The Record Newspaper 30 December 1983

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Father Brian's appeal success This year has seen the remarkable gift of caring fill the hearts of thousands of Western Australians at a time which is proving to be the worst Christmas for needy families in recent years. T hroughout Western Australia family Christmas appeals large and small have been inundated with requests for help and there is an exciting feeling moving through the community that almost every family in need will be helped. This was the eighth year of the family Christmas appeal supported by the Sunday Times and Westpac and many other kind sponsors.

POPE'S. PLEA FOR PEACE A record crowd in St Peters

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injustice and human tension is the cry of Pope John Paul in the message for the 17th World Day of Peace for which he has chosen the theme: "From a new heart, peace is born".

To the Record readers the Christmas appeal would like to e xpress heartfelt g ratitude for so much help that has been given. . . M any parishes arranged collections and many of our C atholic schools p resented large amounts of food, m oney, toys and new clothing. . . St Marks Bedford, Saint Columba's South Perth, Our Lady of theMissionFremantle, the Sisters of Saint John of God, Subiaco . . . the list goes on endlessly of so many kind hearts reaching out to a neighbour in need. The appeal has proved once again that we will not be put down by a depressedeconomy or soaring priFather Brim Morrison with some of the donations and the appeal team (from left) Robin ces. Cousins, of 6PM, boot Alexander of WATA promotions and Karen Price, community care s In fact these ills in the producer. (Sunday Times picture). c ommunity have of the dignity to And even if only one become the chal- The deepest spiritus many thousands of person had been gift that came from lenge to share more otherwise frighthelped then we have The Sunday Times, and more in 1983. suffering ened and faithfully carried out Father Brian Family Incidentally we'll do it persons comour in seed sown so the Christmas Appeal a ll over again in munity. long ago. was the restoration 1984. W

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VATICAN CITY — A record of Pope John Paul's poetry set to jazz music is expected to be in stores soon. The long-play record, a joint project of the Vatican publishing house and a German record producer, matches 10 poems with soft orchestral compositions by two Italian jazz musicians. The poems are sung in Italian by Paola Orlandi.

Looking at the tensions which currently imprison the world, the Holy Father says although the tension between East and West monopolises attention, it must not overshadow the tension existing between North and S outh, between developed countries and those locked in FOR NEW underdevelopment. "This is another giganticsourceofopposition, bitterness, revolt or fear, especially as it is fed by many kinds of injustice". The pope singles out human beings as the cause of war: "It is man who kills Gerry Logan and not his sword, or in our day, his missiles. "The disorder of the human heart is a disorder of conscience which is Over 300 new and used vehicles good or bad depending on located in our new undercover all what it chooses for the premises including satisfaction of its material interests or its desire for power," he said. The pope is concerned consciences today are subjugated to political and ideological systems. "Sometimes their unconditional attachment to these systems becomes a form of power worship. the worship of strength and wealth, a form of CNR ALBANY HWY & WHARF ST. CANNINGTON PH 451 2333. A /H 293 3384 01089i • Cont page 2.

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Bishop raps R yan school Senator programme

The 'percentage link' The "percentage link" between the education of children in government a nd non-government schools was not the only possible model for funding Senator Susan Ryan, Minister for Youth and E ducation and Youth Affairs told a P and F meeting at Ballarat last month. She said the government in July had decided to discontinue the precentage nexus because it did notr edistribut esufficiently between schools on the basis of need and has not closed the gap between low resource schools and those operating at government standards. "The big advantage (of the percentage link) was that it gave people in the non-government sector a sense of confidence and security, and a basis for planning. She said "The big disadvantage was that it was not doing anything to overcome the inequalities in school resources — and that, of course, is fundamental to the education philosophy of the Labor Party. Senator Ryan said the government was keen to make a start as soon as it came into office and the one thing it could do was to put more money where it was most needed, by using a once-only measure instead of a percentage link. As a result, she said, more money was given overall to the non-govern ment system and that money was re-distributed within the non-government system. As an example she cited Category 3 schools which will receive $499.7 million in 1984 instead of $494.5m. "While we took a deliberate and one-off decision to replace the 'percentage link', we were not willing to move in haste to find a formula to replace it. "I give you this guarantee: The new formula will give you that confidence. I will not accept any r ecommendation from the schools commission which does not give nongovernment schools and their communities confidence in their futures, and I know that the schools commission has no wish or intention of doing otherwise. "I cannot say yet, of course, just how the new arrangements will operate, but I can tell you s omething about the general approach being taken. I have asked the schools commission to investigate and determine what we are calling a 'community standard' — that is, a level of resources which the community at large will accept as necessary for children in various settings to get a highstandard of schooling. "This 'standard' will be developed through close consultation with a wide r ange of community groups including of course, all sections of the non-government school system. The 'community stand-

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defends policies ard' will provide a clear and fair basis for planning by governments, schools and families. Senator Ryan denied claims that the government is out to destroy the non-government sector of e ducationm citing the government's step to build an allocation of $ 1 Om into 6he programme and to index it against inflation. She said also that priority was to be given to assisting non -government s chool authorities to provide new places in developing areas and to ensure that basic facilities are provided in existing non-government schools serving poor communities. Senator Ryan also defended the planning studies that went into the establishment of a school in a new area. These are called "impact studies" Some people have tried to represent these "impact studies" as a way of preventing any new nongovernment schools. "That I flatly deny." she said. "The studies are carried out by the commission's state planning and finance committees, on which non-government authoritiesand groups are represented. "The guidelines for new non-government schools, which have been developed in consultation with non-government groups, are not designed to be threatening but to achieve consultation and planning a mong all interested parties." To the accusation that reduction of Commonwealth grants to some Category 1 schools is the "thin edge of the wedge," Senator Ryan replied on the "basic grant" issue. "Firstly, all students in non-government schools in 1984 will continue to receive a basic grantfrom Commonwealth and state governments. "Secondly, it appears that all states will continue to provide such 'basic grants'. "Thirdly, any decision on levels of funding by the commonwealth for nongovernment schools operating well above the —.44.1NOW-

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'community standard' will be worked out in consultation with state and nongovernment school authorities. "The Commonwealth Government is only one of seven governments which support non-government schools, and are also responsible for government schools. "Many people do not realise about 67 per cent of 'state aid' comes from the Commonwealth Government — the rest from the state governments. "It is only one of many parties to a very complex issue. I want you to know that the commonwealth government is committed to sustain the long-term future of the non-govern ment sector, and to settling the 'state aid' issue. "But the Commonwealth Government must obtain the good will and support of the many other institutions and group involved. "Irecognise the changes in policy which we have instituted have created some genuine uncertainty about arrangements for thefundingof non-governments schools beyond 1984 in the minds of some people, including parents, teachers and bishops.

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a nd Youth Affairs, Senator Susan Ryan, told a mass meeting of parents at Melboumes Malvern Town Hall recently. S enator Ryan was answering a question from the floor at the end of a public meeting called to express concern about government f unding of non-government schools. Earlier senator Ryan was one of five speakers to address the crowd of more than 1000 in the hall and, through closed circuit television, an overflow crowd on the adjacent cricket ground which organisers claimed numbered more than 2000. The other speakers, who were well received and willingly applauded by the audience, roundly criticised the education policies of the Federal ALP Government and Senator Ryan. They were: Bishop John A. K elly, Auxiliary of Melbourne; the president of the Victorian Parents Council, Mrs Margaret Gartland; the Shadow Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, Senator Peter Baume; and a parent representative, Mr Barry Everingham. Senator Ryan's speech and answers to numerous questions from the floor were

generally greeted with skepticism. She had to run the gauntlet of frequent interjections from the generally well-ordered audience. The meeting overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in the senator and the Federal Government's education policies and the effect they have had on the funding of non-government schools. The resolution, which was moved from the floor, also called for the restoration of per capita grants to all nongovernment schools to at least the level applying at the start of the 1983 academic year. It also demanded no further attempt be made to tamper with the percentage link between the cost of educating a child in a government school and the size of the percentage grant to nongovernment schools. In her main address to the meeting, Senator Ryan said she would like to reassure the meeting, and others of similar concern around Australia, that the Hawke Government recognised and appreciated "the important contribution" non-government schools made in educating many Australians. " We are determined to ensure all schools, government and non-government, are able to offer a high

Pope makes a plea for peace • From page 1. slavery taking away freedom from the leaders themselves. The pope lists the passions disturbing the human heart and inclining it to war: • sense of racial supremacy; •jealousy and envy of the land and resources of others; • a desire to control people whom they despise. He says injustice is often exploited and passions fed deliberately by others. He calls this manipulation.

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"It is difficult for wars to start if the people on both sides do not have powerful feelings of mutual hostility or if they are not convinced the claims of their opponents threaten their vital interests. "In the final analysis recourse to violence and war comes from man's sin, from his blindness of spirit and the disorder of his heart which invoke the motive of injustice in order to spread or harden tensions or conflict. "The re-establishment of peace would be of short duration and quite illusory if there were not a true change of heart," he said.

The pope has a recipe for the renewal of heart w hich he calls a "conversion": • rediscovering clear sightedness with freedom of spirit; • a sense of justice with respect for the rights of man; • the sense of equity with world solidarity between rich and poor; • mutual trust and fraternal b e. E quality demands a strengthening of the relationships of justice and s olidarity with poor countries and especially those experiencing poverty and famine.

standard of education to every child. "We will consult closely with representatives of the nongovernment sector in the development of our policies for 1985 and beyond. "We will not be rushed into dramatic changes which are ill-considered or unacceptable to the Australian community. "We wish to brng together all sectors of education in Australia, not to divide them." The Action Committee on Education, the Private Assistance Education Lobby and the Victorian Parents Council organised the meeting. The Action Committee on Education is a group of parents and teachers who hope to gain the restoration of per capita grants to at least the levels which applied at the start of the 1983 academic year. The Private Education Assistance Lobby aims to support non-government schools through research and education. The Victorian Parents Council was founded in 1955 under the title Parents and Friends Federation of Victoria and works to end discrimination against children in nongovernment schools in the distribution of public funds for schooling. "All students in non-government schools in 1984 will continue to receive recurrent grants from Commonwealth and State governments," Senator Ryan said. "Any long term decision on whether or not a basic level of recurrent grant is to be provided by the Commonwealth for non-government schools operating well above the `community standard'will be worked out in close consultation with State and non-government schools authorities. "I have no desire, nor does the government, to impose a funding system on the nongovernment school sector which is unfair or which creates unsuitability. "At the same time I am determined to ensure that the funding arrangements we make for all schools maximise opportunities for all children and their families and are especially supportive of those in greatest need," she said. Bishop Kelly, who spoke immediately after Senator Ryan, accused the senator of refusing to admit that every child had a right to a basic remittance for education. "The only criterion that binds you here is need and need alone," he said. "You are just taking on temporary measures and nobody knows whether they are going to last or where they are going to lead to. "You will not concede, nor

will the Labor Party, such a thing as a right." Bishop Kelly said Australian and Victorian Catholic bishops, in concert with Church autonties in Rome, asserted the right of every person to receive a basic share in the total education funds irrespective of their financial, social, ethnic or religious status. He said parents were the primary educators of their children and had the inalienable right to freely choose thc schools for their children. "Public authorities must ensure public subsidies are so allocated parents are truly free to exercise this right without incurring unjust burdens," he said. He said while every person had a right to receive a basic share of education funds "we do not say all parents and all children have a right to get the same size of the education cake." He said any government of any political persuasion in a t ruly democratic society existed primarily to enable individuals to exercise their rights. "Its role is quite secondary to that of its citizen parents, and indeed all citizens and individuals in general," he said. "Catholics are in no way in conflict with the Labor Party in its praiseworthy endeavor to help the educational needy. " What we reject is the totality of the Labor Party philosophy, or lack of it, in education, basing its policy on the false principle of only recognising needs." Bishop Kelly said true discrimination existed in Australia because parents were restricted to government schools if they wished to exercise their basic right to full funding of their children's education. The Liberal Shadow Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, Senator Peter Baume, told parents they were present to defend the principal of freedom of choice in education and dual system of educations as it is known today. "It is a meeting which is not about schools, but about children and the fundamental right of all children in Australia to receive government financial support for their education," he said. "The principles underlying t his freedom have been directly threatened by the action of the Minister for Education, Senator Ryan, and her government. He said actions such as the compiling of an arbitrary "hit list" of 41 schools in the group 1 category, the abolition of the formula determining predicable grants under a percentage link and a funding • Cont page 11

Polish retreat W ARSAW -- In the European summer, 50,000 young people took part in "Oasis" Retreats organised by the Polish Catholic spiritual renewal movement Light-Life. The Retreats are arranged in the summer and winter holiday seasons, and take place in various Catholic centres throughout the country.

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Positive aspect Holocaust a key to reminder memories TEL AVIV — This year marks the 50th anniversary of the mass burning of JeMsti bocics by the Nazis el Germany. This followed the national boycott of Jewish businesses proclaimed on April 1 1933 by Adolf Hitler after the accession of the National Socialist Party to power just two weeks earlier. It is also the Year of Courage and Valour, declared by the Govemmnent of Israel to commemorate Jewish resistance and combat during World War II. Among some affecting photographs in the latest issue of Ariel, Israel's review of arts and letters, is a new statue in ironwork entitled Nandor Gild c ommemorating the victims of concentration camps. I t stands outside the Yad Veshem Memorial in Jerusalem which keeps alive the memory of the victims of the holocaust.

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The positive value of memories, especially of memories demanding a response was the principal message of Archbishop Foley at his first civic function last week when he adressed a Christmas breakfast meeting of the East Perth Rotary Club.

Pointing out Christmas is for many a time of memories of joy and sharing, Archbishop Foley said people celebrating Christmas give little thought to the reasons for the celebration and the challenge within it. The Daughters of Charity "Remembering is not just recalling the past. It is true one should recall where they came NEED YOUR HELP from, where they have been and where they to, their work for the development of the are. This gives them a good idea of the sort underprivileged of people they are. URGENTLY NEEDED "For instance the Jewish people have C lothing, clean, wearable, house-hold obviously formed themselves on memories, on goods nick-nacks — ornaments, fidelity to tradition and their experience of the jewellery, etc. past is something which guides their present Deliver to very, very, strongly. 5 34 William Street, Highgate But, he said, there are other memories such For Truck to call — Phone 328 4403 as of the good old days or even of hardship and Country goods marked,...i• f rpo on rail to 1(0\1,g-tat, oppression that are less than useful and . 51111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111HF. not terribly valuable to us.

Geraldton was put on map Archbishop Foly told East Perth Rotarians how he described his diocese of Geraldton to Pope John Paul earlier this year when in Rome. "He opened up a map of Australia and I pointed to Geraldton. "How long is the diocese?" asked the pope. "I traced a line north of Port Hedland across to the South Australian border, thence south and back again somewhat south of Geraldton. "He said it was 'rather large' and I told him yes, four times the size of Italy. "He asked, 'How many people?' and I replied about 100,000. " 'They're well spread out. said the Holy Father . .

Experience "I shared with him my e xperiences with those farmers, miners, fishermen, pastoralists, townspeople, port workers and plantation workers. "All of them were special people, deeply attached to their work and their life. "I got close to them and they enriched me tremendously," Archbishop Foley told the Rotarians.

Archbisop Foley is picturedbeing shown a report of the East Perth Rotary Club activity for 1983 by the president Jim Benness left. At right is a one time fellow student of the A rchbishop, Kevin Harford who moved a vote of thanks to Archbishop Foley — Photo

"I believe there are many more important memories. that demanding a response, memories to give us an insight into present-day life, even a memory to illuminate questionable matters we have taken for granted. "These are the memories challenging us to look ahead. to think ahead. I would like to think Christmas is something like that to all of us. Archbishop Foley said some people in the Church let their memories rest too much around the Crib. On the other hand, busy people thought too much of the present and did not allow the past to inform their activities as much as they might.

For that reason it was necessary for Church people by courtesy of RonaldH to be in touch with action in Armstrong Pty Ltd society and in what goes on it organisations such as Rotary.

A place for new arrivals

"A city needs to have place where new arrivals can find their feet and help forthcoming for migrants would be appreciated," Archbishop Foley said last week. Speaking at a Rotary breakfast meeting, Archbishop Foley recalled he had started as a young priest in the East Perth Parish when a large part of his congregation included Italians, Burmese and Indians, all starting life in a new country. Today, he said, the congregation included many Vietnamese. He said any help the Rotarians could give to migrants helped them to make their own way in society. He recalled an experiment in Geraldton where a Church committee helped establish Vietnamese in a tomato growing industry. New arrivals had joined them and today they are producing BO% of the district tomato crop. Archbishop Foley recalled that he had contact with Rotarians in the parish of Lynwood where they backed the establishment of a senior citizens venture first in the local parish hall before they moved into an autumn club building.

"Unless our memories are influencing our present life they are best forgotten," he said. He told the Christmas gathering not to forget the first half of the angels' message: Glory to God. "Christmas brings with it comfort and an assurance that we are not alone, that God is interested in His world — also our world that He became a part of our life and wanted to give meaning and direction to our activities. "The softness of the Christmas crib gives us comfort and reminds us of that in our families. These moments are precious, especially when we see the eyes of children coming to grips with this mystery we have taken for granted.

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The pope's Christmas VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II, in an impassioned Christmas Day appeal, urged nations to stop spending "enormous sums" on sophisticated weapons while men, women and children die of hunger. The pope's strongly-worded "urbi et orbi" message to the city and the world followed festive masses in St Peter's Basilica. Speaking to 80,000 people from the main loggia window of the Basilica, Pope John Paul, his voice rising, turned his attention to social and political realities of the modern world. "Look with the eyes of the newborn child upon the men and women who are dying of hunger, while enormous sums are being spent on weapons," he said, to the applause of those gathered in the square. "Look upon the unspeakable sorrow of parents witnessing the agony of their children imploring them for that bread which they have not got but which could be obtained with even a tiny part of the sums poured out on sophisiticated means of destruction, which make even more threatening the clouds gathering on the horizon of humanity," the pope said. There is a "cry of peace that rises from the peoples being martyred by war" that speaks to those able to negotiate honourable solutions to world tensions, he added. The pope ended his message, which was televised to 35 nations, with Christmas greetings in 44 languages.

Examining the meaning of 'His peace' Bishop John Gerry, Chairman of the National Committee of Australian Catholic R elief, has sent a thought -provoking message to Australian parishes. Headed "May the Peace of Christ Disturb You", the message examines the meaning of the words "the peace of Christ" They mean, says Bishop Gerry, much more than the mere absence of war.

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Pope John Paul II met the man convicted of shooting and wounding him in 1981, Mehmet Ali Agca, on Dec 27 and later called him -a brother who enjoys my complete trust." The extraordinary 20-minute private meeting took place in Agca's cell at Rome's top-security Rebibbia Prison_ It followed a chapel service for 400 male inmates, who spoke with the pope individually and often emotionally. A Vatican Press spokesman said the pope and Agca spoke "in very low voices, in an almost -confessional tone.- The two met alone inside the cell, he said, while a few Vatican and prison officials waited outside the cell's open door Pope John Paul and Agca sat next to each other on the cell's two chairs, the spokesman said, and those outside the room did not hear what was spoken between them. At the end of the encounter, he said, Agca knelt before the pontiff and kissed his hand. A television crew was allowed to film the end of the meeting when the pope left the room, the spokesman said. After the meeting, the pope was asked by a reporter what took place. "I have spoken to a brother who has my complete trust. What was said is a secret that will remain between him and me,- the pope answered. The pope had reportedly requested the meeting as a gesture of reconciliation. Before the visit, Agca had said he was eager to meet the pontiff and had much to tell him. Agca has more than once described himself as a -repentent terrorist- who is sorry for his actions. Four days after Pope John Paul was shot, the pope publicly forgave Agca and called him a "brother - in a tape recording made from his hospital bed. ******

The pope began his weekend activities with a Christmas eve noon meeting with 200 Polish pilgrims and called for peace and respect for basic rights in his native Poland. Later in the day, the pope paid a visit to the Vatican home of the family of a missing teenage girl, The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano reported. The girl, Emanuele Orlandi, daughter of a Vatican messenger, disappeared on June 22. Messages by purported kidnappers asked for the release of convicted papal assailant Mehmet Ali Agca in exchange for the girl's freedom, but police say they have no proof Emanuela was being held by the people making the demand. At night, the pope entered the brilliantly-lit St Peter's Basilica for a midnight Mass televised live in Italy and relayed worldwide by satellite. Thousands of people packed the largest Catholic church in the world for the service, and thousands more listened outside in the square, where a giant Christmas tree and life-sized nativity scene had been set up for the second year in a row, at the request of the pope. Pope John Paul returned to the Basilica Christmas morning for another Mass, broadcast by Vatican radio in seven languages including Polish, Bulgarian and Croatian. The 90-minute service was followed by the "urbi et orbi" message from the outside balcony above the Basilica's main door.

Rather, they refer to "the world as it should be, a world in which the poor, the hungry and the downtrodden will come into their own. "Where people will live in harmony with themselves, with others, with the world around them and with their God," he says. Bishop Gerry suggests many people will be at the contrast between this disturbed 46. of "the peace of Christ" and the interpretation I LS' aX1 --_ • I situation in which millions of the world's , * ti ' ' people live. atilt He says, "I am not One of the spectacular Christreferring only to those mas scenes on display in the who live in places that city this year was that of the theatres have become R and I Bank. The scene drew ADELAIDE "By the end of 1984, it is possible war.. but also to of such high praise it was used that the equivalent of twice the population of Mount people who are those also for the cover of the bank's Gambier will have been destroyed by abortion in landless,jobless,homestaff publication. South Australia since 1970." less and hungry. Archbishop Gleeson, made this For them, peace means no more than having something comment in a pastoral letter urging to eat, somewhere to live, Catholics to observe Wednesday, some way to make a living. December 28, the feast of the Holy This New Year, as for so long Innocents as a day of atonement in the past, even that will be for abortion. denied them. "If we are to be sincere in His comments are based on the wishing people peace at 13th annual report of the ParliaChristmas," he continues, mentry Committee. "we must make peace a goal It states there have been more to be achieved rather than than 42,000 reported abortions in simply a gift to be received." NEW YORK (NC) — If Martin Bishop Gerry urges people SA since 1970, including 4,059 in Luther were alive today "he to look on Christmas and 1 982. would redirect his artillery 180 New Year as a time of chal"What is so tragic is we seem to lenge, a time when "we not degrees," said the Reverend be taking this for granted." he said. only look back in gratitude to William 1-1 Lazareth at a celebration "Surely this is evidence of a the birth of Christ, but also c ommemorating the 500th look forward in hope to the widespread abortion mentality. anniversary of the reformer's time when His kingdom of birth. "Quite properly the media justice and peace will be fully

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"This time," Luther's attacks would be directed "not against the evangelical Catholicity of post-Vatican IIRome, but rather against the Pelagian peddlers of Protestant indulgences, pre-eminently among the television evangelists of the Electronic Church," said Dr Lazareth, pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in New York.

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Plea to Marcos MANILA — The bishops of the Philippines have asked President Ferdinand Marcos for "full restablishment of civil right, honest elections, freedom of the Press" and a willingness to listen to the needs of the people. The bishops warned of a "bloody revolution" if r epressive measures which violate basic rights are not ended. They added graft and corruption had alsoweakenedtheGovernment's credibility with the people.

has given its full support to a campaign to reduce our road accident rate with its destruction of human life, the crippling injuries and trauma which devastate so many families. "Fortunately, we are all becoming much more aware o f the terrible nature of modern warfare and especially of the possible consequences of nuclear war.

"Yet our society seems to he unheeding in this case of the devastation of human beings when they are most vulnerable - in the wombs of their mothers." A rchbishop Gleeson was principal celebrant at a special Mass in St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, on Wednesday.

Archbishop Leonard Faulkner gave the homily. December 28 is traditionally observed as the Feast of the Holy Innocents to commemorate the slaughter of the infants of Israel by order of King Herod in an attempt to murder the infant Jesus.

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established." The message concludes: "May God grant we all experience Christ's peace and have the courage to reach out to our brothers and sisters and share with them the gifts of hope and peace we have received."

VATICAN CITY (NC) Pope John Paul II on December 19 denounced as "a brutal act of cynical and mindless hatred" the t errorist bombing of Christmas shoppers in London two days earlier. The bombing, was also condemned by Irish Cardinal Tomas O'Fiach as "A monstrous crime against God and humanity. Cardinal O'Fiach, Archbishop of Armagh, Northern Ireland, and Primate of Ireland, said, "It was utter blasphemy to inflict such an appalling toll of death.

Did thepeace of Christ disturb you this Christmas? a sort of biblical code-word describing the way the world Being disturbed. It's like a toothache, perhaps a should be. A world without poverty, hunger and injustice. train strike or just another wet weekend — all things we can A world in which people are at peace with themselves, do without. with others, and with their God. But sometimes we need to rommommumaimmemiiimmoilmmusui To make this "peace of be disturbed, to be shaken out of our Australian Catholic Relief a Christ" reality needs a strong commithearts and apathy, to have our eyes 154 Elizabeth Street, Sydney 2000 from all Christians. response and ment opened a little wider to the injustice in I'd like to know more about your work LI I Not just to the hungry and oppressed, this world. but also to the lonely, the aged and the I'd like to help and enclose a donation To be disturbed by the handicapped, and the many others thought of 40,000 children dying each Name who suffer within our community. day from malnutrition, or by 15 million Address For the sake of a better world, homeless refugees. may the peace of Christ disturb you Yet each Christmas we still Postcode in 1984....and always. wish each other "the peace of Christ" I are td I

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Pope's address was timely, supportive The address by Pope John Paul II to a group of Australian bishops on their ad limina visit was very timely, supportive and reassuring. I t reaffirmed what has already been said by Vat II. Lumen Genttum, Evangelii Nuntiandi, Laborem Exercens and of course the Scriptures themselves. "The laity are called to manifest the faith of the pilgrim Church with confidence and joy." The word "pilgrim" is so important to being people of worship, a people of hope — the People of God Manylaityareendeavouring

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VATICAN CITY (NC) The papal secretary of state, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, has repeated the Vatican's willingness to mediate a resumption of US-Soviet negotiations on medium-range nuclear missile reductions. "I am convinced that the Holy See has the possibility of doing something," the cardinal said. Despite its extreme weakness in the political and military fields, "the Holy See enjoys in fact a vast moral prestige which can put it in a position to render dialogue possible," he added in brief remarks to journalists after celebrating a Mass for 400 members of a Catholic association of contractors. The secretary of state said that he did not expect that he would visit Moscow soon in a mediation effort, but that he was "ready to go anywhere if my presence is thought to be needed." In October, the pope had sent personal letters to US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Yuri Andropov stressing the importance of continued negotiations.

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from MARY GILCHRIST Paulian Association Sydney to apply the word of God to the situations of their real life. The contradictions between faith and life are extremely difficult, in some instances, to the point of suffering and oppression even here in Sydney. How often can stress or break -down of family life be traced to tensions caused by contradictions between our faith values and the situations in which we work. In his address Pope John Paul mentioned the need for adequate formation of the laity. This may come in many ways for the wide variety of the People of God but unless laity talk about the real situations at their place of work, at leisure, in thefamily, in the neighbourhood and "in many fields, including politics, the professional world, the social, economic and military spheres, the world of culture, science, the arts, international lifeand the extremely influential area of mass media,- their mission, given by Christ, to evangelise and renew the world, is incomplete. Faith is developed, made active and deepened by reflecting with Christ on these real life situations. No amount of books, lec-

laity based in the sacraments Laity formation is not necessarily geared for the geographical parish needs but to wherever a layperson is at any particular time Sadly many loving, concerned, involved and faith committed laity feelalienated because they are not seen as functioning within the parochial pattern

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Arab Information office dangers The Australian Government has approved the establishment of an Arab League Information Office. T he PLO is a ful l member of the Arab League. The Arab League is not an instrument of peace. Egypt was expelled fromthe League for signing a peace agreement with Israel. Australian Governments have consistently maintained that the PLO must recognise Israel; the PLO has refused. It has constantly called for the destruction of Israel. R eminds one of Hitler, doesn't it? The above Government decision is a major departure

Invitation to trouble from E.A. de RUYTER Noranda Heights f romAustralia'sfirmcommitment to Israel. Do we want PLO terrorists operating in Australia? In August 1983, Father J. Pawlikowski OSM helda talk in Sydney on "The Significance of the Holocaust for Christians". He spoke of the Christian, and Catholic, apathy and silence about this most horribly tragic historical event, both at the time and afterwards.

Are Australian Catholics going to repeat the mistakes made in Europe 40 years ago? Are we going to remain silent about the above Government decision because it doesn't yet, affect us personally? Perhaps we should remember that God, speaking about Israel, said "... for w hoever touches you touches the apple of my eye." ( Zech 2 : 8 )

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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. These people are in dire need of help. The survey revealed: 1 Average family income is $5.13 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

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from FRANK HRUBOS, Glen Forrest Sir, From Australia the statue of Our Lady of Fatima was taken to South Africa. The statue can be taken there unhindered and leave the country again unhindered. A similar statue is kept in Moscow in the compound of the US Embassy, more like a prisoner and not allowed to move freely in that country. South Africa is segregating the population according to the colour of the skin. The Soviet Union is segregating the population between believers and nonbelievers, between Russian citizens and other mostly minor nationalities, between the communist cadres and the "plebs", between the exemplary worker and the ordinary working class. It is not without coincidence that the totalitarian states are suppressing all religious beliefs and the more violent the totalitarian ideology the s tronger athe religious oppression. Even the little dictators are findingthemselvesonopposing sides with the religions On the other hand I see a much brighter prospect for the restoration of a nonsegregated society in South Africa where the churches are free to preach against the evils of segregation. This is not the case in the Soviet Union and the outlook f or restoration civil and religious liberties is nil These facts ought to be taken into considertaion by t he World Counci l of Churches and the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace

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Ignorance Much of their suffering is caused by ignorance. For example, parents know nothing about germs, and draw their water from the nearest well, stream or river, which is often polluted by

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animals. Naturally the babies and children come 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. Priests and nuns work under the most difficult and trying conditions to care for these people. They need financial assistance right now to provide these families with much needed education. Where village education have programmes been established, the results for the whole have community been little short of The spectacular. poor, the destitute,

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Briefs: MILAN — The actor Edmund Purdom

has won acclaim in the role of the Apostle Peter in a 53 -minute film for t elevision. The Jubilee Year of the R edemption. The 16mm colour film is a production of the TBS publishing house and has been presented at Mifed, the Milan international film, TV film and documentary market. Audiences were invited to a 53-minute TV version. A 90-minute edition for cinemas is to be made soon. There may also be a video cassette.

Czechs confer with the pope VATICAN CITY (NC) — C zechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Bohuslav Chnoupek conferred with Pope John Paul II in a 45 -minute meeting which could signal improvements in church -state relations. It was the first meeting between a pope and a high Czechoslovak government official since communist rule began in Czechslovakia at the end of World War II.

r—IBUENOS AIRES — The pope will 1---iprobably make his second visit to Argentina next year, according to the N uncio in Buenos Aires, Archbishop Calabresi Pope John Paul visited Argentina last year following his visit to Britain. On his visit the pope would also go to Paraguay, Archbishop Calabresi added, and would visit the lguacu Falls on the border of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. 0

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riBELFAST — The Rev Ian Paisley joined MPs from the other side of the religious and political divides when a new British Parliamentary Pro-life Group was launched Mr Paisley shares support for the group with Scottish Nationalist MP, Donald Stewart, and the artistocratic spokesman of the Catholic establishment, the Duke of Norfolk The group plans to fight encroachments on the life of the unborn, including abortion and some aspects of in-vitro fertilisation The initial meeting also had the chance to discuss a proposed a amendment to the UN declaration on 1959, which at the moment protects children from conception Plans are a foot to replace it with a non legally binding convention omitting mention of life before birth The group, which will keep close contact with the Society for the Protection of Un born Children and other pro-life groups, aims to change the law, to outlaw abortion

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SDA mount campaign W ASHINGTON (NC) — A campaign to urge President Reagan not to appoint an ambassador to the Vatican has been launched by the Seventh -day Adventist Church. The church, in a half -page advertisement published in The Washington Post, said Reagan, "for the sake of the nation, for the sake of the church," should not appoint an ambassador. The advertisement urged readers to call or write the White House on the issue. It also urged discussions on the issue with "friends, associates, your congressmen and fellow believers." Reagan signed legislation in November which lifted a century -old ban on formal diplomatic relations between the United States and the Holy See.

Czechoslovakia and the Vatican maintain no diplomatic relations. A series of annualmeetings between officials was broken off abruptly by Czechoslovakia in 1980 and has not been renewed. Leaders of the world Synod of B ishops, held last October, protested to the Czechoslovak government of President Gustav Husak because Bishop Jan Hirka of Presov, Czechoslovakia, was not allowed to leave the country to attend the synod. Czechoslovak periodicals have been bitterly denouncing Pope John Paul. In July, the Communist Party paper assailed the pope's foreign trips and accused the pontiff of trying to undermine socialism during his 1983 visit to his native Poland.

Priests shock drug discovery DUBLIN — Two priests who have studied drug addiction in the United States have reported Dublin has a higher level of addiction than anywhere in America, except perhaps Harlem in New York. The two priests, Father P aul Lavelle CC and Father Brian Power CC, had been sent by Archbishop Dermot Ryan of Dublin to study care and rehabilitation facilities in America. They found the problem in Dublin is unique in several respects. M ost notably, young children, aged from 10 upwards, are using drugs there. Father Lavelle said that for many of these children, heroin, which he described as "the most powerful addictive drug of

Notably all", is "the first drug of abuse" because of its easy availability on the streets. Equally unusual has been the speed with which the problem has gripped Dublin, where until three or four years ago abuse was seldom heard of. Unlike New York, Father

Addictions in Ireland pass US Lavelle revealed, many addicts in Dublin also distribute the drug. Having worked in the rehabilitation centres in America, both priests criticised the lack of facilities to help addicts in Dublin. They said there are no residential centres

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Also in July, two Franciscan priests in Czechoslovakia received prison sentences, one for having published a theological magazine a ndtheotherforhaving admitted a young man into the Franciscan order without government permission.

Vatican spy hunt ROME —Vatican officials are hunting for a "mole" who has been altering Vatican Radio broadcasts. In one case a tape of an interview with the Pope was apparently altered to give the impression that he fully supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH

tF THE SPIRIT

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Perspectives

Keeping the lines open

Prayer can be a problem to people. To find out why, we interviewed several educators. Some people are "shy about talking about prayer — it's personal," observes Suzanne Elsesser, a staff member at the South Bronx Pastoral Centre in New York City. "That makes it tough when they encounter difficulty with prayer," she said. "For shy people might find it very difficult to turn to anyone else for help." When people find it difficult to pray, Ms Elsesser r ecommends taking a look at one's prayer habits, possibly along the following lines:

Shouldpeople continue to pray even when God seems absent or far away? And what should they do when they feel that they've • 'Are you simply reciting words?' Katharine Bird By • 'Are you listening for God in a place you find When theologian Patricia tried to pray, but it hasn't worked out well? miniscampus a as c omfortable?' 10 years with working Davis started first experience. What are your expectations? Are you "expecting her In • ter. of by Sister week this Those questions are addressed see plan with 10 points outlined?" don't divine a frequently people her, the woman was involved in the connection between of the letters from Mercy Christine Allen. She quotes a difficult relationship which their "formal prayer and Theologian Theodore Hengesbach thinks that often "is not tied into human needs." existence." prayer daily British Benedictine Father John Chapman who had some c aused her great anguish. Therefore, in working with Prayer too also can be thought of in a way that is "to added. the adult groups, Ms Dreyer narrow" to fit with human experiene. he If there ever was a man of prayer, it was St Paul. down-to-earth advice for lay men and women: "Do what Preparing for baptism in engesbach is an administrator at Indiana University about prayer. talks H often Catholic Church, the woman using Jesuit Father Karl in South Bend, Ind. His letters give overwhelming testimony to the fact you can and what suits you in praying." Sister Allen is a of He thinks that praying won't be relevant to people told Ms Davis, "I've been praying R ahner's "mystique rethat prayer was woven into the very fabric of his The it "deals with issues" that are important to life." unless veryday e Montreal, in University relation- nowned German theologian them. "Prayer Concordia at my in professor problem philosophy aboutthis can help people deal with the hard intensely active life. questions of existence and with the broad range of pointed out that people are understand to trying and ship Canada. human emotions." he said. "Take anger, for instance. g as they go about By Father John J Castelot to teach me." prayin trying is what God activities, Anger is 'a basic human emotion,'" Hengesbach daily their of many natural a have do people that convinced Though instance, For "and God is strong enough to take it." noted explained. she praying been She added, "I've read: "All who are led by the through the Holy Spirit who times people make the mistake of thinking courageous in the "Some ing remain Spirit of God are sons (and has been given to us" aptitude for experiencing God, Trappist Father Thomas to turn won't feelings y m hardship can be they can only talk about the great things' of life with of face daughters) of God. You did (Romans 5:5). God, important issues like world peace,"said Patricia prayer. So can staying not receive a spirit of slavery One of our biggest prob- Keating knows about the problems of prayer, writes David hatred." a staff member with the US bishops' one's conscience to Davis, faithful leading you back into fear, lems is that we do not trust on the Laity. She recommends that because consequences. Mass ittee daily the attends Comm of spite number in a of In the course Yet Paul could admit but a spirit of adoption our Fatherenough to believe Gibson. One is the dificufty of putting one's experiences people try to relate with God the way they would Davis it is a "natural way of Ms Dreyer said it usually Ms conversations, of frankly that we do not know through which we cry out that, precisely as our Father, with a friend. "Friends want to hear about our testified she "saw a dramatic beginning the day," Hen- "makes sense" to adults to how to pray as we should. 'Abba' (that is, 'Father). he will always hear our i Faith Your Know the of editor is Gibson as concerns," she added, "and so does God." Somewords. explained. nto described gesbach ordinary prayer woman. hear the in change" In doing so, he gave voice The Spirit Himself gives prayer in a way calculated to times, after walking a mile "living in line with their Ms Davis also recommends developing the habit relaproblem the Though t o the common human witness with our spirit that serve our best interests. We series. of prayingregularly since this can help people through tionship remained much the to church, she "finds just values." The theologian bring really short-sighted experience: Prayer is not we are children of God." invigorating," spirittimes." She compared pray ing regularly with the is of there hisotry "dry being the s attitude woman's teache the same, easy. Elsewhere Paul writes: expectations to our prayers, idea some get to people four interviews Bird the Catholic he added. work required to carry on a friendship. at Katharine reached uality she and shifted Very few really worthwhile, "The proof that you are sons not always realising that if some significant insights Elizabeth Dreyer worked University of America in \. even necessary, things in life is the fact that God has sent they were really answered, people's different in plays prayer roles different the of about her own behaviour. extensively with adults for Washington, D.C. the spot, the on are are easy; still they forth into our hearts the or answered possible. The wonderful Spirit of His Son which cries long-term results might well lives. "Are there as many stories to tell about praying as thing is that God under- out 'Abba' (Father). (Gala- be disastrous. But God's view of reality is unobstructstands the inadequacy, the tians 4:6-7) there are Christians?" the associate editor of the Know weakness, and comes to aid The point is that, through ed, unlimited. us with His Spirit, who baptism into Christ, we The Gospels record many makes up for our deficien- receive the same Spirit parables of Jesus urging Your Faith series asks. 44 rifr'li % cies. The Spirit bridges the which animated Jesus and in perserverance in prayer. A. A Father John Castelot advises Christians to trust the chasm between us and the virtue of which He could THis can mean only that, as The young man was infinite. address God intimately as often as not, we shall be great anguish." ' 1 4 1 "in After difficult. when they find praying One may react to Paul's "Abba," the Aramaic term unable to appreciate the fact Lord to help them He was having expeassurance that "the Spirit a child used in addressing its that Godd is really listening. riences that he needed "the Spirit bridges the chasm So we must be persistent, all, the biblical scholar says, intercedes for the saints" father. to talk about, but he with a cry of impatience Drawn into the family of confident that as long as we Ms Davis is convinced that put them into prayer — her own and the couldn't bordering on despair. "But God as brothers and sisters keep the lines of communi- between us and God." guishes us most from Nothing in his

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-Walking is a kind of prayer for me," Theodore Hengesbach says. It "clears my mind and gives me time to lay out stuff and catch up on myself. - People pray as they go about many ordinary activities in their daily lives.

I am not a saint". of Jesus, we can cry out to cation open we will eventuThe fact is that, in the sense God with the same intimacy ally be ablew to realise that Paul uses that term, we are and confidence that Jesus he has indeed heard us. all saints. We have been brought to His prayer. Our In the meantime, we expecalled by God, set apart for hope of being heard is not rience the security that His honour and glory and in vain, for "this hope will comes from the conscious our own happiness, and that not leave us disappointed, awareness that he is indeed is what he means by a saint: because the love of God our Father, always present (that is, God's love for us) to us, always for our happone set apart. In Chapter 8 of Romans we has been poured out in our iness.

Down to earth advice

Father Chapman recom- do the best you can in "The rule is simple: Pray as you can and do not mends and still find that they darkness and humility." try to pray as you can't. Take yourself as you find are unsatisfied, dried up? He "If God does not wish us recognised this common to have peace, we must be yourself and start from that." satisfied with confusion, feeling:

"The trial of our contem- and that is peace, of an Father John Chapman By Sister Christine Allen, RSM poraries seems to be the elusive kind," the Benedicwrote these words in one of tine priest wrote. In all such his many letters to lay men then one must at least pray do what you can do and feeling of not having any cases people have to try to faith. ..a mere feeling that and women. Though not regularly. But the less one what suits you." accept what is happening extremely well-known in the prays, the worse it goes." He understood that for religion is not true...It is very and realise that to want to unpleasant," in he a wrote United States, some people The secret to praying some people vocal prayers pray is to pray. think that Father Chapman, regularly is to find an easily come easily, while others one of his letters. Finally, Father Chapman a Benedictine monk in accessible place where one might find it more natural to Father Chapman had believes that prayer, even England, was among the can be quiet, Father Chap- remain in complete silence. various ways to describe the the most dissatisfying kind, greatest experts on prayer in man thought. Some people Even more important, a painful state of feeling that is worthwhile. He suggested the modern world. He died find this in a church, others person ought not to worry God is absent even when one that even when a person in 1933. outdoors in nature, others in to much about levels of trys to pray: "If you are does not "feel' the good During World War I, a room at home. prayer, Father Chapman carried in our Lord's arms effects of prayer, others may Father Chapman was an feel it. In one of his letters army chaplain. Later he he wrote: "I am sure good became known for his work prayer must increase tenderas a biblical translator. ness and appreciation...and Finally he was to become the I am sure there is an irradiabbot of Downside Abbey ation from prayer." near London, England. For all his expertise, Father Chapman's advice A common probabout prayer was quite lem in prayer is down to earth, even when it when people beconcerned his own role. In But Father Chapman wrote. "that we ought to try you will seldom see His come discouraged one letter he talked about understood well the distrac- to do what we can and not face," he wrote. with trying to pray; what his role should be as tions that make regular what we can't." Or, "You are the block, God they feel unfula spiritual director for prayer difficult. He con- This advice of his was is the sculptor; you cannot filled, dried up. others: "As to direction, I cluded that it is important meant to combat the prob- know what He is hitting you Father John Chapthink most people at the not to force prayer, but to lems that develop when for, and you never will in this present day want very little accept our situation. people become discouraged life. man, an English of it. The good director is "One should wish for no about prayer. "The advice I All you want is patience, monk who died in like a nurse who teaches prayer except preceisely the give," Father Chapman trust, confidence, and He 1933, had various children how to walk alone." prayer that God gives us -- wrote, "is to renounce trying does it all. It is very simple ways of describing Despite that viewpoint, probably very distracted to do the impossible, and to — simplicity itself." the painful state of Father Chapman gave a and unsatisfactory in every take the only kind of prayer When one feels as though f eeling God is great deal of advice. Once he way," he wrote. which is possible." God is absent, as though absent even when wrote very simple: "The way Father Chapman had But what about those who God is hidden, Father one tries to pray. to pray well is to pray much. some concrete advice about try to develop the attitudes Chapman suggests: "Then If one has no time for this, how to pray: "As to method, that you take that as His will, and

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nising that the expewoman's and those of other words. By David Gibson t he rest of visible parishioners — helped the training or background riences might be creation. It is what woman change as she at- provided the words prayerful. desire to read any makes us human." life her all live needed tempted "to and phrases he A fter all, prayer rs — or anything Theproblemof prayin God" by sharing her to discuss the pro- outside the liturgy can praye else — during those er? Some might say struggles. Gradually the found spiritual expet ake many forms, moments. Furtherwoman was able to "go riences that had suited to different more, no words came the problem is simply beyond being hurt and entered his life. . Precon- to his mind, no matter lack of time, the need personalities wanting to strike back" to he In a small book ceived ideas of what how hard he tried. All to make time for it. being able to go on with her "The titled rote w p rayer should be he could hear was the O thers might say the life. problem of prayer is Ms Davis told that story to Heart of the World" might not fit the expe- music. the amount of noise Trappist sees sroad), she that how (Cros demonstrate riences of prayer The young man said prayer working in the lives Father Thomas Keatactually occur in the later it never occurred and the number of distractions that are of people. For her, it is ing tells the story of lives of some people. to him that listening to important not to separate this young man. He The story of another the monks sing might part of modern life and prayer from the daily pattern was like a man who young man illustrates that make solitude or b e his prayer. He silence difficult to o f life. Paraphrasing a was tongue-tied, says a that point. He was t hought praying come by. classic definition of prayer, Keating. student in a college she considers prayer a F ather meant "doing" someThose can be very "turning of the mind and W hat's more, the c onducted by the thing. The definitions problems. But eal r feelings man's young Benelarge a of monks heart to God." of prayer that he had Christian theology is are not uncommon. dictine abbey. This at his fingertips did preconceived ideas about what prayer Manypeople"expeanchored in Jesus becoming young man greatly ought to be — the man, she said. That means rience the unexpected loved music. So it "I don't look for God only invasion of God's wasn't at all strange forms it "should" take in special places or special presence every now to went often he that people." Instead "God is and then, but do not the abbey church for found in all people and His what to make of a few minutes in the will can be discerned in know ordinary life," Ms Davis it," writes Father Keating. "It can be stressed. the of staff scary. They are even the on is She U.S. bishops' Committee more scared to tell for the Laity. their friends for fear Theodore Hengesbach is they might be told, an educator who looks on 'You must be nuts. prayer as a buffer that helps Better go see a psychihim get through apparently atrist."' "dead-end situations." It is I think that with his custom, when responsifew thoughts, those weigh to bilities begin heavily on him, to seek relief Father Keating puts by taking a fast walk. He is his finger on two of a teacher and administrator the problems of prayer at Indiana University in today: — One problem — can be a problem South Bend, Ind. is the sense, or fear, evening to listen to the not fit the experience for some people too. "Walking is a kind of that prayer is an un- Gregorian chant as he was having. prayer for me," he says. It Father Keating sugpopular topic in some the monks sang the But isn't it at least gests that human be"clears my mind and given Liturgy of the Hours. worth thinking about? ings possess some me time to lay out stuff and quarters. A person catch up on myself." He might be reluctant to The monks' choir was Could his experience natural aptitude for added that having "his day discuss his experien- excellent and included be prayer? prayer. In other areas in court" leaves him more ces with friends, even fine solo voices. F ather Keating of human life, we've The young man said able to cope with problems. if he were perfectly grown accustomed to Hengesbach also talked able to put the expe- that he thought he writes in his book: "A about his mother-in-law's riences into words. ought to take advan- certain experience of pouring great energy into identifying the quite different experience — Another problem tage of these few God is quite common with prayer. For her, prayer aptitudes of individupopulation." in the church difficulty of minutes in the is a motivating force to get is the als — the aptitudes of And: "Our capacity prayers some say to own her dressed and out of the putting one's en in school, for childr is transcendent for the house in the morning. A e xperiences into while listening to the ple. exam distinwhat precisely no had he But choir. widow living alone, she words, or even recog5, 1984 9 January — 1983 30, The Record, December

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Nella loppolo has a winning way with cakes. Her art is the kind which makes one's mouth water . . . and it has proved a long and satisfying hobby and a prizewinner at Perth's Royal Show. For Nell loppolo has become one of the state's leading cake decoraters . making a hobby into a definite art f orm.

There's no denying that Nella loppolo, of Woodlands wants to have her cake . . . but she certainly doesn't expect to eat it too. This talented lady is a whizz when it comes to c ake decorating, a hobby she started just four years ago but one which saw her takeout four firsts, a third and t wo seconds at this year's Royal Show. It's painstaking, eyetiring work but she loves every minute of it, even though they may run into millions. She worked day and night, averaging 18 hours a day, to prepare her entries for the Show. There may have been momentary thoughts o f wishing herself anywhere but at the kitchentable,laboriously making yet another flower, but they didn't last long. Walking into her kitchen there's the rich smell of freshly baked fruit -cake;

A regular feature

by U4DSIL% LOSS 'Why ice a cake if it isn't delicious to eat as well," she says. The table boasts a 'before and after scene with a large lump of soft icing, sitting patiently to the side of a cardboard box filled with plump prepared blooms . rosebuds, tiny orchids and odelicate frangipani It's a

softly coloured garden with its own sweet perfume Her young daughter's birthday cake sits on the counter — a Mr Pig's House, f ull of fun and fantasy. Novelty cakes are not a favourite with Nella but she did enjoy making this one Behind it is one of her Royal Show winners. Ifs an elaborately iced cake with a WA theme. If you look closer you'll spot the letters WA' worked in gold into the intricate net of lacework which billows from its sides. Husband George is still at a loss to understand what k eeps her at the table, working well after midnight, but he cares enough to build her a 'cake room' out the back which will make her task much easier. In the four years since she began Nella has seen her 'mildinteresfincakedecorating grow to an all-consuming passion. She hopes to begin teaching in 1984. A lways interested, but never motivated to do anything about it, she saw a 'pixie house' at a friend's home one day and made the comment that she would love to be able to decorate a cake like that. It wasn't long before she enrolled for lessons, and after a brief time of instruction was told by her teacher that she would have a 'great future'. At the time she believed it was just being said to encourage her but to anyone who sees her work today it is obvious that she possesses a rich and natural artistic talent. "Many of the women doing the course at 'tech' wouldn't do anything in between lessons, but I always went home and practised what we had learned," she said. She continued with the lessons until 1983 but had enough skill and confidence to enter the Amateur section of the 1982 Royal Show. With her five entries she took out four firsts and a third.

Neils loppolo, works on yet rosebud, just one of the thousands she has made since she started cake decorating four years ago. In the background is the bridal posy which won her a prize in the 1983 Royal Show.

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After a win in the Amateur section she was able to move into Open the next year, preparing entries for Wedding Cake, Christmas Cake, WA Theme, Child's Novelty, Christening Cake, Cake for M an or Boy and Bridal Bouquet or Posy. It was an enormous workload and one, she says which she won't shoulder again.

but doesn't mean eating them too

Eyetiring and painstaking.•• but she loves every minute "I certainly won't enter as many sections at the one time again," she said. "It really takes over your life. I used to be a house fanatic, now I'm a cake fanatic " Her success at the Show, she says, is due in part to originality. "You do get extra points for being original so I spend a lot of time working out what I am going to do. I go through lots of scribbling pads working out designs and once I've reached that stage I can bake up the shapes." •Mair•••••••••••••••••

Designs can be worked out months before, but cakes cannot be baked until the Showgrounds publishes its book specifying competition rules and sizes. 'That comes out about two months before the Show, ' she said. "You can do a lot

of the work through preparing decorations and making the ornaments. Flowers take three-quarters of the time." The hardest part, says Nella, is covering the cake with plastic icing. "If you can get a hundred per cent cover then you need very little decorative work. If the cover isn't good then you have to do a lot more decoration to hide it. -The fine lacework is easy but marking is a devil of a thing, trying to get your cake even." Ifs like working with play dough, she says. And just as much fun by the look of it. The 'dough' is made from icing sugar, gelatine and glucose.

-You get a much better finish with cutters because all the petals are even but it takes longer than doing it by hand and is more painstaking. "If you do a flower by hand you take the piece of icing dough and mould the flower in one piece. If you use a cutter for the petals then you have to make the flower up bit by bit . . the stem, the bud, the centre . everything.

A lot of work is done by hand but Nella now uses cutters to make her flowers

-You can't start a rose and finish it in a day, you have to do it in stages. I could make six roses in a day, but I would be working all day," Nella said. Few people realise, she says, the amount of time that goes into cake decorating. "You will never be paid for your time," she said. "I guess if I worked it out I'm earning

around 50C an hour, but I do it for the love of it as well. "It takes me three weeks to do a wedding cake properly. I don't do many cakes, probably two a month, but sometimes I'm busier than others. I love the work because everything is done by me, by hand, from beginning to end. I might have a day off now and again and sometimes when I'm tired I wonder why I ever get involved, but most of the time you can't keep me away." A three-tier wedding cake can cost anything from $150 to $250 and a Christening cake usually sells for arourd $ 60. They are nominal charges, says Nella, and pay for her ingredients, equipment and perhaps a little extra for her time. But, as a mother of three, Angelia, 17, Jason, 7, and Virginia, 4, she finds it is a

Senator Baume said. He said the dual system of education was valued by parents because they saw within the alternative system of non-government schools a sense of mission and discipline and because they were disturbed by the activities of teacher unions in schools as well as outside schools. "Parents see educators as trustees, on behalf of society, with the care of their children. "They do not see them as chosen or self-appointed agents of social change. "One of the reasons that parents want to have nongovernment schools available across Australia in increasing numbers is because parents believe their children are being indoctrinated with values which they do not share and which they are d,etermined to reject. "Many parents sheet these unacceptable values home to t he militants within the teachers' federations and to those who would use the education system for the achievement system for the achievement of a union's or a government's ideological goals."

Bishop Kelly was asked from the floor by Mr Peter Rorke of the Committee for the Defence of Non-Government Schools how the average Australian was to know who was the official spokesperson of the Catholic Church on education when Senator Ryan referred to letters from the director of the Victorian Catholic Education Office, Father Tom Doyle. his associate, Mr Vin Faulkner. and Archbishop Carroll, Auxiliary of Sydney, as supporting her position and yet the Australian and Victorian Catholic Bishops had expressed contradictory views to Senator Ryan. In reply, Bishop Kelly said he believed that there had been some confusion in the minds of some Catholics and that was to be deplored. "If it comes to a showdown, I have got to say this: it's not what any Catholic Education Office says, it's what the bishops say that counts," he said. The president of the Victorian Parents Council, Mrs Margaret Gartland, said a child's right to government support for his own education

stemmed from "the inherent value of the child as a human being." She said if even one child from a school, "so falsely labelled wealth", was considered to have no right to such support then no one had. "Commitment of parents to non-government schooling for their children often means great sacrifices by many families," she said. "The children are being denied other educational advantages taken for granted by their friends who attend government schools. "The policy is a lop-sided policy. "Children in government schools are assured the cost of their schooling will be subsided to the full 100 per cent, irrespective of the income of their parents. "On the other hand, grave discrimination still exists even against children in the lowest resource non-government schools of many hundreds of dollars. "It is ironic that moves by Labor governments, traditionally concerned with the well-being of the low income and the disadvantaged,

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Schoolboys see role of priests

perfect 'job cum hobby.' "It's something I can do and still be home with the kids and that's what I like. "It can be expensive if you want to get everything that comes out. . and most cake decorators do, but it is a very satisfying and rewarding hobby."

It's something, she says, that gives pleasure not only tothe person who makes and decorates the cake, but also to all who see it, and perhaps more importantly, to all who eat it. The Cake Decorating Association of Western Australia recognised her talents last May when they asked her to represent the State at a cake decorating seminar in Canberra. In the following July she was asked by the Technical and Further Education Department to spend two days instructing teachers and when the Royal Show was on she gave public demonstrations on extension and lace work and the making of ornaments. Born in Italy, Nella (then De Stefano) came to Western Australia when she was four years old. Her father had been captured in Libya and was working on a farm in WA as a prisoner of war. At the end of the war he brought his family out to settle on the land at Narembeen.

Young Nella went to school at Mount Walker and then attended business college in Perth, before marrying George loppolo, raising a family and discovering her hidden talents.

BRISBANE — What do senior students want of the priesthood in the world t hey are about to enter? I nterviews by the B risbane Cathol ic newspaperTheLeader with Year 11 and 1 2 Brisbane students, boys and girls, turned up some extremely perceptiveanswers— and one disturbing indicator for the future. The interviews were part of The Leader's investigation of the decl ine in priestly vocations. O verwhelmingly, young people look to their priests first of all as exemplars — - someone who is the p erfect Christian, - to quote one student. They also want to see the priest out in the community, especially as a healer of rifts, a reconciler, and someone with answers. And they want him as a friend. B ut after making clear their perhaps surprisingly lofty expectations of their priests, they also showed an extremely perceptive appreciation of them as human —"just likeeverybody else." They understood, too, the amount of work the priest has to do — "it's a 24 hours a day job." They would like to see priests relieved of some administrative duties.

They were unanimous as t o where they would concentrate their efforts if t hey themselves were priests: helping the needy. However, disturbingly, not one of the boys interviewed was then giving serious t hought to becoming a p riest. What they saw as the commitment demanded by the priesthood was clearly a deterrent. Celibacy, however, was not a major issue They s eemed to regard it as a nother aspect of the overall commitment As one boy said. "When you think about it, anyhow, it's practical, considering all the things the priest has to do." These were the dominant, a lthough not the only t hemes that came from our interviews, based on these questions. How do you see the role of t he priest in your time? What would you like to do a s a priest? Have you t hought of becoming a priest? This is how two of the young people responded: Michael Mullins, Year 12, of Villanova College Coorparoo, Brisbane, saw the role of the priest as one of servicetothecommunity— also with nuns, the gobetween from the Church organisation to the general body of the Church. "Priests won't change in the immediate future, but I think there will be gradual c hanges in the priesthood," he said.

Bishop slams policy

• From page 2 nexus and legislation to restrict development of new non-government schools and the expansion of existing non-government schools had eroded parents' trust in Senator Ryan. "Senator Ryan will have to persuade us with more than fine words there is not some hidden agenda," he said. "We all know of the open agenda held by so many of the ALP supporters, supporters not just in terms of philosophy but in financial commitments before the last election — the teachers' federations, including the NSW Teachers' Federation, the Australian Council of State School Organisations. "Their goals are, first, to contain the non-government school system and prevent its expansion; second, to impoverish part of the sector — to drive people out by economic deprivation; third, to create an atmosphere of badwill towards private schools over State Aid issues, and fourth. to move steadily towards setting up an environment in w hich the integration of schools becomes more likely,"

should restrict choice to the wealthy and the heroic," she said. The parents' representative on the platform. a company director, Mr Barry Everingham, told the meeting that the Federal government was "hell-bent on reducing everyone to its self-determined lowest common denominator." "It is determined by hook or by crook to remove the flexibility of education and eventually reduce all state and privately educated children to a grey existence in a grey atmosphere taught by grey comrades with grey minds," he said.

"It might take them a generation or two to achieve this. "If we let them get away with their current plans, every parent who values the freedom of choice in education will be very disappointed," he said. Mr Everingham vigorously rejected Senator Ryan's accusations in the Age just before the meeting that the organisers of the meeting represented the "extreme right" in politics, as a smokescreen to hide its concern at the

Federal government's education policies. "Right-wing, reactionary, political, wealthy, elite, divisive — none of those words apply to us.

"Frankly it's offensive they have been used in the present context. "Caring, responsible, concerned are words which apply to all parents whether their children are in the state or the independent system." At the end of the meeting. Senator Ryan said she would consider the points raised at the meeting and discuss them with her colleagues. "It seems to me there is still a lot of apprehension." she said. She said the Federal government had to circulate "factual information" about its policies. Senator Ryan said there was a genuine concern about how future funding would work and the firmness of the footing on which the future of non-government schools should be based. "There is genuine concern about people being given enough support to be able to

exercise their right to choose," she said. The secretary of the Democratic Labor Party. Mr John Mulholland, asked Senator Baume whether parents could expect the Liberal Party to introduce a policy of equality of funding for all children. Senator Baume said if there was 100 per cent funding of non-government schools integration of government and non-government schools would follow quickly and inevitably. "You must be cautious," he said. "While 100 per cent funding is desirable in terms of theory and equity. the political consequences will be integration of schooling. "For that reason I will not be recommending to my colleagues that we move to 100 per cent funding." He said the Liberal Party policy on education, which was yet to be completed. would contain a commitment to a basic educational grant for each child and a commitment to support the percentage link in determining funding.

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Father Stephen has been cared for by the Little Sisters of the Poor at Glendalough. "Nobody will ever appreciate what the Benedictines achieved in such a harsh climate with very little support from anyone outside of New Norcia. "1 still have very fond memories of my time among the Aboriginals Father Maur has also been chaplain to the girls' boarding college. St Gertrude's for a number of years as well as guestmaster in the monastery and curator of the New Norcia Museum. "My dreams for New Norcia are three-fold: a) to be a centre for Catholic education in the State, b) a place in which liturgical renewal may be witnessed and. c) where monasticism and the religious life may bear witness to a world desperately in need of guidance and light."

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The funeral Mass on WedOn Sunday, December 18, Specially gifted musically debt, had won a place of Sister M. Bertrand passed and academically, Hilda honour among the Catholics nesday, 21st December, was celebrated by Bishop Healy. peacefully to her reward at had a brilliant school career Girls' Colleges of W.A. Christos Nursing home which culminated in her On her return to Victoria Many generations of exwhere she had lived in gaining an Exhibition in the Square in the 1960's, Sister pupils of Santa Maria and retirement for the past six Classics (Latin and Greek) concentrated on teaching Victoria Square were presyears. On January 25 she in her matriculation year. At music, something she had ent. May she rest in peace. would ha‘e reached her the University of W.A. she always longed to do. majored in Latin and Greek. ninetieth year. Hilda Mary Corbett, the When she gained a Master's Greyhounds — with daughter of James Corbett Degree in English Literature The Record Tipster and Helen Corbett (Bolade- in 1924, she had the distincros) was educated at Our tion of being the first woman Lady's College, Victoria Religious to win such an honour. Square. Until 1937 Sister M. Bertrand taught at Victoria Square. Generations of students remember with gratitude and admiration this gentle, unassuming Sister who was a born Race ONE: 1 Dark Sierra. Race SIX: 1 System Six. 2 teacher of remarkable 2 Chic Cola. 3 Kullaroo Kid. Terrific Force. 3 Suntino Race TWO: 1 Blue Francis. R ace SEVEN: 1 Black versatility. 2 Mad Jack. 3 Rippers Pick. Cannon. 2 Khana's Flash. 3 As the first Principal of R ace THREE: 1 Flying Monaco Tiger. Santa Maria College in General. 2 Daville's Pride. 3 Race EIGHT: 1 Chinese Chief. 2 Boundless Gold. 3 1937, Sister used all her Flash Lady. Briony's Legend. Race FOUR: I Leica Ruin. R ace NINE: 1 talents to establish this Rowan's school in a difficult period. 2 Tema's Blue. 3 Dapple Reward. 2 Soft Vader. 3 Rose. Dangerous Adios. Because of her dedication R ace FIVE: 1 Leica's Image. Race TEN: I Alfred's Choadministrative sound and 2 Boundary Rider. 3 Su- ice. 2 Astbury Rose. 3 Spicy ability, the school, free of preme Carmen. Gem.

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Good year for YCS 1983 has been a year of establishing the Tertiary Young Christian Students movement in the Perth diocese, as a movement of the Church, andin the tertiary world as a student movement. Lynette Dundon (3rd Year This year we have students Welfare practice student) from the University of WA, and Anne Harris (for a WA Institute of Technology, second year) to the position M urdoch University, of fulltimer for the moveChurchlands and Nedlands ment. We look forward to Teachers College. extending the movement to The students are very all campuses in 1984 in an concerned to be a Christian presence in the tertiary r esponsibility and shared ment in producing a campus TYCS has a role in provid- a ttempt to reach more student world, and thus they power at all levels of the broadsheet at the University ing religious education for students with the message of have put a lot of effort into education system. TYCS of WA and sponsoring a tertiary students. Since Christ. 400j t heir campus by being believes in the philosophy week of meeting on the T YCS is a very young We are based at the Catholinvolved in their classes, that "students are apostles Catholic Commission's movement we have learnt a ic Youth Offices and are with education issues, with to students" and thus their Justice and Peace statement lot this year about movement looking forward to hearing structures that best serve the from students at tertiary the student guild and course faith is made relevant in "Changing Australia". TYCS has learnt a institutions. their students. actions taken on the discovered have Students ssociations. a M any students are in campus in concern for other this year the need to contin- great deal this year about ually educate themselves in how the movement can be TYCS would like to express leadership positions on the students. their faith, to understand the responsibility of students its thanks to all those who councilguild as campuses helped TYCS's devellors, course and year repre- TYCS believes that it has more clearly the message rather than just the worker have by support, encoursentatives. TYCS has been successful in making a Christ brought to us about which we hope to implement opment and financial agement 1984. in further as live should how we in to campus life to difference members its encouraged We must also tions. contribu highwas This be a christian force on 1983 by its members diverse Christians. lot for express our happiness at campus by promoting alter- actions, its links with other lighted in our October camp We hope to gain a Brother Don Wedd being native values of co-opera- tertiary Christian move- which focused on developing 1 984 by attending the appointed our national Council National Second faith. personal tion, participation, co- ments and by joint involve- our for TYCS to be held from chaplain in 1984. Don has January 6-13 in Melbourne. made a considerable contriAbout five students will be bution to Perth TYCS for attending this conference in many years as our patient January and hope to gain a assistant, bus driver and great deal for themselves most importantly friend of and also for the Perth all the students. Jenny Barnard Isometimes wonder why spoke of reaching out to movement. We wish him luck in the 88 Newborough Street youth organisations exist. others, going forth and Ann Harris T YCS recently elected future. karrinyup 6018 Amidst too many phone bringing others to what we calls and things to get done have. And what we have is Iwonder why I'm part of it that warmth, the closeness! felt at that rally. It's worth all: is it all worth it? A t the CYC Youth Rally! the phone calls and organisgot my answer. ff,Patching ing if it means that every maybe 500 with glowing now and thenIcan feel the faces, reflecting the God God within me and the God within them. I got my within others andshare with 1983 has been a very fulltimer who is the central spiritual development of a two year term as a fulltimer away from some of the them as part of a Christian significant year for the co-ordinator of the move- core group in a youth group. at the beginning of De- structures that have become answer. Listening to those voices community. There were a number of cember. Both worked very familiar and comfortable, C atholic Parish Youth ment. singing, seeing the way so I know this sounds Movement. Also our method of leader- events held throughout the hard in their respective roles but CPY is a young movemany of our organisations schmaltzy and waxeslyrical, It saw the beginning of a ship training was changed. year that gave us some and we thank them for all ment. still growing and got together. I could see but Ireally mean it. Iam r estructuring that was Previously we trained young wonderful highlights. The t heir efforts and their some changes are needed to glad to be part of what we needed if the movement was people by means of Key river cruise, quiz night and commitment to CPY. The meet this growth and develwhat it was all about. opment. As always we place The Archbishop and the have as young Christian to continue answering the gala ball were all extremely our trust in God and pray priest who gave the sermon people. enjoyable social evenings. needs of parish youth for His continued guidance. A lso the Diocesan and groups effectively. Finally the members of Regional Christian Living At the end of 1982 CPY's Catholic Parish Youth Camps gave participants central team accepted the would like to extend warm opportunities to share, grow r ecommendations of a thanks to all who have at in and learn more about planning sub-committee sometime over the past year their faith in an atmosphere and began implementing devoted time and effort to of Christian community. them at the start of this year. The major changes have Leader Camps but this year The fulltimers this year new fulltimer for the south- our movement and the been the division of the saw the first leadership were Julia Pickering (north- ern region is Julie Della spreading of Christ's mesOn the weekend on tory opened doors for self- metropolitan area into two f ormation programmes ern region), Tony Dolin Franca, and we welcome her sage. November, 25-27 the examination. Encourage- working regions, northern being run in a number of (southernregion)andBarba- and offer her our prayers We wish you all Joy and was given for any and southern. The roles of parish youth groups. The ra Willcock (diocesan). and support during her PeacethroughouttheChristKum Ba Yah campsite ment discovery to be shared and the three fulltimers were aim of these 10 week pro- Joanne Malkovic ended term. mas Season and 1984. at Waterman became left open to comment. The Barbara Wilcock the meeting place for result was a mutual respect consequently reviewed and grammes is not only to teach her term as central co- 1984 will see some more Diocesan Fulltimer skills but also to ordinator in March and restructuring within CPY. It leadership regional two have now we about 20 post school for the differing views on 328 8136 fulltimers and a diocesan facilitate the personal and Tony Dolin completed his will be hard to step further youth and young adults. Christianity. Pie Searcher Camp. orga- Talks given by Father Reg nised by the Youth Encoun- A hern prompted much ter Movement, which has its thought. Topics included base at the North Perth the importance of the Rite Monastery, was attended by of Reconciliation and the those young Catholic people need for communication willing to work at faith with Christ in every-day living through prayer. renewal. As I was talked into going As the camp progressed. I I pray that all leaders, forming young people the day when one is fresh at the last minute, I wasn't became aware of a sense of and not so young, young that energy. of full recognise will and also exerfellowship n expect. Christia sure what to involved in the youth once the initial signs of During the opening hours cised through willing particI think some aspects of apostolate will strive in success fade, the real of the camp. I found partic- ipation in a spiritually life are like hiking, or as to attain new and '84 youth the of business The environment. of All familiar ipation to be the key. the adage claims — when better means of reaching apostolate is about startus became involved in a unity instilled a sense of the going gets tough — young people through ing again; it's about series of well-conceived belonging. the tough get going. many programmes the renewed with persevering unwith only camp the could activities which I left Like hiking, the start of and movements available confidence and hope. It's be described as enjoyable known expectations fulfilled. a new project is usually in our archdiocese. not a solitary effort. and amusing. Ranging from For some, the joy of selfaccompanied with joy but be to feet some into 5000 the about is 1983 rediscovered. the impromptu introductory honesty was and enthusiasm. The valley, soaked in the a memory of 1984. games to hymn singing — For others, a better combeginning of a relationbreathtaking view, the Looking back at joys with an abundance of guitars munication with God had ship glows with the sudden change of climate and trying to forget and players on hand — one been achieved. The camp freshness of romance. is a the and on rest enjoyed darkness of moments couldn't help but be enthu- proved to be a great opporThe beginning of a new bank of the roaring a common pastime in siastic. The usually encoun- tunity to take a break from is full of hope and year River. Colorado perhaps but life, every tered barriers broke down routine, slow down and promise. the hard came a of Then more so at the start quickly and an informal examine, as well as have a part, the climb out of the Sometimes one finds new year. atmosphere was created. A great time and meet new canyon. Signs warned of the going gets tough with A happy memory for renewed ability to commun- people. In the closing hours the burden of repetitious the difficulties ahead and me of 1983 is recalling the icate also began to develop. of the camp, I believe that tasks; disillusionment hikers to carry urged hiking of xperience e responlevel, new a time On a different the group felt sets in and unfortunately, sufficient water. alone into the Grand was allowed for the neces- sibility to be a Christian, and The climb out of the sometimes breaks up Canyon while on holisary moments of quiet have little fear of practising relationships. Unexpectv alley was slow and days with relatives in reflection, the fruits of which it in today's modern society. ed tragedies cut short our arduous. It is the reverse America. were discussed in smaller All in all, a great time was hopes and dreams and of climbing a mountain; The 15 kilometre downgroups. Activities such as had by everyone concerned. even set us back on our where the difficult part of hill trail on that clear making a magazine collage tracks. the climb, the ascent, is spring morning was a e xpressing God's effect on Liana Simms, with Ian Those associated with, made at the beginning of breeze.I had descended yourself, and the filling in of McCabe a Personal Resource Inven- 444 8159 The Record, December 30, 1983 — January 5, 1984 13

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• Michael Holly isa mechan- The Writings of ical engineer, not a spy. Gandhi, A selection • He is in Moscow to clinch a business deal — and edited by Ronald deliver a package for West- Duncan, published ern intelligence. by Fontana, $8.95. • Holly is arrested by the Gandhi's importance lies this he saw himself as more that conflicts of interest the world. KGB, an innocent caught in the deadly machinery of in his fearless preaching of than a visionary. "Iclaim", c ould, and should be Ronald Duncan's selecthe doctrine of non-vio- he wrote, "to be a practical resolved without violent tion of Gandhi's writings espionage. idealist." confrontation has increas- contrasts the doctrines of H olly is sentenced to lence. He believed that perman- Gandhi's ideas have acingly been shared by the religious thinker with fifteen years of hard labour — fifteen years in the living ent good can never be the quired an international individuals and by peace the details of the daily life movements throughout of the modern prophet. hell of a Siberian labour outcome of force, and in appeal: his determination camp. And in every situation, he The cold, the crippling elucidates the universal hardship and the starvation truth at the centre of his are enough to break the life: that 'the dignity of spirit of most men. And man demands obedience Michael Holly has had no to a higher law — the training, no preparation for This Land Of Promise, The Ursuline Order In Australia strength of the spirit.' the ordeal he faces. 1882-1922, by Pauline Kneipp, published by University of • But he will not be crushed. • His lone campaign of New England History Series. resistance awakens the ReviewedbyPatrickO'Far- the New England area, but emphasis on the intellect courage and spirit of his rell in the Australasian it is nevertheless heartening and on a liberal education fellow prisoners. to have tangible evidence, in for young women, did much Catholic Record • Together they can fight t he publication of this t o widen the Church's It is a particular pleasure to back. Together they can take history, of a co-operative tendency towards a narrow Francis And Clare.- The Complete Works, translated and on the guns, the tanks, the welcome the centenary community enterprise. engagement of those areas. sheer might of their oppres- history of a religious order by RegisJArmstrong, OFM Cap, andIgnatius CBrady, edited It is a plain but which is not only written The Ursuline sisters in sors — and win. inspiring story, well told, of OFM SPCK, 9.50 pounds stg. with their origins Australia, with a high level of profes• And Camp 3 will never be sional competence but in Italy, and their immediate d edication, intelligent the same again. Prospective buyers may be varyingfrom the versions of adopted hut such was her published by a University derivation from Bismarck's initiatives, hard work, and put offby the cover. With its the Rule of the Friars strength of character that spent. well lives prayerful Germany, represent hostile PublishingUnittheimplicaboldprint Francis and Clare Minor, his testaments to his she was prepared to defy tion that the work of reli- an element of healthy The author takes goodness an impressionist followers, The Canticle of papal attempts to soften the bordering gious is an important and European diversity in the for granted in assuming it as style painting of the two the Creatures, down to ideals she had made her something than rather given, Australian Irish heavily Australian aspect of central saints, it may be thought small notes penned to own, andin the endshe won. social and educational religious scene. Indeed their to be demonstrated in any that the contents could be individuals. He didnot leave Thefour lettersfrom Clare her history is one too seldom growth and popularity raise fulsome way: this gives Hold Back The Night, taken and acted upon, and — as does the impact of book, and the story of one more romantic treat- a coherent body of spiritual to the Princess Agnes of ment of the relationship teaching: that would have Prague, daughter of the byA bra Taylor,published this book is thus of special other non-Irish religious Australia's Ursulines, an air been typical of the man. two great souls. between businessKing of Bohemia. are only significance. In this case, of forces — interesting ques- of practicality and by Fontana, $5.95. The literary legacy left by However, earlier editions a fraction of what was which nonsense no like alleged Irish about the tions has course, its contribution second century Francis has been printed in have suffered from the fact obviously a long corresponHold Back The Night is a been also of local and natural dominance of Aus- promises a less useful, and many editions and several that the compilers were dence. Agnes became a Poor come, no to religio-cultural tralia's that importance in regional romance. It has everything down to earth and languages over the years: it working from imperfect Clare and established the as both environment. The Catholic has been College romance readers could hope St Ursula's as the first. is made up of fragments, source documents, and Order in central Europe. heaven, to up for -- love, lost and won, well known for a century in spirit of the order, with its since their works appeared drama and heartbreak, new writings of the saint (Reviewed by Howard courage and final happiness. have been discovered. The Docherty, OFM, in The Hold Back The Night is editors acknowledge their Universe.) written with sensitivity and debt to the work of the late passion. It has a power and Father Kajetan Esser, intensity that will involve OFM, whose masterly In Sacraments The and delight its readers. volumes are beyond the The Christian Life, by reach of the ordinary reader. John F McDonald, pubI n this compilation the lished by St Paul Publieditors have addedhis great cations, (4.94 pounds more widely than the new violate the Sunday rest II will come to it as to an old scholarship to their own and Meditations Of A the result is a definitive text Hermit, by Charles stg). and long absent friend. canons which regulate the (p50). de Foucauld, transThe long-awaited new sacramental life of the The other main plank of New laws in an old setting. made readable. A Stranger In The Code of Canon Law was Church, Mgr McDonald this book is papal teaching. However, that approach The arrangement of the lated by Charlotte House, by Patricia Mac- published earlier this year by uses them as his starting So much so, that Pope John runs the risk of appearing items in chronologicalorder Balfour, published is helpful, showing some donald, published by the Vatican. Since then point and constant theme. Paul is quoted for anything negative. For example, the development of the saint's by Bums and Oates, without a three pages up to chapter preliminary a After articles and commentaries, Fontana, $4.95. opening sentence of the thought. But what comes 3.50 pounds stg. conferences and study days defining a few basic terms he break. chapter on Holy Orders Charlotte Balfour has approved (p128) reads: "The dignity out of the whole is simply A nerve-shattering new have been seeking to explain examines each of the Sacra- Other popes and translated a collection, Assisi — impulF rancis of fair have their also new authors of the the light ments in and equality which all the novel. Everyone agreed this new codification of the which largely consists of law and draws some pastoral share of quotation space. faithful share by reason of sive, poetic, even in prose. Anna would never see her Church's law. book their Baptism(cf.c.208)does He is no stylist, probably letters and meditations feel of the overall example, The for conclusions; Church's of the area No son again. One moment he and law. not entitle them to perform because he found words that Charles de Foucauld was happily playing in the institutional life can remain guidelines for the examina- is of authority Syria, when Anyone familiar with the any task whatsoever in the were inadequate to express wrote from garden, the next he was untouched by the new Code, tion of conscience (p100), on retreat in Nazareth, his vision of God. knitting sacramental courses taught Church." that opinion the and Sacraments. all the of least gone. Clare de Offreduccio was and a collection of notes seminaries before Vatican Ten years later Paul was Though his book ranges not done for profit does not in o fafamily used to authority, and letter written at Apart from a sense of coming home. And on the repression, one finds it hard from the minor nobility in various other times and day Paul returned, fear to reconcile this view with Umbria. Sadly her writings places. walked through the door. The writings are powerVatican II's clear statement that have survivedarefew in Someone still wanted Anna's that all the faithful have a number — her Rule for her ful, Scripture-soaked son. Someone who would of the best lished by Fontana, $5.95. right and duty to participate Sisters and her Testament, and rich in penetration not give up until Paul was A nn Petrie's Sun Signs, A powerful epic in the life meaning of the in the liturgy by reason of plus a small number of dead and gone — this time published by Fontana, traditions of storytelling. This is the ninth title in the their Baptism and words of Jesus — (cf. Constitu- letters. Molly O'Dowd would not e xtremely successful Pol$4.50. forever. and of the minds of his tion dark series. It follows the on the Liturgy, more n. But they are the 14). Ann Petrie's Sun Signs be denied or ignored, she precious since so little of her friends. covers the feeling side of would settle only for suc- story of Ross and Demelza, In The Sacraments in the authentic work has hitherto One feels that for most against a background of cess. friendastrology — love, Christian Life the chapter been identified andprinted. "ordinary readers" — if turbulence as armies battle ship, family, colleagues, The Private Eye Story, by on Baptism contains no The real Clare that emerges such there be — the insecurities, hopes and Patrick Marnham, pub- in Spain and the political reference to the text of the from this small deposit meditations are best situation at home becomes lished by Fontana, $14.95, dreams. rite and it lacks a full bears no resemblance to the taken in small portions. This Is The SAS, by Tony In this book the author daily more obscure. treatment of the symbolism fictionalised sugar-coated As Rene Bazin observes The Semonov Impulse, Geraghty, published by has tried to write about the Open Secret, by James in his preface, the hermit of water bathing. Subse- image. magazine, Private Eye, in Leasor, published by Fon- quent chapters are by Duncan Kyle, pub- Fontana, $14.95. was writing for himself. almost as lished by Fontana, $4.50. A pictorial history of the its own spirit of disrespect- tana, $4.95. thin in references to the She may indeedhave been The meditations directstronger Private consistently a Special Air Service Regi- ful inquiry. The Two men pit their wits actual rites. ly on the Gospels can personality than Francis at well be used directly as a Eye prints what other against an entirely differen t The one surviving Israeli ment. hijacker of a Russian aircraft With the help of over 400 papers will not print. At a f ate — one, in Soviet The view of the author that a human level. Spiritually stimulus for our own — flees to a Britain very superb photographs, Tony time when the British press Russia, achieves a position there must be some danger she was his disciple and the e ven in a practical different to the one he once Geraghty brings alive, as is constantly tempted to of great political power of death before a sick person high level of mysticism Sunday -by-Sunday way. k new. He is a man on the never before, the full story risk less by publishing less, under Stalin; the other, in may be anointed, has been comes through even in an This book should have run; wanted by the Russians, of the most famous, effi- Private Eye rubbishes the England, builds up from rendered somewhat out of official document such as a place in every "reliwanted by the British and cient and feared soldiers in PR industry and is com- nothing a huge empire of date by recent developments. the Rule. gious" library. pletely independent of its w ealth and influence. After the death of Francis w anted by the Israelis existence. (Reviewed by Conthemselves. But all he wants Molly, Teresa Crane, advertising revenue. Gradually, their paths (Reviewed by Father Ed- she came under great pres- stance Holt in The Cais the man who almost published by Fontana, The Miller's Dance, by converge and they cannot ward Matthews in The surefrom Church authority tholic Herald) Universe.) $6.95. to modify the Rule she had Winston Graham, pub- both survive. claimed his life.

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Brother's final vows

Father Maues silver jubilee At 75 Father Maur Enjuanes OSB still dreams dreams . . . And this week as he celebrated his golden jubilee of priesthood at historic New Norcia he looked back to the early pioneering days and remarked: "They have left us a great legacy -- we must do all in our power to keep the light of faith burning strong in the West." A well -seasoned missionary, Father Maur still manages a brisk walk in the cool of the evening outside the monastic gates. "I've still got a few years left in me," he says with a characteristic grin. Born at Laguarrez, Huesca, in Spain in 1908, he was educated a t his own vi l lage school before going to the El Pueyo Priory. He made his novitiate and first profession at Genoa in 1924 and the following year -- a Holy Year -- he came as a s tudent with the late Abbot Catalan to New Norcia. There were six in that group. On December 22. 1925 they arrived at Fremantle and later boarded the mission's first International truck for their monastery in the comparative bush. Despite leaving early in the morning, the party did

Picture and Report by DOM FRANCIS BYRNE O.S.B. not reach New Norcia until 9.30 pm. The reason? The truck chugged along at 15 miles-an-hour! There was a thriving community of more than 50 monks brothers and priests -- in the twenties and Father Maur remembers nine of the early pioneers who knew Bishop Salvado. He remembers especiall Brother Albino Ochoa, Brother Bruno Diaz, Brother Basil Asla, Brother Benign° Gimenez whom he described as "great men, full of talent and with magnificent beards". "The early days were strict, but very happy." said Father Maur. "We rose at 3.45 am and had a very regulated day indeed. "There were no such

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fellows have heaven on earth compared to the old times." Father Maur was ordained on December 21, 1933 by the late Archbishop Prendiville. The "greatest day in my life," he recalled. Father Maur described Abbot Catalan as having "great qualities, but strict in some ways". He was a great preacher and in this area we all learned a great deal from him," he added. Later in his monastic life, F ather Maur taught Church History and Languages. especially Latin to the students. • Cont page 12

After he had made his final profession before Brother Bowler (left) Brother Theseira kneels to receive a special blessing from Archbishop Foley.

Brother Norbert Gerard Theseira made his final religious profession last week duringMasscelebrated in Aquinas chapel by Archbishop Foley. He made his profession to Brother Linus Bowler, provincial superior of the Christian Brothers in WA and SA. Brother Theseira is the eldest of four sons of Martin and Thelma Theseira of Lynwood. He was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and after coming to Australia was educated at Xavier College East Victoria Park andTrinity College,following which he entered the order in 1976. H e has taught at St Mark's, Bedford, Trinity and is at present on the staff of Aquinas College.

A new leader for Mercy nuns Sister Anne Tormey is the new congregational leader of the Perth Congregation of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia. She was elected just before Christmas in a 15 minute ceremony which concluded several days of study by 23 chapter delegates on the direction their order might take in the next six years. Helping the sisters in their discernment was Sister Margaret McGovern, vice president of the Institute of Sisters of Mercy and Father Humphry O'Leary CSSR a canon lawyer.

Sister Anne taking over

Sister Anne takes up her charge of the 180 members of the Perth congregation later next month after the chapter has re-convened to elect councillors and attend to other business. Following the election the group attended Mass celebrated by Bishop Healy in the Victoria Square chapel. During the singing of the Te Deum, the outgoing superior, Sister Elizabeth Devine, pledged the loyalty of the congregation to the new superior. Sister Anne is the second of the six children of Vesta Tormey and the late James Tormey, formerly of Doubleview and now in Canberra. A fter her secondary education at Mercedes College she joined the Sisters of Mercy in 1960 making her final profession in 1966. She taught at Mercedes College and Santa Maria College and gained a ra, in preparation for the Bachelor of Arts and establishment of the InstiMaster of Education from tute. She also spent two years the University of WA. Paris at the Catholic in She spent one year attached to the national Institute studying theology secretariate of the Sisters and pastoral catechetics. Most recently she has of Mercy, then in Canber-

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been a member of the Lynwood community and a consultor to the administration of the Catherine M cAuley Centre, St Anne's Hospital and Santa Maria College. Sister Elizabeth Devine

The new leader of the Sisters of Mercy, Sister Anne Tormey receives congratulations and encouragement from the outgoing superior Sister Elizabeth Devine. who is about to conclude going on in apostolic six years in office said the religious communities and congregation is aware that that it involved finding it is in transition and that ways to serve the needs of new directions and initia- today. tives are needed. She said that this did not She said that this transi- mean moving away from tion was only a part of that traditional ways.