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Opening of new Mandurah school Government operation of private schools would be incredibly more expensive than the existing system, the Premier, Mr Brian Burke said at the weekend.
Mr Burke spelt out what he said were the "crass economics" of private school funding. He said it would be "incredibly more expensive" for the government to operate private schools rather than to assist parents who undertook a big portion of the government's responsibility for education. "That's just the economic justification" he told the large crowd who witnessed his official opening of Assumption Catholic Primary school at Mandurah. The Archbishop of Perth, Sir Launcelot Goody, has responded on the Broadcasting
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"Married to that is the inalienable right parents have to choose their children's education, a right to which our government pays tribute. Mr Burke said while the government would not be able to provide all the assistance required and appropriate, the government was looking at ways to lighten the burden and to make sure that Catholic education was able to grow and fulfil its vital role. He outlined three ways:
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I) to provide the Catholic Education Commission with a much more detailed knowledge of the education system in WA so that the CEC could make sensible decisions and be able to influence the advance of education in the State. 2) to assist authorities find sites for schools. Mr Burke said if a more complete planning of private schools could be made at the outset of the development of a new suburb it would avoid the waste in the government system when facilities became redundant as private schools entered the area at a later date.
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Realistic 3) looking for ways to realistically increase the level of funding State governments are able to lend to private systems. "My views won't always coincide with those of the CEC or all of the parents at this school," Mr Burke continued. "We will move to the implementation of a needs-based funding and my justification for that where there is a scarcity of resources and the devotion of such resources is not as needed as in areas such as these, the tinue at an existing level. "We propose not to result is a confiscation alter the base position from parents of the right from which we will move to choose. and we will not deprive any part of the private system any part of the Ability base grant to which they had access until the "The right to choose election. "But in the devotion of without the ability to extra resources the guidfund or finance the right ing line will he the need of is a fairly hollow one." Mr Burke said that the those to which those government accepted the resources are directed." difficulty arising from the he said. fact that people ma • See other stories back e xpect funding to conpage.
Bishop Quinn and the Premier, Mr Burke at the plague commemorating the opening ceremony at Assumption school, Mandurah.
China crackdown
PEKING — Twenty-five years after the split between th Vatican and China's Patriotic Church, Peking appears to have s tepped up its battle against traditional Roman Cath-olicism. In a commemoration yesterday of the split, Xi lhongxun, a member of the Communist Party seereta-
riat, threatened followers of the Vatican Church with legal action.
"They would hurt the national dignity of the great Chinese people," said Mr Xi. "If they violate laws, they will be punished by law." In a crackdown last month in Shanghai, several priests who remained outside
the regime's Patriotic Catholic Church structure were sentenced to long prison terms. A mong the priests were two Jesuits, Father Vincent Zhu and Father Joseph Chen. They were sentenced to 15 and 11 years' gaol respectively, according to the French sources.
Family plans accord
Looking at industry
Ignorance and an unwillingness by women to take responsibility for themselves are the biggest obstacles f acing a teacher of natural family planning these days, according to a woman who has taught and used the method successfully for 10 years of her married life. "I feel sorry for a lot of women, married as little as three or four years, who are disillusioned with all artificial contraception, who are no longer interested or enjoying sex, who are sick of the pill and are turning to natural methods in sheer desperation,- says Margaret De Rossi of Willetton.
Sorrows and joy V ATICAN CITY (NC) Pope John Paul II praised "the admirable vitality" of the Lithuanian Catholic Church and urged the Soviet Union to give its members "full freedom of conscience and of religion, in all its individual a nd communitarian a spects." In a talk to four Lithuanian bishops, the pope summarised "the sorrows and joys" of the Church in Lithuania, but made no mention of the absent member of the Lithuanian B ishops' Conference. Bishop Julijonas Steponavicius, the 71-year-old apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of V ilna. Bishop Steponavicius, who many people believe is the cardinal named in secret by Pope John Paul in 1979. has reportedly been under house arrest in Zagar, a small settlement outside the Vilna Archdiocese, since 1961. He is listed in the Vatican y earbook as impeded f rom exercising his authority. In his address to the pope, Bishop Liudas Povilonis, apostolic administrator of Kaunas and Vilkaviskis and president o f the Lithuanian Bishops' Conference, said the other bishops—hearts are veiled with sorrow" because of Bishop Steponavicius' absence. ' Nevertheless the benevolence with which you follow our Church, holy father, and the unique concern that you show for spiritual good of Lithuanians sustains in us the well-grounded hope that also this 'impeded' bishop may be able soon, God willing, to be reintegrated into the exercise of his episcopal functions," Bishop Povilonis said. According to a Lithuanian Church source in Rome, Bishop Steponavicius did not want to come to Rome with the other Lithuanian bishops. "The Soviets probably would have given him a visa to come, but he would not have been allowed to return."
Mrs De Rossi has been a teacher with Centrecare for eight years and in Adelaide for two y ears before that. The Centrecare natural family planning service is about to begin a training programme for prospective teachers starting in June. It will follow the 40-hour course laid down by t he national organising committee. People wishing to enrol as prospective t eachers can apply to Centrecare now. Mrs De Rossi and her husband Tony are convinced any married person can become a good teacher if they are convinced it is working well in their relationship. The De Rossi story goes back well before their marriage. For Tony it was in the Leaving Certificate c lass at Aquinas in 1964 when biology teacher Brother O'Loughlin told the young men a breakthrough in scientific natural methods was imminent. It would be up to these men to find out these discoveries and put them into practice in their later lives, Brother O'Loughlin said. Nine years later he was to marry Margaret Williams who had learnt about the ovulation method independently. She had an acquaintance with an infertility problem and went to the St John's lectures for help in achieving conception. Mr De Rossi believes that t he biggest problem facing t oday's teacher is ignorance. "They don't want to know because they have this A new Jesuit refupressure put on them by gee agency for Soupeer groups and parents. "They won't accept theast Asia, located advice because all they in Melbourne, will have heard of is the pill or place about 50 volunthe IUD. teer workers this year to assist in refugee camps.
Jesuits open a refugee agenc
Father Mark Raper, Si, "They don't want to 40, an Australian, and believe that other people recently-appointed coactually use the method ordinator of the Jesuit successfully in their lives." Refugee Service (JRS), Mr De Rossi, a housing reported that already the salesman, likens the situa- J RS has 20 people in Thaition to a person who will land, Indonesia, Macau not take advice when plan- and the Philippines. ning a home and then finds But with hundreds of out to their sorrow the mis- thousands of displaced takes they have made in people still in camps placing windows and such- around the region, the like in the wrong place. challenges remain enormous. he added.
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Jobs creation TORONTO (NC) — The Toronto Archdiocese and the Canadian government have joined forces in two multi-million dollar projects to create jobs for about 700 welfare recipients. The archdiocese is to "accelerate its projected five-year plan of repairs and renovations," said Auxiliary Bishop Leonard Wall, chancellor of the archdiocese. The projects' estimated cost is about $11. 1 million Canadian, with the government providing $6.5 million and the archdiocese funding the rest. Approval for the projects recently came through the federal-provincial Canada Ontario Employment Development Programme, established to fund municipal, private -sector and non-profit projects employing people who have exhausted their unemployment insurance or are receiving social assistance.
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La Grange Aboriginal community are about to launch into screen printing of m aterials for mats, bags and tea towels with their own locally produced designs. S ome of the former Nulungu s tudents came to Perth last week to learn about the process and to gain extra knowledge of the printing processes they called in at Vanguard Press w here Laurie S cott demonstrated a press to Janie Thomas, Bibiana Badel, and Gerry Butt of L a Grange.
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Mark Raper, SJ, talks with Joseph Pham hoc who took his vows as a Jesuit on Saturday, "We see our role as being April 9, 1983. to strengthen the capacity of the local Church to serve make in working with see themselves as being The Christian Brothers in and our apostolate and refugees," Father Raper refugees. involved in something Queensland have invited how we are progressing. said, "The Jesuits and their "While we don't aim to much greater. recommendations from We would be glad to hear associates work under and replace any local agencies, "There are very few peo- the public to go to their t houghts from people f or the local Church there are some strengths ple recording the history of Provincial Chapter meet- interested in our work. e ffort." that the JR S has," he said. the Khmer people, what ing in August. "Already a number of our He believes the J RS has a "We can offer people who has happened in the past Brother Terry Kingston, schools have invited peodistinctive contribution to can stay with these dis- and is happening to them co-ordinator of the Chap- ple to contribute ideas for placed people for long now. ter meeting, said the meet- the Chapter. R ECORD periods, learning their lan- "I'm hoping we can find ing. held every six years, "We will be holding our guages and way of life." an historian able to share set the direction for the world Chapter next year Advertising The Jesuit continued, the lives of these people. Order for the following six where decisions made at Telephone " While our refugee "It could make an enor- years. the Queensland Chapter workers are involved in mous contribution." he "The Chapter examines will be further discussed." 328 1388 practical relief work. they said. many facets of our Order Brother Kingston said.
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VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II urged Italy's bishops to remind the nation's Catholics of their "moral responsibilities" when he spoke to 264 bishops during the 21st general assembly of the Italian Bishops' conference. "Don't be afraid to remind the men of today of their moral responsibilities,Pope John Paul said. "Among the many evils which afflict the modern world, the most worrisome one is a frightened weakening of the sense of evil," he added. "For some the word 'sin' has become an empty expression, behind which must be seen only deviant psychological mechanisms, to be returned to normality through an appropriate therapeutic treatment," the pope said. "For others, sin is reduced to social injustice, fruit of the oppressive degeneration of the 'system' and therefore ascribable to those who contribute to its conservation Still others see sin as "an inevitable reality, due to inclinations of human nature which cannot be defeated" or accept it as a "genuine concept" but then -interpret the moral law in an arbitrary way . . . aligning themselves slavishly to the permissive mentality of current custom," he said. "The consideration of these various attitudes shows how difficult it is to arrive at an authentic sense of sin," the pope added.
A n ecumenical conference held over the long weekend had helped considerably to b ring Western Australian churches up to date on the ecumenical scene, Bishop Healy said this week. He said the experience had been valuable because of the comparative isolation of the A t last weekend's conference Bishop Healy with Mr. John Cahill Chairman of state. the Catholic Committee for ecumenism. The Catholic representa• OOOOO 000000000000900000000000,00 0 600 0 000ew tion at the three day conference included Bishop Foley, Father Brian Pit• man. 0. Carm and Perth Sir, ecumenical committee Many obviously have : OPTOMETRISTS & OPTICIANS members, Mr John Cahill ( Chairman), Miss Pat been concerned about C orneal Lens Consultants Ryan. Mr Bill Huxley and a l legedly sexual ly . 321 5344 16 PLAZA ARCADE. PERTH Father W. Uren Si. Also indecent and offen451 8/?.' C AROUSEL SHOPPING TOWN present were Sister Patrice 73 1929 C ooke. Mr Edmund sive programmes D EMPSTER HOUSE, PORT HEDLAND 21 3445 Doogue and Mr Terry broadcast by a Perth 29 DURLACHER STREET, GERALDTON Gaunt. based radio station; The representatives of 1-10 P. • I eight churches studied -shows- which disprincipally the report gust a lot of people issued after more than 100 a nd tend to encourage Archbishop Goody Christian theologians met has responded to in Lima in 1982 and imitation and experithe number of queries he unanimously put out an mentation by interhas received regarding agreed statement for study ested listeners. recent publicity given to in the areas of baptisms. Father Brian Morrison For me there has been the eucharist and ministry. who subsequently made a report to the archbishop, Bishop Healy said the added worry of scores of the major part of which Lima statement on bap- letters and telephone calls was printed in The tism had gained the grea- protesting not only against Record last week. The the filthy and salacious test acceptance. t ext of Archbishop This acceptance among content of the offending Goody's response was: programmes but also the churches of Australia would be an encourage- against the alleged qualiment to seeking accord on fied support given to them the matters of eucharist by Father Brian Morrison and ministry which are at a tribunal hearing who, as he himself explicitly more difficult. "Apart from this." he stated, was speaking as a said, "the impressive factor private person and not in is the realisation that in the any way implicating the field of lay ministry so Catholic Church. many of the churches seem to be working along lines similar to ours. A uthority Father Pitman, a theologian formerly at Yarra Theological Union, was However a priest is one of the speakers and always presumed to have pointed out a series of some ecclesiastical authornotes in the Lima text indi- ity and it was most imprucated diferences in the dent of him to believe Catholic understanding of otherwise. the eucharist which still I was not previously require further discussion. a ware even of the existence Archbishop Goody of these "shows" which • Continued page 15 have been giving so much offence to many and unfortunately listened to with much prurient avidity by many others -- apparently the ratings are rather high. I was, however, on enquiry given some transcripts of the programmes and I was amazed that such explicit filth should HARARE, Zimbabwe (NC) — Zimbabwe's Catholic be allowed to go to air. bishops and Prime Minister Robert Mugabe have moved to As far as Father Morriease the tensions caused by the bishops' stinging criticism son is concerned, after that the army had committed atrocities against hundreds of speaking with him I am innocent civilians. convinced that he too is Mugabe has pledged to investigate the bishops' completely opposed to the accusations. particular shows. The bishops a ye praised goy ernment efforts to bring peace to the you g African country and said they "fully At the same time he support governme t efforts to build national unity through wishes to express approval reconciliation." of the welfare outreach 385 Rokeby Road, Subiaco, 6008. Telephone: 381 5888. In a statement marking the third anniversary of Zimand community aid probabwe. the nation's six bishops and one apostolic adminisgrammes which the same Marmion Street, Booragoon, 6154. Telephone: 3306344 506 trator said of their criticisms: "We believe that lasting station often promoted. 735 Beaufort Street, M. Lawley, 6050. Telephone: 2712753 friendship
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Record Footsteps to be followed Death is the great equaliser, they say, but a reader might be excused for interpreting two . rather prominent obituary notices in this issue as indicating that some die more equal than others, • even in the Church. Newspapers don't play at being God and on the heavenly pilgrimage the length or prominence of a death notice is of no more value than an ostentatious headstone. Nevertheless, in terms of news, it happens that the deaths of some may attract more passing notice than the many unsung saints who drift to their end in all humility of heart, and having given so much to God and their fellow humans. A certain folklore clings to the death of a priest or prominent religious and it is within living memory that a Catholic paper would literally devote pages to the minutiae of the obsequies of dead clergy and religious. It was merely the fashion of the times as the same thing was happening to the civic greats in the columns of the secular papers. In today's world there is insufficient time for the living let alone the dead so a quick moment of grief over a loss of a person, famous or not, has to give way to the problems of tomorrow. Neither priests in question would have classed themselves amongst the famous. Both possessed an individual character and inimitable style that left a mark on the circles in which they moved. Although their deaths are somewhat premature both were in the over-60 age bracket that is fast becoming a cut-off point in a job-hungry world. Priests too are not insulated from the pressing question whether their usefulness or relevance is of any value as they press on into the fading decades of their life. Both the deceased saw their vocation as giving what gifts they possessed in whatever way would best serve the people they had come to love through their priesthood. Their loss, then, is not about themselves but about the priesthood in Western Australia that faces more and more frequent visits to the cemetery with only dim hopes that the ranks behind them are filling sufficiently fast. The death of a priest becomes not a paean of praise for their achievements but a stimulus to the Christian community to thank God for the good of which they were His chosen instruments and still more to beg Him to send labourers into the harvest. The wider community of the Church in Western Australia would do well to pray and ponder that the destiny of the local church is in their hands, in their families, from which the dedicated men and women will have to come forward to fill sparse ranks. That is real involvement in the Church.
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growth which is one of and the While conceding that consequences, both eco- causes of diminished some good may come from nomic, political and moral demand for goods and loss the recent National Eco- the managers of large cor- of employment opportunnomic Summit Conference porations and the adminis- ities. in the form of short term trators of employers A solution to which the job creation schemes and organisations such as the Economic Summit Conpossibly some periferal Confederation of Industry ference gave no considerabetter working relations do not understand the eco- tion was the propositio of between employers, unions nomic or political conse- income splitting of spouses and the Government I do quences that flow from as a family unit for income not believe that any long mothers being forced to tax purposes. term lasting good will leave their homes and the This proposition coupled come from the conference. care of their children. with a spouse allowance There is some justifica- • The Australian Labor paid to families with tion in the charge that it Party, now the Govern- dependent children where '.vas nothing more than a ment Federally and in only one spouse is in the t alk-fest. every mainland state with work force and the other The prospects of the con- one exception has handed stays home to care for. ference coming forward over a substantial section c hildren would bring with proposals that would of its power base and pol- about the exit of many solve the serious unem- icy making machinery to a married women from jobs ployment problem, partic- dedicated group of left in retailing, packaging, ularly youth unemploy- wing radical feminists who food preparation and cleriment were doomed from are opposed to stable fam- cal work creating an estit he start by the composi- ily life and the traditional mated 150.000 jobs which tion of delegates and role of the mothers in the would be readily taken by observers. home. teenagers. There were no delegates who would advocate putting an immediate end to the absurdity of forcing more and more married Sir, women into the work There appears to be a f orce. m isconception about Nor did any delegate suggest that measures should the admission of those he taken to arrest the trend who are intellectually of increasing numbers of handicapped to the broken marriages with the subsequent massive drain Sacraments of the on welfare payments and Church. increases in the numbers of Mrs Maria Dissidounemployed.
to give special prior- advance of the last three ity to the sacrament days as a spiritual prepara of penance, including tion for the final events ot making it available Holy Week and in order during all the days of "to diminish the heavy pressure on confessors." Holy Week. In recent years, some the pope said. bishops have adopted a "Nevertheless. I would practice of not scheduling ask that bishops urge their confession periods on priests to do everything Holy Thursday. Good Fri- possible in their pastoral day or Holy Saturday, in generosity and zeal to order to establish a "litur- make confessions availagical quiet" for contem- ble also during the last plating the death and days of Holy Week." he added. resurrection of Christ. The pope invited the "There will inevitabl ." bishops "to go in search of said the pope, "be people those who have sinned, so who, in spite of everything. as to invite them to return will need this opportunit to the fullness of the of grace." Father's love" and said that On Good Friday of this the hierarchy should "con- year, Pope John Paul for centrate the attention of the fourth year in a ro% t he faithful on the person heard confessions for an of Jesus the redeemer, who hour and a half in St personally forgives and Peter's Basilica.
Misconception over sacraments
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mino is quoted as From: Fr. Rodney Williams, Archdiocesan Chaplain for MentalHealth. being sad that 'her Mothers or make sure that the child One important reason d aughter cannot Workers? is not upset by a for making this decision receive holy communstranger and that the is to give witness to the This became obvious ion in her local parish'. Host is swallowed. love of Christ and the when the Prime Minister This procedure would Church child for the Mr Hawke invited the (The Record April 14). have the
Women's Electoral Lobby In 1978 Catholic Care for t o attend, albeit as the Intellectually Handicapped made a submission observers. WEI_ is a small group of to the Archbishop on this The curriculum will include the usual core subject areas Religious left wing radical feminists. subject and after discusEducation will be an integral part of the curriculum Optional sion with the senate of priSome are communists. subjects offered will depend on student preferences, teacher experests he issued the following They are not representatise and the availability of resources The College facilities for 1984 tive of the majority of statement: include specialist areas for Art. Home Economics and Woodwork ( 1) Once parents have acwomen. The successful applicants will be invited to participate in the knowledged their child Their stated policy is to curricular planning and development of the new College is intellectually handiencourage or force more An application form and further information is available from. capped and express married women into the The Staffing Officer their desire for the child work force and for the Lumen Christi College to receive Confirmation Government to subsidise c /- Catholic Education Commission of WA and Holy Communion or be responsible for moth6 Salvado Road then the usual norms ers child caring responsiWEMBLEY WA 6014 governing these matters bilities by way of "free" Phone: (09)381 5444 should be replaced or child care facilities. supplemented by conTheir spokeswoman at Applications close on 13 May 1983. sideration of the faith of the conference, Senator the family in the love Susan Ryan, advocated • the Lord has for their • nothing to assist the 26 John Street. Perth WA 6000 intellectually handimother who wants to stay • Correspondence • capped member. The Editor, The Record, PO Box 50 • home and care for her • Aberdeen Street. Perth, 6000 In practice, if a child children, but who has been • Advertising • gives no evidence of forced into the work force • Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 • intellectual activity registered for posting as a newspaper Category - A - 111) simply to supplement a low • • Produced in WA these sacraments may • • income which is inadePrinted and published weekly by Edward vanHeemst • still be given so long as quate for ordinary family • • 26 John Street, Perth • the child is accompan• sustenance. • • ied by other members of Established 1874 • • Today in excess of 40% of •0 ••••••••••••• 5555 •••• S OOOOOOOOOOOOOO • OOOOO •• all Australian married the family. .
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who is apparently inteladded advantage of expressing famlectually inactive but is ily love and unity. a person with an eternal destiny and priceless (2) Every effort should be dignity. made to help any child who can appreciate Once the question of these sacraments to do giving these sacraments so. Appreciation will to such a child has been vary, of course, accordraised, were the Church ing to the extent to to respond negatively which the child is the family would very handicapped. likely experience by the Church of one whom •Continued page 11 they have been taught not to reject but to The Daughters of Charity accept and love. NEED YOUR HELP A positive response would tend to encourf oi their work for the development of the age them and would underprivileged bring to live the Gospel scene of Jesus putting U RGENTLY NEEDED his arms around little clean, wearable, — house -hold Clothing, children and blessing goods - nick-nacks -- ornaments, them. (Mark 10: 13-16). It may be desirable on jewellery, etc. some occasions, when Deliver to administering Holy 534 William Street, Highgate Communion, for the priest or acolyte to give For Truck to call — Phone 328 4403 the Host to one of the Country goods marked cionat.on parents who can then f ree on rail to Kewdale Rail Terminal give it to the child to
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Briefs: BEJING (Peking, China) — A French -Chinese Catholic was r ecently released from a Chinese labour camp after more than 27 years in detention. Raymond Ratillon, the 49year -old son of a French father and a Chinese mother, left China for France, where his father still l ives. Ratillon was arrested in September 1955 in Shanghai, China, during a wave of arrests
U.S. race relations backward BROOKLYN (NC) — The United S tates is currently "going backwards" on race relations, the newest black bishop in the U.S. Catholic Church said recently. Though criticising trends
in the nation, Bishop Anderson who was consecrated last July commended the Church. particularly his fellow bishops, for speaking out firmly against racism and moving aggressively to counter it. In his address, Bishop Anderson said that some white immigrant groups were exhibiting racism in becoming "too possessive" of their neighbourhoods. "It must be recognised v. great sadness certain groups came to America to flee racism. "They found other aspects of it here not as sensitive as they ought to be to the needs of others w ho were forcibL brought here as slaves,"
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He also said racism was the main cause of the "urban flight" depriving inner cities of resources and which leaves blacks to get inferior education in a public school system -that has been non-creative." Bishop Anderson put racism in a broad theological context by connecting it to original sin and acknowledging that "I am racist" because of this connection. "Adam and Eve were racists in the sense they did not think to be created in the image and likeness of God caused them to be high enough, with enough dignity, which would give them what they ought to have been." The answer to racism, the b ishop suggested. comes by understanding "the mind that was in Jesus." In his ministry, Jesus "ministered to everyone" and never engaged in "tearing anybody down," he said.
of Catholic clergy and laity, the report said. Also arrested at that time was Bishop Ignatius Kung Pinmei of Shanghai , now 82 and still imprisoned for the faith. D OEI DE LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NC) — Somebody said "cheese and Mrs Louise Logsdon smiled and got down to the business of getting some of it for the needy people living within the Louisville archdiocese. She heard about the federal government's free cheese give-away in early 1982. "Why can't we get some of that cheese?"' she wondered. Within a few months, she had obtained authorisation for her parish's St Vincent de Paul Society to collect and distribute at least 2,000 pounds of the cheese every month. Soon 49 parishes were participating_ After one give-away in February and two in March, the Catholic parishes had distributed some 235,000 pounds of cheese in 1983 alone. Mrs Logsdon is a 74-year -old mother who raised four children and has a long r ecord of volunteer Church involvement behind her: She began in 1927 by selling the most chances in a popularity contest and winning a $750 diamond ring. "People don't realise how many people are hungry," she said. "They're proud and they won't tell their next-door neighbour they're hungry."
Priest's new faith A CCRA, (Ghana): The priest who was a prominent member of Flt Lt Jerry Rawlings ruling council has resigned from the Catholic Church to organise the Afrikania religion. Father Damuah, 52, calls Afrikania an African traditional religion which existed for a long time but has been ignored. He said a principal belief was that all religions should work together in a spirit of interdependence and added a principal aim of the religion is to decolonise African worship. Worship services consisted of singing African traditional songs and reciting poetry, proverbs and short stories, he said. Father Damuah also has been a politically controversial figure in Ghana. In January 1982 he was appointed a member of the ruling Provisional National Defence Council. The appointment was made by Flight Lt. R awlings who came to power in a coup in Dec. 31, 1981. In September 1982, Father Damuah resigned from the council after he had been pressured by pro-government labour organisations. The controversy with workers arose because Father Damuah condemned the invasion and destruction by workers of Freemason properties in the capital of Accra.
The hardest challenges WASHINGTON (NC) — The greatest choice andhardest challenge is to create a Catholic educationalphilosophy, Norbertine Father Alfred A. McBride said in his closing address to the National Catholic Educational A ssociation convention in Washington. Father McBride prepared a list of 10 challenges facing Catholic education in the coming decade. These are: • make Catholic schools identifiably Catholic; • maintain an ecumentical spirit in Catholic education; • provide an education where all participants are called "to say yes to Christ and his meaning and relevance for our lives," • offer an education where prayer and worship are thought to be essential to the process; • present an education in which the values of love. justice and mercy crown the efforts of all involved,' • insist on quality education for the academically able. Make suitable adaptations for those with special needs; • aim for excellent in areas such as reading, writing, spelling, counting, literature, history, science, mathematics, music and the arts; • prepare students to cope with the "hi-tech" world, not only with computer science, but also with the "hitouch" world of community, meaning and structure;
U.K. urges asylum LONDON (NC) — The Catholic bishops of England and Wales have urged the British government to continue granting asylum to conscientious objectors from South Africa. The bishops decision was made during their annual meeting April 1114.
The appeal to the British government reflected the belief that many South Africans may seek asylum in Britain rather than face heavy gaol sentences or long periods of nonmilitary service as alternatives to refusing military service.
Outreach to Rebel inactive priest still Catholics active GALVESTON (Texas) — An inactive priest who is one of the men whom Pope John Paull II excommunicated earlier this month along with Vietnamese Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngo Dinh Thuc said the papal action was meaningless because he "never belonged to the church of John Paul". Bishop Musey said he w as consecrated a bishop in Galveston in April 1982 by Bishop Moises Carmona, whom Archbishop Thuc had illicitly ordained in 1981. On April 7, a notification from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith made public the pope's decision to excommunicate Archbishop Thuc for his illicit ordination of bishops and priests and his statement last year that he considers the Holy See vacant. T he order also included s ix others, including Bishop Musey. Bishop Musey said that last August he had ordained a second American, Bishop Louis Vezellis, a former Franciscan who, he said, lives in Rochester, N.Y. He explained he and Bishop Vezellis have divided the country into two dioceses, with himself the head of the western See and Bishop Vezellis the head of the eastern.
WASHINGTON (NC) The National Catholic Evangelisation Association plans to launch a new programme of outreach to inactive Catholics.
Paulist Father Alvin Illig, director of the association said the programme, called Another Look, will have four major purposes: • To make the 51 million active U.S. Catholics more conscious of the 15 million inactive Catholics so they will pray and work for their return to the Church. • To prepare material to be distributed among the relatives and friends of those who are no longer active in the Catholic Church. • To assist some of the 19,000 Catholic parishes in the United States to set up a ministry to inactive Catholics. • To invite inactive C atholics to take "another look" at the Catholic Church. The first step is to distribute 180,000 persons on the associations mailing list a letter asking them to send him the names of friends and relatives who are inactive Catholics. The association will then write to these inactive Catholics three times a year to invite them to take "another look" at the Catholic Church. The request of any person to have his name taken off the mailing list will be honoured. The names of the people
sending in the names of • conflict of conscience inactive Catholics will be between lifestyle and kept in confidence. Church principles. This initial effort will be • and the impersonalism followed by a campaign o f large Catholic in the Catholic Press parishes. aimed at reaching those "Catholics never who have a friend or relative who is an inactive become inactive for purely theological reaCatholic. The secular press will sons," Father Illig said. "The human factor also be used to reach out plays an extremely high to inactive Catholics. role in disidentification." Father Illig said a recent There is a hopeful side Gallup poll "found that t o the picture. h 26 percent of all baptised continued. Catholics over the age of 18 currently do not prac"Many individuals are tice their faith." waiting for an invitation to return to the practice He said recent research indicates almost 40 per- of their faith, to take cent of Catholics between another look." the ages of 15 and 29 niliP111111111111111111111111111H IIIIIIIIIIIHiI111111111111:111Ill HI111111111111114111111 leave the Catholic Church for a period of two years or more. Among the reasons for O PTICIANS AND OPTOMETRISTS leaving the Church, Father Illig said, are: Contact LENS CONSULTANTS • marriage to a nonCatholic, PERTH PICCADILLY ARCADE 321 8151 • ineffective preaching. PERTH 154 WILLIAM STREET • too much or too little 321 5304 liturgical change, COTTESLOE 19 NAPOLEON STREET 384 5605 • a personal quarrel FREMANTLE 30 MARKET STREET 335 2602 with a priest or parish staff member. 11111111111111111111111111
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U.S. bishops'pastoralletter: The nation's defence, said Howard Charbeneau, has nothing to do with religion. Howard can remember when, as a student in the fifties, the Sisters of Charity would lead his class in prayers for t he oppressed in Russia. Today Charbeneau, public relations director f or the Monsanto Mound Facility in Miamisburg, where detonators for the America's nuclear arsenal are produced, is on the other side of discussions with the Sisters who are protesting against his company's policies. Resolutions by stockholders, including the Sisters of Charity who o wn stock in the company, coupled with the p roposed pastoral statement by the US bishops condemning nuclear weapons, have alienated Charbeneau from much of the Church's leadership.
Workers agree Others at the company, operated by Monsa n to for the US Department of Energy, agree with Charbeneau, but there are a few exceptions among the 2,000 workers A s a protest, Charbeneau has put his gift money for Church collections into a special account. DEBATE IS DIVISIVE Disarmament advocates in the Church he told his diocesan newspaper, "are out of place. "What they are going to cause in the Church is nothing but divisiveness." Ch arbeneau said Church leaders should stay out of political issues because they do not have access to classified information needed to make a reasonable judgement on the arms issue But while Monsanto employees like Charbeneau argue that the bishops have gone too f ar, at least one Catholic working for Monsanto argues they have not gone far enough
What the missile makers and the workers are saying
WORKERS TAKE NOTICE Among her Catholic co-workers, the publicity surrounding the bishops statement has caused a few to take notice. Before the proposed p astoral statement workers had tended to s ee - disarmament t ypes" as "left-over 60s people.
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When one number in a street was rung, the telephones in every other house in the street would also ring. It turned out the goverthat had been set aside for the cable work on renovations
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How Time magazine sees the debate "The bishops' statement lends credence to the argument "There are middle-ofthe-road and even conservative people coming out against the arms race." Few employees voice public reservations. Perhaps more typical o f the attitude of Catholic workers at the plant is the view of a ssociate director Robert Braun. A sked if he had ever had any moral qualms.
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bout the work done at "the Mound, - Braun replied, "Absolutely not." A serviceman in World War II, he credits the a tomic bombing of Japan with possibly saving his life. "I was proud for many years to be a Catholic," he said. "Now I'm not so certain. "We do a good, important job for our national security," he said.
Leaving Certificate at the Eastern Goldfields High School at Kalgoorlie in 1940 and joined the old PMG Department the following year as a clerk. He rejoined the PM G after AIF war service from 1941-46, trained as an engineer and spent 15
Alwyn McKeaig and his engineer friends of the Australian Telecommunications Commission were proud of the work they had done under some difficulty in installing the new 1000-line automatic telephone exchange, with all its modern equipment, at Palembang on the island of Sumatra. Among its benefits would be to bring STD connections throughout Sumatra and to Java, as well as upgrading generally communications in this big slice of Indonesia.
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Direct hand Rosemary Walker said she has never felt comfortable working for a company that has a direct hand in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. I ' was kind of hoping the bishops' statement would bring me to the c onclusions that I should quit, - she said. "It would be easier on m y conscience if I didn't have to make that decision. "I would feel better if! were outside on a picket line instead of inside pushing papers." Mrs Walker said of her job: " You don't walk out of there with a good feeling. "It's not the place to get personal satisfaction — there are no lofty goals there."
Alwyn Alexander McKeaig, former president of the parish council at Holy Cross, Kensington, and a retired Telecom engineer, was born at Wickepin on June 22, 1923. After having received his early education at the Wickepin and Kanowna State schools, he obtained his
But to the time the Australians left Palembang - and, they later ascertained, for a lengthy period after that -- the superb new exchange lay silent in complete disuse. The reason for this sad waste finally emerged. The local governor had refused to grant the authorisation necessary to get the exchange working because he feared the Army would take over most of the lines - and from them he could expect no payment. A t Jambi, in the centre of Sumatra, where the fearsome maneating tigers lurk. Alwyn and his colleagues had completed installation of the new exchange and they told the local authorities to connect the area's cables to it. After the requisite time, they assumed this would have been done and set about testing the modern equipment with some pride. To their dismay, they found the previous sad state of affairs still obtained. When one number in a street was rung. the telephones in every other house in the street would also ring. It turned out the governor had spent the money that had been set aside for the cable work on renovations to his own house. These were some of the frustrations experienced by the Australians in putting in exchanges, some of them big with up to 7,000 lines, in places like those mentioned and at other centres such as Padang. Bukitinggi and Pekanbaru. There were technical difficulties in superimposing a modern Australian telecommunications system
Today's People A weekly feature By BOB BOYLE on a hybrid collection of every other known --- and unknown network. There was the recurring headache of trying to prevail on Indonesian officialdom to provide adequate buildings for the work that had to be done. One of the biggest difficulties was clearing through Customs the sophisticated and expensive equipment that had to be imported. To sort out this and some of the other bureaucratic snags, the Australian Telecommunications Commission was compelled to appoint-- an officer to the sole job of maintaining close liaison with key Indonesian officials. "These were some of the minuses," Alwyn says, "but there were plenty of pluses." For instance, Alwyn and his wife Mary grew very fond of the five Indonesian servants who looked after them in their beautiful home in Bandung. "They were efficiency personified," he recollects, "but we grew a little tired of the fact that they would not let us lift a finger to look after ourselves. "Typical of the way they operated was in connection with our game of golf on Saturday mornings. "After our houseboy had ensured we were going to play, you would step into your car to find your golf shoes and clubs -- all freshly polished - - had been placed in the hag and neatly stowed in the most efficient manner possible. "And when you walked into the house on your return from work. your favourite pre-dinner drink, mixed to perfection, would be placed in your hand immediately. "But Mary, who loves to cook, had one small frustration with them. The only chance she got was to demonstrate a new dish to the Indonesian woman cook. "After one demonstration, the woman could cook it perfectly so Mary was virtually barred from the kitchen again." The McKeaigs had few language problems. For some time after their arrival, a tutor came to the house to teach them Bahasa Indonesian. Alwyn had further practice at work where a number of his Australian colleagues spoke the language fluently. In any case, most of the Indonesians with whom he came into professional contact spoke good English. In Alwyn's time in Sumatra, he worked with the Indonesian telecommunications authorities on the introduction of satellites there. This was valuable experience because at that period the top design staff of Telecom were among the few people in Australia
Agca repents months in Indonesia in 1975-76 working for the Australian Telecommunications Commission on the installation of telephone e xchange equipment in Sumatra. He and his wife Mary, the daughter of Arthur and Geraldine Turner, have two
sons and two daughters — all married — ranging in age from 34 to 28. Alwyn, who was retired from Telecom on health grounds in 1978, spends much of his time working voluntarily as a tradesmanhandyman at Contarf Boys' Town.
Putting lines in Sumatran tiger country who knew anything about satellites. A mong the expatriates the McKeaigs got to know in Bandung were a group of Mary knoll Sisters from America who had a house right behind a Moslem mosque, and a Belgian priest named Father Henk Keesom. He was instrumental in introducing the practice of celebrating Mass in English in the homes of the expatriates instead of their having to go to Bandung cathedral where the Masses were always said in Indonesian. The McKeaigs were saddened to learn that in February this year Father Keesom died suddenly just after he had welcomed to Bandung his father and Sister from Belgium. "The Moslems." Alwyn says, "celebrate some of their feasts, particularly the one known as Lebaron. with a great deal of noise — banging of drums, clashing of cymbals and the exploding of particularly loud fireworks.
"But the Maryknoll sisters, despite the fact they lived slap-bang up against the mosque. were not unduly disturbed by the din." About the time of Lebaron, the Indonesian Army was not issued with ammunition because the soldiers were in the habit of splitting open the bullets and using the explosive they contained to make fireworks. Before going to Indonesia. one of Alwyn's tasks had been to design relay apparatus for coded information in telephone exchanges. Initially the exchanges had what was called step-by-step equipment. and the purpose of the relay apparatus was to activate the equipment to take all the steps necessary for a phone call to go through. In the 1960s, what is known as c ommon control equipment replaced the old step-by-step gear in a move that substantially cut the time it takes for a call to go through. Alwyn played a leading role in installing in the metropolitan area the STD system, which works on common control equipment. All this technological sophistication is far removed from the atmosphere of his boyhood. In 1934 his family moved from Wickepin, the scene of his first days. to Kanowna where his father. George, worked on the Golden Valley mine and his Aunt Jane — Mrs McLeod — ran the Kanowna, the last survivor of the town's 17 hotels. One of his abiding memories of both places is going to dances, then
a major rural social activity, in the small halls that seemed to be dotted ad lib in isolated bush locations. He suspects one of the reasons for his early attendance at these functions was the pressure exerted by his five sisters who, if the worst came to the worst, could always dance with their brother. Another memory is of attending the Eastern Goldfields High Schol at Kalgoorlie with Wally Langdon, who later played cricket for the state and football for Claremont, and Neville Way, who went on to represent South Australia at football and is now a doctor in WA. Alwyn, now retired, spends a lot of his time at Clontarf Boys' Town in a voluntary capacity working on various jobs that require skills such as plumbing, carpentry and metalwork. This he finds very satisfying. But it's a far cry from the tiger country of Sumatra.
ROME (NC) — Mehmet Ali Agca, the convicted assailant of Pope John Paul said in a letter p ublished in his native Turkey he admires the pope and is sorry for his crime. Hurriyet, an Istanbul daily, published a frontpage photo of the Turkishlanguage letter. It was addressed to Hurriyet's editor, Celalettin Cetin. The contents of the letter were widely reported in Italy. where Agca, 25, is serving a life sentence for his attempted assassination of the pope on May 13, 1981. The reports did not question the letter's authenticity. Agca The letter said wanted to meet with Cetin in order the explain "the sincere admiration which I feel toward the personality of the pope and his truly great humanity.
Pope is 'a rare man' mi ANKARA (NC) — The younger brother of I= papal assailant Mehmet Ali Agca was arrested for allegedly threatening Turkish President Kenan Evren, the Italian news agency ANSA reported from Ankara. ANSA said the arrest of Dnan Agca took place in Matya in south-eastern Turkey during a visit to the town by President Eyren. Dnan Agca was arrested by presidential secret service guards for approaching the President "in a very hostile manner", the report said.
"At the same time I will express my repentance and the tragedy of the terrorist and terrorism," the letter said. Agca's letter also said he wanted to talk about "the goodness of Italy, which has treated me in a humane way for two years. the goodness of the Vatican, and the goodness of the Italian people." The letter mentioned the ROME (NC) — A Bulpossibility of an upcoming appeal of his life sentence, garian refugee is handed down in July 1981 seeking political asyafter a three-day trial. lum at the Vatican Agca refused to file an appeal after his 1981 cona fter having been viction. thus forfeiting that turned down for citiright. zenship in the tiny Agca. who escaped from city -State. a Turkish prison in 1979 and faces the death penalty Theodor Hlebaroff, a there as the convicted assassin of a prominent former Professor of Turkish editor, also wrote Music Theory and about the need for a "serGerman at the Univervice for peace and friendship in the world today. sity of Sofia in the Bul"But such service can only garian capital, said he be achieved with dialogue, wanted to live at the sincere collaboration, the Vatican because of the creation of the just and good. starting even from absence of "Commuthe errors and evils comnists, trade unions mitted," the letter said. Agca — now he's and corrupted induspepentant "The current pope is one of the rare men who best The letter was published tries ..." grasp this reality, and I am shortly after Agca, accordconvinced that he will do ing to Italian press reports. An official of the Vatieverything possible in this implicated another Bulgar- can Secretariat of regard." ian in an alleged plot to kill During his trial. Agca Polish labour leader Lech State, who asked not admitted having fired at Walesa during Walesa's to be named, said Hleleast two shots at the pope, January 1981 visit to baroff's request for wounding him and two Rome. Vatican citizenship American women. The Bulgarian was Ivan had been studied with Dontchev, former third After his arrest he said he was sorry he had hit the secretary at the Bulgarian "proper attention" but t wo women but had no embassy in Rome, who h ad nevertheless regrets about his attempt returned to Bulgaria last been turned down. year. on the pope's life.
Vatican asylum
Krohn fit to plea About the time of Lebaron. the Indonesian Army was not issued with ammunition because the soldiers were in the habit of splitting open the bullets and using the explosive they contained to make fireworks.
Lisbon (NC) — Juan Fernandez Krohn, 33, who allegedly tried to attack Pope John Paul II in Fatima during the pope's 1982 visit to Portugal, is mentally fit to stand trial, judicial sources in Lisbon said. At his earlier trial appearance, he was reported to have said he tried to stab the pope because he thought Pope John Paul had betrayed the Church. He also reportedly said he considered himself a martyr and was unremorseful. He has been described as a very conservative Catholic who thinks
Vatican II reforms were wrong. In 1978, he was ordained a priest by dissident Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. He later broke with Archbishop Lefebvre's movement, apparently over the issue of papal authority. After the attempted assassination of the pope at Fatima, Archbishop Lefebvre's group issued a statement denouncing the attack and reaffirming its attachment to the Holy See. French authorities said that after he split with Archbishop Lefebvre, Fernandez Krohn got involved with a radical organisation called the Sedevacantistes, or "empty see'ists", who believe that no pope has been validly elected since Pope Pius XII.
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YOUR PATHWAYS OF THE SPIRIT
KNOW FAITH
Virtually every person feels the need for reconciliation at some point in life. A relationship that needs healing can be very painful. But the capacity for reconciliation introduces hope Dolores Leckey writes that reconciliation sometimes takes a false form. She also explains that real reconciliation is a process that generally takes time; it means loosening up on the hurt and anger that divide us from another person. Father James Black tells a story to illustrate a time when a student taught him a lesson about what reconciliation means. Katharine Bird points out that a white flag is a traditional symbol of a truce between warring nations — and also a sign of surrender. Yet, in personal relationships, it may take more than the surrender of one person to resolve a problem: resolving a human problem may require a two-way effort. Ms Bird is associate editior of the Know Your Faith series. Father John Castelot talks about the trials of the prophet Ezekiel.
Sometimes you have to say sorry "You're not paying attention." By Father James Black I was speaking to the back of the classroom, last seat, She came up the centre ed. She tried to brush off aisle, dropped something the incident. middle row. That on my desk - probably But I pressed on. "No, was where Lisa sat. the note she had been it's not OK," I said. For Lisa, class was passing around the class- "When I corrected you. I another opportunity room -- and left without did it in a way that to talk with friends. a word. embarrassed you in front I was surprised to dis- of all your friends. I can't Today was no excepcover a sealed envelope. promise it won't ever tion. "Sorry. It won't With Lisa, it could be happen again but I'll tore it open. really try to be more senhappen again," she anything. I I'd forgotten the day. sitive in the future." said. With the lowering grey There was a brief pause rhe material was dull. 1 c louds outside, it while she wrestled with approached it ambi- appeared as though it herself. Then, "Thanks. tiously, filling the chalk- might snow. The wind And don't worry about board with diagrams. was becoming gusty; it," she said. Lisa smiled. Then I would erase every- hardly unusual for mid- gathered her books and thing, only to fill the February. disappeared down the board again. hall. A few kids were trying Today, some 10 to stay with me. But Valentine later, Lisa and I are still monotony, combined friends. Whenever she with the heat rising from sees me at a football Her valentine fell from the radiator, was taking game or at a school reunits toll. My challenge to the envelope to my desk. ion, she always waves or Lisa had obviously got- It had been signed by the stops by to say hello. I've ten her attention. She entire class. I stood silently. My first taught several of her adjusted her pen and reaction was to rationa- brothers and sisters and checked her notebook. my relationship with the "Well, to continue," I lise. Ninety-nine times family is a good one. said, and was soon lost in out of a hundred. Lisa But I believe it turned the droning of my voice. would have deserved the out that way because 10 reprimand. But this was So were my students. Anger, as exhibited by a young man against his grandfather in a 1979 scene years ago a young girl Then Lisa passed a note that other time. I'd been helped teach a teacher from the NBC TV series, Little House on the Prairie, can leave some painful to the boy across the hasty and I knew it. scars. The forgiveness and the healing do not come easy. By seeking forgivewhat reconciliation really My actions had probaaisle. I stopped again. ness, we risk an encounter with another's anger. meant. The entire class returned bly disillusioned a lot of to consciousness one by the kids. All they had one, waiting to see what I learned today was how to stay out of my way. But I was doing to do. had hurt Lisa especially. Lisa lowered her eyes. A few minutes passed Granted she. had a streak Like Jeremiah, Ezekiel was without further interrup- of mischief in her, but it tion. Again, deeply wasn't really harmful. terrified at the task laid on him by involved in my lecture, I She was a better than God in the sixth century B.C. saw further activity in the average student and had apparent indifference, The temple was in flames; rear of the classroom. a bright future. Ezekiel realised it would have to the contrary were Ezekiel told them that the walls were piles of Yes. I would have to Lisa snatched her hand be painful to serve as utterly vain. when they fully realised rubbie. The Jews' hopes b ack after passing apologise. Before long, the Jews what was happening to for an early return to I found her at her God's spokesman to the another note. locker. Her smile faded Israelites exiled in learned how true the Jerusalem, they too Jerusalem from exile quickly when she saw me. Babylon. For Ezekiel prophet's words had been would be stunned. They went up in the smoke of would have to throw cold Chapter 24 in Ezekiel would sit and moan the city. Soon thousands Chances I began to speak. "Oh, that's OK. You water on their fervent tells of an incident which pathetically. Numb with more of their compatriots didn't know about it or hopes for the safety of illustrates the personal grief, they would be would be joining them in I made an instant judganything," she respond- Jerusalem and a quick suffering the prophets unable to shed the tears exile. ment. She had been given return to that city. often had to endure. which normally would Was this the end of evertwo chances already. Since the people refused Just before the siege of flow from them. "Alright, that's it. I've -Dialogue is at the to listen to him, Ezekiel Jerusalem, Ezekiel's wife That sad realisation was ything? Were God's peobeen more than patient. same time the search had to take the most died. Just before she soon to break upon the ple to vanish from the I've got important mate- for what is and remains extraordinary means to died, Ezekiel received Jews. It would bring a pages of history? What rial to cover and you common to people even capture their attention. this strange command new era for God's people was to become now of the glorious destiny God had can't even bother to pay in the midst of tensions, That involved all sorts from God: - and for Ezekiel. opposition and conflict- of symbolic actions and attention." "Son of man, by a News of the fall of promised them? other imaginative pantomimes. sudden blow I am taking J I began to speak faster. s . makes the erusalem reached Discouragement, pes"If you've got something party a neighbour." With their curiosity a way from you the E zekiel about five to say, you ought to have (Pope John Paul II, aroused, the people delight of your eyes, but months after it had taken simism and despair were the courtesy to say it to World Day of Peace, finally had to ask Ezekiel do not mourn or weep or place. It marked the the order of the day. Ezethe entire class. When are 1983.) to explain the meaning of shed any tears. Groan in opening of the second kiel had to do his best to you going to grow up?" silence, make no lament phase of his ministry to dispel them. He wanted -One should not these actions. God's people to remain Lisa reddened and attempt to Ezekiel tried, by every for the dead." the exiles. reduce the God's people. He wanted lowered her head. other means at his command, Poor Ezekiel in his • In the first phase, to party to a mere make sure they proObviously there would be object, to convince the exiles h eartbreak, he was even Ezekiel's primary concern but should confited from their sufferings no further disturbance. sider the that the sinfulness of denied his mourning. At had been to squelch their party to be an and would be ready to She was reduced to i ntelligent, free and their compatriots was God's bidding, even such empty optimism. fulfil their role in God's embarrassed silence. crying to heaven for a an intimate experience as • New Ezekiel had to do r esponsible subject." plan. The bell signalled the (Pope John Paul II, punishment that would the loss of his wife had to an about-face and keep end of the period and the the people from falling World Day of Peace surely and swiftly come. he put to prophetic use. Ezekiel now had a students filed out of the He told the people that When the astonished into despair. Message, 1983.) strong point in his room. All except Lisa. any hopes they might people commented on his Jerusalem was no more. favour.
Poor Ezekiel
Ezekiel: Chapter 24 By Father John Castelot
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Forgiveness has many faces . . .
Forgiveness has many faces. One of them is a false face, according to Dr Doris Donnelly. She contends that much of what people tend to callreconciliation is not that at all. his easy to fake a reconciliation she observed in a 1982 interview. "Our language enshrines the idea in phrases like 'kiss and make up. ' We're programmed to bypass real forgiveness among people and among nations," she writes. A s an example. the author cites the peace treaty between Iwo nations after a war. There is the assumption that people and governments will forget that orphanages have been bombed or that people have been badly hurt. The peace treaty may be signed. But forgiveness? For people who feel injured, it is not so easy as signing a document. Ms Donnelly, visiting lecturer at Princeton Theological Seminary, has been writing about the topic of reconciliation for a decade. Two of her books are Learning to Forgive. published in 1979 by Macmillian Co., and Putting Forgiveness into Practice, published by A rgu.s in 1982. Forgiveness is a process for us. she points out. It takes time. For it means loosening up on the hurt and anger that wall us off from those who have wounded us. .1adfor Ms Donnelly, forgiveness is not a process simply of glossing over problems hut of taking appropriate steps to resolve them. dores Leckey Her helpful insights show that forgiveness is more than words or an embrace. It involves a change of heart. Forgiveness is something we give. On the other hand, forgiveness is something we seek. Those are two of the other faces of forgiveness. And of the two. I think it is more difficult to ask someone's forgiveness, than it is to actually forgive someone. To seek forgiveness is to openly acknowledge, at least to one other person, that we have been self-seeking or selfserving or callously indifferent. That comes hardfor many of us. There are reasons why. For one thing, it puts us in a risky position. By seeking forgiveness, we risk an encounter with another's anger. Our effort at reconciliation with another person, we also realise, could he rejected. So again, it is wise to remember that allhealing takes time. I f it is genuine forgiveness we want from another person, that person may need time to let go of thepain we've caused. Contemporary life, rushed and fragmented, is not naturally conducive to reflection on how responsible we are for the welfare of those who inhabit our world. ,411 the more reason, it seems to me, to reclaim an ancient practice: taking time regularly to think about the effects we have on the many people who arepart of our lives. Some still call this the daily examen. Have we harmed another human being through action or neglect? Have we been hurt? How? Are we angry at someone? Are we judging someone? The greater our spiritual maturity the more conscious we become of how we affect other people's well-being. The truth is that we continually touch others with the energy in our life; we touch them — sometimes negatively and sometimes positively. A n office worker who genuinely respects the others in the office contributes to a peaceful environment. Harsh words, sarcasm, diminishing others, even unintentionally — those actions cramp the human and religious spirit. The same is true infamilies. Husbands or wives who resent their spouse or their children hurt them even though they do not directly attack them with words or actions. The negative energy poisons the air. I f we take quiet time to think about our impact on others, it is particularly important to consider whether we have hurt those who come under our authority in some way: children, employees, people who depend upon us. Our examen may move us to work with the others in our lives tofashion a new way of relating that is life-giving to all. Forgiveness is so important to daily living that Jesus, when asked how often one shouldforgive in the course of a day, replied: "Not seven times, no, hut 70 times seven." One can picture the shocked look on his listeners'faces. Seventy times seven is a lot of forgiveness. Like our daily bread,Isuspect we need to pray fervently for the grace to cultivateforgiveness — andreconciliation — in our comings and goings. Like bread, forgiveness is life giving.
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The battle waged ferociously, with first one side and then the other jockeying for a commanding position on the plain. Bodies lay crumbled on the ground all around; the fighting men could scarcely manoeuvre their horses around them.
Then, responding first slowly and then more rapidly to the sounds of trumpets calling their forces to regroup, the warring factions pulled apart. Slowly a space cleared between the bitter foes. Sometime later, a small group of unarmed horsemen, bearing a large white banner on a pole raised prominently above their heads, separated from their compatriots and rode slowly out onto the plain between the warring sides. The riders' hope? That the white flag would signal a truce between the foes; that the temporary truce would give each side the time needed to initiate negotiations. The scene I've just described was a familiar one in the Western films so popular in Hollywood a few years ago. Then and now, the white flag remains a powerful symbol. It challenges both sides to put down weapons, to talk over divisive issues.
A white flag
Real reconciliation is a means of restoring friendship or harmony between two people and it takes two people to do that. It is a way of settling or resolving differences. And the reconciliation of relationship often is vitally needed for t he well-being of peo pie.
By Katharine Bird R econciliation, as popes and religious leaders are fond of pointing out, is a basic need for all persons, given the many things that can divide one person from another.
Many factors can bring people to the point of seeking reconciliation. Once they arrive at that point, however, it is essential to recognise some of the roadblocks
Symbol But, for many people, the white flag flashes another message - - it is a symbol of surrender, a sign that one side no longer can fight on and is giving up. In wartime, the surrender may be necessary. But in personal relationships, the simple surrender of just one person who gives up might not be sufficient to create real peace. There is more to reconciliation than that. And in seeking a personal reconciliation, the message of the white flag can be downright misleading. In short, if one person surrenders for the sake of peace, the real differences between the persons just might remain unsolved; real differences might even go underground to fester in silence. -True dialogue is the s earch by peaceful means for what is good. It is the persistent determination to have recourse to all the possible formulas of negotiation, mediation and arbitration. is a recognition of the inalienable dignity of human beings." (Pope John Paul II, World Day o f Peace Message, 1983.)
What does it take? R econciliation. What does it take to be a reconciling person? And, is it something you can get better at over the course of time? A reconciler is able to admit to mistakes and misunderstandings. Not that the breakdown in a relationship is always one person's fault. But twoway misunderstandings are a common source of problems in human relationships. A reconciler has some sense of timing. For example, generally speaking, the hest time to seek a reconciliation is not in the heat of anger.
one's own understanding of the situation; • getting stuck in a position where each side considers the other unreasonable - and simply a waits the other's surrender; to reconciliation, the • focusing on the negakinds of attitudes and tive qualities in the other behaviours that can person and the positive interfere with it. These qualities in oneself; may include: • an unwillingness to • not listening to what grow, to change, at least a another person actually bit, when circumstances says; warrant. • a basic lack of trust in An indication of just the other, along with an how vital reconciliation over-co nce nt ra t io n on might be in people's lives is seen in the choice of it as the topic discussion for the fall 1983 Synod of Bishops in Rome. Representative bishops from throughout the world will study the many places where reconciliation is needed in the modern world and the ways to promote it. The working paper for the synod indicates, on the one hand, that the synod will consider reconciliation as it relates t o the sacrament of penance. There it is an important means of reconciling people who are alienated from God and from the Christian community. Moreover, the working paper says, the bishops also will look at the many ways the "tensions and divisions which continue to weigh down the world - the large and small world in which Christians as individuals and as a community live-represent a challenge to seek reconciliation.
-Dives in Misericordia" (Rich in Mercy). Pope John Paul II. Origins, Dec. 11, 1980. 1312 Mass. Ave. NW., W ashington, D.C. 20005. $3. The second encyclical of this pope talks about some of the major anxieties of our times and how much p eople today need G od's mercy and reconciliation.
A t St Mark's Church in Vienna, Va, Father Bob Hoeffner hears the first confession of a second grader. Reconciliation, as popes and religious leaders are fond of pointing out, is a basic need for allpersons, given the many divisions separating one person from another. A reconciler realiser that reconciliation often takes time. Despite the fact that society places high priority on instant success, the reconciliation process can't always be rushed. For reconciliation often means people are learning to trust each other again and are going through a process of forgiving each other. A reconciler checks out what the other person has to say. That means listening carefully and attentively to what the other person says. For not really hearing what the other said may have created the need for the reconciliation in the first place. Reconcilers don't jump to conclusions. Reconcilers don't lecture the other person. When two people are trying to communicate, it is important that each one gets to speak. Reconcilers recognise that the capacity to forgive is a greatness in humanity. Since God forgives,
"The Seven Sacraments: Symbols of God's Care, "by Sandra DeGidio, O.S.M. Catholic Update, published by St Anthony Messenger Press, 1615 Republic St, Cincinnati, Ohio 45210. The fourpage update offers a glance at the sacraments as a means of deepening our love for God and for each other.
human forgiveness is Godlike. Forgiveness is something that those who are made in the image of God can do. Reconcilers realise that one way to introduce hope into life is through efforts at reconciliation. They don't take the Godlike gift for reconciliation lightly. Reconcilers realise that it likely will take two or more people to achieve a reconciliation. It is a process that generally needs to be worked through together. A reconciler realises that sometimes two people, or two groups, may need help from outside. Perhaps reconciliation is something people get better at with practice. But in human relationships, expertise in problem solving is at hest only part of the picture. Love, care, compassion, concern about another: These have valuable roles to play too.
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Pressures and strains in modern-day Centrecare clinical psychologist, Dan Coughlin, has been running relaxation classes for about four years. Relaxation, he says, is essential to everyone for good living. His classes are held each Monday and run continuously with most people attending for around five sessions. The main purpose of the lessons is to teach people how to relax quickly and easily and secondly to use the relaxed state to improve self image in a creative way. "Learning to relax is like any other skill," Dan said. "Very few people are aware of tension and very few can relax at will. We all need to take time for ourselves."
Stress has become the buzz word of the eighties but do we really know what we're talking about when we use it? It has in fact replaced the use of the word "nerves," something that w asn't quite socially acceptable in years gone by and therefore had to be whispered about. Both are tag names for the real problem, "anxiety," something that all of us experience to differing degrees at various times of our life. The trouble with "in" w ords is that they tend to distort our perspective. They are quickly picked up by the media and magazines, advice columns, r adio and television programmes and even advertisements are constantly w arning us of the dangers of stress. The truth of the matter is that stress is an everyday occurrence in our lives and in a way is our best friend. T he problem is not stress as such, in fact if y our body didn't experience "stress' you would be dead. . .the problem is our response to it. Physiologically, stress is our bodies' instant r eaction to danger. Changes in blood, hormones, breathing and
STRESS CAN TAKE OVER YOUR LIFE m uscles make us stronger, faster, more alert, better able to protect ourselves. Stress drives us all to achieve. None of us could survive without it. Some of us actually savour the tension and challenge that c omes with it. The problem is not the stress but the distress caused by inappropriate or inordinate tension. If it is activated too often, or lasts too long, it takes a heavy toll. It gives rise to feelings of tension and anxiety, e.g. feeling jumpy, nervy, f earful, easily frustrated, irritable, uptight, tense, choked up with feelings.
Wrong ideas can add to burden
We can add to our tension load by the way we think and it is important to realise that some of our commonly held beliefs are irrational because how we think influences what we feel and do. Ten common irrational beliefs. 1 . You must have sincere love and approval almost all the time from all the people you find significant. 2 . You must prove yourself thoroughly competent, adequate and achieving or you must at least have some real competence or talent in something important. 3 . You view life as awful, catastrophic and terrible when things don't go as you want them to. 4. People who harm you or commit misdeeds rate as generally bad, wicked or villainous individuals and you should severely blame, damn and punish them for their sins. 5. If something seems dangerous or fearsome, you must become terribly occupied with it and upset about it. 6. People and things should turn out better than they do and you have to view it as awful and horrible if you do not quickly find out good solutions to life's hassles 7. Emotional misery comes from external pressures and you have little ability to control your feelings or rid yourself of depression and hostility. 8. You will find it easier to avoid facing many of life's difficulties and self responsibilities than to undertake more rewarding forms of self discipline. 9 . Your past remains all important and because once something strongly influenced your life it has to keep determining your feelings and behaviour today. 10. You can achieve happiness by inertia and inaction or by passively and committedly "enjoying yourself. ' Other irrational beliefs can be recognised by "shoulds," "oughts" and demands in their sentence construction.
Sometimes there are physical signs such as queasiness, headaches, palpitations, constipation, broken sleep and even pain. The important thing to realise is that our reactions to stressful situations and thoughts are learned habits. . .which with perseverance can be unlearned. One of the most successful ways of reducing tension is relaxation training, a technique of alleviating the symptoms of stress, widely used by psychiatrists, psychologists and personal counsellors.
It aims to teach a skill in self help. The object of the relaxation training programme is to substitute relaxation as an habitual response, rather than tension or anxiety. Relaxation training is concerned primarily with anxiety and tension. Tension is a state of being stretched or strained. In relation to relaxation training, tension refers to muscle fibres that are excessively or inappropriately strained or stretched; that is, when muscles are in a state of tension unwarranted by the situation (unnecessary tension) or when the muscles exhibit a greater level of tension than is called for by the situation (excessive tension). Anxiety is a state of feeling associated with fear of something real or imagined, known or unknown, identifiable or unrecognisable. As with tension, the types of anxiety with which relaxation training is concerned are inappropriate anxiety and exaggerated anxiety. The former refers to
anxiety experienced when the situation carries no real threat. Exaggeratedd anxiety refers to a level of anxiety that is greater than is warranted by the situation. U nnecessary tension may be depicted by the individual who suffers, say, from muscular tension when reading a light novel. There is no need for any tension; it is therefore unnecessary. E xcessive tension can be seen in the person that crosses the road and finds that a car is fast approaching. Tension is required for this person to act swiftly, but he becomes so tense that he cannot move at all. T his is excessive tension. Similarly inappropriate and exaggerated anxiety may be respectively exemplified by the individual who has an anxiety level while performing some menial task when no anxiety is called for, and by the person who suffers an unnecessarily and debilitatingly high level of anxiety when a lesser level of anxiety is required by the situation for the proper action to be taken. But because of the interaction between mind and body, the distinction between anxiety and tension may be regarded as l argely academic, although an individual may not see the inter-
relationship through being sharply aware of just physical or mental discomfort. T he relationship between mind and body can be shown by pointing
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Relaxation techniques have been used more frequently in recent years although one of the most popular, that developed by Jacobsen, was first taught as far back as 1926. Tension is perhaps more of a problem in the West than the East, says Dan Coughlin. The East has long had a tradition of meditation and to meditate one must be relaxed — it's Westerners who are always on the go. He finds that more women than men attend his classes, but perhaps that is because they are held during the day. Most of those who come to him are suffering from headaches and anxiety and of course, a very common problem, is the inability to sleep well. Learning to relax, he says, is the first step towards improving your sleep pattern. "Most people are aware of the causes of their tension. They do have real problems. So what we are really talking about is symptom management," he said. "When these symptoms begin to interfere with the quality of living, then something needs to be done." And something can be done. For those who dismiss such practices as being of no use, Dan Coughlin would counter that they lacked understanding of what is involved. "Some people think relaxation is a state that few people can achieve but each of us has our own level of relaxation just as we have our own individual repsonses," he said. One major barrier, he says, is that most people believe they cannot control their own thoughts. "We tend to define ourselves," he said, "we say we're a worrier and yet we don't have to have a negative outlook and we don't have to worry." It's important, he says, to sort out the difference between existential pain and neurotic pain. out that if a person was asked to grit his teeth, tense his muscles and clench his fists, he would begin to feel aggressive and angry. Body affects mind. Likewise, if the individual was to mentally repeat to herself the w ords "anger" and "hate," her muscle tension and adrenal level would soon reflect the influence of thoughts on her body. Some of the effects of t ension and anxiety include restlessness, irritability, low anxiety threshold, general inability to cope, sleeplessness, cramps, nail biting, asthma, hypertension and neurodermatitis. Some of the effects of relaxation include an upsurge of positive interest in the external reality, i ncreased muscular relaxation, a greater focus on the here and now, better ability to concentrate, heightened tolerance, and a decrease in the extent to which perception is distorted. In the tension cycle, a
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UOSILY,'N UCSS s "If something bad happens it ma) take a week or so to sort yourself out, but you shouldn't be agonising over it months later." For instance, if the boss gave me a real going over it would be natural to be upset but if I get depressed and quit rm, job or start telling lies about it then my behaviour is neurotic," he said. Self awareness is very important because unless you know and understand yourself it is difficult to make correct, valued judgements about your behaviour and reactions.
situation that produces tension and anxiety is handled with less satisfaction and the individual is less able to utilise all her resources. Confidence is decreased and a succeeding situation is met with an increase in tension
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resulting in the possibility that the situation is dealt with less succesfully and with greater dissatisfaction. The ensuing situations will be faced with even less confidence and likelihood of success. Thus the tension cycle is in motion. Relaxation training cannot hope to change the pattern of a lifetime. Its broad objective is to establish what may be termed a relaxation cycle that will run counter to the tension cycle which
operates in the anxious tense person. The first step towards establishing this relaxation cycle involves the reduction of anxiety and tension. This allows the individual to experience greater comfort in a situation that would have previously been seen as stressful, and is thus able to utilise h er resources more effectively. She thus increases her chances of handling the situation with less anxiety and tension, and to handle it with increased effectiveness and ease. The result is a deeper f eeling of satisfaction. Consequently each ensuing situation is faced with greater confidence with the resultant likelihood of a successful outcome. Thus the relaxation cycle is in motion. R elaxation training aims to initiate the relaxation cycle to operate in the opposite direction to and thereby reduce the significance and the effect of the tension cycle.
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Relaxation could be a key to find
"People tend to ignore the signs of tension, they accept them as a normal response or else they are completely unaware of them," Dan said. There are several things that induce relaxation, says Dan. These include the tensing and releasing of muscles, thinking beautiful thoughts and auto-suggestion. Any method uses one or more of a combination of these. People with sleeping difficulties are keeping themselves awake, he says. "Until they take responsibility for staying awake they will have trouble going to sleep. They can blame it on the devil or grandma - it really doesn't matter why they're awake - it's what they're going to do about it.
"Any relatively normal person, acute problems and stress aside can learn to go to sleep easily. "Obviously people in acute pain or great emotional distress may need medical help but they are the exception." The elusive sleep he says. can be attained through using the relaxed state in a creative way. "We're talking about learned techniques of positive thought and creative imagination," he said. "It's also a good way to improve the Once you have learned to relax quickly, use imagery to break the emotional reactions triggered by pressures you often encounter. F irst relax, then imagine yourself facing a situation that normally makes you tense, such as the pressure that builds up when you face a deadline. As you imagine the situation, retain the awareness of relaxation. R epeat this several times, each time imagining yourself handling the situation calmly.
self-image. Symbols are the language of the unconscious. "If I see myself as a weak personIhave to create for myself a symbol of strength. "In my own case I use physical posture feet astride, head up, arms akimbo and the attitude, 'well, you may like me or you may not, it's okay.' "I would use light for the heart. If I saw myself as a mean, unloving person, I would imagine myself as light, the symbol of love and caring. "My assumption is that I have all the good qualities in the world but on a sliding scale, somewhere between 2 and 70 percent. "To improve my self image I create for myself a literal image of myself." Most people, he says, never think of putting themselves in a good light. They have not been taught to love themselves, rather such 'self-love' is seen as 'ego' and an undesirable thing. Loving oneself is the first step to all other love. "That's why creative imagination is so vital, one picture is worth a thousand words." he said. "The picture has an emotional charge, words are more abstract and the mind is very responsive to symbols." Imagery can be used in either a positive or negative way. "You can use it to worry. Say your son is out with a girl. You can see the car smashed and broken when he is late home, or vou can replace that negative
ting down your fork between bites. Slow your steps when y ou walk; slow your speech when you talk. As you listen to others, repeat briefly what you hear them say. This will help you understand them better and a lso reduce your impatience. MANAGE YOUR ENVIRONMENT — It's all too easy to be carried along. T elephones, interruptions, demands break in and stress builds. Where possible, take active steps to manage your environment.
For example, schedule your appointments realistically; allow enough time on your calendar so that you are not always rushing from one meeting to another. Each day set your priorities in the morning, and stick to that order. Take up a new task only when you finish your priority items. LEARN TO SAY NO — Learn how to manage demand from others. Let them know how much time and effort you're willing to give them; learn, too, to say no if you have to.
e t0Plic" Stop the stress associated scene if it makes you feel more tense than relaxed. R epeat this until you can go through the entire scene without feeling any tension. SLOW DOWN — When you act rushed, you will feel pressure. Take it easy. Practice eating with slower movements, put-
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LOS ANGELES (Calif) A secret U.S. embassy cable in 1980 linked Salvadoran Constituent Assembly President Roberto D'Aubuisson to the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo R omero of San Salvador, according to the L os Angeles Times.
image with a positive one by surrounding the car with a gold bubble of safety and love," he said. Some people, of course, would say that they had no imagination and therefore weren't capable of creative imagination, but that's not the case, says Dan. People combine the three senses of visual, auditory and feeling in creating such imagery and therefore receive an impression of something rather than an actual picture. A relaxed body and mind is the first step on the road to good health and can be achieved by all ages. Those attending the class range in age from 20 to 80, says Dan, but there are no hard and fast rules. It's something he would like to see taught in schools in a bid to improve the quality of life. The method has great range of application and is also invaluable in prayer. You can't be uptight to pray effectively, says Dan, you must become like a child to enter into the Kingdom. A Canadian, from Windsor, Ontario, he has been working with marriage guidance at Centrecare since 1977. This position in clinical psychology involves individual and group therapy, family therapy, supervision of staff counsellors and clinical psychology students in placement, occasional lectures and demonstrations in gestalt and bioenergetic approaches to therapy at hospitals and educational institutions and conducting a workshop for professionals every six months.
He is also a member of the Australian Psychology Society. Relaxation classes resume at Centrecare on April II from I-2pm and will be held each following Monday. Participants can join at any time and t his group is free. Other groups include married couples, personal growth, personal therapy, c ommunication and marriage preparation. The Married Couples Group is limited to five couples and uses fantasy, movement and dialogue to explore the potential for increasing personal contact in the marriage relationship. It is held on Thursday evenings from 7.30pm to 9.30pm at a cost of $40 per couple. The Personal Growth group aims to help those after marriage breakdown or personal stress. Growth can come through pain and the five group sessions run by Maureen Chamberlain and a co-counsellor are designed to promote such growth by learning with others the sources of your strength. Held on Monday mornings from 10am t o noon, the cost is $25 per person.
A serene image can have a calming effect.
Die cable said D'Aubuisson and a dozen military officers drew lots to see who would assassinate Archbishop Romero, who was assassinated March 24, 1980 while celebrating Mass. The cable was sent in November 1980 f rom the U.S. embassy in San Salvador to the State Department and was confirmed by three s ources having expertise in Salvadoran intelligence matters, said the newspapers. One of the confirmations came from Robert E. White, U.S. ambassador to EL. Salvador at the time the cable was sent, the newspapers said. "It was seen as a great thing to kill Romero," one of the sources was quoted as saying. "Like the only fair way of doing it was by lots the excitement, you know, the honor, the privilege of killing Romero." D'Aubuisson is leader of the ARENA political party which draws its support from El Salvador's small but very powerful landholding class. Speculation about his involvement in t he archbishop's murder has been common in El Salvador since the assassination. D'Aubuisson has consistently denied involvement in Archbishop Romero's murder.
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The North Perth Redemptorist rector, Father Owen Ryan, described Father Grogan as "a first class utility player. Put him anywhere and he would do a good job. He had a policy never to ask for anything and never to refuse anything and he lived by that philosophy." His funeral Mass at North Perth as attended by his three sisters, two from Victoria and one from England where she is a member of the Faithful Companions of Jesus Order. Father Grogan's own missionary life was echoed in that of his late brother the Jesuit Father Kevin Grogan who died in India a few years ago. May he rest in peace.
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I am still For 5, 6 or 7 or more, $7 a Cursum Consummavit (he The colourful priest of 24 chaplain to my dear nuns elec. urns, pie warmers years who had set many a and offer Mass each day. cold plates, dance floors, day each, or whatever you lasted the distance). can afford. One week's free "As an only child, with no mind stirring with his This alone makes my waitmarquees, etc. fruit vegies and food. close relatives, I am left to t houghts during life ing well worthwhile." 49 Kent Street P ROFITS GO TO CHAR thank my teachers, the Sis- achieved the rare distinc- Throughout life Bert Cannington ITY ters of the Sacred Heart tion of being an apostle of Adderley became famous For Brochure and Book- Primary School, Highgate, Christian death. Phone 458 2891 for being different, and all ings phone 450 5301 after and the Christian Brothers Suspected of infectious the more lovable for that. WE CAN DELIVER 6pm. at CBC, The Terrace; those hepatitis in late 1981 he foibles and all. with whom I have so happ- learnt of his cancerous After studies at CBC BUILDING TO LET ily taught and the students condition a little time later Perth and Aquinas he TRADES GERALDTON: Teacher I have taught; my fellow and he set himself to the commenced training for Bricklaying, retaining will let 3br f furn house, t ertiary students at Perth, task of dying with a com- t he priesthood at St walls. All types of brick- frig, TV, etc, everything for Sydney, Washington DC, passion, humour and faith Patrick's College, Manly. work. Also rendering no May holidays from approx Rome and London — and that reached out and He didn't succeed that time job too small, free quotes. 13 May 1983, $90 per particularly those with touched a wide section of but was undeterred. Back Father Gerald Grogan week. Adult family pref. w hom I so joyfully pre- the community. in Perth he became a popu- CSSR who had become Ring Martin 339 7507. Phone before 8am or after pared for my priesthood in In a typically Adderley lar school teacher, follow- well known in WA over fashion his humour about ing that period with a 4.30pm weekdays, wee- Rome. PROPERTY the page five years died An unexpected associa- death was a shock to the degree course in philo- last Friday evening Improvements Service all kends any time 099tion with the State Educa- unsuspecting until it was sophy at Fordham types of windows and 21 1380. while helping to prepare tion Department lasted realised he was preaching a University. doors installed: walls and FOR SALE seven fruitful years. For deeper homily. His thoughts turned back f or the Riverton ceilings removed; woodA s he passed the point of to the priesthood again mission. the International Pilgrim en pergolas; general Photocopier — Nlultifax this 1 am grateful. repairs. Phone 341 2946. Savin S/220 with stand. In I offer sincere love to no return late last year he and he completed his stu- A fter returning in the Virgin statue of Our Lady those with whom I have wrote to his many friends dies at the Rome Beda Col- evening from a day of of Fatima, will arrive in house visitation, he col- Perth on December 11 for Backyards cleaned, rub- good working order w orked for nearly twenty- "The three month period lege for late vocations. bish removed, trees $250ono. Suitable for five years as a priest in so was up a month ago so I His career in the diocese lapsed from a heart condi- a short isit, accompanied lopped, gardening, odd school or small office. many places, particularly may yet have to be of Bunbury spanned Nar- tion that he had accepted by 188 pilgrims, including jobs, garages cleaned out. Apply St Gerard's School. in Narrogin, Bunbury, induced, or even put rogin. Bunbury, and a as potentially fatal for probably Bishop Luna. Phone 349 8706 9am-3pm 277 8780 Permission to use St Nannup and Hamilton down." period as bishop's secre- many years. He was 66. Mon-Fri. Released from hospital he tary: and memorable times Father Grogan was on his Mary's Cathedral has been Finally I offer a tribute of wrote: "I have had since in Nannup and Pember- second appointment to granted. PAINTING quality work at the right price. John lasting love and gratitude then the happiest and most ton, South Bunbury, Western Australia having Since the crowning of the Freakley. Phone 361 4349. to my three Fathers In relaxed time of my life. I Waroona and Kearnan been here in 1948 just a inaugural "Travelling PilReg. 893 God. Priesthood is forever. should have retired years College, Manjimup. Dur- short time after his ordina- grim Virgin" in 1946 by We do not return the gift ago. I have discovered that ing his time at the head of tion in Ballarat in 1944. Pope Pius XII. they have Carpenter. Wants work all once given." spheres of the building dying can be a very social the now defunct "South A fter WA he left for a 14 travelled throughout the Bertram Richard Adder- event indeed, providing Star" he thrived on the task year appointment to Sin- world, even to Moscow trade. No job too small. ley (Priest) Phone 330 4386. background for almost of making the comfortable gapore from where his (the American Embassy). His funeral took place at constant fun and games. I uncomfortable even to the powerful voice established Many wonders have Electrical Contractor 5 t he Catholic Cemetery, have formed the intention point of an occasional offi- a reputation as a missioner occurred along the way, J.V. D'Esterre Vivian St, First class painting by K arrakatta on Friday 29 of dying laughing, even if it cial frown. throughout Malaysia and and are still occurring, and experien ced tradesmen Rivervale. 30 yrs expe. April 1983, following Pon- kills me." His external cheerfulness Burma and parts of India. was the reason for the rience, expert, efficient. FREE QUOTES tifical Concelebrated was built on an endearing He was a keen photo- often-quoted comment of reliable. Ring 362 4646, Requiem Mass in the Star But "Father" Adderley. charity that made one grapher and his legacy to Pope Pius XII: "She went 457 3663 after hours 385 9660. of the Sea Church, Stirling the compelling preacher quickly overlook the the Redemptorists is the forth. and the favours She who never spoke without intemperate or exuberant large collection of pictures performs along the was are Highway, Cottesloe. of mission and retreat such that we can hardly WEDDINGS BOWRA & O'DEA, Fun- f irst composing his phrase. t houghts carefully on To his friends he wrote groups in which he was believe what we are seeing eral Directors, 328 7299 For that special day add paper. was also preaching last Christmas: "So, I involved as well as his pho- with our eyes." SITUATION M harmony to the occasion cDONALD (Mabel even at this moment. fondly bid you adieu. It has tographs of the famous The formation of a proby having vocal guitarist V ACANT Mary) Passed away peace- "I do not regard the been a pleasure and a privi- Perpetual Succour festival motion committee to orgaMarie Wallace sing for you Wanted: retired couple or fully at St John's Gerald- 'nasty' (cancer) as being lege knowing you. Wher- at Thomson Road Singa- nise this visit is an and your guests in the immediate necessity. single male pensioner to ton on her 80th birthday nasty at all. How could it ever I am. you will be pore every year. church. Phone 275 3870. Following Singapore he Any person. religious or live in unfurnished house April 14, beloved wife of be? After all, it's God's remembered. Paddy (dec), loving Thing sent by a loving As visitors streamed into spent five years in New lay, prepared to help in Organist for weddings. on farm in Southwest. mother of Colleen and Father to lead me to his room during his early Zealand and then various organising a welcome to Rent negotiable. Would Traditional and modern. Paradise. Mick, fond mother-in-law illness he was asked how he periods in the eastern The Blessed Virgin Mary, prefer handyman type for Telephone 349 5993. farm odd jobs, gardening. of John and Marlene dear- "No wonder I am content spent his time; to which he states. Back in WA he tra- in the form of the Pilgrim est Nanna of John, Shau- beyond measure. I have replied: "Mainly consoling yelled far on missions and Virgin Image, phone as PHOTOGRAPHER Olaf etc. Please write "Advernagh, Cathy and Michael learned to appreciate my my friends." retreats from the Kimber- soon as possible 386 5805 tiser," Box 39. Collie 6225 Schmidt. Wedding and Crooks, leys down to Pemberton. or 279 1964. Portrait photographer. or phone 097-661046 dur- White, Kerry and Tim friends and have been May he rest in peace. Greg and Christine ing evening. Telephone 272 2307. McDonald, Rest in Peace.
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SEPTENARY in honour of
Saint PEREGRINE O.S.M.
patron of
CANCER SUFFERERS
St. Denis Church Roberts & Osborne Sts, Joondanna
8 p.m. April 28 to May 4 (feast) Prayers Blessing of sick with relic Benediction
A perpetual novena willbe starting Saturday May 7 at 5.30 pm.
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We went to meet people of Toodyay The small town of Toodyay may stillbe recovering from the recent CPY Camp held at the Avon D own Christian Centre.
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It was a 40 hour programme with a difference. The theme of the camp "Faith in Action," was e xplored not only through prayer, scripture reading and discussion but through a unique exercise which proved to be a new experience for all. tory talk on Saturday hard to keep the converThe idea was planned afternoon I told the sation going, infact some some weeks prior to that group thatIwas sending youngpeople barely got a weekend when Julia them out on a mission; word in. Pickering, Barbara Wil- that it would be a mission Others discovered it !cock and myself sat from God as their blue was a small world; one down to arrange the pro- and white windcheaters young person comgramme. It was decided proudk professed. mented; "it is possible to that instead of just talkIsaid they needn't take get on with anyone if you ing about faith on the their Bible in hand nor realk try"; he found this camp we would send the try to convert anyone by visiting the local participants into the during their visit, the task policeman — Constable town of Toodyay to talk was simply to get to know Donavan. to the residents about the real people of We thought we had their life. lost one couple who Toodyay. The most evident reac- returned long after the tion to the thought of scheduled time. They going out to visit a were just having tea and Helpful stranger was that of scones with the .4 nglican apprehension and even Priest, Fr. Donald. Sister Justina of the fear but no-one declined For me it was a glimpse Toodyay Convent was to participate and soon of how Jesus may have most helpful in drawing a most became quite felt in sending out the 72 list of Catholics in the excited at the challenge disciples to spread the town. of the venture. I gave Good .Vews. The TooThe list included the three addresses to each dyay exercise for the aged, migrants, the pair, four couples actu- members of the CPY clergy, business people, ally found no-one at proved that the first step aboriginal families, pub- home and went out on of any venture is contact. I would hope that the lic servants, (policemen) their own initiative to exercise gave young and a delightful local visit someone else. I was delighted that people courage to try the character that Ihad the privilege of visiting with everyone warmed to the same thing in our home Sue Lawson — Mr Bill idea and came back with parish especialk in an many stories to tell. Most effort to reach out to Sorrell, a Poet. .After a brief introduc- found that it was not one's peers.
Elizabeth Green and Simon St Jore, both of the Nedlands Antioch community found that cleaning gutters can be fun on the roof of the Eagle's Nest Youth Formation Centre Gidgegannup. The first weekend was held in Claremont recently and 62 young people attended the 48 hour programme. Sue Wallwork and Peter Watt led the weekend supported by a team of young people, and a group of adults, among them Father Kevin King, Mrs Janet Watt, Mr Ted Watt.
Youth Appeal '83 Youth Appeal 83 is Three major churches, the first attempt by Catholic. Anglican and the nine different youth Uniting church will join o rganisations to with the Young Australia come together and League, Youth Hostel, Perth Inner City Youth orated. Genevieve Errey apc anvas the public Services, Young Womens The organising commit- proached the appropriate W est Austral ian Christian Association tee of the appeal has agreed Government Departments p urse for much (YWCA), Scripture Union funds received from the requesting that a wider needed funds. and Jesus People Incorp- appeal and Doorknock group of youth organisa-
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will be divided into equal tions be involved in the shares by the participating 1983 appeal. organisations, excepting Genevieve Errey is the Jesus People Incorporated executive officer for the who will share publicity West Australian Youth and be reimbursed any Affairs Council. monies they contribute. Father Jegorow and In 1982 the appeal was Maureen Munro of the South-West Disc Jockey Brendon Thomas will shared by JPI and Police A nglican Church ap- compere the CPY Quiz night to be held at the and Citizens. proached Westpac for a Nookenburra Hotel, Scarborough Beach Road on Tuesday, May 17 at 7.30pm. Another of Brendonation of $5000. This donation will launch the don's compering engagements are the SouthAppeal. A PR company West Telehelp crazy nights at different centres The WA Federation of has been contracted to help every fortnight till the middle of June Rural Youth are hosts to co-ordinate promotions this year's national con- for the Appeal. vention, to be held from The appeal is an opporJuly 18 to 23 at Muresk tunity to put youth organiAgricultural College situ- sations before the public ated some 100 kilometres eye and to gain some finaneast of Perth. cial support. Youth groups The Youth Encounter The cost including food, are asked to talk about the Movement wil be conaccommodation, travel to appeal and make it known ducting its first two the College is $170. within their parish, workThe name of the conven- places and schools. stranger camps for the tion is Trek to the West. Hundreds of helpers and year during the May Stranger camps are programmes of spiritual For further enquiries ring organisers will be needed holidays. or write to WA Federatin o n the day of the renewal for year 12 of Rural Youth (Inc), 3 doorknock. The camps will be held students. Kimberley Street, West Pauline Stewart has been at the Don More Camp- Anyone who is interLeederville. 6007. (09) 381 appointed appeal director. site Parkerville on May ested in attending one of 6344. Her number is 367 4225. 13-15 and May 24-26. these camps or seeks
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Choice The first Choice weekend for 1983 will be held at Gidgegannup beginning Friday June 17. Bookings can be made by ringing 459 3941 or Father Jegorow on 328 9878.
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further information can contact Father Tom Ryan CSSR on 328 6600 3 28 6968 or write to the youth Encounter Movement, Box 74. North Perth, 6006. The Record, April 28 — May 5, 1983 13
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Dear Captain Bob and to write me a letter. On Nurse Kerry, Saturday night he How are you? I am fine. I came and said Mass would like to be a member for us and I played the music on the organ. of your club. My name is Marilyn But- Anyway I'd better go. taccio. I live in Balingup. You ve caught up with My mum and dad own an a ll my latest news. orchard. Anthony, my Fiona van der Oudbrother, helps dad in the eraa, orchard. Maddington. I help mum pack apples in What is a friend? the shed. Last night I went outside and looked at the Someone who cares moon and the stars while I and is loving, was outside. I made this A s peaceful as a poem up that I am enclos- young white dove. Someone to share ing to you.
your secrets MY LIGHT Like bees conferring In the sky way up with a flower who is high as kind as the man up Theres a light that above, twinkles bright Friends are anyone That light awakes who you consider and daytime breaks caring for. And time for work Dear Captain Bob. and play. I wish to thank you for
prize for being the I dare not cry for the l000th member. night is nigh I need my little rest My family and I went to That light will guide Pioneer Village, and me through the night enjoyed it very much. And I am always Re photo of me was very good. Blessed. Thank you once again. Marilyn Buttaccio, Lorraine Cunnington. Balingup. kardinya.
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Fry this guessing game at your next party. Dear Captain Bob, Think of a famous perHi, how are you? son, maybe someone you Schools back to norwould like to be. Write that mal hectic and keeping What do you get when you person's name on a slip of m e suppl ied with cross a pig with a car? paper, but don't tell ..1 crashing hoar. h omework. anyone what you have In May 83, I'm sitting What did the farmer put on written, because the others f or an organ exam, No. the pig's sore nose? are going to try to guess. Oinknient. 9. Each player, in turn, will It'll be good and if I What do you get when you ask you a question that can pass this well then I'll cross a hog with a penguin? be answered with only be taking my first big Wet and dirty. YES or NO. step to a music career. The questions may begin: Can you say Hi to the Why is a giraffe cheap to "Are you a man'?" or "Do feed ? Fitzpatricks in WarBecause it makes a little go you live in Australia?" or oona? Thanks! "Are you alive?" a I'm sorry I haven't long vay. Keep track of the number written for about a A zebra with wide stripes of questions, because if the month. I just haven't married a zebra with nar- name isn't guessed in 20 row stripes. Their first son questions, you will have thought to. I'm taking tennis les- had no stripes. What did another turn to be "it". sons at school. It's fun. they call him? If a player guesses the I've mastered fore- Howard (Host. odd). right answer in 20 queshand and half serve. What did the leopard tions or less, then he gets to This week we'll start after he had eaten say the be "it" and choose a fambackhand. I didn't hunter? ous person for the next k now it was such " That sure hit the spot." round. tough work. Anyway I You can also play 20 enjoy it and that's the Why did the elephant wear Questions by writing the red pyjamas to bed? main thing. name of anything that can The Abbot Van der Because his blue ones vere be touched. Before you Vein came to our dirty. begin, tell the other players house on Saturday W here do you find whether the thing you have night. He's a great dinosaurs? chosen would be classified bloke, really down to It depends where you leave as animal, vegetable, or earth and he promised them. mineral.
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We're looking for penpals
Happy birthday to: Mathew Duane, Kuhn; Liz Baker, Nedlands; Catherine Bugge, Lesmurdie; Rebecca Cufflin, Ballidu: Paul Cremin, South Hedland; Samantha Hart, Esperance; Todd Jarvis, Fremantle; Jodie Gallacher, Wongan Hills; Josina Clair, Beckenham; A re you interested in The following youngMark Gunson, Pinjarra; becoming a penpal? sters are looking for Sonya Hextail, Thornlie; T here are some penpals: Nicole Kowald, Appley oung people in cross; Steven Maher, G hana who have NAME: SARAH AN- In the rugby league match W yalkatchem; Chrisbetween the ants and the topher Phillips, Albany; written to us seeking GELINA SHAW, friends to whom they CITY: CAPE COAST elephants, why did the Cindy Staphorst, Girrareferee send the elephant wheen; Narelle Walsh, can write. COUNTRY: GHANA half back off? Lesmurdie; Glenda Lobo, If you are interested HOBBIES: COOK- Because he tried to trip up Langford, Rhys Nevin, then write to Miss ING? READIN G, the ants' winger. Esperance. Bea Baidoo, Mfant-
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Welcome to our new members: Pamela Italian°, of Harvey; Leanne Hatch, of Gosnells; Hanisi Fitzhardinge, of Palmyra; Marilyn Buttaccio, Balingup; Samantha Sexton, Muradup.
First prize in our weekly puzzle competition goes to Stephanie Mayne, of Bedford. Stephanie's was the first, neatest correct entry received. A book courtesy of William Collins has been sent out to her.
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BIRTHDAYS
N AME: PRINCE KENNETH CITY: CAPE COAST COUNTRY: GHANA H OBBIES: FOOTBALL, JOKING, SWIMMING SEX: MALE AGE: 13 YEARS NAME: PRINCE VICTOR KENNETH CITY: CAPE COAST C OUNTRY: GHANA H OBBIES: TABLE TENNIS & EXCH. GIFTS SEX: MALE
Join up to win ou ha% e got to he in the club elease print clearl% and don't if )ou %sant to enter our forget sour date of birth and a competitions and s in some of stamp so we can send sour the super pH/es. membership form to )ou. To join simpl% send the Nlembership will allow sou to completed coupon here to The enter all our competitions. Record Kid's Club, PO Box NN ell, what are .sou waiting 50, Aberdeen Street, Perth, for? 6000,
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Entries have now enquiries regarding organiser, Mr Jack Greyhounds — with The Attadale club is in All delegates are urged closed for teams to pennants should be Eastcott on 328 6860. the grounds of the St to attend as important The Record Tipster c ompete and any directed to the Joseph Pignatelli Primary business needs to be Sunday, May 1 has been School, just off Wichmann discussed. organised for a medal Road. tournament to present the pennant from last year's night competition, won by R iverion. It will be a 1.30 start at S t Mark's courts in Bedford and players are requested to bring a plate for afternoon tea. L ONDON, Tues: year in an international MELBOURNE: Melbourne Cricket Club W est Austral ian team called the Dragons. is proposals for an $8 million to $10m redevelsquash star Dean Wil- also named. \, Booked opment of the Melbourne Cricket Ground liams is one of several The UN report said that have been released. prominent Australian South Africa spent at least R ACE ONE: 1. Dunna RACE SIX: I. Sallowing; The Celtic Club has sportsmen and wo- $ 1 1.5m to attract overseas Runna; 2. Terrific Force; 2. Calruin; 3. Tempix Gold But the proposals depend and facilities to cope with partly on members accept- 25.000 VFL Park mem- been booked for this year's men included in a sportsmen to play in the 3. Spangaloa R ACE SEVEN: I. Orient republic. Queen Quest Cabaret and United Nations ing fee rises and on a settle- bers. R ACE TWO: I. Bold ment of the VFL grand But VFL general man- all we need now are some blacklist for compet- "Such expenditure by one Talent; 2. Candid Star; 3. Star; 2. Chic Cola: 3. System Six final venue row. ager Jack Hamilton said y oung ladies interested in ing in South Africa. country is unprecedented." True Ebony T he redevelopment t he proposals included r epresenting the tennis Fellow it said. squash players R ACE THREE: I. Afro R ACE EIGHT: I. Russcheme was so far only nothing new to affect the association at this year's Frank The other surfers on the Freeway; 2. Norwood sian Mischka; 2. Pax HarDonelly and Glen "ideas," with no specific continuing row over where carnival. mony; 3. Sparkling Mac list are Simon Anderson. The prize for the Brumby are also on the list W ayne Bartholomew. Street; 3. Centennial plans or drawings, an grand finals would be with most of Australia's winning entrant is an all played from next year. MCC spokesman said. Tom Carroll and Cheyne R ACE FOUR: I. Tara R ACE NINE: I. Ballineexpenses paid trip to best surfboard riders, Horan. Scott; 2. Besta Chief; 3. rode: 2. King's Jester; 3. A circular to club including world champion Melbourne this year, so River Joe Ima members detailing fee rises Woodsman All of the Five Nations clubs should be on the Mark Richards. and a new membership starugby Another players of the big who R names ACE toured FIVE: I. Lee RACE TEN: I. Lunar lookout for likely entrants. tus for women has Further details will be was golfer Greg Norman, South Africa in July are on Lana; 2. Witch's Promise; Ace: 2. Marjalee Aim; 3. included information on who played in the $1 mil- the blacklist. 3. Bethannie Ocean Blast announced shortly. the proposed changes. lion Sun City Classic in the American golfing stars to The circular said: The ADELAIDE: SA selectors The next association "independent" State of appear include Jack Nickobjectives of the redevel- have dropped WA recruit meeting will be held on Bophuthatswana. 322 1408 MAN laus. Lee Trevino, Craig opment included the Steve Curtis from the Tuesday, May 3 at the Sydney rugby union for- Stadler and Jerry Pate, WOMAN installation of lights for squad for the game against A ttadale clubrooms, ward Sandy Muston. who and tennis player Billienight cricket, extra seats V ictoria on May 16. commencing at 7.45 p.m. t oured South Africa last Jean King.
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Sheers, Sharpened end Set mined to remain ignorant, but demanding work at ness of making judgement also with you." s Principal speaker at the they begin to find excuses times with up to seven on people. c onference was Dr Another Catholic dele- for their use of contracep- interviews in a row reveal- "The real test is how McCaughey of Mel- gate Mr Bill Huxley said tives," he says. ing women who are disap- honest couples are going to bourne. who Father Pit- all speakers at the confer- The first excuse is "my pointed and frustrated be with themselves." man remembered was at ence stressed the difficul- husband 4 QUEEN STREET 321 4390 LOCKSMITHS won't go along with their contraceptive Mrs De Rossi is amazed one time a keen pipe ties still to be surmounted with it," even though the experience. that today's woman does smoker like himself. When despite progress made in woman has never asked The teacher of NFP has not want to take responsiLocks Door Closers and Safe Overhauled and Serviced he once raised his eye- the past few years. him. to listen to many troubles bility for herself so she CAR and ALL TYPES OF KEYS CUT Immediate Service brows that Dr McCaughey "The impetus given the Mrs De Rossi's expe- but she is not a marriage wants the Pill, the IUD or was smoking Three Nuns ecumenical movement rience is that when asked to counsellor, and when a the doctor to take over. mixture, the tables were after Vatican II appears to take responsibility for fer- marriage difficulty arises it "Then her fertility is out .or turned when Father Pithave slackened and we will tility, husbands are glad to is passed on to a counsellor of her control and she can man was discovered to be need do so and this acceptance who is trained to handle say it is not to put more effort, her fault." smoking Parsons Pleasure, more understan ding and brings about a marked such maters. The De Rossi's still chart he told the audience. more prayer into the quest change in a previously Margaret's cycles after poor marriage relationMr John Cahill. chair- for unity. many years of marriage ship. man of the Catholic Ecu- He ( ESTABLISHED 1888) because it keeps them said that the Week of The second excuse, they menical Affairs committee Prayer informed of what is hapfor Christian Unity say, is inconvenience. said that the interaction May 68 STIRLING STREET, PERTH pening in their fertility. 12-21 called for an "They can't have sex on On the other hand, talk- "The stickers between the delegates were effort by all to attend an and charts 1307 ALBANY HWY., CAN NINGTON remarkable. ecumenical service and to tap and this is supposed to ing to the teacher gives a cost a mere $2 a year," says WANNER00 ROAD, BALGA 502 important be woman in early marthe confidence to Tony De Rossi as a matter "From the very beginning pray to the Father for gui- ried life, yet talk about there her is sex problem of fact. the spirit amongst them dance towards the day nothing worse than having which has blown out of all "Why not pass the was one which showed when Jesus' followers a marriage depend on sex, proportion because wives responsibility over to the what a high degree of unity would be an undivided when they haven't even talk of husbands who don't little stickers instead church. of already exists," he said. found out if they can sur- come home, and who are contraceptives that are PERTH Mr Cahill said that typi- Story and picture by Bill vive with some abstin- not interested in them doing the 328 7299 women so much cal of the friendly spirit of Huxley. B ence." ALGA anymore. 349 0100 h arm through side Likewise, the third excuse Mrs De Rossi feels that a effects?" C ANNINGTON 458 5017 is the myth they cannot natural family planning A ccommodation at abstain, yet sickness, tired- lesson is the first chance ness, hospitalisation, emo- many women have to say tions and dozens of exactly what they feel to a PLUMBING MATERIALS ordinary reasons, dictate person they do not know. Room with refrigerator, electric mg tea coffee when a couple may choose "For the first time in their BATHROOM FIXTURES Morning paper Excellent breakfast Park:- : not to have sexual rela- lives nobody is saying 'You SEPTIC TANK — DRY WELLS R oom $14 per day tions without any damage shouldn't have done that', 2 29-233 William Street Perth 248 HAY STREET East Telephone 325 2092 no-one is passing judgeto their relationship. The Plumbing Supply Specialists' Telephone 328 8544 CHAIRMAN OF DIRECTORS ROD EVANS Mrs De Rossi admits ment on them or condemnteaching natural family ing them.
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Linking industry of man with goodness of God After he had blessed Assumption Catholic Primary School at Mandurah last Sunday Bishop Quinn of Bunbury said that his action had been the linking up of the industry of man and the power and goodness of God.
Self-help project for new building
"In blessing a school I am am calling on the Creacoming into contact with tor of mankind to keep His an intimate area of life and eye and heart on the many as I call on God and sym- little ones who will grow bolically convey his cleans- here into young men and ing graces through the holy women and as they leave water I believe that I am here into older men and doing possibly the most older women as citizens of important thing of all. the state and members of Can I help you offset rising costs? ) If so call
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example of the nation The co-operation reached about is an educational backing a community hav- down to negotiating for process in which families ing a school of which it is land and the planning are helped to retain their enamoured and to which it between architect and identity as the main educators of their children, is dedicated. builder.
The greatest involvement was on the part of parents who wanted to give their children a particular edut he Christian community. cation in which "God is "This blending of the central, moral values are human effort and the total, and idealism is based divine power and love is on the gospel ideas to the surely the essence of enth degree." human success and the The bishop traced the secret of finding fulfilment, process of co-operation t hat involves the Catholic purpose and happiness. Explaining Assumption Education Commission, school had cost $450,000 the efforts of the parish of which $275,000 came backed by the bishop of from the Commonwealth, the diocese and the coBishop Quinn praised the operation of government Bunbury Diocesan Devel- with the legitimate aspiraopment Fund which had tions of citizens who want supplied $100,000 of the to have a Christian way of life. balance.
"What we are about is helped by the skill of the involvement which flows principal and her staff. from a Christian tradition "We are anxious this and belief that shcools fit school does not take away in with the way of life of the from the family anything family from which the the family can do itself, but rather help the family do it youngsters come. better by co-operation of people trained in specific areas." Bishop Quinn said. Outlining the many activities existing at AssumpPest tion school such as parents' discussion and prayer "Sometimes in the past groups Bishop Quinn said: parents thought merely of "This is a school not just paying school money to get for educational texts but a Christian education for for the school of life in their children. which parents need support and on-going educa"It's just not on. "What we are talking tion for themselves."
Monsignor Nestor, chairman of the Catholic Education Education Commission (partly obscured) and Bishop Quinn of Bunbury listen as the premier Mr Brian Burke addresses last Sunday's gathering at Assumption School, Mandurah.
Exciting time for WA Premier
E xample Such a fund was an example of co-operation, sacrifice and good management and produced a benefit in co-responsibility and mutual support in making such schools possible. He said the capital funds supplied by the Commonwealth government and the interest subsidy by the State government was an
The Mandurah opening was an exciting o ccasion for him because schools such as Assumption school c arried an extra dimension, Mr Burke said. "This school walks beside a universal faith and is a fundamental building block on which that faith depends.
"The persistence of the Catholic Church depends inevitably on a school system that is r epresented by this opening today. "The persistence of that faith depends so much on the way the C atholic community sees its obligations to c ontinue supporting the continual opera-
tion of schools like this, and supporting that, see their role in t eaching in schools like this." Mr Burke said it was not always easy to be a C atholic parent these days and he remenisced that during his school days with the Marist Brothers, the
boys often preferred t he lay teachers because there might be less of the strap. "But as vocations have decreased and things have become e conomically much less certain and school f ees have risen, there is always a temptation to say we can't afford
fees and can't afford t he level of support r equired to allow a school like this to open and operate successfully. "This is one of the areas in which parents c an think twice about t heir expenditure when it comes to minimising costs.
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE OF ADVANCED EDUCATION in conjunction with THE CATHOLIC PASTORAL INSTITUTE OF W.A.
In Semester 2, 1983, is offering a variety of units towards THE DIPLOMA OF TEACHING
( Level 1 . 2. 3 units only. eg AS 211)
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THE DIPLOMA OF TEACHING (CONVERSION COURSE) (Level 1. 2. 3 units only. eg RE 332)
THE GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
( Level 4 units only. e g. S R 411)
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THE ASSOCIATE DIPLOMA OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES (Level 1. 2. 3 units only. e.g. R S 112)
MOST OF THE UNITS LISTED BELOW ALSO COUNT TOWARDS THE DIPLOMA IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION or THE GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION awarded by THE CATHOLIC PASTORAL INSTITUTE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Programme of Units CHURCHLANDS CAMPUS (Phone 387 9211)
RS GA 364 THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AND ITS VALUES Mon. 4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. RS GA 161 OLD TESTAMENT Tues. 9.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.
REC 323 CURRICULUM AND PLANNING Tues. 1.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m. REC 231 TEACHING RELIGION IN THE CLASSROOM Wed 9.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.
CLAREMONT CAMPUS (Phone 383 0365) (Some minor amendment to times shown may be necessary)
RS 112 NEW TESTAMENT Thur. 4.00 p.m. - 6 00 p.m. RE 221 TEACHING RELIGION IN THE CLASSROOM ROOM Wed. 4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. CS 422 SACRAMENTS AND CHRISTIAN WORSHIP Tues. 4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m CE 423 TEACHER DEVELOPMENT AND GROUP RELATIONS THEORY Mon. 4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
RS 211 FAITH AND THE PERSON OF CHRIST Mon. 4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m SR 412 NEW TESTAMENT Wed 4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. CE 422 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING Thur. 400 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. SR 415 JUDAISM AND ISLAM Wed. 4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p m
MT LAWLEY CAMPUS (Phone 272 0444)
R S 312 CELEBRATING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE Mon. 4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. RE 301 TEACHING RELIGION IN THE CLASSROOM Tues. 4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
RS 202 NEW TESTAMENT Wed. 4.00 p.m - 7.00 p.m.
NEDLANDS CAMPUS ( Phone 386 5555)
REE 3260 CURRICULUM AND PLANNING Mon. 4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. REE 4360 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING Wed. 4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
RES 1141 NEW TESTAMENT Tues. 4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. REE 4100 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND MEDIA Thur 4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
CPI LEEDERVILLE (Phone 381 5100)
CE 242 STORY AND MYTH IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Thurs. 4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
R EGIONAL CENTRES Country - Dates: 1 . 12-13 August (All 2 . 23-24 September) Cen3. 14-15 October ) tres BUNBURY 11-12 Nov GERALDTON 18-19 Nov KALGOORLIE 4-5 Nov
ALBANY
Outer Metropolitan:
E XTERNAL STUDIES
BUNBURY GERALDTON KALGOOR LIE
RS 203 FAITH AND THE PERSON OF CHRIST CS 412 REVELATION AND CHRISTOLOGY SR 411 OLD TESTAMENT CS 412 REVELATION AND CHRISTOLOGY CE 422 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING
COMBINED MODE: External and Regional Dates: 5/6 August; 8/9 October
ST NORBERT'S CE 422 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF TEACHING Wed 4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m ( PRIMARY ONLY - SECONDARY TO NEDLANDS)
CS 422 SACRAMENTS AND WORSHIP Thur. 4.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.
RS 203 FAITH AND THE PERSON OF CHRIST RE 208 INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATION IN FAITH SR 417 RELIGION, SOCIETY AND EDUCATION
CS 422 SACRAMENTS AND WORSHIP CS 412 REVELATION & CHRISTOLOGY SR 414 HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM
INITIAL ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO: Sr Norma Clare McKay. C S B. Catholic Pastoral Institute, 52 Ruislip Street. LEEDERVILLE, W.A 6007 Telephone (09) 381 5100
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