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WASHINGTON (NC) — Continued condemnation of any first use of nuclear weapons along with a subtle shift a way from support for the nuclear freeze is contained in the new third draft of the US bishops' proposed pastoral letter on war and peace. The letter goes before the 365 Catholic bishops for debate at a special meeting on May 2.
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The third draft does not call every contemplated use of a nuclear weapon immoral, but we are close to that position, said Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago who heads the drafting committee. Cardinal Bernardin said the pastoral letter is sceptical to a point bordering on disbelief regarding the controlled use of nuclear weapons. "We recognise the theoretical possibility of single isolated usage being contained," he continued, "but w e are much more impressed by the evidence suggesting even small scale use may quickly escalate to horrendous proportions. "We never say every con-
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key differences between the second draft of last November and the present third draft:
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°Implicit support in the second draft for the nuclear freeze movement is downplayed in the third draft. Whereas the second draft urged the immediate end to further development, production and deployment of major new nuclear weapons systems, the third draft simply urges negotiations to curb such testing and deployment.
° The section condemning templated use of any all first use of nuclear weanuclear weapon would pons is amended to include ipso facto be immoral. But recognition of the role that we are close to that posi- N ATO's "flexible restion because of the severe ponse" doctrine has played risk factor involved." in deterring Soviet aggresThe committee decided to sion in western Europe. call for an immediate, But the draft also urges verifiable bilateral curb on flexible response -- the the production, deploy- policy that permits first use ment and testing of nuclear of nuclear weapons if weapons "instead of a halt" NATO forces seem in to such activities as it had danger of losing a convendone in the pastoral's pre- tional war — be replaced vious draft. quickly with an adequate Cardinal Bernardin said non-nuclear alternative. the language of the previous draft had been ° Portions of the second widely interpreted as an draft's section on deterendorsement of the nuclear rence are rewritten in response to comments by freeze movement. But he emphasised pre- several bishops that the vious drafts had not explic- section was the pastoral's itly endorsed that most crucial, and needed to be strengthened. But the movement. "The pastoral does not revised discussion leads to identify with any specific many of the same conclupolitical initiative," he sions, including a "conditional acceptance" of said. In the latest expanded deterrence as a policy for document there are several preventing nuclear war.
Brothers identify robbers ROME: Two arrested men have been identified by Christian Brothers and others in connection with a recent series of robberies and assaults on religious houses in Rome.
Two young men were arrested at a Rome jewellery store where they were caught trying to sell goods stolen from the Christian Brothers Generalate House and from a Marist Brothers residence. There are now three gangs being held in prison following 13 reported incidents of attacks on religious houses over a period of two months. Four men confessed to a series of robberies when they were caught with stolen items and also with $3000 in coins stolen from church poor boxes plus several hundred dollars worth of telephone tokens. So far no-one has been charged with the death of 71 year old Monsignor Ovidio Cassaola who died of a heart attack, probably as a result of shock at being attacked by robbers. One of the detainees, aged 19, has been charged with another case of assault and attempted robbery.
A busy vigil at 4114 Holy Cross The Easter vigil at Holy Cross Church Kensington, brought the catechumentate programme to its peak with a ceremony that included five baptisms, seven people received into full communion and nine c onfirmed. After the Kensington parish priest, Father John Morton, had blessed the baptismal water, the candidates went to the baptistery a nd Father Morton baptised Gregory (6) and Richard (8) Ho. Father Frank O'Dea, who has been conducting the parish catechumentate programme, then baptised Brian Hornsby, Justin Stanes and his daughter Sarah (3).
All the new Christians were then robed in white garments and handed candles lit from the Easter candle with the advice to walk always as children of the light. Pope John Paul reels into the arms of his bodyguard after the In the next stage of the munion in the church Peter ceremony Father O'Dea Harris, Alan Neill, Susan shooting in St Peters Square on May 13, 1981 welcomed into full corn- Lewandowski, Colleen Doherty, James Seller, and Decima Parnell. Tony Parnell, previously baptised and confirmed but not instructed, and who joined the programme last June, was received back into the Church, and Est. 1910 13 year old Mark Parnell was received into full ROME: Sergei Antoncommunion. ova Bulgarian charged All the adults and the 13 (Opposite Cargill St. State School) with active complicity year old were then conin the attempted assasfirmed by Father O'Dea. sination of Pope John The congregation prayed Paul has had his third W ASHINGTON: Did Russian premier request for release in silence for the Holy turned down. A ndropov know about Pope John Paul's Spirit to pour out His gifts 190 The Rome court ruled and the four priests present pending assassination attempt? Did his there is sufficient evi- imposed their hands on the dence linking him to the f ormer KGB department deliberately feed candidates. plot to justify holding the line that Karol Wotyla was elected pope him in Rome's Rebibbia prison where he has in a US plot engineered by President Carter been since November Rousing to bring Poland back to the West? 25. Antonov's lawyers The answers to these questions are appearing more claim they have inconand more positive as further revelations by another At the conclusion of the trovertible evidence — Bulgarian defector are matched with a "memorandum" confirmation ceremony a hotel register from that is alleged to trace back to President Carter's the congregation gave a Yugoslavia — to show Armadale & Districts Mehmet Ali Agca Mrs Antonov was there rousing applause to the national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Phone 398 2208 . assassin on the night of May 8. new members of the parish T he memorandum, and the sign of peace was g Mt. Lawley — Scarborough allegedly produced by given so that parishioners Brzezinski for Carter in Northern Districts could congratulate the 1978, has been labelled by ing a US plot to have the the KGB analysis next in the KGB-inspired newcomers. Phone 444 3217 the US State Department Polish cardinal made claimed that Brzezinski assassination attempt that The newly baptised as a forgery. Other US pope. and Cardinal Krol of Phi- would eliminate the Polish brought up the gifts and Bull Creek — Burrendah reports say US intelligence The so-called Brzezinski ladelphia (of Polish back- pope's influence on the later in the Mass all the agents uncovered an ear- memorandum to Carter Mt. Pleasant ground) organised the US restless conditions in his newly baptised and those lier KGB analysis that was recently surfaced first in a cardinals to vote for Wot- homeland. Phone 332 6401 received into the Church undoubtedly authentic but left-centre weekly in Madyla and that West German received communion for quite erroneous in outlin- rid, and then was picked up cardinals were approached the first time, under both by the Washington corres- to vote similarly. species. pondent of Warsaw's Supper in the hall after major communist party New York Times reporthe vigil concluded the Eliminate WE NEED: newspaper where it was ters Evans and Novak have evening. — Qualified teachers. building tradesmen: p ublished under a traced what the KGB analThe course of formation farmers. engineers: marine Mechanics. Washington dateline. ysis believed would happen After the papal election continues till Pentecost; Experienced handymen. electricians: after that: "The purpose, as Soviet authorities con- during this time the Euchaplantation personnel: the KGB reported it back veyed to the Bulgarians the rist will be explained in - Cattlemen. sawmillers. bookkeepers. to then-KGB chief Yuri desire to "eliminate" — D.C. Nurses. accountants: the detail as well as other matAndropov and the Krem- pope, and the Harmful - Experienced office workers: assignment ters not previously lin, was to set the stage for was given to the stenographers. administrators: Bulgarian covered. anti-Soviet revolt in security agency. This fourth and final — Community Development or social The State Department Poland and 'reconciliation' phase of the catechumenworkers. M antarov claimed ate journey which says that the fake memo- between Poland and West began in FOR PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC randum is part of the cur- Germany," Evans and Mehmet Ali Agca, who June of last year, commenfired the shots that If you are prepared to devote part of your life to God in the service of His rent disinformation Novak said. ces with a weekend at New wounded the pope, was programme of the KGB to people in another culture — Evans and Novak said chosen as the assassin Norcia. plant stories harmful to the that the KGB took this because he was known The method followed has PALMS Lay Missionary Movement. US and its allies. C - The Paulian Association. G.P.O. Box 716. SYDNEY 2001. 1978 analysis, developed it throughout the world as a been the one set out in 1972 Brzezinski who was into the forged Brzezinski rightist with no links to any called the Rite of Christian b orn in Poland and Initiation of Adults. memorandum and back- communist country. became national security It is a revision of the pracdated the memorandum affairs adviser to President Agca was supposed to be tice of the early Church five years. Carter calls the KGB view killed in St Peter's Square when adults were received "very amusing" and indicaThe Bulgarian defector after the assassination into the Church in stages in All donations towards our work are gratefully received tive of the paranoia in the Mantarov is reported to attempt, according to the t he presence of the Soviet intelligence agency. have told what happened account. community. 2 The Record, April 14 — 20, 1983
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Wins in two town planning appeals The archdiocese of Perth last week won two important town planning appeals that allow urgent planning and building to proceed in the parishes of Thornlie and Kelmscott.
Extensions to Good Shepherd Church Kelmscott can now go ahead as a result of a decision by the Minister for Planning Mr David Parker to disallow several conditions imposed by the Shire of Armadale and which were appealed against by the archdiocese of Perth. The council imposed the condition that an extensive drained and sealed parking area would have to be installed before extensions to the church were permitted. The parish had claimed that a large grassed area in existence was already adequate as an overflow parking area since it was used only once a week. Council conditions also required the parish to lodge a bond of $2000 to cover the implementation of all conditions before the building could proceed. The appeal to the minister had successfully set aside that c ondition. Other conditions imposed on the construction of the church and subsequently set aside include: •the requirement that the church excise a right of way in case there was a super lot development in the area. s the requirement that the external colour scheme of the new church building would have to meet council approval.
After a one -and -a -half day hearing, the Town Planning Appeal Tribunal upheld an appeal by the archdiocese of Perth against the City of Gosnells which had turned down an a pplication for a new school and church site on O vens Road, Thornlie. Also the Minister for Planning, Mr David Parker, upheld an appeal by the archdiocese of Perth over certain conditions that occur outside Thornlie high and primary schools. were attached to the Some said their peace and e xtending of Good quiet would be upset at the S hepherd church, weekend if a church was allowed on the site. Kelmscott. Most of the 25 questions At Thornlie the appeal is raised by objectors dealt upheld subject to finding a with traffic. better access from Ovens Traffic consultants hired Road on to the proposed by the Church pointed out church and school site. that traffic volumes in the The decision at Thornlie area would not incrase any means the end of a nine- more than when Ovens month contest by the local Road is extended to link parish to get approval to up with nearby residential use land that originally was development, and no more purchased on advice from than would be generated if the City of Gosnells own the Church land was subdistaff. vided into 40 lots. In a desperate move to try to solve the severe pressure • Continued page 7 under which the school and church at KenwickThornlie have operated for the past 10 years and, to cater for a large projected of formation the in CSA with work Mrs Elizabeth Kadmos, with Jim Miolin, who will Catholic population, the parish councils. parish bought 4ha of land on Ovens Road in 1981. As most land in the Thornlie area is already taken up by developers, the The Catholic Social archdiocesan chancellor, Apostolate is to take on a Monsignor McCrann, new part time worker to sought advice from City of help specifically with the Gosnell's staff on where a formation of parish paslikely site could be toral councils. obtained. Mrs Elizabeth Kadmos of Girrawheen will be engaged in a programme to concentrate on individual Suitable parish councils instead of • • • the days of formation that The only site suitable was have been held for repre39 days — fully escorted tour with exciting near the existing Thornlie sentatives till now. State and high primary highlights Belmont and Bassendean councillors would pick up time comes to go off the schools and although councils have already the ideas presented." council they say 'Thank zoned Residential A, it was **Shrines of France **Lourdes **Rhine Cruise arranged for programmes God that's over.' housea considered Kadmos, a that churchMrs counall which will involve * *Oberammergau **Rome **Florence **Austria "People are seeing being cillors in an afternoon ses- wife and mother of five, on a council as the be-all school complex came * *Switzerland **London sion to look at their roles as brings to her task her expe- and end-all instead of see- within regulations that presiformer allow a as the rience local to authority relatheir and councillors ing it only as a beginning. give approval for such a tionship with one another. dent and secretary of Girrawheen parish coun- Time on a council is for purpose. Mr Jim Miolin, full time cil. She has done the Mara- formation and preparation An application for a worker for the Catholic natha course for pastoral so that when they go off the church-presbytery-school Brochure available NOW Social Apostolate, said training and has had expe- council there is greater development was lodged this was a step forward for rience in the field of staff enthusiasm than they had with the City of Gosnells t he CSA which had management. in the beginning. on July 9 last year. already provided the "Enthusiasm to build a PARAMOUNT TRAVEL, 77 St George's Tce, On October 14 the counsecretariat for the archdiparish community should Perth 6000. Telephone: (09) 325 2144 ocesan committee for the not stop when you come cil at its regular meeting refused the application. f ormation of parish off the council but I feel it Potential councils. The refusal followed local is stopping now. "Coming off the council agitation against the proMr Miolin has been one should not stop a person ject including the suggesof the six members of that I/We are interested in participating on this tour. Please forcommittee since its estab- "I believe in the potential being active since they are tion that the complex ward brochure. of a parish council to build now more aware of them- should move to another lishment in 1976. Initials Mr 'Mrs/Miss up community in a parish," selves and the Church. site, even though the devel"For the past two years she said this week. "In Their experience has deve- oper in question was we have been promising to three years on a Council a Address loped an awareness of the reported not to be intertake on more CSA staff in land the ested for selling Church." the growing apostolate of be should person and having a person to Postcode in a team to build up the Mrs Kadmos believes purpose. c oncentrate on one council have councils by parish community that parish A public meeting was will group at a time aware of the oppor- to change from being man- called for September 23 increase the effectiveness being other agement bodies to being and some twenty-three ••N of our programme," he tunity to include the "midwives to the par- local residents attended in parishioners." said. ish" giving birth to a real addition to shire and "When only one or two She believes that a lot of sense of the parish and church representatives. frusare councillors parish r epresentatives attended building up individual parour previous training days trated because they do not ishioners' sense of worth Most objections claimed there. are they why know another school complex there was no guarantee and potential. would add to traffic conthat suggestions would be "They are not seeing their gestion that is alleged to followed up or that other importance so when their • Continued page 7
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Reconciliation may be the order of the day for f rom Grandmother of tiful letter saying that she had gone on to VP•*************************•* 4•••••••-•••••*•4,4,4•1144404• the economic confrontation being defused at ten God perhaps allows have the baby safely, Canberra but local citizens will soon be looking for a prophet with a solution to the gun-point Sir, the mother's desire for f ull term. us a letter and have your say in The Record. confrontation going on in a spate of armed As a mother of seven, its baptism to gain the This woman struck Send Y ou can write on any subject you want: government: robberies. who lost five babies by c hi ld entry into the only sour note in decisions and policy, problems in your neighbour-: Robbery is one of those topics on which we television . . . anything that affects your life. miscarriag e and also a heaven (rather than all the times I so hood, Post your letter to Today's Mail, The Record, PO Box have been able to hold a superior view. As Aus• 50, Perth Aberdeen Street, 6000. • tralians travelled abroad it was a sign of the local t rained secondary t he Limbo others needed support. Preference will be given to short concise letters. teacher — I would like promised). He still has It always seemed •........•.•• ******* •• ********************** cultural decadence of foreigners that they would ******: filch everything in sight if the tourist turned his to say that my expe- m y undying gratitude. that although God had back. riences never pro- Our own parish pri- other plans for us, He We were even supposed to be above the tax duced the reactions est couldn't have been still arranged things fiddling and other financial swindling that is Kate Edmondso n (The more supportive and with great care, as for being indignantly denied by otherwise moral R ecord March 31 ) consoling. Australians. instance in the way a In the boisterous larrikin image there was a writes about. He assured me he local lad, just through tinge of pseudo Ned-Kelly-Robin-Hood cyniMy husband and I had spoken often with his medical course, cism about someone else's property being f rom Brendan McCloat, Adelaide prayed God would our local doctor, a j ust happened to be knocked off. send us children, non and -Catholic, explain- visiting his home, and Sir, A sick-minded few may have the same feeling that the current victims are mainly banks, TAB, the twelve times I ing to him Church be available to assist The seven Western Australians who have commenced or financial bodies that can swallow their losses. booked into hospital t eaching on proce- the doctor in my need. this year at St Francis Xa‘ier Seminary in Adelaide would like to extend an appreciation to the people of But there is no such thing as a free lunch, we have were special events: dures allowed at such This was the last mis- W A through your newspaper. been told, and the cost will surely be passed on to every child was a times, and certain that carriage, and I over- Having spent 1982 at St Charles Seminary. Guildford, the public. the doctor did all a heard the Matron we thank all the people who have assisted us through The insecurity on our own streets is a far cry wanted child. their prayers, benefactions involvement. W hen it became C athol ic mother phoning the doctor In particular our thanks areand from the boastful days when an Aussie miner's due to Archbishop Good tent or an axeman's hut was as safe as a bank, apparent a baby was would wish. with great urgency, "If Bishop Healy and the Bishops of Bunbury and Gerald when men were tough but mateship was the rule. not going to survive to you don't come this ton, Monsignor Barry Hickey and Father Bryan Rosling our wonderful rector and understanding spiritLawlessness on the streets is no longer a joke b irth, even after e vening, she won't ual director, as well as The Record for publicising the as the late night shops which open for our convenDisparaging still be here in the seminary work. ience are victims, when churches lock their doors weeks in bed resting, and priests ask which presbytery has not been o ur reaction was, morning. . . ." Yet I felt We cannot exclude the wonderful people of Guildford whose priest we seconded. The parishes of Mirrabooka. raided by those in search of easy money. "The Lord gave, the On this particular not the slightest fear Subiaco and Bullsbrook for their sharing and generosArmed robbery, however, raises a moral ques- Lord taketh away, occasion a Catholic in the face of death — ity. Our special thanks also to the Daughters of Charit . tion far more serious than merely taking propblessed be the name woman had spoken all I could think of was staff and patients of St Vincents Hospital in Guildford erty. Whether they are bluffing or not, these who always made us welcome for celebration of the disparagingly to me "Will my child be eucharist and other functions. bandits are stating by their actions that they of the Lord." St Gerard, the Moth- after I had lost the baptised?" intend to shoot any counter clerk or bystander Finally to the many priests, lay organisations and peowho does not cooperate. er's Saint, was a great baby, saying that her And so it was, for the ple who assisted us with their prayers and friendship. our heartfelt thanks. The aggressors in these attacks are guilty of the standby. daughter had refused night sister, an excel- You will always be warm in our hearts and prayers. further moral offence of exploiting the accepted Then there was the to allow the same doc- lent Catholic, assured May God's love and peace be with you all. morality of retaliation. R edemptorist priest tor to give her any me when I recovered, Catholic moral theologians have struggled with the problem to the extent of saying that who wrote me a beau- treatment, and how that conditional bapaggression can be resisted only as far as is necestism had been adminsary for safety. In other words, life is sacred and ist I can only ay to from Mrs Marie Clarke, if there is a choice then maiming is to be chosen Nurses for Life Kate Edmondson that I rather than killing. Sir, see no need whatever It is a moral principle that affects many aspects f or "l iturgies or The Record is to be of our society. Our police do not normally go a pplauded for the armed and that is the way we want it, and preparaliturgies." sumably so do they. Clerks rightly claim that it is For me the Church reporting (March 31) not their duty to be killed in defence of a client's was always a caring of the Public Health money. Department's immunChurch. If a policeman fires even one shot, there is a f rom Pat Hackett, Applecross isation campaign hue and cry about the correctness of that action. against the disease of Even though hooligan shooters on country roads Sir, On the spiritual side, she Prayed don't care we have a right to insist that sporting rubella. K ate Edmondson's would most shooters observe a code. lengthy article, or thesis probably in the past been The members of Nurses national levels, the only A new breed of outlaw may or may not be a ( Record, March 31), cer- tatight that Limbo is the When I was too ill to for Life totally support effective pro-life organisatransient gang element. It does not change the tainly hits at men, in par- place for unborn babies. go to Mass, I knew that such health programmes in tion that will stop aborpreventative medicine tion, infanticide, euthanfact that they are challenging society's view of ticular "celibate" priests. A terrible feeling, her asia and in-vitro fertilisadeterrence far beyond creating business for the Quote: "In the Church, the child will never see God. many people prayed schemes. W e strongly advise tion, is the Right to Life manufacturers of security doors. nature of female sexuality Words, written or other- for me. It is not fashionable to talk of heavy gaol has been expressed by male wise will not alter the fact I held my rosary con- members of the commun- Association in which our ity who require the rubella organisation is a specialist sentences as deterrents in a climate where prisons celibates, men who left that miscarriage happens, stantly, and wore my immuni sation to obtain section. are claimed to be too full of the people who their homes while still ado- so why form "special" Brown Scapular with the vaccine. Nurses are beyond disshould not be there. Gaols become a bigger lescent," etc, etc. groups, as suggested by the small relic lly we are aware pute involved in these of St ofTragica burden to the taxpayers' backs than to the abortions performed issues in one way or So what? Why the ill Kate Edmondson, to con- Gerard pinned to it. inmates. due to women contracting another, and hence hold an sole one another. feeling? The Redemptorist rubella, and of the greater awesome responsibility. It may be unfashionable for those whose main It seems no consolation There are gatherings and evil, abortions done when In some situations it is no mission in life is to preach God's peace and organisations, within the Fathers who had sent the woman has merely ben scenario for the chickenreconciliation to point out that we are also has been forthcoming Church where women dis- it assured me that the in contact with the disease hearted. entitled to elementary protection from our when a woman has expe- cuss "Life" and willingly -- healthy babies termi- Nurses for Life is non rienced a "miscarriage." A Carmelite Sisters who enemies. will "console" those who nated because of rubella denominational, non politThe buck cannot be passed simply to an over- liturgy should be provided feel in need of such made the relic -holders scare. ical, all personnel of the prayed for whoever This (latter) should not nursing taxed police force if we are tacitly breeding a new foro "grieving" — miscar- consolation. community are riage. She states. Why the generation of citizen who has little respect for life occur in the informed accepted as members. wore them. emphasis on miscarriage? No-one is an island. in many directions. We do not accept the By all means pray for Our own community society in which we live. Big deal. A lot of words to "life" lost by natural aborNurses for Life intend to assumption that one must If the heavy sentences meted out recently to of nuns, alerted by my make it clearly understood be a general trained nurse gold stealers were deemed to be compatible with say so little. tion or otherwise but what the cash they have stashed away then the legislaAll women who have about the living. . .the school-aged children, at state, national and inter- to hold pro-life ideals. ture and the courts could well spell out the direc- e xperienced miscarriage emphasis should be on our prayed too. .ittilill111111111111111111111111111111111111111Fii111111111111111111111111111111111111H111111 1 tion the safety of society is expected to take in the will tell you how hard it is. c hildren. . .the living- Sometimes I wonder matter of armed assault. That is something they . . .that they be fully what the debate on cannot account for. instructed in their faith, sexuality is doing to Nature may have taken its guided on how to survive • 26 John Street, Perth WA 6000 OPTICIANS AND OPTOMETRISTS the Church. The Correspondence • course, malformation has in this society, by mothers, The Editor. The Record. PO Box 50 been diagnosed after the fathers, teachers and Although we are conContact LENS CONSULTANTS • • Aberdeen Street. Perth, 6000 • baby has been naturally religiou Advertising s. stantly talking about • ; Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 • aborted. If there is any "grieving" love, the family, etc, it PERTH PICCADILLY ARCADE 321 8151 r egistered for posting as a newspaper Category "A" (11) • There are many other to be done, this is where it • • Produced in WA 5304 STREET 321 154 PERTH WILLIAM would seem the true Printed and published weekly by Edward vanHeemst. courses too. should be. 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Bishops say army Funds set Exports for Irish murdered from the NEW YORK (NC) — The New York Archdiocese has established a Fund for Peace and Justice in Ireland with a $10,000 anonymous donation. But no decision has ben made about what activities will receive the money. Since the first announcement of the establishment of the fund on St Patrick's Day, another $2,000 has been donated and many "encouraging" telephone inquiries have been received.
The idea for the fund d eveloped because archdiocesan officials thought someone with money to donate for use in Ireland would probably be approached by those favouring the use of violence to achieve political goals in Northern Ireland. How the money will be used will depend on the advice archdiocesan officials receive from Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich of Armagh, N orthern Ireland; Bishop Cahal Daly of Down and Connor, the diocese which includes Belfast and others "on the Irish end" and in the United States.
HARARE: Zimbabwe's Catholic bishops have accused the army of killing and maiming hundreds of innocent citizens but the bishops' statement has been ridiculed by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, onetime Catholic who now describes himself a Marxist.
The seven Catholic bishops (four black and three white) said they supported government efforts to restore order but that army methods "just have degenerated into brutality and atrocity."
French move on schools
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"To our certain knowledge, there has been maiming and d eath of hundreds and hundreds of innocent people who are neither dissidents nor c ollaborators," the bishops said.
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V ATICAN CITY: Vatican City e xported goods worth 5325,000 to Italy during 1982 but its imports from Italy totalled S5.2 million says an Italian government report. About S50,000 of the Vatican's export income was from the sale of lavender perfumes and soaps made by a Rome religious congregation for sale exclusiv ely in the Vatican pharmacy. More than 1,000 gallons of the perfume were sold during the first 10 months of 1982 at the pharmacy. hich is open to Vatican employees and their families and residents. Other Vatican exports included a S20,000 tractor, 15 tons of industrial products worth S35,000, 67.8 tons of synthetic products worth S45.000 and 37 tons of organic chemical products w orth S32,000. They were not produced by the N atican but only resales of products previously purchased. Coming into the Vatican were more than 7,000 pairs of shoes, 76.5 gallons of alcoholic bey erages. nearly 630 tons of sugar and 165 tons of pasta and wheat products for the Vatican's 3,395 employees and 1.500 retirees.
V ATICAN CITY (NC) -- Cal ling freedom ' indivisible, ' " Pope John Paul 11 criticised a "We are convinced by inconproposal by France's trovertible evidence many wanSocialist government to ton atrocities have been and are n ationalise Catholic still being perpetrated," the schools. bishops said. France's commitment to freedom requires it to "The facts point to a reign of respect "the freedom of terror caused by wanton kilfamilies to educate their lings, woundings, beatings, children according to their burnings and rapings," they own convictions," the pope a dded. said as he received the cre"People in rural areas external pressure or an Under France's Debre dentials of the new French internal oppression, the Law, passed in 1959, are starving, not only ambassador to the Holy loss of public, collective or nearly all private schools because of the drought but See, Xavier Daufresne de individual freedoms is. in receive direct or indirect because in some cases supplies of food have been la Chevalerie. all cases, to be condemned support from the State. The government of and must be clearly, vigor- The law established a deliberately cut off and in Socialist President Fran- ously. constantly denoun- multitiered approach other cases access to food PEKING: One of Peking's oldest monucois Mitterand proposes to ced." the French president whereby the amount of supplies has been restricted ments, the astronomical observatory once nationalise private schools said at the time. public aid is determined by or stopped." said the operated by the Jesuits, reopened to the in France. Most of the pri- "Real equality among the degree of state control. hierarchy. public after four years of restoration work. vate schools are Catholic. men is especially expressed If private schools enter a The observatory, constructed in 1296 on "Freedom is indivisible. It by the way in which the "control of association," the orders of Chinese Emperor Kublai Khan is the just freedom of fundamental rights of per- all teachers' salaries and A ccused and rebuilt in 1522, was entrusted to the HO CHI MINH CITY: expression of persons and sons in all circumstances operating expenses are respected." after the arrival in China of a Jesuit are Jesuits According to reports from groups: it is freedom of national or paid by the missionary, Father Matteo Ricci, in 1583. the International Informa- conscience. . .not only the Catholic bishops and local government, but the The bishops accused Torrential rains severely damaged the tion Service of Aid to the ability to organise their school groups in France government also hires the unidentified influential Church in Need, the ways and worship in an have strongly denounced a t eachers and controls people of inflaming the building in 1979 and restoration work had to number of Catholic priests independent fashion. . .but proposal, outlined last teaching methods and class situation with public be done. who have died in Vietna- also the respect shown in December by French Edu- schedules. speeches and of trying to mese prisons since the public, as well as in the cation Minister Alain Say- Religious instruction is cover up events. occupation of South Viet- media, for intimate convic- ary, to nationalise the during school hours. The Daughters of Charity They criticised the Zimnam has increased from 10 tions, and equally the free- nation's 14,000 private babwean Press for failing schools, which currently Under a "sirbple conteducate to families dom of NEED YOUR HELP to 14. to publish facts about the Refugees have reported their children according to have some 2.3 million ract," private elementary situation. f oi their work for the development of the schools can receive local the death of four priests their own convictions," the students. The bishops said they underprivileged About 10,000 of those public aid for operating pope said. known by name. have supplied their eviOf the 130 priests known Pope John Paul thanked schools, with some 2. 1 mil- expenses and the State dence to the government. URGENTLY NEEDED to be in "re-education the French ambassador for lion students, are run by pays half the teachers' tself," said Information Clothing, the Catholic Church. salaries, but the school clean, wearable, - house -hold about comment a camps," the largest group quoting Minister Nathan Shamugoods -- nick-nacks ornaments, of them (28) are in the freedom made by Presi- More than one sixth of hires its own teachers and yarira. camp at Than Cam (North dent Mitterand in France's student popula- the government has only jewellery, etc. He accused some of the tion is enrolled in Catholic limited control over curricVietnam). The rest are in December 1981. Deliver to ulum and administration. bishops of supporting the "Whether it is the result of or other private schools. nine other camps. white minority govern5 34 William Street, Highgate ment which ruled ZimFor Truck to call — Phone 328 4403 babwe. then called Country goods marked donation Rhodesia, in the 1970s and f ree on rail to Kewdale Rail Terminal said the bishops had not provided the government with evidence of atrocities. fammiminntininommummminumiummumfmniminninni
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VATICAN CITY: History has re-surfaced with a rather notorious Vietnamese bishop being excommunicated by the pope a second time. A rchbishop Thuc, at one time in charge of the diocese of Vinh Long in South Vietnam has been excommunicated by Pope John Paul II along with six other "bishops" illegally ordained in a Spanish breakaway Catholic group. A rchbishop Thuc first
attracted attention in Vietnam where he was an influential adviser to the government which was led by his brother, the late President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Archbishop Thuc was next heard of in Spain where a breakaway Church was formed and Archbishop Thuc was excommunicated for illegally ordaining as bishop Clemente Dominguez, a Spaniard, who declared himself pope and set up his own church near
Seville.
But the Archbishop later publicly repented and the Vatican lifted his first excommunication in 1977. In this latest decree the Vatican said that since his first excommunication was lifted, Archbishop Thuc had declared publicly he believed the "see of Saint Peter to be empty," meaning that he did not recognise legitimate papal authority The six "illegitimate" bishops excommunicated with Archbishop Thuc were an American, a Frenchman and four Mexicans.
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Bitten by bug to ake smiles Fred Burke, who cannot remember how early in his life the entertaining bug bit him and left permanent effects, will tell you that the only prizes he ever won at school were for elocution and art of speech. Now, in his 86th year, his eyes light up as he talks about the golden days of his life on the stage, and the trauma of the arthritis that cripples him is momentari ly forgotten. Sure, he'll chat about his 52 years as a dentist — but somehow the conversation always gets back to the stage.
Fred Burke in his heyday with the late Gerry McCarthy.
Fred has no memories of his father, a merchant navy officer who lost his life at sea in the wreck of the ship Glenelg. Tragedy also tinged the life of his Irish mother whose builder father fell to his death in Ireland from the steeple of a church he was constructing. Fred's early recollections revolve round his days at CBC Parade in Melbourne, the successful cramming for his Leaving Certificate at St Patrick's in Ballarat, the prizes he won for elocution and art of speech — and singing and acting. It would be a good thing, his elders thought, for young Fred to be articled to the law under his uncle Walter Dwyer in Perth. And so it came to pass and it passed pretty quickly. A fter six months, eminent legal figure Walter and trainee solicitor Fred both arrived at the conclusion that the youngster was not cut out for a career in the law. A change in professional path was indicated, and it took place when Fred was apprenticed to Perth dentist Gilbert Henderson. Four years of training and successful coping with examinations followed, and in 1925 the scion of the Burkes was admitted to practice. His mentor Gilbert was a master of oral surgery and this was the field in which Fred was to specialise later in his career. But singing and entertaining occupied every moment the young dentist could spare from his profession. The Redemptorist Monastery in North Perth in those days had a first-class choir of which Fred was a member, and in 1918 it presented what was claimed as the first amateur full-scale opera to be performed in Perth. Because it contained a lot of chorus work suitable for choir singing, Vincent Wallace's opera Maritana was chosen. Herr Nowotny conducted the orchestra, Joe Sturmer was the musical director, among those playing leading roles were soprano Doris Horrigan, tenor Peter Roxby and bass Bill Ginnivan -- and Fred played the part of the villain. For six months the principals rehearsed at the Burke home in Alfonso Street in North Perth and the chorus in St Brigid's Convent
One of the many productions in His Majesty's Theatre in which Fred Burke played a part. Among the front row performers in this picture are John LeTessier, Anita Fitzgerald, Phil Jackson and Lorna Sydney-Smith.
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Today's People A weekly feature By BOB BOYLE in West Perth until the two components were brought together for final rehearsals. The opera was presented in the old Melrose Theatre in Murray Street, later the site of the Prince of Wales Theatre and now part of commercial premises. "The theatre had a very high ceiling of galvanised iron with iron supporting rods running underneath it," Fred recalls. "It was a brute of a place to fill with sound." But fill it with sound they did and they also filled the seats at every performance. It was a great musical and financial success and they were able to present the wartime Red Cross with the substantial sum in those days of 400 pounds. With local cast supplementation, the company later performed Maritana in Geraldton and Kalgoorlie. Fred was a keen member of the Repertory Club for years and took part in many plays and musical comedies such as Country Girl and Dorothy. They presented three or four musical comedies a year and when the musicals were being rehearsed they put on short seasons of drama or comedy.
S hakespeare He was also in the Shakespeare Society and played mainly the comedy roles contained in many of the Bard's works. In addition to performances for the general public, the society would put on for students dramatised versions of the Shakespeare plays set for study in the Leaving Certificate examination course. Mick Eustace, who had been a professional actor, was stage manager and brought a lot of expertise to performances. Anita Fitzgerald (later Mrs Le Tessier) was the competent producer. "There was a great camaraderie between the amateur theatrical groups in Perth in those days," Fred says. "If you wanted a dancer, singer or actor from another company you could always borrow one." Fred had been a member of the Knights of the Southern Cross for some time when the secretary of that institution, Tom Barry, introduced him to an Armadale vigneron named Jerry McCarthy. It was the start of a comedy partnership that still has some of the elders of the archdiocese rolling in the aisles in recollection. Fred and Jerry wrote every sketch they performed and spent long hours in rehearsal. "Jerry was an absolute perfectionist," Fred remembers. "If a sketch was not being done exactly
Frederick Walter Burke, r etired dentist, long-time member of the Holy Rosary parish at Nedlands and warmly r emembered by the older generation as an amateur stage comedian, was born at R ichmond in Victoria on December 24, 1897. He started his education with the Christian Brothers at CBC P arade in Melbourne and o btained his Leaving Certificate as a pupil with the same order at St Patrick's College, Ballarat. He came to Perth to be articled to solicitor Walter Dwyer, his mother's brother who was later to preside over the Arbitration Court, but six months of this regimen convinced both his uncle and himself that the law was not for him. He switched to the dentistry discipline and was admitted to practice after four years' apprenticeship with Gilbert Henderson. His 52 years in dentistry was successful professionally but the love of the stage and entertaining that he had acquired in early childhood never left him and his talents were given rein in many a performance in Perth.
the way he wanted it he insisted on rehearsing it until it reached his very high standards. "Then, well after midnight he would set out from our home on the long drive to Armadale on the poor gravel track that was then the main road." Hard work and talent paid off, however, and for many years Freddie Burke and Jerry McCarthy were the star turns at a wide variety of entertainment evenings. Steady rather than spectacular progress in the science marked his 52 years in dental practice, Fred says. He had a surgery in North Perth for 20 years before moving to St George's Terrace. "For example," he continues, "the old vulcanite dental plates were quite good, but with the plastics being used now you can match the colour of the gum far more closely." Hours of leaning over patients with resultant back strain for the dentist are.a thing of the past. Now the patient lies on a form of couch and the dentist sits on a stool to work. Fred performed a lot of operative dentistry, a leaning towards which he had developed during the years of his apprenticeship under master dental surgeon Gilbert Henderson. As the interview ended it was obvious that the performing arts rather than dentistry occupy most of his recollections. "Don't forget to mention," he piped up, "that I conducted the choirs at the Holy Rosary at Nedlands and Our Lady of Martyrs at Maylands."
Paramount Tours' special offer to Europe Next year is a very special one in the small Bavarian town of Oberammergau — world f amous for the performance of Passion Play — because they will be celebrating the 350th anniversary of their deliverance from the great plague. Breaking from the tradition of performing the Passion Play only e very 10 years, the villagers are after only 4 years re-enacting the Play in 1984 to celebrate this remarkable anniversary. The Play grew out of the suffering in the tiny hamlet in the Bavarian Alps from the combined effects of t he 30 -years -war w aged between 1618 and 1648, and plague in 1632. It seemed to the villaggers they had been singled out to suffer the wrath of God when t he dreaded sickness struck the village, and thus it was doomed to e xtinction because already 84 of the 500 villagers had died. T he village elders conferred and swore an oath "to keep the Tragedy of the Passion every 10 years" if they were delivered from the plague. The chronicles recorded from that moment n o further death occurred. So plans were made by the grateful villagers and in 1634 the first Passion Play was performed on a stage in the cemetery in front of the church. Now there is a modern theatre, seating 4500 under cover, but the stage itself is in the open with the pinecovered Bavarian mountains forming a green backcloth against a blue sky. In the spirit of faith t hat has endured through the centuries, a very special tour has b een designed by Paramount Travel as a Pilgrimage of Faith a nd will be fully e scorted by Miss Denise Officer. In addition there will be a priest — this appointment to be announced at a later date. The itinerary has been carefully planned to cater for the first time pilgrim and those who have been fortunate to undertake a similar journey previously. L eaving mid-July, travel will be direct from Perth to Rome with three nights stay in this city, during which time there will be an audience with His Holiness. A call will be made at Assisi and then throough the Umbria region to the Renaissance city of Florence. C ontinuing northwards participants will enjoy the mountain scenery of the Dolomites, staying at the
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the home of St Jean Vianney and Lourdes, where the visit will coincide with the feast of the Assumption. At the conclusion of the European tour the group will travel to London for a few days in the exciting British c apital prior to returning to Perth in the early hours of August 24. For those who wish to stay over and visit relatives or friends or for further touring may do so as the airline ticket is flexible and offers v arious options. Special religious services, visits and M asses are being arranged en route. C ost of the tour on the basis of twin room accommodation will be $5600.00 per person and reservations and full details are available from Paramount Travel, 77 St George's T errace (Allendale Square), Perth 6000. Phone (09) 3252144.
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denied admittance to the present crowded chool and The council had sche- the anticipated increased duled a further meeting on demand for places in the September 29 to discuss an area when further residential development takes alternative site. Catholic representatives place. indicated earlier they The Ovens Road site will would not attend such a provide an area sufficient meeting because there was for a full two-stream primno indication a suitable ary school plus church, alternative site was availa- hall, presbytery, and other ble that would take into amenities. consideration parish devel- It is the Catholic view that opment that already exists this will not unduly disturb at Gosnells and Lynwood. traffic in the area since The October 14 refusal of Catholic churches provide the application by the off-road parking facilities council included the state- Far from being detrimenment that the proposed tal, it is considered that the Catholic development construction of a church would "have a significant and school will provide a and deleterious effect on much wanted community the existing amenity of the service. immediate area and will The acquisition of the also affect the existing Ovens Road site also amenity of adjacent areas." means that some time in The council refusal also the future the crowded claimed "there is over- M ass conditions in whelming local objection Kenwick-Thornlie parish by adjacent residents, par- can be alleviated by the ents of children attending construction of a large new the school, school adminis- church. tration authorities and P Sacred Heart church on and C representatives to Royal Street, Kenwick, built originally as a station the proposal." Catholic witnesses at the church from Queens Park, tribunal hearing included is filled to capacity every the principal of Sacred Sunday, while a kilometre Heart school, Thornlie, away, the school desks and the planning officer of have to be stacked aside the Catholic Education every Sunday so that three office, who testified to the classrooms can be set up number of children already for Sunday Mass.
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TOP and ABOVE, scenes from the Passion Play.
The Cologne cathedral, a stopover on the tour.
Crusade against Hitler
R OME (NC): Soviet c ommunist authorities launched a "religious countercrusade" by radio during World War II, urging European Christians to unite against the "anti-Christ," Hitler, according to a US Jesuit historian. Writing in the March issue of Civilta Cattolica, policy in those times of the Italian biweekly Jesuit great danger for the Soviet review, Father Robert A Union," wrote Father GraGraham said a Soviet-run ham, a specialist in clandestine radio station World War II history. transmitted in six lan- "Stalin saw the need to guages three times a week, mobilise the patrioticurging Catholics to "resist religious sentiments of the in the name of the faith." Russian people." Called Christian Radio, The transmissions were the station was based on aimed primarily, however, the model of Jesuit-run at the populations of counVatican Radio and closed tries near the Soviet each broadcast with the Union, especially Poland, w ords, "Christians, Czechoslovakia and HunCatholics. Persevere in the gary, Father Graham said. battle against the anti- "German Catholics were Christ." praised for their courage The radio station was under the Nazi persecufounded, with the approval tions, and other believers of Soviet leader Joseph were called to imitate Stalin, shortly after Adolf them," he wrote. Hitler broke Germany's Father Graham said that non-aggression pact with one of the radio's Germanthe Soviet Union by invad- language speakers, ing it in June 1941. Richard Gyptner, later "The religious accent of served as East Germany's Christian Radio, as sur- ambassador to China and prising as it is, in fact coin- Poland. cided with Stalin's new He died in Berlin in 1972.
C.S.A.'s new appointment being people oriented. "A council meeting does "Just by being a pari- not necessarily have to shioner a person is impor- have an agenda. It may be tant. If each becomes a sufficient just to talk about happier person and a lot of people they have met durpeople become happy it ing the month, to be in will be a happier parish all touch with people's needs. round. They don't have to "If a pastoral council do anything; just being keeps in touch with needs parishioners is enough. they do not have to do all "There has to be a shift of the work themselves, but it emphasis from thinking of is their task to find people councils as management who can respond to such and task oriented, rather to needs."
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An alpine cottage at the Bavarian village of Oberammergau.
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New code's Lo ve th is e future file What will happen to the new Code of Canon Law after it is enacted? The new code, which has been nearly 20 years in the making, will replace the 1917 code which has served as the general law of the Latin-rite Catholic Church for 65 years. Will it be another 65 years before the general Church law is revised
a gain? Does the new code mark an end of the era of Church reform following the Second Vatican Council, or is it merely another step along the path? How will the new code affect the pace or direction of reform? More basically, how will this new body of law interact with the living Church, affecting it and being affected by it? First there is certain to be a period of a few years in By Jerry Filteau which interpretations of NC News Service what the code actually means are sorted out. Just as a special pontifiNinth in a series cal commission was established to provide authentic interpretation of the old times breathtaking pace of troverted issues reflect code shortly after it was postconciliar institutional affirmations of official issued in 1917, so it is reform in the Church has positions -- lessening almost certain that Pope already slowed down and hopes people may have John Paul II will establish w ill almost certainly had for change in those a similar commission for remain slower after the areas in the near future. enactment of the new code, Yet, because of the genthe new code. Its interpretations scarcely anyone expects erally more rapid pace of would be official and the new code to have the institutional change today, almost engraved-in-stone because of the stillbinding. character of the 1917 code transitional situation of At a less official level, the postconciliar Church. scholarly studies, semin- when it was enacted, For one thing, it is gen- and because of a different ars, workshops, and other forms of exchange of the- erally acknowledged that attitude in the Church ory and experience will the new code comes into toward the changeability help develop consensus being at a time when the of its laws, the legislation and refined understand- Church is still in a transi- of the new code as a whole tional stage. is likely to undergo more ings of the new law. Beyond the sociological extensive modifications in The Canon Law Society of America has decided to fact that major institu- the next two or three form an advisory commit- tional reforms of Vatican decades than the 1917 code tee to give non-official but II are still in rough form did in its first three or four expert legal assistance in and need more than two decades of existence. resolving practical ques- decades to be refined and tions that arise from the to take root fully, there is t he deeper theological new code. Workable principle -- practically Secondly, as with the 1917 code, specific laws in unheard of in 1917 but now the new code can be virtually unquestioned — It enters into Church life s uppressed, changed, that the Church as an instisuperseded or dispensed tution is "semper reform- as a framework of law that anda," always in need of is workable and in many with by papal decree. reform, ways satisfactory and lastFor appropriate pasEven Pope John Paul 11, ing, but not etched in toral reasons individual bishops may dispense with despite his wide reputation stone. A t ird notable point observance of the general as a conservative, in four law in individual cases years as pope, has made a about the future of the new (although the likelihood of number of creative uses of code - and by far its most this is greatly decreased new institutional struc- important aspect for its impact on Catholic under the new code simply tures in the Church. He has given new promi- Church life through the because the new code leaves so much more to nence to the College of rest of the 1980s, and very particular legislation in the Cardinals, restoring to the likely beyond — is the college as a whole a more opportunity it provides for first place). integral role as papal advi- local Church policy, legisIf a particular law causes severe difficulty in some sors on major matters of lation and adaptation. The new code represents nation or region of the Church administration a major shift in focus, from world, the bishops of that and policy, He called the Dutch syn- Rome to the basic comarea may seek an indult (permission) to be freed od, the first particular munity of the local Church headed by the bishop. synod of its kind, from observing it. He neatly bypassed legal One of Canada's most For example, some Americans are worried problems to return the noted canon lawyers, about a new law in the code Ukrainian Church in dias- Oblate Father Francis that says theology teachers pora to a form of synodal Morrisey of St Paul Uniin Catholic universities rule and hierarchical conti- versity in Ottawa, ought to have an ecclesias- nuity in conformity with its addressed that issue in a major speech at the 1981 ecclesial tradition, tical mandate to teach. On his election he indi- joint convention of the cated he wanted to streng- Canon Law Society of then the role of the world America and the Canadian Canon Law Society. Synod of Bishops. Interpreted While noting the major He upgraded the Vatican's department on family importance of particular life and has indicated plans legislation in Church life Depending on how it is to make other changes in when the new code is interpreted, they fear it t he Church's central adopted, he also warned could threaten the civil administration, sharply against "jumping accreditation and public The new Code of Canon the gun" by legislating too aid to US Catholic Law is intentionally flexi- quickly or extensively. colleges. ble and leaves legislation "Each episcopal conferOne possible recourse on many things to particu- ence," he said, "will have to would be to seek an lar law, so that many of the see to it steps are taken to exemption from that law in institutional changes still implement the legislation the US Church. to come need not affect the gradually and intelligently. The legislation of the code directly. "Our efforts for the next 1917 code, issued at a time They will take place few years should be cenof relatively slow change in ouside or alongside the tered almost exclusively on the world and even slower code. preparing the decisions change in the Church, had Nevertheless, almost that episcopal conferences rather few general modifi- certainly some changes will will have to make. cations in the first 40 years be made that directly sus"Once a general overall or so of its existence, but it pend, alter or nullify laws policy has been agreed was changed rapidly and in the code. upon, only then will it be substantially in the 1960s The new code will set rel- time to turn toward ecclesiand 70s in the wake of the atively permanent laws astical provinces and parSecond Vatican Council. and patterns, and the deci- ticular dioceses for / Although the rapid, at sions of its drafters on con- councils and synods. 10 The Record, April 14 — 20, 1983
give to our When Maria and Vince Dissidomino of Noranda brought home their f irst-born child 19 years ago, they gazed in wonder at the beautiful, dark eyed little cherub tucked up in her cot and seemingly full of such promise. But the dark-haired baby who looked like any other, was not like any other . . . . and that was the tragedy they had to bring themselves to accept. She had suffered brain damage at birth and been diagnosed as suffering f rom severe cerebral palsy. She would remain totally incapacitated, said the doctors. She was a 'vegetable. ' For Maria and Vince, one look into the depths of her lustrous brown eyes and a touch of the dimple in her chin made it all seem l ike a nightmare from which they must eventually awake.
'Josie recognises me and who are we to say what she knows or doesn't know . . . 'I'm more convinced than ever that Josie understands and I console myself with the f act that she has a beautiful expression on her face and all I can do for her is my best. 'If I can give her joy and some happiness within the ability she had to absorb then it is all worthwhile.'
They did awake, but the nightmare was real. As Maria hovered over her child and read books, waiting to see the signs of growth, the heaviness in her heart grew more. As they trekked from doctor to doctor and heard the constant cry; 'There is no pill, there is no medicine, there is nothing that can be done, nothing, nothing, nothing the tears came and they cried together. The beautiful baby grew into a gorgeous little girl but the body was limp and the mind so terribly trapped. Life became one of routine. Each morning Josephine had to be lifted out of bed, bathed, fed and dressed. It all took time and so did the clean-up afterwards. But there was no question of giving their daughter into the care of others. Maria has now cared for her Josie for nearly 20 years, raised three other children as well and run a family home that echoes with joy and love. To many outsiders it seems an impossible situation. For Maria, it is a job, a vocation and her responsibility as a mother. There are those who have said that such a child should'nt live; that 20 years have been wasted; that such a profoundly handicapped person is better cared for in a home Such unthinking comments hit hard and hurt long, says Maria. But she believes that the only road to recovery is love and that behind the crippled body is a mind with some understanding. "Buildings don't care for peopie," she said. "It's not the fact that there's air conditioning or that the beds are changed every day that comforts them — every human being needs love and care." "Josie recognises me and who are we to say what she knows or doesn't know. She knows exactly what she wants and I can read her facial expressions. It took me years to work out why she grizzled on Saturday mornings until I realised she was missing the routine of catching the bus to the centre. "I'm more convinced than ever that Josie understands and I console myself with the fact that she has a beautiful expression on her face and that all I can do for her is my best. "If I can give her joy and some happiness within the ability she had to absorb then it is all worthwhile. A warm, practical woman, Maria Dissidomino, with the help of her husband and family has come to terms with her daughter's limitations. Of course there is always the hope that a miracle will happen but she maintains she has had her blessings as well as her crosses and would not change her life. The earliest years were the hardest. When Josie was born the doctors didn't expect her to live. She was baptised and kept apart from her mother for seven days.
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ICCSILYN IVCSS "I knew enough to know that something was very wrong," Maria said. "But she was such a beautiful baby that when we brought her home it was so hard to believe there was any problem." In those days there was little money and no car. Maria travelled to countless specialists with her young baby, sometimes by cab and sometimes with her husband, Vince. She was between six and nine months when the specialist pronounced there was absolutely no hope, nothing could be done, that she was a 'vegetable.' 'Vegetable' is one word that makes Maria angry. It is used, she says in regard to a person, who, although not normal in the sense we understand, still has some depth of feeling and perception. "It is the most awful term and should not be used," she said, "after all they are still discovering about these children. There is so much they don't know. "1 will never forget one spastic man I met who could not speak at all but who typed out the message; 'My body may not be right but my mind is perfect.' It was the most encouraging thing I've seen. "And Josie does recognise me and she responds to her sisters and brothers. They come in the door and say; 'Hi Jose, what kind of a day did you have?' and depending on the mood she's in she will either giggle or grin." But the early years, says Maria, were especially heart-breaking. Josie started at the spastic centre at the age of seven months but wasn't 'competent' enough to remain with them. "We did a lot of crying together until we finally came to accept that
greatest gift we can handicapped child she would not improve," she said. Her faith, common sense and dedication have helped clear the path. She is, she says, in the hands of God. She knows that Josie's life expectancy is probably no more than 40 and in fact recognises it is more likely to be late 20's to early 30's. She knows too that there are no guarantees in life and if her time should come first has made arrangements for Josie to go into care. Her other daughter has said she would wish to care for her sister but Maria will have none of that. "Louisa is 18 and no one could expect her to take on such a task —it's different for a mother and I have told her that," she said. "As the Lord says, why worry about tomorrow. Take your problems one at a time for today. "I have no regrets because I have done my best. "I think as a family it has made us better Christians. My children are totally dedicated to Josie and v ery compassionate and understanding." The Dissidominos have two sons, Vincent, 17 and Dino, 14. They have had to learn about the hard side of life and the intolerance of other people. "But we have never hidden anything about Josie's condition or her growing up. They talk to her like a normal person, they know when she gets her period, they have seen her develop as a woman. "She has the most beautiful figure and I have been asked if I want to give her drugs to stop her period but I want her to be like every other woman." Maria is the first to admit that life has been easier in recent years with Josie at a special centre each day. It gives her a chance to get the housework done, do the shopping, attend meetings and if she's lucky. visit friends. Once Josie arrives home around 3 pm she's on the run again - taking her to the toilet, settling her in her favourite beanbag and preparing tea. A t the time that Josie was born there was very little help available for such profoundly handicapped children. In fact until Josie was 13 there was virtually no help at all. "I had four children, we were struggling financially, my mother had died and I had no sister or in-laws to help me," Maria said. Not to be stopped though, she took her case to former MP Ian Viner who was horrified that children like Josie lived at home. "He took up my case for financial aid and by the time of the August Federal budget Hayden was treasurer. Hayden wrote to me saying something would be done and eventually I heard on the radio that we were to get $5 a week. "It was a trivial amount but it represented a breakthrough, things are much better now. "The centres have become better equipped to cater for kids like Josie and in fact the centre she attends has 15 to 20 such children." While she still remembers the heartbreaking trek from doctor to doctor and the ringing of the shattering words; "There is no pill, there is no medicine, there is nothing that can be done, nothing, "she takes nothing, nothing solace in the fact that their daughter has brought great love, joy and understanding to their lives. She is grateful for the help of neighbours who gave hours of their time in the first 11 years of Josie's
life to put her through a patterning process. "We give credit to that for the beautiful shape her body is in," Maria said. "Without it I think her limbs would have become twisted and shrunken." While she realises that it has not always been easy for her other children to bear the brunt of cruel taunts from thoughtless schoolchildren she believes it has made them stronger, more compassionate people. "My daughter was told at school that she was a spastic like her sister it hurts them of course, but Louisa has always stood up for Josie and will speak out if she thinks people are staring unduly at her. "I have always said to them; 'Never deny that you have a sister. 'Never be ashamed, it could happen to anyone.' "There is a great need for people to talk more because it is something that can happen to any of us. "Many kids at the spastic centre are there as the result of accidents." One great blessing to come out of her years of caring has been a deepening of faith. "I came to know the Lord deeper when I had Josephine," she said. "When she was about 10 I began to worry what I would do as she got older. I was really in a turmoil. "We had family problems and it all seemed too much."
She became involved in charismtic renewal and says the experience changed her life. "I went with such an open heart and allI wanted was the gift to look after Josie. "I was given the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Father Paul Siebert prayed over me. "A light flooded around me and I couldn't see for a time and from that night on my whole life on faith and Christianity has changed. "I'm stronger now after caring for Josie for 20 years thanI was the day she was born. I've worn out three bibles studying but the moreI read the more I learn. "The scriptures are to be lived, not just read and put on a shelf. "To give one moment of pleasure or happiness to a person can't be a waste. "You might physically turn your back on a problem but it will always stay with you. As Christians I feel we have failed to turn to Jesus to find peace because He is the peacemaker. "I do a lot of reading now and I also do some counselling work because I have been through the problems. "But I can only encourage people, I can't change — all we can do is share our experiences and at least show that we care." The only sadness in Maria's life is that her daughter cannot receive communion in her local parish.
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Learning to belong The first Choice maturing process we all weekend for 1983 is must come to grips with in scheduled for early reconciling our dependence on others and our June. independence from others. A team of six has Another purpose to the begun preparations CHOICE programme is to to present the weeactivate in single young kend. They include adults a response to the Terry and Margaret ongoing mission of the F ennessy, Father Church and to involve John Jegorow, Sister them in definite and speMargaret O'Sullivan, cific apostolic ventures. H elen Curtin and A third basic purpose is to foster and create an Kevin Bailey. The first purpose of the environment in which the CHOICE programme is to single young adult can present to single young trust others and can talk adults in a positive way, very personally with peers the real meaning of belong- and older Catholic adults. This is not as common ing in a relationship, the consequences and condi- an experience as many tions of belonging, and to believe it to be. Many, if bring them to face the not most, would admit question. Do you want to upon questioning that they have difficulties in finding belong? It is meant to spell out even among their own the privilege it is to belong peers, someone to confide to another and to bring in and to communicate young adults to face how with on a personal level. they belong presently to An outcome of this prorelationships they have gramme should be a growing depth of trust and with others. The programme also communication among attempts to attack the those in the programme. atmosphere and propaThey can then go back to ganda in society which tells those to whom they belong single young adults that and apply the same princithey have to be separate ples, conditions and conseand independent from eve- quences experienced in the group. ryone else. The real content of the Though self reliance is a virtue, it too often seems programme is the expethat such heavy emphasis rience that the young adult is placed on this virtue that has of the relationships it leads to exclusion of the formed in the group.
Hungry to help About 80 young people participated in a Starvathon held at St Gerard's recently to raise money for Project Compassion. It was held over 24 hours instead of the usual 40 to encourage more people, especially families to participate in their homes. A film and discussion on justice related to Project Compassion was facilitated by Sister Adrienne of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. The last activity of the Starvathon w as a visit to Camillus /louse to make the young people aware that there were a number of people in Perth who were homeless and in need of help.
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My favourite post - known to others is illusresurrection gospel story trated powerfully in this is that of the disciples on story. It involves walking YCS FILM NIGHT the road to Emmaus. with people and sharing A pril 22, Friday (Luke 24.13) It is packed their journey. It's about making contact and friendwith meaning. 7.30pm — "Flying Cleopas and his mate had ships before we can ever High" (NRC), packed their bags on hope to influence. For C athedral Parish Easter Sunday, said good- youth groups seeking new C entre, 450 Hay bye to their friends (the members it's about visiting S treet, Perth. Cost apostles and disciples) others at home, walking Julia Pickering, CPY fulltimer rang me on Holy $ 2 (includes light amid the confusion of the home with them after Saturday to inform me that a former CPI- Central Team member Rick McFall was in hospital after a supper). More details w omen's stories about hav- school, or meeting them ing seen angels who for lunch at work. traffic accident the previous day — Good Friday. ring 328 4071. declared He was alive. It Making Jesus known and I found Rick in the intensive care unit of Royal w as all too much for Cleo- real also involves reading Perth Hospital in a critical condition when I pas so together with his and studying the scripvisited him that evening. CPY QUIZ NIGHT friend he headed for home, tures. Allowing Him to early Church called the Any youth group that In the midst of Easter joy there was sadness and Mass. strives to build communspeak to the heart through May 17, Tuesday Emmaus. tradgedy for the McFall family, for the CPY the power of His Word, The Antioch community ity, study the Word, break friends of Rick, for myself. 7.30 pm — just as He did to the disci- believes this and encour- bread together and reach As I write, Rick Ism in hospital, still Nookenburra Hotel, ages its members to make a out to others in need will unconscious. Speaking with his father one senses ples of Emmaus. Scarborough Beach In youth groups this may special sacrifice to attend a recognise the Risen I,ord the deep anxiety of a parent for the life of their son; R d, Innaloo. Cost $3. Scriptures mean inviting the parish morning weekday Mass. in their midst. I also sensed a tremendously deep faith in God Tables of 8. priest or Catechist to help wanting only the best for Rick; and if it be the will the group with a regular of God — restore Rick to life and health. Jesus Himself came up planned study of the scripThe response of the CPY members who knew and walked by their side. tures. Paul Bogoni tells me CPY SPIRITUAL Rick was quick to gather for a special Eucharist at not recthat this is exactly what ENCOUNTER DAY The disciples did the Youth Office Chapel. Over 35 young people ognise Him. Jesus happens at Riverton on packed the small chapel in sincere prayers of June 26, Sunday. explained the scriptures Monday evenings. petition to the Father. Details to follow. and finally they recognised Finally, the most powerPLEASE PRAY FOR RICK AND THE All young people Him in the breaking of the ful way in which Jesus McFALL FAMILY. from local groups bread. Their hearts were makes Himself known is at the Eucharist — the breakwelcomed. Contact opened. How to make Jesus ing of the bread, as the Barbara 328 8136.
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Boaz married Ruth and they were very happy. Soon Ruth was a mother. They named the baby boy, Obed. Boaz praised and thanked God.
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Happy brithday to Ryan Dear Captain Bob, Millie: My boyfriend has I have been in your club just realised his burning De Jonge, Geraldton; Adrian Bloodworth, Medfor three weeks and here ambition. Boaz was a wealthy harvest and cared for his She comes early in the Boaz liked Ruth. Ruth are my first five jokes. I Molly: And what's that? ina; Brendan Carlin, Rockingham; Anne-Marie man. Everyone in farm equipment. Boaz morning and works until worked hard in Boaz' fields hope you like them. Millie: He's joined the fire Duce, Boyanup; Liam B ethlehem knew t reated his employees evening. She hardly rests a until the harvest was over. Q. What was the first bus brigade. Duane, Wongan Hills; moment." She came to like Boaz a lot. to Columbia? Boaz as a very good justly and kindly. Jeanette Della Bora, One day Boaz went out Boaz walked over to Columbus. A. man. He owned many At the urging of Naomi, Rudi: Gerald's taking a Hamilton Hill; Emma fields and had much to look over the harvest. Ruth. "Don't got to work her mother-in-law, Ruth Q. What did the priest say sandwich course. Giambazi, Dalkeith; KenHe noticed a beautiful in anyone else's fields. Stay went to Boaz one evening. when the church caught power in the town. young woman gathering Trudi: What on earth for? dra Hassett, Rivervale; here with the other women Ruth found Boaz already fire? Rudi: To help him earn Regina Howe, Willetton; But he never took grains the others missed. workers. No one will harm asleep. She lay down at his A. "Holy Smoke." his bread and butter, I Jennifer Jensen, Mount advantage of the He had not seen her before. you." Q. Where do sheep shop? suppose. feet and slept there. Magnet; Mark Jenkins, poor or powerless. "Who is that young At meal time Boaz called A. Woolworths. Boaz woke up in the Orelia; Mark Kinsella, Many men and women w oman?" Boaz asked. to Ruth, "Come here and Q.Where do most gnu's Astronaut (To Ground Carcoola; Gerard Kelly, worked for Boaz. They "Her name is Ruth," came have some food with me." middle of the night. He was live? Control): We're slowing South Kumminin; David plowed his barley and the reply. "She came back Boaz shared his roasted amazed to find Ruth there. A. In Gnu(New) York. She woke up too. "I am down. Lawler, Kardinya; Joanna wheat fields, gathered the from Moab with Naomi. grain with her. Cooper, your servant," she said to David Ground Control: What's Lane, Morawa; Carla PerCoolbellup. Boaz. "Will you take me as the matter? roni, Marmion; Joanna your wife?" NOTE: We had a mem- Astronaut: We've just Priestley, Manning; Glen "May the Lord bless bership form from some- been thumbed down by an Talbot, Girrawheen; Ashley Taylor, Wattleup; Eliyou!" Boaz answered. "I one called Zachary of 86 angel who wants a lift. zabeth Walsh, Armadale; will do whatever you ask. Gibson Street, EsperThe whole town knows ance, but when we sent First man: I'm going to Anne Wayne, South Perth; what a good woman you out our letter it was take my wife to the seaside Kim Walsh, Claremont; Robert Lynch, Dalkeith; are. But you have a closer returned saying "wrong for a change. relative than I am who has address." WHERE ARE Second man: That's inter- Katherine O'Callaghan, the right to marry you if he YOU ZACHARY? Please esting. What are you going Coorow. wishes. Stay here tonight. write in again and this to change her for? Tomorrow I will settle the time send us your surmatter." name as well. In the morning Boaz CAPTAIN BOB. gave Ruth six measures of barley to take to Naomi. ou haxe got to be in the club Please print cleans and don't Boaz went quickly to the if ynt want to enter our forget sour date of birth and a city gate, where people competitions and win some of stamp so we can send .sour went to settle legal matters. Dentist (to patient): I the super priies. membership form to sou. Boaz found Ruth's rela- haven't seen you for a very To join simpls send the Alembership will allow ou to time. long tive. "Come sit beside me!" completed coupon here to The enter %rhourr acompetitions. v4 li. all Boaz invited him. The man Patient: That's true, but R ecord Kid's ('tub. PO Box W ell. sou waiting TE.ARS now I'm simply achng to sat down. Boaz picked 10 50, Aberdeen Street. Perth, for? you see again. older men to be judges and 6000. witnesses and explained A First Housewife: I must the case. say my husband's taking Boaz married Ruth and Fizesu)u PuZ-71.Ep they were very happy. the "Save Energy" camLAUG+4 paign very seriously. Soon Ruth was a mother. They named the baby boy, Second Housewife: Oh? What's he doing about it Name Obed. Boaz praised and then? thanked God. First Housewife: He's Address Obed grew up and stopped working. become father of Jesse. P 'code CAN YOU norck rgE EXPRESSIONS IN MESE BOXES Jesse became the father of What was the name of the David, who became King famous Jewish detective? W ITH THE APPROPRIATE FACE ? Age Birthdate of Israel. Shylock Holmes.
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Sports star award night Champion swimmer, Neil Brooks, won the 21st Caltex Sports Star of the Year for 1983 at a glittering presentation telecast by Channel Seven from the Golden Ballroom at the Perth Sheraton Hotel. Winner of three gold medals at last year's Brisbane Commonwealth Games, Neil Brooks has since set the fastest time for 100 yards freestyle in the United States where he is attending college. Neil w as unable to attend the presentation and his father, Mick Brooks, received both the silver and golden statuettes on his behalf. T he trophies were presented lioN the WA Premier, Mr Brian Burke.
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A ccepting his son Neil's silver & gold statuettes is Mick Brooks with host Tony Charlton at the 1983 Caltex Sports Star of the year awards held at the Golden BaIroom, Sheraton Perth Hotel.
Brooks won the Sports Star of the Year award from golfer Terry Gale and Test Cricket captain, Kim Hughes, who w on it three years ago. H ughes and Gale received silver statuettes along with 10 other nominees voted as the top 12 sportsmen or sportswomen. The awards are a tribute to the diversity and strength of Western A ustralian sporting activities with 26 different sports represented in Special guest at Channel the list of 44 nomina- Seven's telecast of the tions. 1983 Caltex Sports Star Tony Charlton hosted of the Year — round-thethe awards with special world yachtsman — Jon guest, round-the-world Sanders solo yachtsman, Jon Sanders.
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Hardships in Daltonganj Australian Jesuits in the Daltonganj Diocese of South Bihar have l ifestyles and money problems that most Australian priests and parishioners can't start to imagine. Many priests live without electricity, laid on water and Many are oppressed and poor, staying overnight in the villages, sharing their s ewerage. The exploited. But, above all, they are food, and taking their rest f acilities usually severely handicapped by on the floor. Each parish has about 18 i nclude a mud lack of education. Not only general educa- Mass centres, where Mass stove for cooking, tion, but basic education in can only be said every four eight weeks. an oil lamp, a camp hygiene, nutrition and care toAverage weekly offertory of children. collections range from 34 b ed, and two Children are born in vil- cents to $3.00. buckets for wash- lage dwellings, without the Father Tony Ryan, Si, of a doctor or a Diocesan Bursar, recently ing and bathing. assistance nurse.
Five million working on poor farms
made a special trip to Ausl'his mission region is Tetanus at childbirth tralia to explain the situa- Father Hans Hendriks, SJ, says Mass in a village room for 60 Santals, the poorest tribal people in one of the poorest in India. causes a very high death tion and to appeal for help. India. The altar measures approximately 76cmx50cm and stands 25cm off the floor. Father Hendriks Ninety per cent of the pop- rate amongst mothers and More than half the par- has worked in India since 1952. ishes do not have a church ulation of five million babies. work on the land as margi- In many areas 50 per cent or a hall for Mass and nal farmers and landless of the children die before meetings. Many parishes need lightlabourers. the age of five years. They are gravely affected The challenges facing our ing generators to replace by unscientific farming missionaries are formida- oil lamps. methods, water shortage, ble, and the need for finan- Pumps are needed to pipe unemployment, simple liv- cial assistance continues to water from wells to presbytery bathrooms and ing conditions, and lack of increase. kitchens. medical care. In 1951, there were three Fences are needed around parishes. vegetable gardens to keep Now there are 20, mostly out animals. occupying areas exceeding There is a long list of very 40x40 miles. basic necessities. The survival and welfare of the poor relies to a great extent on expanding the work of these very excepSpiritual tional missionaries. They have forsaken their Each parish is not only a country, their families and V ATICAN CITY: centre for spiritual needs, friends to care for people in Catholics anywhere in the but a centre for adult and great need. world can have one of the child education, medical They need funds now for 3000 bricks that have just needs and health care edu- essential needs, and to been removed from the cation, and provides legal reach out to untouched Holy Door of St Peter's aid for the exploited. areas needing their loving opened last month for the The diocese employs over concern. Holy Year. 50 supervisors to develop Whatever you can give The bricks will be dis- v illage resources and will be greatly appreciated. tributed on a first-come improve food production. Cheques should be made first-served basis to anyone Priests travel vast distan- payable to the "Australian w hose application is ces by cycle or motorbike Jesuit Mission in India" endorsed by a parish over rough roads and and posted to Father G. priest. dusty tracks to bring Drumm, Si, National The bricks are num- Christ's message of love Director, PO Box I93PR, bered and a system has and hope to these very North Sydney, NSW, been designed to prevent deprived people. 2060. another series of fake 1975 They live and work very All donations are grate- Every drop of water for domestic use has to be carried from a well or a pond. Wells without protective parapets periodically become polluted causing outbreaks of dysentery, cholera and typhoid. Holy Year bricks circu- close to the poorest of the fully acknowledged. lated by swindlers who stamped them with a phony seal and sold them s to pilgrims for $62 each. A second group of bricks that were laid in 1975 will go back to those who personally donated them and which bear their name
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Father Peter Doherty, SJ (back row left), joins a group of village children warming themselves around j a fire. Father Doherty, who has worked in India since 1957, helped to establish this village to free ' several hundred Untouchables from oppression.
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