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CASTELGANDOLFO, (ITALY) (NC) — Pope John Paul II has reiterated the Catholic Church's "irreversible" commitment to ecumenism and asked worldwide S T PAUL (Minn): "Everybody on the prayers for the success of the World Council ground comes to Mass" said Monsignor Robert McCarthy chaplain to a carnival of Churches' assembly in Vancouver. show. "One guy (a concession operator) puts out a sign for his employees. They're The Pope made the call during his Sunday all told to be at Mass. He isn't Catholic and Angelus talk before some 4,000 people at his neither are most of his employees, but they all come," he added. summer residence in Castelgandolfo. for the Church to be presHe described this week's WCC Assembly entIt'son important the carnival grounds, Mons McCarthy in Vancouver, which has as its theme, Jesus said. Carnival people "feel neglected by the Church feel the Church, any church, Christ. Life of the World, as a "sign of hope" doesn't want them," he said. for ecumenical efforts.
Last Saturday evening the soaring interior of the new St Kieran's became the parish church of Osborne Park after Archbishop Goody blessed the building and celebrated the first Mass. The old St Kieran 's which had served the community for nearly 70 years becomes the parish hall.
"The vocation of all Christians to unity is not an optional fact." he said. "Their division in fact, beyond contradicting the express will of the Lord and the nature of the Church. diminishes and damages their witness to the Gospel in the world." Pope John Paul said the Catholic Church. which is not a member of the World Council of Churches, was represented at the Vancouver meeting by 20 observers. "The Catholic Church. committed with decisiveness and in an irreversible way in the ecumenical movement. makes the search for unity one of its principal pastoral concerns," he said. "I therefore call on you here present. and call Catholics spread throughout the world, to pray for this assembly," the pope added. "Max' God bless its work and make it useful, according to His will, for the good cause of unity and peace among Christians and the entire human family." The WCC assembly is the first since 1975. when the international church group met in Nairobi. Kenya. The assembly has drawn some 900 delegates, representing 303 member churches. and about 1.000 other observers or visitors. Among those invited are members of the Jewish, Moslem. Hindu and Buddhist faiths and members of other Christian denominations.
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Rotterdam appointment V ATICAN CITY (NC) - A Dutch bishop considered as one of the conservative members of the nation's hierarchy, has been apointed coadjutor archbishop with right of succession to Cardinal Johannes Willbrands of Utrecht, Netherlands. The appointment of Bishop Simonis of Rotterdam follows the request of Cardinal Willebrands to resign as archbishop of Utrecht because of the mental and physical strain of combining that job with his presidency of the Vatican's Secretariat for Christian Unity.
BRISBANE — The Brisbane archdiocese will enter the computer age with full computerisation of its administration to meet the demands of an increasing volume and complexity of business. Parishes will also be able to make their administrations easier and have immediate access to a wide range of information by installing small computer units.
His actual resignation and Bishop Simonis' accession to the post will take place near the end of 1983. The head of the Rotterdam Diocese since 1970, 51-year -old Bishop Simonis is known as the more moderate of the two strongly conservative Ordinaries (heads of dioceses) within the Dutch hierarchy.
The Archbishop of Brisbane, Archbishop Rush, on the recommendation of a committee of expert advisers, has approved full computerisation of the diocesan administration after more than a year of intensive investigation.
C ardinal Willebrands, who is also president of the Dutch Bishops' Conference, is considered a moderate among the five Ordinaries identified as liberal. He has been Archbishop of Utrecht since 1975 and president of the Secretariat for Christian Unity at the Vatican since 1969. Liberal-conservative splits within t he Dutch hierarchy and even stronger divisions among many Dutch Catholics led to a special synod of the nation's bishops in Rome three years ago aimed at restoring unity in the Dutch Church.
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This was the scene in the Aquinas College Hall this week a s Mark Collins of Dumbleyung Steven leraci of Brunswick Junction and Michael Doyle of C apel put final touches to the 35m long display of male religious orders. Y ear 10 wrote around Australia to get information and publicity from 20 r eligious orders for students to find out how extensive and varied is the work being done by religious priests and brothers. To increase vocations awareness, the Year 10 students are preparing short talks on the material displayed and are visiting all the classes to stimulate interest in the display. The display will be on view during the c oming week and other schools are w elcome to visit A quinas College to see the material. • See 12.
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cost to the archdiocese will be about $45,000, while a typical parish installation will cost about VOW at cut rent prices. Mr Dan Flynn. archdiocesan general secretary, said the costs would be recouped through the case and speed of data storage and retrieval, and the volumne of material that can be easily recorded. No staff will be displaced by the central computer and a skilled person will b, employed to co-ordinate its operations. Mr Flynn said that by computerising its operations, the archdiocese was adopting sound business practice. The stage had been reached where it was necessary for large organisations to computerise in order to stay ahead of the demands of day-to-day running. The committee which Inquired into computerisation reported that on the diocesan level, it could be used in these principal areas: • Archdiocesan administration. and responsibility for gathering regular status reports and statistical data for Archbishop Rush; • Archdiocesan Development Fund ("already using t hese techniques most successfully"); • Queensland Catholic Education Office; • Archdiocesan education office; • Social welfare administration. including analysis and forecasting of needs. Parish administration would also he helped where parishes choose to go on computer; the areas covered include: • maintenance of parish census data; • school class enrolment and allied information: • school fee billing and maintenance of financial records; • planned giving financial records; • parish and school general accounting in conformity with the standard accounts now being used. • Cont page 16
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Pope bypasses red tape V ATICAN CITY (NC) — P ope John Paul 11 bypassed red tape to rule Fra Angelico, a Florentine painter of the early Renaissance, is worthy of the name "blessed," popularly bestowed on him for centuries. The document bestowing the honour on the 15th-century painter was a "motu proprio," meaning the pope was acting on his own initiative. With the document, Pope John Paul shortcircuited the usual Vatican procedures leading to the beatification and eventual canonisation of prospective saints. The cause for the beatification and canonisation of Fra Angelico had never been formally introduced at the Vatican. But he was popularly known among Italians as "Blessed Angelico." Born in the Tuscany region of Italy in 1378, Blessed Angeico was also known as Giovanni da Fiesole and Guido da Vichio. A monk of the Dominican order, he died in Rome in 1455,
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Rapes reported to the police in Western Australia increased 140 per cent during the 1970's, the Festival of Light was told by Clem Eaton at its July meeting last Sunday. In the 1960's annual average reported rapes was eight. Figures rose steadily through the 1970's to 112 in 1980. The rise seemed to be related to a flood of inflammatory material which followed the liberisation of censorship in 1970 when Senator Don Chipp was Minister for Excise and Customs, he said. The branch is to press for a state inquiry into t he rise of sex crimes in Australia in the past 20 years and any relationship to the developments of distribution of pornography in the same period. The meeting also discussed the developments of a uni-sex, genderless society threatened by an Australian adoption of the United Nations Convention on all forms of discrimination against women.
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Natural materials give a warmth of feeling The new church of St K ieran at Osborne Park achieves its internal warmth from the combination of red brick and a ceiling of pine laid os er exposed j arrah laminated beams as can be seen in the picture of the sanctuary area above. The new building seats 350, the same as the former church but offering much free standing space at the rear and around the side aisles. Clear windows open on
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Fuming over a burning question As the cigarette ends begin to glow even more defiantly on the part of some and the coughing and disdain steps up on the part of others, it is a rare opportunity for a Catholic newspaper to stand on the sideline well out of range of the fumes. The multi-coloured single-and double-page high-art advertisements that have packed the pages (and the coffers) of the daily papers and glossy magazines for a long time have never had even a whiff in any of the Catholic papers. The slogans that strangle the sports arenas have never appeared around Catholic editorial rooms. This was not out of some puritanical reserve borrowed from the calvinist ethic that didn't like a lot of these social improprieties. Nor was it due to incipient emphysema, nor even to a high principled stand on the morality of the tobacco habit. It was a decision made far away in the advertising agencies which decided that those who bury their heads in the religious press were not the target of their sales. Which is not to say that church people do not smoke or are not their respected consumers. Reduced to reality it simply means that the millions of dollars that are pumped into publishing and broadcasting today are not available to the religious press. It is a point of view that is not unique to the tobacco industry. The advertising agencies have merely told just about every manufacturer and retailer of importance that the religious press is a wasteland when it comes to consumerism. The religious press is normally dedicated enough not to harp on this glaring lack of the lifeblood of modern communications, but it is a blind spot on the part of the pious who make sweeping suggestions on how the Catholic press ought to he everything that other papers, with their millions of advertising revenue, never seem to achieve. Put even more factually, it means that without the tobacco and other consumer advertising millions there would be no daily or weekend newspapers on which even the most pious are avidly hooked, no commercial television or radio. In other words much of what we take for granted is at someone else' expense in today's society — the spendthrift in particular. Whether there will be no sport is a question to be answered by the 'recreational' industry of football, golf, cricket and soccer which admit that the game itself is no longer its own salesman in today's saturated world. Thus, in addition to two quite serious ethical questions that lie at the heart of the anti-smoking campaign -- health and personal freedom there is a further question even for those who feel they have no concern with the issue since they do not smoke. Smoke they may not: enjoy the fruits of those who do smoke, they do in more ways than one. The government's campaign is its political choice and it no doubt has anticited the reaction to its decision. The political tones, however, need not make people pass over deeper moral issues for a world that finds the Ten Commandments irrelevant but has not made much progress with alternatives. For example, as the costs of modern medical technology — not just for life-saving techniques but for cosmetic surgery and the holding-hands hospitalisation soar through the ceiling it is fair to ask where the community responsibility to provide a physical heaven on earth meets the individual's own responsibility to protect the health that loving parents, if not God Himself. have loving bestowed on us. Whether smoking is a culpable evil is so far only a contest between the medical specialists and the public which believes it is entitled to trust its instinct for self preservation. Yet even if the smokers are absolved, there are now identifiable ills which are diverting millions of dollars away from not only the genuinely deserving in this community, to say nothing of the famished and disease afflicted nation* elsewhere. How moral is it to demand casualty departments to patch up the bodies of the alcoholinduced traffic accidents, to beg for more wards to cope with the self-induced sicknesses that could be avoided, to call for more and more drug treatment centres for those who bomb out? There is not moral umpire to say how far natural human rights are being transgressed if the current anti-smoking and perhaps other campaigns take their course. The moral law as revealed first to the Jews and later via the Church is built on the cardinal principle that we are people and not just a conglomerate of individuals, that smoke from one person's life permeates another, that we are what we are only at the expense of another. 4 The Record, July 28 — August 3, 1983
Priests for Opus Dei ROME: Thirty-seven members of the prelature Opus Dei were among 72 men ordained priests by Pope John Paul II in St Peter's Basilica here.
Doubt on healer's status V ATICAN CITY (NC) The status and future plans of an African archbishop who claims to be a f aith healer remained secret following the archbishop's private audience with Pope John Paul II. A rchbishop Emmanuel Milingo of Lusaka, Zambia, has been living at a r eligious house in Rome at the Vatican's orders since April 1982. The controversy over Archbishop Milingo, who has headed the Lusaka Archdiocese since 1969, centres on the African prelate's reported ability to heal physical ailments through prayer.
Notice Last year Archbishop Milingo said he had been asked by the Vatican to leave his archdiocese on two days' notice in April 1982 and to come to Rome for psychological testing and a medical check-up. He has not returned to A frica since that time, although he has made brief trips to several other countries. The archbishop said the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, the agency directly responsible for the Lusaka Archdiocese, had ordered him in 1978 to stop his public healing services, allowing him only to recite a healing prayer during Masses. *
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NEW YORK: Father Peter Jacobs, a priest who has received adverse publicity in his role as operator of a New York restaurant, has decided to stay with it, despite losing the right to function as a priest. A rchbishop James Hickey of Washington, Father Jacobs' home diocese, has suspended his faculties, but Father Jacobs defended his involvement in the restaurant, saying it provided a base for carrying out various forms of ministry.
The new priests of Opus Dei come from 1 1 countries and all have a doctorate in an ecclesiastical field as well as professional qualifications. A mong them are a Neu Y ork stockbroker, a several university lecturers and a Spanish architect ot international standing. After their ordination, they will devote themselves entirely to their priestly ministry. In his homily, the Holy Father said: "Contemporary man, in spite of the philosophical and ideological confusion of this age, continues to have an urgent demand for truth, for justice, for goodness, for peace.
Preach "You must preach Christ, 'the way, the truth and the life' (John 14, 6). "This is accompanied by continuous struggle, constant vigilance, a delicate sense of duty, joyful fidelity to the commitment of celibacy 'for the sake of the Kingdom', a serene readiness to stand by Christ through sacrifice, suffering, self-denial and the Cross. "Yes, my brothers, your priestly life, carried out each .day in prayer, in zeal, in dedication to souls, to the poor, to the children, to the sick, to sinners will always be a hymn of thanksgiving to God for his infinite generosity." In Sydnedy Opus Dei has accepted responsibility for the general spiritual care of Warrane College at the University of NSW and of other educational centres.
Former pastor a guest at church opening Guest of honour at the opening of St Kieran's church was Monsignor John Hogan, one time pastor of the parish of Osborne Park which donated him a ticket from Ireland to be present for the occasion. M onsignor Hogan was parish priest of Osborne Park from 1970 to 1979 when ill-health caused him to retire to his native
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Disabled people's status in marriage Councils for the UK LONDON (NC) — The final report on restructuring the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales calls for setting up diocesan pastoral councils in all dioceses in the conference. There is "widespread dissatisfaction with the uneven pace and lack of urgency in setting up in dioceses adequate structures for consultation and partnership in mission," said the report.
Eight A t present only eight of the 21 dioceses in England and Wales have d iocesan pastoral councils. Three others have area pastoral councils covering part or all of the diocese. The report cited the new Code of Canon Law's r ecommendation that diocesan pastoral councils be established where it is pastorally advisable and commented, "for the people of God to fulfil its mission and ministry effectively in a diocese, the provision of adequate consultative structures w ould seem to be essential"
Structure Such structures "ensure a bishop is able to consult adequately" and can help create "a fruitful partnership in ministry and mission," the report added. The report confirmed major decisions on restructuring the bishops' conference. These included establishing a general secretariat for the conference and transforming the bishops' various commissions into specialist commiftees grouped into six departments.
Ethical questions are asked about the responsibility of disabled people in the matter of marriage and reproduction but they are not commonly asked of the average man or woman in the general population. This is an observation of Mrs Carla Baron, Clinical Services Manager of the Spastic Welfare Centre who will be addressing the first State Catholic Conference on the people with disabilities August 12-14. Mrs Baron will present a programme on the development of human sexuality. "Fears held and expressed parents of adolescents in the general population are MOSik associated with the reproductive aspects of sexuality; pregnancy; disease. "When a person is physically dependent, these fears on their behalf are even more pronounced," said Mrs Baron. "The rights of an individual to determine his or her preferences in relationships are influenced adversely if mobility, hearing and speech is lost even more if there is impairment of intellectual ability," she said. Mrs Bacon said "it is very difficult for parents of a disabled child, who is very dependent, to let go and allow the handicapped child to develop and choose his or her own relationships and the depth at which he or she will explore or develop those relationships.
Employed "Staff employed to provide physical and education care of t he disabled have been proided with as little support as parents about the personal and relationship needs of handicapped people, and in particular sexual needs. "The greater the dependency the greater likelihood that the dependent person will not be given adult status but rather he treated as a perpetual child." she said. "The idea of marriage of the disabled person has tended to be exclusively focussed on genital sexual ability, and on the consequent dangers of reproduction. "Yet no such question is commonly asked of the average man or woman in the general population," she said. The topic Human relationships and people with disabilities will be discussed at the conference The Church and People with Disabilities on S unday morning from 9.30am-12 noon. As well as Mrs Baron. Father Uren. a member of the moral ethics committee and Tony and Anna Tartaglia. a deaf couple will share some insights
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Beverley parish ..#####....ee#...##, last Sunday cele- . brated the 50 years TANG'S ACUPUNCTURE IJ A o f its church of the 1 C ENTRE 2 Sacred Heart. Pictured ` s " with Archbishop I MR. ANDREW TANG, the well ACUPUNCTCHINESE known I G oody are Mrs A nne Priest of Bev- iURIST with 10 years experience in this field, is now at W ASHINGTON (NC) - The United States erley, Mrs Ethel Bev% of Hutchinson should grant "extended voluntary departure,- a Phyllis 51 BENNETT STREET, E. PERTH ‘.4(3. i form of indefinite asylum, to refugees from El erley, Mrs Edwards now of 325 4109 Salvador, Mons Daniel F Hoye, general secre- Kalamunda and Mrs ALBANY (098) 411656 tary of the US Catholic Conference, told Secre- S yb Valentine of Beverley. tary of State George P Shultz.
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Mons Hoye noted tv.0 congressional committees have expressed support for granting the e xtended voluntary departure status to the Salvadorans. Such a status is possible under provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. "As you know, the A merican Catholic bishops have, since September 1981, urged just such a course," Mons Hoye wrote to Mr Shultz. "We are not unmindful of the nation's need to control its borders and provide for orderly legal immigration and we are equally aware that not every Salvadoran refugee here may be able to demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution if repatriated," the USCC official stated. Nonetheless, he added, until the war in El Salvador ends, extended voluntary departure should be granted "to all otherwise deportable Salvadorans in this country." He said once a negotiated settlement to the war is obtained, the problem of illegal immigration to the United States by Salvadorans will end. A negotiated settlement has been urged by Pope John Paul, the bishops of El Salvador and the American bishops, he said. "The Catholic community in this country, which is second to none it its programmes of assistance to refugees from every continent, would welcome your determination that Salvadoran refugees qualify for the status of extended voluntary departure," Mons Hoye added.
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Joint congregations are to divide NORFOLK, Va. (NC) — Bishop Walter Sullivan of Richmond, Va., has ordered a joint congregation of Catholics and Episcopalians (Anglicans) in Norfolk to conduct separate worship services so the can be "faithful to the liturgy as one unit." Catholics and Episcopalians at the Church of the Holy Apostles have been sharing a Sunday service, through the homily and Nicene creed, w ith permission of Bishop Sullivan and Episcopal Bishop C Charles Vache of Southern Virginia.
A rbitrarily However, Bishop Sullivan said he did not think Mass could be arbitrarily separated into the Liturgy of the Word and Liturgy of the Eucharist. It Must be one liturgy, he said. Father Raymond Barton, Catholic pastor, said he and Father Donald Gross, the Episcopal pastor, will abide by the bishop's decision. T he congregation now will share a 10 to 1 5-minute "preservice," then go to separate rooms in the same building to celebrate their Masses, Father Barton said. A fter the post eucharistic prayer, the t wo groups will join for a prayer and refreshments. Bishop Sullivan said the congregation of 100 families — about t wo-thirds Catholic
and one-third Episcopalian — was "not a schismatic group" and had been very faithful to the Church. "There hasn't been any playing around with one another's tradition," the bishop said. A fter a study by the Catholic and Episcopal dioceses, the Church of the Holy Apostles was established in 1977, said Father Barton. A t first, the congregation shared a preservice, then separated for their liturgies. In 1978, the two bishops agreed to let the congregation share the service through the reciting of the creed.
Liturgical Each group used its own official liturgical book, Father Barton said, and the books are very similar. A fter the creed, the priests would go to separate alters in the same room to celebrate the Liturgy of the Eucharist. The Catholic and Episcopalian eucharistic prayers used were almost identical, the pastor said, since they wre translations of a
Bishop orders separation common canon. "We have always had t wo altars so the distinction would be very obvious," he said.
Gatherings To receive Communion, the Catholics w ould gather around one alter and the Episcopalians around another.
"There has not been inter-Communion," Father Barton emphasised. He said the service was "ideal for ecumenical couples," who could worship at the same place without g iving up their traditions. About one-third of the congregation is ecumenical couples, he said.
Anyone who has worked evangelising tribal people ( Adivasis, as they are known in India) or visited tribal areas will know that the people are simple, and it is a joy to work and be with them. They are such an unsophisticated and beautiful people that Mahatma G andhi included them a mong the Harijans, which literally means the people of God. The Harijans form nearly one-fifth of the total population of India and are found in every state of the vast Indian nation. T he most successful work of Christian evangel -
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N APLES (NC) - Cardinal Corrado Ursi of Naples who retired this week plans to donate his eyes to the local eye bank for use in cornea transplants after his death. ' I am happy to think that I will give light to the failed eyes of a brother and that I will be able, a fter my death, to continue to see in this world," Cardinal Ursi said. " May my joy be communicated to all Christians, to all men a nd women who long to love even a fter this life," he added. "I bless all those who donate the corneas of their eyes to this bank and those who carry out the transplants," the cardinal said. T he Naples eye bank, the largest such centre in Southern Italy, was inaugurated by Cardinal Ursi in 1977. D uring his 17 -year leadership of the Naples Archdiocese, Cardinal Ursi has been noted for his e fforts on behalf of the poor and tro U bled. H is was the first Italian archdiocese to sponsor a rehabilitation c entre for drug addicts. H e has also opened centres f or the elderly and for abandoned c hildren in the city's poorest districts. A fter the November 1981 earthquake which left thousands homeless in southern Italy, Cardinal Ursi opened his residence to a local f amily.
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The tribal of Adivasi mission has less than 100 years of history. They are the original inhabitants of India and keep to traditions, faith and beliefs of their own. Originally, they were the tillers of the soil and masters of the land, hunters and fighters. But exploitation and the might of the invaders had driven them to most inaccessible and unapproachable mountainous and f orest areas. That is the reason why they are called the "hill tribes." They have their own culture; their laws and organisations are tribal . They speak different dialects (boli). They are outside the Hindu society. They do not belong to Hindu religion. They do not believe in caste, but in groups. E ach tribe claims to have descended from a common ancestry. Each has its peculiar institutions of kinship and marriage, of festivals and r ituals, of witchcraft, government and economic system. They do not inter -dine and do not inter -marry, They attach no degree of purity and impurity to diff erent tribes, though claim
some superiority in a certain craft. They believe in one God to whom they attribute their best possessions — life, children, land, crops, cattle, home and wealth. They believe in the survival of soul (spirit and in a fter life. T hey worship their ancestor spirits and placate minor spirits in order to avert calamities. They do not generally believe in rebirth and k arma as the Hindus do. The tribals of India eat vegetarian food as well as meat.
Cultivate They are leaf eaters, rearing cattle and goats. They cultivate farms, hunt animals and gather food from jungles and live close to nature. They love dancing and enjoy drinks brewed by themselves. They earn their livelihood and are no beggars even in dire need. The organised and systematic work of evangelisation was started a century ago by the Jesuit Fathers. Father Lievans was the first missionary to enter the tribal world of Chotanagpur. He worked among the tribals to fight their cause against the landlords who had made many of them landless. He regained lands for
them and liberated many f rom the moneylenders. Between 1885 and 1888 he baptised 16,000 tribals and had 40,000 catechumens. By 1910, the number of tribal Christians had reached 1 50,000. T he missionaries set about introducing cooperative farming, grainbanks for preserving grain f or better seeds and higher price, and instructed the people to reduce expenses at weddings and f estivals. E very mission station had a church, a convent, a school, boarding for boys and girls and a dispensary. The grainbanks and cooperatives were set up in several villages. The missionaries constantly worked to defend the cause of the tribals in law courts against the landlords and moneylenders. Seeing the benefits and the success of the tribals under the missionaries many neighbouring villages invited the missionaries to visit them. Side by side, religious instructions, too, were given. The number of converts increased rapidly and gradually they became a strong Christian community. A few colleges for higher education were built and they had a major seminary too, besides convents for girls. The emergence of an
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191falesa's wife disputes editorial W ARSAW: Danuta Walesa, wife of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa has disputed the Vatican newspaper editorial which r esulted in the sacking of the deputy editor Father N'irgilio Levi. Father Levi, a priest of Como diocese, and a friend of the Walesa family hinted Lech Walesa's role was finished for the time being as evidenced by the fact he had to meet Pope John Paul in secret as a private person. V atican sources dispute the story that Pope John Paul asked Walesa to step down and say that t he resignation of Father Levi w as the only way to back their version. Responding to the editorial, 1\ alesa's w ife Danuta called it a "provocation- and said her husband had no intention of withdrawing from the scene in Poland. "I was there, at the meeting with the pope in the Tatra Mount ains,- she added,"and they spoke about nothing of the kind." W alesa himself told NBC television in an interview on .June 24 "the problem is not who negotiates but what is negotiated." "It is not important w ho solves prob-
lems," he added. "If there are better people to do that, then okay. let them go ahead." Two days later, though, dismissing speculation he would step down, Walesa said, "I have to lead. I have to achieve what we planned."
Limelight He said he would withdraw from the limelight only "If there was somebody else to take over the problems." "This work is not so pleasant," he added,
"but I will not run a way," The meeting between Walesa and the pope was conceded only grudgingly by- the Polish government, following a two-hour session between the pontiff and Poland's l eader, General Wojoiech Jaruzelski, on June 17. Government spokesman Jerzy Urban said t he same day the meeting was granted "out of motives of hospitality to our most eminent guest" and it did not change the government's view of Walesa.
Walesa had allowed himself to be used by forces "bent of confrontation, even to the point of bloodshed," he said. "I.ech Walesa will never become our partner" in the reconstruction of Polish society. Urban added. The meeting of the pope with NN alesa was "a private meeting, a family affair."the polish government was careful to note. It took place in a secluded area of the T atra Mountains south of Cracow after the official portion of Pope John Paul's v isit.
WASHINGTON (NC) — President Reagan has promised religious leaders he will push for a r evised constitutional amendment to restore voluntary prayer to the classroom. The president earlier supported an amendment that would overturn Supreme Court decisions of the early 1960s The original amendment states: 'Nothing in the C onstitution shall be construed to prohibit individual or group prayer in public schools or other public institutions. No person shall be required by the United States or by any state to participate in prayer."
There was a time when the Christian tribal villages had 78 per cent educated youth while other villages had only 48 per cent. The Christian tribals had doctors, teachers, lawyers and other educated men and women while others lacked these. The local vocations to priesthood and religious life
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul ll urged US Catholics to attend Sunday Mass during an Englishlanguage talk to 14 US bishops. The pope urged them to lead Americans "to an ever greater conviction of the sacredness of the Lord's Day," and to "full and active participation" in Sunday Mass.
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flTHE HAGUE --- The Dutch bishops have urged the Western powers t o take the first unilateral step towards breaking the spiral of the arms race. In their pastoral letter on peace and disarmament they acknowledge that such a first step is not without its risks. But in their opinion a greater risk lies "in thefestering distrust, the con tinuation of the arms race and the lack of results from negotiations. '" One side or the other has to take the first step, they say, to inspire confidence and to demonstrate their commitment to disarma ment.
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educated and successful Christian tribal community before national independence moved some Hindu states like Raigarh, Surguja, Udaipur, to ban the Christian missionaries entering their territory to work for the conversion of the tribals into Christians.
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also increased considerably. So the Christian tribal c ommunity became c onspicuous. The last few decades have seen the formation of a strong local Christian tribal Church. There are bishops, parish priests, Religious Superiors, parliamentarians and experts from this tribal community. Today the number of f oreign missionaries is very small. The tribals are handling their own Christian community and continuing the work of evangelisation. Consequently, the militant Hindu groups have
launched a campaign to reconvert the tribal Christians into their own Hindu fold. Once upon a time the neglected and ostracised tribals now have become t he centre of their attention. Anti-Christian and antiMusl im feel ings are aroused. But the tribal Christians cannot be so easily tempted. They are staunch Christians. Such anti-Christian movements test their faith and make it stronger. They know that a few may fall away, but more will be drawn into their Christian fellowship. Bhatrabhava as they call it. P
"Despite changes in society and different types of pressures, as w ell as various difficulties, may they continue to the full extent of their power to maintain that great tradition fostered in your land of sanctifying the Sunday and holy days of obligation," he said. He called on the bishops "to strengthen the understanding of the faithful and their appreciation of their role in eucharistic w orship." "Participating in the Eucharist is only a small portion of the laity's w eek, but the total effectiveness of their lives and a ll Christian renewal depends on it: the primary and indispensable source of the true Christian spirit," the pope said. Participation in the Sunday Mass and Eucharist also contributes to "many aspects of the Church's life,"
W ASHINGTON (NC) — Attendance at Sunday Mass is on the upswing after bottoming out in 1977, according to Paulist Father Alvin A Illig, director of the Paulist Office for Evangelisation. Citing figures from t he Princeton Religious Research Centre, part of the Gallup organisation, Father Illig said about 52 per cent of Catholics in t he United States a ttend Mass every Sunday. In 1977, that figure w as 47 per cent, while 70 per cent of Catholics attended Mass weekly in the 1950s. L ast month Pope John Paul II called for "full and active participation" of US Catholics in Sunday Mass.
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SANTIAGO — Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez, SDB, has resigned as Archbishop of Santiago. The 75-year -old cardinal who was internationally known as champion of the poor and human rights h eaded the Chi lean Church from 1961 The pope has named Archbishop Juan Francisco Fresno Larrain of La Serena, a 68-year -old native of Santiago, to succeed him. E0
1-1ROME (NC) — The LJPontifical Gregorian University is offering an introductory course in the new Code of Canon Law specially for bishops. The course will include f our hours of lectures daily, in Latin, by professors of the canon law f aculty of the Gregorian University.
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picion of blasphemy have begun against distributors of a German film about Christ. The film, "Das Gespenst - (The Spirit), has been critically acclaimed as an artistic work but denounced by the conservative Christian Social Union, the rightwing Catholic party of Bavarian Premier Franz Josef Strauss. The film depicts Christ descending from the cross and befriending a nun, with whom he roams the countryside. He then turns the nun into a bird and himself into a serpent. Munich Prosecutor Otto Heindl said he had received more than 2,000 complaints about the film, with more than 100 continuing to arrive each day. He said proceedings were only against the film's distributors, not director Herbert Achternbusch, who gave up all rights to the film.
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A complex field A gathering on a steamy summer night, when the conversation turned to the fascinating topic of heart transplants, proved to be an example of how the questions that faced medical ethics tries to answer first get asked in a very human way. Today medical science is advancing so quickly t hat scientists themselves have a hard time keeping abreast. Ethics too, is so complex a field today that just keeping up with what is current can be a full-time job. That means that the task of pulling the two t ogether, joining medical practice with ethical theory, is especially difficult as our conversation that h ot Sunday night s howed. That day, an eminent medical researcher and his family, friends from the parish where I had been pastor, drove to join me at my brother's country house in western New Jersey's rolling farm country. By coincidence a young friend in my religious order, for two years my associate pastor in Berkeley, Calif., and now a law student, was also visiting for the weekend. Since all of us knew each other quite well, our g athering quickly became animated.
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implant a heart in a comatose individual and then k eep him alive and unconscious for months. But is it worth it?" The law student then asked how that question could be answered. From the medical point of view, this doctor indicated, it means considering the possibility of long-term survival, independence from lifesustaining machines and the capacity for personal and intellectual alertness. "But what's wrong with life on a machine if the person agrees to it?" the law student inquired.
L ong-term machine connections frequently lead to infections which can shorten life, the scientist responded. "And it seems reasonable to ask yourself who has the best chance of surviving before selecting a recipient." The law student then raised the question of the relative value of life. "Isn't all life equally valuable, no matter how long it lasts?" "To the individual it is, I'm sure," my brother responded, "but we have to be concerned about the benefit" to society as w ell. Hospitals are limited by cost," he continued, "since equipping and maintaining a good
cardiac unit costs millions, money provided by everyone's taxes and insurance premiums." Therefore, he added, many people ought to benefit in some way from the expenditure. At that point the law student wanted to know how many people can benefit when so few receive the actual care. The researcher indicated that scientists learn a great deal from their recovered patients and can use this knowledge to benefit other people as well. Furthermore, he continued, a medical unit affects the hospital where it is located. "The very presence of a top-notch unit tends to make eve-
Ann and Harvey Bowen confronted many medical problems over the years connected with their daughter's recurring bouts with emotional illness.
ryone working there conscious of quality care." The conversation didn't answer all my questions. But it still stands out in my mind as an example of the kinds of questions and problems that make medical ethics a complicated and sometimes confusing field today. Ethics tries to bring reason and principles to bear on human situations in an orderly, consistent and logical manner. It is an alternative to acting on whim, or out of selfinterest or special privilege. Medical ethics applies a similar procedure to medical practice. It asks about the nature and value of life, it measures risks against benefits and it tries to assure that medical growth benefits the common good.
Now in her early 20s and a beautiful, bright woman, the daughter periodically has been hospitalised for treatment. Her parents' seldom mentioned fear is that her illness will b ecome progressively worse so that eventually she will be unable to live outside an institution. This fear has caused the couple (I'm calling them the Bow ens here) great a nguish.
Holy Cross Father Edward Malloy remembers when his father was in the new intensive care section of a hospital, recovering from a heart attack. The room's instruments fascinated him. He could sit at his father's bedside and watch machines monitoring the vital signs of others in the unit. The fragile side of life was symbolised in the waves beeping across a screen. His father had watched two people die in the room. Then there were his feelings about the doctors who, Father Malloy felt, were hesitant to give out information. He felt they w anted to be perceived as having more control of the situation than they had. He saw them as skilled persons, locked in combat with illness and trained to view a patient's death as somehow their failure. The family members took turns in the vigil. T heir life revolved a round this strange room. The future was on hold. M eanwhile, the bills mounted. They would total $17,000 when his father was released after six weeks. Federal health insurance covered almost all the cost, but the thought crossed Father Malloy's mind: Suppose they had no insurance? W hat then?
T he conversation involved three of our group: the researcher who is a heart transplant specialist; my brother, a physician and hospital chief-of -staff, who is faced each day with the staggering cost of medical facilities; the law student who has a background in ethical principles, a legal training in questions of equal rights, and a personal conviction that everyone deserves equal care, including the poor and t he powerless. After the last of the strawberries had been eaten, the law student asked: "With more people looking for transplants than there are heart donors available, Typical how do you decide who gets the available heart?" Those were typical reacThe medical researcher replied, "We have a com- tions for someone faced mittee of medical men with the serious illness of and psychiatrists screen a loved one, but Father the possible recipients to Malloy knew he was not decide who will benefit t ypical. He was a moral most from the surgery." t heologian who dealt Startled, my young with these issues every friend asked, "You mean day. The priest read a committee decides who books, wrote articles and taught others what the lives and dies?" Christian tradition con"No." said the research- veys about death and er. "The committee looks dying. He was a thinker into the question of con- serving a growing field crete benefits to specific called medical ethics. individuals. But," he "The experience showed added. "It is true that in me the gap between intelmedicine we are con- lectual reflection and stantly making decisions e motional experience." about life and death, and Father Malloy said we make them because recently in his associate we have to." provost's office at the "We can restore people U niversity of Notre to health," my brother Dame. added, "but we can also Today the Church and
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The real valve of human life! its people confront a variety of ethical questions posed by such scientific breakthroughs as the creation of new orga-
another, Father Malloy pointed out, to apply that principle to some of the concrete situations that develop.
By Richard Conklin nisms or the fertilisation of human eggs outside a mother's body. Scientists have plunged ahead. At the same time, t heologians like Father Malloy work to close the ethics gap. But a time lag is virtually unavoidable. "We are apt to forget that moral positions of t he Church arise from reflecting on the experience of the people of God over a period of time," he noted. It is one thing to have a general principle, such as the dignity of all life. It is
For example, there is the living will, in which persons spell out in advance how they wish to be treated if they are unable to speak for themselves when they are dying. Perhaps they state that they do not want their lives to be greatly prolonged through the use of certain types f medical technology. Advocates of the living will say it relieves relatives of the trauma of making decisions for a dying person. It is simply, they argue, an
extension of a human being's capacity to make free choices. Opponents say the sophistication of medicine makes the living will unnecessary. Others are afraid it will open the door to positive euthanasia in which death would be hastened, perhaps by injecting the dying patient with a fatal drug. There are many contemporary ethical issues that result from medical breakthroughs. New developments are routinely reported in the press.
Caring But ultimately at issue is the value of human life and the ways of caring for it and nurturing it. The Hospice movement is an example of that. This movement shows how some people are relating human and religious values to contemporary issues of death and dying. The movement traces its roots back to hospitals run in the Holy Land in the 1 I th century. Revived in England a number of years ago, the Hospice movement provides a homelike atmosphere for terminally ill cancer patients whose pain is relieved by drugs. It is an alternative to the usual hospital care. "The Hospice movement acknowledges that Christians must eventually embrace death while it identifies with the plight of the suffering and allows them to live out their days with a semblance of human dignity," Father Malloy commented.
In the hands of a nurse, a baby weighing less than two pounds marks her one month birthday in the neonatal intensive care unit of New York's Presbyterian Hospital. A neonatologist that is, a doctor who works only with newborn babies — became increasingly distressed by the heartbreak of parents whose newborn infants died shortly after birth. Eventually he gave up his lucrative practice in favour of a research post at a large hospital where the financial rewards are fewer. His real reward lies in the hope that his research may one day lead to new discoveries that will save the lives of future newborn infants.
Because of medical advances today, Christians often find they are faced with difficult decisions to make. How can their commitments as Christians be linked to the complex situations that arise? What are some of the questions that give rise to the field of medical ethics? Dominican Father David O'Rourke recounts a conversation that helps to illustrate what some of those questions are and how they arise. Father O'Rourke is associate director of the family life office in the Diocese of Oakland, Calif. Richard Conklin interviews Notre Dame's Holy Cross Father Edward Malloy, a moral theologian, who says the hospitalisation of his father helped him grasp some of the real-life complexity of medical ethics. Conklin is director of public information at the University of Notre Dame. Katharine Bird tells about a family which has faced many difficult decisions about treatment over the years because of a daughter's r ecurring bouts of mental illness. The family's decisions are made in light of their convictions as Christians about the kind of life they want for each family member. Ms Bird is associate editor of the Know Your Faith series. Yahweh uses the most interesting characters to keep His people faithful to the covenant they have made with Him, Father John Castelot writes. He talks about the book Book of Judges in showing some of the dangerous times the Israelites faced in the land of promise.
Often over the years the parents had to make decisions about their daughter's medical treatment. Deeply loving people, they tried to make the decisions in light of their care for each other and for their daughter. and their views on the value of life. For instance, the parents prefer medical treatment which allows their daughter to remain at home. They feel strongh that their daughter will be happier in familiar surroundings. This choice often led the Bowens to make certain adjustments in the way they lived. During periods when their daughter's illness was most severe, it was necessar‘ for an adult to be with her at all times. This sometimes meant the parents had to forgo events they had planned
woman's illness. They felt frustrated at how litBy Katharine Bird tle they could do. Then they rediscovered hope that her future could he or even a trip out of other patients afflicted with them at home. town. with a similar illness. The The experience of the Still, because of their result of the medication Bowen family, for me, desire to provide the was astonishing to the illustrates the interpla most humane and loving family. of medical development care for their daughter, and the value decisions the Bowens seldom comFor the first time in sevpeople must make about plain about the con- eral years, the young the health and care of straints on their freedom. woman was able to lead a someone very' close to Some time back, the fairly ordinary life. Her them. doctors recommended a abrupt switches in mood new medication for the The family's experience Previously the parents from euphoria to depresdaughter, one which had sion moderated. Now, saw themselves tightly also demonstrates the shown great promise in after an absence of sev- bound by the young potential of medical science, and the many times its quite awesome This is an age of fitness. power is used to help Others use hours. lunch Some people jog on their human beings. For the spare time to play tennis or racquetball, or simply to personal face of science shows up vividly when exercise. we hear of those doctors The focus on fitness reflects a concern about the and families who wrestle body. It also reflects a concern about good health. together with a difficult It represents a concern about oneself. And it can medical and moral decision. work two ways: Many times medical • It can help to expand one's personal horizons. researchers are drawn to Perhaps a person finds the time devoted to exercise is make highly personal because of their a time of refreshing solitude and reflection. Or, per- decisions values. haps good health reduces fatigue and tension and An acquaintance of mine is a neonatologist, a thus benefits the person in many ways. who works only • But an excessive focus on oneself could reduce doctor ith newborn babies. one's universe, turning a person so much inward that For years this pediatrician had a booming medothers are closed out. practice, treating It is a question of how we take care of ourselves. ical children of all ages. But, And how we take care of anyone — ourselves and gradually, he became others, too — is basically what the field of medical increasingly distressed by heartbreak of parents ethics is about. The person who couples ethics with the whose newborn infants medicine asks questions like these: died shortly after birth. This interest led him What is good care? How is it given? In what atmosfinally to give up his lucphere is it given? Why is it given? Who gives it? Who rative private practice in decides? favour of his present The way we take care of our "selves" reveals some- position with a research at a large hospital thing about the kind of people we want to be. In team w here the financial taking care of ourselves, we put our values into rewards are fewer. However, he now has time for a ction. the research and writing We link values to the care we give ourselves. that he has long wanted In such an age, these basic questions remain: to do. For this physician. the How do we want to take care of our "selves"? reward lies in the hope What are we hoping for? that the research he is Can we be overly concerned about ourselves? doing will lead one day to Finally, what is the connection between caring for the discovery of new procedures which will our selves and caring for others? save the lives of future Talk it over. It's worth thinking about. newborn infants. eral years, she is thinking about returning to her college studies at least part time. The young woman may never be entirely free of her illness. Still the prognosis for her future ha changed dramatically because of the new medicine. The improvement in her condition has lightened the spirits of her family as well.
A long, hard battle Some 20 or so years after the capture of Jericho the Israelites were fairly s ettled in the central mountainous region of Canaan. But the remaining C anaanite people were still stubbornly defending their towns. Often enough the Israelites had to come to an understanding with them not without some risk. For, without strong overall leadership. the Israelites ran the risk of being assimilated little by little into the native population. Thus they would have lost their national and, especially, their religious identity. In that case, the s ublime historical mission Yahweh had planned for them would have been cancelled out. All the valiant efforts, all the grand successes in winning the land of promise, would have come to naught.
But blood proved thicker than water for the Israelites, and the Spirit of Yahweh stayed with them. The Lord saw to it that His people did not abandon Him entirely. The 12 tribes were still linked in a sort of federation. It may not have been as strong as it should have been, but it was effective enough to preserve some semblance of unity. The Israelites' covenant with Yahweh was solemnly renewed from time to time. So Yahweh remained the God of Israel. There were shrines here and there throughout the country where He was officially worshiped. Shiloh, in particular. became a popular centre of pilgrimage. For the
By Father John Castelot Ark of the Covenant was kept here, the chest containing the tablets of the law which formed the basis of the covenant or alliance between God and His people. In sum, there was danger lurking in the hills of Canaan, but there was also reason for hope. For t he Old Testament pictures Yahweh as a jealous God, and He w ould take steps to protect His people, even from themselves. The Book of Judges records some of the steps Yahweh took to this end. The picture it presents is something of a shock. Anarchy, fierce independence, superstition. crime and disaster stalk the Israelites in its pages; only a constantly reappearing ray of home
keeps the darkness from settling into a despairing pessimism. The bearers of this hope are a series of men called judges. Now for us of the 20th century, a judge is a dignified, black-robed person who presides over a court of law and sees that justice is done. The Hebrew word translated as "judge" does have something of this meaning, but as applied to the heroes of the Book of Judges the word means "liberator" or "saviour." The liberator or judge sees that justice is done, indeed, but not by due process of law. His weapon is physical prowess. military cunning. shrewd ness and resourcefulness. The judge is a local hero who, empowered by the
spirit of God, rises to the occasion when one or more of the tribes is threatened by a strong enemy. Some of these heroes are given scarcely a mention in the book, while others receive quite a bit of attention like Othniel. Ehud, Deborah and Samson. Not all these characters - - and some of them were really characters -were models of piety or even moral rectitude. They were men of their times, and their times were crude, almost sa‘ age. But they served Yahweh's purpose, and His choice of them for the task at hand by no means implies divine sanction of their moral crudity. Instead, it was really Yahweh who was the liberator; they just happened to be hand instruments.
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I'm sure, to hear the t words of Pope John Paul ft 4 to the Jesuit Provincials on February 27, 1982. 'I wish to express recog• nition and gratitude to the whole Society of Jesus for the historic contribution of apostolate, of ser• * vice, of fidelity to Christ, to the Church and to the pope, given over the centuries with an unwearying generosity in all fields of t the apostolate, in the ministries, in the missions and to you worthy heirs of these religious, 't who for four centuries * * and a half have taken as • . * their motto and ideal the greater glory of God. ' t Ignatius has often been 4 * presented as the founder t of the Jesuits, an efficient • * administrator, a shrewd • t judge of men, a man of t power and intrigue, a t soldier saint. * I Books have been written t about his achievements t and the achievements of • * his followers. • 4 But little was known of • % the interior life of Igna• tius, until Dudon's life of Ignatius was translated from French into English half way through this century. Even then the two chapters about the prayer life * and the faith life of the * t saint were but a prelude t to the future writings of • * Hugo Rahner and much • * later his brother Karl • t Rahner, who stressed Ignatius the mystic. They had been in Touch • with Ignatius' Autobiography, his many letters, the Spiritual Exercises and the Jesuit Constitutions. From these sources, they learned of the struggle the young Ignatius went through to discover Z himself and to discover IGod. They found that he went s through a period of purifi• cation, a dark night of the 1 senses, a dark night of the spirit, before experiencing the divine inflow. But experience it he did. The pope continued, "the Society of Jesus, founded at the time of the Council of Trent, effectively contributed to the i vitality engendered by the Council. "The first concern of Ignatius and his companions was to promote an authentic renewal of Christian life, 'teaching and preaching the gospel of the kingdom.' "The spiritual exercise of Saint Ignatius proved to be a particularly efficacious means for a deeper renewal of the Christian life'.
Who was Ignatius? Let him tell the story of his interior life, using the words of his autobiography. Interviewed by Father Camara, he speaks of his early spiritual struggles, leading to his conversion from a man of the world to an ardent follower of Christ. He learned to distinguish the thoughts that came from God from those that came from the enemy, experiencing consolation and desolation. After his time of purification, came the divine inflow, with its mystical experiences, at times seeing with interior eyes the humanity of Jesus. He noted many things in writing and the Ignatian Spiritual Exerciese were born. Until the age of 26, Ignatius was a man given over to the vanities of the world; with a great desire to win fame, he delighted especially in the exercise of arms. Once in a fortress, a shot hit him in the leg, breaking it completely. The defenders surrendered immediately to the French, who treated the wounded man with courtesy and kindness. After 15 days, all the surgeons decided that the leg ought to be broken again a nd the bones reset, because they had been badly set the first time This butchery was done again; during it he never spoke a word nor showed any sign of pain other than to clench his fists.
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He continued to get worse; he was advised to confess, he received the sacraments on the vigil of Saints Peter and Paul. Our Lord willed he should improve that very midnight A s his bones knit together, one bone pro-
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He imagined what he would do in the service of a certain lady, the words he would say to her, the deeds of arms he would do in her service. Nevertheless, Our Lord a ssisted him, causing other thoughts to arise from the things he read to follow these. While reading the life of Our Lord and of the saints, he stopped to think, reasoning within himself -What if I should do what St Francis did, what St Dominic did?" They seemed to him easy to accomplish. TIME OF PURIFICATION From this reading he obtained not a little insight, and he began to t hink more earnestly about his past life and about the great need he had to do penance for it. At this point the desire to imitate the saints came to him.
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St Ignatius of Loyola whose feast is celebrated on July 31 was wounded in the leg during the siege of Pampeluna (1521). While recuperating from the would he read the life of Christ and the lives of the saints and decided to become a soldier of Christ. He spent a year in retirement at Maresa, where he probably wrote much of his famous Spiritual Exercises. He laid the foundations of the Society of Jesus in 1534 when he and six companions took vows of poverty and chastity and obedience. In 1937 Ignatius and several others offered their services to the pope. The Society was sanctioned by Pope Paul III in 1 540. Ignatius died in 1556 His chief aims were to renew the Church f rom within, the preaching of the Gospel to the newly-discovered pagan world and the f ight against heresy.
And so he began to forget the thoughts of the past with these holy desires he had, and they were confirmed by a vision in this manner. One night while he was awake, he saw clearly an image of Our Lord with the holy child Jesus. F rom this sight he received very great consolation, and he was left with such loathing for his whole past life and especially for the things of the flesh, that it seemed that all the fantasies he had previously pictured in his mind were driven from it. Thus from that hour he never gave the slightest consent to the things of the flesh For this reason the vision may be considered the work of God WHAT OUGHT I DO FOR CHRIST? He persevered in his r eading and his good intentions; he spent all his time in conversation with members of the household, speaking about the things of God. Taking great pleasure in those books, the idea came to him to excerpt in brief some of the more essential things from the life of Christ and the saints. So with great diligence (because he was now beginning to be up and about the house a bit) he set himself to write a book
in good hand (because he was a very fine penman) using red ink for the words of Christ, blue ink for those of Our Lady. Part of his time was spent in writing and part in prayer. He felt within himself a very great desire to serve Our Lord. THREE HUNDRED MILES A CROSS NORTHERN SPAIN. He set out alone for Montserrat. No longer so much concerned to do satisfaction for his sins, but to please and placate God, he decided to do great penances. He did not dwell on any interior thing, nor did he know what humility was or charity or patience or discretion to regulate these virtues.
His every intention was t o do these great external works because the saints had done so for the glory of God One may understand how Our Lord dealt with his soul, which was still blind, though greatly desirous of serving Him in every way he knew! He went on his way to Montserrat. thinking as always about the deeds he would do for the love of God
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DARWIN — Father Keith Corner, MSC, parist priest of Jabiru in the Northern Territory, lives in one o f Austral ia's most carefully -designed townships, where no expense has been spared to create a comfortable and. beautiful urban environment. But even Jabiru's most pleasing features, such a s the broad swards of landscaped lawns between the modern houses, or the town's large ornamental lake, can't disguise the fact that this is a frontier c ommunity. The lawns have provided an attractive grazing prospect for wild w ater buffalo. Father C orner can testify the p resbytery lawn has proved no exception. And although no saltwater crocodiles have yet been found in the lake, the Jabiru Town Development Authority keeps a careful watch to ensure that none strays in from the nearby South Alligator River. Jabiru, about 350 km east of Darwin, was built a s a regional centre to serve the rich Alligator R ivers uranium province.
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A fter arriving at Montserrat, he said a prayer and arranged for a confessor. He made a general confession in writing which lasted three days. He spent the whole night before the altar of Our Lady. He left at day break for Manresa. E XPERIENCES OF CONSOLATION AND DESOLATION Until this time he had remained always in nearly the same interior state of great and steady happiness. without having any knowledge of the inward things of the spirit When he was entering a church at Manresa, where he heard Mass each day, a harsh thought came to trouble him by pointing out the hardship of his life. "How will you be able to endure this life for the sev-
enty years you have yet to live?" He answered "Can you promise me an hour of life?" So he overcame the temptation and remained at peace. But soon after the temptation he began to experience great changes in his soul. Sometimes he found himself so disagreeable that he took no joy in prayer or in hearing Mass or in any other prayer he said.
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just as one snatches a c ape from a nother's shoulders. Here he began to be a stounded by these changes that he had never experienced before, and he said to himself "What new life is this that we are now beginning?" HOW WOULD JESUS CHRIST APPEAR TO ME? A t this time he still conversed occasionally with spiritual persons who had faith in him and wanted to talk to him, even though he had no knowledge of spiritual matters, yet in his speech he revealed great fervour and willingness to go forward in God's service. At that time there was at Manresa a woman of great age who had long been a servant of God and was known as such in many
parts of Spain, so much so that the Catholic king had summoned her once to tell her something.
c r4 One day the woman speaking to the new soldier of Christ, said to him, "Oh! May my Lord Jesus Christ deign to appear to you someday." But he was amazed at this, taking the matter literally, "How would Jesus Christ appear to me?" Hugo Rahner thinks that Ignatius, after his time of purification, his dark night of the soul, is about to e xperience the divine enlightenment. Continued next week
During the planning s tages. Jabiru was spoken of as potentially the third largest town in the Northern Territory, behind only Darwin and Alice Springs. However, the town's current population is less than 1300 because only one of the three prospective uranium projects in the region, the Ranger m ine developed by E nergy Resources of Australia Limited, is in operation. About $100 million has been spent on the town, which has facilities and services for a much larger population. Jabiru's future growth will depend on the development of the Jabiluka and Koongara uranium deposits. Father Corner has about 300 parishioners, but the church could accommodate many more. The building was completed in November 1982 and opened officially in April this year by Bishop John O'Loughlin, the Bishop of Darwin. "We haven't by any m eans reached our potential, but one of the advantages of a small congregation is that you can get to know people m uch better,"Father Corner told me.
Apart from visitation and saying Mass, Father Corner spends a lot of his time teaching catechetics and music to the children at the Jabiru primary school. Father Comer plays six musical instruments — saxophone, piano, guitar, violin, trumpet and trombone — but teaches only the first three. Because Jabiru is built in the Kakadu National Park, now one of the
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f amily situation," he said. "This is fairly characteristic of the Northern Territory where you have a relatively young population and few or no relations outside of the immediate family.
"Children, particularly, like to have grandparents or old people to whom they can talk and relate with." Like most of the priests in the Northern Territory, Father Corner is a Missionary of the Sacred Heart. He comes from the country district of Goornong, near Bendigo, in the Victorian goldfields, where he worked on his family farm and market garden before he left at the age of 25 to become a priest. He trained at St Paul's National Seminary for Late Vocations in Sydney and served in parishes in Tasmania before coming to Darwin. He came to Jabiru to establish the parish early in 1981, the year in which the Ranger mine came into operation.
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Laity Weekend Our Lady which were founded in Rome in 1563. In 1967 a new name, Christian Life Communities, was adopted. They are now in fifty countries. The aim of these communities is to develop the committed laity envisaged by the Second Vatican Council, by emphasis on the formation of members particularly through small group experience according to the spirit and principles of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius.
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The first Life Week ever The best thing about good singing from the cast. held in Western Australia going to Don Giovanni As the centre of attention will take place in the Perth currently being, presented Lyndon Terracini sings Town Hall from August at His Majesty's is that one attractively and clearly and to 12 between 10.00 am & has heard it before; that is, perhaps the only criticism 9.00 pm daily. Life Week 1983 will proone has heard the tunes is that his Don Giovanni before, at least. looked positively too nice a ject respect for every About ten of the most chap to be capable of the human life from the popular and frequently murder and unrepented moment of conception, heard Mozart opera arias seduction of which he was and safeguarding the right to life of each and every drift through this semi- being accuse. comic look at the historic In many ways much of the individual by a caring and and typical reprobate Don continuity falls to Ronald sharing of our common Giovanni. The fact that McConaghie whose natu- human experience through most recordings of the ral humour and resonantly this week. arias are in Italian circums- clear voice made the ser- The Life Week display pectly protects innocent vant Leporello an inten- and exhibition will show ears from what a nasty tionally loveable relief in why every human being has worth and value in our piece Don Giovanni is in the sombre goings-on. his endless pursuit and Christa Leahmann had to society, whether healthy or conquest of women. hold centre stage as the handicapped. young or But those hearing the tragically wronged Donna old, and will emphasise the opera in full in English Anna, daughter of the alternative to the seculaneed have no qualms that murdered commendatore rist, humanist, materialist, good will not triumph. The whose vengeance des- attitues being propogated clouds of smoke and cended on Don Giovanni, in our community which orchestral thunder that see and is a touch too noble puts only relative value on Don Giovanni vanish and at times lost the clarity human life. below the stage floor and of projection. Merlyn Right To Life Associathe funereal post mortem Quaife was equal to her tion is organising the week, whether he has gone to the part and perhaps had the and has invited organisahell he deserves puts even advantage of being able to tions such as Marriage the most fiery hellfire mis- be more demonstrative in Encounter, along with other community groups sion sermon to shame. her acting. Moralising aside, the cur- • Clifford Arndt's baritone who look after and care for rent excellent production made him a forceful ghost- Downs Syndrome arid spina bifida children, fosis further proof that Perth statue for the final ruin. is getting continual high The sets are impressive if ter parents, the blind, and performance of opera that only for the speed with the deaf. would have been only a which scenes change Life Week will begin with t ourist's dream a couple of within seconds on some an ecumenical service at St occasions, while it is only Marys Anglican Church, decades ago. It is a long evening, wait- the fault of the opera itself West Perth on Sunday ing for Don Giovanni to if song passages have to August 7, commencing at 4 get his final sentence and it sustain the more compli- pm. Bishop Healy will offiis backed by sustained cated set changes. ciate at the service.
[Youth Forum Fast and prayer
The Western Australian government is committed to establishing a youth bureau by December 83. Mr Kieth Wilson has appointed a Youth Task Force consisting of Chairman Mr Brian Hill from the school of education at Murdoch University, a steering committee of five people and a committee of 18 people.
A weekend of fast and prayer will be held at St Mary's Cathedral on July 30 and 31 in support of Father Brian G ore, Karl Gaspar and their c ommunity.
I visited the minister on and write to them. Murdoch 6150. Phone: 332 his appointment and asked While the problems of 2378 that someone from the unemployment and home- STEERING COMMIT m ajor churches be lessness are key issues for TEE — Mr Peter Kenyon, appointed to the commit- young West Australians Western Australian Coltee. In response Mrs Mau- my chief concern is for the lege of Advanced Educareen Munro from the invaluable work of the tion, P.O. Box 224, Anglican Department of voluntary youth sector. Claremont 6010; Ms Helen Young people are urged also to orgaEducation now sits on the The formation and train- Creed, 45 Swansea Street, nise their own weekend of prayer and ing of leaders, the develop- East Vic Park 6101; Mr committee. Each member of the com- ment of social skills, the Ellis Griffiths, Perry Lakes fasting in their own parish. mittee does not wave any understanding of the deep- Stadium, Wembley 6014; 6000; Mr Brendan P CYSS, 7 Stroughton particular flag for their est meaning of life and the Mr Harold Luxton, Youth McCarthy, Industrial Road, Balga 6061; Ms .Vit4 o wn organisation and influence of youth upon & Community Services, Advocate, Confederation Wendy Browning, 3/61 according to Mrs Munro each other are but a few of Community House, 81 St of WA Industry, 190 Hay Mary Street, Como 6152; °NWPIlr''' °NW_ the Minister has done a the issues tackled by move- George's Tce, Perth 6000. Street East, Perth 6000; Reverend George Davies, *Mr Ken Colbung, 53 Cur- 15 Bagot Road, Subiaco r easonable job in gathering ments and organisations 361 lington Street, Balga 6061; 6008; Ms Genevieve Errey, Enquiries should be directed to a wide range of people like CP Y, YCW, YCS, *The Hon Minister for Youth Affairs Council of 4981 (any time) invol‘ ed in the 'south scene T YCS, Antioch, Youth Health, 8th Floor. Curtin WA, GPO Box T 1741, Encounter, and Choice. of WA. Committee I'm still not sure that the House, 60 Beaufort Street, Perth 6001; Mr Sandy Perth 6000; Mrs Maureen Lawson. Rural Youth placement of the youth bureau under the umbrella COMMITTEE — Mr Munro, Anglican Dept of Movement Council. 3 Speak of the Department of Doug Costello, Technical Education, GPO Box Kimberley Street, West Youth and Community Education, Education W 2067, Perth 6001; Ms Leederville 6008; Mr NewOf course I am disap- Services is the best possible Department, 151 Royal Cheryl Carmody, Youth- land Hutchinson, Jesus pointed that someone from option. I would choose the Street, East Perth 6000; care, 25 Victoria Square, People Inc. 286 Hay Street 'CS. YCW, TYCS, CPY Premiers' Department as *The Hon Minister for Perth 6001; Mrs Joy East. Perth 6000; Mr and the other programmes w ould others in the field. Employment, 6th Floor, Cooke, State Commis- Michael Goff, Bayswater and groups is not on the The Youth Task Force is Superannuation Building, sioner, Girl Guides Associ- C YSS, 22A Russell Street, task force but each of these as follows— 32 St George's Terrace, ation, 107 Wellington Morley 6062; Vivien Cangroups has an opportunity CHAIRMAN — Mr Perth 6000; *Nlr Ron Street. Perth 6000; Ms ton, YNICA,GPO C113, to make a submission by Brian Hill, School of Edu- Reid. Secretary, Trades Elena Mobilia, 38 Croesus Perth 6001. August 8 and should speak cation, Murdoch Univer- and Labor Council WA. 74 Street, Morley 6062; (*TO NOMINATE REPwith committee members sity, South Street. Beaufort Street, Perth R obin Stevens, Balga RESENTATIVES)
Three Churches are part of Youth Appeal 83. Catholic, Anglican and Uniting. Pictured right is a group of young people having fun and telling people in Forrest Place that the Appeal is on. Doorknockers are needed to visit every residence in WA. It is a mammoth task. Do your bit to help. Contact Father Jegorow on 328 9878 or your local organiser.
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Two boys from the Pallotine Hostel in R ossmoyne, Darryl Sibasado (17) and John Pidek (17) w ere last week awarded American Exchange Field Service scholarships. Darryl, who comes from Lombadina Mission, north-east of Broome is a student at St Norbert's College, and John, who comes from Port Hedland, is a student at Trinity. Both boys list their favourite sport as basketball, and hope they will be able to play and compete during their year in America. Darryl will be going to
California and John to Minnesota. The student exchange is open to all students, and the candi-
dates were chosen on their personalities and ability to get on with others.
Encounter camp T he Third Youth be very rewarding. If you Encounter Stranger would like to attend the Camp for 1983 will be next camp or would like held at the Kum Ba Yah more information, see Campsite in Watermans your Youth Encounter on September 2nd-4th. School Co-ordinator, Stranger Camps are pro- write to the Youth grammes of spiritual Encounter Movement, renewal for Year 12 Box 74 North Perth, students. 6006, or telephone This year over 60 Year Father John Hill C.SS. 1 2 students have already R. on 328 6600. been on Stranger Camps Patrick Coward, 277 and have found them to 5628.
words when listening to a homily given by a priest recently, who spoke about the importance of dreaming the impossible dream, and to join with others who dreamt the same dream. I recall that as a 16 year old I had great plans. I was determined to get out there and reach the whole world and change it from being an abysmal place, lacking in love and filled with lonely plastic people, but I quickly discovered that I couldn't do it. I was just one person. I did try to change my own world but it all seemed too much, all too hard. For some time my only dream was to get away from this mess and to live in the country. Recently that dream to change the world has resurfaced. The answer to me now is not to change it all by myself but to link with others and to work together with them, and while escaping to the country may be important at times, it's not the answer, because you can never get away from
Ar)d7 Write to P.O. Box 194, North Perth. 6006 yourself. no matter where you go. I believe there is a place for rainbows and dreams. Firstly one has to believe in oneself and one's own abilities, and to believe that with God's help and the help of your fellow men and women, one can do anything.
Guiding It's a hard step by step, minute by minute affair. One messes things up, but eventually you get there. Even in the depths of despair it's important to look ahead to one's guiding light, one's dream. Being young is being idealistic and being a dreamer. It goes beyond chronological years. One has to work at your dreams but you must have them to start off with. JENNY BARNARD DOUBLEVIEW YCW
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( Record Kids Club Dear Captain Bob, I have enclosed some jokes that I read in my reading book and I t hought some other children may enjoy them. Both my brother Bradley and myself enjoyed our birthdays and we were lucky to receive some lovely gifts. Bradley is now 10 and I am one year older, 11. I enjoy playing football d uring the winter months. I play for Waroona Under 12s and also for our school St Joseph's Convent. We were lucky to watch some of the State football game against Victoria on T V at school. Very pleased WA won by three points. Jason Della Franka, W aroona Q. What is a haunted wigwam? A. A creepy teepee! Q. Why is an elephant large, grey and wrinkled? A. Because if he were small, white and round he'd be an asprin? Q. If you crossed ducks and cows, what would you get? A. Quackers and milk? Q. What is the best way to hunt bear? A. With your clothes off! Q. What would you get if you crossed a dog and a waffle? A. A woofle! Q. What did the boy octopus say to the girl octopus? A. I want to hold your hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand, hand! Q. What do you call a shark with a machine gun? A. Sir! Q. What did the cork Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were tied and thrown into the blazing furnace. King Nebuchadnezzar could not believe his eyes. They are walking around say to the bottle? A. If you don't behave in the middle of the fire but the flames do not touch them!" he said in amazement. yourself I'll plug you! Q. What happened to the wolf who fell in the washing machine? A. He became a wash & . I IIIIIIIIIFAI/ were wolf!
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stood on the flat plain of Dura in Babylon. T he king ordered all the officials of the land to come together before the gold statue. A herald shouted out in a loud voice the orders of the k ing: "People everywhere, listen. You will hear the sound of a trumpet and other musical instruments. "As soon as the music begins, you must bow down to the ground and worship the gold statue K ing Nebuchadnezzar has set up. Whoever does not immediately bow down will be thrown into a blazing furnace." E veryone stood in amazement before the huge statue. They were terrified at the king's order. As soon as they heard the first note of the trumpet, they all fell down in worship before the statue. Everywhere in the whole land people bowed down. But in the province of Babylon there were three important officials who did not bow down to Nebuchadnezzar's statue. They were Jews who believed in the one true God. The three officials were Shadrach. Meshach and Abednego. Some people who did not like the Jews went to the king. "Great king," they said, "you ordered everyone in the whole land to bow down and
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worship your gold statue. there are three Jews in Babylon who are disobeying your orders. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refuse to bow down and worship your statue." The king was furious. He ordered the men to be brought to him. "Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego," he shouted, "is it true that you refuse to bow down and worship the gold statue of my god? If you do not, you will be thrown into the fiery furnace. Do you think any god can save
you from the flames?" The three men answered: "We will not try to defend ourselves. If the God we serve is able to save us from the flames, then He will do so. But even if the Lord does not save us from the fire, we will never worship your god. We will never bow down to the gold statue you set up." The king turned red with anger. "Heat the furnace seven times hotter," he ordered. The soldiers threw more coal into the furnace. Then they tied up Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego with strong ropes and threw them into the blazing furnace. The fire roared up inside the furnace. The king watched to see the three men burn. But the flames did not touch them. King Nebuchadnezzar could not believe his eyes. "They are not tied up anymore," he said in amazement. "They are not hurt at all. They are walking around in the middle of the fire but the flames do not touch them!"
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The king shouted out to the three men, "Come out of the furnace." They walked out of the furnace and their clothes were not even burned. "Praise the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego!" the king said. "Their God rescued these three men who love and serve the Lord. They disobeyed my orders and risked their lives rather than worship any other god." The king then ordered everyone in the land to honor the God of Shadranch, Meshach and Abednego. "There is no other god who can rescue like this," the king wrote.
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Dear Captain Bob, Here's some jokes for you. Q. Did you hear about the two blood cells? A. They laughed in vein. Q. When does a bald person use a comb? A. When he's a barber. Q. What did the envelope say to the stamp? A. Stick with me and we'll go places. I am looking for a penpal. I would like to hear from you. My hobbies are hockey. cycling and tennis. Julie Dejonge, aged 11, Geraldton.
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Presentation Day Sunday is presentation day for the men's and w omen's pennant series just concluded, and everyone is invited to the A ttadale Club c ourts for the presentation and medal tournament. The winners of the various grades were, Queens Park ( I) in men's A grade, St Denis in the women's A grade, Dianella(1) in men's B grade. and St Benedicts from women's B grade. Competition starts at 1.30 pm and you are asked to bring some afternoon tea.
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Medal tournament to be played as well No club dominated the pennants this series so a good roll-up is expected at the presentations. The Attadale courts are in Wichmann Rd, in the grounds of St Joseph Pignatelli school. The Association meeting will be held on August 2 and will be hosted 1)) the St Denis club, at the home of Ger-
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The dinner dance and crowning of the Tennis Queen will be held at the Celtic Club in West Perth on Saturday, October 29. Tickets will be available shortly, the cost for the evening will be $18 a single, which includes a four course meal, drinks and dancing from 8pm to lam.
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Camp participants line up for a meal are (from left) Corry Plank en. Peter Barker. Jim Miolin, Gerry Chesson and Peter Curtin. A feature of the attendance at the r ecent Christian Life Group's annual camp at North Beach was that a group of five travelled the 800km return journey from Esperance for the June weekend. -The spirit of this year's camp was tremendous. "It was a real Christian Community" said CLG organiser Jenny Miolin about the 38 group members from 11 different groups who attended the camp at the Sisters of Mercy North Beach camp. E sperance has 19 CLG members in three groups.
Applecross breakfast The 50 people present at last week's Christian Breakfast at Applecross heard about what all churches are doing to try to meet the needs of today's society in problems of unemployment, alcoholism, family and marriage problems. The principal speaker
Speakers at the camp weekend included Sister Joan Carvill of the C atholic Pastoral Institute who helped those present their personal image of God. Julienne Prendergast of one of the Nedlands groups talked about her living out a Christian life in her family and neighbourhood. YCW. YCS and TYCS members Mark O 'Sullivan, Christina Kadmos and Anne Harris discussed Christian living among youth. A fter the camp the CLG chaplain Father Barry White said he was impressed with the way those present integrated life and prayer. He was also impressed with what he had heard from the youth about their view of life It had helped him to see the potential for the youth groups and Christian Life Groups based on the review. In a further comment Chris Cypher said the weekend demonstrated a practical and honest application of living our everyday Christianity. Tony Planken said it had given him a new and fresh look at other people, their beliefs and faith in God. It had also helped him to resist judgAlso at the camp were (from left) Lorraine Thomas, Jo Pope, Ena Phillips, and ing people too hastily. Jan Plowman.
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Major Don Warr said to meet this challenge the Salvation Army had recently appointed a director for their unemployed programme. The programme has three aims; job creation, counselling to encourage self-esteem, and recreational activities which fill time a vailable for useful purposes. Major Warr quoted s tatistical figures .[ which highlighted the changing social patterns of youth and which identifies many areas where the churches can respond to the needs of youth in the community. The Christian Breakfast is a regular activity sponsored jointly by the Catholic, Anglican and Uniting parishes of Applecross Mount Pleasant. In spite of the cold winter morning there was an enthusiastic turnout for a 7 am start to a breakfast in a hall warmed by heaters and decorated with red chairs and tablecloths. BILL HUXLEY
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F ormer Mercedes student, 20 year old c larinettist Cathy McCorkill was this w eek awarded a Y outh Orchestra 1984. 1984 Churchill fel- w hich performed C athy's musical lowhsip. three separate pro- c areer started in She is one of only grammes in Perth p rimary school when two young musicians earlier this year. s he learned the to receive a fellow- She is auditioning to record er at Our Lady ship and will study play with the orches- of Lourdes Convent, the clarinet in Eng- tra again next season, Yokine. land, France, Ger- as they are touring many and the US. the United States in M . DOWNIE Cathy, who is the daughter of Ron and Margaret McCorkill of Yokine, has been studying the clarinet NEW YORK — Identical twins have been a t the Canberra ordained to the priesthood at the School of Music for cathedral of La Crosse, Wisconsin, by the past three and a Bishop John J Paul, Auxiliary of La half years. Crosse. Last year she was awarded the Friends Fathers Leo and Larry Schneider say they of the School of never discussed with each other the posMusic Student of the sibility of becoming priests. Year Award, and was They came to their decisions quite indepenprincipal clarinettist dently. o f the Australian
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ROME. Rome's tourist authorities have recorded a reduction in the number of foreign visitors during the first four months of this Holy Year. A spokesman said foreign visitors apparently wanted to avoid the chaos they believed they would find, especially from Easter onwards. Easter, traditionally considered to be a very profitable time for hotel o wners, shopkeepers, was a disaster. Americans appeared to be the most loyal pilgrims.