Australian bishops delivered a special message to Pope John Paul II while making their required five year visit to the Holy See last week. Western Australians present were the Bishop of Bunbury, D r Peter Quinn making his first ad limina visit since taking over the diocese, and Bishop John Jobst, of Broome diocese. A rchbishop Foley, then Bishop of Geraldton, made his visit earlier this year. Archbishop Goody, because of his impending retirement w as not present on this occasion. PresidentoftheAustralian Episcopal Conference, Archbishop R ush of Brisbane, addressed the pope as f ollows: Most Holy Father We count it as a special grace from God that some of us were present in St Peter's Piazza when you gave y our first blessing a fter your election and again when you celebrated your Inaugural Mass on October 2 2 five years ago. N o one who was there could ever forget the impassioned ap-
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sage, in the five years o f your Pontificate, here in Rome and in the almost forty countries you have visited o n your Apostol ic J ourneys: Jesus C hrist --- and Man, w ho finds his true meaning and dignity only in Christ. "Open the doors to t he Redeemer was again the appeal you made when you proclaimed this Holy Year. I t summarises the purpose of the Holy Year and of the Synod that has just ended. We, the bishops of Australia, wish to assure you, Holy Father, that our most earnest desire is to respond to your call to open our h earts and to help open the hearts of our people to the living Christ, Redeemer of the World
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"For a long time, the c ongregation has been r eceiving requests for advice, and also protests, on the delicate problem of sexualeducationinCatholic schools," the Americanborn Cadinal said. He said his congregation w as about to issue its guidelines on the topic "after long and well considered consultations." The document will be of a pedagogical and pastoral character. Pastors will be asked to make use of it as a means of reflection for those responsible for the education of youth."Cardinal Baum said. Sources at the Congregation for Catholic Education i ndicated that the sex education guidelines will be available at the end of December. • Cont page 4.
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ROME — Pope John Paul has personally appealed to President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Yuri Andropoy to press for an end to the arms race. The pope said he had sent written appeals to the two leaders. He added the Church would continue to work for world peace. In the appeals to world leaders, the pope asked Mr Reagan and Mr Andropov "not to turn away from negotiation as the only w ay to recompose differences and the conflicts of interest and to put an end to the arms race, which keeps the whole of contemporary humanity in apprehension."
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He told the congregation a sign they were attached to Christ was their presence at the eucharistic festival but he urged themtosubmitthemselves to Christ the
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VATICAN CITY (NC) The Pontifical of A cademy S ciences has called for diversion of arms f unds to help wipe out world hunger. "Two-thirds of humanity still live under severe and sometimes intol e rable condi the t ions," academy said, at the end of a threeday meeting at the vatican. "This scandal is so much the greater b ecause only seven per cent of the world budget o f armaments c ould possibly redress the situa tion," it added. T he international group of Catholic and non-Catholic scientists, which 15 included Prize N obel winners among 115 t he members attending the meeting, also criticised the d estruct ive power of nuclear conventional weapons. "Atomic war. endangering all humanity, must not mask the horrors o f the so-called c onventional wars," they said. oft.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
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Since it was a Holy Year ceremony, Father Gordon Howell was one of six priests who sprinkled the congregation with holy water.
Monsignor O'Reilly carries the Sacred Scriptures from which readings were delivered by Miss Pat Ryan (left) and Mr Mark Goerke
Youthcare centre just one to benefit in Catholic Charities' drive For most young people adolescence is a time of planning and anticipation; not always comfortable or easy, but with the support of loving parents, often a joyful time. But what happens if you are alone and unsupported, if your parents are absent or do not seem to care? The funds collected in the A dvent Cathol ic Charities' A ppeal to be conducted in all c hurches before Christmas will help solve this problem.
Advent appeal starting now The Youthcare centre which helps h undreds of young people is often c alled-in for situations as the one left, where homeless youths and young girls
Fake for example the story of Shane w ho was 15 when he realised his stepmother did not like him. She kept on grumbling about how he was a nuisance. Shane's own mother deserted him and his father when he was seven. She took his older sister with her but didn't seem to want him. Shane's step-mother found it hard to approve of anything he did and Shane's dad used to lose his temper with him and sometimes with her. Home was so uncomfortable Shane tried to be out of it as much as he could. Sometimes he wagged school if he hadn't done his homework which was always difficult. Shane's father who hadn't much education himself, didn't like being asked to help. Shane began to truant in earnest and when he was inevitablydiscovered, his stepmother issued an ultimatum "either he goes or I do"
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Eventually it was decided Shane could go to a hostel. But he did not wait for that and climbed out of his window that night. But Catholic help was not far away when t wo months later Shane arrived at a Youthcare home by way of sleeping out, and having been caught stealing food. The Department of Community Welfare officer knew Shane needed above all to belong somewhere, which is why he brought Shane to Youthcare. Youthcare was established four years ago as a Catholic initiative to help young people like Shane. Beginning in a small way, the service has now several residences and a work creation scheme, and does preventive work with families. I.ike many Catholic charities recipients. Youthcare and other services of its parent body. Centrecare, are funded partly by the annual Advent appeal throughout the parishes.
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In Ireland recently a daily newspaper reported that because of vandalism a well known Dominican church would be closing its doors during the day and that the priests were very sorry they were forced to this action. Bit by bit, the disease that has forced churches in Australia and many other places routinely to shut their doors has caught up with Catholic Ireland which battled so hard even to have churches, let alone leave the doors open. We are so used to fancy glass doors on our modern buildings that the old European churches are a bit of a shock at first with their massive wooden doors with all kind of bolts and bars to secure them. It is hard to imagine a church as a place where angry men belted on those doors with swords and spears, howling for the blood of some person inside or wanting to plunder the contents. The doors were no mere decoration. On the other hand they were not makeshift notice boards, now that it appears Martin Luther did not hammer his theses to the Wittemburg Church door! The moral of the story is that when you start a church, you have to put doors on it: doors big enough to let people in and to keep people out. Jesus said he was the Door on His Church. Doors are about people and in this connection Perth is being visited this week by a certain Frances Kissling whose journey has been well publicised by ten local abortion groups. Frances Kissling is hardly distinguished because she is a publicist for abortion when Perth has already too many such protagonists Perhaps she is meant to be outstanding because she is a self-styled "practising C atholic" and spent a few weeks in a convent deciding whether to enter. Neither of these are above average qualities in today's world. Paradoxically, most attention to her so far has been paid by Catholic authorities having to tediously spell out the obvious that Frances Kissling and her reputed 5000 Catholic abortion supporters have no standing in the Catholic Church. If one looks hard enough there are probably 5000 Catholics who deny anything from the Blessed Trinity to papal infallibility. The description 'Cathol ic' cannot be copyrighted. Witness the massacre of Protestant worshippers this week by an infamous "Catholic" R eaction group in Ireland. No, the visit of Frances Kissling is not whether she and her friends are supposed to be Catholics spouting the abortion message, however much that brings on blood pressure of some sensitive pro -life supporters. Nor is she a sudden danger to Cathol ics. Those working close to families know how many Catholics are already victims of divorce and abortion, as a survey two years ago revealed. Frances Kissling's visit is all about the walls, and the doors, of the Church. According to the theory, she is inside the Church so her fellow travellers think that with her help from the inside they will give a big shove and the Roman Catholic wal ls will fall down. B ishops and priests can, of course, thunder excommunications and point out where the doors of the Church are. They once did it often; today it would be an irrelevant waste of energy. The door of the Church is the point where a person says sooner or later that the Church is right, that it has more right to pronounce God's truth than I have, that it is I who is out of step, not the Church. Frances Kissling's problem is that she can't find the door and she doesn't know whether she is inside the Church or outside. When it is pitch dark it is impossible to find the door. Her visit may highlight the Catholic problem of opening its doors, turning on the lights and convincing ordinary men and women what it is really saying.about the meaning of human life.
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It is honoured only as an image of the Mother of Christ, just as anyone might honour mother or father or any relative by displaying a picture in some prominent place. It has no virtue in itself. It is merely a representation. Fhe honour given is solely t o the Mother of Christ, who appeared at Fatima in a vision like this statue and promised on certain conditions that 'Russia will be c onverted and an era of peace will be granted to all mankind." The idea of the "Pilgrim" or "traveling" statue of the Virgin of Fatima began in 1 947, after Pope Pius XII had crowned the original statue of Fatima through a Cardinal legate on May 13, 1 946. A Youth Congress at Fatima, the following year. came up with the idea of carrying a copy of the statue processionally to Russia. Wonders occurred along t he way. When the statue
The guidelines on Cathol c schools wi l l define - Catholic" in the full meaning of the term as it applies to Catholic schools, Cardinal Baum told the synod. "The aim is to contribute to improving the quality of proper Christian education in institutes which honour t hemselves with the name 'Catholic'," he said. "Account will betaken of t he duty not to violate the r ights of the consciences of non-Catholic pupi ls, w hom parents send to Catholic schools by reason of the prestige which they enjoy," he added. In his report, Cardinal Baum stressed the need to support Catholic schools. "The congregation is aware a certain hostility t owards the Cathol ic schools exists on the part of some Catholics," he said. "Even certain persons who were consecrated to the educational mission have abandoned that mission and sought other fields of labour," he added. H e emphasised "the r ight of the Catholic school
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was in the Vatican, Piux XII saw a re-enactment of the miracle of colour and fire which had taken place at Fatima in 1917. He said: "In 1946Icrowned her Queen of the World . and the following year, through this Pilgrim Virgin, she has gone forth as though to claim her dominion . and the favours she performs along the way are such that we can hardly believe what we are seeing with our eyes." A t first there were onl!. four "official" Pilgrims. One w as taken to Moscow in 1950, and is enshrined there in the chapel of the American embassy; a second travelled to the east; and a third to the west: and a fourth was blessed for the United Nations.
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Physically, the Pilgrim Virgin is nothing but a block of wood, although beautifully carved into a likeness of the vision of Fatima as described by the sole survivor of t he three children who saw the vision.
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ROME - In what a Vatican official said was a "definite step forward" in relations between Romania and the Vatican, Pope John Paul has appointed two priests to administer two Romanian dioceses lacking
to exist and operate," fulfillng a mission of service to both the Church and society. He also stressed "the f reedom of parents to choose this school" and "the duties of the State" to guarantee that right of choice, including equitable financial assistance. "The Cathol ic school constitutes a service to the whole of civil society," Cardinal Baum comment ed. He called on civil society "to act according to justice,- saying it is unjust for the state to subject parents to double taxation, "one for State schools and the other for the education which they freely choose for their children." Cardinal Baum also reported on other concerns ofhiscongregation, including education in seminaries. R eflectingthecontemporary world for which seminarians are being trained, he said, the congregation is preparing an instruction o n "training of future priests in cultural and pastora(problemsconnected with the social communications media."
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The seminar was divided into three segments: An examination of the guidelines' content, group discussions, and an input session.
Session "From the input session our perspectives of r eligious education were broadened." said Mr O'Donnell. " A vitality for religious education wqs reintroduced and there has been an enthusiastic response for a better programme in 1984 with the guidelines giving us direction. "Father Holohan's enthusiasm, peculiar to him, brought to life the documents. "His contribution in faith was d evelopment caught by the staff for t heir own personal d evelopment," he added. Father Kelly agreed that the seminar was most helpful but more time was needed to cover such a wide subject.
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Criticism of some clergy R OME — Some priests are showing a crisis in their priestly identity Cardinal Silvio Oddi, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy, said this in a speech to the recent synod. The text of the speech has now been released. Cardinal Odd' spoke about priests who do not dress or act like priests, are too familiar with women, or are careless about the liturgy. The cardinal is the Vatican's chief overseer of catechetics in the Church as well as priestly life and ministry. He also sees major prob-
Pope's Mass in cemetery VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II said on All Souls' Day life is not closed by "the horizon of this world" and that people should not feel cut off from those who have died. The fragilness of life makes it important to live in God's grace through prayer, frequent Confession and Communion, the pope added. The pope spoke during his weekly general audience attended by 27,000 people in St Peter's Basilica and in the Paul VI Auditorium. "We should take up with our loved ones, in the intimacy of our hearts, the dialogue that death should not cut off," the pope said. On the eve of All Souls' Day, Pope John Paul visited Rome's largest cemetery to celebrate an open-air Mass for the souls of the dead. About 4,000 people, including representatives of 300 rome parishes, attended the ceremony.
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lems for the Church today. •1n religious education that avoids teaching children the reality of sin. •1n theological thinking that greatly extenuates or even does away with personal responsibility for sin. Cardinal Oddi also made a plea for the Church to find ways to channel the energies of small Christian communities and draw them into deeper involvement in the Church's institutional life. Cardinal Oddi called priestly identity the key question facing Catholic clergy today. He said the problem has its
origins in defective training in seminaries and in theological writings that go against Church teaching. It also hinders the development of vocations to the priesthood and leads people to have less trust and esteem for priests. Priests'councilsandpastoral councils are also governed b yCardinalOddi'scongregation. He praised the development of priests' councils in general but complained that in some dioceses they have not yet been set up or exist only in name.
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S YDNEY: More thar. 1,500 people participated at Mass in the Catholic lawn cemetery at Kemp's Creek near Liverpool. Mass is held each year in November for those buried in the cemetery. Father R.J. Davey of Neutral Bay, a director of the cemetery, who said the Mass which began at 3pm, said it was most gratifying to see such a large congregation on a Sunday afternoon gathered together to pray for the dead.
A survey, recently made by Australian Jesuits working in remote villages of South Bihar in India, highlights the tragic circumstances of 14 families and their 67 children. It listed four major reasons why these people are in dire need of help. These are: 1. Average family income is S5.13 per month. 2. They have no water to irrigate their crops. When the monsoons are good their crops provide food for about five months. 3. None of the 67 children goes to school. 4. Two fathers are dead leaving their wives to provide for 11 children. The circumstances of these 14 families are typical for thousands of families living in this region. Devoid of adequate education, medical care and water supply, they have little hope of improving their situation. Children face a bleak future. Many suffer malnutrition, causing damage to their nervous systems, low resistance to illness, and premature ageing. Very many do not go to school. Many die before reaching school age.
Much of their suffering is caused by ignorance. F or example, parents know nothing about germs, and draw their water from the nearest well, stream or river, which is often polluted by animals. Naturally the babies and childrencome down with dysentery and diarrhoea and pass lots of liquid. The mothers think that the best treatment is to stop giving liquids and, of course, the child dies of dehydration. Teaching the mothers to boil water is having a major effect on their lives. Working under the most difficult and trying conditions priests and nuns do their utmost to care for these people. They need financial assistance right now to provide these families with much needed education. Where village education programmes have been established, the results for the whole community have been little short of spectacular. The poor, the destitute, the hungry, the sick, the exploited learn to grapple with the problems of poverty. Sickness is reduced, lives are saved, food production improves, water resources are increased, and family incomes benefit. To set up one of these village schools costs about $500. Teachers are paid $45 per month. An Indian child can be educated for about 30 cents a week, or $12 a year. If you are not already sponsoring a child in the Third World, why not do so now. Whatever you can give to this most deserving appeal will be greatly appreciated. All donations will be gratefully acknowledged by:
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D ear Brothers in the Episcopate, 1 . We have come together, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to reflect on our pastoral mission as bishops. And we do so within the context of the whole mystery of the Church of Jesus Christ which we are called to serve. When speaking last July t o other bishops from A ustralia, I mentioned "much remains to be said about the laity and their shared responsibility for the proclamation of the Gospel." And today I would like to pursue this theme of the laity in the Church. 2. The Second Vatican C ouncil points out the consoling truth that bishops "were not meant by Christ to shoulder alone the entire saving mission of Christ" (Lumen Gentiurn, 30). Like the priests and the religious, the laity have a distinctive role to play, a specific contribution to make to this saving mission of Christ, which He shares with His Church. B ut their contribution depends on their living the mystery of the Church. For this reason it is so important that the laity should have an awareness of the greatest of their vocation, a sense of being an essential component of the ecclesial community, a sense of living in union with Christ.
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thentic expression of the life of the Church. Christ is active in His members. The Father continues to love His Son, who is alive in His Body, the Church.
dir The Australian bishops with Pope John Paul at the Vatican.
They must understand ever more the implications o f Saint Paul 's words• "And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me"(Gal 2:20). Indeed, the Council sees t he success of the lay apostolate as depending "upon the laity's living union with Christ" (Apostolicam Actuositatem, 4). 3. For the Council, the whole spirituality of the laity is sacramental ly based and oriented spiritua I ly,beca use the lay
apostolate is conceived as a participation in the s aving mission of the Church, to which the laity are commissioned by the Lord Himself through Baptism and Confirmation (cf. Lumen Gentium, 33).
A t the same time the Church recognises the secular quality of a great part of the laity's activities; she esteems their specific contribution to the rene-
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wal of the temporal order and proclaims the special part they have to play in "the birth of a new humanism, in which man is defined first of all by his r esponsibility towards his brothers and sisters and towards history" (Gaudiurn et Spec, 55). 4. The Church acknowledges this distinctive Christian responsibility of the laity in many fields, including politics, the professional world, the social, economic and military spheres, the world of culture, science, the arts,
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7. In the face of all the problems that affect the world, the laity are called to manifest the faith of the pilgrim Church with confidence and Joy. Amid the difficulties of daily living their voice expresses the serenity of the Church, who knows that the Lord is with her "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear" (Ps 27'1). In a thousand and one ways the laity are involved, even to the point of oppression, in the problems that afflict humanity, and in the dramatic search for means to alleviate the human suffering caused by the evils of the world. And yet they remain a prople of strong hope.
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The laity are able to exert a great influence on culture and make a special contribution to its evangelisation. This they can do particularly in the fields of science, literature and art. And if we take into account the words of Paul VI — "The split between the G ospel and culture is without a doubt the drama o f our time" (Evangelii Nuntiandi, 20) — then we can realise just how much the laity share responsibility for the Gospel and how much they can contribute to its advancement. In all of this, the Church wishes to show her confidence in the laity's specific c harisms and in their ability to exercise them for the 'benefit of the entire community. In this sense, the Synod of 1971 spoke of "the laity's maturity, which is to be valued highly when it is a question of their specific role" ("The Ministerial Priesthood", Part Two, 1,2). In all their temporal activities, the laity find the support of faith and immense strength in the r elevant exhortation of Saint Paul . "Whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus" (Col 3:17). 5 . The gamut of the activities whereby the laity proclaim the Gospel by word and deed and advance the Kingdom of God on earth is very extensive. By reason of their vocation as lay people in the world, their secular activities have deep value in the eyes of God.
The entire sphere of human activity is sanctified by the grace of the By reason of their expoCreator and Redeemer. sure, the laity are particuE very worthy human larly vulnerable to labour fal ls under the suffering when individuprinciple that I enunciated als and families are disin my Encyclical La borem turbed by ideologies E xercens: "By enduring opposed to the values of the toil of work in union the Gospel; when inroads with Christ crucified for of drug abuse are made us, man in a way collabointo communities; when rates with the Son of God social and economic probf or the redemption of lems cause loneliness, humanity" (No. 27). discouragement and alieThe laity play a major role nation; when the effects of in defending the value of sin in the world weigh human work and in ensurheavily on human hearts. ing that the correct con8 . By reason of their cept of human work is position in the Church and applied in the social and because of their secular economic policies of nai nvolvement, the laity tions. have a special calling to 6. The response of the defend the whole moral l aity to the challenges order of their conduct. placed before them has . _Only through their corpobeen expressed in many rate application of the splendid ways in Australia. principles of charity, jusThe laity deserve honour tice and chastity can the a nd gratitude for their members of the Church commitment in the area of offer to the world a coneducation, for their involvincing witness to the vement in promoting justeachings of Jesus, which tice and peace and for will always be contested. their long and sustained The splendour of Christ's charitable to contribution Church is revealed in the and relief work. life of the laity.
fiP'40%11" But whether their worthy a ctivities are religious or secular in nature, they all powerfully promote the K ingdom of God to the extent that they are motivated by charity and express the truth of the lay state, which is entered through Baptism. E very action performed by the laity that is consonant with their vocation and supported by grace is a santifying action, an au-
The power of God's grace is effectively attested to you by the laity as they endeavour to apply the word of God to the situations of real life. Theyglorify God in rejecting the forces of secularisation and in listening humbly but confidently to what the Apostle says: "Do not be conformed to this world" (Rom 12:2). 9. Although the laity have secular pursuits, they also belong to the one ecclesial community of which they are the greatest part. • Cont page 12
DATELINE. . . overseas news roundup LONDON (NC)— The Catholic b ishops of England and Wales have expressed "grave concern" at the arrival of US cruise missiles a nd said this puts into question the British Government's determination to seek nuclear disarmament. The bishops issued the statement at the end of a four -day meeting of the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales
French wary about 'nukes' PARIS: The Catholic bishops of France have condemned total pacifism and unilaterial d isarmament.
It came three days after the first US cruise missiles were delivered for deployment to an American air base near London.
They also declared nuclear deterrence was still legitimate. The bishops, at Lourdes for their annual general meeting, approved the 5000-word statement,"Winningpeace," bya 932 margin.
"This new situation would appear to make it more difficult for (the British) Government to demonstrate convincingly its commitment t o a policy of progressive and mutual disarmament. Such commitment is essential if the policy of nuclear deterrence is to be morally acceptable," the bishops said. "Deterrence ought to be regarded as a temporary measure and a stage toward multilateral disarmament," they added The bishops said they planned to write to British, Soviet and US Government officials to express their concern about the nuclear arms race They noted arrival of the missiles has caused "considerable anxiety and in some places anger and unrest At a Press conference on November 1 7 Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster said he could not see any morally legitimate use for nuclear weapons - because I believe that once you start using nuclear weapons even in a battlefield situation you are crossing a nuclear threshold Regarding the morality of breaking the law to protest public policy, he said upholding the law was vital and anything which provoked violence could be dangerous
'Popess' dies in Vienna VIENNA: Mother Pascalina,
the nun who gained fame as the head housekeeper of the papal apartments some 40 years ago and recently publicised in the book La Popessa has died here aged. 89 A member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross of Menzingen, Mother Pascalina was the superior of the group of nuns who tended to the needs of Pope Pius X II during his 19 -year pontificate. She earned the nickname "La Popessa," in light of the alleged influence she held over the pope. The last years of his pontificate were marked by illness and she was accused of over -protecting the pope's privacy. Mother Pascalina became ill when preparing to fly from Vienna where she had been at ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII. The Bavarian-born nun began to work with Pope Pius XII when he was a monsignor in Munich.
Cardinal speaks his mind LONDON (NC) — Nuclear deterrence on strict conditions and as a temporary step toward disarmament is emerging "as the most widely accepted view of the Catholic Church," according to C ardinal George Basil Hume of London. In an article in The Times the cardinal also &tressed the need to halt the increase in armaments and said those opposed to nuclear weapons do not have the right to break the law. However, the cardinal said there was room for different oopinions in the "agonising and unclear situation," adding: "People everywhere have a r ight to know in what ways their governments are pursuing policies that will lead to disarmament. Without such policies, deterrence has to be condemned." Cardinal Hume's views, which were cleared with other members of the English hierarchy, are being interpreted as an effort to counter-balance the activities of Monsignor Bruce Kent whom Cardinal Hume was due to meet later in the week. Monsignor Kent is one of the prominent leaders of Britain's antinuclear movement and appears frequently in demonstrations and in press, radio and television. "All of us must retain the right to our conscientious beliefs," the cardinal said. "And I would judge that this does not give us the right to seriously defy the law in the present situation." The cardinal said to accept deterrence as the lesser of two evils to retain moral credibility, "there must
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Cardinal Hume be a firm and effective intention to e xtricate ourselves from the present f earful situation as quickly as possible." "If any government, in the east or west, does not take steps to reduce its nuclear weapons and limit their deployment, it must expect its citizens in increasing numbers to be doubtful of its sincerity and alienated from its defence policies."
John Paul lays down guidelines: VATICAN CITY (NC) — P ope John Paul II stressed the role of religious men and women in t he apostolate of the Church and stressed their obligation to work with the poor, people on the fringes of society, immigrants and refugees, during audience with representatives of men's and women's religious communities of the European conference of major superiors. The pope also stressed r eligious work in close collaboration with pastors of the Church. The pope said the decrease in vocations in Europe does not lessen the obligation of religious communities to participate in the evangelis-
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their witness as members of the community, the pope said. The pope also said religious c ommunities evangelise when their members live in t he spirit of community because they witness to the reconciliation of the universal Church. SAN SALVADOR — Five former Salvadoran national guardsmen have been ordered to stand trial for the murder in 1980 of three Catholic nuns and a Church worker.
They emphasised the constant pressure exercised on western democracies to neutralise them and bring them into the sphere of influence of M arxist-Leninist ideology. "It still serves peace," they added, "to discourage the aggressor by f orcing him into the beginning of prudence through an appropriate fear. "In a threatened world. unilateral disarmament could encourage blackmail. "Does a country threatened in its life, liberty or identity not have the moral right to respond to that radical threat with an effective counter threat, even nuclear?" The bishops called the threat of nuclear arms the basis of deterrence and stressed that this was not the same as actual use. "That is often forgotten. in attributing to the threat the same moral qualifications applied to the use of nuclear weapons," they said. "Unilateral disarmament can even provoke t he aggressiveness of neighbours by feeding the temptation to slue too easy a victim," they added. While noting the gospel ideal of non-violence as a personal option for Christians, the bishops said that evangelical nonviolence cannot be asked of states.
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A dvent is the season for awaiting peace. In the US bishops' recent pastoral on war and peace, they wrote that the time of waiting for peace is not a time for passivity. The time of longing for peace is the time to make peace — to create it. As the words of the popular hymn remind us, "Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me." A dvent is a season in the pation of Christmas and Church's year. Like all the celebration of Christthe liturgical seasons, it mas go hand in hand in brings a dimension of modern society. So it is Christian life into focus. difficult to delay the It is a time of hope and celebration of Christmas anticipation; it is an until Dee 25. It is difficult expectant season. to keep a sense of waiting In modern society, how- alive when Christmas ever, Advent can seem already seems to have out of place. The antici- arrived.
There are parties and gift-giving long before Christmas. The music of Christmas is heard everywhere in the streets and shops long before Christmas Day. But Advent is a special time. To keep Advent for many people: to take some time out for this
season that calls people to some restful moments of waiting: moments to think through the meaning of the coming holy day. Perhaps it is best to begin somewhere rather than nowhere. To bring A dvent's spirit home — to your home — think of
The mystery of anticipation A few weeks ago Ellen died of cancer; It was one of these terrible drawn-out deaths, the yielding of a strong, young body that loved life.
some days (an afternoon, an evening) to focus on the meaning of the season. Make an Advent wreath for your table as a family project. it fun and it's beautiful.
A s time passed the grandmother and t he girl became great friends rejoicing in the pleasure of each other's company. Gradually the e xperience transformed them. The grievinggrandmother found a new reason for living and the lonely girl found security in the knowledge that she was special to her grandmother.
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Time for giving By Katharine Bird Thirteen-year-old Maureen often felt lost in the shuffle. Somewhat shy, her more gregarious brothers and sisters usually overpowered her quiet comments with their boisterous conversation. The middle child in the family, she sometimes felt overlooked by her busy parents. Then her recently widowed grandmother moved into Maureen's home. Over the weeks and months that followed, the two naturally were thrown into continual contact with each other.
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If there is something a bit unreal a bout our Advent celebration, it may be that we seem to be preparing for a coming that has a lready taken place.
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Like so many priests I've seen other people die. But most of them I 'd come to know well change, if we repent. And By Father David K. O'Rourke, OP the scholar went on to as sick people. My friend Ellen was different. I had met Ellen and me she real ised her left she lived as though called them to repent- describe repentance. Repentance is like a she believed there real- ance. known her as a laugh- situation. It is this repentance dying. It means no longer ing, alert and vital As the disease pro- ly is a life after death. young woman. Illness gressed, this purposeful Now, let me shift my that connects John and being the person you are to her was like an old a nd energetic young focus to Advent. You the Advent season with and becoming a new m an's heavy black woman had the initia- might think that this is my friend Ellen. Why? person, a different pers tormcoat thrown tive and direction of her a strange. even morose, Because repentance in- son. It is a basic and askew over a child. It life wrenched from her way to introduce a discus- volves the kindofpesonal fundamental change. It is was crazy, out of place. hands. She fought for sion of Advent. Why do change best described by a death, yet it is a birth. It is this type of change It didn't fit. control for a long time, I speak of such a sad dying. A few years agoIasked Isaw in my friend Ellen. She was baffled and until she realised that subject as death at this unbelieving when first she wasn't going to win time of preparation for a biblical scholar to give A ndit was brought about given the biopsy report. t hat fight . It was a Christmas? Isn't this not a retreat to my parish in in her both by the real- Cancer! How can I devastating realisation. only had timing but Berkeley, Calif He chal- isation of her own forthcoming death and her have cancer? I don't But then she began downright dreary as lenged us, highlighting a faith in a new life. New number of Testalook sick. I don't feel to change. She let go. well? During Advent we Ithink of Ellen because ment teachings we tend sick No longer in defeat but But when her doctors in what I can describe, of the words of John the to soft-pedal. We gloss prepare for the birth of began talking in non - inadequately, as antici- Baptist. In Advent, the over them because they Christ. We also celebrate figure of John the Baptist are hard teachings, very this birth by anticipation. sentences and then pation. for in this land Christmas started to look in on her Concern for this life looms large. This strange difficult to realise in our has become a feast of at the end of their hos- was replaced by curios- desert man called the lives. But we can realise anticipation and Advent pital rounds instead of ity about the next. In people to the wild waters the beginning, she told the time that Ellen had of the Jordan. And he these hard teachings if we a joyous time.
Under her grandmother's expert tutelage. Maureen learned to sew. Together the two spent many enjoyable hours putting together a new wardrobe for Maureen. Other times they went for long walks together. Sensing her grandmother's interest, the young girl began to open up, confiding her school worries and her fears about making friends to the older woman. The grandmother, too, talked about herself, filling the young girl in on family stories. As time passed, the two became great friends, rejoicing in the pleasure of each other's company. Gradually the experience transformed them. The grieving grandmother found a new reason for living and the lonely girl found security in the knowledge that she was special to her grandmother. That story brings home a basic fact about pleasure in our lives: Enjoyable activities with others are linked to our development as human beings. What is the role of pleasure in life?Ispoke with an Irish theologian, Father Enda McDonagh, about the very important place of enjoyment and pleasure in the lives of Christians. He explained that it's "part of the .human condition to experience joy" because God created us as physical beings with emotions and feelings. He thinks pleasure is a God-given reality that "awakens us, and motivates us to help others and ourselves develop." Father McDonagh is a professor of moral theology at St Patricks College, Maynooth, Ireland. Recently he visited Canada and the United States during a lecture tour. In my interview with him, he explained that he associates pleasure with two words: "celebration" and "joy". He pointed out that people relish celebrations. Celebrations allow us to rejoice with others in "the gifts of creation and to recognise humans are valuable and called toward a certain kind of fulfillment" in God's plan, he remarked. He noted that everyone has some experience of pleasure, whether it is simply enjoying a wellprepared meal, the intimacy of sexual union, or suddenly encountering a long-lost friend. But, the Irish theologian cautioned, for Christians, joy shouldn't be a goal in itself. If it is, the search can be "misleading and self-defeating." He continued, "If we want others to feel good, to have joy, we often find joy" for ourselves too. Happiness frequently comes as a byproduct of service, he said.
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The word "Advent" comes from a Latin word which means "to come to." During this season we are preparing for the "coming to us" of our promised saviour, our Emmanuel. The Advent wreath holds a special place among the many customs Christians have used to observe the season. The evergreens around the wreath remind us we c an live and grow and hope because Jesus came into our world at Bethlehem. Each time you light a candle on the Advent wreath, remember that Jesus is the light of the world. Throughout the dark days of December He will be your light, too, if you let Him shine through your actions. First week: As you light the first candle on your Advent wreath, remember it is the prophet candle. Scripture tells us the people of God longed for and prayed for the Messiah promised by the prophet Isaiah. The people of God waited in hope for more than 700 years.
Do you think there are any prophets in your parish? In your community? Remember, a prophet isn't a seer who looks into a crystal ball and predicts the future. A prophet is one who tells it like it is here and now. Do you listen to the prophets who bring God's message to you? When you were baptised you received special grace from God which makes you a prophet too. In order to act like a prophet, though, you have to listen — listen hard with your ears and with your heart. This week concentrate on hearing God's word. Prophets listen before they act. What is God saying to you? An Advent song you might like t o sing this week is "0 Come Emmanuel."
Joy comes to us simply . . . By David Gibson 7-year-old M% was second-grader running errands with me one Saturday a few weeks after the school year began. I was happy she had come along. But during the afternoon there were moments when I wished she would stop asking me to buy her everything she saw in the stores. I kept reminding her that the things she wanted to buy were not the things she needed. After a while she let up on her stream of requests.
Our last stop that afternoon took us into a large store. It was not long before my daughter again asked me to buy her something. But I was surprised at what she requested: a book she could read herself. This time I quickly agreed, for I knew she needed it. Her reading skills had progressed over the last year, but slowly, and she hadn't seemed enthused about reading for herself. In the store, she took a long time to make her selection, finally choosing
Second Week: The second candle is called the Bethlehem candle. The Bethlehem innkeeper tried to offer service by sharing his meagre stable with Joseph and Mary. Could you make an extra effort t his week to offer service to someone in your parish or your family who needs help? The very best thing you have to offer is your own self. Your willing hands can aid a senior citizen. You can walk to the grocery store for an invalid. Could you help mother with the Christmas baking and shopping, or by baby-sitting with your little brother or sister while she takes a break? Make a list of 10 ways someone your age can offer service. The hymn, "Whatsoever You Do," would be a good song now.
an amusing Dr Seuss book. Then we started home. As we were driving of my along, part attention was suddenly caught by the sounds of voice daughter's my reading her book aloud. I was surprised, for she was along. clipping right sounding out words I thought she would need help with and, obviously enjoyng it. It would be short of the mark to say I was pleased. I was thrilled. By the time we had travelled the eight miles to our house, she had read much of her book. That night she asked if she could read the book to our family. When she finished,Irealised that a new side of our child was now coming into view. Many parents try to be
patient and helpful, but have to wait for a child's developmental natural processes to get going in some area or other. Surely they will understand why my wife and I will remember the reading of this book for a long time. Other important tasks and concerns temporarily moved out of our minds and we focused on what she was doing. It was a moment of real pleasure. I tell this story becauseI think it reveals some important elements of many events that give us pleasure. These moments of pleasure create memories. They are moments we cherish because they were turning points, or fun times, or because we felt restored and uplifted by them.
However, while the pursuit of pleasure as the key to happiness proved to be "a chase after wind," (1:14) the author of Ecclesiastes still had to concede it was good to he alive and that God intended the enjoyment of life's simple pleasures. "Go, eat your bread with joy and drink you wine with a merry heart, because it is now that God favours your works. At all times let your garments he white and spare not the perfume for your head. Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of the fleeting life that is granted you under
the sun." (9:7-9) In other words, pleasure as an end in itself — the key to perfect happiness — is an illusion. People who knock themselves out in its pursuit are to doomed and disappointment unhappiness. But the simple pleasures of life — are and they innumberable — are meant to be enjoyed. are n fact, I they Without indispensable. them life is unbearable and people can never become fully what they are meant to he. Laughing is as much apart of being human as is crying.
ing into our lives, sometimes in the most surprising ways. Most important, He \kill come again to call each of us into His Father's kingdom. This gives us solid reason to prepare for Him with eager anticipation. However Advent climaxes with the celebration at Christmas of Christ's historical coming in time almost 2,000 years ago. The excitement surrounding Christmas rejoicing can easily obscure the fact that this coming was actually an anticipation and pledge of His definitive, trium-
phant coming in the future. By His life, death and resurrection,Jesus inaugurated God's reign. Still He incessantly preached the need to prepare for that reign. Towards the end of His ministry Jesus gave His famous discourse on the end-time, in which He repeatedly urged His listeners to be on guard, looking forward to the day when people would "see the son of man coming in the clouds of power and glory." (Mark 13:26) But Jesus also said: "As to the exact day or hour,
Why Isaiah in Advent? by Gabe Huck For the first reading on Sunday. Nov 27, you hear Isaiah. The next Sunday, Dec 4, the saw: Isaiah. Same thing the next two Sundays, Nov II and 18: Isaiah. The next Sunday is Christmas. But. whether you attend the Vigil Mass, the Midnight Mass, the Mass at Dawn or the Mass during the Day you'll have to listen to Isaiah. New Year's Day is the only Sunday between now and Epiphany, Jan 8, 1984, when you won't see the lector opening the hook to find Isaiah. Jews and Christians have been listening to Isaiah for a long, long time. The synagogue Jesus attended regularly
unrolled the scrolls where Isaiah 's already ancient words were written down. When Schurch and synagogue parted ways, no one ever thought of leaving those sacred texts behind. Followers of Jesus treasured the Law and the prophets, read them in public, loved them and needed them. So through the year we open to the Book of Isaiah now and then. But in the weeks around Christmas it seems we depend on the book of this prophet. Isaiah gave us words for what is happening. And for all the words written since — poems and visions, Gospels and letters, hymns and studies — we have yet to find any words strong enough to make us say: We can put away Isaiah 's book forever, it's been replaced, updated. modernised.
We have Paul's letters and Luke's Gospel: we have hymns by Handel and by anonymous medieval poets: we have reflections by Trappist Father Thomas Merton and poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. But when we gather in December, it is Isaiah who has the words for Advent and Christmas. He gave us words for what is happening now, not onlyfor what happened long ago. Christians read Isaiah because these poems help us hear about one certain Jew, Jesus. (or to use the name he would recognise. Joshua): they help us hear about Jesus and help us understand what was in his heart. Come January 1984, will you have learned a little more _from Isaiah of how to I,t.alk through your day? How to pray to our God? And where to take your stance?
Things of pleasure By Dolores Leckey
Barbara Pym, the late English novelist, often portrayed her characters through descriptions of their preferences and pleasures. She writes, for example, of a female anthropologist who delights in tea that has become "dark and stewed." A village vicar walks early in the morning because he so likes the air at that time of day. An woman finds elderly Vespers without music the enjoyable; most silence soothes her. The people in Ms Pym's fictional world intrigue me because they seem to know so clearly and definitely which small things give them pleasure and which do not. They about insights have themselves. It makes me Jesus Himself enjoyed pause and consider the life. Unfortunately, the variety life's of being experiences which I find not Gospels, biographies of Jesus in the pleasing. modern sense of the term, example: Late For tell us little about His afternoon early and psychological states. evening skies have always The light at Rarely, if ever, do they moved me. makes me day of time that facial the mention somehow. secure feel that expressions and rivers Oceans, accompanied His words. relax my always streams But this is only because no mind and body. Leafless one remembered this sort trees set like black webs don't we so of thing. And against grey winter skies know whether Jesus said delight me, and so do this or that with a smile or all kinds of birds, in birds, He whether a grin or feeding, silent or or flight laughed. full of song. As I grow older I'm To have fun is not a sin: some new iscovering d to liveforfun is not funny.
Search for happiness By Father John Castelot The Old Testament author of Ecclesiastes posed as "David's son, king in Jerusalem." (1:1) In the guise of the fabulously wealthy, wise and pleasure-loving Solomon, the author set out to .find perfect happiness. It ended in frustration. He drew the dismal conclusion: "Vanity of vanities All things are vanity" Hard work, wisdom, mirth, sensual enjoyments all turned out to be emptiness (vanity) compounded.
As Paul put it: "How is it possible for one t o hope for what he s ees?" (Romans 8:24). Of course, we can very realistically relive the experience of the entry of Christ into our history. Jesus constantly is corn-
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no one knows it, ... only prayed: "Your kingdom come, your will be done the Father."(Mark 13:32) And during His trial, on earth as it is in heavJesus told the court: en." "You will see the son of Paul congratulated his man seated at the right T hessalonian converts hand of the power and for having "turned to coming with the clouds God ... to await from of heaven." (Mark 14:62) heaven the Son He raised In Luke we read that on from the dead — Jesus." the evening of the resur- ( 1 Thessalonians 1:10) rection, Jesus gave the Paul summed up the disciples this instruction: awaited fulfillment of the "Thus it is written that divine plan this way: the Messiah must suffer "Just as in Adam all die, and rise from the dead on so in Christ all will come the third day. In His to life again, but each one name penance for the in proper order: Christ remission of sins must be the first fruits and then, preached to all the na- at His coming, all those tions, beginning at Jerus- w ho belong to Him. alem." (Luke 24:46-47) After that will come the The death and resurrec- end, when, after having tion of Jesus brought destroyed every soverGod's plan to its climax. eignty, authority and But a great deal of work power, He will hand over remained and a long, the kingdom to God the indefinite period of time Father. had to elapse before that "Christ must reign until plan would be fully ac- God has put all enemies complished. under His feet, and the It was to His future last enemy to be desc oming that the first troyed is death ... when, Christians looked for- finally, all has been ward anxiously. It would subjected to the Son, He mean God's ultimate will then subject Himself triumph over the forces to the one who made all of evil and the definitive things subject to Him, so establishment of His that God may be all in reign in the universe. It all."(1 Corinthians 15:22was for this that they 26, 28)
pleasures. For many years, even though I had formally studied piano, I didn't listen to music for the pleasure of the music. It was always background for some other activity. Now, after a long time,I resumed piano have lessons. The suprising thing is that as I learn about Bach's gift for balance and the intricacies of Schubert's melodies, I
find I also listen to music in a different way. It's like hearing for the first time. The same can be said for colour. I now see shades and hues that formerly were indistinguishable by me. It's a source of real pleasure. The pleasures I speak of are woven into one's life. are not the These pleasures of hedonism, a philosophy that claims
pleasure as the principle reason for any human action. Enjoyment of nature, scientific in delight discovery and art, fun in human relationships — They all have a place in Christian life. There is also place for coming to know what really does give us pleasure and what we really want in life.
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T wo couples obviously are enjoying themselves as they t ry their hand at white water rafting. Why do people try to scale MountEverest or raft up a river? Certainly their sense o f accomplishments is satisfying to them. Success in these a dventures is a cause of pleasure.
Clement Michael Eaton, WA Chairman of the Festival of Light and an acolyte at Lesmurdie parish, was born at Goomalling on February 5, 1922. He was educated at the old Ucarty Road state school where his mother Olive (nee WiIsdon) was in charge of the one-teacher school, the Presentation convent at Goomalling, St Joseph's at Bassendean, and St Patrick's B oys' School from which he won a Lynn scholarship to Aquinas College which he attended in 1938-39. He studied engineering at the University of WA for two years before serving for three years in the AIF and returning to the university to complete his
Clem ready to on many
civil engineering degree in 1947. On graduation he joined the Public Works D epartment from which he retired in 1982 as regional engineer for the SouthWest after having filled anumberofdepartmental professional posts in various parts of the state. He was involved with the P and F movement from 1955 to 1981 in several parts of the state. He is a member of the s tate council of the Knights of the Southern Cross and for years was prominent in the Rotary movement. Clem and his wife Bernadette (nee Campbell) have four daughters and four sons aged from 33 to 19.
The Festival of Light issues a "stand up and be counted" call to the many Christians who are appalled by the decline in moral standards but are at a loss to find some practical way of trying to arrest the slide.
This summary of the Festival's raison d'etre comes from its WA chairman, retired PWD engineer Clem Eaton. Clem's path to the Festival was via the Knights of the Southern Cross, of which he has been a prominent member for years. The KSC was running the old C ommunityStandardsOrganisation when the decision was m ade to merge it with the Festival, and Clem was invited t o be the KSC representative. He accepted the invitation with enthusiasm because he saw the Festival as a means of involving the whole Christian community, in addition to the Church, in the fight to stop the erosion of moral standards. It was a mobilisation of forces bound to have a telling impact. Clem sees secular humanism and communism as a deadly duo leading today's attack on family l ife — and consequently as principal perpetrators of the sabotage of morality. The Festival also had appeal in t he potential it offered for projecting into the community at large the standards that the Church had been propagating f or close to 2000 years. In some ways it was akin to R otary, of which he was a keen member, where he had enjoyed seeing the thrill that hardened businessmen got from extending aid to the less fortunate in life. Reverting to communism and humanism, he makes this observation: -It has been said that
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE t here is a communist under every bed. If you bothered to look under the bed, you would probably find a humanist beside the communist there." Many films, he believes, are no longer self -censoring in that now they do not show wrong to be wrong and right to be right. Instead of it being damaging, wrong is portrayed as acceptable — and too many of the films l eave very l ittle to the imagination.
eNU07.11 He applies the same criticism to much of today's literature. The Festival has been campaigning against what it considers to be the crude literature that education authorities direct schoolchildren to read with the alleged intention of giving the youngsters a balanced view of life. The Festival is also active in lobbying members of the State Parliament with a view to having
legislation brought down to license video outlets as a means of controlling the dissemination of R-rated and X-rated video tapes. Clem comments: "If somebody c ould show me how pornography in literature and video t apes can be kept away from minors, I'll go along with the notion that people should be allowed to read and view what they wish to." He says that it is his intention and that of the Festival to inform people by all the means available and to urge them to take such appropriate action as writing to their State and Federal MPs and spreading their protest by word of mouth whenever the opportunity arises. Another target drawing Festival fire is the Federal legislation in support of the UN charter on the elimination of discrimination against women. Nowhere, Clem says, does the legislation mention discrimination against the woman who stays home to rear a family. Included in this discrimination is the ban on splitting of incomes between husband and wife for taxation purposes. There is no address to such things as the present situation whereby if a woman lives with a man both can draw the dole, but immediately she marries him her dole is withdrawn.
fascination leads to a life of Rose McAleer has a fascination for fungi. But we're not talking about any common garden variety mushroom or toadstool... her favourites are far more enthralling. They're the fungi that cause disease in humans and while they're all part of the same kingdom, sharing space with their edible and non-edible cousins that we know so well, they're a microscopic world away. We know them as moulds, but for Rose they make up the science of mycology, a field that ha kept her at the other end of a microscope for nearly 30 years. She is in charge of the State Health Laboratory's medical mycology section in Perth. While there are dull days, she says, like any job, the task still holds as much interest as when she first set up the laboratory 23 years ago. It's easier, she says, to say she works in a lab when people ask her what she does. Few have even heard the word mycology, and fewer still understand what it is. It's a world of cryptococcosis, nocardiosis, candidosis, chromomycosis, blastomycosis, paracoccidioidomycosis, cocciodomycosis and trichomyscosis axillaris ... to name just a few. The little critters with the lengthy names can do all sorts of nasty things to people if they get the chance. But we do have our defences, said Rose. Tinea and ringworm (they're the same thing actually) are two of the most common fungi-caused disorders in humans. The fungi involved attacks the keratin in the skin and its effect can range from the trivial to the terrible, as photographs in mycology textbooks testify. Chronic tinea type disorders can cause horrific disfigurements and discomfort. A nd thrush, of course, an increasingly common inconvenience which can affect allparts of the body, is also caused by a fungus. The same organism, Candida, can cause systemic diseases in any of the body's organs. The results are very often fatal as the condition is hard to cure with no adequate treatments developed yet.
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They are always researching, says Rose McAleer, and finding drugs that can help. A few skin fungi are picked up from the soil, very few in fact. Some come from animals and some are passed on from other humans. Infections which involve the skin, the hair or the nail are called superficial mycoses and infections involving internal organs are called systemic mycoses. The healthy adult has a high level of natural immunity to fungal infections. This natural resistance is of a non-specific type and depends on genetic factors as well as age, sex, nutrition and hormone balance. Its other determinants are the mechanical barriers o f intact skin and mucus membrane, surface secretions (fungicidal fatty acids in sweat and sebaceous material), anatomical traps such as the nasal cavity and the mechanical cleansing action of the cilia in the respiratory passageways.
Meningitis Certain forms of meningitis are caused by fungus and the lungs are a common area for fungal infections. These fungi, says Rose, are very opportunistic, and usually attack when the patient is debilitated in some other way. A great lover of botany while at school, it's not surprising that Rose foundher career staring through a microscope. Born in Perth, she lived at Meekatharra for the first 70 years, and was educated in Perth as a boarder at Santa Maria. She took a brave step when she opted for science courses at UWA. "In those days not many girls did science and those that did, usually came from Perth Modern School," she said.
stand and be counted issues S ome articles of the UN charter on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against w omen, ' " Clem says, - are directed at the elimination of the t raditional roles of men as husbands and women as wives, and embody direction of women into the workforce. "This leaves the state free to indoctrinate the children in any manner it desires." He recently attended a conference in Victoria of representatives of all organisations in A ustral ia dedicated to the arresting of the slide in moral standards. The clear message from the conference was that if you get up and do something in an o rganised way, success is possible. A lot of Christians in the Eastern States are working on these lines. In its achievements, American delegates told the conference, the Festival of Light in Australia was about five years behind the progress made by similar bodies in the United States. In his career with the PWD. Clem filled senior engineering positions in various parts of the state and covered a lot of country in his travels. One of his recollections is about when he was engineer in c harge of laying the water pipeline from near Southern Cross to Koolyanobbing. In those days of plentiful employment, it was very difficult t o get men to work on the
project. In laying the 30-mile stretch of pipe, the manpower turnover worked out at six men a mile and a cook every two mi les. Some men with criminal records had to be employed, and when two firm friends in this c ategory disappeared after h aving col lected their pay, another worker reported that his pay packet had been'stolen. The police picked up the two absconders at Southern Cross and demanded that they open their cases for inspection. When they complied the missing pay packet came to light, but one of the men let out an indignant and disbelieving cry of: "My transistor!" Sure enough, his great mate h ad pinched it. Who needs enemies ...?
Then there was the old staff man who used to look after water holes, tanks, wells and other installations in the Kalgoorlie area for the PWD. He was boarded out of the service on the grounds of ill-health and went home to his native England — to die, everybody thought. He found the weather there too cold and six months later he was back in the Kalgoorlie bush prospecting, a task he pursued vigorously for the next 10 or 12 years.
In conclusion, Clem had this to say. "It is the Mass that matters "At Bassendean we used to walk 11/2 miles to daily Mass with our mother, who was a convert and the staunchest of C athol ics. To her I owe my l ifelong devotion to the Eucharist. "In the AIF the only time that I was ever charged with having been AWL was when I shot t hrough to Sunday Mass because there was none on in the camp."
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for fungi research She originally wanted to major in zoology, but when she left UWA in 1956 as a plant pathologist, she travelled to England for a year's study at the Commonwealth Mycological Institute. Recognised as one of the best for the study of taxonic mycology, or classification of fungi, the Institute left her well prepared to accept a later offer to set up a mycology laboratory in Perth. A nd even that came about by chance. She had returned to Perth from working in haly and found the experience unsettling. . "I made a social call on a friend who was a biochemist and he said: 'We need someone like you. A nd get someone like her they did. She sees the lab as "her baby", and now heads a team of four graduates, three lab assistants and one typist. "We do a bit of everything," she said. "We do a lot of work for skin specialists but we also do a fair amount of work on fungal diseases in animals too. "We do work for 0E2 and also the veterinary sections of the Agriculture Department andMurdoch University. "We're very much a reference lab and I'm also involved in teaching medical and dentalstudents and with medical technology at WAIT," she said. The fungi that make up a hard day's work for Rose are what we often know as moulds.
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The 1983 Youth Rally will have a Geraldton flavour. The preacher at the Mass will be Father Peter Sharry, assistant ./ priest at Geraldton. It is hoped that Archibishop Foley, will give a special message to Father -Ark Sharry for the young people of Western Australia. In the months to come I hope young people of our Archdiocese will have the With chance to meet and speak with the new archbishop. Jegorow 4. For most people the only Fr. John time a bishop is encountered is at a confirmation carefully and allowed to W.A. Sunken Gardens on ceremony. participate in the thinking Saturday, December 3, Some see the archbishop and life of the Church. will be an opportunity for a s the person to solve They will keep pace with those gathered to hear for problems, to give an the changing world in the the first time a short mesanswer or to act as the boss second millenium and sage from our new archbiin difficult situations. enable the Church to be shop. A small committee Some would see him as the effective in its task." has been commissioned by person who tells priests AsIhave said on so many the CYC to co-ordinate the what to do, makes the occasions, the Archbishop activities of the evening priests' appointments and of Perth has continued and it is planned to involve ratifies the appointments support to youth aposto- every youth movement for fulltime workers in the late, and I am confident with a specific task. youth scene. that the new archbishop Young people are encourwill also show and give his aged to gather at 5pm on support to the work of the the Crawley foreshore for Visions youth apostolate. a barbecue. Mass will The annual Catholic f ollow at the Sunken With the recent announce- Youth Council Rally to be Gardens at 8pm. See you ment of a new archbishop held at the University of there! of Perth, I believe both young and old will have to I am interested in supporting Eagle's Nest listen and discover the visions and dreams of our Youth Formation Centre. Please find enclosed new archbishop for the cheque made payable to Catholic Charities of Church of Perth. He is the $ appointed Vicar of Christ on earth in the local comNAME munity. From what he has ADDRESS already said he has a keen TEL. NO interest and concern for y oung people in the Camp Site Secretary. Church. In a recently P.O. Box 194, r eported article he was North Perth, 6006 quoted as saying "I hope LIPlease tick if receipt required that young people of the Church will be listened to
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( Record Kids Club
Wedding miracle
It was a beautiful When the head waiter wedding. The party tasted what the servants afterward was full of brought, he tasted wine, not water. In fact it was fun.
excellent wine, better than The bride and groom led the wine they had earlier in the dancing. The music was the party. He could not almost Soon lively. figure out where the wine everyone was dancing and came from. But the servants singing, clapping their new. k hands and whirling around. The head waiter took Even the children danced. It some of the wine to the was a great party. groom. He tasted it and also There was plenty of food, was surprised at how good and for a while, plenty of it was. wine. The wedding guests "People usually serve the enjoyed the special treats. best wine first," the head The guests loved the fine waiter chided the groom. wine. Until it ran out and "Then after the guests have there was no more. had some, they serve Jesus' mother, Mary, was ordinary wine. But you one of the first to notice that have kept the best wine there was no wine left. The until now." party was still young. Mary The groom did not knew that the bride and answer. He did not know groom would be very where the wine came from. embarrassed when they saw Everyone enjoyed it. But that there was no more most guests did not know wine. where the excellent wine So Mary went over to her came from. son. "Jesus," she said to Mary knew. So did Jesus' Him, "they are out of wine." closest friends. They were She had no idea what Jesus amazed at what Jesus did. might do, but she knew how They began to believe that He cared about people. She Jesus was very special. felt sure her son would do They believed Jesus was something to help. sent by God. answer Jesus' But moment. her for a Mary went to Jesus and told Him the wedding party had run out of wine. She knew how her son cared for people surprised "That is not My concern, and felt sure He would do something to help. mother," He answered. What happens to a per"My hour has not yet son whose diet is baked come." rooster and shoe polish? Mary was not sure just They always rise and what Jesus meant. But she shine. The Secret Staircase felt sure that He would do My Mass Book, $1.95 * * * The First Fleet. by Brambly Hedge, by something to help the bride and Our Father, The Mass A lan Boardman and What did the ram say to and Other Prayers for .lillBarklem, published A rtist — Roland Harvey, and groom. So she walked his sweetheart? over to the waiters and said: Children, $2.95, published by Collins, $6.95. published by Fontana. Ilove ewe. "Do whatever Jesus tells by Dove. $3.95. A nd yet another in you to do." My Mass Book presents this delightfully illusBIRTHDAYS This book describes how A few minutes later Jesus taking part in the Mass as trated series which transbe came to convicts servants over to some went a lively. prayerful interacreveals page after page ported to Australia and the standing by six large stone Happy birthday to Frantion between children and cis Ferris, Bayswater; of fascination for epic voyage that brought water jars. their God. The colourful Richard Walther, Roleyssoldiof shipment first the with jars these "Fill young children as they illustrations help children ers, administrators and water," Jesus told the tone; Felicity Monck, peer into life in Bramto praise. to thank, to prisoners to our strange servants. They filled them Bateman; Lisa Everest. listen to, and to offer bly Hedge. Goomalling; AngelaCotteand sometimes terrifying up to the brim. shores. "Now pour some out and reit. Doubleview; Timothy themselves and their lives Roland Harvey's enter- take it to the head waiter," Merks, Kalgoorlie, Eleanor to God. taining and highly intricate Jesus told the servants. Hyman, Karrinyup; Troy Our Father will be wel- illustrations are a delight- They poured out a glass full Ilich, Kalamunda; Kylie comedby families. teachers ful accompaniment to this of water and took it to the Jensen, Mt Magnet. CarCircle 14 Advent related words, horizontally, vertically or diagonally. and children alike. There historical story book. men Kendall. West Leederhead waiter. are prayers of praise, of ville; Catherine Lawson, thanksgiving and petition. Gooseberry Hill; Andrew Simple psalms and songs Namnik, York; Elizabeth of praise are included. This Roberts, Gooseberry Hill; is a book to encourage Darren Wallace. Thornlie, Dear Captain Bob, children to pray and to have just joined the club. Jane Ensor. Woodlands, R CMOZ RWXA T C I OT come to know and appre- My name is Tammy Fair- I hope that I can win David Fitzgerald, Craigie: ciate their Christian herit- field and I am a new some of the competitions Paul Greenwell, Kardinya; member of the Record too. Here are some jokes: Johnny Garoza, HamersH A I S S E MOU S A F T S age of prayer. Kid's Club. I go to Holy Knock Knock, ley; David Hegney, LesName School and I have Who's there? murdie; Daniel Barry, O N DGM L T V RWL N N I two teachers. 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A look at books TheLife of
CATHERINE LABGIME
Bursting with life Two Dancers In The Desert, The Life of Charles de Foucald, Muslims he made no con- expected to be the end of verts, acquired no col- the story. It was not to be by Charles Lepetit, published by Dove, $7.95 "Just as the Church," says a character in Anthony Adverse, "is about to be taken for a decorative and snugly-woven cocoon on a dead branch of the sacred tree ... that cocoon bursts and the beautiful, living psyche of Christianity emerges." This imagery is appropriate to the life of Charles de Foucauld. Less appropriate is the metaphor in Two Dancers in t he Desert. A n unpleasing young manhood preceded Foucauld's return to the
leagues. "You have," he so. Since then Little BrothChurch, and after various his energies, his conversa- said, "to become a trust- ers and Sisters of Charles divagations he found his tion, above all, his affec- worthy friend of these de Foucauld, and others s ubstantive vocation tion. people, one to whom they following his example, among the Tuaregs of the He nearly died of scurvy. will come when they have have emerged and spread southern Sahara. He completed monumental doubts or pains, someone over the five continents, A scholar, an intimate of s tudies of the Tuareg in whose sensitivity, under- sharing the poverty and the military, member of a language and poetry. As standing and justice you laughter of their own rich titled family, French has happened to others can absolutely trust." "Tuaregs" in the slums of to the core, he became a e lsewhere, he became With this he was content. C hicago, the Amazon hermit physically, in the captivated by the qualities When he was murdered in basin, the villages of Paksense of living a marginal of a basic people. Capable December 1916, his death istan and elsewhere, an existence in the desert, but of being incisive, he realised could hardly make a ripple apostleship without preachsimultaneously an apostle t o the full the essential of news while the flower of ing. as, after his Mass, he was approach to the ordinary European manhood was at the beck and call of his f olk of the earth of a being pounded into the neighbours, upon whom shared laughter. (Reviewedby PaulFoster mud of Flanders. he lavished all he had: In 15 years among his This might have been in The Tablet) food, medicines, advice,
Man of many parts
Charles de Foucald times. Although he was research and copious (1858-1916) was a man of something of a French quotations from Fouextraordinaryandcontra- national hero and has cauld's own writings. He dictory qualities — aris- become the centre of a shows him deliberately tocrat, soldier, colonialist cult, the author sees him choosing a life of depriand explorer, also mis- essentially as"a man of vation and poverty in sionary, hermit and mys- flesh and blood," a mass Nazareth and sharing the ofcontradictions,change- vicissitudes of the poor, tic. Carlo Carretto writes in able and unclassifiable. in particular the life of his Foreword: "In the the Touareg of the SahaCharles Lepetit, who past the fashion was for ra, of whose language he immobile, unalterable belongs to the Little made a dictionary'. saints who were incapable Brothers of Jesus, has of any kind of sin . . . written a vivid study. He He sees Foucauld's life Today we are more con- traces the stages of Fouin the context of a also cauld's career, and the cerned with saints, who, larger idea — as the like us, stumble, make development of his mind mistakes and live among and faith, in a series of expression of an invisible contradictions but yet sharply written scenes dance of two main chargive us some reason to and episodes which offer acters on the road of life. the drama of a novel but They are man and God, hope." are supported by three t wo partners always in Foucauld, in short is very much a saint for our years' detailed historical search of one another. .011•••••••••••••••••••••.••••••••••• • • • • NATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY • • PROUDLY PRESENTS • • by • • THE Aun-40P OF THE SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEEN.-- :X_NL_ • •
Life of Catherine Laboure, by Rene Laurentin, published by Collins Liturgical A ustralia, $19.95. A narrative account of the life of Catherine 1.aboure, a French Daughter of Charity who lived from 1806-1876. A reserved, even reticent person during her life-time. Catherine became the focus of an e xtraordinary popular devotion after her death. It became known that the Virgin Mary had appeared to her on three occasions in 1830: this, and the 'Miraculous Medal' which was her legacy, still exercise a fascination. . 040040•00Wiiftioftsari•Wmarftwimai.
Laurentin's biography, based on meticulous research, unearthing archives and documents previously neglected presents a fascinating story of the growth of holiness, and of God's ways with human beings. There are numerous illustrations, from family photo albums and the records of the Daughters of Charity.
Charles de Foucauld found his vocation among the Tuaregs of the southern Sahara.
Fungi research.
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• From page 11 Yes, it's fungus that makes 'blue cheese' blue. "The fungus they use in cheese is okay," says Rose, "but I'm a bit wary of eating any foods that have grown moulds because of the toxins they produce." Yeast is also a fungus, and while brewing yeasts are not normally disease-producing, anything can happen in nature, she says. Many of our antibiotics come from fungi, so they have good points as well. Fungi, says Rose, just appealed to her. Bacteria don't, but then she'd have an enthusiastic argument with a bacteriologist as to which is the more interesting, she grinned. There's not a big demand for mycologists, she admits. It's definitely a profession that has its quotas. Many days are routine but there have been the high points. "We did discover a new disease of the lungs which we wrote up in a medical journal," she said. Dealing with potentially dangerous microorganisms means care must be taken. "If we are handling things that could be serious we use special hoods for protection," she said. It's a vital area of diagnostic medicine because fungi-caused diseases can resemble other disorders and are often very difficult to pick. "It's imperative that if a disease is caused by a fungi it is treated correctly," she said. Exchanging information at an international level is also vital in this field and Rose is often in touch with overseas mycologists. In 1974 she spent some time studying at the Communicable Disease Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.
On the same trip she also studied in London, Glasgow, Holland and Paris. In 1979 she attended a conference in Israelbefore travelling on to London for more research. A t the international mycological conference, held last year in New Zealand, she presented a paper on a fungal disease in the Western rock lobster. Research is going on all the time, but it's a field where advances are made slowly. "New areas are opening up all the time in medical mycology and the labs are providing an invaluable diagnostic service to doctors," she said. "Many things look alike and because fungi are relatively uncommon, many doctors can't recognise the symptoms. It's important to make sure what it is. The body does have its own defences, she says, and as with many things, some people are more susceptible than others. In some cases if ringworms aren't treated they will get better, in others they will just get worse. "I saw one man with a condition he had had for 22 years and which was unlikely to be successfully treated," she said. "Some species of skin fungi are very resistant to treatment and when they get into the nails they become extremely difficult to treat." Children frequently pick up ringworms from stray kittens, but most household pets are usually safe. There is a type of ringworm which can be passed onto children from guinea pigs and very often youngsters with ringworms will pass them on to other children. "It's not a continuous thing though," says Rose, "the number of times the fungi which causes ringworms can be passed from child to child is limited."
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WHAT'S ON An Intensive Journal Workshop will be presented in Perth December 1617 by Brother Richard Robbins who is an authorised Journal consultant who has conducted eleven workshops this year. The Perth workshop at St John of God convent Subiaco will be a Life Context Workshop beginning on Friday evening December 16 and from 9 am to 9 pm on Saturday. Registration ($10) should be made to sister Emilian Doyle, St John of God Subiaco 382 6111 ext 6230 or Father Douglas Conlon, Katanning (098) 21 1065. The remaining $35 is payable at the conference. The workshop follows the Intensive Journal Method of Spiritual Experiences as promoted by Dr Ira Progroff of Dialogue House, New York and will use his book -At a Journal Workshop" a vailable at Pellegrini & Co. Dr Progoff began getting his patients to keep a journal or diary when he began a private practice 25 years ago after returning from Switzerland and two years of study with Carl Jung. But an unstructured journal is only helpful for a short time, he discovered. "People start going in circles.
Gradually, Dr Progoff worked out a set of categories which he now uses as headings for the notebook's 12 sections: for example, the daily log, dream log, steppingstones (major e vents in one's life), imagined dialogues with persons, with works, with the body, and so on. BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE T he monthly pilgrimage to the Grotto of the Virgin of Revelation at Bullsbrook will take place on Sunday N ovember 27 at 2pm. For further information and bus r eservations please contact P. Galea on 349 7135 or L. Martinz 328 4631. PASSION PLAY FILMS In preparation for the 350th Anniversary of the Oberammergau Passion Play the public is invited to afilm presentation on Monday December 5 at pm first floor, Elders Building 111 S t Georges Terrace, Perth to see short, scenic films on Germany, S witzerland and England. Meet and talk with Vernon Heaton author of "the Oberammergau Passion Play." R efreshments will be served. Further information from Paramount Travel, Allendale Square, 77 St Georges Terrace, Perth, 6000 Western A ustralia. PICNIC All parishioners of St Jerome's, Spearwood, are invited to the family Christmas picnic on December 4 at Manning Reserve off Offley 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
f---1 Students of grade six at St i—JAnthony's primary school Midvale, all fired with enthusiasm after a Goldfields safari camp have assembled a wide variety of artefacts in their classroom and come up with a winner.
CENTENARY The Sisters of Mercy will commemorate their 100 years in Bunbury at the St Joseph's school on November 26th. At 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.
TV 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.
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.
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 6.30m 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 3 m. Eats will be provided by Father Ned Donovan at noon.
Race Talk with Rod Evans W INGED JEWEL enormous performance at looked unlucky when fin- his first outing since July. ishing fourth at her first A fter starting from an start at Ascot on Saturday. outside barrier he tramped She missed the start and wide throughout but still raced wide but still finished fought off all challengers within 11 2 / lens of winner t o score. As his record Nikinol. This 2yo filly suggests this gelding will obviously has potential keep on winning races. and should pay to follow. T RISTAM'S GOLD STOP AT THE TOP was showed signs of better a certainty beaten when a things to come when he first up second to Calver flew home to finish fourth Place in the Post Tonn (1 4 / len) to dead-heaters Graduation Stakes. After Wynton Lad and Hanging never really obtaining a In in the Gloman Welter. crack at the leaders she was Tristam's Gold is from star only beaten by a head in sire Sir Tristam and has a photo finish. This mare has shown he is much has loads of ability and will better suited over a longer win shortly. journey than Saturday's C ASSHONEY chalked 1200m. Follow this horse up his 8th win from 10 as the distances of his races starts when he put up an increase.
Greyhounds — with The Record Tipster
'DOGS' 'ft ?! CHANCE mi R ACE ONE: Vacant Site 1, Dynamite Duke 2, Involved 3. R ACE TWO: Wild Earl 1, Persian King 2, Remember Tiny 3. R ACE THREE: Local A ce 1, System Six 2, Suntino 3. R ACE FOUR: Man's M arouda, Boundary Rider 2, Nero Wolfe 3. R ACE FIVE: The Quick I. Power Play 2, Berringa Moon 3.
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The presentation of trophies won at the Catholic Tennis Association's last championships held early in October will be made at a tennis day to be held at the St Marks College c ourts in Bedford on Sunday December 4. Play will start at 11am with a break for lunch between 1 and 2pm. Those attending may bring a picnic lunch or use the barbecues provided. The kitchen facilities will also be available. A t the afternoon tea break at approximately 4pm the trophies will be presented hopefully by the Association Chaplain, Father John Dwyer. Members are requested to supply a plate of afternoon tea. S OUTH SUBURBAN C OMPETITION: Two c omposite teams are playing in the South Suburban Pennants recently started. In "A" Grade Randy R aux, Les Curry and Jonathon Messer along
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RACE SIX: Scootalot 1, Test of Glory 2, Tegimi's Son 3. R ACE SEVEN: Lucky Irish 1, Paleface Pinto 2, Tidi Level 3. R ACE EIGHT: Ginger Eagle 1, Ripper's Pick 2, Darsal Chief 3. R ACE NINE: Trojan's Girl I. Repeat Design 2, Little Storm 3. R ACE TEN: Mixed Hopes 1. San's Reproach 2, Take a Break 3.
with Kerry Messer, Sharon Gordon and Louise Hackett are representing the Association and in " A" Reserve division one, Peter Messer and K evin and Peter Quain w ith Judith Higgins, Elizabeth Mancini and Kathy Veza are also representing the WACLTA. At St Josephs Queens Park recent AGM the newly elected executives a re president Paul Messer, secretary Ann Palandri and treasurer Peter Quain. Jonathon Messer was elected club captain. It is most gratifying to see so many young people taking on the responsibilities of running the Queens Park Club. The Pignatelli Cup Day was held on Sunday November 13. A good crowd was in attendance T he medal winners were, in the women's Kerry Gabbady and in the men's Brother Peter St John. by BRYAN KUKURA