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L OURDES, France — Social Justice and suffering V ATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul should be back at related to the Eucharist were a constant theme of most work after two months according to surgeons who perspeakers at the 42ndInternational Eucharistic Congress formed the colostomy reversal operation last week. here on the theme: Jesus Christ, BreadBroken fora New Early next week the pope is expected to be released from hospital and go to World. Castelgandolfo where he will convalesce for about two months. Frequent heavy rain caused many functions to be transferred indoors during the week-long congress which was held in France on the centenary of the first congress in Lille, France, in 1881.
A ttendance did not peak at the pilgrim city even though it normally attracts capacity crowds during the European summer holiday season. This was due to many The pope set the direction intending visitors to the of the congress in his comcongress changing their ments delivered before the mind when it was clear congress began. He said, Pope John Paul II would "The Christian cannot not be able to attend and Because of thedisbecause sick pilgrims had ruption to mail serbeen dissuaded from attending for the week of vices, reports on the Lourdes conthe congress. Nevertheless, more than gress are only now 60,000 people were unde- arriving in Austraterred by the threat of rain lia. Other reports at the final Mass held in the are printed on field opposite the grotto pages 3 and 6 of where Our Lady appeared this issue and to Bernadette in 1858. further reports of Church unity was evident also in the presence of an matters discussed Anglican delegation from will appear next week. Canterbury which presented the pope's represen- expect to fin0 ready-made tative, Cardinal Gantin, answers in the Eucharist with a stole embroidered regarding the action to be with the papal coat of arms taken in the various areas and cross of Canterbury in of his personal, family, anticipation of the pope's social, community, ecovisit to England next year. nomic or political life.
"The pope is in good condition after a successful operation," said Dr Tresalti, chief medical officer at the Gemelli Hospital. The operation was scheduled without any prior notice to avoid an influx of inquiries from Journalists and curious visitors to the hospital and was performed by the same surgeon who led the team during the original operation following the shooting.
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Corriere Della Sera, the Milan-based newspaper, quoted Pope John Paul as saying to his physicians before the operation: "When I leave here I want to be perfectly healed. I don't want to come back because I have a lot to do." There are rumours that the convalescing pope is not likely to be very idle at Castlegandolfo. He is reported to be preparing a document to mark the 90th anniversary of Pope Leo X11 l's famous document encyclical Rerum Novarum which was a Catholic charter for the rights of workers to organise for their own protection and benefit. The pope is following the crisis in Poland which is developing over the shortage of basic foodstuffs. In the course of his message taped for the crowd in St Peter's Square last Sunday, August 9, the pope prayed that "No-one may lack bread." "Like all of you, I have a heartfelt concern for the • problems of our country and pray for an abundant and happy harvest," he said in Polish. "I share with all of you the hope that no-one in our country may lack bread and all that is indispensable for life." The pope also did not fail to note the third anniversary of the death of Paul V1, his predecessor before last, whose anniversary was on August 6. "How can we not thank the Lord now for having given him to his Church as a master of faithfulness," he said. "Paul VI confirmed the faith throughout his entire pontificate. I receive this inheritance as his eloquent spiritual testimony." * **********************************
Perth cardinal'si • new presidency V ATICAN CITY — ings and mind of the Perth born Cardinal Church magisterium James Robert Knox, 68, (teaching authority), so (pictured right), is to be that Christian families president of the new Pon- may fulfill their educatifical Council for the tional evangelising and Laity. apostolic mission." Cardinal Knox in the interim will continue in his post of Prefect of the Congregation for Sacraments and Divine Worship which he has held since 1973. The pope intended Four d eacons wil be ordained to e priesthood fo the arch diothe creation cese of Perth in St Mary's Cathedral atIO am on Saturday, August announcing of the new Council for 22. All have been completing their theology studies in the Eastern the Family in May but States. the matter was held over TOP LEFT: Deacon Trevor Simons who is a student at St Paul's Seminary, * following the shooting in St Peter's Square. Kensington, NSW. TOP RIGHT: Deacon Gordon Howell who has studied theology at Corpus * The. task of the new council is described as Christi College, Clayton, Victoria. BELOW LEFT: Deacon Kevin Cronin and (right) Deacon Greg Donovan who * "the applying the teachare students at St Paul's Seminary, Kensington, NSW.
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The pope revived quickly after the hour-long operation at 7 am and told the doctors he felt fine.
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VISITING VITAL A Christian rather on AID BID Aust. body
For Sister Maureen McCarthy, (pictured right) visiting f amilies of intellectually handicapped children means that the Catholic Church is seen to be giving support to that family or individual. For the past 13 sisters, many of them months she has been elderly. e mployed by the As a result she is looking for up to for a vehiCatholic Care for Intel- cle to help$7,000 in her visitation lectually Handicapped programme, preferably a (CCIH) as a family vis- wagon that can carry a itor and pastoral coun- wheelchair and also that is sellor, but her interest sturdy enough for visits to country families. goes back further.
Brother Kevin Johns, (pictured below), a member of the Christian Brothers Holy Spirit provincial council, has been appointed WA representative on the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. He succeeds Miss age of five according to Patricia Dolan who some researchers, by their has concluded a four- family backgrounds. year term as WA "Many students are intolerant of unions, do not representative.
He is hopeful of the good that will come from the curriculum that is being developed by the National Missionary Council. In the ideal parish situation Brother Johns would like to see a few people committed to learning the technique of group discussions and group analysis. "I would like to see the gospel preaching give emphasis to our social responsibility, that we are going to be judged not just on our private performance, because our faith is shared and we have a mission that we took on seriously in our baptism."
Her sister the youngest of Sister Maureen says that the McCarthy of Beacons- the main need for families field, is a Downs Syn- with handicapped children drome patient in the Home is to feel comfortable if Brother Johns' appoint- consider them of any value of Peace and her sister's t he.y go to Catholic ment is for three years and and this point of view will functions. child has spina bifida. is made by the Catholic exist in schools where the Sister Maureen describes "They like to know that as bishops of Western Aus- income status is high. her work as simply listen- they have welcomed the tralia. He will be attending "In an economics class ing, and trying to help fam- handicapped child into his first meeting of the you may therefore get very ilies to work through their their family so the Catholic commission in Sydney poor discussion whereas if there was a good division anxiety. A visit can mean parish and community will later this month. of opinion you could get anything from three- give them a similar Originally from Kalgoorquarters of an hour up to welcome." lie, Brother Johns has been some light. t wo hours; often she will go Since their children are a Christian Brother for 25 "I would like to see them to a family for a meal so likely to be a distraction at years and began taking a looking at the facts, underfamilies that she can meet all its Mass or other keen interest in social jus- standing why the gospel functions, the greatest members. tice issues following 12 states that both sides are She has had 160 families cross is that they can never months study in Ireland at right in the sense that all on her list but suspects that attend Mass as a family, Dundalk, and a further six human beings are equal. there are at least as many Sister Maureen said. weeks' course in America. "We have to get A preliminary in educathe gosCatholic families again "There is also a feeling that For the past two years he pel principles into both tion in social justice is a SISTER' MAUREEN McCARTHY have finished never they who are not in touch with has been a member of the sides of a debate, and not continual adult education their work, that it is con- Although many people "Handicapped people can archdiocesa CCIH. n justice and get into politics. We want and he looks to groups Transport is her handicap stant crisis and demands a pray for a miracle cure, bring us to God. I know development committee. such as the Catholic Pasat the moment in her 24-hour attention to the Sister Maureen prefers not people whose faith has Brother Johns believes to get the facts and to get toral Institute to help in the students to work out handicapped person. efforts to visit up to 15 to encourage people along grown through having an that education, both of stuwhy they think the way that work. families a week. For this "Often no-one except the that line. intellectually handicapped dents in schools and of they do." "We need firstly a better work she depends on the immediate family knows "Each one of us is some child." adults in parishes, is the about the child's handicap Victoria Park convent car facet of God in the world; She said her hardest task key to developing a Chris- Brother Johns believes appreciation of the gospel which has to be available that may not become really each person, whether phys- was to face families who tian sensitivity to justice that such discussion is not and then you can bring up for a community of seven apparent until it attends ically perfect or not, gives were tied down all the time issues. possible because of timeta- issues like justice which school." something of God to the who had to make a deci- "Of the two roles of the ble restrictions and would o ften turn people off world that is special." sion about putting their Catholic Commission for require 80 and 90 minute because they have not got You are The gift they bring, she child into short-term care. Justice and Peace — edu- periods for students to be the foundation of belief. says, is the ability to enter The Santa Maria board- cation and action — edu- able to, look at their per- "They do not really think freely into a loving ing cottages have been cation is a priority," sonal prejudices, to listen they are responsible for the relationship. offered in January to help Brother Johns said in an very carefully to others, situations of other people. "If they see you and they parents and children faced interview. and become aware of their They have not let the gospel sink in as a social thing to like you they embrace you; with these worries. He believes that what is own fears. if they don't they will not. CCIH also conducts needed in schools is the He believes that there is so much as a personal Catholic Care for A person said recently she Christian living camps and skill of social analysis, the great scope for such an experience." had never encountered another is to be organised ability to understand what education programme in In the ideal parish situapeople who were so tho- in October at Bindoon. is going on in Australia, in Catholic schools of the tion Brother Johns believes that people could roughly honest as the Sister Sue Mosteller of the government, in unions. He future. handicapped." Canadian L'Arche com- says that after reflection Brother Johns is wary of start analysing local issues Sister Maureen went to munity Daybreak gave a students often realise that school programmes that such as people being Lourdes at Easter with a retreat recently in Perth. government, unions and concentrate only on situa- evicted because of council pressure, the conditions in contingent from Perth that A reflection will be given the schools have got the tions that exist overseas. included 8 handicapped at the September meeting structures that are against "It's somewhere out there schools, or the people who people. They joined the for mothers of handi: youth getting employment. and it does not affect us are experiencing a raw deal other 12,000 pilgrims capped which is mis- "Consciousness of social personally, whereas it is a in employment. Sunday August 23 at 1.30 p.m. assembled for the second named, she said, because issues is very low among challenge to concentrate "When they have looked Mass at 1.30 p.m. Faith and Light pilgrimage fathers do come to the students who are often on local issues in our own at these local issues, then CCIH needs ACTIVE MEMBERS who that is held every ten years. meetings and are welcome. very prejudiced, or at least families in our own streets. they will become interested work and ASSOCIATE MEMBERS who This year happened to Sister Maureen said that not open to other points of "People tend to have a in the international issues coincide with the Interna- the work that can be done view," Brother Johns private spirituality and which will become relevant donate $20 to help. begin to tional Year for the Handi- for the intellectually- explained. find it difficult to realise and they will also Inquiries Sr. Maureen McCarthy capped Person. handicapped is still res- "Political points of view that they are in any way understand why they are 361 1064 (work 321 5641) being reported the way Sister Maureen believes tricted by the funds have been formed at an • responsible for people out- they are." Dr. Jack Williams 339 4071 that if a parent has strong available. Her stipend is early age, even before the side themselves." Donations to Hon. Treasurer, faith initially it is the faith paid by the Centrecare 117 Princess Road, Doubleview 6018 that will bring them Catholic appeal and she through. can get a petrol allowance but she still lacks a car. Funds are needed for equipment such as tapes and literature, or to pay for small expenses when taking the handicapped on an outing.
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The CCIH is still hoping that it can one day get funds from the government to provide a hostel for the intellectuallyhandicapped. In the meantime if a house in the metropolitan area was donated it could be converted into the beginnings of a hostel. What impresses Sister Maureen McCarthy is that the intellectually-handicapped can really enter into and enjoy a religious celebration, that when singing there is an expression of joy and contentment on their faces, that they really can pray and help others to pray.
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ROLE OF EUCHARIST CONFIRMED Pope's longest talk televised through Europe LOURDES — With his hands occasionally trembling, Pope John Paul II delivered a televised 38 -minute message to the pilgrims at the 42nd International Eucharistic Congress telling them that Divine Providence had asked him to make the sacrifice of not being present. The message, prerecorded in his hospital room in Rome, was also televised throughout France, Italy and other European countries.
liked to stop by each one of them, to listen to them, to bless them, to show them that each one of them was the object of God's tenderness. That is how Jesus acted," the pope said. The pontiff emphasised It was his longest address the central place of the since his shooting tragedy Eucharist in Christian life in May. and insisted on a firm "God has permitted that I acceptance of Catholic experience suffering and doctrine concerning the weakness in my own body, Eucharist. which makes me feel all the Decisive closer to you," said the pope, speaking in French. Sacrifice Noting the role of the sick in the church, Pope John "The true breaking of the Paul said: Outspoken critic of the present regime in El Salvador, Bishop Eamon Casey (The Record, August 6) was on his way to bread, which is fundamen"You never cease to be tal for us Christians, is ElSalvador when he stopped briefly in Perth earlier this month. He is picturedhere at a military checkpoint during his fully members of the nothing other than the sacvisit to El Salvador this week._ church; not only, like oth- rifice of the cross," he said. primordial the take up in your midst the ers, are you in communion He addressed the Eucha- position offering of the cross. It place of Christ, head of his with the body of Christ, rist Congress theme, makes it real today for our church," he said. but in your flesh you are in Christ: Bread "Their sacred ministry is communion with the pas- "Jesus for a New World," generation," he added. Broken The pope said the Eucha- indispensable to signify sion of Christ." and commented: rist is an essential part of that the breaking of the "Your sufferings are not The new world depends the history of man's salva- bread realised by them is a lost." the pope continued. on this (Christ's) sacrifice: tion along with the passion gift received from Christ LOURDES, France (NC) — A delegation of Anglican "They contribute invisibly The wall of separation was and resurrection of Christ. which radically exceeds the to the growth which ani- then knocked down, the "It is one of the constitu- power of the assembly. It is clergymen presented Cardinal Bernadin Gantin, papal mates the church. resurrection of the dead tive structures of the irreplaceable for validity legate at the 42nd International Eucharistic Congress, confirmed, and, with it, the the binding the eucharistic with a stole embroidered with the papal coat-of -arms "The sacrament of the possibility of a united church: It makes he said. church," consecration to the sacrianointing of the sick unites humanity". The pope also empha- fice of the cross and the last and the cross of Canterbury in anticipation of the visit by you specially with Christ Pope John Paull II to England next May. for the forgiveness of your He called the sacrifice of sised the doctrine that supper." "decisive for the Christ is truly and really The pope also spoke of sins, the strengthening of the cross The presentation by members of Bishop Eric Kemp of Chichester, Engyour soul and body for the future of man" and present in the Eucharist the Eucharist as the start- the Church Union, a group work- land, the group's president. increase within you of the stressed that "the Mass and under the appearances of ing point of changes in ,ing for Christian unity, In other interfaith activities during the was part of k ingdom of light and life the cross are naught but bread and wine and that human relationships, as the eucharistic congress, Pastor Louis Levecumenical sacriactivities same at and the the one only ordained priests can "the welcome, the which Christ promises rier, co-president of the mixed committee fice." turn the bread and wine exchange, the sharing, the congress. you." of Catholics and Protestants for the euch"Nonetheless, the eucha- into the body and blood of crossing of frontiers, the aristic congress, said: "Whenever I met sick ristic breaking of the bread Christ. will to conversion, the "The Eucharist is given to us not that The gift shows the Anglican desire to people in Rome or in the has an essential function, "Priests, having received renunciation of prejudices, course of my journeys I that of placing at our dis- the sacrament of orders, the care to transform our assure the pope of their prayers for his full we might establish our ecclesial identity recovery and of their "ardent hopes for all cards, but that we might recognise Christ social environments even that could result from the historic meet- in his statures as the crucified and risen in their structures and their ing of the successor Pope St Gregory and one and that we might recognise one spirit." the successor of St Augustine," said another in the proximity of his love."
Anglicans present stole as a gift for cardinal
MISSION WORK GAINS MOMENTUM
"Lay missionaries need deep spiritual motivation and must be prepared for cross-cultural challenges," Father Cyril Nally said at a recent meeting of the Perth Lay Missionary Group.
Columban Father Hally is a "But in recent years the organised Lay member of the National Mission- Missionary Apostolate has gained ary Council and director of the momentum." Pacific Mission Institute. He is also "Today there are thousands of skilled e xperienced in the formation of lay lay missionaries who offer their services m issionaries. Father Nally began voluntarily in various areas of the his talk with a brief history of the church." "Lay missionaries always receive more missionary church. than they give," Father Nally added.
Quoting from papal documents Father "Provided they have open minds lay Hally said the church is missionary of its missionaries will always learn a lot from very nature. the people among whom they work." "Evangelisation or spreading the GosSome of those present had already pel message, is the basic reason for the spent some time serving in various areas existance of the church." of missionary work. "Recent years have seen a change of The next meeting of the Lay Missionemphasis in the missionary work of the Apostolate is on Tuesday, September ary church," Father Hally said. 1, at the Cathedral Parish Centre, 450 "Whereas previously, missionaries Hay Street, Perth. Were mainly foreigners who had little Anyone interested in lay missionary knowledge of local culture, today in most work is invited to attend. areas the church is largely indigenous." Furter information is available from "Lay people have always been involved the Catholic Missions Office, 23 Victoria in evangelisation," Father Hally Square, Perth. Phone 325 5264. said.
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Issue taken on lay missionaries' loyalties
The very serious question of Australian attitudes towards their Aboriginal countrymen deserves better than the short lived media circus that has surrounded the emergence this week of the WCC report. What is conveniently overlooked is that it/s not so much a report as a statement and no more than one of the steps announcedin July 1980 when the Australian Council of Churches announced its intention to use the WCC facilities and personnel to attract international attention to the Australian Aboriginal condition. The original intention may have been to make it a campaign of political point scoring against politicians and treasuries. It is also a process that brings bored yawns from the majority who have learned to polarise into their fixed political prejudices the minute a politican's face appears. The solemnity with which every radio and television commentator intoned that the WCC report was going to be an embarrassment to Malcolm Fraser only fits in with a curious attitude these days that there isn't a problem in heaven or on earth that cannot be laid at the door of the Australian prime minister — the same apparently applying if Bill Hayden were in office. To compound the myth that the Aboriginal problem has nothing to do with ordinary bighearted, generous, work -sharing, neighbourloving Australians, the rest of the media time was filled with tiredreplays of the premiers of Western Australia and Queensland and the similarly tired invective of spokesman Gary Foley and others. The WCC report regrettably has founditself jostling for a position in the queue as Australia bickers about education cuts, airline fares, wage-fixing chaos, communications breakdown, or the rather curious 36 hour week moment of truth that has finally surfaced at Pinjarra this week. It is anyone's guess where a 90-page document that must have been seen so far by only a sprinkling of Australians, but mentally shredded by the majority, goes next. The fact that it travels under a banner that includes the word 'churches' only confuses the issue in so far as it represents the work of no particular church, or even group of churches. It is not necessarily surprising that so far there has been no reported comment from any of the Australian church congregations which are represented on the WCC. In a situation where each church congregation is largely autonomous it will take some time to see how the document is to be studied and assimilated, if at all, at the point where the education must be the source of change in the political will, as Bishop Casey of the Galway pointed out last week. Catholics are not involved to the extent that they are not directly implicated in the process of the World or Australian Councils of Churches. But they cannot hope that the Aboriginal question will disappear if the credentials of the WCC are impugned. The WCC document has superficially spared us from another round of armchair critics, airline tickets in hand, bleating about what the churches are doing or not doing. Let it not be forgotten while media reporters ponder whether there are six, or whatever, lepers in WA this year, that the Sisters of St. John of God went up to Derby 80 years ago and nursed those lepers, that buried in the soil of WA are the hundreds of Benedictines, Pallottines and others who thought it worth their while to lay down their lives in Christ's name to show that they cared. We, in our affluent hindsight, can say too easily that they did not have the answers but it only makes their sacrifice all the more noble and begs the question whether suburban Australia will today make a fraction of the same sacrifice on behalf of Aboriginal fraternisation. 4 The Record, August 13-19, 1981
From Mrs Cecily Barker, Mittagong, NSW Sir, An article on Miss Clare Bowler, recipient of a papalhonour (The Record July 9) incorrectly refers to her as a pallottine lay missionary. An advertisement in the same isssue notes that "lay missionaries are not attached to any religious order..." All lay missionaries St Joseph's Hostel, only I concur with Father and encouragement to Broome diocese will conmake their commit- one of the hostels con- Butcher's comments and develop their God-given tinue to be encouraged ment to the Church ducted solely by lay mis- add that Clare Bowler has gifts rather than be seen as towards a broader concept a continued inspira- 'appendages' of religious, of service to the Church through their bishop sionaries, most of whom been tion to other members of which inhibits the growth and to attest their loyalty would be less than 25 years restricted and are not of age. This has been the the Kimberley Lay Mis- and deepening of their and commitment to Christ, by affiliation with any case sionary Association Inc. Christian awareness and through their bishop, as for some years. one religious order. Miss Bowler was earlier W.A., of which she was a response, and retards the pastor of all the faithful There are no Pallottine recruited at the instigation founding member. spread of the good news. and successor of the
lay missionaries in the of Bishop Jobst and on his T he honour is an Broome diocese, nor have behalf she terminated her acknowledgement of her there been for some years. contract after six or seven personal and tremendous The staffing of the dioce- years, resigned and free- contribution, as a lay persan missions is shared by lanced in a southern state son, to' the Church in the Kimberleys today. eleven religious orders for more than a year. (including about six Pallot- Her love of the Aborigi- It would not have been tines), diocesan priests and nal people and deep possible, had not Bishop lay missionaries who Catholic commitment led Jobst been a man of broad number nearly half the her to re-apply to Bishop vision and commitment. staff, all under the gui- Jobst who appointed her He endeavours to share dance of the diocesan to Derby parish against a these virtues and allows the lay missionaries the scope degree of opposition. bishop.
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Wembley concern "WCC SUPPORT
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Sir, Democracy and Christianity surely From Ken Ross, Bedford. run hand-in-hand, so it follows that In 1978 the WCC gave ment in support of ChrisSir, an abnegation of democracy is a I can understand $72,000 to the then patrio- tians in the USSR and denial of Christianity and a rebuff to how touchy Reve- tic front which was direct- refused to mention the the cherished Australian principle of rend Roy Poole or any ing the guerilla war in Russian invasion of AfghRhodesia. condemned anistan, "a fair go." other supporter of Even the Salvation Army the actionsbut of governments
Such an insult is currently being perpetrated against the World Council of could not swallow that of South Korea and El Churches can be (The action and at4 later date Salvador. the citizens of my suburb, Wembley. Through utter self-interest, a tiny group is pressing R ecord July 30) withdrew from the WCC for a street-closure plan that will ruin the lifestyle and when criticism is and the Greek Orthodox As for association with devalue the properties of thousands of residents. levelled at the WCC, p rimate of Western the Catholic Church, It is stubbornly persisting despite the overwhelming but there are many of E urope, Archbishop Reverend Poole and his rejection of its scheme by ratepayers in May at the first Athenogoras has stated supporters should ask us who have the good that opportunity they had been given to voice their the WCC has lost its themselves why the through sense to see disapproval. religious pulse. 'Catholic Church, the one Catholic and other churches and schools will be an organisation that At a conference in Mel- true Church has not among the institutions also adversely affected by this supports terrorist bourne last year the WCC become a member of the far-reaching plot if the clique responsible has its way. groups. backed away from a state- WCC. So my advice is for the people of Wembley, those who run businesses in the area in addition to those who live there, to show a united front of protest against the plan to the three Perth City Councillors who represent the Leederville ward — Crs Watters, Monkhouse and Frame. MILWAUKEE (NC) — To protest Citibank's $50 mil-
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NO VATICAN E XECUTION VATICAN CITY (NC) — The Vatican, in a "clarification to journalists," has explained that its penal code contains no capital punishment statute. The clarification was necessary because a prominent Italian daily newspaper had suggested that Mehmet Ali Agca, on trial for the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul ll on May 13, could face a firing squad if tried by a Vatican court. Agca had argued, at the opening session of his trial, that he should be tried by the Vatican instead of an Italian court, since the crime took place in Vatican territory.
On July 20 Italy's largest-circulation newspaper Corriere Della Sera ran a front-page article written by Pietro Agostino d'Avack, professor of ecclesiastical law and former rector of the University of Rome, in which D'Avack said that the Vatican still had the death penalty. The clarification issued by the Vatican Press
Office said that the death penalty was abrogated by Vatican law in 1969. The last people executed by a church court were reportedly two men convicted of planting a bomb under an army barracks in 1868. The explosion killed 27 people during the struggle between the papal states and the infant Italian state over who should govern Rome. The minor flap over D'Avack's article turned out to be academic, for the presiding judge. Severino Santiapichi, in the Agca trial dismissed the defendant's plea for a change of venue.
lion participation in a $250-million loan to the government of South Africa, Archbishop Weakland has ordered the sale of $300,000 of Citicorp's floating rate notes.
The sale was recom- encourage those corpora- policies of those corporamended by the Archdioce- tions whose activities help tions whose activities can s a n Committee on to break down barriers to be shown to support or Corporate Responsibility. full participation by non- sustain institutions or South Africa has been whites in the South Afri- practices which discrimiunder attack for its system can economy and society, nate along racial lines," the of strict racial segregation, it should seek to change committee said. called apartheid. Archbishop Weakland said that "racism, because it is a violation of basic Scissors, Saws, Secateurs, Shears, Sharpened and Set human dignity, is a sin against God and His will for all people.Isupport the conviction of the Committee on Corporate Respon4 QUEEN STREET — 321 4390 — LOCKSMITHS sibility that the archdiocese has a moral responsibLocks, Door Closers and Safe Overhauled and Serviced ility to handle its investments in such a way CAR and ALL TYPES OF KEYS CUT: Immediate Service as to promote the greatest good for others. "The archdiocese cannot in conscience receive financial benefit from the kind of evil that is inflicted in South Africa upon its nonRemodel that old bathroom white residents," he said. Add "The archdiocese cannot act in such a way as to conPRESTIGE and Value done the injustices and disto your home criminations that occur in the areas of health, education, employment and freedom of movement and speech," the archbishop PTY. LTD. added. "Financial loans to such a country will only 211 Newcastle Street — 328 6955 continue to perpetuate TERMS AVAILABLE these evils. "The archdiocese should
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Lumen Christi Nourishing wor ld he t burns in pilgrims These reports on the 42ndInternational Eucharistic Congress held at Lourdes July 16-23 have been delayed because of postal disruptions.
LOURDES, France (NC) — A f lame symbolic of the light of Christ was ignited by Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia at the c onclusion of an evening candlelight service at the 42nd International Eucharistic Congress.
LOURDES, France (NC) — Just as Jesus allowed himself to be broken on the cross for the salvation of the world, "so we who break the bread of the Eucharist must commit ourselves to the same task," Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia said, urging concern for the spiritual and physical needs of God's people.
The cardinal who was Bread Broken For the their eternal destiny but host to the last Interna- World". with their human dignity tional Eucharistic Con- "Jesus is bread broken for — and if we are insensitive gress in Philadelphia in the world not only that he to the cries of the starving 1976, spoke to 3000 people might heal our wounded in Africa or the oppressed at the Mass for English nature through Eucharistic in Indochina, then it is we, speaking pilgrims at the nourishment but that we not they, who are the poorTHEME SYMBOL FOR Lourdes Congress whose might see him in the est of creatures." LOURDES CONGRESS theme was "Jesus Christ: broken bodies of those who are starving in Soma- Cardinal Krol told the lia; of those who are refu- group that he spoke with gees from Vietnam, Laos- hospitalised Pope John and Cambodia; of those Paul 11 a few days before who are victims of vio- the Mass and the pope lence in Lebanon and El expressed his anguish at not being able to attend the LOURDES, France (NC) — A warm tic prayers to bless and sanctify the gifts Salvador." he said. sun bathed the meadow opposite the and to bring all Christians together in Throughout history God congress because it was the Grotto of Apparitions as 5,000 English- unity. had shown concern not first invitation he had speaking participants gathered at the "We pray that the Holy Spirit may only for the spiritual nour- accepted as pope. outdoor sanctuary for the largest Eng- assist us to grow in the love of Christ ishment of his people, but The pope said the conlish liturgy on the congress schedule. and to reach out to others to create a also for their physical well- gress was important The air was filled with English hymns, new world of justice, love and peace," he being, Cardinal Krol said. because of its focusing on Latin chants, the sound of African said. By his cross and resurrec- the Eucharist and because drums and the tongue-wagging trilling "We must use the talents of grace and tion, Jesus had liberated of ties to Mary at Lourdes, called "ululation" which African nature to discern God's will for us," his people from the bon- Cardinal Krol added. women used in praise of God during the Archbishop Hickey continued, "but dage of sin and death and Possibly no living man then, like Mary, we must respond genpresentation of the gifts. "he has provided us not has demonstrated the cost Archbishop Hickey of Washington erously and totally. only with our daily bread of love more effectively recalled in his homily that, in the "Take us, break us, if need be, Lord," which his creative act than the pope, according ancient church, the Eucharist was Archbishop Hickey prayed, "but keep makes possible but with a to Cardinal Krol. reserved in a tabernacle in the shape of a us in your love." spiritual banquet which "His self-sacrificing love dove to remind the faithful of the role of After the Mass Cardinal Cooke led all recalls his redeeming work made him vulnerable to the the Holy Spirit in the life of the chuzch the concelebrants in a Eucharistic proand enables us to live with w eapons of hate, and so we cession to a nearby Carmelite convent and in the Eucharist. his life," he said. are deprived of his pres"While the old tradition has been where the Blessed Sacrament was The cardinal said, "Our ence at this Eucharistic abandoned for practical reasons, the exposed for veneration throughout the love for our brothers and Congress which he wished Holy Spirit is still invoked in Eucharis- day. sisters must impel us to be so much to attend," the concerned not only with cardinal said.
Cardinal Krol, the host Father and Nicene Creed for the 41st International in Latin. Eucharistic Congress in The rite ended with a P hiladelphia in 1976, blessing given by all touched a torch to a huge bishops a nd priests cauldron in front of the present. entrance to the Rosary A candlelight procession Basilica, as an estimated two days earlier appeared 25,000 persons lifted their to be the most heavily candles in the air and attended ceremony in the shouted, "Lumen Christi" first five days of the Congress and was one of only (light of Christ). two such traditional canYoung men and women dlelight processions scheparticipating in the con- duled during the congress gress then lit torches from week. the cauldron and lined the railings of the two semicir- Planners of the euchariscongress at Lourdes cular ramps which stretch tic from the plaza to the upper had asked that the traditional evening procession basilica, forming a circle of and afternoon blessing of fire. the sick be suspended. The ceremony, which The flames from more began with a procession than 40,000 candles were from the grotto where the raised toward heaven as B lessed Virgin Mary pilgrims participating in appeared to Saint Ber- the congress chanted "Ave. nadette in 1858 to the base Ave, Ave Maria" while of the basilicas built in they marched in the Sunadaptation of r esponse to Mary's day evening procession in In a slight candlelight procession r equest, included the honour of Mary, mother the which usually takes place c hanting of the Our of the Eucharist. each night at Lourdes, Boy Scouts from Melbourne, site of the 40th International Eucharistic Congress in 1973, carried a white cross flanked by palm branches and torches to the base of three-tiered basilica where the throng was led in prayers of thanksgiving for the gift of the Eucharist. "Father, we thank you" the crowd was invited to L OURDES, France (NC) — pray in half a dozen lanWeekly participation in Sunday guages, after the Lourdes was sung in twice Mass was urged by Cardinal Ber- hymn that number of tongues.
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nardin Gantin, papal legate to the 4 2nd International Eucharistic C ongress.
Before a congregation of about 30,000, i ncluding about 2,500 priests and almost 400 bishops, Cardinal Gantin stressed the need for thanksgiving to God and asked: "What place does the Sunday eucharistic a ssembly have in your lives?" "In the spiritual capital of
nation where only one out of five baptised Catholicsa assists at Sunday Mass
r egularly," Cardinal Gantin said, "it was unthinkable for the first Christians to neglect this assembly of baptised persons on the very day which recalled e very week Christ's resurrection, and thus called the day of the Lord. "It was indispensable for them, they who were scattered in a world which was mainly pagan, to strengthen their Christian identity and their unity around Christ, his word and his bread,"continued Cardinal Gantin. "For a long time the church did not need to speak about obligation and law as the weekly participation Was taken so much for granted," Cardinal Gantin said. "Every Sunday we are God's guests. May his spirit inspire us to give thanks." Later the same day, welcoming congress participants, Cardinal Gantin recalled the previous eucharistic congresses. If was fitting to mark the centenary of these eucharistic congresses started in France at Lille in 1881, and it was most fitting to choose Lourdes, Which has already hosted them several times," the cardinal said.
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LOURDES, France (NC) — A new form of liturgically based artistic expression had its world premiere at Lourdes as part of the 42nd International Eucharistic Congress. Performed before an choral and congrega- said they aimed at an artis- music, word and gesture to a udience of about tional singing; fre- tic expression between for- trace the action of God 20,000 persons in the quent dissonance and mal liturgy and oratorio. from creation until the underground Basilica o ccasional harmony; Based on a parallel present time. Showing on a of Pius X, "The Burn- c horeographed ac- between the burning bush slide screen such contemseen by Moses and the vir- porary Christians as ing Bush" by Didier tions; scriptural read- ginal motherhood of Mother Teresa of Calcutta Rimaud and Christian ings; slide projections Mary, with perfect integand Archbishop Helder Villeneuve combined and audience partici- rity in each case. miracu- Camara of Recife, Brazil, i nstrumental and pation. lously preserved by God, t he presentation asks, e lectronic music; solo, The author -composers "The Burning Bush" uses "Whence comes this fire?"
Reaction to the new artistic form seemed to range Guatemala ANTIAGO, S from wild enthusiasm — Father Stanley Rother, through bewilderment to 46, a diocesan missionary disgust, as many original from Oklahoma, in Guamembers of the audience temala since 1968, was shot shortly after the perforto death in his presbytery LOURDES, France (NC) — A plea for greater rever- left mance began, while others late last month. Intruders ence for the Eucharist was the highlight of the homily by c ontinued to flow into the entered the presbytery and Cardinal Emmanuel Nsubuga of Kampala, Uganda, at a dimly lit basilica to cheer murdered him about 1 am. the presentation. Father Rother and his Mass for English -language participants. A nother controversial assistant, Father Bocel, e ntertainment Speaking before at the eucha conThe archbishop of KamGuatemala from fled Africans had and for the world, to the United States last gregation of more than pala said that some in Cardinal Nsubuga said aristic congress was a jazz January when they heard 2,500, Cardinal Nsubuga Europe had criticised his that priests in the Old Tes- concert in the basilica that they were on a death said priests from Uganda building a church in tament stayed apart from plaza which took the place list. Earlier they had were scandalised when honour of the Uganda their wives on the nights of the traditonal candlew atched a catechist they travelled to other con- martyrs when Mass could before they offered sacri- light procession held every dragged from the presby- tinents and saw priests be celebrated out in the fice and that Catholic pri- evening at the Marian tery and later they found o ffering Mass sitting open or under a tree. ests who offered the sacri- shrine. Negro spirituals, from around a table and not "I told them they sounded fice of his murdered body. Christ each day were "Rock My Soul" to "When wearing any vestments. like Judas, who criticised following that tradition in The bishops of Guatemthe Saints Come Marching ala said in a statement read Such priests, the cardinal Mary for pouring oint- not marrying. In", described by some pilat all Masses that the said, "think the Mass is just ment on the feet of Christ," grims as good but inapdeaths of all nine priests a simple meal and there is the cardinal said. He noted The cardinal was inter- propriate for the setting and hundreds of lay no need to adore Christ in that his people needed not rupted several times by and possibly disruptive of only relief from physical applause and once by a w orkers murdered in the Eucharist." the shrine's atmosphere of recent years was part of a Noting the African use of hunger, but a place where s tanding ovation from the quiet prayerfulness were symbols and signs, the cart heir faith could be predominantly white con"carefully studied plan to followed instrumental rengregation when he asked intimidate the church and dinal stressed the need for nourished. ditions ranging from silence its prophetic vestments and reverent Defending clerical celi- for an end to liturgical "Sunny Side of the Street" gestures. bacy as a a valid sign for voice." buses. to "Mack the Knife."
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AUSTRALIA'S EVANGELISATION PLANNED 94 YEARS BEFORE COOK ARRIVED VATICAN CITY — A document discovered here has revealed that the Vatican appointed a Prefect Apostolic over Australia 94 years before Captain Cook made his discovery. On July 15, 1681, the that it contained "innunine cardinals of the merable kingdoms and nations." congregation for the Father Riccio intended to Propagation of the go on his mission from Faith appointed a 60- Manila southwards with year -old Dominican the help of Franciscan pripriest in Manila to be ests. It is not known if he in charge of the great ever set out or even Terra Australis that received news of his was believed to be an appointment for he died in unbroken continent Manila in 1685 at the age of 64. stretching through He had proposed the misAntarctica. sion on the basis of inter-
Father Victorio Riccio views that he had had with despatched his map to Dutch explorers and with Rome in June, 1676, and it people brought to Manila took five years to arrive, from Terra Australis on crossing the Pacific and Dutch ships. Atlantic oceans. To make sure that the carIt was tabled at the meet- dinals in Rome would be ing of the congregation in a ware of the location, size Rome on July 15, 1681, and and consequent importhe Prefecture of Terra tance of Terra Australis, Australis was established Father Riccio enclosed with Father Riccio receiv- with his letter a map drawn ing all the necessary by hand in colour measurauthorisations for his ing 30 by 40 centimetres mission. with many captions in The secretary, Arch- Latin. bishop Edoardo Cibo, Born near Florence, summarised Father Ric- Father Riccio joined the cio's four-page Spanish let- Dominicans at Fiesole and ter for the nine cardinals left his native country to present at the meeting, tell- work among the Chinese in ing them that Terra Aus- Manila. tralis was so vast "that one •A fluent speaker of Chican walk through it for nese he worked as a mismore than two years with- sionary on the Chinese out ever seeing the sea", mainland and was Prefect that it was considered to be Apostolic of Taiwan at the "The fifth part of the time he made his submisworld" -, that "it has been sion to Rome about Terra unknown until now", and Australis.
Chicago-born Ralph M. Wiltgen, a Divine Word missionary priest, pictured in the Vatican A rchives examining a volume from the year 1681 when he unfolded a page and discovered this map of Terra Australis drawn in Manila in 1676. It led to further r esearch which uncovered a long forgotten mission called Prefecture Apostolic of Terra A ustralis, lower in rank than a diocese, which was 300 years old of July 15. The map and other related documents were published for the first time in December, 1979, in Father Wiltgen's book, The Founding o f the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania, 1825 to 1850, reprinted in 1981 by the Australian National University Press, of Canberra.
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Indian catholics face hardships MADRAS, India: — He is a mis- just baptise them. Later when the records were checked sionary, but he is forbidden by law to we found that some people were baptised three or four Father Philips said. evangelise. He is a foreign mission- times," For 10 or 12 years no priest came until Father Philips ary, but there is no shortage of candi- was assigned to the mission station in 1968. dates for the priesthood among the "The people had forgotten their faith," Father Philips natives. Many in his congregation said. "By constant contact and identification with the were baptised three or four times people we are trying to show that we are really interested in their welfare." because they had been paid for conThere are social restrictions that limit converts. Hinverting to Catholicism. dus who convert lose employment privileges and scho-
These are the ironies facing a missionary in India, larships for education, so most converts are of the low according to Oblate Father Stanislaus Philips, who is in castes who have nothing to lose, according to Father charge of a mission station in Kancheepuram in south- Philips. The priests, however, are from the high castes ern India. who often did not care for the people, he said. Only 500 of the 500,000 people in his mission territory There is no shortage of priests in India, Father Philips are Catholics. With the exception of a few Protestants said, but there is a shortage of good priests. and Moslems, everyone else is Hindu, said Father PhilThe outcast status applied to ex-seminarians has not ips. Because Indian law forbids foreign priests from deterred young men. The status of priest is so high that evangelising, Father Philips works only with baptised the priesthood has become more of a profession and few Catholics, most of whom no longer practice their faith. seminarians leave, he said. It was common 25 years ago to give converts money "You can take a bus to any big city and find 50 or 60 and new clothes for being baptised, said Father Philips. men who would want to become priests because the "Catechists ran the show then because of a lack of moment they become a priest they are well off and their priests. The catechists would get 10 rupees for each family is well off because they hold a position that is convert. The priest would come through every three or really powerful. Screening the candidates is the biggest four months and would not know the people. He would problem," he said.
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Brian Reginald Steels, a member of the committee of Catholic Care for the Intellectually Handicapped, is a social trainer who prepares intellectually-handicapped people to fit into society._ His wife Noelene also works full-time aiding victims of mental illness and both have almost completed the c ourse of studies for the diploma in training the handicapped. Brian was born at St Albans in Hertfordshire and was educated at St Helen's Church of England School in Wheathampstead and at St Albans school. He came to WA in 1967 as an extension of an overland trip he and 14 other men made delivering army trucks from England to India. He worked at contract ploughing and share farming on the Nungarin farm of Bill Crane, the grandfather of Noelene Fernihough who was later to become his wife. She is a parish councillor and operates the handicapped persons' committee in the Hamersley-Greenwood parish where Brian is a acolyte. Both extend a welcome to all to attend the annual general meeting of Catholic Care for the Intellectually Handicapped to be held at Castledare at 1.30pm on Sunday, August 23.
BRIAN HELPS THE AFFLICTED IN SOCIETY W heathampstead in Hertfordshire, where Brian Steels started school is steeped in history.
Construction of its church began in 1068 only two years after William the Conqueror landed in England, and a thousand years earlier the town had been the base of King Cassivalounus who was captured by Julius Caesar and taken to Rome where he was made to consent to an agreement that he would not fight Queen Boadicea. The Romans had enough trouble trying to rule the distant province of Britain without two local monarchs getting at each others' throats. St Albans nearby, where Brian was b orn, was named after the first recognised Christian martyr in Britain.
CONVERSION IN 1969 He attributes his conversion to Catholicism in 1969 largely to the fact that from an early age he had been surrounded by and deeply interested in Church history. Another factor was the ecumensism for which St Albans had been noted for a long time before Vatican 11. " Without realising it," he says, "I had practised Catholic principles all my life." He had been brought up with aging grandparents, one of whom was in a w heelchair, and associated with aged aunts and uncles. This led to his interest in people and their disabilities and a philosophy of accepting them as they were. The overland journey from England t hrough places such as Afghanistan, India and Turkey made him realise t hat ordinary people were pretty much t he same the world over.
R OMANCE BEGAN When Brian started work on the Nungarin farm Noelene Fernihough was a schoolgirl, but she wrote more frequently to his parents in England than he did and developed a close relationship with his family. When he moved to the city in 1970 Noelene was working at the King Edward Memorial Hospital and living at Swanbourne. He went to live with Father Charles Tory at Claremont and part of his YCW activity was visiting patients in the Claremont Mental H ospital, a step that aroused his sympathy for the victims of mental illness and their families. Towards the end of 1971 Noelene went to visit his parents in England W here Brian joined her on Christmas day after the couple had become e ngaged by telephone. They were mar-
Today's People A weekly feature By BOB BOYLE ried by the local parish priest in the Deanery church in Harpenden. After the wedding Brian worked for three years in England at his former job of supervising production and colour control in a plastics factory. Many of the workers were migrants and the parish activities he carried out among them gave him an understanding of their problems. The couple returned to WA in1974 to help Noelene's uncle run a roadhouse at Merredin, and in 1975 they started their own roadhouse at Harvey where Brian began his training as an acolyte and was involved in a lot of other parish activities.
MENTAL HOSPITAL Memories of his earlier visits to the Claremont Mental Hospital were still with him and he was anxious to aid the afflicted on a professional basis, so on their return to Perth in 1976 he started training with the mental deficiency division of the Mental Health Services for the diploma in training the handicapped. Both he and Noelene are now at the same level, approaching the end of their training. He operates at an adults' hostel and she works with preschool children. Both are members of the chaplaincy team for the intellectually handicapped. Brian says that Catholic Care for the Intellectually Handicapped caters for the total pastoral care of victims and their families, trying to offer Catholics an extra dimension of spirituality and love-bonding. When the committee was formed in 1977 among its initial aims was to assure parents that their intellectuallyhandicapped children or relatives could receive the Eucharist, and Archbishop Goody's statement then paved the way for this to be brought about. Victims are no longer seen as people apart but part of the family unit in the faith. In addition to being guided on the practicalities of living by Gospel values pregnant women, for example, who are threatened with the birth of a Downs Syndrome child now have somewhere to turn for Catholic moral
support when other authorities propose abortion. Parents with an intellectuallyhandicapped child know that he or she can become part of the community instead of being de-valued as was previously the case. For mutual support small groups of parents meet in various localities, and a bi-monthly meeting is conducted by Mrs Fay Tranter at St John of God Hospital Subiaco. Small groups in various parishes are doing good work, but it is desirable to bring them together through Catholic Care for the Intellectually Handicapped. There has to be a balance between the needs of the handicapped person and his or her farnily, still working through the guidelines of normalisation but bearing in mind the family community.
MONTHLY MASS Many Catholics have members of their families in institutions, and for this reason a monthly Mass is celebrated at the Pyrton Training Centre and occasionally at other centres. There is a need to change some community attitudes, particularly at parish level, to involvement with handicapped people. In this regard Brian offers workshops, seminars and homilies and he and Noelene are available to talk to meetings of priests. They also conduct similar courses in schools. Their approach is not secular, but based on the Gospel. One of the questions the committee is now examining is the establishment of residential care, both on a short-term and long-term basis, and submissions for funding the project have been drawn up by Centrecare.
CHRISTIAN ENVIRONS When it comes to pass, Catholic families will be able to enjoy a Christian environment with all the other benefits of skilled care. The need for a hostel is evident among some parent groups, particularly those faced with the dilemma of who will look after the afflicted person when they are no longer able to. The hostel would also provide training facilities because now there are none with a Christian orientation in the metropolitan area. In their home life Noelene and Brian practise what they preach. Their three children — daughters 'Louise (7), Michaela (6) and Deanne (4) — accept and welcome mentallyhandicapped children who freqently visit the house and with whom they often go to parties.
Pope extols the work of the great St Vincent V ATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II praised the "spiritual wisdom and pastoral realism" of St Vincent de Paul. The pope said that the 400th anniversary of St Vincent's birth provided "an occasion for the religious families born from his charism, as for all the Christian people, to meditate on the marvels realised by God in tenderness and piety through a man who committed himself without reserve" to the priesthood. The saint was born on April 24, seek the key to an existence usefully 1581, in Pouy, France. and radically spent in the gift of After reviewing some key events in one's self," the pope said. the life of St Vincent de Paul, Pope A ddressing a message to the John Paul called him a "brilliant Daughters of Charity, the pope said initiator of charitable and social St Vincent understood "undoubtaction." edly the most profound aspect of He described St Vincent de Paul as feminity: Its vocation to tenderness "a modern saint," saying that if he and piety. came back to life now "one would " Without having known the femifind him unhesitatingly among the nist movements of our time," he poor, the new poor, within the urban added, "Vincent de Paul knew how concentrations of our time, as once to find in the women of his age, intel(he was) within those of the rural ligent and generous, faithful and areas." constant assistants." Pope John Paul expressed the St Vincent de Paul, who died in Church's thanks to members of the 1660 in Paris, founded the CongreVincentian Fathers and to others gation of the Mission in 1625 and the inspired by the saint's principles, Daughters of Charity eight years especially the Daughters of Charity later. The St Vincent de Paul Society and the St Vincent de Paul Society. for lay men was established after his The saint's life "clarifies yet again death. today the road for his sons and He was beatified in 1729, canonised daughters, for the lay people who in 1737 and named patron of works live in his spirit, for the youth who of charity in 1885. The Record, A ugust 13-19, 1981 7
Mans mecca for A REALOE SETTING drivers Drama in Africa
Man's desire to pit his energy against the invading presence of time is explored in Channel Nine's Thursday moview Le Mans at 9.35pm. The annual race at Le Mans, according to world champion racing driver Stirling Moss, is simultaneously "the most important race in the world" from the sponsors' viewpoint and "the most irritating and dangerous" according to many of the men who compete in it. Perhaps because of all the diversity of opinion, the race draws one of the biggest crowds to attend any single sporting event in the world. The movie Le Mans tries to explain to the general public some of the phenomena and mystique surrounding motor racing. The star of the movie, Steve McQueen, has said it was his desire that an e lderly relative in Nebraska would understand motor racing once she saw his film. Novel in its approach to its aim, Le Mans simply shows the overall tension and excitement inherent in motor racing, rather than trying to explain it with words. Top American Porsche team driver Michael Delaney (Steve McQueen) • Steve McQueen stars in Channel Nine Perth's realistic story of motor racing 'Le Mans' on Thursday at 9.35pm.
Sophia plays role of herself She was born Sofia Villani Scicoloe in 1934, the illegitimate daughter of a wouldbe movie actress and a feckless construction engineer. She endured poverty, starvation and air raids during World War 11 and grew into a statuesque beauty after landing her first role as an extra in the 1950 epic Quo Vadis. Twelve years and more than 40 pictures later, she became the first nonEnglish-speaking actress in a foreign film (1961's Two Women) to win an Academy Award. Sophia Loren portrays herself and her proud, s trong-willed mother Romilda in the 1980 television movie Sophia Loren — Her Own Story, Channel Nine's Sunday movie at 8.35 pm. T he story spans Sophia's childhood, her discovery by and longrunning affair with producer Carlo Ponti (whom she eventually married), her off-screen romance with Cary Grant, the anguish of her several miscarriages and a poignant reunion with her estranged father. "It was one of the most moving experiences I've had as an actress," said Sophia of the dual role she played and the difficult task of portraying herself on screen.
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has returned to the world's greatest endurance race after having been injured in the previous year's contest in which fellow driver Piero Belgetti was killed. Belgetti's widow (Elga Anderson) is back at Le Mans with some of the other drivers. And .completing the race triangle is Mike's greatest rival, Erich S tahler (Siegfried R auch). An completing the race triangle is Mike's greatest rival, Erich Stahler (Siegfried Rauch). The emotional involvement and professional competition of Le Mans is the central theme to the drama, backgrounded by the carnival-like atmosphere over which hovers the spectre of death. Justification for all the interplay between Michael Delaney, Lisa B elgetti and Erich Stahlel-, and the people with whom they are continually in contact in the chaos of motor racing, is clarified as the viewer rides with the driver at fearsome speeds, crashes with the unlucky in terrifying brushes with death and hears Michael Delaney explain succinctly for himself, Lisa and all mankind how important it is that human beings not spend their lives fruitlessly.
Shot entirely in Kenyainder the auspices of the late Jomo Ken yatta who saw that everythingieeded was laid on, Channel Seven's film The Wilby Conspiracy on Sunaly(August 16) at 8.35pm stars Michael Caine and Sydney Poitier.
Also in the international cast are the brilliant English actor Nicol Williamson, Indian actress Perms Khambatta who achieved international stardom by shaving her head for the movie length Star Trek, and English newcomer Prunella Gee. Rutger Hauer, who made such an impact in his latest role as the international terrorist in Sylvester Stallone's Night Hawks (also starring Persis as his girlfriend), plays a helicopter pilot. Poitier plays a black revolutionary leader who battles the
discriminatory laws of South Jim 4rica and Caine plays l eoph, an Englishman engi^ tf who sympathises with the Africa. t ark cause in South T he three main characters of Pottier. Caine and Gee are th reefugitives, a political priloner, his lady lawyer and her ioyfriend, who recover a r iche of diamonds and are t aced by a South African it wean. Re three desperate people engage in an adventure which takes them across 900 miles of escape and survival -- from CapeTown to Johannesburg.
The screenplay of this movie is-based on a novel written by Peter Driscoll and was produced by Martin Baum and directed by Ralph Nelson who direct Poitier in his Oscar performance in Lillies of the Field. • Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier in a scene from The Wilby Conspiracy. • Sidney Poitier as the black revolutionary leader with Nicol Williamson as Horn.
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• Sophia Loren portrays both herself and her mother in a re-enactment of her life to date in Channel Nine Perth's three hour telemo vie 'Sophia — Her Own Story' on Sunday at 8.35 pm.
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horses, not Arabian camels. whisky without turning n eye, When the camels arrive and the horse-soldiers see them The first time the enlisted len try to they are horrified. mount their new barges, Arabian there is pandemoTheir keeper is an Intl' and the camels almost with an English accent. estroy the town. e . s oo r n b o r u pdt vai cko p murheersel atphset im 1Y the time the and ro inFto men have aste r ed the tricky art of of the camels turns out to el riding i they have have a drinking g allons °Ille Proficient eno, i211 lem it consumes 6
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A nother of the r omantic comedies which were Doris Day's vehicle to success comes to the screen in Channel Nine's Saturday movie Do Not Disturb at 7.40p.m Doris Days plays Janet Harper and Roy Taylor
is her husband Mike, an executive with a wool company. He is sent to England to try to boost the company's European sales
and it seems the perfect opportunity for a delightful stay in the beautiful English countryside. His wife Janet rents a home in the country but
because of the distance to cities he needs to visit for business meetings, Mike is not at home as often as Janet would like. Jealous thoughts creep into her mind and her actions lead to a number of surprising situations. Do Not Disturb is based on a play by William Fairchild.
challenge the other men who have the standard horse as a means of transport. The bet is on, and money also is laid on the outcome of a drinking bout between the men and the camel with the drinking problem. There is also a rock band in the local saloon, and during a big brawl Benji makes a brief appearance.
beer -swilling camels.
• Doris Day andRod Taylor star in the romantic Comedy 'Do Not Disturb', ChannelNine Perth's Saturday movie at 7.40 pm
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FLO SPENDS LIFE CARING FOR OTHERS
Florence Balmer (nee Polhill) was born in the gold mining town of Broad Arrow. She attended St Joseph's Convent in Boulder where she was a Child of Mary. At 15 she found her first job as a salesgirl in Pellew's Drapery in Boulder. In 1918 the family came and Florence worked in Brennan's drapery as a salesgirl. She married railway worker Harry Balmer in 1926. In her 55 years of married life her family has extended to three children, 12 grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. She became foundation secretary of the Inglewood CWL branch in 1952 and president in 1958. She was CWL State president from 1964-69 and presided over the National Conference held in 1967. She was CWL delegate to the National Council of Women from 1952 until recently and has been on the National Safety Council for 15 years and on the board of management for two. As recognition of all her good work, she has been made a life member of the National Council of Women. Currently she is president of the Bedford CWI, branch and diocesan representative on the State council. She has also been on several school committees, was president of the Inglewood Ladies' Bowling Club for two terms (11 years) and has been the organiser of many fetes and stalls.
F lorence Balmer believes in the undeniable r ight of every person to live in moral and physical safety and freedom. For 29 years she has been fighting to give people the right to life, the right to be free, the right to be safe and the right to maintain moral values. Many criminal injusby this time felt like the tices were being sancPremier's old friend since tified and even helped she had seen him so many times, presented him with a along by the present deputation. "justice" system, she said. "A Salute to the Great "Parole systems in WA MaCarthy was the book allow many convicted we objected to most strenrapists to legally leave bonuously. Expressions in that dage before they have fin- campaign to make people and other books were ished serving their aware of the Bill was put nothing short of filth," she sentences," Florence con- into full swing by the com- said. mittee. tinued. "We are still complaining "It is these people who "I believe we were greatly to the relevant authorities responsible for the Bill repeatedly attack and about the school syllabus abuse women -- making being beaten." because although we were the streets unsafe and dan- The Right-to-Life move- successful in removing A gerous for any woman to ment is a watchdog for Salute to the Great society. It consists of peoventure into." MaCarthy from the syllaFlorence gathered 2,000 ple from all denominations bus, other equally immoral s ignatures protesting and fights to maintain a books are presently part of against the present parole perspective view on life. it." system and presented it As part of her CWL Her involvement with with a letter to the Premier, involvement and in order to further entrench herself C WL work has been Sir Charles Court. enduring. In her 31 years "The Premier agreed with in the fight for human with that organisation she us entirely and said he had rights, she was a member has held many positions, never been fully satisfied of the safety division of the including National presiwith the paroling system," National Safety Council. dent. The safety division is she said. "We were promised deep responsible for maintain- "I felt great apprehension thought would go into the ing safety standards in the at the first CWL meeting I system and that legislation home through legislation, presided over, but as I got improving the system invention and disapproval. more involved my confiKiddie lock and press- dence grew," Florence would be considered. "I never followed up to and-turn safety pill caps said. see if there had been an were two inventions for "The voice of CWL is improvement made to the which the safety division heard in the international parole legislation system, a nd Florence were arena and every Catholic woman should be able to but I'm told there were responsible. substantial improvements The National Council of say she is a member. Women which represents "It worries me that we made not too long ago." Florence was a CWL 31 women's organisations don't have enough young representative on the com- is described by Florence as women in CWL, although mittee formed to establish an "umbrella" where I know we have all the Catholic Family Wel- women's views are heard in Catholic women's support." fare Bureau in 1968 and an international forum. was on a deputation to the In this respect it is similar "During her many years government on behalf of . to the Catholic Women's in public life Mrs Balmer, the Right-to-Life move- League, in both of which always gentle and digniFlorence is very involved. fied, has endeared herself ment. "At that time the late Dr In this respect it is similar to all who worked with her Hislop's monstrous Bill to the Catholic Women's and has shown inspiring leadership," Carmel Dowwhich advocated abortion on demand was going She fought long and hard ney said. through Parliament. We to protect high school "My personal thanks to formed a committee with children from being forced her for her friendship, We t he sole purpose of to read indecent literature members of the Catholic defeating the Bill," Flor- as part of their school cur- Women's League are very proud of her and wish her riculum. ence said. "Petitions were sent out With the Festival of Light good health and God's all round the State and the Committee Florence, who blessing for the future." 10 The Record, August 13-19, 1981
By ANABEL G OMEZ
'MINISTRY' DEFINED to W ASHINGTON (NC) — The USCC documents use the term "Christian service" refer to "the response to the call to serve that flows from National Conference of Catholic the sacraments of initiation." Bishops (NCCB) and the U.S. Baptism and confirmation are the sacraments of Catholic Conference (USCC) have Initiation. approved a proposal to use the term This response to the call to serve "requires no formal "ministry" only for ordained ministry action on the part of ecclesiastical authority," the committee said. and designated lay ministry.
At their March meeting in Washington 46 bishops on The proposal by the NCCB Committee on Doctrine further specified that: By "ordained ministry" the com- the Administrative Committee also approved the circumittee means the offical work of people in the orders of lation of a paper which included the following bishop, priest and deacon, and by "designated lay minis- observations: try" the committee means the official work of acolyte or — The meaning of "ministry" as the term was used in reader (lector) carried out by people commissioned in the Scriptures and during the history of the church, those two canonical offices; any other functions that the — The use of the term in the documents of the Second Holy See may similarly establish in the future; and Vatican Council, in documents issued by Pope Paul VI, functions established by a bishop in charge of a diocese and in documents issued by various bishops that are important, that are performed in the name of conferences. the community and that serve a permanent need of the — The use of the term in the modern church at large., church. These ministries are exercised by people offiin Protestant writings, newspaper and magazine articially designated to perform them. The Administrative Committee also approved the cles, articles by Scripture scholars, theological writings proposal by the Committee on Doctrine that NCCB- and ecumenical writings.
Weekend a great boost With Fr. John Dwyer When we consider some particular matter it is very important that we have things in the right perspective, that we have an accurate idea of what is involved.
If this is true of ordinary concerns it is I am not suggesting that we pay no especially true when we look at our rela- attention to ourselves, our strengths tionship with God. and weaknesses, our response to God. God has His part to play in a loving It is important to reflect on our side of relationship and we have ours. Of the the relationship too in an honest way. t wo, God's part is by far the more However, the danger in starting off important and more remarkable. He with ourselves and continuing to pay initiates the relationship and keeps it 'too much attention to ourselves is that going. we get no further than ourselves. God What sometimes happens is that we does not get a look in. preoccupied with our part in the get our faults, sins and weasee We relationship. We may not do this deliberately but if it is not checked and recti- knesses and are not sufficiently confied, it can be a hindrance to what our vinced about God's holiness and relationship with God could and should strength and His wish to help us. be. We look inward upon ourselves and • So, right from the start it is vital that can become very disappointed and we 'focus our attention more on God unhappy people. than ourselves. On the other hand, we recognise our If we can get to know God and his strengths and talents. If we are preoccuqualities more and more and realise pied with ourselves we can forget where what He wants to do for us, then it is these blessings came from namely God. very likely we will make the appropriate We can become proud and selfish and response to Him. forget that we need God. For example, if we are convinced that So, let's go to it. God will certainly do God loves us then our response is to love His part towards the relationship and him. with His help we can do ours.
• Pictured are MichaelNoonan (Narrogin), Doris Butler (Bunbury), Jenny andKerry Irvine. These are just some of the people who attended the weekend function organised by the Narrogin YCW.
"It was a great boost to our confidence and really good to meet other YCW members and see them enjoying themselves," commented Simon Kain, leader of the newly-formed Narrogin YCW group, at the conclusion of a weekend of activities organised by the members.
LINKED IN FAITH
Thirty young workers from the Bunbury and Perth dioceses participated in many activities including a Youth Mass on Saturday night celebrated by Father Costello, parish priest of Narrogin, which was followed by dinner and a disco. Jo and Eugene Kain,
Perth. She was of the opinion that weekends of this nature were the best way to keep the diocesan group members together and in touch with each other. "Everyone enjoyed themselves," said Paul Rogers, also from Bunbury, "and it was one of the best weekends in a long while for me, as I experienced feelSimon's parents, were our ing of support and Kevin McDonald, who is in social sciences at they would live the rest of hosts on Sunday to a bar- friendship." general secretary of the Latrobe University where YCS had shared the rene- their lives. becue and games held on YCS in Paris, was in Perth he was also involved in wal of the church as a For this reason, it was whole, Kevin McDonald their farm six miles from last week and for the past — by Peter Shooter YCS. said, and the youth move- important for the Church Narrogin. three years has been part of (Bunbury full-timer) to have something He said that a feature of ment now had a clearer to say to Marree Scott of the Bunthe five-member internayouth at this time of their St Brigid's Lesmurdie bury group, YCS is its growth in the found it gave tional team, the first Aus- tertiary colleges and he view of making an option life, Kevin McDonald said. were winners in the grand her an opportunity to meet to serve the poorest and tralian to be so in the noted that Perth had faith Strong was chala final the of Debating W.A. weakest groups, the youths m ovement's 50 -year remarkable growth with who were disadvantaged in lenged through review of League held earlier this history. life and reflection on the month at the Nedlands groups at both the a school or local area. He was in the YCS at St three gospel at YCS weekly College of Advanced EduLeo's school in Victoria University of WA and at Since the renewal of the meetings which were not cation. and was two years in the WAIT. It was also becom- YCS was part of the overimportant in themselves The Lesmurdie team stronger ing parishes in Church, renewal all of the Australian national YCS team before doing a B.A. and among state school it was what youth shared as but as a building up pro- coached by Mrs Denise students. part of the Church as a cess which was linking McMillan, with members Stacey Turich, Melanie The YCS linked a stu- whole, making the Church faith to action. dent's faith with daily life present in the streets, or at A difficulty facing the Granger, Robyn Bett and and action over a period of the local deli where youths YCS, Kevin said, was to Jacqui Bartle defeated get sufficient chaplains for Hale school. time and it was the long- congregated, Leo said. The group have been friends and get to know term growth which made "Young people have groups. the YCS a distinct move- something to offer the These need not be only debating together for three young people from Narment compared with Church as a whole simply priests or religious but any years and had reached two rogin. Donnybrook and Phone 362 3025i others. by the fact that they are lay people who would have previous semi-finals. the knowledge to work In their winning debate It was also closely linked young people," he said. to action that the faith of Although the period of with students in their they took the negative side P AINTING on the subject "Now is the the student could relate in youth was a short time in search. situations in the school, an individual's life it was "The YCS is looking to time for straight talking", Quality work neighbourhood or family. an important time because the rest of the church, to arguing that it is rather the at the right price Looking at actions in the of the new experiences, lay people, to help it in its time for action. of faith in a continu- and not simply because of work. It has always been In the junior division light John Freakley the goal of the YCS that Newman College defeated ing community of the YCS the problems that arose. 361 4349 meant that experiences in It was also the vital time there be an adult present at Wesley College with the daily life could be reviewed when youth were thinking meetings to help in the negative side of the topic E f3 in the light of the gospel. ,about the values by which growth and reflection on "We have learned little S WEET faith," he concluded, from history".
The Young Christian Students Movement is different from other youth groups because it is a community of students linked in faith, according to the first Australian to serve on the international team.
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JUST FOR KIDS SMITH FAMILY SEND PUZZLES The Smith kids f rom Lesmurdie have sent in some p uzzles for The Record Kids Club.
Emma Smith, who is t welve, sent in the crossword on the left. Julian, Emma's brother, sent in the puzzle below. It's a fish puzzle and you have to find as many fish species as you can. Here are the clues for Emma's crossword: ACROSS 1) A group of lions 3) An Asian long-haired buffalo 5) A bird with broad wings something like a
vulture 7) A relation to the rabbit 8) A reptile that possesses a shell of boney plates 9) An insect that stings 10) A tree -dwelling mammal
a trunk 4) An animal with a long neck 6) A big bird that is found only in Australia. And here are the letters Emma and Julian sent into Nurse Kerry and Captain Bob: Dear Captain Bob and Nurse Kerry, DOWN: I have sent along a 1) A large bird with a crossword that I hope pouch under its beak you will find useful to put 2) A large mammal with in The Record. I am
twelve years old, I have three brothers and no sisters and live in Lesmurdie. I go to Mary's Mount. Here are a few jokes: Q. What is black and white and red all over? A. A zebra blushing! Q. Why did the dog cross the road? A. It was the chicken's day off!
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What YOU have Dear Captain Bob and Nurse Kerry, I hope you are well. I have some jokes for you: Q. What has four wheels and flys? A. A rubbish truck! Q. Why does the sea roar? A. Well, you would roar if you had crabs on your bottom! Q. Why do birds fly south for Winter. A. Its too far to walk! Boy: Would you scold me
BIRTHDAYS H APPY BIRTHDAY to: BARBARA ARAM of Manjimup, KAREN BONI of Esperance, D EAN GRASE of A lbany, BRENDAN ORRINGE of Attadale, CHRISTIAN HILL of Subiaco, PETER KINSMAN of Gooseberry Hill, MICHELLE NORMAN of Booragoon, STACEY SHEA of Nedlands, BERNARD WYNDHAM of Kalamunda, DIANNE AIREY of Karrinyup, and YOLANDE GOMEZ of East Girrawheen. for something I didn't do? Teacher: No! Boy: Good! I didn't do my homework! Christine Brown GERALDTON Dear Nurse Kerry, Here are some riddles: Q. Why did the pirate think he was dead when he went underwater.
visit my sister's farm. I hope the cub is fine. School is alright but Ilike interesting activities. I've got some pets. Toby A. Because he saw is my dog, and birds, angelfish! chooks. But I like my dog Q. Why did the little straw- most of all. berry worry? I like to enter competiA. Because his Mum and tions and win super prizes. Dad were in a jam! I would like to write more Andrew Hynes but I must go now so I'll W ATERLOO write again later. I've got a joke: Dear Captain Bob, Q. What do you call a duck I thank you for printing that crosses the road, falls my joke about the zebra. in mud and comes back? W ould you like some A. Dirty double crosser!! more? If you say yes, then I Gerard Walker will send more in to you! MERREDIN I am in grade three. My Dear Captain Bob, school is Mary's Mount Here are some jokes, ridand my teacher is Miss dles and knock knocks. I Mablson and she is very hope you like them. nice. 'Patient: Doctor, Doctor? I My favourite subject is keep thinking I'm a month art and craft, we have it on, of the year! Tuesday. Doctor: Well MARCH At playtime, I like to play over here, and I MAY be scarecrow, chasey and able to help you! cricket. Next time I will write Sue: Do you know a book which shows you how to about my family. Goodbye and God bless keep your garden in order? Jane: No, what? you. Sue: Weeders Digest! Yours sincerely, Knock knock! Michael Smith Who's there? LESMURDIE. Statue! 'Statue who? Dear Nurse Kerry, Statue? (Is that you?) It's a long time since I Gurney Patricia have written to you. I've PARK got a lot to tell you and the LATHLAIN club. My family and Nine year old, Deanne friends are well. Walsh from Lesmudie, has I enjoy playing football won the Find My Mummy for Royals, and soccer on competition. Deanne will Sundays for Greens. I like win packets of Smarties for watching the tests on TV. being able to trace the corI am looking forward to rect path to the hidden the school holidays. I may treasure for the explorers.
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St Joseph's Schoo Wembley
• RELAXED, HAPPY PUPILS LIVE FAITH
"You can recognise the from the parishes of Floreat, Wemb- excursions and special days are used Children of St Joseph's ley and Subiaco. The Junior Annexe to stimulate social studies. Wembley, A big emphasis is placed on a 'living School, Wembley, whe- at Our Lady of Victories', enrols boys and girls in pre-primary to faith' and the necessity for religion to never you see a group of year three. St Joseph's School popula- equip children for everyday life. "The relaxed and happy pupils. tion consits of four classes of girls in school endeavours to develop an They have a way of being straight grades from years four to awareness of Christian commitment You can get a copy of this photograph if you want. and responsibilites towards others," able to enjoy their school seven inclusive, 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 days this is what St orders and then tell us how many copies are needed. Joseph's school comIt will be a great way of raising funds. munity is all about," Sister Bernice, school providing a co-ordinated and continuDuring the summer, the students are ous programme throughout the trained in swimming. Principal said. The main winter school. Sister Bernice comes in to
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Children are equipped for modern living
Change has always been part of progress for the Subiaco-Wembley Parish School since it was opened by the St John of God Sisters in 1897. Housed first in a corrugated iron shed, St J oseph's progressed to a small stone There are four full time teachers as church -school, then to classrooms att- well as part time teachers and a teacher ached to a large parish church-hall at librarian. the corner of McCourt Street. The Parents assist in some classroom care of the school was given to the activities, sports coaching and finanSisters of Mercy in 1937 and then to cial and managerial assistance the Brigidine through the School Board and Par1949 saw the Sisters in 1942. beginning of Wembley's ents and Friends Association. Our Lady of Victories' School, now The academic programme is balthe Junior in 1962 St Primary Department, and anced by social and moral developJoseph's was re-grouped at ment. Children participate in the Red the present Salvado Road site vacated Cross First Aid Course and raise by the former secondary pupils. funds for needy groups. The formal St Joseph's caters for the children programme is supported by tours and
Sister Bernice said. The liturgical celebrations are high points of the school year and are entered into by all with a spirit of joy and reverence. For the parish liturgies, the girls become very involved. No aspect is neglected; hymns, liturgical movement, making of posters, preparing the readings and prayers of petition, are all attended to by the children. The music and singing areas are also very well catered for with two teachers
direct contact with all the students, who enjoy the music programme which she implements. Each year the choir mistress enters several choir groups in the Music Festival which they have often won. The girls also go out into the community, singing in hospitals, and homes for the aged, especially over the Christmas period. St Joseph's employs an art specialist who provides an excellently varied art and craft programme. Sewing and fine handiwork are taught to the upper primary students. Parents also participate in the "club" afternoon at which the girls may choose from several crafts such as copper work, weaving, pottery, art or knitting.
sport is netball. Several teams play in the primary competitions on Saturdays. Tennis coaching is available throughout the school year. The school always joins in civic events such as Book Week, Arbor Day, Anzac and Universal Children's Day.
"The school seeks to establish an environment of freedom for the individual, co-operation among the whole community and stimulation by personal involvement in a variety of activities and interests," Sister Bernice said. "The staff and children together create an atmosphere of Christian living based on the Gospels and mindful of the Brigidine motto: STRENGTH AND KINDNESS.
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OBITUARIES
RECORD TRADING POST Pay only if you sell IN MEMORIAM
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Priest served for 20 years in Mt Barker
R YAN Frank: Prayerful SHEEHY, Sister Mary remembrance of Frank Simon: Died August 15 whose 4th anniversary 1980. Please pray for the PUNCH Sr M Philomena occurs on August 14. Hus- memory of our cousin. of St Catherine's Convent, band of Sheila, father of Anne Broderick of KarriDoubleview, passed away Moya, John (dec), Helen. nyup, and family. peacefully July 7 1981. Our Lady of Fatima, pray Beloved sister of Margaret for him. THANKS (Mrs Winton) and Joan APHAEL loving R In J.J.: (Sr M Bernadette 0.P.). AHERN (Mary): The husDuring Sister's 52 years as memory of Jack, dearly band and family of the late Father James Mc- ing a ten year period in the John's College Wexford a Dominican in Dongara beloved husband of Rene, Mary Ahern of 22 Foss and Perth she was known loving father of Laurie, Carthy who died last Eastern Goldfields to where he was ordained in Street Palmyra, sincerely and loved for her zeal and Helen and Michael and week at the age of 66 which he was appointed 1940. thank Bishops, Priests, shortly after his arrival in patience as a teacher, families, died August 20 had been parish priHe is survived by a Religious , relatives and Australia in 1941. councillor and friend by 1979. Most Sacred Heart est of Mount Barker brother in Ireland, a sister friends for their kind Jesus, of mercy have on his girls and parents from expressions of sympathy for 20 years and a During his first decade in who is a religious in South many parts of WA. Her soul. Our Lady of Perpetand prayers and for their member of the Bun- Western Australia he was Africa and a married sister concern followed them in ual Succour pray for him. attendance at the Rosary, bury diocese since its curate in Kalgoorlie, priest in the United States. after school days and their BRYANT, Doreen: The Mass and Funeral of their inception in 1954. in charge at Boulder and During his 20 years in esteem was shown by the fourth anniversary of her dear wife and Mother. finally administrator in Mount Barker he saw the large number of ex pupils death occurred on Tuesday Please accept this as a per- He died of a heart condi- Kalgoorlie. presbytery extended and and friends who attended August 11. Her husband sonal expression of our tion of which he had been the church all but re-built her requiem. Members of Richard, and sons Bill, first since his elatively free r gratitude. Born in Annascaul, except for some of the origthe Dominican congrega- Richard and John ask for prior Wagin just attack in County Kerry, Ireland he inal walls. He also saw to tion remember her as a your prayerful rememb. BUILDING TRADES to his taking up the Mount studied first at St Bren- the construction of the new great Dominican sister rance. Barker appointment. dan's seminary and then church in Frankland River who gave herself unspar- W ALL, MEWS: Kindly PROPERTY ImproveEarlier he had been parish set his sights on overseas w hich he attended ingly tp the welfare of the remember in your prayers ments Service all types of priest of Manjimup follow- service and attended St monthly. sisters, for her love of the the souls of our dear w indows and doors church, interest in voca- father, mother, brother installed; back tions and the well being of Leo, and sister Nell. enclosed; walls verandahs and ceiling Priests. 'Sacred Heart of Jesus have removed; wooden perMay her soul rest in peace. mercy on them. golas; general repairs. Phone 341 2946.
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Phone 364 3179 after 6 pm. An invitation is extended cover their direction in life is to make a retreat to pick N. up the path that God points out to them. The September weekend retreat at the Victoria Park Franciscan Retreat House KIMBERLEY REGION commences on Friday SepWe are seeking an efficient person with tember 11 at 7.30 pm and of WESTERN AUSTRALIA the time andpersonal dedication needed concludes at 4.30 pm on We need nurses with general and midwifery to co-ordinate the services of Emma' certificates and a lively interest in people Sunday. It is open to men and nuel, a Catholic Centre for DisabledPer- to promote health women of all ages. For - develop health programmes, and sons, a branch of Centrecare. further information and - train Aboriginal Health Workers bookings contact 361 3459. Main duties: Accommodation on low rental is comfortably DAYS of PRAYER will * to develop support and educational furnished and air-conditioned. 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During this time in the parish the pioneer settlement in the area of the French missionariesfirst at Mullalup was re -discovered and he led the annual pilgrimage to the site each year. A keen golfer, he was very much part of the district activity and his requiem Mass in the Mount Barker church, celebrated by Bishop Myles McKeon, was attended by over 30 priests following which he was buried in the Mount Barker cemetry. May he rest in peace.
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Highlights of one of the best equestrian events in the world will be featured in Channel Nine's delayed coverage of The Dublin Horse Show. One of the world's major international equestrian meetings, the Dublin Horse Show will be telecast on Monday, August 17, at 11.35pm, Wednesday, August 19, at 1 1.35pm, Sunday, August The tournament covers 23, at 11.10pm, Monday, most facets of the equesAugust 24, at 11.35pm and trian sport, including dressage and showjumping. Wednesday August 26. at 1 1.35pm. And individual riders will be trying their hardest durAustralian Olympic rider ing their particular events Kevin Bacon has already to help amass points for taken honours for himself their team. and Australia by winning The Aga Khan Nations one of the major events in Trophy is awarded to the the tournament - the national team with most John Player International individual wins to its Event. credit.
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Park 3'57; Dianella 1 6-70 over Ron Smith. This RESULTS: def. Dianella - 2 4-47; St young player is proving to Benedicts 8-74 def. St. Men's A Grade: be more than a handful for with Dominics 2-29. Bryan Kukura def. Queen's Park 2 6-67 most of the top players in In the men's B grade Dia- Queens Park 1 4-57; Dia-, Ladies: the associaton. nella 2 8-68 def. Bentley 2- St Benedicts 6-61 def. St. The No 2 team, however, nella 1 had their toughest 47; Dianella Dominics 4-53; Dianella 1 1 Bye. when season the of match got on top in the doubles, 9-72 def. Dianella 2 1-45; Men's B Grade: winning five of the six sets, they beat their club's No 2 Attadale 7-63 def. Queen's Queen's Park Bye. two of them on tie- team 6-4. Until this result more dropped not had they breakers. This loss put a than two sets in any match. The No 1 team started stop to No 1 team's rise up The No 2 team won two of the ladder. well, winning three of the their matches on tiefour singles. Kevin Quain However they must still breakers and finished well beat George Miszczyk in a be fancied as likely behind on games. tie -breaker set. Brian finalists. St Benedicts secured M ason downed Mike In the other fixture Dia- second place with a strong Messer 6-3 and Peter nella 2 were too good for win over St Dominics 8-2 Quain proved too strong Bentley, winning 8-2. Dia- and Attadale accounted for Jonathan Messer, winnella's promising young for Queen's Park, winning ning 6-2. Paul Hille had his run of 7-3. The only singles won a ce One: Canning Race four: Winfield 25, by wins stopped when Randy The ladies' competition is t he No 2 team was grade 4 Damien Raux beat him 6-3. Dia- taking on a new complex- Stake, grade 5 Messer's big 6-love win nella 1 had the bye. ion. Just recently the asso- I. Wee Lizzie, 2. Trangie I. Sonia's Treasure, 2. ciation agreed to allow Lad; 3. Bandely Prince Ian Will, 3. Bobby's each team the services of R ace Two: Canning Champion Race five: Swan Stake, one A graded lady. This Stake, grade 5 means that clubs with I. Magdala Jewel, 2. grade 5 ladies who had nominated Justin's Sam, 3. Tebes- I. Willy Buck, 2. Dayna Farewell, 3. Mary's for A grade but who were sa's Image not playing because there R ace Three: Canning Luck Race six: Mixed Stake, is no competition for them Stake, grade 5 can considerably streng- I. Gallery, 2. Taint Tern- grades 2 and 3 10 SPEED SPECIALISTS I. Blazenka's Pride, 2. lee. 3. Fiery Collppn then their teams. Wintammywin, 3. Chief All Cycles Discounted •f Tivessa Every cycle guaranteed including tandems. Cash terms, bankcards, trade-ins taken. R ace seven: Winfield 25, Immediate attention to country clients. grade 4 I. Final Smoke, SPEEDLITE CYCLE CITY 2. Rapid Allegro, 3. 177 Guildford Rd. Maylands Ph. 271 1493 Black Python S econd hand cycles and all repairs done. )1.Race eight: Canning Stake, grade 5 A. I. Diver's Fortune, 2. Bin-gaddy, 3. Gold Arrow R ace nine: Canning THE BIGAMIST had his first Stake, grade 5 ACE IN CHARGE made it distance I. Darling Crown, 2. t wo in a row from as many attempt over a middle Crown Around, 3. Little starts since a spell when he eas- when finishing fourth to DubA ccommodation at ily accounted for the opposi- ious Honour over 2,100 McGregor tion in the Dampier metres on Saturday. The run Race ten: Maiden Stake, performance qualified maidens (;raduation (2D). After show- was a creditable R oom with refrigerator, electric jug, tea, coffee ing brilliant speed from the as this gallopers last run was I. Miss Popcorn, 2. Barbarriers, ACE IN CHARGE o ver 1,200 metres and ney's Me Name, 3. DarMorning paper. Excellent breakfast. led easily and bounded clear in although missing a place was ryle's Crown. P arking facilities, $10 per day. the straight to score a convinc- only half a length from the 2 48 HAY STREET winner. East Teiephone325 2092 ing three length victory. The Queen's Park 1 and 2 teams clashed in last week's men's A grade pennant and the No 2 team, which had been s truggling to win m atches, upset their m ore fancied club m ates with a 6-4 victory.
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CARMELITES Father Bob Dowd talks. PROPHETS PROCLAIM THE OFFICIAL WORD OF GOD The world needs the Carmelite Order because it is Elian and Marian — founded 800 years before Christ by Elijah who proclaimed the word of God in a hostile environment, and Marian because Mary presented the Word of God in a hostile environment. The world of today is a hostile environment. When Elijah was operating I think the reason we still exist in the northern kingdom of after 2,800 years (give or take a Israel, it was a very prosper- year or two) is that we are — like ous and materialistic society. the Church itself — continually
cause poverty and injustice in the world; * by making our communities a brotherhood sharing an experience of God in daily prayer. We take Elijah as our inspiration and find our strength and model in Mary — but we don't separate Mary from Jesus." "People are always willing to hear about Jesus and if we always link Jesus with His Mother they will listen."
Omri, the king, had thought little renewing ourselves. We have had two renewals in this about God but much about the life of his people. He had built magnifi- century alone. The first was in the years 1919cent cities, luxury resorts etc. His son, Ahab, reaped the benefit of 1931 when Father Elias Magennis, this, but became a bit degenerate. an Irishman who spent some years He married Jezabel and we all on the Australian mission, was know enough about her lifestyle. Prior General and the order Elijah came into this. He lived on increased from less than a thouMount Carmel when he was there. sand to almost 2,000. Today it is over 3,000 and the Most of the time he was away, annointing kings, contesting with a English speaking Carmelites have FALSE DEVOTION slaying the priests of Baal, and run- increased from 187 in 1926 to ning away from Jezabel, who was about 900 today. Bur this is only a numerical after his head. increase. I find the young people are interSince the second Vatican Council ested in hearing about Mary, but in CUE FROM ELIJAH a different renewal has developed association with Jesus. Mary within the Church and, thank God, out Jesus leads to false devotion. Taking a cue from Elijah for we've kept up with this. True devotion must have a solid In September 1979 the Australian scriptural foundation and in scriptoday's times I believe in proclaiming the word, rather than preach- Carmelite Chapter set goals to ture Mary is always found with her ing. Preaching to me means trying develop Carmelite charisms: Son, Jesus. t o convince people about some- * by strengthening our commitYoung people today like to have thing, whereas proclaiming means ment to prayer, brotherhood, and badges, uniform etc. and the Scapular can be promoted in this way. a nnouncing publicly and justice; * by prayerfully reviewing our lives The Scapular is the essential part officially." In the ranks of the religious together; of our habit. orders we Carmelites have a partic- *by encouraging a deeper prayer It is the part of the habit that life; ular place as prophets. Mary indicated in her appearance Prophets proclaim. They direct * by responding to the prophetic to St Simon Stock and said 'Take peoples attention to things that are spirit of our Order which chal- this habit. Whosoever dies wearing happening and through these things lenges us to a poorer and simpler this habit will not suffer everlasting lifestyle; reveal the will of God. fire'. We are front line prophets in this * by a greater awareness of the evil That's a pretty big promise and if respect. We are innovators. The aspects of our consumer society we can get people especially youth and the unjust structures which to recognise this they'll wear the works we do today show this.
Scapular. They can wear medals now. There are some beautiful medals available." In the old phraseology we've put on the livery of Mary. We have bound ourselves to her. We wear her uniform. The wearing of the Scapular of medal must be well presented. Friendship rings, zodiac signs etc. are very much part of the youth scene. You see Denis Lillee wearing some sort of medal as he runs in to bowl. We must realise that young peo- FATHER BOB DO WD . . . taking a ple are well educated and don't talk cue from Elijah for today's times. I down to them. Simply tell them the facts and let them judge. They'll believe in proclaiming the word rather than preaching it. accept it." ........tunrawaramareatec
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CHRISTIANITY IS Vocations are born at home BEING AND DOING and put flesh on the bones
Christianity is a matter of being — .Alimmirniuminllinionnimmimmlliffimiummiummillillm: I lived on the border of the Carmelite parish not simply doing. 5 I think the Carmelites have the cha- and when I started school there was no Catholic The young. The aged. rism of being part of the living Christ, school in the parish in which I lived. The lonely. The happy. The sick. the Church. The students. The oppressed. We belong to the Church in the diocese and that is part of the reason why we continue in the Church. We have six parishes in A ustralia -- one in Indonesia with over 15,000 Catholics in it. We have men, such as Father Moore in Pilbara,
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The human family. on loan to dioceses, and I went to school in the Carmelite We have been blessed and have not felt other priests available to parish and the fact that my aunt the vocation crisis as much as some other replace priests who are was the head sister at the school Orders have. sick, need a holiday or any may have had something to do During the time of scarcity of vocations ( 1915-1936) we had only four ordained emergency; we conduct a with it. (but some help from Ireland) but we had college in Melbourne (six I worked for a few "...so that we may live always according years and when I no deaths. Carmelites on the staff); we decided to become a to the poverty and the humility and the priest this aunt said have priests, like Father to me, "What about the Sacred Heart The first Australian trained Carmelites gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." Peter Slattery, Religious Missionaries?" were ordained in 1936 and since then — rule of St. Francis c o-ordinator at John X XI 1 1 College; Father Ihad an inclination for the missions but more than 50 have been ordained. That's I f you would like to know province." Pitman's work as lecturer, I thought "No, I've worked for six years not bad for a small more about the life and writer and retreat-master is in a factory. I can think like a factory work of today's Franciscan, You can't love someone you don't know. well known not only here worker." here's your opportunity. If young men are to join us they must but in the Eastern States 5 and overseas. In Mel- "I felt I would rather work with the Car- know about us. 5 into someone talk melites to Melbourne dare I in wouldn't the of try Port parishes bourne we have a priest with a mission to the and Port Adelaide whichIthought would being a Carmelite if they had decided to become a diocesan priest or to join be difficult working class parishes, unchurched. another Order. I've never worked in either parish! The We have no Australians Carmelites went to Rhodesia (Zim- If they are undecided I tell them about in Zimbabwe now, but we babwe) and I was considered suitable for the Carmelites and they make up their have had four Camelites the missions. I went to the mission for 12 own mind. The earlier they know the CarThe Franciscans melites the better the chance of joining us. working in Indonesia and years. them. guide has to Spirit Holy The another is about to leave I hope that first of all before young men soon. It is strange how God orders things! to the Carmelites they have been come Vocations are definitely born in the We are a flexible order. home and I first thought of becoming a praying, meditating, that they have We are not geared for front priest at the time I received communion, thought very carefully and prayed about line missionary work but certainly when I began serving on the their vocation. When they come to the Order it is often we can take over a place altar. Br Laurence Gavigan, O.F.M. necessary to develop this art, — to put that has had a start. Franciscan Vocation Office 47 Victoria Street, Waverley, N.S.W. 2024. I had my photo taken and my parents flesh on the bones — to give examples It's the old missionary began saying things like: How nice I from Scripture and the traditions of the Name Order.. question — expand or would look in a cassock...! The message really got through however Remember Elijah was a man of prayer. consolidate? Address when at the age of 23 I decided my father He prayed and there was no rain for three We are definitely no was the biggest obstacle. He thought that years and six months — a four year P/code static; we are dynamic! The the idea of the priesthod was too good for drought — again he prayed and it rained. Telephone Age various renewals over the me. He was the representative of the centuries have shown how He probably feared the 'spoiled priest', Prophets at the Transfiguration. WAS 13812 j the Order adapts itself to that I might start and not finish the And of course Mary's prayer was union ill11111011101111111111100111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110P the .needs of the times. with the will of God. course. F
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