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The fact that Bishop Myles McKeon would most appreciate in retirement was his presence as a bishop at the Second Vatican Council, the dean of Bunbury, Father Leon Russell, said last Friday night. "The significance of this privilege can be seen in the fact that in 2000 years of Catholic history there have been only 21 ecumenical general c ouncils, the previous being a little over 100 years ago," Father Russell continued.
He was speaking in the South West Italian Club where 700 people gathered for Mass and a supper presentation in the first of three deanery farewell functions to Bishop McKeon whose retirement has been accepted by Pope John Paul. Bunbury parish council president Mr Kevin Rynge headed the organisation of a function that included 16 priests and representatives from the parishes of Bunbury, Dardanup, Brunswick, Harvey, Waroona, Mandurah and Pinjarra. During the Mass music was provided by organist Peter Leunig and singing was conducted by Anna Buswell. At the presentation Dr Don McKenna spoke on behalf of the laity. "The impetus and direction that the council gave the Church has been picked up by our bishop and put into practice in a most effective way. Its results can be seen in so many ways," Father Russell continued. "Priests, sisters and brothers along with the people of God are renewing themselves in the spirit of the council; lay people are exercising a more vital and integral part in Church life; the liturgy of the parishes has been I updated. the nder th sI)i o f Vaticanu the spirit many bishop, has waC:ts its council lathers, n yone Mayor of Bunbury, Pat ns"plinr astowin the with pictured is McKeon Bishop A fter his farewell Mass in St Patricks Cathedral, Bunbury, truly been experienced.
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*THE NEW HOLDEN RANGE The visit to Perth this coming week of top English ecumenist, Monsignor Richard Stewart, not have come at a more opportune time, a member of the Perth archdiocesan committee *QUALITY USED VEHICLES could for ecumenism said this week. *SPARE PARTS " With the Anglican- split from Catholicism at sion making the pages a major news story in all visit and has to limit his stay in Australia so that he Commission final the. time of the Protestant frequently in the secular papers. Catholic *SERVICE report in the news head- Reformation but we are press, but the visit of Pope "Monsignor Stewart is can return in time to attend
lines and Pope John Paul bewildered at the religious John Paul II is going to be closely associated with that to details of the visit. about to make a history- polarisation that cut right shattering visit to Britain, through social and politiinterest in Monsignor Ste- cal structures in English wart's observations will be speaking countries until high," said Miss Pat Ryan, very recently," Miss Ryan one of ten members on the said. A Victorian Carmelite priest is to be committee. "Today under the impe- the foundation principal of Corpus Monsignor Stewart, who tus of Vatican II we are reCollege, the new archdioceresides in Rome, has been examining our supposit- C hristi nal Catholic high co-educatio for many years a member ions and weighing the san of the Vatican Secretariate relevance of much of this school opening in 1983. for Church Unity of which history to our circumstanFather Robert McCor- at the end of May to interArchbishop Goody was a ces today. member for 10 years. Mon- "A man with the top-level mack, 0. Carm., MA view prospective students signor Stewart is en route c ontact experienced by (Hons), 36, a staff member for 1983. Applications for to Sydney for the national Monsignor Stewart, who is of Whitefriars College, was the initial 100 places in meeting of Australian ecu- a native of England, will chosen from among 25 Year 8 are already being menical commissions to help us in Australia to applicants from through- received and details are a vailable from the which Father W. Uren Si understand the subtleties out Australia. Catholic Education Office. has and Mr Bill Huxley will underlying the critically McCormack r Fathe travel as Perth delegates. important dialogue going s tudied at Polding College, Siteworks have begun at Monsignor Stewart will on between Catholic and Sydney, and at Fordham Bateman and the project is University, has taught reli- on time for the anticipated give a public lecture in the Anglican groups. Fr McCormack St Thomas More College "He is also a keen gious education and Eng- 1983 opening. chapel on Friday, April 30, observer on the moves lish at Whitefriars and has Father Robert sees an at 8pm on the topic, towards unity between been involved in the reli- active involvement of par- He is eager to develop R eversing the Schisms of A nglican and other gious education pro- ents in religious education adult education as an gramme in Victoria state programmes as being an extension of the role of the the 16th Century. churches. important aspect to be fos- school particularly in relaschools. "Not the is only final "Our background in AusFather McCormack will tered in the establishment tion to the religious values tralia makes us well aware report of the Angloof the school. of the facts of the Anglican Roman Catholic Commis- be in Perth for two weeks of the new college.
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Stuart and Kath Hynes reported on The parishes are to return their views before the next council meeting in Bussel- their attendance at the parish renewal weekend conducted by Father Bernie ton on July 31. The Katanning meeting was chaired by Dwyer at Bunbury who, along with Brian Sykes in place of Ken Lynch and at Father Doug Conlon, will organise a simthe outset the participants were told that ilar parish renewal programme during there had been no response to a survey on the priests' retreat in September. a residential hostel at Manjimup and the Narrogin parish has given notice of a motion that parish councillors be matter had been shelved. appointed for a three-year term with the In a report on YCW activity, Peter option of a further year. Parish councilShooter, the full time worker, reported lors have been recommended to study a that a new group had been formed at booklet on parish pastoral councils preManjimup with ten members, that Nar- pared by Father T. Hegarty of Brisbane. rogin membership remained steady and In reports from the parishes the Katanthat Albany group was growing in mem- ning meeting was told that the recently bership. Donnybrook was finding it hard established Albany parish centre has to attract members but Bunbury No 1 become a headquarters for Pregnancy had an attendance of 23 and No 2 has Help which is now seeking more counselnine regular members. lors. The organisation of parish regions At Manjimup earlier this year the first launched by Father Kelly and Sister diocesan meeting in ten years had been Mans Stella has been handed over to a held and their was significant growth of core group of five parishioners. the YCW resulting in the need for a regu- Boyup Brook has 20 people travelling lar YCW newspaper. up to 40 km to attend Renewal of Faith The diocesan Meeting was told that fare- courses while other parishioners attend well functions for Bishop McKeon were fortnightly Bible Study. High school stubeing organised on a deanery basis and dents are taking part in a faith developthat a central fund had been opened for ment programme on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings. the bishop's retirement in Bunburv.
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One of the people who attended the Bunbury Dean- ' ery farewell Mass celebrated by Bishop McKeon will have cause to remember the presentation of gifts for the rest of her life. With Bishop McKeon are Father Leon Russell, Dean of Bunbury, who gave the homily and Father Gae Crocetti, parish priest of Harvey. Picture by Norm Bailey South West Times Bunbury diocesan material on this page and front page supplied by Father Brian Morrison, of the South West Catholic Media Centre.
SCHOOLS EXPANDI Bibi needs you. BUIVIIIIRY DIOCESE Mt Barker parish has re-opened the possibility of a Church-run school in the town, it was reported at the recent Bunbury Diocesan Pastoral Council meeting.
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T he Mt Barker Catholic school closed "The first Bishop of Bunbury - Launcelot John ten years ago and the Goody, now Sir Launcelot, gave us an excellent start new proposal being with strong leadership, a sense of identity and purpose studied is for a Chrisand which made many consider us to be in the forefront tian school to be of liturgical reform during those years. opened under the aus"Bishop McKeon brought a new dimension to the pices of the Catholic diocese, in the words of Vatican II on which he would Education Commisshave voted: 'In exercising his office as father and pastor, ion.
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a bishop should stand in the midst of his people as one Mandurah parish also who serves.' reported on the re-opening "There can hardly be a nook or cranny in the whole diocese which has not been visited by him, or more than of its parish school after a a handful of people who have not met him or heard of lapse of nearly 20 years. seeking a grant of 71 2 / The new school has an him. He will long be remembered as 'The People's enrolment of 94 under the acres. Bishop'. direction of two Presenta- Pemberton school has Father Russell said that underlying Bishop McKeon's tion Sisters and two lay been improved at a cost of spirit was a deep and enduring faith which was part of $ 16,000 and Bridgetown teachers. his heritage as an Irishman. •St Anne's school, Har- school will soon embark "To the chagrin of those around him he strides out vey, has the same enrol- on upgrading and the conboldly on the waters in faith, leaving us to founder and ment as last year and a struction of a library sink in our lack of faith. Underpinning this deep and p re-primary class is canteen. enduring faith is a profound sense of prayer and the planned for next year. In other reports it was power that it has been in his life. Manjimup has opened a announced that Brunswick *He has lived out the words ot Yope John XXIII: 'A AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT POGRAMME class with an parish is purchasing a pre-primary bishop who is himself holy wilLmost certainly have a of 28 following house to settle a Vietna- Melbourne: 2 Highbury Or, Kew, Vic. 3101 Ph: 862 1077 Sydney: 26 Glebe Point Rd Glebe. N.S.W. 2037 Ph. 660 5500 enrolment following of holy priests, whose holiness will in turn the raising of a loan from mese family. The house redound to the religious perfection of the whole country preferred t he Bunbury diocesan cost $35,000 and a loan 11 I want to be a Foster Parent of a boy 7 girl E age diocese.' was raised through the development fund. 2nd preference 3rd preference or where the need is greatest "Another quality is his ability to absorb hostility and In Bunbury a new St development fund. A I enclose my first payment of $21monthly C $63 Quarterly dissension from those around him. Sponge like, he $126 Half Yearly E$ 2 5 2 Yearly second Vietnamese family I school is under accepted justified and unjustified criticism of his deci- Joseph's I can't become a Foster Parent right now, however, I enclose my contribution of $ construction and in Collie will be settled in a house on • sions and then bobbed up to engage again in the fray." an upgrading of the prim. .the Devlin farm. Please send me more information I Tel No. Father Russell called the decision of Bishop McKeon Wagin parish announcedI NAME to retire from his office "The most painful and without ary school is costing that the former convent $176,000, while a manual doubt the most courageous". building is now a Centre- 0 ADDRESS "That decision should evoke from us an appreciation arts block has been com- care counselling service toI pleted at St Edmunds CITY STATE P.Code of the high place he has put on the position of Bishop of school at a cost of $90,000. cater for the districts sur- • PLAN in operates Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador. Guatemala, I Bunbury. He never has and never would take that r ounding Narrogin, TAX Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Nicaragua, To cope with future school responsibility lightly." expansion the parish is Katanning, Kojonup and DEDUCTIBLE Sudan, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Upper Volta MIMI MN MINN OM MINI IMO UM MN MI WM IMO NMI Lake Grace. 1.1 Continued on Page 6
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The Catholic people of Australia contributed over $3m to the missions during 1981.
Melbourne 46 cents (primFather Pat Ahern This money has now been a r y ) and 18 cents various to from the Perth Mis- distributed around ( secondary) sions Office, in mak- Catholic Missions world, Father Ahern Brisbane 96 cents (primthe ing the announce- said. a r y ) and 56 cents ment, said figures The people of the Archdi- (secondary) released recently from ocese of Perth contributed Hobart $1.08 (primary) and $1.25 (secondary) the National Missions $315,485 during 1981. Office showed an The per capita figure for Father Ahern said financial contributions were i ncrease of over half a Perth was $1. 10. only one way of assessing million dollars on the This compares very interest and support for the with avourably f previous year. the missions.
National per capita figure Daily prayers for the misDuring 1981, $2,589,244 of 70 cents, and figures sions were also an imporwas contributed to the from other Capital Cities, tant link with missions Propagation of the Faith; Father Ahern said. the world. around figure capita per Adelaide $262,421 to Missionary was 41 cents; Sydney was Father Ahern said there to $172,844 Childhood; Lb o t 41— work is done the Society of St. Peter 45 cents; Melbourne was were now many priests, 1Behind the scenes at the Perth Missions Office in Victoria Square much religious and lay missionApostle; $247,945 was 60 cents; Brisbane was preparing andprocessing the material that is sent out for the appeals in the parishes and the received from Perth currently aries 40 was Hobart and 1.20 $ from legacies and looking on working in various mission promotional campaigns in schools. The director Father Pat Ahern is pictured cents. a d making onations a parish areas of the church. while the office assistants Mrs Maureen Billing and Miss Irene Poulose prepare national total of $3,272,454. The per capita figures for appeal despatch. schools indicate that Perth Religious Orders workPrimary pupils contrib- ing in this Archdiocese uted an average of $1.08 also have members workand secondary pupils an ing in front line mission average of 48 cents, Father areas, Father Ahern said. Ahern said. Per capita fig- "It is important for all ures from school children people to realise and other Capital cities were appreciate that we are all The heroes of the recent catechist programme were the husbands and wives in part of the universal as follows:who stayed home and held the fort while their partners attended the course Adelaide 48 cents (prim- church with a mandate ry) and 21 cents from Christ to help to according to Father Gerard Holohan (pictured below), archdiocesan director of a(secondary) spread the gospel message Sydney 29 cents (primary) throughout the world," he religious education. said. In a communique to The course has been deficient document) we as ren's education in state many more catechists to and 4 cents (secondary) with parish-based help will compelled a be schools. Church Eduthe meet to planned t he 600 catechists who have attended cation Departments' to rethink our entire pas- "Whatever the future pas- instead of school-based the course, Father accreditation require- toral strategy where state toral strategy the Church programmes. will adopt for state school "Much of 1982 will be Holohan said there ments, and has sought to s chool children are children, the one certainty taken up with trying to upon concerned. foundation a lay had been personal which we can build in the "Catholics will have to is that we are going to need address this problem. practical effort such future. realise that the General a s arranging meal "Of course, these are Religious Studies course times in both private limited objectives but how which is the off-spring of A day of continuous prayer for an h omes and religious many needs can a 16-hour the Nott Report is totally increase of vocations to the priestc ommunities so that course meet anyhow", he inadequate. It is not conhood and religious life will be held e ither the catechists commented in an interview cerned with faith developteaches merely but ment at the All Saints Chapel, Allendale or their tutors could be this week. r eady for a 7.30 pm "Our next move will be to facts about religions -Square, starting at 9am on Saturtrain catechists in service which are interesting but s tart day, May 1, and ending at 4pm in their various regions have little to do with faith. Father Holohan said part and what we do will be "It is important, however, with a Holy Hour. of the fruit of the course influenced by what are the to compliment those who would be visible when the specific needs in a particu- have prepared the General Numbers attending have been falling noticeably in 600 catechists and their lar region. Religious Studies course recent years, said Mr Reg Williams, Secretary of families attended the Mass For a start, Brother because they are fighting an Perth Legion of Mary Senatus, this week. next Tuesday night when Kevin Treston, one of Aus- up-hill battle to expose "One wonders whether the general consensus of Archbishop Goody will tralia's leading religious children to minimal reliopinion among Catholics now is that we have commission the catechists educationists, will be visit- gious values in a very secuenough priests, brothers and religious sisters, that we and present the certificates ing Perth in July and lar — and in many cases, no longer need to make a special prayer effort to which will be distributed at October and will be availa- anti-Christian -- school obtain more, as our Divine Lord once suggested. parish Masses on the fol- ble to regions. environment. "Do we really mean it when we express concern at lowing Sunday. the apparent lack of enthusiasm among the youth of "With the increasing The effect of these values Father Holohan said the number of government can be seen in the degree of t oday to enter into religious life or do we have tongue course had met its basic schools falling under the discontent among parents in cheek when we talk about more being done in aim but that there were influence of the Nott who are concerned about encouraging religious vocation?" further needs to be met. "If not, this is the opportunity to make some Report (in many ways a the quality of their childeffort, at some inconvenience, no doubt, and possibly some sacrifice, for all parishioners in every metropolitan parish to come together to pray that the Lord of the harvest will choose labourers to enter the fields which are ripe for the picking. "Let us by our actions, show the world where our mouths are, and fill the Chapel throughout every hour of the time available to us on this day."
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Riecord ABORTION IS A FAMILY ISSUE The NSW Supreme Court ruling that opened the way for the aborting this week of a I 3-week pregnant state ward of 15 needs to be read far beyond a mere defeat of a minister or a victory for abortion. Mr Kevin Stewart, the minister involved, was merely caught in a complex process by which abortion will be relentlessly imposed on society. He has obviously suffered a considerable amount of personal bruising over the issue from Premier Wran and parliamentarians right through to the departmental bureaucrats and faceless doctors who resorted to the guilt-ridden devious gobbledygook that the girl has been given "irreversible" treatment. This conspiracy of interlocking forces is apparently paralleled in England already where people with likely scruples on abortion are being gently warned to stay away from obstetric medicine or nursing because the machine can make their lives unbearable if needs be. The NSW decision appears simply to have conceded to this unfortunate young woman the facility that is available to any youth, even to by-pass parental consultation if necessary, to have an abortion. To achieve this situation which must be unknown to vast numbers of parents, the discreet legal processes have banked on the fact that many mothers can be counted on to sell out their feelings in a crisis. Establishing a crisis, on whatever ground, is then a relatively simple process. The mother of the 15-year-old supported her daughter's abortion reputedly because she had given birth to two spina bifida children who died soon after birth. At all costs, judgement should be avoided on this woman or her daughter because no one knows the forces that have torn at their lives, not least from their medical and psychological advisers. But on the broad front of womanhood it is not hard to detect that women who are having abortions are slowly but surely handing on the moral disease to their own daughters, and sons. Contraception was once promoted by family planning associations as a high-minded woman's right.They now know what the facts are and have joined forces with abortionists as a second line of defence which they will not hesitate to suggest. The IUD is promoted as perfectly acceptable even though it is clear that it aborts embryos by preventing implantation. Researchers are unashamedly looking for chemicals that will bring about morning-after abortion. At first hearing none of these topics would seem to be the happy wholesome atmosphere of a home in which adolescents are learning life's values. They could be called the negative aspects of mother- and fatherhood that teach nothing. Nevertheless they are the reality with which our youth of tomorrow are being confronted at a very early age. The Catholic Church badly needs family education programmes in which parents will be given the opportunity to learn and assess their own values in this matter and how to hand them on to their children. Just how far the abortion tentacles reach can be judged by the poisonous remarks that Leslie Anderson was allowed to publish on the issue in The Sunday Times last week. They went far beyond her not-infrequent sarcasm towards religion and descended to the sexual insult and innuendo that was typical of the anti-Catholic gutter press of a century ago. Her remarks were not only insulting to at least 25 per cent of this state's population but were defamatory to the hundreds of religious men (and women) who have given their lives to build up the educational, nursing and other benefits to this state. The editorial direction of The Sunday Times may shrug this off as the liberty of a bloated circulation in today's newspaper war. If so, readers have no option but to shift their interest to the acres of advertising which sell everything to deviant sex and without whose revenue the paper would not exist — and merely ask the question Why?
Monsignor Barry Hickey (pictured right) has recently published a book "Preparing Couples for Marriage". It is primarily for priests, but it is also designed for engaged couples to study together. Monsignor Hickey is the director of the Catholic Marriage Guidance Council in Perth. In releasing his book, Monsignor Hickey said: "I am concerned that many couples do not know the 'good news' of the Church about marriage. They are growing up in a world where divorce is accepted and where many people are becoming cynical about marriage. "They need to hear again that Jesus adds a new dimension to marriage that the world cannot give. "They need to know about the fulfilment that comes from committing themselves to one another irrevocably in love and fidelity and co-operating with God in bringing children into the world. "I am also concerned about priests who want to present this vision to young couples but are not sure how to go about it." Monsignor Hickey said that the book was designed to cover five or six interviews which could be given over a period of several months and a particular chapter being set for the couple to study as homework before the next interview. Although the circumstances differed for each couple, the course would require much more time for someg couples. Mixed religion posed a very special problem, he said. "I believe this simple book will help both priests and engaged couples to reflect on the teaching of the Church on the sacrament and vocation of marriage." We have expected couples to get their formation from the example of a good family and from school but we cannot presume that any more because of all the other influences at work. The book is $2.50 per copy, plus postage. It is available from the Catholic Marriage Guidance Council, 25 Victoria Square, Perth, Western Australia, 6000.
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Sir, It is a pity that Monsignor Hickey's statement (The Record, April 8) "since the Church does not consider gambling within one's means to be in itself immoral . ." did not contain further clarification. Does the word "means" further in the encyclical include that portion of a that "Christian morality man's income or wealth when adequately and comrequired for the welfare of pletely practised keeps his family? In the case of a people out of the reach of b usinessman does it those vices which devour include those assets on not small incomes merely which the livelihood of his but large fortunes." employees depends? Gambling is an unmitiThe statement also cuts gated evil and brings in its across the teachings of the wake greater evils as has popes on the moral and often been the case when social responsibility att- despite all precautions by aching to the possession of the state, organised crime wealth; In "Rerum Nova- has taken over legalised rum" Pope Leo XIII gambling. emphasises this aspect with Altogether too facile an a quotation from St Tho- approach seems to have mas Aquinas: "Man been adopted towards a should not consider his v ery serious problem material possession as his purely to avoid the embaown, but as common to all rassment of involvement in so as to share them without party politics even though hesitation when others are this issue was one which in need." should have been above He goes on to state party politics.
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Religious syllabus needs a headline from Paul Donnelly, Claremont
Sir, The emphatic headline (The Record, April 8) "Major sports show back on Sunday mornings on Nine" supports a suggestion I once heard that a four-day working week would give the Moslems their holy day on Friday, the Jews on Saturday and they could then join with the C hristians in sports on Sundays.
The Managers of Chan- morning cricket or football give the same importance nel 9 should, however, rea- matches which for juniors as to Work and Sport tc lise that the time slot is too are an essential initiation detail week by week and late for many young Chris- into the rites of competi- grade by grade the new syl. labus on_relisious educa. tians to view this pro- tive sport. gramme and still get off in In contrast with the t ion on which the time for the early Sunday importance attached to government committee ha! and t( this item is another record- worked so hard effect. good such ing the departure of Reverend Peter Wellock and the The great gain of past development of the reli- Catholic parental action ir Beach North Mitchell, James from Sir, gious studies for schools regard to the importance B. Peachey, B.T. Morgan and Father Jegorow whose with which he has been of religious education hat been the recognition of the views are in agreement on seal pups and whales, say they associated. For some good time The need for its place in schoo are sick of the publicity they have been given through the Record has been filling us syllabi, especially in the media on the welfare of these dumb defenceless crea- in with Pope John Paul's state schools where s( tures, and anti-nuclear demonstrations and the preser- views on "Work" which do many Catholic childret not add very much to what now attend and who vation of trees. Leo XIII, Pius XI or John through their parents, hav( Surely there has been pleading-with people of all These gentlemen should X XIII have said on the apostolic potential if fos ample coverage given over d enominations for peace get their facts right before subject. tered by the Church an( the years to man's cruelty and to love one another. putting pen to paper. It would now be useful to informed by its press. t o all fellow humans I too am sick of the terri• throughout the world. In ble loss of human lives • • 26 John Street, Perth WA 6000 • this country alone thou- which are destroyed in so• C orrespondence: • sands of churches are called Christian countries The Editor, The Record, PO Box 50 I. LUMBING MATERIALS Aberdeen Street, Perth, 6000 • 5 staffed by clergy whose job by fellow Christians. Advertising' • it is to tell us 52 weeks a If a nuclear war is allowed PBATHROOM FIXTURES Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 • • year that people are to start then that would be r oistered for posting as a newspaper Category "A" (11 • created SEPTIC TANK — DRY WELLS the end of mankind. If in God's image. Produced in WA • 229-233 William Street, Perth • . .:.ted and published weekly by Edward van Heemst, trees are chopped down 'The Plumbing Supply Specialists' Telephone: 328 8544 • 2 6 John Street, Perth. Then there is the pope and whole areas are tree• who, over the years, less then what will happen Established 1874 embarks on missions, to our water supplies?
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New UK envoy praises pope V ATICAN CITY (NC) — The first British ambassador to the Holy See in nearly 450 years praised Pope John Paul II's outspoken defence of human rights in Poland as he presented his diplomatic credentials to the pontiff.
The new ambassa- Great Britain and the which they (the British dor, Sir Mark Heath, Vatican normalised diplo- government) share most relations in January profoundly and to which also lauded the work matic break that went t hey devote constant a after of the Catholic Church back to the days of King effort." in helping the people Henry VIII. Sir Mark, who He told the pope that the of Poland during their had served as minister to government of Queen Elic urrent political and the Holy See since 1980, zabeth looks forward to was then elevated to the the pope's forthcoming e conomic crisis.
rank of ambassador. visit to England, Scotland At the same time, Swiss- and Wales as "an occasion born Archbishop Bruno of great national imporHeim, the Vatican's repre- tance." sentative in Britain, was The visit, the first by a upgraded from apostolic pope to Britain, will take * SAN SALVADOR, El:delegate — papal represen- place from May 28-June 2. * Salvador (NC) — tative to the Catholic In responding to the * Reports from parishes;Church in the country — ambassador's greetings, :after Salvadoran* to the rank of pronuncio, t he pope called the * national elections * or ambassador to the resumption of diplomatic :March 28 said that * country itself. ties "a historic moment in * churches were almost: "Her Majesty's governthe relations between the * empty for Masses* ment have admired the forHoly See and Britain." * because Salvadorans:thright stand which your * spent their Sunday vot- Holiness has taken with "It serves as a sign of the ing in unprecedented:regard to recent events in understanding and good * numbers despite the * Poland and to the observa- will which characterise our ties," said the * prevailing violence. tion of human rights in diplomatic * "People are in search * countries throughout the pope, " and if affords a * of peace, for a way out:world," the 54-year-old basis for expecting still * of this long and painful * Cambridge-educated am- closer collaboration in the future." * situation," said Bishop:bassador told the pope. * Arturo Rivera Damas, Britain, he added, also Picking up on the British * apostolic administrator values "the work of the ambassador's references to * of the San Salvador * Polish Church in bringing Poland and Northern Ire* Archdiocese. Monsig- comfort and humanitarian land and to the importance * nor Modesto Lopez, his * aid to the Polish people at of human rights in all of the countries of the world, * vicar in San Salvador, * this difficult time." * said he thought the * He also said that the Brit- the pope said: "As long as * voter turnout was ish government appre- basic human rights are there * marvellous. ciated the pontiff's denied in any land * Even the handicapped:references, in his 1982 New can be no enduring inter* showed up at the polls * Year's World Peace Day national peace." * in wheelchairs or on 4' message, "to the need to "For a fundamental * crutches, he said. At * end violence in Northern human bond links the des* some polling places the:Ireland." tiny of people of every * lines were five and six * The new ambassador nation," the pope con* blocks long. called this "an objective tinued. ***************4r**
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CHURCH LOSES III COPYDECISIONhas RIGHT REVERSALappeals court
CHICAGO (NC) — A U.S. ruled against the Chicago Archdiocese by reversing the decision of a lower court which had dismissed a $1.5 million copyright infringement suit brought by F.E.L. Publications of Los Angeles.
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The court said that F.E.L.'s annual copy licence "is a reasonable and flexible tool for dealing with the unique problems associated with the Roman Catholic liturgical music market." The annual copy licence "gives copyright holders protection and compensation and it allows individual parishes to produce custom-made hymnals at a reasonable cost," the threejudge panel said. The judges said the annual copy licence "was n ot developed in a vacuum; it grew out of a
history of copyright infringements, and was designed to protect musical copyrights in a market where infringement is not easy to detect and harder to prevent." "Our victory could not be more complete," said Dennis Fitzpatrick, owner of F.E.L. Publications. "None of the major issues was remanded for reconsideration. They were all decided unanimously in our favour."
Thomas Cook, a spokesman for F.E.L. Publications, said the only matter remanded to the district court for reconsideration was that of damages. The case began in 1976 OTTAWA (NC) — Calling the arms race a sin and invok- when F.E.L. sued Cardinal ing "the spectre of a war whose devastation is hardly John Cody, of Chicago, some Chicago archdiimaginable," the leader of the Canadian bishops called and ocesan parishes. The suit prayer special of time a Week Holy on Catholics to make charged copyright infringement in the duplication and fasting for peace. F.E.L. hymns by parof to opportunities The president of the Can- defence," he continued "special schools that had adian Conference of "Existing arsenals are oppose militarisation and ishes and annual copy Catholic Bishops, Archbi- more than sufficient to kill promote peaceful develop- not paid an the firm. to fee licence of over. ment. Legare times Henri shop all of us several posia in be Grouard-McLennan, Al- Yet research and planning "Canada will In an agreement reached berta, issued his appeal in a continue for ever more tion to act boldly, if it in October, 1976, the archwishes, on questions of diocese consented to t wo-page letter to Cana- deadly arms." dian Catholics before Holy A rchbishop Legare nuclear proliferation, the deliver all homemade Week. r ecalled the Christian repression of human rights s ongbooks containing "One way to measure the belief "that God has prom- by military regimes in such material copyrighted by sinfulness of the arms race ised to help us turn from countries as El Salvador, F.E. L. found in all 447 paris to realise that world mil- hatred and destructive- Poland and Guatemala, ishes of the archdiocese to itary spending now totals ness" and urged Canadian and the misdirection or t he F.E.L. attorneys' $500 billion (Canadian) a Catholics to make the clos- waste of resources that offices. year," he wrote. "Less than ing days of Lent "a special could satisfy basic needs half of one year's military time for praying, fasting but now feed the arms In January, 1981, Judge bill would pay fora 10-year and reconciliation, so that race," the archbishop Leighton dismissed the lawsuit. He ruled that programme to provide for plans for peace may wrote. essential food and health, advance and preparations He urged prayer, penance F.E.L extended its copyand fasting to help Canadi- right privileges beyond needs in developing for war cease." He said the second special ans receive "the courage federal laws and involved countries. "The world arms race has session on disarmament at and wisdom needed to act parishes in contracts which gone far beyond any limits the United Nations this as a nation of peace- are illegal under federal anti-trust laws. justified by legitimate self summer will give Canada makers."
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POWER OF RADIO
R APID CITY, S.D. (NC) — If Bishop Harold J. Dimmerling, of Rapid City, didn't believe in the power of radio before Lent started, he does now.
problems (raised by the L ONDON (NC) — in the Church through tain at the end of May. Authority is leadership, many different levels of Now the successor of pastoral congress), to set Peter comes to talk with the seal of authority on not discipline, or com- leadership. strike in mand and obedience, said "Mothers bringing up us, perhaps to offer us gui- some of our initiatives," His belief is due, in part, to the Man: "And I bet no one goes on the middle of this season..." A rchbishop Derek Wor- their children, teachers of dance in some of those the archbishop said. responses the diocese is getting to In addition to the calls received at the lock in a lecture in religious education in radio campaign: "Lent. The Spe- chancery office, the impact has been felt a London. school, priests in their cial Season." The 30-second radio in parishes as well. the in share homilies, He said he expected that "spots" began running on Ash "I've never seen an Ash Wednesday the approaching papal teaching authority Christ crowd like the one we had," said Father Wednesday. visit to Britain would do has entrusted to his followan invita- Thomas Gorman, pastor of Blessed Sacwith ends advertisement Each "an enormous amount" to ers," the archbishop said. Pope John tion to the listener to call the Catholic rament Church in Rapid City. get rid of popular miscon- "Yet there is one spe- VATICAN CITY (NC) — with a Church for more information. "We've The campaign costs $3,000 for purchasWeek ceptions about papal cial form of leadership: Paul II opened Holy `episcope,' looking after strong and direct appeal to Israelis used radio before to promote our ste- ing 1,554 spots on seven stations. An a uthority. average of 40 spots airs each weekday. It is sadly true," he said, the community with a and Arabs to seek reconciliation "in wardship campaign, the Propagation of "When the office of communications discernand leadership the Faith and various diocesan events. "that sometimes people presented the idea, I had my doubts," the say that what they like ment which only God can the land of Jesus" and also defended The response has always been good but it bishop said. "After all, that's a large sum we're expewhat like never anything was West about the Church is that it give." of the "legitimate aspirations" of money, especially in our diocese." Greek a "Episcope," said. bishop the now," riencing has However, Bishop Dimmerling decided authority. word meaning "oversight," Bank Arabs. " When pressed, such peoThe spots were designed to be both to support the campaign because of the the which from is word the ple reveal that they are informative and entertaining. On each absence of programmes and spots stressGreek and Latin words for Speaking to a Palm Sun- tion in which its own legitithankful not only to be "bishop" are derived. It is day crowd of more than mate aspirations are commercial a man and a woman engage ing the Church's liturgical seasons. With t old something definitely used by theologians to des- 100,000 gathered in St recognised and affirmed." in a dialogue about some aspect of Lent. radio, "oftentimes we're able to say more but to be about Lent to more people in one 30relieved of the cribe the specific kind of Peter's Square, the pope From his apartment win- For example, one states: re sponsibility to think for authority the bishop has as said in his Angelus mes- dow the pope asked the Woman: "How are you enjoying the spe- second ad than we can in a 10-minute t hemselves — homily." indeed to be the "overseer" of the Chris- sage: "On this Sunday of large crowd of pilgrims cial season?" r elieved of responsible tian community. the passion of the Lord, bathed in the sunlight of Man: "Special season? You mean the The communications office is already m e mbership in the planning another campaign for Advent A rchbishop Worlock my gaze turns in a particu- the square below, "Is it new TV shows?" Church. "That is neither linked the Anglican- lar way to the land of unrealistic, after so many Women: "No. The special season -- and a 'third to be directed toward the a uthority nor true Catholic dialogue state- Jesus, to Palestine, where delusions, to hope that one Lent." 80,000 unchurched people in western response to authority." ments on authority with he taught us love and died day these two peoples, Man: "Too early for baseball and foot- South Dakota. Because of its geographic size, the Rapid In his talk Archbishop the collegial exercise of so that humanity might each accepting the exist- ball just ended..." W orlock spoke at length authority by the bishops of have reconciliation." City Diocese cannot use TV effectively. ence and the reality of the Woman: "Not sports. Lent." a bout the idea of authority England and Wales in con- "Again this past week," other, might find a way to Man: "Lent?" Three markets serve the 43,000-square in the Church as expressed voking and responding to said the pope, "new sor- a dialogue which would Woman: "Lent is the time during which mile area, making use of TV an economic in the recently published a national pastoral con- rowful episodes have taken allow them to arrive at a you take a closer look at your relation- impossibility. a "Sure, I'd like to see us using TV more, greements by the gress of Catholics in Eng- place on the West Bank, fair solution in which both ship with God and with others." Anglican-Roman Catholic land and Wales two years with dead and injured, could live in peace and in Man: "That sounds more serious than but we can't do it right now," Bishop International Commis- ago. He linked the con- while the anxiety and the their own dignity and free- TV or baseball." Dimmerling said. "Besides these radio gress, in turn, to the insecurity of the popula- dom, mutually pledging Woman: "It is serious. There's no better stations are being listened to; we know He said the one authority approaching visit of Pope tion grow, a population themselves to toleration time of year than Lent for making those people are going to hear what we have to of the Lord was mediated John Paul II to Great Bri- which yearns for a situa- and reconciliation?" say." spiritual self-improvements."
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BANISHING THE LABEL "ONLY ALMS GIVERS"
The St Vincent de Paul members need to do something about relieving the causes of suffering in the community, Mr Terry Loughnan told the SVDP seminar and festival meeting held at Holy Spirit church, City Beach, last Sunday.
to realise its limits. A person can have a relation-
"Members of the society in the actual situaHe said that this approach was neces- ures and point out to the appropriate authoritions need to determine those causes in which ship with only a small number of persons. Thus policies. their effects of the ties sary if the society is to overcome "the our actions are necessarily very limited. we can take action. charge frequently levelled at us., (some"The society must also improve the quality of "Our characteristics are the very same ones "We are not many, we are not rich, we are not times with good reason,) "Yoti are only its service for we are not merely alms givers. We professionals (although some members may be given by our founder nearly 150 years ago. alms givers — anybody can do that". wish to reach personal dialogue with those who in certain fields), we are not the fighting wing of "We are not supermen, although our rule tells
suffer, in an attitude of mutual trust and respect a political party or trade union, we are not us that no work of charity is foreign to the society. This does not mean that we can undereconomists. take and realise everything, all that we can do is "What then is our true image'?" Mr O'Loughnan quoted the SVDP rule: "The very little. This fact distresses us but we have to that we of course not think — We do "FIRST only to Society of St Vincent de Paul seeks not accept it. that we faith, nor have the only ones to are the relieve misery but also to seek out and remedy "We are not able to do everything, but what we are better believers than others. those situations which cause it." "But there is an organic relationship between do do, we need to do well. He listed the number of directions from the activity of the members of the Society of St "We cannot tell governments, whatever their human situations from natural disasters and Vincent de Paul and their faith and that rela- political platforms are, how to run the country, from illness and old age and death. tionship is certainly one of the specific charac- what level interest rates should be, how to structure income tax scales, how often to increase There was also suffering from poor legisla- teristics of the society. "The SECOND characteristic of our true pensions. tion and bureaucratic deficiency. Other factors were human faults such as avarice, pride, indif- image is what the rule, ratifying a long tradition, "We can however, and we must tell them the ference, laziness and stupidity. On top of this defines as — 'a person to person relationship.' effects of their policies on the people we assist; "We understand at once, what richness this and for our opinion to have any value, we need there was ignorance of man, his rights and type of relationship can contain. We also have facts and figures to support them." responsibilities.
"I do not advocate speaking out on all manner in that sacred place, their home."
of issues, but in all conscience — the society (through its appointed spokesperson) must speak out on matters where we have the knowledge and experience to do so. The Church urges us to do this. "Our Vincentian commitment is the deep love of our neighbour, of all men and especially those in Treed. This rove extends to the point where we must try to relieve the cause of the suffering or need.
"It is essential that the Society in the 1980's speaks out on social justice matters where we have the knowledge and experience to do so. We must back up our opinions with facts and fig-
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Many times the people who seek SVDP help do not know how to ask for it, and have to be helped over what is for them an enormous hurdle, Mrs Merle Miller told 200 members at the seminar and festival last Sunday. "Others who have "Migrants and refugees, ments, HP and even bank climbed that hurdle come into Australia to and credit card repayments. before may find it eas- make this country their "But we are not here to criticise, which at times ier to ask, but many home, with nothing generally, but the clothes they are no less embaseems very easy to do, but stand up in. rassed in having to do rather we have to bear in so. "People in hospitals wait mind, that here are people,
..ftNg• Pictured at the St Vincent de Paul seminar and festival meeting last Sunday are WA' president Mr Fred Preshaw, Mr Ross McLean MHR who opened the seminar and Mr Eric El/em the new national president who was guest of honour.
for visitors who never struggling for an existence, come. And even in this day who at times go off the and age there are deserted deep end as it were, to fathers, unable to work relieve their tensions, and A rchbishop Goody attended the festival and concelebrated Mass for the 200 present and because of the children possibly get themselves blessed the new society manuals. He delivered a homily in which he urged the members to they have been left with; deeper in debt. continue their work for the love of God and their neighbour. and so the list goes on and ITIHIIJIIIHIIUHIIIIHIIHIIIIIIIHIIHIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIHHIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII the real often "Quite on. problem goes far deeper "All things come from than that, and this is where God, and in particular our first responsibilities lie, Mrs Miller listed some of through the medium of we can practice the OPTICIANS AND OPTOMETRISTS t he calls made on SVDP prayer, so why not pray!! and greatest Vincentian quality today. to listen with interest and Contact LENS CONSULTANTS relay that you appreciate "More and more the for food Call and understand what they countless number of sup321 8151 PERTH PICCADILLY ARCADE are going through. porting mothers, who need 321 5304 STREET 154 WILLIAM PERTH that little bit extra to last "The most frequent call is "They do not want your COTTESLOE 19 NAPOLEON STREET 384 5605 them till the next cheque for food, and the most fre- sympathy, rather give FREMANTLE 30 MARKET STREET 335 2602 arrives. More and more, quent reason given is them empathy, and the the families where the because 'some bills have problem will be halved. father is on the dole, and had to be paid'. At one "When entering a persons 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111, can't make ends meet. time the main cause was home we are the strangers More and more the young the electric and gas bill, but on foreign ground, and Social injustices and the social couples with young fami- now when questioned the respect and dignity at all lies caught up in the spiral- reason given could be one times are top priority. values which accompany and supling costs of mortgages of many. The rent and rent "It is very hard at times port them both from the electors and and repayments. arrears, SEC, car repay- when entering a home that the elected, are reflected by and O PTOMETRISTS 211111111liimIliniimn11111111111111111111111111111111IMMIIIII1111111111111liffilifflig, is not particularly clean enhanced by the present taxation = and tidy, where the child175 Scarborough Beach Road — Phone 444 3543 ren are not well kept not to system, said Mr Ross McLean MHR show the revulsion we may at last Sunday's SVDP seminar and R .F WILLIS, W A.O.A., Optometrist FE Clothes, kitchen tables and chairs, - well feel.
"The image created by our members at the initial contact, whether at our head office or through one of our shops or depot, can leave a lasting impression either good or bad, on the family asking for help."
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"Do we ever think of say- ing the burden of the whole society's responsibility to ing a prayer before going defend the nation and care for the needy. into a home? Do we ask the "Coupled with a welfare system under pressure to Holy Spirit for guidance if devote more and more resources to the less needy, we t here are stressful prob- find the poor financing the poor, and the poor financing lems? Or do we rely only on the middle income groups. our own human effort and (Continued Page 10) knowledge.
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• For a man who spent his life with cars, it was extraordinary that :he waited until he was 73 before he bought his first new car — but !then again Vic Ryan has not had an ordinary life.
Their bond has lasted : Today, 1 2 years later, he's still driving his Ford Fa irlane. "I always had second for over 65 years :hand cars because in my business they cost me nothing to repair," said Vic. "Cars :today are much better. They last longer and don't need as many repairs. * He was talking in the lounge of his * home in Harrow Street, Mt Haw. thorn. Holding hands with his sweetheart of over 65 years, Ruby (nee * Casserly), they posed for their * diamond-wedding photo. • * "My wife managed a tearoom in :Kalgoorlie where I always had lunch and one day the girls were arranging *a party for a dance and I finished up as Ruby's partner. That was the end of it," he laughed. Actually, it was the start of it — "it" being a lifetime of struggles, heartbreak, great joy, * service to others, close bonds with the Church and achievement. • * Vic's father, Luke, came from * South Australia to Coolgardie at its * foundation in 1892. Vic was born . there on June 15, 1897. * Four short years later, at the age of * 38, Luke died leaving Vic's mother with three boys and a girl under the * age of six. The next year Vic and his * brother started their schooling at :Clontarf and stayed there until their * mother remarried in 1904. • Vic finished his schooling at Kalgoorlie Christian Brothers College, * then a big school, where he made :many friends including the late Dr * Harry Johnson. • * "In 1920 Harry and I were playing * cricket at Clontarf and one of the brothers who taught us at Kalgoorlie remembered us. It was a happy reunion but marred by the sudden death only days later of Dr Johnson in a car accident," Vic said.
"When I was at Fimisters I always envied my elder brother earning more money working on the mines. It was my ambition to get work there so m y mother bought me a pair of long pants (1 was always small for my age) so I could apply for a job at Hainault," Vic said. The pants must have done the trick because he got the job. In 1913, when the mine closed, Vic began work with the Kalgoorlie Tramways in the fitting shop and began studies at the School of Mines. A year later at the age of 17 he was working in a garage. Later he drove his brother's taxi for a year and eventually owned his own taxi. It was about this time that Vic took a shine to the Casserly family's daughter, Ruby, whose married sister lived in the same street, Whitlock Street.
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A weekly feature Ruby's family came from Victoria and lived at North Fremantle while her father worked on the Munda ring Weir. She was born at North Fremantle and over 80 years ago was photographed at the age of three with their next-door-neighbours, the Marshals, outside their respective homes.
"In those days you were lucky to get a tent" Death has been no stranger to Vic R yan. When he was only 14, his stepfather died and he helped to support the family, first with his earnings from a job in Fimisters grocery and ironmongery store and later as a battery boy at the Hainault mine in K algoorlie.
Looking at the photo and remembering that she was one of 12 children, it was a natural observation that housIng had improved since then. "In those days you were lucky to get a tent to live in on arrival," Vic said. "My oldest brother was born in a tent and they had to hold an
umbrella over my mother while she was in labour because it was raining at the time. They were tough times but people were born tough," he added. "On the goldfields in the early days they paid more for a bottle of water than they did for a bottle of whisky."
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Tiny Ruby Casserly (centre) with her friends the Marshals outside their respective homes in North Fremantle early this century.
"In 1920 Ruby Casserly m oved to Perth and naturally her fiance by that time followed. He was still the breadwinner, so it was not until 1922 after a four-year engagement that they were married by the late Father James Dunn in St Marys Cathedral.
Vic and Ruby were only a few weeks in their first home in Broome Street, Highgate when the sixmonth engineers' strike began. "We existed on one pound a week and whatever odd jobs I could pick up," Vic said.
"It was only by accident that Father Dunn married us. We had arranged with another priest to marry us but on the day he forgot all about it," laughed Vic.
"With our first child on the way it w asn't easy. Soon after that we moved to Vic Park because there was plenty of bush around to get firewood," laughed Vic.
Before leaving Kalgoorlie, Vic had Whether by accident or design it made no difference to the enduring established his own garage but times bonds tied on that day, May 1, 1922. were hard for the businessman then. On May 1, 1982, they will be cele- "Then was plenty of work but no brating the anniversary of that day money," Vic said. with a Mass at 10.30am at St Marys church, Leederville, at which Father He worked in Perth at Vetters Leach will officiate. workshops and garage and in 1934 started' his own business in rented "All the family will be there as well premises at the corner of Shakesas a lot of the parish," said Mrs peare Street and Scarborough Beach Ryan. Road. He bought the property in 1940 and ran the garage until his Among them will be Sisters of the retirement in 1970 when he sold it. t)or from Glendalough where Vic The Ryan's had seven children. The has helped out for 25 years on every Sunday and many other days as well. six who are living, their 16 grandOthers will include his many friends children and four great grandchildin St Vincent de Paul of which he ren will join with them on May 1 to was a foundation member of the celebrate a most successful union Leederville branch in 1926. Vic is blessed by God and well tied (even if now the only remaining foundation accidentally) by the late Father Dunn. member of the branch still active.
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HE SITUATION in which the family finds itself presents positive and negative aspects: the first are a sign of the salvation of Christ operating in the world: the second, a sign of the refusal that man gives to the love of God. One the one hand, in fact, there is a culture and as active agents in the buildmore lively awareness of personal free- ing of an authentic family humanism. dom and greater attention to the quality Among the more troubling signs of this of interpersonal relationships in mar- phenomenon, the Synod Fathers stressed riage, to promoting the dignity of the following, in particular: women, to responsible procreation, to • The spread of divorce and of the education of children. recourse to a new union, even on the part There is also an awareness of the need for of the faithful. the development of interfamily relation- . • The acceptance of purely civil mar- 4; ships, for reciprocal spiritual and mate- nage in contradiction to the vocation of , rial assistance, the rediscovery of the the baptised to "be married in the Lord". ; ecclesial mission proper to the family and • The celebration of the marriage its responsibility for the building of a sacrament without living faith, but for more just society. other motives. On the other hand, however, signs are • The rejection of the moral norms not lacking of a disturbing degradation of that guide and promote the human and some fundamental values: a mistaken Christian exercise of sexuality in theoretical and practical concept of the marriage. independence of the spouses in relation to each other; serious misconceptions regarding the relationship of authority THE WHOLE Church is obliged to a between parents and children; the con- deep reflection and commitment, so that crete difficulties that the family itself the new culture now emerging may be experiences in the transmission of values; evangelised in depth, true values the growing number of divorces; the acknowledged, the rights of men and scourge of abortion; the ever more fre- women defended, and justice promoted cannot fail to have a beneficial and renewing influence even on the structures quent recourse to sterilisation; the in the very structures of society. In this way the "new humanism" will of society. appearance of a truly contraceptive What is needed is a continuous, pernot distract people from their relationmentality. ship with God, but will lead them to it manent conversion which, while requiring an interior detachment from every more fully. Science and its technical applications evil and an adherence to good in its fuloffer new and immense possibilities in the lness, is brought about concretely in steps which lead us ever forward. N THIS and following issues construction of such a humanism. Thus a dynamic process develops, one The Record presents substan- Still, as a consequence of political choi- which advances gradually with the prodirection of research ces that decide the tial extracts from the 170gressive integration of the gifts of God page papal document, The and its applications, science is often used and the demands of his definitive and against its original purpose, which is the absolute love in the entire personal and Family in the Modern World. advancement of the human person. It becomes necessary, therefore, on the social life of man. part of all, to recover an awareness of the Therefore, an educational growth process is necessary, in order that individual At the root of these negative pheno- primacy of moral values, which are the believers, families and peoples, even civilmena there frequently lies a corruption of values of the human person as such. isation itself, by beginning from what the idea and the experience of freedom, The great task that has to be faced they have already received of the mystery today for the renewal of society is that of conceived not as capacity for realising of Christ, may patiently be led forward, the truth of God's plan for marriage and recapturing the ultimate meaning of life arriving at a richer understanding and and its fundamental values. the family, but as an autonomous power fuller integration of this mystery in their of self-affirmation, often against others, Only an awareness of the primacy of lives. values enables man to use the these for one's own selfish well-being. Worthy of our attention also is the fact immense possibilities given him by that, in the countries of the so-called science in such a way as to bring about the N CONFORMITY with her constant Third World, families often lack both the true advancement of the human person in tradition, the Church receives from the means necessary for survival, such as his or her whole truth, in his or her free- various cultures everything that is able to food, work, housing and medicine, and dom and dignity. Science is called to ally express better the unsearchable riches of itself with wisdom. Christ. the most elementary freedoms, Only with the help of all the cultures In the richer countries, on the contrary, hT. e following words of the Second excessive prosperity and the consumer Vatican Council can therefore be applied will it be possible for these riches to be mentality, paradoxically joined to a cer_ to the problems of the family: "Our era manifested ever more clearly, and for the tamn anguish and uncertainty about the needs such wisdom more than bygone Church to progress towards a daily more future, deprive married couples of the ages if the discoveries made by man are to complete and profound awareness of the generosity and courage needed for raising be further humanised. For the future of truth, which has already been given to her up new human life: thus life is often per- the world stands in peril unless wiser peo- in its entirety by the Lord. Holding fast to the two principles of ceived not as a blessing, but as a danger plc are forthcoming". The education of the moral conscience, the compatibility with the Gospel of the from which to defend oneself. The historical situation in which the which makes every human being capable various cultures to be taken up and of family lives therefore appears as an inter- of judging and of discerning the proper communion with the universal Church, ways to achieve self-realisation according there must be further study, particularly play of light and darkness, This shows that history is not simply a to his or her original truth, thus becomes by the Episcopal Conferences and the fixed progression towards what is better, a pressing requirement that cannot be appropriate departments of the Roman but rather an event of freedom, and even renounced. Curia, and greater pastoral diligence so a struggle between freedoms that are in Modern culture must be led to a more that this "inculturation" of the Christian mutual conflict, that is, according to the profoundly restored covenant with divine faith may come about ever more extensively, in the context of marriage and the well-known expression of Saint Augus- Wisdom. tine, a conflict between two loves: the Every man is given a share of such family as well as in other fields. love of God to the point of disregarding Wisdom through the creating action of It is by means of "inculturation" that self, and the love of self to-the point of God. And it is only in faithfulness to this one proceeds towards the full restoration covenant that the families of today will be of the covenant with the Wisdom of God, disregarding God, It follows that only an education for in a position to influence positively the which is Christ himself. love rooted in faith can lead to the capac_ building of a more just and fraternal The whole Church will be enriched also ity of interpreting "the signs of the times", world. by the cultures which, although lacking which are the historical expression of this technology, abound in human wisdom twofold love. 10 THE injustice originating from sin and are enlivened by profound moral -- which has profoundly penetrated the values. structures of today's world — and often So that the goal of this journey might in such a world, under the hindering the family's full realisation of be clear and consequently the way plainly pressures coming above all from the mass itself and of its fundamental rights, we indicated, the Synod was right to begin media, the faithful do not always remain must all set ourselves in opposition by considering in depth the original immune from the obscuring of certain through a conversion of mind and heart, design of God for marriage and the famfundamental values, nor set themselves following Christ Crucified by denying ily: it "went back to the beginning", in up as the critical conscience of family our own selfishness: such a conversion deference to the teaching of Christ.
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2,1 ABOVE: Michael York stars as George Conway and Olivia Hussey plays Maria in Channel Nine's Saturday movie, Lost Horizon at 8.35pm.
It's Lost Horizon II
Channel Nine children's personalities, Chroodland and Jenny Dunstan, chat with Gaelon Price (6) at the Pioneer 18 School as his teacher, Judy Gulyas (in period costulooks on.
Channel Nine presents his brother George wants only to escape the the James Hilton classic (Michael York) who are Himalayan retreat, are Sally Hughes (Sally Kellerstory Lost Horizon II on fleeing war-torn China. Friday, at 8.35pm. The plane is hijacked and man), a cynical newspaperStarring Peter Finch, Liv the passengers kidnapped woman who comes to love Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, and taken to the mystical the place; Sam Cornelius Annis, Eric Porter, Leigh 1934, the period in which George Kennedy, Michael magical Shangri-La, where (George Kennedy), an Lawson, James Warwick, the play is set. York, Olivia Hussey, Cha- the art, culture, and engineer who falls in love Madeline Smith, Connie The plot is classic Christie rles Boyer, and Sir John accumulated knowledge of Booth, Robert Longden, — and as she waves her Gielgud, Lost Horizon II the world are treasured with Shangri-La and Sally; Joan Hickson and Doris magic web all the charac- revolves around a plane- against the day when an and Harry Lovett (Bobby Hare with special guests ters come under suspicion, load of American and Eng- all-out war will destroy Van), a mediocre vaudevilJohn Gielgud and Bernard red herrings abound and lish nationals, including civilisation. lian who finds in the childnot until the climax of the British diplomat Richard Kidnapped along with ren of Shangri-La his best Miles. Why Didn't They Ask movie is the mystery Conway (Peter Finch) and Richard and George, who audience. Evans? was written in solved.
It's classic Christie Now thesun is shining safely for Gaebn Bronson Kangaroo capers cracks a Channel 7 premieres the star-studded production of Agatha Christie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans? the first television production of this Agatha Christie thriller — to be seen on Channel 7, Saturday, May 1 at 7.35pm. S tarring Francesca
Western Australia's renowned sun- iltntacted Terri, explained Gaelon's and shine was the deadly enemy of a young probl Terri set about solving it for Perth boy until Channel Nine came to his hinlA l,several weeks of enquiries, Terri Never has Australia's I n Channel 7's Friday Gould, Robert Mitchum, rescue. fourara-quad Industries (a division national emblem, the kan- night movie on April 30 at Karen Carlson, Clive a Gaelon Price (6), of Armadale, has of ainnel Nine Appealathon charity) garoo received so much 7.35pm Matilda shows Revill, Harry Guardino, rare skin condition, a form of skin cancer, had mail cricket helmet they could attention from America as that she can beat all Lionel Stander and Art which means he cannot expose any part ofkielon. Charles Bronson stars in when Hollywood decided corners, from street figh- Metrano. of his body to the direct rays of ultra- Nile clear plastic front had to be to make a movie called ters to retired boxing Australia's Mike Willesee Channel 7's Sunday night violet lights. rePI: by a special tinted screen and Matilda; the star being a champions. gets a small part as an movie at 8.35 on April 25, stir Plastics From Noon Till Three. fitted this. Even with sun protection cream on his k angaroo fisticuffs Matilda stars Elliott announcer. l ove the Price family the good champion. From Noon Till Three hands and face, Gaelon's skin is badly neol,!rranged for Australian crickescarred from sunburn. BELOW: Larry Penner andKaren will bring audiences a ter, "ughes, to present the helmet to Carlson star in Matilda, to be seen number of firsts, including Gaelon's mother discussed the idea of a youaelon. on Channel Seven, Friday, April 30 the usually stoical, placidcricket helmet to protect Gaelon's head rine helmet faced Bronson breaking will be painted in at 8.35pm. and face with her son's headmaster at the Gal school out in laughter. colors and apart from his Pioneer Village School, Mr David Nore, exalt at meeting For example, the BronKim Hughes, Gaeand that's where Channel Nine came in. i0na1so thrilled son who has overwhelmed with the helmet. 111et will now allow Gaelon to and conquered more Mr Nore remembered Channel Nine len,1, bigger-than-life villains on News reporter, Terri Woods, from her Plar and still keep his face prothe screen than perhaps visit to the school to cover its opening for tecl: the damaging rays of the sun. Price family, news of the any other leading man porNews some time ago, and thought Nine's trays a hapless, would-be involvement with cricket could be of het* the best "news" Channel Nine has Presented bank robber. some help. He is a failure in the love game as well! His motivations are just as strong and real as in all of his pictures, but his Graof exThe annual Anzac Day serViCe. NM ed ham Dorsey character I I I Nine teler. at I lam on Sunday. rvicemen and women, will be appears to be a born loser. Even that name, Graham April 25. Dorsey, is unlike any char,aectitti‘aizeyifht.,11:.:0(1•14:n1I ( )ti,iiirIf(u),_1 Newsreader Russell Gocidrick will prolif7l acter to be portrayed by march and ceremony which highlights theMA Bronson, whose colorful rate the loss of the men and women who fon the two NkOrld Wars, Korea screen monickers have ranged from Chato to Mr and Vietnam. Majestyk. • the ' be the -Ple aIld will
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LOMBARDINA'S W AY OF CROSS
The Way of the Cross was a community commemoration at Lombadina Mission, 2000 km north of Perth, where 14 crosses were made out of local timber and a bigger cross was carried in procession as the children fixed a drawing to each station.
RIGHT: On Holy Saturday night the Easter Vigil began at dusk with the Paschal fire being lit on the beach near the large processional cross. Pictured (below left) at the close of the ceremony is Father Chris Saunders, administrator of the mission. 4rtk,
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TAX SYSTEM NOT AS EFFECTIVE AS FIRST INTENDED The traditional role of the progressive taxation system, which has the socially just role of distributing resources from the wealthy to the poor, is no longer as effective as it was intended to be," Ross McLean told the delegates.
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"This latest social disease of tax avoidance has meant that those who don't meet their taxation obligations are basically saying: 'We will use the roads, schools and hospitals which you others can finance, and although we will not contribute to financing the needs of the poor and the disadvantaged at this stage — we will take our slice of the welfare cake when our turn comes — whether we need it or not.'
Children from St. Brigid's School, Midland, recently visited the Emmanuel Centre for Disabled People and presented a cheque for $63 which had been raised by the Year 4 pupils during Lent. The children had previously raised money during the International Year of the Disabled Person and decided to repeat the exercise. In the picture (right), the teacher, Mrs Kelly, looks on while Gregory Chicanese presents the cheque to Mrs Edith Smale and Peter Gill, who are both volunteers at the centre. Later the children spent several hours talking with the visitors to the centre.
Politicians pander
"Too many politicians pander to where the votes are and not where the poverty is. "The temptations of popular rather than proper government, lead to economic miracle makers, and ensure the continuation of social injustices. "The best organised and best funded organisations semm to capture the attention of both the media and politicians. "Unions are heard, but not the unemployed; established migrant groups are heard, but not the refugees; middle-class welfare recipients are heard, but not the poor, elitist sports institutes are established, by funds which could be better used for the handicapped; land rights activists are heard, but not high Aboriginal infant mortality rates; radical women's groups have been heard, but not the mothers and fathers who have been too busy surviving to seek to advocate a much needed national family policy. This is now changing. Eleven Eastern States lay missionaries have joined the Pallottine missions in WA for a "In protection debates the vested interest prevails, minimum period of two years service. Eight have joined the Pallottine mission at Tardun and with the help of both the Liberal and Labor narties and the consumers and average citizens lose out. three are helping at the Rossmoyne Pallottine Centre. The young people serve as houseparents, "And so the supposed or imagined burdens of the cooks, maintenance workers and farmers. The lay missionaries come from Mackay, Sydney, organised and the articulate, are transferred to the disWodonga, Adelaide and various parts of Victoria and had a month's preparation at Pallotti organised and the inarticulate," said Mr McLean.
Missionaries come to WA
College, Milgrove, Victoria, after which they travelled by road to WA. Pictured at Milgrove, Victoria, where they trained to be Pallottine missionaries in WA are (left to right) Eugene San (at Rossmoyne), John Nicholls (at Tardun), Elizabeth Freney (at Rossmoyne), Patricia Quinn (at Tardun), at rear Margaret McLean training director, Beverley O'Brien (at Tar dun), Helen Dunstan (at Tardun), Brendan Connell (at Tardun), L eanne Crouch (at Rossmoyne), Michael Halloran, Anne Louise Maher and John Bochat (all at Tardun).
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"Curiously therefore, politicians who advocate antipoverty measures, and greater social justice, are put at political risk, because the numerically strong tend to override and out-bid the poor. "This is not a case for those politicians to abandon their cause. But it is a case for socially concerned citizens to support their cause, even if they cannot support their politics. "But the fundamental position is this," said Mr McLean. "If greater concentration of resources can be directed Ito the poor in our society, social justice will be achieved for the present generation, the debt burden of the next generation could be eased, and in the longer terM, succeeding generations could achieve a rate of .economic growth which would both secure higher living standards for the majority, and a capacity to provide more generous assistance to the needy. "To achieve this we will need a better informed public, a more compassionate public, and a less politically sensitive but more socially sensitive body of politicians in all major parties," concluded Mr McLean.
YOUTH FORUM
Our first step to work money, but the problem was solved, I could have something from the store. Two budgies took my fancy and seemed adequate recompense. Little did I realise that once I had the budgies I would need a cage and all the extras. The birds had to be fed and the tray cleaned. I probably cost my parents money in the long-term and certainly landed myself with an extra job....tray-cleaning was something I hadn't foreseen. me some work during the I wonder how much is h olidays. It never unforeseen when young occurred to me to ask people start work. How what I would be paid. At many know what their the end of two weeks the wage will be at the end of issue was raised, the the first week? How manager discovered I many know what profit was under-aged...legally their company makes or he could not pay me with expects to make each
Most of us remember our first step into the workforce and can smile (or laugh) at our innocence and ignorance. Iremember my first job. I was still in primary school and the local hardware store offered
year? What about budgets, how do you live c omfortably on the amount you are paid? Is your wage a fair and just one? These and many other questions are the foundation of an enquiry launched this week by the Young Christian Worker's movement. Perth YCW president, Gemma Wooltorton and full-timer for the Bunbury Diocese, Peter Shooter will prepare the West Australian component of A Living Wage for the national paper. In YCW an "enquiry" is a specific planned programme in which individual members research the facts of an issue. In this case, the facts related to the wages received by
young people and how that wage is spent. It will involve talking to work mates and friends both employed and unemployed. Those participating in the enquiry will meet once a week for four weeks and discuss their findings. The findings will be summarised on a national level and local action will be planned as a result of the findings. Young workers interested in the YCW movement, should contact Mark O'Sullivan or Tom O'Regan at 30 Claverton Street or on 328 9667. Young workers would do well to read the papal documents of the last 100 years related to the topic of wages. The most recent is LABOREM EXERCENS.
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First IfCilif Diocesan Council to meet in 10 years
It was significant that the first Young Christian Workers' Perth diocesan council to be held in 10 years began on the feast of St Joseph the worker.
The 35 participants examined four areas that affect the lives of young people, namely family, leisure, work and unemployment.
A fter reflecting on the facts, specific actions were proposed for individuals, for local groups and for the whole movement. I felt excited seeing other young people prepared to w ork hard during the c ourse of the weekend council which was very business like and planned the programme for the next 12 months. Each participant completed a preparation booklet before the meeting. Each of the main areas under discussion were Introduced by members or
guest speakers. tive and redemptive. Immediate past president Former YCW Chaplain, Kevin Yuen spoke about Father Jim O'Brien, now his own experiences and parish priest of Como how our attitudes can spoke to the 1982 Dioceaffect our family life. san Council about a theoll Tom O'Regan, Perth ogy of work. He presented YCW full timer, intro- the christi4n vision of duced the section on leis- work and its affect. ure. Using the Vatican Father O'Brien said Council documents as a responsibility to work was resource he questioned as important and this was whether or not our leisure the vision that we must see. should not be loving, crea- We need to reach out in
YOUNG PEOPLE GIVE DAY A SPECIAL WAY ARE
Young people you are asked to be part of a vision. To be part of society's solutions not part of its problems. Young people are asked to give one day of their lives, by:
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Weekend of 'awareness'
love, we have the freedom O'Sullivan, Perth YCW to do this therefore we full timer talked about the From Friday, May 7 to Sunday, May 9 should do this in our work history of the Perth moveYCW will be holding its first Awareness Weesituations. God gives us ment and retiring treasurer Steve Barton presented the kend for 1982 at the popular ToodyaY freedom. financial state of the Perth campsite. to Workers have a right work no matter what movement. The purpose of the weebeliefs. We should be We were fortunate to kend is to enable people to of our welfare of the aware have several experienced discover more about themfellow workers. Defend the observers present. Helen rights of workers but our Zielonka, national secre- selves and to introduce the The West ,41 Oration movement to them. It is . Youth Affairs council tary gave assistance to also an excellent oppor- will hold a State conferthose responsible for col- tunity to meet young peo- ence on July 3 and 4 and lating and recording the ple from other parishes. all youth workers will be facts and reflections-- Fr. The YCW will hold eligible to participate. John Dwyer, chaplain to the Leederville group; further weekends later in The planning commitPeter Shooter (Bunbury the year. If you would like tee headed by Karen fulltimer); Andrew Edey to participate on this wee- licArdle, is keen to (Bunbury full timer); Paul kend or another, please :rreceive any feedback Rogers (Bunbury Presi- ring Mark or Tom on 328 from individuals or dent); Robert Hill (YCW 9667 for further informa- :organisations on the type of programme required Bunbury); James Scully, tion. Angela Burke and Trisha YCW MAY DAY HER- for the conference. "If this conference is to Wells (Ex-YCW mem- OES DANCE will give you he a success, I believe bers). an opportunity to come that keen participation is Fr. John Jegorow, Dioce- the person you idolise oi essential .from anyone admire most to the Parish working with ,voung peosan YCW Chaplain celeI. Hall, Subiaco on Satur- tple," Karen mid. brated the Eucharist. Gemma Wooltorton Karen Hurford, Danny day, May 1 at 7.30pm. $2 'ontact Karen at 3 attitude should always be Rigby, Andrea Hurlihy Admission, students and Kimberley Street, West one of faith and love. unemployed $1. Ring i..eederville. Ph. .381 6344 and Clare Grattidge presJulie Ranson spoke on ented excellent meals Mark or Tom on 328 9667 you are interested, unemployment, Mark throughout the weekend. for more information.
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Mari and her music AS
THE rapidly rising office blocks dwarf her cosy cottage, Marjorie Codrington Wyndham, sets her feet ever more firmly in the soil of West Perth. A noted music teacher, she has lived in Colin Street for around 30 years and has no intention of moving. There's short thrift for any who dare to walk the few paces up her front path to ask if she'd like to make way for a doctor or dentist.
There are offers every week, she says, as she makes coffee in her wellscrubbed kitchen. She's the last one left. Her dear old friends have stepped aside and left the way clear for commerce, but it's still a great place to live. The front door closes the rattle of jackhammers and the roar of cars to a muted rumble, but noise is no problem, as soon as her students arrive. Marj puts them through their piano paces and fills her heart, soul and house with music. Next to her family, whose photos fill the loungeroom, music is the most important thing in her life. She was propped at a piano well before her toes could touch the floor and took her first exam at the age of six. The notes were struck and she went on to study music throughout school and beyond and now holds an impressive list of degrees including an Associate of Music of the Universities of Australia; Accredited Music Teacher of Australia; Associate of Trinity College of London; Licentiate of Trinity College of London; Fellowship of Trinity College of London and Licentiate Royal School of Music in London.
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ORN in Guildford, to Geoffrey and Margaret Wyndham, Marj was the fourth born of six children and the only girl. While she was still very y oung the family moved to Bassendean.
a makeshift music room) and was instrumental in setting up the private schools Music Association (now defunct). Many of her 'boys' still come to see her, often with their children in tow. She's delighted to see them. She never married and had children of her own but has gathered a goodly selection of nieces, nephews and ex -students under her wing.
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URING the time at Scotch she took a years leave of absence and studied in London, taking Piano as major instrument, also violin and singing. While she was there she made good use of her Saturday mornings, by attending choir rehearsals of boys being trained for Benjamin Britten's Operettas. Britten is still one of her favourites but her idols are Beethoven, Bach and Chopin. The time in London was very important, she said. Musically, it was invaluable but culturally and socially it was memorable. "The studies were wonderful but it 1Marj Wyndham with two of her pupils: (left) Yvette Ng, who also made me realise what a high won the Under 10 Solo andgainedan award andJeanette Ng, standard we had in Western Austrawinner (with Elizabeth Browning) of the Under 12 Duet in the lia," she said. 1981 Music Festival. After leaving Scotch she taught at Siena College, St Patrick's (now demolished) in West Perth and St Partick's off to Mass. She's always been an early beautiful it turned me upside down," in Fremantle, all of which won their bird, she says, ever since her school she said. choir section at various Eisteddfords. days. Her last pilgrimage was in 1979. She She misses the choir work, now that It goes without saying that her faith would like to go again and is keen to she is only teaching, but wouldn't give forms a big part of herself and her life. re-visit Fatima and Lourdes. up her pupils (aged from five years to She attends a Novena, every week Travelling is great, she says. There without fail, is organist for St Cathe- has been a bit of time spent in Asia, adult) for the world. Last year illness forced her to relin- rine Laboure's Church (for the last 20 Hong Kong and Singapore, and she quish her work as an examiner for the years) and is a reader at St Mary's loves the 'Asian kiddies'. Australian Music Examination Cathedral (for the last two years). When she is at home and there is the Board. "Religion is a very big thing with time, she likes to read — usually music "The doctor said I had to give up me," she said. or the history of music. something and I said; "It's not going to "I am very thankful for being a "You can never learn enough about be my kiddies." Catholic. Especially because I am music," she said. She has also been honorary secretary alone, I find with the priests that I for several musical associations, always have someone to turn to." including the Music Teachers Association. She was the first honorary HE has always been busy. Her secretary of the Australian Society of faith and her work have filled in the Music Education and also worked for years. Between the Church and teach- the Royal Schools Music Club. ing, she said, there is not a lot of spare Retirement, she says, has no part in "I was just tired really, too much time. the picture. Not while she can still work. I have around 30 students and She has been to Lourdes four times teach and the students still come. If that keeps me busy. I'm up early and I and on two pilgrimages and has warm she can hold out against the noisy don't finish until 9.30 p.m. on a Thurs- and wonderful memories of St Cathe- march of progress there's no doubt day. But I wouldn't have it any other rine's Chapel in Paris. she'll stare stubbornly at the steady way." "I first went as a student and it was so tread of time.
A weekly feature by F1DSI'fl [MSS Her schooling remained in the hands of the Mercy nuns — she began primary at Bassendean and went on to Victoria Square College (now Mercedes) for four years. There was music all the way and at Mercedes she was fortunate enough to be tutored b y Sister M. Philip, a well-known Conservatorium graduate. "I feel like I have never left the Square, as before the Nuns were allowed to make public appearances I conducted the choirs and orchestra for them," she said. The love of music, she said, was inherent in the whole family and enthusiastically encouraged. There were often sing songs after tea with Marj playing the mandolin, her mother on piano and brother on violin. At the age of 13 she took up violin and determined to make her life with music. School finished and so did a part of her life. Her mother died suddenly and the shock still lingers, but life had to go on and it was time to study at the Conservatorium.
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NE of her teachers was the late Miss Ida Roberts, a Conservatorium Graduate and well-known in Perth as a music teacher. The years of study were intermingled with some teaching. Marj was still living at Bassendean and tutoring youngsters from home. After attaining her degrees she began teaching part-time at Scotch college. The job soon grew and she became full-time and remained at the school for 20 years. In her talented hands, the Scotch Boys Choir went on to win 18 Music Festivals. But they were early days and music had yet to be really recognised as a subject. She taught hundreds of boys over the years ... initially in corridors and tram cars (the latter purchased as
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OR the last 10 years she has acted as a festival adjudicator, a job that takes her all over Perth and beyond. Music, she says, is the best thing that every happened to her and last year her students won seven sections of the Perth Music Festival. She has five former students in England studying at the Royal School of Music Academy and one in the United States. "Stuart, who is studying in Philadelphia, will make a name for himself in composition," she said. "He came to me when he was about 12 and he has done so well." She gets letters from all over the world from former students and the walls of her music room are decorated with photos of many who have gone befo re.
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ER students come from all over Perth — one even travels in from Lesmurdie. There are two pianos in the neat and orderly music room (for two piano work of course) and shelves of sheet music. No doubt she makes her students toe the line but is good for a chuckle or two. There are rules of course but a bit of bending now a again — a small face and a sweet smile and she's soon twisted around a tiny finger. She loves children, they can make her melt in a moment. Like the three year old who trotted along to piano lessons with her big sister and wanted to take her turn at the keyboard too ... Marj is now teaching her her notes. "She's my youngest pupil," she grinned. She's up at five every morning and
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Marjorie Codrington W yndham, is one of Perth's best-known and best-loved music teachers. She spent 20 years as music teacher at Scotch College and has been a private tutor for the last decade. She holds an impressive list of degrees including an Associate of Music of the Universities of Australia; Accredited Music Teacher of Australia; Associate of Trinity College, London; Licentiate of Trinity College, London; Fellowship of Trinity College, London and Licentiate Royal School of Music, London. A former examiner for the Australian Music Examination Board, she plays the o rgan at St Catherine Laboure's Church and is a R eader at St Mary's Cathedral.
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Here are our Super Sleuth winners ...
This is one of the winning entries. It's from Danny Rose Meyer, of Duncraig.
Well, we've got three winners in our Super Sleuth competition but would also like to thank all of you who entered. We had lots of beaut entries and it was hard to choose winners. We did however, get a lot of entries with our duck put together the wrong way . . . you can see what we mean from the photos of the winning entries. We got lots of ducks with long, long necks and it seems that was the part of the puzzle which tricked a lot of you. First prize-winners are Justine Harvey, of Greenwood, Danny Rose Meyer, of Duncraig and Maria Camerata, of North Perth. They will each receive a radiocassette, with headphones, donated by Uncle Domenic's Restaurant. Other prizewinners, who will receive a book courtesy of William Collins Pty. Ltd., are Marcel Bianchini, of Dianella, Natalie Winnington, of
Four entrants to receive a book
Safety Bay, Kathy Dias, of Girrawheen and Paul Thomas, of Esperance. . Thanks to all who took part and keep watching the page as we've got some great new competitions coming up. There
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Dear Nurse Kerry, Dear Jennifer, How are you? I am fine. I am sorry I haven't written Many thanksfor your letto you regularly, but could ter. Yes, Idid have a good you find me a penpal who Easter, although Captain may like tennis, ballet, Bob popped in on Sunday dolls and other hobbies, morning and expected me because I haven't had a to bake a batch of bunsfor penpal before. I'm inter- him. He said his oven had broken down but I don't ested in stamps too. I hope you can find me a believe him. I think he really just wanted to peek penpal. in my fridge to see how Betty Hughan, many eggs Ihad. COOLBINIA. Do write again and let us Dear Betty, We don't seem to have a know what you are doing. record of your member- Dear Captain Bob, ship. Perhaps you couldfill I am looking for a penin an applicationform and pal. I am nine years old and send it in. If an.yone would am in Year 4 at Sacred like to write to you, they Heart. I go to the Sacred and The Butterflies of could address letters here Heart church. I like swimSpring. and when we have your ming and netball. If anybThe books are important address and details, we'll ody around nine years of in providing children with send them on. age is interested, please an understanding and Dear Nurse Kerry, write to me. appreciation of Australian Hi, how are you? I am Elizabeth Wallis, folklore. All of the books fine. For my birthday I 7 Mintern Street, are brightly illustrated received 'a sarong, photo . THORNLIE. 6108 with the type fitted into the frame and clothes brush spaces left by the pictures. from Mum, Dad and my Jo Anne Hook's illustrabrothers and sisters. I got tions, for instance, in How $5 from my sister Cathe- Welcome to our new The Rainbow Was Made. rine, pants from my nan members — Jane Seeber, are gay and clear. Kern and pop, pants from my of Tuart Hill; Valerie ChefAinsworth uses a different sister Lou-Ann, soap, fings, of Manjimup; style in The Black Swans book marker and photo Sharon Coyne, of Mt but again, the drawings are frame from my cousins and Hawthorn; and Felicity big, bold and bright. plenty of cards. I had a Davey, of South Perth. really happy day. BIRTHDAYS How was your Easter? I Entrancing had a really busy one with HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO: my brothers and sisters VINCE BELLINI, Wancoming home from Perth. neroo, NICOLE BALThe Black Swans is an Well better go. LANTYNE, Maddington, entrancing legend of how Jennifer Jinsin, C ATHERINE BELLINI, Australia came to have MT MAGNET. Please print clearly and You have got to be in the W anneroo, DANIELLE black swans instead of BAKER, Hillarys, BRENwhite. It all began with the don't forget your date of club if you want to enter DAN CARLIN, Rocktribe of fierce eagles who birth and a stamp so we our competitions and win ingham, JULIA CAMPowned the world's only can send your membership some of the super prizes. • form to you. Membership To join simply send the boomerangs and the other BELL, Duncraig, CHRIS, will allow you to enter all completed coupon here to TINE DAWSON, NarBoth volumes ar,e.. _and legends and the titles animals who plotted, with our competitions. The Record Kid's Club, the help of the white rogin, JENNIFER EVPut out under the include: A Well, beautiful what 50, Box are PO you waiting book Aberdeen has ANS, Northam, CHRIS S cience Research Molok The Thirsty Frog, s wans, to steal the for? been sent to Natalie Anne Street, Perth, 6000. GREENWOOD, South L aboratories label Old Man Fire, The Tale of boomerangs. Winnington for sending in Perth, MELANIE HENHow The Rainbow Was rIclare part of a ser- The Platypus, Keelie The Made the first correct entry in DRICKS, Hamilton Hill, is another beautiful Cuckoo, Wowie The River our Fishy Puzzle. ies which provides a Monster; The Tale of The story based on Aboriginal M ARK KINSELLA, CarThe book has been ciika, KATRINA MALs election of tales Wombat, How Echidna legend. A story of how donated by William ColW hich cover most of Got His Quills, How Emu Treecreeper wins the heart E Y , Moora, ANNE lins publishers and we MURRAY, Girrawheen, Name the animals which Lost His Wings, The of Mother Wagtail by hope you like it Natalie. have always had a Koala Who Stole The using his magical powers CLARE PIGLIARDO, Natalie lives at Safety Bay Woodlands, BRENDON Address Special place in Aus- Water, The Secret of The to make a rainbow. and is eight years old. Do SHEEHAN, Glen Forest, Cockatoo, Mopoke and The books are economitralian folk lore. keep on entering our puzP/code GLEN TALBOT, Girrathe Moon, The Whirlwind cally priced and easily built Several of the stories are zles, we'll be giving a book wheen, KIM WALSH, and the Frogs, Why Koo- up into a set for any child to the first, neatest correct Claremont, TIM WHITESpecially adapted for child- kaburra Laughs Age Birthdate who falls in love with the at Dawn, ren from Aboriginal myths entry we receive each week. LY, Quindalup. The Spirit In The Stream first one they read.
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The Black Swans, by L. & G. Adams, and How The Rainbow Was Made, by L. & G. Adams, published by William Collins Pty. Ltd., both $3.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross.
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The choir will be the Unistarting April 29 at the Servers in need of accom- versity Catholic Society make a contribution to the Mass after which there will Stop Polio Appeal in place be a blessing of the 2-metre House, Retreat can brickwork, Francis For all your modation range in age choir. of making a gift to a high wooden cross which Victoria Park, at 7.30pm from 14 — mid twenties. boundary walls, fire plaThe Newman Society mother. was attached to the hut A series of four lectures and ending at 9pm. The ces, letter boxes, bbq, pavGroups will be arriving invites all members and and ing work. Guaranteed. on Television — Its Impact course will be conducted from Friday May 14. The interested friends to be In the last 12 years this first used for ,Mass placed given been be will now has Children, which Day on pecial Mothers s lecturer Meyers, Laura Kavanagh by Contact Mike conference begins on May present. Especially welon consecutive Thursdays in media studies, WA Colappeal has produced more in front of the new church phone 446 9247. 16 with the opening Mass come are all the new graduthan $15,000 in donations with a commemorative lege of Advanced Educa- in the Cathedral and ends ates and young members. to Save the Childrens plaque. tion, and is designed for on Friday 21 at LeederAfter Mass all are invited Fund various projects and parents and non-profess- ville. t o refreshments in the Jun- through the polio camionals. Groups will be departing ior Common Room of St in honour of paign 750,000 children The course provides a over the weekend 22/23 Thomas More College. have been protected from straightforward look at May. in parked be Cars should the disease in Swaziland, some of the current find- Host families would prothe University car park to ings and research vide sleeping accommoda- prevent congestion at the Lesotho and Malawi. open Special gift cards are A weekend retreat — the child's perception of tion, breakfast and a cut held 5.45pm College Mass. available from Save The to all people will be the T V; effects of advertising lunch if necessary, each The University Sunday Children Fund Mothers from May 7 to 9 at and screen violence; sex day. service takes place at Caring Group, PO Box Franciscan Retreat House. stereo-typing and cliches; Several of the adults 7.30pm in Winthrop Hall. 160, Subiaco, 6008, phone The cost of the retreat is O.S.M. addiction; the impact on accompanying servers will The address, entitled The 381 1499, and should be $30 and an application patron of creativity and imagination; be staying at the NorberHeartlands of Belief: God's with a booking fee of $10 the parent's role. tine Priory at Queen's Country and Ours, will be returned in time for Moth- should be sent to the co9. 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The Record, April 22-28, 1982
• ecord Sport
Clear leaders to • the fore in each of the divisions
WHAT ME A LAY MISSIONARY???
ARE YOU A: Teacher, Trained Nurse, Farmer, Carpenter, Mechanic, Building T radesman, Plumber, Cattleman, H andyman, Plantation Manager, S tenographer, Sawmiller, Accountant, Librarian. ARE YOU prepared to devote part of yout life to God in the service of his people in other countries and cultures? ARE YOU interested in working in Papua New Guinea, South Pacific, or Australian aboriginal missions? The next information course will be held from the 18th-22nd December, 1981. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Mr. Barry Sinclair, PALMS Lay Missionary Movement, Paulian Association, G.P.O. Box 716, SYDNEY 2001. NAME ADDRESS POSTCODE .... AGE O CCUPATION
Last weekends matches in the mixed pennant competition saw the completion of the first round and clear leaders in each division. Both 'A' grade results from last week were one sided with the two Queens Park teams scoring easy wins.
Queens Park (1) defeated St Benedicts 11-1, 68-33, and Queens Park (2) defeated Dianella Il1, 71-32. The points table in 'A' grade is as follows: Queens Park (2)7, Queens Park (1) 6, St. Domenics 4, Dianella 2, and St. Benedicts 1.
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close result and one not so their first win in the series, close. Queens Park and St. The other match in 'B' Domenics (2) had a very grade saw Attadale cornclose encounter with sets fortably defeat St. Domenbeing equal at six apiece, ics ( 1), 1 1-1, 69-33. and the game score favour- Dianella had the bye. As a ing Queens Park 57-55. result of those matches the In 'B' grade there was one This g_ave Queens Park `13'1 grade is led by Atta-
dale with 8 points then fol- of 57-52. The table in `B'2 low St. Domenics (1) 6, St. sees St. Denis 8, Queens Domenics (2) 2, Dianella 2 Park (1) 4, Queens Park (2) and Queens Park 2. 4 and St. Benedicts 0. `B'2 grade is still headed With the finals in all by St. Denis' who con- grades being a playoff by tinued their unbeaten form the first and second placewith a win over St. Bene- getters after the home and diets, 7-5,53-41. The other away games, there should match was a closer result be some keen competition with the two Queens Park in the weeks to come to teams fighting it out for a either consolidate posi6-6 scorecard. The result tions or attempt to change went in favour of Queens the tables in the case of sevPark (2) with a game score eral third placed teams.
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The last event at Long Beach, California, proved that the turbo-charged cars raced by Renault and Ferrari, while being more powerful, still have trouble golfer Graham Marsh, had with the tight twisting been nominated 10 times courses. Next summer's Australian profespreviously without win- At San Marino they will MELBOURNE: Squash ning the major award. tennis circuit seems likely to be sional be back in contention to c hampion Geoff Hunt has international stars even more bled of the towards their way force been judged winner of the A mong the previous 1982 national Lindy winners of the Lindy t op of the driver's than in recent years. A ward, the memorial to A ward are the inaugural championship. The Australian Open and is likely to fall away billiards champion Walter winner in 1963, Roy Emer- Long Beach saw the final one or two other tourna- sharply after that, espeLindrum, by the Sports- son (tennis), Betty Cuth- t riumphant return for ments are expected to cially among the men. men's Association of bert and Ron Clarke former world champion, attract many of the world's This was the picture of the (athletics), Shane Gould Nikki Lauda, when the galAustralia. top players, but the season c oming season that and Tracey Wickham Hunt, who beat a notable (swiming), Lillee, John_ emerged from a recent group of nominees, includ- Nicholson meeting of the LTA A (cycling) and council. ing the joint equal West Heather McKay (squash), Australian nomination of who The LTAA has yet to setwon the award three Cricketer Dennis Lillee and times. tle sponsorship arrangements for a number of the major tournaments under its control next summer. It was hoping for good news yesterday on player A ccommodation at availability, but the mood was dampened by a report • RACE ONE: I. Like A R ACE SIX: I. Icy on players' intentions from Patchy. 2. Mr Bassman. 3. Monaro. 2. Sea Glade. 3. Colin Stubbs. R oom with refrigerator, electric jug, tea, coffee Barney's Me Name. Calruin. R ACE TWO: 1. Gal of R ACE SEVEN: I. Go Mr Stubbs told the meetMorning paper. Excellent breakfast. • Roamer. 2. New San-, M oo Go. 2. Melton ing the situation was getParking facilities, $12 per day. ting "tougher and tougher" 2 48 HAY STREET East Telephone 325 2092 • dringham. 3. Bedspring' E xpress. 3. Autumn's for the best players in the Boy. Return. CHAIRMAN OF DIRECTORS ROD EVANS • R ACE THREE: 1. Loose R ACE EIGHT: 1. She- world. Iloillimunimammommonimmimmiiiinilionsiimmumnio Love. 2. Soft Angel. 3. ba's Crown. 2. Fabulous Not only were there a Swiss Miss. Trella. 3. Slipaway Jane. number of regular overseas WEMBLEY HOTEL R ACE FOUR: I. Taint R ACE NINE: I. Queens- tournaments now competCOMFORTABLE ACCOMMODATION Temlee. 2. Scolar Attack. lander. 2. Flashing Fables. ing with the Australian Bed and Breakfast $9.00 3. Final Smoke. p rogramme, but an 3. Odd Spec. M . F. CRANLEY, Licensee R ACE FIVE: I. Wee Liz- R ACE TEN: I. Test of increasing list of "special zie. 2. Mary's Luck. 3. Glory. 2. Orient Star. 3. events" was eating further Phone 387 2418 Queen Cannon. Miss Cindilu. into the time of the stars.,
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INO SEEKS JUSTICE The irony is that those of us who are in the apostolate of the Church in Third World countries we laugh more, we sing more and we have much more fun than our counterparts in Western society.
This was the reaction of Karl Gaspar a social action worker for the Church in the Philippines when asked if a prophet needs to be an a ngry person.
"The poor are the 90 per cent of the 52 million Filipinos who are politically and economically exploited and socially deprived."
"You can't be a prophet without a sense of humour," he said with a smile that portrayed the energy w ith which he has preached the social message of the gospel not only in action but through plays, community singing and anything that will bring people alive. Guitar in hand, Karl Gaspar tried out his theory on the group of people who turned up at his sessions when he was in Perth ear- liturgical plays and the means to be involved in the lier this year to share his liturgical celebrations. , totality of society, even in experiences with local peo- It was here that his inter- its politics. ple concerned for social est in theatre came to the "We need an institution fore, not just in spontane- that can ask questions and action. ous acting but in produc- if the Church is not going tion and writing. to ask them, who will? The Slow actors As a result he has written Church has a power that "I managed to get people up to 40 plays on scripture has built up over the cento sing but they are slow to texts, the last judgement, turies and it can use that to do the actions," he said moral morality themes, be the conscience of contrasting the reception persecution in the cata- society. that community singing combs, or political events "The social encyclicals have shown us that the way gets in his country even in of the day. is not to stand aloof but to the field of social action. incarnate ourselves in the Using drama "It is not only in Australia situation, to provide questhat he found reticence. His first "visit to Ireland he It was not a new idea to tions and to reflect on what described as a "shock" use drama and music in the the gospel is asking us. when he found how little of Church in the Philippines "My involvement in the Irish love for song and but it was a new move to social action and social dance got into Church life adapt it to the concrete change has enriched me and liturgy. "The Church is situations of social justice. and made me much closer the poorer because it does "Given the choice, the peo- to God. It is my faith that not bring that Irish love for ple prefer a play to a series makes me more active and it thus becomes more song into liturgy," he said. of lectures . . ." he said. But entertainment is only He is proud of what has meaningful to me." a sideline to a layman who developed in the PhilipSource of faith has risen progressively to pines: "Working with 26 Asked what themes in the become a secretary of a bishops I thought them pastoral conference cover- conservative until I went to scriptures were the source ing seven million Filipinos other countries and had to of his faith, Karl Gaspar and is now engaged in the thank God for the bishops cites Mary's Magnificat, or national secretariate for we have who support basic .Jesus quoting Isaiah: "To social action of the Philip- Christian communities bring the Good News to pines Bishops Conference. and love creativity in the poor." liturgy. The poor, he says, are the "If the experience of the 90 per cent of the 52 milSocial justice Church in the Philippines lion Filipinos who are poland South America were itically and economically He said in Perth that sent to the First World e xploited and socially while not all dioceses in the c ountries it would create deprived. involved Philippines were which in the area of social justice, the reverse mission those that were involved would enrich us both." social constituted a very influen- His concern for W ARRANTY Mindaaction the through minortial and very visible AUTO REPAIRS has nao conference ity that was having a big PAT CURTIS MIAMI effect on the total society. reached out to the establishment of basic Christian As a youth he felt the c ommunities, teaching turning tide of Vatican II people to establish their in his school but only own health programmes around the age of 19 did he and showing them how to become alive to the lay set community goals and apostolate. find the resources to What brought the lay achieve them. apostolate to life was the He makes no distinction Mindanaocreation of the For airy-car comp ete between social action goals Sulu Pastoral Conference at * Mechanical Repairs level. national a or local which embraced 20 diocese * Fleet Servicing "We can attend to the and seven million Cathol- local * Welding of farmers with needs of half ics and more than * Aligning seeds and irrigation but i ts several hundred * Balancing there is not much they can m embers now being * Steam Cleaning do about productivity if Catholics. Karl Gaspar * Tuning etc. there is not reform of land was its first lay secretary that can be ownership and Personalised Service from 1977 to 1980. Pick up & delivery achieved only at the "I realised that if there national level. was going to be dynamism PHONE 361 1340 in the Church it would be Totalinvolvement WARRANTY because of the involvement AUTO REPAIRS "To preach the gospel in a REAR of lay people." 646 ALBANY H'WAY His early experience was particular situation is to T rendsetter Auto's preach and is what good moving as a parish worker, Via, 1 Miller St. Victoria Park among youth who were not good in the total P.O. Box 389 Victoria unemployed or on part- society. Following the lead Park 6100 time jobs, teaching them of Vatican II and the popes the scriptures and involv- there is no doubt that to be A /H 458 8821 ing them through drama in preaching the good news
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