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Perth church leaders call for housing assistance
The heads of four Perth Christian denominations have jointly called on federal and state governments to allocate more funds to housing and for individuals to offer short-term accommodation and rent relief to homeless people.
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Children pray at special Mass Praise the Lord said the robed children of St Augustine's school, Rivervale, in Holy Name
church, Carlisle during a special Mass attended by both Rivervale and Carlisle parishes at cially the homeless the close of Caring Church Week. young people. Hospitality has always been The Caring Church Week held in the Carlisle and Riverton parishes last: a key feature of the Christian tradition week was a success, said Sister Claire Small, one of the organisers. and we warmly commend those families A team of 14 people, Claire, "is to share with "We worked this into morning prayers. which have been pre- brothers, sisters and people our experience of our programme at the "Discussions at meet- • The churches' statement the problem is the reducpared to share their laity, spent a week in Christ." Carlisle/ Riverton par- ings were mainly about says: The Carlisle/ Riverton ishes. h omes with the the Carlisle/Riverton tion of funds for public the modern Christian We, the heads of the housing by more than 50 'experience was the s tranger and the "Three nights were f amily," said Sister • leading parishes dis- second phase of the CarA nglican, Catholic, Uni- per cent in recent years. needy. devoted to meeting with Claire, "and its place in ting Churches and the Sal- We find it untenable that (2) If you have a second cussions with par- ing Church programme. individual families. the world, now and in the ishio vation Army in WA, write federal and state authoriners. The first experience was house making it avail"The other two sessions future. out of a sense of concern ties argue over responsibilCaring Church, as the presented at La Salle were a youth night and able at a low rent to "All in all," she cona for the suffering and hard- ity while the suffering of those whose resources n ame suggests, is College in Midland. parents' evening. tinued, "we were pleased ship being experienced by the homeless remains lardesigned for ordained "At the La Salle expe- The team also con- with the programme and are limited. people who are homeless gely untended to. members of the Church rience," Sister Claire con- ducted religious (3) Helping to establish a educa- look forward to doing it or without adequate hous- As heads of churches we common fund from to become more involved tinued, "we realised that ti 0 n classes at the again in other parishes." ing in our state. in caring for the needs of working with the whole primary school and led which people in need have written to the federal — MICHAEL GRIGG. We understand that more government seeking a drafamily gave the overall could draw to meet all Church members. than 7,700 families are matic increase in funds for "The basic aim of the thrust to what Caring initial accommodation w aiting to be housed by the housing, and especially for expenses such as bond programme," said Sister Church is all about. State Housing Commis- public rental housing. and letting fees and •••-•-••••••••••••••••••••••-•+••••+4 sion, an increase of more rental advances. than 50 per cent in 12 (4) In conjunction with m onths. other concerned peoPeople end up in caravan Govt action ple engaging in a coparks or doubling up with operative housing r elatives and friends. Some scheme for the benefit have no option but to We have also written to of low income earners. r esort to abandoned derethe state government ask- Justice in housing also lict buildings. Others find ing that housing be given a c hallenges Christians to a "I would be very surprised if accommodation in refuges, greater priority in the allo- self-imposed limit on the shelters and hostels, which cation of its funds, even at standard and size of their they ever found grenades and are meant to provide temthe expense of roadworks own home. There certainly bullets at his parish house," porary crisis accommodat- and other construction comes a point for the ion. programmes such as the Christian where luxurious said a Maryknoll nun who housing alongside poverty Alexander Library. knows well the West Australian We have also asked for and homelessness is a con"I'll guarantee you High rentals immediate government tradiction of the gospel Columban Father Brian Gore " *',the best changeovers action in two other areas, (Amos 6:3-6 and Matt. whose arrest was reported in viz: tenancy law reform, 25:25). deal on news Yet people are staying on which protects the rights of In your consideration of the Philippines last week. GEMINI, CAMIRA permanently because they t enants and landlords plus these matters we warmly cannot find homes or can- a broadening of the catego- commend you to the study "Father Gore is a priest who is known not to COMMODORE or not afford the cost of the ries of people eligible for of two documents, both be very open to the idea of armed struggle. He few available. or I'll give you public housing to include entitled House and Home, has been working with the people in communMortgage repayments are families without children one prepared by the ity building, finding alternatives to violence." at an all time high. and single people. Catholic Commission for The people in the Orignao area are sugar workers R ents are increasing. In We seek your support for Justice and Peace, and the Just over 15 months the the action we have taken o ther by the Social living in extreme poverty under a very feudalistic sysrent on an average home and recommend that you R esponsibility Commis- tem," the Maryknoll missionary said. "They work on TERMS FROM NO DEPOSIT will have risen from $45 to also express your concern sion of the Anglican plantations for $1.50 a day during the seasons when there is WITH work," REPAYMENTS TAILORED TO she added. almost $80. to members of parliament. Church. She said the peple were using non-violent means, People with low incomes We believe that individ- For the sake of justice we SUIT YOUR POCKET. o ften cannot afford the ual Christians and groups all have to start some- organising to ask for the basic minimum wage called for LEASING FACILITIES AVAILABLE by law. "What they meet is the landowners getting the bond and letting fees to o f Christians acting where. rent privately. assistance of the government to deny rights," she added. a make also t ogether can "None of the landowners, none of the sugar mill The housing crisis has positive contribution. We Peter Perth, Anglican brought intolerable strain herefore urge you A rchbishop of Perth; I.J. operators," she said, "has ever been punished by the t on many individuals and eriously consider the fol- Goody, Catholic Archbi- government for failing to give rights to the workers, for s MOTORS PTY. LTD. families, but the burden lowing action: shop of Perth; G.H. Blyth, blatant violations of laws." DL.0891 S till falls mainly upon the 1) The offering of short M oderator of Uniting "The military," she said, "is used to stop meetings and 1308 ALBANY HIGHWAY. CANNINGTON. ( hurch Synod; P. Rigby, break up organisations of workers. The military low income earners and PHONE 451 2333 A/hrs. 364 3399 term accommodation C calls ivisional Commander of subversives those who are simply helping t hose who have to depend D to home people to in your own on social security Salvation Army. organise for their rights," she added. benefits, those in need, espeArchbishop Goody is and it is those who must a signatory to the have our preferential statement along with concern. the heads of the Angli- Government authorities can, Uniting Churches must accept primary a nd the Salvation responsibility for resolving the housing problem. Army. One of the main causes of
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Christian healing conference well received
As a result of a Bunbury conference and seminar last month branches of the Association of Christian Therapists will be established in Perth and Bunbury.
Centrecare Bunbury of inner healing was very that my professional sponsored a confer- much a step by step thing. knowledge and skill was ence and seminar at If people can spend any not enough to help people which the principal time in silence during the to the extent they needed." and become aware of Dr Schoeninger added: speakers were Drs day what they are going "It was the same thing for Douglas Schoeninger through inside. me. I was very depressed and Marie Gatza both "Part of the gradual pro- and one of the few things of who are highly cess is taking time to be that seemed to make a difqualified in the field of aware. ference was when I went to Christian therapy and "Most of us when feel healing service. hurt, pain and rejection, "Several ministers prayed healing.
L ast year Centrecare do something to try and for me and the next day I Bunbury sponsored a con- get rid of it rather than ask felt better than I had for a ference on healing con- why do I feel pain, Who long, long time." ducted by the Jesuit Linn can I be angry at? Who do I The conference was followed by a three-day Brothers but participants feel rejects me? this year found a different "If you are hurt by a seminar attended by over friend it also causes you to 50 professional people experience. During the three-day feel pain from the times it who included doctors, nurses, psychologists, conference, September17- has happened before. 19, both speakers illus- "That hurt has more social workers, counseltrated how their belief has power than the friend in lors, chaplains, chemist and dentists. helped them in their own your life. • a Over the three days, the • is lives and in their profes- "If it really hurts it sional work at the Institute pretty good indicator that t wo American visitors for Christian Healing; there is another pain ear- emphasised the healing of The speakers' views had lier in your life that needs the therapist who is summuch impact on the con- to come into the light of bitted to so much stress by their patients, and who ference participants consciousness. needs to be healed himself because of the practical Dr Gatza described the so as to be able to help situations presented. career. those patients. Over 250 people attended path to her present "For me, it was my own This healing is actively the public sessions on the Friday and Saturday even- pain and problems many sought among the staff of years ago and seeing that the Institute for Christian ings. "One of the things we praying and asking for the Healing, through prayer have been teaching is that love of Jesus to help me and sharing of the gifts of the Way to healing does really worked and seeing t he Holy Spirit. involve having to come out into the open, which is the start of the process, in a safe place," Dr Schoeninger said. "To us that safe place includes the presence of God — it is a prayerful place. The idea is apparently to help people cope with the emotional damage sustained in everyday life but not by suppressing it. "It's a way of trying to transfer the damage," Dr Schoeninger said. "We believe that as we pray for inner healing that the love of Jesus can enter into that' time of pain and fill it with love. "From our point of view, God is always healing everyone whether they believe in him or not. "It's true that atheists and Christians alike are being healed daily as hurt comes to the surface." He said that the process
At the Bunbury conference, Dr Marie Gatza andDr Douglas SChoeninger receive presentations from Mrs Catherine Hindley, of Burekup.
Waroona was there Due to a printing oversight the presence of Waroona at the meeting of the diocesan pastoral council was not mentioned in the last Bunbury roundup, nor was mention made of their extensive report.
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At the Bunbury priests' parish renewal programme, Bishop Quinn (centre) is pictured with (I. to r.) Fathers Evan Penberthy, Doug Conlon and Bernie Dwyer. Bunbury diocesan priests had a first-hand experience of the parish renewal programme when they attended a three-day presentation of the programme at the St John God convent, Safety Bay.
Bishop Quinn joined 29 priests' presentation," was priests from all parishes one comment. for the presentation by During six and seven sesFathers Bernie Dwyer and sions a day the renewal was Evan Penberthy who in a retreat experience for the 1 980 experienced the pro- priests who shared their For further information gramme at first hand from own feelings of reconciliaPALMS LAY MISSIONARY MOVEMENT, Father Chuck Gallagher tion and related them to C /- The Paulian Association, Box 716 G.P.O., Si the originator of the the needs of their people. Sydney 2001. programme that was pres- The week concentrated ented to Perth priests ear- on the meaning of the Name. lier this year and which is Catholic tradition and Address: under way in a number of how in the priesthood there is a basic renewal parishes as a result. Postcode: • going on all the time as a Occupation: "Magnificient is the only response to the needs of Age: way to describe the two the Church.
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4( William Blake may not have realised what he 4( 4( 4( had started when he wrote: "Bring me my bows 4( * What has tea to do with world hunger — it can hardly even be classified as a food? Well, that's where the * of burning gold . . . bring me my chariots of fire". * 4( problem begins. Tea is widely grown in Third World countries. In many cases the establishment of tea * Sir Hubert Parry's tune Jerusalem enshrined it, * * * malnutrition, * plantations has meant that people don't have enough land to grow real food, and sadly the singing Anglicans compounded it and now * * * the film-makers have indelibly etched it all in the * especially among children, is common on tea estates around the world. * * : Tea is not the only crop that is grown at the expense of food. Coffee, rubber, sugar, cotton, peanuts, minds of millions of people. * Ezechiel will never read the same again as the : bananas — all are examples of the same thing. These commodities provide the raw materials for our * thundering fiery wheels lift off the ground : factories and processing plants, while the money we pay for them buys increasingly smaller amounts of I: because the spirit is enclosed in them. : the machinery, food and manufactured goods that the poor countries must buy from us. Hardly any of the : Who are the preachers who this week have * benefits of this unequal exchange trickle down to those who do the hard work of producing the crops. * taken the television set into the pulpit to show the * They are left with no land to grow food on, and little money with which to buy it. t straining muscles, the bodies thrusting towards the finishing line? How shocked were the listeners at Corinth when they opened their letter from Paul to hear not angelic sounds but the roar of the stadium, as he lectured them about striving to win, about the need for training. He even had a word for those who think that in life there is only winners or losers. He trained, he said, so that he would not be disqualified. Sri Lanka is no bigger than Tasmania, yet it supports a population equal to that Once the yokels trekked their way across the the whole of Australia. of hot Greek countryside to battle their way into the Despite the fact that the average income per person is a paltry $230 a year, its 15 million people enjoy better health stands to find out what life was all about and now the television lens seats millions only inches from a nd education services than those of almost a fly other developing country. Sri Lanka's gift to the rest pounded by a policy of These companies ensure the heart of the action. The world still yearns for a ritual that will of the world, "the gift of "repatriation", whereby that, as far as possible, liberate the soul trapped in the humdrum tedium the poor to the rich" as it Tamils, whose families these processes take place been called, is tea. The have lived in Sri Lanka for outside Sri Lanka. of daily life. Once it was the church that held has tiny island satisfies about several generations, and This not only deprives the people enthralled, reduced now only to an one-third of the world's sent unwillingly back to country of the extra value occasional glimpse of papal pageantry or this demand. that is added to the tea by South India. year's Canterbury spectacle to stir the soul. In Australia, a cup of tea Tea sustains the Sri Lan- these "downstream" operA new orchestration fills the eyes with emotion symbolises rest, refresh- kan economy. It accounts ations, but also deprives and Australia joins in the mighty disciplined ment and tranquility. For for 50 per cent of the coun- the Sri Lankans of the jobs that these operations ritual of thousands of youth spinning visions in the people in Sri Lanka try's export earnings. involved in its production, Up to the mid-1970s, generate. cloth and colour. No wonder St. Paul hammered at the question however, the story is one of most of this money left the Nationalisatio• n's failure toil, starva- country in the hands of the to bring major benefits to whether faith is of the body or of the soul, of the backbreaking tion wages, forced migra- major tea companies, Sri Lanka was also due to passing dust of this earth or the rewards of an tion and downright mostly British. But in 1975, the declining price of tea. everlasting victory. He was talking to flesh and injustice. Sri Lanka, an independent Even before nationalisablood humans. Tea was established in the country since 1948, nation- tion, the plantations were Let us keep asking the question whether the central hills of Sri Lanka in alised the tea estates and running at a loss, which the MCG or Wembley Stadium is the new Holy of the 1870s by English took control of 80 per cent companies recouped only by their involvement in the of the tea growing. Holies. Let us ponder the signals flashing from planters. The indigenous Sinha- This move did not pro- other aspects of the the glittering gold medallions, or the passable lese, resentful of the British duce the expected social industry. silver and the humble enduring bronze. were reluctant to and economic benefits. Sri Lanka is now left with The hot blood of the Games has been a presence, w ork on British tea T o begin with, the the least profitable aspect welcome relief from the depressing news that plantations. government could only of the industry and with litelsewhere people are salting away their wealth as Accordingly, impover- take over the actual grow- tle control over the rest of though it is going out of fashion. They pile their ished workers were forci- ing of the tea. The process- it. dubious gold in almost a mocking challenge to bly moved from the Tamil ing, blending, packaging, The result of all this is God not to make them look fools in death while area of South India. which insuring, shipping and that tea can be bought in the rest of the world cries out in pain and Britain also controlled, to marketing of the tea — all Sri Lanka at rock bottom work on the plantations of more lucrative than simply prices, and we in Australia poverty. Weighing baskets of freshly plucked tea on a growing it — remained in can enjoy it at a cost of The sports stadium is only a hop, step and a Sri Lanka. In recent times their the hands of the big tea anywhere between one and Sri Lankan tea estate. Female workers are jump from the church because the victory tragedy has been corn- companies. three cents a cup, dependpaid about 60C a day, males about 70C. The podiums and records ask the same question: ing on the quality we buy. work is arduous and repetitive, but few Where are the athletes of yesterday, not just the Even at twice that price, it workers can hope to get more than 20 to 23 athletes of the body but the athletes of charity, of would still be the cheapest days work a month. self-sacrifice, of love that leapt all barriers? drink on the market. Where are the athletes of finance, of wealth hoarded where all things decay, of exploitation Do you intend to spend your life in God's service? The Tamil tea pickers in Sri Lanka and victimisation? are not poor because of overpopulaThe crowds drift away and the wind whistles If you are in your last year at school or through the empty stadium and stirs the tion, unfavourable climate, poor soil, college, this is an important question, one mountains of refuse. Did the spectators of life see laziness, religious taboos or any of which shouldn't be left until the last minute. the other myths that are sometimes a vision they will never forget?
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put forward to explain the existence of poverty.
They are poor because: • They have no land to grow food on. • The tea trade, in which they play an essential role, provides them with no more (and sometimes less) than a subsistence income. In Australia, we can do little about the first problem, which is largely an internal matter for Sri Lanka. The second problem however, is more accessible. OCTOBER Nearly everyone in Australia drinks tea. Most of the 11 Opening of Senior Australia Week. Archbishop brands available at the supermarket are sold by the big tea companies which dominate the trade. Goody. One Australian company, however, has set up a mar13 Confirmation, Hamilton Hill. Bishop F.X. Thoketing system which bypasses much of the injustice of mas. the conventional system. The company is called the 14 Senate of Priests World Development Tea Cooperative. Confirmation, Maida Vale. Bishop Healy. It stands out among the other companies because: 1 5 Mass in honour of St. Teresa of Avila, Carmel. • It is a cooperative. Archbishop Goody. • Only high-quality tea is imported. Most other com17 Senior Australia Week Service in St. George's Cathedral. Archbishop Goody, Confirmation. panies sell tea which is a mixture of high and low Bishop F.X. Thomas, Gosnells, Confirmation. quality. • It is blended and packaged in Sri Lanka by Sri Bishop Healy. 24 Fremantle Fishing Fleet Festival. Archbishop Lankans. Most other companies import tea in bulk and Goody. Victoria Park, Confirmation. Bishop package it in Australia. • The shipments are insured in Sri Lanka rather than Healy.,Girrawheen, Confirmation. Bishop F.X. in Australia. Thomas. • The packages in which the tea arrives are manufac27 Bedford, Confirmation. Bishop Healy. Nedtured in Sri Lanka from locally grown reeds. lands, Confirmation. Bishop F.X. Thomas. • World Development Tea pays a proportion of its 28 Newman College Confirmation. Bishop Healy. 31 Beaconsfield Confirmation. Bishop F.X. Tho- slender profits to organisations in Sri Lanka running community development programmes among families mas. Yokine, Confirmation. Bishop Healy. on the tea estates. In this way, WDT ensures that as much as possible of • • the value of the tea remains in Sri Lanka, and that the • • 26 John Street, Perth WA 6000 • • • Correspondence • trading arrangements provide as many jobs as possible • Editor, The Record, PO Box 50 I • in Sri Lanka. • Aberdeen Street, Perth, 6000 • Since its establishment four years ago, WDT has • Advertising: grown and now accounts for some 20 per cent of the • 'Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 packaged tea imported to Australia from Sri Lanka. registered for posting as a newspaper Category "A" (11). • WDT has branches in every State. World DevelopProduced in WA Printed and published weekly by Edward van Heemst, ment Tea, 306 Murray St., Perth, WA 6000. • • 26 John Street, Perth. And remember — by drinking World Development • • • • • Established 1874 • Tea, even after a hard day's work, you can still be acting •* ***0410.••••••••••••••• 00000 • 00000000 ••••••: for Justice!
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Vatican glues support to atomic power VIENNA, Austria (NC) — The Vatican defended the peaceful use of nuclear energy at last m onth's meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
U.S. ACADEMICS: NO NUCLEAR WAR NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NC) — The United States should "seriously and vigorously" seek alternatives to nuclear war, said a letter sent by Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, and 35 other academic leaders to President Reagan in Mid-September. The letter, signed by active and retired presidents and board chairmen of 25 private and state colleges and universities, asked the president to make a "major investment in planning, negotiating and cooperating to establish civilised, effective and morally acceptable alternatives to nuclear war." While supporting the administration's proposals to reduce the nuclear arsenal as a "useful step," the academicians did not propose "innocent or unbalanced trust of the Soviet Union."
Funerals go to court DENVER (NC) — The Denver Archdiocese filed a countersuit against 10 Denver-area morticians who had sued the archdiocese, alleging it engaged in unfair competition, conspiracy and restraint of trade by operating a mortuary at Mt Olivet Cemetery. The mortuary began operation in May.
operation of the cemetery, there are three bases for At the same time, the tive said that agencies of necessarily involve some the countersuit. They are: V atican demanded the United Nations had risk." 1) There is a "combinastressed that the economic He added, however, that t hat no effort be tion and conspiracy by the growth of Third World "the implications of the use morticians and mortuarspared in guarantee- n ations demands an of nuclear energy and the ies. . .that they themselves ing stringent safety increasing use of nuclear necessity for safety in this have conspired to restrain regulations surround- power, and he observed field are such that no effort trade." ing its use. that there are also some should be spared to max2) The morticians have The statement of the Holy countries where renewable imise safety regulations "persisted in deceptive resources of energy are not and minimise risk to the See was read to the meettrade practices, caused utmost." ing in Vienna by Monsig- available. irreparable injury and detnor Mario Peressin, the The benefit contained in The Holy See's delegariment to the public at V atican's permanent the peaceful uses of nuclear tion, said Monsignor Perlarge and to the Archdiorep resenta tive to the energy should be extended essin, was "happy to note cese of Denver." to all countries, the Vati- the remarkable fact that IAEA. 3) The morticians' suit "was brought merely to H is testimony also c an delegate recom- scientists and engineers harass the Archiocese of warned against the mil- mended, adding that have so far been successful Denver" and is "frivolous itary uses of nuclear energy "people have a just claim to in preventing major between nuclear plants and and groundless." and insisted on a nuclear participate in the advan- nuclear accidents and that the possible dangers, in In addition to their test ban treaty as an essen- t ag e s w h i c h h u m a n — as a result of all the inge- order not to turn the issue charge of unfair competitial condition in resolving research and ingenuity nuity and care which has of nuclear policy into an tion, the morticians also the threat of atomic have brought about in this been put in these efforts — arcane discipline to which field." no fatal accident caused by only a few scientists and claimed that the archiocese disaster. "pressures" priests to send E numerating some At the same time, Mon- radiation has to our politicians are privy, therCatholic funeral business advantages of the peaceful signor Peressin suggested, knowledge occurred in eby creating a climate of to the mortuary at Mt uses of nuclear energy, in "complementary energy nuclear power plants for unnecessary public fear Olivet, and that the archdiaddition to the obvious programmes, so that a bal- civilian user." and mistrust," he said. ocesan newspaper, the one as an industrial and ance be maintained and "These efforts," he said, Warning against the milDenver Catholic Register, private power source, overdependence on one "must be continued, in par- itary use of nuclear energy, gives it free advertising. be ; NEW energy source YORK: single t.cular with regard to the Grace is ''Princess noted Monsignor Peressin listed Monsignor Peressin long-term storage of the capacity of the world to loved not only in the moment of her In its response, filed in "the field of food and food avoided." c onservation, especially He observed that "those radioactive waste, which is destroy itself and said that death but will be loved many years early September, the archdiocese denied those t hrough new techniques who hold that nuclear creating so many serious "a comprehensive test ban for plant breeding or power can be utilised only apprehensions today." treaty is a condition 'sine afterwards in the hearts of our view- claims. The countersuit through new methods of in a 'zero risk' or 'no risk' "Moreover — as the Holy qua non' in a situation ers." Father Peyton, founder and asks for a jury trial. preservation, (and the) situation are perhaps app- See has stressed again and where the explosive power head of the Family Rosary Crusade McCook noted that with the countersuit the archdifields of medicine and lying an unrealistic stand- again — all care should be of all nuclear weapons in hydrology." ard to endeavours which, taken to fully inform the the world has reached and Family Theatre Productions as he ocese is making a "very response to the The Vatican representa- like all human efforts, public on the real relation insane levels." recalled his work with Princess Grace aggressive morticians' suit. If they of Monaco, who appeared in two of thought the archdiocese would be frightened by his films. m t hiesitraskueint.,,,they're seriously One of the films, a medi- returned to film-making tation on the nativity, is for the first time since she scheduled for release at had given up her HollyChristmas, and the second, wood career to marry meeting with her he explained that each of his The Crucifixion, is sche- Prince Rainier in 1956. films would present a meddule for release during Father Peyton said as a itation on one of the Holy Week. Two years ago Princess film star Princess Grace decades of the rosary and Grace appeared in The had helped him launch the that he planned to make 15 Resurrection, another Family Rosary movement such films to be broadcast Family Theatre film, through a Sunday radio throughout the world. After explaining that his which was televised and for programme. which Princess Grace Earlier this year during a films would combine meditation and prayer, the two aspects of the rosary, he In a report released are killings for political in the past, the perpetraasked her to narrate The last month Amnesty reasons on government tors had been brought to Resurrection. c harged that ''al- orders or with government justice. t hough the number of complicity. Amnesty stated that reFcaaltlhede rt haPt,eays tthey on 'spoke 7 7. people believed to be Morever, despite laws almost half of the cases of in her Paris home, she told detained for political governing the rights of its alleged human rights viola"I always wanted to Amnesty Interna- ti it investigated MANILA r easons fel l from citizens, — The Philippine government has captured a him, do something for the tional "found there is over- occurred after martial law a bout 6,000 in 1975 to whelming evidence that the priest during a raid on what it described as guerrilla rosary." She said she f ewer than 1,000 by principles enunciated by was lifted. hideout in Davao City, about 600 miles from Manila, planned to make a rose the end of 1980," the government on the "Despite the lifting of garden in honour of the government martial law, Father Orlando Tizon, farmers for basic rights," cal programmes, and lay- rosary. r eports from the same treatment of people susPhilippines forces in the was taken during a military she added. men Juanito Delameda 'Hie Resurrection won of crimes of a politip „eriod indicated that pected continue to engage in illemore people were cal nature are systemati- gal detention, torture, dis- raid on a hideout where Meanwhile, Maryknoll and Antonio Assistio. film awards both in Hollybecoming victims of cally disregarded," the appearances and arbitrary Edgar Jopson, a longtime headquarters reported Sister Gutierrez was wood and New York. After fugitive,described as a another apparent raid by released after being that success Father Peyton h uman rights viola- report said. on killings on a wide scale," leader of a Communist Philippine government detained for two to three requested her help again, t ions of the utmost The report is based member of the said a group, was killed. Two troops upon a church facil- ,days but the laymen were findings of an Amnesty and she agreed to give him gravity, including "dis- International team which Amnesty team which other men also were ity. reportedly still under det- three more days of filming. a ppearance" and ‘,7isit ed the Philippines visited the Philippines and arrested. The military raided the ention several weeks after Father Peyton said that in e xtrajudicial execu- from November 11-28, of Amnesty's international A Maryknoll sister said Pope Paul VI Social the incident. executive committee. tion." Father Tizon was a dioce- Action Centre in Calbayog They were accused of sub- The Crucifixion, which 1981, about 10 months The report, which des- san priest originally from Diocese. The centre serves version. inciting to rebel- was shot at the Vatican S ome detentions also after Marcos lifted the occur outside the govern- martial law which he cribed 49 cases acknowl- Calbayog Diocese. He had as a coordinating centre lion and illegal possesion Museum, Princess Grace's faith came through most edged that Filipino worked for a while for that for the pastoral action pro- of firearms, ment's official reporting imposed in 1972. system and thus are not Marcos, in a National opposition groups are diocese's social justice pro- gramme of four dioceses. Cardinal Jaime Sin of clearly. included in the figures, Press Club speech in "armed and dedicated to gramme but quit that work The military took a list of Manila and Archbishop "The generosity and soul A mnesty said. Washington last month the government's violent when pressure from the lay people involved in the Bruno Torpigliani, apos- which she brought to the It said that a "disappear- during a U.S. visit, said overthrow." However, government on such centres work in the four tolic nuncio, protested to production showed her ance" occurs when author- Amnesty had never visited "this fact can in no way jus- Church efforts prevented dioceses and also arrested ' the Philippine govern- faith," he said. "She put tify the type of practices him from continuing, ifies take a person into his nation. three people -- Notre ment, after Acting Bishop her soul into it. She custody and then deny He said the report is an attributed in this report to "He's a priest who's con- Dame Sister Helena Norberto Hacbang, of Cal- showed a sensitivity to God responsibility and that exaggeration and that members of the security sistently been working Gutierrez, who heads the bayog, informed them of and to the debt which all "extrajudicial executions" although there was torture forces," it added, with the peasants and centres diocesan catecheti- the raid. his creatures owe to him."
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The morticians filed their suit because, they said, the archdiocesan mortuary was in unfair competition with them since it was selling funeral services below cost and getting free advertising, In its countersuit the archdiocese denied morticians' claims and said it has certain constitutional defences which protect the freedom of religion. According to Bill McCook, archdiocesan director of finance and real estate, whose duties include overseeing the
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W ASHINGTON (NC) — Although Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos lifted martial law in 1981 and has claimed that human rights are not being violated in his nation, "government forces in the Philippines continue to engage in illegal detention, torture, disappearances and arbitrary killings on a wide scale," according to Amnesty International.
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BRISBANE: "As a lawyer and as a Christian, give me the rule of law any day. If it's good enough for us, it's good enough for them," said R everend Frank Brennan, Jesuit scholastic and adviser on Aboriginal matters to the Queensland C atholic Bishops, in an address to a social justice seminar at Indooroopilly.
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"There was a time in our Mass and no Sacrahistory when our for- ments. bears had no priests, no "It is well that we do not forget that. "It was then that they had recourse to the Rosary to sustain their faith and to console them in their deprivations. "Now that the month of October has begun, the month of the Holy Rosary, may we, remembering the influence of the Rosary in our early history, take up our beads, individually and collectively, and practise this devotion with real generosity."
Reverend Brennan also moral issues — and if they which is regrettable — can pointed to the need for stand —it is the job of the there not be more rational "rational discussion" of laity to put them into discussion of the issues?" the Aboriginal land right effect." issues in Queensland. Reverend Brennan said "We have security of there were three clear tenure on our land. We issues in Queensland that know the law is protecting had to be addressed. our homes. We don't have to keep a high political "The first is security of profile to protect our land t enure for Aboriginal he said. reserves. Morally, this "Yet it seems the Aborigi- should be seen as a legal nals do. It seems the Abo- a nd not a political riginals, who had trust of question. the land for 40,000 years, At Kippa-Ring parish, it was in the beginning, can't now be trusted with "Secondly, there should be consultation between Archbishop Rush said the and, for some unknown it. the government and spe- candidates began "a long reason for a time ceased to cial groups if special laws journey which we hope will be, an integral part of the are made concerning those bring them to full com- Church's life." munion with us in the Other Brisbane parishes Blackmail politics groups. Catholic Church at the are conducting the new rite. Thirdly, the need for Easter Vigil next year." CAN Because of the shortage of clergy Archbirational discussion on "Even if we had had no candithe assured He "It's not the rule of law these issues. It was inevita- dates that "all the hard- candidates to go on with, shop Clancy has taken steps to limit the number of for the Aboriginals. It's the ble that Aboriginals and ships of your journey will we'd still be ahead," said Sunday Masses being said. politics of blackmail. At t heir supporters would never be able to destroy Father Brian McMullen, the moment we are seeing choose the Common- your inner peace and happ- parish priest at Holy He told priests: Follow- Though limited in the allowed for parishioners to the Aboriginals exercising wealth Games as a forum iness as long as you always Cross, Wooloowin, one of ing consultation at our last number of Masses that b ecome familiar, in political muscle and it celebrated, pastors advance, with the new on these issues. keep in mind the fidelity of the parishes participating pastors' meeting I have may be seems that it is only as long are encouraged to make Mass times. decided: the time in the first for Christ." Jesus as they keep using that, "It is essential that democatechumenate. • To limit to three the use of supplies when possithey keep their land. cratic rights be realised at Likening the journey It was launched two number of parish Masses ble to further lighten their The gravity of the present "My own view is that the this time and the public they would undertake to weeks ago. that may be celebrated on burden. situation justifies steps that statement released by the give credence to the moral that of Abraham, who is any weekend in any parish The above decision is to may involve some sacrifiIt followed four evenings called in the First Euchaheads of the three major issues involved." in Canberra to which there be implemented not later ces. I thank you for your rist Prayer Our Father in o f preparation attended by is attached only one resi- than January 8-9, 1983. c o-operation in this Q ueensland Churches "It is said Aboriginals faith, Archbishop Rush, an average of 35 parishion- dent, active (i.e. not bears careful reflection." Sufficient time should be matter. should accept the goodwill said the candidates had ers. retired) priest. [ The Anglican and of the government on land Manly parish has held the • To limit to five the ••••••••••••••••••••••••0•••••••••••••••••••wi Catholic Archbishops of tenure. As well, no govern- decided to inquire deeply Welcome for candi- number of parish Masses • • Brisbane and the Modera- ment would dare to take into the teachings of the Rite of dates and the catechumen- that may be celebrated in Faith. tor of the Uniting Church the land back from the ate will begin after the any parish in Canberra to released a statement fol- Aboriginals. "As you of the parish school vacation. which there are attached lowing the introduction of family of Kippa-Ring join only two resident, active OPTOMETRISTS & OPTICIANS The parish has 12 candithe Land Act (Aboriginal :• these men and women in dates, six of them (i.e. not retired) priests. and Islander Land Grants) for praying their search, This decision has been Corneal Lens Consultants Vietnamese. Amendment Bill 1982 to No goodwill them, supporting them and dictated by three considerthe Queensland Parlia321 5344 giving them your friend- Father Clem Hodge, par- ations: • 16 PLAZA ARCADE, PERTH ment on March 25 this 458 4831 ship, you will be doing ish priest at Stafford, said I. The shortage of priests • CAROUSEL SHOPPING TOWN C • year.] 73 192 9 "However, on recent his- what in fact is being done there had been a good in Canberra is now criti- •• DEMPSTER HOUSE, PORT HEDLAND 21 3445 "The statement addresses tory, the Aboriginals in almost 50 parishes of the response from the parish. cal, and their work- • 29 DURLACHER STREET, GERALDTON • • the moral issue of the need would not be prepared to arhdiocese at this moment. Up to 100 people had • load should be mini- • •• for clear tenure of land for trust on goodwill. I am attended parish preparamised as much as • OOOOOOOOOOO • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • OOOOO • "Far more impressive Aboriginals which gives constantly looking for possible. number of par- tion nights. the than security under the law and goodwill, but I never preishes and the much larger The last inquiry night for 2. As things now stand the not under the whim of the sume there is going to be number of Masses number of people who are potential candidates was p oliticians," Reverend goodwill. available to the faithful engaged as candidates in held on September 22. Brennan said. on any weekend is quite s, "The issues can be readily this journey, is the growth There had been up to 23 0 excessive. "This statement, how- solved," he said. "Why not of the people of those par- inquirers. s\es\sac\,%\o ever, must be given flesh today if there is no answer ishes in their intimacy with "You don't see many of 3. This excessive number \k ,v),0 of Masses means that and political content by to be given on land rights God and the effect it has the difficulties, or the joys, eie supply resources are \0%\'Mz0V the role of the laity. The or an answer is given in had of turning those par- until you get into it, and ,eacpcc\cc\\ 0Q,6c\e,c\0\,i\cAo\0\e'qe'00 being used unnecessarBishops have stated the terms of personalities ishes into genuine Chris- then you wish you had 0\e,s z,C;c4 ily, and supplies can be \( \`'\6\'',•°`0 c)\0 tian communities. . ." done even more prepara? 0.01•01. c\e, unavailable to meet \zo\sse N (f' Archbishop Rush said tion," Father Hodge said. emergencies or to allow 4 \R,\ that the catechumenate Father Hodge sent letters \"\4 \zo priests to take their 1 was of God. "It is not just to some 100 non-Catholics ‘ ses° annual holidays. The Secular Institute of (he another movement or married to parishioners \Oak0 O another programme within and who he thought might II Missionaries of the kingship of Christ today's Church. It is what have been interested.
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On this su bj ect he said * of the Knights of the Southern Cross,: Cottesloe club, George. * * recently, "I find it rewarding and He is a life member of the club and was George was made a life member. an office boy whose duties in began as "I :I ' enjoyable but it is no good scor- those days included cleaning ink wells, flu- president for eight years. This recognised 42 years of loyal service* * s ing once you get short tempered ling water jugs and getting lunches for His two older sons Tony and Francis since joining the order on July 10, 1939. In: ; 4 with others when under pres- which I had to travel all over the city to both played for the Claremont-Cottesloe that time he has held office as branch coun-: * cillor, branch treasurer, branch secretary,* * sure. Then it is time to give it points nominated by the staff to get their club. Tony, who is assistant Shire Clerk of the branch chairman, district chairman, state: delights. gastronomic * awa y. * Bayswater Shire Council, had to retire councillor, and state treasurer. * from cricket to a knee injury. * With such a nature, it is difficult to see He retired as state treasurer in 1981. In "C arid, in his neighbour Francis is administrative officer of the the announcement of his award of life* i * OR AN apple I would go from our * him not lloving his neg * own words, his retirement from scoring office in St George's Terrace to the old fruit WA Meat Commission at Robbs Jetty and membership the order's magazine said: "At: * will • only come "whenI can't see the pitch." * barrow in Forrest Place and for special won the State A-grade bowling average in 70 years of age, Brother Cooper is still able: : The Fremantle Cricket Club, where sandwiches to the Soldiers Sandwich the 1964/65 season and was selected to to maintain an active interest in KSC,* :George has been scoring for 15 years, Supply in the basement of the Palace practise with the State Squad but unfortu- Church and community affairs. Nothwith-: nately could not get away from work early standing his KSC, Church and community: 4, recently honoured him by naming their Hotel. :new scoring box after him. commitments, Brother Cooper is a devoted: "On many occasions I short-circuited enought to attend at the WACA. On his marriage he shifted to Fremantle * * His other favourite sport has been foot- this chore by buying all requirements at the and this also took George from Claremont family man and an inspiration to us all.": * :ball and he has been a keen East Fremantle one store, unknown to the staff of course." to later become scorer for * Fremantle, a * * follower ever since his school days when he a number of departmanaged George position he has held for 15 years. IS proud of the order in We * lived near their oval and each Saturday ments before his retirement when he was In 1936, George married Viney Margaret Australia and the lead it has given to the: :waited until 3.15pm when the gates were second in charge of the Staff Department. Chapman whose brother is Father Frank order in Australia in being the first state to: * opened and admission was free for juniors. "In that year I had the interesting challenge Chapman a former head of the Columban's * December 28, of working on the computerisation of our Order in Australia and now a missionary in establish a finance company, insurance: * company, travel agency and housing for: * Born at Beaconsfield on * 1910, George is the eldest of three children. wages and salaries -payments. We ran the the Phillipines. it the aged. * * computer system parallel with the old sys"I have made many friends through the: * tern for about 15 months before fully IS FATHER, Alexander Charles, was implementing it." THIRD son, John, is with the Knights," he said. "Not just fair weather* * a well-known publican who in his time was Commonwealth Bank in Sydney and their friends but real friends who have helped: For a short period during World War 1 1, * * * licensee of the Newcastle Club, Fremantle, George was a sergeant in the Bulk Installa- youngest, Gerard, 35, a qualified builder, is out in times of trouble," he added. * Since 1980 George has been an acolyte: : the Royal George, East Fremantle and the Petrol and Oil Distribution Regiment proprietor of a liquor store in Rivervale. tion * Albion, Cottesloe, which he ran until he (BIPOD) which controlled petrol supplies "He has only had it for about two months serving with the parish of Nedlands. "It is. * * retired toward the close of World War 11. and had his first hold-up two weeks ago," the most rewarding duty I have ever had: to the services. * the pleasure of performing," he said. * George added. * George attended school at the former Our * brief period of service I was At the start of this interview George said,: "Our eldest child, Anne, has her time cut :Lady of the Missions Convent in King "After a out of manpowered BIPOD and I have out looking after her ageing parents. She "I don't know why you want to interview: * Street, East Fremantle. "It's now just a never quite worked out whether they were also shares my love of cricket," added me (apart from the fact that one of * * vacant block," he added. my: keen to get the war over or prolong it with George. Ir oriein d ndasr'ydbolbobkeed .,,me in) because I'm just an: * * He then attended Christian Brothers that move," laughed George. Together with her mother, Anne served * College-, Fremantle, from 1920 to 1926. * * George joined the Cottesloe Cricket for many years on the ClaremontMaybe George Cooper is "just an ordin-: * In 1927 he joined the British Imperial Oil :Co, later the Shell Company of Australia Club in 1921 when the family moved to the Cottesloe and the Fremantle clubs' ladies ary bloke" but he's one of those blokes who: 4K Ltd, where he served until December 31, Albion Hotel subsequently playing A committees. make it a happier world for being here. * * * ***************************************************************************************************************************** The Record, October 8 — 14, 1982 7 *
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AKNO decisions is hard, people say. But why/ What makes it difficult? For one tf-ing, making a d ecision is then experienced as a lonely bu;iness. In many cases, peoplE 3trugg I i ng with a decision fia0 isolated, as if they are the ly ones in the world dealing with a particular issue.
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are like pebbles thrown into a pond. The circle of the decision one makes can reverberate outward. Some choices are life-changing events, even though we may not be aware of it at the time. Other decisions are more ordinary, routine. Whatever the case, decision making is a basic element of human life. It is a process sometimes weighted down with our fears, other times invigorated by our hopes. And the way we human beings can make decisions ranks among o ur most distinguishing characteristics. We human beings share in the rhythms of nature. We participate in the continuing cycles of activity and rest, nutrition and growth, birth and death — characteristics of all life on this planet. <• But what sets the human being * apart from other creatures? t It has been said many times that with our ability to reason — to think we human beings find ourselves at the core of creation. We are able to ponder life's meaning. We can reflect on the choices we i . will make. We are reflections of God. Many factors influence the decisions we make. Our emotions and 4 past experiences, our physical • 1* needs, our unconscious drives — 4' all of these weave in and out of our many decisions. Still, within each person there is a conscious centrepoint of decision making. There is the self — the one who makes decisions and acts on them. We're all decision makers in some way. But even if decision making is basic in our lives, it isn't necessarily easy. Quite the opposite. Making decisions can be a wrenching experience, ringed with uncertainty.
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Thus, faced with a complex choice, one that requires action and that obviously will affect other people, we need to give ourselves some clear space for thinking things through. One way of clearing the space is to arrange for some quiet, uncluttered time where we can relax our bodies, calm our emotions and examine all sides of the issue at hand. One might ponder: What do I really want? What are the likely c onsequences of a particular course of action? Am I willing to take responsibility for the consequences of this decision? And the Catholic draws on other resources as well. They are parts of the Catholic ethical heritage, and as such deserve serious attention. The Catholic Christian at a decisive crossroad turns to: the Scriptures; Christian tradition, the long-held beliefs of the Catholic c ommunity; the wisdom and insight found among these within the contemporary Christian community (one's spouse and children, confessor or spiritual director, trusted friends); the authoritative teaching of the Church. Finally, there is one's conscience and the decision to be made. Having considered all things, one ultimately decides and accepts responsibility for the decision. The late Dorothy Day was a key figure in the Catholic Worker movement. Her life turned on one key decision. When Miss Day learned that she was pregnant with her daughter Tamar, she began to pray to a God
not yet well known to her. Her prayer was in thanksgiving for this child she wanted so much. According to William D. Miller in Dorothy Day: A Biography, her prayer and spiritual reading led her to decide to baptise her baby in the Catholic Church. Miss Day explained this decision in her notes: "I did not want my child to flounder as I had often floundered, without a rule of life . . . Faith! I wanted to believe and I wanted my child to believe; and if belonging to a church would give her so inestimable a grace as a faith in God and the companionable love of the saints, then the thing to do was to have her baptised a Catholic." That decision led to her own baptism and to her leaving her atheistic c ommon-law husband, which necessitated a move from her former beach home to the city. There she worked as a writer and searched for her true vocation. The search brought Miss Day again into the mainstream of social activism, but one now centred on the Gospel. Many people -- including many truly poor people in need of her service — would ultimately be touched by the decision Miss Day made. Few people are called to found a movement or a community. Nonetheless, Miss Day's story shows how our decisions affect others. Decision making is basic to us. And our decisions can make a difference.
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THE ancient Israelites reflected on their history, they did so in the light of their faith in the Lord — "Yahweh." S
When they put their history into writing, often centuries after the events themselves, the Israelites gave us not just f acts, but the fruit of their meditation on those facts.
The result was sacred history, salvation history. The Israelites told of the hand of God, the spirit of God, active in the most ordinary happenings. It is supremely important to keep this in mind when reading the historical books of the Bible.
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Moses was considered gifted by God with special qualities of leadership. He possessed the spirit of God in an extraordinary way. There is a good example of this in the story told in Chapter I I of the Old Testament book titled Numbers. The Israelite people had become sick and tired of their meagre diet as they made their way through the desert. Manna was all right, a godsend in fact. But day after day after day - this was more than they could stomach. The people besieged Moses with unreasonable if understandable demands for meat, and the poor man got frantic. It was now his turn to complain, and the only one he could complain to was Yahweh: "I cannot carry all this people by myself, for they are too heavy for me."
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The Lord said to Moses, "Assemble for me 70 of the elders of Israel, men you know for true elders and authorities among the people. and bring them to the meeting tent. When they are in place beside you, i will come down and speak to you there. "I will also take some of the spirit that is on you and will bestow it on them, that they may share the burden of the people with you. You will then not have to bear it by yourself." The story went on to relate how the Lord then came down in a cloud and spoke to Moses. Taking some of the spirit that was on Moses, God "bestowed it on the 70 elders, and as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied." The selection of a group of mature and reliable men to share the work of the administtation was
Faced with a complex choice, one that requires action and that will obviously affect others, we need to give outselves some clear space for thinking things through. One way of clearing the space is to arrange for some quiet, uncluttered time where we can relax, calm ourselves and consider all sides of the issue.
By Dolores Leckex
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S ometimes this feeling of being alone can lead/ Tleto doubt they are making right decision. Sometimes it mn instil fear — a fear that afterm iking the decision, they'll find tht selves even more isolated. Again, peopli sometimes feel pressured by tit necessity of making a difficultdecision: — Perhaps thy feel buffeted by c ompeting valas. — Again, if hey must choose between two goal ways of acting, they may disco trthey have to come to termsi,thilieir own limitations, their is blity to accomplish everythingimheir own. Some people ixpience a sense of foreboding theacing a difficult decision. Iitty are not sure where a partici, decision will lead them, theymp experience a fear of the unkna The pressure of tit can also con-
tribute difficulties to decision making. Especially when a person is making a decision which will affect others, he or she needs to feel unrushed, to feel there is sufficient time to reach a thoughtful decision. The experience of numerous Christians and church experts indicates the Christian community has a lot to offer by way of support for people faced with hard choices. The Christian community can, for example, help to counteract the sense of isolation that some people experience in making decisions. Often this is accomplished simply because the community is perceived as a centre of warmth and compassion. In some situations, the Christian community helps by providing a listening ear. It also helps by putting people in contact with others who have faced similar decisions in the past. Again, time spent with an experienced counsellor or pastor helps people to sort through their values in making a decision. Often an outsider's view is helpful in achieving some degree of objectivity about a decision.
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OHN Heffernan danced at his granddaughter's wedding last June. He danced with his heart, but not his feet.
Heffernan couldn't easily move from table to table, visiting all the friends and relatives. The years had slowed him down and walking was difficult. No matter, everyone came to him. They listened again to his stories of World War I and about his children. Everyone had heard the stories a hundred times. But they listened and laughed anyway. Heffernan felt he belonged, that he remained a very important part of the family. Heffernan felt the warmth of his family, as, lovingly, they told him there was nothing wrong with him that a good audience and a wedding party couldn't cure. The attention lavished on the old man is no accident. It reflects a way of life and a way of thinking. It also reflects many decisions made over the years about him. There are always the long drives t o pick the grandfather up for visits. There are the conversations when people have to repeat what already has b.een said a couple of times, and he still misses the point. Other times the old man diverts the attention of the group to a topic of his own just as another conversation is picking up steam. Wouldn't it be easier, sometimes,
not to bother so often? Perhaps. But that is not this family's way. For this family, some basic Christian ideas and values —• as well as love --seem to guide decisions and choices in a matter such as this. It is likely, however, that they are almost unaware at times of what influences their way of making decisions and of acting because it has become such a natural part of them. First, they have a true concern and respect for others. This family has learned to value people. They measure their actions by this criterion: Does what they decide to do show care and respect for someone else? Do their choices reflect what Jesus taught? Second, the family members like and respect themselves. They understand that God created each person in love -- that God expects us to like ourselves as well as others. God proclaimed his creation to be good and that goodness can be found in us too. , In the loving of themselves, the members of this family are able to reach out to others. Many of the decisions this family has had to make are rather ordinary kinds of decisions. But such decisions play a large role in life. What the family has shown, is how decisions — even fairly ordinary kinds of decisions -- stem from a way of life. Their choices seem to reflect the kind of people they are and the kind of people they want to be.
a move dictated by good common sense. But in the eyes of the sacred historian, it was prompted by God. If Moses' ability to govern was a special gift of God's spirit, then those who would share his responsibilities would have to be given a share in that spirit. They, too, had to be empowered t o carry out a task far beyond their native capabilities. And so. "as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied," not in the sense of predicting the future, but in the more basic sense of the word "prophesy" -- speaking for God, speaking in his name, in order to make
wise decisions or to give ecstatic expression to God's praises. In the account in the book of Numbers, two men did not attend the meeting at the tent. "Yet the spirit came to rest on them also, and they prophesied in this camp." When Joshua, Moses' aide-decamp, heard of this apparently unauthorised activity, he said: "Moses, my Lord, stop them." Moses' magnanimous response was: "Are you jealous for my sake? would that all the people of the world were prophets! Would that the Lord might bestow his spirit on them all."
At 86, Heffernan's fingers t apped out the rhythms on h is cane as he stood watching.
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ARIOUS reasons can unfortunately lead to the often irreparable breakdown of valid marriages. These include mutual lack of understanding and the inability to enter into interpersonal relationships. Obviously, separation must means of salvation. be considered as a last resort, Pastors must know that, for the sake of a fter all other reasonable truth, they are obliged to exercise careful attempts at reconciliation have discernment of situations. proved vain. There is in fact a difference between
Loneliness and other difficulties are those who have sincerely tried to save often the lot of separated spouses, espe- their first marriage and have been cially when they are the innocent parties. unjustly abandoned, and those who The ecclesial community must support through their own grave fault have dessuch people more than ever. troyed a canonically valid marriage. It must give them much respect, solidarity, understanding and practical help, Finally, there are those who have so that they can preserve their fidelity entered into a second union for the sake even in their difficult situation; and it of the children's upbringing, and who are must help them to cultivate the need to sometimes subjectively certain in conforgive which is inherent in Christian science that their previous and irreparalove, and to be ready perhaps to return to bly destroyed marriage had never been valid. their former married life.
pastoral reason: if these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage. Reconciliation in the sacrament of Penance, which would open the way to the Eucharist, can only be granted. to those who, repenting of having broken the sign of the Covenant and of fidelity to Christ, are sincerely ready to undertake a Together with the Synod, I earnestly way of life that is no longer in contradiccall upon pastors and the whole commun- tion to the indissolubility of marriage. III THIS and following ity of the faithful to help the divorced, and This means, in practice, that when, for issues The Record presents with solicitous care to make sure that they serious reasons such as for example the do not consider themselves as separated children's upbringing, a man and a substantial extracts from the from the Church, for as baptised persons woman cannot satisfy the obligation to . 170-page papal document, they can, and indeed must, share in her separate, they "take on themselves the duty to live in complete continence, that The Family in the Modern life. is, by abstinence from the acts proper to World. married couples." Similarly, the respect due to the sacraNo separation ment of Matrimony, to the couples themselves and their families, and also to the The situation is similar for people who They should be encouraged to listen to community of the faithful, forbids any have undergone divorce, but, being well aware that the valid marriage bond is the word of God, to attend the Sacrifice of pastor, for whatever reason or pretext indissoluble, refrain from becoming the Mass, to persevere in prayer, to con- even of a pastoral nature, to perform involved in a new union and devote them- tribute to works of charity and to com- ceremonies of any kind for divorced peoselves solely to carrying out their family munity efforts in favour of justice, to ple who remarry. duties and the responsibilities of Chris- bring up their children in the Christian Such ceremonies would give the faith, to cultivate the spirit and practice of impression of the celebration of a new tian life. In such cases their example of fidelity penance and thus implore, day by day, sacramentally valid marriage, and would and Christian consistency takes on partic- God's grace. thus lead people into error concerning the ular value as a witness before the world and the Church. Here it is even more necessary for the Church to offer continual love and assistance, without there being any obstacle to admission to the sacraments.
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Dancing heart sparkiect the edges of his mouth turned up in a His eyes losed-rnoulti grin and there was hardly a moment when c / fl ttine4/08;4 .e foot didn't betray his enthusiasm for the musicei 0 otapping tthe bearing. At 86, he couldn't let go of his cane rt on the dance floor but he was content to with heart. This was the wedding of one of his dance fav ourite 919dchildren and he had been looking forward to it for a long time.
AILY experience unfortunately shows that people who have obtained a divorce usually intend to enter into a new union, obviously not with a Catholic religious ceremony. Since this is an evil that, like the others, is affecting more and more Catholics as well, the problem must be faced with resolution and without delay. The Synod Fathers studied it expressly. The Church, which was set up to lead to salvation all people and especially the baptised, cannot abandon to their own devices those who have been previously bound by sacramental marriage and who have attempted a second marriage. The Church will therefore make untiring efforts to put at their disposal her
I listen to the word of God, attend Sacrifice of Mass, to persevere in prayer. . .
Let the Church pray for them, encour- indissolubility of a validly contracted age them and show herself a merciful marriage. mother, and thus sustain them in faith By acting in this way, the Church proand hope. fesses her own fidelity to Christ and to his However, the Church reaffirms her truth. At the same time she shows mothpractice, which is based upon Sacred erly concern for these children of hers, Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic especially those who, through no fault of Communion divorced persons who have their own, have been abandoned by their remarried. legitimate partner. They are unable to be admitted thereto With firm confidence she believes that from the fact that their state and condi- those who have rejected the Lord's comtion of life objectively contradict that mand and are still living in this state will union of love between Christ and the be able to obtain from God the grace of Church which is signified and effected by c onversion and salvation, provided that the Eucharist. they have persevered in prayer, penance Besides this, there is another special and charity. The Record, October 8 — 14, 1982 9
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STUART WAGSTAFF ROWENA WALLACE
Stars fly in for Telethon
COLLEEN HEWETT
Channel 7's annual 24-hour telecast of Telethon this year will feature the most impressive line-up of international personalities in its fifteen year history.
ANNE TENNEY
In addition to Sammy Davis Jnr, confirmation has been received that heart surgeon Professor Christiaan Barnard and noted European singer Sacha Distel will be in Perth for Telethon. Special guest will be Australian and now international star Julie Anthony. Many Australian television stars and Telethon favourites from the eastern states have been invited and will combine with local talent.
NORMIE ROWE
Tribute to Princess
Channel 7 is telecasting one of the late Grace Kelly's most loved movies — To Catch A Thief at noon on Saturday, October 10.
husband to be Monaco.
Prince Rainier of
An American known as The Cat, because of his stealthy method of stealing jewels, has reformed and is leading a respectable life on the French Riviera. Suspicion falls on him when thefts Shot entirely on the French Riviera it was during the making of this film with committed in a cat-like manner take Cary Grant that Grace Kelly met her place in the area.
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CHRIS TIAAN PAT McDONALD JACKIE LOVE BARNARD SAMMY DAVIS * *********************************************************************
Singer hosts Miss .. .W
Special guest for this year's Miss WA Quest on Channel 7 at 7.35pm on Wed• nesday, October 13 will be Julie Anthony • * singing two numbers during the telecast. • Ian Turpie, the star of Channel Seven's * The New Price is Right will be compere. Turpie and Julie will share hosting the quest live from the Perth Concert Hall. * Part of the glittering telecast will show • * the twelve finalists in various scenic places in and around Perth, * All the girls who entered the quest • * raised money for the Spastic Association. * ***********************************
Afternoon thriller movie
Channel 9's Friday afternoon movie, t Woman of Straw, is a true suspense thriller bearing all the hallmarks of a Hitchcock production. The film stars screen sex symbols Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery, along with veteran screen star Ralph Richardson.
Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford make a beautiful couple: it's just that they don't get on too well, in C hannel Nine's Sunday movie The Way We Were, at 8.35pm. This Academy Awardwinning movie, is based on Arthur Laurent's novel. Set in 1945 New York in the heady days just after World War II when Katie (Barbra Streisand ) meets her great love from college days, Hubbell (Robert R edford).
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ABC viewing highlights AV
The meaning of the space programme in the UK and in America is examined through the eyes of three Apollo astronauts in Everyman: Heaven's My Destination, on Channel Two on Thursday, October 14, at 10.05pm. Since returning from the moon, many of the astronauts have testified to the strong spiritual impact that space experience had on them. The BBC's two-hour production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, starring Michael Hordern as Prospero and Warren Clarke as Caliban screens on Chan-
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nel Two on Sunday, 7.30pm investigates the problem. October 10, at 8.30pm. The team questions Many young travellers, young French tourists who discovering the tourist have been caught up in the delights of Asia, can trafficking and the addicbecome unexpectedly tio of heroin. Many face involved in the drug scene. anything up to a 25 year The documentary, Our gaol sentence. Some are World: Charters to Hell, sitting in Thai gaols, others screening on Channel Two are wasting away in the on Tuesday. October 12, at squalor of India.
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Channel 7 screens the internationally acclaimed Australian movie Picnic At Hanging Rock on Friday, October 15 at 8.35pm. The film ends as it began. in mystery. It is up to the audience to investigate the film and take up the clues by which they are most intrigued. Among the stars are R achel Roberts and Helen Morse.
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High price we pay for 'fame'
forgets about her and she finds herself among the "dumped," "used" a nd unsuccessful "stars." Are we to expect a rash of clever and unexpected incidents from people who are either bored, over-excited or just feeling insignificant and unwanted?
"Wow . . . I'll be famous" is a phrase on the lips of young people as they daydream of instant fame. A young person dreams about becoming famous, believing that the attention and crowd adulation will bring happiness, money and self-fulfilment. I wonder if these were some of the thoughts going through the mind of the young 18-yearold woman who interrupted a tense game of
football at the Victorian grand final and drew the attention of 100,000 people by shedding her clothes and running across the oval. The Carlton and Richmond footballers would not have appreciated the interruption to their deadly serious game, on which hinged their rightly earned
claim to fame and glory. They had each worked hard to make the final. Every second required 100 per cent concentration. I don't think anyone has the right to jeopardise such an important match, with or without their clothes on, by running across the oval. It is a sneaky way of using
people and infringing others' rights to attain fame. In many parts of the world, the authorities have protected the rights of the players by installing high barbed wire fences. We are so far spared the sight of hundreds of armed policemen surrounding a football field because
a mob cannot be trusted. The crowd has rights too — to see a fairly played football match unimpeded by overexcited spectators. What's more, the crowd came to see a game and some may not have attended if a "streaking" event had been
billed as an attraction. The response of the media has been predictable. The ratings of top class entertainers must be low if they stoop to e xploiting a young female, for the sake of cheap sensationalism. I doubt if our young woman will be much happier once the media
Does our society make an individual feel so unimportant that one has to be spectacular in order to achieve recognition and appreciation of worth? It is not so much a question of nudity as it is the matter of respecting and allowing others to enjoy their rights . . . whether it's to watch a game or play it, in this case. What do you think?
Hearing the latest Learning what it's • 's
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A group of young people spent two days of the August holiday at a YCS Introductory Camp By NIC KADMOS, held at the new Youth Mercy YCS Formation Centre at Gidgegannup. shared with me made it so It was not the heavy infor-
easy to make new friends. mation I received which On leaving for the camp This, together with the makes me feel part of YCS, my ideas were very mixed. atmosphere of the Centre but the friends I gained I did not know what to made the camp so success- from it, making me feel expect. On my return, ful and enthralling. part of the group. however, I was in a more positive frame of mind and Ex St Thomas Aquinas student, Teresa thought I knew exactly what YCS was really Szunejko now in her first year at Uni studyabout. ing for an arts degree feels the most imporThe camp was based on tant step in the Review of Life is "Action". introducing YCS members We all get so caught to the Review of Life which up in getting last is the basic belief and strucweek's assignment in ture of the movement. a nd in going to lecThe Review of Life is tures and tutorials d ivided into three that we forget to put categories: Young Christian Workers' full-timer Tom O'Regan (far right) wasted no time in informing into practice our verthe Bassendean YCW group of the highlights of the latest YCW publication 'Young Worker • to see the situation and bal outbreaks. to gain as many aspects to in Action'. The Bassendean group meets every Monday evening at 7.30pm. The group In the group I belong to, the problem as possible; c haplain Fr. Alex Morahan (left) seems quite at peace with an unexpected visitor from the we have all noticed that the • to reflect on the situation canine kingdom. Everyone is welcomed at Bassendean! The full-timers Tom O'Regan and and to see how it affects the time we spend in meeting often has little or no visible Mark O'Sullivan are promoting subscriptions to what they believe to be a most worthwhile people around you; magazine. The magazine is a most valuable aid to weekly meetings. For information ring • how the situation was result, simply because we never seem to come to a 328 9667. caused and to act. decisive end. We just talk Open Forum is wasted. I Others pictured include Gerry Ravenscroft, Peter Mancini, Joe Tufilli, Simon Gallager, The experiences I shared and talk and talk. Now fully appreciate their with others and those that we have come to see value, but if the attendance Joe Fenech and Heather Snellecksz. the faults in the group, is so low as to be embarslowly we are doing some- rassing, all that time and thing about it. effort spent in preparation The recent Social Justice is wasted. holding and Wine a Friday, October 8 Day galvanised us into We cannot act, in fact Cheese Night at St. to 10: TYCS Social action and we are getting should not act, unless we Thomas More Colinformation about some are educated. Once we Justice Camp at le8e.vveCloc sotme$. .2E5n 0-. organisations which we know what we are talking Bickley. Enquiries can become involved in. about, the tendency to talk A to Leonie on 328 quiries to Leonie on until the cows come home 4071. is a strong one. 328 4071. Saturday, OctI think if we are all comSaturday, October A ction needed mitted enough and really ober 16: TYCS are 23: CPY Gala Ball. want TYCS to act as an agent for establishing As a group FYCS has the God's kingdom on earth, potential danger of becom- we will all stop theorising. ing insular. I see action as a positive, construction way out of ourselves. We Come to camp become forced to respond to situations not only on T he Australian YCW is holding *Cardijn's contribution to our respective campus's a Cardijn Centenary Seminar in youth ministry; but in our lives, and there- It is up to us. Melbourne, beginning Friday, * Cardijn's influence on the fore involved in taking If TYCS rests on its lauO ctober 29 to Tuesday, world and the church, especially responsibility for our lives. rels from last year, TYCS N ovember 2. in Australia. Action is a form of self- will appear insular, stagWin a seven-day free trip to the Who can enter? determination because it is nant and particularly M elbourne seminar. the result of a compulsion pointless. Only youth no longer at seconto decide between what There is a camp coming To win this outstanding prize dary school. exists and what we hope to up soon but what will be w rite an essay of not more than How to enter. achieve. the point if hardly anyone 3000 words and not less than Answer the essay question; Once we respond to situa- turns up? 1000 words on the topic: The observe the usual scholastic tions, we are committed to The direction of the g enius of Cardijn. requirements for essay topics. responsibility. We take a movement lies in us. We Points that should be covered margins, double spacing, bibliostand either for or against can either see, learn and in the essay include: graphy, etc. Send your essay, situations that occur and then do something (and *a historical survey of his life n ame, address, telephone this is where the See and even action of no action is a nd times; number and 25 words about Judge part are really important) or, we can just important then we are half sit around quite complayourself before October 15 to * the method of JOC — YCW way to changing and cent with what we have got a postolate to youth; the "CARDIJN ESSAY" c/- Fr. improving our environ- and never have to risk any JEGOROW, Cardijn Centre, P.O. *the spirituality that he saw in ment. CARDINAL CARDIJN part of ourselves in chalw ork; Box 194, North Perth, 6006. In lots of ways, time spent lenging or being challengon Education Days and ed.
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Grand dame of Perth theatre takes a long look back of photos in U RROUNDED by her books, with a lifetime not far away Anita Le boxes beside her and a wealth of memories man Park unit she Tessier lives at peace in her world in the tiny Mos calls home. she was off to
The following year was still marking papers Peace is a precious commod- ago. But she e for 12 months' work as a e Adelaid becaus ent retirem her after year a ity at 92 when your body is bent there was a shortage of examiners. speech teacher, in schools before by arthritis and you can no returning to Perth. She remembers Perth in the 1890s longer walk easily. But the spirit od memories of Her first job was at Mrs Gouly's is unfettered and the set mouth and has fond childho bedecked with s hotels . . . set up by two women it graciou School the the in seen look ined and determ as was the first Church of England Christm at es branch green fresh is photo of a six -year -old Anita, time. School and was based at the back of still there many decades later. George's Cathedral. St the into "Everyone would go out A carved dresser dominates the Over the years she taught at lounge room where she often sits and bush to cut their branches and tie her bookshelves stand at attention them to the verandah posts," she said. hundreds of Perth schools including around her, each crammed to the full Cottesloe High School, Christian Her school years were spent at the Brothers College, Perth College, with volumes gathered over the years. 1950s and(inset: Mercy, Victoria Square Loreto, Osborne and Loreto, Ade- * Anita Le Tessier, at work at her typewriter in the "My daughter-in-law told me I Convent of y a determined* alread . 5. about aged ) the young Anita, , Osborne. laide Terrace . . . to name just a few. * above should buy a new television but I said and later Loreto little miss.
................................................. Many have died and these days, as England where she completed the Le Tessier looks through her Anita ai Associ ure Music . of y feat Royal Academ A weekly Famous students , all too often, she is the only photos the and tion; Royal College of Music left. one Fellowship of Trinity College exami• "It's a very lonely feeling," she said. by nations . . . all in the space of four 4, . In 1936 the Le Tessier family moved . months. . elocuEngland, for what was to be a 12private to gave HE ALSO S Elsie . under * trained she there While of ts, iear stay. . , tion lessons and legions of studen l world of
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y, a notable in the John Le Tessier was a Channe all ages, proceeded to pass through Fogart who had brought out the Islander by birth and had a yearning , theatre — on and on go names The . her hands Laurence Olivier and was a to return to his homeland. The family Archbishop Prendiville, Father Rog- young Sybil Thorndike. of friend lived in London and remained there !MSS ers, Bishop Gallagher, Father Brian, for much of the war years. study to e privileg Fred Chaney and a very small E. Le great "It was a kinin prize "I remember a fortnight after we music a Steere who won with her," she said. of Mayor left our flat in Kensington a swathe Her father had firm ideas on reli- dergarten and was later Lord the and I would never get all my books read," 1927 and in Perth h to d throug returne She went fire bombs gious duty and each year she was of Perth (as was Fred Chaney). she confided. went back to her teaching and her beautiful church next to us was desa white dress and and calling still was "I've given so many away but each required to put on theatre end But the theatre. She married toward the troyed," she said. then Bishop of Perth, time I try to sort through them I pull pay a visit to the although she had dabbled in repertory of the year, John Le Tessier, a cinema ed "It was tragic. It was such a beauticonfirm later , who Gibney so it, Bishop read t one out and realise I haven' it was not until 1920 that she made her manager and the couple's only child, ful old church with ornate windows her. back it goes." first mark. The famous English John was born in 1929. Sadly, her son and carvings." Born in Sydney as the last century actress, Beatrice Day was living in died in 1973 leaving a wife and four In 1948 the family returned to Auswound to a close, the young Anita Western Australia and agreed to young boys. Her grandsons, Martin tralia and it wasn't long before Anita early FitzGerald came to Perth at an in Anita's first play. Bill of ( 20), Hugh (19), Bernard (15), and was back on the stage. In 1949 she did NOTHER favourite priest appear 's. t, produced in 1920 and Richard (14), are a joy in her life. age. Her mother had died and as an rcemen Divo Burke, Father was days Belle of New York at His Majesty in from her early in 1923, Pink, in oat only child she was sent here to be Person Showb Young with it d then in charge of St Brigid's, the par"They've grown into great tellas She followe She raised by her godmother. to be two of the repertory's 1950 and Desert Song in 1951. ish of West Perth, where Anita was to proved theatre the in y birthda 60th later. her years had d many be marrie times but the years had passed and "He was a lovely man, grey hiir and t differen were had changed. . . people a grey beard. He always entered into gave it She same. the feel said. 70 years in speech didn't she it " and things, of the spirit remaining a way and devoted her With an eye to a career in the theag. teachin working years to tre she had taken up musical studies as a child and then in 1916, when the , LWAYS determined to take Sydney Conservatorium first opened in booked and step next the took she to ely ultimat was she to the stage Teaching the young spend around 40 years in the theatre as a student. legacy a left been had I "I was lucky. and close to 70 years as a speech and when a friend died and thought I was drama teacher and examiner. it did In 1949 she was made senior exa- Lady Croesus at the time but study in was, miner in speech and drama at the Uni- give me enough money to EACHING young people, versity of Western Australia under the Sydney," she said. her. for good she says, "I trained under Rose Seaton and always Australian Musical University Exam"I enjoyed my work and was those I ever given ination Board . . . it was a position she was on the first programme from blessed with enthusiasm held until her retirement four years by the Sydney Conservatorium." best successes, put Anita on her theat- and have a wonderful mother," she worked with," she said. iasm. deportment and rical feet and helped to dispel some of says with pride and enthus T. he teaching of a large tion. opposi nt her father's veheme voice production has, to She produced a second play in LTHOUGH busy as a wife degree, become a lost art. behave 1 923, Niobe. When she began there and mother, she was kept even busier Children don't know how to . when . . kitty was 40 pounds in the with the theatre and for many years in public, she says. child at a the play opened it had cost 1.000 put on the St Patrick's night concert "I was horrified to see one his prize pounds. . . when all the bills were paid with Sydney Smith, renowned musi- school prize-giving just grab and the accountant handed her the cian and conductor of St Mary's and walk off," she said. stageat balance she had made 9 7d. but she Choir. "And if you put them on the can't hear you now still had her original 40 pounds so she would Syd Hall the Winthrop "Every St Pat's Day set off for a trip through the eastern write a play and put in all the Irish them past the third row. no tnie,r,°states. "In my day there were theatre. songs he could think of," she said. the a play up fill Lorna picked to she ter, rne had daugh , we In Melbou phones "I later taught his theatre much called The Charm School which did Sydney Smith who with Eileen Joyce She doesn't get to theenough to get eight seasons at His Majesty's went on to become a renowned singer. these days . . . it's hard the kitehei?,s Theatre. that "Lorna was a very special young from the lounge room to in all ted interes way. but she is still With all her plays she was producer, woman, she was clever in every financer and often actor. She was a magnificent dresser and had happening. plays arl,ds . She also had a She never wrote any "I never had a backer," she said, the looks and dignity to. desire voice. never had any and while the amounts of money lovely speaking the world, she "Lorna went to Vienna to sing. She enough old rubbish in made were not enormous there was Hutgrins. went with her teacher, Gertrude away fr 0,1.11 always enough to keep her going. Theatre today is a world she sawT ton and in a year had learned opera in show German, French and Italian. She was the first vaudeville Gardens in 189:1: it was lots * 1920. * W Club. signed up by the Berlin Opera Com- Sydney's Cremorne tory Reper Truth, first to say * Tom Louch and Una Wolf in The the be for she'd ny but Germa in of the caught was proand play : last pany the her as much ITH in her later years for along being in fun of : The timid Miss Wolf has gained fame died She war. the of n she the duratio * duced in the 20's, Brown Sugar, Fraser. * mother of the Prime Minister, Malcolm ride. * made enough money to take ship for Africa about three years ago." *
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The Story of Abram A bram stood outside his tent. The desert sands were already hot. He looked for a few moments at the glistening stone buildings of Haran. He had grown to love that great city With its busy markets. Abram looked out over the desert. That was his land, his home. He felt secure in its open spaces, on its ever Shifting sands. He glanced around the oasis where he lived. It was all his, with its water springs, its graceful trees, its brilliant flowers. Camels stood silently in the shade. Flocks of sheep and goats nibbled at the short grass. A bram looked back for a moment at his tent. Signs of wealth were everywhere inside: gold and spices, purple Cloth, thick rugs and soft furs. He saw that his wife, Sarah, was resting. Abram felt good as he took in the morning breeze. He felt secure and at peace. All he could see belonged to him. He had worked hard all his life. A successful merchant, Abram was happily married. Though he had no children of his own, he had many r elatives. Now he was growing old and he was content. Then, without warning, Abram felt a strange pres-
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ence. He heard in his heart a clear, strong voice. He Peter and Susan were going to hare a party, and invited all their friends. Their names are in the maze. There are heard the Lord saying to him: "Leave your home here, 10 boys and 10 girls. Can you find them? and your land and your relatives. Set out for a landI will show you." Abram bowed low in the presence of the Lord. He P p h4A /z t AL K N listened carefully. The Lord had more to say to him. "I will bless you and make you a great nation. I will C 1 RTL make your name famous. You will be a blessing to M A E- I A many. I will be with you." Abram heard no more. He got up. Everything looked A V L4 L U EA E A4 0 the same. But his heart had changed. Abram walked slowly around the lush oasis. As the 5 1 0 L AV TME M day went by, he thought and prayed. Prayed and thought. U D 1 LU LA LA E E• 1 "This is my home. I love all this. What will the future be like where I am going? What are the risks I face?" 5 A 1 DD PS As the sun began to set, Abram knew what he would S E I do. He shared with Sarah the Lord's call. He shared his I D E 14 N I fears and doubts with her. The couple prayed and talked N S I I K long into the night. In the morning they rose. They placed their trust in D 0 RC T I NAA the Lord. They gathered their family, their belongings, their camels and flocks. They took one last look at all "T- 7- , \/ 0 E Ni ts/ A they had come to call their home. Then they said good- 13 E bye to their friends. 3 ER- 7 S IA OM They set out across the desert for an unknown land R_ O 4.. and an uncertain future.
Winners Well at last we have a winner in our brain teaser competition ... there weren't many entries it was such a hard one for you all but Mary Jane Hill, of Brentwood managed to pick them all. The correct answers are (from top left) cup and saucer, tap, jug, spoon, (from bottom left) can opener, frypan, potato masher and kettle. . Well done Mary Jane, yours was the only correct entry received so we've sent a book out to you courtesy William Collins publishers.
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Bishop Bryan Gallagher, formerly of WA, and retired bishop of Port Pine, died suddenly at his retirement unit in W allaroo on Wednesday morning. He was seen about at 5am but was found dead a short time after.
BARLOW: Passed away peacefully at home 37 Gardner Street, Como, on September 28, 1982, Agnes Catherine Veronica (Billie) Barlow, loved wife of Allan, loving mother of Tim, Shelley Miriam, Madeleine Mary and CarOn the previous day he had attended a clergy mel Therese. loving conference at Port Pine from where he directed the 49 Kent Street mother in law of Theo, diocese of Port Pine from 1952 to 1980 and whose Cannington grandmother of David first bishop was also a West Australian, Father John Matthew, Sonja Anne, O'Reilly, one time editor of The Record. Phone 458 289I SITUATIONS Barbara Therese and Amy WE CAN DELIVER Bishop Gallagher was born in 1911 and grew up in Tamara. The funeral took West Perth from where he attended CBC Perth and WANTED place at the Catholic Lawn BUILDING later St Ildephonsus College, New Norcia. on Following studies in Propaganda College, Rome, Interesting, casual - Cemetery, Karrakatta, TRADES he was ordained there in December, 1934, after temporary employment Friday, 1st October 1982, celeMass Requiem after Bricklaying, retaining sought by retired male. which he returned to Geraldton the following year to w alls. All types of Good appearance, has car, brated in The Holy Family become assistant priest and later administrator of St brickwork. Also rendering phone, integrity. City — Church, Como. Bowra & Francis Xavier Cathedral whose completion he no job too small free Country. Anything consi- O'Dea 328 7299. Funeral directed during that time. quotes. Ring Martin 339 dered from November directors. He was also bishop's secretary, inspector of 7507. Catholic schools and chancellor before being o nwards. Please write appointed parish priest of Three Springs. PROPERTY Improve- details to Advertiser, 23 FLANAGAN: Passed He was appointed bishop of Port Pine in June, ments Service all types of Hampden St South Perth. away peacefully at Little 1952, and was consecrated bishop in Geraldton Sisters of the Poor, Glenw indows and doors before moving to Port Pine where one of his first dalough, on 2nd October installed: walls and ceilings A CCOMMODATION 1982, Arthur John (Mick), tasks was to open the new St Mark's Cathedral. removed; wooden pergoBishop Peter De Campo was appointed colas; general repairs. Phone Lovely holiday all can late of 28th Battalion adjutor bishop of Port Pine at 1979 and in August, A.I.F. loved husDearly 341 2946. half ( low Amazing afford. 1980, Bishop Gallagher retired because of declining 2 adults band of 61 years of Mary. Backyards cleaned, rub- previous) rates: health. Loved father of Ron, a in adults 4 each; day a 15 $ bish removed, trees His funeral will take place in St Mark's Cathedral, $10 each; Tinks, Hilary and Marlopped, gardening. odd 6 room house Pine, on Monday. Port of law in Pat, garet. Father room 7 a in 7 jobs, garages cleaned out. groups 5 to he rest in peace. May and Ray Johnny, (dec) home $8 a day each; child277 8780 ren up to 14 $5 each or John. Grandfather of 16 A PPELBEE'S Electrical what can be afforded; and great grandfather of Service. 33 Avery Avenue. children up to 5 free; 15. In his 90th year. May Dianella. Phone.. 276 2344. hirecar $6 a day; free fruit perpetual light shine upon Thsiallations, Repair's and and vegies, first 2 days; free him. The funeral took St Paul's church, Mt Lawley is 25 years Maintenance. food. Telephone 450 5301 place at the Catholic Lawn old. It was blessed in October, 1957, by the after 6 p.m. J. Lilleyman 51 Cemetery, Karrakatta, on late Bishop Rafferty in the year when the late The annual Majellan Special Marian devoTuesday, 5th October, PAINTING quality work Lake Monsignor Lenihan earlier of Merredin and Mass takes place in the tions, consisting of rosary, 1982, after Mass Requiem at the right price. Johr celebrated in the Chapel of Northam succeeded the late Monsignor Redemptorist church on homily, crowning of Our Freaklev. Phone 361 434c W ednesday. October 13 at Lady's statue and benedicthe Little Sisters of the John Wallace as parish priest. THANKS Carpenter. Wants work P oor, Glendalough. Monsignor Wallace was of a completed quarter 8pm. Those attending are tion will be held in Holy all spheres of the buildasked to bring one plate of Rosary church, Nedlands, Bowra & O'Dea 328 7299. t he inaugural parish priest century of the church. ing trade. No job too F URLONG: (George Funeral Directors. a t 3pm on Sunday, of Mt Lawley previously Invitations will be sent food per four people. small. Phone 367 4065. October 10. The final 24Joseph). Marj and family part of the Highgate parish out to such prior members recitation of the hour wish to sincerely THANK IN MEMORIAM also was of which he of the parish whose present WEDDINGS rosary for this year will be all relatives and friends for f ormer administrator. addresses can be traced. held on October 13. their kind expressions of C LOHESSV: Passed Monsignor Wallace retired For that special day add Apart from these, a welways many so in Further enquiries to 386 sympathy 1979. 6, because away October Lawley Mt from harmony to the ()erasion come is offered to other offerings, Always remembered with of ill health. Mass for 5805 after 6pm. and by having vocal guitarist letters, cards, treasured thoughts. Jo and The 25th anniversary will prior members of the par- Priests in the archdiocese flowers, you for sing Marie Wallace ish who read this. newspaper tributes and family. will meet 'at the Redempbe celebrated as follows: and your guests in th.: at the Rosary, It would be helpful if any torist Retreat House on attendance on pm 4.30 at Mass • church. Phone 275 3870. of memory In EEGAN: who wish to come would Tuesday, October 12, at Requiem Mass and funeral K died as Sunday. October 31, at of their dearly loved hus- our friend Pat, ring the presbytery (271 3pm. The meeting is orgaGoody Archbishop which TEACHER r esult of an accident. band and father. principal 5 253) — preferably nised by the Priestly Life Loved and respected by all will be the between 8am and 9am. TEACHER required in As these tributes were too and Ministry Committee celebrant. Erickson him. knew A t the end of this month 1982 to teach middle numerous to answer per- who many will of the Senate of Priests. evening meal at that hoped Buffet • is It school English. Please sonally, will everyone family. 6pm, at which present and return to the parish to Father G. Holohan, Direc- of October a weekend apply in writing to the please accept our heartfelt past parishioners will have mark, with present tor of Religious Educa- retreat will be held at the Principal, St Edmund's thanks. an opportunity of meeting. members, 25 years of tion, will speak on recent Franciscan Retreat House, College, Collie. • Presentation of a chair Mass, of sacrament, of developments in the arch- 16 Hampton Street, Victoto the sanctuary, which proclamation of God's diocese concerning reli- ria Park. Commencing at Sister Magdalene Donogious education, followed 7 .30pm on Friday. will be an enduring mark word. NOVENA van of Burma wishes to Catholic Pastoral Instiby discussion on the topic. October 29. NOVENA TO SACRED thank the sister provincial tute scripture courses: SisMAN 322 1408 HEART: Most Sacred and sisters of St Joseph of ter Elizabeth Curran, course, the begins FMM OMAN DeViaof the Apparition W Heart of Jesus may your The West Australian Paulist Bible name be praised and glori- lar convent, Hilton and Introduction to the fied throughout the world K alamunda, the priests, and the Book of Genesis, at parish priest of Victoria Park has and her many relatives and G osnells on Monday, now and forever. been appointed provincial superior HAIR MODA (Say nine times a day for friends for their kindness October 11 at 1.30pm in Australia. in congregation of the of Lady in Our making and generosity church, the and days consecutive nine BEAUTY CONNECTION her holiday in this lovely the Most Blessed Sacrapromise publication.) is He Father TarciCorfield of and land memoracorner happy a ment, Shop 2, 36 Milligan St, Perth Thank you for sale of sio (pictured Micallef Street, River South ble occasion. and Anne. house. r ight), who will leave Gosnells. 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The discussion on the nounced from Malta Sunday Readings will be where the Paulists were held on Thursday at founded as a congrega- FR MICALLEF 10.30am in the Catholic tion particularly dedi- sister, a religious in Pastoral Institute, 52 Ruis- cated to the needs of Rome. St Vincent de Paul Society emigrants. It is estimated His first appointment lip Street, Leederville. requires ( ESTABLISHED 1888) Father Joseph Sobb, SJ that they serve over was as master of novices will begin an introduction 500,000 Maltese mi- f ollowing which he 68 STIRLING STREET, PERTH directed an institute for to the New Testament on grants in Australia. 1307 ALBANY HWY., CANNINGTON Tuesday, October 19, at The new provincial orphans. for After coming to Austra7.30pm in the Sacred superior succeeds the late 502 WANNER00 ROAD, BALGA Heart Convent, Harold Father Honoratus Gale, lia he was director of noviStreet, Highgate, and on who died suddenly ear- ces in Melbourne before Thursday, October 21, at tier this year and who being posted to WA Salary $150 p.w. plus board 8.00pm in the Assembly also served in WA in the where he became chaFor further information contact plain to the Repatriation Room, rear Infant Jesus parish of Subiaco. 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CANONISATION
New Polish saint led a life of love in Mary On Sunday, October 10, Blessed Maximilian Kolbe, who died in a Nazi concentration camp, will be canonised a saint. In this article PETER DWAN, BA, of Day/esford, Victoria, briefly traces the priest's life and ministry.
R aymond Kolbe was born on January 7, 1894, in Zdunska-Wola in Poland. His parents were staunch Catholics. Hitherto disobedient, Raymond suddenly become obedient. Questioned about this, Raymond reluctantly told his mother that he had seen Our Lady and that he would never again forsake obedience after having seen her. During that vision, Our liminary studies at "1-he first project they was transferred to the tion by those at NiepakalLady showed Raymond Cracow, Brother Maximi- undertook was distribut- Grodno friary. There he anow. t he white crown of purity lian was sent to study at the ing miraculous medals. was given three rooms; one He considered that sugand the red crown of mar- Gregorian Pontifical Insti- They aimed to conquer for for an office, one for a gestions to channel the tyrdom and asked him tute in Rome, where he Christ through Our Lady, printery and one for a dis- magazine's profits into providing friary income which one he chose. When received doctorates in both all the souls of the entire patch room. he replied: "I choose both philosophy and theology. world until the end of time. Increased circulation sprang from mediocrity, of them," Mary smiled and The anti-Catholic senti- A fter his ordination, necessitated even larger and that publishing for ment obvious during the F ather Maximilian premises. Father Maximi- financial gain would disappeared. After being tutored by the Freemasons' second cente- returned to Poland, where lian accepted a gift of land immediately compromise local pharmacist, Ray- nary celebrations in Rome he sought to promote the near Warsaw, where he his magazine's success. mond enrolled at the local convinced Brother Max- Militia of the Immaculata. built his Niepakalanow or F ather Maximilian obtained permission to t echnical school. In imilian of the need for Some of his confreres con- Marytown. October 1907, he went to effective apostolic action. sidered Father Maximilian This friary, dedicated establish a Niepakalanow exclusively to promoting in Japan in 1930. This was the local secondary school, He therefore founded the a dreamer. where he showed great Militia of the Immaculata Admittedly Father Max- Marian devotion, was built a first step in his long-term imilian's plans were ambi- entirely by the brothers plan to establish Niepakaability in mathematics and on October 17, 1917. physics. Members were to wear tious. He did not see the and financed by donations lanows in every country Raymond entered the the miraculous medal as a Militia of the Immaculata from members of the Mil- and publish this magazine in every language. Conventual Franciscans' sign of their consecration as a small pious organisa- itia of the Immaculata. minor seminary in Lwow. to Our Lady and work for tion, but rather as "a move- Niepakalanow was com- Father Maximilian and Blessed Maximilian Kolbe gave his life at four brothers left for Japan On September 4, 1910, he the salvation of all souls. ment which must enthuse pletely self-supporting. A uschwitz concentration camp. was invested with the habit They were required to souls, snatch them from Father Maximilian on February 26, 1930. and took the name Brother seek always their superior's Satan, and, won for the obtained the latest printing They reached Nagasaki on work and inadequate diet, for dead after a cruel beatMaximilian. permission before under- cause of the Immaculata, machines. When asked April 24, 1930. his only complaint was ing. His companions carincite them to the aposto- what St Francis would Father Maximilian that he lacked the person- ried him back to the camp After completing his pre- taking apostolic works. late of realising the reign of think of that expensive immediately sought per- nel and resources to hospital where he recovered. Jesus Christ." equipment, Father Max- mission to publish a Japa- e xpand his Japanese Father Maximilian was imilian replied: "Why, he nese edition of his apostolate. e ventually transferred to Scissors, Saws, Secateurs, Shears, Sharpened and Set 2 years in hospital would roll up his sleeves, magazine. Archbishop In 1939, Father Maximi- Block Fourteen. There lian was reappointed Father Maximilian perGuardian of the Polish formed his greatest act of In 1920, tuberculosis charity. Niepakalanow. which Father Maximilian been sent4 QUEEN STREET —321 4390— LOCKSMITHS had contracted in Rome, On September 19, 1939, Ten men had in reprisal death to enced flared up and he spent the and the Gestapo came of a priescape the for next two years in a sanatoLocks, Door Closers and Safe Overhauled and Serviced arrested Father Maximisoner. When Francis rium, spending his many confreres. his and lian CAR and ALL TYPES OF KEYS CUT: Immediate Service lamented the hours of enforced rest in They were released on Gajowniczek and childwife his of fate prayer. December 8, 1939. Maximilian Father ren, He became even more Although Father Maximplace. fiatAnatinlitafabiala conscious of the difference start the machine at top Hyasaki, of Nagasaki, ilian obtained permission offered to die in his bunker, between divine and human speed, and go to work, tak- agreed on condition that to publish the Knight from In the starvation where the condemned men methods, and said: "The o Very Fresh ing up this modern way of Father Maximilian taught the Governor General (a were dying of hunger and Immaculate Virgin will oVery Tasty .Very Economical man named Frank), the thirst, Father Maximilian spreading the glory of God in the local seminary. maintain her victory over a nd His Immaculate Japanese priests trans- Gestapo blocked Father led the singing of hymns the devil. To make this vic- Mother." lated articles which Father M aximilian's initiative and and the recitation of the tory even more imposing, A t Niepakalanow's busi- Maximilian had written in sabotaged the presses. R osary. she will take us to her serest time, three rotary Latin into Japanese. Nevertheless, on Decem- Blessed Maximilian died vice, us weak ones and our continually be presses were In May, 1930, the first ber 8, 1940, what was to on the Vigil of the Assumpnot especially qualified running day and night. In edition of Seibo no Kishi Father Maximilian's last tion, August 14, 1941, after talents." 1938, there were 762 friars. appeared. edition of his magazine receiving a lethal injection. A fter returning to By 1939, circulation of appeared. Starting with a circulaCracow, Father Maximithe Knight of the Immaculian recruited members for tion of 10,000 copies, by On February 17, 1941, lata had reached almost W ARRANTY his Militia among univer1939 it had become the Father Maximilian and 1,000,000. AUTO REPAIRS students, secondary largest selling Catholic four other priests were sity 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111ti411011111111111111111111111111111111111111B Father Maximilian also publication in Japan, with arrested. students and soldiers. PAT CURTIS MIAME Father Maximilian published the Little Knight a circulation of 70,000 Father Maximilian was obtained permission to for youth, the Little Jour- copies. The magazine con- charged with having writpublish The Knight of the nal, a daily newspaper with tained articles to interest ten against the German of over Catholics, Protestants and occupation policies. They OPTICIANS AND OPTOMETRISTS Immaculata, on condition a circulation were taken to the Paiwak that he raised the necessary 230,000, and Miles Imma- pagans. Contact LENS CONSULTANTS money himself. He later culatae, a Latin review for Father Maximilian jail in Warsaw. priests. obtained his own press. worked zealously in Japan. Father Maximilian was Because the press was disF ather Maximilian Although he suffered con- later transferred to AuschPERTH PICCADILLY ARCADE 321 8151 turbing the seminary rou- stressed the need for morti- tinually from headaches witz, where he was illPERTH 154 WILLIAM STREET 321 5304 For aI( yOU-r comp ete tine, Father Maximilian fication and circumspec- and abscesses due to over- treated. Once he was left aNtwartworassanourmo.,-son
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