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Contrary to Press reports last week, annulment procedures in Australia are not likely to be unduly affected by the new code of canon law. One report written from Rome said annulments were likely to be more difficult to obtain. The writer failed to note that only the procedures for annulment might have to he changed, and only in the United States. The grounds for annulment apply to the universal church and are set by the Church's highest courts in Rome. In recent years the United States matrimonial tribunals were allowed by Rome to use special procedures that were designed to speed up the processing of annulment applications. Several Vatican officials were apparently critical about the large increase of annulments being granted by U.S. tribunals.
Waiting with interest to see the final version of the new code of canon law are Monsignor Michael Keating, Doctor of Canon Law, who is head of the regional tribunal for WA and his assistants, Father Gregory Carroll, Licentiate of Canon Law, (left) and Father Kevin Henry C.SS.R. (centre).
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Essentially, the special U.S. required to submit their findings norms allowed decisions to be for appeal to the Australian made by local diocesan courts and national tribunal whose head is judges without having to go for Cardinal Freeman of Sydney. appeal or review to a higher Since the new code does not come tribunal. into force until Advent on Some of the norms of the U.S. November 27, it is presumed that were extended to Australia but U.S. procedures will be changed in A ustralian tribunals are still accordance with the new code.
Poland visit next for pope
VATICAN CITY: The 10-minute ceremony in which Pope John Paul ll promulgated the new code of canon law is only the beginning of a process in which the role of laity will be expanded especially where there is a shortage of priests. The new code does not come into full effect until November 27 even though the pope took January 25 as the day of promulgation, the 24th anniversary of Pope John XXIII's announcement that the old code would be r evised and that a Second Vatican Council would be convened. The Church's new code of canon law is not a substitute for faith and love, but can help them develop and grow, said Pope John Paul. - On the contrary," he continued, "its aim is rather to create such order in the church that will give first place to love grace and the charisms. The pope said he hopes the code will become "an effective means by which the church can progress according to the spirit of Vatican II, and make itself more fit to exercise its role of salvation in this world." "Even though St Paul teaches justification is not obtained with the works of the law, but through faith, he still links this with the obligation to the Ten Commandments, nor does he deny the importance of discipline in the Church of God."
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The pope spelt out the elements which should characterise a true image of the Church. •T he doctrine of the church as the people of God and of authority as The Government, how- service; R OME (NC) — Pope ever, was said to be • The notion of the John Paul II will visit opposed to the Church's church as "a communion," his native Poland this desire for a stop at which thus determines the year, beginning on Gdansk, the Baltic city relationship between the June 18. which is the birthplace of local churches (dioceses) and the universal church; That announcement No formal invitation has Jerzy Urban told a Press the now-banned independ- • The sharing of all ent labour union, Solidarwas made by the Yet been extended to the conference that while no members of the Church in Bishops of Poland in pontiff by Poland's martial formal invitation yet had ity, and at an unnamed city the roles of Christ as priest, in the Silesia coal-mining law regime, but signs point been sent, nothing had a letter read in all prophet and king, and the t o the communist govern- changed regarding the region of Poland. consequent rights and Catholic churches of ment's intention of wel- government's intention to The Bishops' letter ope- responsibilities of all, parthat country on coming him. ned: "With great joy we are invite the pope. ticularly the laity; and Janaury 30. For example, the official The letter of the Polish beginning the period of • The pledge which the The pope's visit, which government radio station Hierarchy did not indicate preparation for the second c hurch should make has been scheduled since broadcast the bishops' an itinerary for the papal pilgrimage of the Holy toward ecumenism. Father, who will arrive in At a Press conference the northern antumn last comments, including the visit. year, had been cast in section in which the hie- Italian news agencies had his homeland on June 18 before the signing ceremdoubt when, during his rarchy called for the reported several days pre- of this year." ony, Archbishop Castillo Judience on January 12, government to grant viously that Church and Pope John Paul visited 1,ara said the new code the pontiff announced he amnesty to political pri- government officials Poland for eight days in greatly expands the role of was entrusting to Mary the soners and to re-establish agreed on papal stops at June of 1979, within a year the laity. decision as to "if and how" -full social justice." Warsaw, Cracow, Czesto- after his election to the the trip should take place. Government spokesman, chowa and Sczcecin. • Continued page 2 pontificate.
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Bishop opens new church in SW The new church of St Thomas More at Margaret River will be big enough for double the present c ongregation if it is needed in 50 years o doss on the floor if needs More, Christ, the Passion time, said the parish tbe. priest, Faher Kevin The new church is not and the Humanity and all in symbols. Glover this week des- only a triumph of local Divinity, The floor of the nave cribing its large par- materials and artistry but poured by locals is carish centre area that is also of local labour and the peted but the sanctuary architect estimates that floor is in local Donnyattached.
On Monday Bishop v oluntary labour saved brook stone while the retQuinn blessed the new $100,000 in addition to the aining wall that forms the building that replaces a S260,000 laid out on the sanetuary is in local granwooden structure built at building. ite. Cowaramup in 1936 and A substantial part of the Fixed on the wall are transported to Margaret voluntary labour consisted flags showing the 10 R iver in 1939 and which of two volunteers daily nationalities that make up has now been bought for a helping for 12 weeks with the parish, all surmounted family school project at the rammed earth con- by a large Australian and struction which is a feature Papal flag. nearby Forrest Grove. the new church seats of the church, the surface Since the adjacent parish double the former capacity of the 60cm walls being centre could not be soundand can accommodate to sealed with Bondcrete as a proofed for the Sunday 300 people with extra weather protection. children's liturgy, the space in the large aisles. -the women did their ceremony takes place in a When the doors of the par- share of volunteering, large sacristy instead. ish centre are thrown back serving morning and after- Featuring large in the big Easter and Christmas noon tea to as many as 25 sanctuary is a cross broadcrowds can be housed. w orkers at a time during axed by Mick Coffey with The sanctuary of the new St Thomas More church illustrates its local When the large pine the nine months construc- a figure sculptured in fibre- content in the granite wall, jarrah altar and support, jarrah cross and glass by Chris Heyring individually sculpted figure. doors were thrown back tion. on Monday, upwards of The rammed earth arches after a volunteer hung for a 800 people are estimated to are surmounted by a steel half hour on a fence until have been present for the frame carrying the beige exhausted in order to give two and a half hour metal roof whose gables him an idea for the corpus. ceremony. have tinted and clear glass The altar is a massive The highly polished jar- to illuminate the large 2400mm by 900mm jarrah slab in natural contour rah floor of the parish cen- area. • From page 1 tre will not be used only for Typical of the extensive 220mm thick on a massive parish functions, bingo or local imput is the stained jarrah stump chosen by As an example, he noted even a wedding reception. glass by local artist Ian Henry Kowalski. The jarthat in areas where there is Shower facilities mean Richardson using blue red rah tabernacle was made a severe shortage of prithat youth groups and and olive green in five win- by shire engineer. Dick ests, the new code allows other campers will he able dows depicting St Thomas Reuther. for parishes to be administhe baptismal font was tered by lay men and lay carved out of a jarrah burl women. by Tristan Wilcox while Lay people so designated the processional cross and could not celebrate Mass other pieces were made by nor hear confessions, but Bob Waring, a woodwork could be permitted to witO PTOMETRISTS teacher at the local high ness marriages, preside at school. The two jarrah funeral services and direct Phone 444 3543 1 75 Scarborough Beach Road lecterns were made by preparation for the recepTony Jackson. tion of the sacraments. The altar candelabra are The new code prohibits F WILLIS W A 0 A Optoinctt pottery by June Everett w omen from being and three ladies, Hazel ordained priests or deaBrennan, Anna Amoziak cons and from holding the and Chris Togno made permanent ministries of Stations of the Cross on lector or acolyte. large copper panels, backed by Ken Ambroziak Prohibits and framed by Dave Hamilton. Archbishop Castillo I.ara TODAY'S CHRISTIAN Twice during the Mass of said that in all other areas dedication, liturgical dancof the new code "there is no YOUTH WILL LEAD THE ing was presented by 12 discrimination — whaCHURCH AND AUSTRALIA locals trained by Penny tever a lay person can do, a Shaw whose husband was woman can do. INTO THE 21ST CENTURY! an acolyte. Other acolytes The new code thus would in the ceremony were permit women to fill such Henry Plesniak who was positions as diocesan foreman for the construcchancellors, judges on tion, and John Brennan, diocesan marriage tribupresident of the parish The rammed earth walls can be seen in the spacious covered entrance nals or members of diocecouncil. san synods. area to the church.
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"We cannot be here that raised peoples' minds without asking how through towers and arches after 2000 years this to the beauty of God Himself. still keeps happen"This background inspiing", Bishop Quinn ration has been re-enacted of Bunbury said at new church, Bishop Quinn invasions threatened ing from many points of centuries later in this new the dedication of the commented: view Bishop Quinn traced land, completely Christian civilisation. S t Thomas More "It was a transference of "We have seen in this for some of its historical back- when churches ofunknown this sort church at Margaret faith, an expression in the people of this district, ground: "Seeing this edi- were being designed and R iver on Monday. more solid and enduring an assertion of their trust, fice one thinks of the built.
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" this occasion is a mani- terms of the faith of the respect and worship of mediaeval towns of Italy, "Father Glover with the festation and demonstra- past that we must hand on G od and their commit- of Florence and Assisi and help of a background tion of the faith and if the future is to survive ment to make all this avail- villages in the Umbria embedded in Catholic enthusiasm that makes with justice, peace, dignity able, helpful, and region where this church European culture, was one's faith as a Christian and meaning. c hallenging to their has found its artistic and able to share the enthusiarchitectural inspiration. asm of a sensitive and become stimulated and "We have seen in this families. challenged. ceremony repeated again Bishop Quinn said the "The artists and archi- imaginative architect, sup"This great edifice cries an expression of the transi- interest in the development tects at that time found ported by a motivated, out for great strength, loy- tion of faith that took o f the building was their inspiration in the aroused and enthusiastic alty and perseverance in place from the catacombs widespread and enthusias- traditions and beliefs of c ommunity, to see a the Christian way of life. to the Roman Empire, a tic and it had become a their Catholic faith and mediaeval model become a Referring to the cerem- repetition of the survival of landmark for any tourist in were always wishing to modern reality in this proony transferring historical the faith in the Middle the Margaret River area. express the beauty of God gressive locality of ,Maritems from the old to the Ages when the Muslim Calling it a unique build- in human form, in forms garet River.
Pope voted tops From NC NEWS in London Radio listeners of the BBC voted Pope John Paul II and British Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher, the man and woman of the year for 1982. In the BBC's traditional end-of-year poll the London Mayor, Ken Li%ingst one, and Princess Anne were placed second. Pope John Paul was placed fourth in the 1981 poll, in w hich Prince Charles and his new wife Diana w ere named man and woman of the year.
'Dehumanising' on campus M any students f ound the world of the universities to be alienating and dehumanising, those attending a meeting of Catholic tertiary students were told recently.
Stability urged in Uganda V ATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul 11 has urged goNernment leaders in Uganda to assure their citizens "greater stability and security.' and the protection of human rights. The Pope made the comments during a meeting at the Vatican with James Nagai Obua-Otoa, the new Ugandan ambassador to the Holy See. "Citizens should be able to live in a climate of peace so that their search for well-being may bear results," Pope John Paul said in an Englishlanguage talk. "They have the legitimate e xpectation that their government will do its best to ensure greater stability and security, protect the inalienable rights of the human person and promote the value of human life," the pope added. Ugandan President Milton Obote, who was elected in November, 1980. after the overthrow in April. 1979, of dictator ldi Amin. met with Pope John Paul at the Vatican last year. A year after Obote came A n increasing number of to power. religious leaders Catholic churches in China are in the country -- including Catholics, Orthodox. being made ready for liturgical use. Some observers estimate Anglicans and Moslems accused Ugandan security that there are now more than forces of killing scores of 250 churches open. innocent civilians and said There are two open Catholic the African country was Churches in Canton. The first, " bleeding to death" t he Church of the Sacred Heart, because of violence. was reopened in 1979. Pope John Paul told the Another, dating from 1890 new ambassador he hoped that "your country will which was extremely badly damsucceed in resolving the aged during the cultural revoludifficulties that at present tion, has now opened its doors for confront it, and by means worship. of a dialogue arrive at the The first Mass was celebrated peaceful social order to there on December 12, by which it aspires." Bishop Ye Yingyun.
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"Our society is constituted by institutions whose c haracteristics are rationality, efficiency, specialisation, achievement. "These values do not satisfy the full person. They do not resemble the values of the Gospels," he said. It was not uncommon tor Mr Chris Sidoti, National students to state that they Secretary of the Catholic are searching for a group Commission for Justice that is accepting, trustful Margaret Cassidy, an and Peace, said one of the and takes their faith honours chemistry stu- dimensions of a developing dent at the University of group was service. seriously. WA, who was among the The Catholic community students at the TCFA "If we are to participate in effective action we must groups provide such a c onference. take risks, but our actions fra place. must accord with the GosT hese views were pel message. expressed at Bathurst ear- it, is not satisfactory. ends do not justify lier last month when 100 "There is too much "The the means." injustice. students and 10 chaplains must participate in In the final forum stuattended the annual Ter- "We dents confirmed the need tiary Catholic Federation creating a society that to build small groups in resembles Kingdom," the of Australia conference. their parishes, to renew Bishop Kennedy. said The theme of the confertheir commitment in the ence was "Community a Columban Father Cyril Halley pointed out a campus groups and to take living sign". this enthusiasm to their Mr Peter Madden, lec- world-wide trend to build work places. turer at Manly Seminary. community. told the group that in the light of Christ's call to build the Kingdom described in the Lord's prayer. we are to build His Kingdom, not our own. That Kingdom requires each member having a spirit of constant forgiveness," he said. Bishop Kennedy, Episcopal Deputy. for TCFA. told the participants that as t o help in its secondhand Christians they were the clothing stores and depot new wine, the new Spirit. and this being so, they F our hours maximum per week. needed new wine skins. " We must not shirk from = Refer page 669 of phone book or contact our responsibility of con- Edepot at 9-11 Donovan Street, Osborne Park = _ stantly and critically exa- E E — Phone 444 5622 mining our society. P_ = The society, as we know Fill11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111F Robes and ceremonies were the furthest items from the minds of Do you intend to spend your life in God's service? these St Mary's Cathedral altar servers as they left on Tuesday If you are in your last year at school or for their four -day holiday -camp college. this is an important question. one Monwith along at Moore River which shouldn't be left until the last minute. signor O'Reilly and Father Tony Pires. Throughout Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea Brothers serve the people of God as priests, nurses, teachers. pharmacists. therapists, social workers, counsellors, youth welfare workers, sheltered workshop supervisors, child care personnel. administrators and caterers.
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Laws for the law-breakers Current issues of The Record are giving noone the excuse of not knowing that there is a new code of Church law seeing the light of day. If the articles and comment are somewhat repetitious it is because a book of law is the last place to look for what's new in the Church. The purists are at pain to point out that the 1983 code is only a revision of the 1917 code which in turn attempted to put law and order into a mountain of teaching and legislation that had built up over preceding centuries. Just as civil law is never finished and lawreform commissions rake over the legislation to throw out irrelevant statutes, so the cupboard of the Church needs tidying up and the 1983 code will face its revision sometime in the next century. There are no shocks in the new code which is only catching up with what has happened in practice since Vatican II was launched 21 years ago. It is easy to forget the veritable somersault that has taken place in regulations about the Mass, sacramental administration, marriage, and church government. If, then, it is all being done and all has been said before, why should there be a fuss over a printed collection of laws that will be read only by professional sections of the Church just as comparatively few ever set eyes on the text of 1917?
No short cuts The new code is shorter and more pastoral in outlook but even that change will mean little to those whose guiding principle is: do anything provided that it is different from yesterday. This approach produces a flood of restructuring the Mass, taking the short cuts through church disunity that has existed for centuries and giving the face of the Church a touch here and there to welcome back those hooked on • a secular life. The sober answer is that there are no raging success stories in those directions even those denominations where canon law does not operate in the Catholic style. In fact, the re-issue of the code will highlight the fact that the Catholic Church is the only denomination that produces a document welding theology and practice into a law which the Catholic Church bluntly declares binding on each of its members. Anglicans and other churches may have quite complex local government but the relevance of these laws to ordinary members of the flock becomes a bit woolly. Let it be said that even they are tiring of the empty joke of "C of E" being an umbrella for anybody who believes anything or nothing, and their baptismal and sacramental practices are being tightened accordingly.
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Sir The front page of the Record 26 January - 2 February '83 seemed to me another example of the depressingly all too familiar compromise of Catholic values with the secular values of today's materialist world. Was it really necessary to have a review of the revised Canon Law competing with a large photo and an accompanying article on the 514 million Edgle Adventureland? About four to five years Bad fish in the net ago big business, which Catholic scallywags keep their loyalty for life incidentally by its nature as can be seen in the drubbing the Church gets is antagonistic to the Catholic social principle of whenever someone lets down the side. This points up the fact that the Catholic subsidiarity, saw the Church does not publish its laws to determine opportunity to cater for the new phenomena, the who is outside the Church as the bit of media leisure dollar. nonsense about excommunication has tried to This occurred as a direct suggest. (When was the last red-blooded excom- consequence of industrial munication anyone can remember?) pressure in the '70s which The real test of law is to be able to tell people resulted in high wages when they are inside the Church and this is where being paid to relatively the publication of the new code will put pastoral inexperienced youth, a pressure on local churches and communities to contributing factor to tidy up their thinking and attitude to church law. youth unemployment, and the extraordinary increase Maybe 75% of Catholics don-t respect the law in the number of married requiring regular attendance at Sunday Mass; women in the workforce. the bigger question is whether they understand The two income, one or what they are missing out on. That is as much a two child family and the liturgical as a legal challenge. still employed well paid And so across a spectrum of laws that try to youth with their surplus t ranslate an idea, a faith, a dream, into a reality incomes, added to the trathat is going to work in life in the 20th century. ditionally affluent have created a new industry Good luck to the holier-than-the-rest-of-us based on the leisure dollar. who think that all that is necessary is a dash of The single income family faith in the heart and a smile on the face. Unfor- struggling against sometunately the fishing net has to gather some pretty times heartbreaking odds unholy specimens as well and the best thing the to raise a family and often Mother Church can be doing is to tell us what we t o inculcate their children with Christian values is should be doing and why and when. rapidly becomming an • oddity. 26 John Street, Perth WA 6000 ,• The practical results of • • Correspondence • be seen in disinteThe Editor, The Record, PO Box 50 I • this can Aberdeen Street. Perth, 6000 grating families and alieAdvertising • nated youth seeking solace • Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 • in drugs and sex or enlightr egistered for posting as a newspaper Category "A" (1 1 ) • • enment from the latest Produced in WA • Printed and published weekly by Edward vanHeemst, • swami; and trying to cope •• 26 John Street, Perth with all of this an increas• ingly pressured and expenEstablished 1874 • • • sive welfare bureaucracy. ••••••••••••••••••• OOOOO •••••••• OOOOOOOOOOOO
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A serious lack of medical facilities is gravely affecting thousands of neglected sick people in remote areas of South Bihar, in India. Small groups of missionary Sisters,
some working and living alone, have appealed urgently for funds. The missionaries include Carmel and Samaritan Sisters, Missionaries of Charity. Sisters of Christ Jesus, Medical Missionaries, Clarist and Holy Cross Sisters, and the Daughters of St. Anna. The poverty in these remote areas is so deplorable that f ew Australians could possibly imagine it. The Sisters live in mud dwellings. Facilities include a mud stove on the floor for cooking, an oil lamp, camp beds, and two buckets for washing and bathing. All water has to be carried in from a well. Many dwellings are without tables, chairs, kitchen sinks and cupboards, clothing cupboards and drawers. There is no electricity, sewerage or basic comforts. The great majority of families work on the land as marginal farmers and landless labourers. Their survival depends to a great extent on what they can grow. Each year they face serious food shortages because of fickle monsoons, lack of water resources and poor farming methods, forcing them to forage for nuts, bulbs, roots and anything edible. This diet causes severe malnutrition and widespread sickness. To help alleviate the suffering, the Nuns make long and arduous trips visiting as many villages as they can. They go on foot, or ride bicycles, often arriving quite exhausted by the extreme heat. The Sisters care for the sick, inoculate children, instruct mothers on child care, hygiene, sanitation and preparation of nourishing meals, and give much needed advice on how to avoid illness and what to do when sickness occurs. Their efforts have a profound effect on f amilies and communities, giving them hope for the future and showing them how to work for it. But with all their dedication the Sisters can only cope with a tiny part of this vast problem. There are thousands of villages which have never been visited by a doctor or nurse. People there cannot phone for medical assistance. They cannot cope with malaria, dysentery, cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, diptheria, scabies, tetanus, polio, leprosy, trachoma, night blindness, etc. So the sick and chronically ill have to travel long distances, usually without transport, to seek medical help. Many do not go because they are afraid, or think they can't pay. Some leave it too late for medical
treatment to save them. Many die without ever seeing a doctor or a nurse, of knowing relief from a pain killing drug. Children are born in primitive mud dwellings without the assistance of a doctor or nurse. Tetanus at child birth causes a very high death rate amongst mothers and babies. In many areas 50% of the children die before the age of five. People die for lack of a few chloroquine tablets for malaria, a little sulphaquanadine for dysentery or cholera (which kills in six hours), a T.B. injection . . there's a long list. People afflicted with leprosy number about 100,000. Very little can be done for them for lack of funds and personnel.
The problems are formidable. The survival and welfare of thousands of hardworking people relies, to a great extent, on expanding the work of these very exceptional missionaries. They have forsaken their families and friends to care for very deprived people. They need funds now to train, maintain and equip many more sisters, nurses and village health workers. Whatever you can give will be greatly appreciated. All donations are gratefully acknowledged. Cheques should be made payable to 'Australian Jesuit Indian Mission Medical Care Appeal', and posted to: National Director, Father G. Drumm, SJ., Australian Jesuits in India (operating since 1951), PO Box 193, North Sydney, 2060. I enclose S. . . . for Sisters' medical care appeal in South Bihar, India. pR3i2 Mr/Mrs/Miss
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CHICAGO (NC) — From S2 to amounts of several thousand dollars, Cardinal- designate Joseph call for to a special charitable fund in lieu of spending money to celebrate his elevation to the cardinalate is drawing support. By two weeks after the announcement that Archbishop Bernardin would become Cardinal Bernardin, the archdiocesan communications office said thousands of dollars from hundreds of contributors had been received for the special fund. It had no precise figure t abulated. Half of the money will he used to meet local needs while the rest will be given to Pope John Paul II for worldwide charities. The cardinal-designate said that during economic hard times. c ostly celebrations would be out of order. "In keeping with the spirit of the times, it is MN desire to celebrate in this different way,- he said. Many people wrote to say they agreed. "We are just ordinary people and would not have the money to go to Rome,- said one correspondent. in Chicago Heights. "However. I am fortunate I do have a job. We like very much your idea of giving celebration money to the poor rather than having a huge celebration.-
Pope re-affirms on Provocation issues is denied V ATICAN CITY (NC) — The role of the laity must not overlap with the sacramental functions specific to priests, Pope John Paul II has told the Dutch bishops. In his address to the bishops of the Netherlands, the Pope also called for an increase in vocations, reaffirmed the ban on married priests, criticised liturgical deviations unauthorised by the Church.
ishop hits at IRA killers
The pope's talk to the Dutch bishops echoed many of the themes in the 46 -point closing document of the particular synod of Dutch bishops, held January 1 4-31, 1980, at the Vatican. "That synod is is effect the route to follow for the Church in the Netherlands," the pope said.
VATICAN CITY (NO — The Vatican has rejected charges by a Czechoslovakian communist newspaper that Pope John Paul ll's recent appointment of bishops for Czech and Slovak emigrants was an anti-socialist "provocation." The Prague-based newspaper, Rude Pravo, published by the Czechoslovak Communist Party said the pope's January 6 episcopal ordinations of Bishop Crusovski andSkarvada represented a retreat by the Vatican from Pope Paul VI's conciliatory policy toward eastern European nations. Father Panciroli said both bishops had been involved for many years in pastoral service to Czech and .Slovak Catholics living outside Czechoslovakia.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (NC) — At the f uneral Mass for a Catholic judge killed by Irish Republican "It is the authentic appli- ministerial role of the pri- He placed special empha A rmy gunmen, Bishcation of the second Vati- est no longer he fulfilled by sis on the role of the pries op Cahal B. Daly of in the celebration of th( can Council and therefore the laity." Down and Connor the path to true renewal," Pope John Paul made an Eucharist. s aid those who he said in a Dutch- "ardent appeal" to the "There is no Churci language address. belong to the IRA entire Dutch Church for without the Eucharist an prayers "that the multipli- there is no Eucharist with " cut themselves Pope John Paul stressed a way from the com- Bishop Daly invited all 'The present and pro- the theological distinction cation of young people out priests," the pope saici munity of love which who could do so to St tracted campaign of vio- between the ministerial or desirous on consecrating "How can a Church exis without the ordaine( i s the Christian Brigid's Church for several lence is the gravest danger sacramental priesthood themselves totally to the priesthood'?" service of the Lord may hours of personal and pub- which has been created for and the priesthood comChurch." Vatican source said tl-k become more frequent Bishop Daly spoke at the lic prayer "in expiation of Belfast's Catholicism for mon to all baptised and more fervent." Pope's remarks wer( half a century. It is a force Catholics. funeral in St Brigid's this evil deed." linked to the phenonomer. Church in Belfast of He suggested giving up a for corruption from within "We must very much in the Netherlands ane meal on that exterday greater and any than makfar County Court Judge Wilother European nations of appreciate the efforts of Celibacy liam Doyle, 56, who was ing a donation "to some nal danger." the laity in making the lay "pastoral workers" and gunned down outside the charitable organisation, In a joint statement, Car- Church present in a more married priests celebrating same church after attend- some work of reconcilia- dinal Tomas O'Fiaich of and more secularised the Eucharist or adminising Sunday Mass on Janu- tion, some service to job- Armagh and Church of world, and their active par- He stressed candidates tering other sacraments in less youth." Ireland (Anglican) Archbi- ticipation in the life of the for the priesthood must local parishes. ary 16. shop John Armstrong of Church." the pope said. accept the requirement of "His religion was to us Shortly before meeting Armagh, expressed symcelibacy and said their with the Dutch bishops. irrelevant," said the IRA, Prayers pathy to the judge's wife But, he added, "The gen- training should be "not who were in Rome for an outlawed guerrilla organisation, in a state- He appealed for prayers and family and called "on eral good demands that the only intellectual, but also their official visits required ment issued after the "that these killers may be all our people to reject vio- functions proper to the spiritual and pastoral," every five years to report shooting. reached by God's voice in lence as contrary to the laity not be carried out by c arried out in "true on the status of their diothe clergy and that the seminaries." Doyle was a "a token their conscience, may hear t eaching of Christ." ceses. Pope John Pau! Catholic", said the IRA, his call to repent. may be received the credentials o: most of whose members converted from sinful way Johan Anthony Beelaerts are Catholics. He was "a and turn to God and ha‘c Van Blokland, the new key figure in Britain's their sins, their heinous Dutch Ambassador to th: o ppressive occupation sins, forgiven." Holy See. machine," it said. "May no Catholic.' "I hope the Netherlands N EW YORK (NC) — Catholic "The the market, the Life said of E xpressing sympathy to Bishop Daly continued, so rich in material good Pope John Paul II", a 64 -page press has sold 103,000 copies the judge's wife and two "harbour any illusions and human resources, ma', teenage daughters. Bishop about the menace posed to comic book published last Sep- and sales are "still going quite also choose the way oi tember by the Marvel Comics well". 'being' rather than that o' ROME (NC) The Daly said that sympathy our faith by such movewas a —suffering with' ments as those which plan. Group in New York, is reported to Marvel said its figures for sales 'having', and will makk chief Italian investigaorder and perpetrate deeds be selling well. in the general market would not their unique contributior tor of the May 1981 them". "For we suffer," he said, like this. to Europe and the work attack on the life of John Twomey a spokesman for be available until spring but that for the true progress o. Pope John Paul II has "at what is being done to "Let no lies confuse them. Paulist Press, which is handling the comic book is "initially doing our society by members of "Let no propaganda contemporary society.' turned down a request distribution of the comic book in very well". for the release of a Bul- our own community. For deceive them. the pope said. garian suspect in the having come from us, they are not of us. By their attempt. The Italian attorneys words of hate and their for Sergei lvanov policies of murder, they A ntonov, the only Bul- cut themselves away from garian arrested in the the community of love case, said Judge Ilario which is the Christian Martella. the chief Church. WASHINGTON (NC) — The second draft of the U.S. "This foul deed blasinvestigator, had ruled bishops' war and peace pastoral is flawed by a confusion against their motion for phemes in its desecration of life, human created in of facts and moral principles, said Bishop Edward W. the release of Antonov God's image and likeness, O 'Rourke of Peoria, Ill. on the basis of' "complete lack of evidence" created through love and for love," Bishop Daly The pastoral draft At the U.S. bishops' tionate reasons for the counterforce policies so the means used cannot out against him. that now the vast majority weight the end sought - • said. f alls victim to an a nnual meeting in dangers embodied in the of our nuclear warheads as "the primary area ot Washington in policy November, we pursue." "overriding assumpin which the second draft He said that in its critical are aimed at military debate as we evaluate tion" that U.S. nuclear nuclear deterrence poliof the proposed pastoral section on the morality of objectives, not cities." deterrence stategy is letter was debated at nuclear deterrence, the Agreeing with the pastor- cies," Bishop O'Rourke directed chiefly against length, Bishop O'Rourke al's judgment on the commented: cities, he said, and this was one of about 30 draft accepts "as an abso- immorality of targeting "The fact that in a nuclear ROME (NC) — The number of Polish seminarlute principle" the 1976 war many non-combatants a ssumption in turn bishops recognised to ians has increased nearly 25 percent in the past three statement by the U.S. c ivilian populations. would be killed is used in speak on leads it from the the floor. pastoral to y ears and ordinations to the priesthood are up more bishops that "not only is it Bishop O'Rourke sugp lace too much But when called upon he wrong to attack civilian gested that the pastoral this second draft as evithan 30 percent in the same period, according to emphasis on the prin- declined to express his populations but it is also "vigorously protest against dence that there is no prostatistics released by the Polish bishops' office in R ome. ciple of wrong inten- views in that forum, saying wrong to threaten to attack the relatively few nuclear portionate reason for t hat the two-to-three- them as a part warheads which are still present U.S. deterrence At the end of 1982, there were 7,225 major semiof a strategy tion rather than on minute aimed time at cities as being policies. limit imposed narians in Poland, a 23 percent increase from the proportionality in its on speeches was insuffi- of deterrence." inherently unacceptable." "1 maintain that the con5845 total at the end of 1979. criticism of nuclear cient for the criticisms he At that time, he said, both "At the same time,- he trary is true, namely, preDuring the year, 571 diocesan priests and 204 the Soviet Union and Uni- added. "we must free our- cisely because deterrence. had. the indirect religious priests were ordained. In his memo the Peoria ted States "were pursuing selves from the overriding as well as the direct conseThe total figure shows a 31 percent increase from the policy of Mutual Shifting the terms of bishop urged the drafting assumption that any use of quence of nuclear the 407 diocesan priests and 182 religious priests analysis. he suggested, committee "to distinguish Assured Destruction." nuclear weapons is inher- exchange would be so horordained in 1979. should lead to support for clearly between the princi- "Since that time probably ently evil by reason of the rible, we must continue to The Archdiocese of Cracow, headed by Cardinal K arol Wojty la until he became Pope John Paul 11 in rather than condemnation ples at stake, namely, A) the Soviets and certainty intention embodied in that empty the nuclear deterof the basic U.S. nuclear we must not intend to kill the United States has redi- use." rence which reduces the 1978, had the largest number of major seminarians deterrence policy in the directly noncombatants: rected its nuclear strategy Moving to the principle likelihood of such an enor(358) and of newly ordained priests (47). B) there must be propor- away from countercity to of proportionality present situation. that mous disaster."
Pope's life in comic
Pastoral 'flawed' says O'Rourke
Numbers rise
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-Canadian reactions to code- Mayoes In certain areas the New Code of Canon Law, may not reflect exactly a personally held connection on a disputed point. It is logical to expect all the consultation would lead to a text reflecting some compromise in order to harmonise diverse cultures, languages, mentalities, and so on. So, while the final text may not be perfect, it will certainly be an improvement o ver the present text and sufficient for our needs.
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It is important all m embers of the Church receive the f ullest explanations possible. It will help them come to a deeper u nderstanding of t he positive role the code can play in t heir development. T he media can help us provide a positive climate of introduction for the code.
Father Brian Oloughlin of Perth is at present in Canada concluding his three year study of Canon Law. This week he sent The Record a copy of the Press release distributed in Canada
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Why bother with laws in the Church at all? • Church is a community -- a community of nearly 800 million believers. Every community needs norms, not only to structure its institutions, but also to regulate activity between its members allowing for the fullest possible expression of freedom. • Emphasise that the Church is not a Church of law; while law is necessary, law does not define the "mystery" of the Church; the Church enacts legislation not only to promote harmony within its structual organisation, but also to foster respect for and protection of those basic rights to which members of the Church can lay claim. • Law is an instrument which should assist the members of Christ's Church to grow to full maturity in the Lord. Law is always subordinate to the Word of God (scripture) and the Sacraments. Why a revision in Church law now? • Church law must be continually updated to reflect the Church's understanding of its nature and its mission. • Need for renewal in Church's vision and structures examined at Second Vatican Council also necessitates a review and renewal of the legal understanding of this same mission and those same structures. Why has the revision taken so long? • Stress that 20 years or so for a revision of law in the Church is a relatively short period of time in the history of the Church. This new code will only be the third official compilation of law in the Church's 2,000-year history -- another historical indication the Church, contrary to some opinions, does not seek to enshrine everything in law. • Pope Paul VI (and John Paul II) has made it clear the new law should incorporate the "spirit" of Vatican II and possess a certain openness and flexibility. To hastily draft law would not have allowed time for the evolution of the conciliar spirit and would have resulted in an overabundance of unnecessary and unwieldy legislation. • New mechanisms came into existence as a result of the Second Vatican Council (renewed Episcopal conferences, synod of bishops, priests' senates). These new structures have been allowed to freely develop. • Good law finds its roots in experience and in life itself. The positive experience resulting from Vatican II had to be given "room to breathe" before good legislation was possible at all. • The very mechanism of consultation and revision was time-consuming. In the period of consultation, national groupings of bishops (over 100), Pontifical Universities, Roman Congregations and offices, religious communities and other competent individuals were consulted on the draft texts and their comments and revisions forwarded to the central commission. The period of revision followed ( 1973 to 1981) in which proposed suggestions and re-formulations were discussed and taken into account by the central commission. • Important to stress the involvement of the whole Church (clergy, religious and laity) in consultation and revision process. • Accentuate the positive.
• Important to stress the law seeks to foster and protect the exercise of the rights of persons and not just various groups or categories (e.g. men, women, clerics, religious, etc.) within the Church. • Many offices and functions formerly reserved t o clerics (ordained ministers) and now open to the laity (this designation includes women). Examples of such offices: chancellor (and vice-chancellor), personnel of the Church's marriage tribunals (judge, defender or the bond, etc.). Laity, in certain circumstances, may also officiate at marriages in the name of the Church. • Wherever possible, the code eliminated unnecessary distinction between men and women. What does the new code have to say about women and the priesthood? • Stress the priesthood of all the People of God: all are sharers in the priesthood of Christ by virtue of their baptism and incorporation into the Church this aspect is stressed in the new law and is the foundation for lay involvement in the total mission of the Church; • As far as ministerial priesthood is concerned, it is there is no change in the proposed new law still reserved to men. • Important to note the fact that the question of admitting women to the ordained ministry is not one to be solved by mere legislation; good law necessarily implies good theology; present theology of the ordained ministry has to reconcile the tradition of the Church with contemporary demands that women have access to the ordained ministerial priesthood. • Here, it is not a question of rights; theologically, no one can lay claim to ordination as a right. •
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Doubts about the future of experimentation in the Church have been raised by the promulgation of the new Code of Canon Law. The question has been asked whether the new code means the Church has been renewed and whether it will settle into a set pattern for centuries. The Canadian circular says: • Vatican II began the r enewal. The code coninues it. It took 15 years of work to revise the code. It will take that long again for it to permeate all areas of daily life of the Church. Some in the Church may have wished to limit Vatican ll's influence on the Church -- the code assures this won't happen.
What's in this new law that's so "new"? • There is a new "spirit" animating the code and running through it like a thread; emphasis is placed on Church as "communion" of all the People of God -- even the Church hierarchy (pope, bishops) exists at the sevice of this "communion". • New law defines basic rights of Christians and ensures proper structures and mechanisms for the defense and protection of these same rights. The 1 917 code of law stressed obligations of the faithful as opposed to rights, and only highlighted the right of Christians to the spiritual ministration of the Church (sacraments, etc.). The shift in emphasis is major as it recognises the basic equality of each and every member of the People of God (from pope to the smallest baptised member of the Christian Chapter community). • New ecumenical thrust: the recognition that • It has been called the other Churches not united in the Catholic communion may also be imbued with the spirit of Christ final chapter of Vatican II, (polemical language has disappeared - no mention in the sense it's the last of these ecclesial communions being "heretical" or written chapter. Now comes the full living out of "schimatic"). • New law does not seek a rigid uniformity; in the renewal and reforms. • In one sense it is the many cases universal norms are left to national conferences of bishops to implement; there is a marked beginning of a new revision decentralisation in the application of the law to par- of the code because the Church constantly reviews ticular circumstances, cultures, etc. • Word of God and sacraments are seen as its laws. As we live this celebrations of the community; law has as its base revised 1983 edition we will the concept of Church as "communion" of the whole be learning. That learning and living experience will People of God. Does the new law treat of the role of women in the lead to future adaptations of the code. It's an ongoing Church? process.
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SAN FRANCISCO (NC) — Mayor Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco refused to sign a proclamation marking January 22 as W omen's Reproductive Freedom Day in the city. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors had passed a resolution which would have proclaimed January 22 as Women's Reproductive Freedom Day. But Ms. Feinstein sent the resolution back without signing it. The proclamation cannot be made without the mayor's signature. January 22 is the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court ruling against the constitutionality of restictive state laws on abortion. A bortion opponents mark the anniversary each year with marches and prayer services. In a letter to the board the mayor said of the resolution that "rather than heightening awareness about abortion it may in reality promote division within one city. "I see no point in the city memorialising about abortion because this to me is a matter of private conscience and not really the appropriate subject of local legislation." Board members favouring the resolution had argued it would celebrate a woman's right to choose when and if to have a child. However, Supervisor Lee Dolson, chairman of the Human Services Committee of the board and opponent to the resolution, said. "Let's call this what it is . . . our issue here is abortion — the silent holocaust."
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God drafted a busy life for Terry -111'' T
HE ST COLEMAN'S diocesan scholarship school at North Fitzroy was a tiny place, Terry Mears recollects. It had one class of about 40 children in a single classroom with a lone teacher, a dynamic Christian Brother named Bowler.
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he playground was so small that t unnel hall was about the only game possible. But they were bright kids with an outstanding teacher, the indefatigable "It is very much a people business," they hadn't exploration data without increasing The answer was simple Brother Bowler who left an indelible By BOB BOYLE he says. completed the drawing office on the the expense. imprint on their young minds. "A man at Kodak in Perth was site. .[here were other schools later for So it was back to the drawing board doing tests on colour microfilm, Terry, but St Coleman's is the one he saw the close ot their merchandising activities. in Melbourne for four or five months which was very rare then and is not all most likes to talk about. PROVIDES an unrivalled area After he had done his Leaving and At the time of the Games the for Terry before the company sent that common today. of self-development. Your success "I took an interest in the experi- rate is geared to your self-motivation before he joined the Victorian Lands Russians had just invaded Hungary him to Deepdale, 150 kilometres east mentation. What we were seeking was and the number of workable ideas you Department to train as a draftsman, and the Melbourne authorities feared of Onslow in the Pilbara in 1962. the unforgettable Olympic Games of a hostile reaction from migrants and That was the year. you will a way to produce colour microfiche. can produce. 1956 burst upon Melbourne. others disaffected by the ruthless Red recollect, that the Commonwealth Now Western Mining has its central "Companies are increasingly recogTerry and his brother Bob, now a occupation of a sovereign country. Games were held in Perth. The technical records on microfilm, a nising that their success depends very Christian Brother at Geelong, got a largely on the success of their sales Terry remembers seeing buses Melbourne Olympics had whetted his good deal of it in colour. "The man with whom I was work- representatives, and they are looking job selling sweets and ice cream at the carrying athletes from the USSR appetite for such events and he main track and field venue, the arriving at the MCG with their managed to get some leave to come ing left Kodak to go to Bell and How- to the better education of their sales ell and shortly afterwards asked me to staffs. Melbourne Cricket Ground. windows taped as a precaution down to the capital. join him there, an invitation I was "It is dangerous for sales people to On the first day they did a roaring against stone-throwing attacks. It was to be a fateful journey pleased to accept. When he was transtrade hawking their wares on trays After all this excitement, young because on it he met the girl, Maureen ferred by the company to a senior measure their success only by the monetary yardstick. Both the buyer round the packed stands, but from Mears settled into the mundane task Ryan, who was later to be his wife then on they decided that the of learning to be a draftsman with the when he partnered her, through executive position in the Eastern and seller must be thoroughly satismountain must come to Mohammed. Victorian Lands Department. The arrangements made by an Onslow States, I took over his microfilm work fied. The customer you have got is the here." Terry has found selling to be a best one to have, and you must hold t horough training was later to stand school teacher friend of hers, to a fascinating occupation. him." him in good stead, but finally he could dance at the Cottesloe Surf Club. put up no longer with the sight of men Terence Leslie Mears, WA sales manager (microfilms) of Bell day after day doing the same jobs that they had done for nearly 50 years. and Howell Australia Pty Ltd, was born at Box Hill, Victoria, m There, he thought, in the fullness of r on December 18, 1940. He was educated at St Joseph's t ime go I. It was time to quit. Catholic In Primary School at Northcote, St Coleman's — a 1960 he joined BHP as an AN. I G access.to all parts of the diocesan scholarship school — at North Fitzroy, CBC Parade ground, they parked themselves and e xploration draftsman in Melbourne. He had always wanted to go north E RESIGNED from BHP in East their goods in the best vacant seats Melbourne, and did his Leaving at the Northcote High available and thrilled to the spectacle and in 1961 his chance came. BHP toward the end of 1963 to join the School. He was trained as a draftsman in the Victorian Lands in the arena as the customers came to sent him to an iron ore exploration Western Mining Corporation in Perth camp at cartographic a draftsman, a he as place a job called Constance Department before joining BHP in whose employ he was them. Range north-west of Mt lsa. did until 1974 when WMC gave him a transferred WA, joined the Western Mining Corporation to A desire to dash round the track on year off to lecture in cartography at which the athletic greats of the world here and in 1978 moved to Bell and Howell. the Wembley Technical College. had been competing gradually built ERRY revelled in the open-air After this stint in academia he went Terry and his school teacher wife Maureen (daughter of Sarsup in the two brothers and they gave it life, swinging a pick and on the end of a go in the dusk toward the end of the a shovel, and in the companionship of back to Western Mining until he field, one of the Subiaco Ryans) have three children — Fiona Games after the champions had left his 20 or so workmates living in two- switched to Bell and Howell early in (15), Gerard (14) and Ben (12) — and are members of the 1978. the field. man tents on the site. Holy Spirit parish at City Beach. Why such a move? They were fit youngsters and they After he had spent several months Terry belongs to the Catenian Association and is on the had covered about 300 yards of the on this hard physical labour. "In the early 1970s," Terry explains. sacred track before decamping with headquarters in Melbourne suddenly "maps were coloured by hand and 1 fathers' committee at John XXIII College which the three officials in irate but unavailing woke up to the fact that no drafting was looking for a way for Western children attend. pursuit. Needless to say, the episode was being done at Constance Range. Mining to retain the circulation of its
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Part of the crowd at Perry Lakes Stadium on the final day of the Games which were generally judged to be a huge success and a triumph for Perth and WA in staging them. They were a magnet for Terry Mears.
Pope speaks on 'disappearances' ROME (NC) — Pope John Paul 11 compared efforts to gain information about the thousands of people who have disappeared for political reasons in Argentina to his own search for fellow Poles who vanished during World War H, according to Brazilian Cardinal Paulo E‘aristo Arns of Sao Paulo. Commenting on his January 17 private audience with the pope, the cardinal said he spent an "intense and c omforting" 30 minutes discussing the missing people in Argentina and other topics with him. During the audience, Cardinal Arns presented a list of more than 7,000 names of people who have disappeared in Argentina. Most are believed to have vanished after being taken by people identifying themselves
Personal experience in MAI II as members of security forces. The list was compiled by the Sao Paulo Archdiocesan Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in the Southern Cone. The southern cone refers to the southern half of South Africa. "I found the pope very much in sympathy with his fight for human rights," said Cardinal Arns. "The pope reminded me that he was commit-
ted, during the war, to seeking data on persons made to disappear by the Nazis and by the Soviets, in order to give news to their families,' he added. Pope John Paul, in an address to diplomats two days before his audience with the Bra 7ilian cardinal, criticised governments which "make a certain number of people disappear. without trial, leaving their families in a cruel state of uncertainty.
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I came upon John the Baptist for the first time in 1968 in the village of Chartres, France. He was standing just outside the north portal o f the great Gothic cathedral there. His head was slightly bent to one side and he had the look of one lost in t hought, perhaps in c omtemplation.
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The Record, February 3 — 9, 1983
By David Gibson
No matter the meagre budget, I was determined to go to Chartres. To me, its cathedral stood for an entire Christian ere. As an American, to whom a 17th century building would be considered old, the very age of this Gothic cathedral was cause for wonder. I arrived at the cathedral with two absolutely was H is face friends just before noon. We hapunforgettable. pened in on a tour, just beginning, It was a languid summer after- of the church's stained glass winthe cooled breezes gentle and noon dows. An excellent British guide air. I stood there a long time gazing directed our gaze higher up than upon John the Baptist's somewhat we would have looked on our own weatherbeaten self. He had stood and got us to focus in on the finest elethere — the victim of all the details of the figures in these ments of nature and the seasons -windows. since the Middle Ages. It seems that in the Middle Ages, always I recall hoping he would architects discovered how to once be there - and feeling concern build in the large windows, church that he might not be. leaders found a way to use the winIn Chartres one expects to dow spaces to instruct the people encounter the great stained glass by visually depicting stories from windows that Gothic architecture Scripture and the saints' lives. made possible. But I. at least, The danger of a visit to a great hadn't expected to encounter such Gothic cathedral is that in all the a memorable sculpture. ardour one quickly develops for its This was my first visit to Europe. great art. its religious significance ) li . i '4.' .., I was a young teacher then and had might be overlooked. But the . k . ' Viii 1.‘ •A' i: little money. A budget of $7 a day cathedral is a church, not a • had to cover food and lodging. It museum. The sculpture on the walls of the great cathedrals often are referred to as "sermons in stone". Within a could be done with careful single cathedral one can trace the stories of salvation from Adam to Christ. Above the Royal Door of the In fact, for millions of Christians planning. Cathedral of Chartres. "Christ of the Apocalypse" sits in judgement surrounded hr saints, angels and kings. for centuries afterward, Gothic cathedrals stood as the model of what a local church should be, on a smaller scale, of course. Today church architects struggle to find ways of building churches that help draw worshipping people together in a sense of intimate community. That is just one special need of our times that the from area to area. Men served as church tries to meet. This was the age of Christendom. prelates or officials in churches or that period in history when church In each age the church responds royal courts throughout Western to the needs of its time. Often its and state in the West were so Europe, little concerned about architecture reflects that response. closely united. Church and state, national origin. outwardly at least, were to dediThe cathedral of Chartres literConsider the career of John of ally dominates its landscape. drawcate themselves to the same goal: Salisbury in Britain. The learned ing people from miles around to Under the rule of Pekah, the northern advancing the glory of God's John studied at the cathedral itself. Once inside this church, you kingdom. kingdom of Israel ins&'tuted a foreign policy school of Chartres (France), Kno- feel as though in a sacred, harmonIdeas were percolating in a dozen which had a disturbing effect on the southern wles points out. He became a ious space. Your eyes are lifted up different centres of learning. Hisfriend or acquaintance of most — toward heaven. You can't help Kingdom of Judah and on the career of Isaiah. torian David Knowles, in "The By Katherine Bird celebrated figures of his day. His but sense the splendour and the Evolution of Medieval Thought", Pekah entered into a coalition of the southern region's religious letters tell of the rapidly escalating beauty of God. revival affected intellectual an says kings who were sick and tired of principles. "all contemporary mental activi- hundred years, from 1050-1350. . . conflict between The christian era. To say I was "awestruck" at CharAlliances with pagan nations had paying tribue to Assyria and As an American, to whom a 17th tres is not too strong a word to Castelot By John theology, philo- the whole of educated Western Father including ties", always led to disaster for the decided to throw off the yoke. century building would be consi- describe my feelings. Nor am I sophy, religious reform, literature, Europe formed a single undifferenHebrews. But on this score, Ahaz dered old, the very age of this alone in that feeling. This church mathematics. tiated cultural unity." Thus, he The new king of the southern law, , architecture that wife royal a of son a was it a could not have cared less. Well, Ahaz got sign from the Gothic cathedral was cause for has been a great source of comfort adds, teachers, thinkers and wrisciences. kingdom of Judah, Ahaz (735-720 natural the and sculpture the at time) anticipating was Isaiah, however, was very much Lord anyway, one that is a strange lsaish did wonder. travel freely and could ters three "For B.C.), had too much respect for the writes: nowles K and pride to Christians for poverty, will spend his infancy in was everything mixture of threat and promise: military might of Assyria to risk concerned. He of years. hundreds for food crudest the only with be shall with child, "The virgin Ahaz was not: a true nobleman, a his neck in such a madcap advenmy encounter with was it But ourishment. man of political vision and princi- and bear a son, and shall name him n "In some miraculous way neth Clark in "Civilisation," arch . . . could make stone ture and refused to join the John the Baptist that really gave the eem s weightless: ple, a man moved by the spirit of Emmanuel . . . before the child 1969.) brought be will survived. Fire Syria Israel and Chartres has alliance. So the king of Damascus the greatest feeling of being tied learns to reject the bad and choose low, yes, but Judah will pay a terri- and war, revolution and resthe Lord. weightless expression of his me John of Salisbury "was a (Syria) and Pakah ganged up on those Christians hundreds of to At God's direction Isaiah paid a the good, the land of these two ble price for their defeat. toration, have attacked it in mind more delicate than spirit." Ahaz. years ago. And the fact that we visit to the king as he checked prep- kings whom you dread shall be Isaiah's hopes were fulfilled in the still climb the powerful, but so fine, so rich don't know the names of all the Adding insult to injury, Ahaz arations for the city's defence, deserted. The Lord shall bring birth of the son of Ahaz, Hezekiah, vain ... One can so and that perfectly cultured the in cathedral the fine sculptors whose work adorns to hill turned to the ambitious Assyrian Isaish pulled no punches, but told upon you and your people and a worthy sign of God's presence RESOURCES the cathedral really hit me. spirit of a pilgrim." (Kenneth its presence ennobles and monarch, Tiglath-pileser, for help. Asaz quite frankly that his present your father's house days worse among his people. "A History of the Medieval It seemed as though the anonymClark in "Civilization," 1969.) graces in our thought the Assuria's king was delighted at the policy was suicidal. Forget the than any since Ephraim seceded closely how noting by end me Let ity of such great works made them Church: 590-1500," by Marthe of century." 12th mage i epitome of opportunity to mop up the trou- insane alliance with a juggernaut from Judah." (Isaiah 7: 14-17). the is "Chartes Middle Eastern political situaall the more intriguing. blesome little Medeterranean that will end by crushing Judah, The name Emmanuel, means the awakening in (Etienne Gilson, "History of garet Deanesly. Eighth editoday resembles that of Isai- the first great tion I felt linked to the sculptor who, and 1954. tion, Harper Row, states. Isaiah said. Renew the alliance "God with us". It contains a promChristian Philosophy in the ah's day: the power blocs are European civilisation. It is in an age of such grand and splen10 E. 53rd St., New York, N.Y. Ahaz has the unenviable reputa- with Yahweh; he alone can save his ise of divine intervention in favour formed, with little countries caught also the bridge between Middle Ages," 1955.) did church architecture, fashioned of the people. tion of being one of the most unsa- people. In the Gothic cathedrals, 10022. This short history squeeze and looking to other Romanesque and Gothic, the in a look of quiet. simplicity into not this by profit But Ahaz will Such talk was nonsense to a man vory characters on the throne of powerful nations for help; there is between the world of Abelard man, "by the devices of the concentrates on the social John the Ba'ptist's face. The depth David. He was haughty, cruel, like Ahaz. Isaiah even offered to heaven-sent aid. His bullheaded- much the same injustice, fear and of feeling in this figure, his proand the world of St. Thomas Gothic style, the shaft with and personal aspects of the arrogant and boastfully irreli- perform a miracle in support of his ness and lack of faith will bring violence. period and is intended for the of cluster ts i found human longing, seemed to columns, passrestof world the quinas, A near his ruin to gious. Calling upon Assyria for advice. The king met this offer with humiliation and as reader well general as stuNews symbolise a spirit that binds the NC by 1982 ing without interruption into (c) world (Copyright less curiosity and the help, besides being bad politics, sneering sarcasm: "I will not ask, I dynasty. hristians of all ages. C dents, author the explains. Service). and vault the the pointed (Ken(for prince royal order." next I Lord." and the the ndeed, tempt not will system with of keeping was throughly out of
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Education Brief
Bernard, the Cistercian abbot of Clairvaux, France, had so much personal magnetism that "mothers hid their sons from him, wives their husbands, and companions their friends," wirtes a 12th century contemporary. Their fear? That Bernard's preaching would cause their men to abandon ordinary lives for the monastery. That story is told by historian Margaret Deanesly in "A History of the Medieval Church, 590-1500". It illustrates one characteristic of this most fascinating mystic and doctor of the church. Bernard is one of the great Christian figures at the dawn of the age of the gothic cathedrals. The son of a Burgundian nobleman in France, Bernard was destined for a lay career. But at the age of 22, says Ms. Deanesly, unhappy with his worldly life, Bernard "began to meditate flight". On his way to join his brothers in besieging a castle with the Duke of Burgundy, Bernard turned aside into a church and burst into tears as he prayed.
Feeling the spirit of ancient cathedrals
cathedral was an artistic rendering The spirit of the medieval of the stories of salvation from David Gibson gives readers a taste of the excitement Gothic cathedrals is a spirit By Father Alfred McBride, 0.Praem. Adam to Christ. charo f a first visit to Chartres. He meets an interesting of faith. Many scholars have Within one cathedral a person And referred cathedral. the the to cathedrals as acter named John the Baptist outside could follow the pattern of divine perthe for Ill Christ; in natures one. heavenly the as well as world sermons in stone". he comments that just as church architects today try to from The windows as well as the miles sons of the Trinity; IV for the car- salvation in an orderly way meet modern needs, the medieval architects attempted foday's architects and engineers of carving on the walls and doors dinal virtues of prudence, justice, one aisle to the next, from front to perceive them as structural wondto meet the needs of their times. Gibson is editor of V for back in a sequence following the ers. Hordes of tourists include the are a toast of good cheer both to temperance and fortitude; the order of the Bible. The people for VI the Know Your Faith series. cathedrals in their sightseeing and the human condition and the wel- the wounds of Christ; might not be able to read books or mystithe for VII creation; of divine. days the of presence come the artistic regard the cathedrals as always understand the sermons of Katherine Bird comments that the age of the cathedVIII sacred; and mysterious cal, "things of beauty that are a joy The artists, glassmakers and the priest. But intuitively they took rals was a time when new ideas were percolating on a forever". sculptors chose their subjects from for both Easter and the beatitudes; in the message of redemption and hierarchy angelic the for IX the They them. world around dozen different fronts. It was an age when crusaders It is the spirit of faith, however, the fights of the Holy Spirit; X for expressed in some of the most gorwent on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, when troubadours that dominates the mood of the looked at roses, cabbages, violets, the Ten Commandments; XI for geous art the world has ever seen. parsley, apples, pears, plums, oaks, sang their lovely ballads. Ms Bird is associate editor of Gothic cathedral. The soaring beeches and aspens, and trans- sin; XII for the apostles. In a certain sense the cathedrals walls rise like two hands meeting in museums beforepeople heard were symbols such of fond were People the Know Your Faith series. prayer. Because a real Christian formed them into borders for winanimal and numerical - and of such things. But they were not dows, decorations for pillars and faith integrates the human the and Father John Castelot continues his series on the Spirit could "read" them right off, despite museums as repositories of past divine in a single glance, the background for tapestries. a lack of literacy. In many ways the artistic achievement; rather they o f Scripture. This week he tells of the encounter of cathedrals demonstrate a simulThe artisans used dogs, donkeys, were living homilies stirring the Isaiah and the terrible King Ahaz. taneous delight in the created cows, sheep, roosters, horses, Discussion Points and Questions beholders to faith, hope and love. larks, sparrows, lions, elephants The medieval artisans and and other members of "all things I. For you, what is significant about the time in the Middle Ages. builders went beyond the usual bright and beautiful" to serve as aim of modern artists to evoke in models for brass, marble, stone when the great Gothic cathedrals the beholder some kind of aesbuilt? were and wood carvings and sculptures. 2. Why does Father Alfred thetic delight; the cathedrals were For the hundreds of faces needed McBride call the Gothic cathedrals designed for a religious purpose to portray kings, prophets, apos- "testimonies to faith?" and served that goal with splendid tles, saints, angels, devils and 3. How could medieval people results. thieves, the builders of the cathed- read the story of salvation in the Moreover, the cathedrals were rals freely adapted the faces they cathedrals, according to Father the people's palaces. Kings and saw in the villages, towns and cit- McBride? Why did they do this? bishops had their personal places, ies. They were not above making 4. What figure especially in- but the cathedrals were meeting the face of a gargoyle out of some- terested David Gibson when he halls for all the people — not just one they disliked personally. visited the Cathedral of Chartres? for religious worship, but for town 5. What link does Gibson find gatherings and often for plays Long before Shakespeare said the words, "All the world's a stage", between Christians today and (until the plays became too irreverthose artisans and craftsmen knew those of the Middle Ages? ent and were exiled to the square that truth. 6. What does Katharine Bird outside the cathedral). They developed a set of standar- mean by the word "Christendom?" In the simplicity of faith the peo7. What was noteworthy about ple gathered in God's house to pray dised images for many of the 4 saints: the dog for St. Bernard; the John of Salisbury, according to and enjoy themselves. No leader could rival their real king, Jesus bird for St. Ambrose, the hymn Ms. Bird? 4 4 composer; the "dumb ox" for the 8. Whom was Isaiah referring to Christ, in the pleasures and brilliant Thomas Aquinas; for when he made the prediction about delights of stained glass, carvings Jesus --- the fish, lamb, pelican and the coming of Emmanuel, accord- and soaring walls. ing to Father John Castelot? The cathedrals were -- and are shepherd. The sculptors and artists used 9. Name one positive point and testimonies to faith because the Roman numerals as a symbol code one negative point about the age of people saw Christ in the human as well: I for God; II for the two the cathedrals. and the human in Christ.
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Western Europe in the age of the Gothic cathedrals hummed with activity, excitement and change. It was a time when toubadours composed lovely ballads about courtly love, a time when traffic between East and West was broadening the West's horizons.
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:YOUR WEEK ON TELEVISION
Top talent tipped for grand final of The Entertainers The winner of Channel Nine's series, The Entertainers, will be decided on Sunday when a special two-hour grand final is telecast, at 6.30pm. Winners and runners-up from the series' eight heats will face adjudication by a special panel of five judges. Regular series judges, John Thornton and Coralie Condon, will be joined by special guest judges, John Proper, producer of Channel Nine's national talent show, New Faces; Dr Geoff Gibbs, Principal of the WA Academy of Performing Arts; and Jenny McNae, prominent Perth theatre personality and stage director. Hosted by John Burgess, The Entertainers will feature 17 different acts (there were two runners-up in one heat), all of whom will provide viewers with some fine entertainment and the judges with a giant headache! Performers are competing for a number of attractive prizes, including the first prize of a trip to Singapore with accommodation compliments of Air India and West World Holidays, the runner-up prize of appliances from Vox Adeon, and an encouragement award of a watch from Edments. Besides the 17 acts on Sunday, a special guest appearance will be made by winner of The Entertainers 1981j82, Susan Parry, accompanied by Rhapsodie. singing a Friends medley. The final of Channel Nine's The Entertainers screens on Sunday, at 6.30pm. Two of the 17 acts competing are Margaret Crowe and Alain Lebrasse, pictured with host John Burgess (right) and series judges, Corahe Condon and John Thornton (left) after their heat.
Loreto Sister on ABC's Encounter
Who are the men behind the political masks . . .? That's the question the Channel 7 news special tries to answer on Saturday, February 12. Seven has produced an indepth programme on WA's two major political leaders, Premier R ay O'Connor and the Opposition Leader, Brian Burke.
Looking at the leaders
bears, they are both I he programme v,111 be present station in life. shown at 8.35pm, one "One of the amazing facts Catholic and attended conL oreto Sister Veronica Brady of the University of Western week before the State elec- which has emerged from vents for their education, research on both the Pre- and they both came from on February 19. A ustralia is guest speaker on the ABC's Encounter programme tions Written and researched mier and the Leader of the average backgrounds. next week. by John Rudd, Channel 7 Opposition is the similari- "But from the backnews editor, it looks at ties in their backgrounds," ground. they developed in 6WF and 15am 10. She can be heard on Radio 3 on Saturday, February 12 at quite different ways. each of the leaders from John pointed out. on Sunday, February 13. boyhood through to their "With names like O'Con- "One of the questions we nor and Burke, they try to answer is why that lightening it. [he title of her talk is obviously have Irish fore- happened". Remembering is ImporUsing her poetic images. tant: Aboriginal and together with some of the Christian Conscience. thoughts and writings of other Australians of both Could a girl strangle herIn this programme Sister Veronica Brady asks us to European and Aboriginal self? It could he a possibilbackgrounds, Veronica ity according to the strange let go and live again the most important part of the Brady allows the listener to tale of The Fourth Man, in story of the early settlers in What we call "the Abo- challenge of life in the new re-live some of our past The Agatha Christie Hour this country, their meeting riginal problem" is really country offered us as and to hear what Aborigi- screening on Channel Two with the Aboriginal peo- the whites' problem. What human beings, as children nal people are saying to us on Sunday, February 6, at A repeat telecast of the 13 episodes of The ple, what happened and we have done to the Abo- of the one God who is Lord today. 7.40pm. screening on ABC television at Christians, why it happened. a some and and riginal people represents a of all creation. This failure Three actors A doctor, lawyer kind of "original sin", a weighs on us still, but unusual music give Veron- priest are shocked from 9.50pm on Thursday nights, presents a picfailure to respond to the knowledge is one way of ica Brady's ideas impact. their professional compla- torially beautiful series which gives a comcency by a strange story. pletely fresh view of many of the great Failure artefacts and moments of Christianity.
Our conscience and Aboriginals
Agatha
Faith teaching Crafts in schools
Missionary moments
Different medicine
In Episode I I, Missions This is important, she one of the most Abroad thinks, because our failure dramatic examples of to know and love and learn A Big Country tells the Christian revival in the to live with the first Ausof a unique Austral- nineteenth century was the story Education R eligious tralians has made us outian craftsman in The spread of missionary activsiders in the country we in a Pluralist Society H arpsichord Maker, ity, both in the slums of Alternative methods to live in, a people without a will be the topic of on Channel Two Europe's industrial cities orthodox treatment of screening past and so a people with- discussion for the on Wednesday, February and in the lands of the new many ailments are becomout a sense of humility, of R everend Dr John ' ing increasingly popular. with it -- with far from 9, at 7.30pm. colonial empires. knowing ourselves in need Munro, of Brisbane in and Friday. Bill Bright is one of the The population of Man- so much so that convensatisfactory the results. one accepts Whether of mercy, and thus without By The Way on 6WN truth claims of any one of a On the whole, religious world's outstanding harp- chester increased between tional medicine is being any profound sense of 10.20am on Mon- number of religions, or people want to commend sichord makers. He lives 1 712 and 1851 from 7,000 questioned. at distinct as human hope alone in the foothills of the Our World: A Whole from the hope of material day (February 7), none at all, religion as such their particular versions of Nandewar Ranges, on the to 350,000, and the expanTuesday, Thursday is part of social reality, and it to young people. sion of industry was New Medicine, screening possessions. can hardly be bypassed by What can be regarded as a Northern Tablelands of accompanied by poverty. on Channel Two on Tuesday. February 7, at 7.30pm the education process reasonable form of reli- NSW, making instruments squalor, and slums. without the risk of its being gious education, assuming that had their roots in the From I.ancashire we go looks at the critical state of either wrongly despised, or that the subject is to be 16th and 17th centuries in to Tanzania -- the former m odern medicine in unwisely regarded as treated impartially, and yet Europe. Germany colony of Tanga- A merica. Divine Service will he Parish Priest, Father screened in Western Aus- Edmond Travers M.S.C. beyond criticism or at the same time allowing Bill first learnt his craft in nyika - the last resting Despite the increasing both teachers and students Europe. But the pull of his place in Africa of the great sophistication of medical tralia on ABC television at who also preaches the question. t o act with integrity family and his homeland pioneer, David Living- care, people are not But systems education I lam on Sunday, Febru- Homily, with the theme "But the greatest of these is such as exist in Australia t owards whatever faith won out and he now fol- stone, whose speeches at becoming any healthier. ary 6. lows his life long desire in Oxford and Cambridge There is a revolution in are in a cleft stick. Gener- stances are theirs? It will be telecast from Love". a against the slave trade led health care based on the Australian bush that believes Munro John is ally, education religious Saint Therese's Roman The Readers are from the cry the far from instrument By this In done. be can this to the founding of the Uni- "holistics" which has been Catholic Church, Moo- Church Apostolic group of handed over to the reliyoung people, the Antioch gious institutions in blocks The Way series he outlines mmaking centres of versities Mission to Cen- described as the medicine nah, Hobart. Europe. of the whole person. of time to do what they will one way of doing it. tral Africa. Mass is celebrated by the Group.
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Youth Forum Meeting is a must If you are interested in the WA youth Scene here's a meeting not to be missed. Youth group leaders, chaplains, parents and interested persons are urged to a ttend the annual general meeting of the Youth Affairs Council on February 8 at 7.30pm. Y AC is a non government body which coordinates the voluntary sector of the youth scene in WA. The AGM will be held in the scouts Hall Baden Powell Building at 581 Murray Street, Perth.
A time to talk The W.A. delegates to the YCW Conference in Brisbane recently met the Episcopal delegate of the YCW Bishop Faulkner, of Townsville. Pictured left to right: Fr John Jegorow, Kate Roberts, Tom O'Regan, Elizabeth Chidlow, Bishop Faulkner, and Gemma Wooltorton.
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Govt grants to aid Catholic youth work
Let us know how you stand lem in relation to young W ith the West people in their electoAustralian state elecrates and whether they tions just around the support the concept. of c orner the Youth small-scale communityThe Minister for Recreation Mr Pike informed the A ffairs Council of based work ventures. grant Catholic Youth Council for W.A. last week that -a W A is keen to know The enquiry seeks to of $11,300 has been approved to assist with the pro- the views of sitting find if politicians are and standing memaware of the accommojects of the Council. bers on relevant dation problem faced PERTH DIOCESE will Albany will share SI,850. ance from the Youth youth issues. by young people and share $7,450. Geraldton Diocese will Development Grant what they envisage can Affairs The Youth Scheme. receive $1,000. be done to improve the Council of WA (YAC) This includes Catholic Travel Subsidies include: situation. They are also government a non is Parish Youth, Young YCW Maione Seminar, Pictured above recent!) asked whether they supWith body which co-ordi• Christian Workers, Young $500 and Youth Services, v isiting the Minister of port innovative projects voluntary Y outh. Culture and nates the Christian Students, Ter- $500. in the areas of drug Jegorow John Western Fr. youth sector of tiary Young Christian Mr Pike said he was Recreation Mr Pike, are abuse (including alcoAustralia. Students, Redemptorists "pleased to advise that the left to right: Tom O'Re- Its parent national hol), sexual awareness, Youth, University Catho- State Government was gan (YCW), Leonie Petter- body is the Youth sexually transmitted commonthe between this in work to tracted lic Society, Choice, Department for Youth. son (TYCS), Teresa Dix diseases, nutrition and and state, ealth, Affairs Council of Auscarrying w person area. A Catholic Singles, Focolare Sport and able to respond ( YCS), JoAnne MalkoNic tralia. Politicians have out the national consul- voluntary sectors will fitness. and Youth Services. positively to the council's ( CPY), and Father . income supbeen asked to answer a tation will arrive in attempt co-ordination Higher Y CW Bunbury and request for financial assist- Jegorow. port is sought from the s eries of questions Perth on February 4. and organisation. before January 31. 2. The second factor Questions that politi- government for young T wo factors have which has influenced cians have been asked people under the age of spurred this enquiry on. this enquiry is that the by the Western Austral- 18 not supported by 1. The Federal govern- United Nations has ian YAC office relate to their parents. ment last month spent declared 1985 Interna- employment, educa- Y AC has also asked S 100,000 to carry out a tional Youth Year. tion, accommodation, for the politicians views youth consultation pro- The themes for that a dolescent health, on a locally based youth gramme in order to year will be youth par- youth and law, income bureau. achieve a youth devel- ticipation, youth devel- support and the road The YAC hopes that opment policy. The opment and peace. The trauma. interested politicians consultation will be car- Commonwealth Gov- Politicians are asked will attend its AGM on ried out during Janua- ernment has agreed to how they will tackle the Tuesday, February 8, ry/ February with a Australia's participa- unemployment prob- 7.30 to 10 pm. report prepared by the tion and an interim end of March. secretariat has been Young people you are asked to be Western Australia will established within the part of a vision. To be part of have the services of a Office of Youth Affairs. society's solutions not part of its part-time person con- Twice yearly meetings problems. Young people gre asked
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Second chance for kids I who need it WORLD T'S A BIG name for a big problem. It's called the Socio-Psycho Educational R esource Centre or Spercentre for short if you like — or 'the house' as it's been dubbed by the kids in the playground of Queen's Park Primary School across the way.
OF W OMEN A weekly feature by
Call it what you will, basically it's a second chance, perhaps the only chance, for kids who find themselves at odds with the conventional school system.
Uosivri Uoss
The Queen's Park centre was set up in 1973 and is one of four such facilities in Western Australia. Because the centres were established as part of a pilot scheme no official research has been undertaken to accurately assess the efficiency and or effectiveness of the system. For the people who work in the centres however, the results can be seen in the children who pass through their hands. One such person is Anne-Marie Loney, the psychologist in charge of the Queen's Park centre. She'd be the first to say that no-one deals in miracles. What does happen however is that children who have lost control of their emotions, selves or lives because they are part of a school system that does not function for them, can find a breathing space which helps them to emotionally adjust to their school and home environments.
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HE JOY, says Anne-Marie, is in getting through to something good in a child who has been largely written off by adults and peers alike. It's an increasing problem in a world that makes more demands of us each day. We are expected to relate on a more personal level and not everyone is suited to that. People expect more honesty and less role-playing and they pay a price for it, says Ann-Marie. It can be so subtle that no-one knows what is happening. While the family situation is rarely good in such cases, the children passing through the centre are not necessarily the product of bad or unloving parents. As often as not it is just that the relationship between parents and child doesn't
down. It's a fact that most of the children passing through the Queen's Park Spercentre have troubled family histories. . , around two-thirds of them are from broken families. In a world where marriages are failing by the minute it's easy to see who the victims are. For the kids who come through the door of the Queen's Park 'House', once the school principal's residence, it's a case of 'wait and see.' Most of the youngsters take a low-key approach. They don't really know what to expect but are prepared to give it half a chance.
No-one deals in miracles
but many can be helped click. When fulfillment and support is lackThe first task for the teachers is to ing at home the child begins to reflect his or remove the academic pressure. Anneher inner feelings in social situations. Marie Loney works with two teachers and The problem often manifests itself as a two aides handling 13 students from clash between the teacher and the child or Grades 1-7. the child and his or her peers. "When the kids come here we want to see A ggression, insolence and swearing are what they can do, but we also take the time the hallmarks of the unhappy child, school to observe," she said. guidance officers assess the situation, conObservation can take from three days to duct intellectual assessments and hold dis- a year. It's the first stage in a three-pronged cussions with the family before deciding programme. In the second stage work begthat a child needs and could benefit from a ins with the family. period at a Socio-Psycho Educational "It's part of the deal that if a child comes Resource Centre. then the family must also take part in counselling," Anne-Marie said. "There's no case of laying blame, we're here to work it out."
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Tests have shown, she says, that there is a very fine line dividing the differently organised brain pattern of the genius and that of the insane. The hardest part of the job, she says, is feeling that you are doing enough, that you are doing your best. "I guess I'm inclined to look ahead and ask why can't the problem be stopped earlier. I'd like to become more involved in preventative work in the future," she said. "I'd also like to be able to teach people about parenting and how families function. The world is a very different place to what it was and it will be even. more difficult by the 21st century.
the scheme, it would seem, says AnneMarie, that the youngsters who go back do cope better. It's a place for letting off steam and while in the early days 'all stoppers came out,' as the kids walked through the door, releasing what was often a fairly shattering amount of raw emotion, these days attitudes have changed and there is more discipline. There were plenty of 'hairy' stories from the early days and a few broken windows but it's all much calmer than many people think. Yes, there is a high staff turnover because teachers burn out quickly but that makes it sound more dramatic than it is. The current staff are dedicated people for Backup whom any moments of trauma are offset by those of achievement. "We work to build self esteem and confidence and to help the child understand his PRIMITIVE societies there was or her own emotional state," Anne-Marie more community backup in raising childsaid. "I find the more I work here the more ren. It's such an important job bringing up kids and now many parents have to go it unique people are." alone. If the contact is broken with their extended family then all stress falls on the parents." The best part of the job, says AnneBreakdown Marie, is working closely with kids. She has been at the centre since February after previously spending a year as guidance officer at Merredin. HERE'S A common chord running Educated at St Pius X Convent, Manthrough it all, she says, of breakdown in ning and Santa Maria Ladies College, family relationships. Anne-Marie spent two years with the pub"A family may seem normal but when lic service before putting herself through a you take a closer look there's often no basis four year Bachelor of Psychology course at of trust," she said. the University of Western Australia. "In one instance a child was kept such a She spent two and a half years as guibaby that he never developed any responsi- dance officer in the Bentley area and two bility for himself. We had to wean him off years travelling in Europe before spending mum and eventually get him to take a year as guidance officer and sexual responsibility for the fact that he was assault counsellor at Sir Charles Gairdner punching some other kid in the head." Hospital. "The family as a whole must work While many people still see psycholotogether if we're going to solve these sorts gists as 'mind-readers' there is growing of problems." acceptance of their role in a socially In some cases the trauma trigger is medi- troubled world. cal. Children can suffer from minor brain The Spercentres are a sign of this. A sign disorganisation which makes it difficult for that there is more to modern education them to learn. than the 3R's. A sign that a problem has With increasing world pollution it's a been recognised and moves are being made growing problem, says Anne-Marie. to cure and hopefully prevent.
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A three-day multi-sport development camp for coaches, umpires and administrators of major sports in the Pilbara was announced today by the Minister for Recreation, Bob Pike.
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"An example of this is the willingness of sports people living in Port Hedland to billet members of their particular sporting group who live in outlying areas," Mr Pike said. areas, and by holding this He said sports consul- multi-sport development "The State Government tants from the Department camp, it is endeavouring to is determined that these for Youth, Sport and reach a significant number d edicated volunteers Recreation were organis- of voluntary sports offi- should have the support they deserve. ing the camp with assist- cials," Mr Pike said. ance from the Port "The multi-sport develHedland Shire Council "Western Australia has a opment camp will bring recreation officer, Robyn long tradition of 'volun- together the largest single Cross and representatives teerism' which is the envy gathering of sporting from 13 State sporting o f overseas sporting expertise and experience organisations. associations. the Pilbara has ever seen "The State Government and offers a unique opporis mindful of the special "Nowhere is this tradition tunity to the people of the problems experienced by more evident than in coun- Pilbara to positively affect sports people in remote try areas. the future of sport development in the region," Mr Pike said. "It is gratifying to note the support shown by AirChannel Nine's horse racing commentators, Trevor lines of Western Australia, Jenkins and Wally Foreman. Trevor will be calling who as major sponsors. the action for the final of the Channel Nine Pacing will fly speakers from Golden Nugget, seen live on Nine at 9.40pm, Friday. Perth to Port Hedland. "Equally commendable The Minister for Recreation, Bob Pike, was are the efforts of Woodside Development approached recently by Disabled Advocate Petroleum Pty Ltd, and Mt. Newfor assistInc. (DASH.) Group Self Help & ace a with Rod Evans man Mining Co Pty ance to get a disabled representative and Limited who have also attendant to Melbourne for a conference of promised their support." I\ Dm 2 yo city debut when running a Disabled Peoples International. filly showed she had enor- very impressive second to Sports officials, coaches mous potential when she Blue is Beautiful at Ascot The matter was of great Singapore last year. and I and umpires wishing to easily won the Botany Bay on Saturday. After being urgency because the spo- felt it was only right that enrol should telephone the Handicap (2D) at Ascot on trapped wide and suffering kesman for the organisa- this State should continue Department's Regional Monday. She will defi- severe lacerations to his tion, Mrs Dorothy Kelly, to be represented at this Office on (091) 868 267 or nitely be one to follow in hind legs Casshoney only advised the Minister's staff conference." said Mr Pike. Erica Gray (09) 387 4400. the future. went down by IF lengths. that the representative had WILDERNESS. Looks He could be a turf star of The international cricket Channel Nine will have to leave Perth immediately as if she is another 2 yo filly the future. season is drawing to a close all the action of the first for the conference and they Scissors, Saws, Secateurs, Shears, Sharpened and Set with promise, she also was ANSOFAIR. Ran a very with the first final of the series final from 11.20am had only just been advised very impressive when win- respectable race when Benson and Hedges World Wednesday. Coverage, by the Commonwealth ning the Botany Bay Han- fourth to star galloper Hey Series Cup being played coming live from Sydney, Government that the dicap ( ID) at her first start. Cabby in the Australia this week. continues through until could not be assisted. Ridden by form jockey Day Stakes. Unsuited by The last match before the stumps, with highlights at 4 QUEEN STREET — 321 4390 - LOCKSMITHS Mr Pike immediately Max Roney, she finished leading, she battled on finals will be played I I.45pm. issued an instruction to his strongly to win running very well and will be much between Australia and away and will improve better suited in a weak field New Zealand on Sunday, The Channel Nine Perth Department for the funds Locks. Door Closers and Safe Overhauled and Serviced even more with racing. when allowed to sprint at the WACA. Channel Golden Nugget Pacing to be make available to CAR and ALL TYPES OF KEYS CUT Immediate Service DASH for this purpose. CASSHONEY. Made its home. Nine will televise the first continues on Tuesday with session of play from coverage of heats at "Western Australia was 10.20am to 12.30pm. 10.35pm. Channel Nine represented at the first Dis- *•******•*•*********************** ***. Greyhounds — with * Highlights of the whole will televise the final, live abled Peoples Interna- 41 The Record Tipster day's play can be seen at from Gloucester Park, at tional conference held in 1 1.20pm, Sunday. 9.40pm, Friday.
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Grants totalling $3,700 to seven sporting associations to subsidise sports coaching and education programmes w ere announced today by the Minister for Recreation, Bob Pike. Mr Pike said the grants had been awarded to organisations to help them with coaching seminars and workshops, the preparation of state teams and the coaching of junior players. The largest grant of $1,200 went to the Soccer Federation of WA for its Soccer A cademy progamme which provides technique and skill coaching for young players aged from 8 to 13 years.
He said the State Government's funding of coaching programmes was in addition to the money made available from the Sports/Cultural Instant Lottery receipts. The seven sports to benefit from the latest allocation are; gymnastics ($200); hockey-men's ($500); rowing (N500); soccermen's ($1,200); soccer- womens ($500) softball ($300); water skiing 0500.
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An overview of Canadian reaction to code new law Pope John Paul II issued Pope John Paul II has the new Code of Canon Law issued the new Code of last week. Canon Law. It replaces the current code, or general The reform — or more law governing Latin-rite appropriately, renewal — of Catholics, which was c anon law was started byt issued in 1917. This is one Pope John XXIII. It was corn- in a series of articles by pleted by Pope John Paul II, National Catholic News - but the bulk of the work on it Service to give an overview of the new code and was done during the 15 -year what it will mean to reign of Pope Paul VI. Catholics. More than anyone else, cedural law to protect the guiding spirit behind By JERRY FILhuman rights. the canon law reform was TEAU NC News Pope Paul also allowed Pope Paul, a withdrawn. numerous experiments in Service austere intellectual, a local practice, always with diplomat and administracareful guidelines for tor by training but also a that interfered with the follow-up study and idea of the primacy of the man filled with a proreporting so that the pracfound, at times agonised, local Church (the diocese) as the fundamental com- tical experiences, good and pastoral sensitivity. had, from those experiTo the average Catholic munity of faith; ments could serve as a t he new code, makes • Sweeping reform of the basis for further developalmost no obvious changes R oman Curia, the ment of the general in current Church law and Church's central administlaw. Church practice, even though it is ration; drastically different from • Internationalisation of He oversaw cautious t he Curia and the College developmments in many the 1917 code. -rhe reason is that most of of Cardinals, making the areas of Church law showthe changes, implementing Church's central authority ing greater sensitivity to the reforms of the Second more representative of the the concerns of other Christian churches and to V atican Council. were worldwide Church; gradually instituted by • Dismantling of the the cultural differences of Pope Paul during his papal court and many Catholics in various parts regal trappings of the of the world. reign. With similar caution he Between the end of Vati- papacy; can II in 1965 and his death • Norms for the renewal advanced the participation in 1978 he oversaw and put a nd restructuring, in of lay persons in Church accord with conciliar life, always within the liminto law: • All the major reforms decrees, of the every one of its imposed by the hierarin the liturgy, including t he world's religious chical structure of Church authority. reform of the Mass, all the orders; sacraments, the liturgical • Renewal of priestly Within those same limits, year and the Liturgy of the training and priestly life and given the fact that aged new spiritual and unquestionably the chief and ministry, reinstitution ordination (and thus mem- social movements in the architect of its spirit and Hours. • The formation and of the permanent diaco- bership in the hierarchy) is Church, such as the charis- its substance. development of the Synod nate as an ordained minis- limited to men, he signifi- matic renewal and basic The major accomplishof Bishops and national try, and institution of new cantly advanced the partic- Christian communities, ment of the new code will ipation and equality of thus affirming St Paul's not be the creation of lay ministries; conferences of bishops; • Reorganisation and • New policies and struc- women in the Church. doctrine of a diversity of totally new law, but rather decentralisation of church tures of consultation at vir- While warning frequently gifts at the service of the the integration into a sinpower, chiefly in granting tually every level of church against dangers of devia- one Church. gle, unified body of law of more pastoral authority to life; tion from Church teaching Thus, while Pope Paul the Vatican II-Pauline diocesan bishops and in • The development of or separation from the did not live to see the com- reforms in the Church, suppressing or revising an new norms and practices in mainstream of Church life, pletion of the revised Code which are already pretty array of laws and practices administration and in pro- Pope Paul also encour- of Canon Law, he was much in practice.
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• From page 6. Does the ne%lav decentralise authority in the Church? • Very definitely, even though the pope is the supreme legislator in the Church. • Decentralisation in this new law must be viewed in the theological and historical perspectives within which the Church finds itself. • In the years following the Reformation and the Council of Trent (16th century), there emerged a very strong and growing tendency to centralise all legislative power in Rome. (This was not true of the early Church which recognised and promoted the legitimate autonomy of individual bishops to enact legislation for their own dioceses). At the same time the individual diocesan bishop was portrayed more as a delegate or "vicar" of the pope than the immediate shepherd of his own diocese. • With Vatican II, the theological understanding of the episcopate was renewed; from the moment of episcopal consecration, each bishop possesses all t he necessary power to fulfill his mandate of teaching, sanctifying and governing that portion of the People of God entrusted to his care. The bishop is now no longer seen as a mere extension of the Pope in a particular diocese, but as a shepherd in the fullest sense of the word. Such an understanding of the episcopal office cannot help but foster a legitimate decentralisation of authority in the Church. • While providing for the enactment of legislation binding on the whole Church. the new law fosters ample room forthe various national conferences of bishop to apply this general legislation in their own respective countries where it needs to be adapted to particular conditions, circumstances and individual cultural needs. Individual diocesan bihshops would likewise have the authority of their own office to implement this same legislation in their own ,dioceses. Such a decentralisation of authority recognises the legitimate autonomy of individual bishops in communion with the bishop of Rome (principle of collegiality), and asserts practical and proximate decisions concerning the implementation and application of Church law should be made at the most appropriate level (principle of subsidiarity). Are there major changes in the new legislation concerning marriage? • Important to distinguish this question from the one concerning nullity of marriage (cf. below). • Mixed religion has been dropped as an impediment to marriage (a positive ecumenical move). (Note: "disparity of cult" remains an impediment). • New law adopts the definition of marriage as enunciated by Vatican II in the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World: stresses the interpersonal nature of matrimonial commitment and dropping any reference to the disputed "primary and secondary ends" of marriage; definition of marriage incudes the "good of the spouses" and the right to the establishment of an "intimate partnership of life and love'. • Marriage conceived more in "covenant or partnerhsip" terms than that of pure legal "contract" - thus accentuating faith element involved in the celebration of marriage. • New law stresses formative marriage preparation. • Regulations on inter-ritual marriages are softened. • .Parish of the bride is no longer given preference in the case of the marriages of Catholics. • Permanent deacons may remarry should their spouses die (i.e., celibacy of those in Sacred Orders in the Latin Church does not affect married permanent deacons). What does the new law have to say on a nnulments? • As in the former code, the new law does not treat of annulments in a special section. What leads to nullity of marriage is described in those portions of the. law dealing with psychological and physical impediments to marriage, the proper legal formalities to be observed in the celebration of marriage and the nature of the consent brought to a marriage by both parties. • New law incorporates the teaching of Vatican II regarding marriage as an intimate partnership of life and love, thus broadening the Church's understanding of the nature of this interpersonal covenant of life and love. • Renewed theology of marriage, combined with data provided by the behavioural and social sciences, broaden the horizons of the Church in understanding the legal basis of marriage which is rooted in the mutual consent of man and woman. • Jurisprudence (application of the law) of the R ota (highest court of the Church treating marriage nullity cases) and of other Church tribunals in continually evolving and contributing to our understanding of marriage. • Given the above, it should not be surprising to anyone that declarations of nullity of marriage will be on the increase rather than the decrease.