ROME: The extension of the Christian Brothers into Third World countries in spite of a shortage of brothers is one of the congregation encouraging signs according to the Brother general superior Gabriel McHugh. Brother McHugh was commenting on developments which had taken place during the six years he has been superior general but which he described simply as progress that takes place from one administration to the next in his order. Among 20 new openings a foundation has recently been made in Peru and another in Argentina. In Uruguay an upsurge in local vocations has resulted in the appointment of a local novice master. The expansion of the order in South America has meant that much of the congregational documentation has to appear now in Spanish as well a s in the tradi tional English. In Zambia where the Brothers are in charge of seven mission schools, it has been decided to set up a separate region of the congregation. Brother McHugh said one of his hopes was the congregation might be able to expand its activity in Italy where the Brothers have taught in
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the heart of Rome since 1900. Brother McHugh whose term of six years concludes at the forthcoming general chapter in what said March impressed him was the extraordinary sense of the amongst unity 2800 members of the This congregation. unity was the backbone of any development taking place. He also referred to a growing understanding of their role in the Church and also to the fact that Catholic schools were seeking to respond to the needs of the times. He felt that in some parts of Europe the vocation of the religious brother is not properly understood. For all such orders the big question was to discover their
presence charismatic and not just their place in the hierarchy of the Church. The role of the religious brother was to be a witness of living the gospel in an external way and and to give expression to that in whatever work they undertook. He felt in the future there might be fewer voca
tions in all the religious orders but this was related to new understanding of ministry and of the place of laity in the local church. Typical of this was the spon taneous growth of the lay movement of Saint Egidio which was doing renewal work in the parishes of Rome.
At the general chapter in March the delegates will be studying the final draft of the revised constition of the Christian Brothers. Representing the WA -SA province will be the retiring provincial superior Brother L. Bowler and council current members Brothers G. Faulkner and J. Carrigg.
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During his ad limina visit to Rome last week (see page 3) Bishop Quinn called on the Christian Brothers General House and had an audience of present and former Western Australians to watch him sign the visitors book . They were (from left) Bro FR. Hickey, one time Leederville principal and now a general councillor; Bro R. B. Healy, formerly at Aquinas and Trinity and now on special writing assignment,. Bro W.J. Woodruff, former WA provincial superior and A quinas principal and now a general councillor: Bro G. G. McHugh, superior general, Bishop Quinn; Bro J.R. Carrigg, WA provincial councillor, currently on chapter preparation work in Rome.
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Following the ceremony, Archbishop Foley will meet the congregation at a social in the grounds of Mercedes College. The ceremony of Archbishop Foley assuming the chair of office will take place after the liturgy of the Word and after he has made a solemn profession of faith before Archbishop Goody. The ceremony will be televised. Geraldton diocese parishes will also be invited to
send representatives. Bishops throughout Australia receive invitations on such occasions and at least other archbishops or their representatives from the Eastern States are expected to attend. Invitations have also gone out to all priests in Western Australia to attend the installation of Archbishop Foley in his capacity as metropolitan or senior prelate of the bishops of WA. On the day following the installation the priests will have a liturgical and social meeting with the new archbishop. Archbishop Foley has been inundated at Gerald-
ton and Perth with congratulatory messages and he has still to attend standing appointments such as a visit this week to K arratha, a meeting of priests later in the month and a 75th anniversary in Greenough on December 3. Meanwhile Geraldton diocese now has to await its second new bishop in just two years and to that end the priests of the diocese have already been asked to submit personally to the apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Barbarito, their opinions on a possible successor.
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ENGLISH TV LORD WAS A CONVERT LONDON The secret conversion of Britain's Lord Clark has been revealed, five months after his death. Lord Clark became a television star after years of work in the arts with his series Civilisation. He turned to Catholicism in May, a few days before his death, aged 79, when the local priest, Father Thomas Daly, received him into the Church. It was shortly after the reception of Malcolm Muggeridge, and Lord Clark was concerned he would attract the same sort of Press attention. Lady Clark is a Catholic who married Lord Clark in 1979 after the death of his first wife.
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Bethany extends present day membership of 35,000 sisters. It was founded in France in November 1633 by St Vincent De Paul and St Louise De Marillac for the service of the poor and the sick. The community initially came to Australia in 1926 and established its first house at Orange, New South Wales. At that time the sisters were working throughout Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. The motto of the company is "The Charity of Christ urges us". Since coming to Australia the sisters have engaged extensively in charitable works in five states of Australia and New Zealand. The upgrading of facilities for diversional and occupational therapy and other ancillary services is based on the latest research and development. It is the aim of the sisters to improve the standard of care of the temporary and permanent residents of the complex and to provide support, day care and re-training for residents of the local community. The extensions to the Bethany Nursing Home were officially opened on November 13 by the DirectorGeneral of Social Security, Mr Tony Ayers.
Apostolate A large gathering of friends, benefactors and supporters of the Daughters of Charity attended. The apostolate of the Daughters of Charity in Western Australia is carried out in four charitable works. *St Vincent's Hospital for the aged and infirm, Guildford •the apostolate to the Aborigines in the metropolitan area of Perth •Ave Maria House which offers emergency accommodation for women with their children •De Paul meal and social centre for homeless and disadvantaged persons. It was January 1956, that the Daughters of Charity undertook their first work in Western Australia at the request of the then Archbishop of Perth, the late Archbishop Prendiville, who wished the community to establish a home for the aged and infirm in a dwelling he had leased, on a temporary basis, at Mt Lawley. He requested also two of the sisters would do home visiting in the parish of West Perth.
Senator Chaney talking to Mrs Edith Markey a 93-year-old lady who comes from Coonamble, 600km north-west of Sydney, which she described to Senator Chaney as "out in the bush with the sheep and the snakes." When shown this photo she commented "he's good looking isn't he,"
Pledge on education, welfare Support for the Church in education, care of the aged, the underprivileged and ethnic population has been pledged by the Premier, Mr Burke. Mr Burke was speaking in a message on the appointment of the new Archbishop of Perth, Archbishop Foley, who will be installed on December 14. Mr Burke extended congratulations on behalf of the State Government to Archbishop Foley. He said the Church in WA had been blessed with distinguished archbishops who had proved outstanding leaders as well as having been men of great pastoral vision and foresight. He was confident Archbishop Foley would be a worthy successor to those men. "Archbishop Foley is well prepared and experienced for his future responsibilities. "Archbishop Foley can he
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Mr Burke assured of the Governnment's co-operation in the many areas of activity in which the State and the Church share a mutual inter-
est, especially in education and the welfare of the aged, the underprivileged and the ethnic population. "We are living in times of considerable social change, changes which can effect the lives of so many people. "By working together and trying to resolve these problems in an amicable way. I believe we can accomplish a great deal. "I know in his new role Archbishop Foley will apply his experience and many talents in the best interests, not only of the Church which he has served so well during almost 30 years as a priest, but also of all the people of Western Australia" Mr Burke said.
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The Eucharistic Festival this Sunday evening ( November 20) in Supreme Court Gardens will be a special opportunity for everyone preTent to gain the plenary indulgence of the Holy Year of the R edemption. Those who have been to confession and communion and who are present for the special Liturgy of The Word gain the indulgence for the Holy Year promulgated by Pope John Paul for the 1950th anniversary of and Jesus Death R esurrection. Families can take up positions in the gardens as early as they wish and have a picnic tea. Singing by the AppFolk Group lecross begins at 6.30 pm. A t 7 pm the ceremony of Holy Year repentance begins with the sprinkling of the people with holy water. Next the book of the scriptures will be brought in solemn procession for the Liturgy of the Word. The Blessed Sacrament will then be brought in procession to the alter. Archbishop Goody will deliver the homily and lead the congregation in an act of commitment before giving eucharistic benediction. Cars carrying the sick or elderly can park in a special area provided stickers carry they the from available Catholic Church Office
Pope's words 1 bishops in Australia VATICAN CITY (NC) — The Catholic laity has a responsibility to exert a Christian influence on secular society, especially regarding social and economic policies, said Pope John Paul II last Friday. The pope spoke to a group of Australian bishops making their required five-year visit to the Holy See to report on the status of their dioceses.
Present on the occasion were the Bishop of Bunbury, Dr Peter Quinn, who was making his first ad limina visit since taking o‘er the diocese. and Bishop John Jobst of Broome diocese. Archbishop Foley. then
from The Record news services Bishop of Geraldton, made hiss isit earlier this year. Archbishop Goody, because of his impending retirement, was not present on this occasion. The "distinctive Christian responsibility" of lay people involves participating in social and economic life, military affairs, science, the arts, and the mass media. "The laity are able to exert a great influence on culture
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Marcos to quit says cardinal ROME (NC) — Filipino Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila said that the day will come for President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines to leave the political scene. He compared the situation to aperson awaiting his death. Cardinal Sin, an outspoken critic of the Marcos government, made the remark in an interview published in Famiglia Cristiana, an Italian Catholic magazine. The cardinal also saidPope John Paul I I's trip to the Philippines in 1981 made it possible for Filipino religious leaders there to speak out courageously.
"When I say that the president should leave,Iam referring to a law of nature. A Spanish proverb says: 'A cada puerco Mega su San Martin,' that is, for every pig arrives the feast of St Martin,' when the pigs are killed. I " mean that for each of us comes the moment to leave our positions and even to leave this We," the magazine quoted Cardinal Sin as saying. Cardinal Sin said the Church knows the country's situation better then Marcos "because the president never goes out of his palace," while Filipine priests "live among the people."
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and make a special contribution to its evangelisation," the pope said. "They can do this particularly in the fields of science, literature, and art." The pope quoted from his encyclical Laborem Exercens (on Human Work) and said: "The laity play a major role in defending the value of work and in ensuring that the correct concept of human work is applied in the social and economic policies of nations."
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CHRISTCHURCH (NZ) — A special draft report to the Christchurch Diocesan Pastoral Council, The Parish as One Body, says the parish must work out for itself how to act to help those who need aid. "Every act of a parish should express something of that parish's personality."
It was a nostalgic visit to Spearwood by Archbishop Goody last Sunday when he attended the new St Jerome's church-hall to administer confirmation to 31 children and two adults. In 1932, Dr Goody visiting the started Yugoslav community there after he had studied their language in Croatia. The little stone
Fifty years later church of St Jerome, now unused, was built at that time with the gift from Croatia of a painting of St. Jerome.
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new bell tower A bell tower standing 9 metres high is the main feature of the extended Good Shepherd Church, Kelmscott. To offset the 16,000 brick structure there is a 2m cross and statues of St Michael, St Joseph and the Good Shepherd, along with two bells — one weighing 90kg and the other 60kg. The extensions were started in July. The architect was Mr W Bromfield, builder Mr W Lenz and Mr Angelo Bongiascio was responsible for most of the brickwork. Offerings for the building came from the Parish Priest Father D Brunetti and the Della Vedova f amily of Gosnells, and the Bongiascio family.
By Father Jim O'Brien Just what should the appointment of a new archbishop mean to the readers of The Record and all the people of the archdiocese of Perth? Perhaps the best way to respond to that is to do what the Irish are said to do and to reply to a question with a question. What is an archbishop? What is he all about? An archbishop is somebody who has a special task in making God real in the lives of people, making God known and loved in the time and place in which the particular archbishop is appointed. That is God's plan. God made Himself known in the beginning of the Bible as one who brings light where there is darkness and order where there is chaos. He is real and that is what He is like. Jesus came to make God known and sent the apostles to carry on His work. In God's plan an archbishop carries on that work in the world today. But how can Archbishop Foley affect the lives of nearly a million people who are not likely to know him very well? Bishop Foley had not been long in Geraldton diocese when he attended a barbecue at Mt Newman. One lath there asked who he was, and when told he was the Bishop of Geraldton she enquired where that was. That illustrates the problem. Bob Hawke's problem is not so great. Everybody kno% s that he is the Prime Minister of Australia. When he calls for national reconcilitation most people do hear about it. When church leaders are called on by the public media it is usually to comment on some controversial moral issuc. Their pronouncements usually come across as predictable. negative and judgmental. While such pronouncements may give heart to believers, the image of God they project is easily rejected by non-believers. It is not Good News.
The fact of the matter is that bishops and priests are not the ones who bring people to the Church and to faith in God in the world today, as most of our readers would acknowledge. Experience shows that initially at least it is the influence of Christian lay people, and sometimes religious, that makes God known to people who are open to the faith. That is a fact of life. So we come to answering our opening question. The appointment of a new archbishop is a time for all of us to look at our own lives and at how we are making God real and known and loved in our own little worlds. Let's face it. Unless we do our job as members of the Church, the task of the new archbishop is doomed to failure. And while we are here to help Archbishop Foley in his work, he shows that he is most willing to help us in ours. His remarks on the front page of last week's Record strike a note of confidence and hope for us all. He has hope in young people and in all the people of the Church, and that means wives and husbands, fathers and mothers, single parents. people in industry and politics. religious and priests. He knows that we need greater confidence in God. He tells us where he places his trust for the task ahead of him. It should help us all to ponder the archbishop's closing remarks. "With trust in the Almighty and with confidence springing from the quality of the Church to which I have been appointed, I pray that all may be able to contribute tc the life of the Church from the deep faith they have ...".
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The nine metre high bell tower built as part of the extensions of the Church of the Good Shepherd at Kelmscott.
Call to cut aid overseas
The co-ordinating body for Australia's 59 overseas aid organisations, the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, has called on the Australian Government to cut all military aid to the Philippines. The Australian Defence Cooperation Programme with the Philippines totalled $1.5 million in 1982/83 and included training of military personnel in Australia and the provision of equipment to the Philippines military. Australia trains around 100 members of the Philippines armed forces each year — about the same number is trained annually in the United States. Australia has also supplied 12 Nomad aircraft as well as naval patrol boats and an automatic small arms range target system, under the defence co-operation agreement. Australian technical advisers are stationed in the Philippines to train the armed forces in the use and maintenance of this equipment.
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Commenting on the decision of the annual meeting of ACFOA the council's executive director, Mr Russell Rollason, said: "Our concern is Australian military aid is exacerbating the denial of human rights in the Philip• P. 26 John Street, Perth WA 6000 pines. The • Correspondence • ▪ "The Marcos Govern• The Editor, The Record, PO Box 50 • Aberdeen Street Perth, 6000 : ment has suspended all Advertising normal civil rights since • Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 the inception of martial • registered for posting as a newspaper Category "A"(11) law in 1972 and has used • Produced in WA Printed and published weekly by Edward van Heemst • the military to detain with. • 26 John Street, Perth • out trial thousands of Fil• • ipino citizens - many of Established 1874 • whom have suffered tor18 Nov, Farewell for the Governor and Lady Trowbridge, Government House, Archbishop Goody. 20 Nov, Confirmation, Victoria Park, Bishop Healy. 20 Nov, Christ the King Holy Year Celebration. Supreme Court Gardens, Archbishop Goody. 20 Nov, Confirmation, Victoria Park, Bishop Healy
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Kelmscott Parish was first established in September 1962. It was hoped it would be a school church parish, but, owing to a shortage of nuns, it began as a country church. Within a few years the presbytery w as built and Father Jim Dowling appointed resident parish priest. Five years later Father Brunetti replaced him and remains at the helm. The parish population increased greatly and due to the untiring efforts of the parish council the Good Shepherd Catholic School was opened in 1977, with the Loreto order providing the principal. The school has 228 pupils. In 1978 permission for a new church was refused but, undaunted, Father Brunetti pushed on and in 1982 after a petition from parishioners was presented, permission was given to enlarge the existing church which will be opened after an hour of adoration from I lam-12 noon today, followed by a barbecue.
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ture while being held in military camps. "The military aid is called defence co-operation, but it is clearly used for suppression of human rights within the Philippines. "The Philippines faces external military no threats. "Instead, it is host to two huge United States' military bases, thus receiving in excess of $200 million a year in military aid from
the US," said Mr Rollason. "In evidence to the Senate estimates committee recently, the Defence Department acknowledged it was 'highly likely' the DART electronic small arms ranges were used for training the police and other sections of the armed forces. "This 'aid' is clearly directed to improving the fighting and weapons handling capability of the mil-
itary and the police in the Philippines, particularly in guerilla and urban conflict situations," explained Mr Rollason. After the brutal killing of Benigno Aquino at Manila airport and the subsequent uprising against President Marcos, there can be little doubt about the repressive nature of the Philippines Government. "Australia must stop providing military aid to the Marcos Government and do all it can to ensure the human rights of the Filipino people are respected," concluded Mr Rollason. Several of ACFOA's member agencies support major development programmes in the Philippines and have close contact with various Filipino organisations.
Send donations in today • From page 3 family The Christmas appeal hotline number is 272 5230. The response has been very encouraging. but with nearly ten thousand needy families in this state there is still a massive work ahead of us. The sad part of the appeal
has been the huge number of calls or letters asking for help at Christmas. Each caller has been promised a really happy Christmas through the appeal. Mary Cogan at St Vincent de Paul headquarters in Bronte Street this week confirmed the desperate need of many thou-
families of sands Please help us to make sure that no family goes without. The appeal has been taken up by the Golden VVest Network in Bunbury and we will be helping down there as well The appeal closes in four weeks. Time is running out. so please give your gifts this week
Pope's word to Aust bishops • From page 3 He praised the Australian laity for their work in education, in promoting peace and Justice and in charity relief activities. The pope urged systematic religious instruction in parishes as the basis of forming an effective laity. He also noted that the laity "are particularly vulnerable to suffering." Such suffering occurs "when individuals and families are disturbed by ideologies opposed to the values of the gospel -- when inroads of drug abuse are made into communities -- when social and economic problems cause loneliness, discouragement and alienation -- when the effects of sin weigh heavily on human hearts." the pope said.
Essential Saying that worship is an essential part of the lay community, the pope added that the Church must make a special effort, with the help of the laity, to seek out lapsed Catholics "to help them once again have a vital share in the life of the Church." Other bishops who attended the audience were Bishop Peter de Campo of Port Pine, Bishop Noel Desmond Daly of Sandhurst. Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbury, Bishop John S Satterwaite of Lismore and Bishop Bernard Wallace of Rockhampton.
La Salle's new centre opened
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A new $500,000 science wing with laboratories, observatory deck and three general classrooms would further enhance educational facilities at La Salle College, Midland, speakers said at the opening. The opening of the new wing was an impressive ceremony. In the official party were Mr Clem Mulcahy, principal; Mr Brian Buzzard, deputy principal; Mr Paul Brady, chairman of the school board; Mr Kim Beazley MHR for Swan, Minister for Aviation, Mr Gatti, regional director of State Education; Mr M Mileham representing the architects, Franciscan Friars Alban, Peter, Laurence and Robert, and Father Laurence Murphy of St Anthony's parish, Greenmount. Monsignor Nestor, director of Catholic Education represented the Archbishop Sir Launcelot Goody and formally blessed the new two-storey building. He drew a parallel to the La Salle of 20 years ago and the enormous progress made since then. This had been made possible with the intense struggle of La Salle's predecessors who were involved and committed to the school, especially the religious orders who faced almost impossible odds and who carried the school so faithfully.
Father Cormac Nagle, who came from Sydney, at the opening of the St Francis of Assisi Science Centre at La Salle College, Midland.
He highlighted the La Salle of today (with 630 students) which had emerged so well, under the direction and guidance of Mr Mulcahy, and the school board; a school which is going ahead from strength to strength. La Salle today, Monsignor Nestor said, had a marvellous atmosphere of harmony, unity and very fine people committed to the school.
for Aviation and Official guests at the La Salle opening are (from left) the Minister Paul Brady, and Mr board, school the of chairman Beazley, MHR for Swan, Mr Kim school principal, Mr Clem Mulcahy.
Anglicans to reconsider treatment LONDON Renewed controversy over how the Church of England should treat the divorced and remarried is expected when its General Synod meets here on Tuesday. The Church of England currently excludes divorced and remarried members whose
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Communion at the discretion of the parish priest. In July the Synod considered a plan allowing church marriages of divorced persons. Under the plan each case would have to be scrutinised by an interdiocesan panel of advisers, following which the bishop would decide whether or not to grant a dispensation for the marriage. But opposition to the plan is already being expressed. Clergymen meeting in the Anglican diocese of Salisbury condemned the procedure as unworkable.
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Father Cormac Nagle OFM flew from Sydney, representing all Franciscans, to officially open the new St Francis of Assisi Science Centre.
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He spoke of how appropriate it was St Francis was chosen as the dedicatee because although a poet and of man contemplative prayer, he taught us there is a much wider view of the whole of creation than that of scientific experiment.
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St Francis loved all creatures, the animate and the inanimate and went beyond the tangible and the intangible.
Emulate Scientists today in our technological world, would do well to emulate St Francis who would have conserved and preserved the beauty of our world, and give thanks and respect accordingly to the God who created all. All our technology will not help us to live well, Father Cormac said, if as a result of our scientific endeavours we destroy all the beauty. The centre was then officially declared open with blessed crosses and paintings placed in each classroom. The beautiful new laboratories, classrooms and observatory deck would further enhance the educational opportunities of La Salle, which already provides a very wide variety of facilities, the speakers said.
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From Sister Cosmas, (originally from Perth), Namagunga, Uganda I am writing to send you greetings and gratitude from all of us here at Namagunga, and to ask again for your prayers for ourselves, our staff and our students. Water is our greatest material need when we pray "Give us this day our daily bread", I think most of us are really pleading for our daily rain! And when it comes, thank God, everybody runs out with everything that can contain water to collect it - even the bread bin goes out, as we have no bread these days! We are also very concerned about the infiltration of Marxism into Uganda, and the obvious effort being made to gain influence over the young. Our students need so much wisdom and courage — and we all need the support of your prayers. May God bless you all.
From Father Oriol Pujol, SJ, Bombay, India I wish to thank you in a special way for publishing our appeal in your esteemed paper at the beginning of the year asking your readers to donate their used Social and Christmas cards to o ur Social Centre in Bombay. We received a large number of cards from your readers and their sale has helped us to continue our work in rendering aid to the poor and needy in our country.
smile to bring relief and s uccour to suffering humanity with all their problems and our work goes on and on. Our Centre is recognised by the Government but it is a drop in the ocean when we survey the immense task before us, but we are happy and grateful that this was possible because of your kindness.
From J. S. Loney, Salter Point Today decisions regarding medical ethics,education, civil rights, human liberty, family affairs and many others are being made. These decisions will determine the future of Australia. In the media, parliament and political parties there is very little representa-
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WAGIN — The 90th anniversary of the building of Wagin's St Joseph's Catholic Church will be commemorated on Sunday November 27 with Mass at 10 am celebrated by Bishop Quinn.
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Catholic members representing WA in the Federal Parliament. Of Western Australia's 1 12 members only 11 are Catholics and it would not be unjust to say that many of these are nominal Catholics. The Catholics of today, instead of taking part in debate, are to a large degree merely ineffectual
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tion of the Christian viewpoint. Once Catholics were strongly represented in State and Federal Parliaments but today they are a small and ineffective minority. In Western Australia, in both Houses, there are nine Catholics — five Labor members, four Liberal. There are two
From John and Alexander Jones, Embleton. We r ead that Archbishop Francis Carol has reservations with regard to the proposed Sex Discrimination Bill. We believe that the Government had not thought through this Bill very carefully, and as a couple of ordinary people, we can see some gaping weaknesses. A pparently, in certain territories it will be illegal to refuse abortion in certain hospitals under the Bill as it stands. Since there are still a great many Bible-believing Christians, who see life as sacred, I wonder where this leaves their conscience when working in these hospitals. Will they be discriminated against in future employment because of their conscience? Will there by an unwritten code not to employ those who stand by their anti-abortion beliefs? If these laws become the general rule in Australia it could result in a subtle form of coercion, where t hose who hold to the Bible's view on life, that being that abortion is murder, will be asked to perform duties, or refused e mployment on the grounds of belief.
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Historical photographs will be on display tracing the progress and events of the church and congregation since it was built in 1893. The foundation stone of this the first church to be built in Wagin was laid on October 1 1893 by Father Duff the district priest. Among those present were members of the Cronin, Cornwall, Boddington, Buck, Barron, Smith, Taylor, Spratt, Durack and Cowcher families. The land had been donated by the WA Land Company which was involved in building the Great Southern Railway. Just four months later in February 1894 the newly completed church was consecrated by Bishop Matthew Gibney. Constructed of local stone, the building was a credit to the builder Mr John Cronin a farmer from Nippering, who much earlier had constructed a number of buildings around Kojonup. Finances were provided by a generous donation and loan from a Mr Joseph Christopher of Perth. For the next 18 years the district was serviced by visiting priests from the nearby parishes of Kat-
The Wagin Catholic church which recently celebrated the 90th anniversary of its foundation. anning, Kojonup and Narrogin, until 1912 when the first perrnanent priest arrived, Father John Moloney, a man of amazing zeal and of later fame in Leederville. During his term, the convent and presbytery were built and the church extensively renovated, including the additions of the entrance porch and choir loft. The parish was extended to include Wedgecarrup and Dumbleyung, Father Moloney's transport
being a motor cycle. Liter the priest from Wagin was to say Mass in centres as far apart as Darkan in the west and Newdegate in the east. This situation continued until the parish
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of Lake Grace was formed in 1957 and Darkan is now included in Collie. Dumbleyung, Wagin and Arthur River now make up the Wagin parish LONDON: Mr Richard Cunningham, secretary of the Catholic Education Council, the UK Church's senior education body, said caning should be in schools. stopped Where continued its use should be infrequent and strictly governed.
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NEW YORK — The Holy See has told the United Nations the Catholic Church intends, during the UN-sponsored 1985 International Youth Year, to stress the importance of family life and social issues affecting young people. Sister Janet Richardson, member of the permanent Holy See Observer Mission to the UN, told the organisation a year dedicated to youth provides an occasion for reflection "on the presence and the needs of young people within our communites" and on development and peace which the year is intended to foster. Young people "have a valuable message to communicate on behalf of freedom, justice, peace, care for the environment and human rights," said the nun, a Sister of St Joseph of Peace. "Once again, we join with those young people who reject the arms race, and we deplore the growth of expenditures on armaments in view of the claim which youth has on these personal and financial resources to promote family solidarity and to provide literacy programmes and other medical education, needs, housing, job training and jobs," she added. Catholics She said believe that the wellbeing of youth is linked to the "healthy condition of the family."
1 'bishops' pastoral letter on war and peace continue to be popular sellers more than five months after the document was approved by the bishops in Chicago. Lydia B. Finkelstein, director of publishing services for the US Catholic Conference, said by mid-September her office had sold 114,000 copies of the pastoral, The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response. Father Jack Winz, editor of Catholic Update, a monthly religious education newsletter based in Cincinnati, said its condensed version of the pastoral in its August issue generated orders for 1 50,000 more.
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L_1Tyrolean Father Otto Neururer is likely to be finalised this month. The Austrian priest advised against the marriage of a young girl to a divorced unbeliever of Hitler's stormtroopers. He was sent to Dachau concentration camp and later to Buchenwald, where he eventually died suspended by his ankles
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It will have a ninemember administration council, of which six members have been nominated. They include Mons Crescenzio Sege, the Secretary of State who is responsible for the Vatican Social Communications Commission, Father Romeo Panciroli, Vatican Press Officer, and Father Pasquale Borgomeo, second in command of Vatican Radio. The Vatican Television Centre's first production
VATICAN CITY (NC) — Scientists should "abandon the laboratories and workshops of death" by refusing research leading to "war, tyranny and terror," said Pope John Paul II last Saturday. The pope asked scientists to work instead in "laboratories of life" which help build peace and improve living conditions. The papal plea to "disarm science" came in a speech to the Pontifical Academy of Science. The audience included 15 Nobel Prize winners. -They should work to see the discoveries of science were not placed at the service of war, tyranny, and terror," the pope said. "While it is inevitable certain research will be used for aims of aggression, the scientist ought to choose a field contributing to the good of mankind, to the building of peace," he added.
Alliance in a pilgrimage GLASGOW — The International Alliance of Catholic Knights has made its first pilgrimage to Rome. The alliance, formed in Glasgow in 1979, comprises the Knights of St Columba in the UK and Italy, Ireland's Knights of St Columban, the Knights of Columbus in the US, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines, South Africa's Knights of Da Gama, the Australian and New Zealand Knights of the Southern Cross and Ghana's Knights of Marshall. Highlight of the pilgrimage was a private audience for Supreme Knights.
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"Prophets of disarmament have been objects of derision in every age. especially on the part of shrewd politicians. the supporters of power," he said. "But today must not our civilisation recognise that .humanity has need for them?" The pope did not specifically mention nuclear arms, but he decried that contemporary man is living in "a grave moment in history" when all of humanity is threatened with death.
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In a moment of difficulty for Kimberly, played by Dana Plato, Conrad Bain as Drummond has a heart to heart talk with his daughter in this scene from the NBC comedy series, "Dill'rent Strokes. - Communication within families is tricky. The Christian tradition asks us to respond to others with respect as the unique human beings they are.
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What is home? B y Katharine Bird
Opening doors By Father David K O 'Rourke, OP A friend of mine is a constant needler. We have an unusual relationship, pin to pincushion. I'm the pincushion. I work for the Family Life Office in the Diocese of Oakland, Calif., and she was letting me have it one day recently. The Church's teaching on family life is about as interesting as cold oatmeal," she said. "Oh really," I replied, rising to the bait. "And what is our teaching?" " You're for it," she said. "Period." A fterward! was thinking about her comments, wondering if our teachings are as bland as all that. I decided her comments w ere really off the mark. Of course, the Church supports family life. The Church is "for it." But our support views the family in a different more creative way. It is a view of the family as a "family by adoption." What do I mean by this? Let me give two e xamples. A man I know was living through real stress in his marriage. More problems and more pain than he ever anticipated hadpushed him to the wall and he had to answer some basic questions. "Do I want to stay married?
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Focus on family "Do I really want to love my wife and boys, even at the price we are paying?" We talked about it at length and it became clear that the future of his family and marriage depended on human choice. His choice. If he chose to walk out he knew that few were going to blame him. In fact, his friends had advised him to leave. If he decided to stay in his marriage he knew it would mean a conscious letting go of past hurts and a determined effort to work at healing their wounds. Did he want to make that choice? Yes, he decided, he did. In another situation a family/know was presented with an unusual request. A young girl from a very poor family along the CaliforniaMexican border wanted to come north to finish her schooling in a good high school and then learn enough business skills to get a decent office job in her home town. Could my friends take her in for the two-year period she wouldneed? It would mean food, housing and all the care that they would
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give to one of their own children. They decided to ask her to live with them. I think that these two situations illustrate the t wo characteristics that aretypicaloftheCatholic view of the family — human choice and the generosity that makes it possible to be open to others. — We have to choose to make a go of our families, a choice that leads us beyond simply filling roles. — And we open our doors to people in need. In those ways, we make an adoption; we become families "by adoption."
Honoured This view has been honoured throughout the Church's life. Over the centuries we have seen Catholic families extending a welcome to the homeless andhelpless. We still honour this as the Christian ideal. A nd in the Church's marriage preparation programme, as I know from my own work, we stress the Importance of family members making the conscious cho-
ice to love one another. This is an essential ingredient of their family life. Choice. Generosity and openness toward others. I see these as typical of the "family by adoption." They have been hallmarks of the Christian family at its best throughout the life of the Church. This is not a new idea. We find it in the writings of St Paul. He teaches that we are God's children by adoption and co-heirs with Christ to the promise of the kingdom of God. Paul speaks of his converts as his children, and writes how he loves them with a father's love. The Church's tradition of the generous family is reflected in the wedding ceremony itself. The blessing given to the newly married couple at the end of their wedding Mass prays that "you always bear witness to the love of God in this world so that the afflicted and needy will find in you generous friends." This tradition is as needed today as it ever w as. Despite my friend's needling comments about Church views on the family, the Church's view is much b etter than cold oatmeal. It is a view of the family as a chief means for s ocial growth and renewal.
"Home is the place where when you have to go there they have to take you in." That tongue-in-cheek definition comes from D eath of the Hired Man by Robert Frost. S urely the poet's words reflect a basic expectation of what a home should be. Though the saying often draws a chuckle, I take it to mean that home is where we are accepted and loved for ourselves. In its safety, we don't have to prove anything. Father Thomas Lynch expressed another expectation about the home. For him, home is a "secure place" where a person can come to grips with the c reative tension between individuality and the need to relate to others. The representative for family life at the US Catholic C onference in Washington, DC, Father Lynch explained that "in the turmoil and confusion outside the home, it's hard to look inside and see who you are." He sees the home as a place where people "establish their identity." Then, with home a s a firm base, the priest continued, people are equipped to reach beyond themselves to serve the many needs of others. Another of people's e xpectations of a home can be found in old films like Cheaper by the Dozen starring Clifton Webb. A favourite of mine as a child, I realise now that the movie's rollicking account of growing up in a family of 12 children wasn't completely realistic. But, as I remember it, the film presented the family home as a place t hat crackled with energy and zest for life. In the interaction, the family members f elt stimulated and had fun too — and that met some of their expectations of the home. F or some people, home needs to be a place of solitude. A c ollege professor I know routinely finds himself burdened by his commitments to
students, lectures and professional writing. A single person, he expects his home to be an oasis of quiet where he can find the serenity to replenish his creative energies. Since he f requently has house guests, he's learned to retreat to his study for brief periods of quiet which serve to refresh him. H ome for Dolores Leckey is the place where intimacy is possible. She is executive d irector of the US b ishops' Laity Secretariat. Writing in The Ordinary Way: A Family Spirituality, Mrs Leckey remarks that Jesus's meetings with o thers "are almost always characterised by signs of intimacy." S he notes that he dines with others and gives time and energy t o conversation, a means of getting to know others and their concerns. Mrs Leckey also takes up the theme of home as a welcoming place. H ospitality provides us "an opportunity to share the stores of our gifts with others," she says. To illustrate the point, she turns to the story of Abraham's encounter with three strangers in the Old Testament. In the account, Abraham, a wealthy man with servants, goes out of his way to personally attend his guests. In so doing, he gives a good indication of what the demands of hospitality are, Mrs Leckey says. Doorways can serve as symbols of hospitality, Mrs Leckey thinks. "People enter the intimacy of our homes t hrough the doorway," she says. "We pass through the doorway to be alone, to read, to pray in a secret p lace in secret silence." But she is quick to point outthatthedoorway is a two-way street. It opens in but it also opens out again . E choing Father Lynch's comments, she adds that it is importnt for people to k eep "moving from t he privacy of the home to the outside world." There, nourished and strengthened by the home, Mrs Leckeycon tinues, "we ally ourselves with the suffering and need that lie beyond our threshold."
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Home is a place where we are accepted and loved for ourselves. In its safety we don't have to prove anything. The door of the home opens inward for the nourishment and enrichment we gain from family members. But that same door also opens outward and, refreshedby our contact with family and friends, we go outside again to deal with needs in our other world.
O'Rourke is with the Family Life Office in Oakland, Calif. Katharine Bird's article is about the expectations people have of a home. The door to a home opens inward and outward, she writes. And people have expectations about what the home should be within, and what the people of the home should be for others outide who may be in need. Ms Bird is associate editor of the Know Your Faith series.
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Scriptural views of family structure are discussed by Father John J Castelot o f St John's Provincial Seminary in Plymouth, Mic. Structure is necessary in a family, he thinks, but not a structure that leads to demeaning subservience.
Connecting christianity to the ordinary Father Donald Conroy is director of the National Institute for the Family in Washington, DC. In a recent interview, he talked about how families can make the connection between their ordinary tasks in life and their Christianity. Father Conroy explained that a starting point is to examine where they are as individuals and as families in their life journey. This means thinking about their h opes and fears and other urgent questions. The next step, he continued, is to ask the faith question: How does what's happening in one's life "pertain to the faith journey?" Father Conroy said families often are motivated to ask this faith question when they run into a crisis at home. He gave the example of a couple experiencing problems with a rebellious 15-year-old. The couple may be entering a new phase in their lives, the priest indicated, both as individuals and as a family: — The 42 year -old father may be reassessing his career and, appreciating the values of home more, may want to spend increasing amounts of time at home. — The 40-year -old mother, however, with the last child off at school, may have just entered the work force. She is finding new satisfactions outside the home. — The teenager may feel unappreciated a t home and find his peers "more responsive to his anxieties about belonging and his questions of identity" and where his studies are going, Father Conroy explained. With each individual in that picture experiencing the stresses connected with a new phase in life, family relationships can get out of whack," the priest said. Almost without noticing, the family may have drifted into a pattern of each going his or her individual way and using the home mainly as a "refuelling stock." A family faced with a crisis might want to sit down together and look at what's happening in their lives "in light of their Christian values," Father Conroy said. He suggested some questions to help initiate their discussion. —Are we concerned about our relationships a as family.? — Does our behaviour reflect our deepest values? — As parents, are we expressing concern about our child's anxieties, hopes and concerns as a person? — What can we do to help us pull together as a family? The upshot of such a discussion might be that the family will resolve to meet regularly to talk about their feelings and concerns, the priest concluded.
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The 15 -year -old boy him." pushed the back door Jim tightened his jaw answer c losed behind him, and wanted to walked through the kit- back, but instead he chen and up the stairs. slammed his door loudly His mother kept reading and muttered to himself. her the newspaper and the His mother shook k itchen table. Neither head, irritated. But she a cknowledged the pres- decided to let it go and went back to reading her ence of the other. newspaper. Then she saw a bee D oes that incident buzzing over the table. sound familiar? It seems "Jim, you let a bee in," like such an innocent she shouted up the stairs. c onversation about a "I did not," he barked bee. back. He felt annoyed Yet the exchange made and angry without realis- both Jim and his mother f eel badly. Each felt ing why.
attacked. Each responded by erecting defences against the o ther. This, however, interfered with productive communication. The trouble may have started when Jim and his mother didn't greet each other when he entered. They went on with their own activities without a word. A simple "hi" can make the difference between feeling you are t aken -for -granted and feeling accepted. Then there's the statement about the bee. Harmless enough, you think? The fact is, a bee did come in with Jim. That's probably what his mother meant to say. B ut the way she phrased it implied blame, almost as if Jim opened the door and invited the bee to come indeliberately to annoy her. State -
people with love and smile, the pointedfinger, concern for their well- t he sarcastic tone, the slammed door, the lack being. o f greeting, the rigid When the sons of Zebe- posture. dee, James and John, asked Jesus to seat them A married man knows alongside Him in places how his spouse feels just o f honour in heaven, by looking. A mother can Jesus made them aware tell her child's mood by t hat what they were listening to the sounds asking was not His to coming from her room. Statements beginning give. "It is for those to Of course, it's important with "I" don't blame or whom it has been re- t hat we use the right criticise and, at the same served." But He was so words. But how we say t ime, are personal ex- gentle with the disciples those words can make a pressions that help oth- t hat He conveyed this real difference. strong message without ers know you better. Listen to yourself. Ask alienating them. C ommunication with for feedback from family f ami l ies is a tricky It is an example worth members and listen carebusiness. pondering when wethink fully to what they say. The Christian tradition about communication in You may be surprised to hear that what you said a sks us to respond to families. isn't what they heard. others with respect. It asks us to treat others as Some researchers say Be aware of your comthat up to 75 per cent of the unique human becommunication in fami- munication style: What ings they are. lies is non-verbal. It's not you do with your body, B y his treatment of so much the words we your eyes, your voice and others, Jesus provides use that communicate, your words Listen to clues to how to do this. b ut what we do; the yourself and find out Always he responds to glance, the frown, the what others are hearing.
ments that begin with "youThreoften interpreted as accusatory. That's probably why Jim denied he let the bee in. Instead of making an accusatory statement, the mother might have s aid something about how she felt about the bee.
FAMILY IS BASIC HUMAN SOCIETY B y Father John C astelot The family is a basic human society. Now, for a society to attain peace, harmony, security and happiness, it m ust have some structure. Any society— and any family — in which everyone simply "does his or her own thing" all t he time is chaotic, insecure, unhappy and headed for inevitable dissolution. But different cultures have had different family structures. The most u sual has been the patriarchal type, with the father calling the shots. But there have been matriarchal struc-
tures, too, with the mother in charge. The type of fami ly s tructure reflected in the Bible is the patriarchal type. The directions about family life given by New Testament writers, living in t hat sort of culture, were coloured by this model . The biblical families weren't alone in being patriarchal. This was the system t hroughout the world of that time. In fact, the power of the father o ver the fami ly in R oman society was e ven more absolute and demanding than t hat of the Jewish father. Secular writers drew
up what were called "household codes," detailing the rights and duties of members of the household — husband, wife, children and slaves. Usually the rights were limited to the father, the duties to all the others. The authors of the Letters to the Colossians and Ephesians adapted these codes for use in Christian families, transforming them s ignificantly in the process. The father still ran the household described by these early authors, but the various relationships described were seen as occuring "in the Lord," a concept expressed no less than f ive times within the
few short verses of Colossians 3:18-25. In the Lord all are one, all equal and there no l onger is "slave or f reeman, male or female" (Galatians 3:28). The characteristic Christian note is that of mutuality. For Christians it is no longer a matter of fathers having all the rights and the rest all the duties. If wives are urged to "be submissive to" — supportive of — their husbands, husbands are urged to love their wives. And the verb used for love is a special one. It does not denote erotic love, for which they needed no urging, or the love of friendship,
but "agape," unselfish, serving love. For a man to love his wife this way calls for an even greater submission than that urged upon wives. They are to care for them as persons "in the Lord," w ithout any selfinterest. All of this comes very c lose to the modern idea of partnership and sharing in marriage. Similarly, in Ephesians 5 :26, husbands are counseled: "Love your wives as Christ loved the Church." And how did Christ love the Church? He "gave Himself up for her." In fact, the author adds, the husband-wife union is a "sign" of the
union between Christ and His Church. This is a union based not on domination and cringing subservience but on mutual self -giving love. Structure there must be, but not a demeaning one. In like manner, while children are directed to obey their parents, the latter are counselled not to crush their spirits and stifle their individuality. We read, "Fathers, do not anger your children," (Ephesians 6:4) and "Fathers, do not nag your children lest they lose heart." Colossians 3:21. Those are principles drawn from Scripture for secure, contented, happy families.
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The new Code of Canon Law, or laws of the Church, comes into effect on November 27. In this article reproduced from the English Catholic publication The Tablet, a canon lawyer, Daniel Shanahan, examines the effect of the new laws on the administration of the Church.
New code of be effective
When Pope John XXIII announced that he had decided to revise the 1918 Code of Canon Law, a number of canonists, those discreet backroom boys of the Vatican and diocesan offices, reacted with disbelief.
They had taken the code to be as everlasting as the Latin Mass and the Bible. But alter the council was over, in 1966 work duly began in earnest, and not in open synod but in commissions. News of progress was announced in communications — in Latin - and eventually some draft proposals were published. The work was finally completed in 1982, and presented to a full commission of cardinals for approval. It was then examined by the pope himself, who made certain alterations and additions. Promulgated on January 25, 1983, nearly 25 y ears after Pope John's bombshell of 1959, it comes into force on the first Sunday of Advent this year, November 27. There seems to be little doubt that Pope John found canon law irksome when he was nuncio far away from Rome in Bulgaria and Turkey for 20 years and in troubled postwar France, and considered the canon lawyers as tiresome impediments to pastoral work. Perhaps he envisaged t hat the new code should be a sort of collection of general rules for the universal Church, with the local churches left to fill in the details.
''?N‘40P11" In that case, he would not be too happy with the new code, but at least the general thrust of his Vatican Council has been translated into practical rules for action. The new code no longer leaves the pope isolated as supreme pontiff o f the universal Church, assisted and guided by cardinals and the Vatican civil service. No longer does he have the same "direct, immediate and truly episcopal" power in every diocese as the local bishop (poor Dollinger!), but rather a sort of oversight in principle, leaving to the local bishop the direct and immediate control over his own diocese. Hence it should be more clearly understood than it sometimes is that the pope's journeys round the world reinforce rather than diminish or overshadow the authority of the local bishops. Moreover, after fierce debate, Vatican II
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finally recognised the united body of bishops throughout the world as being, with the pope, the subject ofsupremeanduniversal power over the universal Church. This meant a major shift in our understanding, and it is now made part of the "hierarchical constitution of the Church" in the new code. Bishops, as successors of the apostles, can exercise their power in a general council of the whole Church, which the pope alone can call and over which he presides, and also, provided he approves, t hrough the united
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voice of all of them scattered throughout the world. There is also the Synod of Bishops, consisting of elected representatives, who meet when and where the pope d ecides to discuss t opics which he suggests. In its meetings so far, the synod sometimes gives the unfortunate impression that the pope h as decided the answers before the bishops have had a c hance to express their views: but no doubt there is room for growth in this new field of consultation. W here each national church is concerned,
the new code requires a meeting of the bishops of the nation to discuss, debate and decide the policies of their region. This is called a council or a synod, a most ancient institution. They were meant to take place at least every 20 years, to update the Church in a changing world, but the last ones held in England were the Westminster synods of 1854 and 1872. The new rule leaves it up to the local bishops to decide when to call them. However, if national s ynods have fallen into disuse, the English bishops have had
regular biannualmeetings for over 100 years: but these "bishops' meetings" had no legislative power. Their function was only to agree on a united p olicy which they might follow — hardly the way to give strong a nd decisive leadership. This procedure is now greatly strengthened by a new body, called the episcopal conference, which in many cases can and must make binding decisions, suited to local circumstance: the conference can also make other decisions for the whole region where there is a two-thirds
majority and the pope approves, which is at least some form of devolution. The new Code contains no provision for a national pastoral congress, such as was held in England in 1980, but at the same time such assemblies are forbidden not outright. In any case, the English and Welsh bishops have now arranged satisfactory consultation with their priests, both secular and regular, and with their laity. At the level of the local diocese, rules are now to he made by a diocesan synod, abiding by
the terms of the code and by the by-laws of the national synod or t he conference of bishops. Formerly this was meant t o be held at least every 10 years, but in fact none has been held in England for 30 years, and in many dioceses never. The new rule is that the local bishop will call a diocesan synod when, in consultation with his council of priests, he judges it opportune. Whereas the members of the national synod are all bishops, in the diocesan synod there will he both clergy and laity, as represen-
canon law to from Nov 27 tatives of the council of priests and of the pastoral council. Finally, at parish level, finance committees are to be instituted to help in the administration of the goods of the parish, bound by the general rule that all administrators of money given by the faithful are obliged to give an account of it. And there will also have to be a pastoral council in the parish, if it is diocesan policy, to share responsibility for pastoral care. So Vatican II is now enshrined in the book of laws of the Church. A nother new principle which it embodies is that "there is a genuine equality of dignity and action among all Christ's faithful," so that all have the duty to spread the message of the Gospel, to permeate society with t heir Christian opinions. As for the laity, they have come a long way from the days when canon law only recognised "their right to Christian burial and their duty to contribute to the support of their pastors." Now the Code accepts that they have "the right, and at times the duty" to express their opinions and their needs to their bishops and priests.
Indeed, the whole book gives an exciting and exhilarating view of the Church in the year 2000: flexible, adaptable, open to the movement of the Spirit. No longer does the code simplyembodyalegalistic set of rules — mostly prohibitions. What we have instead is a handbook for every t hinking Catholic Christian. Not only every library and institution should have a copy of the new code, but also every presbytery and even every home. The English translation of the new Code of Canon Law makes it fully available, for the first time, to all the People of God. No longer is the Church considered to be the clergy, with the laity merely associate members. It was reported of Ronald K nox that he had never been to Rome because, while he was proud to be on the ship of Peter, he had no wish to visit the engine room. Now, with a workshop manual in hand,anybody can find his way around the engine room. The old code declared uncompromisingly that by God's ordinance the clergy were distinct from the laity,
ruling over them and providing them with divine worship. There were 380 canons on the rights and duties of the clergy; the laity got only two. Not any more, for now the laity are partners in mission with the clergy. In line with the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (chapter 4, The Laity) and The Church in the Modern World of Vatican II, t he new code now declares that "since all lay people, like all Christ's faithful, are deputed to the apostolate by baptism and confirmation, they.. .have the right, whether as individuals or in associations, to strive that the message of salvation may be known and accepted by all people throughout the world" (canon 225). It is accepted that the laity may teach theology, provided they are s uitably qualified and, of course, provided that they have a "mandate" from lawful ecclesiastical authority (canon 229) — whatever that may mean. Many Catholics reading this new code will see that canon 1 states that "the canons of this code concern only t he Latin Church" and will pass on unaware that there is an echo here of the battle that took place over the Lex Fundamentals, a projected basic law which would have attempted to enshrine the whole theology of the Church as contained in Vatican II. Briefly, canon 1 is the requiem for that grandiose idea. It was thought that there could be a basic law for the whole of Christendom in communion with Rome, both West and East, and that this could then diverge into different c odes for the West ( the Latin Church) and for the East (the Greek Catholics, Ukrainians, Maronites and Uniates).
,,r14 The first draft of this Lex Fundamentalis was neither a legal document nor good theology and it sank like a lead balloon. No amount of pruning could make it acceptable, possibly because it was so alien to the tradition of the Eastern churches and seemed like another attempt by the Latins t o make a takeover bid. The first section of the new code, dealing w ith the General Rules of Law, contains the principles of legislation and of
interpretation, the maxims of law —ringing bells of memory in long-forgotten areas of legal history and philosophy. The code makes the bold s tatement: "A law comes into being when it is promulgated" (canon 7). But everybody knows t hat if the subjects choose to ignore it, a law cannot easily be enforced. The historian will remark that half of Gratians's maxim, that the law must also be "confirmed by the acceptance of the subjects", has been left out. The Church has anyway little power of enforcement.
The new code does not define the binding force of its laws, nor does it state whether any law binds under pain of grave sin, nor does it decide what must be done with the recalcitrant. No doubt ecclesiastical penalties could be applied, but surely it will be for the moral theologian to tell us w hen disobedience b ecomes sinful or excusable. The maxim "Quod omnes tangit" — "that which affects all as individuals must be approved by all" — is now almost lost, tucked away in can on 119, but it is the dynamite t hat originated all democracy. This is diametrically opposed to the old principle of Roman law, that "what pleases the prince, has the force of law" — easily adapted into "what pleases the pope has the force of the law". The danger of that principle can be seen from the fact that it was w holeheartedly accepted by Henry VIII and now by the Kremlin. Underline canon 119, 3: you may need to refer to it again. Church legislators, like all others, want people t o obey their laws, and do not want their neat schemes upset by subjects who claim longstanding rights and customs. So we find (canon 5) that "universal or particular customs which have been in effect until now are completely suppressed...". In line with this we may note that canon 284 states that episcopal conferences should cast a critical eye on the variety of clerical attire that has brightened up the appearance of the younger priests. The new code gives the local bishop greater of p owers dispensation. In the lifetime of some of
us, letters to Australia used to take three weeks to get back, so local bishops asked for powers of dispensation which were only grudgingly granted in the old code: "Nobody can dispense, except the pope, without special permission, or in cases where it is difficult to contact t he Holy See and where there is danger in delay and where the Holy See is accustomed to grant such dispensations." But now the local bishop can grant the dispensation provided simply that it is "one which the authority is accustomed to grant" (canon 14). Although the telephone a nd telex have speeded up communications, devolution has also played a part in bringing about this change. In a section on "The Sanctifying Mission of the Church," there is a brave and largely successful attempt to change the orientation of the laws on baptism and marriage. For the new code, it is n ot a question so much of rules and regulations, but rather of truly pastoral opportunities, and the task is to ensure that parents of children are suitably instructed on the meaning of these sacraments and t he obligations attached to them. One suspects that this section was prepared by Europeans. for in A frica the huge numbers who desire
Christian baptism may not get the individual attention which is desirable in western E urope where the birth rate is low. With the veritable explosion of annulments of marriage granted by Church courts in recent years, there will be many wanting to look at the procedure of the tribunals (canon 1671 to 1707). They will not find this section too easy to follow, as trial by inquisition, with written evidence, is so alien to common law procedure. In any case, the revolution in practice which has taken place is not due to changes in the procedural law, but to the simple practical step by which local tribunals have been making available to each other the sentences they have arrived 'at, so that there are volumes of precedents to guide those priests deputed to pass judgment on such cases. More important than the procedure of the Church courts is the definition of marriage in canon 1055. It is described as a covenant, establishing a partnership in and for the whole of life: no longer is it seen as a contract, governed by all the rules of contracts in general. The Church courts are nowadays much more interested in the consent or the covenant that establishes — or does not establish — a true partnership. The section on matrimon-
The whole of the October issue of The Australian Catholic Record is devoted to a commentary of the new Code of Canon Law. The Australian Catholic Record is available from The Manager, The Australian Catholic Record, St Patrick's College, Manly 2095, NSW. The periodical is issued quarterly and the annual subscription, which should be sent to the above address, is $15. The publication deals with the theological issues of concern to the Australian Church and it is the only Catholic theological journal managed and produced by the Australian diocesan clergy. For further information contact Monsignor I. Nestor at the Catholic Education Commission.
ial consent (canons 1095 to 1103) is the substantive law on w hich the Church courts have been operating and will continue to do so. Where the sacrament of C onfession is concerned, the conclusion (Canon 961, 2) that follows the rules governing the practice of general absolution should be noted: "It is for the diocesan bishop to judge whether t he conditoins required are present: mindful of the criteria agreed with the other members of theepiscopal conference, he can determine the cases of such necessity". The constant changes that have been made in the rules about Mass and Holy Communion are now listed in some sort of order for all and sundry to consult: rules about fasting before Communion — not even
an hour is now required for the elderly and those suffering from some illness; the rule that anyone may receive Communion at any Mass he attends on the same day; the rules for lay Ministers of Communion. It is good to see this t angle of recent decrees tidied up and set down in good order. I am pleased that the section on ecclesiastical penalties is much reduced, clearing up a veritable minefield, though most of its mines — but not all — were defused long ago as a result of old age. It is sad, however, that the other omission, t hat has helped to reduce the number of canons from 2414 to 1752, is that of the whole section on beatifications and canonisations — not, alas. that most of us ever had recourse to it.
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Interested parents suggestions for future A very even men's team on answered and a wonderful URGENTLY Eastcott Jack REshould ring the school on directions. favour granted. Marie. QUIRED: Baby clothes will find a the little going 328 6860 committee would The 3 41 3148 for further Rodrigues. and furniture, in particuwelcome submissions tougher. details. by BRYAN KUKURA lar napkins, cots and Damien Messer should from interested groups or Most Sacred Heart of HOUSEKEEPER part- individuals who wish to have prams. We have very Jesus, may your name be some interesting time for professional c omment on past or urgent need of a cot for praised and glorified, matches as No. 1. gent, Manning. Reply a young mother who has throughout the world, present activities, or to CASH FOR OLD His brothers, Jonathan Box CF this office. a sick baby. Donations make suggestions for now and forever. 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PILGRIM STATUE MASS
TENNIS with Greg Pearce
Youth Forum
Children's Day A time to celebrate for people of all nations Australia is a multicul- rated classrooms, visited by tural society — that's a over 200 parents. Parents fact! To that end, the joined in an international cuisine in various classstaff and students of rooms. AssumpOur Lady's A presentation about the tion School, Dianella country studied, (including set about to research singing national songs) folthe nationalities that lowed from each class. National folk-dances were make up our society.
Over a period of several performed by all the childweeks each class took a par- ren. ticular country, made a The project was a tremenddetailed study of the cli- ous effort by staff and stumate, the people, the land- dents and while the cost of form, food, clothing, cultu- mounting the programme ral tradition and the many was approximately $900 the other elements that are part support of the school parof a nation's background. ents and friends committee The study culminated in a was integral in underwritcelebration of Universal ing any expenses. A grant of Children's Day on October $400 from the WA Multicul26. The celebration com- tural Advisory Committee menced with a childrens assisted in the purchase of liturgy led by Father P. book resources, art and NIh. O'Mara, parish priest. The craft materials and audio Cathy Baker, Anita Strickland, Helen Applebee, Esther Portolan (obscured), Elda colour and spirit of the visual aids. liturgy flowed into the decoJOHN WILLETT Panozzo and Theresa Jozwicki admire Greek pottery in Year 1.
Special year for young people Our lives seem filled with special days, weeks and even years — Remembrance Day, One World Week and Holy years, just to mention a few. Of all the year-long
events, the Year of the Disabled in 1981 is best remembered — having had significant impact in Catholic circles. Many parishes have since improved facilities
for the disabled as a result. A special year to come is 1985, and I hope this will also have significant impact. The year has been declared by the United
Nations as International Youth Year. For those wondering if they will still be "youngenough — the IN guidelines on the classification of "youth- is 12-25 years.
Catholic Youth Council
1983 "YOUTH RALLY
The theme of the yearlong celebration will be three-fold.. participation development and peace. Participation is about having a say and accepting responsibility in one's. family, school, work, community and international forum. Development concerns creating conditions which ensure that young people achieve their full potential. To improve the share that young people in developing countries have in the world's resources. Youth International Year (IYY) provides a chance for everyone to make a very specific contribution to our world and I believe it is a unique opportunity for young people to have their say and show their true colours.
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We need your help The Camp Site Committee of the Catholic Youth Council has worked for the last three years to establish a new Youth Formation Centre. After the failure of Bedfordale the morale was exceedingly low, but unnecessarily so, as the property of Eagle's Nest at Gidgegannup was soon found and the purchase sanctioned by His Grace, the Archbishop. Eagle's Nest, situated 15kms from Midland in O'Brien Road. has accommodated more than 600 young people in the last 12 months while the project has been on the drawing board. This has now been finalised and early in 1984 the modifications and building of the new Seminar Hall will be completed. I appeal to readers who are interested in the Christian education programmes of today's young people, who will be tomorrow's leaders in the community, to support this worthwhile endeavour. Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible and cheques should be made payable to Catholic Charities and sent to me care of PO Box 194, North Perth, 6006. A CARETAKER (ideal for a married couple) for day to day maintenance duties will be required early in 1984. A car driver is essential. A one-bedroom rent-free cottage will be available and a negotiable stipend. For further information please write to me at 107 Fifth Avenue, Mt Lawley, 6050. Or telephone Father Jegorow on 328 9878. Position open until November 30. Sheila Mazzella Secretary, Camp Site Committee
INTERNATIONAL Several years ago, we all knew that there were disabled people in the world, but I would say today. many more have a better appreciation of disabled persons, and there is a strengthening rapport on all levels. The same sort of thing can happen with IYY. Anyone interested in finding out more, and more importantly, interested in working towards an appropriate response to IYY should contact Miss Julia Pickering on 328 8136, or write c/- PO Box 194 North Perth 6006.
YOUTH YEAR I am interested in supporting Eagle's Nest Youth Formation Centre. Please find enclosed cheque made payable to Catholic Charities of $ NAME ADDRESS TEL. NO. Camp Site Secretary, P.O. Box 194, North Perth, 6006
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Martha finds the truth Martha was excited. A nd anxious. Her friend Jesus was coming for dinner. She was eager to see him but she worried about having everything just right. Martha's sister, Mary, also looked forward to seeing Jesus. Sheplanned to help Martha but she didn't think much about it. .Martha worked and worried, dusting, cleaning, cooking. By the time Jesus came, she was already upset. She t hought of so many things she wanted to do so that Jesus would enjoy His stay with them. Martha stopped her work just long enough to welcome Jesus. Then she disappeared back into the kitchen. Mary made Jesus feel at home. She invited Him to sit in a comfortable chair in the living room. She sat down on thefloor in front of Jesus. She loved to talk to Jesus. Mary talked about herself and her life. She asked Jesus many questions. She listened carefully to His teachings. Jesus loved to listen to an and talk with her. He shared with her His deepest feelings about life and about God. He told Mary many things Martha was upset that Mary did not help her prepare the meal for Jesus. But Mary continued to sit and talk with that helped her better their guest. Finally Martha said to Jesus, "Lord don't You care that my sister has left me to do all the work by understand her own life. myself?" Mary way so happy
1 4 4 its, 1 4 4 Its. 1ii Its, I 4 4 Its I 4 4 Its. I A n Eye Full Of Soot, by up on to the mantle shelf to the loom, the old woman From his reading of the Nan Hunt, published by and cling there until the becomes concerned and journals, Bryce conceived peeps into the room. There the idea of this very differloco rocked through. Collins, $9.95. Who can forget the amaz- One night. as a speedy she sees that Otsuru really ent approach to the subject ing happenings at the Express thundered out of is the white crane and the which is taught to every house of Mrs Millie Mack, the fireplace. Tom fell from silk is woven from her Australian child but rarely with such immediacy and s o vividly recorded in his perch into the coal feathers. Whistle Up The Chimney. tender. The train, with Now the spell is broken excitement. You will surely remember Tom aboard, swept down and Otsuru can no longer Using passages from t hat, as Mrs Mack sat the hall and out into the keep her human form. As Cook's own journal inshe flies away she calls terspersed with his own knitting and watching the night. trains rushing out of her What befell Tom before "Remember me, remember comments and explanafireplace, she was not he got home again to Mrs me." tions, Bryce has drawn a Mack's house and a good Painted in the Japanese fascinating picture of life alone. Crouched beside her, dinner shouldn't happen to manner, the illustrations on board the Endeavour, for this poignant tale are as well as the exploration looking increasingly ner- a dog. vous, was Mrs Mack's cat. This is one the kids will sheer delight. that took place on exotic We now know the cat's adore and read over and Artist Junko Morimoto shores. c omes from over Katano in again. name is Tom Bola and An Cook was very much a Eye Full Of Soot And An Craig Smith's marvellous- Japan. Now a resident of man concerned with the Mosman, Sydney, ly funny Moripictures compleEar Full Of Steam is his moto gives classes in her day-to-day running of his story — a catalogue of ment the story perfectly. technique and is an exciting ship and the well-being of unexpected adventures The White Crane, by discovery as an illustrator. his crew. Bryce has compleand toothsome thoughts to Junk° Morimoto, pubH er artistic gifts also mented this characteristic comfort an empty tummy. include sculpture, photo- with his illustrations in pen Tom was getting fed up lished by Collins, $9.95. and ink. Whilst flora, with dodging trains in his This artistic and quite graphy and screen printing fauna and foreign people own sitting room. At the beautiful picture book and her work is already are included in the drawfirst hint of a whistle up brings a traditional Japa- exhibited in Australia. ings, Bryce has concentratthe chimney he would leap nese fairytale to Australian The White Crane is an ed mainly on the ship, its unusually lovely picture children. trappings, equipment and The story is a heartwarm- book for 4-8 year olds. BIRTHDAYS t he crew and their ing one of generosity and Happy birthday to Joanne kindness being rewarded. The Sketchbook OfHMS activities. Carroll, Hyden; Chris- The pictures will introduce Endeavour, by Graham The Journal Of HMS topher Cassidy, Riverton; young readers to another Bryce, published by Col- Endeavour is a thoroughly informative and lively John Durham, Collie; Ben art form. lins, $12.95. book for children which Franz, Gooseberry Hill; The White Crane tells the Damian Hall, Gosnells; story of a poor, elderly This is a pictorial history will kindle real interest in Jodie Naisbitt, Corrigin; couple who adopt a beau- for 7 to 12 year olds and their history and their Mark Taylor, Balga; David tiful young girl soon after it's a greaty pity that country, as well as in the Van Vugt, Padbury; the old man has rescued a history can't always be ships of the day. Andrew Hyman, Karri- white crane from certain presented in this vividly Graham Bryce, who is nyup; Vanessa Kiss, Mor- death in the snow. They evocative style. head of the Graphics Deley; Frederick Leaf, Bun- name the girl Otsuru after When author/ artist Gra- partment at the Randwick bury; Charmain Meyer, the bird, and generously ham Bryce was commissi- Technical College, has a Girrawheen; Alicia Coch- share their meagre meals oned to paint Captain t remendous interest in rane, Busselton; Vincent and tiny house with her. In Cook for Cook's Bicente- s ailing boats — a fact Kinnane, Marangaroo; return, she locks herself nary, he spent a long time which will come as no Karen Whitton, Noranda; away and weaves the finest researching Cook's life surprise to everyone who David Natta, Kelmscott; silk cloth for her new and, inevitably, his journals sees this book. His next Kevin Stables, Cooloon- parents to sell. of the voyage of HMS book is The Journal Of gup; Jane Ryan. But the next time she goes Endeavour. Captain Charles Sturt.
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being with Jesus, that she forgot all about helping Martha. But Martha did not forget that Mary was not helping her. .Martha was upset with all the work she felt she had to do — and do alone. She finally came from the kitchen and said to Jesus, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself" Tell her to help me!" Mary said nothing. She felt a little guilty for not helping Martha but she did not want to leave Jesus. Martha just stood there waiting for an answer. She expected Jesus to tell Mary to go with her into the kitchen and help prepare dinner. But Jesus's answer was not what she expected. "Martha, Martha," Jesus said to the harried woman. "You are worried and upset over so many things." Jesus knew that Martha tended to do too much and worry herself over too many details. "Only one thing is important," Jesus said. He did not explain what the one thing was but Mary knew. She knew that for her it was very important to listen to God's word in her life. Mary believed Jesus spoke God's word. For her the most important thing she could do was
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listen to Jesus and be open to His teachings. So she made no move to get up and help Martha. Jesus then told Martha, "Mary has chosen the right thing. It will not be taken from her." 'Martha did not understand what Jesus meant. She felt hurt and went back to the kitchen to continue cooking. Mary sympathised with her sister, but continued to sit on the floor by Jesus's feet and listen to His words.
Winners Congratulations to this week's winners, Kathleen McLaughlin, of Boulder and Timothy Merks, of K algoorlie. Don't forget we have beautiful books to gi‘e away, courtesy of William Collins, to members who enter our weekly pui/le and colouring-in segments.
MEMBERS Welcome to our new members: Joanne Kiely, N arembeen; Timothy Merks, Kalgoorlie; Carissa Finlay. Kewdale; Kathryn N eN i l le. Wil letton; M athew Willson. Singleton; Felicity Mitchell. R ossmoyne: Marcus Neville, Willetton.
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The Catholic Pastor- Scriptures as they are read. refrain. Praise God is the al Institute has pre- Families will find great meaning and theme of this pared Year Book 'A' benefit by preparing before greeting of a Gospel. If it hand for the Sunday Euch- is not sung it can be R eflections —Discusarist, reading this book omitted. sions on the Three will help in this situation All these elements are S unday Readings. and give some ideas and noted in the Catholic This book offers mate- direction for hearing the Pastoral Institute Book and can be used therefore rial for reflection, readings with fruit. t o help prayer and discussion and prayer discussion. a ccording to the The Structure Sister Elizabeth Curran and Father Joseph Sobb review the CPI Current Reflection Book. themes of the Word Usually there are three Some Sundays may have feast day celebrations in of God for each Sun- readings for each Sunday, place of the "ordinary day, starting from the the first chosen from the season". These have been First Sunday of Ad- Old Testament (the Scrip- included also. vent, November 27, tures of Jesus' own expe- G od's People Called rience), the second from 1983. Together — When we the New Testament letters, A t the end of 1982, first and the third from the gather at the Sunday Euchvolume (for year C) was Gospels. The first reading arist, we do so because support of his Papal in the minds of those following year, a plan published. This replaced a is intended to relate in God has called us. In His Great Britain and f or the building of St States, the pope was Lonthe at worked who series of booklets which some way to the Gospel Word, Jesus Himself, we the Holy See; by Patrick's College, Mayexpected to exert his don Foreign Office. had begun in 1979. The reading, but this is some- are united with Him and Matthias Busech- nooth — a college for authority over the biDr Buschkuhl summakuhl; Irish Academic t he education of priests one-volume work is ar- times far from obvious! In with one another. shops of Ireland remindrises it neatly when he ranged to be used during any case this reading has This book provides pray- Press; £1117.50. says: "Britain intended ing them of their duty — received the royal the whole of the liturgical something to say in itself ers, themes, discussion Reviewed by Neville c onsent. Yet at the t o govern Ireland t o preserve law and year and can be kept for for it is part of the long points, reflection aids for Bra ybrooke. order. through Rome." same time as the British use when the lectionary history of God's revelation understanding and enrichDr Buschkuhl's book In effect this meant Here is a study — the Government, under Pitt cycle comes round again. and response. ment. It has been used in f irst of its kind — of t he Younger, declared seeing that papal pres- i s objective and wellDemandfor the book has The second reading is many ways — as a private Anglo-Papal relations its intention to set up sures were constantly documented. No public already been fairly high, unconnected with the and personal preparation, from the defeat of the t his col lege, so the brought to bear on the library should be witht hough it seems more others and follows its own a s a common sharing Stuarts at the battle of government informed Irish clergy, who in turn out a copy. It is a pity, popular outside Western p attern of continuous source-book: some priests Culloden in 1746 until His Holiness the Pope applied these pressures though, that a publishAustralia.' to their congregations. ing firm calling itself e xtracts from Paul and use it for homily prepara- t he cessation of the t hat it was their intenThe Second Vatican Coun- other letters. This year, tion. Exact references to pope's temporal powers tion, as far as possible, B ehind the scenes, t he Irish Academic cil (1963-1965) emphasised 1 983 1984, the Gospel the biblical texts are given, in Italy in 1870. During t o protect the Papal nine times out of ten, Press should have althe "paramount impor- readings are taken from so a bible or Sunday Mass- the period covered the S tates. Henceforth the British government lowed terms like "Catance" of the Scriptures in Matthew. This Gospel is book with readings is question of the Papal Rome's "Temporality" had an indirect say in tholic", "Protestant", the celebration of the the "catechetics" Gospel. It necessary. Irish episcopal appoint- t o be printed without a S tates was one that and the future of Ireland liturgy. This book takes up presents an ordered and Sister Elizabeth Curran engaged the attention became linked issues ments. In return for capital letter. that theme and provides developingseriesofinstruc- FMM a veteran of many of many British and • some material for every tions on what life in the mission fields is the editor European statesmen. element of the "Liturgy of Christian Community and principal architect of Ode Russell — later to NATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY the Word." means and involves. It is the book. Mrs Margaret be British ambassador PROUDLY PRESENTS s tructured around a Wilcox who is a lecturer in to Bismark's new Reich by Pastoral Catholic he t THE S'. ".",'ER 7..`c --4.7 SEVENTEENTH DOLL OF THE AUTHOR The Assembly — was one of the most number of "sermons" of the in shared influential diplomats RAY LAWLER'S W hen we assemble to Jesus. Between the first Institute writing of this book, as did "en poste" in Rome celebrate the Eucharist on and second reading there Father Joseph Sobb, Si during the 1860's. In S unday, we are people is placed a prayer of ret he Director of the the course of one letter a usually is This sponse. c alled. From the depths of Institute. a that he sent back, he His love, God has brought psalm or canticle with $3.50. It remarks that "Temporcosts 'A' Book ought really which refrain us forth, called each of us into existence. He con- to be sung since it is meant may be collected between ality", as he calls it, is 4.30pm or or- a millstone round the tinues to call each of us to to unify the congregation's 8.30am to $1.10 in Church's neck; he also (postage dered upon reflection meditative Himself, throughout our WA) from the Catholic adds that the sooner lives. That call is heard in hearing the Word. of West- the Church is freed of a special way in the Scrip- Before the Gospel reading Pastoral Institute Ruislip it, the sooner she will 52 Australia, ern acclamation. an omes c tures — the Record of God's revelation to His Except in Lent, this makes S t, Leederville, 6007. be able to give more 381 5100. attention to her spiritual people throughout history, use of "Alleluia" as a Telephone m ission, which is and the record, too, of our where the true role lies. response. It is an invitation Disraeli in his novel A POWERRA STAGE PRODUCTION OF THE and challenge, as well as "Lothair". which apCONTROVERSY SURROUNDING THE a hope and strength as we peared at the end of the journey towards God. OF THOMAS A BECKETS TOMB DISCOVERY decade, puts forward a The Church needs men by AUBREY MELLOR Directed similar view: "His Holiand women of faith who SYDNEY'S NIMROD THEATRE FROM DIRECTOR GUEST ness should content h ear the Word of God STARRING jourand centres process, anthe with himself attentively, obediently and S UNSET YEARS JAMES BEATTIE and NEVILLE TEEDE nals attached to them. cient city, and, in posgenerously. Therefore, it is By Nicolas Zernov. with BILL McCLUSKEY, DUDLEY HOGARTH He found time to write session of St Peter's good to be able to come F ellowship of St JANE GELHAAR and PETER MORRIS valuable and the Vatican, leave t ogether to the Table of the Alban and St Sergius, numerous and articles, on the rest of Rome to the and books, Lord, to be nourished on 3.50 pounds stg. Russia, its Church, and on vulgar cares and munHis Word and fed by His at the dane anxieties of the Body and Blood given for Dr Zernov, an Orthodox Christian union, and lecturing on transient generation." us. By preparing ourselves lay scholar, died in 1980. same time all over the How the abandonment beforehand, we reap even This book is largely biogra- these themes world. of "Temporality" was greater fruit from our phical, but concentrates on The intrinsic value of brought about is one of celebration. his thoughts and his life BOOKINGS 325 3500 book is Zernov's the main subjects disthis M any Catholics who work in the ecumenical on ideas of expression Matthias Dr by cussed regularly attend the Sun- field.st relations Buschkuhl in "Great day Eucharist are feeling The sub-title is A Rus- Orthodoxy, the and Britain and the Holy Church that between the need for a more pro- sian Pilgrim in the West, Anglicans, and also, See". Closely l inked found encounter with the and that is what he was the AND b iblical Word of God. from the time he was between Orthodoxy and with the subject, too, (In conjunction with W.A. Academy of Performing Arts) period same the Catholicism. during Individuals and groups are forced to emigrate from T.S. Elliot's His comments are often is Britain's relationship seeking ways of becoming Russia in 1921. his in illuminating but wry, Ireland. with more familiar with the He went to Britain via By the time George III Scriptures, more open to Yugoslavia and by 1947 he last work. Here is a picture God's invitation that they was elected lecturer in of an Orthodox anddevout came to the throne in are discovering and more Eastern Orthodox culture layman with a breadth of 1 760, Irish Catholics e ager to share and deepen in the University of vision. There has been no r egarded the English one like him living in our king as their sovereign. t hese experiences. Often Oxford. midst. In 1793 the Catholic n the years between he t he Sunday celebration is I (Reviewed by Graham bishops of Ireland presbeset with difficulties and had worked tenaciously in distractions which hinder many kinds of ecumenical Jenkins in The Catholic ented an address of ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• •••• • l oyalty, and, in the the full appreciation of the endeavour, founding in the Herald.) 15 The Record, November 18 — 24, 1983
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WHAT'S ON VIG MEETING The Visually Impaired Group meets every third Monday of the month i.e. November 21 at Emmanuel Centre (25 Windsor St, East Perth) at 10.30am-12 noon. Transport is available (contact Debbie 328 8113). The group has as its aim social and spiritual enrichment. As most people who could benefit by this meeting would be unable to read this notice, we ask that you spread the word among visually impaired and blind people that you know. Further information 328 8278. C ENTENARY The Sisters of Mercy will commemorate their 100 years in Bunbury at the St Joseph's school on November 26th. A t 10 am there will be morning tea in the Parish House followed by Mass in the cathedral at 11 am. The sisters want the word to be spread so that as many past pupils as possible and others interested will attend.
PICNIC All parishioners of St Jerome's, Spearwood, are invited to the family Christmas picnic on December 4 at Manning Reserve off Offiey Road, Hamilton Hill. The barbecues will be lit at 11.30am. Father Christmas will arrive at 1.45pm and the raffle will be drawn at 2.30pm. Bring your own eats, drinks and gear. Families together make the parish family. JUBILARIANS A special invitation is issued to all priests from Perth to join their bishops at the annual Jubilarians' Dinner at the Royal Fremantle Golf Club on Monday, November 28, at 6.30pm for 7pm dinner. Cover charge is $15 and the seminarians from St Charles's will be the special guests. For the golfers, a match is arranged for 12.30pm. Eats will be provided by Father Ned Donovan at noon PREGNANCY HELP Pregnancy Help is extending its service to include a more comprehensive home and hospital visiting programme and intends to run a short t raining course for volunteers in November. Anyone interested in this valuable work is asked to contact Pregnancy H elp on 322 5655 or write to 7 Howard Street, Perth, so that they can be included in the course. T V MASS Dates and times for Channel 9's TV presentation of Mass For You at Home are as follows. Nov 20, 7.30am; Nov 27, 9am; Dec 4, 7.30am; Dec 11, 6.30am; Dec 18, 7.30am; Dec 25, 8.30am; Jan 1, 7.30am; Jan 8, 7.20am; Jan 15, 8 am; Jan 22, 7.20am; Jan 29, 7.30am.
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The Sisters of Nazareth will hold a special afternoon from 1pm to 5pm at Hilton on December 4 for girls of 17 and over who may be interested in finding out more about the religious life. Further information may be obtained by ringing Mother Clement Mary on 337 1101.
La Salle College, Midland, were hosts to Mundaring, Midvale, Midland, Lock ridge, Bassendean and Bayswater primary schools at an All Saints' Day Mass. In all, a total of 1600 students from the regional schools joined in a Mass to honour the aged in their cornmunity. Bishop Healy concelebrated Mass with college chaplain, Father Alban, Aldous, Geoff Father R AAF chaplain and parish priest from Bullsbrook, and Father Laurence Murphy of the Salvatorian community Greenmount and priests'
A day at La Salle representative on the La Salle College board. Honoured guests were the residents from St Vincent's Hospital, Guildford and Mr T. Brady of the Midland Pensioners' League, who represented the elderly in the community. Mr Brady was also a reader for the occasion. Several sisters of St Joseph who have .*tired from full time teaching were also present, recalling La Salle's links with their order. The Offertory gifts were thoughtfully chosen, to
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WA Catholic Tennis A ssociation chaplain, Father John Dwyer, with the winner of the association's quest, Karen Bowen, the Queens Park entrant.
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The secular Franciscan Order at Geraldton was officially made a fraternity last Sunday. For the past five years it has been part of the Perth fraternity. The members were visited for the occasion by their spiritual assistant, Father Alban Mitchell, OFM, from the Midlai..; friary, and the regional prefect, Aileen Poli. Saturday was spent as a day of recollection and on Sunday morning the Mass celebrated had incorporated in it the ceremony of establishing a new fraternity and the reception of two novices into the order. Archbishop Foley, who was accompanied by Father Pocock, was congratulated on his elevation, and his congratulations and words of encouragement were appreciated by the new fraternity. The barbecue lunch became a farewell for Father Alban, who has been posted to Singapore. — by JULIE MARSDEN
remind us of the lives of the saints and symbols of the contribution the aged in community have our made. A bible and megaphone to recall St Paul and the four evangelists who spread the Gospel to all nations. An olive branch, sign of peace to a troubled world and those who gave their lives for the cause of peace Bread and wine, the sign by which Jesus asked us to remember Him. Students of St Michael's school, Bassendean, performed a Liturgical dance in thanksgiving at the conclusion of the sung Mass. Father Alban in his homily spoke of saints as being those people who spend their lives wiping away others' tears --- Mother Theresa of Calcutta and others you don't notice at all, because they are quietly being saints. Mr Clem Mulcahy, principal of La Salle, paid tribute to the continuing achievements of the aged in our society and said there were parents who in the hot sunshine had cleared mud paddocks for the building of La Salle and who now rested in the shade. A new generation may, in the future, say the same of us how we had borne the heat of the day on their behalf. At the conclusion of Mass, St Vincent's patients were special guests at a morning tea reception prepared by the home economics students.