The Record Newspaper 17 March 1983

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The painting and renovation at Our Lady of Victories Wembley looked like fun for Claire Lynch of Wembley, watched by Sister Maureen McCarthy, Graham Owens of Scarborough. Gerard de Haas of Wembley and Gerald Prangley of Kardinya, CCIH chairman, and (front) Louise and Carla Steels of Duncraig.

School put to a good use The parish of Wembleji may have lost its own parish school but it has opened its arms to a new family, the Catholic Care for the Intellectually Handicapped. The group has been given a rent-free, two-year lease on portion of Our Lady of Victories former school vacated after the school was transferred to the Floreat campus. The move is a big step for CCIH which until now operated from a room and telephone service provided by the Knights of the Southern Cross at their Hay Street headquarters. The Wembley buildings include two former classrooms, kitchen, staffroom, toilets and tuckshop. The rooms will provide a place for meetings, library and other resources and a regional catechetic sister operated by Sister Joanne. W embley parishioners showed their support on Saturday when more than 30 CCIH supporters stripped the rooms for painting and renovation costing $6000 for which the CCIH will be grateful to receive public support at their 364 Cambridge Street address, phone 387 7478.

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The Holy Year proclaimed by His Holiness Pope John Paul II begins next Friday, March 25. The Holy Year celebrates the 1950th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in the year 33 AD. The Catholic Archbishop of Perth, Sir Launcelot Goody, this week announced arrangements for celebrating the Holy Year.

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A rchbishop Goody said the beginning of the c elebrations coincided with the Feast of the A nnunciation, when it was first announced the Son of God had indeed become man in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary. • Continued page 2.

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Gift for fire relief

Pope John Paul II has given $11,500 to assist relief for victims of bushfires in Victoria and South Australia. The Apostolic Pro Nuncio in Australia, Archbishop Barbarito. said the Holy Father was making this contribution as a sign of solidarity with those people who had suffered so greatly as a result of the fires. The National Director of Australian Catholic Relief, Michael Whiteley said he felt all Australians, and particularly those person-

ally affected by the fire, greatly appreciated the pope's interest and concern in all the people of the world, extending to those living in the richer countries.

Mr. Whitely said the money would be given to the St Vincent De Paul Society in Victoria and South Australia. He paid tribute to the amount of work done by society members for the fire victims, much of which went unrecognised by the general public.

Jubilee begins Appeal on Friday to step

"Hence the emphasis dur- reveal God to man, but ing the jubilee celebrations man to himself. It will finish on Easter of the Holy Year on the "The objective reality of sacrament of penance the mystery of RedempSunday, 1984, when which is a concrete appli- tion in the sufferings and the whole Christian cation of good intentions triumph of Christ must world will be com- and revived faith to a posi- become a subjective realtive improvement in our ity, proper to each one of memorating Christ's relations with God and us who believes, so that A CCRA (Ghana): The glorious resurrection with our fellow man," the how we live will be a reflecCatholic Bishops' Contion of what we believe. the completed work of Archbishop said. ference of Ghana has "The sacrament of conappealed to the nation's man's Redemption. fession (or of penance, or military government to Archbishop Goody said: of reconciliation, as you step aside in the name Celebration "The indiction of a Holy wish) will be emphasised of national salvation. Year by Pope John Paul The bishops statethroughout the jubilee as a ment says the so-called for this momentous anni- "This celebration of our dynamic fact of the holiPeople's and Workers' versary comes as no sur- R edemption through ness of the Church, which D efence Committees prise and will be celebrated reconciliation not only will makes saints of sinners." which ostensibly run with gratitude by all who Father Paul Duffy S.J. hears the, vows of (froi7) the country have "no acknowledge the Redempclearcut guidelines for eft) Peter Collins, Michael Ross, John Martis l tion of mankind by Jesus their operation." The Holy Year in the archdiocese of Perth: Opening Mass in S John Wakeling in Sydney. our Christ Saviour. It spoke of "usurpaMary's Cathedral at 7.30 pm on Friday, March 25. tion of power, chaos Four young men, and subversion of duly All priests are requested to concelebrate with their Archbishop to constituted authority at aving completed h hear and act upon the Holy Father's call to thanksgiving and work places " Salvation years of novitwo The bishops charged reconciliation and to take back to their parishes this message of that in many instances have pronounciate hope these committees have ced their vovipas "Jesus was born, lived on NB. Any scheduled Masses or other functions in the become "instruments parishes earth, preached the good of terror, division and Jesuits at Canisius should be anticipated or delayed that priests so may be at the antagonisms in our news of salvation, died on College, Pymble. society.'' the cross and rose from the Cathedral . They argued that some dead in order to deliver us P riests should proclaim the jubilee and open the Holy Year in their The vows were received have become a "haven from by everlasting Father Paul Duffy, S.J. death. of corruption, extortion own parishes the following Sunday. (Palm Sunday, the begin"He came and He comes t he provincial of the and callousness." ning of the week commemorating our Redemption, is most to reconcile us with God," Society of Jesus in The bishop said that Archbishop Goody said. Australia. there was an acute appropriate.) J ohn Martis, shortage of goods in "It is a jubilee, then, of Each parish two or three times during the year should promote Ghana. They said "our received his education our Redemption. hospitals have become John XXIII Collegc, solemn services of penance and reconciliation with the co"It will be a time for a insatiable graveyards. Claremont, and lived at St renewal faith in of Our operation of the priests available for individual confessions. In the wake of the Thomas More College Saviour and for a serious 'revolution,' atrocities during his university effort of reconciliation: an of all sorts had been studies. effort individual of each to c ommitted against innocent civilians by be reconciled with his some members of the neighbour, with the armed forces and varChurch and with almighty ious groups purporting God whom each of us has t o support the single C onditions for o ften so grievousl 'revolution' . offended. gaining the jubilee The wanton killings. s enseless beatings, plenary indulgence merciless molestations have been spelled out and general harassment continue without the by Archbishop Goody government showing any willingness or abil• In Sunbury. the Holt- To gain the jubilee plenar ity to do anything about Year will open in St indulgence, which can them." Patrick's Cathedral with always be applied to the The bishops said they concelebrated faithful departed, every pontifical wre distressed by the at 7.30pm Mass on March individual must make The best potential teacher funded by the Commonsentiments of those in • an individual and com25. of natural family planning wealth government. Ghana who argue that t he "brutalities" the "It is a special occasion plete sacramental confesis a woman who follows "Trainees who are ulikcpeople have been subon which to respond to sion and the method solely. who is cessful at teaching wW.It jected to for the past Pope John Paul's call to • worthily receive euchariscomfortable sexually in have wasted their time. year are "all part of the the universal Church," tic communion. (In these her marriage relationship "They may prove to be revolutionary process. ' ' t wo Sacraments takes said Bishop Quinn. and who preferably has better as educators visiting The bishops stated: He said the opening place the intimate encounconceived a child by this schools and other groups "Sin and violence can ceremony suitably coin- ter between man's misery method. to give general instruction never be an answer to mercy). God's and cided with the closure of injustice and exploitaon natural methods." This was said by Mrs Ann these tion. if revolution the Sunbury mission that The reception of O'Donnell, a natural fam- explained Mrs O'Donnell. means trampling upon has been preached by the sacraments must be assoily planning teacher for the "Teaching natural family expression with ciated an the inalienable rights of visiting their parish past I. in taking part in a Mass Redemptorist Fathers for nine years with the planning does not involve commitment renewed of human beings, then it is celebrated for the jubichurch or the chapel of Centrecare the past two weeks. agency which is sexual counselling," she to be condemned. But it their institution. These inviting lee, or "It will be an ideal occa- by either: interested people said. "The teacher has to needs not to. RevoluCompart Taking in a 0 visits should, as far as is to sion on which to gain the 2. in taking part in a tion can also be one of train as prospective be able to listen sympapossible, take the aspect t jubilee indulgence and to munity Celebration either Service thetically to a client's sexPenitential hearts and attitudes. It eachers. of a pilgrimage and be unite with the pope in his on a Diocesan level or in must be led by God." ual difficulties that may arranged for gaining "Anyone can explain individual the parishes. the somewhat formal and request that 'we open the • See Project Comthe jubilee, or elementary facts of the have arisen as part of their passion story, page 7. doors to the Redeemer'," This Community act may 3. in the solemn adminis- structured. family planning. consist N.B. The churches, other ovulation method or even "It is our experience Bishop Quinn said. tration of Baptism or *of than the read them in a book. cathedral, in the many of these seeming difthe other sacraments, Archdiocese of Perth will "But the teacher has a ficulties disappear when a Or be designated later after special responsibility to couple accept joint respon4. solemn exercise of the further consultation. build up confidence of a sibility for their fertility NE NEED: Stations of the Cross. teachers building tradesmen Archbishop Goody said couple to the point where and see the part this plays Mechanics. farmers. marine engineers. At all or any of these func- he cordially invited the pri- they accept responsibility in the expression of their F xpiprienced handymen electricians tions, prayer for the pope's ests of the Archdiocese, the for their combined fertility sexual love for each [Tntatinn nercnnnei intentions must be religious and all the faith- and the part this plays in other." she said. cc i!!,,M0' S,1A Mi llfrS hoc included — in particular ful to live intensely and to their sexual relationship," "Natural family planning Nurse, accountAnt.s that the event of the promote the living of this Mrs O'Donnell said. is now a scientifically E xperienced office workers Mrs O'Donnell has been established fact, able to be Redemption may be pro- Year of Grace. ?ilrninistrator claimed to all peoples. He said "May Mary most married 23 years, has four presented in its own right. O By visiting either individ- Holy, Mother of the c hildren and with her hus- The hundreds of thou411111rN; • ually or better still as a Redeemer and Mother of band Tom, was part of a sands who are successfully family or parish group one the Church, intercede for group of couples who 13 using the method are its FOR PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC of the churches indicated us and obtain for us the years ago set about prom- best advertisement. If you are prepared to devote part of your life to God in the service of His below: grace of a fruitful celebra- oting natural family plan- Couples who have conpeople in another culture I. one of the Roman tion of the jubilee year, 20 ning in Perth. science problems over fam- -----------------------------------CONTACT: PALMS Lay Missionary Movement. Basilicas, years after the Second Vat- The training course will ily planning are urged to C - The Paulian Association. G.P.O. Box 716. SYDNEY 2001. follow the 40 hour pro- seek advice from those 2. (outside Rome) the ican Council. Name diocesan Cathedral or "May she show again to gramme laid down by the who can advise them in one of the churches the whole Church, indeed Australian Council for spiritual matters. Address d esignated by the t o all humanity, the Natural Family Planning. People wishing to join the P,Istcodc bishop. blessed fruit of her womb, Trainees who are assessed training course which com3. the sick or cloistered Jesus, who is the Redee- as successful teachers will mences in June should religious may gain the mer of each and every work under supervision in phone Centrecare 325 All donations towards our work are gratefully received a programme partly 6644. jubilee indulgence by one". 2 The Record, March 17 — 23, 1983 • From page 1.

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Indulgence conditions spelt out.

Mass in Bunbury

Teachers for Confession, family plan

c ommunion pilgrimage

Request for interest aid A rchbishop Goody has asked the new State government to consider further interest and land purchase assistance and the Premier Mr Burke has spelt out his government's pledge on providing sites and more accessible school supplies. After he blessed the Brother W.G. Hall library and other rooms a t St Mark's College Highgate last Sunday, Archbishop Goody suggested the current interest subsidy by the State government ought to be raised from the 7 1/2 % which had been set when interest rates were about half of what they are now.

Nun's massage stopped S T PAUL, Minn. (NC) - A nun and two other massage centre in St Paul have refused to comply with licensing requirements they say are designed to regulate pros tituion. Sister Rosalind Gefre of the Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet, Dorothy Eide and ,Patricia Brennan are cmtr•nging city ordinances -that forced the closing of their professional massage centre in the Crocus Commons shopping mall two days after it opened in mid-February. Sister Gefre said she views massage as part of her ministry. Giving massages is "healing like Jesus did—, she said. "In the context of massage. I am a deeply religious woman. I read scripture a lot, and every time Jesus did healing, he touched." Sister Gefre worked at a YWCA in Fargo, North Dakota, giving massages for seven years an4 since coming to the St PaulMinneapolis archdiocese three years ago, has given massages at a shelter for retired sisters. Many people she has massaged have asked her for spiritual, moral or marriage counselling, she said, adding that she often prays with her clients. In Fargo, priests, ministers and medical professionals referred people to her, she said. tut+ protestant client, ttaiing her as a confessor, told her, "You Catholics have someone to go to confession to, but we protestants don't". Sister Gefre, a charismatic who believes in healing through faith, said some members of her religious community ostracised her in the past, but now they understood her work and were supportive. The order paid part of the costs for establishing the professional massage centre. A district court judge has granted the three women a temporary injunction that allows the centre to remain open while the ordinance is appealed. A court hearing was scheduled for Monday. Sister Gefre said the women are seeking a new law regulating respectable massage centres as distinguished from places for prostitution. City regulations require masseuses to pass a test demonstrating knowledge of massage, and massage businesses are charged a fee of 551:10. Exceptions are made for health professionals and massage facilities within athletic clubs like YWCAs. Licensing official, Joseph Carchedi said the ordinances were not designed to license prostitution but to regulate business, jest as other ordinances replahil health clinics and liquor stores.

Approach made at opening

The archbishop also Archbishop Prendiville asked for assistance to opened the original HighThe Premier Mr Burke with St Mark's principal, Brother G. L. Seaman. At back obtain land at less than the gate school in 1936. are Mr Bill Cutler, school board acting chairman, Brother L. Bowler, provincial exhorbitant costs required Present at that ceremsuperior, and Archbishop Goody. to purchase land for new ony would have been Walschools — often as much ter Hall, a foundation as $500,000 for current student of CBHS who b ecame a Christian purchases. A rchbishop Goody Brother staff member of emphasised the considera- his former school as well as ble expenditure being out- a prominent educationist laid by the Catholic before his death in April community on the expan- 1977. The Brother W.G. Hall sion of the school system to meet the demand for Library cost $450,000 and places in Catholic schools. because three applications Projects just completed to Commonwealth sources or in the pipeline would had failed to achieve cost in excess of $4 million, grants, the college had undertaken the debt at he said. 4 / , financing partly Archbishop Goody said 141 t hat while government offset by the State governauthorities were reasona- ment subsidy of 71 2 / %. Noting the college was ble and co-operative in most instances, difficulties faced with an interest bill were arising from the of $34,000 which would obstructive activities of handicap other development, Brother Seaman some quarters. The Premier, Mr Burke. thanked Mr Burke for the attending his first Catholic State government contrischool function, to open bution but said more the new library complex would be welcome. He paid tribute to the affirmed strongly his personal support of the parents' efforts that have Catholic school system raised more than S120,000 and its value in fostering for the school in the past the growth of faith in those five years. During that time. influenced by it. He acknowledged the expansion and upgrading When you next sit back to enjoy a efficiency of Catholic of the facilities at the Bednice cup of tea, spare a thought for the schools and the considera- ford and Highgate camble saving to the State, puses had reached S I tea pickers of Sri Lanka. financially, that they million. Without doubt, they are among Voluntary labour conrepresented. the poorest and most oppressed He pointed out that the tributed by staff and parpolicy of his government ents had helped. people in the land. Apart from the State already included commitFor six days each week, the women government interest subments. to make sites for new schools easier to sidy. the only capital work on vast estates earning little more than acquire and to make assistance had been grants Government supplies more of $34,500 and $15,500 80 cents each day. a ccessible to non - from the Christian BrothTheir husbands often work on the same ers provincial executive. government schools. plantatio n, and they live as families in small The Highgate school The principal of St Mark's Brother G.L. Sea- which became the senior dark, overcrowded rooms. man said the new building section of St Mark's BedThey have a right to a better life, and was the fulfillment of a ford in 1980, now has an with the help of Project Compassion they will dream voiced when the late enrolment of 320.

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achieve it. That's why we need your help this Lent - not just for the tea pickers of Sri Lanka, but for millions of other disadvantaged and oppressed peoples around the world. Special envelopes for the six weeks of The Kensington par- Prayers of intercession offered the so were that ish programme of Lent are available from your local Parish Christian Initiation men could centre their Church, along with Project Compassion on Christ, be convinctook a further step lives ing witnesses to Him, be money boxes. f orward towards its faithful to His truth and And if you'd like to know more about Easter culmination live in the spirit of Christ. last Sunday. Then followed a prayer of the work of Project Compassion and how Two unbaptised candi- exorcism which asked the it's making the world a better place, please dates Justin Stanes and heavenly Father to free Brian Hornsby went these men from falsehood send us the coupon.

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through the "scrutiny" so that truth could be the ceremony that is listed for foundation of their lives. the final Sundays in Lent This ancient rite, once leading up to an Easter again restored to our liturgical life in the revised baptism. catechumenate, reminds Those preparing for bap- us that the primeval contism are asked to "scruti- flict between good and evil nise" their lives and is still being ruthlessly pinpoint areas which may waged. still be in need of the puri- Before Christ's kingdom fying light of Christ. of light can be fully reaAgainst the Year A gos- lised. the kingdom of the pel story of the man born prince of darkness must be blind, the two men to be overthrown. baptised were called before The celebrant laid hands F ather O'Dea who on each of the men in requested them to kneel silence for a short time. and ask God to enlighten Then he prayed that the them regarding any areas spirit of truth free these of their lives where there men from the yoke of the may be remnants of evil. father of lies and enjoy the All prayed with them in light of Christ as did the silence for some time. man born blind.

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Record The settlement of the election may now mercifully permit the Catholic school sector to get on with its policy studies without being dangled as fish bait in a questionable vote touting exercise. A series of Eastern States media hit-and-run stories gave the impression that the Catholic body should not be allowed to think for itself and that it would be rather disruptive if it croaked anything but the right approving noises in certain directions. A Perth journalist was surprised to be told by the WA Catholic Education Office that the National Catholic Education Commission and Australian bishops had formulated their basicgrant philosophy quite independently of the ALP mid 1982 policy. It was published two months before the attempt to paint the Catholic position as intransigent in the face of ALP preelection statements by a range of spokesman, including Mr Hawke. As the ousted former government discovered, the new ministry can only be seen and judged on the way its plans work out in practise. In the meantime there are peripheral matters on which it will do no harm to clear the air. The irritating and persistent reference to the "needs" of the "poor" Catholic schools, however accurate, may be good rhetoric in bleeding-heart politics but it is only half the story of the 90 years during which the Catholic system has based its claim on elementary justice. It was no academic claim but was uttered time and time again in the presence of generations of politicians who were cowed by the bigoted establishment of the day against doing the slightest thing about redressing a wrong. t hat changed and whatever the motives behind the school-book grants, the Menzies science block step, or the Whitlam breakthrough on needs, the gratitude of the Catholic body for the turn of the tide should not be at the price of stating the claim of justice. The Catholic education effort was not a fringe fantasy. The cemeteries are now filling with the thousands of religious brothers and nuns who gave their lives to educate Australian citizens right through to the top ranks of politics, business, sport and entertainment. The Catholic parent suffered but backed that effort with real funds. Let there be some relief, therefore, from the gobbledy-gook of education policy statements that splatter the word "resources" around as though it is dew drifting from heaven instead of the hard cash that comes out of ordinary hardworking pockets. As Archbishop Goody points out this week the Catholic body is massively fulfilling • its c ommitments to provide substantial contributions to its schools. We can do without patronising assumptions by theoreticians or teaching lobbies arrogantly disdaining the sweat and sacrifice that goes into fund raising. It will be an encouragment for certain quarters to be clearly told that ALP policy will have no truck with anti-state-aid factions trying to wriggle under its wing. It will do no harm for politicans to put the DOGS in their place even though being trounced in the High Court and being absolved of the S1 2 / million damages did not deter them from their shameless national advertisements during the election. At his first Catholic school function since the election Premier Brian Burke has stated his support and that should be heard as much more than the frank personal declaration he made before the election that he has a personal vested interest in Catholic schooling. The state teaching body has every right to press for what it considers just claims on the national purse but if that campaign descends to odious comparison or the blatant ommission of State, as opposed to Commonwealth, funding figures in its printed materials then its standard of arithmetic will be as questionable as its ethics on the freedom of parental choice.

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Priests are asked to forward their holy oil containers. cleaned and ready to receive the new Blessed Oils in Holy Week, as soon as possible, to the Catholic Church Office. March 23 Archbishop Goody will attend in Sydney the central commission meeting of the Australian Episcopal Conference. 25 In St Mary's Cathedral at 7.30 p.m. Mass to open the Holy Year.

HAVE YOUR SAY

More care needed IVF is setting dates wider issue

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All too often people who are in charge of parishes Sir, and schools set these dates, The Right to Life Associ- and parents think they ation also has condemned have to conform. as charitably as it can the in The reward for setting vitro fertilisation pro- one's own dates to suit the gramme (Editorial. Febru- child's readiness will be a ary 27), briefly because in child who beams after first From P Coyne, Mount Hawthorn creating new life it destroys confession, and the same its siblings. for first Communion. Non-government schools fall far The poignant yearning Our sons did just that behind in the amount spent on their shown in the letters of and they are grateful to us Sir, education in comparison with those in women in favour contrast for spending so much time Father Richard Doyle (The Record, government schools. starkly against the often preparing them. March 3) stated what the Catholic posiMost of the so-called wealthy schools clinical, shortened letters From my experience in tion on education should be. would be non-Catholic. If we don't of those opposing. the classroom and in the strongly support their basic entitlement Every Australian child has a right to home, children are not a basic grant regardless of the school w e are betray ing them and we would he ready for Confession after they attend. next on the list. six or seven lessons spread Information over the same number of weeks. Nor are they ready Catholics have obviously for Communion after eight got to be more informed or nine lessons - and that about the whole range of time includes lessons on from R. Rossitter, Subiaco. issues beginning with the Mass. Watching food ads on television, one could he led to abortion, test-tube pregIn my own parish, parbelieve that women rarely eat, that they are there only to nancy, foetal tissue trans- ents of candidates for first cook and serve food. plants, voluntary and Confession and first ComThe number of advertisements showing mother smilinvoluntary euthanasia. munion will be asked to ing benignly as husband and children tuck into their contraceptive mentality "stand and present their meal seem to be on the increase. The Meat Board etc. children" this Sunday. and from C. Eileen Lalor, advertisements especially are sexist in the content . . . . Sorrento The Church has spoken in a fortnight, after seven mother catering to a small male with the lilting jingle, and thank God it has, but weeks at school, those "Feed the man meat." it has not got to be seen as children will be expected Sir, Must we also be served with large helpings of the just another Catholic t o be "thoroughly I applaud the senti- macho male myth at the dinner table or can our society issue. instructed and properly ments of Martin Grib- come comfortably to terms with the fact that not only do Mother Teresa said she prepared" for their first bon (The Record women cook food, they eat it as well and in some cases came to Perth at the insist- Confession. March 3) in which he there exist men who are capable of cooking as well as I shudder to think of the c omments on the eating. ence of Pope John Paul II to urge Catholics and oth- hang-ups in years to come. Catholic school situaThe Sacraments of mar- tion favouring the rich ers to begin where we are. Cardinal Freeman says riage and holy orders are. and powerful. there are too few willing to hopefully. administered For many years I and throw their weight behind when the recipients are others have been criticthose who campaign to ready for it. ising the system but to Other sacraments are no avail. How would it save unborn lives. It is something all Cathol- no less important and be possible for a lowerics should be thinking should not be rushed to fit group, working-class deeply about for the sake conveniently into a school man to afford fees, unifrom Peter Bertola, Bremer Bay of the least of His brethren. or parish calendar. forms and books, not to evident saintliness and Sir, mention fares, to send The short answer to practical Christianity to no his children to Catholic "Sects drawing our youth" end. but how maillpspirschools? (The Record February) is ing sermons were preached One gets tired of that despite the rhetoric, d uring that golden hearing of parents' we are a People of God and opportunity? rights in sending childfor the past 15 years we How are our young to be ren to a school of their Catholics have been run- motivated one way or choice, when there ning on a very weak mix- other without some guiaren't schools within ture of "spirit" using an dance or urging? What close proximity to their analogy of how a car about a little praise and homes any way and they engine should not run if attention to the Holy can't afford them. performance is expected. Father, a man of boundIt would be interestfrom J.S. Loney Salter Point Weak it is, and almost less courage and resourceing to survey Catholics apologetic. A case of lack fulness'! attending these schools Sir, of spirit, fervour or idealIn these two, we have the Father Richard Doyle (The Record March 3) from a working-class ism in the case of youngs- miracle we ask of God --- a background who are stated clearly what the Catholic position members of a family ters was the visit of Mother mother and a father most regarding Government education funding is, or consisting of more than Teresa. worthy of Christians. was. It now appears that we have forsaken the t wo children. One would have thought When will we raise our a leader or many leaders lights, so that our youngsprinciple of the basic grant to every child, and would have taken the ters may see and seek to are ready to accept whatever the government opportunity to extol her follow? is prepared to give.

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S hould support the 'wealthy' colleges

S urvey 'Mindless' cooks need

Opportunities are missed

Y ears of work may be waste

The Government has stated that it intends reducing the basic grant in 1984 from 20% to 1 5%, and in 1985 to 10%. Money will be granted on a needs basis.

Smaller grants

Catholics have been assured that they will not receive smaller grants. There can be no certainty regarding this as strong pressure groups such as the Defence of • Government Schools, the Australian Teachers' Federa• • • 26 John Street Perth WA 6000 ri S tion and others are opposed to aid being given to non• Correspondence • Government schools. Labor policy is determined by The Editor The Record PO Box 50 • • Aberdeen Street Perth 6000 • Conferences and can change. Advertising • The work of many years to obtain educational justice • • Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 • seems to have been in vain, and we have betrayed our • registered for posting as a newspaper Category 'A" (111 • • • non-Catholic friends and their schools. Produced in WA • • Printed and published weekly by Edward van Heernst • A parallel case could be the $16 a day Common• • 26 John Street Perth • wealth subsidy for hospital patients. Could this be with• • •• Established 1874 • drawn from patients being treated in Catholic or • • non-Government hospitals? •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ********** • ******

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Playwright Apartheid is ready was convert Confirmation FAIRFIELD, Conn.: "He was always a mystery, that man" said Jesuit Father Joseph LeRoy who in 1969 received the late Tennessee Williams into the Catholic Church — a joke according to Williams. The playwright was buried with requiem Mass at St Louis Cathedral. he celebrant was a St Louis priest who knew the late Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright and his family for years. He praised the Gospel quality of what Tennessee wrote out of his great anguish and pain." The funeral Mass was at the request of the play wright's brother, Dakin Williams, a convert to Catholicism. It was when he was ill w ith flu in Key West in 1969 that his brother urged Tennessee %Nillianis, then 57, to become a Catholic. Father LeRoy, sent hit- a crucifix and When Father rosat LeRoy went to Tennessee's house. Tennessee was holding the rosary. Father LeRoy said. " You look like a Catholic." and Tennessee responded. "I've been a Catholic all my life.- Father I.eRoy later baptised him at his request. "I don't think he ever w ent to Church.' Father LeRoy said. adding that he had seen illiams outside the parish church after a novena service and the playwright told him. "The sermon was too damned long." In the 1981 interview in The Paris Review. Williams. said that at the time of his conversion in 1969 he had violated his doctor's instructions about drinking and taking drugs at the same time. " This combination pt!infaced paranoia and affected my memory and health.- he said. Then, when he was "in such terrible condition,- his brother had him "immediately converted to Catholicism,' he said.

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LONDON (NC) — South Africa faces a "final explosion" over apartheid unless the dim possibility of "peaceful revolution" is realised, said Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban, president of the Southern Africa Catholic Bishops' Conference, in a speech at a public meeting in London. Asked if anything but ruthless violence could end the system of strict racial segregation, the archbishop said that at present a peaceful solution did not seem possible. "Maybe by God's grace, by some miracle, perhaps in the time left for us between now and the final explosion, we may come to our senses and a peaceful revolution may take place. But it is a very big 'may'," he said.

Archb and nun in standoff

DETROIT, Mich: The situation between Mercy Sister Agnes Mansour whose social services resignation has been called for by Archbishop Szoka is still at a stand-off between the two.

The Sisters of Mercy say Sister Mansour is still "a sister in good standing," while the nun remained on t he job. Archbishop Szoka exposed the issue when he said he had "waited patiently" for Sister Mansour "to declare her active opposition to Medicaid payments for abortion" after she was appointed to head the state office in December. but that "this declaration has not been made." He called "for her resignation from that office without delay." "It is now the responsibility of her religious superiors to require Sister Mansour's compliance with the laws of the Church," he added. The Sisters of Mercy said they needed time to consider the order's traditional involvement in the social services, their support for Sister Mansour in accepting the appointment and their respect for the archbishop's authority. Sister Mansour, a one-time candidate for Congress, said during her campaign she personally opposed abortion but that as long as it was legal she also opposed government efforts to deny abortions to women qualifying for government medical aid. Archbishop Szoka's office said his decision had in no way been the result of anti-abortion newspaper advertisements saying he was slow in taking action against the nun.

Task force views are criticised FRANCISCO — The San Fran(NC) SAN cisco archdiocesan C ommission on Social Justice says some of the views expressed in a 1982 report by its task f orce on gay lesbian issues are "clearly incompatible" with church teachings.

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Homosexuality 'incompatible' ual orientation, held to be morally neutral, and genital homosexual behavior, condemned as morally wrong. was "practically meaningless and pastorally useless."

Contrary The task force report, issued last September, s aid the Catholic In December Archbishop John Quinn of San Church does not have a Francisco said the viable sexual ethic on report contained much homosexuality, divorce that was contrary to and remarriage, contraChurch teaching but ception and premarital represented a point of sexual relations. view "which cannot be It said the traditional dissimply ignored or distinction in moral theolmissed out of hand." ogy between homosex-

CHARLESTON. U.S. (NC) — The Surrogate Motherhood Bill now pending in the South Carolina Legislature should be defeated, said Monsignor Thomas R. Duffy, vicar general and director of Catholic Charities for the Charleston Diocese. The need for the Bill has not been established and its purpose is not clear. Monseignor Duffy said. "If there are needs it addresses, the price, in terms of getting into the business of selling

PATERSON. J.J. N( — Uhe Paterson diocese has announced a new policy on confirmation which recommends that those recei% ing the sacrament be high school year 9 or 10. 1-he policy also calls for each candidate to has e a sponsor and .1 godparent. X third major point of the policy is that priests authorised by the Hob see may administer the sacrament. Monsignor Ronald Xtnandolare.ot t he diocesan Is angelisationCatechesis Secretariat and pioneer ot the introduction of the restored Rik' of Christian Initiation for 1dults in the Paterson diocese, said confirmation candidates in high school -ha' e been more aware of %Olaf the sacrament means and better able to understand that what they are doing is making for themsek es the choices that w ere made for them by their sponsors in Baptism-.

Archbishop Hurley said while no peaceful solution seems possible at the moment, at the same time conditions do not exist for C ORPUS CHRISTI, a guerilla war of liberation Texas (NC) — Cursilby blacks. He warned against two listas in the Diocese of pending pieces of legisla- C orpus Christi are tion by which he said the government could supply petitioning to prevent "the coping stone of the the airing of "Thorn edifice of apartheid." Birds", a mini series One is the proposed new The son drowns after his "Rarely is there a show constitution, which would that protesters say ordination. aired that does not receive reinforce apartheid's gen- "slanders Jesus" and "I read the book and it's a lot of complaints ahead eral aim of relegating all condones adultery terrible," said Father of time," said Jim Butler, South Africa's black citiBradley, pastor of St Peter an ABC publicist for the zens to one of 10 black a nd pokes fun at the the Apostle Church. mini series. homelands. Church hierarchy and "It condones adultery The other is the Orderly and makes illicit sex He said ABC had the dignity of sex". Movement and Settlement complaints from permissible. received of Black Peoples Bill. The protest is part of "It pokes fun at the -various Catholic organipetition a nationwide aimed at closing all gaps in Church hierarchy and the sations" protesting the aircurrent laws restricting drive instigated by dignity of sex. Nothing is ing of "Thorn birds" black people's opportuni- C hristian groups sacred in this story." during Lent. ties of residence, work and which "resent the .4111111111111111101111111111111HM11111111h41111111111111:11111111111111111111103111111 movement. continual depiction of In the face of these, ArchChristians in a negabishop Hurley said, a far greater effort will be tive stereotype on telrequired of the churches evision networks," OPTICIANS AND OPTOMETRISTS in South Africa this year said the petition. "The time has come and next. C ontact LENS CONSULTANTS But the churches, he to say enough of this said, had no political t ype of innuendo . 321 8151 PERTH PICCADILLY ARCADE power. attacking a man of 321 5304 STREET WILLIAM 154 PERTH They could only appeal to God and especially the COTTESLOE 19 NAPOLEON STREET 384 5605 p ublic opinion and ( Catholic) Church," FREMANTLE 30 MARKET STREET 335 2602 conscience. The South African Coun- said Ricardo Martinez, cil of Churches, of which who initiated the peti- 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 the Catholic Church is not tion drive in the Cor- tiJ11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111MT111111111111111M11111111111M a member, had vigorously pus Christi diocese. opposed this legislation "We can no longer stand but was now under heavy by and allow people to pressure, the archbishop slander Jesus," continued said. Martinez, who has read Archbishop Hurley, long half of the book. "To an outspoken opponent of attack the Church is to apartheid and a leader in attack Jesus." bringing the Catholic The book, written by ColChurch in South Africa to leen McCullough. is about c onfront the issue a priest who has an affair strongly, said he did not with a younger woman, to help in its secondhand think he would be gaoled who eventually has their clothing stores and depot over remarks he made at a child. recent press conference The priest goes on to Four hours maximum per week. about two atrocities in become a bishop, then a S outh African-ruled cardinal, and eventually Ex' Namibia (South West ordains his son to the Refer page 669 of phone book or contact Africa). priesthood. depot at 9-11 Donovan Street, Osborne Park :=-

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The early spread of t he Catholic faith t hrough the Asian region was mainly due to the efforts and leadership of Saint Francis Xavier. After completing his studies in Paris and filling the post of teacher there for some time, Xavier left the city with his companions November 15, 1536, and turned his steps to Venice, where he displayed zeal and charity in attending the sick in the hospitals. On June, 24 1537, he received Holy orders with St Ignatius. The following year he went to Rome, and after doing apostolic work there for some months, he took part in conferences which St Ignatius prepared for the definitive foundation of the Society of Jesus. T he order was approved verbally September 3, and before the written approbation w as secured, which was not until a year later, X avier was appointed, at the earnest solicitation of John III, King of Portugal, to evangelise the people of the East Indies. He left Rome March 16, 1540, and reached Lisbon about June. Here h e remained nine months, giving many admirable examples of apostolic zeal. On April 7, 1541, he embarked in a sailing vessel for India, and after a tedious and dangerous voyage landed at Goa, May 6, 1542. The first five months he spent in preaching and ministering to the sick in the hospitals. He would go through the streets ringing a little bell and inviting the children to hear the word of God. When he had gathered a number, he would take them to a certain church and would there explain the catechism to them. About October, 1542, he started for the pearl f isheries of the extreme southern coast of the peninsula, desirous of restoring Christianity which, although introduced years before, had almost disappeared on account of the lack of priests. He devoted almost three years to the work of preaching to the pea ple of Western India, converting many. Many were the difficulties and hardships which Xavier had to encounter at this time, sometimes on account of the cruel persecutions which some of the petty kings of the country carried on against the neophytes, and again because the Portuguese soldiers, far from seconding the work of the saint, retarded it by their bad example and vicious habits. In the spring of 1545 X avier started for Malacca. He laboured there for the last three months of that year, and although he reaped an abundant spiritual harvest, he was not able to root out certain abuses, and was conscious that many sinners had resisted his efforts to bring them back to God. About January, 1546. Xavier left Malacca and went to the Molucca Islands, where the Portuguese had some settlements, and for a year and a half he preached the Gospel to the inhabitants of Amboyna, Ternate, Baranura, and other lesser islands which it has been difficult to identify. It is claimed by some that during this expedition he landed on the Island of Mindanao, and for this reason St Francis Xavier has been called the first Apostle of the Philippines.

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The Jesuits were much with old Shame! The ashes of Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Captain John Hawkins and all the perpetrators and victims of the rape of Cadiz must be swirling around in their urns; not to mention those of Wi ll Adams, Alessandro Valignano SJ and perhaps even those of Tokugawa leyasu. The brave and blood thirsty sea dogs of the first Elizabethan age must be enraged.

As the captain of any Spanish galleon will testify, or any Caribbean or Filippino woman, the sea-dogs knew how to capture a treasure, chop off a head, and tear the clothes off a prize virgin. But here is Blackthorne, supposedly one of them, crashing through paper doors, puzzled with disbelief at a beheading, gazing in wild surmise at the destruction of his ship and modestly casting down his eyes as the fair Mariko-san tiptoes into his bed and bath. Really! The author and the director of the most expensive 12-hour miniseries provided by television this season, have their sense of history all w rong. They have transformed Blackthorne, Anjin-san, from the swashbuckling Elizabethan buccaneer he ought to be, into a prudish Victorian pansy. Blackthorne is out of context. And so are the Jesuits. In 1600, (Shogun takes place between April and October 1600) the real Jesuits were a young order, some sixty years old. Their "tradition" was the same as it is today: the service of the faith in which the promotion of justice is an absolute requirement.

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Their effort was and is inculturation: to incarnate their faith and the life of the Church into the culture and traditions of the people with whom they worked. Highly-trained and intelligent, they laboured with pen and tongue to influence especially those who had the power to effect social change. The Jesuit Suarez, in Europe, might proclaim that sovereignty was with the people and his colleague Vieira, in Brazil, might fearlessly fight the battle of the slaves against oppressive landowners, but St Ignatius Loyola, the founder, recognised reality. He was careful to work through such institutions as he found in existence. In sixteenth century Europe, as in the Far East, ordinary people had little education (or opinions of their own?). To make the gospel relevant, the Jesuits thought it necessary to win over • the nobility and landowners. So, in Japan, the Jesuits converted

By a special Jesuit correspondent many from the lower classes but they worked mainly among the nobles. They knew that Christianity could never succeed as an exotic; it must be adapted to Oriental ways of thought, must graft itself to all that was best in Japanese civilization. In the climate of the counterReformation, and all dung the wars of religion in Europe, they were much more liable to suffer from the Inquisition than to imitate its methods. They certainly did not stand around holding candles and crucifixes as Shogun's narrow-eyed and sinister superior did, pointing an accusing finger at an errant lay-brother. Nor did they sit gormandising when someone asked them to hear a confession. Such conduct was entirely foreign to them. In Japan the Jesuits lived and worked as Japanese. By 1600, they had become fluent in the language, and adopted the way of life and saffron robes of Zen priests, the most respected of the Buddhist clergy. Indeed, since their first coming in the day of Francis Xavier, they had opened a novitiate and two seminaries to begin the training of a native clergy, and a college to prepare Japanese boys to act at Catechists; they had built churches, t wice a cathedral (at Nagasaki); they had installed and operated a printing press and administered an academy of fine arts for the formation of Japanese painters and engravers. In 1602, the Japanese Jesuit priests were to be ordained, in 1604 the first Japanese diocesan priest. In a few years, about two hundred priests (140 Jesuits, 26 Franciscans, 9 Dominicans, 4 Augustinians) would minister in the Japanese way to some half a million Catholics. Several of the most respected daimyos were converts. The number and quality of highplaced Catholics was increasing daily.

And the young Church could even boast of its first martyrs. During a short-lived repression, provoked by fear of a Spanish invasion in 1596, Shogun had 26 Catholics crucified, including six Franciscans and three Jesuits. All except the Franciscans were Japanese. In 1600, the most prominent figure in the Jesuit mission was Dr Alessandro Valignano, an Italian sent to the Far East from Rome as Visitor General. For over thirty years, it was he who masterminded Jesuit activity in Japan. (If he is the model for Shogun's dell'Acqua, the Visitor was completely misrepresented in character and dress.)

It was Valignano who intensified the Jesuits' effort to identify with Japanese culture. In 1581, he removed from office the Superior of eleven years because he found him too heavy-handed and repressive towards Japanese Jesuits. Unrelentingly he pressed for greater adaptation to Japanese customs, and, through the education of young Christians and Jesuits, for the integration of Oriental thought. In the end he was defeated by the very complexities of a situation he had himself largely created. First, there was the disobedience of his protege, the Vice-Provincial Gaspar Coelho (possibly the model for Shogun's Martin Akita, Tsukku-san? But in 1600, he had been dead for 10 years). Then there was the bad judgement of Valignano himself on the question of mercantile activity. Coelho disregarded Valignano's strict orders against interference in politics: he promised military assistance and Portuguese naval support to one of the Catholic daimyos. This convinced Shogun that Jesuits were spies preparing an assault against him, an opinion reinforced in 1596 when the pilot of a Spanish ship in an effort to terrify his captors, boasted that his king was about to invade Japan. For his part, Valignano judged that the greatest incentive to conversion in Japan was the Great Ship of the Portuguese merchant marine.

A scene from Channel Nine Perth's Shogun, featuring (l-r) Frankie Sakai as Yabu, Alan Badel as Father dell'Aqua, and Michael Hordern as Friar Domingo. The Record, March 17 — 23, 1983

By adroit diplomacy, he obtained the pope's permission to invest in the silktrade, and then went beyond the guidelines. Of course, he was disavowed by the general of the Jesuits, but not before his activity had stimulated strong opposition from both Franciscans and .protestants. This was another factor which led to destruction: the bitter controversy which engaged Jesuits and Franciscans for thirty years. It was fuelled by national and mercantile rivalries: the Franciscans were mainly Spanish, under the sway of the Governor of the Philippines; the Jesuits were mainly Portuguese, and Valignano was the Ambassador of the Governor of India. But in addition the controversy was fed by the Jesuit policy of inculturation. The contrast between both orders was a stark one. In their distinctly European garb, the friars tended to offend the Japanese, to whom the .Airits deferred with respect. The friars freely distributed medals, rosaries, and holy water; the Jesuits eager to integrate Japanese ceremonial into the ritual of the sacraments, were more cautious with the sacramentals. The friars concentrated their ministry on the poor and powerless, the Jesuits worked mostly among the rich and influential. As the years went on, resentment grew more bitter between the two orders.

The Franciscans condemned the sterile erudition of the Jesuits. The latter, bemoaning the Franciscans' unfamiliarity with the mentality and state of affairs in the country, wrote of their critics as "the crazy friars". And as the Jesuits persevered with tact and practicality to unfold Christian doctrine to the Japanese gradually and in deference to their sensibility and pride, the mendicant Franciscans walked through the streets holding up crucifixes and declaring the dead ,leamanese to be burning in hell. To them the Jesuits had introduced into Japan a tainted form of Christianity.

Asia The Catholic Encyclopedia relates how Saint Francis Xavier met in Malacca in July 1 547, a Japanese named Anger (Han-Sir) from whom he obtained much information about Japan. The encyclopedia continues — His zeal was at once aroused by the idea of introducing Christianity into Japan. but for the time being the affairs of the society demanded his presence at Goa. whither he went. taking Anger with him. During the six years Xavier had been working among the inficlels. Other Jesuit missionaries had arrived at Goa sent from Europe by St Ignatius. moreover some who had been born in the country had been received into the Society. Having received into the society Father Cosme de Torres. a Spanish priest whom he had met in the Moluccas. he started with him and Brother Juan Fernandez for Japan towards the end of June. 1549 The Japanese Anger. who had been baptised at Goa and given the name of Pablo de Santa Fe. accompanied them. They landed at the city of Kagoshima in Japan. August 15. 1549.

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Hk71 11 Castle completed in 1609 is the finest example of Japanese . castle architecture. Valignano realised that the dispute between the orders was creating the impression that Catholicism, like Buddhism, lacked unity and was merely a collection of splinter sects. So, in 1585, he persuaded the pope to declare Japan an exclusively Jesuit mission. But the friars ignored the papal brief, claiming it had been obtained under false pretences. The bitter controversy continued. And when, in April 1600, the Dutch ship Leifde anchored at Bongo Harbour. it signalled the last element in the downfall of Valignano's dream for the Japanese Church. The pilot of the Leifde was an English sea dog. Will Adams. The aspiring Shogun. leyasu. recognised that he now had a commercial counterbalance against the Catholics. Tales of the wars between Britain. Spain. and Portugal. anti-Catholic stories of the Inquisition, the Armada, the Spanish massacres, all spread among the Christian and Buddhist Japanese. Adams replaced the learned Joao Rodriguez (another model for Father Alvito?) as leyasu's official interpreter. the Englishman's influence. shrrin turned from being a protector to being a persecutor of the Christians. After leyasu's death in 1617, the persecution intensified as the Christian

Japanese proved with their lives that they were truly both Christian and Japanese. In 1615, they had numbered some 400,000. In 1710, a Japaese scholar estimated that some 320.000 had been put to death. The Church in Japan had effectively been destroyed. Conflict and cruelty, passion. ambition, and the struggle for power: worst of all, civil and religious persecution and war. This was the lot of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe and in the Far East. Cruel times in which the truth was hard to find and choices difficult to make. None of this was reflected in the English-language sequences of Shogun. Nor in the casting of the Europeans. Of course. Shogun is fiction (??): the author director has left no similarity between his stereotypes and any persons living or dead. It's a shame. For in the sorrow of the Japanese mission, there are feats of love ("love is a Christian word," says Mariko-san at the ninth hour) which will live on in song and story long after those of us who have just spent a very long 12 hours before our television sets have passed away.

If you're ever lucky enough to be able to visit the Philippines, one of the places you probably won't visit is a town called Lala. It's a bit off the beaten track on the island of Mindanao, and it's home for some 30,000 people. A quarter of these belong to fishing families. Almost all the rest are farmers, l iving in vi l lages scattered around Lala.

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All of them have become impoverished in the last generation, victims of a series of changes in agriculture and the fishing industry — changes over which they had no control, but which had a detrimental effect on their lives. The typical Lala farmer is now working as a tenant on land his family once owned. His reduction to the status of landless labourer back to them — having came about by a combina- first been processed and tion of population growth canned — by the companand advances in agricultu- ies. In 1978, Filipino lay misral technology. The former ensured that sionaries began to bring ever -smaller and less via- people together in the vilble portions of land lages around Lala to seek became available to each answers to the perennial questions — why are we generation. The second ensnared the so poor? Why do our children get Lala people in the risky business (for a small sick? Why is rice so cheap farmer) of using highyielding, but fragile -mira- when you're selling it and cle seeds- and expensive so dear when you have to buy it? fertiliser and pesticides. Many were not able to Why are we always in survive financially and debt to the moneylenders? their land was bought up The aim of the proby wealthy local people or gramme was to combat b y large agricultural the people's apathy and sense of helplessness by corporations. As tenant farmers, they helping them to realise pay for all the costs of pro- that their poverty was not ducing a crop and receive due to failure on their part, less than half of it in but rather to factors h itherto beyond their return. The fishermen of Lala are control. F ull-time community at the bottom of the Philippine fishing industry workers became necespyramid, which is set up sary to organise and run so as to benefit the large the meetings and seminars called for by the fishing corporation. The fish once caught by people the Lala fishermen with Finance for their employtheir fragile craft and ment was provided in part handmade nets are now by ACR. being taken by big At last report, more than 40 village co-ordinators, trawlers. Ironically, much of the who have each received catch which is being some training, are leading denied the small fisher- a number of community men is now being sold organisations.

it is not admissible that Ern the general development process of a nation there should continue to exist the injustice whereby progress w orthy of man does not reach precisely those people who live in the rural areas, who in sweat and toil make the land productive, and who must rely on the work of their hands for the sustenance of their family. It is not admissible that people who work the land must continue to live in a situation that offers them no hope for a better future." — Pope John Paul II, Philippines. February 1981.

a lifetime The entire first year was devoted to learning the Japanese language and translating into Japanese. with the help of Pablo Santa Fe. the principal articles of faith and short treatises which were to be employed in preaching and catechising. When he was able to express himself. Xavier began preaching and made some converts, but these aroused the ill will of the bonzes. who had him banished from the City. Leaving Kagoshima about August. 1550. he penetrated to the centre of Japan, and preached the Gospel in some of the cities of southern Japan. Towards the end of that year he reached Meaco. then the princip71 city of Japan. but he was unable to make any headway here because of the dissensions then rending the country. He retraced his steps to the centre of Japan. and during 1551 preached in some important cities, forming the nucleus of several Christian communities, which in time increased with extraordinary rapidity. After working about two years and a half in Japan he left this mission in charge of Father Cosrne de Torres and Brother Juan Fernandez. and returned to Goa. During his stay in Japan he had heard much of the Celestial Empire, (China) and though he probably had not formed a proper estimate of its extent and greatness, he

nevertheless understood how wide a field it afforded for the spread of the light of the Gospel. With the help of friends he arranged a c ommission or embassy to the sovereign of China, obtained from the Viceroy of India the appointment of ambassador, and in April, 1552. he left Goa. At Malacca the party encountered difficulties because the influential Portuguese disapproved of the expedition. but Xavier knew how to overcome this opposition. and in the autumn he arrived in a Portuguese vessel at the small island of Sancian near the coast of China. While planning the best means for reaching the mainland, he was taken ill, and as the movement of the vessel seemed to aggravate his condition. he was removed to the land, where a rude hut had been built to shelter him. In these wretched surroundings he breathed his last. It is truly a matter of wonder that one man in the short space of ten years (6 May. 1542 — 2 Dec.. 1552) could have visited so many countries, traversed so many seas, preached the GOspel to so many nations. and converted so many infidels. The irncomparable apostolic zeal which animated him, and the stupendous miracles which God wrought through him, explain this marvel, which has no equal elsewhere.

A t the sery moment when the Project Compassion appeal is underway in parishes around Australia, a situation is des eloping in West Africa which is likely to make heavy demands on money donated. On January 17, the government of Nigeria ordered all foreigners without proper working papers to lease the country within two weeks. No one knows how many people are involved, but it may he as many as 3 m illion. They came to Nigeria in the 1970s from all oser West Africa, but especially from Ghana. attracted by Nigeria's oil-fed industrial boom and the promise of jobs. Their expulsion creates, sirtually overnight. a refugee problem of enormous proportions in the countries bordering on Nigeria. Reports reaching Australian Catholic Relief from the Church in Ghana speak of many thousands of people arrising there every dab. The first priority is a feeding programme. and which is likely to be needed for the next six weeks. The food will has e to be brought in from outside the country, as Ghana is already short of food. The coming harvest is also expected to he poor because of sesere drought conditions.

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Jeremiah's tormentor, King Jehoiakim, was as stupid as he was evil. Anyone with any knowledge of the situation would have realized the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar was not to be tampered with. Jeremiah's tormentor, The Babylonian leader King Jehoiakim, was as By Father John Castelot appointed a levelheaded stupid as he was evil. Jew, Gedaliah, as governor Anyone with any knowl- and frequently sought his kept urging surrender as of what was left of Judah, a edge of the situation would advice, but his official the only alternative to a man who saw eye to eye have realized the Babylo- advisers hated the prophet horrible fate, and the peo- with Jeremiah. Man King Nebuchadnez- and all he stood for. ple turned on him And then disaster struck zar was not to be tampered Caught in the middle, the viciously. He was beaten, with. spineless king bent in whi- thrown into a dungeon, again. A member of the But the Egyptian Pha- chever direction the forces released by Zedekiah, but royal family who had roah Neco was lobbying of the moment pushed later tossed into an empty escaped massacred Gedafor revolt against Babylon, him. cistern and rescued by a liah and his followers. The survivors were frantic. and he had the support of a The little Mediterranean sympathetic Ethiopian. strong pro-Egyptian fac- states were still eager for In the summer of 587 the What would the reprisals tion in Jerusalem. About revolt against Babylon and end came. The walls of the be? 601 B.C. Jehoiakim joined tried to get Jerusalem in on city were breached and the Finally they turned to the rebellion and Nebu- t he coalition. Jeremiah king was captured. He was Jeremiah and he advised chadnezzar sent his troops dramatically reminded the blinded and dragged into them to remain calm and to teach the upstart a people that revolt would exile with most of the city's to stay put. Even this last lesson. end only in slavery. inhabitants. Nebuchad- bit of advice they ignored, Death snatched the king Babylon would one day nezzar put Jerusalem to taking off in a panic for from the shame of defeat come in for its share of the the torch but gave orders E gypt, dragging the while the city's defenses divine wrath, but mean- that Jeremiah be spared. prophet with them. were being readied. His while the Israelites must young son, Jehoiachin, submit. If not, doom RESOURCES s ucceeded him. In 598 would result. "Celebrating Liturgy: 1983, Cycle C." Nebuchadnezzar came in Jeremiah was sneered at person to take charge and as a pacifist, a defeatist. In Liturgy Training Publications, 155 E. within two months Jerusa- fact the coalition did not Superior St., Chicago, III. 60611, $6.50. lem fell and the cream of take shape and its failure to This weekly workbook offers brief explathe population was taken do so may well have been nations of the Sunday readings for people off into exile. due to the forcefulness of involved in preparing Sunday liturgies. It Among them was the Jeremiah's preaching. also can be used by individuals and famipriest, Ezekiel, who was to But in 588 A.D. a new lies to enrich their understanding of the be the prophet of the exile. coalition was formed and a Nebuchadnezzar set up powerful Babylonian army liturgy. Jehoiachin's uncle as King encircled Jerusalem and "Our Family Prepares for Mass," by and changed his name to began to besiege the city. Sister Jean Daniel. 1977. Winston Press, Zedekiah. Destined to be The inhabitants put up stiff the last king of Judah. resistance for 18 months, 430 Oak Grove, Minneapolis, Minn. Zedekiah was an unfortu- and their suffering, hunger 55403, $6.95. The book presents matenate weakling and little and thirst are simply rials for parents and children to come to a better appreciation of Sunday Mass. Sugmore than a puppet of unimaginable. Nebuchadnezzar. It was a time of great gestions are tied to the readings for the The king liked Jeremiah trial for Jermiah too. He three-cycle church year.

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Renewal of the liturgy What is the purpose of liturgical renewal — renewal in the church's public worship? And who are some of the people who have been influential in furthering renewal? N orbertine Father Alfred McBride explains that liturgical renewal actually began long before Vatican Council II in the work carried out by several Benedictine abbeys and by the vision of two popes, Pius X and Pius XII. Father McBride is a well known writer and educator.

Patricia Davis writes about the sensitive work of John Page, executive director of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy. ICEL translates Latin liturgical texts into English. Ms. Davis writes that, in a sense, Catholics pray in Page's words every Sunday during Mass. She is on the staff of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for the Laity. Neil Parent notes that liturgical renewal is hardly a new phenomenon it's been going

He earned a master's degree in English and began doctoral studies in history. He worked at the

prove an asset later. In 1972 page was asked to work part-time on a t ranslation of the breviary at ICEL's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Gradually his work with ICEL increased. In 1974 Page became ICEL's associate executive secretary and in80 executive secretary. The eight women and men who serve on ICEL's staff are experts in their fields. In addition, they live in different neigh-

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Library of Congress and in a department store. And be began to worship in a local parish. Page describes that time as "an immersion," a new discovery of the challenges faced by lay people in living their faith, as well as of the hard work needed to implement liturgical principles. All these experiences helped page to gain a perspective that would

bourhoods and worship in different parishes and bring to their work a wide variety of personal and social experience. Page and his colleagues work to translate texts from many sources into the words and thoughts of our day and place. Our belief is shaped by our prayer; ICEL and others are working to see that our prayer is an authentic expression of our language and life.

cal spirit. However, the leadership of two popes advanced the cause in a universal manner. Pius X gave his blessing to the use of chant and urged new music to be written in its spirit. By urging all people to frequent Communion, and asking that children be admitted to Communion at an age much earlier than 12 or 13, this pope In addition, the chant is education in liturgy for set in motion the restoraan exquisite art form in the American clergy and tion of the practice of receiving Communion as its own right, a music of the emerging lay a regular part of going to such classical eminence leadership. St John's active spon- Mass. That is common that it has endured for sorship of liturgical con- practice now, but 90 centuries. ferences, as well as its years ago it was not. The American St. John's Abbey in College- participation in others, Jansenism, a rigorous ville, Minn., in true provided the progressive religious movement origAmerican style, concen- awareness people needed inating in 17th and 18th trated on the pastoral to appreciate the treasure century France, had cora pplication of the of participation in the rupted people's idea of research and the music. liturgy. receiving Communion. It Other abbeys and scared people about their Its magazine, "Orate Fratres" (now known as orders and congregations w orthiness to take "Worship") served as an also were involved in the Communion. instrument of continuing promotion of the liturgiPope Pius XII further advanced the cause of the liturgical spirit in his e ncyclical, "Mediator Dei" (Mediator of God). The most memorable teaching of that document is his statement that "The primary and indisW hen my wife pensable source of the BY NEIL PARENT and I were preparing Christian spirit is the to marry nearly 10 liturgy of the church." years ago, we took The pope strongly proWe even decided to seat During his tenure as an active role in ourselves prominently in pope, he introduced moted the need for peoplanning our wed- front of the altar, facing changes in Communion ple to actively participate in the liturgy. ding liturgy. the congregation. From fast regulations and He was not in favour of We carefully select- this vantage point we revised the Holy Week a spectator attitude at liturgies. ed music and read- could warmly welcome Liturgy was not Why the need for perio- worship. ings and discussed our relatives and friends intended to be a matter of liturgy? renewal the in dic the beginning at of the a ctive parts we "letting the priest do it". would play in the celebration and later Why can't we settle on a Yes, the ordained priest comment on the signifi- particular liturgical form liturgy. is the principal eucharisand leave it at that? cance of the day for us. celebrant. But all One reason is that tic The kind of participaby virtue of Catholics, tion that my wife and I developments occur in baptism, belong to enjoyed at our wedding the field of theoloio- theirpriesthood of all the A few years ago, a cou- was not possible before which eventually need to the ple decided to pay some Vatican Council II. In be expressed in the way faithful and are called to actively offer prayer and close attention to the les- the short span of a few the liturgy is observed. sons their three children y ears the liturgy Another reason is that worship at Mass. All these efforts of were learning about the changed, adapting more people and their cultures abbeys and popes came Mass. They wanted their t o local needs and change and develop. children to grow up with customs. Some of the practices to a head in the Second Vatican Council. So well an appreciation of the Accordingly, changes and symbols that speak developed was the liturrichness of the Mass. The w ere made in the so eloquently to one age hope was that the child- church's public worship may make less sense to a gical movement by that time that the council ren would come to in many areas, including later age. fathers were able to agree understand why their language, music, form to a document which parents cared so much and prayers, gestures and 11111111111111111111111111111111i became the first one pubabout the Mass and its the worship environment. lished by them. celebration. After a while, the liturgy Although the changes The use of the spoken .41 the time, the couple that stem from Vatican II can become overlaid with were involved in an adult may have been among unnecessary accretions language of the people, education group at their the most extensive of the that mask its true signi- the priest facing the peoparish. In conversation church's history, they ficance and beauty. His- ple, the involvement of with several other cou- were not the first of their torical adaptations out of adult laity, the new look ples, they discovered that kind. Changes in the the past may come to be at baptisms, funerals and others shared their con- manner and form in seen as essential elements weddings, the communcern. And they decided to which the church has of the liturgy rather than ity anointing of the sick, do something about it observed its holy rites the helpful modifications penance services — all together. have occurred periodi- that they wre meant to be grew from the council's positions. First, the couples cally throughout its long at a particular time. decided to take their history. Periodically, these addiWhat is the spirit of the children to Masses in sevFor instance, sweeping tions, like barnacles on liturgy as a result of all eral different settings. changes were made by the hull of a ship, need to this? They continued topartic- the 16th-century Council be stripped away. It was I. It is communal. At ipate in Sunday Mass in of Trent, particularly in precisely to this point liturgy, we worship as their parish. But they response to the deterio- that Pope Pius X spoke church, as a communit\ also decided to take the rating liturgies that were in 1913 when he said that as a people of God. children to eucharistic a favorite target of the the purpose of liturgical 2. It is both Godcelebrations in small Protestant reformers. In reform was to help the chapels and on afew days this century, Pope Pius X liturgy "again appear oriented and peoplebesides Sunday. called for the faithful to splendid with dignity and conscious. A good The parents hoped that go to Communion at harmony as cleansed of liturgy turns our hearts the children would little Mass more frequently, a the accumulations of to God as well as to people and their needs. In the by little discover more of practice that had consid- age." case we have latter the meaning in the Mass. erably fallen off in his In renewing its liturgy They began with a spe- day. He also allowed from time to time, the liturgy that motivates us cial children's liturgy at a c hildren who had church seeks to have it be to works of love and nearby Catholic univer- reached a certain age to as meaningful as possible justice. sity. The priest had a spe- receive Communion. for believers. As Vatican 3. It is an event of faith cial gift for explaining Pope Pius XII began II's "Constitution on the Liturgy only makes senNe things in a way that child- laying the groundwork Sacred Liturgy" states: if we believe that at it we ren found absorbing. for many of the changes "In the restoration and will meet the living God. There also was the that were to come with promotion of the sacred encounter Christ. Our opportunity to partici- Vatican II by establish- liturgy, the full and active faith opens us both to the pate in some special ing a pontifical commis- participation by all peo- meeting as well as to the home Masses sponsored sion for the general ple is the aim to be consi- love and strength Christ by their own parish. gives us. restoration of the liturgy. dered before all else."

The abbeys? All Benedictine, they approached t his goal under the aspects of history, music and pastoral practice. The German Abbey of Maria Laach led the w ork in historical research. Father Odo Casel lovingly restored the liturgy of the Easter Vigil. He died suddenly in 1948 while singing the Easter Vigil's hymn on praise to the Easter candle, representing the light of Christ. The French Abbey of Solesmes recovered for the church the austere yet melodious Gregorian Chant. The chant's special value? It was designed to make it possible to sing the texts of the liturgy. So much other music was for hymns whose words either had nothing to do with liturgy or for texts of inferior quality.

BY FATHER ALFRED MCBRIDE, 0.PRAEM.

The spirit of our worship

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The greeting or handshake of peace is one . of many new elements introduced to the Mass since Vatican II. Throughout church history, the church periodically has renewed its liturgy in an attempt to make it more meaningful to the faithful.

By Patricia Davis Vatican Council began, and interest in liturgical renewal grew widespread. During his seminary years. Page's knowledge and love of liturgy were nourished by theological studies and daily chanting of the Divine Office. Then in 1 966 Page left the seminary.

on periodically throughout the history of the church. Parent thinks that people who see the church's worship as meaningful and relevant are most apt to apply its message to their lives. The writer is the representative for adult education with the U.S. Catholic Conference. Father John Castelot brings the story of the prophet Jeremiah to a dramatic close in his article this week. He tells of Jeremiah's martyrdom.

What's the point.

A MAN OF MANY WORDS Most Catholics have probably never heard of John Page. Yet it could be said that they pray in his words at every Mass. Page is the executive director of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, a board of representatives for 11 national bishops' conferences assisted by an advisory committee of specialists. ICEL was established 1 1 childen, was raised in by the Catholic bishops what he describes as "a in the major English- very Catholic environspeaking countries of the ment." Even as a child he world during the Second was fascinated by the Vatican Council. It was church year, by the way given responsibility for seasons and feasts follow the sensitive task of one another. translating the prayer of He attened a Catholic the church from Latin high school and then into English. Page and joined the Augustinian his seven colleagues continue this work. The fathers of Vatican II, in the "Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy," identified the liturgy as the source and summit of the church's life. So central is worship to our Catholic experience that the council fathers wrote: "In the restoration and promotion of the sacred liturgy. . . full and active Friars, a congregation participation by all the founded in the 13th people is the aim to be century with a rich c onsidered before all liturgical tradition. else." While in college his But real participation interest in liturgy grew. depends on speaking a At the time it was an common language — "exotic interest." Page and that depends on a belonged to a small shared experience. Thus liturgy club which met in what Page and the other a convent's sewing room: experts who serve on its members were subject ICEL's staff bring to to considerable ribbing their work, as persons, is by other students. an important resource. The kidding didn't last Page, from a family of long, however. Soon the

Three abbeys, two popes and one council gave Catholics leadership that was needed to make the spirit of the church's public worship — its liturgy — come alive.

Benedictine Monks at St Procopius Abbey in Lisle, Ill., sing during a Mass honouring their patron, St Benedict. Benedictine abbeys contributedgreatly to the liturgical reforms encouraged by Vatican ll which have become familiar to Catholics throughout the world.

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She's proud of ... and proud Sadie Canning is an Australian who is proud of her Aboriginal heritage and proud enough to stand up and say that Aboriginals need education not culture. Culture, she says is being rammed down the throats of the people by anthropologists, Government departments, white advisers and do-gooders, both black and white — and it isn't what they want. Not what the country Aboriginal wants anyway. They want their children to become part of the mainstream of life in this country and to take their rightful place as respected and contributing citizens. The city Aboriginal may feel 'heritage and culture' rises above all else, but Sadie Canning believes

that is because they often have very little else to hang-on to, which affords them self respect. Education, she says, is the key to salvation for the Aboriginal people and that salvation seems to be drifting even further in the desert since the Government took control of education away from the Church missions. The daughter of a full-blood Aboriginal mother and a European father she never knew, she is quietly spoken, but the strength of her conviction shows as she voices her concern at the loss of the mission schools. Born in 1930 at Laverton in the eastern goldfields she grew up on Mount Margaret Mission. In those days, most Aboriginal children were taken from their parents to live in a children's home and to be educated at the mission. Sadie was one of those children

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ILCS1L_ Si UCAS s and she remained at the mission until she finished her education at 17. "If it wasn't for the Christian mission, I wouldn't be here today," she says. At 52 she is matron of the hospital at Leonora, a small town north of Kalgoorlie, and has been for more than 20 years; she is currently seconded to Community Health Services for 12 months, actingli Aboot) an n advisory capacity with nal health workers; in 1963 she was awarded the MBE for nursing services to the Leonora district and in 1977 received the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal for nursing services; she is a happily married mother of t wo and a committed Christian. She has little time for the 'dogooders% black or white who say the mission system repressed the Aboriginal people. Enforced education, she says, is a must and the 'self-determination' attitude by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs means many children are receiving little or no education at all. While the missions may have been paternalistic, at least they cared at a time when no-one else did. "There is constant criticism of them, yet if it wasn't for the missions, the Aboriginal race wouldn't

From an adventurous North-West drover's life For five months, drought in front of them delayed at Noreena Downs station the little party from Broome droving overland to Mullewa the herd of 350 dairy cattle. Initially, expert bushman and cattleman Albert King chafed at the hold-up. He. his young son Boyd and stockman Watty Pearce were not just going to sit idly at Noreena and wait for the drought on their path south to disappear — so he did a deal with the station management. And what a deal it turned out to be. The two men and the boy mustered and branded 1,200 of the wild bush cattle on the station, and for every five they brought in, they were given two head. But it was a difficult and perilous baptism of fire for the 13-year-old lad. He was thrown from his horse many times, and at least one of these episodes is still vivid in his memory. His horse fell between two rocks in the rough country. One rock prevented the horse regaining its feet and fortunately the other one stopped the animal from rolling completely onto the frightened rider. Young Boyd spent five agonising hours pinned under the mount, gradually working one of his feet out of its elastic-sided riding boot while the terrified animal thrashed and screamed. When at last he was able to get his leg out and stand up. he soon had

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the horse on its feet and quietened down. He had just completed this task and everything appeared normal when his father and Watty rode up and wanted to know what the hell he'd been doing for five hours. And there was one particularly exhilarating encounter with a wild scrub bull. It was about the biggest beast Boyd had seen and as soon as it laid its eyes on the young fellow

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Trailblazing for Albert Frederick (Boyd) King, a pillar of the Holy Rosary parish at Nedlands, was born at Cottesloe on January 31, 1909. His mother was Ellen May (nee Caire) from Gawler in South Australia and his father was Albert Frederick King who was born at Gingin and died at the age of nearly 90 in 1966. Boyd was educated at the convent and State school in Broome, at CBC Terrace and the City Commercial College in Perth. For 14 years after having left school he worked for the wool-buying and shipping firm of William Haughton and his mount, it put its head down and charged straight at them. The horse needed no instructions. It took off like a shot out of a gun, with its rider clinging on desperately. The bull had an astonishing turn of speed. For a quarter of a mile it gained steadily on horse and rider while Albert King, armed with a rifle to shoot the beast, followed in a flat-out gallop. Just as the maddened animal was almost breathing on their necks, the fleeing horse spotted a hole in the thicket and turned sharp right to safety with Boyd barely managing to hang on. The bull too close and going too fast to follow — crashed on straight ahead through the bush, out of their view but not out of

before becoming in 1938 a founder and the first managing director of Jandakot Wool Scouring, of which he is still a director. Now the biggest wool scouring works in Australasia, the company was bought by the French firm CIL in 1972. In 1936 Boyd married tennis star Molly McGrath. Their daughter Michele (Mrs Samaha) has three children and son Michael. who married Margaret Payton of Bunbury, has four. Since his retirement in 1974 Boyd has spent much of his time maintaining the grounds of the Holy Rosary Church at Nedlands.

their memories. It was hard living on hard rations, so when the little party shot a big bush turkey, their mouths watered in anticipation of the coming feast. But there was a snag. For miles around there was not a scrap of firewood with which to cook the bird. The resourceful Albert, however, was not a man to let such a detail deny them a gastronomic treat. He decided they would use cow manure, of which there was certainly no shortage, as a cooking fuel in the same way as the Aborigines did. As was the custom with the original inhabitants of the country, they gutted the turkey leaving its feathers on -- draped a wet bag over it, covered the bag with mud

and piled on the cow dung fuel. All night the fire was kept going by those on watch over the herd. Came the morning and the moment to which they had been looking forward. The manure embers were removed along with the sacking and the feathers came away too, leaving a delicious-looking bird apparently done to a turn. It surely seemed as if bushman Albert knew what he was talking about. But the first eagerly-taken mouthful saw a decline in Albert's status as an expert on bush lore. Overpoweringly, overwhelmingly, exclusively and nauseatingly the sole taste was of cow dung. Succeeding tentative bites deeper into the bird served only to inten-

her heritage to say so be here today — they would have been shot or starved," she said. She has even less time for anthropologists and says they and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs are ramming the 'culture theme' down their throats. "The Aboriginal people are sick of the anthropologists who wouldn't have work if they didn't have them to study," she said. "Most Aboriginal people want their children to enter the mainstream and that means they must be educated. "In many areas they are saying the people must have 'self determination' and so white advisers are put in to achieve that. "But it's the thoughts of the white advisers that are coming through. "Yes education is there but if a child doesn't want to go to school he opts out the parents often don't realise the importance of it and no-one else cares. "In the mission system there was trr'- pressure for the children to go to school and while we were taken away from our parents we still had as much access as we wanted and saw them as often as we liked. "Our parents were quite happy to have us fed, clothed and educated." When she finished her schooling, young Sadie felt a desire to help, so she travelled to Melbourne to train as a nurse (at that time hospitals in Western Australia didn't accept Aboriginal girls as nurse trainees). Following the three year course, she returned to WA and nursed in a number of small hospitals in this State and in Victoria. Sadie moved to Leonora in 1956 and became matron in her first year at the hospital which services the tiny town of 1500 people. In 1966 she married Victorian, Graham Canning who works at the

Leonora powerhouse and the couple's two children, David and Miriam are at boarding school in Perth. While she admits there has been discrimination over the years, she says much depends on the individual. "If you have a chip on your shoulder it makes it hard," she said. Her secondment to Community Health Services was the result of her experience with Aboriginal health care in Leonora which involved tribal as well as towndwelling people. She is there, she says, in a resource capacity as a backup for the people working with lower socio-economic groups in need. The problems for Europeans and Aborigines at that level are much the same. While she can see attitudes changing there is still a great deal of ignorance drummed in from family to family. She believes her strong Christian commitment has helped her to be tolerant and to live and let live and is saddened by what she sees as an unsympathetic attitude to Christianity by the Aboriginal Affairs Department. A Christian fellowship has been formed in Leonora. attended by Aboriginals and Europeans alike. Prayer, bible study and services are conducted on a roster basis. Christianity, she says, is very strong among the Aboriginal people in her area — stronger still since the visit of a group from Elcho Island in the Northern Territory who held meetings throughout the goldfields as part of the Aboriginal Crusade. Christianity, she says, has been an important boost for her people but her conversation invariably comes back to the need for education,

which she maintains, far outweighs any move to retain and restore Aboriginal culture. "There is good and bad in all cultures, and some parts of the Aboriginal culture are cruel," she said. She believes culture can be retained in-part as a bonus, but cannot be seen as the be-all and end-all if Aboriginals are to take their rightful place within Australian society. Many city Aborigines, she says, are more militant than their country counterparts about the issue, but she feels that is because they see their culture as something to hold onto, something affording them self respect. And yet, she says, none of them want to go back and live as their ancestors did. On the subject of white advisers, she says that while some do a good job, far too many are drop-outs in their own society and involved only for personal or political gain. Only with education can the Aboriginal people become their own advisers. She is opposed to land rights because she believes it will cause division and maintains freehold title (which some Aboriginal groups are claiming) is not an Aboriginal concept but a European one. "The central desert area comes under the Aboriginal Lands Trust and that's more secure than any freehold," she said. She believes land should be open to all and it is wrong the Europeans should have to get permits to travel t hrough Lands Trust Areas because that is also discrimination. She sees herself as an Australian with an Aboriginal heritage and says there are many who think as she does, but the 'wrong side' is constantly pushed by the press. "There are a lot of positive things going on and many individuals

making good," she said. "The crusade group did a lot last year in getting many Aboriginals off the drink. "What we need to do is hear more about the everyday people who have been absorbed into the community, and there are lots of Aboriginals who have." But, she says, the system tends to keep Aborigines where they are instead of helping them to achieve the 'self-determination' which is constantly being cried about. "The department tries to lump everyone into communities," she said. "For instance the Aboriginal Development Commission will only fund communities, not individuals. . . Europeans aren't treated that way." Sometimes she feels there is no hope. . . at other times there is optimism. If she had her way, education would be compulsory with children sent to boarding schools if necessary — after all, that's basically what the mission school was. Then would come the need for back-up because children could not just be sent back to a reserve during holidays, especially when they reached their maturing, sensitive years. "At Leonora, we hope to use the primary school, which is empty during the holidays because the children have gone back to their families. "We want the Community Welfare Department to help us make it available to high school children who are coming home to see their families, but who still need to sleep in a bed and basically maintain the living standard they are used to," she said. "You can't expect these kids to come back and sleep in the dirt or the body of an old car."

With such a system there would also be need for support when children had completed their education. Accomodation while they search for jobs or improved family housing for those who can't get work and must return to their families. Much personalised moral support, says Sadie, existed in the mission system. With so much emphasis on education, it is not surprising she was one of the people involved in the establishment of the Christian Aboriginal Parents Directed School which was set up in Coolgardie in 1981. "When the Mercy Sisters moved out, we moved in," Sadie said. "Originally we started it because we felt not enough of our children were getting through high school. There are facilities in Kalgoorlie for Aboriginal children who didn't fit into the secondary school tern -- they went to .the project school to learn manual skills but many Aboriginal parents became concerned too many children were being sent there automatically and not getting the academic qualifications they needed. "We also wanted Christian education, and while it started as a secondary school, last year se took primary children as well and had 60 students." The school is open to all children. no matter their race, colour or creed and while there are no Aboriginal teachers (because we just don't have enough to go round, says Sadie) there are Aboriginal house-parents. "We had a hard battle to get this school, but we feel it is worth it. Government departments have said; 'Why aren't you teaching. Aboriginal culture'', but culture doesn't get you a job."

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sify the manure flavour. Farther along the trek there was another contretemps with food. On Anna Plains station, there was a dingo plague and Boyd was making a pound a scalp by poisoning them with strychnine. On one night alone he made 30 pounds in this way. The time came to move the herd south and they packed up and left. Boyd's first job each day was to go out and get the horses, and while he was doing this, his father prepared the usual breakfast of rolled oats. Albert and Watty had just finished their meal when Boyd came back from his horse-gathering mission. He spat out his first mouthful of the rolled oats with the comment that it tasted bitter — like strychnine. The two men, who had eaten a full meal of the same dish, rushed

to the food pack and straightened with an air of foreboding. The top of the strychnine bottle, which had been stored immediately on top of the rolled oats, had come loose. "Milk's the best antidote for strychnine poisoning," gasped Watty. Forthwith, he grabbed the billy and drained their whole supply — from a milking cow in the herd — without offering any to Albert. Albert soon re-asserted his authority. Calmly, he directed his son about what to do in case anything happened to him. The native boys were to take the cattle back to Noreena. Boyd was to send two telegrams — one to his mother, the other to Elder Smiths to send somebody up to collect the cattle. These instructions were to be ignored if by lunch time he and Watty had not come down with poisoning. It was a thoughtful and apprehensive little cavalcade that sweated the hours to lunch time out in the saddle. Noon brought no grevious signs. and by mid-afternoon the two bushmen knew they had escaped death by poisoning. Watty in fact lived for years after

the great trek and the tough Albert, a farmer at Three Springs, reached almost 90 years of age before death claimed him. Boyd completed his education at CBC Terrace and the City Cornercial College and worked for the William Houghton company for 1 4 years before becoming a founder of Jandakot Wool Scourers in 1938. "Then Jandakot had one threefoot scouring machine," Boyd recalls. "Now there are two 6ft 6in wide machines, one of 5ft and one of 4ft. All are of stainless steel and automatic. "In 1960-61 we processed 75,000 bales of scoured wool with a staff of between 250 and 300. In 1981 we processed 100,000 bales with a staff of about 70." These figures are symptomatic of progress, but there is something nostalgic about Boyd's claim that the wool trade has changed tremendously since he entered it. "Woolbuyers in those days," he says, "had almost princely standing and they were very highly paid. The complicated mystique of which they were masters has gone. "Now the simple process of core sampling and testing reveals just about all there is to know about a bale." Of some of the changes in commerce and industry. Boyd does not approve. Unions and union officials, he believes, can blame themselves for 90 per cent of the unemployment and financial pressure existing in Australia today.

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DEATH JERMYN On March 15, 1983, peacefully in the loving care of the Sisters of St John of God and their Staff, Rivervale, Ada G race, beloved and devoted wife of Edgar (dec), very dear mother of Edna, Murray (dec) and G eoffrey (dec) fond mother in law of Betty. Loving nanna of Roslyn. Peter and Margaret and their families. Born into eternal life. Her funeral took place pri%ately at Karrakatta Lawn Cemetery on Thursday 17th march, 1983, after Requiem Mass celebrated in the Holy Family Church, Como. BOwra & O'Dea — Funeral Directors 328 7299

G ARRITY Michael: One P ROPERTY Impro%e who lived as Christ did, ments Serb tee all types of w indows and doors HOME LESMURDIE one who thought of self installed: walls and ceiling 5 bed home bir, lounge, least, he who knew his God Pictured after their double wedding in St Joseph's Church Albany (left to right) Dennis Bunn, son of Mr r emoved: wooden pergo- dining. lam. utility rms, and loves Him now in eter- and Mrs Arthur Bunn,. Jenny Crannage, daughter of Mr Jack and Mrs Marie Crannage,. Paul Crannage and Pauline Bain, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ken Bain. las. general repairs. Phone study, solar HWS on bus nal peace. Bless him dear route, close Cat h. primary. Lord and receive him into 341 294f, W hen three Alban, sec. schools and shops. 1 2 / y our glory, which I know Backyards cleaned, rub- acre. $71,500. Ph R. You will. Jim Hassell, his families faced the happy prospect of a double bish remtn.cd, trees Elphick 398 4444 AK 459 friend for 50 years. w edding shaping up in lopped. gardening. odd 6352. their midst they might lobs, garaes cleaned out IN NII MORI 551 has e been daunted by the 2 -- 8780 SITUATION The public are in% iced to fact that some eight taxis Retreat for %%omen (orgaJUN 101 1.: Cecely NlarP A IN I l\( qualit worl. the Open Day of.- 41)egV could has e been required nised hs the Majellans will ACANT garet. Of your charit!, be held April 15-16-17. at .it the right price. Joh!: • nancy Help at top floor. 7 for the official parties. t•reakle . Phone 361 434‘. NI/couple or mature please pray for the repose Instead, the St Joseph's the Redemptorist Retreat Howard Street on Friday female to share comfy of the soul of our wife and College bus fitted the H ouse, North Perth. March 25 from 1-4 pm. The outdoor Was mother whose anniversary ot the The Carpenter. 5% ants work all home - rent free from t ask admirably of Please book with Leeola Cross blessing of the prewill he conducted at spheres of the building mid May to mid Sept. occurs on 17th March. mises by Bishop Healy will transporting the bridal Loughnan. 6 Pinewood Keaney College on Good trade. No job too small. (approx) with responsible Woodlands ve. A -446 take place at 1.30 pm parties of two former Friday at II a.m. The celePhone 330 4386. female Year Eleven stuT HANKS scholars Paul and Jenny 4595, by April I I. Booking bration of the Passion of dent. Phone 418 3230. fee $15, total cost 533.00. Crannage. the Lord will take place on Praise, Glory and Thanks A fter Electrical Contractor 5 a ceremony Please bring your own the lawn. Hot water and J.V. D'Esterre Vivian St. A CCOMMODATION to Our Lord Jesus Christ. performed by Father linen. All Christian women facilities are available for • and thanks to Our Lady of Tony ('hiera Rivemale. 30 yrs expea reception are invited to attend. This those bringing a picnic will he the only weekend rience, expert, efficient. Overseas 16 year old male Lourdes and St Jude for was held at Tara Hall. lunch. retreat this year. reliable. Ring 362 4646. student attending John prayers answered and X XIII College, urgently f avours granted. A after hours 385 9660. GUILDERTON LANrequires accommodation. Tennent. CE LIN: Ph 386 4007. Most Sacred Heart of T he Good Frida% W EDDINGS Jesus may your name be celebration of the Passion TRAVEL p raised and glorified For that special day .1(1.1 takes place at Guilderton harmon to the occasiou Lourdes Europe fully throughout the world now The Record newspaper is at noon on Good Friday by haN ing ‘ocal guitariq e scorted from Perth and forever amen. Thanks only one of many features and at Lancelin at 3 p.m Marie Wallace sing for vou departing July 16 some for favours granted. Eliia- of Catholic life that will On Easter Sunday N1,1,, beth K. miss the presence of and your guests in the vacancies. Phone Marcia w ill he celebrated at Michael Garrity at St church. Phone 275 1870 Guilderton at noon and or Rita on 450 2488 or 450 Most Sacred Heart o Lancelin at 5 p.m. Jesus may your name be Mary's Cathedral. Organist for weddings 6469. A passerby had to be Traditional and modern. For all travel arrange- praised and glorified nimble-footed to escape Telephone 349 5993. ments phone Sue 4445242. throughout the world now the sales approach of Concorde International and forever. Thanks to the Michael Garrity holding Travel, Mt Hawthorn Sacred Heart for prayers out The Record. He had THANKS Plai.a, 146 Scarborough answered. Patricia. the same enthusiasm for Beach Rd. Mt. Hawthorn. Most Sacred Heart of selling Columban calendMost Sacred Heart of Jesus may your holy name ars or St Vincent de Paul Jesus may your name he W ANTED be praised & glorified Christmas cards. p raised and glorified throughout the world now It was the same Michael throughout the world now The St Vincent De Paul & forever. Thanks to the Garrity who would ring and forever. (Say nine Society Morley are in Sacred Heart for prayers the midday angelus from times daily for consecutive urgent need of a shed to answered. Nell. the Cathedral belfry or be nine days and promise store furniture 20ft x 12ft x busy serving Mass, funerpublication). Thank you, 8ft. If you are able to help Many Thanks to the als and marriages no matSacred Heart, Our Lady of Pat please ring 276 5880. the Sacred Heart, Matie ter what the day or the Celine of the Presentation. time. Around the cathedSt Anthony. Little Flower. ral he would keep an eye St Lucy and St Bernadette on detail, and was often for many favours received heard to remark on peoand may the most Sacred ple's untidy habits, even in He had been orphaned as a child and the family had Heart be praised and glori- a cathedral. A ND COMPANY fied around the whole If a visitor wanted infor- been split up. After 50 mation or any cathedral years he returned to Scotworld. V.F.R. detail required attention land and made contact Most Sacred Heart of Michael Garrity would with his family — thereby Jesus may your name be providentially appear to beginning a regular visit to praised and glorified to the task. Scotland every four or five WANNER00 NORTH PERTH throughout the world now see His other main interest in years for thepast 20 years. 409 9119 444 4835 and forever. Say daily nine life was his work with the The greatest joy of his life times for nine consecutive St Vincent de Paul Society was his visit to Scotland Cnr Wanneroo Rd 1 5 Scarborough Beach Rd days. Thank you. Beryl. & Buckingham Use in the Cathedral Confer- when Pope John Paul Most Sacred Heart of ence. Additionally he visited there last year. Arthur J. Purslowe & Co. and Associated Jesus may your name he spent each Sunday after- Speaking at the funeral C ompanies, are fully aware of the requirements p raised and glorified noon visiting the patients Mass in St Mary's Cathedfor Catholic Funerals. throughout the world now at Sunset Hospital, distri- ral Archbishop Goods We have always carried out Funeral Masses to and forever. Thanks to the buting books, cheering paid tribute to Michael's and rosaries with dignity and decorum, Sacred Heart for prayers t hem with his happy great faith. loyalty and whether it be a low cost Funeral or an answered. I). Ledingham. youthful approach to life. cheerful service of the pri- !Holy Expensive Funeral. He had a great love for ests and people at St Most Sacred Heart of Our Lady You can be assured that when you call on and claimed that Mary's. The large congreJesus may your name be she Arthur J. Purslowe & Co or Associated had cured him when he gation was a fitting tribute praised and glorified Companies to conduct a funeral for you, it will was totally crippled after t o a man who had throughout the world now his Details & registration from be carried out with our full knowledge and arrival in Australia endeared himself to all E:. and forever. Amen. F.S. understand:rig of your religious wishes Jan Lipiec, after the first world war. over his long period of E-1 2 He had seen service with work in the Cathedral. ANZ Travel PERSONAL MEAD & PURSLOWE SNELL & PURSLOWE the British Army in Galli- His funeral took place at 84 St. George's Terrace T .-. 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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 c reativity and neatness. Okay gang, it's time to get busy All we want you to do is draw a To help you with ideas read again. We've got another super picture of any of the events con- Mathew, Chapter 28; Mark, Chapcompetition coming up for Easter nected with Jesus rising from the ter 16; Luke, Chapter 24 and John, and we'll be announcing the winners dead. Chapter 20. in our Easter Sunday issue. For example; Jesus coming from Start working now and let us have 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 away to the runners-up. or Peter and John arriving at the phone number if you have one.

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BIRTHDAYS Happy birthday to: Julie Collis, Carlisle; Bernadette Ingram, Girrawheen: Senol Jacobs, Greenwood; Amanda Towers, Corrigin.

MEMBERS Welcome to our new members; Lucio Rapanaro, Dianella; Kathrine Enright, South Hedland: Cathy Frixina, Nollamara; Gemma Ivey, Rossmoyne; Angela Frisina, Nollamara: Lisa Humphries, Forrestfield; Sharlee Gaby, of Beechboro; Alexander Cheffings, of Manjimup; Jason Lawson, of Kelmscott and David Lawson, of Kelmscott

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Dear Captain Bob, I am sending you a pic- to Miami (Mandurah) for How are you? I'm fine. I ture of Jesus visiting Mary our holidays — it was have moved to Busselton Magdalene for your easter great. from Moora. My new competition. On Tuesday we went to address is 5 Phyllis St. see E.T. it was sad in some Amanda Towers Here are some jokes: parts and happy as well. Corrigin. Q. Why did the chicken I had better go nos. cross the road? Goodbye. A. To see the brick layer Dear Captain Bob, Stephanie Mayne How are you'? lay bricks. Bedford Q. What would you do if I'm fine. Yesterday I went you split your sides laugh- for a picnic with my uncle. We had lunch at Kings 'Run until you get a Park. Then we climbed over the logs on the lake. stitch. once I got stuck but I soon Knock Knock got up. Who is there? Before lunch we went up Boo boo who. Don't cry I'm only joking. the spiral ladder. What a view! Rachael Cochrane, After lunch we went to Busselton. the museum. On the 5th Dear Captain Bob, floor we saw a big blue Do you know these jokes? whale it was as big as the Q. Why did the man room. throw the butter out the The wildlife display was window? very good and it was A. Because he wanted to interesting. see the butterfly. A few weeks ago we went

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outh Forum

New-look team

The National YCS Team for 1983 includes a new member, Tim T enbensel of Hobart. He joins Father Gerry Gallagher, Sandhurst, National Chaplain and Sister Liz Compton, P.B.V.W. Hobart. An advisory council of former fulltime workers will continue to meet with the Team in 1983 to aid reflection on the movement and enhance the lay character of the Team. January was a busy month for YCS. First there was a training camp for leaders from the southern dioceses, held at Ocean Grove, Victoria from 10-15 January. Dioceses represented included Perth, Adelaide, Sandhurst, Melbourne, Sale and Tasman iaa. this proved to be a beneficial experience for all, especially in understanding the mission of the student. For the Northern Dioceses, a training camp will be held from April 4-8 near Brisbane. Later in January, a meeting of the Australian YCS Executive was held in Melbourne. Agenda included a general review of YCS around Australia, a report on the World Council held last August in Canada and its implications for Australia. T he Agenda also included the National

aims for 1983 and further challenges which the movement faces. The next Executive meeting will be in Sydney, May 16-21. One of the major initiatives for YCS in 1983 will be a training course for its fulltime workers. Thirteen fulltimers will spend two weeks at Mt Eliza (Melbourne) at a live-in course designed to develop some of the skills needed for fulltime youth work in the Church. The course will not only give great personal support to the young workers, but will also be of great value for their work and the development of YCS groups and student leadership. The YCS Executive decided the National Team should spend quite a number of weeks working in Brisbane and Sydney this year, to support the growth of the past couple of years. Different team members will also visit Perth and Sunbury in Western Australia, Adelaide and Port Pine in S.A.; Sale and Sandhurst in Victo-

Searcher camp First Searcher Camp for '83. The Youth Encounter Movement will be conducting its first Searcher Camp for the

year at the Don More Camp site, Parkerville, on the weekend of March 25, 27. Searcher Camps are programmes of spirit-

The Junior Praesidium of 'Our Lady Of Perpetual Help Praesidium' of Myaree have taken up the challenge of Pope John Pual to make sacrifices and offer prayers for peace in the world. A Penitential walk during Lent will take place in Fremantle on Palm Sunday. March 27 Blessed Palms and olive branches may be carried on the five kilometres walk leaving C .B.0 . Ellen Street Fremantle at 12.30 pm. The walk is timed to finish at 2.30 pm when the Acies Ceremony takes place at St Patricks Chruch. The function will take three and a half hours. Those can't walk the five kilometres, can fall in at any point along the route, which is. . . along Ellen Street, East St, across Canning H /way down to the water, round the harbour, to the Railway Station, Market St, to the High Street Mall following the leaders to St Patricks Church.

ria, and make a brief visit to Tasmania. For the first time for many years, Melbourne has its own fulltime YCS w orker, Christina Coombe. The YCS Executive has chosen the following aspects of its apostolate for special emphasis in 1983. "The Mission of YCS" — Students sent into the Student World to live and promote Christian values. This is based on the three truths of Cardijn: he 1. Truth of Faith k new from his faith and from the Gospel that p eople have value beyond measure. Each person was created by God for a special purpose. 2. Truth of Experience — he saw all around him people not being treated with importance and dignity. 3. Truth of Method in the student world a method of overcoming t he contradiction between the first two truths is the YCS movement. ual renewal for post school youth and young adults. Anyone who is interested in attending this camp should contact Father Tom Ryan C.S.S.R. at the North Perth Monastery on 328 6968 or 328 6600.

Christina Kadmos "Iam Christina Kadmos and at the end of last year, I was accepted to work fulltime for YCS in -1983. I was first introduced to YCS in 1979, at the Mirrabooka Group and in January, 1980I went on an Introductory Camp. Since then,Ihave been part of the Mercy College, YCS Group. YCS's belief in the needfor students to objectively evaluate their lives and act as a response to their faith is one thatIhave grown in commitment to. As a worker for the movement. I will try to encourage students in their attempts to do this and thus take on a more active role in their Christianity. Part of my job is also to work with various non-students involved in YCS. Despite feeling apprehensive at some areas of the work, the support Ireceivefrom the students, my family and co-workers, gives me much enthusiasm and hope for this year."

"My name is Danny Toohev. Icompleted the TA E last year at CBC Highgate. A t the end of Year 10 afriendaskedme along to a CYS Introductory Camp — Iwent andfound that what I learned on the camp was very challenging. gIfound a movement that emphasised II nity of allpeople and that sometimes this dr ity was violated by oppressive situations in the school, the community and the world. YCS is an active movement which worksfor the liberation of people, especially students, whofind that their dignity or the dignity of others is not being upheld. Involved in this is a mutual support and challen$e for students — as Joseph Card/n, the inspiration of YCS said — "The YCS is precisely this — a movement of young students who, in and by and with young students, in an by all the acts of their daily lives, form each other, support each other, help each other, love each other and together prepare themselves for their future. My belief in the movement led me to apply to work fulltime for YCS during 1983."

Funds are vital for f uture of youth There is no Youth Work without money. Each yearImake numerous appeals to youngpeople, parents, priests andbusiness houses to supplement the generous contribution of the Archbishop for Youth Work in the Diocese.

assistance. fulltimers and their Over the last four years In 1983, I renew my families make a signifiour Diocese has been appeal to young people cant contribution to the NW% generous in its support to make a sacrifice of work of the Church in of the youth scene. GenONE DAY'S PAY our Diocese. erous in comparison towards the building of I ask every working with the other eastern our YFC at Gidge- young person to make states' diocese. gannup. and think .about a perEither our diocese has In 1983 we have three sonal sacrifice towards more money to spend YCW fulltimers, three their own Youth moveand we are better off YCS fulltimers, three ment and towards the than the rest of AustraCPY fulltimers, one needs of their peers in lia or our diocese sees TYCS fulltimer, one our Diocese. I do so out the value and imporfulltime Chaplain, one of respect for young tance of training young Chaplaincy Secretary. people who Ibelieve can people in the underI worked out recently be generous if asked. standing of the lay aposthat if these young peo- Making a contribution tolate in the years after from one's pocket is a leaving school. measure of one's comI prefer to think its the mitment. latter. Each day I claim that I am just beginning to do the real work that is necessary and each day I begin again. Northern Region In 1983 the Youth Meeting, Wednesscene has an urlent ple were to be employed day, March 23 at need to raise $50,111 to the generous donations God Bless you". . . am confident that by the Public Service at Morley Parish, Asmodify and complete given from time to time the Youth Formation by individuals and this important work will the lowest rate of pay sembly Room, 47 be done and that the and at their age level the Wellington Street, Centre at Gidgegannup organisations. While I've said it per- Lord will see to it that wage bill would approx- Morley. — "Eagle's Nest". The Youth movements sonally I say it again. . . generous people give imately double. and myself depend on simply; "Thank you and the necessary financial It is evident that the Starts 7.30 p.m.

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Record Sport More than 100 personalities from sport, commerce, newspapers, e ntertainment and the media competed in the thrills and spills of the annual Celebrity Challenge held in the grounds of Channel Seven at Tuart Hill. S everal thousand spectators enjoyed the afternoon's entertainment with proceeds aiding Telethon. Six teams led by Channel Seven personalities Debbie Allanson, Tedd Bull, J udy Thompson, Rick Ardon, Keith Geary and

Personalities in fun day C laremont captain-coach Graham Moss competed in 12 action-packed events. "Judy's Giants" emerged the 1983 Celebrity Challenge winners with "Debbie's Devils" second, " Geary's Gang" third, "Mossie's Mob" fourth, "Rick's Raiders" fifth and last but by no means least "Bull's Bombers". Participating personalities included footballers from all league teams, members of the Westate

Wildcats basketball team, Davenport, Jenny Seaton, jockeys Mark Grigsby, Ber- Lionel Yorke, Stuart Keith, nie Ryan and Danny Miller, Fat Cat, Lou-Anne Ronchi while Fred Kersley, Lou and Miss Western AustraA ustin and Colin Warwick lia, Raelene Ormsby. competed for the trotting f raternity. Special guest of honor at this year's Celebrity ChalE ntertainers Edwina lenge was former Miss C ox, Peter Harries, Kelly West Coast, Cheryl Rixon Green, Christopher May who presented the gold, and Rod Kirkham were silver and bronze medaljoined by such competitors lions to the successful a s Jeans West Miss West teams. Cheryl was back in C oast, Francine Raus, Perth on holidays from the M aurice Meade, Liz United States.

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Back row — 1-r: Neil Garland, commentator, Phil Harry Kelly received Eastern States critMulcahy, analyst, Frank Sparrow, commentator, an award of $250 ics have rated the Ian Brunton, Analyst. Front row — 1-r: Bill Valli, each for their half cover as equal to any V analyst, Harvey Deegan, Sports Editor, Chris Mitsopoulos, Analyst hour live coverage of r acing programme ir the Perth Cup which produced in Austr- — was telecast nation- alia. With the 1 983 WAFL football season kicking off on March 26 ally. For Gerry Swift this is the third media 6IX will again be covering all Sunday matches as well as the award he has receiv- regular Saturday Greyhounds — with games with their top commentary team. ed. The Record Tipster 6IX will broadcast unin- returning to play with match broadcast by 6IX. Singapore for seven days. terrupted football with no Subiaco. The 6IX Footballer of the Votes will be cast by the commercials during actual He represented Western Year award this year will commentary team after play. Commercials will Australian on 12 occa- win a return trip for two to each match. I . only be played during the sions. quarter-time, half-time Bill joins the 6IX Around and three-quarter time the Grounds team of Phil Scissors. Saws. Secateurs. Shears. Sharpened and Set breaks. Mulcahy, Chris MitsopouThe commentary team los and Harvey Deegan, this year will be streng- who will back up the thened by the inclusion of match of the day comformer champion W.A. mentators, Frank Sparrow 4 QUEEN STREET 321 4390 LOCKSMITHS rover Bill Valli, a veteran and Neil Garland with Ian of more than Brunton 200 games. as Analyst. Gerry Swift He started his career at The commentators will Locks. Door Closers and Safe Overhauled and Serviced West Perth in 1969, moved have Mark of the Day, Gerry produced the R ACE ONE: I. Softlight. RACE SIX: I. Gold CAR and ALL TYPES OF KEYS CUT Immediate Service to Victoria in 1979 where Goal of the Day, and Star 2, Philip's Gift, 3. Orient Velocity. 2. Wild Earl. 3 popular children's he played with Collingof the Day awards valued programme. What in Star. Swift Glade, wood and Essendon before at $50 each during each • •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ••••••••• R ACE TWO: 1, True R ACE SEVEN: 1. Our the World for which Ebony. 2. Riviera Health. Rosetta, 2, Triple Try. 3. h e received two • 3, Akiialive. awards. Rowston. R ACE THREE: I. Smith- R ACE EIGHT: I. Like A In 1976 he received • • ville, 2. Dunna Runna. 3. Patchy. 2. Ramboutan. 3, the K.G. Attiwill Smiley Charm. OPTICIANS ; OPTOMETRIS Award for his seg& TS i Antillean. , R ACE FOUR: I. Rye ment on eye-care in • A way. 2. Bold Talent. 3. R ACE NINE: I. Sandlee • Corneal Lens Consultants • • Pixie, 2, Deceit's Girl. 3. What in the World. • Tern Dion. • • 16 PLAZA ARCADE, PERTH 321 5344 : The Australian OptoR ACE FIVE: I. Mondo Coppin Boy. • 451 8122 : • CAROUSEL SHOPPING TOWN Gift. 2. World Vision. 3. RACE TEN: I. Revere. 2. metrical Association 73 1929 : DEMPSTER HOUSE. PORT HEDLAND Sallowing. Salva Tempix. 3, Nefertiti. made the national ace with Rod Evans 1 29 DURLACHER STREET, GERALDTON 21 3445 : i a ward of $300 for his Channel Seven has won the feature section of the 1983 Winfield racing media c onipetition. D irector Gerard Swift and producer

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contribution to comACIDIFY showed a return to form with a fast finishmunity awareness of ing third in the Essex Graduation Stakes at Ascot on visual problems. Following this What Saturday. He has shown he is a galloper of above in the World was average ability and could be one to follow shortly. HURRICANE LAD blistering speed to race judged the best child- a way with Saturday's St.showed John Amuhlance Welter and ren's TV series at gave young apprentice Tom Widdeson his first city Australia's first film winner. Hurricane Lad should win more similar races in and television awards the near future. OUR ASH ABIT stamped himself as one of the states — The Sammys.

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"If we can get the boys back to their homes as quickly as possible it means there will be more boys we can deal with," says the Clontarf superintendent explaining that the average stay of a boy these days is between four and six months.

In one of the world's most explosives regions: Pope John Paul /I with Costa Rican president Monge and his wife at the capital's airport in San Jose.

Pope in Haiti PORT AU PRINCE (Haiti): It did not take the Haiti government machine long to fire broadsides at Pope John Paul who had used his 10 hour visit to scold the g overnment for its injustice. The visit to Haiti was more than just another whistle stop on a crammed Central America tour because the pope was attending the opening of the 19th plenary assembly of the Latin American Bishops a body that has to c onfront the growing number of justice issues plaguing all their countries. More than 100,000 Haitians heard the pope refer to the theme of their national eucharistic congress that was just concluding: "Something Must Change Here", with the reply "It is certainly necessary for things to change." But 48 hours later the government - controlled newspaper Le Nouveau Monde lashed out with the statement that President Duvalier's "patience is at an end" with Catholic Church opposition to his rule. President "Baby Doc" Duvalier's son-in-law Ernest Bennett wrote that the president will "not allow p oisonous political oriented sermons to turn Haiti into El Salvador." Pope John Paul did not conceal his dissatisfaction with Haiti's conditions as he criticised, "divisions, injustices, excessive inequality, the degradation of the quality of life, misery, hunger, the fear of many people." He said the Church wished "net to accuse but to contribute to an improvement by getting through to the conscience of those who bear responsibility in the villages, in the cities and at the national level to act according to the Gospel and to the social doctrine of the Church."

Comparing the former times when a boy made Clontarf his home for many years, Brother Clery said that the staff approach now was to worry if a boy looked like staying a year. A s a result, most of the boys at present at Clontarf will be seeing their first fair when up to 25,000 people are likely to come to this annual event that captures Perth's imagination.

The Papal motorcade proceeds through San Jose

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Established in 1901, school on the same remembered. dling stress. We give them Clontarf can look back property on the Can- Teachers may be slow to the techniques to handle on generations of boys ning River. accept that there has been t hese situations," explains who might have been Having school classes on an improvement in the Brother Clery. orphans, state wards, the site distinguishes Clon- boy's outlook on himself Barry Chatel notes there migrants from Eng- tarf from other similar and his surroundings. is a difference between curland and Malta, who institutions today which Typical of today's Clon- ing a boy's problem and both lived and went to send their children out to tarf boy would be a high providing the boy with local schools, Brother school student who sat and the way to cure himself. stared in school, making "We don't provide a nice Clery explained. According to Clontarf no effort, and having very neat package and say: now staff social worker, Barry few friends while his older you can go home. Chatel, the aim of frequent and younger brother were "We can give them the turnover of students is successful at school and strength to cope with some helped by the fact that each sport. things that may be bugging boy is assessed every six He could not accept the them. weeks giving the oppor- strong pressure from home "Other boys, or Clamtunity to settle him back at that he had to he like eve- dies, may decide that they his home or school if he is ryone else in achievement. don't want to change the At Clontarf he could situation. We may think ready. Clontarf therefore cannot make friends of his own that the situation of a boy's function in isolation from choice, and proceed in a life has changed but later the outside environment. class where he did not have realise that it is not so. A fter care support has to to live up to an image. He Choosing to come is the be provided to the families became a boy able to find a big factor in the help that is w here the boy has job and eventually move offered to Clontarf boys into a flat on his own. returned. today. Schools may have trouble His parents found it hard "No-one has to come in welcoming back a boy to accept that the boy had here. w hose behaviour is well changed and that he had "Boys and their families the ability to achieve quite have to be clear on what a bit by himself. they can get from Clontarf. "We all have to be fair dinkum and not waste time • and resources if they don't want this programme. Typical also is the boy "If a boy runs away conwho has been disruptive tinuously he is showing and disobedient at school that he does not want to and uncontrollable at stay here. home because of his low "The boys who come here s elf-esteem and the have been through the absence of basic reading mill. and writing skills. "They have had a lot of His family too was work failure, have been in lots of and success-oriented and schools, and lots of institufound it hard to change in tions. where the message accepting a boy who after a has been: we will be very time at Clontarf in a spe- heavy on you, but it hasn't cial class for those about to worked. leave school was able to go "We foster the ide • r d of the out and secure a bakery boy finding his strengths. apprenticeship for himself. finding successes for himSocial worker Barry self. not putting pressure Chatel finds many parents on him to change as we do not have a deep under- want him to change. standing of their boys' Change is more lasting if needs. the boys can identify their Others become locked own strengths." into a pattern of putting Brother Clery believes the boy down so that his that the long term hope for only option is to perform a Clontarf boy may be in badly to attract attention 20 years' time. to himself, either in the If ever the situation arises family or at school. where the family needs Clontarf is wary of offer- some therapy and help, the ing a "cure" for any partic- former Clontarf boy will ular boy's problems. begin to understand what "Boys come here because was being done for him in of their difficulty in han- his youth.

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The Record, March 17 — 23, 1983

INDIANAPOLIS (NC) — The Indianapolis archdiocese has announced an interim plan for the distribution of priests in the next five years to deal with an expected loss of 26 priests. The plan calls for: • parish clusters in which two or more parishes will be served by the same pastor and will share personnel and other resources. • giving priests the optiOn of being assigned to a common residence with other priests in the same geographic area. • the on-site presence, where needed, of a pastoral minister who is not a priest in some clustered parishes. • regional appointment of priets: assigning a priest to an area for a particular pastoral service, such as youth ministry to the parishes in the area. • a review of the liturgy schedules in all parishes in the archdiocese.