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Corpus Christi College Bateman is one of four new Catholic secondary colleges that are felt to be an urgent necessity in the metropolitan area and which are going to call on considerable capital expenditure to make them a reality. The Bateman college has been in the planning for five years from the time when negotiations opened with the University of WA to secure a site where the new Murdoch Drive is taking shape on the former Applecross pine plantation. The 13 hectare site whose total cost was $750,000 included substantial related costs is considered large enough to make the complex an integration of a four stream high school, a two stream primary school that is hoped to start in 1984, and eventually a parish church and presbytery.

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A scathing attack on critics of government aid to independent schools was made last weekend by the Archbishop of Perth, Sir Launcelot Goody. "I deprecate the boloney talked by leftist groups that the government is wasting money on independent schoolsArchbishop Goody said after he had blessed the new Corpus Christi College at Bateman last Sunday. "The generality of the taxpayer is getting these facilities at half price" he said, pointing out it had cost $2 million to get the college to its present stage, the Commonwealth government providing $ 960,000 of that amount. "The cost to the taxpayer — and that includes Catholics who also are taxpayers — is but 50 per cent of its present value" Archbishop Goody said.

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is due to be launched at Gosnells next year." Paying tribute to the religious orders which had launched and maintained the other existing Catholic c olleges. Archbishop Goody called the establishment of Corpus Christi College on the sand and scrub at Bateman a "formidable" experience. Corpus Christi College was officially opened by Mr John Dawkins, Minister for Finance, who referred to the nearly SI million contributed by the Commonwealth government. But he added: "However great the Commonwealth contribution, it pales into insignificance with the personal effort put into a school like this." •Continued page 16

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"We must even love the criminal as we abhor his crime. We must understand the problems of the poor, the unemployed, the migrant. "We are called to act towards people as God has acted towards us," he told an audience that included Archbishop Goody, the Governor Sir Richard Trowbridge, and a big number of judges, magistrates and members of the legal profession. Monsignor Keating, a Doctor of Canon Law, Mons Michael Keating, is the head of the Regional Tribunal of the parish priest at Mirrabooka who addressed the Law Catholic Church in Western Australia.

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A nglican cathedra/ Linking the day to day practise of law with the gospel values of assisting o thers, he continued: well as the good, sends rain The foundation stone, which was dedicated by "How important it is to on the just and the unjust. the two bishops at the end help people whose dress "One single sentence of of the opening service, and manner is so different Jesus has most influenced was blessed by Pope John from your own, who wear the cultural, social and Paul II during his visit to rings in their ears instead legal traditions which add Liverpool last year. of on their fingers, to let up to what we call demoThe dedication and them know the police are cracy: 'As long as you did it opening service included their friends, that legal aid for one of these the least of the Act of Faith used by is available, that justice My brethren you did it for the pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Me.' will be done. Runcie, in Canterbury "How important it is for " The 'least of the Cathedral last May. migrants who have come brethren' has no claims in The church, which will from a different legal back- an atheist communist c ost about 5370,000, is ground to realise Austral- state. So many nations and being paid for by the ian law does try to preserve people are not free. A rchdiocese of Liverpool. the rights of the 'least of the "Civilisation is in danger The Anglican church brethren.' bought for $10,000 a plot when class, politics, race. for a vicarage and vestry "For people to realise the physical efficiency or from the land owned by legal profession contains health outweigh the claims the archdiocese on which highly motivated and dedi- of human personality and the church has been built. cated people who will enjoy the favour of law The running costs of the defend the righs of all." more than do persons. church - lighting, heat"It is a return to paganism ing, cleaning and maintewhen the white, the locally nance -- - will be shared equally. If is anticipated born, the true believers, the Problems that 650 Catholics and prosperous, the physically 150 Anglicans will use perfect, those only horn the church each Sunday. Monsignor Keating, par- healthy or with all their A t public meetings local secure wits, in are their natish priest of Mirraboka for people voted unanimt he past nine years, illus- ural rights. ously for the project. Out trated his address with the "The love and protection of 432 written replies 'least of of the the brethren' problems that arise. only 23 were against the joint church. He cited his own expe- is the object of truly Chrisrience as parish priest to tian law," he said. illustrate the point that in Western Australia "we are not a tight little island cut off from the mainland of human suffering. "Lawlessness breeds as our young people are depressed and bored with unemployment and roam R OME (NC) — An Italian priest who in 1948 was imprt the streets. soned in the Vatican has died at the age of 73. "Many lack the base of a The priest, Mons Edoardo Prettner Cippico. died in Rome two-parent family: alcohol from complications caused by diabetes and was buried in and drugs destroy bodies his native city of Trieste, near Italy's border with and souls. Yugoslavia. He had lived on a Vatican pension in an apartment in "Law can preserve a R ome for more than 20 years. nation from anarchy. Mons Cippico's 1948 internment in the Vatican's Torre "We can give equality to blacks and whites, but dei Venti (tower of winds), his escape from the Vatican, and his arrest and trial by Italian authorities on unless people give them- chargessubsequent of robbery, fraud and currency export violations selves in the process, there made front-page news in Italy for weeks. is only an armistice, not He also became the subject of campaign polemics peace. between the newly legalised Italian Communist Party and

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"The law of the land is no substitute for the Sermon on the Mount. "The courts are effective equalisers but they cannot mandate love." Earlier in his talk Monsignor Keating referred to t he Old Testament where t he image of justice for the Jews was not the justice of man, but the justice of God. Jesus' ministry was in harmony with this when He said that God makes t he sun rise on the evil as

the ruling Christian Democrats in the April 1948 national elections. One of the Communist Party's campaign posters showed a photo of Mons Cippico with the slogan, "He would have voted for the Christian Democrats." The charges which led to the priest's arrest first surfaced in September 1947, when an Italian businessman accused him of stealing six bags of jewels which he had entrusted to the priest's care. The priest, then an official of the Extraordinary Affairs Section of the Vatican Secretariat of State, was ordered to remain in the Vatican's Torre dei Venti pending an investigation of the businessman's charge and of the Italian government's claim that he had helped other businessmen illegally export currency from Italy. On March 3. 1948, Mons Cippico walked out of the Vatican dressed as a priest. Two days later, L'Osservatore R omano, the Vatican daily newspaper, announced that he had been "suspended from his post at the Secretariat of State and reduced to the lay state." Mons Cippico was arrested by Italian police on March 9, 1 948, and spent two years in a Rome prison pending hi& trial on 19 charges. He was found guilty of several of the minor charges and sentenced to five years in prison, but the sentence was overturned in 1956 by an Italian appeals court for technical reasons.

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MANILA — The trial of Tarcinta Bizar, 24, single, a church worker; and a married couple with four children, Rolieto Trinidad, 38, former director of Prelature Social Action Centre, and his wife, Purificacion, 37, a justice and peace worker, opened in Davao City, the Philippines yesterday. The three face charges of subversion and have been held in custody since January 16, 1982. They were among a group of Catholic lay workers, named the Tagum Seven, who had been held in gaol without trial since their arrest. The other four members of the group were released last month without facing trial. The Tagum Seven — named after the gaol in which they were held — wrote to the Editor of the Catholic newspapers from the prison to plead for support from readers in Australia. The children of Rolieto and Purificacion Trinidad spend weekends in the gaol with their parents.

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MANILA - Karl Gaspar, 35, a top Church lay leader, who was arrested by the Philippine authorities two weeks ago, has been charged with the illegal possession of ammunition and incitement to rebellion. He is being held in Camp Baga Bantay in Manila and has not been physically maltreated. He has been visited by members of his family. This information is supplied by the National Secretariat for Social Action in the Philippines — a body similar to the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Australia. Mr Gaspar "disappeared" after visiting the offices of Third World Forum in Davao City on March 26. He was held for several days before the Philippine authorities admitted that he had been arrested. While he was missing the CCJP, Australian Catholic Relief, the Paulian Association, the Anglican and Uniting Churches, and various other lay bodies, had issued a statement to show their concern for him. Mr Gaspar is recognised internationally. In 1981 and 1982, he visited Australia at the invitation of the Columban Fathers to conduct sessions on different subjects and help deepen the Australia-Philippines dialogue.

Father Gore, the Western Australian Catholic priest is accused by the Philippines military of involvement in the murder of a town mayor and inciting people to rebellion. "The initial effort was to try Father Gore. "Whether he is going to be deported or will face trial is a matter that is addressed to the judgment of the Government." Father Gore, who has worked in the central Philippines island province of Negros Occidental for the past 13 years, is charged with another priest, Father Niall O'Brien. from Dublin with ordering the murder of Mayor Pablo Sola, of Kabankalan, last year. In a recent joint statement both priests said the murder charge was part of a "frame-up" concocted by the local military in a hate campaign against the clergy. The charge that they ordered the March 1982 ambush slaying of Mr Sola was "false, fabricated and concocted." "The charge is a frame-up and the work of sick minds in the military establishment obsessed with waging a hate campaign against the religious and other workers who are working for the poor," the two priests said in a sworn affidavit. Father Gore is also charged with inciting to rebellion and illegal possession of explosives and ammunition after soldiers raided his residence last September and reported finding "voluminous subversive documents," a fragmentation grenade and five bullets in a vacant building.

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Foreign Affairs interested The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Bill Hayden, in a telephone interview, has dismissed as "trumped up" charges brought by the Chilean Government against Toowoomba priest Father Brian McMahon. Mr Hayden also reaffirmed the Australian Government's determination to ensure a fair trial in the Philippines for Father Brian Gore. He said in Father McMahon's case, the advice given to him initially was that the matter involved a dispute between Church and State. "On the evidence available to us, I regarded the charges against Father McMahon as having being trumped up. "The Chilean Government is flailing around looking for scapegoats." In Father Gore's case, his episcopal superior, Bishop Antonio Fortich, said by telephone from the Philippines he had no doubt the Australian Columban would now be tried for murder. Bishop Fortich said the group's lawyeres had their response to the subpoenas ready. But he was certain they would be tried. "What Father Gore has done for the

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Peace to Pray To the extent that the Catholic ceremonies ever got involved in the Anzac Day observance it was to make it quite clear that the Church is as preoccupied with the death and eternal reward of soldiers because it is concerned similarly for every single human being. Sadly, it is the national identity that has lost its way and begun asking the peripheral Anzac Day questions that now turn the day into some sort of search for the national sense of crisis or even shame. Anzac Day was born at a time when live men were the living history books of the Gallipoli and other battles that are now proving a rich mine for historical research and film-making. Those who have never stood near death in the lines cannot understand the reticence and silence that envelops those who have and who must live with the experience for long years ahead. By a twist of history Anzac Day was born at the height of the period when Catholics were the new Non-Conformists in the matter of public religious services - the Catholic ex-servicemen being torn somewhat unsympathetically between loyalty to mates and a Catholic law that chose to designate the prelude to the parade as a Protestant service and therefore to be avoided. In almost a parody of the war-time experience that was a truer commentary on disunity than the numerically strongly Protestants realised, Catholics were back at the old "RC's fall Out!" caper as they would scurry to an Anzac requiem Mass at an early hour. To complicate matters St Mark chose to have his feast day on the same occasion and some inapt prayers of rogation slipped into the calendar to add liturgical confusion. The Church has never professed to know exactly what goes on beyond the death of the body and even the very supportive doctrine of Purgatory bows to the legitimate human feeling that one does not indulge in reparative grieving over the dead for endless ages. In that sense, the greater part of those who suffered in 1914-1918 are either in the Lord or in their personal twilight preparation for that meeting. Others who suffered and died in 1939-46 have had to accept the verdict 40 years later that consigns much of this to sterile history. In the Catholic Church, too, the sombre black of the funeral has given way to another vision so Anzac Day hardly calls for a requiem liturgy that has passed its relevance. But prayer is timeless, especially for those through no fault of their own found themselves swept to a death they never planned or asked for, but who did it in a mysterious expression of love that they were, to their simple lights, giving their lives for others at home. Prayer on this day is not a debate with God over the morality of war. War is foul, immoral, cruel and obscene: The tragedy is not that the majority of mankind does not believe this truth so much as that God must shake His head in bewilderment that in 1983 we still indulge in it. Painting and Renovations A ny metro or country area Free no obligation quotes D.G. Boyle Reg. 2296 81 Garratt Rd, Bayswater Tel. 272 5496

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The new executive of the senate of priests: seated left, Monsignor Michael Keating (chairman), standing left. Father Pat Ahern (vice chairman) executive members for 12 months, Fathers Bill Uren SJ and Gerard Ho/ohan, and seated right, Father Gregory Carroll, secretary.

Keating to chair senate A t the first meeting of the eighth senate of priests which convened last Thursday, Monsignor Michael Keating was elected unopposed as chairman for the next two years. Monsignor Keating was a foundation member and secretary of the first senate in 1949 and has been elected for each term since then. He was chairman of the fourth senate, 1975-77. For the latest senate of priests elections were held and subsequently the following were appointed to the senate by the archbishop: Fathers Pat Ahern, Justin Bianchini, Simon Carson, Michael Casey, John Dwyer, Daniel Foley, Michael K eating, Gerard Holohan, John Jegorow, Anthony Pires, Maurice Toop, Barry Whitely, Justin Bruce, OSB, R obert Carden, OFM, C. Peter O'Reilly, 0.Praem, Brian

Bathurst retirement HAVE YOUR SAY Bishop A R E Thomas of Bathurst has been forced through ill-health to resign from office six months ahead of his 75th birthday on October 26. He will be apostolic administrator until his successor is appointed and then will retire to live in Sydney. Bishop Thomas began a long career in Propagation of the Faith work in 1939 becoming national director in 1946 until he relinquished the position in 1975. During that time he organised six national Catholic pilgrimages to Rome, Lourdes, and Japan. He was appointed bishop of Bathurst in 1964.

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Pitman, 0.Carm, Owen Ryan, CSSR, William Uren, SJ Because priests were not elected from two countr, zones the archbishop appointed Dean Timothy Corcoran of Kalgoorlie and Dean John Lisle of Northam to repres ent their areas. "In addition the archbishop appointed a number of other priests because of specialised positions they hold in the archdiocese. They are: Father J. Sobb, SJ, Catholic Pastoral lnsti tute; Monsignor P. McCrann, Chancery; Monsignor J. Nestor, Education; Father P. Cunningham, "The Record"; Father B. Rosling, Vocations; Monsignor B Hickey, Welfare; Monsignor P.G.J. O'Reilly, St Mary's Cathedral; Father D. Sproxtn, Archbishop's Official Secretary. Father Gregory Carroll was re-appointed secretary to the senate.

I believe that we all should indeed hope and pray the situation never arises whereby the non-white peoples of South Africa could be used as "cannon fodder" in order to "remove" one of the m ost stragetically placed and mineralrich countries in the world from the Free World alliance. And furthermore, are.the whites of say, Australia and the United States, in any position to "throv4 stones" at the whites of South Africa?

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from W Smith, Riverton Sir, Father Morrison s appearance at the Australian Broad casting Tribunal raised some questions No doubt Father Morrison does tremendous good social work and is a very popular radio announcer but in my opinion his vocation calls him to teach and preach God's word and not that of a social worker My opinion is based on a clear directive to priests on their vocation given by the Holy Father quite recently Father Mornson s statements have done more harm to Catholic action organisations who try to maintain responsible moral codes than any humanist -anti-Catholic organisation

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Parishes join labour groups OTTAWA (NC) — The Social Affairs Commission of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has encouraged parishes to join local labour groups and community organisations "to assist unemployed people in their struggles for justice. II

There are 1 .6 million jobless in Canada. T he commission called for an independent, broad -based s ocial movement which would focus on short-term strategies f or economic recovery and long-term g oals for transforming society. T o aid church groups the commission has produced four pamphlets which discuss Catholic social teachings on labour and the dignity of work. T he suggestions were made in a two page statement released by the commission after its March 22-23 meeting in the Canadian capital of Ottawa. -Wherever possible it is important that l ocal grassroots groups come together t o form coalitions, t hereby buiding what c ould eventual ly b ecome a broadly based social movement for a more h uman and just society, - the statement said. The commission suggested that such local groups avoid partisan politics and election strategies.

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DUBLIN, Ireland port of the small Labor They would prefer conLabor tinuing to ban abortion by ( NC) — The Irish Party and several members of Parliament law rather than by a constiC atholic Bishops' o ppose any pro-life tutional amendment. C onference has amendment. Political controversy will e xpressed dissatis- The government announ- probably intensify when faction with the ced recently that it was not the Dail (lower house of satisfied with a draft P arliament) and the government's draft amendment drawn up in Senate resume sessions o f a constitutional November by the former after the Easter recess. amendment to pre- government of Prime Min- The bishops are evidentl!. ister Charles Haughey. determined not to involve vent the legalisation leader of the Fianna Fail the church in a dispute of abortion. Party. political parties or

V ATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II has honoured 65,000 Jews killed in the Warsaw uprising of 1943, Calling their action "a desperate cry for the right to life, for freedom and for the salvation of the dignity of mankind," t he pope told some 40,000 tourists attending his Wednesday general audience in St Peter's Square he wanted t o "render homage to the memory of these innocent victims." The pontiff said Jews had shared with Catholics "the trials of the terrible N azi occupation." More than 90 percent of those living in the walled J ewish ghetto in Poland's c apital died during a t hree-week u prising against Nazi troops in April 1943. During the Nazi occupation of World War II, half of the 6 million Poles who died in concentration c amps were Jewish.

between In a press statement, the That draft amendment sections of parties. bishops acknowledged sought to guarantee that that the government draft the constitution would They said they hoped the ROME (NC) — Twenty Czechoslovak Franciscans were designed to insure that respect and defend the legislators will put an is arrested during Holy Week, of whom five remained in abortion cannot be intro- right to life of unborn .amendment to a referenprison, 15 being released after interrogation. All are dum and enable the people duced by a court decision, babies. charged with "the usual accusation of illegal religious to decide whether or not as happened in the United activity." It also recognised the they want to give full con"There is reason to believe that the new wave of oppres- States. sion is connected with the recent Vatican document which They said also that they equal right to life of preg- stitutional protection to unborn children. forbids Czechoslovakian priests to belong to the recognise the difficulty of nant women. government -based association. Pacem in Terris," a Fran- drafting an appropriate ciscan spokesman said. amendment. The Czechoslovakian government has accused the Vati0 The bishops said the The Daughters of Charity 0 can "of organising a fifth column among religious 0 amendment now being Prolonged against the security and unity of the State." 0 NEED YOUR HELP A spokesman for the Rome generalate of the Order of proposed would not preFriars Minor refused to estimate the number of Francis- vent the passage of a law for their work for the development of the cans currently in Czechoslovakia. He noted the Fran- that would allow abortion. The present attorney gen- / underprivileged ciscans are not recognised by the government. "Surely the most defense- eral has said that amendless and voiceless in our ment would have led to U RGENTLY NEEDED midst are entitled to the prolonged legal proceed- ,Z house -hold clean, wearable, lothing, C fullest constitutional pro- ings and might not succeed nick-nacks - ornaments, in its aim. tection." they said. goods After a two-year cam- At the end of March. Jusjewellery, etc. paign led by prominent tice Minister Michael NooD URBAN, South S Deliver to doctors and lawyers for an nan announced a revised Street, Highgate William 534 Africa — Archbishop anti-abortion amendment. draft amendment, which a great deal of political said that nothing in the Hurley of Durban, the For Truck to call — Phone 328 4403 confusion now exists. Country goods marked donation constitution would invalip resident of the Prime Minister Garret date any abortion laws. .; f ree on rail to Kewcfale Rail Terminal S outhern African Fitzgerald faces a revolt by ` five members of his Fine There was an immediate C atholic bishops protest by pro-life of a storm Party, who want Gael conference, has supstrong. clear. "watertight" groups, but the protestant ported the controverchurches have expressed amendment. In South Africa, Bishop which the South African sial South African Tutu, a black. and the Council of Churches pro- But Fitzgerald's govern- satisfaction with the new Council of Churches council have been accused vides a forum for black ment depends on the sup- amendment. as a "pioneer and of supporting and financ- Christians in which they ing illegal anti-government can make known and anapace -setter in the movements. lyse the disabilities under which black persons suffer matter of Christian in South Africa," he ROME (NC) — Pope John Paul ll took the Holy Year social concern." added. celebrations to a national police barracks on the first He gave his support in R espect "This is a very healthy weekend after Easter. 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Religious regulations contrary to Gospel VILNA: Lithuania — Two-thirds of Lithuania's Catholic priests have protested to the Soviet government, saying its religion regulations are contrary to the Gospel, to Church law, to the Soviet constitution and to the Helsinki accords. "Some paragraphs of these regulations do not square with the Gospel of Christ, with the decrees of the Second Vatican Council, or especially with the constitution of the USSR...the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, (or) the Helsinki Final Accords," the protest said.

PROTEST TO THE SOVIET Arguing that "we must obey God rather than men," the priests said they could not in conscience follow regulations that prevented them from carrying out their ministry. At least 468 priests, including a bishop in internal exile, had signed

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signatures are still being gathered in two of the country's six dioceses. The protest attacked Soviet regulations giving the state complete control over priests' assignments and the admission of priesthood candidates to the one seminary still allowed to exist. The priests also protested regulations restricting the ministry of priests and policies of harassing the Church by slandering believers in the press, destroying shrines and Church property, and arresting, fining and physically assaulting priests.

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Some background and indepth views on controversy When the US bishops decided to write a pastoral letter analysing the morality of nuclear war and nuclear deterrence, one of their chief aims was to inject moral reflection into the nation's debates about nuclear weapons. The pastoral letter is still months from completion but the project has already achieved one of its most important goals: political leaders in America are now consciously addressing the moral issues involved in nuclear arms. Many of them disagree with views expressed in the second draft version of the pastoral letter. It is still too early to say what the pastoral letter will say in its final form. But the basic thrust of the first two drafts is a sharply critical stance toward basic elements in US nuclear policy. Among these is a condemnation of any first use of nuclear weapons. The threat of first use is a centrepiece of US -NATO deterrence strategy against vastly superior Soviet conventional forces aimed at Western Europe. The pastoral's authors fear development of the new nuclear weapons system, to which the administration is committd, will accelerate the arms race.

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The administration argues that America's negotiating position would be destroyed by a freeze at this time. Conclusions of the first draft of the letter, distributed last June, drew strong rebuttals from two top officials of the Reagan administration -- Secretary of Defence, Caspar Weinberger and White House national security adviser, William Clark. When the bishops met in Washington in November to discuss the second draft. Clark, a Catholic, wrote a seven page letter in the name of the administration criticising the draft. The day the bishops' meeting opened Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman, also Catholic, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that specific proposals in the second draft were unrealistic and counterproductive. Shortly before Christmas. Catholic members of Congress made public a scathing eight -page letter to the head of the pastoral's drafting committee, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago. The letter rebutted, point by point, the major conclusions of the draft. There have been other unconfirmed reports of efforts by the Reagan administration to influence the bishops' thinking on nuclear deterrence and bring them around to a stance more supportive of national p olicy.

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Not all the reaction by public leaders has been negative. A s the bishops met in November, 24 prominent Americans, including current and former senior government officials, issued a letter defending their right to speak on nuclear policy. They said that failure by religious leaders to come

US bishops' on nuclear goes into to grips with the moral issues involved would be "unforgivable." In short, political leaders in the nation are taking very seriously the moral debate that the Cathlic bishops have initiated. They are responding with explicitly moral reflection of their own on the nuclear policies and programs that the United States is embarked on. The conclusions that the US bishops eventually agree upon and publish for the moral guidance of American Catholics will be important. Whatever form they finally take, those considerations will not be published and then forgotten, an obscure document gathering dust on a back shelf. They have already occupied a centre stage. It is no longer possible to carry on the nuclear debate in strictly technical, strategic and political terms the moral terms of the issue must also be addressed explicitly.

Feast of A group concerned about nuclear weapons chose the Feast of the Holy Innocents to protest at the Pentagon, America's defence headquarters. The protesters included Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan and his brothers, Philip and Jerome. The Berrigan brothers have been leading figures in the Catholic peace

Demonstrations There are times and situations when civil disobedience is not morally justifiable but may even be a duty. This is the view of American Bishop Bernard Flanagan of Massachusetts.

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"For a growing number of people, peaceful, non-violent demonstrations have come to be accepted as a way to witness their opposition to the arms race and concern for the awesome dangers it implies for the world. Bishop Flanagan was speaking in support of six persons, including a priest, arrested after a demonstration against nuclear weapons at General Telephone and Electronics last December 28.

Three times since August 1981, Bishop Flanagan had issued statements opposing US involvement in the nuclear arms race. The six demonstrators had entered the gates of the electronics plant with the workers early in that morning. They symbolically poured their ovvr blood, drawn earlier, in the form of a cross on a walkway. In a statement read as they performed the act, they said they were commemorating the Holy Innocents, whose feast day is observed that day. The Holy Innocents were the male children under two years of age in Bethlehem and its environs who King Herod had put to death in an attempt to kill the child Jesus. "The slaughter of the innocents continues to this day,- the demonstrators

said.

Press bungled Some Press reports of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal evidence were taken out of context and were misleading and inaccurate, Father Brian Morison said this week. They were untrue and bordered on the sacrilegious, Father Morrison said. Evidence he had given in reply to questions from counsel about the suitability or otherwise of certain radio talkback programmes that had been featured in the past two years on radio 6PR. The nature of these programmes were discussions on the sensitive area of deep intimate personal relationships. The tribunal was trying to ascertain if areas of explicit sexuality had been broadcast and, if so, were these broadcasts offensive, lacking in taste and unsuitable for public

Father Brian Morrison with his submission to the tribunal.

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Father Brian bury he was involved Morrison, orig- in the presentation inally from Mel- of 2500 programbourne, has been in mes on radio and WA for the past nine television. years and for eight He recently transof those years he ferred to Perth to has been engagd take up, with the part time in broad- permission of his casting. superiors and the During his time in archbishop, a comthe diocese of Bun- munity service posibroadcast, and so contravene the existing broadcast regulations as not being acceptable material for programming, Father Morrison said. "The first question put to me was; what did the Catholic Church think of some of the programmes on sexuality as presented by Mr Bob Maumill and professionally trained psychologists. The programmes were broadcast in the afternoon. They were programmes with talkback to listeners who were able to question, on air, the psychologists about personal sexual difficulties in married life. "Before agreeing to give my opinion, I appealed to the chairman, Mr Jones, to have placed on record that I was not a spokesman for the Catholic Church. We already had an official spokesman at the Cathedral here in Perth and also, any comments I made were made as a former broadcaster on radio

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6PR and contained my own personal opinion. "Mr Jones instructed the court recorder in accordance with my wishes. "I then proceeded to give my opinion and that is what follows. "I pointed out that in two years I had listened to four separate programmes which investigated and examined the deepest and most sensitive areas of human relationships. "As a family and marriage counsellor of long standing. I pointed out there was a great need in the community for radio and television to present tastefully and carefully the subject of sexuality. "It should be allowed to be broadcast with professional people who knew their subject and could reach out to those in the community who are unable to receive help from any other area. "I was presented with radio trans-

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debate bombs morals the Innocents movement since the Vietnam war era. A ccording to Pentagon spokesman, Bill Caldwell, an estimated 50 to 75 people took part in the protest. Those arrested identified themselves as members of the Atlantic Life Community, a group that frequently demonstrates against nuclear arms. A tlantic Life Community

member Elizabeth McAlister said the arrests were the conclusion of a three-day protest to mark December 28, the Feast o f the Holy Innocents. She said three people were arrested on the feast day and that the community had set up a s oup kitchen outside the Pentagon to call attention to the "bloated military budget. They were released later in the day.

could be a 'duty' "As the defence budget escalates, the innocents become not only children, but the poor, the sick, the elderly, the unemployed and the homeless... The six demonstrators, all charged with trespassing were released pending trial. One of them, Thomas Lewis, an artist activist from Worcester, was one of the first people who burned draft records as a peace demonstration in Maryland in 1968. He has a brother involved in the defence industry and said he demonstrated at GTE "in the spirit of the Lord out of love and compassion, not hatred, for those inside." Another protester, Father James Connolly said he saw his participation as part of his condemnation of the nuclear arms race. "a race which has to stop."

The US bishops' proposed pastoral letter on war and peace is being opposed by Catholic politicians in Washington. In a joint letter, 24 members of Congress have said that the "real threat" in the world today is not US nuclear strategy but the Soviet ideology that it holds in check. They quote from three popes, former president John Kennedy, Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, American Jesuit theologian Fr John Murray, and an array of other prominent thinkers. The second draft of the pastoral condemns or sharply questions virtually any use of nuclear weapons including aspects of the US nuclear "deterrence" policy. The widely publicised draft was released last October and debated at the bishops national conference in November. It is now being revised by five bishops led by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago. They will report to a special meeting of bishops next May. The letter says that the "real threat is not embodied in weapons, however gruesome modern weaponry might become." "Our real threat comes from an ideology — Soviet communism — that challenges our fundamental faith in human dignity. "The crisis we face today does not involve two morally equal forces, but t he contention of human freedom against totalitarianism.

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He said that, as a religious people, "we must realise and fight these developments that threaten the earth and the human race. "It is a sacrilege to desecrate any person or thing within God's dominion. Several of the demonstrators are members of the Mustard Seed community, a Catholic Worker house serving the poor of Worcester. The General Telephone and Electronics plant in Westboro is in the company's strategic systems division. It deals with communications technology in the defence industry. The plant employs 585 persons to work primarily on a $325 million contract to design and develop the command, control and communications — the so-called C-cubed — system for the MX intercontinental missile.

MAIN ARGUMENTS 'The letter says the politicians agree With Pope John Paul II's statement last June to the United Nations that "deterrence based on balance, certainly not as an end in itself but as a step toward progressive disarmament. may still be judged morally acceptable." They emphasise that real deterrence, to be effective against the Soviet's "aggressive instincts" must be credible.

on the work of community service through the medium of radio. H e said that remarks on a sextalk programme were not part of his submission, but w ere made in response to ques-

tions put to him by counsel appearing for the station 6PR and by members of the tribunal. He said that far f rom condoning such programmes, he expressed strong reservations and criticisms and had it

cripts of two separate programmes broadcast by Mr Maumill on 6PR in which explicit sexuality was discussed. On being questioned by counsel, I said I could not accept t he standard of language, innuendo and, in my considered judgement. expressions and certain statements by the psychologist and a certain amount of levity on the part of Mr Maumill were simply not acceptable standards of broadcasting. "In answer to my personal beliefs on questions of abortion, group sex, anal sex and programmes teaching masturbation, I categorically stated I opposed these programmes being broadcast as they have been and that, as a Catholic priest, these kind of sexual experiences between people were totally unacceptable to myself and my calling. "I then asked leave of the Tribunal to present a factual account of investigations I have made into

placed on record that he was in no way speaking on b ehalf of the Catholic Church. S ections of a report which he submitted to Archbishop Goody this week are printed on these pages.

family life, attitudes of teenagers, and the all-encompassing impact of radio and television on our community. "I said any 18 year-old person today has already sat through six years of continuous television. "Put more simply that, of the 18 years, six have been spent sitting just watching the television, leaving 12 years for the other areas of human life.

"An 18 year-old today has already listened to 20,200 hours of radio. These two facts about radio and television in the life of a teenager has effectively been the most vital influence in their lives. "As a result, Istrongly supported programmes of sexuality being prepared and broadcast through normal commercial channels in the

style of Mr Maumill's sex talks on 6PR. "I told the tribunal that sexuality has a number of dimensions especially in the area of religious and spiritual values. "I complained to the tribunal that our young people in schools, in my judgement, are not getting the correct and proper sexual instruction and I believe that this is one cause of a vast growing promiscuity among teenagers. "In Australia this year, the Family Law Court will investigate 80.000 divorces. This horrific figure needs to be stemmed and I pointed out to the tribunal I firmly believe from counselling experience, the major percentage of these marriage breakdowns are due to the destructive forces at work in the area of deep sensitive human relationships. "I reminded the tribunal that it is the consensus of marriage counsellors in Australia that economics are not the major cause of breakdown. "Marriage breakdowns at middle age, are very largely due to problems involving human sexuality. "Again, I strongly supported radio and television programmes which would be prepared and broadcast so that it would contribute to the spiritual growth in the sexual lives of these couples heading for divorce. "But I also pointed out there were

It must therefore confront the risk of actual use. They argue that only a policy of deterrence willing to risk actual nuclear war can prevent the Soviet Union from carrying out aggressive policies. *They criticise the draft's almost exclusive focus on nuclear weapons. They say the primary armed threat to most of the world's people "still involves conventional weapons." Comparing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the bombings of Dresden, Tokyo and Coventry, they comment that "the bombing strategy was at least as crucial as the type and number of weapons used." *They attack the draft for condemning America's nuclear targeting of civilian populations. They claim that the US nuclear strategy has "shifted dramatically' in recent years. It now focuses on military targets and is "more effective and more moral" than in the past. *They also criticise the draft's condemnation of any first use of nuclear weapons. They say the US-NATO threat of possible first use is essential to protect Western Europe against the Soviet Union's awesome preponderance of conventional weaponry. *They accuse the draft of giving "very little credit to the United States for its efforts to reintroduce real constraints on nuclear weaponry." There are 1 18 Catholics in the American Congress House of Representatives. Signatories to the critical letter make up one-fifth of these.

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many other dimensions of counselling and marriage renewal programmes. "In answer to the question of the suitability of broadcast times, I pointed out the impossibility of presenting these programmes in the middle of a very heavy horse racing programme. "I said it is most difficult, as a broadcaster, to be relating to a listener at the very serious level of human sexuality to suddenly be cut off and crossed live to Gosford, to a four-horse race in which two jockeys fell at the start. "Inadvertently. I caused great laughter in the tribunal. "Sadly, the media who were covering this particular hearing as though it were a major murder trial, obviously ran from the tribunal to report this to their editors. "I have already apologised through the media if I offended anybody by these remarks.

"I further continued to inform the tribunal of what I consider are other unacceptable standards of broadcasting. "This came about when Mr Jones presented me with a radio transcript of an interview with American sailors on 6PR. "The inteviewer, Mr Maumill, was trying to establish whether or not the 7000 young American sailors who had arrived in our city, were there simply for sexual gain with the young women of Perth. "In the transcript, the sailors readily agreed that Perth is the place where they all go to for one reason and that is to use as many of

our young Perth girls as possible. in sexual activity while on shore leave for one week after three months at sea. "I categorically attacked the programme called 'Dial a Sailor' and I pointed out to the tribunal that I have instructed my producer and the management of radio programmes I present, that segments on 'Dial a Sailor' will not be tolerated as I do not wish to encourage this practice among American sailors. "Having studied the transcript of this particular programme on 'Dial a Sailor' conducted by Mr Maumill, vulgar phrases and words were used very heavily. "I pointed out to the tribunal that, in my opinion, that language was totally unacceptable to broadcast standards but, at the same time, I was pleased to see an exposition made which highlighted from the mouths of American sailors the fact that they have only one aim in mind when they come for their rest and recreation and that involves the degrading of many of our young women in Perth. "It as after this lengthy time in the witness box that I was excused t) the chairman and allowed to leave the tribunal. "It is now on record that, for the rest of the day, the chairman himself referred very frequently to my submission and I feel, in the difficult area of ministry that I now exercise in the city of Perth, that a good contribution was made to better broadcasting standards. "I might point out that this particular hearing of the licence renewal of 6PR is a test case for Australian radio and television broadcast standards.

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Marriage is a sacrament tied to the entire history of a home. The impact of marriage as a sacrament continues to be experienced over the years by the couple, by children andby others touched by their home life. In our series this week, Dominican Father David O'Rourke tells the story of a young couple in California who came to him as they prepared for their marriage. Neil Parent tells the story this week of his encounter with a group of teenagers who wanted to know why he was getting married. In an interview with Mimi and Terry Reilly, family life directors in Miami, Fla, Katharine Bird provides some helpful suggestions for improving communication in a marriage.

Modern pioneers I have seen a marked change during the past f ew years in the couples coming to prepare for marriage. They are much more serious about their marriage preparations. One couple, v, horn I shall call Mike and Janet, t ypify this new seriousness. I want to talk about them because their situation says a lot about marriage today. This couple came to see me at the beginning of their last year in university and we had to squeeze our meeting into a schedule crowded by sport and study. When they first came to see me I expected they w ould be what my years at university had prepared me for — intelligent, high-spirited, w ordly young people, not too sure how the Church would fit into their lives. I mentioned to them,as I always do in my first session with a couple planning a marriage, that our marriage preparations would take time and some hard work. Mike answered theyknew it would. That was why they had come so many months in advance of their June wedding. Janet, who came from a family with deep Christian faith but no formal church connection, said that she wanted to become a Catholic so they could have their common faith as a further bond. I was surprised by these statements. But I was even more surprised by what followed. Quietly but very seriously, Mike said, "In this town anything goes. And everything is going on. It's not easy to live a Christian life here." Janet added, "So we want to learn how to support each other in our

"Married couples must live out their commitment to Christ in terms of the practical, concrete challenges of daily relationship: attitude and word, body language and action." (William Roberts, "Marriage: Sacrament of Hope a nd Challenge, ' " 1983.)

beliefs. And we want to learn how to set up a good marriage." The young couple's religious commitment may be stronger than that of

the average couple. But t heir realisation that marriage requires a serious commitment and real preparation is becoming common.

Ezekiel's vision The prophet Ezekiel's career began with a vision of God. But the prophet was evidently at a loss to put the vision into words, although he tried valiantly for a full chapter. It is hard to form a complete, coherent picture of just what Ezekiel saw. Many have attempted unsuccessfully to produce a drawing of his vision. It is not surprising the drawings were unsuccessful, for mystical visions are of a much higher order than cartoons or drawings. In some ways, visions are not unlike dreams. Like dreams, for example, they defy pictorial reproduction. They rarely respect the laws ofphysics, mathematics or geometry, the laws which govern drawings. Like dreams in another way, visions leave a definite impresion. Ezekiel's vision definitely made a very strong impression. The vision occurred during the fifth year of Ezekiel's exile in Babylonia, around 593 or 592 BC. The prophet is with his fellow Israelite exiles by the Chebar Canal, an irrigation project fed by the great Euphrates River. In his vision, Ezekiel sees a complicated apparatus in the sky. It is surrounded by storm clouds, thunder and lightning — a quite terrifying sight. The apparatus includes four composite creatures, each having some features of a human being, an ox, an eagle and a lion. Such composite figures were common in Babylonian sculpture at the time and they may have made a vivid impression on Ezekiel's very sensitive imagination. Each creature has two pairs of wings. Onepair is outstretched so that the tips touch the tips of the wings of the creatures on either side, thusforming a square. Between each pair of creatures is a double wheel, that is, one wheel within another at right angles. The rims of the wheels are full of eyes. The four creatures support a glittering platform on which the throne of the Almighty stands. The vision includes four living beings. Now, for Ezekiel and those he associates with, the number l our - signifies universality. The vision suggests, then, that all living beings are at the service of the A lmighty; allliving beings, you might say, are bearers of the Almighty's throne. But these are not just ordinary creatures who bear the throne. No, indeed! Each creature represents the best in creation: —the human being: intelligence, king of all the animals; —the ox: strength, king of domestic animals; —the eagle: speed, king of the birds. A nd far above all the others, the Almighty Creator. The four double wheels probably signify the ability to move about. The eyes, a sign of intelligence, probably denote the ability and readines of these creatres to comply with very command from the .4 /mighty, to carry Him anywhere in the universe. In other words, God is everywhere. By Father John Castelot.

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By Father David K. O'Rourke, OP People preparing for marriage are coming to realise that preparing for a Christian marriage is d ifferent. They are becoming more and more aware that what we mean by marriage in the Church and what we mean by marriage in today's midstream are j ust not the same anymore. To prepare for a Christian marriage requires a change of life and values from what is commonly accepted in today's civil society. One civil code defines marriage simply as a personal relationship arising out of a contract. Like other contracts it can be terminated at the will of the contracting parties. Unlike most contracts, it can be terminated by just one of the parties. The difference between the views of marriage held by the Church and by many sectors of society means that those who enter into the sacrament of matrimony are no longer moving into a common and accepted social pattern. Christian marriage is different. Couples who want to establish a Christian marriage are like pioneers. They are separating themselves from the safe way and choosing to live in a new way. These couples are living on the cutting edge, on the prophetic side of life. In espousing one another in the way described by Christ they also are espousing a way of life that runs counter to the individualism of living today. In effect, this means that today a special life of Christian dedication can he embraced right at home. To take on this life of Christian dedication all couples have to do is try to live a lifelong, committed marriage relationship. A profound spiritual journey can unfold in marriage. For deciding to share your life and yourself with someone else is an act of human kindness that has few parallels. And there is a generosity involved in raising the

next generation. Those people who surrender the freedom and mobility of their young and middleage years to take on the raising of children, thereby assuring the future of the Church and society, are giving a great gift to all of us. From that standpoint, the rest of us — and I include myself as a priest in this group — bear a special debt of gratitude to those who are married. For couples like Mike and Janet have chosen a self-giving vocation that is needed, the sacrament of matrimony.

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Couple No. 1: Married for 15 years, the husband and wife have slipped into what they think is a comfortable pattern of relating to each other. They have time for everything but themselves. BY KATHARINE BIRD They let lots of distractions keep them from dealing directly with each other. "They have no eyeball-to-eyeball contact. The time they do spend with each other can be labelled "passive" time: They entertain friends together or go to movies or watch television. Gradually, the wife becomes aware of a void in her life, of a vague and

yet insistent feeling that she is rather miserable. Couple No. 2: The couple have two children, II and 12 years of age. While they are secure in their relationship with each other, they are all too aware that the clock is ticking away. They see their children are almost teen-agers. The husband and wife are running scared. They are uncomfortably aware

There always has been something deeply religious, even holy, about two people pledging their love to one another and committing themselves to each other in a formal way. It's an act that seems to cut across both time and culture. It seems to emanate from the very depths of humanity's soul. It seems to be of God. There is a generosity involved in raising the next generation. People who surrender the freedom and mobility of their young and middle-age years to take on the raising of children, thereby assuring the future of the Church and society, are giving a great gift to us all.

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that teens won't always have been actively discover ways to improve ings for good communido as they are told. involved in family minis- their marriages as well. cation, he added. Friends' stories about try for nine years. Their Mrs Reilly noted that A dynamic relationship how tempestuous the theories on marriage and many couples never have only occurs when couples teen years can be disturb family life have been learned how to commun- share their lives with each them. Fearful of their tested in a real-life labor- icate well. People need to other and "strive for intiability to cope with teen- atory: They have been "take time to be together, macy," Reilly added. agers, the couple recog- married 20 years and to listen well" and to "Everyone needs intinise they have a problem. have five children from communicate their joys macy," Mrs Reilly The situations described the ages of 6 to 18. sorrows to each chimed in. "We need to For parents seeking and above are typical of the other, she said. belong to others, to be k inds of problems help, the Reillys may loved and to love" — archdithe agreed, husband recommend Her encountered by Mimi that's what marriage is all and Terry Reilly in their ocesan parenting pro- observing that the inten- about. work as the family life grammes. Here, over the sity of a couple's relationThe Reillys encourage directors in the Archdio- course of eight weeks, ship during the courting cese of Miami, Fla. The couples "learn parenting period can lull them into couples to plan time to be Reillys discussed their skills," by talking over thinking they are skilled private together on a regviews on marriage and problems with other par- in communicating. They ular basis. It's important family relationships dur- ents in small group set- mistake their discussions to "step off the treadmill" tings. Many parents say about the wedding and and listen to each other. ing a recent interview. that in the sessions they their joyful physical feel- Mrs Reilly said. couple vivacious The

Severalmonths beforeIwas to be married, a group of teenagers with whom I was working as a parish director of religious education began questioning me during one class about my forthcoming marriage. soul. It seems to be of "Why do you want to God. get married?" they asked. There is something funTrying as best they damentally religious could to assume the air of about marriage, indeyoung sophisticates, fully pendent of its being a sacaware of 20th century rament. But sacramenthabits, they wanted to ality says a great deal know why my fiancee about the nature of and I didn't just decide to Christian marriage. live together. "What's to The fact that marriage be gained by marriage?" ultimately came to be recthey asked. ognised as a sacrament Their questions didn't suggests that love and startle me. I had heard faith are intimatek them before in my work with youth. In fact there bound together. If marBy Neil Parent was a kind of open riage is about love and commitment, faithfulhonesty about their questhemselves what I was that marriages, even ness and sacrifice, trust tions. I knew they were trying to say years before. those earliest ones, were forgiveness. so is asked out of genuine and Somewhere along the not without some expresinterest and not from casfaith. Each involves the line, they fell in love. sion of love and commitingredients for livual sarcasm. some of them did ment. We read in the Old same meaningful ways What did startle me, Though ing in live with someone for a Testament that Jacob though, was the difficulty while, somewhere along laboured a total of 14 In sacramental marI discovered in trying to the line they too, decided years for the privilege of riage, a couple is trying to adequately express my that marriage was the marrying Rachel, the apply the belief in the thoughts and feelings redemptive meaning of right step for them to woman he loved. about love and the kind love to the most fundatake. of commitment marriage There always has been mental and ancient of I don't suppose that entails. anyone fully understands something deeply reli- human relationships. I recall trying to explain how marriage got started gious, even holy, about The couple seeks someto that somewhat sceptiin the first place. two people pledging their thing beyond each other cal group of listeners why Undoubtedly, in distant love to one another and through each other. living together was not ancient societies mar- committing themselves Ultimately, of course, the direction that my riage had a lot to do with to each other in a formal they are each seeking fiancee and I wanted to rights and privileges, way. It's an act that seems God. That's why their take. For us, I explained, w ith ownership of to cut across both time relationship, sealed in the marriage best expressed women and legitimacy of and culture. It seems to Church's ritual, is such how we wanted to make progeny and that sort of emanate from the very an important symbol or our relationship perman- thing. But. I also think depths of humanity's sacrament of faith. ent. Living together, regardless of the moral questions involved, did not adequately do that for us. Though our conversation went on for quite some time, my young friends never seemed to accept what I was trying to say about love leading to commitment — a comThe couple married in April. They generated by forces that seem almost mitment that can best be wanted to be married in the spring, beyond the people's control. Sometimes expressed in marriage. We parted that night because they felt early spring would couples worry that future changes they having aired honestly our symbolise the beginning of a new season encounter will cause them to grow apart. differing perceptions of growth. about marriage — both The couple realised the sacrament of But growing apart is not the only posfrom the perspective of marriage celebrated a beginning, the sible outcome of changes in a marriage. one who had long ago left coming together of two individuals, Another possible outcome is that by his teenage years behind with each one's needs and expectations coping together with the changes they and was now on the thre- and patterns of behaviour. meet, a couple will grow closer: their With shining hopes, the couple vowed unity may become more profound. shold of marriage, and from the perspective of themselves to each other. They were The birth of a first child is a piN otal youth for whom mar- immensely hopeful. At the same time, time of change for many couples, for riage was still a distant they had a few apprehensions about the consideation and a some- future. For they realised each of them- example. As Ms Satir observes, a first what questionable goal in would change somewhat over the baby means that "existing circumstances are changed drastically for the life. course of the years ahead. Now, years later, those As Virginia Satir, a family therapist, couple." same listeners - teenag- says in her book titled "Peoplemaking." Ms Satir advises people to use change ers no longer — are mar- change in life is inevitable. "Maturing creatively. She urges couples to view ied and, in some adults never stop growing and changing change as a positive element in their instances, the parents of and the world around us never stands lives together. something which can he turned to a couple's advantage when children. Somewhere still." along the line they must But change can be frightening; often it they strive to make their lives together have discovered for is not predictable and sometimes it is more satisfying.

To marry or not to marry is a question

Celebrating a new beginning

The Record, April 21 — 27, 1983

Pilgrims' highlight in The highlight of the 1983 Holy Year European Pilgrimage leaving Perth on September 6 is the stopover of eight full days in Rome where the group will be attending Mass daily in the major churches of Rome and in the early Christian catacombs.

travel they wish and which can be The Rome sojourn in Perth arranged By Father Cunning Pat ham, includes plenty of departure before editor of The Record. f ree time to make t hrough ANZ t he pilgrimage which is Travel visit through the The 8-day Rome visit tions that occur sponsoring the Holy Door at St rounds off a jourthere during the tour. Peter's Basilica ney that will have summer. a nd to take in the spent six full days A fter the Rome seg- The only requirem ent for the Sunday St Peter's in Israel with two ment concludes journey to return Square appearing f ull days in Jeruson the evening of ustral A ia is to o f Pope John alem, to be folS eptember 29 travel the RomePaul, a Wedneslowed by four members of the Singapor e secday public audnights in Lourdes p ilgrimage tour tion on Alitalia ience and to visit to allow for two are free to pro10.0""Iroi — which is a com any famous f ull days to take in ceed on whatever In a grotto at Lourdes, Our Lady appears sponsor of the shrines in Rome. the many devof urther European to St Bernadette in 1858 t our, and to travel the SingaporePerth connection on Qantas or Singapore Airlines. A Holy Year is a u nique event since it is a special jubilee occasion that takes place only every 25 years. The Holy Year of 1983, however, has special significance since it is the 1950th anniversary of the D eath of Our Lord, the act of R edemption that took place in Jerusalem in the year 33 AD. Pope Pius XI declared a special Holy St Peter's Basilica dominating the skyline of Rome and beckoning visitors from all over the world. Year on the 1900-

th anniversary in 1933 and Pope John Paul II has taken up the idea again with the promulgation of 1983 as the Holy Year of Redemption. The last Holy Year was celebrated in 1975 and at that time the archdiocese of Perth conducted an official pi lgrimage to Rome led by Archbishop Go ody. Because the retirement of Archbishop Goody and the installation of his successor takes place in the latter half of this year there are no plans as yet for a pilgrimage tour from Perth. The ANZ 1983 Holy Year European Pi lgrimage is likely to be the only opportunity for Western Australians to travel together to the most famous places in Catholic life: the Holy Land, Lourdes and Rome for the 1983 Holy Year.

Day of the Good Shepherd set aside as the to Ebelieve in themselveshave if they Priests and religious

e xpect others to believe in their vocations says Father Bryan R osling, Director of Vocations.

People are not fools and they shouldn't be treated as such. All the praying in the world for vocations won't help if young people cannot see God's call reflected in priests, brothers, and sisters. We talk of a "call". A call to what? If this question has no self-evident a nswer in the lives of those called, Catholic youth will not be satisfied.

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The Record, April 21— 27, 1983

seminaries for the period 1 975-1980. The number of novices in religious institutions for women has risen by 23% over the same period. "But we should be careful of such statistics -- 100% of nothing is nothing. These increases reflect the depressed vocations scene from which they originate. "However. Australian seminaries are reporting much larger intakes this year than the Vatican figures indicate.

"Of the 40 men who have lived at St Charles' Vocational Residence in the 'past three years 26 have Father Rosling entered full-time seminar"I do not believe people tions in this country has ment period was inevitable. ies, and only four of these are seeking after gurus or challenged Catholics in all "Although there are still have since dropped out. flamboyantly charismatic walks of life. areas of untidiness, this is "If this trend continues, leaders in their priests and "Only now, on the heels for the most part behind and I am convinced it will, religious. Nor do they of two decades of the Australian Church can pessim- us." expect them to be profes- ism and confusion, is san- The impact of the reforms look with renewed hope to sionally astute in every ity emerging. of the council continues to the future. avenue of life. "The spirit optimism, of bring forth new directions "Persistent prayer for an "What they hope to find in their priests and reli- so much the hallmark of in the Church, preparing it, increase in vocations will gious are generous people the Second Vatican Coun- a s Pope John XXIII be more effective if we all who believe in their voca- cil is only now catching up hoped, to be a meaningful appreciate our own vocation, who are willing to with the vocations scene. and effective vessel of sal- tion as Catholics and spend their lives serving "This is not surprising. vation in the modern members of Christ's Church." God and His people, men Outmoded trapping and world. and women of initiative, prehistoric misconceptions Figures recently pub- Next Sunday, 80,000 pastoral concern and spir- of the priesthood and reli- lished by the Vatican indi- prayer cards will be distribitual zeal. gious life had to be cate a 10% rise in the uted throughout the Perth "The decrease in voca- stripped away. An adjust- number of men entering a rchdiocese.

Code to rule on Masons

Rome The 1983 tour is truly a panorama of Christian history because it envelops in one sweep the pre Israelite site of ancient Jericho, t he countryside of the Old Testament saga, the scene of Jesus' Death and Resurrection and the point from which the Church burst f orth into the R oman world culminating with St P eter planting that faith with his own bones in the h eart of Rome where his church now stands a beacon to 2000 years of Christianity. A Perth priest will be accompanying the g roup for the w hole of the three weeks thus ensuring that the group will be able t o attend daily Mass at a suitable time in such famous shrines as the C hurch of the

Holy Sepulchre in J erusalem, at the tomb of St Peter's in Rome and at the grotto where Our Lady appeared to St Bernardette in Lourdes. T he cost of the p i lgrimage in'cluding return travel to Perth is $ 3485 for each person on a share twin basis. A full programme detailing everyday of the three week tour is available f rom Mr Jan Lipiec ANZ Travel 84 St George's T errace, Perth. Phone 323 8391. or call for an obligation free copy of the brochure.

One of the famous gates of Jerusalem built by the Crusaders, and Jews praying at the Wall fo their former temple.

L ourdes: the upper and lower churches near the spot of Our Lady's appearance to St Bernadette.

The new Code of Canon Law will be enacted next spring, replacing the code of general Church law that dates from 1917. In the months after the new code is issued, Catholics could be confronted with such headlines as: *Holy days dropped in Catholic Church. •Catholics can now join Masons. • Law change lets Catholic permanent deacons remarry. •Catholics allowed to choose cremation. •Lay preaching now West German bishops fora llowed in Catholic By JERRY FILTEAUI bade Catholics to join the churches NC News Service Masons in their country. Although none of the But Masonic lodges in the examples cited is central to Final part United States and Masonic t he overall revision of of a series groups in a number of Church law , they are other countries today are interesting cases because no longer considered antilocal practice • so a they touch on areas of Catholic. Catholic life where misun- wholesale dropping of holy In recent years the old days of obligation around derstanding of the meancode's ban has been intering or background of the the world does not seem preted as applying only to new law could lead to con- likely. membership in Masonic fusion among Catholics Since many bishops' conlodges that an antiabout the nature of the new ferences around the world Catholic , following the code. have already been operatnorm of church law that Yes , for example ,the ing under special indults restrictive laws are to be new code in its final draft from the Holy See to drop interpreted in their most form drops from the gen- t he Mass obligation for eral Church law the obliga- certain feasts or to transfer restricted sense. In 1974 the Vatican sent a note to tion to assist at Mass on a the observance to the nearbishops' conferences fornumber of feast days. est Sunday in their counmally confirming that This is but one case of the try , local practices approach. new code's broader project already vary considerably. t o reduce the obligations of The thrust of the new law general church law and is not to get rid of holy days leave more to local o f obligation in the /AI/IOWAVIV practice. Church , but to let such But the change in the gen- obligations be established The new code retains a eral law on holy days of locally , according to obligation may or may not local ban on Catholic memberpastoral needs , culmake a difference in the ture and religious feelings. ship in organisations that are anti-Catholic but no United States or elsewhere. And yes , the law in the longer cites Masonry old code expressly forbid- explicitly. ding Catholic membership With Masonry or any in Masonic societies was other association • the dropped in the final draft question of Catholic memof the new code as was It says that Christmas and the old law's ban on crema- bership is to be judged on the basis of the character of at least one major feast of tion. the individual organisation. Mary are to be retained as Instead of imposing autoreflect changes Both d ays of obligation social changes since 1917 matic excommunication everywhere. But it leaves it up to and an effort in the new across the board , the national bishop's confer- law to reduce the number new code calls only for ences to decide which Mar- and severity of penalties in appropriate penalties for Catholic membership in ian feast and with other the Church. anti-Catholic organisations. feasts of obligation , if Masonry has had a long any , they will retain or history of virulent anti- It suggests lesser penalties Catholicism , at least for members than for officadd. Bishops' conferences can some of which survives in ers or promoters of such be expected to act cau- various parts of the world. organisations. tiously in changing current

Just two years ago the • Continued page 16

one Sunday in the year to pray for the vocations.

his community, and with tered by the brother. the whole Church. Celibacy is not being But more than that, the married. brother is a man of prayer. Celibacy is the particular way chosen by the brother He lives a prayerful life because he believes it to be — a life which proclaims what the Lord is asking of that everything is a gift him. It is a vow made in Religious brotherhood is from the Lord, that the faith, in response to the one way of responding to brother is dependent on Lord's call to love. the Lord's love for us the Lord for all things, and Poverty is a call to depend w ithin the Christian that the Lord is ever pres- on the Lord for all things ent and constantly active in and to accept all things, community. the brother's life. even life itself, as a gift Religious brotherhood is one way of being a Community is home for from Him. the brother. To commun- The brother's commitChristian. ity he brings his joy and ment involves material The religious brother sorrow, his laughter and poverty and simplicity; it chose to live his commit- crying, his beliefs and expresses two simultanement to Christ in a praying doubts. Community is ous truths. community of vowed men people of different ages, Material creation is good, who are engaged in service backgrounds and person- it is to be used, it is a gift to their fellow brothers and alities. from the Lord: and yet it is sisters. not the highest priority in life. The brother claims his The brother's lifestyle is a love-relationship with the sign of hope to the world: L ord is the highest his commitment is a priority. reminder to all, that the Obedience is a call to Church is a community of love; specifically. a call to believers. The brother is a sign of love, of hope, of But it is more than just listen for the Lord's Word promise! living in the same house, it as it is spoken in and through all the events in For the religious brother, is a way of life lived with one's life. others to which the brother prayer is a primary means Obedience is a positive commits himself. of nurturing his loveexpression of love for the relationship with the Lord. The vows are another Lord. Indeed, a brother's life means through which It is a listening for His would make no sense with- brothers make a reality of W ord as revealed in their love of the Lord. out prayer. prayer, daily life and work. Prayer is not only "saying Celibacy is a call to love decisions of the communprayers"; the religious of God, self, the community and those in authorit\ brother prays alone, with ity, and everyone encoun- and the Church.

Sunday is the day Apostolic women are very much alive in the world of the '80s trying to be neither selfish nor cynical nor myopic according to Sister Kathleen Dawe RSA

Stripped of our pretensions we are challenged to venture into the DEEP water of the secularised world and for this task our skills have to be reburnished, renewed, and added to by continually updating methods and procedures. "Daily we are bringing Jesus and His values wherever we can, to whomever we meet in whatever manner. We believe the Call of Christ is again sweeping the world: Fewer are responding, but there are enough. There is enough leaven for the entire dough to rise!

The consecrated woman is always on a mission for the God's Kingdom. She is not worried about p reserving rel igious institutions. Working side by side with the laity, we live our consecrated life to join ourselves to Christ by the gift of our whole life. The more fervently we live, the more full does the Church's life become and the more vigorous and fruitful its apostolate. There is a fire and an enthusiasm in such a lifestyle. We believe although a sister is weak and powerless, her striving to a radical living of gospel values in religious community will attract others called by God to this way of life. A religious vocation life is a meeting of two freedoms; the freedom of God giving and the freedom of a woman's response! Chastity, poverty and obe-

dience are an expression of total consecration to a God who alone is worthy of such sweeping gifts by a human person. In all walks of life today people experience difficulty in making a decision and living with the realisation that there must be a commitment to live out their decision.

Sister Kathleen

r—IRegardless of the

L_J differences in our

lives, we share the same Lord, the same f aith, the same heritage. Before all else, we are Christians and t his commitment underlies all others says Christian Brother R obert Callen.

Brother Callen

The Record, April 21 — 27, 1983

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Father Yarnold, an Oxford graduate and who lectures there in systematic t heology, is also the editor The fete to help the of Theology Today and FOR HIRE IN MEMORIAM ACCOMMODATION takes Centre Emmanuel The Way. A concert for the Austral28 April Thursday Have a Lovliest Holiday. ERICKSON (Eric John) place this Sunday, April 24 The monthly Gospel Dis- As well as having a wide ian Jesuit Mission in India P ALMER'S HIRE. Windsor in centre at the siito ICE xperience in retreat work by Graham Wood (violin) For readers of the Record. April 16 1979. In loving cussion Group wil meet at e All party equipment, and spiritual direction in and Fr John Harte (piano) Rent a Jim Hassell 6 or 7 memory of our husband, Street, East Perth. ComSenior the in 8pm glassware, etc room fine FU RN HOME, dad and grandad. From On sale will be paper mon Room at St Thomas the UK, Father Yarnold is who will play works by Crockery, cutlery, 3 mins from Perth, ES bus Frances, Jose, Bev, bricks, excellent for bar- More College to study the an official member of H aydn, Beethoven, Cabaret tables, chairs becues and winter fires. A RC1C (Anglican, Roman Brahms and Smetana will or Trans train. For 4 per- Michael and families. trestles, coloured lights Proceeds will help con- first two chapters of St Catholic Inter Commissons only $10 a day each. be given on Monday April warmers eke. urns, pie HARTLEY, Ellen N'eron- vert the mini bus for wheel- Mark's Gospel from the sion. 25 at 8.15 p.m. in the Unicold plates, dance floors. For 5, 6 or 7 or more, $7 a ica DE by edition Pelican (Nell) Loving and chair transport. This eight -day semi- versity Music Department day each, or whatever you marquees. etc. both gives which Nineham directed retreat which a uditorium. Tickets $5 can afford. One week's free devoted wife of Bob and the Gospel text and cop49 Kent Street Father Yarnold will lead, is from Mrs Peg Durack fruit vegies and food. Mother of Roma, Irene ious commentary. EnquirCannington and Elaine. We treasure open to priests and laity. PROFITS GO TO CHAR 384 5867. 5319. 367 Burvill, to P ies the memories of her comA pplication and informaITY Phone 458 2891 University Sunday May 1 pany and wise counselling. tion to: Retreat CommitW E CAN DELIVER For Brochure and BookAt 4.30pm concelebrated tee, PO Box 58, South ings phone 450 5301 after We humbly thank Thee. More Thomas St at Mass dear Lord for providing Perth, 6151, phone 367 6pm. BUILDING our family with Nell's The Monastery NN ord of Chapel. will be followed by 1009. a light buffet ($4 single) in TRADES Reg. 893 ACCOMMODATION e xample of steadfast faith Life is a group of young t he Junior Common and devotion to You and men and women considerBricklaying. retaining WANTED socialfor time with Your Blessed Mother and ing a possible vocation to Room w alls. All types of we pray to You that her the priesthood or religious ising before the lecture in brickwork. Also rendering Winthrop Hall at 7.30pm soul may be granted eter- life. no job too small free Flat or granny flat nal peace and heavenly Through personal spirit- where the address will be required for Catholic lady quotes. Ring Martin 339 Cam in Melville, Attadale, East happiness. The memory of ual reading and group dis- given by Archbishop 7507. served Our Lady Queen of Apos- First class painting by Fremantle, Palmyra areas, her will remain with us cussion participants learn Icy. 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Thanks J and riage Guidance Council is boured a suspicion that performance. s eeking a part-time drama and song do not It finds a similarly caretui N. receptionist clerk-typist to always marry perfectly on response in the maid onour of work on Wednesday after- an opera stage won't have (Iolanta Nagajek) whose Thursdays and Fri- any doubts at the current strong contralto undernoons, C onsecration to the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ days. Experience preferred. production of Madame lines the hopelessness of please pray daily) Please reply in writing to Butterfly that continues at Butterfly's desertion in the Conscious, merciful Saviour, of my nothingness the Director, Centrecare. His Majesty's Theatre this second act. When the con25 Victoria Square, Perth Tuesday, Wednesday, Fri- sul (Cornelius de Munck) and of Thy sublimity, I cast myself at Thy feet and W A 6000. Closing date: day and Saturday. thank Thee for the many proofs of Thy grace shown makes up the final trio rich Monday, May 2. Set in the port of Naga- sounds cascade. Pinkerton to me, Thy ungrateful creature. I thank Thee espeWanted: retired couple or saki where a petite Japa- (Ron Stevens) has to prove cially for delivering me by Thy Precious Blood from patron of single male pensioner to nese bride is deserted by himself in the first act and the destructive power of Satan. In the presence of Butterfly's live in unfurnished house her footloose Captain Pin- he responds to my dear mother, Mary, my guardian angel, my on farm in Southwest. kerton USN Puccini's with true tones and clarity patron saint and of the whole company of heaven, I Rent negotiable. Would opera transforms her per- if not always the dynamics dedicate myself voluntarily with a sincere heart, 0 prefer handyman type for sonal anguish into an called for in volume. dearest Jesus, to Thy Precious Blood, by which thou farm odd jobs, gardening, immense tidal surge that In that sense the orchestra has redeemed the world from sin, death and hell. I etc. Please write "Adver-, ebbs and strains and finally is required to pass from promise Thee with the help of Thy grace and to the tiser." Box 39, Collie 6225 delivers her suicide death subtlety of supporting a or phone 097-661046 dur- as a stark climax of tragedy concerto performance of utmost of my strength to stir up and foster devotion Roberts & Osborne Sts, that needs no more than the principals through to ing evening. to Thy Precious Blood, the price of our redemption, Joondanna symalmost the of silence final of the passages so that Thy adorable Blood may be honoured and curtain as a shroud. grandeur. phonic glorified by all. In this way, I wish to make reparation Graham McLean's con- The conductor Gerald for my disloyalty towards Thy Precious Blood of servative linear set and a Krug held the orchestra to love, and to make satisfaction to Thee for the many restrained use of Japanese the dramatic line and only profanations which men commit against that precostuming let the lighting occasionally did the balcious price of their salvation. 0 would that my own On Friday May 6 at 7pm, control much of the sin- ance of volume tend to outsins, my coldness, and all acts of disrespect I have Mass will be celebrated in gers' emotions from the strip the resources of the ever committed against Thee, 0 holy, Precious St Mary's Church, Leeder- golden outset through red singers, given the new edge ville as a thanksgiving for passion to the final dark that the pit at His MajesBlood, could be undone. Behold, 0 dearest Jesus, I the 60th anniversary of the gloom of night. ty's gives to the players. offer to Thee the love, honour and adoration, which foundation of St Mary's But it is Christa Leah- The last time Butterfly Thy most holy mother, Thy faithful disciples and all Church and also for the mann's night as her voice e xpired was in the Perth saints have offered to Thy Precious Blood, I ask Thee 60th anniversary of the surges through rich middle Concert Hall that was tryto forget my earlier faithlessness and coldness, and opening of St Mary's Con- ranges to moments of crys- ing its hardest to match the to forgive all who offend Thee. Sprinkle me, 0 divine vent. Father Leech and tal clarity in the upper reg- occasion. The opulence of Saviour, and all men with Thy Precious Blood, so Sister Pius invite all friends isters. Also, it is the match- the new opera home at His that we, 0 Crucified Love, may love Thee from now and past parishioners to ing of her body to the Majesty's adds the rich flaattend the Mass and a changing moods of Pucci- vour that ought to be taken on with all our hearts, and worthily honour the Price supper that will be served ni's long and demanding home from a night of A perpetual novena willbe starting Saturof our salvation. Amen. later in the parish centre. arias that _brings drama Puccini. day May 7 at 5.30 pm.

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Listening to the mission My name is Anne Harris and I have been working for Tertiary YCS since January this year.

My decision to work for TYCS resulted from my experience in both secondary and tertiary YCS, and the belief I have in the movement to make students see more clearly their reality and the responsibility they have to respond to situations as a Christian.

Anne Harris (20 yrs) is the second full time worker in the Perth A rchdiocese for the Tertiary Young Christian Students movement. She works from the Cardijn Centre at 30-22 Claverton Street and can be reach e d by ringing 328 4071.

In my work as a fulltimer years that I became aware Through reading more from my Christianity when for TYCS. I hope to facili- of the necessity to set my widely and studying social I read the Beatitudes: tate groups and individuals faith to work in the every- work, I found the com- "Happy are you poor, the in their response to their day situations of a student. monly held myth "that Kingdom of God is yours"; their family, friends, For the last two years I poverty is the fault of the or "You are doomed! You life campus. I also want to have been studying social individual — his her lazi- make unjust laws that reach them in education work at WAIT. ness" was shattered by oppress My people. That is days, camps and work with During this time I had hard facts. how you keep the poor review groups and people been actively involved at I discovered that our sys- from having their rights believe that what selfin the movement. starting TYCS at WAIT tems of education, politics, and from getting justice. centred men have torn My role, as fulltimer. is because I saw a need for economics, favour only That is how you take the down, other centred can also to liaise with the Christian students to have some of the people — that property that belongs to build up. to ensure our an opportunity to talk is, those with money and widows and orphans" Isiah "I still believe that one Church views are expressed and to about the "awesome" uni; education who fit into the 10:1-3, or, when we under- day mankind will bow listen to the mission which versity, the many difficult white culture. stand the significance of before the altars of God the Church calls us to be situations faced as a terChrist's concern for the and be crowned triuminvolved in as students. tiary student, the need for sick, the children and phant over war and Through YCS at my student participation in the women of His time who bloodshed and non-violent Opportunities school, lona, I came to an guild, in tutorials and terwere looked down upon as redemptive good will prounderstanding of the tiary activities. Three second rate by society at claim the rule of the land," power that I had to make groups began and many that time. said King. the school and family positive actions resulted in Opportunities I had in It was through TYCS that TYCS, too, convinced me environment a more t utorials, in student education, for example. I held to the opinion that that together as a moveChrist-like place by simple relations. were not available to all. all people, because they are ment and with other peoactions which are often However, it was also dur- People do not have equal made in the image of God ple, we can have some forgotten. ing this time that I became access to basic needs, let have a dignity - as Martin means in changing the tive steps to work along- challenge to my life and YCS soon made me lose aware of many groups of alone other luxury items. Luther King said — "the more serious problems of side the poor in their provides a richness which the mentality of "but what people - the homeless. To come to terms with audacity to believe that our community. organisations in Perth. cannot be gained through can one person do?" I economically poor, Abori- this reality, which for the peoples everywhere can Firstly, by questioning The fact that TYCS peo- simply talking about the found out that one person gines, single parents and first time I had opened my have three meals a day for the underlying values of ple are involved in working situation. can do a lot that makes a migrants; whose existence eyes to, I had to challenge their bodies, education and competitiveness and mate- in a soup kitchen, with Primarily, TYCS is an difference to the people was completely different -to my faith. I found that this culture for their minds and rialism in our lifestyles and m igrants, with ex - action movement -- a around them and the ever- mine. process of awareness dignity, equality and free- in our student world, and prisoners, and with home- movement of Christian yday routine of classes, I discovered that the should have developed dom for their spirits. I secondly, by taking posi- less youth, is a continual response. home and recreation. access I had to a private school education, to uniHaving returned from The recent tragedy of versity, to shelter and good the family rather than Rick Mc Fall's Good Fri- my annual holidays, I not available were things brooding over the outConcerned day car accident and hos- found an endless list of to all people. come of the afternoon's My involvement in TYCS pitalisation since has jobs to he done, plans to problems at work. chord sensitive and accomplished a he touched a challenged me to find out For the student conI also discovered that I "Who are the poor?" in many young people's _few new responsibilities cerned about a jobless added to the list. was not the only person -What are the causes of hearts. future, it may mean getIlive at whatIbelieve to I'm sure many have reaconcerned about school, t his poverty?" "What ing down to the discipline lised from this event that he a .fairly solid pact . the relationships between power do they have to conof studying today: conone can only live life one unfortunatefr Imay give students and teachers; this trol their lives and to reach centrating on forming times moment a the time. at impression at made the possibilities for their full potential?" and training one's mind It has reminded me to that I have no time action and Christian "Why have I had opporto think clearly and change in our environment tunities other people do live one day at a time, that Fm too busy. understand the complextoo. a reality. It was in these not have?" I've tried to eliminate ity of life so as to enjoy it the word "busy"from my tomorrow — with or vocabulary, but that's without a job. not enough For rne it's sticking to a regular plan for relaxaEach individual life is tion and rest and not filled with so many conEach day in the Mass a time'. For some it w orrying about trying to cerns and worries, even though each is horn with after the Lord's Prayer I means one moment at a solve all tomorrow's pray that the Lord, "will time. problems today. none. protect us from all anxFor the anxious mother God has given each one For some the burdens are greater than for iety." Jesus said over and with a rebellious child only so many moments of over that we should leave out on the town and not life on this earth. May He others. the worries to His Heav- yet home at the time spec- help us to use each The real problem as I enly Father, who has ified it may mean getting moment to the utmost, to see it is that at times I every hair on our heads on with whatever job is at give Him praise in all we carry with me all the wor- numbered; and that we hand; caring for her hus- do and serve His people. ries and concerns of should live for today band or other children The hest place to do tomorrow, next week, which has enough of its rather than spending one's worrying is down at next month. problems and worries. the cemetery where it's endless time _fretting. know that worrying It reminds me of the For the anxious bread- quiet and where one about them will accomp- song, "Lord give me the winner facing a heavy learns the lesson that all strength to live one day at day it may mean just the worry in the world lish nothing. enjoying breakfast with accomplishes nothing. N.\\

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Brendon Thomas a well- programmes which involknown name and voice on ves being on the road visitthe South-West radio net- ing different country works, has accepted the centres every fortnight job of compering the next until June. CPY Quiz night to be held The crazy nights are comat the Nookenbura Hotel, pered by Brendon and aim Scarborough Beach Road to raise funds for the on Tuesday night May 17 A sthma Foundation, at 7.30pm. Tickets availa- Arthritis and Rheumatism ble on 328 8136. Foundation and the Slow L earning Children's Working as a disc jockey Group. for the past two years Father Simon Carson of involves more than meets Bruce Rock, I am sure, will the eye, or ear, according be delighted to know that to Brendon, former CPY the local Shire hall shall be full-time worker. "swinging," "thumping" Brendon devotes some of and "shrieking" on Wedhis spare time to assisting nesday April 27 from 8pm fund-raising campaigns with the next crazy night. like Telehelp, which is the Tickets will be available at southwest equivalent of the door at S4. Telethon. Telehelp Crazy Nights is TONY DOL1N, one of Brendon's specific CPY FULLTIMER. /A\

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J onathan was a "what have I done? Why the field where David was hero. He was a young does your father want to hiding. He shot the three PO military officer, the kill me?" arrows and called out to "You must be mistaken," the servant. "They are son of King Saul. 21 Jonathan led his father's Jonathan replied. "If my beyond you." 22 armies in successful mis- father wanted to kill you, I When the servant found sions against the Philis- would know it. He tells me the arrows, Jonathan sent him back to town. tines. People admired his everything." 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 bravery. He was likable But David answered. David ran out from his "Saul knows you are my hiding place. Jonathan and and open-hearted. 30 31 32 33 Jonathan and David met friend. He has not told you David embraced one 35 36 , shortly after David's fight of his plot against me another. Both were crying. . • , with Goliath. The two because you would be They knew David would have to flee from the coun37 young heroes immediately upset and hurt." 1 C8 liked each other and soon "David," Jonathan prom- try. They might never see ised, "I'll do anything for one another again. 1 . became best friends. . you." Jonathan said to David. Jonathan gave 39 David his 0 military uniform, his The two friends promised "Go now in peace. God be 4 . armour, his sword and his to stand by each other no with you. The Lord will . 41 bow as a pledge of friend- matter what happened. make sure that you and I 2 ship. An expert archer, They swore to each other will always keep our promJonathan loved his bow in that they would always be ise to each other. We will particular. Giving David friends. Then they went be friends always." 43 4 the bow and arrows was out into a field and made like giving his friend plans. BIRTHDAYS "Hide again where you himself. 45 46 47 48 9 51 52 53 54 55 .0 hid the last time." Jona- Happy birthday to: At first Saul was over. joyed that Jonathan and than advised David. Robyn Lawrence, Hamerf 56 r David were such good "When I find out what my sley; Katrina Maley. r .7 friends. But Saul soon father plans, I'll let you Moora; Louise Mortimer. became jealous of David know in this way. I'll come Hyden; Jennifer Evans. , because he as becoming so out here and shoot three Northam; Chris Green58 59 popular with the people. arrows toward where you wood, South Perth; , , Saul plotted to kill David. are hiding. I'll tell my ser- M elanie Hendricks, 60 1 Jonathan heard about the vant to go get the arrows Hamilton Hill; Brendon .1 62 plot and ran to David. "My for me. If I shout to him Sheehan, Glen Forrest; father is plotting to kill that the arrows are on this Tim Whitely, Quindalup; you," Jonathan told his side of him you will know D Harbison, Esperance; friend. "Hide in some that you are safe. My A nne Murray, Girrasecret place. Tomorrow I father will not harm you. wheen; Clare Pigliardo, will talk to my father. If I But if I shout to him to Woodlands; Lisa Humphfind out anything. I'll let look beyond, you will ries, Forrestfield; Vince know that you are in Bellini, Wanneroo; you know." Nicole danger." Ballantyne, Maddington; So Jonathan met with Saul. "Father, do not hurt David hid. Jonathan dis- Catherine Bellini, WanneOne of the earliest trees to Middle East -- the fig. but we usually only see boil (2 Kings 20:7). David," he pleaded. covered that Saul still roo; Danielle Baker, Hilbe mentioned in the Bible This strange deciduous them dried and squashed Not all figs can be eaten. "David has never harmed planned to kill David. So larys; Christine Dawson, is one of the marvels of the tree has fruits that are not flat because they do not The caprifig is pithy and you. In fact he has done he went with his servant to Narrogin. fruits and a multitude of travel wen. sour and is usually inha- much good for you. He flowers, not one of which is bited by a very small wasp. risked his life when he visible. Adam and Eve knew the The asp carries the pollen fought Goliath. Why do fig tree in the Garden of from caprifig to the you want to kill him now?" Welcome to our new You cannot see the flow- Eden and used the gener- Smyrna and only in this Saul agreed not to harm members: Suzanne Bow- ers because they blossom ously shaped leaves to way will the Smyrna figs David. Jonathan found man, Duncraig; Judith inside the sweet pear- make clothing (Gen 3:7). develop. David and he returned to Abbot, Huntingdale; shaped receptacles we serve Saul. For a while all Brendan Purchase. Mun- think of as the fruit. Modern bakers make fig went well. glinup; Jane Ryan, Lesmurdie; Nicholas Smith, In fact the real fruits are bars and fig newtons. AbiBut then Saul again Name South Perth; Sarah Mar- the hard pips inside the gail. in the time of King t urned against David. David, made fig cakes and tin, Nedlands; Tracey Con- lovely fleshy thing we eat Again Saul tried kill to The winner of our Eater Address took them with her when roy, Nollamara; Jaysen as the fruit. Puzzle is Judith Abbott. of him. she fled. Gowrea, Dianella; Paul H untingdale. A book This time David fled for • P , code Guppy, Girrawheen; and Figs from the tree are courtesy of William Col- his life. Then he contacted R uth Morgan, Girra- delicious and can be eaten Isaiah prepared a poultice lins has been sent out to Jonathan. "My friend." Age Birthdate wheen. as a food or as a medicine, of figs and applied it to a Judith. David asked Jonathan. 14 The Record, April 21 - 27, 1983

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Ghana's health system is appallingly poor and is chronically short of drugs and

Bishop Owushu, Chairman of the Church's Health Department, says "it is hard to get across...what this shortage really means. "People waiting for surgical operatins have first to try to procure gauze and cotton wool before they can be operated on."

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Sister Ancilla Fox calls it "a frightening situation." "It is very common nowadays," she says. "to be stopped in the street and handed a piece of paper, a prescription. "Relatives are given precriptions by doctors to find essential drugs for their sick family members. "Some of them travel the length and breadth of Ghana only to be told that there are none of the prescribed drugs available."

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Challenge to look beyond personal problems Australian Catholics have been challenged to look beyond their own problems and to remember the plight of two-thirds of the world's people. The warning came this w eek from Bishop John Gerry, chairman of Australian Catholic R elief, when he announced a $20,000 grant from ACR to help to establish a distribution centre for essential drugs in Ghana. time in the history of t he world," said Bishop Gerry, "when more people were living at the margin of e xistence, suffering hunger, sickness, homelessness and the absence of meaningful employment. "Moreover, never before have so many people been aware that this suffering exists. "May God forbid that we should go down in history as the generation t hat knew these things, but simply didn't care. "There is a very real temptation to put our

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heads in the sand and f orget about the rest of the world," he said. "And yet the suffering of t he Third World's poor is almost beyond belief. "Last year, for example, 40,000 children died f rom malnutrition every day because their families had no land to grow food on and no money to buy it w ith. "The drought, recession, unemployment and natural disasters we experience here in A ustralia, are no more than pale shadows of what is experienced daily in many Third World countries." Bishop Gerry called on Australian Catholics to "give until it hurts" in order that some of this suffering may be overcome. "Project Compassion, ACR's annual Lenten appeal, provides us with an opportunity to show our compassion for the poor in an eminently practical and highly efficient way," he said. "We in Australia cannot realistically expect to be able to solve all the problems of these countries. "Lasting solutions depend to a large extent on international cooperation in working for a more just economic order. But we have a very important role to play in bringing hope to the p eople who are suffering.

Ghanaian refugees trying to get home, battle police at a border crossing after expulsion from Nigeria last February.

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grammes, Mr Dawkins said there was a need to Mr Dawkins said there find out what is causing so was a lot of common many young people to ground on the subject of drop out of school early. i ndependent school why only half persevere to education. Year 10 and only one third The debate during the recent election campaign "One of the distortions I to Year 12. had beenonly about distor- referred to is that some In his address, the fountions which had crept into new non -government ding principal of Corpus the system. schools have developed in Christi College. Father "The system has never areas which are already Robert McCormack, Carbeen under threat, but only well served with educa- melite. cited the words of Teilhard de Chardin: by addressing the distor- tional facilities. tion are we going to be able "Where the Common- "Everything is sacred." to maintain a definite com- wealth provides large He asked if there was a mitment to all schools in amounts of capital fund- lack of morality in a world Australia on the part of the ing. preference ought to he in which there was hugging Commonwealth." given to new facilities and kissing in public, the Mr Dawkins said that the where they do not already wanting of more money, government intended to e xist. e xcessive alcohol congive preference to non- Pointing out that new col- sumption, the increasing government schools that leges like Corpus Christi need for more cars or the would be built in the new could be innovative and profanity in the mass developing areas. creative in their pro- media. OFrom page 1

"By our donations we assure them that we know something of what they are going through, and that we are concerned for their wellbeing. "At the same time, we enable them to continue working for justice in their own community, so that everyone may have enough to live in the dignity that befits children of God."

Cremation was strictly forbidden in the 1917 code , which ordered denial of Catholic funeral rites to anyone who sought cremation and did not show signs of repentance before death. Historically , missionary Christianity opposed pagan cremation customs in favour of burial to emphasise reverence for the body and belief in the bodily resurrection. Late 19th century European movements promoting cremation , an import-ant part of the context behind the 1917 code , often had materialist and anti-Catholic overtones. In 1963 , reflecting changed circumstances , an instruction by the Vatican's Holy Office (now the Congregation for the Doctine of the Faith) limited t he Church's condemnation of cremation to cases where it was done for antiCatholic reasons. The new code continues that discipline , saying ecclesiastical funeral rites are to be denied to persons "who have chosen the cremation of their body for reasons that are opposed to Christian faith." Burial is still preferred , and for pastoral reasons dioceses may impose restrictions on funerals with cremated remains , in respect for local customs and sensibilities. The new ritual for funerals in 1969 • clarified by a 1977 Vatican note , says t hat only the body , not cremated ashes , may be presented at a funeral Mass. One of the innovations in Church practice in the final draft of the new code is the permission for married permanent deacons who are widowed to remarry. When Pope Paul VI reestablished the permanent diaconate in 1972 and o pened it to married men • one of the requirements was that a permanent deacon could not remarry if his wife died. A few dispensations to t hat rule have been given ,but other widowed deacons have been advised to leave the diaconate if they wished to remarry.

:11( Nigeria's president Shagari who issued the expulsion order.

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