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The lack of clearly written and publicised enrolment policies for the admission of pupils to Catholic schools is upsetting some parents, says a discussion draft put out for consultation by the Catholic Education Commission.
The argument that it is easier for schools and gives them flexibility not to print and circulate an enrolment policy does not stand up to scrutiny says the 32 page document which has been published in order to invite the widest possible consultation.
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Copies of the document media attention given to ymommirArAllI41111111111111.111111111111rIIVIII41111111IMMIONI 1 are available from the the Santa Clara school Catholic Education Com- enrolment dispute. and mission, PO Box 254 Sub- because it was at the bus iaco 6008. (09) 381 5444. end of the year for and observations on the principals. document will be received The commission says the up until the last day of the responses from the questionnaire have identified first term on May 13. The commission says this three main issues needing current draft is the result of study: a consultation continuing • The religious faith com4 since 1979 and which mitment of narents: includes two commission • The religicus denominapolicy statements, a questi- tion of parents and the Gerry Logan onnaire to schools and in question of non-Catholic invitation in The Record admissions; A t Lockridge Catholic school this week the " 293 3384 last year inviting parents to • The procedure for foundation principal Jim Smith got some help primary from transferring contribute their ideas. in tree planting from Jack Murcha and Charlie The discussion draft says to secondary schools. Chan of Lockridge and Tanya Miller, of its publication was delayed The draft suggests diffiBeechboro. late last year because of the culties in reaching agreement on eventual guidelines. Some opinions presented were diametrically opposed and may be irreconciliable. The commission view is that it is up to each school (Nicaragua): The MANAGUA to develop an enrolment microphones at the pope's Mass policy on a co-operative were manipulated for the benefit basis between the principal of political slogans, claims the and staff and the parents chief of Vatican radio, Father and the local priest in the Pasquale Borgomeo. case of parish schools. The commission suggests He said Nicaraguan tech- square. ringed by huge back: "The only hope for a school's policy will have nicians cut off three micro- pro-Sandinista signs. peace is in the Church." to be grounded in Catholic phones which were to have Sandinista youths at the But the chanting con- theology, will have to take plaza. huge which was been used by the pope durtinued with cries of "power account of neighbouring ing the Mass and inserted packed with about 300.000 to the people" and "we schools' needs and will t wo others into the elec- people, began chanting. want a church on the side have to provide full free"we want peace" to tronic system that amplidrown of the poor." dom of choice of Catholic fied the political slogans. other shouts of "we want Despite that opposition. s chools by Catholic A shouting match the pope". h owever. Pope John parents. 0L0891 occurred during the pope's Several times Pope John Paul's calls for the Church homily at an open-air Mass Paul sought silence. • Continued page 3 in Managua's central At one point. he shouted • Continued page 3
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l'he Holy Year proclaimed by Pope John Paul 11 to mark the 1950th anniversary of the Death of Our Lord opens on Friday, \larch 25, the feast of the Annunciation. In Perth the Holy N ear will be proclaimed w hen Archbishop G oody concelebrates \lass at 730 p.m. with t he priests of the archdiocese. In summoning all priests to the cathedral function the archbishop has asked for all priests to forego ceremonies in parish churches on that night. The jubilee indulgence is gained by • isiting the four principal basilicas in Rome or other churches designated by t he local bishop.
MANILA: "It's only nal matters have been up. the first lap in a cleared deportation case The 15,000 metre race," went badly at hearings this s aid Father Brian week when the weak milGore when asked on itary case could produce Tuesday whether he none of the documentary had a long haul ahead evidence which is said to be o f him now that crim- still back in the province of inal charges have to Negros. "If there is no evidence, I be heard. sorry. Father Gore and his am "That is the responsibility defence team are elated at and I
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of the government t he news that the charges would not lift a linger to of subversion as well as the get it," said the head of the alleged ambushing of the deportation panel. murdered mayor will now Father Gore said that the be heard in an open court, of the officer It evidence hopefully in his home terriGallo who laid the original tory of Negros. charges was often contra"It's exactly what we dictory and has started to asked for on the very first show up the military in a day of this hearing," said bad light in court. Father Gore when the deportation board decided to adjourn the hearing —. . . not subversive. — indefinitely until the crimiAmong the weak evidence are statements that while in pursuit of alleged guerilla killers, the army
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Lockridge Catholic school breasted the tape and managed to be ready in time for its opening this year, but its heavy enrolment is already good news to the foundation principal Mr Jim Smith formerly of Queen of Apostles school, Riverton. He. three teachers and a migrant teacher are looking after 103 children from pre-primary to grade four in a modern brick and tile building that has its eye on future expansion. The pre-primary., and years one and t wo-three are full to capacity and grade four has vacancies. The nearest neighbour, St Michael's school at Bassendean, is reported to be full to capacity in its expanded premises
and there seems to be heavy demand building up in the area for Catholic schooling. At Lockridge, the initial stage has cost 5450,000 of which $70,000 is being carried by the local community. The new buildings have six teaching areas ready to be filled with pupils when a separate administration and library area can be built next year. Teething troubles at the school which is built on part of the former OTC bushland include trail bike riders who have raced through the as yet sandy area. Older adolescents are believed responsible for a break-in over the weekend and this week the school was looking forward to a security fence to make their new possession a little safer.
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A total S4I,785.19 has been collected and of this amount $28,000 was forwarded to national council for immediate relief to the people concerned.
The state council in Victoria has agreed to purhave been used where chase new caravans to possible, and immediate the value of S100,000 to needs of cash, clothing and household items help resettle those most have been, and are still in need. They will be probeing met where they can vided anywhere the are required. be identified. The society emergency accommodation homes
Peace message to warring rivals MANAGUA (Nicaragua): Pope John Paul's visit here was a rough experience that included a political speech against the United States, shouting during his Mass and a confrontation with political priests. Daniel Ortega, co-ordinator of the ruling Sandinista Junta, greeted the pope with a denunciation of the United States. Ortega t old Pope John Paul the U.S. a ctions were "an irrational policy which sees an enemy in this revolutionary process identified with the values you have preached
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N ot commenting OGUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala: "NN hen man's is directly on American right to life is violated, a very grase offence to God country that the in II Paul John Pope said " committed f oreign pol icy, the request last week to spare six men pontiff said he brought rebuffed the Vatican shot by a firing squad. later a message of peace to The pope appealed for "conviction to arrise at the "those who, inside or means for justice and for the most defenceless sectors of outside this geogra- society" in an address before I million people. phic area . . . favour in "The pope's appeal was clearly directed at General one form or another Montt the one time Catholic now a born-again es ageli- • From page 1 i deological, economic cal who had boasted that an es angelical attendance of to remain independent of partisan political ideoloor military tensions 300,000 would not be reached for the pope's Mass. In fact more than 600.000 were present for the papal gies and movements drew which impede the free was a large representation of heavy applause from other development of these ceremony at which there Indians who had come in from the sillages where more sectors of the crowd. nations . . . ." Borgomeo said "In 2000 are reported to hase been killed in anti-
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Fhe journeys of Pope John Paul II understandably have fallen into their particular rhythm and the unsuspecting spectator from this shore might be lulled like the cartoon American tourist standing before the Mona Lisa to utter "That's fine. What's next?" The papal trips are predictably the same: the flowers, the kids, the motorcades, the steady half millions at stadium Masses, the fifty-plus heavy The reasons that religious the middle of the road speeches that he pumps into a non-stop week of orders like the tiorbertines liturgically. 12 hour days. Who remembers that Paul VI invented papal have an appeal a place in "This is our strength. The the Church today are conservative and touring? Certainly not the slumbering television emphasis on community extreme progressive viewpoints in watcher who would hardly remember John Paul life and the desire for litur- liturgy are not the real II's 17 trips, let alone if anything different is gical celebration. Church and they will not happening. Many young people succeed" he observed. The first reality is that the pope's journeys are today are looking for life in "We try to celebrate the keeping up their ratings and drawing prime time a community atmosphere .liturgy nicely not only for television and radio exposure, however brief, and many people in coun- ourselves but also to share into every home in the world - a fact probably tries such as India are look- our feelings with the ing for liturgical express- people around. least appreciated by his Catholic followers. ion in their lives said the "Many people have fallen The second reality is that as the journeys Norbertine Abbot General away from the Church but mount up so the purpose of each journey has to Marcel van de Ven during everywhere we find groups clarify itself more and more. It was easy to a visit to WA last week. of people want a liturgical understand the heady excitement of a trip back "It is one of the main pur- a nd prayer life in to Poland. Around the world millions appre- poses of our order to association with a local ciated his visit to Ireland which had done so develop the liturgy not religious community. much for the faith. In the United States he met only in our own houses but He said that religious life the full brunt of modern life. In England he was to bring it Out into the has a very important place in the Church today as tip-toeing warily into the inner sanctum of the parishes. On the appeal of the long as the religious Opposition. Norbertine community life remain faithful to their We are so out of touch with Africa that we the abbot described his vocation. can't imagine why he would go twice to the order as -rather strict but The Norbertine's role is enormous Catholic population there, but we did not in the same way as the to work in conjunction Norbertine Abbot General Van De Ven 0. wave as he trudged through the Philippines, monastic orders. Norber- with the local diocese and Proem pictured with Father Peter O'Reilly 0. rather prophetically in view of the feud now tine life is a combination of parishes but to be free Proem of Queens Park. community living and an for new enough to search simmering between the Church and the oppresa ctive apostolate in ways in the apostolate. sor state. parishes, schools, Nuclear disarmament he knows at first hand and retreat houses.missions because the pope has done what few others have done knelt on the ground at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Grounds Last week was his second foray to the turbulent Americas where the Church is now locked t he abbot had some into the struggle against oppression. In Central g rounds for being America he knew what to expect from those of confident of the future of both the right and left who claim their fight is for his 800 year old order that liberation. Managua gave him the treatment. once had over 10,000 There are many in Central America and else- members and has had It , where who would prefer not to have him around. ups and downs numericalBut he served a good apprenticeship under the ly over the centuries communist heel in Cracow and there are not especially in Ireland where many public figures who were gunned down and t he Norbertines once numbered several hundred have lived to tell the tale. and only in 1924 came Armchair critics can plead that Rome is too back to re-establish them...*944141****•04,•••• centralist, that canon law ought to let the Church selves. From the Irish com- from Father Robert McCormack 0 Carm. break up into an empire of dying colonies, that a munity a foundation was cipal, Corpus Christi College. • pope is irrelevant to daily faith in Jesus Christ. made in Western Australia • • We, as Catholics, have Sir, Was last week an answer? If he doesn't go, in 1959. ; Send us a letter and have your say in The Record. ; had to be engrossed to hold The abbot said that There seems to be ; You can write on any subject you want: government; who will? If his voice doesn't carry any weight on to something we cher- ; decisions and policy, problems in your neighbour.; then still less does the "Church" which is always interest in the order was some aspects of Cor- ish. The government does ; hood, television . . . anything that affects your life. ; being begged to "say something" to those who high in Belgium w here pus Christi College not pay all our bills. ; Post your letter to Today's Mail, The Record, PO Box; 20 men in there are • and Catholic Educa- It is heartening to me that ;50. Perth Aberdeen Street, 6000. aren't listening. • preparation. In India some concise letters. ; to short Preference will be given • which Mr Donof Somewhere on a Vatican blotter a monsignor 50 men are in preparation. tion the parents who are paying • • 4fr•-•r•G•r••••••••11.111•r••••1 ,1•4••••• • nelly is not aware, or fees and fund raising are tour-director has pencilled the word Australia h is knowledge is the ones who have taken for the dim future. If and when he does reach seriously the Gospel value cloudy. here what are his chances of drawing a crowd if it A ctive The students of the col- of discipleship as suffering. happens to be a long weekend or the MCG is lege do come from a wide Fund raising can be burbusy? As an order of priests Better still, ask what ought he say to this committed to active work area and only some have to densome, but rewarding. if nation and would we be game to listen to the in the parishes the "travel long 'distances". As you become involved with for "overlarge classes", the anything, it becomes yours truth if it hurt? Norbertines have the students number 32 in core when you start giving. " spirituality of the iiiiiii11111111l1111111111111111iiiili1111111011111111111fillillili1111111111111111iiiiiiii Church" as their distinc- subjects, and approximately 16 in option subE--_ from P Bertola, Bremer Bay tive style. Since each abbey
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superior such as the abbot paying and fund raising is involved with a God who A radio report said that representatives of the general. misleading and heartening. gave His Son and asked me Teachers' Union and the Roman Catholic schools Abbot van de Ven is only Catholic Education has to give in return. In the giv- would be invited to participate. in his first year as head of been "engrossed" in these ing and fund raising, there May I ask the Minister for Education: Haven't you t he 2000 Norbertines two areas since Catholic is tremendous potential for forgotten something? a round the world . Eduation was able to stand community building with Where is the rest of the school system? Doesn't it Originally from Holland up and give a positive lead people asking and working figure in the present state of things? Or are we instituthe now lives in Rome. mg a state religion? Details & registration from in education in this together. Asked in the light of his country. Jan Lipiec, Dutch background about That lead has not been There is no "confusion", ANZ Travel where the Norbertines only in the area of Chris- as Mr Donnelly put it, at F. 84 St. George's Terrace stood in the liturgical tian values, but in aca- Corpus Christi. Education F _ Perth 6000 Tel. 323 8391 scene in the Church today demic and technical is not just associated with achieving formal educathe abbot said they were in excellence. tion, nor a strictly religious E At TRAVEL undertaking. We are involved with the means to Holland & Venetian Blinds, • • achieve, the academic and • 2 6 John Street. Perth WA 6000 • & Aluminium Awnings Canvas skills, the imparttechnical • • Correspondence • ing of values, and the genFlysc : 1 The Editor. The Record PO Box reens, Tarpaulins • • Aberdeen Street, Perth. 6000 50Record • eral involvement with one O PTOMETRISTS • Advertising • another in a faith com• • Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 • munity. Furthermore, r egistered for posting as a newspaper Category "A- (11) Phone 444 3543 1 75 Scarborough Beach Road • • • Produced in WA Corpus Christi is able to • Printed and published weekly by Edward vanHeemst, • give further opportunity to 286 ALBANY HWY., VIC. PARK • • 26 John Street Perth • faith of • develop the help ' • A 361 1620 361 1539 • Established 1874 • • both students, parents and • • . staff. .•••••••••••••••••• ********* • OOOOO ••••••••••
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Social justice J f or television B ELLEVILLE, III. (NC) — The airwaves may soon carry the U.S. bishops various social j ustice messages. The media office of the Oblates' central province, headed by Ed Murray, is directing the project. It would bring a six-part series, tentatively titled Search for Justice, to television. The series would cover such topics as as the role of the church in the economy; work; markets and consumption, including the question of stewardship; resources (investment); food, trade and commerce; government; and property, race and sex issues. t hrough the USCC the Catholic bishops have issued statements on social justice issues for about two decades. However, said Ron Krietemeyer, director of domestic social development for the USCC's Social Development and World Peace Department, "we just have gotten to people in the pew." The series is intended to do that. !vlurray added that "there are a number of exciting aspects to this project. "First of all, the issue of economic justice, which will be the centerpiece of the series, is a timely and compelling one. "The fact six of America's best Catholic producers ... have agreed to form a coalition to address this challenge is a milestone." Murray said that it is essential "that we produce good television. We're after good stories, the human dimension behind the Church's position." He suggested the series could be an adult education asset, sparking discussion, and could also "initiate dialogue between the Catholic hierarchy and laity. Hopefully, this will lead to dialogue on other issues."
Fidelity praised V ATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II has praised Catholics in Yugoslasia for their "sincere fidelit . at times heroic, to the church," hut mourned the lack of s °cations in the communist-run nation. Teh pope said the prelates had brought him "encouraging news ... about mar” aspects of the life of the Church in sour dioceses. A period of anti-church repression followed the communist takeover in Yugoslasia in 1945, and some ChurchState problems still remain. .According to the 1910 Catholic A lmanac. there are some 4,251 priests and 710 seminarians in the country, ss here more than ses en million Catholics live.
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R OME (NC) — Rome's three million baptised Catholics recently received their first official guidelines on improving relations with the city's 15,000-member Jewish community. "The Church of Rome was f ounded by the apostles Peter and Paul, of Jewish origin,- said an i ntroduction to the guidelines, prepared by the diocesan ecumenical commission. "In addition, Rome has been marked by a 1 ,000 year history of Jews and Christians living together.
Canadian bishops' condemnation OTTAWA (NC) — A commission of the Canadian C onference of Cathol ic Bishops called pornography a "selfish sexuality devoid of love" and said it supports those who protest the "escalation and distribution of pornographic materials a nd attitudes - in the country. In a message sent to John Meisel, chairman of the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission, the CCCB Commission for Social Communications voiced its objection to pornography and said that it welcomed the CRTC's call for a meeting of all pay-television operators to discuss voluntary standards regarding proposed "adult" programming. "We urge all parties involved to give careful attention to the voices of protest raised in many cities across the country." said the message signed by the cochairmen of the bishops' commission, Bishop Robert Lebel of Valleyfield, Quebec. and Auxiliary Bishop Leonard Wall of Toronto. Saying pornography "perverts human sexuality." the commission described such material as more than an "innocent distraction." "It is an "offence against the dignity and rights of human persons," it said.
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"This makes it a moral question. "Those who care about society cannot be indifferent to this question. "Pornography is not simply a matter of freedom of choice in entertainment. Nowhere in civilised society does freedom include the right to exploit and victimise other human beings." The statement expressed particular support for women across Canada "who are calling attention to the problem of pornography" because "its history has been one of victimising women and children in particular as objects of sexual distortion and victims of violence following in pornography's wake."
"This history which — despite being interwoven unfortunately with many negative events has created nevertheless in our diocese a social and cultural treasure, which has had and will have in the future repercussions in the religious context - it added. l'he guidelines are primarily designed to encourage dialogue between Catholics and Jews living in Rome. "We believe conversation with the Jews is particularly important in this historical period, when it seems there has been a revival of a certain antiSemitism," said Auxiliary Bishop Clemente Riva. The guidelines call for the promotion of publications or meetings designed to help Catholics understand Judaism better. That includes joint readings of the Old Testament "in the light of the Jewish tradition:" and common action on social problems such as "human rights, religious freedom, youths in difficulty and the plague of drugs." "We have a very positive opinion about this initiative," said Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff of Rome. "It is the first time the church of Rome has expressed itself in such a clear and open manner on the theme of relations with the Jews." "For us this signifies a decisive step toward the fall of anti-Semitic atti4 tudes coming from Christians on the theme of Easter."
MILAN, (NC) — Pope Pius XII wrote a four-page condemnation of the Nazis during World War II but decided to burn it for fear of reprisals according to a German nun who worked with the late pope for 40 years. Sister Pasqualina Lehnert, 88, who lives in a Rome nursing home she founded after the pope's death in 1958, said the pope wrote the condemnation after hearing some 40.000 people in the Netherlands had been sent to concentration camps because of the Dutch bishops' pastoral letter against the Nazis. "He prepared a protest, handwritten in Italian, four crowded pages," she said. "But at a certain point he came into the kitchen and, after having explained the matter to me, asked me to turn on the gas stove in order to burn it." Sister Lehnert said she encouraged the pope to save the pages. "so that. once the war was over, the thoughts o f the pontiff in this regard would be known." "He responded: wrote this protest to have it published this afternoon in L 'Osservatore Romano (the Vatican daily newspaper). But I thought that, if because of the words of the Dutch bishops 40,000 innocents ended up in the concentration camps. for those o f the pope Hitler would intern at least 200,000. I cannot allow it.'," the nun added. Sister Lehnert, who first began s erving on the pope's domestic staff in 1918 when he was apostolic nuncio in Germany, said Pope Pius "slightly scorched his finger" while burning the papers over the stove flame. The nun did not say when the incident took place. In January 1941 the Dutch bishops reaffirmed their condemnation of the Dutch Nazi party in a pastoral letter. A ccording to a U.S.-born historian, Jesuit Father Robert Graham. an e xpert in the Church's wartime activities, Pope Pius XII sent an verbal message of encouragement to the Dutch bishops in August 1943 through a Dutch Jesuit Father Piet Saulders, who was returning to the Netherlands from Rome.
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Goldfields pioneer law to help fellow For some time Kanowna had seethed with rumours of a rich gold strike not far from the town — then booming in the later 1 890s — and the thousands of prospectors gathered there were growing increasingly restive over the lack of information on the location of the bonanza. Father Long, the Catholic priest, was concerned at the sharpening ugliness of the prospectors' mood and the explosive situation into which it threatened to develop if the gold-seekers continued to be denied a ny clue on the whereabouts of the alleged strike. But here he had a problem. He had been told, in the strictest confidence, where the riches lay. He felt bound by almost confessional confidentiality not to divulge his knowledge, but his resolution wavered in the face of the darkening frustration of the prospectors. Ultimately he decided the lesser of t wo evils would be to tell the men By BOB BOYLE what he knew, but he must tell them all so as to favour no one in the victim ot a leg-pull and had acted particular. in complete good faith. Consequently the word was put Eric recalls Michael Joseph used to round that at a certain time he would love to tell the Father Long story, make his announcement from the and for years in their Esperance v erandah of the hotel of his friend, home they had a big print of the tom Doyle. historic photograph of the priest Immediately after he had said addressing the prospectors from the where the gold was, one of the most verandah of Tom Doyle's pub. amazing scenes in the checkered Michael used to point to himself history of the Goldfields was proudly in the crowd, but behind his enacted. back the giggling siblings agreed he The multitude assembled rushed was indistinguishable from all the off at frantic speed some on other bearded and moustached horses and bikes and others just optimists gathered. running -- in the direction that had been indicated. they found absolutely nothing. Father Long was reviled and even now almost 90 years later there are descendants of those duped that day at Kanowna who swear his Michael's wife Josephine joined revelation was a mischievous act him with the three children at perpetrated for some unknown but Kanowna where Eric was born in evil reason. 1900, about the time the Kanowna On the other hand Michael Joseph boom busted. Heenan - - Eric's father - - a The State Government was then Queensland farmer who had left his encouraging the development of the wife and three children behind tem- malice country north of Esperance porarily in their native state when he a nd there were high hopes came to Kanowna in 1897 to seek Esperance would develop into an gold. belonged to the big majority important port to serve what would who believed Father Long had been become the agricultural hinterland
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Eric Michael Heenan sen, retired solicitor, former member of parliament and long-standing member of the Highgate parish, was born in the goldmining town o f Kanowna on April 29, 1900. His father was Michael Joseph Heenan, formerly a Queensland farmer, and his mother was Josephine Frances Heenan (nee McCarthy), also from a Queensland farming family. Eric was educated at the Esperance State School and the Christian Brothers' College in Wakefield Street, Adelaide. He was admitted to the WA Bar in 1929 and practised law in Perth and Kalgoorlie. His election in 1936 as a Labor member for the North-East Province of the L egislative Council marked the start of a parliamentary career that was to last 32 years. In 1937 he married Joan Mary McKenna and they have one son, also named Eric Michael.
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and the rapidly-expanding areas of Kalgoorlie, Boulder and Norseman. Farmer that he was, Michael was one of the first to take up land at Grass Patch, about 50 miles north of Esperance. He bought the Pier Hotel at Esperance, not as a money-making concern because the tiny town was economically dead, but as a home for his growing family. And grow it did. The children — born variously in Queensland, Kanowna and Esperance — in order of arrival were Neville, Mary, Ierne, Eric. Esmond. Kevin, Doreen and Veronica.
As Michael do, ided his time fairly evenly between Esperance and Grass Patch over the years, it gradually became clear the high hopes that had been held for Esperance and the malice country were doomed to disappointment. Fremantle took the shipping to w hich Esperance had aspired, the railway and water pipeline had reached Kalgoorlie, and the tyranny of distance to market for their products and the preponderance of poor soil on which they laboured left the malice farmers like birds crying in the wilderness.
But the Heenan children lived an idyllic existence at Esperance. and their money-poor elders in all families were well content too. There was wonderful swimming and plenty of fish in the bay. The lakes were crammed with ducks for the shooting, most people kept a cow for the milk and butter and they had their own vegetable gardens. It mattered little, therefore, that the rare visit of a ship or the occasional job repairing roads were almost the only sources of employment. Trade at the Pier Hotel was almost non-existent, but it was a great home for the Heenans. The days of the Allen Chases and Art Linkletters were far distant. Knowing that their daughter and her family were not living in the lap
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of luxury, Mrs Heenan's retired and fairly comfortable parents in Brisbane used to send occasional gifts of money. With this largesse, Mrs Heenan sent Neville, Mary and lerne to Adelaide to be educated. Neville boarded at CBC Wakefield Street and the two girls at the Angus Street convent. At the age of about 12, Eric followed Neville to Wakefield Street. Equipped only with his Junior Certificate because there was no money for higher education, Eric returned to Esperance at the end of 1915. Brother Neville had enlisted in the AIF and gone to France, where he was later commissioned and won the Military Cross, and Esperance's flimsy economy was just about at its nadir. Then fate gave the 15-yearold Eric a push.
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The headmaster of the Esperance State School had taken ill in Perth during the Christmas holidays and would not be back in time for the start of the 1916 school year. The only other teacher, Miss Gibson. would have to cope with the whole school. As was to be expected, the task quickly proved to be beyond her. The Education Department t hereupon appointed Eric a probabtionery teacher and between them the 15-year-old and Miss Gibson managed the school quite well. On the headmaster's return Eric became redundant and he accepted the department's offer of a job as a monitor at the Subiaco State School. At this time Mrs Heenan had come to Perth to enable Esmond and Kevin to attend, first, St Patrick's Boys' School and later CBC Terrace and Doreen to go to Sacred Heart High School. Highgate. Eric battled on at his teaching job and as soon as he had turned 18 he sought his parents' permission to enlist in the AIF. They were dubious and mother wrote to Neville in France, who said to let the lad have a go because the war would probably end soon. Eric trained at Black boy Camp and in October 1918 embarked on the Boonah. which turned out to be the last troopship to leave Australia. They arrived at Durban the morning after the Armistice was declared and for eight days swung at anchor aboard the ship in the harbour while their future was decided. They were not allowed ashore because the Spanish influenza epidemic was raging there. In spite of the fact that the troops had not set foot on shore and had had no contact with anybody from the town, the epidemic hit the ship three days out from Durban on her way back to Australia. As soon as the Boonah arrived at Fremantle. the troops were rushed to the hospital at the Woodman
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CORPUS CHRISTI, West of the underground Chronicle of the Texas (NC) — Cardinal Tomas 0'Fiaich Catholic Church in Lithuania carried a report of the protest, which attacked Soviet of Armagh, Northregulations that give the state complete conern Ireland, pritrol over priests' assignments and the admis, priests and nuns as mate of all Ireland, sion of priesthood candidates to the one it did prior to the believes within five seminary still allowed to exist. Second Vatican At least 468 priests. including Bishop Julijo years Ireland will Council. nas Steponavicius, apostolic administrator providing be the of Vilna, who is prevented by the Soviets United States with There is a shortage of from ministering in his diocese. large numbers of priests in Ireland now. There are 701 priests in the country.
took on diggers Point quarantine station. Eric was among those very ill and 30 of his comrades-in-arms died. Six months' convalescence at Esperance followed and he rejoined the Education Department as an assistant teacher at the East Victoria Park school where the headmaster was a well-known and respected Irishman, Pat O'Connor. In his period there from 1919-23 he studied and obtained his Leaving Certificate and later his teacher's C Certificate before resigning to become an articled law clerk with brother Neville's firm, Cooper and Heenan. Admitted to the Bar in 1929, he set up his own practice in Palace Chambers at Kalgoorlie in 1931. In those depression times of high unemployment, there was a strong under-current of resentment in some quarters against the Italians and Slays who held many of the jobs at the mines because they were good miners and hard-working and reliable.
There's more to Ireland needless . . . If DENVER (NC) — Although there is a small was all so have just worn Ire- they could Northern in minority People outside Ireland who are not interested their own clothes, it would land think that in "coming together," Car- never have happened,- he there's nothing going dinal O'Fiaich said, "the said. on in Northern Ire- great majority are search- Although the cardinal land but fighting and ing for new links to s aid he found Mrs Thatcher to be "absolutely killing," said Cardinal fellowship." Tomas O'Fiaich of "I have always con- unyielding" and "a woman with A rmagh, Northern demned the violent activi- of steel," his meeting ties of the IRA,- the her at No. 10 Downing Ireland. al Irish Republi- Street, the prime minister's "They never hear Provision can Army, an outlawed residence in London, was a bout the positive guerrilla organisation, he not without humour. action taking place," said, "but I also condemn "When she first came into he said in an inter- the violence of the British. our meeting room, she view. They provoked much of asked if I would like some-
"It there's anything I want the IRA violence along the thing to drink," he recalled. "I'll have a bit of to emphasise it's that good way. Irish," he told her. things are going on in "Of course," he adds, Northern Ireland," said the "there was nothing Irish on 59-year-old cardinal, who Recalled the premises." has been archbishop of Unemployment, both in Armagh since 1977. Northern Ireland and the "There are many affirmative steps being taken He recalled the civil rights Republic of Ireland. is toward reocneiliation.-the demonstrations in 1968 "extremely serious,- Carcardinal said. During the and 1969 when an effort dinal O'Fiaich said. "In Week of Prayer for Chris- was made to achieve social some places in the north it tian Unity he invited lead- justice in Northern Ireland reaches over 50 percent . . . ers of the Church of without violence. But he And, of course, where Ireland (Anglican), the noted that members of the there's more unemployMethodist Church and the majority community in ment, the youths are more Presbyterian Church to Northern Ireland, who likely to gravitate toward speak at the cathedral in consider themselves Brit- the IRA." ish, attacked the civil C ardinal O'Fiaich .Armagh. "And that's not an iso- r ights demonstrators, expressed optimism that lated incident," he said. most of whom belonged to "in the future, all of Ireland " That's a common the minority community will be united." But achievand considered themselves ing unity "will take some occurrence." time," he said. The cardinal said he Irish. meets with the leaders of Cardinal O'Fiach said the "However." he added, other Christian churches hunger strikes by prison- "we're not sitting still; one day each month at the ers in Northern Ireland in we're making significant home of one of the church- 1981 when ten deaths progress men to spend the day in could have been prevented prayer, meditation and "if only the English would have compromised on discussion. small things." During the hunger strike at the Maze Prison near There have been further Belfast, 10 men, most of candidates admitted to the Discuss them members of the IRA, programme that will see 12 starved themselves to people admitted to memThe British govern- bership of the Catholic death. "We discuss the events of Church at Holy Cross, One January afternoon in 1934 a the past month, assessing ment said the prisoners' Kensington during the a to well-known miner and former amounted demands negaor them for positive oming Easter Vigil c pripolitical footballer received fatal head for demand tive value," he said. "but, ceremony. injuries when he fell onto the more importantly. we look soner status. Richard Ho, 8, and his footpath as he was being ushered over the upcoming events "The youths who were in Gregory. 6. were brother said. cardinal the from the Home From Home Hotel prison." to discern whether or not received as catechumens at by an Italian barman named Charlie we need to take any prev- "had asked for a couple of a simple ceremony at Holy Mattaboni. entive action to difuse a minor changes in jail rouchurch recently. Cross to was which of one Wild distortions of the truth tine, troublesome situation. I Mark Parnell, 15. who is quickly gained credence around would say that this is hap- be allowed to wear their baptised but K algoorlie and Boulder. the mob pening in no other own clothing, instead of already the Catholic wishes join to prison look-alike drab the burnt the Home From Home Hotel country." was also included. down before going on a rampage- of Another innovative idea uniforms which stripped Church Richard and Gregory will destruction. currently on the drawing them of their self-respect, baptised along with two be refused." British the but The infamous Kalgoorlie riots had is board, the cardinal said, at the Easter Vigil men who men young The begun. an ecumenical pilgrimage when seven adults already Eric represented Mattaboni at the which will originate in refused to wear prison clobaptised in other churches inquest and the subsequent trial at Armagh. continue to Lon- thing were thrown naked will be received into full which he was acquitted. don and Canterbury in into the cells, he said. "All c ommunion with the Evidence revealed the victim had England, where the Angli- they had to wear was the Catholic Church. bed. their from blanket had an abnormally-thin skull and has can Church of Ireland celebrant. Father that for a person with a skull of its roots, then on to Gen- That's what they wore for The O'Dea. welcomed normal thickness the fall would have eva, Switzerland, where many months even when it Frank their parents. boys, the said. he cold," was severely caused minor injuries at worst. what John Calvin founded and friends at In 1936. Eric was elected as the has become the Presbyter- "Then, as will often godparents Labor member for the North-East ian Church, and finally. on happen with oppressed the entrance. the boys why Province of the Legislative Council to Rome to honour the young people. one of them He asked became outspoken and they wanted to become and remained in the House until roots of Catholicism. escalated the protest by Christians. 1968. In 1937 he married Joan Mary proposing a hunger strike R eceiving satisfactory McKenna. a law graduate from the . . . and others followed." answers, Father Frank University of WA, and they The cardinal spoke per- asked the boys to bring Envisioned practiced law together in Kalgoorlie sonally with British Prime their parents forward so until they decided to move to Perth Minister Margaret That- that they could express Cardinal O'Fiaich said an cher about the hunger their consent and their and the practice was taken over by ecumenical community of strikes, "but she would not readiness to prepare the Tom Hartrey. also a Labor member reconciliation is being con- give an inch." he said. "It boys for baptism later on. of parliament. sidered in Northern Ireland. Jesuit Father The Daughters of Charity Michael Hurley, former director of the Irish School NEED YOUR HELP of Ecumenics, said last „ autumn that he envisioned a small community of both sexes and mixed denomiso young Irish priests nations which would priesthood and the reliURGENTLY NEEDED ence in Corpus Christi. and sisters will again devote itself to prayer and gious life in Ireland, The cardinal said the great house -hold Clothing, clean, wearable, flow into the United work for unity among said the recent annual number of students ornaments, nick-nacks goods States,- said Cardinal Christian churches, justice report of the Council studying for the priestjewellery, etc. O'Fiaich. in society and peace. for Research and hood can be attributed !,Des elopment in Dub- The 59-year-old cardinal "We would like to see to the visit of Pope hut that situation will was on a 16-day tour of young people of all faiths lin. John Paul II to Ireland 534 William Street. Highgate change in the immethe I nited States to live in community, praying "I have no doubt that in a in 1979. diate future because For Truck to call — Phone 328 4403 r aise funds for St together, learning from couple of sears we'll seminaries are crowd- In 1980 there was a sharp Country goods marked donation Patrick's College at each other," the cardinal have survived this paron rail to Kevvdale Rail ree f much so have all "We the May ed. Cardinal O'Fiaich said. nooth. Ireland, ticular (vocations) crisis 0 overall rise of 20 pernational seminary. to give." and that in five years or cent in %ocations to the said at a Press confer-
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The week in focus What does church renewal mean to you? [his week our writers explore "The Spirit of Church Renewal." They find that much has happened in the 20 years since Vatican Council 11 began. But, they note, there's more to renewal than the external changes that meet the eye. Father Alfred McBride points out that an astonishing number of changes have occurred in a very short time with a minimum of upheaval. [he words "change" and "renewar, however, do not mean precisely the same, the writer suggests. The Norbertine priest is a well-known religious educator. Suzanne Elsesser, a staff member for four years of the U.S. bishops' ad hoc Committee on the Parish, thinks a second stair of renewal is getting under way in the church. Read her article to discover what that second stage might hold in store. Ms Elsesser is a free-lance writer. David Gibson tells of his parish this week. In.the process he tells what the age of church renewal has meant for his family. Gibson is editor of the Know Your Faith series. Father John Castelot continues his discussion of the prophet Jeremiah. Father Castclot explains that the times of Jeremiah were times of earth-shaking events outside the Kingdom of Judah.
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After nearly 200 years as a fairly enclosed and monastic order the Loreto nuns have moved out slowly, freeing themselves from the traditions of the past to stand unencumbered in a bid to find new meaning a nd new roles in an ever-changing world. Said Sister Margaret Finlay, who is in charge of the Loreto Nedlands community: "Many people don't realise the wonderful things that are coming out of religious life today. "Until Vatican ll many of the orders were playing it safe but in re-examining ourselves, we're getting back to what Mary Ward was all about. It gives us a much broader base and keeps us up with the needs of the 80's. "It's taken us 19 years to get where we are and we're just beginning — it's so exciting. Mary Ward, who lived and died for God around 300 years ago had stated her ideals in a document drawn up for the pope. She saw her followers leading a mixed kind of life, working at the perfection of their own souls and devoting themselves to the salvation of others and by means of the education of girls, or by any other meat congruous to the times. She was also adamant duties should be exercised without enclosure, and that members of the order should not be bound by religious habit, but allowed to conform the style of dress to that in general use in the countries in which they lived. It is only now, with the invaluable experience of years past that the Sisters are stepping out into the role that Mary Ward created for her first 'galloping girls' as they were once dismissively tagged. Renowned as educationalists, the Loreto Sisters have become more outward looking. While education is still uppermost, the scope of their work is broadening. Sister Veronica Brady is senior lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia; Sister Doreen Suffern conducts home retreats in co-operation with parish priests throughout the state. There are Sisters teaching adults and involved in parent education; others are caring for migrants and helping them to settle into their new country. Sisters in Adelaide are lecturing in theology and scripture through the Catholic Adult Education system; others are involved in hospital chaplaincy work and a sister in Melbourne is involved in social welfare at the diocesan level. There are 10 Loreto Sisters currently studying overseas. Three have previously worked in Western Australia. One is studying liturgical music, another youth ministry, spiritual formation and education administration. Sister Margaret O'Sullivan, formerly principal of Loreto Nedlands until 1981 is this year studying at Berkeley University in California. The trend in Loreto has always been toward educating the Sisters as fully as possible. Sister Veronica Brady was one of the first to go in the '70s. Sister Angela Slattery, who is now based in Broome spent time in 1981 studying missiology in South-East Asia. Sister Denise Desmarchelier is now principal of John XIII college. There are many who stand out Sister Peg Flynn, who was born in Bunbury and who built Koolyan-
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When the Loreto Sisters opened their doors to the world around 10 years ago they ushered in a breath of fresh air that carried with it new ideas, new enthusiasm and an unbounded hope for the future. In making their way more openly in the outside world they were embarking on a life that more truly reflected the ideals of their foundress, Mary Ward.
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It has been a slow blossoming for a beautiful bud that has been nurtured by the nuns for over 300 years . . andprotected, perhaps t o assiduously for many of those years. Following Vatican IIin 1969, they, like all o ther orders, stood back and took a good long look at themselves. They had been asked to go back to their sources, study it and find renewal.
looking, we see the church as a whole instead of just concentrating on our Order. We're also looking to t he needs of our local churches." An added benefit as the Sisters build a brave new world is greater interest in their vocation and their work. While once young girls would enter the order aged from 19 to 21, now they are likely to be making the move at 25 and over. It's a good thing as far as the Sisters are concerned says Sister Margaret: "All orders encourage young people to study and live in the world first so they know what they are giving up." With a long history as pioneers in education, especially the education of women, the Sisters still see teaching as their major role. There are two communities in Perth -- one of 12 at Nedlands and one of five at Thornlie. They run a number of schools throughout the State --- there are four Sisters at the school in Broome but they are also involved in parish and missionary work; two Sisters run Nedlands primary school; two sisters are at Willetton: two at Thornlie; one at Kelmscott and Sister Denise is principal of John X XIII. Mary Ward, a woman born many years before her time was a staunch advocate of education for women. She is on record as having said: "There is no such difference between men and women that women may not do great things. . . and I hope to God it will be seen that women in time to come will do much." One of her main aims was the education of women. She hoped to educate them to greater independence and to extend their interests beyond the limits of their homes. She lived and worked in England at a time when the shadow of persecution and death hung over all Catholics and despite many years of poor health she travelled throughout
Europe setting up schools wherever she could and fighting the brutal discrimination of society, State and Church along the way. When she died much of her work was in ruins but from the embers grew a vocation that saw in the years to come groups of women gathering to continue the work and ideals she had lived and died for. In a discussion paper on educating for the future in the Loreto tradition, by Sister Mary Wright the following points are detailed as typical of Mary Ward's system. •Striving after the truth. The girls are to be trained in self-discipline to realise their duties towards God. their neighbour and themselves, and to adore God in spirit and in truth.
•A high standard of bearing and behaviour was exacted from all the pupils. •Training in character went hand in hand with the religious formation of the children. The nuns were to be very careful never to allow any bitterness or harshness to escape them. Mary Ward had no place for excessive strictness or rigidity in her ideas of education. •She was a great advocate for the co-operation of parents in the work of education. 'Mary Ward laid it down as a maxim that no-one should teach in the school who was not qualified to do so. •She wanted schools in which general culture and solid education was obtainable. ',Mary Ward would be the first to tell us to adapt our methods, while keeping our ideals. Her philosophy of education was in fact both Christian and humanistic.
as she had a high regard for secular learning as a civilizing experience, and a Christian concern for the dignity of the individual. Very characteristic of her is the stress on cheerfulness and on courtesy, honesty, fidelity, modesty . . . t he traits of the christian gentlewoman. It was lucky indeed that the first Loreto nuns, who came to Australia in 1875, were lcd by another pioneer in women's education. She was Mother Mary Gonzaga Barry, leader of a group of 10 8 nuns and two postulants (candidates for admission) - who set up a convent and school at Mary's Mount. Ballarat. The educational philosophy of Mother Gonzaga Barry reflected a warm family climate, liberty of spirit, a love for the arts, academic excellence, provision of a good education for the poor, a readiness to innovate, particularly in the fast growing area of science. What makes her contribution even more remarkable was her willingness to adapt all she knew to Australian social conditions and the new and rapidly changing circumstances of her environment. She saw education as a sequential process of development of the whole person. She obviously believed that schooling was part of life itself. rather than merely a preparation for life, and thus the school experience was to be happy, rich and full for its own sake. At the same time it was purposeful. practical and challenging, because every aspect of the school environment (what we would now call the curriculum) was specifically designed with her vision of the final goal in mind. There is no hint in her writings that Mother Gonzaga considered the intellectual development of her students to be the primary aim of her schools. Rather it is the achievement of personal maturity, full adulthood, individual character formation, together with the ability to contribute responsibly to the family, the Church and society which is stressed in all her reflections. It is also clear that in her view, this responsible adulthood could only be reached by a balanced development
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brings beautiful in the 80's of the religious, intellectual, physical, artistic and affective aspects of the person. She developed, encouraged and passed on an invaluable legacy which is perhaps most reflected in one of the cherished characteristics of the Loreto schools in the past which was the family atmosphere which was quite deliberately engendered and fostered. A past student's comment, typical of many, was that: "the spirit of Loreto was a spirit of being at home, of knowing you were loved, trusted and cared about." A national magazine which circulated to all schools throughout Australia helped to build the bond and feeling of family which has sustained many ex-Loreto pupils moving from state to state. Unfortunately as the world changed and the schools grew in size, this magazine has been phased out and replaced by local publications. For all the Loreto 'old girls' who were kept in touch with their sister students from one end of the country to the other it was a passing to be mourned. An extract from the school magazinc of 1896 mentions one sporting event: "A new game introduced! hockey. "It is a splendid sport for the winter, makes one glow with heat even on a bitter cold day. The only drawback is that we get so excited that rules are apt to be forgotten. and then hockey sticks are used too freely, knocking the wooden ball smartly, instead of rolling it steadily, towards the goal. Hockey teaches one self-control — just as croquet teaches patience."
Mother Gonzaga was a good correspondent and, even when travelling overseas, wrote a regular letter in the school magazine. It was her way of keeping in touch with the children. She did this until her deathbed, when she dictated her last letter. In her letters she often spoke of her plans and ideals for her school, St Mary's Mount and its pupils. She was a greatr believer, like Mary Ward, in the role of women and wanted girls to be widely educated. Apart from religious training there was a great emphasis placed on academic subjects, also domestic economy. covering all branches of housekeeping. Astronomy was taught, there was a farm the girls visited, and sports, including archery, horse-riding, tennis. Mother Gonzaga. a far-seeing woman, brought out an expert from Cambridge to train the nuns in the latest methods of education. She went overseas for advanced kindergarten material, when none was available locally. She opened the first free Catholic kindergarten in South Melbourne in 1912 and this continued until the early 1960's. During her 40 years work in Australia, Mother Gonzaga was to guide her school at Ballarat into becoming the first to prepare girls for matriculation. Realising the need for trained teachers, she also established a Catholic teachers training college (later transferred to Melbourne) at Ballarat in 1884. She was also far-sighted enough to visualise a women's college at the university. This she did not see in her lifetime, but one was established in 1918, three years after her death. During her long years of labour she established schools throughout Australia and by 1975, the centenary of their arrival in Australia, the Loreto sisters could boast seven Houses in
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Victoria, two in New South Wales, one in South Australia, one in Queensland and three in Western Australia . . . and the harvest was great. In 1897 a Sister's diary entry read: "Perth seemed to be very far away and the travellers were regarded as real missioners. Rev. Mother assembled them in the Albert Park Chapel where she consecrated them to the Sacred Heart, Our Lady and St Joseph and earnestly invoked God's blessing on their future work."
It was just two years since Dr Gibney, the Bishop of Perth had visited Mary's Mount and asked Mother Gonzaga to make a foundation in his diocese. He would not take `no' for an answer, but it was not until September of the next year that she with Mother Aloysius Macken and Mother de Sales Field went to Perth with a view to settling there. No suitable house was found before the nuns had to return to Ballarat, but friends were interested. In January 1897, thanks to an old Loreto girl, Lily Healy, a furnished house was found, the property of the Vanzetti family who would be away for six months. On January 29 of that year. Mother de Sales Field and her community of six left Mary's Mount on their way to Perth. The journey meant a sea voyage from Port Melbourne to Albany, and then a train journey to Perth. The day school opened on February 15 — the nuns had been tired on arrival and a sympathetic Bishop
Gibney had told them to take a week's holiday, offering 100 pounds to defray expenses. On the first day of school there were two pupils but by the end of the week this had grown to five. The first boarders came in Holy Week and the urgent need was to find another house before the six months had expired. Negotiations were got underway for the purchase of a house in Adelaide Terrace and on August 7, 1897, formal possession was taken of The Bracken. In 1900 a school building was erected. and in 1901 the boarders were transferred to the newly opened House at Osborne, leaving Adelaide Terrace a day school. But change is a constant thing and in the late 1920's the University of Perth had moved to a site near Nedlands. With a view to a future University College for women which Loreto had been asked to staff, land was purchased in Webster Street, Nedlands — the site of the present primary school. The Foundation Stone for a new convent was laid in 1930 and in 1931 a section of the present Nedlands convent was ready for the opening of school. In the following year St Theresa's Parochial School was opened, and operated for many years until closing through lack of student numbers. In 1937 the Adelaide Terrace school was closed, with many regrets, but it's city location had proved increasingly unsuitable. Some of the students went to Osborne, others to Highgate Hill convent, while 30 followed the nuns to Nedlands. In 1938 extensions to the original buildings were made, and during the next 10 years or so further minor additions. The grounds were put in
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order and now bloom beautifully with a fragrant serenity appreciated by students and teachers alike. Senior classes were discontinued at Nedlands. in 1968, with the students going to Claremont, formerly called Osborne, and which was to become part of the amalgamated school of John XXIII.
With great forethought, Mother Gonzaga Barry had bought Osborne. in 1901. It had originally been built as a hotel by the Graves family and she planned to use it as a boarding school. With a magnificent view over the Swan River it was a delightful place to learn . . . eventually the historic Osborne Hotel was demolished in 1964, new buildings were constructed and Koolyangara primary school, now part of John XXIII college came into being in 1971.
From 1914 to 1930, outstanding musicians came from Osborne while in drama Lily Kavanagh has excelled herself. In the 1920's there was a fresh flash of genius culminating with the famous pianist. Eileen Joyce, and the singer LornaSydney-Smith. Academically many girls have brought credit to their school while studying for Arts, Science, Medical and Law degrees. Sister Jocelyn Dunphy has brought Osborne acclaim by winning the Paris Prix Emmanuel Mounier in 1966 and the Mannix Travelling Scholarship in 1968. In 1974 co-education was introduced and the Sisters entered a new phase in their mission. While their founder, Mary Ward had been concerned with the education of girls she had always maintained her followers must do whatever was 'congruous with the times'. It is this facet of their mission that has kept the Loreto Sisters facing the future with excitement and enthusiasm.
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Fleadh 83, the third 1he following parish conannual Irish festival, firmation ceremonies will be conducted in 1983: A breathtaking sum of almost $2 million begins on St. Patrick's May with 17th, March Day, FOR HIRE stands in the path of completion of an HELP WANTED DEATH Concelebrated Mass a Hamersley (1), Shenton ambitious rebuilding programme at the Little PALMER'S HIRE Donations urgently CHEGWIDDEN. On Sisters of the Poor old peoples' home at in St. Joseph's Church, Park (8). SIRS 1(1; Salvado Road, Subiaco Jumnaeddin required by the Little Sis- February 24 at Sir Charles G lendalough gton (1,3), East All part} equipment. 10.30 a.m. at ters of Glendathe Poor, Within the next few weeks work begins on the Gairdner Hospital, Mary glassware, etc Victoria Park (5), Muncelebrant chief The are lough. in We Dolores Chegwidden, of second stage of the programme, a 40-bed nursing Crocker}, cutler}, preparation to commence 18b Mundi Place Wanne- home, to bring spending so far to a total of just over will be Father Michael daring (5), BrentwoodCabaret tables, chairs Willetton (9), South Perth a new stage of the $4 mil- roo, beloved wife of $ 2 million. t restles. coloured lights Ryan, Parish Priest of (12), Glendalough (12), rebuilding our of lion elec. urns, pie v.armers Joseph, loved mother of The nursing home will olitan area but also in Subiaco and founda- Embleton (16), Kelmscott cold plates, dance floors. Home for the Aged at Stan , Irene, Mary, incorporate facilities for some major country tion President of the (19), Kensington (19), marquees. etc. Glendalough. Goods of Dorothy Pauline, Peter physiotherapy, chiropody towns. Irish Club. Como (23), Scarborough description every are (dec), Joan, Geraldine and and occupational therapy But they. have been feel49 Kent Street Club will open (26), Doubleview (26). required for the Fete. e.g. Kathy. Dear mother in law and a day care centre and ing the pinch of the eco- The Irish Cannington its doors for lunch, July Kitchen furniture and of Rosemary, Perry, Joe, doctor's clinic. . nomic downturn, and (advance book- Kenwick (3), Fremantle Phone 455 2591 effects, crockery, in fact all Barry, Ron, Maureen, The first stage, a mens' donations have been noon-2 pm phone 398 (3), Leederville (10), Riveressential, ing W E CAN D1. 1 RE R household furniture, soft Doug, Tony and Garry. hostel, was completed last down. goods, toys, pot plants, Fond grandma of 34 and year at a cost of $596,000 Other methods to raise 7026). The Irish Theatre vale (10), Bellevue (17), BUILDING paintings, jams, cakes, great grandmother of four. and provided 20 single funds include direct mail Players' production of Willagee (24), Lesmurdie "The Field", John B. (28), Hilton (31). bottled goods, etc.' Immaculate Heart of rooms and an administra- canvassing of business and TRADES If you cannot contribute in Mary pray for her. Her tion block. It has been industry and the 'buy a Keane's controversial and August B ricklaying. retaining this way, perhaps you funeral took place in the running well and residents brick' drive under which highly acclaimed award Whitfords (7), Osborne winning play opens at the Park (7), John XXIII (18), w a ii s A II types 0i could offer your time to Pinnaroo Valley \femoral are very happy with the anyone can buy bricks for Dolphin Theatre on St. Armadale (II). Baleatta brick ‘4ork. Also rendering the Sisters on Fete day, Park on February 28 1983 new facilities, the project at 50 cents (14), Midland (14), Lynno job too small free 13th March or before or following requiem Mass But before stages three each. Cheques for this can Patrick's night at 8p.m. events Other at wood (21), East Fremantle the Irish quotes. Ring Martin 339 contribute to their "Buy a. celebrated in St Anthony's and four can go ahead at be sent to Mother Marcelle (21). Brick Campaign" at 50¢ Church, Wanneroo. the idyllic site overlooking at the home in Rawlins Club: 7507. March 15 "Erin Remem- September Lake Monger, there is that Street. P ROPERTY Improve - per brick. Arrangements if Bowra and O'Dea a look at some Mosman (18), Beaconsbered", second $2 million to be The ambitious pro- serious and not so serious field (18), Highgate (25), ments Service all types oi necessary can be made to 349 0100. Please collect goods. heavy found. About one quarter gramme was planned aspects of Irish history in Hamilton Hill (25). w indows and doors is expected to come from because improved facilities music, poetry and song; October installed; walls and ceilings contact any of the sisters or THANKS Federal Government were badly needed, and the r emoved; wooden pergo- Mother Marcel on 444March 23 "A Drop of The Bullsbrook (2), Melville maintenance and repair Pure", a look at the many (9), Wilson (9), Morley las; general repairs. Phone .1366 or 444-0480. . Most Sacred Heart of subsidies. A comparatively small bills were becoming moods of the Irish in word, (16), Newman (20), Gina341 2946 ACCOMMODATION.. Jesus may your name be but important contribu- immense. music and song; wheen (23), Palmyra (23), praised and glorified Backyards cleaned, rubtion comes from the fetes The building dates back March 30 "An Evening Mirrabooka (30). bish rerno‘ed, trees Rent one of Jim Hassell's throughout the world now the Little Sisters hold at to the turn of the century, lopped, gardening, odd fine furnished homes for and forever. Thanks to the the home each year. Last and was before the Little With Percy French". a November jobs, garages cleaned out Catholic Record readers, Sacred Heart for prayers year $16,000 was raised, Sisters took it over in 1921. look at the world of the Medina (6), City Beach Irish around the turn of the (6), North Beach (13), at Lake Monger, 3 mins to answered. D.W. 2" 8780 and this year they hope to There has been a lack of century through the eyes of Spearwood (13), Victoria Perth. For two $13 a day Most Sacred Heart of do better. privacy for residents, four one of Ireland's best loved Park (20). P AIN [INC quality wonli each; four $7 a day each; 5 Jesus may your name be of whom used to share a entertainers. Sunday, The this fete .it the right price. Johr or 6 S6 a day each; 7 or 8a praised and glorified The escape of six Irish I , , %1 k Icy. Phone 361 430 mere $4 a day each or wha- throughout the world now March 13, from noon room. promises to he even bigger These days there are two tever you can afford. Tell and forever. 'Thanks to the and better than last year's. per room, or single rooms political prisoners from ( arpenter. Wants work all us! Kids to 6 free. Free fruit Sacred Heart for prayers An added attraction will in the new hostel. There Fremantle. will be recalled spheres of the building and vegies and one in "Hurrah Me Boys for day's answered. Cane T. be the Police Pipe Band, are 121 aged people at the Freedom", on April 21-23. trade. No job too small. food. Car $6 a day tenants variety home — of a now Most Sacred Heart of raffles will include one for Phone 330 4386. Sean and Seamus McMaonly. Daily Mass nearby, Jesus may your name be the Victorian gold sover- of races and denomina- hon, two of Ireland's most best suburb, profits aid in contrast to .highly regarded traditional Electrical Contractor 5 , Church, charity. We meet praised and glorified eign, there will be Bonza tions J.V. D'Esterre Vivian St, you. Thank God for these throught the world now the clown to entertain more than 140 in the past. musicians wills appear in Nazareth House fete will Rivervale. 30 yrs expe- gifts. Vacanies in February. and forever. In thanksgiv- children and adults alike. Stage three of the rebuild- concert at the Irish Club be held in the Collick rience, expert, efficient, J. Lilleyman manager. For ing for favours granted. and the popular giant auc- ing programme is a chapel, on April 27. Street grounds at Hilton tion will offer more than dining room and kitchen Details of Fleadh '83 are reliable. Ring 362 4646, brochure (09) 450 5301 C.H. on Sunday March 27 at plus community room, 200 items. after hours 385 9660. after 6 p.m. 51a Lake Most Sacred Heart ofjesus Residents at the home and stage four is a laundry, available from the Irish Club 12.30 p.m. Stalls, sweets. on 381 5213 (after hours plants, home produce, Monger Drive, Wembley. may your name be praised have been working on hall, staff amenity and 381 3161). and glorified throughout cakes and afternoon teas the world now and forever. items for sale during the convent. will be available. For built will is be they When These 12 months. past W EDDINGS In thanksgiving for further information phone TRAVEL time But guess. anybody's include pieces of furniture favours granted. J.H. Mr Curtin 337 4227 Mrs For that special da) add is not on the sisters' side and handcraft. Piggott 337 6584. harmony to the occasion Lourdes Europe fully Most Sacred Heart of Another contribution to The longer it takes to raise by tuning vocal guitar-kr escorted from Perth Jesus may your name be funding comes from the that money, the higher Marie Wallace sing foryou departing July 16 some praised and glorified efforts of the nuns who costs will become because and your guests in th,.. vacancies. Phone Marcia throughout the world now doorknock throughout the of inflation. And up will go St Norbert College community will be presenting a church. Phone 275 3870 or Rita on 450 2488 or 450 and forever. Thanks to year, mostly in the metrop- the target. I.enten programme of The Sacred Heart for pray' 6469. Organist for weddings renewal featuring the serers answered. G.P.S. Traditional and modern. For all travel arrangeies "Kindling The Fire." Thanks to the Sacred Telephone 349 5993. Each session takes place ments phone Sue 444 5242. 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entrance to the tomb and meeting the angels. The competition is open to all ages and we'll be choosing winners on creativity and neatness. To help you with ideas read All we want you to do is draw a Okay gang, it's time to get busy again. We've got another super picture of any of the events con- Mathew, Chapter 28; Mark, Chapc ompetition coming up for Easter nected with Jesus rising from the ter 16; Luke, Chapter 24 and John, Chapter 20. and we'll be announcing the winners dead. Start working now and let us have For example; Jesus coming from in our Easter Sunday issue. We've got a beautiful 128 page the tomb; Jesus meeting Mary Mag- your entry by March 21. Send your World Atlas, courtesy of William dalene in the garden; Women wond- entry to Easter Contest, The Record, Collins publishers for the winner and ering about the big stone at the 26 John Street and make sure you lots of other beautiful books to give tomb; The Angels at the empty tomb include your name, age, address and or Peter and John arriving at the phone number if you have one. away to the runners-up. The Record, March 10 — 16, 1983
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A holiday to New Zealand raffle promoted by Perth and Bunbury YCW recently has proved to be the biggest and best fundraising e vent yet.
Almost $5000 worth of tickets between them in tickets were sold in a bid to t wo weeks," he said. raise funds for on-going "However many sold very youth leadership forma- few or none which was tion. disappointing." When offered a ticket The raffle was drawn by many people said: "What! Peter Hogan, Sunbury Two dollars!" but Liz parish counciller and a Chidlow, treasurer for teacher at the Bunbury Perth YCW said many also Catholic college. asked about the movement Winner, Gordon Smith of and it provided an oppor- Albany with ticket number tunity to talk about YCW 1292 will soon be enjoying and the work that it does. a 15 day Tiki Tour of New Raffle organiser, and per- Zealand, with air fares and mit holder, Peter Shooter accommodation provided. (fulltime worker for YCW On being advised of his in Bunbury diocese) said win, Gordon said he was he was pleased with the 'absolutely excited'. He results. had been planning to go to "Some members worked New Zealand in 1984 and very hard selling tickets, winning the trip was a real two girls sold over 60 bonus.
Its one thing to be a Catholic, it's another to stand up and be seen as a Catholic. Pictured left to right are Antioch members: Beth Lincoln, Stuart Nance, Ann Franklyn, Katie O'Dea, Liz Green, Simon St. Jorre, John Lincoln.
Messages "Mum and Dad you can cuddle and kiss in the kitchen as much as you like," a young 15 year old told his parents, "because" he said, "the more you love each other, the more love you will A hcro is a man with courage and strength. superhuman qualities,, courage to believe in Jesus shower on me".
someone favoured by the and strength to practice Gods -- according to their faith when all around That was quite a prosi. Greek mythology. them the world seems less found statement and made When we talk about and less Christian? Aren't me think of the vital teachIan Haines, Carol O'Connor, Debbie Dowson, heroes today we refer to these good people heroes ing role parents bine in Peter Hogan and Michael Minchim all of Bunbury preparing their children someone we admire, one in their own ways? are pictured at the drawing of the raffle held in who fights for a worth- It takes courage to stand for marriage. Bunbury. Most of this preparation while cause. We see a lot of up and be counted as heroes on television — Catholic. It takes strength is unconscious and Superman the Greatest to maintain a Christian unspoken. American Hero. Their life-style when so many of A young person learns qualities are strength, society's values are non- how to relate with their future spouse from examcourage, a will to win. Christian and immoral. ple set by the parents. Their cause is worthwhile too -- they fight for truth, Yet I am constantly One of the most beautiful justice and the American amazed by the numbers of messages that parents can young people who are teach their children is to film industry! There are 'real-life' heroes actively involved in their show them that marriage is too. Music, the arts, parishes, who come along about being a COUPLE. sports, even politics supply to Youth groups, who That in totally giving one- been made in His image one acts. heroes. Dennis Lillee is a aren't afraid of being seen self to the spouse, one's and their destiny is to be Couples need to ask hero for many cricket fans to be Catholic. It is one freedom is not lost but one; united in body, soul, themselves and parents can — how often he has come thing to be Catholic — it is rather one is liberated and heart and mind and ther- help with questions like: to the rescue in Test another thing to be seen to free to love totally one's eby reflect the mystery and 1. Why are we getting spouse as NUMBER matches, how greatly he is be Catholic. wonder of God Himself. married in a church? admired and cheered on by The youth of our par- ONE. Parents can teach their 2. What is the sacrament ishes, involved in CPY, Unfortunately the idea of children thousands! and prepare them of marriage all about? being a "couple" seems YCS, to YCW, Antioch and There are even religious for marriage by the way 3. What has God to do Cathy Hynes and Robert Connor of Bunbury from be only for the engaged. they Christian heroes. Many so many other movements, act as a couple and with our lives as married Bunbury YCW pictured selling tickets 'down town' people admire Pope John deserve our admiration for Once the honeymoon is then in later years by people? Paul, or Mother Teresa. t heir heroic qualities. over it's not the done thing openly discussing and 4. What are the Church's These, too, have qualities Strength, courage, deter- to hold hands, do things sharing their values and values and standards for of courage, determination, mination in the face of so together and be seen as a ideas about marriage. marriage? inner strength. Their many contrary values — couple. Many ideas about mar- 5. Will the children be causes are truth and justice these mark our youth, Holding hands is not the riage and husband and brought up as baptised — the truth about God, along with the cause they only criterion of being a w ife relationships are Catholics? justice for the poor and are representing, the cause couple either. passed of Christ and a Christian There seems to be so remarks on in casual Not until these questions oppressed. which are untrue have been discussed and many sad marriages in our or half truths. But there are many more w orld. thought about am I preheroes and heroines than For me, these young peo- society today that I am I grew up thinking that in pared to say that I am free you or I imagine. What ple are a sign of hope. constantly amazed to see a marriage it's the husband to witness the marriage of a about the thousands of That's a great virtue — young couples arrive at my that makes all the deci- particular couple. people who practice their hope is a virtue much doorstep arm in arm, full sions. My father used to These sort of questions Catholic faith week after needed today. Perhaps we of confidence that their say; "Women have long ought to be discussed with week, the millions of par- can all take a look at our r elationship was made in hair but unfortunately the same fervour as the ents who make great sacri- Catholic youth, perhaps heaven. short brains." colour of the bridesmaids' fices for their children and we can all catch a little of I shouldn't he surprised Hundreds of comments frocks. families'? Haven't these their. contagious, hope- because the plan of God is like; "Men are little boys at The meaning and dignity people also the qualities of giving qualities. that man and woman have heart", "you get to a man of marriage ought to be the through his stomach", constant search of the "men don't have feelings", young couple rather than ual renewal for post "women are mysterious the endless hunt for a suitas chool youth and creatures", "women are ble reception centre, young adults. always upset about some- To help with these and Anyone who is interFirst Searcher Camp year at the Don More thing", "marriage is for set- similar questions a couple ested in attending this for '83. Camp site, Parkerville, tling down". "its a 50-50 can attend marriage prepscamp should contact The Youth Encounter on the weekend of idea, of give and take. . ." ration courses by ringing Father Tom Ryan Movement will be con- March 25 '27. Even these passing corn- 291 7162 for the Catholic North the at C.S.S.R. d ucting its first Searcher Camps are ments, held either by par- Engaged Encounter weeMonastery Perth on Searcher Camp for the programmes of spiritents or relatives and kend or 325 6644 for the 328 6968 or 328 6600. • i NN\ friends all influence how Centrecare courses: \NINA 14 The Record, March 10 — 16, 1983
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The Emerging Layman was the title of a book and the topic of innumerable articles and speeches in the years f ollowing the Second Vatican Council. Now the new Code of Canon Law, incorporates into general Church law the Council's reforms. The new code is a convenient milestone to mark the progress of the laity in the Church in the 20 years since Vatican II began. In the new code's pages are all the major legal landmarks of changed Church thinking and practice regarding the laity. A first point of interest is that The Emerging Layman, if written today, would probably have to be called The Emerging Layperson. Virtually all forms of sexual discrimination between laymen and laywomen that existed in the old Code of Canon Law, which dates from 1917, are eliminated in the new code.
As Father Donald E. Heintschel, a canon law expert and associate general secretary of the national R EAR 646 ALBANY HVAY onference of Catholic Bishopsc Via, 1 Miller St. Victoria Park U.S. Catholic Conference, summaP.O. Box 389 Victoria rised it, "In the new code, sexist P ark 6100 discrimination has been replaced A/H 458 8821 b y discrimination based on ordination. But the nature of discrimination based on ordination has changed noticeably, too. An important backdrop to the role of laypersons in the new code is what another canonist, Jesuit Father Ladislas Orsy of Georgetown University, called the restriction on "the definition of cleric." Exemplifying that basic change was the action by Pope Paul VI in 1 972 when he suppressed clerical tonsure and the clerical orders of porter, exorcist, lector, acolyte and subdeacon, making ordination to the diaconate the point of entry into the ranks of the clergy. Of those clerical orders suppressed, Pope Paul established two, lector Unemployment is a problem that faces the world. and acolyte, as lay ministries. He also revitalised the order of It's easy to lay the blame at the feet of the individual, but in many cases they deacon in its own right, reinstitutjust don't get a fair go. the permanent diaconate and In Papua New Guinea, for example, only 10 per cent of school leavers can find ing opening that ordained ministry to jobs. And that's if you happen to be one of the fortunate ones who get the chance married men. The more restrictive definition of to go to school in the first place. a cleric, based on a sounder theolMost young people who complete ogy of the role of ordained ministry primary school, just don't get the and the relation between pastoral responsibility and juridical authoropportunity to attend a secondary school ity in the Church, was a legal due to lack of teachers and facilities. breakthrough that allowed layperAnd so the unemployment problem is sons to do many things once resf urther compounded. tricted to priests, said Father Orsy. Underlying that shift, said Father Those without jobs are often treated as Heintschel, was a move away from f ailures because they've supposedly brought the more legalistic concept jurisshame to their families. dictional authority in the old code Others suffer a worse fate. They move to the cities t o one of "the power of governance.and become involved in crime - a habit that becomes That concept in the new code, he harder to break as they get older. said, is based theologically on VatProject Compassion is working to beat this problem, ican ll's threefold characterisation of Christ as priest (leader of worand that's why we need your help. ship and sanctifier), prophet (proSchool Leavers' Centres have claimer and teacher of the word been set up to help these young and king (ruler vested with juridipeople. cal power). Of course many of the changes in They are learning to become new canon law code that affect the farmers and mechanics, cooks, the laity have been gradually carpenters and artists, and in turn, gain incorporated into Church practice in the years since Vatican II, so self respect and dignity. their inclusion in the new code is So please give generously this more a matter of integrating and Lent - not just for the young solidifying the changes rather unemployed of Papua New than introducing real innovations. Guinea, but for the millions of other In the area of lay rights. Father James Provost, executive director of the Canon people around the world who may Law Society of America, cited as one of never get the chance to live the the important advances in the new code the legal protections given to lay way we do. employees of the Church. Special envelopes for the six The code spells out their right to "a just weeks of Lent are available from family wage," gives canon law enforcement to protections granted in local civil your local Parish Church, along law, and spells out the right to a contract, with Project Compassion money he said. It also cites their right to provisions for health care and some form of boxes. retirement security. Yes, I'd like to know more about your work with A nd if you'd like to know more the young unemployed of Papua New Guinea, One good example of the difference in spirit between the old code and the new about the work of Project and other Project Compassion programmes comes in the treatment of Catholic Compassion around the world, Enclosed is a donation for Project Compassion *E education. please send the coupon. In the old code, the law portrays the Name parents' obligation as a largely passi‘ one of surrendering the child to the clerp to be educated. In the new, parents have A ddress primary responsibility for education: laypersons are seen as having a proper Postcode role as teachers of the faith in their own PZSSIOn Pf6/6 ( right rather than as substitutes if there are Australian catholic Relief, not enough clergy; and the governance of 154 Elizabeth Street, Catholic education by priests and bishops is placed in a more pastoral context of Sydney 2000 _ •, • service and fulfillment of pastoral 'donations over 52 00 ore to deductible I II VIII Ell Ile El NI1.1MI In MIIIINI IIIII 1111 responsibilities.
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Here are some of the things that are open to laymen and laywomen in the new code which under the old code simply did not exist or were restricted — to clergymen: • At the parish level, laypersons may be members of the parish council and the parish financial council; members of a team ministry, headed by a priest, that is in charge of the pastoral care of a parish; or administrators of priestless parishes under the leadership of a neighbouring priest (who is the actual pastor). They may be consulted by the bishop, if circumstances warrant, in the choice of a new pastor. • At the diocesan level, laypersons may be members of the diocesan synod and its commissions. of the bishop's financial council and of the diocesan pastoral council. They may be consulted in the selection of bishops. A layperson can serve as a diocesan chancellor or administrator of finances, or on the diocesan court as an auditor, assessor, defender of the bond, promoter of the faith or judge. • At the provincial and regional levels, representatives of women religious are to participate, and other laypersons may be asked to participate, in provincial and regional councils of bishops. • In certain circumstances (that seem to apply chiefly if not solely to mission areas), with permission from the Holy See a bishop may appoint laypersons to administer baptism or serve as official church witness for marriages on a regular basis when no priest is available. • Laypersons may serve as lectors and in other ministries at Mass. (In one of the few exceptions to the new c ode's general rule of nondiscrimination toward women, only laymen may serve as acolytes, and only laymen may be formally installed as lectors or acolytes.) • Laypersons may teach in seminaries and on pontifical faculties and may be book censors for bishops. For the first time the right of lay persons receive pontifical degrees and official Church mandates to teach the sacred sciences is spelled out in General Church law.