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Gaspar a c aptive? MANILA: A lay leader of the Church in the Philippines ... well known in P erth through well attended seminars he conducted here last year ... is reported missing, believed detained, in Mindinao Province. Karl Gaspar, 35, lectured in Perth last April on social justice in the Philippines, and made many friends here. A former executive secretary of Mindanao Sulu Pastoral Conference, he has not been seen or heard from since March 26. According to reports, he went to the offices of the Ecumenical Centre for D evelopment (ECD), apparently unaware that at least five people, including two visiting Germans, one of whom was a priest, had been arrested there on March 24. ft is believed Gaspar was also arrested at the LCD offices, Those arrested on March 24 are thought to be held in Camp Catitipan, Davao City. The authorities have denied any knowledge of his whereabouts. In the past year, at least 40 priests, nuns and lay workers have been arrested in the Philippines. Amnesty International is concerned that the Philippines authorities have neither acknowledged the arrest of Gaspar nor disclosed his whereabouts. There is concern for his safety and Amnesty is urging supporters to express their concern to the Philippines Ambassador in Canberra. 4 .
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ROME — Former Aquinas senior master, CBC Gerald ton principal; and Fremantle teacher Brother Max McAppion has been bashed by members of a so called "convent gang" which has been terrorising priests and religious at their residences.
Brother McAppion heard noises in an adjoining room in the Christian Brothers Generalate House in Rome when another Australian, Brother Bernard Dawes was being bound and gagged, at 3 o'clock one recent morning. When Brother McAppion burst into his confrere's room, the five hoodlums turned on him and struck him above the eyebrow but he did not need hospital attention.
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Armed with knives and iron bars the group had forced the entrance of the Christian Brothers' Institute on Via Maglianella. They are believed to have escaped on foot through the entrance because no o ther windows were forced. Brother McAppion, now appointed to South Australia, is in Rome on the three month tertian course. The attack on the brothers is only one of 13 similar attacks in recent months. On the same night at 5 a.m. a similar gang with knives and bike chains tricked a sacristan into opening a door of a presbytery and they attacked the priest and forced him to hand over $600. In another similar incident a 71 year old priest was found dead in his ransacked apartment. The police believe that the old man, already a sufferer from asthma, was overpowered by ether or suffocated by the intruders. Neighbours saw the men making off with some itolen property. Some sources put down the raids to youths on drugs desperate to get funds for their supplies. It is not known how many gangs are responsible for th attacks.
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Vic Park's procession of witness More than 600 people took place in the annual Victoria Park ecumenical procession that c ommences on alternate years from St Peter's Anglican or St Joachim's Catholic c hurches for a walk of a mile to the Harper Street reserve. T hree times the procession halted w hile the cross w as raised and p assages were r ead from St Mark's gospel. At the final stop the cross was planted in the ground while hymns were sung and prayers read. The cross was left there during the remainder of Good Friday. Police escorted the group along Albany Highway and adjacent streets. A portable amplifier relayed the hymns and prayers led by Father Paul Kierce and Canon Cyril Manuel. Mr Bill Huxley of A pplecross, a member of the Catholic committee for ecumenism, said this annual event of Christian witness demonstrated the unity of the Church's foundation.
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The establishment two small rooms to the o f Pregnancy Help third floor where there are now three counselling will be seen to be one rooms, a large meeting of the most signifi- room and storeroom. cant decisions made "It becomes a bit like bedlam here sometimes" said d uring Archbishop Mrs Corry Schoenmakers Goody's 15 years at co-ordinator of Pregnancy the head of Perth Help. "Our former small prearchdiocese, Bishop mises were sometimes so Healy said recently. crowded with interviews At the blessing of its new that we had to take one premises Bishop Healy woman over to a coffee said that Pregnancy Help lounge to have a chat." was even more important than the establishment of a school. Contact A school dealt mainly with people in groups, whereas Pregnancy Help was designed to give sup- First contact with Pregport and encouragement to nancy Help is likely to be a particular individual in by phone. need. A country donor paid for Bishop Healy was refer- a phone switching device ring to the public state- that puts an incoming call ment made by Archbishop immediately through to a Goody in 1973 that the res- counsellor on duty so that ources of the archdiocese help is available 24 hours a were pledged to assist any day. woman in distress over After that, a number of pregnancy. interviews will take place As a result of that pledge with the pregnant woman Pregnancy Help was estab- as she is taken through her lished in 1976 and was pregnancy and ante-natal administered out of Cen- preparation and the first trecare in Victoria Square few weeks after delivery. for its first five years. Mrs Schoenmakers said In 1981 Pregnancy Help all is not plain sailing in the was set up in indepdendent first interview with a preg- A fter he had blessed the new Pregnancy Help quarters in Howard Street Bishop Healy was premises at the foot of nant woman. given a personal introduction to the baby clothes section by Mrs Corry Schoenmakers, (left) the Howard Street, where it Some find it a difficult co-ordinator, watched by Mrs Nora Keogh a counsellor. has a further two year lease choice not to proceed with on offices there. themselves. an abortion. The latest move of Preg- "We know the tragic choi- It is remarkable, Mrs nancy Help was up two ces that sometimes are Schoenmakers observed. floors from the ground made. We spend time talk- how many mothers did not floor where it operated in ing to the women about suspect a pregnancy in Australian Catholic their feelings, and telling their daughter sometimes R elief has announced jiilIIilllllllllllIIllIIlIlIUllIUhIlIIIlIIIllIIlIIHhIIlIlllIIllIlllllllIIlIlIlItHhlIl them the facts of abortion, up to the seventh or eight a grant of $20,000 but they still may say: I month. can't go ahead with the The future of the baby is for victims of severe g. pregnancy. now a big question among f ood shortages in "In spite of that, we ask young pregnant women them to come back if they and adoption is an unpop- E thiopia. run into difficulties even ular choice compared with In the request, the after an abortion - - and the mother retaining her National Catholic Secretathere can be many. Some- baby. riat in the east African times they do come back to Mrs Schoenmakers said country, stated the famine that following the Univer- was potentially worse than us." The busiest activity at sity of WA study on relin- the one in 1973, when Pregnancy Help these days quishing mothers, a plan is 200,000 people died. are the weekly group dis- being studied by which a Relief supplies were important. these wars by weapons and cussions where up to 10 mother might be given spe- reported to be on their way Ethiopia is one of the advisors from the Soviet child access see her cific to women get pregnant from Catholic agencies in oldest countries in the Union and by ground together to be prepared for once or twice a year, away Europe and ACR was world. It is also one of the troops from Cuba. birth and to share their from the adopting parents asked for $50,000 to pay poorest. War is a luxury Ethiopia E- feelings. and also to know the for the transportation of The average per capital can ill afford. adopting parents' names the goods to the worst-hit FE suitable to accommodate single pregnant girls, E income is about $150 a It creates a drain on the and to receive occasional areas. E to which they can return afte the birth of their E economy that leaves little year. photographs growof the ACR's grant of $20,000 T.-. babies, until they are ready to move into indeAverage calorie intake is in reserve in time of Together ing youngster. is an initial response. pendent accommodation. 75% of the minimum disaster. heavily Pregnancy Help is It is hoped a further conE- As the girls need supervision Recent years have seen into the business of provid- tribution will be possible requirement. Adult literseveral such disasters. comenjoy women "The ing physical help for when Project Compassion acy stands at 20%. 1 -- A DEDICATED LIVE-IN PERSON_ Between 1931 and 1974, Perhaps the worst was ing together. mothers. returns start to come in. OR COUPLE Ethiopia was, in theory, a the famine of 1973-4, when "Their average age is There is an abundant constitutional monarchy. drought affected food = is required. Rent-free accommodation will be E around 17 and they are supply of baby clothes but In 1974, the Emperor, crops and 200,000 people = provided for this person or married couple, but = relieved to find they are not there is always need for H aile Selassie, was died. the only persons with this good quality napkins no salary can be offered at this stage. Fighting Millions sought refuge deposed and a provisional difficulty ahead of them." which are probably the military government took in neighbouring countries, E, A pregnant woman may least available item from = For further enquiries, please phone 322 5655. want to talk about her relaTwo of the areas worst over, under Col. Mengistu especially Djibouti and the 51111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111Iffi. tionship with a boy most of another mother's baby items. affected by the drought, Mariam, w valuable graz- Sudan. Refugees have conthe mothers feel their boy- Prams are always in short the provinces of Tigray ing lands known as the Ogaden, granted tinued to flee both the wars to Ethiofriends have let them supply. and Eritrea, are areas down, often suggesting Pregnancy Help is not where fighting has been pia by the British at the end and the food shortages. Now the deadly combiabortion or telling them restricted to unmarried going on for a number of of the last century. Ethiopia is assisted in both nation has struck again. they will have no more to mothers but is pledged to years. do with them unless they help any pregnant women. Soviet -backed Ethio- • • • • •• ••• ••••••••••• ••••• •• • • ••• • • • • (ESTABLISHED 1888) have an abortion. For that reason there are pian troops are fighting "Contrary to what is plenty of emergency calls local tribespeople for con68 STIRLING STREET, PERTH often believed, I don't k for material help for trol of these long-disputed 1307 ALBANY HWY., CANNINGTON now of any case in which migrant mothers who are areas. 502 WANNER00 ROAD, BALGA the woman did not know having difficulty getting There are fears among : OPTOMETRISTS & OPTICIANS the father of her child." she started in Australia. aid workers the Ethiopian 4 • said. Pregnancy Help needs Government will be reluc- • Corneal Consultants Lens • • The main topic of an more phone counsellors to tant to provide relief supp- • • 321 5344 interview is what will share the roster duty and lies to people living in these •• 16 PLAZA ARCADE, PERTH • CAROUSEL SHOPPING TOWN 451 872 4: happen in the future, how when a sufficient number areas. • PERTH DEMPSTER HOUSE, PORT HEDLAND 328 7299 the parents will be told and have applied a training 73 1929 This makes the role of • • 29 DURLACHER STREET. CiERALDTON B ALGA 21 3445 349 0100 whether the parents, usu- course will be conducted the non-Government agen- • • • ally the mother, will come later in the year. Phone 322 cies, such as the Catholic • C ANNINGTON 458 5017 • • i n for counselling 5655 during office hours. S ecretariat, vitally •••••••••• OOOOO ••••••••••••••• OOOOO ••••••••- 11 2 The Record, April 7 — 13, 1983
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Anti-nuclear Protests A service for peace before a march for nuclear disarmament was appropriate because Christians are the people who still cherish the ancient dream of peace expressed by Isaiah, said Sister Veronica Brady on Palm Sunday in St George's Cathedral. "Isaiah dreamt of a city of peace where God's love triumphs over human hatred suspicion and violence" Sister Veronica said in an address which was part of an ecumenicial service led by Dean David Robarts, Bishop Michael Challen and Rev. Wes Hartley.
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"This dream presses its claims today especially on Palm Sunday when we recall ,God's own faith in this dream, the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem as a King, claiming His right to r ule." Sister Veronica continued, "It is true that later that same week that rule and that dream seemed defeated when his people disowned Him, handing Him over to be crucified by the powerful people whose values He challenged and that defeat seems to go on. "Nations engage in a mad of destruction, piling up armaments, spending billions on them, IMO while more and more people go hungry, are robbed of their dignity and are drawn into the Anti-nuclear demonstrators outside the cathedral suspicion and violence which generates war. The Daughters of Charity V ATICAN CITY: The "Yet as Christians we NEED YOUR HELP pope's Easter morning believe in the resurrection, Mass, celebrated in St in the power of God which f oi ti . , work for the developm.,,,. P eter's Square, was raised Jesus from the dead UnderprIvitpood marred by often violent and is still at work in the mem120 About r ains and strong winds. U RGENTLY NEEDED But despite the weather, hearts of men, animating, bers of the St Vincent house -hold Clothing, clean, wearable, more than 250,000 people purifying and strengthen- d e Paul Society including 20,000 partic- ing the longings for His nick-nacks — ornaments. goods a ttended a Festival ipants in an Easter march love and peace. jewellery, etc. against hunger and the "So people continue to Meeting at Cottesloe D., t, arms race — had reached the square by the time the protest against violence, to hear Father Tom William Street. Highgate 34 5 pope went to the basilica's against war and the arms Grant plead for comcentral loggia for his semi- race and the blasphemy I-or Truck to call — Phone 328 4403 annual "urbi et orbi" talk. w hich claiming God's passion when famiC ountry goods !narked donation The Easter Mass and perogative, has developed lies are visited by the tree on rail to Kevvdale Rail Terminat message were broadcast without work, and with a the power to destroy the live to 25 countries and on world and threatens to do Society. mountain of debts. a delayed basis to a dozen While the Society will Members are not folso. others. pay out Pope John Paul closed "True, this protest often lowing God's command- not be able to ment to love the poor m ortgages or hire Definitions you won't find in the dictionary his fifth Easter celebration seems ineffectual. unless they show compas- purchase payments, it is as Pope by declaring the Hospitality. The fourth vow of every Brother. He 'Like the gathering on the sion for the poor during hoped that within a few Church's solidarity with the cares for the WHOLE person in need. weeks guidelines will be hungry, the unemployed, first Palm Sunday, peace their visits, he said. Humanisation. The quality of service that makes our the victims of terror and marches appear weak and Speaking from the e stablished whereby foundations different. Ask our lay staff, "Is this just civil war, and the "martyrs powerless in comparison will know what members heart, Albert Rooney of of the faith in Christ". another job to you?". with the armies and resour- Girrawheen Conference, can be done to direct these "We are with you who ces of the great nations and Religious life. A faith community, meeting Jesus families in how to resuffer from misery and the weapons they can e xplained how his Christ and others in the context of baptismal committstructure their debt hunger, sometimes assistmembers help families ment. ing at the agony of children muster. trade themselves out of situation. Total care. Care that doesn't stop when the patient brief summary of who are calling out for "But as Christians we serious debt by taking over In a pupil/resident leaves. Care that embraces the whole bread," he said in his believe God's is the ulti- t heir Social Service his first two and half years family of that person. Easter message to the city mate power in the world cheques and bills while giv- of a five year term as State and to the world. Fred Preshaw President, Throughout Australia, New Zealand and Papua "We are with you, all. and that, hidden though it ing them food parcels on asked members to: Renew New Guinea Brothers serve the people of God as The victims of terror, may be now, it works and which to live. their spiritual vocation as priests, nurses, teachers, pharmacists, therapists, locked up in prisons or con- grows so that with our coNine out of ten families m embers; seek out social workers, counsellors, youth welfare centration camps, con- operation the world will have been successfully reis prepared workers, sheltered workshop supervisors, child sumed by ill treatment or become a place of peace. established in less than someone who to sponsor the youth of by torture," Pope John Paul that love and understand- three months. care personnel, administrators and caterers. W.A. as Vincentians; and, added. ing will prevail over hatred With the full co- look for new members. The pope also included in and suspicion." operation of the families With some parish conhis Easter greetings "families who pay for your faith Most of the congregation concerned, SVDP mem- ferences now extinct in Christ by suffering dis- which included a number bers have been able to through lack of members, crimination" and "martyrs of Catholics and members maintain the dignity of the of the faith of Christ, who in of the Catholic Justice and people they have helped. he called on other conferences to establish a the midst of often hidden or Tom Fisher presented a "twinning" relationship to unknown oppression enrich Development Committee the Church by silent prayer, then joined in the march as paper prepared by Terry help with re-structuring. by patient endurance and an ecumenical group of Loughnan on helping the It is not the Scoiety that by asking for the pardon Christians for peace, and "new poor", those who s uffers through conBrother Bill Marshall is Vocation Director, and conversion of those continued on to the through no fault of their ferences becoming extinct. for the St. John of God Brothers. 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OFrom page 1 ing the protection of their One gang of three was pastors easier and, in a cerarrested and incriminating tain way, more secure." evidence found on them. Cardinal Poletti had Further attacks tailed-off warned the priests of and the police do now R ome to avoid being know if it is the gang alone in their churches or responsible or whether residences at night. others were imitating their "This wave of stupid andi success. deplorable delinquency is, The crime wave has an evident manifestation I prompted an appeal from of the phenomenon ofi Cardinal Ugo Poletti, drugs, social illness andi papal vicar for Rome, for public danger. which Catholics to "give solidar- want to point out and, ity and aid to their priests denounce once again," hei in all ways possible, mak- said.
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Record If one ignores the peripheral concern of the minority over such Easter issues as Jesus being nailed to death on a cross and then being seen to rise again by twelve men who told us they were speaking the truth, it is possible to concentrate on the real happenings of Easter. Come Wednesday morning there is almost a sigh of relief that the four or five day holiday is finally over, that the animals have been rounded up and locked into the factories and offices and trapped behind their desks and front doors. Like the stubbies strewn across an empty park the news bulletins monotonously tote up the bodies strewn across Easter. On Rottnest a double strength police force has had to show drunken adolescents how to have a happy holiday. At Bathurst and Mildura the anarchists have taken over and shown what a holiday from law and order should be all about. The road-toll meter is wound up for the season and an army of traffic police go on red alert to battle millions of screaming ants fanning across the earth. According to the steady news bulletins they win or lose their battle depending on the number of deaths. One tries to summon a trace of sympathy for the few who, we must assume, don't care about their own lives or others as they smash themselves on outback roads. How strange that the celebration of Jesus' death should produce the result that there are 30 odd Australians no longer alive this week as a consequence. Does anyone care? Somewhere a mother or father sobs because their son or daughter is dead? We speed on. There was also one more death, it is presumed. It was only a tiny whimper of protest and did not stand a chance from the outset. There is such a stream of aborted babies nowadays that no-one really cares. For a day or two there was a glimmer of hope as the unborn child's fate was tested in the High Court. It would raise only a ripple of interest seeing that anti-abortion laws are bent so easily to suit today's death demands. The test case might have been a heroic defence of the procreative right of fathers hut the court felt there was a point beyond which the law could not enter the bedroom. No wonder when so many fathers, according to this weeks Pregnancy Help story, are the ones who want their partners aborted. What a mastery over the female body!. Elsewhere women scream that they too want mastery of their bodies. Somewhere in the dim past Pope Paul VI pleaded for a world of human dignity where a man and woman might accept mutual sexual responsibility for their common fertility but he was drowned out by shouts of freedom outside the Church — and within. The contraceptive freedom would be the new freedom so. like the Queensland couple, the world thumbs its nose at contraception and for their sakes the abortion toll grinds on for the benefit of those who no longer care about life. The cameras rove over the battle-dead in Iraq and Irarr, the numberless dead are defended by Mugabe or his opponents as legitimate action. A cry of starvation echoes again from Ethiopia but who has time to listen? Others turned their thoughts on the death of Christ to death by nuclear arms. It is no idle nightmare. The pope has said so and the US bishops are making themselves unpopular over the issue. The holocaust will be terrible if it happens but is life sacred only when we are scared a nuclea warhead points in our direction? Or is life itself a sacred gift from God'? Put away the Holy Week paraphernalia. Put the crosses and veils back into the cupboard. Sweep up the ash of the paschal fire. Mop away the baptismal drops. At the same time flick the dust from the crib set whose emergence in seven months will signal another "religious" holiday. Easter has gone but the tiny flock will go on reading these days the scriptures that tell of the embryo church which saw the Resurrection as clearly as the day and built lives around the truth. They were prepared even to die for that truth. First Stephen, then James and hundreds of others who followed their Lord. But then, why die a martyr when it is so much easier to die for such other useless causes as being the driver of a car - or being an unwanted baby?
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Emmanuel Centre volunteers aim to raise at least $3500 at their fete on Sunday, April 24. The money is urgently needed to convert the mini-bus to take a wheelchair hoist to bring ptients from their homes and institutions to the centre. Any donations of goods or of personal help will be gladly r eceived. There is a large demand for cakes, fancy goods, clothes, plants, items for raffles. Goods will be collected by phoning 328 8113. The latest Emmanuel Centre project is making combustible bricks out of waste newspaper. Monica and her friend are pictured shredding paper f or the bricks that will be on sale at the fete.
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Sir, "Miscarriages" (The REcord, March 31) is heavily imbued with antagonistic male vs female attitudes which surely have no place in the Church, which is the PEOPLE of God. We •41. 1 •JP *11.441••41.404 1141,04 i from Mrs Doris Martyr, Attadale. 0 • are all, male and "Godly". ple, inexpensive form of • • female, caught up in In my experience the opposite Catholic burial should beproper available for such babies when pos- : Send us a letter and have your say in The Record. : the suffering, death is the case. Properly instructed Catholic sible. The Church's pastoral : You can write on any subject you want: government: and resurrection of women and men have always ministry could eventually : decisions and policy, problems in your neighbour -7, Christ. After all, men lived out their sufferings uni- encourage families to see this : hood, television . . . anything that affects your life. : ted with the sufferings and as a wholesome part of griev- : Post your letter to Today's Mail, The Record, PO Box; suffer pain too. • resurrection of Christ, confi- ing and acceptance, and it ; 50. Perth Aberdeen Street. 6000. •
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The writer accuses "pro-life" dent in the holiness and Godlipriests (but isn't that ALL pri- ness of what they do. ests?) of being harsh and If this motivation is new to the author, I rejoice that she has aggressive. I know many priests; all are found it. kind and Christ-like in under- But disregarding the author's standing in matters of abor- attempt to wed the Church's tion, even when — like their ancient theology on human sufMaster — they must label sin fering to the demands of radifor what it is. cal feminism, the article has Father Eugene Ahern of Victo- some home truth that cannot be ria's pro-life movement is a denied. quintessential example of Holy Mother Church has defiChrist-like gentleness and ciencies in this field. patience. First, probably because offiThey may be "male celi- cial Church liturgies are drawn bates", but in the context of the up largely by people removed article the term is unjustly from the round of life and birth, pejorative. we have some incorrect liturgiAnd to say that because they cal references to Christmas as are "male celibates" priests the beginning of Christ's life. today know nothing of female As Pope John Paul II recent), sexuality verges on the ridicu- said, the truth is that "From lous. Most of them grew up in conception to resurrection, families, they had mothers and Christ is Redeemer." sisters, they work with women, His earthly life began in the they can read, observe and womb of His mother nine months before Christmas. learn. They don't live in a vacuum of Where liturgical compilers some celestial male ivory forgot about the period of estatower, and they also suffer tion, any mother could have put them right! pain. I think the writer is entirely Second, there are gaps in the wrong when she accuses pastoral care in this field. May I Catholic women of becoming make two suggestions. "ingrained with the MALE- I. The miscarried baby was a given attitude (again that living human being being from pejorative 'male!) that the suf- conception, temple of the Spirit ferings of pregnancy and child- and made in God's image and birth and miscarriage are not likeness. Therefore, some sim-
would become an emphasis for ; ` the humanity of the unborn . baby. 2. There could be a liturgy — perhaps like the blessing of the at the bedside of the sick mother who has miscarried, praying for the little one who has gone home to God, and for the grieving family, that they may more readily understand and surrender to this touch of God's hand in their lives.
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Sir, As a parent at the recent A ssociated Catholic Colleges swimming carnival I was dismayed at the lack of respect for authority displayed by a great number of students from our Catholic colleges. I refer in particular to the inability to control rowdy support for teams at the start of events and during important announcements, the latter most noticeably during the announcement of final results and the presentation at the end when the ACC committee chairperson waited a good sixty seconds for silence and still was not accorded the full attention of students. Whilst I applaud the display of school spirit, I feel the from Lei and Wendy Fernandez, Girrawheen degree of rudeness evident on this oCcas'cil should not God has blessed us with five beautiful children. On the list of priorities, a Catholic education comes be tolerated either by parents or schools. first for the future welfare of our children. I hope that parents who are We are quite sure that many working-class people like unaware of the students us, are prepared to forgo a few luxuries to ensure that poor showing may now feel our children grow up with a basic knowledge of our the matter warrants discusfaith in an environment which radiates Christ, i.e. our sion and guidance from home. I hope also that stuCatholic schools. W e feel that our Catholic schools help us to prepare dents will have discussed in our children to go out into society with high ideals and their Human Relations class whether their behaviour confidence in themselves and in the knowledge that as was fair and reasonable in better Christians, they will help to build a better world regard to consideration for for Christ. others.
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GENEVA, Switzerland (NC) — Angolan guerillas have released 12 nuns, missionaries and R ed Cross workers they kidnapped last October, the International Committee of the Red Cross has announced. The detainees, captured at or near Mongua mission in the southern Unene Province, were handed over to the Red Cross committee by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), a committee spokesman said.
NEW YORK: Cardinal Terence Cooke showed his disapproval o f the choice of Michael F lannery, a supporter of the Irish Republican Army, as grand marshal of the St Patrick's Day parade, by remaining absent f rom the steps of St Patrick's Cathedral as Flannery walked past on March 17.
A s Flannery, an 81 -year -old r etired insurance supervisor, walked past the Gothic cathedral of Fifth Avenue, its stone steps were empty, in contrast to past years when Churchmen crowded there to watch the parade. The archbishop of New York traditionally reviews the parade
from the cathedral steps and greets the grand marshal.
NUCLEAR 'JUSTICE' WORCESTER, Mass. (NC) — The nuclear age may have invalidated the just war theory, Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan of Worcester has said.
But Flannery doffed his top hat a s he passed the church. Earlier in the day, before the traditional Mass in the cathedral, Cardinal Cooke met privately with Flannery for 15 minutes. The archdiocese issued a statement later in the day describing the meeting as a "cordial one in a spirit of reconci liation." The cardinal told Flannery violence in Northern Ireland "by extremist groups is futile and i mmoral and an obstacle to the movement toward peace," the statement said.
"me just war theory, while it might still be valid, is nevertheless very much threatened as a moral imperative, a moral justification, by the fact that we now live in a nuclear age," Bishop Flanagan told a group of 150 priests, rabbis, ministers and religious at First B aptist Church in Worcester. Bishop Flanagan's talk dealt with the proposed pastoral letter on war and peace being prepared by a committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The traditional position of the Church sets forth certain conditions which must exist for a war to be just. These include: • It must be waged by legitimate authority. • It must be employed only to confront a real and certain injury. • Peace and reconciliation must be pursued and no unreasonable conditions demanded. • It must be a last resort, taken when all other reasonable means have failed. • There must be a reasonable hope of success.
It added, "because of the attempted misuse of the parade to supUNITA, a gueril la such continued port group opposed to Angoviolence which leads la's Marxist government, V ATICAN CITY (NC) seized the nuns and Red to further suffering Cross workers when they - For the first time a mong the people of also captured Archbithe north of Ireland," ever, pilgrims can shop, now Cardinal AlexROME (NC) — Pope John Paul II will visit an Italian prison he would not be on the during the Holy Year of Redemption. andre do Nascimento of now pray the StaLubango. "It was the Holy Father himself who expressed the desire at steps of the cathedral tions of the Cross for the usual begin- lunch last Wednesday," said Archbishop Mario Schierano at a The archbishop was set Rome press conference for presentation of a special booklet within St Peter's ning ceremony. free on Nov. 1 after Pope on the Holy Year. John Paul II and the AngoBasilica. At the beginning of the St "Already Italian Justice Minister Clelio Darida and the lan Bishops' Conference Patrick's Day Mass. Car- competent officials have declared themselves open to the Fourteen gilded bronze appealed for his release. idea, and desirous the visit take place," he added. dinal Cooke said: "We a.k stations depicting the Archbishop Schierano said the papal visit would probably guiinspiration and for the UNITA said the archibipassion of Jesus were dance of the Holy Spirit. to take place between July and September and would be broadshop's kidnapping had recently placed in the been a mistake. help us to reject violence. cast on television worldwide. He did not say which Italian Vatican Grottoes where to seek ways of healing and prison the pope would visit. the tombs of dead At a meeting with the reconciliation in Ireland Red Cross committee in popes are located. and here in America. and Angola last month, UNITA Previously it had been ing the Stations of the to lead us along the path to leaders agreed to free possible to make the the other captives. Cross are the work of true and lasting peace. Stations of the Cross Italian sculptor Tom- "We pray" the cardinal V ATICAN CITY They also pledged to only in chapels adjacent maso Gismondi, who continued, "for all the peo- ( NC) — The French f acilitate Red Cross to the Vatican basilica. activities. also designed the Euro- ple of Ireland. especially " I he initiative of setting up pean Chapel inaugu- those who are suffering born priest who a 'Via Crucis' (Way of The international comrated last year by Pope from injustice and from f ounded the Sisters mittee, which had susthe Cross) in the GrotJohn Paul II in the Vat- violence. pended its aid programtoes is strictly linked to of the Infant Jesus " We remember our ican Grottoes. me in the country's the imminent opening has moved a step c entral plateau last brothers and sisters who of the Holy Year and October for lack of securwho have been have died, closer to beatificahas been greatly to the ity guarantees, resumed injured in body, in mind or tion. liking of the faithful." its operations there soon in spirit, and who every said Vatican Radio. after the meeting. A t a Vatican ceremony day The bronze plaques depict- The practice of making the are denied basic human attended by Pope John Stations of the Cross rights and equal opportun- Paul II the Vatican's Congregation for the Promo- league. St John de la Salle. diocesan tribunal to originated from the ity." devotions of Holy Land The cathedral, crowded tion of Saints' Causes established the Brothers of investigate the beatificapilgrims who visited the with 3.000 worshippers. promulgated a decree the Christian Schools as a tion cause of Padre Pio. who bore the stigmata. actual scenes of inci- was silent after the cardi- declaring the heroic virtues teaching order. dents in the passion of nal's remarks, except for of Father Nicholas Barre. Father Barre Died in the marks of Christs' crucifixion — on his hands. feet Christ. Flannery's loud applause. who founded the order of Paris on May 31. 1686. The devotion gained pop- After the Mass, Flannery. nuns in Rouen. France. in The Sisters of the Infant and side. Jesus have a community at Renowned for decades as ularity in the 12th and with his wife and a 1662. LONDON (NC) — Suspended Archbishop Marcel Verification Lockridge WA (ed). of heroic a confessor and ascetic. 1 3th centuries and was walked official, NORA1D Lefebvre formally opened a church in London which is widely promoted by the down the central aisle of virtues is a condition for In Southern Italy an esti- Padre Pio died at the monadministered by priests who belong to his Priestly FraFranciscans. custodi- the cathedral to loud beatification, which is a mated 50,000 followers of astery on September 23. ternity of St Pius X. preliminary step toward the late Padre Pio of Pie- 1968. and is buried in a ans of the holy places applause. About 200 people were in the church for the formal tralcina came to the tiny crypt behind the basilica's since 1342. opening. Supporters of Archbishop Lefebvre say he About 20 minutes after canonisation. has 3,000 followers in Britain and five priests. Initially the number and Flannery walked past the After founding the Sisters town of San Giovanni main altar. There are about five million Catholics in Great Britain. subjects of the Stations cathedral, Cardinal Cooke of the Infant Jesus, Father Rotondo last month to The Holy See never offiIn 1976 Pope Paul VI suspended Archbishop Lefebvre of the Cross varied, but and other Church officials Barre. considered forming celebrate a step toward the cially ruled before or after administering the sacraand Mass from celebrating in 1731 Pope Clement came out to watch the a male branch of the con- possible beatification of Padre Pio's death on direct despite ordinations conducted ments after he gregation which would be the famed Italian Capu- whether the Franciscan XII fixed the number at parade. papal orders not to do so. chin. received the stigmata 1 4 and established Those nearby booed the dedicated to teaching. Archbishop Lefebvre and the members of his priestly Archbishop Vailati for- t hrough supernatural which incidents were to cardinal as he appeared. But he changed his mind organisation are outspoken critics of the reforms of be included in the devo- He told reporters he when his friend and col- mally established an arch- intervention. Vatican II, especially those involving liturgy, ecumenism and religious liberty. tion. expected more booing. Flannery's comment on his meeting with the cardinal was: "I still respect him. NE NEED: He has his point of view -- Qualified teachers. building tradesmen: and I have mine." -- Mechanics. farmers. marine engineers: The "Fighting 69th." the — Experienced handymen. electricians: • ' jo, plantation personnel: First Battalion. 69th -- Cattlemen. sawmillers. bookkeepers: Infantry, 42nd Infantry — D.C. Nurses. accountants: Division of New York's — Experienced office workers: Army National Guard led stenographers. administrators: the 221-year-old parade as Community Development or socia — it has done annually since workers 1851, and more than 100 One of the men then pointed R OME (NC) — A truckload bands took part. FOR PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC a pistol at Santoro and ordered of whisky headed for the VatiBut regular Army units If you are prepared to devote part of your life to God in the service of His him into the car. can was hi-jacked in Rome stayed away under orders people in another culture — The other escaped in the from the Defence Departlast month by three young men ment. and more than 20 The whisky had been desCONTACT: PALMS Lay Missionary Movement. dressed in business suits. C - The Paulian Association. G.P.O. Box 716. SYDNEY 2001. Catholic schools in the tined for sale to Vatican offiThe three men, driving a blue Name New York area barred their through and employees cials stopped automobile, Giulietta bands from participation. the Vatican store which is able A dnres the truck on the outskirts of For the first time in the to sell most goods at reduced R ome near dawn and asked P,,,tcocio history of the Republic of prices because they are not the driver, 23-year -old Vito Ireland. the Irish governsubject to Italian taxes. Santoro, for his documents. ment refused to take part All donations towards our work are gratefully received. in the parade. 13; 1983 5 The Record, April 7
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Four children became ten...
Pair's It's four years since Vicki and David Murray saw their f amily of four grow to 10 'almost overnight' and they're still loving every minute of it. Their child numbers quadrupled in 1978 when they joined the Catherine McAuley Centre as cottage parents. It was a decision t hat followed an initial plan to adopt. "As a child I always wanted to adopt," said Vicki, "my mum spent 1 1 years here when it was St Joseph's Orphanage and I guess that influenced me." With her own children, Leah. 10, and Laith, 6, Vicki is now mother to six others Andrew. 16, Carl. 15, Anthony. 15, Tracy. 14. Barbara. 13. and Adrian I I. Always an active person she finds no problems M coping with such a large family and the accommodation made available at the centre a six bedroom. three bathroom and four toilet house goes a long way toward making the job easier. Working as a cottage parent, she says, enables her to keep busy and to maintain a family life at the same time. She also loves working with children which makes the job a joy not a chore. She has seen a number of children pass through the house since she arrived and while it is hard to say goodbye. it i, always nice to see them go home. shc says. Only three of her six have been with her from the beginning . . . but they arc all 'her kids'. "You get used to carting eight kids around, it becomes part of your life." she grinned. With eight children at five different schools there isn't much chance of keeping to a canteen roster although she has done some canteen duty in the past. "Last year I had eight schools to keep track of." she said. While visiting teachers and keeping I hen followed lots of inter \ iews. tabs on homework certainly takes up a lot of time, it's by no way the hardest laughed Vicki. "And they do ask you some cr part of the job. "I think that's probably the lack of strange questions." she said. But the interviews over, she and husprivacy." she said. "They're often all indoors with their friends and the older band David were accepted and children want to be a part of whatever is welcomed. A house is provided at a rent of $35 a going on. but I do think it's a lot of fun week: Vicki receives a salary of $178 having so many people around." The Murrays became cottage parents nett per week: tenants pay a portion of after seeing an advertisement in the phone. electricity and gas costs: cleanpaper. They had friends who were ing help is provided as is a food alloinvolved in it and therefore had some wance and the cost of clothes and knowledge of its requirements and equipment for the cottage children is demands. subsidised.
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Pubs are no Joke Patrick Joseph Kenny, licensee of the Savoy Plaza Hotel in the city and an acolyte at St Mary's Cathedral, was born at Margaret River on April 19, 1932. A iife member and deputypresident of the Australian Hotels Association, he has been responsible for a number of the developments that have improved the service to the public now offered by the industry in which he has spent most of his working life. He began his education at the Bassendean Convent, completed it at CBHS Highgate and entered the workforce in the office of W.J. Lucas where he studied accountancy. It was not long, however, before he moved to the hotel-motel-restaurant field to which he was to make such an outstanding contribution. Pat and his wife Margaret (nee McGougan) have four children. Liza (21) is a speech therapist; Anthony (20) works at the hotel with his father; and Luke (15) and Justin (12) are pupils at Trinity College.
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It's small wonder that Pat Kenny is a publican -- his parents were in the hotel and accommodation house business in Cork and Limerick before they migrated to WA from Ireland, and older brother Tom was a noted mine host in this state. Pat's first years in the industry were no armchair ride despite the fact he served what might be termed his apprenticeship in the Willagee Hotel, run by brother Tom. He started as a cellar hand, and that is literally learning the business from the bottom up. After four years of this and more advanced practical training, he felt qualified to take over the running of the Kojonup Hotel in a stint that was a precursor to his involvement with Pioneer Holdings Pty Ltd.
Today's People Hotelkeeper Pat Kenny .... from a long line of Irish innkeepers.
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The company was aptly named because it pioneered a number of establishments in and around Perth. It broke new ground by opening the first motel in WA the Marquis at Bunbury. Lhen followed the Narrows Motel at Como, the Terminal Motor Lodge at East Perth and the Park Towers hotelmotel complex in the city, which opened in 1969 with Pat as general manager while overseeing the company's other properties.
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instant family When the Murrays took on the job they started as Vicki and Dave, feeling that as many of the children had had a succession of foster homes they probably had too many 'mums' and 'dads' already. It takes about 12 months for a child to settle in and begin to trust us. The other children expect any new arrivals to adjust to their home environment, she said. "Some adapt really well but others aren't used to the way we live. For many it's a limbo existence, they just want to go home to mum and dad." She cooks for 24 hours a day, 'at least it feels like it,' and talks for the rest. There are countless problems to be discussed and homework to be done. "I'm usually talking to them from the t ime the first ones come home around 3pm until 7pm," Vicki said. Her day starts at 6.30am with breakfast of cereal and toast and then the first load of the endless washing on for the day. It takes three days to change all the sheets but luckily the home is equipped with a huge laundry and there's someone to help with the ironing. "I have one boy who works so he is off by just after 6am." Vicki said. "The others have to get organised for school so I have to get them away from the cartoons." One of her pet hates is making lunches but like many other jobs it has to be done. "I must say I'm kept pretty well occupied here. If I'm not cleaning I'm always running around for the kids - the schools always seem to want things." One day a week has to be put aside for shopping, which is an all-day task. Social life, she says, is a family thing. "We do everything as a family, take them to the beach. movies, weddings." -The job has made her a lot more tolerant, she says. "You have to ignore about threequarters of what goes on and act on a quarter of it." It's a job. she says, that she and her husband take from year to year. Both know it will not go on forever and the hardest part will be accepting that someone else will take their place. But it's something they will cope with when the time comes - for now there's a job to be done. There are 10 cottages at Catherine McAuley Centre and all 'parent' applicants are carefully vetted through an
Some of the Murray family (from left) Tracey, 14, Laith, 6, Mrs Vicki Murray, Leah, 11, and Anthony 15. agency before being admitted to the interview stage. It's important that people take on the job of cottage parents for the right reasons, said social worker, Mindy Horseman. "They must have care and affection for children: they must have the ability to relate to them and to understand they are caring for kids who belong to other people and for whom they must be responsible for 24 hours of every day," she said. "Some may come because it is an answer to financial problems that's not necessarily a 'wrong reason' if there are other positive components." Cottage parents need not necessarily have had children of their own to be eligible.
"We have one woman who came from a large family her husband was an onl child, and they had no children of their own," Mindy said. Cottage parents are asked for a two year verbal contract which is renewable every six months. Some do fall by the was . . . Sometimes things change in their personal life that make it difficult to cope with the pressure of the situation." Mindy said. "Sometimes things happen that can be coped with in a normal family situation but are more difficult because the parents are under scrutiny by welfare bodies. "For example, if a man loses his job and can't get one for a long time it is likely to cause more stress than in a
normal family situation. "Personal traumas that can be coped with at a personal level can become overwhelming in these situations. "Formally and legally the Department of Community Welfare is responsible for about 70 per cent of the kids at Catherine McAuley." she said, "and that means they review them every six months. "In a complex situation there may be interviews with welfare officers and I meet weekly with parents depending on circumstances," Mindy said. Cottage parenting has proved to be a very effective form of care for children in need and the system at Catherine McAuley was developed by the Centre'. Administrator, Sister Mary Martin
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for Irish Pat.... The company chalked up another first when it brought the steak-house concept to WA in the form of the Bullseye at Mt Hawthorn and the Turn Turn Tree at Fremantle. It built the Matilda Bay restaurants on a beautiful piece of riverfront real estate. Pat's regime at the Park Towers was notable for the imaginative introduction of big-name entertainers to Perth hotels though he didn't have to go far to find one. He "discovered" Kainahl, then virtually unknown, singing in the hotel's cocktail bar. In 1973 Pat left Pioneer Holdings and bought the lease of the Savoy-Plaza a bold step because the in Hay Street old place was pretty near at the nadir of its fortunes. Much had to be done --- like the e xpenditure of 540,000 to refurnish the whole hotel including air-conditioning the rooms and installing closed-circuit television in all the bars so that patrons could watch sporting events. He advertised extensively and had his own radio programme on which Pat Kenny's racing tips became a feature.
His involvement in racing was with his brother-in-law Duncan McGougan. and they were partners in a horse called Just Janet. Thus the Savoy-Plaza gradually became known as a sporting man's hotel, a development which Pat was keen to encourage. From footpath level, it's hard to visualise just how big the hotel is. It's an eight-storey building with 90 rooms which have, despite these recession times, an average occupancy rate of 75 per cent. Country areas and the bus and rail services from the Eastern States provide most of the guests and there is a high proportion of return business. The hotel's big function room seats 200, the lounge 320 and in addition there are the Ascot Bar, a cocktail bar and in the basement a tavern bar. The provision of meals in fast-food and other forms is an important part of the business and it is in this area that Pat's wife Margaret, mainly works. All told, there is plenty to keep a permanent staff of 42 busy. Pat agrees the hotel industry is going t hrough a difficult time at the moment.
But he firmly believes that a good operator will always succeed. Those running hotels, he says, must constantly adapt to the fast-changing world and always be on the lookout for new ideas. People are always interested in new things and they notice and show appreciation when their changing needs are catered for altering the menu each day, for instance, with dishes to suit the season; or making sure the air conditioning is neither too hot, nor too cold. Pat considers hoteliers do not get from the people they aid, and the general public, the recognition they deserve. "Good people in the main run the hotel industry," he says. "Hotels give a lot of support to individuals and charitable organisations. They are always being called on to do something for someone, and they never shirk their duty. "When people need something, the good old publican is usually the first person they turn to." Pat is reticent to talk about himself, so let's turn to another source for a quotation.
Formally and legally the dept. is responsible or the kids.
When he nominated Pat for life membership of the Australian Hotels Association, vice-president Maurice Brockwell made some observations about him. It was fortunate for the industry. Mr Brockwell said, to have on the Al-IA committee a person of Pat's calibre and k nowledge. He was always available for consultation on matters of licensing and the general operation of hotels. With some other life members of the WA branch of the ANA, he had been instrumental in setting up the residential division of the association. He was constantly amazed. Mr Brockwell said, at how Pat,found time to run his own business in view of the many hours he spent at the A HA, attending meetings and sorting out the problems of members. "1 have little time to think of the future," Pat says."In fact I don't believe in looking beyond the present day. "Taking one day at a time is a good recipe for success and I make this my golden rule."
IN the current Catholic Church-Philippine government confrontation over priests accused of subversion, the church seems at a disadvantage because Marcos controls most of the public media. But the Church offsets this advantage of President Marcos with its "secret weapon": the nuns of major congregations, with houses all over the country. When a government news release damaging to the Church is issued, the press often displays it with blaring headlines. W hen the Church responds, its comments are often buried in inside pages or are ignored. That is when the nuns go to work. They reprint the church's statement and fan out through Manila to distribute it — outside church doors and movie houses, in restaurants and supermarkets. Cardinal Sin says with admiration that the three fastest means of communic ation are telephone, telegram and "tell-a-nun."
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Now, hereIwas with my wife and two teenage children at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Detroit for the consecration of Father Dale Melczek as auxiliary bishop for the archdiocese. He would be one of three bishops ordained that day. Bishop Melczek and I had been classmates more than 20 years ago. After that our paths had gone in different directions. I soon discovered that the entrance procession was as grand as any I could remember with organ, trumpets, choir and the total congregation in song. The clergy marched in dignified festivity into the church which was filled to capacity. My first impression was of continuity with the past, a theme emphasised throughout the ritual. This strong sense of continuity, re-established so easily for me after 20 years, gave me a new appreciation for the church's ability to maintain its connection down the centuries with the a postles and Jesus himself. There had been some developments though. Two women marched in the procession and served as readers. Their presence reminded me that the church is not static. The first words of the ordaining archbishop referred to the priesthood of the faithful which all Christians share by their baptism. The total
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Father Joseph Kelleher, president of the priests senate discussed why the priests senate decided to publish a statement titled "Toward a Deeper Understanding" in the fall of 1982. The statement called for greater understanding of the needpriests have for some time of their own. Father Kelleher said priests in his diocese initiated the discussion because they were concerned about what was happening in the diocese where most parishes, like his, are staffed by a single priest and where the median age of priests is up and their numbers are down. He has taken only two days off since Christmas, something which is not uncommon in the diocese. As the priest explained in a soft Irish accent, "I worry about what's going to happen. I can't spend too much time away, the people need me."
BY THEODORE HENGESBACH Church, the archbishop emphasised, is a community of priests. As the liturgy continued, the meaning of priesthood for the three new bishops became clearer. A bishop is to be a model for all who share in the priesthood of Christ. A bishop is to faithfully proclaim the good news of faith. A bishop is to sustain the people of God, to be a good shepherd.
ity was dominant throughout the ceremony. I also sensed the new bishop's commitment to a priesthood whose function it is to be a special witness of Christ's attitudes toward the poor and oppressed, of Christ's concern for peace and the quality of human life.
which they can evaluate their own lives of service to one another. My return to Detroit for my classmate's ordination as bishop had an enriching effect on me. The liturgical experience helped me renew my understanding of the Church and my own role in it. It i s a role in continuity with the past, yet always challenged by the present and future and enlivened by Christian service.
"Monsignor Quixote" is the latest novel by venerable storyteller, Graham Greene. The central character is a humble man who downplays his o wn learning and accomplishments, sure that other priests have far more to offer than he.
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Seminarians and priests join in a rap session on the grounds of St Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. Priests and future priests face many challenges to minister in a rapidly changing world.
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Do you ever think of priests as people who need support and understanding, much as they are expected to give support and understanding to others? In our series this week, we'll meet some priests who not only call for understanding, but talk over some of their other concerns as well. Dominican Father David K. O'Rourke reports that priests he spends time with are concerned about finding ways to minister in a world that is changing so fast. The priests he knows are concerned about developing their spirituallives, too. Father Rourke is on the staff likes of which most Jews of the Family Life Office in the Diocese of Oakland, Calif.
Life in Babylon B ut there were deeper problems too, g raver questions, including: • Should the Israelites stick together as a distinct group? •Or should they simply allow themselves to be absorbed into their new surroundings? To some, the Babylonian captivity seemed like a nightmare from which they would surely awake; the exile would be over shortly and they would be allowed to go hack home again. This was especially true of the people deported in 598 BC. Then Jerusalem was still intact. Life was going on there as usual under a d escendent of King David. The liturgy was being carried on daily in the temple. Surely the exiled Israelites would find their way back before too long. 8
By Father John Castelot To dispel those vain hopes, the prophet Jeremiah had written a letter in which he advised his people to build homes in Babylon, plant gardens and prepare to settle down for a long stay. On the other hand, the Israelites had the quite understandable problem o f discouragement, which took an especially dangerous turn. What had become of all their grandiose hopes of days gone by? Yahweh had promised them that, as his special people, they would be the salvation of the world. And now look at them Perhaps, and this was especially true after the destruction of the temple in 586 BC, Yahweh was not the one true God after all. The gods of the Babylonians seemed much more real and much more powerful. It rarely occurred to the Israelites who entertained such blasphemous thoughts that it was they who had failed Yahweh, not he who had failed them. Often the Israelites' discouragement led to apostasy from Yahweh. Babylon presented them with a glittering, cosmopolitan civilisation, the
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had never seen before. There were opportunities for wealth, comfort, pleasure, influence. With the right connections and a bit of hard work one could really go places.
On the religious plane, the temples of the Babylonians were magnificent and the ceremonies of their liturgy dazzlingly attractive. Jerusalem, after 586, was a heap of dirty ashes, the temple area a mass of rubble which would be covered in time with unsightly weeds. Given these circumstances, why shouldn't the Israelites be sensible and accept reality, especially since that reality was so inviting? All things considered, it is one of the most remarkable facts of human history that many exiles did not allow themselves to be swallowed up by the inevitable. Even though hopes of national restoration grew dimmer by the day, many Israelites insisted on remaining a nation apart, Yahweh's nation. They capitalised on the forces which drew them together rather than on those which pulled them a sunder. And they succeeded.
In preparation for about 18 months, the statement discussed the problems priests face in trying to balance their responsibilities toward the parish, the diocese and toward themselves, to maintain their health, spiritual development and emotional welfare. .4fter the statement was drafted, a letter from Charlotte's Bishop Michael Begley was added. The bishop pointed out that Church ministry is "the responsibility of allmembers of thefaith community" and calls for greater dialogue between priests andparishioners. The statement then was
distributed to all parishes in the diocese. In many cases, Father Kelleher said, the statement was printed in the parish bulletin. The statement "was a revelation to people," Father Kelleher said. "It never occurred to people we were human," he added with a laugh in his voice. .Many people expressed surprise at the amount of work priests are expected to do. Overall, the priest added, the statement resulted in a "great outburst of compassion" and greater understanding of tensions priests encounter.
Monsignor Quixote, a compassionate human being, has spent a lifetime taking care of his parishioners in a tiny Spanish village. In the process he has gained a great deal of common-sense wisdom about human beings.
Jeremiah: Chapter 29 Life in Babylon was bristling with problems for the Jewish e xiles. At first, their difficulties were the obvious ones: homesickness, lack of material comforts, anxiety about their loved ones back in Judah, the hardships of forced labour.
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A classmate made bishop In a personal statement handed out to guests, Bishop Melczek wrote: "I realize that I am charged with a special role of leadership and service, a charge to shepherd and sanctify God's people with compassion and love, and to teach faithfully his Gospel of reconciliation, peace, justice and love." He referred to himself as a "servantleader." That theme of a leader in service to the commun-
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Bring together a group of priests to talk ... Bring together a group of said, indicating the blocks and p riests to talk about their blocks of businesses, stores and life and their work, and you houses around us, "was nothing are going to have a long and but walnut orchards. When you lively discussion. As one of can change an orchard into a town their members, I want to tell of 75,000 people almost overnight, what priests are saying and I then you're in a world that's moving so fast it's hard to keep up." can think of no better way The pace of change in society can than to quote some of them pose challenges for anyone. But directly. perhaps it is worth stating explicThere probably is no such thing as itly here that priests are among a typical priest but there are a few those who are challenged by the issues that are common and recur- changes in their society. ring ones for us. Mentioning some Finding ways to minister to a of these concerns is probably as world that is changing quickly was close as we can get to finding out the topic of a clergy planning seswhat priests today are up to in their sion I attended. One priest, the paseveryday ministry. tor of a large and active parish, The first issue is the degree of rose to say: "You have to take peochange that is facing us every day. ple where they are and where they One pastor I visited recently, are today is very much in the ordained more than 40 years, com- world." In this priest's view, what is mented on the changes he has seen, needed is "to find the best means of both in life and in the priesthood. reaching people, communicating "When I came here, this place," he with them, and then involving
BY FATHER DAVID K. O'ROURKE, OP them in the life of the church." For many priests the changes taking place today are an opportunity for discovery, for finding new dimensions of the priesthood. The older pastor I first quoted, the one whose walnut orchard became a city of 75,000 people, told how his own ministry had expanded. "At first I was a typical pastor for solid, lifelong Catholics. Now," he added, "we've gone missionary. We're baptising entire families." Marvelling at the growth in his ministry he added, almost in awe, "We have almost 60 people becoming Catholics this next Easter." That theme is a common one. The future presents challenges but priests frequently see them as possibilities for expansion and growth. Coming up with ideas that will allow us to understand the chal-
lenges and then developing means that will help us meet them is a frequent topic of discussion for us. The changes in our world and in the Church and the opportunities for creativity they present make up the public and ministerial side of priests' lives. But priests also are concerned today with prayer. The priests and clergy groups that I am involved with are prepared to take their own spiritual lives seriously. And they talk about it with one another. One priest I knew quite well, an outstanding man who was as much at home on the university campus where he was a chaplain as he had been among the soldiers on Guadalcanal, was stricken with a devastating cancer. Athletic and active until his illness he talked with me
about his gradual loss of mobility, work and health. He realised that in the near future life itself would be taken away. "Little by little," he said, "the Lord takes away everything you have until you have nothing left but the Lord himself." He said this not in a complaining or bitter way, but simply as a truth, with a trace of a smile on his lips. There is a great diversity among clergy today, perhaps greater than in the past. But our concerns are often similar from priest to priest, even from region to region: The need to minister to a rapidly changing world; the desire to minister effectively and with religious authenticity; the recognition that we need to have our own personal religious houses in order. Those three concerns are the focal point of many discussions among priests today.
Over the years, the loving priest has tailored his pastoral care very nicely to suit the needs of his parishioners. What he has in spades is a sympathethic ear and a gentle m anner. Monsignor Quixote talks persuasively with the parishioners about the love and goodness of God and human beings. Monsignor Quixote doesn't attend a myriad of meeting or have a parish council to advise him. The only priest in town, he is on call all the time. He seldom takes a day off. When Monsignor Quixote stops to think about it, he is aware he doesn't find much companionship among his parishioners. They don't turn to him for friendship. They don't think of their priest as a human being with many of the same needs they have for companionship and comfort. But for the most part, the monsignor doesn't think about that. He turns for comfort to his f avourite spiritual authors.
BY CATHARINE BIRD Monsignor Quixote's only real friend is the Communist ex-mayor of the city. An intelligent man, the Communist and t he Catholic priest enjoy sparring with each other about their beliefs and fears. Finally, they set off together on vacation, a rare treat for Monsignor Quixote. I have introduced Monsignor Quixote because Greene draws such a very human and full portrait of him. Perhaps that in itself should not be surprising. But when you think of it, how often do we regard our priests in such terms — as real, complex human beings?
Some priests today are openly expressing their need for greater understanding and support. For instance, the priests' senate in Charlotte, North Carolina, did this recently. The senate published a statement about the need among priests for some regular time away from their duties in order the minister to people well. Their statement was published in 1982 along with a letter from Bishop Michael Begley. He explained the statement is intended to help parishioners "better understand some of the tensions and pressures under which priests labour". The priests' senate said: I. People are apt to "lump all priests t ogether," forgetting each priest is a "unique human being who has needs, habits and talents that differ from those of every other priest." 2. Priests often are expected to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A 60-70 hour
workweek is not uncommon. 3. Priests often live and work in the same place. This makes it difficult to relax and unwind since there is no clear distinction between a priest's work time and private time. 4. Priests do not have the emotional and physical support offered by wife and children. Therefore they need to "find the support system vital to every person's emotional stability among friends." Yet when priests take time off to be among personal friends they are often criticised. 5. Preparing homilies requires "far more of a priest's time than most parishioners realise. Meaningful liturgy and homilies m ean reading, study, professional continuing education and careful preparation" at home and away. The Charlotte priests senate notes that communication between parishioners and priests is essential. An the responsibility for initiating such a diaogue rests largely on priests who should talk about what they need as persons. But, the statement concludes, there is a "tremendous need for trust, care and openness on the part of all."
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Back to the Father By Steve Landregan "I am the way!" In these four words of Jesus there is summed up the essence of Easter, the essence of a wareness and promise, the reasons for the Resurrection and the implications of the Resurrection for each one of us. The roots of the Resurrection are in sin and rebellion. The separation of men and women from the Father by the sin of Adam. The decision for selfishness so vividly depicted in third chapter of Genesis, is ratified by each of us through personal sin. Selfishness and sin opened a great abyss between us and the Father, an abyss that could only be closed by the same free action of man that opened it. The history of salvation is history of the Father's invitation to men and women to close the abyss or to bridge it by an unselfish response to his forgiving love. Man alone held the key to the way back to the Father. He who had given free will would not revoke the gift. Instead He reached out to men and women in love and faithfulness, seeking a similar response. In Jesus, the God who calls becomes the Man who responds. Through a life of unselfish love, the Man, who is also God, not only responds perfectly to the Father, but perfectly reveals the Father to all men and women for all time. In Jesus, the Father is revealed as the saving and f orgiving God who will not take no for an answer. Suffering and death are the physical manifestations of our separation from the Father. Eternal life and joy in the Father's presence are what men and women are created for. The brokenness of sin shattered the original integrity, the wholeness and fulfillment intended for us by God. To pass over the abyss opened by the sin of Adam is to pass over from suffering and death to eternal life and joy. This is the passover of Jesus, whose perfect response as Man to the love of the Father, led his to the cross at the hands of sinful men, but to eternal life and joy at the hands of the Father. St Paul puts it this way: "Just as all men die in A dam, so all men will be brought to life in Christ" (1 Cor. 15,22). In the liturgy the Church reminds us that our redemption comes through the obedience of Jesus to the Father (Sunday Preface VII). His obedience to the Father was to reveal the Father's unconditional love by loving men unconditionally, even those who nailed Him to the cross. The final revelation of this love came in Jesus' prayer from the cross: "Father, forgive them; they do know what they are doing" (Luke 23,34). Father Edward Schillebeeckx, the Dominican theologian, tells us that "the Resurrection is the sacrifice of the Cross heard and answered by the Father." In His human nature. Jesus becomes the first man to overcome suffering and death, to pass over the abyss that separates all men and women from the Father. In Jesus, man has responded perfectly to the Father's invitation to men and women to freely return to Him. Jesus' way to the Father becomes The Way, it becomes our Way. Easter and Pentecost are inseparably linked in the great Trinitarian mystery of Redemption.
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Decisions at a low level When the bishops of the world met for the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, one of the major concerns they expressed was that of decentralising power and authority in the Church. The 1967 World Synod of Bishops listed decentralisation based on the principle of subsidiarity — that decisions should normally be made at the lowest appropriate level of authority —as one of 10 guiding principles that should govern the revision of the Code of Canon Law. Decentralisation, one of the new code's most notable features, can be seen in the new code's legislation governing new Church structures such as the Synod of Bishops, national bishops' conferences, diocesan pastoral councils and priest's councils, and parish councils.
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Little publicity for an Little publicity has been given to what could be one of the most important innovations in Church law in the new code: the establishment of a multilevel institutional framework to resolve or adjudicate conflicts that may arise from the administrative decisions of someone in authority. If someone felt wronged by an action or decision of his bishop or religious superior, "the only recourse in the past was to Rome", said Father John Dolcia more, pastor of Divine Providence Church in Chicago and officials of the Chicago archdiocesan tribunal. The intrinsic difficulty of appealing an administrative decision all the way to Rome meant few persons who felt wronged were likely to pursue their case, said Father Thomas Green of the Catholic University of America, one of the leading U.S. experts on the new code. Under the new code, three levels of recourse against By JERRY FILTEAU administrative acts were NC News Service established, at least as options, below the level ot Eighth in Rome: • The new code urged a series "strongly" that any conflict over an administrative act The new code also authobe resolved at the local rised (but does not require) level by out -of-court conferences of bishops to procedures of conciliation mandate the establishment or mediation, of such structures in each In effect this was a strong diocese within the approval in the general conference. Church law of diocesan If the conference does not "due process" procedures mandate such structures, such as have been set up in individual bishops within many places. that conference could still
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One new establish them in their own regional administrative dioceses. courts, and a national • The new code sets uni- administrative court of versal norms for "hi5rar- appeals as well, to which chical recourse", under anyone may have recourse which anyone who consid- against an allegedly harmers himself injured by an ful decree or act by someact of an ecclesiastical one in authority. authority (including an act In Rome, the establishby the bishop) can petition ment of procedures of his local bishop to have recourse against administhat act revoked or modi- trative acts is carried fled or to be compensated through in the new code by for the wrong done him. a broadening of the com• Finally, the new code petence of the Church's allowed (but does not supreme court, the Aposrequire) bishops' conferen- tolic Signature. ces to establish national or It is made the final court
It is also seen, perhaps most significantly, in the By JERRY FILTEAU almost innumerable points NC News Service where the old code established concrete universal are devoted just to new laws but the new code does structures in the Church, not legislate at all, legissuch as consultative organs lates only broad norms and administrative procedleaving the details to parural law, which are an inteticular law, or makes gral part of the institutional explicit allowance for local decentralisation of the exceptions to the general Church. law. To give but a few A number of other canons in the new code are not examples: • the old code prescribed strict legislation as such for universal observance, but rather in the form of besides Sundays, 10 holy t heological statements about sacraments or perdays of obligation: the new code requires universal sons or institutions in the observance of Sundays Church, in the form of exhortation or recommenand only two holy days. dation rather than legal • the old code's detailed laws on days of penitence requirement, or in the form of setting broad norms for are reduced, and bishops' particular legislation or for conferences are given great implementing variations freedom to determine alternatives to fast and from the general law. abstinence as forms of It should be noted that enactment of the new code penitence. will not substantially • detailed rules of jurisdiction for priests to hear c hange most current confessions are virtually Church practice, despite eliminated, so that in ordi- considerable differences nary circumstances any from the old code. priest can hear confessions The major achievement anywhere without special of the new code is not innovative legislation, but permission. • forty detailed laws in the the integration into general old code on cemeteries and Church law of the many Christian burial are Church reforms made by reduced in the new code to bits and pieces since Vati14 laws, of which several can II. are not restrictive prescrip- In addition to the overall tions but options or state- tendency to reduce the ments that local law is to number of universal laws and strict detail of applicagovern. • criminal penalties under tion, the establishment of the old law are substan- consultative structures is tially reduced in severity another major aspect of the decentralisation the and in number, and fewer new code exhibits. censures require recourse Structures incorporated to Rome for their removal. into the new code absent • provisions in the new code give bishops' confer- from the old include parish ences or individual bishops councils, diocesan priests' diocesan pasgreater leeway to meet spe- councils and councils, toral national cial pastoral needs. In areas where priests are conferences of bishops, the World Synod of lacking, for example, per- and Bishops. mission may be obtained for lay persons to adminis- A side from national ter baptism or witness bishops' conferences, however, it is notable that these marriages. structures are strictly Although only a priest other • may be a pastor of a parish, consultative. bishops facing a shortage They do not have a delibtt., "telr"I ii of priests may assign lay- erative (decision-making) persons to many areas of vote. " parish ministry that do not The theory behind the "s. require ordination, includ- consultative bodies in the , At* ing the administration of a new code is to "bring a broader wisdom to bear on We are not a Church resides in a general chap- decisions, and on the other nance were priestless parish. rejected in One way the reduction in the resolution of practical involved in corporate ter, a body of representa- hand being carefully res- favour of the autonomy of general Church legislation problems," said Father decision-making." Perth's St Mary's Cathedtives of the order's tricted from interfering each bishop. can be seen quickly is by a Thomas Green of the One of the key exceptions members. with the authority of the While the new code goes a ral, focal point of the simple comparison of Catholic University of to that, he noted, was in the Bishops' conference individual bishop in his long way toward decentral- Catholic Church in Western Australia. America, one of the lead- law governing religious represent another except- own diocese. numbers. ising Church authority in The 19l7 code had 2414 ing US experts on the revi- orders. ion. As the new code was comparison with the old canons (individual laws), sion of the code. The new code gives But they remain in a kind being developed, a number code, said Father Green, but the final draft of the But, he added, "there is greater autonomy to reli- of tension - on the one of ideas for bishops' con- one of its deficiencies is new code submitted to the still a tendency to monar- gious orders to govern hand having to look to the ferences establishing that the decisional power pope had 1776 canons. chial authority. It still themselves, and the highest Holy See for approval or national norms for various of bishops "is not adeOf those 1776, nearly 100 focuses on one person . . . authority of the order confirmation of major aspects of Church gover- quately circumscribed". *IV',
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More than eight per cent of Australian Catholic Relief's funds went to Papua New Guinea in 1982 — the largest amount, in per capita terms, given by ACR to any Third World country. The money, $305,761, mostly donated during Project Compassion, was used to finance a variety of development activities in several PNG provinces, including adult education in Enga and in Port Moresby, rural development in the east Sepik and in Madang, health services in the Gulf Province and in the Solomons and school leaver centres in several areas. These projects were not chosen by ACR.
of appeal from decisions of lower administrative courts and the first court of recourse against acts by the various department of the Holy See. There is no judicial recourse, in either the old code or the new, against acts by the pope or an ecumenical council.
The norms for the new structures of administrative procedure emphasise a preference for satisfactory resolution of an issue without formal litigation and for speedy resolution whether it is done in court or out of court. -1 he new code also advances the protection of individual rights in the more traditional areas of judicial activity in the Church, marriage cases and criminal cases. In marriage court procedures, the new code for the first time specifies in the law itself normal time limits for cases to be concluded. "Before, this was contained in the commentaries, not in the law itself," said Father Dolciamore.
The old code's protection of substantive individual archdiocesan marriage ons on statutory offences," reserved to the Holy See. rights in marriage cases court. the new code will reduce "There is also a stronger was "pretty thorough" and Father Burns also noted this list to about 25, said emphasis on using penalties only as a last resort," is not significantly changed the new code will ease the Father Green. said Father Green. in the new code, said appeals procedure for marHe noted most of the riage cases. Father Green. Church's penal law was But it does advance rights It replaces the 1917 code's directed at the clergy, so "if you look at the protec- mandatory retrial of every the changes in that area tion of rights under the case by an appeals court -will have very little impact aspect of 'justice delayed is with a mandatory "review" on John Q. Public". by an appeals court, thus justice denied,— he said. In marriage cases the new avoiding the necessity of He said the new code also But the important thing code also introduces more lengthy second trials for reduced the severity of in penal law as in other flexible rules for determin- uncontested cases based on penalties imposed, reduced areas, he said, was that "in ing which court can try a clearly established princi- the number of automatic the old code there was penalties, and explicitly greater emphasis on the pies and facts. case. In a traditional society, The other major tradi- recognises the right of a rights of the institution, the new flexibility of place tional area of Church judi- person "not to be penalised and the rights of the indiof trial in the code may cial activity is that of except by due process of vidual within that societ were not as stressed", while make little or no differ- criminal or penal law — law". ence, but "in a highly the trial and imposition of The new code also eased the new code incorporated mobile society such as the penalties for crimes com- the lifting of censures once an important emphasis on United States it can be very mitted against the Church. they were imposed, allow- the rights of individuals in useful," said Father Den- Where the old code was ing a bishop to lift many the Church and on the pronis Burns of the Boston "about 100 separate can- that we re formerly tection of those rights.
They were selected by the national committee for development and peace, a body appointed by the bishops of Papua New Guinea to enable the Church there to respond effectively to social problems, underdevelopment and poverty. The committee is chaired by delegates from all parts of the country and from the Solomon Islands. A representative of ACR and one or two resource p ersons complete the committee. All the regional delegates, as well as the committees' staff, are PNG nationals. ACR's relationship with the PNG committee is one of partnership and reflects a deep commitment on ACR's part to sharing not oily the resources available to it, but also the power of deciding how these resources should be used. ACR believes no one is in a better position than the PNG committee to determine what the real needs of the country are and how they should be met. The money channelled by ACR from the Australian community to PNG should n ot be regarded as "charity". We in Australia have for many years benefitted financially from our special relationship with our northern neighbours. In 1979-80, for example, the flow of trade between the two countries was some 5 283m. in Australia's favour. Even when the large Australian aid grant is taken into account, there is still a considerable flow of money from PNG to Australia — from the poor to the rich. ACR's grants to PNG are a small attempt to make a contribution to the development of the people of PNG, who have contributed so much to the economic wellbeing of Australia.
0 00000000000 0 0000000000D One Monday morning in September, 1981, the townsfolk of Goroka, in the New Guinea Highlands, awoke to see a curious procession makings its way through the streets. The procession was made up of about 80 young men. They had come from the Unggai, a mountainous and impoverished area in the hills overlooking Goroka.
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UNITED NATIONS (NC) — Religious intolerance is "One of the t ragedies of our times," Edoardo R ovida, representing the Holy See, told the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which concluded its 1983 session in Geneva, Switzerland, with a debate last month. Rovida called intoleracne or discrimination based on religion "an evil offense to human dignity and a disavowal of United Nations principles." He said it was crucial to recall the consequences of the failure to respect these principles and to proceed with further clarification of the concept of intolerance based on religion or belief.
The commission was asked by the U.N. General Assembly last year to consider measures to implement a declaration on the elimination of all forms of intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief. The declaration was adopted in 1981 after 20 years of negotiations. The commission has the task of encouraging "understanding, tolerance and respect in matters relating to freedom of religion or belief." The term "belief' is equated at the U.N. with atheism. Jaap Walkate of the Netherlands said governments should use the declaration as a guideline for their internal policies and as a "touchstone for national legislation in force." He singled out for criticism countries with a communist system and spoke of unattributed information about persecution in North Korea.
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He attributed to North Korea the belief that "all remnants of belief and religion must be eliminated in order that communism may develop." He also singled out Iran's treatment of the Baha'i religion's followers , saying members of that group have been executed for the mere fact that they profess a religion which was not the same as that of the ruling theocratic Moslem government. Richard Schifter of the United States complained that the declaration "remains a dead letter" in the Soviet Union. He told the commission that antireligious propaganda continued to be an integral part of the government's program and said that, while the adherents of most religions were persecuted for their faith and active practices, "the added burden placed on Jews is discrimination and persecution on the basis of ancestry alone."
They wore old and tattered clothes and carried placards which proclaimed " Voluntary Surrender" "Forgive Us All Our Wrongdoings" and "Give Us Back the Good Name of Unggai". The procession shuffled to a halt outside the police station. The leader of the group announced to the Goroka police chief the procession was made up of several gangs of youths who had been responsible for a veritable epidemic of breakins, car thefts, shoplifting and arson. After a brief and tense c onfrontation between gang leader and police chief, the surrender was accepted. Six of the young men, who confessed to more serious crimes, were placed under arrest. The remainder were freed. T he incident, while serious in its implications, was not without its comic aspects. An attempt by the group to surrender onto he previous Friday evening was postponed because the police were about the knock off for the weekend. During the actual sur-
The surrender in the New Guinea highlands to local police. render, when the police chief demanded those who had set fire to a Goroka store make themselves known, all 80 of the youths stepped forward, to the frustration of the police chief and the amusement of onlookers. The Goroka surrender highlights two important aspects of life as it is lived by the younger generation of Papua New Guineans: • there is a chronic lack of employment for young people, many of whom are drawn into criminal activities as much by sheer economic necessity as by anything else. *many of these offenders have no wish to engage in crime and are anxious to be once again on good terms with their communities. Papua New Guinea, in the words of a one-time Governor General, has lived "ten t housand years in a lifetime".
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Do you remember Christmas Eve 1974? Do you remember Cyclone Tracey hit Darwin ? Did you ever wonder why? Have you often heard it said that the 'true spirit' of Christmas is lacking nowadays? Think how angry a wind, a cyclone is. Think how angry you would be if you were God and your spirit the spirit of love - was made (by mankind) to take secondplace to the God always acts out of spirit of commercial- love, always! God may ism, profiteering, and have allowed the fires, greed. . . would you be but He did not want them. A loving father angry? rebukes (not punishes, but rebukes) his child• 41 It • 40. ren. He does this to save us, not to destroy us. Yet don't he misled. God was present at the God may have allowed bushfires. Present to the cyclone to accomp- protect from death lish his will. Yet God those who He required does not act out of to stay in this world to anger, but out of love. remind us of what hapGod's spirit was not pened. Present to present in the angry receive to new life those wind of the cyclone, no who turned to him in i ndeed not.' Was God faith. (Faith He gives to There were smiles all round when the Bunbury YCW banner was hoisted and participants posed for The Record there though? Yes, God all who ask with humble was there! His spirit was hearts). ever present, ready to God is still present, comfort those in dis- inspiring people once tress if they should just more to give generously once turn to hint in their of their time and money need. God's spirit was (truly, this is to give of there afterwards in the one's love). hearts of those who Have you heard the gave generously of their word? Here is The time and money to help Word: During the long the cyclone victims. All -Because those Galiweekend of March, it takes is a cry for help. leans were killed in that a YCW Leaders way, do you think it W eekend was proves that they were I lo• • • ••• worse sinners than all held in BusseIton. other Galileans? More information will he .1-ow. Do you remem- "No Indeed.' AndItell 1,Aerit. tour people from I gained a better meaning knowledge and under- be able to. Two further camps on given at a later date. All ber Ash Wednesday you that if you do not t he Bunbury Diocese of YCW and my outlook standing. which includes Narrogin. on life changed dramati- It is an experience all A wareness will be held members of YCW and 1983? Do you remem- turnfrom your sins, you interested persons will be ber the bushfires that will all die as they did" Manjimup and Albany cally. I felt so refreshed Young Christian Workers later in the year. travelled to the camp for and more knowledgeable should experience, if they One will be in May. the more than welcome. struck South Australia (Luke 13:2-3) from attending. It seemed have the chance, and I 27-29th and the other in KIM OWEN. the weekend. and Victoria? Do you It used to he Galileans. all who attended gained hope at some time they will June. the 17-19th. 111 \BURY VCW. remember what the now it's us. U e must renew The aim of the weekend 'true spirit' of Lent is? ourselves in Christ: to was to provide a deeper Do you remember what spend 40 days with him in meaning of the YCW and it means to pray, tolast, the wilderness: praying. its purpose to potential and to do penance. Do fasting. doing penance. leaders. Let us prepare ouryou do any of these? Members were eligible if A sh Wednesday is a selves that we mat. one they had not attended a day when we are usually day be with Christ, Leaders Weekend before. reminded that God sharing in His glory. Most of them had only f you are knowledgeamade us from 'dust' and I been YCW members for one day our bodies will ble of scripture you mat. approximately six months. again become dust. .4 sh wonder if these words 'ednesday 1983 we really come from me, 1 New ventures are exciting. I am delighted with a new structure were reminded of this leave you to decide. in a way that — Remember this, the real about to be launched in the Catholic Parish Youth Movement. fact hopefully — none of us choice to make is will ever forget. Where simply: "Life or Death". I am pleased to see that local parish group. was God we ask? If 'as Do you remember? young people involved in The aim of the pro- He out lighting fires? policy making within the gramme will be to help Vo!. Brian Crofts.
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M ovement have not The weekend included allowed structures to many speeches on the become more important Workers' problems and than people, but rather the need for YCW in our have strived to let the society. Some of these structures serve. talks were presented to It all began some months A ndrew Edey. Peter ago when the three CPY Shooter, Maree Scott, fulltimers found it difficult Debbie Dowson and Paul to meet all the demands of Rogers. all of Bunbury. fostering and encouraging new youth groups in parishes. It was decided to form a Task Force to assist in the work of visitation to parish youth groups. Hundreds of phone calls and personal contacts were Guest speakers for the made in order to gather ten Leaders Weekend were willing participants to Bishop Quinn and Gerald form this new Task Force. Searle from Centrecare. For the first ten weeks of Fhe Bishop spoke to us on 1 983 the Group met to the role of the Lay Aposto- study together and most late. Mr Searle spoke on importantly to become communication and listen- friends, and pray together. ing skills between people The plan is now to split up and its importance. Mass into small teams of two was celebrated on Sunday and go out to five different evening by Father Greg parishes and provide a ten week programme for the Chidlow.
leaders to build up their ' ‘\\NS\. \\NNN.N.N.\\X• own youth group. It all seems very similar to the plan of Jesus who sent out 72 disciples to the towns and villages to proclaim His message to be with people He could not be with Himself. Like all worthwhile new ventures it will he met with many obstacles and difficulties but I am confident that the zealous enthusiasm of today's disciples will win through. Those who have completed ten weeks preparation for their new mission are: MacFarlane. Ros MacFarlane, Damien Gee, John Loreck, Diane Simpson, Valerie Godfrey, Jon-Mark Catling. .lacki Wong, Bernard Hill, Anne Covolato, Julia Pickering. Gary Banks and Tony Dolin. I am confident that great things will happen as a result of the hard work being done.
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( Record Kids Club BIRTHDAYS Happy birthday to Jason Bouwhis, lnnaloo; Eliza Donatti, Scarborough; Desmond Dias, GirraN,vheen; Kathy Field, Craigie; Patrick Fitzgerald, Craigie; Lillian Gasper, Fremantle; Claire Lincoln, Nedlands; Natasha Maley, Moora; Rodney McCracken, Duncraig; Luke McInnes, Mukinbudin; Stephanie Schurmann, Burrendah; Justine Sykes, Maylands.
Winners Our first neatest, correct puzzel entry comes from James Cunnington, of Kardinya.
MEMBERS
Naomi was not only Ruth's mother-in-law but her close friend. She encourages Ruth to marry Boaz.
Welcome to our new members: Michael Carvosso, of Nedlands; Marnie Scanlan. of Dianella; Penny Round, of Gosnells; Antony Round, of Gosnells; Melanie Atkinson, of Dalkeith; Clayton McCormack, of Trayning; Jillian McGee, of Merredin; Kevin Stables, of Coo-. loongup and Dennis Stables, of Cooloongup.
Sorrowful woman of Bethlehem
When the Bodley Guns of Navarone. Critic- He learnt several lan- THE LITTLE PRINCE, Head first published ising the book is like trying guages and became a travel by .4n1oine de SaintT he Borribles by t o arrest a Borrible for sho- guide in France, Spain and Exupery The classic children's Michael de Larra- plifting. . . .h is a tale of Morocco. beiti, they were not low cunning and dubious In 1961, he was the photo- fable which has sold morality. . . .The Borribles grapher on the 'Marco hundreds of thousands of to everyone's liking. will appeal to sensitive Polo' Expedition, travel- copies across the world. The Guardian critic Womble lovers as much as ling four months overland Now we publish a largespoke of 'Beastli- Punk Rock does to Mary to Afghanistan on a motor format, full-colour edition ness' and the Econo- Whitehouse. . . .But should cycle. At the age of 27, he of the adventures of the spoke of 'clock- you tire of those clean- had the chance to go to Little Prince on the strange "Is that Naomi?" the people of Bethlehem mist work orangery' in limbed Hobbits or those University of Oxford. He planets of even stranger whispered to each other. They watched the children's literature. earnest, well-dragooned now lives in Great Milton, adults. With a brief introBerkshire rabbits (Born- Oxfordshire, with his wife duction to the history and woman whose face was lined with sorrow walk The Borribles, however, bles are always quarrel- and their 'three Borribles'. significance of the book. are here to stay. Whatever through the gates of Bethlehem. Her clothes their hue, the critics all ling), then here is an epic that the Bornbles with an eyeful of smut -were those of a poor widow and she seemed old. agreed what the Trojan Wars were THE STORY SPIRITS grip (and don't let go). They wondered who the beautiful young woman The Borribles are from really like. Try the Borrib by Amabel Williams— MRS PIG'S BULK BU} by ,Wary Raynor, $2.95. Battersea. They are very les, warts and all, before Ellis $2.95. was who walked beside her. A book of stories from A colourful new Piccolo like children of about 12 they become a legend'. years but have pointed ears Michael de Larrabeiti Africa, the Caribbean and Picture Book for the very Years before Naomi had beautiful young women have you been working?" get away with being m was born in Lambeth and the Far East. Tales handed young readers. and left Bethlehem. There was from Moab. Naomi was Naomi asked. uch scruffier than children. brought up in Battersea. down in the magical tradi- Mrs Pig's Bulk Buy tells a famine in the land at the happy for them. But her "In a field owned by a They are outcasts and His father was a Basque. tions of the storyteller. of the adventures of the time. There was no food t wo sons died a few years w ealthy man named runaways. Their value is He left school in Clapham Stories written to be told. very appealing Pig family for her and her growing later and Naomi was all Boaz," Ruth told her. independence above all at the age of IS. He had a Evil spirits, kings and prin- and the problems they family. alone. Except for Ruth. things. Their motto is steady job for two years, cesses, lions and tigers all encounter when Mrs Pig "Boaz," Naomi thought Naomi's husband felt R uth was Naomi's Don't get caught, because then decided to 'go free- inhabit the enchanted goes shopping and brings to herself. "Boaz wondis a their only hope for survival d aughter-in-law and once caught. Borribles' landce' for the rest of his world of one of the great home six enormous jars of was to leave their home. So Naomi loved her very erful man. He is also a collectors of tales. tomato ketchup. ears are snipped and they life. relative." Naomi: her husband and much. Ruth decided to sta automatically age and she So said Ruth: to "My their two sons left the y with Naomi when she home and the town they returned to Bethlehem and daughter, I must find a blend into adult life as loved. They walked for help her as she grew old. home for you. Boaz is a 'normal'. days through mountains Naomi worried about relative of mine and would In The Borribles, the Bormake a fine husband for ribles discover that the and deserts. Ruth. Ruth was still young they also came to my sight. Finally they came to the and beautiful. She worked you. This evening he will Rumbles from Rumble- Dear Captain Bob, PARTY DREAM I thought it must he my land of Moab. There they long hours in the fields so be at his barn. Dress up in dom are beginning to col- I'm so happy that I am your b est dress. Wear onise their very own able to join the records One day as I wa.N walking birthday, and it was. settled down. she and Naomi would have some nice perfume. Go to Battersea Park. The Rum- kids club, I'd like to give a through treesIheard clap- Kathrine Enright Now there would be food to eat. • bles are cuddly, furry, well- poem and that I wrote my- ping and shouting. meet him." plenty of food for eve- Naomi prayed that Ruth Dear Captain Bob, I went to see what it was, How are you? I'm ryone. At first Naomi and would meet a man in R uth did what her spoken (apart from the fact self a story. fine. that they can't prounounce mother-in-law told her. and in a small clearing I My dog Brighett had her family were very Bethlehem to marry. One puptheir 'r's') Boaz and fell 'loveable' in love Ruth. with stopped suddenly, because pies. And the dog Trudy happy. But not for long. day Naomi saw a chance is creatures who make Naomi was a livdelighted. someone had tapped me on having puppies. Naomi's husband died for Ruth to find a happier ROSE STORY Our cat is Not long after, Boaz mar- ing from theft — only they the shoulder. and she was very sad. She life. • crazy and he runs up and Once a rose was standing "Do you vant to join in?" down and spits. worked hard to raise her "I brought you some ried Ruth. Within a year call it 'finding things'. on a hill, Under the guide became Ruth of 'recymother the asked a small creature k I am a church two children by herself. lunch," Ruth said to server at cling', they are encroach- Wishing she was on Miss The two sons married Naomi one day. "Where of a baby boy. She and Pretty's Toodyay. On February 1st window-sill, Boaz named the boy, ing upon the Borribles I nodded in excitement, traditional Batters ea But one day a terrible wind and ran through shrubs we went to see E.T. Obed. blew up, Julianne Zalevski Naomi became the boy's territory. and weeds into a beautiful Toodyay. nurse. She had at last A fearless band of Borri- To make the rose petals garden. bles set out to smash the flip, found happiness. There I waited for the She lived with Boaz and Rumble High Command. She grew sad. Not part of other person, hut he did n the scene, Ruth. She cared for Obed It is an epic journey 01 appear. and loved him like her own fraught with genuine terror A pain in her head —where Iamagined I was Queen Is it good manners to eat and undisguised violence. petals had been, son. of this place, and it really pork chops with your The women of Bethlehem Not all the Borribles From all of the storm, and happened. fingers? the cruel tearing fight, gathered around Naomi return. And on the return Everywhere came p No, you should eat your and praised God for being of the survivors, they dis- One lovely rose died that ersons telling me to hurry .fingers separately. cover that their campaign very night. so good to her: Name up, as there was a oball in "Blessed is the Lord who has been ordered for dub- So now on in the nature my honour. Soon we were What did the Spanish they call to the hill, has given you an heir! The ious motives. . . Address with others, none that I farmer say to his chicken? boy will be your comfort 'The Borribles is Batter- It is a rose for a window- knew for they were in Ole.' (Oh, lay) and support in your old sea's answer not only to the sill, P code strange costumes. On what kind of road age. Praise the Lord for Wombles, but also to We remember her still, I thought of a birthday would you find diamonds? We always will! Watership Down, The Age your daughter-in-law who Birthdate cake, and it appeared I A dual (jewel) carriageLord of the Rings and The By Kathrine Enright loves you so much." thought of presents and way. 14 The Record, April 7 — 13, 1983
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Top teams clash in Sterling Cup The Sterling Cup match for telecast on Channel Seven from 11 .30pm on Wednesday, April 13, will be between two leading interstate clubs Glenelg and Geelong. Glenelg is one of South Australia's most powerful clubs and is certain to offer the Victoria Cats plenty of opposition in this important first round
Cup clash. The Sterling Cup this season boasts S475,000 prize money to be divided between the 16 teams involved.
The competition is made up of 11 teams from the VFL with Footscray making the final team after beating Tasmania in an elimination match early in the
Run is to be televised The eagerly-awaited clash of the world's four best marathon runners will be telecast live by Channel 2 at 10 o'clock on Saturday night.
Marathon clash on
The four - American Alberto Salazar, Australian Robert de Castella, Gomez, winner of last could extend the stars is Mexican Rodolfo ace a with Rod Evans year's Rotterdam maraCarlos Lopes. Gomez and Holland's thon, was runner-up to Portugal's European 10,000 t he Gerard Nijboer — will be Salazar in the New York metres record-holder and MOSS1LLION looks a Bell in the Champion Fil- in the field for the City of race a few months later. runner-up in the recent Rotterdam marathon. very good addition to the lies Stakes at Ascot on SatNijboer, the European w orld 12km crosspowerful Frank Maynard urday. Both these fillies are champion and holder of country championship in team after his impressive from Australia's most England. first up win in the Ashbur- widely travelled and powthe European record of W A's Graham Clews is in Listed ton Handicap on Saturday erful stable of Colin Hayes. 2.9. 1, won the silver also entered for the Rotorder at Ascot. After being well Miss Clicquot will be far medal in the Olympic terdam event. back on the turn Moss- more suited when the race marathon at the 1980 Channel 2 will replay illion flew home to grab the distances increase and with Moscow Games. the race on Sunday They are listed in that pacemaker After Dawn the genius of Hayes to help Another runner who morning, starting at 7.30. right on the line, he looks a her, she will be very hard to order in the latest world rankings and their clash most impressive type of beat in the near future. on Saturday could prohorse and one to follow. PHIL1NKA showed a ARIZONA BOY return duce the fastest time ever strong return to form when ed to racing with a new recorded for a marathon. starting at 20, 1 he pelted trainer and showed he is The best time is held by home to win the Warrior back to his best. Lindsay Salazer, who clocked 2 Graduation Stakes. Phi- Rudland has this colt very hrs 8 min, 13 sec, when he linka has shown staying fit and he showed this by won the New York mara- ROME: Britain's triple world record-holder ability in the past and will powering down the outside thon in 1981. Sebastian Coe won the 6.6km Golden be one to follow as the dis- to win the Honneur Han- A few weeks later de Shoe road race at Vigebano yesterday. tances of his races increase. dicap with something up Castella was timed at MISS CLICQUOT was his sleeve. He will even 2.8.18 when he won the He clocked 18 min. 28 sec. and won by 2 unsuited when running harder to beat over a Fukuoka marathon in sec. from Gelindo Bordin. Japan. behind her stablemate Taj longer journey.
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The Western Australian entries and the match for replay on Channel Seven on Wednesday, April 13, will decide the fate of
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The Lord Is Risen to Life "The Lord is risen to life, The Lord is risen to life; The Lord has conquered sin and death, And brought us back to life. The Lord will watch over you, The Lord will smile when you laugh; The Lord will care in your moment's loss, And bring you back to life. My friends, I have a gift for you, A gift that each of you must share, And share it well with the world about; The gift: it is my life. My friends, look in your brother's eye, And if my gift isn't there, Then go to him in his loneliness, And give to him my life."
The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is central to our faith. "If Christ was not raised," Paul tells us, "your faith is worthless" (1 Cor. 15,17). As Christian we believe in a living risen Christ. Jesus's resurrection was not, however, the reanimation of a corpse. It was a birth to a new life, so that Jesus is indeed, as Paul again tells us, "the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep" (1 Cor. 15,20). What Paul means here is that Jesus is now what we are going to be and are meant to be. For Jesus is now a living human being (and at the same time indissolubly the UNCREATED Word of the Father, the Second Person of the Triune God), the kind of human being that you and I are called to be in Him. Jesus, as our Risen Lord, is the One in whom we "will come to life again" (1 Cor. 15,22). He is the giver of life, indeed He is our life, and it is f or life in union with Him that we have been made. His resurrection is, then a promise of the life that is to come. But it is even more than this. For in virtue of Jesus' resurrection we can a lready begin to share in the life that is to come and partially realise it here and now.
Through baptism we have already participated in His death and resurrection, dying to sin and to the "old man" the Adam who had been enslaved by sin, and rising to a life of grace in the "new man" given to us in Jesus. "Dying. He destroyed our When a parish has death, and rising: He res- kept Lent, when the tored our life." ashes have been lisThus His resurrection is tened to and the glormore than a promise of the An unexpected oppor- life that is to be ours ious cross greeted tunity opens new avenues beyond the grave: it is an with a kiss, when one for our life path. awakening to a new king of or more adults have come to the climax of Sometimes these surprise life here below. gifts come disguised as Through His resurrec- their long preparation tion, in which we already misfortune. participate now is virtue of f or baptism, then An illness cancels plans being made members of there has to be the and even some hopes, and His body through baptism. yet we discover a new He makes it possible for us g reat liturgy of dimension of ourselves to live right now, today, in Easter. that helps us cope with the a way that we simply could This is no anniversary, as disappointment. not be able to live without if to say, "Just so many years ago tonight Jesus left Easter is a time of prom- Him. ise. "My friends I have a He makes it possible for the tomb." gift for you. a gift that each us to share in His own life Dying and rising in Christ that is more than human. is happening, and it's only of you must share." and fully human to get God's action in Jesus is a for it is the life of God together and put all the talgraciously given Himself, promise of his life-giving ents of the community to action in all of our lives. to us. The resurrection of Jesus, work showing what this Resurrection is not just a therefore, is indeed an means to us. The Easter liturgy is man-lettered, empty word. awakening.
Funny bunnies... eggs... a collage Light, new life, tainties receive a new light funny bunnies, eggs, in the miracle of Easter hope. being happy -- a Easter proclaims that the w hole collage of darkness in life cannot images developed withstand the light of God's living presence in an when I put this ques- alive Jesus. tion to some friends: The above song is a recent What does Easter addition to the music of Easter. Written for guitar, mean to you? Easter it is a ballad that proclaims touches us in many t he most unbelievable ways. Its meaning is news: Jesus, recently having died, is alive! diverse and rich. It is How easy it is for us to a celebration of light identify with the apostles' and joy. During the reaction upon hearing this message from the women Easter vigil service, on Easter morning. dark churches be- How this can be remains come aglow with the as much a mystery for us as it was for them. What this magic of candlelight. meant for them is recorded This magic extends to our in the writings of the New lives too. Our hearts dar- Testament. kened by fear and uncer- But the relevance of the question has not ceased with the New Testament times. What does "The Lord is risen to life" mean Repairs for us today'? This song presents some r all your complete servictm images as a response to the question. This song proclaims the surprise and wonder of Easter. Easter reveals to us that the humanly impossible is not the boundary of God's action in our world. The power, the love, and PAT CURTIS ?CAME the life-givingness of God • Mechanical Repairs surpasses all our defini• Fleet Servicing tions and expectations. • Welding This surprise and wonder • Aligning of Easter is re-experienced • Balancing at other moments of our • Steam Cleaning daily lives. • Tuning etc The song declares, "The P ersonalised Service l ord will watch over you," Free pick up & delivery and indeed we discover he does. PHONE 361 1340 that God enters our lives in REAR 646 ALBANY ITINAY surprise ways that we never Via, 1 Miller St. Victoria Park expected. Hurt and painful feelings are healed by the P 0. Box 389 Victoria k indness of a friend. Park 6100 A letter arrives, and A 11 458 8821 brightens our day.
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The Record, April 7— 13, 1983
The great liturgy of Easter
A climax of Lent But what is even more called a vigil. It must take place at grand in this once-anight: after Saturday's sun yearness of Easter vigil are goes down, or at midnight. the moments that touch us or just before the sunrise. whole, all senses together Done fully and well, it somehow. may take hours. It may be the ancient For our ancestors, it was chant of the Exultet as a the only liturgy of Easter good singer lets the phrase (no masses late Sunday flow all around us: Haec morning) and lasted all nox est - this is the night (though no doubt night... Or when we settle people came and went and into a pew to take a long listen to our family story came back). We have shortened the the days of creation, the vigiling part, the readings. like-it-was yesterday mirabut much of the rest cle of escape from slaver remains: the lighting of the through the waters of the lamps before the readings, sea, the visions of the great and the baptisms and euch- welcome table and of clean waters poured out on us arist afterwards. all. Something of the power of this evening is felt just in And all this ending in a list of what is seen and another kind of grand heard: Strike. Spark. moment: to stand and after Flame up. Catch fire. 40 days sing again a word Burn. Brighten. Warming. that binds us to Jews and Christians of all generaLight. Follow. tions past and to come, our Nor is the sense of smell alleluia. forgotten: the burning wood of the fire, the warm But all this is prelude to wax smell of the great the moments that follow Easter candle, the fra- when the adults who have grance of incense, the been learning Jesus in this freshness of lilies, the rich parish, in us, are called forperfume of the chrism, and ward and are asked to the good familiar smell of renounce sin and Satan and all their glamour now bread and of wine. profess And touch: a burning and forever, and to candle held firmly as bap- belief in God who creates, redeems, sanctifies. tism's promises are made again, perhaps a bit of hot Then the waters of bapwax on the hand, big drops tism are poured over them of newly blessed water ( in some Catholi, sprinkled throughout the churches, the adults are crowd* handshakes and immersed in water) and embraces in giving Easter their heads are anointed peace to those who have with the chrism in confirkept Lent with us, and the mation, and for the first good taste of the bread that time, they can join us at is Christ's body, the wine table for the eucharistic that is His blood. banquet.