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"It's good to be out of gaol," said WA Columban Father Gore when released on bail last week and before a new damning suspicion of murder surfaced against his accuser Lieutenant Gallo in a dramatic turn of events. (See story box below.) Father Gore was In a direct on-air inter- and a visiting bishop and released at 5 pm on view with Father Brian 98 priests said Mass for T uesday, October 19. Morrison on the 6PR Father Gore. The day before he was Howard Sattler pro- "The cell was about 4 due to start a four -day gramme, Father Gore des- metres square, just bars how for three days and walls, with mats on the retreat. Instead, the cribed t housands of people floor," Father Gore said. bishop was obliged to wended their way down "We were treated well and deliver him for impri- from the mountains, and people from the surroundsonment by the in the plaza, before 7000 ing towns brought us our authorities. people, Bishop Fortich food so we did not have to
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eat prison rations. We had good food but we were still locked up. "Our church lawyer was St Joachim is back in his position of honour in front of the Victoria Park church and Bishop excellent in court and it is Healy is pictured dedicating the statue last Sunday after a confirmation ceremony. The largely because of him that former statue was tumbled off its mount by vandals and smashed. At right is Father Micallef we are able to get bail. He who this week leaves to become head of the Paulist Fathers in Australia. knew where he was going, he knew his facts and was able to outwit the govern- having another Church- because without support ment prosecutor who was Military Liaison commit- from the people in Austratee meeting on Monday lia it could be very difficult trying to block bail." The first charge against October 25 and I think for us. Father Gore was that there will be a lot of things "Your support will be a Lieutenant Gallo had exposed there. (See box help to my six Filipino associates who are in much found a grenade and five below. bullets in the priest's "With local community greater danger thanI am.I support here and support can be deported but much house. Asked why the second from Australia and other more can happen to them VATICAN CITY: The "whole man" and more serious charge of places the bishop and we if they are put in prison." inciting rebellion had been are very grateful the people F ather Morrison told and not just organs and tissues must laid only now, Father Gore in Australia have taken up Father Gore that his be the ultimate concern of scientific the cudgels. remarks were being transsaid: "If we were inciting to "We have received tele- mitted in a nationwide experimentation, Pope John Paul rebellion in 1979, 1980 or grams telling us of nation- Australian network and said last Saturday. 1981 why were we not wide support in Australia. were being channelled As a result, said the pope, some types of experiments picked up then? Why did The Australian Embassy directly to the Minister for aimed at curing chromosomal defects should be fosrepresentative came down Foreign Affairs Mr Tony they wait until 1982? tered, but "experimental manipulations of the human "It is a fabrication and I here for a few days and Street. embryo" must be condemned. took a interest keen in the "We are committed to believe the purpose of their The pope's words came in a talk given to 40 interna"pushing the case is to dis- proceedings and has been a carry on," said Father tional experts meeting in Rome at a week-long conferGore, "whatever the ence on biological credit me publicly and put great help. experimentation. the people in fear of being "We still have a long way risks. Thank you for your In his 15-minute, English-language address the ponpeople and hope I go to support and keep hanging tiff praised associated with the priest experimentation on animals and on and the Church's pro- will continue to support us in there." artificially-cultivated human tissues which can lead to gramme. the cure of diseases related to chromosomal defects. Lieutenant Gallo, the officer who "It is propaganda rather The pope lauded those "who have endeavoured to than an airtight case -establish, with full respect for man's dignity and freeto claimed find a grenade and which they do not have dom, guidelines and limits for experiments concerning and which in a proper bullets at Father Gore's house man. court we will be able to dis- "has always had a bad record. This "But," he said, "I condemn, in the most explicit and prove. The military are not time he can't escape. formal way, experimental manipulations of the human He an is evil no showing their cards but embryo, since the human being, from conception to doubt they are monitoring man," said Bishop Fortich in an death, cannot be exploited for any purpose whatt he situation very interview with The Daily News on soever." arefully. c The pope called man "the ultimate object of scientific Tuesday. "At the same time we are research, the whole man, spirit and body, even if the Telling how Lieutenant Gallo is being questioned taking precautions for our immediate object is its organs and tissues. own safety because in on suspicion of murder Bishop Fortich said: "He will "Animals are at the service of man and can hence be be arrested soon and charged with murder. He is a c ourt yesterday it was 100 the object of experimentation," the pope added, sadist." points for us and zero for Bishop Fortich said the questioning of Lieutenant "Nevertheless, they must be treated as creatures of God them." Gallo followed the discovery of the body of Carlos which are destined to serve man's good, but not to be recent the Asked about Orchida, the brother of the bishop's driver, buried in abused by him." discovery of a body sus"Decreasing experimentation of animals, which has a military compound. pected of being a military progressively been made ever less necessary, corresHe had been tortured and died of a fractured skull Father victim force „task ponds to the plan and well-being of all creation." and broken ribs. W Gore said: The pope also told the scientists that he was praying Lieu tenant Gallo's case surfaced during Monday's "We believe there are still that God would "direct the application of scientific Church -Military Liaison meeting attended by be 3000 bodies to of number a research to the production of new food supplies, since peasants in a school quadrangle. uncovered in the area in "It has given a tremendous lift to the case of Father one of the greatest challenges that humanity must face, which the task force has together with the danger of nuclear holocaust, is the Gore," he said. been operating. We are 'hunger of the poor of this world."
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Over 700 people attended the 26th annual Rosary Rally at Maryland farm just outside Kojonup in what has grown from a small parish ceremony to an important spiritual event for the South West. It was the first such rally for Bishop Quinn ABOVE RIGHT: The who concelebrated Maryland Kojonup Mass with Fathers Rosary Rally as Hugh Galloway and Father Peter Kenny I an Johnson. The gave SJ his homily. Mass was accompanied by the Shalomite by George Jeffs who, singers.
Bishop to bless Arson suspected primary school
South Hedland presbytery was destroyed in a dramatic fire last SatThe Bunbury Catholic College new primary urday and insurance investigators before he died, had devehave strong suspicions of arson. loped a remarkable devo- school will
be blessed by Bishop Quinn and offiIn the afternoon proces- tion to Mary and which is Only the shell of the manent presbytery. sion each mystery of the honoured today by the cially opened on November 7. timber -framed trans- Earlier in the week St rosary was led by a family statue on the farm. Cecilia's school decided to from one of the visiting **** **** equipment from the old rooms, two withdrawal portable building was cool off in the early parishes. The homily was The first public recitation standing. left The parschool and to landscape areas, a library-resource summer heat by holding delivered by Father Peter of the rosary was in 1956 * Articles supplied: the ish priest Father Syd new area. centre and a multi-purpose the annual swimming carwhen the Sodality of Holy Kenny SJ. by Father Brian* Kattie, on loan from nival in windy conditions. Angels joined the proces- * Morrison, South* Brother Justin said that art and craft room, all what was happening was linked by a covered area to Toowoomba' diocese, Gold faction won the day After the homily the pro- sion and Father Martin cession wended its way Brennan gave benediction. * West Catholic In-ic simply re-siting the present the administration offices was away for about with 569 points but Red three quarters of an faction in third place with back to the marquee where Father Gavin and later : formation Centre.: "school" to the new and storerooms. Brother Justin, who has hour and returned to 448 points won the day for there was a renewal of Father Bernie Dwyer ***************** location. The result would be more been principal at the f ind the bui lding its best behaviour. Blue vows ceremony followed expanded the function to team gain 561 points. the whole of Bunbury dio- The 300 students and room for students in the school for nearly five ablaze. by Benediction. staff from the old St school as well as more years, said that in that time Individual champions: cese and visitors came even He was unable to reach Joseph's School moved playing and recreational he had become extremely Junior — Sharon McGree, The afternoon tea was a from Perth. the telephone to call for into the new building early area. attached to the old school. time for reunion among help and as a result he was Trevor Ditchburn and TreThis year a convoy of this month. "The school character has old friends of the annual The town site was left with only his car and vor Rooke a tie. Intermeeight cars travelled from It is operating at maxiMarian ceremony, as well Bridgetown. relatively congested where a nd I have become the clothes he was wearing. diate, Brooke Woodland, mum capacity and no new as becoming. acquainted the Washington avenue attracted by it, but to stay The parish council, under Ben de Marchi. Senior, with the new bishop of The present organisers of enrolments are being location covered nearly would be a costly opera- the chairman John Denige Blankendaal, Fartion because of the maintethe annual ceremony are accepted. Bunbury. Simon Vranic. three hectares. non, called a special meetnance to be done," he said. Peter and Julie Jeffs School principal Brother Brother Justin The gold medals presing to launch an said that appeal to The Maryland Rosary assisted by Dr Barry Justin said parents had All attachment with the ented to the champions been actively involved in they would be losing the old school has not been help Father Kattie. Rally was started in 1953 Walsh. were similar in design to use of a The hall, presbytery, but because brought of setting up the new school. lost. -the medals won by the He said already some the extra land there was The foundation stone, to the site as a temporary champions at the Comalways measure room when South Hedfor future marking work had been done at the the opening of the land parish was created monwealth Games, Brisschool by the parents and expansion. o riginal St Joseph's bane, Queensland, 1982. friends group and several The school accommo- School in 1929 will be was insured for $35,000. This sum would make it — Story by more busy bees had been dates years four to seven incorporated into the new possible to start on a perJudith Enright. organised to transfer and includes eight teaching building.
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to be addressed if these Father Gerard Holohan, guidelines are to work. The director of religious educa- diversity in levels of undertion, said after a long con- standing is another, also sulation process which will diversity of practice. include clergy, school "Since the Second Vati• GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION staffs and parents, the can Council, considerable Primary guidelines will be promul- diversity and conflict have • NATIONAL GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MEDIA gated by the archbishop characterised our Church and will become manda- at such as in the liturgical • ASSOCIATE DIPLOMA IN HEALTH EDUCATION tory for Catholic schools reforms. Another would be FURTHER INFORMATION to follow. in the transmission of F or unit details, pre-requisites, etc., contact: Revelation. Asking the priests to "Religious educational T he Summer School Co-ordinator Admissions Office study the draft for errors experience has shown that Western Australian College which can be corrected, conflict between what the P.O. Box 217 Father Holohan said: "A student hears from the pulDOUBLEVIEW. 6018 (Telephone: 387 9211) great number of curricula pit, in the house, in the or Telephone: 387 5999 (Churchlands) have ended on the prover- classroom, and from the 384 6900 (Claremont) bial scrap heap because peer group, has a detri271 9311 (Mount Lawley) they were not implemented mental effect upon his or 386 5555 (Nedlands) v:Yrow successfully, and did not her faith development. No. sl work. "Conflict about religious •GRADUATE DIPLOMAS: Career Education, Children's Literature, Computer Education, Language Studies,Mathematics Education, Physical Education, Reading Education, Remedial Education, Science Education.
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Report given on alcoholic programme at Holyoake The 50 people who attended the third and final Christian Breakfast for the year sponsored by the Applecross Christian Council heard a report from Mr John Keating on the alcoholic programmes being given at Holyoake. He told the audience *over-functional' in their and the use of identity from Catholic, Angli- support, relieving him of cards to assist policing cian, Uniting Chur- responsibility, covering up such a regulation. He critiches & Churches of for him, and themselves cised the fact that governshouldering obligations ments had a vested interest Christ that few fami- that were his. The alco- in liquor sales, through lies in WA were not holic abdicates all respon- exoise taxes and licence affected in some way sibility and becomes fees, and that the liquor by the impact of alcoh- confirmed in his drinking. interests were such a highly olism yet the problem The person who is in organised power group, was either denied or pain, and who needs help? apparently haying the ear skirted around. Is the caretaker, the one of the government.
now carrying a hopeless In Mr Keating's view the Mr Keating said the load, under which he, or liberalisation of drinking majority of persons dam- she, will eventually crack. laws introduced new and St Bene ct's parish aged by alcohol misuse disastrous drinking patt- owas host for the were not the problem The alcoholic manages to erns extending down to Applecross ecumeniget everyone working to drinkers, but the people children in their early who surrounded them — support him in his drink- teens. The community has cal breakfast lastr... the neglected majority ing patterns. At Holyoake, lost control of the drinking iweek and Catholicq made up of wives, child- families and friends of situation, Mr Keating said, - Womens League' ren, friends and fellow alcoholics were educated and he urged his hearers to members Mrs Jessie in more effective ways to be more active in support- Bricknell and Mrs workers. ing remedial and preventa- Phil Wayne are picAs the alcoholic becomes handle the problem. more and more dysfunc- Mr Keating advocated a tive action, or better still, tured helping with tional, those near to him return to 21 as the min- proposing it as opportunthe serving. become more and more imum age for drinking, ity allowed.
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A keen spectator at CBC Leederville's 40th birthday opening of the new library on November 7 will be the school's first enrolledpupilRonald Joseph Byrne pictured on a recent visit to the college.
Late on a Saturday afternoon in In February, 1942, he was among 190 boys who turned up on the opening day. The war was on which 1941 he was taken by his parents to meant that school uniforms were scarce and also that CBC St George's Terrace where school work was punctuated by frequent air-raid drill. enrolment began for the school Ron moved from CBC Leederville become an which was to open the following apprentice panel beater and welder. He to became president of the Old Boys' Association in the 1960's. year. VATICAN CITY (NC) — Nuclear dissuasion "cannot be considered a final goal or an appropriate and, secure means for safeguarding international peace," Pope John Paul II' said in a message to scientists participating in a seminar on nuclear war.
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Doors to jobs? It has not taken much adversity for the Ocker Australian to turn the expression Lucky Country into a cynicism or convenient whipping post for those who want to take out their anger on someone or something for some reason or other. It still is a lucky country of sorts in spite of that. In how many countries are people a llowed to kick down the doors of parliament house and take the train home again? In how many countries is it a prime time television spectacular? The Australian parliamentary chambers fortunately were not violated and the mind switched to the oft-shown film clip illustrating how quickly Spanish parliamentarians disappeared below their benches when shots were fired by the military in that chamber earlier this year. It was convenient to be reminded also this week that in Moscow it was not clear whether the death of twenty people at a football stampede would be reported since disasters, such as aircraft crashes, are reported locally only if they happen in other countries. The fracas in Canberra on Tuesday is not an indication that Australia is falling on bad times democratically. There have been ugly skirmishes on the streets long before this a s even Fremantle and Kalgoorlie know only too well. On the other hand Australians have slumped in their chairs nightly staring passively at other countries where protest processions are played in the rough style with water cannon and tear gas on hand to straighten out the rock and missile throwing. The television camera only brought much closer an event in Canberra that a generation a go would have been covered by a press report and perhaps a photograph. Suddenly the anger and heat of the NSW miners and s teelworkers has become everyone's concern. What is disturbing about last week's events was the ease with Which Australians can find a simple solution to all their troubles by dumping their problems at the door of parliament in a country where we smile at the need to be fined $2 to make sure that we will be bothered to vote at election time.. The protest may have been partially effective because it will stave off the retrenchment of a few steelworkers but the only jobs it will create will be for the maintenance workers in Canberra. Unfortunately, politicians and not the issues have become the nation's tin gods, but a s prophets the same politicians have shown to be short on information whether about reduced levels of inflation or this week's boast that the iron ore contracts can be fixed up by 1 990 no less. (It would have been nice to have had eight years lead time for the rises in petrol prices and intrest rates!). People are frustrated not only because they do not have jobs and spending money in their pocket. They are angry like the Jews in the desert because there was no prophet to tell them what life is all about. The trouble is that if someone is brave enough to stand up and say that we have melted down our assets to set up a golden calf, then such a prophet faces the fate of his biblical ancestors and may get his teeth punched for his trouble. It is a pity that so many believe that salvation will come out of a parliament house and that such ideas as original sin, greed, avarice, and neglect of others are pie in the sky and have nothing to do with reality.
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Sir, There are few things as certain in medicine as from Paul Steele, Applecross. the fact that cigarette smoking substantially reduces life expectancy and that it leads to a s ir higher incidence of lung and vascular problems. It is my hope that readers will not be influenced by the somewhat ego-
The fact that some The measure of the power ments and are aimed at a centric and shallow philosophy on individuals who smoke of the tobacco industry is mental age of 12. manage to survive is that its products are, with In view of the trail of des- smoking found in the letter of W.V.C. as irrelevant as the government assistance, truction and human misery Thomas (The Record, October 14). promoted and caused by this industry -observation that some aggressively It may be that during the 50 years he has sold when the product is all in the name of corposoldiers who go to war killing consumers at the rate profits, it is necessary engaged in the habit of smoking, little attenmanage to survive. rate of 300 a week! for all Christians to ask tion has been given to the irritating and Deaths in Australia in If this was not bad themselves what they are hazardous effects of tobacco smoke on other 1980 were: Motor vehicle, enough, we must also face doing about it, and if they members in the community.
3,500 (of which about 60 the fact that tobacco pro- are doing nothing, then The problem of passive smoking -- the inhalation of per cent are associated motions are the most dis- they must ask themselves tobacco smoke other than by puffing on a cigarette, with alcohol); industrial honest of all advertise- why. cigar or pipe — is a relatively new study. pollution, 50; tobacco, In a 14-year study reported in 1981. of 91,540 Japa16,000; heroin and marinese nonsmoking married women aged 40 years or over, juana, 39. a highly significant risk of lung cancer was found with We rightly worry about wives of heavy smokers having double the risk of wives consumer products that nonsmokers. of may, or actually do, cause Mr Thomas notes that the chances of contracting injury or death. lung cancer by smokers is "by no means inevitable" and Several times a year the surely this philosophy is reassuring to the tabacco Consumer Affairs Bureau industry. removes a toy from the There is an impressive scientific evidence available to stores because it has the support the view that smoking is a form of self-abuse potential to injure. which increases the risk of a number of diseases. Phenacitin was removed from headache powders from Miss Connie because it was causing 96 Hooker, Ned/ands deaths a year in Australia. Firecrackers were banned Sir because they were responMrs Maureen Bicksible for six to seven ley Wong is unable to serious cases of burns a from Raphael Mahony, Mandurah a spire to be the first year.
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far too seldom Gore is only one of many tinues to fight for the pres- national Box X2258; from P. Bertola, Bre- heard today, and whose notable hundreds of "prisoners of ervation of human dignity, G.P.O. Perth. 6001. mer Bay. achievements in improving
conscience" who suffer the living conditions of so with him under unjust and N Sir, \NN The statement on housing many of our less fortunate brutal regimes. by the heads of churches people have passed, almost (The Record, October 8) is w ithout notice, into The Amnesty Internat an example of muddled today's accepted standards. i ona 1 Newsletter of October 1982, reports: thinking. "The Philippines — Illegal The housing situation, if Dame Dorothy Tangney, detentions, torture and so desperate for so many, DBE, was elected on arbitrary killings". will not be cured by rob- August 21, 1943, as Aus- Government forces in the / Volunteers required for two / bing Peter to pay Paul, i.e. tralia's first woman sena- Philippines have illegally Youthcare communities imposing more tax or tor and about a month detained, tortured or arbiprinting money to finance later, in Canberra, was the trarily killed hundreds of an industry which is rolling first woman 1 . Fundraising: to be elected in superfluous luxuries t o a Federal Parliamentary people throughout the country in the last year and Would suit retired business persons, proand waste. Committee. That commit- a half despite the lifting of fessionals and other workers who have I have been closely exatee was, most suitably in martial law. mining the weekend houstime and a committment to homeless and her case, the Joint Com- The victims include peaing advertisements since unemployed youth. mittee on Social Security. sants, tribal people, trade the interest rate climb and It was in the sphere of unionists and church Contact Mr Michael Lyra I have yet to see any real social justice that she w orkers work 321-8522 home 349-0757 suspected of sign of buyers or sellers achieved her greatest opposing government coming to grips with oversuccesses. 2. Front-line management for male policies. expectations. House designs still fea- While never deviating Reports of these abuses community in inner City: ture things like family from her were investigated by an Suit professional person, tertiary students expressed ideals, 3 1 4.30pm Mass for 25th anniversary of St Paul's rooms, dining rooms, and A mnesty International and acquitting herself with and religious who will regularly use their church Mount Lawley. Archbishop Goody. in some case two style, spirit and wit in mission that visited the skills, energy and self in programmes, to November bathrooms and toilets — debate, Phillipines from Novemshe did not allow 2 At Victoria Square, meeting of WA heads of all in an age of diminishing help participants to achieve social skills politics to interfere with ber 11-28, 1981, 10 months churches. and independence. Understanding of lay family numbers. after President Ferdinand 3 St Norbert's Speech Night. Archbishop Goody. The necessary approach her friendships which Marcos lifted state martial apostolate principles very important. An extended to members of all Confirmation, Moora. Bishop Thomas. to this housing business is parties. opportunity to participate in work with this She continued to law which he declared in O OOOOO ••••••••••• OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO •••••••••% more moderate expecta1972; but retains all the youth accommodation and support service make a valuable contribu• tion in accord with one's extensive powers under 26 John Street, Perth WA 6000 of the archdiocese. tion to the government of • Correspondence. means and responsibilities. this country for close on a martial law, including the The Editor, The Record, PO Box 50 Large house required. Youthcare is look The preach Church must to authority to order arrests • • Aberdeen Street, Perth, 6000. • its own flocks and not the quarter of a century. ing for long-term lease of a 4 or more bedthat cannot be challenged A dvertising. Federal government. Minroom centrally located home for our in the • Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 courts. r egistered for posting as a newspaper Category "A" (11). isters and priests should be Editor's Note.. The arti- To every Christian perr esidents. • Produced in WA directed to do likewise. It is cle referred to should son who subscribes to the CarPrinted and published weekly by Edward van Heemst, Contact Guido Vogels or Sheryl high time leaders stopped have referred to the ethic of "Love of neighSquare, • • 26 John Perth. Street, • mody at Centrecare, 29 Victoria WA woman in bour", I would suggest that • soft-soaping their charges first • • • Perth, Phone 325-6644. and got down to calling a the House of Established Repre1874 • they join Amnesty Interna• • 111•••••••••••••555555550 OOOOO ••••••••••• sentatives. tional, that world-wide 4‘. OOOOO spade a spade.
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DATELINE. . . overseas news roundup
Controversy over bank debt
A CALL FOR ALL TO ND E Plan for converts VIOLENCE
VATICAN CITY: The Italian government claims that the Vatican Bank owes money to the bankrupt Banco Ambrosiano but a three-man team of banking experts claim that there is no money owing.
Earlier this month Avvenire, the MilanItalian Treasurer Beni - based national Catholic amino Adreatta gave a newspaper has been t wo-hour 50 -page sharply critical of the treasreport to the Chamber ury minister's report. of Deputies claiming "It is the first time in the of the republic that that $1.287 bil l ion ahistory minister, speaking in his was owing either in most responsible capacity, direct debts or indirect that is before the House of loans made through Deputies, tries . . . to teach letters of patronage of the pope his job," said the unsigned editorial. "Or, if the Vatican Bank.
TAIPEI, Taiwan: The Chinese Bishops' Conference in Taipei has set a goal of conveiling 30,000 people according to its joint pastoral letter on the fourth centenary commemoration of Matteo Ricci's arrival in China.
In their June pastoral, the bishops urged all parishes, religious communities, institutions and organisations to make firm plans to attain the goal which would increase Taiwan's Catholic population by some ten percent.
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II called for "the abandonment of all violence" when he talked to the new Turkish ambassador to the Holy See, whose predecessor was assassinated two years ago.
Turk will be taken to Italy
The new ambassador, Sulhi Dislioglu, succeeded the late Vecdi Turel, who was shot on April 17, 1980, in Rome street. R esponsibility for the murder was claimed by an Armenian group saying it was seeking revenge for the turn-of-the century massacres of Armenians by ZURICH: Switzerland's highest Turks.Church is working The court has agreed to extradite to Italy for the construction of a Omer Bagci, a 36-year-old Turk who society "which cannot be love, which said he furnished the gun used to separated from demands above all the shoot the pope. abandonment of all vioBagci told the Swiss court that he had given a fellow lence, especially under the Turk, Mehmet Ali Agca, a Browning pistol on May 9, various forms of terrorism, 1981, in Milan, Italy. which can never find a jusBut he said he did not know that the pistol was to be tification," Pope John used by Agca four days later in an attempt on the pope's Paul said in a Frenchlife in St Peter's Square. language talk. Agca, who was convicted of the assassination "How many innocent attempt and who is serving a life sentence in an Italian people have been the vicprison, told Italian magistrate Ilano Martella that Bagci tims of terrorism, and still knew the purpose for which the gun was needed, the are today in various parts Swiss court said. of the world, especially Bagci was arrested on June 3, 1982, in Soletta, Swit- people invested with high zerland, at the request of Martella. authority?" he added. Martella has gone to the United States to interview "Your predecessor also several Americans who were present in St Peter's suffered by it." Square during the May 13, assassinatin attempt and to Neither the pope nor the talk to journalists involved in a recent NBC television ambasador referred to the production which claimed Agca received financial attempt by a Turk on the backing from the Bulgarin and Soviet secret services. pope's life last year.
we want to use diplomatic ( The Vatican Bank language, to interfere in owned 1.5 per cent of the the internal affairs of stock of the Banco Ambro- another sovereign state." siano whose late president Roberto Calvi was found In a related development, hanged under a London the passports of two lay Italian employees of the bridge). Vatican Bank have been Archbishop Marcinkus, Explaining why the Vatirevoked about a month ago because of the Ambro- president of the Vatican can bought 1.58 per cent of Bank, suggested, the Ital- the Ambrosian Bank, he siano investigation. Vatican ian government shoutd Luigi Mennini, 71, the shoulder a measure of said, "The Banco Ambrobank's top lay official, and blame because investors in siano semed to all to operate with great success and Pellegrino de Strobel, 70, A three-month investiga- the bank's chief accoun- Ambrosiano relied on Ital- with the apparent approtion by three international tant have been living at the ian financial authority's to val of the Italian financial bankers appointed by the Santa Marta Hospice monitor Ambrosiano's authority. This, without a operations. doubt, encouraged the Vatican has concluded: within the Vatican walls people to invest." • "The Vatican Bank did since August after being not receive any money served at their Rome "We at the Vatican have either from the Banco homes with judicial comalso suffered damages. Patronage A mbrosiano or from muniques advising them Will we be able to be Roberto Calvi, and there- that they are under investicompensated?" fore it has to make no gation in connection with Regarding the letters of the Ambrosiano probe. restitution. patronage which vouched for the credit-worthiness • "The foreign finance of Panamanian financial companies which owed institutions for which money to Ambrosiano Diplomatic Calvi arranged substantial were never managed by the loans from Ambrosiano, Vatican Bank which had no knowledge of any deal- A similar notice to Arch- Archbishop Marcinkus R OME: Cardinal The norms announced by ment of the Vatican Con- new constitutions to the ings carried out by them. bishop Marcinkus was said "the letters of patron- Poletti, the pope's Cardinal Poletti are a gregation for the Clergy, Vatican congreagation for refused by the Vatican on age never had the value of • "All the loans made by the grounds that it should a guarantee." vicar for the diocese result of a letter written by asking the world's bishops religious and secular instiPope John Paul II last to issue similar directives, tutes have been directed to the Banco Ambrosiano to be delivered through diplo"Certainly I knew in part of Rome has issued a month and emphasising had been prepared some include a section insisting t hese companies were matic channels. what Calvi was doing," he letter to all religious the "public witness' which time ago. on the witness value of dismade before the so-called Archbishop Marcinkus, said. "With him there had and diocesan priests clerical dress give to a pritinctive dress. 'letters of patronage'. However, reservations who holds Italian and U.S. been normal business rela- living in Rome, even est's commitment to Christ A sizeable number of priexpressed by some bishops • "The letters of patron- passports, has also been tions. It is not a mystery. temporarily, outlin- and asking Cardinal temporarily ests in the Rome area have staved off the age, because of the date of living at the Vatican since But as for knowing his ing the clerical suit Poletti, who administers their issuance, had no August, when he moved plans and strategies, that with Roman collar or t he Rome diocese on document, and the pope adopted sucular dress. has decided to begin the influence whatever on there from his Rome was never an affair of the cassock as stand- behalf of the pope, to pro- campaign for clerical dress Many Italian priests, these loans." mine." residence. especially younger ones, ard wear for priests mulgate appropriate with his own diocese. wear dark turtle-neck norms for the priests under and for seminarians Many religious congrega- shirts, without a Roman his guidance. in the later stages of tions who have recently Collar, when working in their training. Sources say that a docu- sumbitted proposals for ' their parishes.
LAW IS LAID ON CORRECT DRESS FOR ALL CLERICS
Bishop's visit to Jew blast victims Anti-porn move Nigeria tooling
ROME (NC) — A Polish bishop who spent six years in the Nazi concentration at Dachau during World War II OTTAWA (NC) — The president of recently visited several hospitalised victims of an attack the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has expressed his support on a Rome synagogue. "in the strongest possible terms" for The former Dachau pri- 'Rabbi Elio Toaff of Rome. camp in Auschwitz, legislation designed to combat child soner, Bishop Kazimierz The synagogue attack, in Poland, three years ago, pornography. Majdanski, Szczecin- which two-year-old Ste- and expressed "in the name
an 'explosion' of vocations
of Kamien, Poland, was fano Tache died and of the Polish episcopacy "Any efforts made by our repungance to this assault LAGOS, Nigeria: Bishop Brian accompanied by Auxiliary another 34 people were and all Polish believers ... members of parliament to on the dignity and integrity Usanga, of Calabar, Nigeria, said Bishop Bronislaw Dab- injured, took place at the the most firm condemna- enact effective legislation of the child," bishop recently that his country was experowski, of Warsaw, secre- end of a ceremony marking tion of all manifestations against the depiction of Legare said in his letter. riencing a vocations explosion." anti-Semitism." children as sexual objects tary of the Polish Bishops' the Jewish new year. Hand of Conference, who was held grenades were thrown into The Polish bishops were will have the firm support "Although we have not "There are 1,000 Senior seminarians in the four major for two years in a Nazi the synagogue and subma- in Rome for the canonisa- and commendation of the yet made any formal study seminaries in Nigeria, including the National Missionlabour camp, and Father chine guns fired on the tion on October 10 of bishops of Canada," said of the extent of distribu- ary Seminary of St Paul, which trains missionaries to Stanislas Jezierski, a priest c rowd leaving the Father Maximilian Kolbe, Bishop Henri Legare of tion of these materials, we work outside of the country," he said. a Polish Franciscan priest Grouard-McLennan, Alb- are led to believe that they of the Archdiocese of Poz- synagogue. The bishop added that in his diocese alone there are nan, Poland, who spent "We who suffered with killed at Auschwitz, and erta, in a letter to Justice are easily available, at least 500 priesthood candidates in two junior seminaries and four years at Dachau. the Jews what was an irrep- for meetings at the Vatican Minister Mark MacGui- in most major centres." 200 girls in a juniorate for nuns. gan. "As former detainees, we arable wrong are pro- with Pope John Paul. Legislation regarding Bishop Usanga said that missionaries from outside are particularly sensitive to foundly affected by this R abbi Della Rocca The bishop said that child pornography had "have been preparing the people for years, and encouthe sufferings of the Jewish horrible attack," said thanked the Polish delega- examples of the range of been before parliament raging priestly and religious vocations." He pointed out people and we see in the Bishop Majdanski. "The tion for their visit, saying child pornography were earlier this year. Lack of that "24 of the 32 bishops in Nigeria are Nigerians, and r ecent attack the same death of little Stefano is a that "there is no one who recently brought to the agreement led to a redraft- we have 1,000 indigenous priests." inspiration that guided the poignant reminder of all can express in a more tang- attention of the Adminis- ing of the measure, but the The large number of vocations was, ironically, causible way solidarity for the trative Board of the new bill removed all refer- ing a number of problems. "We need more housing Nazi persecution," said the victims of the war." Bishop Majdanski in a talk The bishop recalled Pope horrible attack than those bishops' conference. ences and amendments to facilities, classroom equipment, funds for additional to Rabbi Vittorio Della John Paul II's visit to the who were interned in the "The unanimous reaction child pornography legisla- teachers and for board and room for some students. We R occa, assistant to Chief site of the concentration concentration camps." of the members was one of tion. must also build a catechetical and pastoral institute."
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S A SCIENCE, psychology has deveIn periods of spiritual dryness, we * **4 * learn humility. We realise, like Job, * ** loped greatly in our times. Today, scholars that everything is God's gift. We are * * unprofitable servants. ** are studying the hidden world of man's * if God does not give us conso- * * emotional life. Young people look for mysti- -We need no wings to go in search ing to God, who we know loves us." , Even * n, he will give us conformity to 1 ) of Him but have only to find a place We come to know God's love for us 'aon, 4 His will. And it is this that unites the * * cal experiences in esoteric religious practi- where we can be alone and look on by hearing or reading His word in * soul to God. * present within us. the Scriptures. ** ces. They wish to satisfy their starving Him Teresa goes on to speak of the * * "How important it is that we We come to know God in Christ. understand this truth — that the He is the image of the Father. Medit- FOURTH MANSIONS. "It seems : ** spirits, that in
order to reach this state one * ative reading of the Gospels helps us normally must have lived for a long * * to know God. This in turn gives rise * business." Yes, we spend too much time and to spontaneous movements of the time in the others." * "There is no rule about this. Since * Yet this is the most ordered, mature energy on the external world. God is heart. We want to speak to God. * people today are thirsting for * God is not bound by any rules." and mystical of all her books. She * communion within, calling us inwards. We fail to This is prayer. w ith God and the * * is This the stage of transition from * wrote it within the space of three hear Him. * experience of God." In the SECOND MANSIONS we active to passive prayer. Teresa * * months. It is a gem in spiritual Teresa is well aware of the difficul- begin to take prayer seriously. It * * The Church is renewing her theol- literature. * ties that people, living in the world doesn't really matter whether it be,again uses her favourite metaphor of * 5 ogy at all levels. water to describe it. * She emphasises that different souls have in "recollecting themselves." vocal or mental. All prayer involves * ,, We are no longer afraid to speak of Let us suppose there are two bas- * * Recollecting means, collecting the the mind. * the experiences of God. If we can travel to God by different ways. Yet ins. The water in one comes from a * * these ways have certain thing s in outer t senses focusing and d * our a tten * experience good physical health, we long distance and through human * tion within. In thee beginning, it is * can also experience good spiritual common. skill. The other has been constructed * Loving much * difficult. A certain facility comes * * well-being. at the very source of the water and * * In this age of anxiety, God is calling READING The Interior Castle, with practice. fills without noise." * * * * us to a deeper experience of Himself we catch a glimpse of Teresa's The first represents meditation. We * inner * in prayer. life. We observe the gradual deepen* TERESA insists that we do not use the intellect, we fatigue the * * This year is the 400th anni* The call of Jesus to us in the Gospel ing of her self-understanding. She * spend all the time in reasoning. understanding. 3 is clear. "Come to Me all you who has learned by trial and failure. The second represents contempla- * versary of the death of the "Prayer consists not in thinking * * * labour and are heavy laden andIwill Her work has taken her to many tion. The water comes from its sour- * great Carmelite, StTeresa, much but in loving much." * give you rest." (Matt. 11:28) parts of Spain. She has gained an .ces • which is God. It is accompanied * * She demands constancy * in prayer if "Do not let your heart be troubled, experience of people and affairs. * of Avila. In the last of this by the greatest peace and quietness. * our prayer is to grow and * Trust in God still and trust in Me ... develop. She shows that prayer is not series of articles Morley We should devote a certain time to It is called the Prayer of Quiet. * * make * * your home in Me as I make divorced from life. We pray in a real The Prayer of Recollection has pre- * Carmelite this exercise each day. priest, Father * Mine in you." (John 14&15). world. * * Prayer involves a self-discipline of pared us for this first experience of * Francis Moylan, OCD, * Contemplative prayer is not an God. * body * and mind, analogous to what is escape from reality. It helps us face St John of the Cross gives us the * looks at the saint. * undertaken by athletes. The Greeks * up to the demands and problems of signs that accompany this develop* called it "askesis", exercise. life. Inward journey * We must be ready to follow Christ ment. We can no longer meditate as * God is to be found in the ordinary, on His terms. "Prayer and self indul- before. The imagination can no * the commonplace. "He moves longer rest in any images or concepts * gence do not go together." * among the pots and pans." of God. The first * three mansions are chaIn prayer, we experience the living * PRAYER, for Teresa, is an We want to be alone and in silence racterised more by our efforts than * inward journey. We find at the cen- God. We come to know Jesus as before God, just waiting and listenby God's action. * tre, at the still This is the active ing. There is just that simple loving point within. She sets Lord and Saviour in our lives. * stage of prayer. Prayer, again, is to form apostles. It * before us a daring, noble destiny. It regard to His presence within. It is Here we are showing our good will is nothing short of the highest per- moves us to tell and speak of what what we are before God that : and our determination to go for3 sonal union with God. we have seen and heard." (Acts 4:20) matters. ward. And God * Growth in is testing us by trial The mystics tell us "to become what prayer pre-supposes Meditation has already fulfilled its * and temptation. We are tempted to * growth in all other areas in our life, we are." purpose. God now begins to wean give up. * We must die daily to self, so that we By baptism, we are sons and daughthe soul from sense knowledge. * As we spend some time in prayer, it * may live to God. It requires growth ters of the Father. We are brothers reaches a certain simplicity. We are * in virtue. Virtue is maximal. The sky and sisters of Christ. * coming to know God ad God is "no thing" i not just When, we come to pray, Jesus is * is the limit. It calls for frequent "about" God. Meditation * reception of the with us. pray We in His name, His sacraments. Any * diminishes. * spirituality that neglects these, is person. We are in Christ". He is the Most of the time is given to speak* ground phony. of our being. GOD IS above and beyond all * ing with God or letting our heart * Teresa assures us that God forbids The Spirit too helps us in our weaconcepts and images derived from speak. And even process this of * * no one to come to the waters of con- kness." (Rom. 8:26) His gifts have speaking simplifies. We relate to creatures. God is no thing". He is 4, templation. All are called. been poured into us at Confirmawholly other, transcendent. '''',God with movements of the heart * This new knowledge of God comes * Today, there are some who seek fion. He is our Advocate, Comforthat not need be expressed in words. 4, relief from tension and loneliness in ter, Consoler. from the Holy Spirit. It is the IanAs this simplicity develops in our * We are God's living temples. Tern* alcohol, hash and marijuana. They prayer, we reach the THIRD MAN- guage of pure Spirit to spirit. This * make their body a drain for drugs. pies are places for prayer and worSIONS. The one who reaches here, intervention takes place through the * Teresa reminds us that our body is ship. St Augustine tells about his * Teresa says, is that "blessed man Gifts of the Spirit. * the shrine of God's presence. We are seeking God in many places. EventuThese are receptive capacities who fears the Lord." * His living temples. We derive peace ally, he found Him within himself. given to the soul. They are like bases * He avoids uses sin, his time well * and healing and wholeness from the Teresa says, "I began to think of the in.the soul which receive and trans* awareness of God's presence within, soul as a castle made of very clear Active recollection is the fruit of and practises works of charity. Like mit the light and motions of the * So life the rich young man in the Gospel, he is worth living and worth crystal, in which there are many our own industry. She gives us heart, * Spirit. is called now to give up inordiall * living well. Our heart has a capacity rooms, just as in Heaven there are when she tells us that, the day will God substitutes His light for that of * nate attachments to persons and * for the infinite. Only God can fill it. many mansions." come, when God, dwelling within, things. reason and His motion for that of * We are made in God's image and In the centre dwells the Lord of the will draw us inwards. * Like this young man, many people the will. He does this without sup* likeness. This likeness is nothing castle. His presence sends light and Teresa leads us; she knows every back when they have to pay the pressing the soul's liberty. He binds hold * static. It grows and increases with warmth through all the rooms, to the step of the way. She is a strre and * our price of discipleship. Jesus says: or suspends our faculties. outer walls. co-operation with Grace. * sympathetic guide. n E yGoonde.,rn, oved by8:t1h4e) Spirit is a "Whoever does not renounce all that s 0""Everyone * "The Glory of God is man fully Prayer is a journey inward. We Again, she reminds us that we must (Rom. * he possesses cannot be my disciple." * alive," says lrenaeus. pass through many ante rooms until not interpret her allegory of the This comfort and consolation of * Teresa shows how we can stretch we arrive at the inner chamber where mansions too literally or rigidly. (Luke 14:33) * God now makes special demands the Spirit that we receive in the * and grow. We will have growing God dwells. Each of us passes through stages of as we reach the point of departure Prayer of Quiet passes. Yet it * growth in a very individual and per- from meditation to contemplation. encourages us to make progress. It.is * pains. But the end result is satisfying * and fulfilling. sonal way. hle. senses, but in sotu But holding back and just walking tehxepecreinetnrceedofntohtein * More precious In the FIRST MANSIONS the round the Third Mansions will be of * Writing her last book, The Interior * Castle, was a great trial for Teresa. soul has turned to God, it has expe- no profit. For the first time we have expe* rienced conversion. Spiritual life * "Few tasks which I have been cornrienced "being lived ie by God. We * manded to undertake have been so and progress are now possible. Yet aHriemf.illed with love and praise of * * difficult. For one reason — I do not SHE SAYS, "We have within us as far as prayer is concerned, it * is THIS POINT, we suffer * feel that the Lord has given me either something far more precious than quite deaf and dumb. from aridity or dryness in prayer. In sp"iTrihteoSf psiorintsw . eAhnadveitrmecaekiveesduiss cthi.y_ie *** * the spirituality or the ability for it. anything we see around us. Our The soul prays for deliverance and spite of our best efforts, we may not * * * For another — I have been suffering interest has been centred too much so the inward journey begins. Prayer succeed in drawing a single drop of out Abba, Father." (Rom. 8:15) * ** from such noises and weakness in on the outer wall of the castle, that is the door of the castle. * the Waters of Wisdom. * the head, that I find it troublesome is, on these bodies of ours. Teresa describes prayer as "speakAnother day the well is quite full. (Cont. opposite page) # *, 3 * It is a sign of the tirnes we live * * in. The pope reminds us that * "
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WOLLONGONG — The 31 miners who began a sit-in at Kemira Colliery, Wollongong, at 1 am on October 13 as a protest at retrenchment plans by BHP appealed to Church authorities for a priest to visit them at the mine entrance.
BRISBANE — In Australian law today, whales in the ocean had more protection than babies in the womb, Senator Brian Harradine (Ind., Tas.) told the Right to Life rally in Brisbane. Senator Harradine
Father Clem Hill, who is optimistic that peace and assigned to special duties By Gerry Smith in security will be possible. in the diocese met the men "We then said the Our The Catholic and their families last SunFather. Not all of the 31 day evening. Weekly. miners came up at once but Only a small percentage all of their families were of the men and their famithere and there were a lot lies are Catholics and At the entrance to the of children. The men were was referring to the Father Hill described his mine tunnel, Father Hill in high spirits but the strain Whale Protection Act told them: "The last thing ecumenical meeting with was showing." of 1980, which carries the sit-in miners as "most you men would want at a Father Hill then explainpenalties of $5000 for time like this would be a ed: "The request that a primoving." summary offences, sermon. est should come to the a nd $100,000 on "I am here at the request mine came from the miners indictment. Underground 5km of Bishop Murray to let themselves through their On the other hand, $4 you know that there are union delegate. SYDNEY — A Sydney priest, Father James million of the taxpayers' very many people who are The miners said they genuinely concerned about FitzPatrick, OMI, will be among those attending the money had been paid to would not come out of the your situation and are anxwho had perWorld Congress of the Apostolate of the Sea, doctors 17th mine until the retrench- ious for your health and formed abortions in 1981. which will be held in Rome from October 25 to 30. ment notices were with- safety and also for your Human values Senator Harradine said drawn. The sit-in, 5km families. with lay workers from Vic- is the Bishop Deputy for that in the early 1970s it Father FitzPatrick, underground, was a pro"It was thought that witht oria and Western the Apostolate in Austra- was being argued in Austest at the employer's plans "What you are doing we out giving full support to who is Director of the Australia. ha, will be unable to attend tralia that abortion was to sack them and 400 other know that you would either side, BHP or the Catholic Enquiry Cen- Bishop R. Healy, Auxil- because of other commit- "necessary" in "hard" cases miners at BHP's southern rather NOT do. But this men, the considerations of tre, will be one of four iary Bishop of Perth, who ments. (such as those where pregshould make everyone in principal speak-ers at collieries. nancy has occurred involved human values the "I read them Thessaloni- the community of the in this unfortunate situa- the congress. because of rape or incest, ans 5:8 to 11 14 to 18. It South Coast aware that tion warranted some Commenting on the conor in the case of a woman seemed very apt." Father some responsibility should action of the Church to gress, Father FitzPatrick in severe economic or be borne by us all in meetADELAIDE — As a South Austral- other difficulties). Hill said _ said: "The 1977 Hong whole communidraw the "You must live at peace ing the threat of unem- ty's attention to the ques- Kong congress examined ian state election looms the Diocesan "But time has proved that among yourselves. And ployment. tion of unemployment and the evange-lisation of seaf- Pastoral Council has called on politi- this was a Trojan horse we would urge you, argument to lull people that no one can afford to arers, and it is a natural, cians and electors to consider vital into the belief that only a brothers, to admonish sit back without being even inevitable step that the careless, encourage Close to danger a ware of the values the 1982 Rome congress social issues of housing and small number of aborthe faint-hearted, suptions, in a small number of should consider their unemployment. involved." port the weak, and to be exceptional cases, would catechesis. surprise quite a got "I It claims that strong action is needed from govern- be performed." he said. very patient with them "Very few people realise when I arrived at the mine Evangelisation heralds ment to combat the threat to family life and to the all. t However, abortions were he Word, catechesis that a miner lives and for an Irish-Australian See to it that no one not being performed now teaches the Word. Cate- disadvantaged. playing works close to danger in was band bush The DPC supports the nationally released report in small numbers, and the pays back wrong for surroundings that are less miners' ballads to enter- chesis as a deeply ecclesial from the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace on wrong, but always aim process was being proact is a dialogue between tain and cheer up the min- believers. housing issued last month. at doing the best you than human. moted as a means of family and families their ers, That report urged state housing authorities to pro- planning and of contracepcan for each other and "I gave the miners a blessFather J. O'Shea, who is supporters. other many ing for themselves, for for all men. tion. Port Chaplain at Freman- vide more accommodation for low income groups. In 1979, a social justice statement was issued on the The 60,000 abortions perBe always joyful; pray their families, for their "As soon as I arrived and tle, Western Australia, and continually; give thanks safety and well-being and saw the faces of the miners also National Director of unemployment crisis in Australia. formed every year in AusSince then, the position has worsened. whatever hap-pens; for in this time of trouble that the full significance hit me the Apostolate of the Sea tralia were a terrible The DPC calls on all citizens to show genuine concern indictment on Australian this is what God in they will be bound more and I felt very moved by in Australia, will be attendChrist wills for you." closely together and keep it." society, he said. ing the congress together for those affected by these problems.
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tle ones and gives His grace to the chamber of the castle. We have disHere she uses another image to des- can be its companion. The soul is parched with thirst. It humble. cribe what happens. When it comes covered God in the centre of our She says — "When the Spirit is at soul. We are transformed into Him to description, Teresa has no equal. cannot reach the waters of life. It is • opposite page) work, there is no need to go about by love. "He who is united to God is Here she uses the image of the silk- consumed with the desire to see worm. It encloses itself in its cocoon God. looking for ways to induce humility. one spirit with Him." (Cor. 6:17) "Yet our sufferings bring patience The greater the favours we receive, • * This action of the Holy Spirit has and dies. It emerges a butterfly. St John of the Cross reminds us two effects. It enlightens and at the that, "a little of this pure love is more Our life now is hidden with Christ and patience brings perseverance. the better we learn it." same time, purifies. The Spirit in God. How can we know if our Our perseverence brings hope. And Here there is need for great gener- precious to God and of more benefit teaches the soul more than it could prayer is genuine? If it bears fruit in this hope is not deceptive. osity. "God does not give himself to the Church, than all other works "Because the love of God has been completely to us till we give our- put together." ever learn by its own industry. It love of neighbour, we can rest poured into our hearts by the Holy selves wholly to Him." grows in understanding, knowledge assured. and wisdom. God's action has to reckon with the Love of others involves dying to all Spirit who is given to us." (Rom. 5:3) The faculties of the soul still need to inordinate self-love. The death of ebb and flow in us; our hesitations be refined and purified. and refusals. the silk-worm is necessary. Our Serving Christ In the FIFTH MANSIONS we death leads to resurrection. "We are constantly taking back Dynamic Jesus with reach the Prayer of Union. Here all virtue be like to all should what we We think we have given." This the faculties are united to God. Yet on Mt. Thabor. Few are willing to self-giving has to be renewed daily to "Here Martha and Mary now work will. the union is primarily in the avoid Quietism. follow Him to Calvary. From now Here God gives such a deep expe- on the Cross will loom large in our Once again, Teresa reminds us that in complete harmony," says Teresa. Action and contemplation are unirience of His presence, that we can- life. ERE WE practise Hope. It is here, Jesus is the Way, that leads us not possibly doubt that He is in us The Dark Night of Faith envelopes the dynamic virtue of the spiritual to the Father. He is the door we pass ted in one. The desire to die and see and we are in Him. The experience us. The knowledge which Faith life. It rests on Faith. through to reach the inner chamber God is modified. Now there is the longing to suffer and to serve Christ may last no more than half an hour brings seems dark, obscure. In this of the Castle. but its effects remain. k now1edge, there is no reasoning, In the SIXTH MANSIONS we As the soul enters the SEVENTH in others. continue our journey to the centre. This is Teresa's journey, a thought We must walk by Faith, the only but intuition. and last manskki, it finds itself secure way. Faith unites us to the Yet our eyes get used to the dar- "Here it is like when two people illuminated by a cloud of the grea- provoking journey. She takes us Transcendent God. kness. We discover it to be lumi- become engaged," says Teresa. Here test brightness. Here all Three Per- from meditation through contemLight and darkness alternate. The nous. The light of Faith helps us see God bestows great favours on the sons of the Trinity communicate plation to transforming union with purification of sense and spirit con- more clearly. soul. He may speak to the soul in with it. The soul still lives in the God. When we finally arrive at the inner tinues. We ourselves can do only so There is this alternation of light many ways. realm of Faith. This Faith is lumichamber of this castle, we become much. God has to take a hand in it. and darkness. At times, we are Teresa describes at length the deli- nous, delightful. aware of God's presence, His posses- cate graces and phenomena that can For Teresa, this is the Spiritual what we are — God's living Temple. sion of us. Then all is peace and occur. But she insists that we must Marriage. Complete union with Here we worship in spirit and in claims ERESA says, "If anyone truth. calm. God is achieved. not desire them for themselves. that in this state he enjoys continual "After saying this, what can we Other times, He appears remote, At Here it is as if a streamlet enters the We must be on our guard against • * rest and joy, he has not reached it. unreal. We feel He has abandoned add? With God on our side who can sea. It looks as if the flames of two one in Cross imaginary visions. The devil tries to * We have to bear the us. lighted candles were merged into be against us? Nothing can come • * way or another as long as we live. the suffering resembles deceive us. Sometimes one. We lose ourselves only to find between us and the love of God, * * "Love consists in serving God with Purgatory. The soul is conscious of a made visible in Christ Jesus our * We will find our safe-guard in ourselves, in God. consolation." in not * generosity and strange solitude, where no creature humility. 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Sexuality is a vital ingredient in the makeup of human beings. The powerful force motivates people to seek out companionship with the opposite sex, to marry and create a lifetime relationship. The physical experience of sexuality within marriage allows couples to develop a deep intimacy which nourishes their marriage.
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exuality — the fact that we relate to each other as man or as woman — is at the heart of human and religious experience.
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UR SERIES this week — and our ne instalment, too — look at marriage. We're focusing on what couples can do r the sake of their marriages. In the context of our ctent topic — moral decision making --we're suggestirthat couples can make decisions that have moral valtuid that will benefit their marriages. Our writers this week are limiting thiselves to a discussion of how sexuality is related ithe broader theme of a couple's intimacy — a couplt sharing and unity on many levels. DOLORES LECKEY writes that sexualh— how people relate to each other as men and won) is at the heart of human and religious experiem. And, she writes, "For married persons, the sexualllationship is an important path to self-knowledge anipotentially a pathway to the knowledge of God." Mrs idol/ is executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secnaliat for the Laity. KATHARINE BIRD'S article begins wit a story that tells what kind of values she hoped she culd give her children about sexuality when they were !rowing up. DAVID GIBSON observes that socier broadcasts many messages about sexuality. In the micstof so many messages, he thinks, an essential mes.age can be missed. Gibson is editor of this series. FATHER JOHN CASTELOT tells a stry from the Book of Judges about the prophetess, Devah. She is an example of the interesting way God turcato different kinds of people to accomplish His goals forilis people.
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INTIMACY CAN KEEP ON GROWING IN A MARRIAGE By David Gibson
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MID a jumble of social messages about what life's sexual dimension means, it would be easy to miss an essential message.
One social message indicates that in one's own life — what it is to be a life's sexual dimension is some- man or a woman, and to be that in thing to sing about. For song after a relationship — is a process that is song tells of the passions that draw never quite complete. people together or drive them An individual's understanding of apart. sexuality, after all, is closely lined had to learn to be profoundly con- ried life, the broader context of the intiAnother message often is found to self-understanding — and who siderate of their spouse. So what is the message of sexual- macy a couple can keep growing in advertising: It subtly, or not so ever reaches the absolute fulfil- It would be difficult to find mar- ity in marriage? It is in part a mes- in. subtly, suggests that people happ- lment of self-understanding? ried people who didn't have to sage about the possiblities for It is a message that sexuality in ily in touch with, their sexuality Sexuality also has caused down- overcome some selfishness in their human growth in this very basic marriage is a link to a couple's drive nice cars or drink special right confusion for countless marriages as they worked toward dimension of life. It is a message greater understanding, compaskinds of liquor or spend all their numbers of people. real intimacy in all aspects of mar- that sexuality in marriage is tied to sion and care for each other. leisure time in glamorous kinds of So much in literature tells of the places (ski lodges, ocean beaches). problems and the anxieties people Again, you can easily get the mes- endure in personal relationships, sage in society that sexuality is at least partially due to problems funny. For it becomes the basis of over sexuality. endless jokes and double entenWhen sexuality is the topic under dres. Sometimes the message consideration, part of the confuimplied here could be that sexual- sion is generated by a lack of clarity is not to be taken seriously. ity about the context in which it is Then there is the message that being considered. Does human sexuality, in and of itself, is off- sexuality exit in and for itself? Or colour and not to be mentioned. does human sexuality need to be A quite different message finds considered within a broarder sexuality rather private and context? personal. Many writers in the Church sugThis list of messages one can pick gest that human sexuality does up about sexuality could go on and need to be considered in a broader on. It's no wonder that human sex- context: its relation to intimacy in uality is a confounding subject. a fuller sense than just the physical For sexuality is mysterious. The sexual sense; its reflection of comprocess of discovering its meaning mitment and profound love; its link to procreation; its special role in marriage. There isn't space here to explore all those points. But let's take a look at the role of sexuality in building intimacy within a marriage. There are two basic points about sexuality to make here: first, that -life's sexual dimension can become -In- the -• early teens boys discover that girls aren't so bad after all while, at dances, girls don't the source of considerable happi- always have to dance with girls anymore. This is the time when youth begin to develop close ness; second, that his dimension of irelationships with the opposite sex. Learning to understand their sexuality plays an imporlife can prove a- source of misery: tant role in the lives of these rapidly changing teenagers. Maturing youth often will move Most people more or less under, through a series of close friendships with members of the opposite sex as they go through the stand that it is possible both to difficult process of becoming adults. exploit another .person and to be exploited. It is also possible, to care for another and to be HAT memorable Autumn afiernoon, my children and I were truly cared for.
Within marriage, an impor- seen in a total way comparable Marriage offers the opportunity We yearn to look upon the face of tant consideration is how only to our earliest relation with a to meet an "other," the sexual God and our moments of intimacy sexuality relates to intimacy, loving mother, or to a profound other, who on one level is most and friendship and sexual intensity Then, with no advance the willingness to let down religious experience. We are different, but who also represents in marriage prepare us for that warning, my younger daughexposed for what we are with foi- the lost part of our own selves. barriers and share with one bles, faults, possibilities, talents, Our desire to belong to another, moment. That is the moment when ter asked forthrightly in a a nother. It is in the context of beauties, imperfections — in the to give of ourselves in marriage is,I we will say, "Before your face ques- booming voice, "Mum, how such intimacy that I will dis- flesh, without disguise or hiding." believe, part of a larger desire, that tions die away." (C.S. Lewis, "Till do people make love?" cuss marital sexuality. She contends that the depth of of a union with God. I paused after a moment, I proWe Have Faces"). Sexuality is rooted in the very such an encounter accounts for the origins of life. The Book of Genesis devasting effects of a failed mardiscloses that God desired to make riage. "One feels abused at the very humankind in such a way as to core of one's being." reflect God, the source of all life. When not abused, however, one "Let us make man (i.e. human- can grow through the sexual bond kind) in the likeness of ourselves ... from self-centeredness to active so, male and female he created compassion and care for the other. them." (Gen. 1:26-27) Pope John Paul II noted this when From the beginning, then, our he said that husbands and wives identity as human beings has been grow as persons, mutually, one fpr expressed through our sexuality in the other, through their bodies. the basic sense of the term. While there are many ways of While all intimate relationships being intimate and present to one are touched by sexual awareness, another in marriage, sexual not all are characterised by spe- expression remains a principal Religious educators and parents vulnerable before their peers. They cific, physical sexual intimacy in means. It joins husband and wife in URING the teenage can play a part in helping teenagers may hesitate to bring up a question the way that marriage is in the a sense of oneness. Christian way of life. The couple's sexual bond also is a y ears, young people to think about sexuality. At the about sexuality because they fear In fact, the unique expression of means of cutting through frustra- approach the important topic same time, people often report it is ridicule by others. marital intimacy is sexual activity. tions and of giving each other a of sexuality from a variety of difficult to initiate a good discus- Educators who want to initiate a sion about sexuality. In this way it differs from other sense of worth. discussion about sexuality might different angles. Why is relationships in which the depths Still another reason why sexual Most teens are intensely inter- sexuality communicating about consider using the following quesso difficult? What are tions to initiate the topic: of intimacy may be present — for activity is a path to intimacy —and ested in learning what sexuality is some of the barriers to a good disexample, friendship or parent- to God — is that it is a way for all about. They • What does sexuality mean to also are struggling hood. husband or wife to delight in giving with their own self-identity — with cussion of the topic? you? Does the word simply refer to For married persons, the sexual unencumbered attention to one discovering what being a man and 1. Sexuality is an intensely private a bodily function? Or does it have a relationship is an important path another. In a sense it resembles a woman involves. matter. It can be embarrassing. broader meaning? to self-knowledge, and potentially contemplation, for one person They are beginning the lifelong Teens -- and adults too — often • How does the fact that you are a a pathway to the knowledge of becomes wholly concentrated on process of making decisions about feel shy and unsure about discuss- young man or a young woman God. another. intimacy and lifestyles and com- ing a topic that means so much to affect the way you relate with other Why is this so? One reason is that The late Father Thomas Merton mitment and marriage. Teens also them. people? sexual engagement in marriage is a and others have written about the are very interested in discussing the 2. Society subtly gets across the • What does the word "intimacy" way to be known by each other. necessity of genuinely coming to kinds of decisions idea that, of course, the sophistipeople make intiWe know and are known tho- know another person, allowing about sexual behaviour and the cated person knows all about sexu- really mean? In what ways is roughly — body, mind, spirit, ourselves to be affected by and to kinds of values concept than people actually live ality and relationships. Therefore, macy a broader emotions-- if we let it be so. One's affect that person. This considera- by when it comes to people may well be unwilling to sexuality? sexuality. whole being can thus be given to tion might well be mentioned in the An exchange between adults and confess they don't know every- • Do you think sexuality is taken another. context of this topic: intimacy and teens on this subject can become a thing there is to know about these seriously enough? Ann Ulanov, the psychologist, t he sexual interchange of forum for the exploration of topics. • What are the roles of sexuality has written: "We are opened and marriage. values. 3. Teens may be afraid to appear in marriage?
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Most people more ørless underintimacy is not the same as genital sexuality stand that there are selfish ways of NTIMACY involves an overlapping of although, as will be noted later, it obviously expressing one's sexuality. But space, a willingness to be influenced, an can and does involve that for two persons they suspect there must be more to openness to the possibility of change." joined together by the covenant of marsexuality than that. In learning to express sexuality in (Evelyn and James Whitehead, "Christian riage." (Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, 1980.) marriage, people can choose to live Life Patterns," 1982.) ". . Intimacy is integrally related to sexuas though anOther person really "In marriage there is a mutual developdoes matter-in an essential way or ality. Sexuality is part of the naturalpower as though another person doesn't or capacity which God has given us for ment of each other, a reciprocal belonging, really matter all that much. entering into intimate relationships with a caring for each other. Sexuality is Of course, few people are perfect others. The qualities of sensitivity, warmth, expressed and confirmed within these in this. Almost. all happily married openness and mutual respect which make wider aspects of being human." (James people will tell you that they had to this possible are coloured by our sexual Gustafson and James Laney, editors, "On grow in their marriages, that they
oneself' in concrete partnerships and to develop the ethical strength to stand by. these eommitments. For commitment to another may call for significant sacrifice. The pastoral counsellors observe that sexual love is often used as. a metaphor of human intimacy. The Whiteheads note, for example, that any form of intimacy involves nature. In its most basic sense, however, Being Responsible," 1968.) revealing oneself to another person. They call this the "anxious moment of self-revelation." : about and e All forms of intimacy also require eat onaucgil wanted sexuality lt ei being willing to accept others as. no lifet yai.rtnsi they are dseci and a mutual give-andow bIrfi ithem deaset and dignity. take. Also, intimacy can change Would people and that can be frightening, ted that Christians h ake decisions the Whiteheads say. erpxeeoumrsiaeit or special aenottxartnea.xsit m In the award-winning movie, "On b iohgftu apo cmToen was used, throughout the Old nised and widely accepted powers simply overwhelming them by the Golden Pond," for instance, the of leadership is quite unusual. speed and force of their onslaught. Testament, s tayed with relationship between the husband HEN Jesus was "The wind blows where it will." "The wind blows where it will." After that happened, the enemy and wife, the Thayers, demonNot only did people come to her general, Sisera, fled on foot. for me of what strates the possibilities of intimacy. trying to convince There was no telling whom God choose and empower to act for help. She also took the intitia- Exhausted, he came to the tent of a paradox sexualltYjs. For sexual- The Thayers, portrayed splendidly Nicodemus of the need would agent. The judges Othniel tive in directing affairs of consider- Jael. as his many rellications: It can by Henry Fonda and Katharine for being born of the ity has and Ehud were hardly likely candi- able importance. In one incident, She invited in, gave him a r efer simply t° I Physical act Hepburn, have the easy manner of pirit, he used a simple dates for canonisation, and yet she summoned a man named drink of milk,Sisera and hid him under a between a husbanil and wife. But a couple who .have grown very S and addressed him as rug. Temporarily secure and worn more. comfortable with each other. but clever illustration: God used them to rescue the Barak follows: Israelites. out from the battle and his own Married for , many years, the As Drs. James audEvelyn White"Do surprised not, be that I te1. head observe intteibook, "Chris- Thayers reveal their concern for YOU you must all be begotten from Now we meet a woman with "This is what the Lord, the God of frantic escape, he feel asleep. The each other in their loving interac- above. The wind blows where it extraordinary powers of discer- Israel, commands ... Go, march on sequel is typical of the often grisly chaela poalilh ent goeust tions: Mrs. Thayer in the gentle will. You hear the sound it makes nment and leadership. "At this Mount Tabor, and take with you stories from the period: "Jael, wife Psy c howlohgitieInvitations time the prophetess Deborah, wife 10,000 Naphtalites and Z,ebulu- of Heber, got a tent peg and took a of Adult way she encourages her somewhat RTehliegious but you do not know where it c_a,t ato ei : oan h senile husband to take a walk comes from or where it goes. So it of Lappidoth, was judging Israel. nites. I will lead Sisera, the general mallet in her hand. While Sisera ,"sesleyxcu ifcelo down a long familiar path; Thayer is with everyone begotten of the She used to sit under Deborah's of Jabin's army, out to you ... with was sound asleep, she stealthily of human life. palm tree ... and there the Israelites his chariots and troops, and will approached him and drove the that in the touching way he hurries Spirit" (John 3:7-8). came up to her for judgment." deliver them into your power." peg through his temple, so that he life wife his of comfort to the back our The simplicity of this is obvious; (Judges 4:4-5). (Judges 4:6-7) being momentarily on male lost getting after perished in death. Then when is a11 with who its cleverness lies in the fact that the iiId° 0rt', h,.eeni Deborah was a prophetess, not in Surprisingly, Barak refused to go Barak came in pursuit of Sisera, his walk in the woods. and iiith fethmea e:soucr same Greek word means both wha,:,we Want in life. the modern Jeanne Dixon sense of unless she came along. She agreed, Jael went out to meet him and said For the viewer, the Thayers prowe are and lso a Closely linked vide a touching portrayal of two "wind" and "spirit." someone with the ability to predict but warned him that the credit for to him, 'Come, I will show you the Sexuality basic PsYch°1°enbgheliciaci t l:-itmleYr°11'laltv ll iie°hs°.uliknger for people who know that living intiOf course, Jesus was talking the future, but in the basic biblical the victory would go to a woman. man you seek.' for close rela- mately with each other is worth the about the Holy Spirit. But the sense of a person endowed with She was right, but she was not the "So he went in with her and there intimacy — with r People. difficult moments along the way. principle he enunciated also app- unusual insight and discernment. woman who got the creidt. lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg t ionships whiieheadsnqudote psycholo- Their relationship is a vivid exam- lies to the action of the Spirit of She was a spokesperson for God. Barak and his men routed the far through his temple." The riksool .escribing inti- p mleeao nfs. what intimacy in marriage God in the sense of an energising In such a male-dominated cul- superior Canaanite troops by rushSurely "the wind blows where it ist Erik E 6, a divine force, the sense in which it ture, finding a woman with recog- ing down the slopes of Tabor and will!" macy as the el tY to commit . 4*****••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••-•-••-•-•
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LEEING from volcanoes, sitting on snakes and wading through crocodile infested creeks is 'old hat' for June Fitzgerald, of Salter Point. She'd be the first to laugh and admit that life hasn't been dull. Born and raised in New Guinea, she has nannied for the rich in London, flown throughout the north-west as one of MMA's first air -hostesses and lived on an isolated research station in the Kimberley. At 56, her four children are well and truly grown up and life is quieter (and duller) than it's ever been. Not that life would ever be that quiet when you have a sense of humour like June Fitzgerald's. It has seen her through many a scrape and also found its way into print — through short stories written for national magazines and onto television — through the now defunct but once outrageously funny, Mavis Bramston Show. June is quick to point out that her ditties and rhymes were funny rather than outrageous.
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ORN in Rabaul, in 1926, after her father moved there from Perth to open a pharmacy, June remained in New Guinea until just before the Japanese occupation when her father lost everything. She spent a number of years at school in Queensland following eva-
"I'll never forget the meal they gave In 1952 she joined MMA on the us, bread, butter and dates . . . it was north-west run where she was to meet the best thing I'd ever eaten. We'd had her husband-to-be, Kevin Fitzgerald. only dog biscuits up till then. She stayed with the airline for three years, finally becoming chief hostess. Based on Derby, a shocking place HE German nuns were very fond in those days, she did two Darwin of their beer and I'll never forget when flights a week. While the amenities in the sailors began unloading some Derby were meagre the social life was stores, One walked past the chapel not ... there was no shortage of men in with a case of beer and the nun who the tiny town. June found her flying feet on 23was praying inside saw him and seater DC3's. rushed out. They were the most reliable old "He said; 'But you're praying sister.' and she replied; 'I can pray anytime planes," she said, "although I don't but I don't often get a chance to drink think there was an original part on any of them. beer.' "There was no air conditioning The family returned to Perth in 1939 and June attended Perth College though and they were incredibly hot." In the very early days, she says, it for a couple of years before joining her father in his city pharmacy. She then was a friendly airline. Everyone knew spent two years at the Princess Mar- each other ... those who lived in the garet Hospital pharmacy before leav- north-west were part of one big ing for a working holiday in England family. in 1949. "We took messages for station peoShe had intended to look for phar- ple and ran errands, everyone helped macy work but on the recommenda- each other," June said. tion of a friend applied for a job as a When she joined MMA there were nanny instead. She got it and took only seven hostesses and it was during into her charge the two young child- these years that she formed her friendren of noted English actress, Wendy ship with the noted West Australian Hiller. Miss Hiller, who will be author, Dame Mary Durack remembered for her early role in Pyg"Her husband, Horrie, was one of malion, opposite Lesley Howard, and the directors of MMA and later we in more recent years for her part in had youngsters in the same class at Murder on the Orient Express was Aquinas," she said. married to the playwright, Ronald "The kids were both interested in Gow. drama and one day Mary nudged me It wasn't the greatest job in the and said: "We should be able to do world, remembers June. The mighty that." Miss Hiller was an autocrat of the first order and after six weeks enough was enough. She was then offered the job of
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UCS1UY% UCSS cuation from New Guinea during the looking after the young (at that time) Vulcan volcano eruption in 1937. and seemingly precocious, Hayley "Talk about as old as the hills," she Mills but June's telephone conversagrinned, "I'm one of the few people tion with Mrs Mills was too reminiswho can say they're older than a cent of her experiences with Miss Hiller. She opted to join the family of mountain, I saw it being born. "Mum was on her own with three a young financier, John Curry and his kids when it happened. Dad was away wife, Pat, the latter was linked to one and she was running the pharmacy. of England's better families. The day after she started work Mrs We went to town on the Saturday Curry flew to the Bahamas but June morning because we had heard of the danger ... you could see this black coped in fine form and remained with cloud out over the sea and then up the family for 18 months. For much of that time her employer had promised came the mountain. all sorts of wonderful trips and holi"The harbour of Rabaul is the days on the Continent ... none ever crater of an extinct volcano. A moun- eventuated and by the second year tain was pushed up on one side and a June had had enough. dormant volcano on the other side erupted. Some people were killed and the air was full of lava and pumice. "We headed out of town to a plantation where we spent the night. There Lady waitress were babies being born and people screaming ... I remember I was about 1 1 at the time and all I could think HE LANDED a waitressing job about was an essay that I was supat a Devon hotel, but it was no composed to finish for school. "Finally we happened to come across mon garden variety waitress that she my teacher and I can remember 'fly was to become. The hotel catered for mother saying: Tor God's sake tell lady waitresses ... for the daughters of her to stop worrying about the essay, the rich and aristrocratic, products of that she doesn't have to have it fin- finishing school with brothers at Eton ished by Monday.' who had come up through the war but "When we woke up the next morn- had no training. ing everything was covered in ash. We "We worked in the cafe during the started out in the car but it ran out of day and then the domestics waited on petrol so we walked overland until we us at night," June said. reached the coast where we could "We were always called Miss June, catch a schooner that would take us to or Miss Iris ... The people in the vilQueensland. lage knew what the setup was and "The schooner took us to a Catholic would ask us out for tea." mission run by German nuns. ActuShe spent two summers and a winally it was my first introduction to ter in Devon before returning to AusCatholics as I had been brought up a tralia following her father's heart Methodist. attack.
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O THEY did. In 1968 Mary Durack wrote a children's play called Ship of Dreams and June Fitzgerald composed the music. It was first produced in Broome and will be presented again for the town's centenary next year. "It all started when Mary was asked to adjudicate for the Broome Drama Festival," June said. "The kids were doing things like the Merchant of Venice which was a real giggle for them. They broke up over lines like
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Ship of Dreams ... it finished up with hundreds of kids in it. It's one of those plays where you can have as many or as few as you like in the cast June was a special guest, along with some of the (then grown up) Broome children from the original production, when Ship of Dreams was produced in Brisbane a few years ago. Her years in the Kimberley began shortly after her marriage. Her four children were born during the family's stay in the isolated region. "Actually it was my only holiday," she grinned, "coming down to Perth once a year to have a baby." Her son Anthony was born in the November of 1955. It was not until January of 1956 that husband, Kevin telegrammed to come home with the added message: 'big floods, river 28ft, bring your bathers.' "My mum went berserk," June sail, "but I told her he was only joking. "When he picked me up at Wyndham he said; Where are your bathers, we have to wade across the creeks."
One of MMA 's first hostesses, June Fitzgerald spent three years on the north-west run.
T ONE creek we had to wade across up to our necks an water a bath Kevin was holding the baby innatives some over his head. I could see why standing on the bank and asked they they wouldn't cross. Kevin said said were scared of crocodiles and Icrocs but they're only freshwater aren't they? water "He said; 'No, this is a salt hull to said arm!' I can't tell you what I babr' for letting us cross with a tinynear*/ especially when a man followdrowned at the same spot the ing week. River it " When we got to the Ord of tree ull was swirling and muddy, f i in ths trunks and we had to cross it
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*** "At one time the commonwealth government spirit," said Bill. was supplying funds in the ratio of about four to He was parish committee chairman and in one of the state's contribution. Now they share 1963 was responsible for inaugurating the the funding about 50-50," observed Bill. Catholic men's dinner which still continues: Born at Beaconfield in 1930, Bill was the only though in a slightly different form. boy in a family of five. He attended the Beacon"To start with, we had tickets, printed for the: field Convent school and Fremantle Christian dinner and a few of us would flog them during* Brothers College. He played in the first 18 for the week. After a while they did not take much: the school and was dux in 1946. selling at ten shillings a head. Bill's father, Roney, was a well-known South "The main reason for this was the excellent: Fremantle and state footballer -who was three-course meal turned on by Mrs Doreen* captain/coach of Souths for two years in the Depiazzi and her women's group. We gave: 1930s. them eight shillings each for the meal and the* He completed his Bachelor of Engineering at other two shillings went to buying sherry for: the University of WA in 1951 and on gradua- pre-dinner drinks. ' tion went to the Victorian State Electricty Com"Added to this was a series of interesting: mission to join their graduate training scheme. speakers which made for a most enjoyable* The scheme provided varying areas of expe- function." rience over a period of two years. Bill gave an example of the community spirit; "My ambition was to enter the Kiewa hydro at St Mary's. There was about an acre of tr electric scheme in the Australian Alps at Mt swampy land adjoining the church on which a; Beauty but I never made it," reminisced Bill. presbytery had been built after considerable* A year after going to Victoria, Bill married filling for the house site but the surrounding: his school days sweetheart Pat Johnson at land was water-logged. Elsternwick, Victoria. "We met when she was at "With the generous assistance of about ten: school at the Beaconfield Convent. The first truck drivers we filled in the swamp with 500044 time we went out together was in September, cubic yards of sand. Through a parishioner we: 1946, when we attended a play in Perth to cele- scrounged reject pipes from Humes and built a brate the end of my leaving exams," Bill said. sub-soil drainage system. BILL EDGAR . . . with a photo of the De Grey bridge which is in the region under his Then he added rather ruefully, "The family "Pat was my chairman and as I surveyed the; went with us." control. site she Their first son, Mark who is unmarried, was laughe hammered in the levels pegs," Bill d. born in Victoria. He is in the clerical division of had a big team of parishioners working: "We the state public service and achieved his Bacheon the project at weekends which we completed * lor of Arts degree at the University of WA. in about two months. I haven't been back to: check on it," laughed Bill. Journey cancelled "They were a great team. With busy bees we repainted the church and the school." In 1953 they had decided to go to England to Whey they came to the metropolitan area in Not only are the roads of a higher standard of "Despite all the built-in safety factors in our broaden Bill's engineering experience. How- 1971, Bill soon found himself serving with: construction but they are built faster with more roads we can't overcome the human social fac- ever, Pat became ill and with the small baby Jesuit Father Tracey at Attadale as inaugural efficient machinery providing greater produc- tors, such as the excessive consumption of alco- they decided not to make the journey. chairman of the parish council, a post he held: tivity and they are safer. At that time oil had been found at Rough for 4H years. hol and drugs, which cause serious accidents "The modern scraper moves about 40 cubic and deaths," Bill added. Range and the economic climate was improving At this time he and a friend formed the Attametres of material at high speed whereas in the He considered that driving standards in rural in WA so Bill, who had resigned his position dale and Districts Credit Union. early days we used a tractor towing a scoop with areas were good and paid special tribute to with the commission, sought work here. "Our aim was to provide parishioners and * an 6-cubic-metre capacity at a slow rate," said truck drivers. Whereas, he was not so flattering "Jobs were not all that plentiful, soIaccepted with small cash loans because they could: others one Bill. as a seed tester with the Agricultural about the standard of city driving. deals with cash in hand rather than better get "Today's roads are built to carry much heavOne of his criticisms of metropolitan drivers Department. I lasted one week and was then ier vehicles and more of them. We build them was their inability to weave in the process of fortunate to get a position with Kellogs Interna- incur terms charging high interest rates. "As we grew the loans became greater and tional on the Kwinana oil refinery." with flatter grades and easier curves. lane changing. That job lasted for nine months and Bill took covered such items as cars, home improvements * "They are much safer. Even the old roads are a position with the then Metropolitan Water and travel." being continually upgraded with improved traf4( Weaving traffic Supply Sewerage and Drainage Department. They established an office in the Melville: fic management and signing. At this time their second son, David, was shopping centre with full-time paid staff. Later "We remove the conflict of interest between "In city driving it is often necessary to change born. He is now married with four children and they changed the name to Indacom Credit: cars and trees by removing big trees from the Union, an abbreviation and combination of the* verge and replacing them with low shrubs, flat- lanes but many drivers do not keep sufficient is general manager of Marine Management. ten side batters (the gravelled section sloping distance from the vehicle ahead to permit After nine months with the MWSSDD Bill words "industry and community." down to a drain, wide shoulders on each side of another vehicle from the adjoining lane to accepted an appointment as Town Engineer of Later we joined with the M and W (Mills and* the bitumen crown provide a recovery zone if weave in front of them with safety." Geraldton, a position he held for two years until Wares) Credit Union and formed the Western: MRD road gangs found that most motorists 1957. people doze at the wheel. The noise of the gravel Districts Credit Union. In 1980 we amalgam-* While in Geraldton, Susan ws born. Now ated with the Fremantle Credit Union," Bill: can wake them in time for the car to be brought obeyed road signs to slow down where work was in progress on a road. "Perhaps they do not married to Steven Dyer, they have one child. added. back onto the bitumen," added Bill. In 1957 Bill joined the Main Roads DepartThe M RD pays great attention to regenera- slow to the 30 or 50kph but they do reduce their From the inauguration of the union, Bill* tive techniques. Top soil is conserved when a speed. If we find that traffic is flouting the signs ment at Albany and served there for three years served as chairman until 1980. He saw it grow: road is being formed and brought back to cover we enlist police help to apprehend the working on roads in the Gnowangerup, Jerra- from small beginnings at Attadale to become* mungup, Borden and Ongerup areas. During part of a body with deposits of over $20 million.: the verge so that natural seeds will regenerate. offenders." Looking to the future, Bill said there were that time their second daughter, Christine, was This avoids the introduction of weeds and wild During that time he served three years on the * still many roads to be built. One of these, from born. She is married to Ross Jackaman. oats. Credit Union Association of WA, a body: Fitzroy Crossing to Halls Creek to be comHis next posting was to Bunbury in 1960 as exchanging information, lobbying government "Throughout the state, direction signs have * been upgraded. This started in. the bi- pleted in the future would make it possible to assistant engineer. After a year he was pro- interests, studying relevant legislation and: centenrary year partly because of the increase in travel around Australia on sealed roads all the moted to district engineer. advising the government on the Credit Union * overseas and eastern states visitors," Bill said. way. In 1967 he was promoted to senior divisional Act. "As we extend our road system we need more Asked if the maximum road speed should be engineer and assigned to Perth. Three years These days Bill and Pat are members of the * increased as a result of the improved and safer funds for maintenance on the greater length of later he was appointed principal engineer Holy Family church, Como. roads, Bill replied," No. The 110kph speed limit roads and costs are escalating on not only build- administering several portfolios. He is at presBill joined the Knights of the Southern Cross it ing the roads but also in signing, lighting and ent administering the is reasonable. Carnarvon, Pilbara and in 1956 and was branch chairman at Albany: marking them" Bill said. "Once a vehicle exceeds that speed, fuel econKimberley divisions and visits one of them and Bunbury. He served on the state council for * omy drops. In America the introduction .of a "We are dependent on politicians for the about every two months. a year. 5mph limit had marked effect on the nation's priorities they give to the amount of money to Bill and Pat have always been involved with A member of the Melville Glades Golf Club, * fuel conservation. be spent on our roads. the Church at the various centres in which they Bill enjoys his golf. May you keep to the crown: "Then there is safety to be considered. For "In recent years there has been a shift in the have lived. of the fairway, never get into the rough * every 10 per cent increase in the speed of a total funding available from the majority being "Perhaps our fondest memories were of the shoulders and batters and avoid any conflict of: vehicle it takes 20 per cent more distance in found by the commonwealth to the majority times we spent at St Mary's church, South Bun- interest between your drivers and surrounding * * which to stop. bury, where there was a strong community trees, Bill. being found by our state government. *** ****************************************** ********************************************** * **************************** * ***
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ILL EDGAR, principal engineer, Main Roads Department, has seen significant advances in road building since first joining the department 25 years ago in Albany.
would have turned it off again." The Fitzgeralds finally moved on to ricketty little boat. The baby was cry- Liveringa Station near Derby. ing and there I was in the middle of "The hottest place in the world," this crazy river ... so I decided to says June. breastfeed him. I thought he may as There she spent much of the time on well die happy. her own with Kevin out in the field. "We were only at the station a few There were two babies now, daughter days before there was more rain so we Anna having beein born in 1957 ... evacuated out to within walking dis- there was also whooping cough, trautance of the hills. choma, prickly heat and boils. It " When we finally got back to the wasn't the easiest place in the world to s tation Kevin said; 'Don't unpack, raise children. they've had 10 inches at Maple Downs.' Looking back I don't see how I did it." ND THERE was the wildlife ... . Kimberley Research Station was the three foot lizard that got into the situated 80 miles from Wyndham and house and sat there and looked at her; was home to seven families in a com- the bats in the bathroom and the big bined State/Commonwealth green frogs that stood guard outside Operation. the toilet ... and of course the snakes A ccommodation wasn't too bad, and the night she spent 20 minutes says June, but power was limited. browsing through magazines in the "You had to ask them to turn on the loo only to hear hissing as she flushed. power before you could vacuum. I'd A snake had been curled up in the usually go across in the morning but toilet. t hen the baby would cry or the men "I got on the pedal wireless and would come in for smoko so by the said; 'Kevin, I've had enough.' But he time I got around to cleaning they Just laughed," she grinned.
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In 1959, because of medical prob- They began sending some of their lems, she came down to Perth to have music and scripts to the Mavis Bramhysterectomy, and found instead she ston Show. was having a third child, John. If we were quick and it was topical "After he was born I was silly they bought it. They used to pay us enough to go home without having about $80 a time which wasn't bad in anything done and the next thing I those days," June said. knew, I was having Simon." A keen musician, June is one of the After, Simon's birth 1960 she had organists at her local church, Saint her one remaining tube tied. She had Pius X in the parish of Manning. lost the other when an ovarian cyst She is also a member of St Vincent's had ruptured shortly after her mar- de Paul and is kept busy with the famiriage. That was another drama, she l's small farm at Chittering. was in Derby at the time and despite Her daughter, Ann, a trained nurse medical advice to the contrary doctors is following in her mothers colourful had to be called off nearby ships to footsteps. She has been working at the operate and save her life. Harley Street Clinic in London and When the family returned to Perth has just applied for a job on a cruise to live, June found life with four small ship in the Mediteranean. She prechildren a little boring so she joined a viously worked with French nuns in writing group and turned out a Israel at a hospital in the Arab quarter number of short stories which were and has also spent time at the Princess printed in Woman's Day, New Idea Grace Hospital in London. and the now defunct Everybody's. She made a friend in the writing group, Beryl Hobson. The two shared June Fitzgerald during her the same zany sense of humour and time as a nanny in London. would pick up topical issues in the paper and write skits and rhymes.
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Youtii Forum
Young workers unite at first council
Thirty young workers from the south-west recently participated in the first Bunbury YCW Diocesan Council held for over 10 years.
The council saw Maree important job." sonal actions of YCW experienced in completing Scott, Raelene Laird and Maree lives with her fam- members were reviewed. this enquiry. Chris Noonan elected ily on a farm 40 minutes Experiences of groups in At the council Carol president, secretary and from Bunbury. She works c ompleting a recent O'Connor, from the Buntreasurer respectively at as a typist at the local enquiry into alcohol were bury group reported on the the council which was held p olice station. Maree discussed. Over 45 enquir- preparations for the printat a disused flaxmill in attended 1982 key Leaders ies were completed looking ing of the first edition of School in Melbourne. at such points as the type the diocesan magazine. Boyup Brook. Maree said; "It was a pri- Raelene Laird, a member and amount of alcohol This has since been vilege to be elected dioce- of the Albany group, is a consumed, reasons for published. san president yet it scares receptionist/typist with an drinking and whether you Carol, editor of the magaThe Bunbury YCW diocesan Executive — Raelene Laid, Secretary, drink and drive. me — it is such a big and accounting firm. zine. said: "I hope through Scott, President, Chris Noonan Treasurer. Chris Noonan, former Some groups had orga- learning about other vice president of Perth nised lectures and films for young workers' actions, YCW, transferred back to their meetings and the more YCW's will be his home town of Narrogin Bunbury group had a guest inspired to take action in six months ago. Chris speaker from Alcoholics their own situations." works with the ANZ Bank. Anonymous. Members are The council was signifiThe actions of the local still looking at what cant in the formation of a groups on unemployment, actions they can take in diocesan structure for the local issues and the per- light of what they have movement. Rather than being a number of individual groups it is now a united and organised movement. Father Greg Chidlow, diocesan chaplain to the YCW said he "saw the council as a positive step in the growth of the YCW as a movement run by the y oung workers for The 'Who are they' themselves." pictures, continues to r aise interest from those youth of yesteryear and young at heart today. Gavan Wood and Friday, NovemAngelo Fanetti both ber 19: YCW Cenobjected to the incortenary Cabaret, rect facts reported by Pagoda Ballroom at Paul Planken. (Record 7.30 pm. Tickets Sept 23-29). $16 (single) ($30 Gavan Wood member double) avai lable of the Anawim comSome of the 30 members at the recent Bunbury YCW Diocesan Council. YCW Office or by munity was surprised to find the same copy of phoning 328 9667. the Record featuring S upper provided his photograph as he is a nd dress semi today and as he was 13 formal. Gavan Wood y ears ago. Gavan hunted the dusty ations with the Anawim Saturday, Decemshelves of his garage to community in Lane St ber 4: The 1982 find the original clip- Perth. The group is C athol ic Youth ping which proved that constantly looking for C ounci l annual the event was in fact a active voluntary help youth rally is to be week held at St Thomas from lay and religious. held at the UniverMore College for some The Archbishop on of WA Sunken sity 22 presidents of local the occasion of the G ardens. The thebranches, on the 20th Presidents week was me is Sol idarity of February 1969. And reported as saying "The Cathol ic Youth. not at Marian Lodge as YCW is based on three reported. things: The article reported Firstly selflessness Angelo Fanetti as "the which could be nothing today. Action was urged chief stirrer who did his but a good basis not f rom 200 people I believe that while there tragedy that few seem able increasing our general job well". only for the group but gathered last week to is much goodwill in the to express who they are, information about people It seems that Angelo for the personal develhearts of the young, many what the they lands, has, at think and in other what support Father Brian has continued to do opment of the members have lost the art of writing they do in an interesting same time, lessened our Gore recently arrest- letters. his job well and after 13 of the group. Secondly, and exciting way. desire for real communicaPagoda Ballroom ed in the Philippines The majority of young years is happily married cohesion is necessary individuals. tion between initial false modesty The t o Charmaine (nee, for the strengthening o n trumped up people seem to have lost Friday November 19 Youth movements annuof young people about Burrell) also a former and growth of the charges. the art of expressing their having their name commit- ally hold international 7.30 p.m. YCW member of Mor- group. The rally was told not to thoughts clearly and accu- ted to print is merely a weeks, but very few, if any, ley. They have three Third, the Archbishop feel powerless but to take rately on paper. Some are cover-up for unwillingness make contact with individchildren. stressed the need for the individual action. Each simple not able to do it. uals in other lands by writor lack of skill. Among Cavan's many cultivation of a strong was urged to go home and It is not surprising. We Having local and interna- ing a letter. concerns today is pro- spiritual foundation. write a letter immediately live in an audio-visual tional pen friends used to Over the years members viding shelter for Abo- For thus, spirituality is, to people in high places in world. We look at a lot of be a very simple and effec- of the Amnesty Internariginal women in the in fact, the essence of both the Australian and pictures and we do a lot of tive way of learning to tional organisation have city through his associ- YCW." Philippine governments talking. But, when it comes makercontacts and build a persistently worked to 328 9667 Tickets $16 and embassies. to verbalising thoughts, better world. obtain the release of politi I was delighted to see feelings and judgements on The ISD phone links are cal prisoners in many plamany young people at the paper, many are stumped. still prohibitively expen- ces by regularly writing rally, but I wonder if this The lack of articles from sive for idle chatter even their protest. simple request is not lost young people in this youth for the very rich. Televion many of our youth page also illustrates the sion programmes. while Father Brian Gore's situation has highlighted the plight of thousands of people who need our support. The world will be a better place when we do less talking, less passive viewing and put pen to paper to people in high and low places. In other words, make 7.30 p.m. contact with others, make friends with them and influence them. Jesus did just that.
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"Solidarity ... of Catholic Youth" Saturday, December 4
W.A. University Sunken Gardens
Rachel was very beautiful. She was the youngest daughter of a wealthy d esert sheik, Laban.
Rachel Super prizes She prayed to God in our Xmas that she would have sons nativity contest
Rachel took care of her father's flocks of sheep. She protected them from wild animals. She led them to food and water and watched over them so they w ould not get lost or hurt. One day Rachel led her flock to a large well in the open country. A heavy round stone covered the well. Rachel knew she could not move it. So she hoped there would be invited Jacob to his house. shall die." She prayed over many shepherds at the well "I would like to marry and over to God to let her with their flocks. Together your daughter, Rachel," have a child. they would move the stone Jacob begged Laban. After a long time, God from the well. "You may marry her if answered her prayer. She A few shepherds were at you work for me for seven gave birth to a son. She BIRTHDAYS the well when Rachel years," Laban replied. named him Joseph. She arrived. Jacob was talking Jacob worked hard for was overjoyed to be a Happy birthday to Ilona with them. seven years. The time sped mother. Jacob looked up and saw by. It seemed more like The name "Joseph" Borbas, Lesmurdie; ChrisRachel walking toward the seven weeks, beause he meant, "May the Lord give topher Bennet, Bruce And all we want from have a month to get you have your name, well with her sheep. He loved Rachel so much. me another son." She con- Rock; Tracy Capper, Kar- you is a drawing of the your entries in and we age, address and phone was overcome by her After the seven years tinued to pray for another rinyup; Rachel Clancy, n ativity. We've got can award prizes in number (if you have beauty. He fell in love with Rachel and Jacob were son. Bayswater; Julie Depiazzi, great prizes in three p lenty of time for one) clearly attached to her then and there. married. God again answered her D ardanup; Catherine sections — aged 7 and Christmas. your entry. Jacob moved the stone R achel loved Jacob prayer. But only after a under, ages 8-10 and Don't forget you have Stokes, Pinjarra; Tony from the top of the well all almost as much as he loved long time. Rachel was very a ges 1 1 and over. to be a member to takeby himself. He went up to her. They were happy for happy. But her joy was Fitzgerald, Craigie; There's a dinner for the part in the competition Rachel and kissed her on the first years of their mar- soon to end. She gave birth Amanda Hall, Alfred winner and parents at so make sure you join if the cheek. Jacob told her riage. But Rachel had no to another son. But she Cove; Kelli Jamieson, Uncle Domenic's Res- y ou haven't done so Welcome to our new that he was related to her children. She became very died as her baby was born. Scarborough; Elaine taurant in the 11 and already. members — Kevin Tyler, father, Laban. depressed. She desperately Jacob named the boy, over group; a beautiful Send your entry to of Bedford; Mary Douglas Lobe, Langford; Geral- musical Rachel ran home and told wanted to have a child. Benjamin. Jacob buried nativity scene R ecord Nativity Con- of Woodlands and Erin her father about Jacob. "Lord," Rachel prayed- Rachel alongside the road dine Tillemans, Cann with movable figures test, 26 John Street, and Paige Geers of ington. Laban came out and ,"give me children or I to Bethlehem. from Pellegrini's for the Perth and make sure Attadale. 8-10 age group winner and a parcel of books from William Collins Pty. Ltd., for the 7 and under age group. Plus we have 100 Name colouring books to give We've got a great new colouring contest for all our members with a $20 cash prize away courtesy of Pellefor the winner and books for the runners-up. Address grini's to the first 100 All you have to do is collect the series of Bible Stories, there will be 10 in all over entries. received. the next few months. Colour in the drawings and then make up a book with the P/code T he contest opens drawing and the stories which will be printed each week. First prize will go to the best t oday and closes on Age Birthdate presented entry and we'll have lots of other prizes for the runners-up. November 30 so you
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WANTED URGENTLY: PALMER'S HIRE G oods — Furniture, K YNE, Annie. Passed SERVICE household utensils, etc., away peacefully at Galway All party equipment, suitable for auction at our Ireland Oct. 8th, 1982. glassware. etc Crockery, cutlery, ANNUAL FETE, SUN- Beloved wife of Tom Cabaret tables, chairs DAY 28th NOVEMBER, (Dec). Loving mother of trestles, coloured lights 1982. Enquiries to: Sister Pat, John, Delia, (Mrs elec. urns, pie warmers Martin, Catherine McAu- Townsend), Mary (Mrs cold plates, dance floors. ley Centre, Station Street, Donovan), Tim, Dermot, marquees, etc. WEMBLEY. Phone: 381 Billy. Loving mother-inlaw of Anna, Joe, Jim, 49 Kent Street 9222. Larry (Dec), Peggy, Rita. Cannington SITUATIONS Dear Grandmother of 30 Phone 458 2891 grandchildren. Great WANTED W E CAN DELIVER Grandmother of one. EterInteresting, casual - nal rest grant unto her 0 BUILDING temporary employment Lord and may perpetual TRADES sought by retired male. light shine upon her. Bricklaying. retaining Good appearance, has car, IN MEMORIAM w alls. Al l types of phone, integrity. CityAnything Country. consibrickwork. Also rendering SULLIVAN: Right Rev Pictured at the October Engaged Encounter weekend held at North Perth no job too small free dered from November Monsignor whose anniverPlease onwards. write quotes. Ring Martin 339 are: sary November 2 from details to Advertiser, 23 7507. Hampden St., South Father Russell, Bayswater. ABOVE LEFT: Mark O'Keefe and Cheryl Johannes, of Balga, who are to be married on PROPERTY Improve- Perth. November 27. ments Service all types of SCHOOLS ABOVE RIGHT: Christine Bentley, of Bunbury, and Terry Halley, of Mandurah, who are to be w indows and doors A CCOMMODATION married on January 15. installed; walls and ceiling ENROLMENT 1983. Our removed; wooden pergo- For a lovely holiday, two Lady of Good Counsel BELOW LEFT: Jackie Thomas and Andy Schelfout, of Midland, who are to be married on las; general repairs. Phone can rent a Hassell fine 7 Primary School, Miles February 12. room home. For Catholics Street, Karrinyup (oppo341 2946. BELOW RIGHT: Frances Davey, of Beaconsfield, and John O'Neil, of South Perth, whose and Record readers, two Backyards cleaned, rub- adults $13 a day each, four site the Karrinyup Shopwedding takes place on December 18. bish removed, trees a mere $7 a day each, 6 to 8 ping Centre) has limited v acancies for 1983 in The next Engaged Encounter Weekend takes place at North Perth from November 26 to 28. For bookings lopped, gardening, odd persons $4 each. Less if jobs, garages cleaned out. stay two weeks or more. Year's 3, 5, 6 and 7. contact Noel and Helen Golding, 330 4128. may Enquiries be directed 277 8780 Free fruit and vegies and to the school office on 341 A PPELBEE'S Electrical one day's food. Ask for a 3148. Service, 33 Avery Avenue. brochure. Jim Lilleyman, W EDDINGS DianeIla. Phone,. 276 2344. 5 1a Lake Monger Drive, *Installations, Repairs and Wembley, 450 5301 after 6pm. Profits aid church For that special day add Maintenance. and charity. Daily Mass harmony to the occasion by having vocal guitarist PAINTING quality work nearby. Be sure to thank Marie Wallace sing for you God for these gifts. at the right price. Johr and ‘.'our guests in thc Freakley, Phone 361 434C Catholic family offer home church. Phone 275 3870. BI ILDING TRADES for careful family from WANTED c ountry from mid Carpenter. Wants work December to mid - Reed organ — any condiall spheres of the buildJanuary. The only rent to tion. Please ring 367 2755. ing trade. No job too be loving care. Gosnells small. Phone 367 4065. area, phone 398 6063.
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Fr. Costello OP A Dominican priest who
A responsible and dedicated Christian couserved Doubleview parish at an important time in its ple is required to care for Aboriginal Childdevelopment died in Aderen in a fully furnished home in a Country laide earlier this month town 130 kilometres from Perth. Aborigiafter a long illness. nal Cottage Parents are preferred. Father Antonius Costello Duties include full chi ld care, household OP was parish priest of maintenance and participation in each Doubleview from 1970 to 1 973 at the time his friend child's development programmes. A genand close colleage Father erous salary package and entitlements Bonaventure Leahy was apply. designing and supervising Applications stating age, experience and the construction of the number of dependants, or request for church of Our Lady of the further information to be made in writing R osary. Father Costello was born to: ADMINISTRATOR in Cork, Ireland in 1908 P.O. Box 158 WEST PERTH, W.A. 6005I and studies for the priest-
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hood in Dublin in Ireland. He said that his Christmas present in 1935 was to be posted to Australia where he served in most of the Dominican houses. May he rest in peace.
Fr. Hogan CM.
A Vincentian priest who was well known both to priests and religious Commences 11.30 a.m. throughout Australia as well as to many AIF men 224 Swan Street Guildford died in Sydney earlier this month. 322 1408 MAN Father Eugene Hogan WOMAN CM was chaplain to the AIF in Australia from 1942 to 1946 and was military vicar with the ComHAIR MODA monwealth Occupation Force in Japan from 1947 CONNECTION BEAUTY to 1.946. Shop 2, 36 Milligan St, Perth Following his ordination in 1926 he graduated in canon law. In later years this served him well when he was very active in the 6 Glenten Way FERNDALE constitutional and community re-organisation of 451 2827 many religious orders and congregations, especially of women. He assisted Member Master Plumbers' Assoc. No 140 many priests and religious For all your plumbing requirements in their requests to return Free Quotes 24 Hour Service to the lay state. • May he rest in peace.
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Four tennis greats will clash in the Swan Lager Challenge tennis tournament to be* telecast on Tuesday and Wednesday Connors and Ivan lendl, women's challenge of nights, at 9.40pm. the world's two leading August this year.
The world's four top men's players, recently -It's extremely difficult to men's singles tennis play- fought out the final of the get top players at any ers, including Bjorn Borg, US Open. It was Connors' stage, but to get some of will compete in this round victory in that final which the best women and then robin tournament, orga- re-established him as the the leading men's players nised by Nine Sports and w orld's number one in Perth in the space of the Paul Dainty Corpor- player, a position he sur- three months is certainly a rendered first to Borg and coup," he said. ation. then to McEnroe. The players will be seeded R ACE 1: Daddy's Crown 1. RACE 6: Afro Freeway I. The Swan Lager Chalaccording to current comLocal Ace 2. Sound Fury Soft Angel 2. Empty Street lenge marks Borg's return With such players competing, the Swan Lager puter ranking and on to international tennis. 3. 3. Tuesday night the number R ACE 2: Kim's, Waltz I. R ACE 7: Icy Monaro 1. Joining the Super Swede Challenge promises to be one and three seeds, and R eckless Eric 2. Mister Tem Stone 2. Mullewa's are Jimmy Connors, the nothing short of dynamic. number two and four Mondo 3. winner of this year's WimAccording to Bruce seeds, will be matched Idol 3. R ACE 3: Rosso Diamante R ACE 8: Just Like bledon Men's Singles title, Walker, Channel Nine's On Wednesday, viewers 1. Dunna Runna 2. High- Mummy I. Lord Ranford Ivan Lendl, and the fiery Director of Sport, the will witness the clash John McEnroe. land Issue 3. tournament is a natural between the two 2. Tips A Turvy 3. losers and R ACE 4: Final Smoke 1. R ACE 9: Chato's Chance Competition between f ollow-on from the the two winners which will Dark Querida 2. Willy 1. Administer 2. Easy Find these four players has determine the champion of Buck 3. 3. always been close. Jimmy the Swan Lager Challenge. R ACE 5: Heroe's Crown I. R ACE 10: Red Run I. Sponsored by the Swan Droopy Eyes 2. Uncle Blue Irish 2. Top The Brewery, the Swan Lager Dominic 3, Charts 3. Challenge will be played at the Perth Entertainment anamintooliammiatimininuomnowisonumemommonff Centre.
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"St Francis is the greatest charismatic figure, and if the order did not exist today, I would hope that someone who imitated Christ as closely as he did, would emerge; if you were to ask any Franciscan did he want to take up that task, he would say, 'No thank you'. That seems odd perhaps, but . ."
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ENIN is supposed to have said, "If there had been one Francis of Assisi in Russia there would never have been a Russian revolution."
Probably that story is told of many people, but I think it is true. If there were now such a Francis, there is no doubt people would flock to him as they did in his time. What Francis did in his time still intrigues people, not only Catholics, but every person with any religious feeling at all. If you tried to put down such a social programme, as a social programme, I'm sure you would not be able to do so. If you wanted 20 points how to change society, you would not get them from Francis, because he would say what he said to his first followers when they demanded a written rule, "You have the Gospel, go live it."
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HICH was fine for a man as magnificant as Francis who followed Christ so closely, and fine for the men in close touch with him, much like the disciples with the Lord, but more difficult for the rest of us, and harder. I admit that. Yet the Franciscan Order has got this mottled history of continual revolutions, trying to get back to the simplicity of just following the Gospel. In 1982 we are trying to say what we were asked to by Vatican II: "Go back to the spirit of your founder" — i.e., to the GOSPEL LIFE.
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HE RULE was looked at again, and the Constitutions. I think we were one of the first orders into this thing straight after Vatican II and I'm told — I don't know if every order says this that many other orders followed the line taken by the Franciscan Order.
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F YOU were to read the Rule as I did as a novice, and read it again now, you would scratch your head and wonder — the difference is incredible. I remember having read the Fioretti — the Little Flowers of St Francis — and I defy anyone not to be entranced by the Fioretti — and then I read the Rule and Constitutions as a novice, and I wondered ... they are so different. One has the spirit of the man, the other seemed so legalistic; one was led into a maze of legal conditions and clauses and prohibitions of all kinds; historically explicable, but no longer inflammable, so to speak. It was said recently by the Minister General — and it sounds a little odd when heard first, -- "One of the virtues of the Franciscans is not stability." Is he saying we're unstable? No, simply that we are not stable in the sense that monks who are bound to a particular area are stable. The virtue of a Franciscan today is the ability to move from place to place, from country to country as
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the Gospel calls. As St Francis said, if they don't receive you in one place, wipe the dust of the place off your feet and go somewhere else.
'The 800th Anniversary in 1982 of the birth of St Francis doesn't mark the end of the road, but just another turn in it. Franciscans still follow Francis eagerly "as pilgrims and s trangers in this world..." That spirit n ever dies out. Recently I saw a programme on the BBC showing how the present concern for the environment, respect for nature, desire for peace, fear of a dehumanising, materialism, all 20th century preoccupations, are mirrored in the life and ideals of Francis: not bad after 800 years.' We expect to be moved every six years at least, and sometimes every three. We've had men in the Geraldton diocese recently and they probably will again. There is a man at Collie; we originally had two there; they
change fairly frequently too. But there is a fairly constant going and coming of friars from the east over to WA. Our teachers stay longer. We have one school, in Brisbane and tend to stay there a long time.
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THERWISE most of us move fairly frequently, and I guess it is as pilgrims and strangers. Francis in his time was upset by what looked like permanent, irremovable residences; in one story he was once seen throwing tiles off the roof of one of the first friaries. As with all such Franciscan stories, you've got to see which particular group in the order fostered the story and why, but if there is some truth in it, it would be that he was not keen on the permanence, or settling down as if this were your own personal home; i.e., ownership. Recently in the Midland church the president of the parish council, speaking on finance said: "You've got five or six friars in the house over there, but it's not theirs, it doesn't belong to them." I think if that message has got through, if men move frequently in and out of the place, it is saying something about poverty. None of us has the poverty of Francis and every Franciscan has this lurking feeling somewhere in our subconscious that our poverty isn't anything such as Francis knew. But we try. I do not know any other order whose ideals are incarnated in one man, in one charismatic figure such as the Franciscans are in Francis. There are few of us who haven't started with admiration for Francis with the feeling — "Well, he is on to sorpething remarkably good; I want to know what it is." What he was on
The famous fresco image in Assisi of St Francis. to, of course, was the close following of Christ. The initial dialogue he had with the pope and the Church was whether or not anybody could literally follow the programme of the apostles to live the Gospel in dialy life without great encumbrances. He took off from that passage of the Gospel that said, "Take neither staff, nor shoes, nor this nor that." Francis said, "Right, so it says, so we'll do." Hence Franciscanism as I see it, is simply Francis' vision of what it is to live and Gospel. And hence the Rule doesn't say we have any specific works. It does not mean that we don't have any. What it does say is, the life of the 1- riars Minor is to live in poverty, chastity and obedience and to live the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
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HE only fleeting contact I ever had with Franciscans was at the Retreat House in Melbourne, La Verna, while at school it did nothing for me at the time. Ijoined the air force and at the end of the warIwent again to La Verna to do a retreat andI started reading a bit on the life of Francis. .. and that was it. Once youpick up that man's We ... I think most Franciscans would probably say the same — that's it. It wasn't a programme, is wasn't a revolutionary idea, it was a man. And this Francis, who they call the mirror of Christ, had something that was quite incredible.
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Gospel every day of your life, and whatever other work you do is secondary to that? Do you wish to live in a community of men who follow the Franciscan vision?" Because when you look at the Order of Friars Minor, fraternity and minority are the two measures of it.
The "minores" were the lower Franciscanism offers a different kind of classes in Francis' time. life that is fulfilling and enables one to live There were the Maj ores — the upper crust — the Gospel, to take that Gospel to other people. and the Minores — the lower crumbs — and so There is fulfillment there. in a sense Francis said — you must be of the The Church needs the Order today because it • lower crumbs regardless. needs the Gospel lived today. When wealthy men or intellectuals or priests I am sure every order has something specifiwanted to join, they went through the mill until as its own. cally A he was satisfied they were happy to be the lower The willingness to be with the people, is a T crumbs. That has always been, I think, the common mark of Franciscanism which gets out to touch, one of the marks of the order, not neces- people. sarily in every Franciscan, but it should be. It is shown by the fact that the Third Order ... It has always been "of the people": a populist the Secular Franciscan Order as it is called now order. ... whereby lay-people live the Franciscan life The Church needs Religious Life as much as inside their own families ... has continued foas any society needs an alternative life style. long a time as the order itself, and is still growVatican II has, shown us how to get rid of the ing today. trappings -- trapping is the right word because It shows vitality, because there are plenty of ithe spirit tended to be trapped inside legislation Third Orders, and plenty of groups attached to 4 — and now we have been told to go back to the religious orders, but not all of them are vital and vision of our Father founder. I think this one is still vital.
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