of the insupporta- months I have been under the care of wonderful spiritual help I have had andpointing out that the then-Princess Elizastrain. those who have had the faith and insight the St John of God congregation from ble pain or suffering. in the beth was not being particularly backward Such feeling could be to enable me to receive the combination person of Sister Florence herself. when she promised to obey Prince Philip but quite divorced from the of spiritual and psychiatric help which I I pray that God's special blessing may might have had a deep appreciation for the original objective or aim of needed. continue to rest on all Religious and espeauthor of the expression. a hunger striker. My reply to those who say "have you cially those concerned in caring for the It is really quite a .domestic matter what anything more to offer?" is that the Sis- sick. words Anglicans or any other group use in 3#44,44, 4t-lik .3 )1$. *If- •tot At lit )11( Jit • * •Iit *•iit * * * At * 4. * )0- .111,4 4 4 * 4.1* * 414-2* 31.441 their wedding services. Catholic practice has never been too concerned with precise word3 ing and present english usage dates only * IK 3 * from the turn of the century. * 4' from Leo Sheridan, * * Nevertheless, whether she intended it or Send en us a lletter and h have your say in The eRecord. * Tuart Hill ** not, Lady Di got a few rousing cheers from Sir, * You can write on any subject you want: * * the gallery which presumed that here was a * government decisions and policy, problems in your There is now an urgent * * spirited young lady of our times who would need for Our Lady to come * neighbourhood, television. . . anything that affects * * not be sitting obediently at the feet of her * to the help of a very * your life. * Prince Charles. * unsettled and chaotic 4( * Post your letter to Today's Mail The Record, PO * It was as though some sort of blow had world — and this of course 3 Box 50, Perth, Aberdeen Street, 6000. * * been struck for liberty, fraternity and equality includes our beloved * * Preference will lag given to short concise letters. * Australia! between the sexes. Recently it has been my 40*********************************************************************1 Holding his head in his hands was St. Paul privilege to read a library who startedit all and who often does not get a book entitled Cardinal goodpress on the subject of women because Mindzenty-Memoirs and his idea of married happiness is far above the it is my considered opinion heads of most of his listeners. that this most informative He .must have taken a good hard look at the publication should be read marriages of his day and they must have by the clergy of all ranks, brothers, sisters, religious been plagued by ruinedhappiness and disapand lay-people of the oointment. Catholic Church. EveThere must have been something better to ryone of them would offer, he thought, when he wrote to Ephesus receive a new slant on the from Mr N Boundy, lnnaloo saying that wives ought to obey their hus- . problems facing our Sir, sands beloved Church to-day!
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Theotokos respected and acknowledged
Like a telephone conversation that is cut off the rest of his sentence is never heard above the din of protest: ".... as the Church obeys Christ". Clearly that was the thought the Anglican wedding liturgy wanted to impress on a young bride but even Christian husbands can be a hard-headed lot, turning obedience — the art of listening and responding — into servile and presumed submission. It is little wonder that men are even less inclined to read a little further on andhear St. Paul urging them to love their wives as Christ loves them, laying down their very lives if necessary for the sake of that woman who has offered so much of herself to him. What a pity St. Paul's formula has not won the day. What a pity that marriage has developed into a guerilla warfare over which a judge is the referee, dealing out the spoils, children and all. What a pity that instead of obedience and reciprocated love it needs just 12 months to blow out a flame that burned so brightly in the hearts of two young people. It was not Lady Diana who was the loser last week but the mindless spectators who thumped for freedom instead of love. All is not lost and the royal wedding may yet become a landmark in a secularised society where, as in WA, barely half the weddings are now celebrated religiously. The message may be heard that God is calling yet another man and woman to a covenant of love. In the privacy of their lives where they must live out this vocation it will not matter much what was said during the wedding service. Jesus had the best advice: "All you need to say is Yes if you mean Yes". •
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CORRECTION from Jenny Sir, As the contact telephone number and name for the organisation of the recent meeting for lone parents (The Record, June 25) may I point out that the venue was not the Redemptorist Retreat House, but the Star of the Sea holiday home at Miami which was kindly donated for the occasion by Father Michael Keating, of Mirrabooka, and to whom we express our thanks.
With reference to the letter of WVC Thomas (The Record, June 25) on Mary,I believe all Christians should acknowledge that mother Mary is "theotokos" and should have a deep respect for her and her role in salvation history. Mary is indeed a blessed woman and shall be blessed for all generations.
However, to place Mary for sin can come only from in the role of mediator in God. the place where Jesus alone That is not to say that has authority is not right. God does not use men and women as vehicles for His W VC Thomas seems to graces. But the ultimate be suggesting that Mary source of grace is God. pours down graces onto the world yet this is God's I would agree that all from Mrs Dorothy Lane, Morawa perogative. Christians should know Sir, Further, the last para- and understand the clear I must disagree with your editorial graph in the letter suggests and accurate teachings hardly that only Mary could give about mother Mary and (The Record, June 25) that it is such a simple remedy as her relationship to us. Yet I the place of the Catholic Church to the rosary for the sickness propose that the remedy comment on the World Council of for sin in the world is Jesus of sin. among (in) us is our sure Churches. I think the Church should But it is clear from scrip- hope of salvation and make statements on these matters. ture that the only remedy glory. Many people are ignorant documented book on this of the activities of the subject: Religion, Red and W CC. Why not use Rotten, by Henry J Pike. Christ's own gauge: "By their fruits you shall know A DVERTS. them." for DISSPACE Their fruits in the South advertisemePLAY African situation should booked be sufficient to answer any nts must be Monday mid-day by doubts. I would be happy from Anne Little, Wilson to make available to any of the week of publiinterested person a well- cation.
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"WOMEN'S POSITION AKIN TO LAZARUS"
Sir, I was not impressed with the trite title and the use of the term 'fair sex' accorded my letter (The Record, June 25) headed An Abbey Ban on Fair Sex Condemned.
The issue of women being denied ing women to become acolytes and altar entrance to a monastic enclosure reflects servers. the discrimination against women, parWomen need to be offered more than ticularly by lay women, which is so pre- domestic duties in their parishes. valent at all levels of the Church. (Note: The matter of women being acoThe position of women is akin to that Iytes or altar servers is not a questionfor a of the beggar Lazarus forced to receive single diocese since it is a regulation for the crumbs of structural and liturgical the universal Church. Women altar participation. servers are precluded by a regulation in It is commendable that in the same the Introduction to the Roman Missal. issue of The Record a representative of When the lay ministries of acolyte and the Holy See was reported to have called lector were introduced in 1972 they were for an end to discriminatory practices designated as male ministries. The Ausagainst women athletes. tralian Bishops have twice made represSurely an end to such practices in the entations to Rome that the ministry of Church is of even greater importance. acolyte should be extended to women— We could start in this diocese by allow- Editor).
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• Irish want coMpromise M AYNOOTH, Ireland (NC) — Catholic bishops have rish I c alled on the hunger strikers in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland "to reflect deeply on the evil of their actions and their c onsequences" and to show a willingness to compromise in their demands for political prisoner status. The British Government should "show a corresponding openness for a solution," the bishops added.
POPE UNAWARE OF NAZI PLAN R OME (NC) — Pope Pius XII did not know about the Nazi reprisal executions of 335 Italians until nearly a month after the killings in March 1944, Giulio Andreotti, former Italian prime minister testified last month. Andreotti, who con- American author Robert which Ihad with Pope Pius sulted often with Pope Katz, who is charged with XII after March 23-24, I the slightest Pius during the World defaming the late pope in didn't pick up the pope had that sign Rome. in Death book, his War II, said the pope Katz, whose book claims known in advance of the had received threats that Pope Pius refrained massacre what had been on his own life from frjom trying to stop the decided and approved that the Nazis and ordered Nazi reprisal massacre, ,night by the Germans," some Vatican docu- was convicted in 1975 of Andreotti said. ments on aid to Jews defaming the pope. The During the war Andreotti and political prisoners conviction was overturned was involved in helping the destroyed in anticipa- by the Italian Court of Vatican to assist Jewish tion of an invasion by Appeals in 1978, but the political prisoners. the Nazis of Vatican C ourt of Casation In his two-and-a-half (supreme court) ordered a territory. hours of testimony, he told new trial in 1980. the Court of Appeals that Pope Pius once confided that he had been warned to leave the Vatican or face "unpleasant consequences."
The Italian politician and author testified for the prosecution in the retrial of
"Only in the middle of 1944, nearly a month April The Irish Bishops' Conference statement, came two after the tragic episode, days after the announcement by the Provisional Sinn was it possible to learn preFein, political arm of the outlawed Irish Republican news of the form of the cise Army, that a new hunger striker is to join the protest German reprisal at the "But the holy father told each week to avoid a "40-day gap like that between the Ardeatine Caves and the me that rather than abandeath of Patsy O'Hara and the likely death of Joe names of the victims," don the Vatican he would McDonnell." Andreotti told the court. make himself a prisoner Expressing their concern about "the serious and dete"I am certain that the there and I'm told that durin movements reform Last year, before V ATICAN CITY (NC) — Poland riorating situation in Northern Ireland," the bishops led to tighter controls against the pope was not aware of the ing that period, for fear of said the continuing hunger strike had led to increasing T wenty priests were Church and dissidents in other Eastern German intentions before some type of action, he polarisation within the community. massacre was carried ordered the documents ordained in Czechoslovakia European countries, Czechoslovakian the he said. regarding aid to the Jews out," "Not only has it claimed the lives of four young men their intensifying been authorities had and political prisoners within the prison, but it has been accompanied by June 14, Vatican Radio activity against Catholics, according to Katz's book, and a related burned," Andreotti said. murder, bombing and street violence in which many reported. reports coming out of the country. more lives have been lost," the bishops said. Last December the official Communist film, Massacre in Rome, In court June 13, attorney The ordinations were carried out Party newspaper of Czechoslovakia, are accounts of the killing Giorgio Angelozzi Gari"The deaths of hunger strikers have been followed by outbreaks of arson, intimidation and wilful destruction simultaneously in the cities of Bratislava, Pravda, delivered a full-page broadside by the Italian resistance on boldi also introduced into Nitra, Banksa Bystrica and Presov, Vati- against the church. It charged that there March 23, 1944, of 32 Ger- evidence a letter from Eitel of property," they added. can Radio said. was a growing "secret church" with clan- man soldiers and the Nazi Friedrich Mollhausen, the vandalism, and "This heightened level of violence destinely ordained priests and bishops round-up and reprisal exe- former German consul to plight of the innocent victims of intimidation and terIt added that all had trained for the cution of 335 Italian men Italy, which said in part: "I ror, the deepening divisions within the community, priesthood in the interdiocesan seminary which was working against the social systhe next day in the Ardea- have no doubt that no instructions under operating and tem the for have consequnces not just for the north itself but at Bratislava. tine Caves outside Rome. powet in the world, except the in elements "clerico-fscist" from people of the whole island," they said. The Brooklyn-born Katz Hitler himself, could have Vatican Radio called the ordinations West. alleged in his book that avoided the tragedy of the Czechoslovakian recently More "a church event of the greatest impora new wave of Pope Pius knew in adva- Ardeatine Caves." tance" in the communist-ruled Eastern authorities had started VIOLENCE CONDEMNED of 77, a dissi- nace of the Nazi plans but G ariboldi represents arrests Charter members of European country and said the ceremostarted in chose to do nothing Contessa Elena Rossighuman rights dent organisation nies were "marked by an extraordinary The bishops condemned violence and said they felt an participation of the faithful." It reported 1977 which reportedly has been attracting because he feared antagon- nani, niece of the late pope, who first brought charges equal sorrow for every death and serious injury, irres- that five of the new priests belong to the increased Catholic participation in recent ising the Germans. "In the conversations against Katz in 1972. months. pective of the religion and political outlook of the Byzantine rite. victim. They repeated the condemnation issued last to make clear that the commission's proposals on cloNovember by the bishops of Northern Ireland. "We solemnly declare that those who kill, wound, thing, association and work would, if implemented, threaten or intimidate, those who put people in fear of provide the avenue for a solution. We ask the governtheir lives or endanger their livelihoods, are guilty of ment to show a corresponding openness on these evil deeds contrary to the law of God," the Northern issues," the Irish bishops said. "The present disturbing situation should make us all Irish bishops said. "They stand in clear opposition to the teaching of the more determined to work together for a settlement," Jesus Christ as preached in all Christian churches. As the bishops continued. "We urge increased understandCatholics we must once more proclaim a decisive 'no' to ing between Protestant and Catholic and closer social, EDINBURGH, Scotland (NC) — The General Assembly of the all kinds of violence," the Northern Irish bishops had cultural and economic co-operation between North and South. Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) has given overwhelming support said. "We appeal to all the Christian churches to work to a meeting between its moderator and Pope John Paul II when the . The Irish Bishops' Conference is composed of the together for the promotion of Gospel values in an Ire- pope visits Scotland next year. bishops of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Church sources consider The bishops said most of the violent acts "spring from land increasingly threatened by secularist standards. the decision an important the. existence of private armies or paramilitary organione for the ecumenical DANGEROUS EMOTIONS sations which claimed the right to wage war." movement in Scotland. "We are not unmindful, however, of the injustice in They say it should help "We ask people not to allow themselves to be carried Northern Ireland over the years which created a climate overcome the protests the the for easy recruitment by paramilitary organisations," away by dangerous emotions. We urge them to seek papal visit has aroused praytheir redouble to and Spirit Holy the of uidance g they added. among fringe protestant the present conflict." WESTHILL, Scotland (NC) — A growing groups such as the Orange "Nor did the present impasse in the Maze, which ers for a just settlement to suggested: Commission Peace makes it easier still, arise suddenly," the bishops The Irish Justice and community of oil workers and their fami- Order, the Free Church of continued. • That prisoners in the Maze should be allowed to lies in Westhill will get a new church which S cotland and groups "Strenuous efforts were made to find a solution last wear their own clothes at all times. will be owned by the Church of Scotland within the Church of year. • That some moves might be made to increase oppor(Presbyterian) and shared by the Catholic Scotland. If the present efforts were to fail, the consequences tunities for association while making clear that recruitThe current Presbyterian Church and the Scottish Episcopal (Anglithroughout the whole island could be very grave indeed. ing for guerrilla organisations, military training and m oderator is the Rev can) Church. Andrew Doig. However, There could be a danger of resort to still more violent other activities which would be illegal in society at large The land was given to the percent of the other his term will expire before would not be tolerated in the prisons. Policies. denominations. Church of Scotland as a the pope's planned arrival "There could be risks of instability threatening the • That the question of prison work should be gift by the developers, In Scotland many during his trip (May 28reviewed to ensure that the work was of the greatest whole structure of our society. Catholic have parishes Develand Ashvale Land We therefore implore the hunger strikers and those possible cultural and educational value and that no opment Company, on con- been lent churches by the June 2, 1982) to England, Wales and Scotland. It is who direct them to reflect deeply on the evil of their work of a demeaning nature be demanded. it explore the Episcopal church in some not known yet who the dition the throughout implemented were reforms these "If actions and their consequences. of sharing the Highland areas and Mass moderator will be at that Northern Ireland prison system, this would not consti- possibility other is celebrated in them for time. with hurch c tute the granting of 'political status,' to which the comthe scattered Catholic popThe General Assembly denominations. CONTEMPT FOR LIFE be would it that indicated mission has already ulation. There have been approved a report by the Under the plan other two cases of the Church of Inter-Church opposed," the commission's statement went on. Relations The contempt for human life, the incitement to "Even if these reforms did not result in the ending of denominations will pay Scotland lending churches Committee which said that r evenge, the exploitation of the hunger strikers to many rent to use the building. the hunger strike they would certainly satisfy to the Catholic community if an exchange of courtesfurther a campaign of murder, the intimidation of the people of goodwill who resent the failure of the governA local referendum on a temporary basis when ies between the moderator innocent, the initiation of children into violence, all this ment to show flexibility on issues where no matter of showed that in favor of the buildings were destroyed and the pope should prove c onstitutes an appalling mass of evil," the bishops said. principle is at stake." were 81 percent of the by accidental fires. In West possible it would express plan The bishops commended the recent statement on the "The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Christian charity and prohunger strike by their Justice and Peace Commission to Wales and the Committee on Social Development and Church of Scotland Lothian all the main mote understanding. The percent of the denominations cooperate 95 members, the . hunger' strikers and the British Government as a World Peace of the US Catholic Conference also supEpiscopalians, 88 percent in a shared experiment, committee said the moderPositive effort to find a solution to the impasse. port the statement by the Irish bishops' Justice and of the Catholics and 69 including a shared church. ator should initiate such an exchange. "We ask the prisoners and those who speak for them Peace Commission.
CZECH PRIESTS ARE ORDAINED
PRESBYTERIANS S UPPORT PAPAL MEETING IN '82 All denominations will share church
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PASTORAL CHALLENGE FACED
Irish schools face big pastoral challenges with regard to the religious education of youth according to three Irish Christian Brothers who have just finished a week's visit to schools in WA.
"We suffered a period of active opposi- far wider than the 30 or 40 minutes of tion in the 1970's as they did everywhere instruction and relates to the whole clielse in the world" said Brother Christy mate of the school." Donovan of Roscrea, "but now we have The Irish visitors said they were happy got over the active opposition stage and with the new range of Irish religious text come to a point of apathy where students books that aim at a large doctrinal are not against religion but it does not content. mean a lot to them." "We probably moved a little too fast from the old catechism methods, apologetics and the standard Christian doctrine books," Brother McGrath said. A TTENDANCE FALLS "Now we are trying to use parents in Brother Donovan noted that from a conjunction with schools, educating former high rate of practice of the faith them into the new programmes and Mass attendance of males between 18 showing them the value of understanding and 25 had slipped to as low as 30 per cent religion rather than getting a parrot like in some areas according to surveys religious learning. among their former pupils. After their first experience of the AusNevertheless the brothers were happy tralian educational scene the visitors said with their schools and said there was a big they were impressed by the welcome they pastoral challenge from the fact that 50 had been given by local Christian Brothper cent of the total population of Ireland ers and by the amount of time the lay staff today is under the age of 25. in schools had given them during their A ccording to Brother Adrian visits. McGrath of Dublin pressures on youth They were impressed with the curricuare arising from materialism, advertising on television, drugs and the other influ- lum flexibility that appeared to exist in ences that are beamed at young people. the lower secondary classes, and the wilThe three brothers form the first ever lingness of teachers to adapt and keep team in recent times to visit Australia to advancing through in service courses. They felt that Australian lay teachers study their order's schools. They are spending their European summer voca- were giving great co-operation in the Three Irish Christian Brothers visiting Australia, pictured last week at Westcourt Christian tion on a two month visit to schools in schools and good back-up service in Brothers provincialate house at Manning (left to right) Brothers Christy Donovan, of Roscrea; sport and other activities. Canice Brereton, of Waterford, and Adrian McGrath, of Dublin. most countries. Compared with their current Irish They want to know how their Australian confreres are doing in the field of scene they feel Australian Catholic religious education and pastoral care in schools have gotten ahead of them in analysing the philosophy and Christian schools. ethos of the Catholic school today. They have found a common approach in the school systems to off-campus religious training. "Some of us are finding informal contact with pupils is more important than the formal lesson, and are taking boys off for weekends as you are doing here in the Christian living camps", Brother Donovan said. He explained how a former training house of the Christian Brothers in Dublin had been turned into a retreat house for this purpose and last year it was overbooked. "The best work seems to be done in extra curricular activity but the question is how do you create this climate in the school? How do you build up the Christian community? Religious education is
LEADERSHIP WANTED
According to Brother McGrath parents and pupils want from a school: Leadership, a reasonable discipline and an excellent academic standard. If a school can get a balanced blend of these three it would attract pupils. In spite of the amount of money the Irish government is spending on comprehensive schools there is still a big demand for entry into the 100 Christian Brothers' schools that cater for 60,000 pupils. Asked whether parents wanted such schools Brother McGrath replied: "Let's hope they will be even more wanted after we return from Australia."
WE NEED REAL MISSIONARIES
Irish congregations feeling 'the vocations numbers'pinch T hree Irish Christian Brothers visiting Perth last week said they were happy with the wider role that priests were exercising in the religious training of boys in their schools in Ireland. In the past a priest might drop in for a chat but now special chaplains are spending up to three days a week in the schools. Resource centres for religious education including a small chapel were also being established in schools.
Bibles moved despite war The heavy fighting in Lebanon has not deterred the Bible Society from its work. Recently, the entire Bible new ecumenical translaSociety team spent two tion of the Bible in Arabic days transporting 1700 is being produced in coBibles and 6500 New Tes- operation with the Middle taments from a warehouse East Council of Churches. in East Beirut to a more the distribution of Scripsecure location in the west tures in Lebanon continues despite the unsettled con:oc the city. ditions and military conThese Scriptures were frontation. A Bible van is waiting for transport to still operating with the help Syria. of volunteers and this year The United Bible Socie- more than four million ties is supporting four Scripture items will be cirmajor translation projects culated throughout this in Lebanon this year. A troubled land.
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A ustralia's youngest diocese needs young men to train for the diocesan priesthood. We need young men who love Christ and people enough to face loneliness, hardship and frustration in the world's hardest mission field. For information, write to
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The liturgy department of the Episcopate of the Roman Catholic Church in Chile has expressed interest in using the Bible Societies' Spanish common language translation of the Bible, Dios Habla Hoy (God speaks today), for the Bible readings of the official liturgy of Sunday and festival masses. The reasons given for this interest are the quality of the translation and because the text comes from an interconfessional Bible translation "which demonstrates the true wish that it be Christ who unites us and not He who separates us." Father Beltran Villegas, Professor of Biblical Theology in the Catholic University of Chile, has reviewed the Bible Societies' Spanish common language translation Dios Habla Hoy and called it "one of the most important achievements of interconfessional collaboration in Latin America, and therefore, the key to a close communion among Christians of different confessions around the unique Word of God.
Brother McGrath said vocations to the priesthood, particularly to the c ontemplative orders, had picked up after a downturn in recent years. "The calibre of the young men joining the secular clergy and the training we are getting is very good and we are very satisfied with the young priest who is coming into our schools." On the other hand he described his own congregation as "feeling the
pinch" in the matter of vocations:There were now some 850 Brothers in the 180 year old Irish founded congregation down from the peak of 1,500 some 15 years ago. In the Dublin province there were II trainees in the novitiate. Brother McGrath said they found y oung men anxious enough to come but less able to make the commitment to stay. "We
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amount of opposition from parents who feel their sons should be very sure of the step they are taking whereas previously they said it was a blessing from God and off the lad went." B rother Donovan believes a lot of the negative reaction of parents has come from the exposure that a lot of priests received in the media when they left the priesthood which was contrary to the expectations of most Irish parents.
KIMBERLEY 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.
1‘111!1:. 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 Sandy 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 AO.
'Violence is certainly the exception rather than the rule in my job.Icarry running shoes rather than boxing gloves'
THE LONG ARM OF IAN'S LAIN Today's People
The bailiff of a Local Court has a position somewhat similiar to a policeman in relation to a Court of Petty Sessions, Ian Handcock explains.
The Local Court is a civil court and among the bailiff's duties is responsibility for the service of summonses, execution of warrants, maintenance of order in the court and to act generally as a field officer as distinct from a c lerical officer.
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Ian is also bailiff of the Rockingham Local Court and consequently his bailiwick extends to Dalkeith to the north, Lynwood to the east and Singleton to the south.
Mr Ian Gilbert Handcock, Mayor of East Fremantle since 1974 and the bailiff of the Fremantle Local Court, was born in Perth in 1934. A s a policeman, his father Gilbert was posted to various parts of the State and consequently Ian received his education at Northam, Bruce Rock, Midland Junction, Queen's Park, CBC Terrace and CBC Fremantle. On leaving school he was made an assistant bailiff of the Fremantle Local Court and was appointed bailiff in 1958. He was a member of the East Fremantle parish council for 15 years and is a commentator there. He is vice-president of the Perth-Geraldton Cursillo Movement, secretary of the Fremantle Circle of Catena, a former president of the Fremantle YCW and was an active participant in Marriage Encounter. He is chairman of the Fremantle Cemetery Committee, past secretary of Fremantle Rotary and a former State treasurer of the Democratic Labor Party for which he stood unsuccessfully as a Senate candidate in 1955. As a national serviceman, he was a lieutenant in the artillery. He met his wife Meg (nee Row/es) when she was a nurse at Fremantle Hospital and now their elder daughter Ruth has just graduated as a nurse from the same hospital. Of their other five children son Bret has a science degree and is doing a diploma of education course at the Nedlands college of Advanced Education; Matt has a BA and is studying for a commerce degree at the University of WA: James is studying for a bachelor of business degree at WAIT; Peter is a pupil at CBC Fremantle; and Clare attends Our Lady of Fatima school at Palmyra. The childrens' ages range from 23 to 10.
Fremantle Harbour ... it was once Ian Handcock's duty to arrest s ome of the ships tha entered.
A post he no longer holds, during his tenancy of which you often saw his photograph in the newspapers attaching documents to arrested ships' masts, was that of-Fremantle sheriffs officer of the Supreme Court acting as marshall's deputy in admiralty. Ships due to be arrested usually left from Sydney or Melbourne or from an overseas port on their way to Fremantle. There was seldom time to catch them in those places because the documents of arrest take at least a day to prepare. In most cases they had to call at Fremantle for bunkers, so the documents were air-mailed for execution here. Although they did not like their vessels being arrested, Ian says, ships' captains are used to authority and accepted the arrest procedure calmly — unlike some civilians who tend to strike out in anger. Most citizens against whom he has to act accept the fact philosophically, but there have been some notable exceptions. He prefers dealing with the person who gets indignant initially and then calms down to the one who is as cool as a
cucumber for a start. Some in the latter category tend to blow their top suddenly without the slightest warning. One of these characters was responsible for him losing 16 pieces of skin off his face in an unheralded altercation that blew up. In the course of the melee he put his finger in Ian's mouth and was attempting to tear his cheek off. In self-defence, the bailiff was forced to bite hard on the finger. In the following court proceedings the magistrate deflated the accused's defence by inquiring how his finger happened to get into the bailiff's mouth. However, Ian said, "Violence is certainly the exception rather than the rule in my job. "I carry running shoes rather than boxing gloves," he laughs. Despite the increase in population, the number of processes issued by the Local Court has declined in recent years. The bailiff thinks that possible reasons for this include improved social services and the ability of people now to obtain money through various government sources.
The conception of the bailiff formerly held in some quarters as the man who tosses old ladies onto the street for non-payment of rent is rapidly being consigned to where it belongs — in the realms of mythology. "I doubt whether we would have had five evictions in the past five years," he reflects. Nowadays the subjects of eviction orders usually ask him on what day he intends to carry out the order. He tells them and when he arrives they have gone.
EVICTIONS
it had an excellent community spirit that should not be allowed to be extinguished. It has no industrial or rural sub-divisions but town planning, particularly the question of high-rise and low-rise residential areas, is a very lively subject with its citizens. East Fremantle has very little ground on which to expand and as a result developers are looking to upward growth in the form of high-rise residential units. This is a sore point with some residents who fear that their views and even their way of life may be adversely affected. The mayor refrains from expressing favour for either side, but he comments that the number of people now enjoying nice views must necessarily diminish proportionately with time and expansion because the metropolis has only one Swan River and one coastline. Ian's invovlement with the Perth-Geraldton Cursillo MOVment of which he is vicepresident started with a three-day weekend under its aegis in 1978. "The movement's philosophy is a mixture of spirituality and practicality," he says.
Some of them are moonlightflit experts. They have enough money to pay for the bond and a fortnight's rent in advance when they move into a house, and that is the last payment they make until they receive another eviction order when they start the moving process again. In their view the landlord is definitely the low man on the payment totem pole. Cases of people being emptied onto the streets with their goods and chattels are rare, because the State Housing Commission or some welfare agency comes to their rescue. The carrying out of a warrant of execution against goods is a PLACE IN CHURCH more frequent exercise that the bailiff is directed to undertake. He is instructed to seize from "It seeks to make lay people the defendant's goods — (such aware of their place in the as) furniture, a car, a TV set or Church and to show them their anything else — and sell them real mission of bringing Christ for cash sufficient to pay the to the world. money owed to the plaintiff. "It provides the opportunity East Fremantle, Ian says, is for them to gather in small essentially a residential suburb groups on a regular basis to in which he and his councillors share their Christianity and think people would like to live. s trengthen their apostolic. With an area of 3.2 square resolve. kilometres and about 2,500 "It has certainly changed my ratepayers, it is one of the smal- views of my place in the Church lest local government areas in and the world." the State bounded by the Swan At the conclusion of the interRiver and East, Marmion and view on the Monday we left the Petra Streets. council chambers together It has been a local government somewhat surreptitiously lest authority in its own right since we encountered Town Clerk, 1897. Mery Cowan, East Fremantle's It was the only small authority president, who might have been r ecommended for enlargement smarting still from the defeat of by the 1974 local government his football team on the preRoyal Commission which said vious Saturday by West Perth. The Record, July 9-15, 1981
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Hang on for a ory ride Almost everybody will be forced unexpectedly to call on thervices of an ambulance at some stage, but if the cry for help is answered by a company like F & B Anilance the patient is in for the ride of his life.
'34141411 • Robert Powell as Jesus and James Farentino as Peter.
FILM ROBES A NOBLE
More than the usual problems were encountered by the team producing the robes worn by the multitude of actors in the colossal production Jesus of Nazareth. The two men leading the team of designers, Marsandals were snipped from camel hide and cured in a cel Escoffier and Enrico Sabbatini, became accuspungent mixture of oil and camel urine. tomed to supplying 1,500 costumes for a day's Like Zeffirelli, producer Vincenzo Labella is shooting, but what they found difficult to adjust to obsessed by accuracy and detail in his particular was the type of outfit director Zeffirelli demanded. area. "Neither Franco nor I pay too much attention Sabbatini says that Zeffirelli was insistent that no to our lead actors. They know what they are supsilks or satins be worn by Jesus or Mary - "nothing posed to do. It's the guy in the back row who leaves Christmas card-like." his jeans on under his robes to keep warm who The clothes worn by Powell were rough and desworries me." cribed as "early nondescript." Powell says they He claims he once saw a Roman soldier in Ben became increasingly itchy. "He wouldn't let me get Hur wearing sneakers. them washed," says Powell of Zeffirelli's instrucIt is such attention to minute details which produtions. "He was scared it would spoil their ageing ces something of the magnificence of Jesus of Nazaprocess." reth, and while viewers are probably not aware of the Dyes for the total of 2,500 costumes came from depth of such attention they certainly perceive the local berries, just as they did 2,000 years ago, and overall quality which is evident.
• Anthony Quinn as the priest Caiaphas MINIM
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Channel Seven's WedTheir actions in this nesday night movie at regard are of the most 9.35 called Mother Jugs bizarre nature in order to and Speed is about such save their jobs, or at least an ambulance group. have the time of their It features comedian lives while making their and former star of the top rounds. television series I Spy, Mother is played by Bill Cosby, and Raquel Cosby, Jugs by Raquel W elch and Harvey and Speed by newcomer Keitel. Harvey Keitel. The story concerns the F & B is a mythical c ompany's desperate small outfit operating in efforts to stay in business a unincorporated section against overwhelming of Los Angeles. odds. When it's their very surWith the firm about to vival that's threatened, go into liquidation, the staying solvent becomes trio, and the rest of the at least as important as colourful collection of rendering humanitarian •employees, gleefully aid. stoop to any length to Perhaps their erratic drum up business. behaviour is their way of coping with a not-toopretty way of bringing BIZARRE home the bacon each week. Their good-natured This black satire exposbanter and humour arises ing human foibles, an from difficult circum- everyday event, comes stances as they try to save easily to the three major lives, and they do care. cast members. There are some funny They have good support scenes throughout this from other first-class tale even if they are seen actors in Larry Hagman, in the light of some fever- Bruce Davidson and ish attemps to free an L.Q. Jones. obese man's trouser The three main characzipper or a Mexican ters are excellent ambuwoman who is dying and lance drivers doing an pregnant. almost impossible job The Mother Jugs and against-the odds, but they Speed shows life, warts k eep their highly and all, the seemingly irreverent humour. hopelessness of people's The three stars are seen lives, but it retains the as being altruistic, but in essential human element. a flip way.
Santamaria is radio subject Mr Bob Santamaria, a Catholic lay man whose actions and opinions have had a big impact in and outside the Catholic Church, will be the subject of Encounter on Radio 3 at 10.15pm on Saturday July 18 and on 6WF at 8am on Sunday July 19. The publication of B.A. Santamaria's political memoirs in April has given rise to much discussion of his role, and the role of the organisations with which he has been associated in Australia since the 1930's. This Encounter feature focuses not so much on Bob Santamaria himself as on the National Civic Council (supported by the Catholic Right) and its opponents (supported by the Communist left). The programme attempts to uncover the respective social-cultural matrixes which gave t hese two opposing camps in the Roman Catholic Church their distinctiveness. Bob Santamaria's active life in politics covers an enormous range of events and issues — both international and national in which he, his allies and enemies were involved (e.g. the Spanish Civil War, the atom bomb and the pope's condemnation of it, post-war settlement in Europe, the Cold War, Australia's post-war migration policy, Roman Catholic influence in the ALP). Participating in this feature are Vincent Buckley, Thomas Keneally, Stephen Murray-Smith, and people in the trade unions who were "operatives" for both sides.
Aborigital land rights subject0f discussion
A boriginal land rights andloriginal Week will be featured on ABC radio this week. gramme One Step Aboriginal land rights Towards Light. an by discussed will be Albert Namatjira's earAboriginal Catholic pri- liest associations were est in the programme with the Lutheran MisExperiences in Decision sion. Subsequently his feature the in aking M absorption with the idea P riorities (6WN at of becoming an artist 9.45am on July 11 and ended one of the misR adio 3 at 11.45am on sion's ideas. July 12). He was an active ChrisLast November, the tian and it had been Catholic Commission for hoped that he would Justice and Peace and the become a missionary to Council of ustralian A his own Aboriginal C hurches launched a people. joint educational pro- Namatjira the artist was gram in support of Aboalso Namatjira the riginal land rights. Aboriginal. A Churches' Task Force He knew the laws about on Land Rights was liquor but did not fully formed, consisting of representatives of the understand the meaning of his citizenship rights. Aboriginal community. The chair-person of the Conflict with the law was Task Force is Father Pat inevitable, and in 1958 his sentence of six months Dodson, the first Aborighard labour for supplyinal Priest in the Roman Catholic Church in ing intoxicating liquor to native wards was reduced Australia. Aboriginal Week is to three months "open arrest" at Papunyah • Father Patrick Dodson, the firibo- highlighted on ABC Native Reserve. radio this Sunday with Dolic Roman riginal Priest in the He died after contractChurch in Australia, is the Chairo of Encounter (6WN at 8am) ing pneumonia a month looking at the late Albert a Churches' Task Force on LanOts. Namatjira in the pro- before the sentence was completed.
YOUR VE.EK ON TELEIISION
410st • Australia's most respected naturalist, Harry Butler, presents his unique view of Tasmania on ChannelNine at 6.30, Saturday.
Harry Butler journeys Harry Butler enters the world of commercial television this week with a special look at Tasmania on Channel Nine. In John Waters' World Around Us on Saturday at 6.30pm, John introduces Australia's bestknown naturalist, Harry Butler, exploring the unique facets of the small Australian island of Tasmania. Harry wanders through the national parks and open areas with cameras keeping a close tag on the r enowned bush hiker.
In his journey he shares with the audience the variety and beauty of Tasmania's countryside, taking the carr eras first to the majesty of Cradle Mountain towering over Dove Lake, then on to such sights as Lake St Clair with its beautiful backdrop of Mount Olympus. Along the way on Freycinet Peninsula Harry e xplains the French names of the landmarks resulting from the French exploration in 1802, with the exception of Schouten Island which was named by the Dutch
explorer, Abel Tasman, in 1642. And moving on to the west coast of the island, Harry searches for the rare Tasmanian Devils, once prolific in the southeast of Australia, but now found only in Tasmania. Harry Butler presents a view of Tasmania which creates the best tourist sightseeing guide available for viewers.
• A Jesuit priest is into his sixth week introducing people to the art of meditation on 6WN each evening at 11.10pm. In a series of simple exercises to help you learn to contemplate, Father Bill Hewett, who presents the programmes, believes that this method will appeal to the whole person at a variety of levels. Each program follows the same three steps: i) a short invocation of God ii) a simple prayer exercise based on one of the five senses iii) a petition in verse based on the prayer exercise just done. The theme for this week is: Facing the mysterious reality of the broken world of suffering.
SUMfiERFIELD DISAPPEARANCE IS MYSTERY A strange alliance between brother and sister and a secret that should not hay been shared are part of the mystery of Summerfield, Channel Nine's Sunda A ustralian movie at 8.35pm.
• Nick Pate, John Waters
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lexander star
in Australia's mystery thriller Summerfield.
Summerfield is a modern mystery, produced by Patricia Lovell from a s creenplay by Cliff Green. This team, who were responsible for Picnic At Hanging Rock and Break of Day, again demonstrate their ability as superb film-makers with Summerfield. The story is intriguing from the start when s choolteacher Simon Robinson (Nick Tate) arrives in a small Victorian country town to take the place of his predecessor Peter Flynn, who has mysteriously disappeared. The young man is immediately aware of the lack of concern regarding Flynn's disappearance. H e soon becomes involved with the mystery of the missing man when a young student, Sally Abbott (Michelle
Jarman), brings herself to the teacher's attention. The young girl breaks her leg in a collision with him while trying to intercept his journey to the beach and Robinson is forced to take her home to Summerfield - an island farm run by Sally's mother, Jenny Abbott (Elizabeth Alexander), and Jenny's brother David (John Waters). Visiting the injured girl regularly to keep up her school lessons, Robinson becomes convinced the Abbots knew Flynn and suspects they know how and why he disappeared. Simon is worried but intrigued when he received a dinner invitation from the Abbotts and although the evening passes pleasantly enough, Simon is glad to leave. When he arrives back to
his car he finds the bat- Island and the local tery is flat and begins the school children took spi long walk backup the hill rited part in the film. to the house to get help Leading the cast o from David. The events that follow Summerfield are some o reveal the secret of Sum- Australia's finest actors. Nick Tate won th merfield and its horrifyAFI's 1976 award fo ing consequences. Summerfield was filmed Best Actor after his per around Cowes on Phillip formance as Brother Vic Island and on nearby t or in The Devil's Churchill Island in Victo- Playground. ria, with Churchill Island John Waters is best providing a perfect set- known to viewers thesq ting as Summerfield days for World Around farm. Us, while Elizabeth Alex. The Victorian Govern- ander impressed televi, ment had bought Chur- sion viewers in her role al chill Island in 1976 and Esther Woolcott in Severi the Clare Beach unit ren- Little Australians. ovated the old home on Michelle Jarman wal site for the filming. one of the daughters iii The school to which the Australian produc Simon Robinson is tion Do I Have to Kill appointed was renamed My Child? Bannings Beach School In a minor role is Sheila for Summerfield. It is Florance who is enjoying actually Newhaven Prim- success and popularity as ary School on Phillip Lizzie in Prisoner.
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Lily put many a star into orbit By A NABEL GOMEZ Many stars of stage, screen and radio can directly attribute their
successes to Miss Lilian Patricia Kavanagh.
Judy Davis, of Getting of Wisdom fame, "As I look back I wonder how I did it all, and Ihope James Condon, Mary Ward, Leith Young, Faith that all my students gained something from my lesson," Clayton -Richardson are just a few of the thou- Miss Kavanagh said. sands of students Miss Kavanagh has taught Recognition of this lifelong commitment and of her speech and dramatic art. considerable influence on the theatrical life of Perth has
Her involvement in speech and drama began when she was a boarder at Loreto Convent, Swanbourne. "When my parents first entrusted me to the sisters at Loreto, I wept many a homesick tear onto my eiderdown," Miss Kavanagh said. In order to pass time and forget their melancholia, Miss Kavanagh and other boarders produced improvised plays. "It was from that time that I developed my talent for drama," Miss Kavanagh said. It was a talent that was to develop, After finishing school Miss Kavanagh went to the Royal Academy and got an LAB in music. Once again she found herself within the confines of Loreto Convent's walls -- but her role had changed. The sisters took Miss Kavanagh back as a music teacher. When they decided — for variation — to give Miss Kavanagh small recitation classes to teach, they didn't realise that it was the start of an illustrious professional career that would last more than 60 years. Her popularity grew and eventually she established her own music and speech academy. "Being an enthusiastic little person, my music and drama academy grew so large that I was forced to make a choice between teaching speech or music. I chose to devote my life to speech because I felt a closer rapport was established with the student," Miss Kavanagh said. As a natural extension, Miss Kavanagh became interested in play production.
Miss Lilian Patricia Kavanagh was born in 1896, in Victoria. A t a very early age her parents came to the West A ustralian goldfields where her father was the first detective-sergeant. They decided that the living conditions were too severe for a young child so they placed her at Loreto College, Swanbourne. It was there that Lilian received her whole education, and eventually it was there that she heldher first job as a music teacher. She was involved in many drama productions and produced plays at the Pleiades Club and Repertory Club (now The Playhouse). In 1977 she was awarded an MBE recognising more than 60 years' devotion to speech and drama teaching. A a award has been named after her and an 85th birthday dinner was held to celebrate the birthday and the award.
been reinforced with the wish to establish a Lily P Kavanagh Award. An 85th birthday dinner was held in order to pay tribute to her and to raise the capital for two endowments. -One of these will be under the auspices of the Australian Music Examinations Board, an organisation with which Miss Kavanagh was associated for many years. The other will be managed by the newly-established WA Academy for the Performing Arts. The purpose of each endowment is to further the work done by Miss Kavanagh in her professional career. David Hough, assistant to the principal of the WA Academy of Performing Arts, said of Miss Kavanagh: "She is the most outstanding teacher Perth has had in the performing arts, although she has had no formal training. "This self-taught woman has a sense for what looks and sounds right. She has a strong sense of dignity and sets high standards of performance. She transmits all these qualities to her students," Mr Hough said. "She is the only person Iknow who can make you feel good while criticising your performance in order to shape it. "She represents a standard of technical excellence which is not fashionable nowadays. She has the art and science of language.
"In her opinion it has to sound beautiful, while being intelligible. Unfortunately, this trend has stopped and actors no longer speak clearly." Miss Lily Kavanagh is a widely-respected self-made woman who is loved by all those who have had close contact with her. She has left a deep mark on the theatrical circles in Perth and will no doubt continue to do so.
End wanted to detention camps NEW YORK (NC) — Amnesty International has urged the Vietnamese g overnment to abol ish "reeducation" (detention) camps setup after the defeat of the South Vietnamese government in 1975.
She produced a number of plays for the Repertory The Vietnamese com- new system of life under Club (now known as The Playhouse) and the Pleiades munist government placed c ommunism. Club. the number of people held "Vietnamese authorities During this period she developed an association with in such camps at 20,000 as argued that their reGina Bradley, former senior mistress at St Hilda's and of September 1980, said a education system was senior drama lecturer at the University of W.A. press release issued by more humane than bring"I first met Lily when she wanted to do a most innovbefore Amnesty International, an ing people to trial that ative thing — produce a play (The Blue Bird) outside," judgments independent organisation courts for Gina Bradley said. severe monitoring the status of would have more "I had been watching her with great interest, because their on effects political prisoners. and lasting she was one of the only people who was capable of officlives. They also said handling an all-female cast. A very hard task, which Amnesty International ers and officials who had Lily seemed to manage with the greatest of ease. and the government held responsible positions "From then on we would both enter our plays in exchanged a series of mes- under the old government drama festivals and a friendly rivalry emerged. sages on the "re- had knowlingly committed "We had the pleasure of sharing a sense of pride in a education" camps after an treason," said Amnesty. star pupil — Faith Clayton-Richardson. VietnaAmnesty mission visited "Faith was taught by both Lily and me, and we relish It criticised the Vietnam in December, mese approach, saying, the fame she has attained." 1979. people Before the war most of Miss Kavanagh's time was "To assume that all monopolised by the Pleiades Club -- Gina Bradley Amnesty International who held certain ranks being her deadliest rival. also called on authorities were guilty of treason "Pleiades was a most energetic club, it was untiring in to publish a list of places of would deprive them of its efforts to make itself successful. When I wanted detention and details of their right as individuals to. something no matter now difficult — it was done withpeople held, and to imple- be presumed innocent until out a murmur," Miss Kavanagh said. ment a series of safeguards proved guilty, an interna"But the war brought an end to many lovely things, for the legal rights, condi- tionally establish e d including the Pleiades. tions and treatment of pol- principle." "During the war years my talented friend, Ida G holding itical detainees. " Vietnam ischarges or Roberts, and I gave concerts in my Hay Street studio. without The Vietnamese govern- people All the money raised went towards providing comforts For Miss Lily Kavanagh's 85th birthday celebration, Kalamunda artist Vita Markovic, whose wife (formerly Norma Shem) had been a pupil of Miss ment contends that the trial for indefinite periods for our soldiers. det"Ida and her pupils would perform duo and solo Kavanagh, prepared a bronze figurine expressing the artistry of woman camps are needed to re- and with no set term of Amnesty. reaching upwards but not yet having reached the goal. works, while I produced plays and individual items. educate people to accept a ention," added
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PYRAMID OF LOVE AND FAITH Two thousand years ago, slaves were used to build great pyramids for the kings of Egypt.
Recently, young people A classic pyramid is usuyoung workers eager to had a lesson in pyramid ally a structure of stone By change the injustices they building during a barbecue with a solid base. Replace S tephen BARTON face each day. The solid in Kings Park held as a stone with "human", and base is, of course, our Lord reunion for the partici- we get a good description The structure is made up Jesus Christ whose teachpants of the last YCW of the YCW movement: a of YCW groups spread ings the people use as a "Awareness" camp. structure of people with a over 60 countries in the foundation. President, Kevin Yuen, solid base. T wenty young people world. Its 'stones' are the used his structural engihave developed friendship, neering skills to arrange trust and confidence in the people into human each other through sharing pyramids. For all those experiences and activities. involved, except the people The challenge is now to at the bottom, this activity become a pyramid of was the highlight of the Christ. To act as a strucday. ture with a solid foundaAt the time, I thought it tion to bring about change, was just a game but, on people must review and act reflection, the pyramid accordingly to build a new showed a clear link with w orld for all young the mission of the YCW. workers.
YOUTH FORUM
Former National President Michael Campbell from Adelaide and John Bonnice from Melbourne completed their term of office as national fulltimers for the Y.C.W. at this National Council.
members for their commitment and courage in a critical era of the Y.C.W. in this country.
Both John and Michael were key figures in rebuilding the Australian Y.C.W. in the last few years. Their contriubtion has given the Australian Y .C.W. a solid base for sustained growth in the 80's. Both of them will always be remembered by YCW
John Bonnice
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According to some people a pilgrimage to Lourdes might be t he fashionable thing to do for an adult Catholic. Others would prefer to say our primary school teachers had impressed upon our hearts and minds the importance of such a pilgrimage at some time of our lives. Most would agree that as one of the principal marian shrines of Europe it is worth a visit.
Travelling in a party with Father Steve Truscott of Belmont and five young people. I will be one of the lucky thirty thousand delegates from around the world to be attending the International Eucharistic Congress on July 16, 123 years after Our Lady's last appearance to Bernadette at the grotto. At Easter time this year, the Faith and Light pilgrims from Perth and hundreds from other parts of the world attended a special pilgrimage for the physically and mentally disabled. This Congress week in July will be somewhat different and Lourdes will be filled with a different atmosphere because one of the usually impressive aspects is to see the ill and the maimed in their t housands praying to God through the intercession of Mary. The Congress will concentrate on the mystery of the Eucharist and not
• Some of the 'empire builders' at the YCW picnic are: back row (left to right), Liz Child/ow, Kath Welch, Heather Brooks, Leonie Klomp; middle, Kevin Yuen, Selene Piateck, Angela Burke; Caroline, Julie Ranson, Chris O'Reagan; front, Trisha Wells, Gemma Wooltorton, Steve and Phil Barton, Bernard Piateck, Tom O'Reagan, Mathew Curthois and Colin Corney. the physical healing of the sick. Very few are ever cured at Lourdes in proportion to the millions that visit each year but everyone comes away blessed in a special way. Only recently a young man returned from Lourdes and shared with me his extraordinary experiences and what he believed to be a special blessing.
"I saw a lady dressed in white. I was struck with fear;Ithought! was mistaken and rubbed my eyes. I put my hand into my pocket and took out my rosary.Itried to make the sign of the Cross but was unable to raise my hand to my forehead. My hand dropped. The lady took the rosary that On Thursday, February she held in her ii, 1858 Bernadette hands andmade the Soubirous, her sister sign of the Cross. I Toinette and their neightook my rosary bour, Jeanne Abadie, once more. For the went out to gather some second time I tried dry branches for fire to make the sign of wood. the Cross. The Bernadette was fourteen great shock that I years' old. As the village had felt disapchurch bell struck noon, peared, I knelt Bernadette heard a loud down and told my noise like a wind blowing beads in the Lady's that made her shiver. She presence." looks towards the meaThe ecstasy lasted for a dow, the trees are still, for quarter of an hour. the second time she hears Lourdes is not a health the same noise, casting resort, a spa or the tourist her eyes towards a hollow crossroads of the Pyrethat formed a recess in nees. the rock, she tells her own My expectation is to story: find Lourdes according
to the call of Mary, our M other, one of the world's CAPITALS of P RAYER.
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• Monique Robinson sent in this picture of a dragon. E veryone is welcome to send in pictures to Nurse Kerry. So come all artists — draw something.
and maintaining an Currently the Student numbers school is exam system, it also building a library, and a re rapidly increhas a large supply of plans for an arts and asing at the audio-visual hard and crafts centre are on b rand-new St software. the drawing board. Munchin's Prim- Twice yearly formal Although the school has ary School Gosexams are held at the no specialist teachers, nells. school for years 1 to 7. it does have a talent Since the school moved from its original site in Albany Highway in 1 978, it has doubled its enrolments. It is now co-educational with 370 students, and it is looking to have 450 in the near future. The school blends old new teaching methods. While concentrating on the three Rs
"Parents want the traditional percentage m arking systems because they can understand and follow their children's scholastic progress and personal development," said Mr Baskerville, school principal. However, the value of new equipment and methods has not been overlooked by the 14 classroom teachers.
group of multipurpose teachers.
Most of the teachers are willing to try their h and at extra curricula activities such as physical education, speech and drama. The school was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1953, and
one still remains as religious teacher to grades 1 to 7. She is also co-ordinator of music throughout the school. "We have no set school choir. All our children participate in hymn singing. However
How to get a You can get a copy of this photograph if you want. The Record will be making copies of photographs available to the school involved at a reduced rate. All your school has to do is take the orders and then tell us how many copies are needed. It will be a great way of raising funds.
when we have successfully competed in competitions or sung for the community, school choirs are formed," Mr Baskerville said. Music wafts through the air during the weekly school Masses. Parish priest Father Tom Prendiville helps the children prepare the liturgies and celebrates the monthly benediction. Father Prendiville is very active within the school community, and sometimes takes classes for religious instruction. With the other teachers, he is responsible for developing the Cath-
olic ethos within each child. This is the school's main aim spiritually. Scholastically it aims at excellence in all basic subjects from each child. Munchin's School may have a nontraditional name — "No-one knows where it came from. All we do know is that the Bishop of Limerick was called Munchin," Mr Baskerville said — "but it has traditional values supplemented by modern ideals. A successful combination which has, and will, result in it being a s chool of great worth."
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Archdiocesan Calendar JULY 12 Confirmation, Bulls brook. Archbishop Goody. Confirmation, Armadale. Bishop Quinn. Confirmation, Leederville. Bishop Healy. 15 Confirmation, Kenwick-Thornlie. Bishop Quinn. 15 Archbishop Goody will attend the meeting of heads of churches at the Anglican Archbishop's House. 16 At the Carmelite Monastery, Nedlands, Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Archbishop Goody. 19 Confirmation, Willagee. Archbishop Goody. Confirmation, Brentwood. Bishop Healy. Opening of administration block at Catherine McAuley Centre. Bishop Quinn. 20 At St. Paul's church Swanbourne Mass and private vows of the Little Sisters of Mount Carmel. 23 Mass for secondary school principals' seminar, Archbishop Goody. A t St. Mary's Cathedral, Trinity College confirmation. Bishop Quinn. 14
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Some schools are working hard to win the weekend air trip to Albany prize for naming the new disabled care centre in Windsor Street East Perth. St Denis school in Joondanna has already submitted more than 100 entries. The new centre is to be conducted under the auspi- the centre's name. Entries are to be sent to Name The Centre, ces of Centrecare and will supply information for all Centredisabled people and their families and provide a place care, 25 Victoria Square, Perth, 6000. for disabled people to meet and give support to each to Thewinner will receive ar eturno d tw iflarreefn withPerth from Albany for two other. and children two Each entry in the competition costs 20 cents and nights' accommodation and the use of a car for the weekend. must be accompanied by reasons for the selection of
BELOW: At St Denis school, Joondanna, teacher Miss Barbara Smedley (centre) is pictured with pupils Jane Nilson (left) and Michelle Keenan working on a name for the Disabled Care Centry.
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of personal prayer and the per individual for the vance of the Sunday of prayer of the Church a whole programme is $5, or school of holiness. Aboriginal Week. Further for those wishing to attend information is available A n Irish Carmelite, A series of lectures open only some of the sessions from the chaplain, Father Father Eltin Griffin, lec- to all who wish to attend $1.50 per session. turer in pastoral liturgy at will be given by Father The topics being covered The next day of prayer at Brian Tiernan SAC., 328 Milltown Theological Col- Griffin on Saturday and will have special interest the., Franciscan Retreat 7529. lege, Dublin, and a staff Sunday, July 25 and 26 in for teachers, catechists, House, Victoria Park, will member of the Carmelite Mercedes Hall, Hay Street parish liturgy committees take place on Thursday, July 16, starting at 9.30am Conference Centre, Dun- Perth. and members of prayer and ending at 4pm. Mass is drum, will be visiting Perth The programme is as fol- groups. from July 23 to 27. He will lows: Saturday, 10.00am, Further information included in the day and Sister Sue Mosteller, also an opportunity for the international co-ordinator be staying with the Carme- liturgy and education; from the Carmelite Com- sacrament of confession. L'Arche lite community at Hilton. 1 1.30am, liturgy and the munity, Hilton, Phone Lunch is provided. Book- for Jean Vanier's c ommunities will be visitWhile in Perth Father parish. (Bring your own 337.1133. ings should be made on 361 ing Perth on the weekend Griffin will be giving sev- lunch. Cups of tea or coffee July 31 - August 2 to give provided.) 1.30pm, folk ADULT EDUCATION 3459. eral sets of lectures. a retreat to the Faith and On Friday morning, July music for liturgy for young The Catholic Pastoral Light group at St. Joa24, beginning at 9.45am at people; 2.45 pm, (continua- Institute in conjunction chim's hall. Victoria Park. the Retreat House, North tion of the above and open w ith the Franciscan The retreat talks are open Perth, he will give two lec- forum); 4.00pm, close. Retreat House will conSunday, 10.00am, growth duct a new adult religious The Nyoongah Catholic to all interested people, tures for priests. particular His topics will be: The i n personal prayer; education course: "An community invite their and would be of or Eucharistic prayer a model 1 1.30am, eucharistic cele- introduction to St. Mark" friends to attend Mass interest to those living presented by Father Bob celebrated this Sunday, working with devalued bration; 12.30pm close. No pre-registration is Carden, O.F.M. in four July 12, at 5.00pm in the people. information needed for people wishing sessions on Tuesdays at Holy Trinity church, For furthur and t o attend these sessions at 7.30 p.m. Commencing on Embleton, and the social please write to: Faith Mercedes Hall. The cost July 28th at the Franciscan meeting afterwards in the Light 71 Tate Street, W. Retreat House hall to mark the obser- Leederville, 6007.
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Menotti in difficulties
The long suppressed conflict between Father Jack Menotti and Monsignor Donnelly breaks into the open in M enotti: A Hasty Retreat, on Channel Two on Wednesday, July 15, at 8.30pm. Battling ill health, Monsignor Donnelly works hard to turn his dream of a local Catholic high school into a reality, while Jack succeeds in organising a volunteer group t o begin a local women's shelter. Jack wants to cancel a planned retreat, but Donnelly insists he go. When Donnelly collapses with a suspected heart attack, Jack is recalled to administer the parish. He finds that a position of authority brings unexpected difficulties, particularly when others are more than ready to take advantage of an enforced absence.
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St Columbans
Father Frank Chapman talks ...
I Isuppose patience is the big virtue for a priest on the missions. As they say, he must be able to hack it. Learning a foreign language is highly important but more important stillis the spirit of prayer, patience and respect for the people; a gentleman does not hurt people's feel ings and the priest is expected to be a gentleman.lf you consider yourself superior, they read you like a book and you will rate low. If the priest is really a man of God, even though poor at the language and limited in many ways, people see Christ in him and that means a great deal On the mission, bad temper is the cardinalsin.'
MISSIONARY Vocations today NEED STILL A series presented in conjunction with Vocations Council of WA
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Recently the Holy Father Ireland founded a society clergy. In Korea the same asked for a more even dis- of seculars for Africa — has happened. tribution of priests. We Kiltegan. America has St In the Kachin hills of were founded to bring pri- James Society for South Burma the whole diocese is ests to China, — secular America. England and now staffed by indigenous I went to school in North Fremantle. In priests who would build up secular clergy for bishops Holland have the Mill Hill priests. Burma as a whole those days there were Chinese gardens Fathers. France has sev- has about 350,000 Cathol- and of course there was the wharf. Boats in China. A n organisation was eral, even Mexico has a ics; but it has more major and sailors from all nations. It made me needed to train the priests, large one. Germany has seminarians than Austra- think of the missions. send them out, support the Society of the Divine lia and its millions of In 1921, three years after the Columbans were Catholics. So God has them and support their Word. founded, some priests came and showed slides of blessed the efforts of all work. Religious Orders like That's how St Colulm- these have something spe- mission societies working China. I was eight at the time and that is whereIfirst got the idea. ban's came into being. cial to offer in established in Burma. Later bishops in other misA few years later a priest visited our school and Catholic countries and in A Columban priest works sion countries and priestspoke on the missions. He took my name and when I less countries like the mission lands. Our Colum- for the bishop and today passed my leaving in 1930 I went to the St ColumPhilippines and South ban work is simply to be a nearly all the bishops are America called on us for sort of spiritual relief native to the country ban's house in Essendon, Victoria. help — Korea, Fiji. Japan agency bringing priests where he works. In a local I honestly think you get your vocation from your from the rich to the starv- parish a priest will try to parents or someone in the home and from teachers. and Burma. ing — to recruit, to train, give a systematic instrucWe are still being called, In my own home I got my vocation and secondly recently to Taiwan and to support these priests tion on the doctrines of the either as members or asso- Church. It means going through Sister Dominic in North Fremantle School Pakistan. third and fourth grade. Today there is a new off- ciate volunteers. o ver some sort of shoot: You don't have to In all missions, we aim to catechism. She always sensed that this was my intention. She become a member of our make parishes self- Next there is the Mass. encouraged it. society to work on our supporting for the priest That is what is special to Good wine needs no bush. You don't have to missions. and we have fair success, the priest, the power to say advertise it. If you are good, people will see it. They Diocesan priests volun- thank God. Mass. were great men, those early priests. teer for a period — five We are there to build up a That's Father Frank Chapman, orip,inalk frwn North why the people are years or so — and tempor- parish that will give a The Columban priests I spoke to as a boy in 1921, Fremantle—was the first NN est Australian priest to starving for priests — arily they become part of decent living to a local pri1924 and 1928 impressed me. I knew them afterjoin the Columbans. because they need the our outfit. wards to be men of prayer, singleminded. est; in my area in the Phi- Mass. Of his 43 years as a priest. 25 has e .been spent in In this way we bring prilippines, Mindanao, there The fruit If we of can the have our young the Mass men is sufficiently Philippines where he is now stationed. exposed ests from English-speaking to priests cast in this mould ever ancient, ever new, Other West Australian Columbans include dioceses to places where are 60 parishes that we peace and unity. That's have built up and handed what the world needs we will stir up the vocation that is in them. priests are scarce. Fathers Warren Ford, Brian Gore and Pat Hickey in As we become more and over to the local secular most. the Philippines; Father Paul Care in Korea; in more one world many - Japan Father Kevin IENlahono and Father Peter diocesan priests feel a call O'Sullivan at one time in Highgate and Kalgoorlie. to the missions. Father I.y nn hitely died in Peru. Many in Australia even have spoken to me about imo•••••••444•••4•••••••••••••••••••1 volunteering for a few years but sometimes their • bishops feel they can't spare them. i cult to accept poverty in their own lives and in the lives a We were founded by a i i of others. 0 Canadian secular priest and we silence was • much there seminaries the old In who had worked in China • found loneliness no great problem. Today the impact of • and he came back and loneliness and the sight of abject poverty can have an • 0 preached in Canada, upsetting effect. America and Ireland. i We may at times be tempted to be depressed by the • On both sides of the • seeming uselessness or failure of our work but this is not Atlantic two societies of • common. s ecular priests were • • -• God is a personal friend. Christ is a companion • founded independently of • NI through prayer. We share His ministry. He was rejected j each other — the Colum0 i but did not despair. We share His work, we will share • , bans and the Maryknoll 0 • His victory in the long run. Prayer sustains faith. Fathers. : •. • • There is a new style in mission work. Three Irish priests ans1 r "i • z... -..„,.. - • •i:....,, li We are all interested in housing, in nutrition, in get- 40' • wered the call first and a !. A0ib,7 • The priest teaching social • problems about ting good water for villages, in health care, in hygiene, • professor from Maynooth • in getting roads, education etc. got the blessing of the Irish creates an acute problem today. 0priests Some are inclined to say main that work their Fortunately today Western governments have • bishops to found the soci• schemes to help developing countries. Australia helps in • iety that was initially called is to change social structures. • The communists some put years out ago an analysis many places and in many fields — agriculture, roads, •• the Maynooth Mission to of social, economic political and structures. water etc. • • China. It's heady stuff and a number even in Australia seem The priest has to be careful not to become a mere Later it was called St Colulmban's society and it to accept it and think that by changing political struc- social worker, careful not to let social action cut into the REPUTATION, time he must give to prayer, to systematic instruction in 0 spread to England, Amer- tures you bring peace and plenty. PERSONAL TREATMENT, : They may even favour co-operating actively with the churches teaching on the sacraments etc., to bring • ica and Australia. Priests • groups who engage in violence to bring about change. TOTAL SERVICE, the Mass to as many people as possible as often as • from seminaries such as • I believe firstly that there is no place for the priest in . possible. • Manly joined us and we I GREAT DEALS. • I don't mean he has to be a sacristy priest. spread to missions other politics. • The Holy Father keeps stressing this. I have had a credit union, marketing co-operative, • than China. • Secondly, peace is the fruit of the Eucharist and that child and mother nutrition scheme, family life advisory: Maryknoll in America was an almost identical is what the priesthood is all about. Only the priest can scheme etc. But the priestly task of the Eucharist comes • • first. movement and in other ,say Mass. Violence is out. The poverty of the many and wealth of the few I However, it is a cause of frustration for some miscountries similar societies of diocesan priests came suppose strikes all of us. However we who were brought sionaries in the third world to see desperate poverty. 1 AIWI HIGHWAY It is a spur that drives some and a problem that • into existence for mission- up in the depression days were familiar with a spartan • LANCE GIBBONS PTY LTD 2325 ALBANY .11 DEALER existence. TELEPHONE 398 2211 AUTHORISED G M H frustrates others. They find it hard to see governments ••••••••••••••••••••••• ary work. • ••••w ••••••• • Young men from an affluent society can find it diffi- that are not democratic.
FRUSTRATIONS FACE •• PRIESTS IN FIELD... :• GEOFFSEE OR JOHN I The priest working in a foreign country also has his frustrations and tensions. In Japan there are few who become Christians and it has been a difficulty for some of our priests. But most of them are happy in Japan and prepared to wait for God's good time.
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