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Unemployment is always an evil, says Pope Paul in his third encyclical letter, and when ohn J it reaches a certain level it can become "a real social disaster". "It is particularly painful when it especially young people," he said. ffects a An encyclical is a major letter from the pope to the whole C hurch. The 98-page document deals with human work and the rights of workers.
tal condition for peace in the modern world; peace both within individual countries and societies and in international relations," he writes. One of the many topics the pope deals with is the right to strike. It was written to mark the 90th anniStrikes, he says, are recognised by versary of the great social encyclical, Catholic social teaching as legitimate in Rerum Novarum, written by Pope Leo the proper conditions and within just XIII. limits. This was the first of the Church's social "In this connection workers should be encyclicals and exalted the rights of the assured the right to strike, without being working man. subjected to personal penal sanctions for The Latin title of the new letter is Labo- taking part in a strike," he said. rem Exercens. Its English title is On "While admitting that it is a legitimate Human Work. means, we must at the same time emphasise that a strike remains, in a sense, an by Nicholas Kerr, director of the extreme means. Catholic Communications "It must not be abused. Office, Adelaide, and editor of "It must not be abused especially for 'political' purposes. The Southern Cross. "Furthermore it must never be forgotten that, when essential community serviThe pope said he had intended to issue ces are in question, they must in every it earlier to mark the anniversary of case be ensured, if necessary by means of Rerum Novarum on May 15 by speaking appropriate legislation. about work on May 13 — the day he was "Abuse of the strike weapon can lead to shot in St Peter's Square. the paralysis of the whole socioeconomic "But what happened before the start of life, and this is contrary to the requirethe audience prohibited me from speak- ments of the common good of society, ing on this problem," he said. which also corresponds to the properlyThe pope added that the time spent in understood nature of work itself." hospital and then convalescing at his The pope stresses that people are more summer home at Castelgandolfo had important than things. given him a chance to "review" it. "Man alone is a person," he says. In the letter the pope says the rights of He emphasises again that the Church is w orkers must be seen in the context of committed to working for justice and human rights as a whole. peace. "Respect for this broad range of human rights constitutes the fundamen(Cont. Page 3)
When St Joachim's church, Victoria Park, celebrated its 25th birthday last Sunday, the event was highlightedby parish luncheon of international foods in the hall. Pictured presenting some of the foods represented are Des/in Dias (India), Lina Palermo (Italy), Fiona Calleja (Malta), Greg Fleay (Australia) and Jacinta Lewis (Burma).
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In the wake of a c hange of regime a t Kalumburu Mission in the far north of the Kimgroups who were not He added that Father • berleys this week, Sanz would have a "wellB y Dom Francis always fully informed. t he head of the deserved rest" after his Byrne O.S.B. • The dedication of years of toil in the KimberB enedictines at Father Sanz and previous leys and then consider • B enedictines in the what work New Norcia, Rev. could be suita• The close working Kimberleys. D om Justin Bruble for him at the together of himself as head monastery. of the Benedictine comce, OSB, has munity at New Norcia and LONG SERVICE defended the misHis successor is Father the Bishop of Broome. Basil Noseda, who was resion and its miss- Rev. Dom Bruce spoke misthe left Sanz Father f: • The granting of greater sion on September 14 after appointed to Kalumburu ionaries. last month. Perth-born o• The good relations independence to the Abor-
more than 40 years at Father Basil has had many existing between the Abor- igines themselves. K alumburu to return to years' experience at the igines and the missionarBenedictine monastery mission and has the recently • The handing over to ies. Norcia. New at returned from a nine• The efforts by the t he Aborigines of a Benedictine community to 400,000-acre reserve adja- "When I visited the mis- month overseas study tour. adapt to a whole "new phi- cent to the mission. sion in August Father Sanz losophy" in relation to the spoke to me about whether manipulation of The • Church's concept of the it was time for him to come left-wing A SSISTANCE by Aborigines the mission. out after so many years there and also due to the fact of his age," said Father He will be assisted by Bruce. another Australian Bene"I felt that considering all dictine, Father Matthew Bunbury dateline 2 Youth scene the facts and the new situa- Kelly, from Ganmain in * Abortion views tion existing that it was New South Wales, who 4 Just for kids best for him to come back was a land valuer before he *•Sisters celebrate • 5 Mercy in retrospect entered. to New Norcia. * Police protect school • 6 Fifty years wed "I want to make it clear A third Benedictine, Dom * Today's People 7 Best bets that I have nothing but the Joseph Argus, from the *•Sisters seek review greatest admiration for Goldfields, will be posted 8 Papal encyclical new this staunch missionary to Kalumburu next week. * Week on television • 9 social order who has given himself * Woman of the week • 10 (Cont. Pg. 3) totally to the work of help***************************************************** ing the Aborigines." Following the departure of the mission's superintendent, Father Seraphim S anz, the Benedictine Prior- Administrator strongly pointed out that "a number of points which had been clouded by the media" needed clearing up.
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Diocese fund CASH FLOW TALK NEW BUS FOR will raise a TINTINARA million in the first year
Tintinara Hostel, Albany, has been given a grant by the Lotteries Commission to buy a 24seater bus for the hostel. The $16,000 grant days, with the help of continues the series of Brothers Fitzhardinge and s ubstantial grants Keane, and Mrs Carter, made by the commis- children from the southern sion to assist with the districts visited towns and families of other students expansion of the hos- from Mt Magnet, Cue and tel, and the renewal of Meekatharra. The tour its furnishings and was supported by the equipment. Schools Commission and
The Bunbury Diocesan Development Fund, launched on t June 29, hopes to raise $1 mil- lion in the first 12 months of operation, according to the director, Mr Paul Gee.
The bus is used daily to t ake students to St Joseph's college and to Albany Technical College. At weekends it takes the residents to Mass and to sporting fixtures. During the recent holi-
the Education Department. Tintinara Lodge and hostel provide accommodation for Aboriginal boys and girls from any part of the state where adequate educational facilities may be lacking.
The target is considered ager Mr John Walsh who to be attainable and out of had travelled to Bunbury a diocesan population of several times to assist in its 32,000 in 25 parishes, 40 establishment. parishioners in each parish "The concept of pari- Pictured above, disare being asked each to shioners helping the dio- cussing the Bunbury invest $1000. cese really took hold of me, Diocesan Develop"We don't want charity and I have thrown myself ment Fund at a clergy from people. We want to enthusiastically into the meeting earlier this borrow their money, just task of selling the idea to year, are Mr Paul Gee like a bank or building the parishes. w ho succeeded Parents' efforts at Our Lady of Lourdes school, Dardanup, are society, but not to make "From the April meeting Father Gaetano Croexorbitant profits," Mr of the Bunbury Diocesan cetti (right) as finant remendous, according to the lay principal, Mrs Jan WansGee said. Pastoral Council the dele- cial secretary of the brough, who was appointed this year. "We want to build for the gates took the ideas back diocese. Catholics of the future, our to the parishes, and I am "Because of the small closer to Bunbury next possible, through inservice the Catholic system. Our children, who are the visiting systematically training and the post- faith is very much alive in numbers (51 at present) year. Church of the future. every parish to speak at been sent in from parishes graduate programmes in us, in our principles, ideals "To make it easier on meetings or Sunday Mass. for their new church com- parents have to make extra "Priority must be given to education that and doctrines, in everyspiritual development religious schools to borrow from the "The reception has been plex and this parish will be sacrifices," she said. thing we do. available. are Mrs Wansbrough receivthrough the religious curfund for new buildings, our good, but the response a the first to borrow from the "I speak for my staff of ed her education in riculum and integrated loan rate is 11 per cent red- little disappointing. This is DDF. "Teachers when I say we are should,seek to three Catholic schools in Bun- through the whole curricuucible, which is well under understandable because of "A survey is being conimprove their own per- e ver mindful of our bury, and although she lum," she said. current bank rates, but of the newness of the scheme, ducted in the diocese to sonal development, and r esponsibilities to the course loans are not availa- and also because of the dis- ascertain just how much graduated as a teacher 21 "Because of this teachers parents have a right to children in our care, and years ago this is her first ble till the people of this tance from Bunbury of will be needed over the full-time appointment in a need to evaluate the qual- expect this, particularly the faith parents have in us diocese lend their money to some parishes. next five years for Catholic school. ity of their religious educa- when it means so much to o f re-inforcing the us, and we are asking each "Bunbury is a diocese development. tion programmes, and seek them. Catholic faith they have to invest $1000." small in population, but "The survey is not yet She has taught only for to upgrade them where "I really enjoy teaching in given their children." Mr Gee said the idea of a not in size, and there is evi- completed but the amount short periods in that time fund, had been with Bishop dence of a community estimated from only six believing that her first duty McKeon for some time spirit among the parishes p arishes is already was to be at home with her five daughters, some of and became a possibility even though their distance $800,000. with his appointment as apart is considerable. "We are confident that whom now attend Bunsecretary to the diocese "At this moment all par- the fund eventually will bury Catholic College. The strong foundations laid over the past 25 years earlier this year. ishes, through the Dioce- become the sole source of So that the family could Mr Gee was formerly a san Pastoral Council, are parish borrowing in our be near the Bunbury Col- impressed the first lay principal of Bunbury Catholic bank manager. discussing proposals which diocese, because of our lege, it means a 160 kilome- College, Mr Val Murphy, when he took over this year. He said the fund was will affect their pockets, committed people who tre round trip from and modelled on the similar regarding co-responsibil- want to see the diocese Ferguson Hill to Boyup "From the look of the to take responsibility for through themselves them by buildings and grounds it on forced this college, and to realise be not Perth archdiocesan fund, ity. grow and who are willing Brook for her husband, and he acknowledged the "Esperance parish will be to lend their money to a who is principal of the was obvious that the col- that it is our college, our an outside individual. of support he had received the first to benefit and fund which will make this secondary school at Boyup lege was ready to go some- church and it is up to us to He said the openness College from the Perth fund man- already donations have p ossible. Brook. He hopes to move where. There was a job to ensure that it is successful." Bunbury Catholic be done developing curric- Asked about the spirit of showed that students felt ulum, to continue spiritual openneness which existed free to develop without instruction and to nurture in the college, Mr Murphy c onstraint, although in the co-operation of the said old-time, strict disci- some respects they needed staff," he said. pline did not necessarily to have a disciplined Bunbury Catholic Col- have a lasting effect. school. lege began first as the Discipline had to reflect Mr Murphy said much Marist Brothers College, the student's needs as he depended on a supportive and in 1973 the Sisters of moved into society. Stu- staff. "It is easy to have a Mercy joined the co- dents had to see themselves strict school," he said, "but have educational project. as committed to their much harder to Mr Murphy, who heads a Catholic faith, and this had guidelines which will give a staff of 25 and an enrol- to come about mainly school its spirit." ment of 342, came from Christian Brothers College, Leederville to his work to transform visions into the reality of p resent appointment. There is still a presence of a world united in justice, peace and love. Marist Brothers and Sisters of Mercy on the staff, and Father Greg Chidlow Korea, Japan, Philippines, Pakistan, Fiji, Taiwan, Peru, Chile. is chaplain to the college. Mr Murphy said he was impressed by the acceptance given by clergy and PERHAPS YOUR VISION AGREES WITH OURS? laity to the appointment of himself as first lay principal. His impression so far is ( ADv that the enrolment is less than one would expect, but Father, perhaps this is due to resI think my vision does agree with yours. Please send information Address your enquiry: trictions on space and I about requirements for joining St. Columban's. The Vocations Adviser, other factors. St. Cotumban's Mission, He is glad there is now a Name: 48 Riversdale Road, trend to support local Riversdale, W. Aust. 6103. I Address schools, and not simply to Tel. (09) 361-1097. it , send children to metropoliAge: TeL No Sunbury Catholic College YCS students.' tan schools. Cooper, Linda "Perhaps with the Front: Carol O'Connor, Susie Jeanette appointment of a lay prin- Costigan; (rear) Stephen Busher, Cahalin, and Mark Gee. cipal people are prepared
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A bout 100 people attended an ecumenical breakfast held last Wednesday at St Benedict's church hall, Applecross. Its ecumenical character was a mply demonstrated by the way its organisation was shared.
At the Applecross ecumenical breakfast: Kevin and June Dear, Canon Douglas Webster, of St Paul's Cathedral, London, Gino Mastaglia and Peter Jones.
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C atholics provided with their brothers and sis- However, the majority ground." the venue, the Uniting ters in Christ from other have been lay people Canon Douglas Webster, reflecting the work orien- an eminent Anglican clergChurch saw to the cat- traditions. yman, was the guest ering and the speaker, The meal commences at tation of the occasion. 7am and finishes promptly Most attendees are regu- speaker at last week's Commitment to justice Canon Douglas Webs- at 8am, so that breakfas- lar members of their Christian breakfast. must be closely linked with ter from St Paul's ters have a chance to get respective congregations Since his ordination C athedral, London, is away to work. but some without church nearly 40 years ago he has commitment to peace in an Anglican. Speakers at previous affiliations are invited by had experience in local the modern world," the
It was the 10th Apple- breakfasts have covered a cross Christian Breakfast. wide variety of topics. The event is now spon- Why Work When You sored by the newly-formed Can Witness was the A pplecross Christian catchy title of Professor Council but it was begun Brian Hill's inaugural talk. informally by a group of He was followed by Anglilaymen three years ago. can Bishop Cornish who The breakfasts have been spoke on Christian atticonsistently well attended, tudes to leisure. indicating the felt need of Catholic speakers have many Christians to share included Father Bill Uren something of their faith and Sister Veronica Brady.
friends or neighbours, giv- parishes as a teacher of pope says in the third ing the gatherings an evan- theology, theologian to the Anglican Church Mission- encyclical letter. gelical dimension. "This twofold commitment is A s one breakfaster ary Society for many years remarked: "I would hesi- during the course of which certainly supported by the painful tate before inviting my he travelled all over the experience of the two great world next-door neighbour to world, and, before his pres- wars which in the course of the Mass but this breakfast ent position as canon and last 90 years have convulsed many gives me an opportunity to precentor of St Paul's European countries and, at least reach him on a spiritual Cathedral, he was Profespartially, countries in other plane and to share things sor of Missions at Selby which are important to me, Oaks Colleges in Bir- continents. "It is supported, especially since the on, as it were, neutral mingham. Second World War, by the permanent threat of a nuclear war and the prospect of the terrible self-destruction that emerges from it." The pope spoke, too, of the Church's identification with working people and with the poor. "In order to achieve social justice in the various parts of the world, in the various
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Big Kimberley change Father Bruce said that the "whole picture" of missions had c hanged dramatically in the Kimberleys over the past 10 years.
berleys and he feared that question of assisting the returned to the mission. Aborigines." "I went to see them where they would continue to be He went on- to say that they were camped and the manipulated. during the long months of scene resembled that of an However, he felt nothing negotiations between him- enjoyable picnic," said but optimism for the future of Kalumburu Mission self and the Bishop of Father Bruce. and that the Benedictine Broome regarding the mission, they had reached To a large extent he felt presence in the region "We have got to work in agreement on all the issues that the Aborigines had w ould continue, with with the changing times as considered. been manipulated by left- God's grace, to bear lasting far as prudence will allow. "Bishop Jobst and I have wing groups in the Kim- fruit. Our presence there will had nothing but the most centre on the spiritual side cordial relations in our disof things and also to advise cussions," he added. the Aborigines if they want Father Bruce said that the us to. media had clouded many "The Aborigines are now of the issues involved at much more independent. Kalumburu and in his We have handed over to opinion many of the stories them the rights to the land over the past few months on which their housing had been "inflated" and led stands, they have been to a wrong impression of incorporated in a legal the real situation. b ody, we have given them Some press reports had full control of a 400,000- put the number of AboriBy Dom Francis Byrne O.S.B. acre., reserve near the mis- gines engaged in the walksion and are at present out protest in June at 90. Eighteen full -blood Aborigines trying to encourage them When he had visited the to take a further reserve mission he had discovered from the Benedictine Mission at nearby. that only about 30 were Kalumburu in the Kimberleys will be " Whoever goes there in involved and only camped the future will necessarily at Argon, 15km from the attending the Marian Pilgrimage at have a different outlook mission, during the day. In New Norcia this Sunday. and approach to the whole the evening many of them They will perform a cor- large group here is indicaduring the tive of this and we will give ro national dancing after the them a very warm welcome main ceremonies are indeed," he added. Scissors, Saws, Secateurs, Shears, Sharpened and Set c ompleted.
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countries, and in the relationships between them, there is a need for evernew movements of solidarity of the workers and with the workers," he says. "This solidarity must be present whenever it is called for by the social degrading of the subject of work, by exploitation of the workers, and by the growing areas of poverty and even hunger. "The Church is firmly committed to this cause, for she considers it her mission, her service, a proof of her fidelity to Christ, so that she can truly be the Church of the poor. "And the poor appear under various forms. "They appear in various places and at various times. "In many cases they appear as a result of the violation of the dignity of human work, either because the opportunities for human work are limited as a result of the scourge of unemployment, or because a low value is put on work and the rights that flow from it, especially the right to a just wage and to the personal security of the worker and his or her family."
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For many of them it will be their first visit to New Norcia and also their first long trip down south from VILNIUS, Lithuania their mission. In June, a group of Abor- Lithuanian Father Richarigines was involved in a das Cherniauskas, 27, was walk-out at the mission briefly arrested, beaten which received wide press and kicked by Societ militiamen for conducting a coverage. They said that they were retreat for young people. seeking a greater share of Father Cherniauskas was responsibility in running speaking to 50 young people, several farmers and their own affairs. P ilgrimage organiser, two Catholic priests when Father Anscar McPhee the group was surrounded. said this week that there Most escaped but about was a very harmonious 20 were interrogated for a r elationship existing couple of hours, beaten between the Aborigines at and kicked before being the mission and the released. The incident took place near Moletai in missionaries, "The presence of this Soviet-annexed Lithuania.
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The Sisters of Mercy celebration this week is principally about a world wide phenomenon that saw a tiny band of Dublin women s well, in 150 years, into the largest congregation of women, today some 25,000, in a dozen countries of the English speaking world.
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It is also a specially significant celebration here in Perth because the history of the order parallels so closely the similar span of development of the state of Western Australia. By a remarkable chain of circumstances it was the Swan River colony at which the fledgling order would make its landfall in the Southern hemisphere barely 15 years after the Dublin foundation in 1831. Precious therefore are the handful of graves in the Victoria Square convent which contain the remains of women who hadpersonally known Catherine McAuley and who had stepped ashore at Fremantle in 1846 after 114 days at sea very unconcerned at the century and a half of history for which they were laying foundations. Their humble letters were the only lifeline they had between kindred spirits at the opposite ends of the earth. Because they were not written as academic exercises but as thoughts from the heart, their emergence this week is a fitting crown to their efforts. Pilgrims ought to make their way this week to the tiny building on Victoria Avenue where within days of the pioneer band's arrival the first woman made her Mercy commitment in r eligious life. The pilgrim can run his hand o ver walls that were the lean-to school in which Catholic education battled to make its fragile start here. While this year is a specifically Mercy celebration it need not be exclusively so because the Mercy history is only part of an extraordinary manifestation of religious life in the last t wo centuries that is only now beginning to fall into historical perspective and on whose significance and relevance to the life of the Church has not been sufficiently appreciated. From Ireland alone came at least three such groups, Presentation, Mercy and Christian Brothers who played such a large part in A ustralian Catholic and social development through their schools. Other orders from central Europe also sent their evangelising members, often via their Irish houses. The existence of these orders was in turn probably the stimulus to Mary MacKillop to found her uniquely Australian congregation of St. Joseph Sisters who matched the zeal of the migrant orders. Missing this week will be the stories of the tens of thousands of sisters whose only records are the tombstones that stand in the cemeteries. They tended to be people who were not interested in writing history, preferring simply to be written up in God's Book. It is too obvious a temptation not to speculate on what those pioneers and their descendants would think if they were to return today. Gone are the heavy serge woollen habits of another age they were doggedly determined to wear in the face of fierce Australian heat that could never be understood in Europe. Gone are the fortress convents that spoke sternly but confidently to the infant suburbs around them. Hopefully however would be the recognition of a kindred spirit, of a smile from Catherine McAuley from Dublin or Ursula Frayne from Perth that speak a similar language of the heart that can barely be touched by a sesquicentary.
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Sir, In his attack on Father O'Brien, (The Record, September 17) Mr O'Meara points out the decision of the last State A.L.P. Conference to liberalise abortion laws and asks the questions whether or not I support this policy.
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He proceeds to imply in provided to encourage state. the next paragraph that women not to have RTLA has every right to any opposition to this polt heir pregnancies endorse who it sees fit for parliament, conduct public icy on my part has yet to be terminated. put publicly. 3) That, when the human meetings as it sees fit, conI can only conclude that rights legislation was duct propaganda in any he is being deliberately disdebated earlier this manner that suits it. ingenuous. He knows full year in parliament Having decided however, from J. Namnik, York well: again since the last to enter the political arena Sir, 1) That I have opposed A.L.P. state confer- in the manner in which it liberalised abortion ence —Ionce again put has, it compels those of us The ABC programme Nationwide, legislation at every WA on record my support in the A.L.P. who oppose on September 16, unwittingly did a State Conference of the for the clause which abortion to seek our own disservice to the pro-abortion lobby. A.L.P. at which it has incorporated recogni- forums. been raised. These are tion of the right to life To suggest as Mrs Martyr That television generally depicts social evils as a form does, in the same corres- of entertainment was illustrated by calling the kettle public forums open to for unborn children. the press. Indeed, on On this last, question, I pondence column, that (Right To Life) black. t he last occasion supported an amendment only those who have That no hospital staff was interviewed was intenreports of my opposi- moved by Lionel Bowen appeared at RTL functions tional bias. That only one view of school children, who tion, which was based which would have had the can be sincere in their -had seen the RTL presentation, was given didn't matter on both moral and pol- effect of making the whole opposition to abortion is because of the repeated statement, "Then this other lady itical grounds, were of the federal human rights really quite ludicrous. came and she told us just what we wanted to know." carried in the Daily legislation including the Labor Party policy conThe effort to convict the minister of education, Bill News and West Aust- relevant clauses, applica- ferences over the last 14 Grayden, of pandering to the RTL was overshadowed ralia. ble to the operation of state years are every bit as signif- by interviewer David De Vos pandering to the pro2) That following the WA laws. icant events as those public abortion lobby on behalf of the ABC. state conference and It is at this level that the activities with which she The criticism of connecting abortion to Nazi atrociduring the election problem of abortion lies. has been associated, and I ties only served to remind that that holocaust was disbecampaign I was inter- The amendment was would suggest a somewhat lieved at first and also apathetically received. viewed on an ABC pro- opposed by all government m ore difficult public That De Vos hadn't seen the RTL presentation put gramme on the cam- members as it had beet? in forum. him in bad light as much as •his out-of-context paign in marginal seats. the previous parliament I congatulate RTLA on questioning.. During the course of when the human rights leg- inviting Mother Teresa to The Women's Electoral Lobby condemn their own this my views on abor- islation was first discussed. WA. She is, as Mr Ivan case in the eyes of Christians because of their insistence tion were sought. Iindi- It is significant that in the Sands suggests, a person on 'free choice', for the crux of the matter is that there is cated clearly that I approaches to me by RTL whose example to those of NO choice in the Christian position. • believed legal sanctions supporters my active sup- us in public life is Mr Grayden was right in expressing no personal opinwere necessary to pro- port for this amendment unsurpassed. ion for to do God's will is to give up our own. tect human life, and was not sought. The W.E. L. doesn't stop there for they actively attempt I regret only that the platthat positive economic Mr O'Meara as a dedi- form on which she appears to convert; any anti-abortion lobby does not attempt to assistance should be cated follower of public is not broad enough to convert (except perhaps when handing out how-to -vote debate on the issue must encompass all who would cards), but merely holds the ground won by Christ. know all this. That he like to hear her. This The duty it does have within this stance is to inform should choose to cast includes people like myself consciences and to protect the unborn. It is the summit of cynicism to be pummelled by the doubt on it, in replying to who oppose abortion legisFather O'Brien, is a precise lation but who find on promotion of the disabled at this time, and simultaneindication of the political recent experience RTLA ously to be told that we ought bump-off the potentially problem the RTLA poses a s an orginisation disabled before they are born. The point of the IYDP has been missed. for A.L.P. members in this impossible.
A priest is supported from Mrs B. Kozak, Bicton Sir, May I endorse the remarks made by Father Jim O'Brien regarding the Right to Life Association ( The Record, September 10).
War horrors should not be forgotten from John Veszely, Nollamara
Recently I read the back page of the Right to Life Sir, brochure, advertising their Pope John Paul II did not say all If the world is prepared to sacrifice the Poles for the seminar in October, and free thought perhaps I might (The Record, September 17) that second time in 42 years, it does not deserve to stay either. pay the $42 for our could have been said about the epiminister younger son, a medical stu- sode which plunged the world into The Australian bishops should ask the prime dent, to attend the and clergy all over the world, to protest against. th.e seminar. But when I read chaos 42 years ago. He did not say it Soviet Intimidation and to insist that should the intimithe front and inside pages, as the Poles know it only too well. dation escalate into occupation the West should come ago to I came to the conclusion The Germans did not attack Poland as a single good with the guarantees they forgot 42 years independence of that I would not give that attacker. The attack was planned and indeed executed defend and restore the freedom and association 42 cents, let by a joint operation staged by the Germans and the Poland. alone $42. USSR. The brochure was just a The Soviet Union occupied, 42 years ago, huge tracts load of political propa- of territory in east Poland. Hitler is long dead and so is ganda, in favour of the the III Reich, yet eastern Poland is today part of the Liberal Party. USSR. The time has come for the It is well that the West realise this not unsignificant Right to Life Association item of history. to state publicly whether Solidarity, which starts its meetings after attending they are seeking the sup- Mass, where alongside their banner there is the crucifix, Holland & Venetian Blinds, port of all Australians, is a different trade union from the one which the Comirrespective of ethnic munist Party & Aluminium Awnings Canvas foisted on the Poles after the occupation origin, creed or political of Poland in reens, Tarpaulins Flysc 1945. persuasion. Or is the Right It was born out of the misery of almost 40 years to Life Association (as communistic-socialism, which resulted in the country implied by their latest bro- going slowly but surely bankrupt. chure) simply an offshoot The Pope has honoured this union and its leaders. He of the Liberal Party? wants that union, as all freedom loving people want, to 286 ALBANY HWY., VIC. PARK 361 1539 (Letters continued on succeed in giving the Poles the free and independent 361 1620 representation the people require, want and are entitled page 8.) to.
RAGS OF ALL TYPES
TUDOR HOUSE
LETTERS PROVIDE NEW VIEW OF SISTERS' HISTORY The publication of these letters written back to Ireland by the pionering Sisters of Mercy in Perth between 1845 and 1849 is a further step forward in the documentation of the early days of the Catholic Church in Western Australia. It adds a woman's touch and viewpoint to the efforts in building up an educational system that has lasted down to our own day. In the past few years we
had to live the cross in reality. The hardships, privations and sufferings endured by the early Sisters of Mercy are almost incomprehensible to today's reader but these letters offer a fascihave seen the publication nating insight into their of the personally-written struggles. memoirs of Bishop SalThe old Latin adage vado edited by well-known " Sanguis Martyrum West Australian Jesuit Semen Christianorum" Father Ted Stormon. (The Blood of Martyrs is These give a first-hand the Seed of Christians) has account of Bishop Salva- Such a publication would been borne out, not in a do's observations and per- add to our knowledge of literal sense but in the sym- In the Heritage Room of Victoria Square convent, Miss Geraldine Byrne, Father Russell ceptions of WA after just their desperate struggle in bolic sense of the fruits Hard/man and Sister Raphael study a Be/leek china vase brought to WA by the pioneer two years in the colony. the early years, a struggle enjoyed by today's generaSisters of Mercy 130 years ago. Miss Byrne's book Valiant Women was launched in the shared by the Sisters of tion of the Church, thanks undercroft of the Victoria Square chapel, in the shadow of the graves of the pioneer sisters Mercy that we read in this to the sacrifices of these whose letters it reproduces. EARLY ACCOUNT latest publication Valiant sisters in the past. Women. From our perspective The letters of the Sisters today it is very hard to of Mercy are similarly val- imagine the scene when uable because they are the Bishop Brady and his 18 first-hand account of their clerics and seven sisters adjustment in coming to arrived in Fremantle in Australia and finding January, 1846. The total neither the population nor colonial population was the pupils that they had barely 500 spread around been prepared for. sparse settlements. These letters of the Sisters The prevailing antiof Mercy add to our Catholic feeling of the day with the Federation of Sis- their mission of mercy. month and the definitive The Sisters of Mercy cele- ters k nowledge of the early resented the intrusion of of Mercy in 1957. Today, the 17 congrega- steps will be formalised in "Romans", so there brate this year the struggles of the Church in these sesquicente- Following the Second tions of the Sisters of December. the Swan River Colony. were drastic odds to be Vatican Council the two Mercy in Australia are This year will thus be the nary of their foundation by groups W hat is lacking now is a overcome. established the about to amalgamate as end of one period in the letters their in read We balanced biography of the national conference of the the Institute of Sisters of history of the Sisters of Catherine McAuley in Baggot first sisters the when c entral figure of the how Sisters of Mercy to co- Mercy in Australia. The Mercy and the beginning d rama, Bishop Brady opened their school just R oad, Dublin, in 1831. operate in the fulfilment of first chapter took place last of another. one child came. We read himself. The late Father Martin how the colonists had little The word sesqui means companions there in 1857. Newbold, archdiocesan regard for the hopes and one and a half, so the 150 Others came from Ireland archivist, had prepared zeal of the missionaries years of the Sisters of to Goulburn in 1859, to manuscript notes on those for civilising and convert- Mercy has a familiar echo Brisbane 1861, while a in the recently-celebrated group came to Adelaide in early days of the Church ing the Aborigines. and it is hoped that some- The colonial authorities sesquicentary of Western 1880 after being expelled one will be given the direc- were not exactly even- Australia during WAY 79. from Argentina. tive and encouragement to handed in the support Like so many religious take up the completion of offered to the missions, orders in the first fervour t his work. and even an appeal and of their development, the COOLGAROIE petition to Queen Victoria Sisters of Mercy spread The editor of Valiant Women, The Letters of the FounEngland in did not improve their rapidly, to Newfoundland in to 1839, dation Sisters of Mercy in Western Australia, Miss Gerauthorithe by reatment t Canada in 1842 (where Sis- It was from this Adelaide aldine Byrne, is THREE ORDERS ties. in a unique position to have edited these congrega tion that the Sister Ursula Frayne had ters of Mercy made their letters. already served before comscroll of the vows of Sister Ursula which Coolgardie foundation in The genesis of the project goes have become the motif on the dust jacket The final instalment in BEWILDERMENT ing to Perth), to America 1898. The West Perth conin 1843 and to the Swan the trilogy of accounts of vent and separate congre- back to a conversation between of the book. t he three orders intro- Such problems come River Colony in 1846. gation was founded in the archdiocesan archivist, Sister Miss Byrne has provided the text of 32 duced to the colony by through in the letters, espe- These foundations were 1885. R aphael Coady, and Professor letters to which she has added her own Bishop Brady — the Bene- cially those of the superior, the first of many that Geoffrey Bolton of the Murdoch personal extensive introduction which Mercy of Sisters the Traditionally meant each Mercy dictines, the Sisters of Sister Ursula Frayne. sets the context for understanding the Mercy and the Missionar- They also highlight their became the largest congre- congregation was a separ- University history department. development of matters that culminated asked if She he had any student who ies of the Holy Heart of bewilderment at the sea- gation of nuns in the ate entity with its own in the arrival of the Sisters of Mercy in Mary — would be the pub- sonal differences such as English-speaking world, mother house and depend- would be equipped to handle some pre- W A. cious material in the archives. Professor members 25,000 with ent convents, but the need lication of the correspon- finding they were celebratAn epilogue summarises the extraordidence of these French ing Christmas in the mid- today worldwide, 5000 of for professional training in Bolton laughingly claims not to be the nary sequence of events in the Church of normal instrument of the Lord but he missionary priests to dle of a heatwave and not them in Australia. central locations and other Perth when there were two bishops, each factors were the cause of was able to direct one of his students with a personal factional following Whom Bishop Brady had knee-dep in snow as that assigned the southern mis- would happen in Europe. steps being taken to unify majoring in history to the task. led to a crisis in the local church. Later F IRST ARRIVALS Miss Byrne becomes the first undersion for Aborigines The letters also portray a these various separate conSisters Ursula went to Melbourne 11 around Albany in 1846, keen sense of observation gregations from 1952 onw- graduate student of Murdoch University years after she had landed in the Swan to publish a history book. and who left dispirited for in itemising and detailing Within 15 years of the ards. River Colony. an ex-student herself is She of institute the the Sisof foundation Mauritius in 1848. For example, in earlier the wildflowers and the Miss Byrne's notes to the letters throw Father Noel Fitzsimons gardens of Perth at the and just live years after the times there had been a ters of Mercy at Santa Maria College but her ties are much stronger with two pater- light on the devotional life at the time and foundress the of found the site of their death joining together of the conpro- time. explain the technical terms of religious jected monastery on the Their disappointment (1841) the first community gregations of Victoria nal aunts in the congregation, Sister life, so that even a post-Vatican II reader Mary Xavier and Sister Mary Brigid. Her shores of Lake Mollyalup and confusion at finding of the Sisters of Mercy Park, Midland, Bunbury uncle was the first vicar-general of Bun- could be familiar with terms from conat Kendenup, just outside they had been misled came to Australia, landing and Coolgardie with Vic- bury diocese, the late Monsignor Fred vent life 150 years ago. Mount Barker, in 1960. about the numbers both of at Perth in 1846. toria Square in 1911. In Bryne. These editorial tasks are but the frameFollowing up thus Perth became the 1954 that Victoria Square that interest Europeans and Aborigines work through which the letters shine out he obtained copies of the are understandably strong. mother house to other group joined the Union of In researching the book she visited the on their own merits. Miss Byrne's gentle missionaries mother house of the order in Baggot touch has enabled the Valiant Women to correspon- Yet the sisters show a Australian states when the Sisters of Mercy. dence with their founder strong sense of dedication Bishop Goold of Mel- The West Perth congre- Street, Dublin, and the convent at Carys- speak for themselves and to shine forth and with Rome, but it has that their convent of the bourne invited Sister gation, centred on St Brig- fort, Dublin, where she discovered the like the valiant women praised in the Old never been Holy Cross meant they Ursula Frayne and two id's convent, linked up letters of the book and the illustrated Testament. published.
The articles on this page were prepared by Father R ussell Hardiman, parish priest of Donnybrook, who is an external student in the history p rogramme of Murdoch University
MERCY ORDER IN WA 135 YEARS
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DATELINE. . . overseas news roundup
IRISH SCHOOL Difference on policy IN UNITY continues EXERCISE BELFAST, Northern Ireland (NC) — A pioneering effort aimed at ending de facto religious segregation in Northern Irish schools began under police protection on September 1 when 28 Catholic and Protestant 11 -year-olds started classes at Lagan College.
WASHINGTON (NC) — A new State Department briefing on Central America has shown that church leaders and the Reagan administration continue to have "very significant differences" on U.S. policy there, according to Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference. He said the August 26 briefing for religious leaders by top State Department officials was useful, but added that "nothing we heard at the briefing changes our conviction that no outside military aid s hould go to El Salvador". The briefing took place the same day that the U.S. sent four more military helicopters to El Salvador.
Iranian spin-off rocks Vatican
R OME (NC) — A group of Iranian students occu pied Iran's embassy to the Vatican for two hours on September 1 to protest against executions of political o pponents in Iran.
The students were protesting at the execution of members of the Mujahedeen Khalg (People's Warriors). The Mujahedeen is considered the largest and best-armed of the groups opposing the government. It has an estimated 50,000 or more guerrillas. It is led from abroad by Massoud Rajavi, who fled to Paris in July. No-one was hurt in the occupation which ended when the 21 unarmed youths with their hands raised walked out of the embassy complex between two columns of police armed with sub-machine spokesman, "and we conguns. sider the present regime (in During the occupation a Iran) illegitimte. We want spokesman for the stu- a governing council dents told United Press formed to replace it." International in a tele- "They (the occupiers) phone interview that they demand freedom for politiwere carrying out the oper- cal prisoners in Iran and ation to call attention to the sending of an internathe "massacre that is hap- tional human rights compening in Iran. filission to verify the "We are the Mujahedeen situation in the Iranian of the people," said the courts and prisons and tor-
Lagan is the first private "We are anxious to Scout center in Ardnavalsecondary school in North- ensure that the children ley, a middle class suburb ern Ireland especially look at this integration as of Belfast. created to teach an equal normal," she said. Yearly tuition at the number of Protestant and September 1 was the first school is $1,100 but many Catholic pupils. day of school for almost all students are on scholar"It requires very consider- of Northern Ireland's ships provided by private able courage to do here 300,000 schoolchildren in a donations. The school's what is taken for granted de facto religiously segre- main source of income is a elsewhere," said Anthony gated system where $30,000 annual grant for Spencer (a Catholic), a Catholics go to parochial the next three years from university professor and schools and Protestants to an anonymous group of school board member public or state-aided pri- businessmen. whose daughter, Jane, is vate schools. enrolled in the school. Policemen guarded the Government regulations children as they entered on passed in 1978 opened all the first day. The pupils Northern Irish schools to were born during the 12 pupils of all religions, but years of fighting that has few students have chosen politically divided the to integrate. Catholic and Protestant "We are determined — communities and claimed parents, pupils and staff — 2,135 lives. to make it work," said Lagan's headmistress, Spencer. "We should be in Sheila Greenfield, a Pro- more permanent premises testant Englishwoman, by Christmas." LONDON (NC) — British Catholics have been chaldiscouraged press cover- Currently the students are age. taught in a converted Boy lenged to close the gap between their religious practice,
ture in Iran," said the communique issued by the Iranian Students' Association. Since the ousting of President Abolhassan BaniSadr earlier this year by the clergy-dominated Islamic Revolutionary Party, 600 dissidents in Iran have been executed and 4,000 others gaoled.
Mass alone is LESSER CHARGE not the end
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centered largely on Mass attendance, and an awareness of the church's mission for justice.
R APID CITY, S.D. — Charges against Walter Dale Means, 19, accused in the break-in at a Rapid City parish and the heart attack death of Jesuit Father James V. O'Connor, are being reduced from firstdegree murder to manslaughter.
Means is one of two men accused in the May 29 break-in at St Isaac Jogues Parish, who were wearing nylon masks, struck Father O'Connor in the throat and he died of a heart attack. The parish pastor, Jesuit Father Richard Pates, was shot in the attack. Nonetheless, he staggered to the church office a block away from the rectory where the incident occurred and called police. He was hospitalised for treatment, including surgery to remove the bullet from his body. A charge of attempted, robbery and two charges of aggravated assault are being dropped and the state will not seek life imprisonment for Means, according to information made available after an August 31 court appearance by Means. Means is pleading guilty to the lesser charge. He reportedly told the court he did not intend for Father O'Connor to die.
The challenge has come in searching to live justly, he church as a body recognises its collusion in evil, a discussion document says. published by the Justice "If it is true, as I believe, does penance for its sin and and Peace Commission of that the greatest scandal of searches for ways to the Catholic Bishops' Con- injustice in the world today oppose that structural evil, ference of England and is the unnecessary impov- at whatever cost to itself or Wales. The document was erishment and degradation the size of its membership, written by Benedictine of millions of human then its worship is inevita"Silence concerning them Father David Moriand beings in the poor south, bly tainted with hypocrisy (moral values) would indiand titled The Eucharist and if the institutional and cannot form the cate a betrayal by the and Justice: Do This in church in the rich north is wellspring of vitality, hope school of its educational bound up, albeit often pas- and creative vision and mission," the committee T ALLINN, Estonia — Memory of Me. According to Father sively, in those structures energy which is contained said. Pastor Dimitri Minyakov, Morland, a lack of aware- of injustice which maintain in the 'real presence' of 59, was given a sentence of Although sex education is ness exists because of the and even intensify that Christ in the Eucharist," he five years' strict regime "first and foremost" the artificial community scandal then until the writes. labour camp with confiscaresponsibility of parents, nature of the Mass, lacking tion of personal property "many families do not feel the infrastructure of a in Tallinn, Estonia, last capable of assuming this community of life and month. In addition, the responsibility alone," said court handed down a deci- worship. the committee. sion to forcibly place his "It is a perilous thing to 'remember' this man (Jesus Therefore the school can 16-year-old son Shenya in Christ) if that memory is a NORFOLK, Va. (NC) — Fundamentalist Christians who agree with the contribute by playing its a special boarding school. 'real presence' which During trial only the me ssage contained in a series of anti-Catholic comic books are pressuring proper role "in the spirit of demands that the body of open cooperation with the members of Minyakov's believers participating in Christian bookstores which stopped immediate family (he has parents," it added. five children) were allowed the breaking of the bread selling the comics to resume their into the courtroom. Four become 'like Christ,' other sale, according to a Norfolk newsA merican Christians, Christs," he writes. "It means DEVELOPMENT including the same sort of paper. a lawyer, had requested permission from stripping away of vested The newspaper, The interests, concern for Rivera says he eventually CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy (NC) —Heaven The bishops' committee the Soviet government to maintenance, false securi- Virginian -Pilot, in a became a "Christian" and participate in earth is possible if people try to conform Pastor on noted that sex education in ties which it meant for lengthy story on the comic set out to prove that the book controversy, also Catholic Church is the their own thoughts to those of God, said the school must respect the Minyakov's defence, but Christ. psychological develop- the request was not "Christ committed his reported that the publisher Antichrist and the "whore Pope John Paul II. Speaking to several thousand pilgrims at his Angelus ment of the young and granted. disciples to service and of the comic books, Jack of Babylon" of apocalyptic talk in Castelgandolfo on September 2, the pope said avoid troubling them with The charges related to vulnerability, a foreswear- T. Chick, in an apparent biblical lore. Minyakov's religious new marketing strategy, is that such an "evangelical policy" would initiate an era of the problems of adults. activities and his defence of ing of any form of domina- attempting to sell peace, joy and prosperity "which we think of as reserved the comtion, and a prophetic p ersecuted Christians. Since their appearance "Educators must be Since 1965 Dimitri Minya- condemnation of such ics directly to fundamen- Catholic Church groups for the final times". "The greatest risk of all," said the pontiff, "is for us to talist churches. trusted by the young and kov has been a member of domination in the world, have been urging individ- plan our own lives and give them a meaning indeperldappear to them as wit- the Reform Baptist Coun- he adds. The series of comic ual booksellers not to ent from the plans and the will of God." nesses to values which are cil of Churches. This is his "But such a critique of the books, including Alberto stock the comics. The pope said that he was praying, through the interincarnate in life. Deep third sentence. powerful and defence of and Double Cross, first cession of Mary, that "each one of his hearers might within themselves, the the powerless can only be discovered in Christian When handing down young are in search of edu- Minyakov's sentence, the done with authority and bookstores about two According to the news- know the will of God and follow it." paper, a list of stores which He had, he said, a "special welcome" for the Daughcators who project the court criticised him for credibility if the Church years ago, purport to tell have decided not to sell the ters of St Paul from Boston, a religious order iormallY image of mature adults raising his children as itself is not compromised the story of Alberto Rivcomic books is being pub- known as the Missionary Sisters of the Media uf who have assumed their Christians. His son will by involvement with struc- era, who claims to have lished by Rivera in the 'Communication. sexuality as men and receive an atheist educa- tures of oppression and been ordained a Jesuit prinewsletter of the AntiTo the Daughters of St Paul, the pope said: "Ma?' women in a fully commit- tion at the boarding injustice," he writes. est in Spain and assigned Christ Information Center God sustain you in your generous service of the Gospel' ted and happy life," it school. We cannot know how infiltrate to to and destroy fwhich Keston College rn he runs in Cali- in the very great task of helping to spread Christie added. worship truly unless we are Protestant churches. Report. doctrine.
MONTREAL (NC) — When sex education is taught in schools, it must be linked with moral values, said the Quebec Assembly of Catholic Bishops Education Committee in a recent statement.
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The Record, September 24 3G, 138
Mr Laurence Stephen Ryan, born at Bridgetown in 1924, senior inspector of the weights and measures branch of the Department of Labour and Industry, member of a distinguished Wembley sporting family, tells of his varied career.
Today's People A weekly feature
RYAN FAMILY
By BOB BOYLE
When he is asked about his life and achievements, the modest and charitable Laurie Ryan tends immediately to speak of the family into which he was born. It is small wonder because the R yans have quite a record in sport and other spheres. It all started with the father, the late Roger, who passed his sporting capability and enthusiasm on to his 11 sons and daughters. Roger was a keen follower of all sports but he is chiefly remembered as coach of King's Cup rowing crews and of a number of prominent tennis players. His daughters Agnes, Lilly, Joy and Rona were all good tennis players. School teacher Agnes and taxation assessor Joy both entered the religious life with late vocations. Agnes is now a sister in the Home Missionaries of Service in Toowoomba, Queensland, and Joy is a Sister of Mercy at Victoria Park.
Sisters Of the sons Brian and Malachy (Mick) both played football for WA, Laurie played league football for Subiaco for three seasons and was a league umpire for the same length of time, Hilary (now a magistrate) and Sarsfield both c oached the formidable Wembley side in the Amateur association, Owen was a Subiaco league footballer and R oger was prominent in YCW football. Laurie, in addition, represented the State in athletics as a pole vaulter. Sarsfield and Owen are t wins, as are Roger and Laurie. All the boys competed for C YMS in the amateur a thletics. Laurie recollects lively times around the family dinner table on Saturday nights when everybody was trying to talk at once. Father Roger had a loyalty Problem because two of the b oys, Laurie and Owen, were Playing for Subiaco and another two, Brian and Mick, w ore the royal blue of East Perth — although Mick did have one season with Subiaco.
Footballers As with most keen football f ollowers, the father frequently found the man in white to be of questionable w orth. So when Laurie started umpiring and used to ask how he had performed that day, the father's normal response was to lower his head to his dinner with a muttered: "Oh, all right — I suppose."
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Laurie was threatened with voilence only once that he can recall during his time as a league umpire. The scene was Perth Oval where Subiaco had been in front by four or five goals at three-quarter time but East Perth got up in the last session to win. Disgruntled Subiaco supporters, remembering that Laurie had played for the Maroons, reckoned that he had bent over backwards too far in the last quarter to give East Perth a go. "It was a long walk off the field, up the mound and round behind the old grandstand to the umpires' room and I was abused and threatened with umbrellas, punches and kicks all the way," he recollects.
keep up with the play now as well as was formerly the case." As a former player, he thinks that today's game is far more professional than it was when you were lucky occasionally to find a ten-shilling note in your boot when you came out of the shower. The monetary rewards are certainly greater now, but players are committed to training almost every day of the week — including Sundays — for about nine months of the year. There is more planning for every match and the interchange system keeps the game moving and puts pressure on players to perform for the full 100 minutes.
"However," Laurie says, "just as many goals were kicked in our day — in fact I "The police stood guard for have embarrassing memories half-an-hour at the door of the of Bernie Naylor kicking a room and then escorted me record 22 against us." out of the ground to my car." He does not agree with the lamentation about the passing of the drop-kicking art.
Umpires
But the episode was mild compared to some in which he was involved when he was umpiring in the Amateur association. "At North Fremantle," he says, "you never knew when you were going to finish up in the river, and at Jolimont you were lucky to escape a ducking in the lake."
"There were never more than five or six players in a side who could pass the ball accurately to a team-mate and the same applies now with the drop-punt, so the almost total disappearance of the dropkick is not the sad event it is made out to be. If anything, I think the drop-punt used midfield is probably more accurate."
Laurie's connection with Laurie believes the fact that football did not end with his there are now two central playing and umpiring. He was umpires in league games inaugural president of the where once there was only one Marist Football Club and has is an admission by the author- had a long involvement with ities that the game is now junior football. harder to control. However, he is not a believer in the two-umpire system and says that the game is no harder to umpire now than it was in his day. "Now you have different interpretations in each half of the field," he comments. "An umpire must exercise considerable discretion in his interpretation of the rules, but no two human beings think exactly the same and the man in control has to make splitsecond decisions. One fit man in the middle should be able to
Laurie Ryan started his education at St Joseph's convent in Subiaco, went on to St Patrick's Boys' School and joined Goode Durrant and and the Marist P and F. Two of his Murray as a junior warehouse- council f our sisters are nuns. man before enlisting in the He has had a long involvement with the R AAF in 1942. Subiaco conference of the St Vincent de
He was a pilot on Liberator bombers in Paul Society and is now president of the the South-West Pacific area until his dis- Perth Regional Council of the Society. .charge in 1946, after which he ran a deliHe was on the State executive of the catessen in Wembley for two years Civil Service Association, president of before undertaking a Commonwealth the Technical Officers' Association and R econstruction Training Scheme aimed divisional representative on the Public at qualifying him for entry into the public Service Appeal Board. service. He played league football for Subiaco, In 1950 he joined the weights and was a league and Amateur association President measures branch which was then att- umpire and represented the State in ached to the Police Department. athletics as a pole vaulter. Laurie is now an acolyte and the liaison Laurie and his wife Pat (nee Fitzpatrick) He thinks that one of the reasons for youngsters quitting officer for vocations in the Subiaco par- have three daughters and two sons rangthe game at 16 or 17 is that ish and is a former president of the parish ing in age from 21 to 31. nowadays they are forced into competitive football at too early an age and they get football. ore industry in the Pilbara to not take long to be discovered. "brassed off" with it. Laurie's job involves him in the balance in the local chem- As a family man, he is glad In addition, they have other overseeing the supervision of ist shop. that his seniority now enables sporting outlets and many of every piece of weight and In general he finds shop- him to avoid the extensive them are busy studying about measuring equipment used in keepers and business people travel and long periods away the time when otherwise they trade in the State, from the honest, and the occasional from home that were once his would be starting senior conveyor -weighers of the iron bad apple in the barrel does lot. The Record, September 24-30, 1981
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SISTERS SEE REVIEW NEED "We've been on the mission for more than 100 years and it is time to review it, to see if the mission we are about still fits today's church." These were the thoughts of Sister Maureen Kenny, WA provincial superior of the Sisters of St Joseph (left in picture), after r eturning from a seven-day meeting of 45 representatives of the 2,000 sisters in Australia and New Zealand.
"We got better answers when we got down to specifics and saw ourselves working with lay people and animating them in the Church. "Before we saw ourselves as the leaders. Now we see ourselves as side by side with people, as the little the small, the humble — a word that is not considered to be positive today."
Accompanying Sister Maureen as a representative of WA's 120 Sisters of St Joseph was Sister Gerard Brotherston of Moora (right in picture).
MARGINAL PEOPLE It is two years since the first such gathering and it is intended to be a preparation for the general chapter in two years' time. Sister Maureen believes that last week's Sydney conference got near answering the question about fitting into today's Church. "We fit today's Church because we see our mission with working-class people, with the marginals, the solo parents, the Aborigines, the handicapped, the child inside and outside the Catholic school system.
She said that the meeting was not able to come up with an approach to evaluating the effectiveness of the congregation as would be done in a big organisation. It was felt to be a difficult course and instead it was for each religious to evaluate herself from within, to ask what she was really about and make it a personal search and endeavour.
Sister Maureen said that a feature of the meeting was that this time it was conducted by one of their own members, Sister Juanita, who had recently studied group dynamics and the spirituality of discernment. Bishop Bede Heather of Sydney spent a day with the group of sisters, speaking for a hour and later helping them in the discussion that followed. He drew attention to what he saw as the need for the Church to be "a servant Church" to Australia's poor and deprived.
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THE PIONEERS IN SPACE
Some of the heroic men who first flew in space in a kind of aeroplane are the focus of attention in They are retired Air Force speed and altitudes, broke Channel Nine's Wed- General Charles "Chuck" through into space, and found nesday special An Yeager, who challenged and the answer NASA needed to A merican Aventure broke the sound barrier in the launch the space shuttle. X-1 on October 14, 1947; Overshadowed by the astro— The Rocket Pilots Scott Crossfield, the first pilot nauts at Cape Canaveral, the — at 9.35pm. to fly the X-15, and Colonel test pilots at Edwards received
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EDUCATING ROLE Bishop Heather stressed what he considered to be areas of priority — the Aboriginal people, solo parents, the unemployed, the aged. He also pointed out that continuing work in all areas of education, both of children and adults, is vital for the Church. Sister Elizabeth Kenny, originally from WA, the Australian superiorgeneral, pointed out to the group how closely the sisters have worked with ordinary people and how they have moved into new areas as the need arose. She noted the sisters' work in Turkey Creek, WA, where they are developing a bi-lingual school for Aborigines. There are 12 sisters in WA working with Aborigines in Wyndham, Kununurra and Moora as well as Turkey Creek. Recently a West Australian sister joined an Australian team that went to Peru. Eight other sisters in Western Australia are on mo(or missions at Tom Price, Esperance, Ongerup and Wyalkatchem.
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from J.F. Harding, Diane//a Sir, Bishop Murray (The Record September 17) provides yet another example from Dorothy Broderick, Tuart Hill of the "woolly minded" thinking which exists in many quarters today and Sir, from which the clergy are obviously not immune. In planning its Perth conference, As I visited the United through their Vietnamese Moscow in Afghanistan The totally unreal and amateurish approach to States immediately prior satellite are now occupying and Cambodia, and of the Right to Life Association has reainternational politics dur- to the election, it became the giant former American their very successful lised the publicity value of Mother ing the term of President evident that the American naval base at Cam Ran attempts by Soviet proxies Teresa of Calcutta. Carter witnessed the very people were recovering Bay with its accompanying to destabilise the Middle
from the shock of the Viet- air fields placing the whole East and Southern Africa The organisers have apparently overlooked nam debacle and demand- of Australia within return -- did backing away from the fact that, unlike the RTL in Australia, ing that their country flying distance of the hard decisions alter that in Mother Teresa and her nuns do not seek to match the Soviet's rapid Soviet bear and backfire any way? work behind a bastion of law which effectively escalation in armaments in bombers? President Reagan and his order not to be black- Has he never heard of the e xpert advisers are forbids everything of which they do not mailed and intimidated by Soviet's forceful occupa- obviously practical people approve. the Soviets, and that tion of the countries of who well know that in the Mother Teresa defends life where life is at, Jimmy Carter was politi- Eastern Europe including violent world in which we not by pursuing policies of legalism and politically doomed. the present Holy Father's currently live any sign of cal white-anting, but by demonstrating perIs not Bishop Murray beloved Poland, of the weakness is immediately sonal concern for the destitute. aware that the Soviets bloodshed promoted by capitalised on by the The incidence and tolerance of abortion in Australia Soviets in their highly sucmnintimitiiiiitiiiiill1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111ME cessful plan of world are in direct ratio to the decline in living standards of the majority of Australian families, particularly in regard domination. 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There is ample room for supporting human right to life F_ PRAGMATISM while dissenting from the attitudes and propaganda of WHAT ARE THEY? the RTL Association. ra: They start by being average practical Catholics prepared to share whatever expertise they Solidarity is not backing The poor in an affluent society are perhaps more have with the Aboriginal children and adults of the North-West of Australia. away from the immediate disadvantaged than in a poor society because of the They serve the Church, placing themselves at the disposal of the Bishop, "as vicar and threat of bloody retribu- greater gap between their needs and the costs of even the legatee of Christ", (Vat II, P382), and assist him in a spirit of dedication. tion from their Soviet simplest accommodation and the cheapest types of They give themselves totally for 2 years, living in groups, co-operating in fraternal love in the oppressors but making food. spirit of the Gospels, serving on isolated missions and townships. decisions, obviously with They are not attached to any religious order, fully accepting their Christian duty to evangeWhile Mother Teresa is here, perhaps we should ask lise according to their own individual abilities. some Vatican guidance, Under the patronage and guidance of the Bishop they have their own formally constituted which demand strength, her to look after a few Australian poor as well. A ssociation and elected Council. courage, pragmatism and Lay Missionaries do not accept a salary, only their keep and pocket money. Their fares are taIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IM prayer. paid and a small sum on completion of their service. As the Israelis well know, to be anything other than THE KIMBERLEYS determined and militarily Clothes, kitchen tables and chairs, g. strong is to court disaster F. E . or the Diocese of Broome is the far North-West part of Australia, roughly 3 times the size of Victoria. A subtropical region, with a 'wet' season through the summer months; of varied which would be undoubt- E- single and double beds and mat- Elterrain with beautiful beaches but a large part taken up by the Great Sandy Desert. edly irreversible. .; tresses, kitchen untensils, cutlery, Since 1959 many admirable Australians have contributed in no small way to the personal I am certain that Bishop growth and education of the Aboriginal people as lay missionaries. They have formed close P and lasting ties. Others are needed to continue and improve existing services. Murray and the other . wardrobes, dressing tables, cots, E Iprams, pushers Bishops the of members _= Needs for 1982 include Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary, Domestic Science Committee would not Anything useless to you knowingly be promoting may be useful to us TEACHERS — D.C. NURSES — TRADESMEN — t hat holocaust. The Soviets have the neutron ACCOUNTANTS E. bomb and reportedly are E.: GENERAL ASSISTANTS supplying germ warfare for collect We Orientation Course: January 3, 1982. use in Cambodia and pos1 sibly Afghanistan. Most Please Apply: DIRECTOR, BOX 7, P.O., MITTAGONG, N.S.W. 2575, Western the unfortunately or The Most Rev. J. Jobst, D.D., Box 76 P.O., Broome, W.A. 6725 world would be committing suicide not to match F. Fill1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111a them. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111UIMINOMMIIMIMMIMIMIN The Record, September 24-30, 1981 8 e xample which Bishop Murray promotes, namely, a disarmament syndrome emanating from the White House on which the USSR immediately capitalised to place them in what may well be an impregnable position, with a two-to-one majority in both nuclear and conventional armament.
KIMBERLEY LAY MISSIONARIES
A strike sign covers the gatdofWarsaw University during a walkout in the midst of the Polish unrest. Poland's unique situate, with Russia is explored in Why Poland Makes Moscow Shudder.
Poland, the only majdcommunist country to partially democratise itself since World War II, is the subject of Ch nel Nine's Thursday special Why Poland Makes Moscow Shudder
at 10.10 pm.
The plane used in these ventures was the X-15 rocket aircraft which was the forerunner of the space shuttle. Narrated by NBC news correspondent Lloyd Dobyns, the programme tells the dramatic story of the experimental X-15 rocket plane programme and the test pilots who risked their lives helping to fly the United States into space. "Coluinbia, America's first space shuttle, opened a new age in the exploration of space," says Dobyns. "But Columbia was not the first winged aircraft to fly in space, return and land safely. That honour went to the X-15." Using spectacular original film footage, much of it never shown before on television, the programme focuses on three rocket pilots, each of whom achieved breakthrough against incredible odds.
NBC news' chief diplo- orting, will cover the mining factors in Poland's The recent success of the space shuttle launching depended largely on earlier space historic struggle for freedom. developments with such rockets as the X-15. These early achievements in space are matic correspondent Mar- portant developments in John Hart, chief European recaptured in An American Adventure — The Rocket Pilots. yin Kalb is the principal I story since the beginning correspondent for the NBC reporter for the show and the Polish workers' movenews, will assess how the he examines Poland's po)cracks in the Kremlin Wall itical and economic crises. 3ining Kalb will be NBC caused by "The Polish DisHe explains what this new Os correspondent John ease" will affect other commuworkers' movement towards fochran who, at the beginnist countries in the sphere of democracy will mean to the leg of the crises in Poland in Soviet influence, as well as future of the communist and february this year, was for lore than two weeks the only only communist Catholic nations of the Western world. Western worlds. Kalb, who won an Emmy Irnerican television network country, and will explore the Included in the broadcast Award for his reports from rresp ondent in that Polish people's urge for will be interviews with world freedom. leaders and statesmen who Moscow in 1962 and 1963 and luntry, received Overseas Press Club :ockran will present a por- The drive and their Catholi- will comment on this major awards for best foreign affairs hit of Poland. the world's cism have been the two deter- international story.
STRUGGLE IN POLAND
F rustratio of youth
PAIOFUL CHANGE Channel Nine's Chan ine's Sunday old Charlie, her little brother, confesses to a friend: "I've got Many "ugly duckling acial habit of judging teenagers find it hard to ns atSara's Summer of the but is resentful of living in the this awful people before I know the sister 19-year-old of shadow they believe that f acts." o led with tenderness, it Wanda. one day bloom intnews a girl unsure of herself Her mother is dead and her Or she looks wistfully at a swans, beautiful group of swans and says: s odnes tpriatete hheer father frequently absent on co vincheotwheo mf.t en thetlio ' '1"111a-gT1out to tdieem matter "Wouldn't it be nice to be business trips, so she has little born beautiful like a swan." parents and elders try .ative qualities and sometimes harsh comfort in her distress. nudes. Of course Sara will eventuconvince Deeper and deeper she sinks ally bloom into a swan and her 1i3e At the time, growing up is 3 ather Totten, as Sara, into self-doubt and depres- realisation of this change will which . tures the complex charac- sion, and as a consequence lead her into the realms of traumatic experience else teenagers believe no-one lstics of the frustration, attaches herself to Charlie and w omanhood. ancholy and brash scepti- scorns older boys and girls. Sara's Summer of the Swans has ever suffered. 11 of This perennial problem. of ara teenage years. But throughout she has a won the Golden Eagle Cine subject takes care of five-year - surprising sensitivity. She Award in 1977. youth is the sensitive
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William "Pete" Knight (cur- little of the recognition they rent commander of flight test- deserved. But Columbia ing at Edwards Air Force pilots John Young and Base in California), who flew Robert Crippen acknowlthe X-15 to its world speed edged the value of the X-15 in record of 4,520 miles per hour their successful flight of the — a record that stood for 13 space shuttle. "When the government years until the space shuttle. At Edwards, these brave retired the X-15 in 1968," says men flew with death almost producer Darold Murray, daily as they piloted a sleek "aerospace scientists knew 50-foot bullet-shaped rocket that all future craft flying in plane through one barrier space would owe an enorafter another until they finally mous debt to the X-15. The entered space, pushed there by programme was made possia million-horsepower engine. ble by a few key people totally "Had the X-15 not existed," committed to it, and a dozen says Dobyns, "it is doubtful men who had the courage and whether the space shuttle skill to risk their lives and could exist. But in the public prove that conrolled flight in mind, the shuttle was the con- space was possible." tinuation of the Mercury, An X-15 is on display at the Gemini and Apollo missile S mithsonian Institute in programme." W ashington DC. The men The X-plane programme who flew the craft, little started in secrecy in March, known then, are largely for1945, and ended in relative gotten now. obscurity in October, 1968. Dobyn notes: "We keep the In between, the pilots flew machines; we discard the the small craft at unheard of men."
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, .,adtolescence are explored through the eyes of a teenage girl trying to adjust to her vf(r1 o womanhood in Sara's Summer of the Swans.
Keston College is an English-based organisation which studies a nd disseminates information on the situation of religious groups and individual believers in communist countries.
Kojevnikov discusses i s the difference between eastern and western christians in understanding and r esponding to the pressures being put upon believers in Communist countries.
The College's assistant director and information officer, Mrs Alyona Kojevnikov, visited Australia when she recorded this programme on the work of Keston College'. One of the things Mrs
She illustrates this by reference to the case o f Father Dimitri Dudko, a prominent r eligious dissident who, late in 1980, recanted his faith in a p ublicly televised c onfession.
In this ENCOUNTER programme produced by Jim Adnum, we c onsider the lives, problems and expectations of the IndoChinese migrants and refugees who now number over 40,000 in Australia. In this programme you can hear Wendy Poussard f rom the Christian organisation, Asian Bureau Australia and Bev Holland, a volunteer social worker, we also hear from some refugees.
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If you come from a good Christian background you are better able to cope with problems. 9 By ANABEL GOMEZ ,CRW,
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COUNSELLOR URGES TALK
"They will kill me," is a response that Beatrice MacFarlan often receives from pregnant teenagers when she tells the girl, e part of her social work, that her parents have to be told of as her pregnancy. "Step by step I go many misunderstandings Parents of all ages have Mainly we help people through all the Chris- and arguments would be problems with children of help themselves by incea r tsotian alternatives avail- avoided," Beatrice said. all ages. mg their coping skills getable to her, make her "I've had parents come ting them to realise a ware of the socio- Social conditioning also with a four-year-old child strengths they have what and economic problems affects the way people are. who is simply uncontrolla- help them see how they "Can you imagine what it ble," she said. arising from her conhave contributed to whatever situation they are in. dition, help to confront Centrecare's senior social worker, Beatrice "In this line of work there her parents with the M acFarlane (nee Shields), was born in Devon, are degrees of success and news — and most England. sometimes we have to face i mportantly encourShe was a boarder at Brampton Down the harsh reality that peoage her to nurture S chool and, in 1954, she got a certificate in ple are far too emotionally strength from within," disturbed for us to be able social studies from Edinburgh University. Beatrice said. Shortly after, she became engaged and to aid them." "We don't tell people started Frustration and anger are to live on a farm. what to do. Rather, we find felt on both sides of the In 1956 she was married and in 1967 she, out how they feel and act counselling desk. Counselupon that. However, we do along with her husband and six children, came lors, like Beatrice, get realise that often we can't to Australia. annoyed and sad when After living on a farm at Narrogin, the Macresolve problems as we they see people unwilling like. Farlanes came to Perth in 1968, and in 1971 to help themselves. And "For instance, if a preg- Beatrice started work at the Catholic Family Beatrice admits: "People nant girl's parents decide Welfare Bureau. have got angry enough to she must have an abortion want to hit me, but the fact For the past 31 2 / years she has been senior there is little we can do." that I'm rather large stops social worker at Centrecare and she is also Centrecare is a counselthem. Also, I don't get ling service which means actively involved with Amnesty International. scared and act the victim She is chairperson uf the Pregnancy Help they don't tell people what which tends to put them to do. They try to build-up Committee, on the Centrecare executive, a off." self-sufficiency by encou- member of the Marriage Guidance Council, the Beatrice, with Father raging people to accept C lontarf/Castledare Admissions Board and Hickey, has big plans for responsibility for their child-care sub -committee. She is of Centreth extension the yic also in actions. charge of the Emergency Housing Scheme. care's According to Beatrice, "We have got to the stage half the problem is getting must be like for a man not we wish to expand where people to talk to each being able to cry. The 'stiff If the child is uncontrolla- into special low-income ble, Beatrice investigates other. Society is suffering upper lip' syndrome can do services. Now we are only from a severe lack of com- more harm than good," where the problem arises providing counselling serand then embarks on a munication skills. Beatrice reflected. vices, but we would like to "People are always mak- Due to this conditioning, behaviour - modification provide some material programm e — a consistent ing suppositions about people are afraid to show each other and many times their true feelings and Bea- reward system. "To duplicate St Vincent the wrong interpretation is trice said that many times "One thing I have rea- deP, abuult'sratowhrker os notpr our put on actions or words. children don't realise that lised," she said, "is that if aim to This leads to conflict. If parents love them because you come from a good financial resourceso vaibnddye Christian background you people tried to talk effec- of the lack of affection cooperatives are better able to cope with aforming tively to one another, displayed. credit union. problems. "Organising the people so "I've had to deal with athey m,,can effectivel, put rootless children who have their views to the Gc vernnothing to live up to, just ment is another o our as the parents have nothing to aim at. e sies pnleaen( e dantdo Fpi nlea ceinalt tahi d n1 "Christianity — religion NEW YORK (NC) — According — gives people a moral laitnmditth.ep ces ael so'nrctih code and standard, and sooninneenit rfelsncau erm t o producer -director Ann gives them something to are being stretched 1 measure actions by. People Petrie, there are other aspects who don't have that are unesdinm gaifnolry thfreon(ienattnhr eoFm to Mother Teresa's apostolic floating in a moral limbo with no recognisable direc- Church. Donations and work and spiritual depth than arellcowivfeod,r tion to take." bruatnntost eanreouaglhsoto way, we were stoppd by a scene could be said to sum in the context of a film that Over the years problems g those usually shown by the broken bridge but Mother up what her film is all has introduced us to a within society have not e exetdeendsiaonnd wiannt esde.1- vices media. refused to turn back. She about it would be the warm and loving woman changed, but Beatrice says n As an example, she said: shown carrying out their kept talking to the authori- moment during an inter- whose generosity of spirit that the problems are hit"This tiny and fragile- mission in caring for the ties until finally they let us view when Mother Teresa is contagious. rrao.eni aitgrtnte bnesforsaotoriidnifn netnr anrgehasg Beatrice ting people at an earlier looking woman is an lonely and abandoned, the pass. That is so character- suddenly asked the intereverything age. istic of her — she is simply viewer "What did you It was meeting Mother "More social pressures Centrecare. Apart incredibly dynamic leader sick and the dying. Teresa at the 1976 Euchawith enormous manage- But what is central to the deaf to negativity." come here for?" attending ristic Congress that con- are put on youth now than ment ability and sense- of film, however, is its vivid Another example cited when I started 10 years every committee or arid waiting for vinced a Without Petrie Ann she had organisation extending to portrait of Mother Teresa took place at a ceremony she is a member of, ago," she said. her communities in 40 herself. We see her being turning over some land response, Mother Teresa to make this film. Her However, once again the working through her concountries around the honoured with the Nobel donated to Mother Teresa answered her own ques- brother, a priest working root of most problems is siderable case load!, she globe. That's one of the Peace Prize and the Star of for a leper community. tion: "You have been in a leper mission in India, the inability to communi- liaises on staff aPivint. things about her I wanted India but also at home "She accepted it gratefully enriched by coming here.. finally got Mother to agree cate and to accept respon- ments and replacements, You have been enriched but it was never easy pinin i erivloicre: to get on film." e resurreeseetiv among her family of nuns, in the name of the lepers with haintg c ou_n: an something mysterious ning her down either sibility for actions. She was talking about her o rphans, volunteer but then, before touring A great variety of people supervisic,n arrang sanouf one-hour documentary workers and, everywhere, the site, she asked the local for which there is no expla- before, during or after from all ends of the social development, and bishop if water was availa- nation. I think that the production. The World of Mother the poor of India. ssigns a ladder go Centrecare to American people and the Ann Petrie explained that Teresa. cases, gives seminars eye For Ann Petrie, getting ble for growing crops. Told European with same the type of people have "she really dislikes publicHere documentary shows the scenes of this remarka- that it wasn't, she said Just generally keeps.lrin problems. th the variety of Mother Tere- ble woman in spontaneous simply, 'That won't do,' much and that you find ity enormously. It's her on relations within "We have the that advantage lowest priority and muchness suffocatthen, tY• commun sa's work for India's "poor- action is the film's greatest and one felt confident that Centrecare too, she lives in constant of knowing that most peothe deficiency would soon ing." est of poor" and how much accomplishment. ple who come "Basically, I try to helP here crisis want in and to action. When I this has inspired her co- She gave some examples be remedied." Even in cold print and in finally stopped fretting and be helped — that initiative p eople develor an workers there and around o f what she meant: These kind of scenes chatruncated form, that's a just did what I could, ever- comes from them," Bea- eom r dpeart h t oy hewlpiththeornthte rnscieirn_ the world. The Missionar- "There's a segment of racterise Mother Teresa as powerful and sobering ything was fine. She lives in trice said. ies of Charity -- the order Mother's trip to the hous- practical and unpretenstatement, something that a world of miracles and the "People are then taught ed m( 1.1ns td o f nuns founded by ing development financed tious as she is dedicated we need to hear and reflect whole production is one of to increase their ability to what is neededCharitymost Mother Teresa -- are also by her Peace Prize. On the and determined. If any one manage themselves. people," Beatrice said. on. It is even more forceful miracles." 10 The Record, September 24-30, 1981
M. Teresa stars in documentary
LET'S WELCOME
Priests and youth g roup leaders often ask "is there any set programme that we can f ollow in our youth group?" Some will remember regular programmes and guidelines that were produced for the Y oung Christian Workers' groups in the past. Others, perhaps, hope for a more ordered weekly meeting, while others just do not know where to go, and want the assistance of a black and white guideline to follow. The Australian YCW has produced an excellent four -week programme on Migrants in Australia. The four areas of study are:1) Migrants in your local area. 2) Migrants at work. 3 . Newly arrived migrants and refugees. 4) Relation between national groups. It is a planned fourweek programme of
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IMMIGRANTS
study, prayer, work and have to meet migrants groups produce (for face to face, talk to them instance, in the discusreflection. What I find exciting and discover what their sion programme about about it is that it invites needs and problems are. the disabled people) is the participant to learn In recent times, I have that they lie in our desks from his own experience, met many young Polish and in our drawers and but it also challenges the migrants and have shared are rarely used. At times Iam convinced participant to go out and their frustrations in findget experience. ing work, the language that there are not enough It asks you to visit problem, and the barrier individuals who are suffihouseholders in your that the language prob- ciently convinced to gather a group around street and find where lem poses. them. people were born. I am delighted to hear Ala and Elizabeth, who It challenges you to talk to your workmates and have been in the country that the International discover their different for twelve months work Week Committee is actunationalities. at Royal Perth Hospital, -ally doing the proIt challenges you to talk recently invited me home gramme themselves, and to refugees or a recent to a dinner. A feast of are encouraging other migrant about how they Polish dishes was joy- groups to also take up the learn English, how they ously shared with a small programme. Young people in Benmake friends, how they circle of friends, that had obtain work and how become part of their lives tley and City Beach are they have found ac- since arriving in Austral- already visiting the migrant hostel in Graycommodation. ia. The young person parThe sad part of the pro- • lands. Jesus challenges us to ticipating in this pro- grammes that the gramme will actually national and other YCW welcome the stranger and make him feel at home.
YOUTH FORUM
It's people like Mr Jack Axford V. C., M.M., (87 years) who are always ready to make a sacrifice. Our senior citizens have much to share with the youth of today if we take time to listen.
SILVER COIN APPEAL
It is not at all surprising that the first donation to come as a result of the appeal in The Record was a one dollar note wrapped in a torn piece of paper simply saying "A small donation from a pensioner." Donations over the last few weeks from business people have indeed been generous and all is set to start building the project within the next few weeks.
The young people, Jacques, Mark, Jane and Rosemary who are hounding their contempories for a donation towards the Day's Pay Appeal on November 3 have received more than $1,000 on promises and $255.20 in cash. Don't wait for them to come to you, you go to them and get others to join you on the way! A fund raising day or a silver coin appeal through-
out the primary schools would be a wonderful response to Kinny, Catherine and Marie's donation which they gave hoping o thers would readily follow. To enable everyone to see the beautiful camp site, a Mass and family picnic has been arranged on Sunday, November 1 at noon, when it is hoped all young people will invite their families, friends, workmates.
Parkerville camps
The present Pallottine Provincial Superior, Father Allan Mithen, seen with members of the Team at the Aboriginal Community Centre at Alexandria,here where for the last seven years he was Catholic Chaplain to AboriginesSydney, in the A rchdiocese of Sydney.
PALLOTTINE Priests and Brothers
w ere founded by St. Vincent Pallotti, proclaimed by several Popes as the 'prophetic f orerunner' of the Lay Apostolate. THE PALLOTTINES are an APOSTOLIC community of men with the special charism Within the Church: To inspire priests, religious and laity to form Christian communities totally committed to the building of God's kingdom of JUSTICE and LOVE in c ontemporary society. It's an exciting CHALLENGE to any modern man, searching for an authentic Christian life of loving service. B ut RISKY too — in a world obsessed with success, security and SELF-fulfilment. Are YOU willing to take Christ's challenge SERIOUSLY? For Further Information:— Contact:— Father Allan J. Mithen, SAC., Provincial Superior, 85 Studley Park Rd., KEW VICTORIA 3101 Tel:— (03) 861 6287
During the August YCS full-timer took part in holidays about 40 peo- an open forum on assistpie (some of whom are ants pictured above) attend- A highlight of both camps • • ed two YCS Leaders' was the community atmosencouraged phere the by Camps.
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compact number present. In the beautiful sur- Special thanks must go to roundings of the Don the cooks on each camp, More Uniting camp site, Michelle and Kylie :OPTOMETRISTS & OPTICIANS Parkerville, explanations Groves, Peter Fuller, Luke Corneal Lens Consultants of the role of a leader and Raven and Frances • of an assistant, the need for Maslen. Thanks also 16 PLAZA ARCADE, PERTH to 321 5344 action on a deeper level, Brother Mann and Colin C AROUSEL SHOPPING TOWN 451 8722 YCS Resourse Kits, were Allica, (CPY full-timer) DEMPSTER HOUSE, PORT HEDLAND 73 1929 all dealt with during open 29 DURLACHER STREET, GERALDTON 21 3445 Jane and Kate forums and discussion in Wittenoom , review groups. NEDLANDS YCS Shawn Boyle, former
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Dear Nurse Kerry, I wrote these poems recently and I thought you might enjoy them:
THE SLIDE
The ladder's high A nd so I go Up step by step A nd very slow. But when I'm at the top at last, I can slide down very fast.
A. Because at night they become roosters! Q. Why did the little strawberry worry? A. Because his Mum and Dad were in a jam! Jennifer Jensen MOUNT MAGNET
D AD Dear Captain Bob, Well here's to our Dad, Please may I enter your A man of sterling worth, club. I have read all the Who puts up with all jokes and letters. They kinds of things, sound very interesting. A nd many unkind curse. That's why I want to join Love from your club. David Hegney I am in Grade four at LESMURDIE
yt'rsaSvcehl otools,cMh oeori rSeadiinnt, Ma nadr on a bu neacfhardm a y. live on Muntadgin, and I haveapony of my own. His name is Hobo. I love animals. We have a kangaroo named Joey, and lots of ducks and chooks. We also have lots of cats. My cat is havineve itt oneens. We dogwas nameda Sheppy. She has had a puppy which naughty puppy. We gave him to our cousins, and I often visit him. I like living on a farm. Cheerio, Love Theresa Flintham MERREDIN
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Dear Nurse Kerry, Dear Nurse Kerry, Hi, How are you? I am * HAPPY BIRTHDAY:* Here are some things that well. Igot your letter about JANE BOURKE of: Ithought you would like.I a week ago and IthoughtI * Donnybrook, MICH: am on my holidays and it is better write. .1( ELLE CUNNINGTON* fun. Here is a joke: My hobbies are horse rid-;of Kardinya, MARK: Q. What is the best day to ing, and other pets, ice- * HUMPHRIES of For- make pancakes? skating and writing letters. restfield, EMMA HIATT: A. Fry-day! I have a horse, a cockatoo, * of Riverton, ANGELA* I went to the lego in Myer a pet sheep and her twins, a 1,,`,KNOTT of City Beach,: and got some stickers. dog, their names are: Alby * DARYL LOVERY of Also, I would like to know (horse), Joey (cockatoo),:High Wycombe, PAUL: what football team you go Sally (sheep), I haven't * THOMPSON of Wan- * for? named her twin yet, and:neroo. PHILIP THO-: From Danielle Sullivan Jan (dog). MAS of Esperance,* PEPPERMINT GROVE I love looking after them:JUDE WEBB of Balga, and I have lots of fun rid- * SHANE HART of Cer-* Dear Danielle, ing Alby. Here are some:vantes and JONENE Answering all the lettersI riddles: KER MODE of Bunb- 4, 4r receive and finding mateQ. Why do hens only lay bury. rial for the Kids Page takes eggs in the day time? up all my time. I have no time left to follow football. Concetta Pirone from North Perth is the winner of Patricia's Puzzle. Patrick Walsh, aged seven, from Lesmurdie is the winner of the join-the-dots to make an elephant puzzle. Jumbled Toys puzzle was won by Kathy Dias.
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Sister Joan Smith is a sixth -generation descendant of a pioneer C atholic who was a prominent Catholic in Perth when the Sisters of Mercy arrived in 1846.
This week the Sisters of Mercy in Western Australia are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of their congregation in Dublin, in 1831 by Catherine McAuley. The Perth celebration takes place in St Mary's C athedral this Sunday afternoon at 3pm when Bishop Quinn will celebrate Mass. On this page are the thoughts of some Sisters of Mercy offered when asked to reflect on the meaning of the 150th anniversary in their lives.
Sister Elizabeth Devine is WA provincial superior of the Union of Sisters of Mercy.
I am very excited about this 150th anniversary becauseIfeel it is the end of one era and the I think that 150 years is worth beginning of something new, celebrating as long as it does not calling forth a new response stay there and challenges us to from us. go forward. It is the ending of an era of impresses What me most serving in a more traditional about the sisters of the past was Sister Paula McAdam apostolate, responding as Caththat they responded almost erine McAuley responded, but (right) is deputy principal immediately to any challenge. we must also keep asking oura t Mercy College, example, they packed for For selves how would Catherine K oondoola. Australia in two weeks because McAuley respond today in our For 150 years the Sisters of they were told the need was local church in Perth? Mercy have been fulfilling a here. In the Crimean War they I think there will always be a need of the Church and we are did not stop and think about it; place for the Sisters of Mercy SISTER ELIZABETH fulfilling a social need now, they went off because people because it is our charism to educating young people, lookasked them to go. work wherever there is a need. and our spirit is passed on. ing after the aged, interested in What goes through my mind is As long as there are people in Therefore, we have to bring the the prolonging of life very much the challenge to continue this the world there will always be a laity in to work with us in an world the in but not of the response and this will be in our to be able to live and accept t, need and we are there in partic- interdependence. own environment, working experience we are having from world. ular for the poor and the There is a renewed interest in among our own people in a day to day without looking too As well as fulfilling a social history, in the history of Westwounded in society. need, if we are doing what we very ordinary way wherever we far ahead. The response in our work ern Australia and our own professshould doing, be we are are needed, using the talents Catherine McAuley wrote: today is much more diversified Mercy history is so very close to and skills that each person may While you can plan effectively ing gospel values. and while we continue to work that of Western Australia. At have. for tomorrow you need to live We as religious do not look on in traditional institutions we the launching of the book Valthe I think it is the call of religion each day as it comes. Enjoy ourselves as in a position of trimoving are much beyond them, iant Women so many people those experiences if they come umph. We are smaller in in family crisis situations, in said to me they were thrilled to getting and numbers older, and hear the story of the Sisters of but we must not hold on to industrial chaplaincies. highly organised structures if we may have to change, but we pared the lay teachers to run the We may not have numbers in Mercy. can continue doing joyfully the they need changing. the future but that is not impor- Catherine McAuley has schools. Ihave had a great opportunity work God has asked us to do. But I also see other areas that tant to me as long as our work become more interesting to me convinced am I of need the of moreso since returning to Dubto talk about this anniversary in have not yet been covered by lin for the 150th celebrations prayer experiences with laity the Sisters of Mercy in the wider the Church or government there. She was a woman with a and they are extremely interested context of the family than agencies. Who looks after the 20th-century mind enshrined in What fascinates them most is simply in the confines of the latch-key children? Who is because we have preschool a 19th century history. that the sisters are able to be looking to the spiritual needs of Her breadth of vision and her available to them particularly the young? How much is the ability to break down barriers, when they see someone is able church a living thing for the her daring and her ability to to come into their homes and aged and the elderly? Who are take risks is really something on lead them in prayer related to the chaplains to factories? which I would like to model their daily lives. I find it easier to explain the myself. Our idea is to get back The challenge that Catherine significance of this 150th annias close as we can to the spirit McAuley put before us to really versary to adults than to the that animated her, to reflect on respond as individual people children in my classes becauseI and give mercy the way she did and to retain our individuality believe that I am more meanin the way of compassion and but go out as a group is really ingful as a religious to adults tenderness and yet be a woman the way we can work today. than to children. of the world as well. We have to continually question ourselves and each reliSister Gabrielle Blake flesh and blood woman, of gious will give a different S ister Bernadette aware of the fact that we stand (above) is one of five sis- great vision, of great inspiraKennedy (above), origi- on other people's shoulders. answer. ters who entered reli- tion, a womanIwould like to be nally from Victoria, has As a Sister of Mercy I delight As a young sister I found it like. Because she ageless an is gious life, four of them difficult to relate to Catherine for the past four years in what I have learnt about the coming from Ireland to person she would have someMcAuley but now I am finding been working with Abori- W A pioneer Sister Ursula thing to say about compassion, Australia. her more meaningful. She was a gines in Perth, Roe- Frayne because I have a double about life, about confidence Our anniversary says to me and trust in God. She was wilvery modern person in her time. bourne and now at East connection through her foundation of the Melbourne conthat the Sisters of Mercy have ling to take risks and to do courF remantle. 1 4 / gregation as well. p roduced a good history Sister Joan Buckham ageous things, to be a woman of ity; they have stayed with what Our 150th anniversary is a I see glimmers of a future in through difficult times and it the streets, to risk a lot of (above) is principal of St they began — the ordinary peo- good chance to reflect on where which I hope we will make a offers me a challenge, a torch to Mary's secondary coltongue wagging. ple. To me they try to restore we have come from, where we firm commitment to the places carry in that tradition. something She is for the lege, Leederville. where poor people dwell. I some sort of normalcy, and try are and where we are going. There is a stirring of life in our women of every age. The 150th anniversary means to bring people to a type of nor- I have discovered that the Sis- think the future sisters are going c ongregation, an awareness of I feel a call to women. I can for me a look back into history mal ters of Mercy who first came to to struggle with and answer the living. our need to be of service and a with women andIthink as I had not done before. There has to be someone offer- WA in 1846 were a great bunch same sort of dilemmas Jesus s ystematic attitude of being identify Christians to Apart from the time span Ido ing something practical in looking at the situa- it is a call to all to the world. It of women, that they were firmly struggled with because that is have a respect for human dig- not find the scene very different may not have to be a Sister of committed to the poor, sick and where you find what the gospel tion as it is today, to shed the is all about. illusion of carrying cliches into nity and life. I think women today from the time of Cathe- Mercy, but for 150 years the ignorant: commitment to rine McAuley, since we are con- Mercy this latter part of the century. need a sense of charism has survived I believe that our commitment For me that means working life; they need a lifting up, to an tinuing to look at the needs that and I tell my students that to schools and our own com- with Aboriginal people who I think we are a middle-of-the- equality of life. I think this is a surround us. something has to be carried for- munities has made us stray a want above all to be recognised road people and have an ear woman's gift. Today we are offering people a ward. I tell them that it is they little from that but a look at our as human beings with the same and an eye for the poor in wha- Reconciliation is what the Sis- sense of mystery, about who we past will give us the courage, sort of rights you have. You tever way we see that manif- ters of Mercy are about and are and what we do, that produ- who must carry this legacy vision to take up the sort of have to be with them, underested. I see a compassion in the what Christ is about. I hope ces some sort of presence of forward. For the future my major con- options they took up, and I'm stand them and to do that you lives of many sisters who have that in any community there Another Being. have to forget your own bias, cern would be for a renewal excited about it. weathered the storm, and in will be a group of people who We are offering the world a programme for all the laity. I have a love of history and I your own predilections. reading the life of Catherine will band together to support type of faith and love dimension They need to have instilled in see this an event worth celebrat- You have to have a concrete McAuley. one another in this sort of the world is losing. them some inspiration and the ing because in this modern attitude to the expression of Today I feel that Catherine expression of God's life among We are not concerned about Sisters of Mercy as a group world I think it is good to be mercy. McAuley is a woman of vision us. who we are or what we do and have a shared enthusiasm that who can inspire me. I did not A recognition of God is our that is different • when there is so the people in the church pews in the know her when, as a young girl, all, in all. That recognition has much pressure Anawaim Centre, give us. It is what Catherine on people to be have not yet experienced. As a McAuley said in her admoniI visited her grave in a Dublin to be relevant to life today and competitive and stress is laid on Sister of Mercy I should be in Roebourne and now in tion: The poor will teach us to c onvent en route to Australia to even if I am the only one left, success. East Fremantle. bringing them to a stage where be followers of Jesus. enter the order. that is a manifestation of The greatest thing about the they can find their own answers A period of 150 years is a lot to It certainly taught me to be a That has changed. She is a Mercy. Sisters of Mercy is their simplic- in their faith experience. be grateful for and my feeling is better person. one of overwhelming gratitude. Ilook back to the sistersIread But this 150th anniversary also about. Isuffer with them whenI has a difference. It is an oppor- see our sisters out of harmony tunity, a challenge to get back with their bishops. It is the last to our roots, to have a look at thing a Sister of Mercy would what our vow of service to the want to do but even Catherine * MELBOURNE — The Mercy Sisters day. sick, poor and ignorant is really McAuley had to go through "All you sisters can thrill with a sense of * * were "part of history in the making. all about. achievement as your decision begins to take that. * This moment will recalled by r ecognisable shape with the opening of this * We have got to find in the I am humbly proud of the sis* many an historian be of the Mercy con- chapter." * 1980's what Catherine McAu- ters especially those I have gregation," Archbishop Little told ley found in 1834; we have got known. They still challenge me. Commenting on the move to unite Austral- * the first national chapter. to look hard and long and do If the poor want us today and ian Mercy Sisters Archbishop Little said he 4,! "Around the world some 22,000 Sisters of believed that it was principally the miracle of * what she would do now. the rich need us today we need ; Mercy, the largest English-spea It's a bit like the See, Judge to let people know what the true king group of modern communications which had made the * religious women in the Catholic Church, are present decision "fully compatible with the * and Act of Cardijn. She saw a gospel story on riches is all ;intensely interested in today's family celebra- wishes of your foundress, Catherine McAuley. 1 need and could not stand any about and the values they can , * tion," he said at Mass in St. Patrick's red appears tape in the way of doing get from the poor. "It to sought she that me ensure to * ; Cathedral. something about it. that the feelings, the joy, the challenges, felt at 1 , I think it is heresy that we must "Sisers of Mercy of 17 Australian provinces community level, should be known and lived ; I see all around us in Australia have only development, that ;have prepared for this moment with patience out at the level of the greater structures which * the two million people below you must stop the handouts. and perseverance. the serve those communities; as in community, so poverty line. I see, touch That isn't Christianity. HanBernardine Sister Daly * It is now with us. The moment will pass, at provincial level; and now, as at provincial and smell poverty. Ialso see the douts without love should be * (above) has for the * but it will also past be captured forever. level, so at institute level. stopped. six years been engaged in other side of poverty. The deepest emotions of any Sister of I think of Yeats' words: A ter- Our task is to try our best to Archbishop Little the said life Catherine of * * Mercy must rightly stir on this long awaited an apostolate to the rible beauty born. The terri- ripple that knowledge McAulev was one of love. out A borigines in East Perth, ble beauty is iswhat the poor can through the community.
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Two West Australian brothers, Ian and Kevin Allen, are part of the national contingent competing in the World Nacra 5.2 Championship next week.
Pensacola Beach, near marans because it is a more tition, although they have Florida, is the venue for powerful yacht. In fact, it is had vast experience in this year's championships, the second fastest yacht in national competition. in which the Australians Australia. Two people sail Job commitments have are hoping to duplicate last the yacht from a trapeze been the main reason they year's success in defending wire. have stayed in Perth. Ian (31) and Kevin (26) Kevin is a development the title they won. The Australia Nacra have been sailing for about manager in Mandurah, manufacturers are funding eight years. Ian started and Ian is a partner in CUI the trip for the four teams them off when he was in Insurance. of eight people attending Victoria and decided to Another partner in CUI the event from Australia. hire a yacht and just take Insurance is Ron Hudson, They are also supplying off. Since then they have who has been appointed new Nacra yachts for the sailed a variety of yachts, the team's manager. including Hobie 16 in Although he has little Australians to race in. Nacra 5.2's are 17-foot which they won a State experience in sailing, he A merican catamarans, title. has had vast experience in which were introduced to This is the first time the taking teams overseas in Australia three years ago. ex-CBC Fremantle boys his role of rugby team It differs from other cata- have been .e- manager for Australia. Ron was at one time president of the rugby league and is a life member. His task is to co-operate with local authorities, arrange travel details and organise accommodation. Australian Nacra Manufacturers hope that by sponsoring a team, people will be encouraged to be RACE ONE: 1. Sheba's RACE SIX: 1. Fiery more active in the sport, Crown; 2. Voice; 3. Pay Message; 2. Express and although the titles are The Winner. Style; 3. Blazenka's always held in USA it is the RACE TWO: 1. Surfing Pride. second time they have A lfred; 2. Darling R ACE SEVEN: 1. sponsored a team. Crown; 3. Fiery Welsh- Tivessa Prince; 2. Prin- Nacra racing is a tactic cess Toltec; 3. Diamond sport rather that a sport of man. RACE THREE: 1. Rock- Planet. strength, although Kevin ingham; 2. Blue Hill R ACE EIGHT: 1. Gre- has suffered a variety of cian Giant; 2. Leica Bin- injuries during his threeDaisy; 3. Mr Mondo. year racing period. RACE FOUR: 1. Fiery gee; 3. Gemini Gem. R ACE NINE: 1. Sea It is hoped that the AusColleen; 2. Centenial; Glade; 2. Arialive; 3. tralians' tactics will outwit 3. Daddy Darling. R amdene Rebel. the other 10 nations com- Ian and Kevin on their R ACE FIVE: 1. Wee Liz- R ACE TEN: 1. Gazelk; peting in each of the eight Nacra 5.2 sponsored by zie; 2. Aztec Storm; 3. 2. Hi There; 3. Go Moo 25-kilometre races which the Tgachers Credit Society. Mary's Luck. Go. will decide the winners.
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takes about five years' experience to compete with any success in any of these events. Equestrian events have become so popular in WA that many people are saying that they have become the fastest -
growing groups of sports in the State. The Narrogin Horse Trials style of competition dates back to the days of the cavalry when it was considered the best way to test horse and cavalrymen.
Channel Nine will present highlights of the Narrogin event on Sunday at 1 1. 10am, hosted by Wally Foreman. Channel Nine Has covered the event for the past five years.
TENNIS FINALS VICTORS
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BELLE PAK is sure to further 11 2 / lengths back in benefit from her first up third placing. run behind WILD SIDE at I'M ON CLOVER had Belmont, and should score been a model of consisanother win for her con- tency since resuming from nections. This three-year- a spell in June, and should old Haulpak filly ran on continue to reward his supvery strongly in the porters over the coming straight, and, although fin- weeks. This preparation ishing third, was only a I'M ON CLOVER has won four races, and been head behind the winner. placed on five other occasions from ten starts. He is CLASSIC BLACK was one of the most tenacious responsible for a very good gallopers in training. run when a close second to BELZONA indicated BIRTHDAY GARLAND another win is not far away over 1400 metres on Satur- when he finished second to day. After being forced to SO DESIRE in the Marine c over extra ground, Welter (ID) The event CLASSIC BLACK sprint- turned into a three horse ed to the lead on straight- affair soon after straightening and was only ening with the winner getover-run near the post to ting up along the rails to go down by a half length, defeat BELZONA by with BOLD APRO a about 3/4 length.
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Add PRESTIGE and Value Dianella has won Dianella went on to main- round doubles to have any the A and B men's tam n their unbeaten sea- chance. t o your home Unfortunately for St pennant finals, and son's record. St Dominic's has B grade clashes between Benedict's, Dianella won won the ladies' finals. Dianella and St Benedict's one of these rubbers and gave spectators all the won the pennant. The men's A grade final action and excitement they St Benedict's established was robbed of much of its PTY. LTD. were looking for. an early break in the ladies' interest when Queen's 211 Newcastle Street - 328 6955 Park player Peter Quain After being firmly locked pennant finals, but St - TERMS AVAILABLE t wisted his ankle in the first it finally looked as if Dia- Dominic's pegged them match. The team was nella was going to win back to level the scores. already under strength when the singles had been because of an injury halved and Dianella had received by Kevin Quann. won the first doubles and PBLAUTMH RB OI NOGMM E R IA LS The singles clash between were leading 8-7 in the second. Wayne Firns and Ron FIXTURES oy Calvin & Co. Smith livened up the finals However, St Benedict's SEPTIC TANK - DRY WELLS as the match was decided broke back to level the 229-233 William Street, Perth. by a tiebreaker which Ron scores and then took out Telephone: 328 8544 The Plumbing Supply Specialists' lost 8-6 after having been the tie breaker. They needed to win both final 6-4 in the lead. I The Record, September 24-30, 1981 15
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PAPAL ENCYCLICAL A new social order must take over VATICAN CITY (NC) — New forms of socio-economic organisations are needed by workers to avoid the evils of Capitalism and Marxism, says Pope John Paul 11 in the Third Encyclical of his pontificate, Laborem Exercens (On Human Work).
The encyclical also criti- of the right of ownership of public powers," it adds. "Finding himself in a syscises economic imperial- the means of production," Because the world is tem thus conditional, the ism, whether by multinat- the encyclical emphasises becoming more inter- direct employer fixes work ional companies or by t hat Marxism, which twined economically, Pope c onditions below the managers in socialised advocates class struggle, is John Paul warns that objective requirements of societies, which adversley not the answer to overcom- international economic the workers, especially if influences the relation- ing the evils of Capitalism. forces can become "indi- he himself wishes to obtain ships between workers and Marxism also places the rect employers" adversely the highest possible profits management in many worker in subordination to affecting domestic labour from the business which he countries. production and does not conditions. runs," it adds. The 99-page encyclical see that the answer lies in "For instance the highly "It is respect for the objecwas issued at the Vatican c o-operation between industrialised countries, tive rights of the worker to mark the 90th anniver- labour and capital, says the and even more the busi- . . . . that must constitute sary of Pope Leo X111's encyclical. nesses that direct on a large the adequate and fundaencyclical Rerum Novarum, A s examples of co- scale the means of indus- mental criterion for shapthe first papal social encyc- operation, the pope says trial production (the com- ing the whole economy, lical of the modern indus- Catholic social teaching panies referred to as both on the level of the trial era. supports "proposals of multinational or trans- individual society and state Pope John Paul's encycli- joint ownership of the national), fix the highest and within the whole of the cal takes a broad view of means of work, sharing by possible prices for their world economic policy and work, defining it as "any the workers in the manage- products, while trying at of the systems of internaactivity by man whether ment and-or profits of the same time to fix the tional relationships that manual or intellectual" businesses, so-called share- lowest possible prices for derive from it," the ecycliand relates past Church holding by labour." raw materials or semi- cal says. teachings on the dignity of The pope stresses that any manufactured goods," he It adds that international w orkers to current new forms of labour- says. organisations such as the situations. capital relationships must Similar exploitation is International Labour The Church has always keep in mind that the prin- also possible "in the case of Organisation and the Food taught "the principle of the cipal aim is to benefit a situation of `socialised' and Agricultural Organipriority of labour over cap- people. ownership of the means of sation, both United ital," says the pope in cri- "When we speak of oppo- production," the encyclical Nations bodies, should ticising abuses of a "rigid sition between labour and adds. develop rules for internacapitalism" which places capital, we are not dealing "Evidently this must have tional dealings affecting profit above the well-being only with abstract con- an effect on local labour workers, "since the rights of the worker. cepts or `impersonal forces' policy and the worker's of the human person are Although "the proper operating in economic pro- situation in the economi- the key element in the position of labour and the duction. Behind both con- cally disadvantaged socie- whole of the social moral worker in the production cepts there are people, ties," the encyclical says. order." process demands various living, actual people," the adaptations in the sphere encyclical adds.
DIVERGENCE The Catholic Church "diverges radically from the programme of collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and put into practice in various countries in the decades following the time of Leo X1 1 l's encyclical" says Pope John Paul. "At the same time it differs from the programme of Capitalism practised by Liberalism and by the political systems inspired by it," says the papal document. Regarding Capitalism," the difference consists in the way the right of ownership or property is understood," it adds. "Christian tradition has
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never upheld this right as absolute and untouchable. On the contrary, it has always understood this right within the broader context of the right common to all to use the goods VATICAN CITY — Recalling that Rerum Novarum was written to apply Church teachings to of the whole creation," it the industrial revolution, the dominant social determinant of that time, Pope John Paul says says. that his encyclical is an effort to apply the same teachings to current circumstances which, However, the "deeply desired reforms" of Capi- "according to many experts, will influence the world of work and production no less than the talism "cannot be achieved industrial revolution of the last century." by an a priori elimination of private ownership of the Among the current circumstan- the workers' ally but can become given to the head of the family for unions should not engage in s, otherwise "they oat hrteirsapnurppoolisteics.” means of production" the ces the pope cites automation, his enemy when mechanisation his work, sufficient for the needs p used for instrument become an family without the other of the encyclical says. This is not increasing cost of energy and raw supplants him or takes away "all enough to ensure "satisfac- materials, pollution, diminishing personal satisfaction and the spouse having to take up gainful tory socialisation" because natural resources and "emer- incentive to creativity and employment outside the home — -- Workers should be assured the new managers form gence on the political scene of responsibility," thus reducing or through other social measures the right to strike without being such as family allowances or subject to personal sanctions, but another special group peoples who, after centuries of "man to the status of slave." "from the fact of exercising subjection, are demaning their — "Work constitutes a founda- grants to mothers devoting them- have the responsibility not to power in society," it says. rightful place among the nations tion for the formation of family selves exclusively to their strike if a strike "is contrary to the "This group in authority and in international decision- life" by providing the economic families." requirements of the company — For a mother to be forced good." may carry out this task making. means necessary to maintain a economically to abandon her satisfactorily from the "Unfortunately, for millions of family." ingk keewpor e oinvide or— Society s hpoeuoldp pr viewpoint of the priority of skilled workers these changes — Through work people fulfil task of caring for her children is f disabled labour — but it may also may perhaps mean unemploy- God's command to "subdue the harmful to society. abilities. — Women who work "should with their physical form of carry it out badly by claim- ment, at least for a time, or the earth." serious Failure means "a ing for itself a monopoly of need for retraining. They will — "The obligation to provide be able to fulfil their tasks in the strong the administration and dis- probably involve a reduction or a unemployment benefits . . . is a accordance with their own discrimination, that of weak and the k.” healthy against posal of the means of pro- less rapid increase in material duty springing from the funda- nature, and without being dis- and duction and not refraining well-being for the more deve- mental principle of the common criminated against and without even from offending basic loped countries," says the use of goods or, to put it another being excluded from jobs for e opinle sehaarevhe oaf wroigrhkt anfdo human rights," it adds. encyclical. way, the right to life and which they are capable, but also m—igrate without lack of respect for their "the person working away from "Merely converting the "But they can also bring relief subsistence." means of production into and hope to the millions who — "A disconcerting fact of family aspirations and for their his native land, whether as a state property in the collec- today live in conditions of immense proportions" occurs specific role in contributing, permanent emigrant or as a tivist system is by no means shameful and unworthy pov- on the world scene: "While con- together with men, to the good of seasonal worker, should not be equivalent to 'socialising' erty," it says. spicuous natural resources society." placed at a disadvantage in matter oinf it," says the encyclical writ- "The Church considers it her remain unused, there are huge th t hhee workers ty w n paso riesioen -- "The Expenses involved in ct ten by the Polish pope, the task . . . to help guide the above numbers of people who are health care, especially in the case that latnioonwaill first pontiff to come from a mentioned changes so as to unemployed or underemployed of accidents at work, demand workingof rw igohrtks. way communist-ruled country. ensure authentic progress by man and countless multitudes of peo- that medical assistancel should search must f°,r, an opportunityy A way to satisfactory and society," the encyclical adds. ple suffering from hunger." This be easily available for workers, te.s ationn w iinnanthceiaelnoeryesloiecaiallthee "something "The purpose of the encyclical is means that there is f it and that as far as possible socialisation "could be pope f ound by associating to highlight the fact that human wrong with the organisation of should be cheap or even free of issue that he initially planned to labour with the ownership work is the key, probably the work and employment" on the charge." but via! — Workers have the right to the document on May 15 yitivelY of capital, as far as possi- essential key, to the whole social national and international levels. — "A just wage is the concrete form a union to protect their vital balfetetro h"irsevrieseeeintt ble, and by producing a question, if we try to see that stay in the wide range of intermediate question really from the point of means of verifying the justice of interests and to be "a mouthpiece until bodies with economic, view of man's good," says the the whole socio-economic system for the struggle for social justice." hospital. suffered and, in any case of checking that On May 13 the pope — "Union activity undoubtedly social and cultural pur- pope. duriufit wounds of the encycit is main points functioning justly." t eter,s enters the field of politics, several poses — they would be Other in attempt — A "family wage" is needed understood as prudent concern an assassination bodies enjoying real auto- lical include: — Technology is meant to be which could be "A single salary for the common good" but Peter's Square. nomy with regard to the
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