BISHOP'S ILL HEALTH FORCES HIS RETIREMENT
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Bishop Myles McKeon has been forced by ill health to bring his 13-year term as bishop of Bunbury to a close and Pope John Paul II has accepted his resignation.
He has been named by the pope to be apostolic administrator with full jurisdiction over the diocese until the appointment of his successor, probably in several months time.
Bishop McKeon formally in June, 1947, following of Perth, Bishop McKeon rian Fathers; the Little announced the papal his studies at University was named second bishop Sisters of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. acceptance of his resigna- College and All Hallows of Bunbury. On the educational scene, tion at the conclusion of College there. the annual three-day con- After his arrival in Aus- Bishop McKeon says that Bishop McKeon initiated ference of the priests of tralia early the following among the significant the co-educational systems Bunbury diocese held last year he spent his first four events of his time in Bun- in the Catholic secondary years as assistant priest at bury has been the intro-' c olleges at Bunbury, week. He told the priests that he Maylands-Inglewood. He duction of two religious Albany, Manjimup, and had submitted his resigna- spent a further two years as orders from Asia: The Collie. tion early in January fol- ,assistant priest at St Dominican Sisters from During his time the size of Manila, who conduct St Bunbury diocese was lowing advice from Mary's Cathedral. medical specialists that a His next nine years were Vincent's Hospital and increased with the transfer spinal condition from spent as director of the who will shortly take over of the parishes of Pinjarra which he is suffering shows Catholic Missions office the Ocean Star aged hostel, and Mandurah from Perth little hope of improve- and as director of Catholic and the Carmelite Sisters to Bunbury dioceses. from Bangkok, Thailand, Bishop McKeon blessed migration. ment. new churches at Harvey, The specialists said that This not only took him on who are at Dardanup. introduced orders Hopetoun, Greenbushes Other the of parish every to visits restrict he would have to car travel to minimal dis- archdiocese but also into the diocese during his and Balingup. A new tances and Bishop involved him in pastoral term include the Francis- church complex is nearing McKeon said that in view care for the many young can Missionaries of Mary completion at Esperance of such advice he had little migrant children who were who are soon to be joined and new churches are option but to resign from graduating from the in their work for Abori- shortly to be undertaken at gines by a Carmelite priest; M argaret River and Catholic institutions. office. Later the bishop said that During this period he was the Brothers of St Gerard Augusta. he had formulated no made a privy chamberlain Majella; the Blessed Sacraplans for his retirement but with the title monsignor. ment Fathers; the Salvato- (see also Page 2.) he hoped to continue residOn the 15th anniversary ing in Bunbury. "I hope they can find of his ordination to the prisome light duties for me esthood he was named that will be within the auxiliary bishop to the late range of a retired bishop," Archbishop Prendiville. he said with some relief at He was given the title of making what he called "the the ancient diocese of hardest decision of my A ntipyrgos in North Africa — the modern life." The appointment of a Tobruk. s uccessor to Bishop McKeon will be handled His consecrator in St. by the apostolic pro- Mary's Cathedral on Sepnuncio to Australia, Arch- tember 12, 1962, was bishop Luigi Barbarito, Bishop Goody, then of who resides in Canberra Bunbury, whom he would and who visited the dio- later succeed in that see. ceses of Western Australia Within a month of his conlast year. Following consultation secration as bishop, with the bishops of West- Bishop McKeon was ern Australia and a cross- seated as the second junior section of clergy of laity in rank among the 2300 the apostolic pro-nuncio bishops who attended the will then forward his opening of the Second recommendation to the Vatican Council. pope. Back in Perth, Bishop Bishop McKeon, who is McKeon had to assume 62, has given 34 years of much of the parish visitato the Catholic tion and confirmation The months of frustration and setback experienced by service Church in Western Aus- ceremonies as well as other the archdiocesan youth office were reversed last Mon- tralia, 20 of them as administrative duties during the latter illness of day night with the announcement by the Shire of Swan bishop. Prendiville. that approval in principle has been given for the use of a B orn in Westport, Archbishop Gidgegannup property as an educational centre. County Mayo, in the west On March 25, 1969, after he was the promotion of Bishop As a result, planning will start imme- cover the balance of purchase and build- o f Ireland diately to modify an existing residence ing operation will be raised in a special ordained priest in Dublin Goody to the archdiocese and build an extra seminar facility on a fund drive by a committee led by Mrs 17.5 ha property on O'Brien Road, Margaret Gardiner, of North Beach. Gidgegannup, to become a residential It is anticipated that small groups will be t raining centre for youth. able to use the facility in the near future :The partially cleared property is oppo- and activity will increase with the prosite the Walyunga national park and gressive building stages. • sweeps magnificently down to Wooroloo The granting of educational status to Brook. the rural zoned Gidgegannup property On the property is a superior modern overcomes the very hurdle on which an brick and tile home and two self- earlier attempt to establish a youth centre contained chalets that will be modified to, at Bedfordale failed to achieve the approa Page 12 —Margaret Lynch. accommodate about 30 young people. val of the Armadale Shire Council. There is also a swimming pool, outdoor Repeated approaches to the Armadale unbury mina Page 3 — Priests transferred. sauna and large machinery shed. council failed to get permission for an The property has been acquired by the educational establishment in the special Frank Grogan. archdiocese of Perth for $175,000 and rural zone. this cost will be offset by $70,000 already Following that setback the youth buildortham ...• Page 6 — Sick anointed. in hand from the sale of the former youth ing committee set about searching for centre, Marian Lodge, in Kalamunda. A another site and through a happy coincifurther $60,000 has already been raised dence the diocesan youth chaplain, from youth, schools, parents and Father John Jegorow, was directAi Town & Country Permanent Building Society businessmen. towards the Gidgegannup site. 297 Murray Street, Perth. Telephone: 327 3333. The additional $100,000 required to (See F 7e 11.)
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Life's hardest decision Bishop McKeon calls hiE resignation from the see 01 Bunbury as the "hardest decision of his life" because of the close personal ties within the 73,000 square miles over which his people are spread.
BIG CHANGES IN 20-YEAR EPISCOPATE Consecrated just one month before the opening of the Second V atican Council in October, 1962, Bishop McKeon's 20-year episcopate has covered the vital period in which so much change has been introduced into the church.
Priests of Bunbury diocese at the closing session of their three-day conference when Bishop McKeon (front centre) announced that he has resigned as bishop after 13 years. To the left of Bishop McKeon is the vicar general Father E. Kenny. ticular ideas before". He also praised the retreats for acolytes coming from many parishes and also the tremendous popular welcome given to the apostolic pro-nuncio, A rchbishop Barbarito, when he visited Esperance and Jerramungup towns last year. "My first parish love was Maylands-Inglewood and still is, but everything in those days was cut and dried. We did visitation and had sodalities which were tremendous in building up faith. But since the Second Vatican Council we have seen the refreshing evolution of the teaching attitude of the Church.
"The priests made it possible for me to visii the people in their homes and get to know them. It was like coming home to the farms a nd houses in the different areas because in years these people had become part of my life". Bishop McKeon calls his visit to far-flung G nowangerup parish late in November his "last missionary journey" on which, along with Father Doug Conlon, he travelled 1 750 k ilometres in six days out to Bremer Bay through the South Stirlings to Tambel lup. A week later he was in hospital with the complaint which has caused his premature retirement. "On the Friday I visited a family and on the f ollowing Sunday when I had returned to Bunbury I was grateful to be able to write to them personally on the sudden death of their son which happened after I left them. "I could not live if I did not do that sort of contact work as a bishop. That is why I spend two thirds of the year on the road". Bishop McKeon is high in his praise of the priests who lead what he calls a lonely life without the companionship of their fellow priests. "I was told 20 years ago that I would be lonely. I have had to make lonely decisions but I can't say that my life was lonely like the priests who live in isolated areas. "When I visited a priest we would talk long into the night because he wanted to talk. I never got used to it myself but I always sympathised with them very strongly.
Contact with priests "For the bishop in the rural situation it is a must that he be in contact with his priests and I always felt that if the day came when I could not do that then it would be time to resign." At the Second Vatican Council I heard it stressed so many times that a bishop had to be a pastor and it took on a particular dimension f or me in a sense that I was privileged to meet so many priests and people. "In my seven years in Perth I had realised that through the pressure of engagements this sort of life was not possible, but in my recent letter to the pope I pointed out that the man who takes on this special country task must be able to carry it out. "Last week on our traditional outing with 216 city boarders from our parishes, Father Glover a sked if he could announce my resignation to the children. "They all asked: 'Who is going to take your place?' I thought to myself that this sort of reaction speaks volumes and it showed me their interest and concern for my role as bishop."
"When I sat there in St in English I never felt so this evolution. Peter's Basilica and heard edified as hearing their In scripture, some leading "It was this boy who pointed to his heart and the calls for change made reaction, scholars had been silenced said: 'Somewhere down especially by bishops from "On that first morning in for teaching ahead of the here we believe in Him but Europe -- and not so much the council pope John headlines what was to be if you talk about it people from Canada or the United XXIII had asked for evolu- accepted a mere two or rubbish you'. States as might have been tion in doctrine, in liturgy, three years later. "He had been honest in expected — I thought we in everything. "But principally in the his feelings by turning his were going crazy. "We have had evolution, past three years I have had "In my wildest dreams 1 even revolution, but the in Bunbury diocese the back on me but he had also did not imagine that what 1 evolution has been most most refreshing experience been honest to speak up at the end and say what was considered crazy in 1962 I impressive in the things I of my life to see people troubling him. would be implementing once thought were crazy. coming alive, renewing "This represents a chaljust a mere four of five "I see the Church today as themselves with the assist- lenge to clergy, religious years later. a renewed Church. At the ance of the priests in reneand parents to respond to "W hen in St Mary's time of Pope John XXIII I wal of faith programmes. this call for truth on the Cathedral Perth the priests saw it as a Church simmer- "I have never felt so part of youth. - assembled to prepare in ing, a pot boiling, that optimistic about the "The YCW which had four short weeks for the would explode unless there Church as I do now and I become moribund has dramatic change into Mass was something to control have good grounds for that come to life again, through • 000000000 •••••••••••••••••••••••••• 000000 ••• optimism. • the efforts of the young • •• "I speak frequently at people themselves and it state schools as well as was a beautiful experience • • Catholic schools and whe- recently to meet young • • reas five or six years ago people who want to spread "My years as a priest were "Father Lombardi had priests of Bunbury diocese • • , there was confusion and the message of the YCW. e xtremely happy and I was explained the need for dia- that had been "one of the • • : the youth were upset and "There are new concepts taken completely by sur- logue at all levels in greatest things that had • Corneal Lens Consultants : angry, now all that is gone. in parish life but they are prise when I received the honesty and sincerity. It happened to us as a group • • • Now they are listening; refreshing. The word par- letter naming me as auxil- was good to listen to, but I of priests." • 16 PLAZA ARCADE, PERTH 321 5344 . they will discuss, argue and ish comes from an original iary bishop and wondered did not stop to think what • CAROUSEL SHOPPING TOWN 458 4831 • says • debate but they are seeking word meaning a person how I could cope. it meant to me as a bishop. "An Irish proverbcomes • DEMPSTER HOUSE, PORT HEDLAND . 73 1929 • that sense common i the truth. Once I could go without fixed abode. We "As an auxiliary bishop We always like to think of : 29 DURLACHER STREET, GERALDTON 21 3445 • with age and I have come • • into a classroom and thank are the pilgim people of no my years were happy be_ it applying to the other to appreciate the very spe• • • them for listening pas- fixed abode, in no lasting cause I did not have the fellow. cial grace that a bishop sively. Today they are lis- city. final responsibility but "On the last night Father tening; they are absorbing "In our renewal of the when you are thrown on' Lombardi asked me if I receives,to keep going. the truth. If I am selling Church we have cast off your own, 'the buck stops was prepared to enter into "If at any time I have ever them short they don't want not so much of the idea of here' and you have res- dialogue with my priests. considered it to be merely a career I would have retired to hear me. parish as that of parochial- ponsibility for people and We started at 9 p.m..and I R emodel that old bathroom years ago. It is a totally "In a country school ism which to me is a des- it is not an easy one. got to bed at 2.45 a.m. It where the headmaster had tructive force. was a hard hitting session spiritual calling. Add Asked what he thought of invited me to talk to all the As examples of parish Bishop McKeon said that till 1.30 a.m. but then we PRESTIGE and Value the incessant demand by of important most one the Year 9 and 10 students relaxed I and celebrated. renewal, Bishop McKeon to your home wrote the word God on the cited the annual live-in experiences for him was a "To say it was all over was priests and people for board and said we would gathering of the diocesan retreat for his priests con- to say it was only the begin- bishops to solve their probt alk about it for 45 pastoral council represen- ducted by the late Father ning of a new understand- lems Bishop McKeon said: minutes. ing of the priests and the "I am terrified of it yet I tatives from every parish in Lombardi Si. and "One boy immediately sat the diocese. "I was uncertain of myself w ay we could work believe that the priests people have a right to PTY. LTD. on his desk and turned his "It is an example of peo- at times. As a bishop you together. 211 Newcastle Street — 328 6955 back on me for the whole ple growing together, are sometimes in the hot Bishop McKeon noted demand this leadership of 45 minutes. At the end I b ringing . their own seat, you feel yourself as that he had announced his the bishop, to the attitude — TERMS AVAILABLE — asked them to tell me how insights, drawing together the target for everything, retirement on the tenth .that you are at their they felt about God so that and admitting that they you sense that everyone is anniversary of the annual disposal. I could tell others. clergy conferences of the (ContinuedPage 3.) had never thought of par- talking about you. The Record, February 25 — March 3, 1982 2
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Bishop McKeon recently the following nnounced a a ppointments and parish changes in the diocese of Bunbury:
Project Compassion offers a challenge to our world, Bishop John Gerry said this week. Bishop Gerry is chairman of Australian Catholic Relief.
Father Ian Johnson (pictured top right) becomes parish p riest of Kojonup which will now take in Tambellup and Gnowangerup. Father Michael Naisbitt, formerly at Kojonup, will t ransfer to Bunbury where he will reside with Father Bernie Dwyer at Carey Park. Father Doug Conlon (bottom left) will transfer his residence from Gnowangerup to Ongerup which now becomes the centre of the parish from which have been detached Gnowangerup, Tambellup, Cranbrook and the Stirlings. Father Hugh Galloway (top left) is appointed parish priest of Mount Barker which now includes Cranbrook and South Stirlings. He remains diocesan missions director. Father Tom McGree will be priest in charge of Albany parish during the 12 months convalescent leave of the parish priest Father Stephen Kelly. Father Anthony Chiera (bottom right) is appoint assistant priest at Albany.
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Bishop rineon thinks back II. "The priests, religious and laity never cease to help you realise that it is a privilege to be a bishop. You can be at rock-bottom when they will do or say something to make you ask what you were ever worried about.
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hopes Project Compassion Project Compassion matHe said: "Project Compassion will become an integral erial for schools is rings out a challenge to part of a Catholic's lenten available. So are notes on the lenten renewal. us... "For our world sadly He also hopes the mate- Liturgy. needs the experience of the rials distributed to parishes magnanimous justice of provide an opportunity for God, the tenderness of this to happen. redeeming love, and the These materials include: faithfulness of the servant • The traditional boxes of Yahweh." Bishop Gerry said this in and envelopes. a letter launching Project • Posters for display in churches and schools. Compassion 1982. • A Project Compassion He was commenting on a newsletter, which will verse from the Prophet become a regular twoMicah, chosen as the monthly feature. theme for the program. "This is what the Lord • Project Focus packs, asks of you, only this; to which enable a parish or act justly, to love tenderly group to "adopt" a project and to walk humbly with in a Third World Country. your God." Project Compassion is the annual lenten campaign of ACR (Australian Catholic Relief), the official aid and development agency of the Catholic Church in Australia. Project Compassion is now in its 16th year. The program has a twoMEAD, SON & CO fold purpose.
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• First, to raise money for relief and development "After all, as a bishop you rybody thanked me for the activities in the Third We wish to draw to your were merely trying to lead excellent sermon I had World. a ttention that our prices range the greatest crowd of peo- preached but I had to tell "The Project Compassion ple you could ever want to them that it was all because from a very low cost funeral appeal raises about twomeet." someone had put me in my SYDNEY: The NSW government has thirds of the general funds — through to the more place. its advice to the Mater ACR has for allocation," confirmed which may be sophisticated Bishop McKeon said that "On the night I was ACR said in a statement desired by some people. in 13 years he had received installed in St Patrick's Public Hospital in North Sydney that this week. only two nasty letters, one cathedral as bishop of there is no money available for the "Response to this appeal We emphasise that the claims of them recently criticising Bunbury I used the quota- reconstruction of the hospital. has grown steadily over the of new funeral directors of a sermon he had preached. tion of Christ: 'I stand in years. having initiated low cost has The government has hospital The Mater He resisted his first temp- the midst of you as one told the hospital that it replied to this government "The money has been funerals are not true. tation to reply angrily and who serves'. instead wrote that he "I would like to think that has no funds because decision by declaring its allocated to a variety of Son & Co. have always Mead, intended to correct the my 13 years as bishop of of commitments to intention that the public projects all over the world. low cost facilities provided reand from "They vary fault immediately. Bunbury as my poor fund hospitals in the hospital will continue upon request and have in fact ."Next Sunday after a con- attempt to live out that western Sydney sub- that if necessary some of settlement of refugees in the hospital's land may be Australia, to anti-TB camsupplied specially low cost firmation ceremony eve- ideal." urbs. sold in a bid to raise the paigns in Eritrea, to youth funerals where hardship was development programs in necessary finance. observed. The latest government Chile." For further information please decision seems to be the The focus is increasingly final word in a sometimes on projects that contribute Phone heated confrontation to the development of the between the Catholic hos- countries involved. 361 6191 or 361 3482 pital as well as Bishop Tho- But ACR has always 190 Albany Highway, mas Muldoon of the retained the capability to Victoria Park. Sydney northern region, move quickly to relieve and the NSW state govern- emergency situations in ALL SUBURBS HOURS ALL ment. time of natural or manmade disasters. In 1978 the government Examples are Kampupromised that it would chea, Poland, East Timor F. E fund the $16 million that it and after recent floods in E = Philippines. the was estimated would be I required to rebuild the II • Second, to help Austral- El: E.-.-. Clothes, kitchen tables and chairs,I public hospital. E single and double beds and mat- = become to Catholics ian In July last year the hos- tresses, kitchen untensils, cutlery, P. pital authorities were aware of the extent and the P = = r wardrobes, dressing tables, cots, a shocked at being told by nature of poverty in the i their of and world third the Minister for Health prams, pushers that the funds for rebuild- responsibility to work elimination. its Anything useless to you towards ing were no longer availamay be useful to us ble and that it was the This is perhaps the more government's intention to important aspect of Prohave the 210 acute beds ject Compassion, ACR converted to 100 beds for says. "Poverty now engulfs geriatric care. collect two-thirds of the perhaps The minister stated that if ACR population," world's this plan was unacceptable to the hospital then it said this week. would have to find its own "Increasingly it is recogfunds for the rebuilding nised that this is neither project, now estimated to natural nor inevitable, but is the result of injustices cost $25 million. Bishop Muldoon who is that have grown up over The Daughters of Charity in charge of the northern the years and have now NEED YOUR HELP region of Sydney archdio- become part of the social, AN ANNUAL PROGRAM OF AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC RELIEF cese in which the Mater economic or political life for their work for the development of the el% hospital is situated entered within and between Nommo immisommonsiiim underprivileged countries. the dispute by delcaring I would like to receive regular information about the work of ACR • will conbe not what he called "political "Poverty URGENTLY NEEDED W ar" on the Wran quered unless the injustice is which at is roots its government. . Name Clothing, clean, wearable, — house-hold • "The supporters of the conquered. goods — nick-flacks — ornaments, hospital say that the move "Often this is a matter not Address jewellery, etc. Post Code against rebuilding the of money, but of social Deliver to change. delibea is hospital Mater 534 William Street, Highgate "Hence the in emphasis rate effort to extend the For Truck to call — Phone 328 4403 secular influence in medi- many ACR projects on Country goods marked 'donation Australian Catholic Relief 154 Elizabeth Street, Sydney. 2000. cine and reduce the contri- education, especially of free on rail to Kewdale Rail Terminal Telephone (02) 264 1592 bution made by religious adults." R Bishop Gerry said he ishwhiuu&agulusuumuka bodies. 3 The Record, February 25 — March 3, 1982
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Rehecord It is never an easy task to implant the Word of God in the midst of the babble of the market p lace. If the Good News of the Resurrection is doomed to be smothered next month in the last mad fling of summer then the Bad News of Lent doesn't stand a chance. Keeping up the ancient tradition of Jesus' scriptural 40 day fast the south and western E uropean countries kept the ideal before the people by naming the season after the number 40. The northern Teutons were more concerned with the fact that spring was on the way so our ancestors called it Lent, which says nothing religious to Christian and pagan al ike. The modern vernacular would best translate the Lenten season as "You-Can't -Take It -With-You". Lent is good spiritual medicine but like any good apothecary it is only as good a s its packaging and marketing. With more food on our tables than we can handle there is a strange reluctance to e mbark on a good healthy fast whereas in the days when people lived close to subsistence they took fasting seriously. What is the point of listening to the prophet's voice telling us to fast and do penance for our souls when we won't even l isten to our physicians telling us that we are consuming perilous quantities of sugar, fat, meat and alcohol as well as smoking too much? Mistreat the body and it wi ll mistreat you. The health of the soul seems to be a remote ideal indeed. The electronic god in the corner of the room booms forth the message of doom that the slobs have to get out of their chairs and reform before it is too late. Never mind. The prophet has always had a nother arrow to his bow. If fasting is useless to the body there is always almsgiving as a healthy penance for the purse. Almsgiving was never the principal penance because so many of the listeners were already pitifully poor. It is amongst the poor that charity and sharing abound. In the last two decades the Church has wisely adapted itself to the times. Taking a cue from the wealth with which Germans were embarrassed during their 'economic miracle' following World War II, and which led to their powerful Lenten sacrifices, schemes l ike Project Compassion have become the new Lenten penitential test. There are pockets of resistance from those who feel that it is more important to argue a bout who is going to receive the funds than to see if the exercise is bringing about the change of heart, the repentance to which Christ's gospel calls us. Australian Catholic Relief wants Project Compassion to be not merely about funds, not about emergency relief, but about conscience, about sensitivity to the selfishness, a varice and greed that are eating the heart out of the affluent Western world. What better time to celebrate Lent than in the midst of our squabbling about interest r ates and taxes, when neither political party can promise to lower taxes because they k now that Australians are living beyond the means of others to buy our resources. What better time to tighten the belt to shout out the vernacular translation of the Ash Wednesday ceremony: "Remember Man that it was here when you arrived and that you can't take it with you
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Sir, Your editorial, February 11, referred to the priesthood as a call both from a bishop and from Christ. Surely this is putting into human hands something very much divine in nature? In which case the call from Christ must be considered the most important of these.
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Obviously some sort of the call from the bishop is human element in the not just a formality. selection of priests is most Editor's note: The role important; otherwise men of the bishop is no forwith the wrong motive, mality. It is his role to men who have not had the take the advice of those call from Christ, may seek preparing men for the the priesthood and be priesthood and to disordained. cern in his judgement as from Miss C. Eileen La/or, Sorrento. the Shepherd in charge of the diocese whether However, it is to be hoped Sir, the call to the priestthat in the case of all men hood is genuine insofar who receive a genuine call The words of Christ: "Go and teach all from God to enter the prias these matters can ever be finally determin nations" do not apply only to those children esthood, and once this call ed. has been established, then
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It is obvious to those needs of their own many thousands of from Corrie Schoenwho look beyond the children and view the Catholic children who makers, Pregnancy are completely with- Help Co-ordinator. out any rel igious Sir, i nstruction in govern- Our work of supporting ment schools that the girls and women distressed need is a serious and by pregnancy is made extremely difficult due to urgent one.
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Donnelly that the money ble and caring pro-life spent in the Catholic sys- doctors. My wife elected to take tem on educating and One of our counsellors The lay ministry of acolyte instructing the minority spent a whole afternoon the course and having be spread over the t elephoning doctors driven her thereIstayed on will be conferred during Mass should whole of the population chosen at random from the a s an observer and directory. It is repeated the exercise quite starting at 3pm on Sunday, and that Catholic mothers telephone wanting the best for their with great sadness that I often. September 5. children must not close have to report that her Candidates for the institution ceremony wil l their eyes to others less for- efforts bore no fruit, as all Maranatha, the brain doctors she phoned child of Sisters Mary Berry be required to have assisted at a retreat com- tunate. In this way they the her told that they referred will call down the blessing and Assumpta, makes capmencing at 9.30am on Saturday, September 4, abortion. for of Almighty God on themital of the abilities of capaand ending at noon on the following day. A recent unfortunate selves and their families. ble lectures in Perth who The preparation of candidates for the ministry will experience with a doctor take place in two stages: The nomination and training of After seven years expe- who betrayed our trust by bring us to a greater apprecandidates, and the personal application by each candi- rience in a government sending one of our clients ciation of the sacraments, date for admission into the ministry. primary school and three off to have an abortion, liturgy, faith, pastoral care and a closer look at the NOMINATION: The nomination of candidates is now years in a Catholic schoolI prompts me to appeal to have opted to send a boy in the pro-life doctors in our compassionate Jesus in the open and closes on April 30. community of His day. A man intending to train for the ministry of acolyte is my charge to a government community to come forrequired to be nominated to the archbishop, in writing school in the final years of ward and give their names to Pregnancy Help. by a priest who can testify to the suitability of the high school education. Pregnancy Help can be I recommend that people candidate. Candidates must be over 21 years of age and the This is my choice in the contact 24 hours a day on interested in Christian fornomination should also include full details such as best interests of the boy for 325 6919 as well as 322 mation phone Sister Berry more reasons than one. 5655 during office hours. on 328 9046. name, address, marital status and occupation. In the case of parish priests it is recommended that the advice of the parish council or other persons of trust be taken on the suitability of the candidate; however, no vote or similar ballot should be taken as it is the sole responsibility of the priest to vouch for the candidate's suitability. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Each nomination must be accompanied by a fee of $2 to cover the supply of training materials and adminisThe Catholic Marriage trative expenses. Nominations should be sent to the Archbishop's Guidance Council of CenOPTICIANS AND OPTOMETRISTS secretary, Catholic Church Office, Victoria Square, trecare (27 Victoria Square) is conducting Perth, 6000. Contact LENS CONSULTANTS TRAINING: Each candidate will be notified personally groups beginning on March 8 and lasting for of his acceptance for training. Training will be conducted on Tuesday, July 6, 13 and five weeks. PERTH PICCADILLY ARCADE 321 8151 20 starting at 7.30pm sharp and concluding no later Group 1, for married couPERTH 154 WILLIAM STREET 321 5304 ples will focus on growing than 1 Opm. COTTESLOE 19 NAPOLEON STREET 384 5605 Attendance at the three training nights is compulsory in love as a couple and as a FREMANTLE 30 MARKET STREET 335 2602 group family. This begins unless alternative specific training under the direction of a priest is arranged in advance of the start of the course. Monday evening, March 8, 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Candidates failing to do so will not be permitted to 7.30pm-9.30pm. Group II, individuals for proceed. 1 .2101110‘11291101tadettie The training course covers the personal spirituality of who are suffering from marriage breakdown or the acolyte, the theology of the Mass as outlined in the * Very Fresh Introduction to the Roman Missal and the pastoral personal stress. * Very Tasty .Very Economical procedure o( taking communion to the sick. These five sessions are Priests are welcome at the training evenings and are d esigned to promote recommended to attend in the interest of building a growth by learning with good working relationship with acolytes. others the sources of your APPLICATION: At the conclusion of the training strength. period each candidate will make a personal written This group begins Monapplication to the archbishop to be admitted to the day morning, March 8, ministry. 10.00am-12 Noon. For Further queries should be addressed to the archbi- registration information shop's secretary, Father Don Sproxton, 325 9177. call Centrecare 325 6644.
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DATELINE. . . overseas news roundup
ABORTION FUNDING IS Poland ist I focus a I EJECTED R VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul ll told diplomats accredited to the Holy See that his anxiety over his native Poland is part of the church's defence of human rights around the world and that the church is equally c oncerned about other world trouble spots.
W ASHINGTON (NC) — A Reagan administrative said that the federal government has no plans to fficial o aid funds for abortions in the Third World, foreign use in a State Department recommendation a espite d funding be lifted. abortion on ban the that eport r
M. Peter McPherson, saying that restrictions on Complications from a dministrator of the abortion aid should be unsanitary abortions are A gency for International lifted because the ban does the leading cause of death "It is not only the son of Development (AID), said little to discourage abor- for women aged 15-35 in ' Poland who suffers," said those countries, he added. that AID "and other agen- tions. the pope in his annual New cies of the U.S. governYear's meeting with diplohis study, commissiIn foreign with ment involved mats, "but also the visible aid do not have and will oned by the Reagan head of the Catholic not provide funds for the administration, Nick Church." performance of abortions, Eberstadt called the aborfor research on abortion tion aid restriction "hypoThe pontiff added: "I canmethods and procedures, critical" and said it not keep quiet while inviolor for training to perform "imposes needless sufferable human rights are ing on poor women in poor abortions." endangered." "I have assured Congress countries." The pope also put the and the president that our Polish situation within the agency will not advocate According to Eberstadt, context of the post-World or endorse abortion as a 40-60 million abortions are division of Europe means of controlling pop- performed yearly around NEW YORK (NC) — Suicide is now the third highest War II the continuacriticised and ulation growth," McPher- the world, primarily in killer of teen-agers and increasingly its victims come tion of Soviet domination poor countries. son said. McPherson's statement Most abortions in poor from comfortable, middle-class homes rather than the over Poland. be followed the early January countries are performed mean streets of the inner city as illustrated in "In Love- "Every nation should own its dispose of to able unsanitary condirelease of a Harvard Uni- under Teen-age Suicide," a documentary in self-determination and its versity researcher's report tions by unqualified per- land: Study of a own destiny," he said. the "Directions" series. for the State Department sonnel, he said. The programme examines the course of events that led 15-year-old Mark Cada to kill himself last January in Loveland, Colo.
SUICIDE A BIG DEATH CAUSE IN THE YOUN
POPE SPEAKS OF FREEDOM
V ATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II told India's new ambassador to the Holy See that the Asian nation should assure the rights of its citizens to freedom of conscience and freedom of religion.
Mark's family, schoolmates, minister and townspeople provide a composite picture of the youth and his tragic death, the small community's 12th teen-age suicide in the past 1 8 months. Yet, when town officials held a meeting on the subject, only a h andful of parents attended.
"I am confident that country of approximately (India's) praiseworthy tra- 600 million people. Such denial of reality is ditions of respect for reli- "One of the most precious common, according to gious belief will ensure the elements of the heritage of Tom Barrett, a psycholoc ontinuation of these gua- India is its respect for the gist interviewed on the rantees of freedom of con- endeavours of men and programme. science and of the right to women to fulfill the obligafreely profess, practice and tion that their nature People seem to feel that propagate religion, with- imposes on them to seek problems will go away if out being discriminated the truth and adhere to it they are not talked about. against," the pope said. and to direct their whole Barrett insists, however, V atican, sources said lives in accordance with its that the only way such Pope John Paul was refer- demands," Pope John teen-agers tragedies can be ring to two issues which Paul told the ambassador. prevented is by talking and h ave caused conflicts The pope also asked Indi- listening to what young b etween the Catholic ans to be "true peacemak- people are saying. Church and government ers" by assuring respect for Mark's parents never realeaders in recent years: fundamental rights. g overnmental sterilisation "In the international lised how deeply he was a nd contraception pro- sphere there is need of voi- being affected by pressures school. It is grammes, and legislative ces that will speak for at home and m oves to approve an anti- human rights, for the obviously a painful ordeal about their conversion bill described rights of individual men for them to talk by Catholic leaders as and women everywhere, son's death but, as Mrs 'Patently anti-Christian." the rights connected both Cada explains, "it's worth The hill would have made with their bodily and their it if it helps just one family it virtually illegal for peo- spiritual aspect, the rights avoid a similar tragedy." ple to convert to without which they cannot The point of the prolive lives in keeping with gramme is that, unlike Christianity. t heir dignity as human other causes of deaths, sui. There are about 11 mil- beings endowed with intel- cides can be prevented if lion Catholics in India, a lect and will and person- only teen-agers have someP redominantly Hindu hood," he said. one to talk to.
Vatican sees brea Vandals could of a pact be imprisoned
T ALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NC) — A bill that would change vandalism in churches and synagogues from a misdemeanour to a felony has been i ntroduced in the Florida legislature. Similar laws are already in effect in Arizona, California, New Jersey and Rhode Island and insurance companies throughout the coutry estimate that losses to churches and synagogues on a national level exceed $1.5 billion annually. If passed, the bill will make it a felony to "deface, tamper with or commit criminal mischief to a place of worship." Conviction would bring sentences ranging from probation and restitution to five years in prison. In the past five years Catholic churches in south Florida have reported isolated cases of vandalism, including fires, some committed during burglaries. In Miami several synagogues have been defaced and one Cuban synagogue in Miami Beach was riddled with bullets. "There is a history of both anti-Semitic and other forms of vandalism against church property," said Arthur Teitelbaum, southern regional director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, which sponsored the proposed legislation. "In the past," he added, "vandalising of a house of worship has been considered kind of an insignificant act. We believe that a message needs to be delivered to those that would contemplate attacking a house of worship that the state will consider these incidents as serious in the eyes of the law as they are serious and often traumatic in the eyes of the congregation."
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ROME — A decision by Italy's constitutional court has signalled a break between the Italian and Vatican states on marriage regulations that were part of the 1929 Concordat. T he Italian court Church law requires the decision on January groom to be at least 16 and 23 is considered by the bride 14. Italian law the Vatican to be a requires that both spouses unilateral abrogation be at least 18, although a of the international judge can permit the martreaty that was made between Mussolini for riage of someone 16 if there' the Italian state and is sufficient reason and if Pius XI's representat- the person demonstrates psychological maturity. ive. The Italian court has determined that Church marriage annulments will no longer have automatic force under Italian civil law.
Before the court's decision, an underage couple could have a Church wedding, as a result of which their marriage would be entered officially into the civil register.
T he concordat says Church annulments also Since 1976, the Vatican are recognised by civil and the Italian government society. h ave been working together on revising the The constitutional court, 1929 Lateran Pacts, which instead, ruled that canoni- include the concordat. cal annulments will be reviewed on a case by case Dino Felisetti, the head of basis before an Italian the judicial committee of court can grant a civil Italy's Chamber of Depuannulment. ties, said that the court's rulings "are a spur for ParPrime Minister has put towards making it possible est wishes to be a candi- The court also announced liament to close down its forward the two names for a man who is divorced date, he has to sign a deed that an annulment granted work on revising the Laterecommended in order of and remarried, or who is of relinquishment of his by a canonical court on the ran Pacts." preference by a small com- married to a divorcee, to be orders, the equivalent of grounds that the marriage mittee representing the ordained an Anglican pri- laicization. was never physically con- Felisetti's remark, said Church of England as a est. One Anglican priest who summated will not be rec- the Vatican newspaper, has been adopted as a ognised civilly. whole and the diocese indicated the Vatican's concerned. The synod may also dis- Labor Party candidate is in concern that a unilateral The court added that it judicial decision could cuss a private member's the process of doing so. the Crown has decided to In these circumstances .motion in Parliament ask- The prohibition also app- will no longer be possible usurp the work of a longa ppoint to a vacant the synod is being asked to ing for the removal of the lies to Catholic priests, pri- for people married by the standing process of negotibishopric. abolish the custom of for- restriction which prevents ests of the Anglican Church while under the ation which included The nomination is still mally receiving nomina- priests of the Church of churches in Northern Ire- minimum age recognised representatives of the made by the Crown on the tions from the monarch. E ngland from being land and Scotland, and by the state to have their government and the advice of the Prime Minis- The synod will also be elected to Parliament. At ministers of the (Presbyter- marriage recognised by the Church, the two parties to ter. But since 1976 the asked to take the first steps present if an Anglican pri- ian) Church of Scotland. government. the original pacts. 5 The Record, February 25 — March 3, 1982
MOVE TO CUT CROWN'S CHURCH SWAY
LONDON (NC) — Proposals to abolish a vestige of the English monarch's control over the naming of Anglican bishops will c ome before the General Synod of the Church of England ( Anglican) at its meeting in Lonthis week. Under the procedure laid down by King Henry VIII in 1533 in an Act of Parliament, the dean and chapter of the local diocese are instructed by the Crown to elect the particular person
"Among public opinion all over the world the conviction grows daily that peoples must be able to choose freely the social organisation to which they aspire for their own country and that this organisation must conform with justice, respect for liberty, religious faith and the rights of man in general," the pope added. "And it is a conviction commonly shared, that no people should be treated by another people as subordinate or as a tool, to the detriment of the equality which is inscribed in human conscience and recognised by the norms of international law."
ANOINTING SICK AT NORTHAM CEREMONY N ortham parish had a special celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes earlier this month and a big number of the congregation which filled the church received the sacrament of the anointing of the sick. In spite of the 38 degree heat the rosary was recited continually during the day in the church from 10am until benediction at 4pm.
RIGHT: In St Joseph's church, Northam, on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes the anointing of the sick is administered by Fathers Greg Donovan, John Lisle and Joseph Walsh. BELOW LEFT: Mrs Sherry pictured being anointed by Father Donovan.
At 7.30pm the church was filled for Mass conceleBELOW RIGHT: Reading at the Mass was brated by Fathers John Mrs Mary Lisle for whom it was the fifth Lisle, Joe Walsh, Stephen anniversary of her major operation for Cooney and Greg Donocancer. van. After the homily all four priests administered In his homily Father Lisle the sacrament of the sick to quoted the words of the more than 100 people. priest to Bernadette: "Tell y our lady to make roses The sacrament of the sick bloom in my garden in is administered publicly in winter" and called on the Northam on major feasts congregation to ask for but this was the first time it healing even if it sounded had been celebrated on the like having faith in the Lourdes feast day. impossible.
A 'FIRST' FOR AN ORDER IN W.A. The first local novice for the Servite Sisters was received recently in a ceremony marking the inauguration of their novitiate at Hill View Road, Mt. Lawley.
Barbara McDonald, 23, The new novice arrived the eldest of six children of with her family from Mary and Martin McDo- Burma in 1976. For the nald, was received in a past five years she has been ceremony conducted by a laundry worker while the Servite vicar provincial taking units in English and superior Father Liam Christology at the Mt Mackle OS M. Lawley College and also attending the Maranatha p astoral formation programme. She has also been helping the Servite Sisters in their apostolate to Aborigines. The Indian foundation of the Servite Sisters was established in 1854 and today has 1200 professed and 25 novices. sewing. VATICAN CITY (NC) — The French-born queen of an sisters In India they are engaged The Servite Sisters came Italian island, a Maronite nun from Lebanon, the Italian in teaching at university, to WA in December, 1970, founder of the Xavierian Missionary Fathers, nuns from training college, high and have been involved in school and primary school t eaching and pastoral Poland and Spain, and a Spanish Jesuit all moved a step levels along with nursing work with Aborigines and closer to beatification and eventual canonisation earlier of the sick in hospitals and Vietnamese. A fourth sisvillage clinics. They also ter will soon arrive from this month. conduct orphanages and India to help with the RECORD At a Vatican ceremony five others. help cottage instruction of establishment of a frailCLASSIFIEDS attended by Pope John Separate decrees proyoung girls in typing and aged home for migrants. Paul 11, the Congregation claimed the heroic virtues 28 words for $4. for Saint's Causes promul- of: gated decrees on a miracle — Queen Clotilde Adeattributed to Sister Maria laide Saveria of Sardinia, Angela Astorch of Spain who was born in Versailles, and on the heroic virtues of France, on September 23, 1759, and died on March 7, 1802, in Naples, Italy. BELFAST, Northern Ireland (NC) — Catholics in North— Sister Rebecca arRayes de Himlaya de Bik- ern Ireland have collected 295,000 signatures opposing WHAT ARE THEY? THE KIMBERLEYS faya of the Lebanese order a proposal of the British government to close Ulster's or the Diocese of Broome, is the far of Maronites, born in only two Catholic They start by being average practiteacher training colleges. North West part of Australia, Himlaya de Bikfaya of the cal Catholics prepared to share At Masses throughout r oughly Victoria. 3 of size times the will always have suitable "The government recogLebanese order Maroof whatever expertise they have with A subtropical region, with a 'wet' nites, born in Himlaya, Northern Ireland, dubbed teachers for our schools is nises that in England and the Aboriginal children and adults season through the summer Lebanon, in 1832. She died Education Sunday by the the Catholic (teacher trai- Scotland and has given to of the North West of Australia. months; of varied terrain with in Ad Dahr, Lebanon, on bishops, Catholics signed a ning) colleges," wrote Catholic They serve the Church, placing colleges there a petition directed to the new Bishop William Philbin of beautiful beaches but a large part March, 23, 1914. themselves at the disposal of the proportio n of teacher taken up by the Great Sandy Desert. — Archbishop Guido British education minister, Down and Connor in a trainees Bishop, "as vicar and legatee of almost equal to Scott, Nicholas who admirable Aus1959 many Since pastoral letter read in all t he needs of their Maria Conforti of Parma, Christ", (Vat. 11, P382), and assist tralians have contributed in no Italy, founder of the Xav- recently indicated his his churches. him in a spirit of dedication. Catholic school system." small way to the personal growth erian Missionary Fathers, intention to implement a and education of the Aboriginal which currently has about controversial 1980 propThey give themselves totally for 2 people as lay missionaries. years living in groups, co-operating 40 U.S. members. He was osal to merge the two They have formed close and lasting born on March 30, 1865, in Catholic schools into the in fraternal love in the spirit of the ties. Others are needed to continue Ravadesio, Italy, and died state teacher training colGospels, serving on isolated misand improve existing services. sions and townships. on November 5, 1931, in lege at Stranmillis. As this is a two year commit- Parma. With Catholics numberThey are not attached to any reliment there is a continuing need -- Polish Sister Celina ing about 600,000 of Northgious order, fully accepting their f or TEACHERS — HOSTEL Chludzinska, foundress ern Ireland's 1.5 million Christian duty to evangelize accordA SSISTANTS — MISSION and first superior general people, the bishops had ing to their own individual abilities. MANAGERS etc. and for 1982 of the Congregation of the hoped for about 250,000 Under the patronage and guidance we need male and female Mis- Sisters of the Resurrection signatures. The total exof the Bishop they have their own E Tft Assistants (Clerks, cooks, of Our Lord Jesus Christ. ceeded their expectations. sion f ormally constituted Association A widow whose married etc) TRUCK DRIVER — GAR- name was The bishops called the and elected Council. Lay MissionarBorzecka, she DENER — DORMITORY MAS- was born on October 29, plan to eliminate the two ies do not accept a salary, only their TER — TRADESMEN (Builders, 1833, in Antowil, now in Catholic teacher training keep and pocket money. Their fares are paid and a small sum on comS PECIALLY FILTERED Plumbers) and D.C. TRAINED the Soviet Union, and died institutions a threat to all GUAIIANTEED AS PLAT GRAPE JuiCS NAM 1W CONFOR/AITY pletion of their service. on October 26, 1913, in Catholic education in NURSES WITH ECCLESIASTIC. CONCHIIONS 100 CMLIECH UST Northern Ireland. They Cracow, then in AustriaOrientation Course — April, 1982 Hungary and now in treatened to take the case Produced by to the European Court of Poland. CLAREVALE ISAIA r;c", Please Apply — Jesuit Father Fran- Human Rights and to the Nations United Britain if Director, Box 7 P.O., cesco Garate, who was MITTAGONG, NSW, 2575 born on February 3, 1857, goes ahead with the in Recarte, Spain, and died merger. or The Most Rev J. Jobst, D.D., 684 ADVANY HIGHWAY, EAST VICTOR A -PAU on September 9, 1929, in "The only way in which Box 76 P.O., BROOME, WA 6725 TELEPHONE 361 3164 Duesto, Spain. we can make sure that we 6 The Record, February 25 — March 3, 1982
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M ore than six decades later, Frank Grogan has a biding memories of the Sacred Heart Convent S chool at Highgate.
gave His earliest memories of the school centre on Sister Lucy who which catechism in grounding a pupils, of generation h im, and a whole scholarship class run he has never forgotten. Later, he graduated to the Paulinus. Sister inspirational but by the demanding One of her requirements place in the State and The freedom and wide was that every member of Frank was tenth but could range of interests opened the class had to learn by not take the scholarship as up by life at the university heart each night a pres- it was discovered that he proved, initially, a mixed cribed chapter from each was too young. In the next blessing and he had to one of the several text year his friend and class- repeat his first year, but he b ooks set for the mate, Dan Baldwin, was now considers that this first in WA and Frank temporary set-back was a e xamination. "This was a feat of second. Both decided to go timely and salutary lesson. memory," Frank says. as boarders to St Ildephon- During this period he "which looking back on sus' College at New b ecame a foundation member of the WA Newtoday 1 find hard to Norcia. believe; needless to say. for Discipline there was strict man Society and was asked those with a retentive but Frank remembers with by the Archbishop to act as. memory, it was an invalua- warm respect and grati- the Catholic spokesman al ble basis for success in the tude such teachers as a public meeting on church Brothers Andrew, Borgia unity. exam." Some of his classmates and Guibertus. The college were Norma and Dorothy in those days was very Before his university Parker, Monica Devine. strong in sport and many c ourse was completed Barney O'Connor, Harry students, such as the Clune Frank, with his brother and John Williams, -Dan brothers, Dick and Bill Jack, started farming at Baldwin, Joe O'Halloran Bryant, Kevin and Vesty Trayning. Both revelled in and Jim (Snowy) Gal- Byrne and Jack Guhl were the independent outdoor lagher. Norma, with the later to make their mark in life and the warm friendliencouragement and assist- Perth. The devoted lives of ness and co-operative ance of Monsignor McMa- prayer and work of the spirit of the country peoh9n, was to become a very Spanish monks in the ple. He looks back with distinguished pioneer in nearby monastery left a satisfaction on the effort that all concerned put into the field of social studies in lasting impression. building the convent school at Trayning.
Keen sportsmen
Today's People A weekly feature By BOB BOYLE
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service farming. Australia's expe- seconded to the British Australia's economic poli- production, war and settlement land and primary both for and cies Food of Ministry years war Catholics, including the rience during the fisheries. O'Mearas, McCormacks convinced him that such Agriculture in the UK and secondary industries. 1955 until his and Grogans, were keen politics, given sufficient regards the period as one In recent years, Frank From in 1967 he traretirement policies these his of continued, satisfying most the of practicawere various the motivation, in participants have been increasingly velled overseas on a forms of sport and Frank ble. Holding these views, life. missays he had heard it he welcomed the policies "I was most impressed by called into question — number of Australian such alleged, semi-seriously, for advancing agriculture the calibre of the top grade especially by academic sions concerned with matters as international that any events on a Sun- which were advocated in of British civil servants," economists. day had to be timed to fit in the Tenth Report of the Frank says. "They were The trend is towards commodity agreements, with the times for Mass. R ural Reconstruction mainly first-class honours deregulation and greater meetings of the UN Food graduates from Oxford competition in economic and Agriculture OrganisaFrank for a time was a Commission in 1945. of nd Cambridge and activities. Given uncertain tion (FAO) and the Gena officer executive KununopThe the of member eral Agreement on Tariffs pin-Trayning-Yelbeni Road t he Commission, J.G. Mr Francis Osborne Grogan, who retired in and Trade (GATT). Board and recalls inter- (now Sir John) Crawford, serpublic 1967 as a senior Commonwealth After his retirement he viewing with considerable became the first director of vant, was born in Perth on February 28, 1907. was appointed in 1968-69 Bureau newly-created vicethen the the trepidation He started what was to be a distinguished as research consultant in chancellor of the WA Uni- of Agricultural Economics academic career at the kindergarten of the agricultural economics at versity, Professor Whit- and Frank was happy to S acred Heart High School at Highgate before the University of Newfield, and requesting a receive in 1947 an appointentering the Sacred Heart Primary School in Engcastle-upon-Tyne officer research a of rate as ment the in reduction there from which he gained a scholarship land where he was editor of interest which the road in the Bureau. which took him to St Ildephonsus College at and principal contributor board was paying to the New Norcia in 1920. to a book entitled InternaMajor surveys university on a loan. to In 1923 he won a government exhibition tional Trade in Temperate The vice-chancellor's the University of W.A. where he studied agriZone Products. response was favourable In this position he particicultural science for two years before going The Grogans lived in a and a considerable reduc- pated in the major series of years. for 10 Trayning at f arming small village outside Newtion in the rate was made in economic surveys of AusdurA s an external student of the university castle where their house recognition of the financial tralia's agricultural indusing these 10 years he gained an arts degree in adjoined a golf course. Bureau tries which the problems of the period. economics from the university to which he Frank inquired whether he carried out. returned and completed his agricultural could join the club. The In addition, in 1950 and science degree. suggestion was rejected surundertook Frank 1951 He was awarded a Hackett studentship because there was a long Degree obtained veys of the copra and under which he spent a year researching wheat waiting list. r ubber industries of farming costs in the Belka Valley, and as a When he explained that Papua-New Guinea. He master's his gained result of this study he would not want to play he world plantation the degree in agricultural science. During this period, too, found at weekends, the club, as a After starting with the State Department of he obtained, by external stimulating but exhaustgesture of goodwill to a vising, particularly when the A griculture, he held various positions in the A Portrait of Frank Grogan when he had just study, the degree of BacheAustralian, amended iting life social hospitable very until his service retireCommonwealth public won a government scholarship, taking second lor of Arts (in Economics). *as added to the strenuous to fit him in as a rules its ment in 1967 as First Assistant Secretary of He returned to the univermid-week member. Place in the state, and been selected for the the Department of Primary Industry, based in sity in 1938 and completed travelling by jeep and the "I know a number of W.H. Vincent scholarship at the University of his degree in agricultural careful and detailed analyCanberra. in Australia that clubs accounts plantation of sis Holt) are Frank and his wife Carol (nee WA. ,science and was awarded a bend over backwouldn't required. job his members of the Star of the Sea parish at CotA ustralia. Also, Brother Lewis (one Hackett studentship. which wards like that to accommainplanters Some parish council. is the where he on tesloe 1939 spent he this Under school Barney O'Connor was of the monks) had a modate a visitor in my w orking as an entomoligist for Aboriginal boys in researching wheat farming tained the colonial lifestyle position," the tall septualifeis made I perthis them assumptions, among enshsemi-grandeur of at Rabaul when the Japa- lust proximity to the col- costs in the Belka Valley laughed. genarian I whom with OK but the friends fectly real long Somerset nese invaded it during lege and recollections of and was awarded his mas- rined by world is very different He returned to Canberra W orld War II. He per- these lively and intelligent ter's degree. As an aid to Maugham but others were still correspond." unconventional A fter his return from the from the often simplistic in 1970 and throughout formed the hazardous feat y oungsters have since this type of research work, extremely a in never before UK Frank accepted an one found in textbooks that year worked as a manner of walking round the coas- made Frank reflect what a he studied accountancy opportunity to take up a and he says "I ha'e me research assistant to his tline of New Guinea and poor job our society has and became an Associate experienced by Frank. the Policy doubts" about the out- friend and former chief, Sit Papua through enemy- done in utilising such of the Federal Institute of He could foresee prob- position in of the newly- come of deregulation on a John Crawford, who had ariat Secret prothe with looming lems held "tiger" country back promising human potent- Accountants. become vice-chancellor at of wide scale. formed Department of development gressive His experiences of the to Port Moresby. Very ial. Trade headed by Sir John In 1960 he left Trade to the Australian National r ecently, on a trip to SydWith his Leaving Certifi- f arm throughout the Papua-New Guinea and become First Assistant University. Crawford. ney, Frank had a pleasant cate pass at New Norcia in depression of the 1930s left sometimes has the desire to with the it time During his Secretary of the Depart- At the end of that year he has what see to back go of conviction r eunion with these two old 1923, he won the Vincent him with the ment of Primary Industry and his wife returned tc the under ment, depart country c lassmates. scholarship and a govern- the desirability of govern- happened to the Western Australia and In the government scho- ment exhibition and went ment and industry policies since it achieved independ- ministerial direction of Sir where he had oversight of policies settled happily at then a department's the exercised John McEwen, ecoence. the lessen would that to WA of larship examinations of t o the University home in Cottesloe. 1 918 Barney gained first study agricultural science. nomic uncertainties of In 1953-54 he was profound influence on relating to agricultural nresent 7 The Record, February 25 — March 3, 1982
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the justice of the whole socioeco- in order to take up paid work This is the Vatican's English translation of nomic system and, in any case, of outside the home is wrong from Pope John Paul li's encyclical letter "Laborem checking that it is functioning the point of view of the good Exercens" On Human Work addressed to his more justly. society and of the family when it tod exactly, by showing the many contradicts hinders or these venera ble brothers in the episcopate, to the El') Cod forms of conditioning within It is not the only means of primary goals of the mission of a El') riests, to the religious families, to the sont Cod which these relationships are checking, but it is a particularly mother. El') indirectly formed. importan t one and a in sense and the daughters of the Church, and to all men Loa El') key means. Cod and women of good will, On Human Work, onw El') This consideration does not Cod howev er have a purely descripninetieth anniversary of Rerum Novarum. the N THIS context it should be Cod tive purpose; it is not a brief treaHIS means of checking con- emphasized that on a more genEl') el tise on economics or politics. It is cerns above all the family. Just eral level the whole labor process El') a A third sector concerns the rect relationship between wotkerm matter of highlighting the remuneration for the work of an must be organised Cod and adapted right to a pension and to insu- and employer. to deontological and moral aspect. adult who is responsible for a in such Cod a way as to respect the rance for old age and in case of there Among c.) these rights V I The key problem of social ethics family means remuneration requirements of the person and accidents at work. Cod should never be overlooked then V Iin this case is that of just remunwhich will suffice for establishing his or her forms of life, above all Cod Within the sphere of these prin- right to a working environment: El') eration for work done. In the and properly maintaining a fam- life in the home, taking into cipal rights there develops a and to manufacturing processes LI Cod El') context of the present there is no ily and for providing security for account the individual's age and whole system of particular rights which are not harmful to theri Lea more important way for securing its future. V/ sex. which, together with remunera- workers' physical health or to gi Cod a just relationship between the It is a fact that in many societies tion for work, determine the cor- their moral r,a El') worker integrity. and the employer Such remuneration can be' women work in nearly every sec- irgririegegegrirqrivieleg elegrgegevevegritivrvrgrosegrn1VI El') that constituted by remunerathan given 14 either through what is tor of life. But it is fitting that 1611""/"1""64611"6"` tion Cod 264("1"‘"1"6`1"64646`2646"1"1"2" El') for work. called a family wage — that is, a they should be able to fulfill their T,3 El') Whether the work is done in a single salary given to the head of tasks in accordanc e with their E3 Cod El') system of private ownership of the family for his work, sufficient own nature, without being disCod the means of production or in a for the needs of the family with- criminated against and without en V I Cod system where ownership has out the other spouse having to being excluded from jobs for PI Cod undergone a certain "socializa- take up gainful employment outwhich they are capable,butalso i fr; DUBLIN, El') Cod tion," the relationship between side the home — or through without lack of respect for their t Ireland (NC) — An Irish parliamentary ig Cod the employer (first and foremost other social measures such as family aspirations and for their g.a delegation that recently visited El Salvador sharply V I the direct employer ) and the family allowances or grants to specific role in contributing, E3 rapped the Cod Salvadoran government's human rights El') worker is resolved on the basis of mothers devoting themselves together with men, to the good of Ll record, criticise d U.S. policy toward the Central El') the wage, that is, through just exclusively to their families. society. en A Cod remuneration merica n country of the work and declared that the approachdone. El') The true advancement of tal Cod These grants should correspond women requires that labor co, ing elections in El Salvador are "nothing more than V I Cod to the actual needs, that is, to the should be structured in such a a farce." V I Coa T SHOULD also be noted number of dependents for as way that women do not have to &a In a 96-page report V I released this has decided to certify that the condiCod that the justice of a socioeco_ long as they are not in a position pay for their advancement by n month the delegation called for an tions have been met, and so the Cod nomic system and, in each case, to assume proper responsibility abandoning what is specific to n end to military aid to El Salvador slaughter of the citizens of El SalvaEl') its just functionin g, deserve in for their own lives, them and at the expense of the El and urged a negotiated settlement as dor will continue with the help of Cod C") the final analysis to be evaluated family, in which women as moth- Eli "the only realistic solution to the U.S. aid," he said. "a by t." the way in which man's work El') Deputy Michael D. Higgins ers have an irreplaceable role. lc; conflic Cod It also called the Salvadoran another delegation member, said (..1 El') is properly remunerated in the LjXPERIENCE confirms gov ernment's land reform pro- that, with "a long tradition of offien Cod system. that there must be a social reCod gramme V I "ill-conceived and unsuited cially organised electoral fraud'' II en Cod Here we return once more to the evaluatio n of the mother's role, J..JESIDES wages, El') to conditions in the and El Salvador and only parties of thc C.) first principle of the whole ethi- of the toil connected with it and social benefits intended various * called for more aid forcountry" an estimated right participating in the planned to ensure rod Cod cal and social order, namely the of the need that children have for the life and health of workers and E3 400,000 refugees from the country's March elections, the elections are an El') principal of the common use of care, love and affection in order their families play a part here. E3 civil war. Cod "insultingly cynical" attempt "tc V I goods. In every system, regardthat they may develop into The expenses involved in health E3 The report also contradicted the dress up a military dictatorship ir Cod less of the fundamental relation- responsible, morally and reli- care, especially in the case of til U.S. State Department's recent the trappings of democracy." Irood ships within it between He called the land reform pro. El') capital giously mature and psychologi- accidents at work, demand that 101 human rights report statement that Cod and labor, it is impossible to allocate blame on gramme a cosmetic operation. Th( wages, that is to say cally stable persons. medical assistance should be easthe right or left for the thousands coffee. c ountry's food remuneration for work, are still a ily available for workers and that g, civilian killings in El Salvador. of producing important exemptec V I land been has rod practical means whereby the vast It will redound to the credit of as far as possible it should be c..) "The security forces are primarily from V I the programme for a decade majority of people can have society to make it possible for a cheap or even free of charge. E3 responsible for the estimated 36,000 he said, and many of the tenan C") access to those goods which are mother — without inhibiting her Another sector regarding Cod murders which have occurred in El farmers who try to obtain title t( El') intended for common use: both freedom, Salvador over the past two years," their land under the programme an without psychological benefits is the sector associated Cod V I the goods of nature and manu- or practical murdered by the armed forces. discrimin ation, with and the right to rest. In the first Fl said the Irish delegation's report. Coa V I factured goods. without penalizing her as com- place this involves a regular t..1 At a press conference releasing the The parliamentary group als( Cod report Deputy Niall Andrews, a endorsed the findings of Trocaire Both kinds of goods become pared with other women — to weekly rest El') comprisin g at least te, member of the delegation, criticised the Irish Catholic aid agency, issue( en accessible to the worker through devote herself to taking care of Sunday and also a longer period taws President Reagan's certification of last August which, similar to thos, roa the wage which he receives as her children and educating them of rest, namely the en holiday or i human rights progress Ga remuneration for his work, in accordance with their needs, vacation taken once a year or a dor, declaring that thein El Salva- of the parliamentary delegation five condi- were also sharply critical of th, " Hence in every case a just wage which vary with age. Cod . possibly in several shorter pen- g,3 tions laid down by the U.S. Congress R egan administration's pone: 1141 is the concrete means of verifying Having to abandon these tasks ods during the year. Cod VI for continuing U.S. military aid to El toward El Salvador, calling for V Ir nenenene gene yenenene venene owieienenenen Lod Salvador had not been met. enenene negotiated solution and an end to al nenenen enenene nenenele Cod g• Me di•Jf• %no Jan.% dIailleIN• al• wane all.ate talle 41• aro %Marra& en "Nevertheless, diI•MeMira&1.1114fie deo alba* 411.311141"lf• Jewillo lease, %lb age 41 lia President Reagan arms assistance. 10 The Record, February 25 — March 3, 1982 All that has been said
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was keeping an eye open Thanks be to God for his for country properties. So goodness and blessings on the wheels were set in the project so far. motion. Thanks be to God for the Walyunga National This week has seen the hundreds of parents, encouraged and supported The name of the prop- eagle's nurturing of its cent culmination of 16 months teachers, students and the project from its first erty, at present, is "The young. "I carried you on Park. kilometres hard work by the youth 29 is site The brought and wings eagle's Nest." Eagle's beginning. young workers who gave from the Midland Town leadership centre committheir time voluntarily and Earlier this month the Should this name con- you to myself'. minutes tee (Cavan Wood, Michael Archbishop approved the tinue, as is often custom- Eagle's Nest is situated in Hall clock, and 45 generously. easy drive from the city. Hegney, John Noonan, Thanks be to God to the conditional purchase of ary once a property is O'Brien Road, Gidgeganpropthe Patricia Wells, Sheila heard of first I from kilometres 15 nup. chapto alludes it named, the and Archbishop, the Auxiliary the property and and myself), to Pye Mazzella Deidre from erty Road Toodyay he t Exoof Book the in 19 ter Bishops, Quinn and Healy Catholic Youth Council Gary Strange who came to achieve a camp site. the Chancellor, Father accepted the building com- dus where the Lord likens intersection. rapids me for marriage preparaPeter McCrann and the mittee's recommendation his tender care of the The Avon river ad'a- tions soon after the final I am not really superstithe h u thro. cascade the to seople chosen a site. Gidgegannu Senate of Priests who have for the refusal from the Armadale tious but when the CarmeShire Council to develop lite nuns at Nedlands told me to bury a medal of St. the Bedfordale site. Joseph at the Bedfordale Gary, who is a drilling site, I did so with Michael contractor, offered to put Hegney. down a bore at our next I wonder if it is just a location. His fiancee, Dei- coincidence that the settledre, quietly informed me ment day for our Gidgethat she had just the right gannup site is March 19, place for us as her hobby the feast day of St. Joseph!
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ARGARET Lynch has found a purpose in life as a counsellor with the Catholic Marriage Guidance Council. She is chairman of the Council and recently attended the Australian Conference of Marriage Counselling Organisations in Canberra. She believes that people need to work at being married before the cracks appear . . . many seek help when they are at crisis point and that can be too late. The CMGC, she says, is a body that aims to make marriages work but its counsellors don't stand in judgment nor do they preach Church policy. They sit and listen and gently help people to find their own way to a stable relationship.
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Margaret became an asth- MLA for Yilgarn-Merredin and the ing" and being restricted to home matic after the birth of twin sons family moved to Perth. when the children were small, but in 1964. She was too weak to there's no question mark in her mind walk and it gave her more than as to whether it's all worth it. enough time to read and think IONEL Kelly was a member of about life. Parliament for 30 years and the young
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"I got a lot closer to God," she said. Kelly family grew up in an enthusiastic HE little Lynchs saw her on tuck"My love for Him grew tremendously. political atmosphere. It made for shop duty for quite some time (they've Eventually the asthma was cured and I plenty of dinner-table discussion. had a child at St Benedict's for around had found peace in myself. I found The family settled at Canning Bridge 23 years) but she always made a that because I loved God I could love and Margaret went to St Columba's in moment for parish work as well. It has South Perth. Margaret finished Year been a part of her life, before her marothers." She uses the word love readily and 10 and went on to business college and riage and after. explains that for many people it is a finally a job with an insurance Margaret was a member of the origiterm that is ill-defined and often c ompany. nal committee formed to plan the She met her future husband, Denis, building of a church in Applecross misunderstood. "For me it means caring and con- at a South Perth YCW dance. Mar- parish. She has been secretary of the garet was 19 at the time . . . two years St Benedict's P&F; a member of St cern," she said. later they were married and 12 months Brendan's Ladies Auxiliary; member on the first of their seven children of the Our Lady of the Missions P&F; arrived. on the St Brendan's board of manageOVE brought the purpose into her life when, in 1975, she began train- Bernard, now 28, trained as a social ment for four years and secretary of ing as a marriage counsellor. Mar- worker but his love was music and he the St Benedict's Parish Council for garet is currently chairman of the is now leader of the Eurogliders four years. Her work in marriage counselling Catholic Marriage Guidance Council, group. one of two Government-funded mar- "They're in the Phillipines at present began seven years ago. She completed riage advisory bodies in Western cutting a record; we're very pleased for a three-year training course and him," Margaret said. "When they became chairman of the Catholic Australia. back they will be based in Marriage Guidance Council in June. "I love my work and I love my come Sydney." Always interested in psychology and clients," she said. "When I look at them I have a deep Second son Tim, 26, is a Bachelor of people, she was motivated to do somedesire for them to be happy. I know it Business Administration and works as thing about it when she saw an adveran insurance representative. tisement for the Centrecare marriage is a gift from God." Margaret was born in 1931. Her par- Moira, 25, is a schoolteacher/ librar- counselling course. ents, Lionel and Inez Kelly, lived in ian at Mel Maria school; Susan, 23, "We had to counsel for 200 hours the small Goldfields town of Bul- w orks with the Commonwealth before we were qualified," she said. lfinch. Her father was manager of a Employment Service; the twins, Gre- "I didn't find it harder than I had goldmine and storekeeper. She was gory and Francis, 17, are in Year 12 at thought but I did find it brought a lot the third child, with two brothers, St Brendan's, Hilton, and Emily, 10, is out of myself. It put me on my mettle at St Benedict's. and made me realise how much we John and Francis. Sadly, her mother died when Mar- "We always wanted to have a large take for granted. garet was a baby. Three years later her family," Margaret said. "When they "It did help me to understand, certainly within my own family. I think I father re-married and four other child- started coming I liked it. ren were eventually added to the fam- "We've been so lucky, we've had it always was tolerant but it made me ily — Pat, Terry, Marian and Aileen. both ways. We've had children early more tolerant." A fter a year at the tiny State school in and late in our marriage. It was wond- She believes that marriage counselBullfinch, Margaret was sent to erful when the twins arrived, one of ling is vital, that someone must work boarding school in Southern Cross the best things that ever happened to to hold marriages together. with the St Joseph Sisters of the us. The older children were terrific and Sacred Heart. Despite the kindness of really helped out . . . it was so lovely." the nuns, she was very homesick and Margaret is the first to admit that EOPLE aren't prepared for marbreathed a sigh of relief four years large families are demanding. She riage, aren't prepared to love . . . that later when her father became the remembers the first four years as "tir- means there is no solid base for the -v-************************************************ relationship. There is lack of communication, understanding and tolerance and it takes just a little knock to set off the first crack. The counsellors, she says, aren't as well used as they could be. There is some belief that many Catholics seek aid from the State marriage guidance body. She wonders why. Left to right: Mrs": "Perhaps they feel other Catholics will judge them," she said. A ustralia 19821 "They may feel that because we are Corraine Sopru: against divorce we will be biased. It from Adelaide;: isn't so; our job is to hold marriages t ogether but we don't bring Church Mrs Australia* policy into the conversation unless the Charity, Inez Bak-: client requests it." er from Perth;* With national figures showing that one in five marriages is likely to end in Production Super- divorce, the counsellors fill a vital role. visor, Brett Wileyl They are not gurus and don't profess and Producer Poul* t o have all the answers. They are concerned people who are ready to listen. Dahl at the Mrs* There are no real qualifications but A ustralia Quest* there are certain factors that make for held recently at: more effective counselling, Margaret said. t he Sheraton* "The counsellor must have empathy Hotel Golden Bal-* and warmth; they must also be tolerIroom and tele-* ant and accepting," she said. vised by Channel: "It is not necessary to have had first• hand experience of the other person's NINE Perth. problems but you do have to be * genuinely interested and non* • -211.441.1..414.101.101.41.* 411-41.4.41.4.4144.4.101.4.41. judgemental.
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"They are there because they need someone to sit and listen. In talking and telling they make up their own minds. It is not a telling or advising role."
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"Too many come when they are in crisis; if only they would come earlier. We can help them to sort out their problems and while our aim is to make the marriage work, it's important for them to realise that even if they do still separate, they will have worked their problems through first.
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ONE of us have much idea " about living together when we get married but I've noticed that young people now don't expect to have to give of themselves. "They are selfish and set in their ways. Perhaps more so these days. because young couples wait so long to have children. No-one says raising a family isn't hard work but it does teach you to give and take. "I guess that's what we try to teach them in counselling. We aim to help, people to find ways to deal with problems as they arise. They find their capabilities and some control so they're not constantly blown by the wind and can adapt to relationships,' she said. Margaret recently attended the Australian Conference of Marriage Counselling Organisations. She works as a counsellor two days a week and is one of 10 employed by the CMGC. The CM GC office at 27 Victoria Square, Perth, is open from 9am to 4.30pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and from 9am to 8pm on Wednesday. Appointments can be made by ringing 325 6644.
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For feature of raising some of Her funeral took place at emphasis. 277 8780 ecial half-court set up T he the Catholic Lawn Cemequite believe their couldn't the information these ring further at occasion funds. the A PPELBEE'S Electrical r T he programme is tery Karrakatta on Tueswhen they though, eyes, Shopping 3459. C 361 lothing, rrinyuP furniture. Service, 33 Avery Avenue. a day February 3, 1982, after expected to last approxiarrived at Karrinyup for ntre. Dianella. Phone 276 2344. c rockery, paintings, kite mately hours. two . Requiem Mass celebrated Installations, Repairs and chenware, foodstuffs ' the Half-Court Tennis the final match and met Michael Brennan, the jams, pickles, potplants in St-Joseph's Church Sal- centre coordinator said Maintenance. 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No or 444 0480. Any assist husband of Monica, Dear- The resource centre has a as fete items for the twoance will be elevision stations in organised by Nine and appreciated. t 897. 444 1707. est father and father-in-law comprehensive range of day sale on March 20-21. If presenting special shows. Perth. on materials the sacraCarpenter. Wants work. of John and Mona, Jay you can help please ring and Ron Tony is seen each weekend Willesee erry T ments and year liturgical A second hand piano is and Shirl, Michael and No job too small. Will do the Co-ordinator, Barbara Berryman fronted for reading the news and c arpentry, plumbing. required for a Kimberley Shirley, Noel and Glen, and there are a range of Harris, on 328 8113. Channel Nine and soundly weather. painting, bricklaying, and Catholic Mission. Patricia, Des and Cathy. valuable print and audiov- V olunteers are also t iling. Patios, gutters. Please contact Catholic Loving Poppa of 15 grand- isual resources available at required to assist the disc leaned and roof repairs. Missions Office, 23 Victo- children and 5 great this time. For general information abled people in selling Doors and windows eased. ria Square, perth, WA. grandchildren. articles. Phone 325 5264. All areas Ph. 367 4065. Jesus, Mary and Joseph about the centre and its resources 7166. phone 386 keep him in your loving FOR HIRE Pictured at the January Engaged Encounti GIRL 20-35 WANTED to care. weekend are Elaine Davidson and Terrent Rest In Peace. share lovely unit Mount Pires, both of Bentley, who are to be marri P ALMER'S HIRE Lawley $30 per week plus BEREAVEMENTS on August 28. SERVICE expenses phone 342 4415. In your mercy pray for the All party equipment, soul of Bartholomew (Bat) glassware, etc R ACE ONE: 1. Pat's Tri- RACE SIX: 1. Calruin, 2. TUITION Kirby loved husband of A prayer -meditation umph, 2. Steam Press, 3. Hawkeman, 3. Our Equal. Crockery, cutlery, Noreen and father of Ross course in four sessions will Fashion Lodge. RACE SEVEN: 1. Punkie PERSONAL tuition 11) Cabaret tables, chairs and Reg. May perpetual be given by Father John All members are requestRACE TWO: I. Kimber- Knight, 2. Fast Busy, 3. t restles, coloured lights lady instructor holder o light shine upon him. May Prendiville, S.J. commenc- ed to attend, wherever posThe Faith and Shar, ley Echo, 2. Youknowme, Autumn's Double. ing on Tuesday, March 2at sible, the Women's World elec. urns, pie warmers National Safety Counci he rest in peace. group will have Mass an 3. Naughty John. 8pm in the Parish Centre, Day of Prayer, on March cold plates, dance floors, Certificate. Mayfair DrivACE EIGHT: I. Uncle Channel Nine's Terry Willessee and publicity manager, Ron Berryman show their tennis prowess in the half court tennis series at day of reflection on Si RACE THREE: 1. Over- R ing School - Telephono W EDDINGS Tyrell Street, 45 Nedlands. 5. Dominic, 2. Mountview the Karrinyup shopping centre. marquees, etc. Old Testament Courses, day, March 28, fro flow Sonia, 2. Dayna's 384 3220, A ' H 384 9028 For the special Sands. of day add For further information, If there is not a service Star 3. Spec, 49 Kent Street with stress on the 9.30am to 6pm at the Go Farewell, 3. Loose Love, Ailsa Jean Bell, Prop harmony to the arranged within your area, occasion phone 381 5100. Cannington Ampol Safety Centre, 1C by having Shepherd convent hall a RACE FOUR: I. Flash Of RACE NINE: 2. Opal On Sunday, FebruCovenant Theme there is one at Wesley vocal/guitarist Phone 458 2891 Ruislip Stre Love, 2. Satan's Ego, 3. Plaza, 2. Hasty Typhoon, ary 28, play in the chapel, Stirling Road, Claremont Marie Wallace and Church at 1 lam. sing for you Dukent Charm. WE CAN DELIVER Agents for Safe 'N' Sounc and your final Sheffield Shield Leederville. 3. Whatta Cheek. year. Our for Spirituality this theme The guests in the Pasky RACE si TEN: Smith I. 1. 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Although it is too early to pre- .410••••••411.4.4.4.411010**•••••••••••••••••••••• a Nigerian bishop said: would continue, the pope formation. An African dict the long-term effect it is "The pope has found his said, firmly and with a change a hut into a q hon health here in Africa." smile: "I am decided. Prov- and work into rhythm. clear that in the papal trip the The journey had to be idence has to show me pope's message was notable encouraging for the pope. what to do, but I am Africans have app!it There were some who decided." their natural energy 7 not only for its novelty but for feared that he would wilt There is another inpor- enthusiasm for life to 0 its insistence. under the oppressive heat, tant way to gauge the trip's new-found faith. They ,
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yet the pope outpaced his effect. The pope had called In many cases he had nomic change. Vatican companions. It the African journey a pilWhat pope's the words covered the ground was proof that he can grimage. When one goes mean African will develto before, particularly in 0.104.4104.41.41040••••••••••••••••••••••1011 resume the travelling pas- on pilgrimage, he is his first African trip in opment can only be known torate interrupted by the strengthened in his faith 1 980 to six other much later. What is clear head. Several million more therapeutic. Looking tired attempt on his life on May and returns with fresh now is that pastorally the Africans — their eyes and drawn upon his arrival 13. countries. ideas. visit
But this time he hammered more persistently at the need for retaining cultural and religious values in a time of sweeping eco-
was important to dancing with excitement, those visited. their voices cheering, their People who once felt that bodies swaying to native they lived on the fringes of music — have seen the the Catholic world now pope. feel closer to its visible For the pope the trip was
LOVE, GENEROSITY AS FAMILY BASIS
in the steamy heat of The African trip was the Lagos, the pope visibly 10th outside Italy of his gained strength and enthu- pontificate. siasm with the passing of Asked by a journalist on each day. the return flight to Rome Midway through the trip. whether the papal trips •
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ONITSHA, Nigeria: In a homily to more than a million people gathered. in Onitsha at a Mass for the Christian family, the pope called for strong family life based on love and generosity, but again linked family virtue to social morality. "If you wish to avoid hav- and the Gospel message. ing a society that runs the Later in the day the pope risk of becoming more and had a special message for more depersonalised and the children of Nigeria. standardised and therefore "Let me say it to you" he inhuman and dehumanis- told the children, "the way ing, then strengthen the I was taught by my structures of family life. mother, who told me when Love your families, respect I was a child: 'treat others them," he said. the way you would have The pope frequently them treat you.' praised traditional African religious and cultural "Dear child of Nigeria, by values, particularly the acting in this way, you social structure of the have more power than all extended family, which he the nuclear power stations called an "umbrella of in the world, because you charity" that extends have the power to bring family-style caring to the peace and happiness to the elderly, sick and others world. who would otherwise be forgotten. I am talking about the But he also warned power that is yours under against the African tradi- God, the power to love, the tion of polygamy, saying power to love every other that the faithful union child. between one man and one "Dear Child, God has woman comes from God. loved you — now you must He also warned Nigerians love in return." against a modern "antilife mentality" and the modern evils of "divorce, contraception and abortion" as contrary to both their African traditions
One test of trip's success will be what the pope brings back from Africa to the universal Church. The pontiff has spent a week with peope skilled in trans-
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Many Catholics in otl parts of the world Iv ( inherited a faith whict old, and the thrill of ( covery is not there: 1 final test of the pope's t may be whether he bring some African fre ness to the way Ott Catholics live their faitl
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COTONOU, BENIN (NC) —by "You are in a political and soci situation which I know well 13): or experience," .polish-born Pope re John Paul II told the six bishop:: s̀yt of Benin during his half-daylof„ visit to the small West African*it ea nation. P, Stopping in Benin for only about six hours12 between visits to Nigeria and Gabon, the popela celebrated a morning Mass before a crowd of about 20,000 at Cotonou's sports stadium.
With the pope was Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, the 44 first native bishop from Benin, who as president of the Pontifical Justice and Peace Commission and of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" is the highest-ranking African in the Vatican. Benin, the former French protectorate of Dahomey which gained independence in 1960, has been under avowedly Marxist-Leninist political rule since 1972. and in the early 1970s the Catholic Church suffered strong repression as the political leadership took up 3 programme of regid ideological formation. Schools were forbidden to teach religion, missionarie • were expelled and some priests were jailed. The country's 1977 constitution proclaimed freedon of conscience and worship, however, and in recent year the Church and government have co-operated in somrth areas such as health care. W ARRANTY The teaching of religion is not allowed in the schoolsbi AUTO REPAIRS which were nationalised early in the marxist era. CateS1 chetical teaching is allowed in the churches, but th( PAT CURTIS v government schedules meetings and rallies to conflic T with church activities. ha The press is government-controlled, and public dissen br-1 with marxist ideology is not allowed. at On his arrival address Pope John Paul recalled th(;,... missionary history of the Catholic Church in Benin anc'T cited Cardinal Gantin as a symbol of the Church com.. 11 LIBREVILLE, Gabon (NC) — Questioning of the priest's ing J u( of age there. identity and mission is "surely excessive and debilitating," Pope "There may still be a long task of evangelisation to Oh.' For alr‘iiiiir complete complished," he said, but "the Church of Benin is tc. John Paul II declared at a meeting with clergy, religious and ac In * Mechanical Repairs solidly planted tree, a tree of the land it is in." * Fleet Servicing al catechists shortly after his arrival in Gabon. Clearly challenging frequent charges by leftist govern , * Welding ments in Africa colon that the Church in Africa a is The priesthood is a late afternoon meeting catechists, prayer leaders, * Aligning force, the pope said that when the first European mis "mystery and sacra- with priests, religious and parish assistants, teachers countries, with an annual sionaries * Balancing gross national product of arrived in Benin from France in 1861. a, ca ment" techists. that "comes * Steam Cleaning and lay apostolate leaders. about 2,600 per capita. "They had not come to colonise in the name of theil from God and returns Besides warning against Gabon, which straddles * Tuning etc. country. In any case, one was Spanish and the other wa- ai to God," and "total excessive questioning of the equator in Africa's Nothing a shortage of pri- Italian they came in the name Personalised Service of Jesus Christ, whc Pick up & delivery discovery of it is never the priesthood, the pontiff west coast, is sometimes ests in the country, which intends His light and love for each people, and whc • also strongly affirmed the referred to as the "bastion gains achiev has not had an ordination ed," the pope permanence brethren in all races." PHONE 361 1340 and special of the cross of Africa" in two years, the pope The pope was corn mented. cheered by thousands of enthusiasti(11! character of ordination. WARRANTY because of its high percen- urged the priests to strive Beninese lining the route from The pope, who had The pope also praised the the spotta! AUTO REPAIRS tage of Catholics, who to be better priests, and stadium. There invited Moslem airport tocolourful started l%. his day leaders in and Lagos, and thanked REAR 646 ALBANY H'WAY the men and make up nearly half of its said that his commen dressed medicin ts e men, representing the still-domina01 Nigeria, and made a half- women religious who Trendsetter Auto's have estimated 1.2 million applied to "many other native Animist religions of Benin were present alontiu Via, 1 Miller St. Victoria Park day stop in Cotonou, come to work in Gabon people. countries in the world" as with Catholics. Benin, before flying on to since the first missiona In his homily Pope John Paul focused on the needfoail P.O. Box 389 Victoria Gabon, was nearly two arrived 138 years ago, ry Because of rich mineral well. and and timber resources "There are moments evangelisation in the hours behind schedule in the numerous lay small country, where about ”Pt Park 6100 workers coupled with a low popula- when quality must neces- percent of the 3.5 million people are Catholics but manYv arriving at Libreville's St who take leadersh A/H 458 8821 ip roles tion density, it is one of sarily make up for quan- people in the sparsely inhabited jungle interior have had Mary Cathedral for the in the Gabonese Church as A frica's most affluent tity," he said. little or no contact with Christianity. 16 The Record, February 25 — March 3, 1982
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