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PLANTER: 'You will be killed' Father Brian Gore's bishop A rchbishop Fortich says the government's case is so flimsy that three offers, including one from President Marcos himself, have been made to the priests to leave the country quietly so the case can be dropped. At the same time on the crucial day w hen Father Gore's trial was aborted he pub• l icly named • sugar plantation o wner Alfonso Zayco as the one who is making death threats on the priest and who has connections with the military to enable witnesses to be intimidated. A t Bacolod gaol before the hearing on Tuesday, Zayco shouted at Father Gore: "If you don't get deported you will be killed. F ather Gore said Z ayco has military connections. "He's tried to get at us before. Two weeks ago he offered money t o two of the lay leaders charged with us to testify against the priests and they refused. He told them: I have s omeone else to liquidate. "There is no doubt he meant me," Father Gore said. He said Mr Zayco's sugar plantation was in his parish and he blamed him for trade
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lated a petition to h ave the Australian priest deported as an undesirable alien.
R OME (NC) — Catholicism would not be the state religion in Italy under proposed revisions of the Concordat, the treaty governing relations between the Church and Italy.
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The revisions also would make religious instruction in state schools optional and would require parallel civil action to make Church marriages and annulments legal. Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi outlined the proposals to the Italian Parliament last month. It was the first time the proposals w ere made publ ic by the government. Italian newspapers already had reported many of the proposals based on leaks from sources involved in the negotiations. Craxi, in his nationally-televised presentation, said the changes would establish "equality of religion and citizens in Italy." "The state has decided to adopt the pluralistic model of society envisaged by the constitution," he said. c. E•
A t last Saturday's full day seminar on Death A Part of Dying heat did not deter nearly all of the 300 enrolees turning up at the Redemptorist Retreat House. Pictured is Mr Joe O'Dea Mr one of the conference sponsors chaffing with two of the speakers Miss Joy Brann and Rev Dr Douglas MacAdam who are respectively co-ordinator-educator and director of the Hospice Palliative Care Service in Western Australia.
The proposals are the r esult of 15 years of Church-state negotiations over the Concordat, an agreement that is part of the Lateran Pacts signed by the Vatican and Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini in 1929. The proposals also would eliminate reference to the "sacred character" of Rome as the location of the Vatican.
by JOHN THAVIS (NC News)
Revision of the concordat will touch some of the arrangements between the Italian State and Vatican City State (above) the half square mile of territory around St Peter's that was declared a sovereign state in 1929, 59 years after the former Papal States had been annexed by the new Italian state.
Long negotiations One of the most delicate issues, however, the administration and tax status of Church holdings in Italy, are not resolved in the proposals. Under the plan a special commission of Church and state officials would have six months from the signing of a new concor-
dat to reach an accord on the issue. The proposed concordat is a simplified, shorter version leaving many potential areas of disagreement to be worked out by Italian authorities and the Italian bishops. • Cont page 5
Tribunal made the decision LONDON: A Derby priest who reportedly refused Catholic marriage to a presumed impotent man in England said the decision was not his but a marriage tribunal. A friend, and not the couple, had taken their story to the world media. 'The couple's case had been placed in the hands of the marriage tribunal even before they came to live in this parish-, said Father John Mack, parish p r i es t o f Borrowash. "I got annoyed when some of the media spoke of myself as the parish priest who had r efused to marry them. Father Mack said he was in close contact with t he couple and only t hree or four days before their story hit the headlines he met them to soften their disappointment about the original decision. He said it was a friend and not the couple who took their case to the media and subsequently gained the incident international coverage. The case concerned Stephen Rigby a disabled ex -soldier who sought to marry his Catholic nurse. Rigby is paralysed from the neck down as a result of a display in which he took part as an army gymnastics instructor. • Cont page 5
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Father Brian Gore...death threats on the way to the aborted court hearing this week.
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Father Niall O'Brien, the Dublin-horn Columban, one of Father Gore's co-defendants.
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A scholar has been chosen Superior of the Benedictine community of New Norcia. He is Father Placid Spearritt OSB, the former Prior of Ampleforth Abbey in England. In a simple ceremony recently he was installed as Prior -Administrator of New Norcia. Father Spearritt was born in Bundaberg in Queensland in 1933.
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Benedictine monastery. He went to Ampleforth Abbey in Yorkshire in 1958 and was professed two years later. Apart from five years in Fribourg, Switzerland, to study for a Licence in Theology and a Doctorate in Philosophy, he re-
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Father Spearritt flew out of an English blizzard into an Australian heatwave. "It's my first Australian summer for 25 years and while adapting to it I'm certainly enjoying it," he said. The new Sub-Prior is Father David Barry OSB. Father Spearritt succeeds Father Justin Bruce OSB who had been Superior for three years.
Holy Trinity Abbey's new Superior, Father Placid Spearritt OSB.
A remarkable monk in many ways . . . that's Dom Paulino Gutierrez OSB. And at 73 his sense of humour is as sharp as ever! He typifies the Benedictine ideal of Ora et Labora and this week — despite the 40c -plus temperatures -- he was busy pottering around his small vegetable garden at New Norcia. And for the little man with the big heart this w eek the heat of summer brought great joy to his face. It ripened the biggest tomato ever grown at New Norcia, weighing 1 kilo 350 grames (3 lbs 4 oz). "Momma Mia!" exclaimed Dom Paulino as he slipped off to show it to the rest of the community. "I've never seen anything like it before." he said excitedly. "The biggest tomato I'd grown previously was two years ago. weighing 1 kilo 148 grams, but this one is a real whopper." Wearing his straw hat he quickly checked the Guinness Book of Records and discovered the record weight for a tomato is 1 kilo 900 grams.
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One of Australia's best known canon lawyers is to become an auxiliary bishop in Sydney. Dr Geoff Robinson, 46, will be given charge of the Inner Western Region of S ydney archdiocese in succession to A uxiliary Bishop Pat Murphy who transfers to the Northern Region which has been vacant since the resignation in 1982 of Bishop Muldoon. D r Robinson was educated for the priesthood at Springwood and later at Propaganda College Rome where he was ordained in 1960 on the same day a s Father William Brennan of Broken Hill, named recently to be bishop of Wagga.
Father Gore's seemingly endless legal battle has been going on for 16 months so far.
Lieutenant Mariano Gallo (right) of Task Force Kanla-on testifies during the application for bail proceedings to finding the subversive documents and arms. • From page 1 "Zayco has influence, p ol itical and mi litary," said the other accused. Father O'Brien. "He is a member of a gun club run by Col onel Agudon (the provincial military c ommander) and he w as able to get perm ission from the warden to take two of our lay leaders out of gaol so he could first try to bribe them and
later threaten them." F ather Gore has no doubt the crowded courtroom that led to the trial's postpone ment was stacked by supporters of the sugar barons brought in specially for the occasion. Large boxes of sandwiches and soft drinks were provided for them. Father Gore said: "You can see that they were not there of their own free will. They had been
brought in and they were fed. They wore black badges showing t hat they were in mourning for Mayor Sola. " Some were even t rustees from a n earby prison who had been trucked in. Others came from the h acienda of the mayor's brother. The w hole thing was a bloody farce. I wasn't disappointed though, I expected nothing and I got nothing."
It was early in October 1982 that Father G ore was arrested shortly after he had r eturned from a holiday in his home state of Western Australia. He had hinted to friends he would be running into trouble if he returned but he was determined to see the matter through. The original charge was that a group of soldiers running through the parish compound allegedly in pursuit of a guerilla suspect looked accidentally into Father Gore's room and claimed to find a hand grenade and five bullets plus rebellious literature on top of a filing cabinet. It was the very night Father Gore returned to his parish. Bishop Fortich was so convinced of the trumpedup nature of the charges and of the bad reputation of the officer leading the raid, Lt Gallo, that he authorised the technical arrest of Father Gore as a sign of his support for the Columban priest's innocence. By the end of October 1982 the charge had shifted from the hand grenade and bullets to inciting the people to rebellion. At the beginning of November, murder charges were laid but then dropped against the priest but the struggle for bail then commenced.
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A comparison of Dom Paulino's tomato with the biggest and best in Father Seraphim Sanz's garden gives
"I still think it could be t he biggest tomato grown in Australia, but I'd be interested to hear from anyone who could help me on this," said Dom Paulino Ironically, this year he had only three tomato plants growing in his garden next to the old butcher's shop at the rear of the monastery.
He obtained the seeds from a Melbourne firm as a "bonus" for purc hasing a certain a mount of flower seeds. A comparison of Dom Paulino's tomato with the best in Father Seraphim Sanz's plot gives some indication of its
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mammoth size (see photo). One of the great Spanish characters of New Norcia, Dom Paulino has a wide knowledge of various trades. He arrived in Australia with the late Abbot Catalan and a party of eight in August, 1928.
He was born at Vellaespa, near Burgos in Spain in 1910 and was brought up on the land. An indefatigable monk, Dom Paulino says proudly he has never been sick in his life. And the first doctor he ever visited was in 1973 when one of hs
eyes was giving him trouble. The early days in the monastery he described a s being "very, very happy" and there were lots of orchards and gardens at the back of the monastery. Six days a week for 50 years Dom Paulino toiled in the baker's shop with only the assistance of an Aborigine from the Boys' Orphanage across the road. He estimated he has baked about one million loaves during that time! He has also been the cobbler for the monks and local people for many years and still can be observed, regular as clockwork, going to his 'shop' about 9 am. "Some of the students from Salvado College often pop down when their boots or shoes need a quick repair job," he said. And if all this wasn't enough for the diminutive monk with the sparkle in his eyes, he rang the Angelus Bell every day since about 1930! He now has handed t his job over to a younger monk. And up to a few years ago Dom Paulino was well-known for the grand liqueurs he conconcted deep down in the cool atmosphere of the monastic cellars. "Some of the liqueurs had a kick like your Irish poteenl" he quipped
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Beirut is a tragedy of sickening proportion not only because of the slaughter of innocent people but because the reasons cannot be talked about by one half of the world and make no sense to the other. The daily sight of people pouring bullets into their f ellow citizens make bitter viewing to those who are having their recent wars constantly raked over and analysed, whether in the trenches of France, on Gallipoli, in World War II with its mass bombardment, concentration camps and atomic bombs, or the jungle war of Vietnam. Much of this footage appears to follow the horror principle that if shown sufficiently often it will convince people to avoid war again at all cost. Yet in the Lebanon, in Ethiopia, and the other simmering civil wars the portrayal of violence does not appear to stem the tide. A more difficult subject to discuss is that in Lebanon it is a war of religion and with far more sinister dimensions than the economically religious political war of Northern Ireland. In Lebanon the brute hatred that can lurk between Muslim and Christian has surfaced from what was thought to be a country of urban amicability about their differences. It is a shock for a generation that has forgotten the why of similar and worse moments in history. It is clearly a religious war with political dividends, as are most, and those who want to report the events only in terms of what they think of the Reagan Administration are shamefully quiet of the motives of a theist Russians wanting to stranglehold Muslim populations across central Asia.
Organisers of a one-day seminar Death A Part of Life last Saturday were overwhelmed at the response and a second similar function has been planned to cater for the overflow, according to a sponsor of the day, Mr Joe O'Dea Jnr. He said when planning began in October the
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Christians who ought to be able to explain, if not defend, so called Christian wars find that they are hampered • because the glasses through which such wars are viewed have had the lenses changed. When weaponry was more primitive but manners more savage an occasional war could be preached as glorious because the Islamic enemy was not an abstract heresy in a theology book. It was a live enemy on the door of Europe, hammering at Vienna or basking in Spain. It was a face to face confrontation with Catholicism. Lepanto was real. The Crusades do not improve in the re-telling even after so many centuries yet so much Catholic enthusaism, if not highly spiritual faith, flourished in a climate that had little time for Jews or the Muslims who supplanted them. Catholic expansionism out of Europe had a very practical quality about it when the goal was to get to the next global point ahead of Islam. Not may Australians get a real education why early explorers touched these shores that are now dominated to the north by massive Muslim populations of Malysia, Indonesia and surrounding countries. The tourist to India is so often looking not at the Hindu triumph but the glory of Islam. The British struggle in India proved they were amateurs trying to over -ride the bloody tide that tore the Pakistans loose in our own times.
A speaker at the conference, Rev Michael Dewsbury, Fremantle Hospital Anglican chaplain, speaking to Kevin Williams of Doubleview and Dorothy Beyer of Armadale.
day, August 28 and for which bookings are now being taken by Bowra and O'Dea. Although the tuneral industry is sponsoring such occasions elsewhere it was the first such seminar to be promoted locally, Mr O'Dea said. "Our purpose is to educate people and give them information on how t o cope with death, to know what is involved. "The average person m ay be called on to handle a death only once in 10 or 20 years. "Most therefore do not k now what is involved, what is required legally
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and how a funeral organised. Our advantage is we arc dealing with numbers whereas for a person th:. event is a single occasion." Mr O'Dea said education was not possible after the death had happened That was when the lack of background education became apparent. He said another benefit of such education programmes was to introduce people to what was being provided in the palliative care services in WA.
A religious war made some sense to an age when faith meant something for which to struggle, even to death It makes no sense to a Western world that has lost regard for any religious faith, let alone one that demands a response and not necessarily fanatical. Sixty years ago Turkey disappeared as the last hateful reminder of Islam; the bitterness that had marked the centuries was muted. It is not polite to notice that Islamic countries have a new power in the world's oil economy. The Holocaust made all Christians go back and appreciate the Hebrews whose writing and culture they f ought to preserve while suppressing the Jewish adherents. The Second Vatican Council in a new bold approach removed blinkers that pretended there were not enormous territories of the world that were in no way Christian. It set new goals to come to terms ecumenically with Islam wherever common ground could be found in faith. Action is a different matter. The fanatics pushing their bloody cause in Lebanon or Iran are not necessarily typical just as all Catholics need not be saddled with their co religionists in Northern Ireland. What will not go away is the nagging question why religion has the power to destroy often as much as it has the power to save. Those who profess a religion had better not ignore that truth or exempt themselves from the lesson. • w. • 26 John Street, Perth WA 6000 • • • Correspondence • • The Editor, The Record. PO Box 50 • A berdeen Street. Perth 6000 • • Advertising • Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 • • • registered for posting as a newspaper Category "A" (111 • • Produced in WA • • • Printed and published weekly by Edward van Heernst • • • 26 John Street. Perth • • • Established 1874 •
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Relaxed seminar A complete lack of awkwardness by people who might have a personal problem was one of the features of last Saturday's conference Death A Part of Dying according to one of the organisers and speakers, Mr Gerard Smith. "A lot of people may have come simply because they were curious about a conference with such a title" said Mr Smith who is a funeral education officer and who has undergone a course on palliative care at WAIT and is also doing a Melbourne course by correspondence. "Others had an opportunity to fill in gaps in their
ability to speak about death and dying on an open basis, which lay people could understand. "It was not limited to professional people. The academic side is already being well provided for but the ordinary people in the street are not being catered for and I think
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View He said everyone responded to the view put forward by Miss Joy Brann that dying is a daily objective for everyone and not just for the elderly. Another feature of the
Conference speaker Father John Ryan (centre) with Reg Williams of Scarborough, Trudy Rushton of South Perth and M ary Smith of Scarborough. •••■• attendance, he said was t he different national backgrounds such as Italian, Yugoslav and Chinese. These contributed by talking on their cultural attitudes to death.
Church status • From page 1
The Vatican has made no official comment on the proposed changes, but Church sources say Vatican negotiators are sAtisfied with the compromise and want to sign the agreement soon. According to officials in the prime minister's office, both sides were aiming for
a signing date on Saturday, the 55th anniversary of the signing of the Lateran Pacts. A fter Craxi's talk, the Italian senate voted to support the proposals. Once the actual treaty is signed by Italy and the Vatican, it will be submitted to Parliament for ratification.
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This condition rendered him technically impotent and therefore unable to contract valid marriage according to Canon 1084: Antecedent and perpetual impotence to have sexual intercourse, whether on the part of the man or the woman, whether absolute or relative, by its very nature invalidates marriage. T he partner to this marriage is Llona A radhun who was married before and has two children. Because her first marriage was to a Muslim and contracted outside the Church she is legally free to marry in the eyes of the Church. Bishop McGuinness of Nottingham stepped into the case some days after media publicity and said that there was no need for the matter to be sent to Rome for a ruling and the couple were free to apply for Catholic marriage if they wished.
A BOVE: Country people travelled long distances to be present at the Death A Part of Life seminar (from left) Father Peter Bianchini of Bencubbin; Pauline McArdell, Silver Chain Kalgoorlie; Delia Riley, Public Health nurse Kalgoorlie; Pam Usher, Silver Chain Kalgoorlie; Moira Jack of Bencubbin and (front) her daughter, Roberta.
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from Harry Albuquerque, Coo/be//up Sir, A Marist priest, from the eastern states, Father Jack Soulsby, one of the keynote speakers at the conference, boldly and deliberately brought a germ to Perth, w hich he calls the Voygerm'. It was so infectious that it infected the thousands who attended the conference. Symptoms of this germ w ere felt in all the participants. There was an outpouring of the Spirit of Joy, Love, P eace, Healing and Prophesying. The speakers were exhorting, the crowds were singing and dancing. For we took Jesus at His word "I tell you most solemnly, whoever believes in Me will perform the same works as I do Myself he willperform even greater work."
Home The Holy Spirit came into our lives and made His home in us and we in Him. He planted the germ in us and Jesus's promises are coming 'true', just as Isaiah hadprophesisedmany years before Christ. "I will lead my blind people by roads they have never travelled. I will turn their darkness into light andmake r ough country smooth before them. These are my promises and I will keep them without fail "(42.16) These Voygerms' have now evolved into 'Glow worms' and are hovering all over Perth, hoping to transform the night of the city into a glowing city of God's light Amen.
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Concern on principles from J R MARTIS, Wembley Sir, The principles espoused by Kevin and Suellen Horgan (The Record February 2) on the roles of husbands and wives in marriage are a cause for concern for married Christians and are certainly not in keeping with what I understand to be Catholic teaching on the subject. Mr Horgan speaks of a one-way "awesome responsibility" of the husband to pastor his wife, denying the wife her reciprocal obligation in the equal relationship of life and love. Husbands and wives have a mutual responsibility for each other's spiritual well-being and it is difficult to see how Ephesians 5:22-25 ("be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ") could be interpreted out of its main context to give the husband sole charter for the spiritual well-being of his wife.
Christian woman Mrs Horgan advocates the role of the Christian woman is to -take on the mind- of her husband, seeing the husband as having a unique vision of the direction of the marriage. Why the wife does not have an insight into the marriage or if she does why it is to be subjected to the husband's is in no way explained. Indeed Mrs Horgan's suggestion of a passive acceptance of the husband "as he is", leaving all the changing to the Lord is a tragic burial of the good that sisterly correction could achieve.
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Archbishop Silvestrini opposed the interruption of arms talks between the United States and the Soviet Union on E uropean intermediate range missiles, long-range missiles and conventional forces in Europe. "The people know the world situation is very serious. For the first time in many years, in the most delicate international areas, we have seen a drastic reduction of the instruments of dialogue and mediation," Archbishop Silvestrini said. Especially worrisome, he said, was the growing risk of accidental nuclear war. "The risk of error appears even graver when one analyses the internal logic inspiring the arms race," he said, referring to each side's quest for superiority. "Arsenals will become useless," he said, "when values and ideas are exchanged between political systems." The six -week conference, attended by the United States and the Soviet Union began on January 17.
Prejudging a husband from KEVIN AND PATRICIA R YAN, Dianella Sir, The view given in the Charismatic Conference report on "wives submission to husbands in marriage (The Record February, 2) presupposes that the husband in a Christian marriage has it "all together", that his judgements are correct and that on becoming a husband he receives the gifts of discernment and wisdom. It appears that the husband may determine, as head of the family, the particular way to bring his wife to God, whereas God's plan may be completely different! God has indeed given the
husband and father of the family a large responsibility, but He has also given him a partner, an equal partner in all senses of the word to share that responsibility. When husband and wife disagree on the solution to a problem or direction to take in their life, they earl come together in prayer looking for direction from Jesus who is in their midst. (See Matt. 18 v.20) They come as two individuals equal in the eyes of the Lord. Two, who in sharing their lives, praying with each other and for each other, become one in mind and spirit with Christ Jesus as the head of their family.
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Mr Tim flantke, regional manager for CSR, presenting a cheque to Fred Preshaw, state president of St Vincent de Paul. During 1983 the Colonial Sugar Refinery launched an A ustralia -wide promotion c alled "Bake a Cake for Charity and help the children with $60,000" of which the St Vincent de Paul Society was a beneficiary. The scheme involved consumers of sugar collecting 25 cent symbols off the sugar packs and sending them to CSR. Symbols were counted and at the end of the promotion the equivalent sum of money was donated to the nominated charity. The St Vincent de Paul Society in Western Australia r eceived a cheque for
Cheque for the SVDP $2869.25 from CSR as a result of this promotion — which of course, involved a lot of symbols off sugar packs! Fred Preshaw, state president of the society, would like to acknowledge and thank the many school children and adults who participated in this promotion which generated f unds for the St Vincent de Paul Society to continue with its work of helping families in need.
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Briefs: niROME --- A group from the Rome L_JBoys' Town, under the leadership of Mons John Patrick Carroll-Abbing, have spent six days in Beirut, meeting and praying with young people there. An escort of Italy's 2000-strong peacekeeping force met the group at the airport. Their programme included a visit to St Joseph's Hospital to comfort young children wounded in Christmas bombardments. Mons Carroll-Abbing said. "We wanted to help young people understand that they themselves can help in the reconciliation so much needed in the Lebanon 'We wished to show them a tangible sign of our love and will for a lasting peace."
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E FILONDON — Three Dominicans were 1.--iamong 32 peace protesters arrested 'during a demonstration by about 200 members of Christian CND at the US nuclear bomber base at Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire They were released without being charged but were cautioned that summonses might be issued later The three, from Blackfnars, Oxford, were Father Roger Ruston, Brother Gilbert Markus and Brother Charles Procter Together with Dr Mary Saunders, a Birmingham GP. and Angela West, they climbed over the perimeter fence near the end of the runway and spent 40 minutes conducting an act of worship for the feast of the Holy Innocents
NEW YORK (NC) — A person "affected by homosexuality has the responsibility to take steps to overcome it or, at least, to hold it in check," according to Bishop J Brzana of Ogdensburg. The bishop said homosexuality was a confusing issue and he was presenting the Church's teaching, "to guide people in the proper formation of conscience, and to show pastoral concern f or those who are personally affected by homosexuality." The bishop said the rights of homosexuals -should be honoured despite their homosexuality - because they are human beings and members of the Church. However, campaigns for homosexual rights, he said, often are attempts "to gain social approval of their 'style of life,' including homosexual activity. Such approval cannot be granted." In the letter, printed in the North Country Catholic, the diocesan R OME Five nuns and a pnest released by Angolan newspaper, the bishop urged horebels said later that prayer helped them survive. mosexuals to "seek spiritual and The missionaries said they were able to survive the professional counselling to overordeal because of the oneness which developed among come homosexuality, if possible.them and because they prayed together at Mass even
E E E FiCAPETOWN — The South African 1---lauthorities have turned down an application from the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference for the release of Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa who has been held in detention since the end of October A Judge of the Supreme Court of Ciskei said that the priest was physically well, but refused to allow him visits.
r— AIRES — The IBUENOS "pope will probably make his second visit to Argentina next year, according to the Nuncio in Buenos Aires, Archbishop Calabresi PopeJohn Paul visited Argen tina 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.
E PRAGUE — Three "members of Charter -77, the Czecholslovak human r ights monitoring group, were arrested in simultaneous police operations, dissident sources said. Friends of the detainees said police had arrested C harter -77 spokesmen Vaclav Benda and Anna Marvanova, and a former spokesman, Jan Kozlik.
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Cubans' apathy WASHINGTON —Religion in Cuba is dying from indifference rather than persecution, said an article in the Washington Post. The article quoted a Catholic priest, a rabbi and several lay people in Marxist -ruled Cuba as saying that religion was dying because of lack of interest. "Our congregation is largely elderly," said Father Angel Perez, 71, a parish priest in the capital of Havana. "Cubans have always gone whichever way the wind blows," the priest said.
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He also said homosexuals should "turn frequently to the Sacrament of Penance and Holy Eucharist for spiritual strength," and he urged them to follow the example of the saints who "excelled in purity and chastity." People "who are afflicted with homosexuality are entitled to the same pastoral care" as other people, he said. "This care is extended with understanding, compassion. and sensitivity, but without permissiveness," the bishop said. Citing Scripture and Church documents, he explained the distinction between homosexual attraction and homosexual acts. "Such acts, according to the constant and firm teaching of the Church, are seriousl wrong." However, he said, "homosexual attraction itself, although a deviation from the normal instinct of nature, is not sinful."
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during the 55 -day march. "They asked the captors if they could celebrate Mass and were told they should ask permission," said Sister Martin. "When they asked permission and were discouraged from Mass, they simply celebrated Mass on their own. During the march, they prayed before or after the trek," she explained.
Concession is needed VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II told a group of Lebanese Maronite Catholic legislators all parties involved in Lebanon's civil strife must concede something to foster national unity and promote reconciliation. Such a plan supposes all the parties involved are willing to make sacrifices and to give up something, so that the common good may be the only victor," the pope said. Under agreements worked out at the time of Lebanon's independence from France in 1941, the president must be a Maronite Catholic, the prime minister a Sunni Moslem and the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies a Shiite Moslem. Membership of the Chamber of Deputies also is proportional to the religious population. The agreement by which the top offices were reserved for members of the religious groups having the highest percentages of the population was based on a 1932 census. The agreement reflects the tradition in A rab cultures by which people identify socially by their religious affiliations. A s a result, political movements in Lebanon have developed around the country's Christian and Moslem denominations. Much of Lebanon's civil strife has been the result of fighting among the private militias of each religiouspolitical faction.
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Do you want to know yourself better? Genuine prayer can "move us to a greater knowledge of ourselves!" That intriguing suggestion was made by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago in a series of reflections in 1981. He stated: -Authentic prayer that is, prayer which brings us into an intimate loving union with God — will deeply affect how we perceive and deal with ourselves and with others. But these discoveries about oneself can be painful and risky. For people tend to rebel at first when they encounter a side of themselves they find unattractive, he said. The cardinal cautioned that prayer is not simply selfanalysis or introspection. Still, he continued, in order to pray one needs to honestly present oneself to God. This means acknowledging weaknesses, strengths and dependence on God. Cardinal Bernardin quoted Orthodox Archbishop Anthony Bloom who observed that people hide their true selves behind the social front they present to others. That's a problem in prayer, said the cardinal. Another practical implication of selfknowledge for Cardinal Bernardin is learning to recognise what motivates one's actions. This means looking honestly at "what motivates my life, my decisions, my actions, my ministry," he said. For motivation comes in many different guises, including fear, the need for acceptance or even competition with others. What's the purpose in taking a look at these motivations? According to the cardinal, we may make some interesting discoveries about ourselves. We may conclude that what motivates us isn't exactly bad but it might be imperfect. And it might be leading people away from Jesus and the kind of life he offered. Self-discovery can be a step along the road to true conversion. For conversion only happens, Cardinal Bernardin is convinced, when people come to grips with their innermost selves. 8
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Psychologists say that people use only about 10 percent of their potential during a lifetime. I guess that means that ideally people could achieve 90 percent more in terms of goals, satisfactions, relationships with others and productivity at work.
don't know how valid this idea is. But the whole idea seems like a companion to that nagging feeling we sometimes have that we could do more if we tried. St. Augustine had his own way of putting this. It was he who said to God, "Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee." It's just natural: We are r estlessly impelled forward. If it is true that people only use 10 percent of their potential, would that apply also to prayer potential? Most people probably would welcome the addition of even a few
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percentage points in this area of life. The first step to developing our prayer potential is to develop a positive attitude toward ourselves as pray-ers. I like to call this "self-talk." It means saying, "I can pray. I've done it before." Or, "Why not? I really have nothing to lose and much to gain."
By Theodore W Hengesbach Ths kind of self-talk disrupts the pattern of negative attitudes that stall us. Once self-talk gets us moving, it is time for a second step: Make a prayer-inventory. That means making at least a mental list of the moments when one does in fact pra
To prepare this inventory, it may help just to focus on the last 48 hours. Many people will he surprised at how substantial their list is. Morning and night prayer and prayer at meals will appear on many people's lists. The lists will expand
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if it is remembered that prayer moments include spontaneous requests for help, expressions of thanks or repentance, as well as moments of reflection that may or may not consciously be directed to God.
Benefit Whether long or short, the list holds this benefit: It shows that we have more experience with prayer that we tend to think. The third step in developing prayer potential is to remember the circumstances surrounding our prayer moments. For example, did we pray at a time of need, sadness, excitement or joy? Did we pray in church, at home, alone on a walk, with friends or family? It helps to identify the spaces, places and circumstances of our own prayer. They may be due for a rediscovery. A fourth step in developing prayer potential is to
know a little better wh w e pray. What's the motivation? Different people are motivated in different ways. • Perhaps we pray because we need something. • We may pray in a group where praying together gives a sense of belonging. • There is prayer that helps us know ourselves better. • People pray to discover solutions to perplexing situations in life and to find God's will for them. There is no single correct motivation for prayer, I believe. But it helps to identify why we pray. Prayer is the expression of an attitude that takes people beyond themselves. It helps when people feel frustrated or under stress. And it provides a chance to be exuberant when life is going well. By growing beyond the first 10 percentage points on the scale of prayer potential, opportunities increase to express fears, joys, frustrations and needs, and to return to day-to-day life more refreshed and confident. Increasing prayer potential can, in fact, increase the potential for all of life. And increasing this potential may not be as difficult as people sometimes think.
Not knowing how to sheer multiplication of By Father John J. Castelot pray is a source of distress words. Do not imitate for many people. They them. Your Father knows really want to pray, but "Why are you so downThe possibilities are endwhat you need before you often feel at a loss. cast, 0 my soul? less. We don't have to ask him." St. Paul recognised this "Why do you sigh within have just the right words. Jesus taught his disciples problem and wrote about me? That's not the point. But how to pray by addressing it in the letter to the Ro"Hope in God" (Psalm words can help voice our God as a Father. This way mans, Chapter 8. Since 42:6). feelings. of speaking to God as one "we do not know how to Or. hear these words Utimately, however, it is who cares is important. pray as we ought," the from Psalm 103: the honest sharing of our Finally, when all is said Spirit helps us, he assured "Bless the Lord. 0 my sentiments that counts. In and done, the ultimate his audience. soul . . . fact, Jesus warned us prayer is: "May your will But how does the Spirit "He pardons all your about concern for words he done" and may I help? By direct illumina- iniquities, in prayer: "In your prayer have the wisdom and courtion, some special inspira"he heals all your ills. do not rattle on like the age to recognise and action? That sometimes "He redeems your life pagans. They think they cept it. peacefully and happens. when a person from destruction." will win a hearing by the joyfully. stands before God. opens an empty heart and cries: "Lord, teach me to pray." But most often the Spirit chooses to guide people by means of the helps that are all around. These might even he called resources for prayer. In the final analysis, these are only resources, helps. For at its most basic, prayer is a dialogue with God: if the dialogue is not spontaneous. it s ometimes becomes strained and even painful. Still, resources for prayer need not rob prayer of spontaneity. They can make the dialogue more interesting and fruitful. I don't need any helps whenI go to talk to a clo.se friend. But if I have read a fascinating bOok or have seen a good movie or had a particularly moving experience. these things do aid our conversation. S haring them brings friends closer and helps them get to know each other better. What is most important is to bring ourselves into prayer, with all of our e xperiences, good and bad. Sharing them with God openly, unaffectedly, brings us closer together. In the process we are changed, subtly perhaps, but really. Scripture is a gold mine. The Psalms, for instance, are ready-made prayers. Can their sentiments give voice to our sentiments? Think of the impact of these words from Psalm 69 in times of distress: "Save me. 0 God. "for the waters threaten my life . . . "I am wearied with calling, "my throat is parched: or "My eyes have failed with looking for my God." "Benedictine Father John Main, who died in 1982, wrote that people who wished to experience meditation should set aside two periods a But then, to contrast day of 20 to 30 minutes each. The person should select a comfortable sitting position with the back straight. Eventually the meditation will with those images, read: become a process of seff-discovery, integrating one's body, mind and spirit. The Record, February 10 — February 16, 1984
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Just as a flower opens and blooms "Siknce comes naturally at times of great signcance in our life." Silence is natural then because "we feel we are coming into a direct contact with SOME' truth of such meaning that words would distract us." Those words are Father John Main's. He was speaking about meditation and how it demands familiarity with silence. Father Main was a priest of the Benedictine religious order, who died in 1982. His approach to Christian meditation has ancient roots in the church. His path will not be chosen hr all But it is interesting to discover what meditation meant to this 20th-century man of prayer. John Main, horn of Irish parents in London in 1926, joined the British Intelligence Service during World Wai 11 and spent time rescuing intelligence workers left behind on the continent. After the war, he studied law. And later — he had learned Chinese hi then he became an assistant to the governor gemeral of Malaya. It was in Mahal thet Min met the Hindu Swami Satyananda. Drawn hr this man's deep peace, Main asked to hear more from him about prayer. Meeting once a week, the two men began to pray together for one half hour in silence. At the same time, Main practised silent meditation twice a day on his own. This experience was to have great influence on Main in the future. A t age 30 Main returned to Ireland, where he taught international law at Trinity College in Dublin for several years. Finally he decided to become a Benedictine monk in London. Father Main :s life as a priest would eventually place him in the role of headmaster at St. Anselm:s. a Benedictine school in Washington. D. C'. There he again would ponder what he had discovered about meditation in Malaya. It happened that a _young man came to Father Main asking to learn about Christian meditation. Father Main in turn went hack to the writings of John Cassian. a fifth-century spiritual Amide for St Benedict. The tradition of meditation he had experienced in Malaya, he discovered, had been alive among early churchfathers. From that point on Father Main sought to lead people to a deeper experience of meditation. In 1977. at the request of Auxiliary Bishop Leonard Crowley of Montreal. Quebec, Father Vain opened a centre of prayer in that city. Bishop Crowley invited the centre because of his concern about people who were moving away from their own.faith into various meditation ults.
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Prayer is a dialogue with God, Father John Castelot writes. If the dialogue is not spontaneous, it sometimes becomes strained and even painful. There are many resources which can help with prayer and Scripture is a "gold mine," he writes.
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cripture and US In "Letters From the Heart," Father Main stated: "TO meditate is just to 'stand still at the centre." The word "meditation," he explained, means "to abide in the centre." How is it possible for people whose lives are _filled with activity, noise andfrequent pressures to experience meditation regularly? Father Main urged people to set aside two separate periods of 20-30 minutes each day, the,first usually in early morning. Next Father Main suggested the person find a comfortable sitting position, with the back held straight. Then it is possible to begin. Father Main proposed that people use a "mantra"— a single word or phrase — in meditation. He said: "You should choose a word that has been hallowed over the centuries by our Christian tradition." He added: 'One of these is the word `maranatha' . . . which means, 'Come Lord. Come Lord Jesus. ' It is the word that St Paul uses to end his first letter to the Corinthians. Another possible Christian mantra is the simple word Jesus used, "ahha," or Father. The person meditating begins to repeat the mantra for the entire meditation period. When attention wanders, repetition of the mantra brings things back into focus. Father Main said: "We begin by saying the mantra in the mind . . . then the mantra begins to sound not so much in our head but rather in our heart . . . then it seems to become rooted in the very depths of our being." In this way the person moves .from thinking about God to simply being with God. What's more, Father Main believed, the meditation becomes a process of self-discovery, integrating one :s body, mind and spirit. Father Main described the effects of this kind of meditation this way: "Just as a flower opens and blooms when we let it he, so if we simply are, if we become and remain silent, then our hearts cannot hut open: The Spirit cannot but pour through our whole being." By Sister Christine H. Allen, RSM
Let Iife trigger prayer
Every morning the couple gets up at 5.30 a.m. While the children sleep, the husband goes to the basement of their home and spends an hour doing calisthenics. His regimen includes weight -lifting for 15 minutes. As he pushes the weights rhythmically up a nd down, he prays: "Lord God, have mercy on me a sinner," or "Lord God, help me he a more patient and understanding father." The woman too combines exercise and prayer, but in a way more suited to her temperament. First she does warm-up exercises. Then she says morning prayers, using a shortened version of the church's Liturgy of the Hours. Finally she goes outside and jogs. The story of that couple was recounted by Neil Parent, who knows of many similar stories of
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prayer. Parent is the representative for adult education in the U.S. Catholic Conference. The religious educator values other people's prayer experiences highly, he said, because he is convinced that "prayer life is unique to the individual," Figuring out how to incorporate prayer into one's daily life is like "walking into uncharted waters," he says. Fortunately, Parent continued, there is great interest now in spirituality and prayer. He said the amount of space devoted to this on the shelves of the bookstores and retreat centres he visits in his travels is striking. There are also many workshops on spirituality today in parishes, colleges and continuing education centres, he noted.
To find out how people can help each other with prayer, I talked with Father James Bacik, who does "a good deal of spiritual direction- as a campus minister serving the University of Toledo. The Ohio priest explained that, typically, a y outh comes to him complaining that he can't pray and sees this as a failure. Often, Father Bacik said, it quickly becomes apparent that the youth is quite prayerful but needs to develop some "trust in his o wn experience — of praying. In that situation, the priest said he encourages the youth "to let life provide the trigger for prayer.- Father Bacik said he does this by helping the person develop "a sense of God- and how he is working in the youth's life.
Often Father Bacik advises people to take advantage of patterns in their own lives that provide time and space for prayer. For example, if a person has to wait for a c ommuter train or bus, Father Bacik will suggest using that time to think about God. The good things that happen in life can readily become connected to prayer. Often, even without c onsciously realising it, p eople address their thanks to God, Father Bacik suggested. But negative experiences also can be an entry to prayer, Father Bacik remarked. Perhaps prayer is already happening, he thinks, if negative expe-
riences in life lead people t o ask, "Could life be better?" Sometimes people come to the priest with a "protest against life.- Perhaps their jobs have become a dead end, or there is a gap in their lives because children have grown up and left home, or they "can't handle sexuality" as they would like. He then encourages people to use the e xperience to move more directly into praying. Father Bacik thinks that books are helpful prayer r esources too. One that he recommends is "The God Who Fell From Heaven." by Father John Shea. The author's "introduction on prayer is excellent.priest said.
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Pat Miller's urge to travel, incipient from his early youth and g rowing with the y ears, was strengthened by his membership of a pen friends' circle with correspondents in various parts of the globe. He exercised it when he worked for the mail branch of the old PMG department by engineering transfers for himself to most of the capital cities of Australia, ending as a postman at Mt Lawley. I n that suburb he shared "digs" with a man whose mother lived in Sussex, and that was later to prove a for t una t e coincidence.
Patrick Bernard Miller, a stalwart of St Gerard's parish at Mirrabooka, was born in Hobart on March 17, 1930. He completed his schooling with the Marist Brothers at Hamilton in NSW before joining the old PMG as a telegraph boy at the GPO at Newcastle. He worked as a copy boy on
the Newcastle Morning Herald, obtained an apprenticeship which had to be cancelled through illness in the BHP boilermaking shop, and returned to the mail branch of the PMG. With this branch he worked in Hobart, Melbourne and Adelaide and finally as a postman at Mt Lawley.
In England he enlisted in the R AF in which he served in aircrew from 1955-64 in various parts of the world. In 1964 he returned to Perth and entered the building trade in which he is still engaged, mainly on roofing work. He is president of the Mirrabooka conference of the St Vin-
cent de Paul Society, a former member of the P and F committee and active in parish affairs generally. He has had poems published, and with one he won a Sunday newspaper poetry competition. Pat and his wife Merle (nee Satie) have three daughters and two sons aged from 23 to 17.
The crushing poverty of Calcutta appalled Pat and reactivated in him his interest in the St Vincent de Paul Society, of which he had been a member years before in Australia. He is now the president of the Mirrabooka Conference of the Society. H e spent the last 18 months of his RAF service with 42 Squadron of Coastal C ommand in Cornwal l where his wife Merle had the couple's second daughter, Teresa. The first daughter. Frances, had been born in Chang!. The Millers came back to Perth in 1964 and Pat reentered the building trade in which he is still active, mainly in the roofing field A factor that drew him back to the St Vincent de Paul Society in the Mirrabooka Conference was the inspiring example of George Nolan. 'The Society,- Pat says, "is a vital and practical organ of the Church. -It is increasingly busy, largely with Polish migrants and Vietnamese boat people as well as with Aborigines F or any one of our members to make three or four calls of an evening on these people is not unusual.
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H is travel ambitions reached a watershed when he departed from Fremantle for England aboard the liner Otranto on its last voyage in 1952 He boarded in Sussex with the mother of his Mt Lawley mate and soon found work in the building industry in that era of plentiful employment and no requirement for work permits There was one requirement, however, of which Pat was initially not aware.
"'INUOVIP" "Colonials- of up to 26 years of age, into which category he fitted, were liable for call-up for military service under the British National Service Act at that time. He first heard of it in London's Down Under Club, in which Rolf Harris was then starting to make a name for himself, when a casual acquaintance from New Zealand asked him when he w as going to "shoot through" back to Australia. The Kiwi then told him a disturbing story of a compatriot who had been arrested and bunged into the British Army. Pat wanted neither to return to Australia nor to be called up for the Army, so he joined the Royal Air Force as an air -crew volunteer in 1 955. He was selected as a wireless operator -air gunner, or WAG as they were known, did 12 months at the RAF's wireless telegraphy school in Norfolk and went to Kinloss in Scotland to train on Mark I Shackleton aircraft.
He did a short stint on helicopters in Wales before being posted to 269 Squadron of Coastal Command in Shackletons at Ballykelly on Lough Foyle in County Derry, Northern Ireland. This squadron spent many hours on long patrols over the sea covering areas such as Great Bear Island and the Skaggerak in Scandinavia. The Shackletons shadowed Russian fishing fleets which almost invariably, strange as it may seem, contained an Electronic Intelligence Ship (they were called ELINTS) whenever NATO naval exercises were being held. One of the jobs of the ELINT
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enfriencis led to travellin was to jam the radio communications of the NATO forces, which it achieved to the accompaniment of a shrill blast in aircraft wireless operator Pat's earphones that nearly deafened him on more than one occasion. But the Coastal Command crews had their fun with the FLINTS. They would go down to 50ft and "buzz" the ELINT, giving
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the Russians a blast of propwash, lean out of the aircraft with a camera obviously taking photographs on repeated runs, and gesticulate meaningfully at the Reds. The sons of the Soviet, obviously annoyed at such treatment, would reply with the salute of the twin upraised fingers and scowls that would have been lethal had they been firearms. Pat was posted to Coastal
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Command's 205 Squadron at Changi on Singapore Island during the Indonesian c onfrontation. There he spent 21 2 / years in Mark II Shackletons. The duties of the squadron i ncluded patrolling the South China Sea, and for a period it was based at Jesselton in North Borneo covering the area up to Sandakan keeping an eye out for gun-runners and
other unfriendly folk. A task on which he was engaged was crewing aircraft flying ammunition, equipment and Gurkha soldiers from Changi to Dum Dum airport at Calcutta in support of the Indians who were then fighting the Chinese. The Gurkhas were marvellous little men, Pat Says. They would sit strapped into the aircraft with not a
complaint for the eight hours of the long trip. Crew members were required to instruct them in the donning and use of the Mae VVest life-jacket in case the Shackleton had to ditch. One Gurkha refused to wear a Mae West because, as he quietly explained, fitting it to his body would necessitate his putting his rifle down — and no good soldier ever did that.
-lye heard that we have the biggest Eurasian population of any diocese in Australia." Food, clothing and furniture are the main goods distributed by the St Vincent de Paul. The society is presently discussing the employment of a trained social worker. There are domestic problems in addition to the straitened circumstances brought about by the economic downturn. Single parents of both sexes are struggling to bring up families. Blocks of flats containing only separated mothers and their children are breeding grounds for violence and child delinquency. "These are some of the problems with which we are faced," Pat says. 'We have set up our own shop in Girrawheen to supply the needy at reduced prices, and more shops in other areas will probably follow. "The older men in the society are not being replaced at the rate they should be, but there are some heartening exceptions. Recently two young people came forward and offered to chop wood for those in difficulties, so there are still some good youngsters around. "It is a question of attracting them into the society and holding them." Pat's interest in poetry dates back to his school days, and he has long been an admirer of Australian men of letters such as Henry L awson and Banjo Patterson.
Menage at Summer School to parents about their daughters
Lectures aimed at parent awareness
Look to your daughters was the message given recently in a course offered by the University of Western A ustral ia summer school ... and judging by the number of enrolments, there are plenty of parents prepared to do just that. The course was an outstanding success, and no doubt the forerunner of more to come. The aim, said Leslie Parker, who gave two of the five lectures, was to make parents aware of the issues confronting adolescent girls.
Leslie, who is with UWAs Department of Education has been involved in the education of girls for many years. She is a member of the Commonwealth Schools Commission working party for the education of girls. and has been for four years, and is also a member of the Beazley Committee investigating education in Western Australia. The course was developed by University Extension following assessments of public opinion 'We wanted to make it a challenge for parents and a challenge for schools . .. wasn't telling anyone how to bring up their daughter." she said.
Issues But the issues involved, she said, were important for a ny parents who cared about the quality of life their daughter would have. It was not, she said, necessarily a matter of feminism or radicalism, but no-one could ignore the statistical facts which showed women were politically, personally and economically poorer off than men. "Men invariably hold senior positions even if the qualifications are the same," she said. One of the most disquieting factors is that among the many families with single parents, 95 percent of them are headed by a woman. "It's a fact of life," said Ms Parker, "that with society as it is at present, women can no longer expect the security of being kept. "It's debatable as to whether or not they should expect such security, but whatever your opinion, the fact is they can't. They must look to themselves and their life's skills." She said there were two areas of influence, school and home, and while some people might support those influences it was important for them to have enough understanding to ascertain whether they were functional or dysfunctional. 'There are certainly differences between male and
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boys as it is for the girls," she said. "The overall effect is to r estrict people's options using irrelevant qualities instead of their ability." A more reasoned and intuitive outlook toward development could only produce a more secure family, she said.
Choice "If the mother has made a valued choice about her life and her husband has been brought up to understand n urturance and family needs, it can only make for a better relationship,- she said. N obody is saying al l women have to be professionals, or all women have to go out to work ... B ut we are saying all women should be encouraged to make valued and reasoned judgements about their own life, so they can function equally and efficiently within the workforce, if and when they need to or choose to. Ms Parker said there were many fears surrounding the issue. These included the belief women were 'too emotional to be good managers.' Cries of 'what will happen to the children,' and many still believed a woman who went out to work was 'going against nature.' "I'm not saying there is
Young girls must be taught they will need to rely on their own life skills to safeguard the future. a nything wrong with a woman who chooses to stay home, but it should be just that — a choice and, an informed one," she said. She said the other area where change was needed was within the field of education. -There is a challenge for schools and perhaps awareness by parents can help to speed the changes needed," she said. School organisation and curriculum, teachers and student interaction could all contribute to the limiting of education for girls. "Within the school organisation men are presented as being in charge, doing the important things in most cases, with women doing the lesser things," she said. 'The curriculum also reinforces this view of society and textbooks present a major problem with a lot fewer women represented. Even in the illustrations there is a male to female ratio of four to one in favour of men. Women are also more often depicted as performing a lesser role. -It's important someone points out this discrepancy to children, otherwise they may grow up thinking that is the way the world is, and that is the way the world should be." Ms Parker said studies had also shown teachers invariably gave more attention to boys than girls. -The quality of intellectual
attention tends to be higher," she said. 'The really creative girls are often put to one side and left to work alone because it is usually felt girls are more trustworthy than boys. 'The important thing is for teachers to be aware of it.. Many swear they are not favouring one more than the other, but when they are
videotaped teaching, the results usually prove they are. "No-one says it is happening in all classes but it is certainly widespread." M s Parker said any changes within the system of teaching must be carried out without alienating boys. "It's a gradual process," she added.
Leslie Parker ... look to your daughter's educati
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Doubleview Antioch Team involved in preparation — Graham Bonny, Rita Cuseuna, Sharon Marshall
Divorce when it strikes a family with teenagers can be devastating, A realistic fear with young people today is the break-up of their family.Ihave often wond ered how it al l happens; when it comes to the crunch does the father or mother just approach their teenage son or daughter and say,
"Your mother and I no longer love each other we are going to get a divorce, but we will always love you and your sister." Are these just the words that I have picked up from the movies and novels? I wonder what goes through the heart and mind of a young teenag-
er as they wonder how and why their world has fallen apart. I think that it is a more devastating experience for teenagers than for small children. I have felt restrained in asking questions of a teenager whose parents are no longer together.I think this is not a good thing; teenagers are candid about their feelings and thoughts and above all do not want to pretend. Yet often these subjects are never aired. I think teenagers feel shame and realize that they are different from t heir friends whose homes are still intact. Unanswered questions must cast a constant shadow of fear in the hearts and minds of teenagers which even good friends or relatives cannot remove. The supportive role of parents is
fundamental. The fundamental bond is shattered in a divorce. Teenagers have a great need for affection, their most significant source of physical and psychological affection has been taken away from them and replaced by the traumas and tensions of divorce. In such an atmosphere the academic, emotional, social and spiritual lives of teenagers are deeply effected. Parents should think long and hard before contemplating divorce. Perhaps if the life-long effects were made more v isible, individuals and society would work more positively at strengthening the bonds of marriage and diminishing the possibility of divorce. What do you think?
A depth of A challenge! expression
During the first week in January, 1984, 34 workers and two priests gathered at Aldinga Beach, South Australia, to review their work, the problems they faced in that workplace, the actions they took attempting to remedy those problems, but most importantly, to leave the conference with a challenge that would make It has been hard in the past to imagine the youth of any some positive change in their life. parish becoming greatly enthused about their religion on any At that conference were problems of our world, the Our group for example will be followed up by other great scale. school teachers, public ser- striving to understand how will be attempting to get a members of the group. It is even more so when thinking about young adults from the age of 16 to 19. In these years when major moral and religious issues arise in the minds of us all, it is usually hard to find a forum in a real Christian community and find the new depth of expression that one needs for life in a hectic society. Antioch in Doubleview is trying to provide that forum. In a few weeks time we will hold our second Antioch weekend ( February 24-26) and attempt to enthuse the rest of the parish with the experiences we have had in the group. E xperiences alone do not get the weekend on its feet, however. A lot of plain, old-fashioned hard work is being put in by the team led by Judy Naylor and Todd Beveridge to make this weekend better than the last.
Team The team in itself is made up of 20 young people from the age of 16 t o 18, who lead the weekend. A t the moment our work consists of writing talks, recruiting. praying and advertising — and not necessarily in that order! These are just the basics which any youth group has to undertake if they are to stage a successful weekend. Nevertheless, for a weekend of this kind, the team has to work as a unit, giving each other maximum support. We are fortunate to have a lot of support from the local parishioners, who open their houses to us on the weekend. Others provide food and hot meals. One of the most
valuable forms of support they can offer, though, is prayer. We have learnt for our successes and mistakes. With the guidance of Pam and Laurie Smith and our resident priest, Father K evin Condon and Father Phillip Kennedy, we are sure we will be pre-
pared by the end of February. It is incredible to believe that this shall be an even better weekend than last year's. For the time being though, we shall pray and prepare in anticipation. Sharon Marshall, Antioch Doubleview.
vants, clerks, typists, bank transnationals control our "Video Shop" co-operative It taught me to look outworkers, a solicitor, factory lives, our support for our off the grotund in Sydney side my own small world workers and in every single fellow workers in their ac- hopefully drawing on the and to realize that if others case each worker had faced tions and the courage to experiences and advice of can stick their own neck out a problem in their work- take action in our own the Brisbanites and their and achieve something, so place and had attempted an workplace. own printing press co-oper- can we. action which went partway We were later broken into ative to help us. CARL RACCANT. to solve the problem. teams to examine various The unstated theme of the aspects of society (e.g. the The workers gathering T he YCW National gathering was "militancy- media) and commitments achieved many things; each Workers' Gathering, -- the militancy of seeing to action also grew from person left with a list of Aldinga Beach, their own actions and these South Australia. and being aware of the these groups.
A chance to get to know us The Tertiary Christian Students Movement is a group of students from WAIT Campus joined by the common bond of being Christian (plus a $2 subscriptionfor those financial enough). We provide severalfunctions, both on and off campus. These include the odd (and they can be pretty strange sometimes) social activity amongst ourselves, and sometimes with TYCS or UCS and UWA group. We hold Mass each Wednesday, which varies in attendance in direct proportion to the number of assignments handed in. Another important function, expecially at this time of year is to help the "Transition to Tertiary We". Many of you may have heard or seen us making ourselves known to Year 12 students. A lthough we visit some schools and try to contact as many schools as possible, we are a little limited. I f you are intending tertiary studies, then we may be able to help you make the changeover as painless as possible. Our most memorable methodfor doing this is by holding an Orientation Camp. A t this camp, you, the intending WAIT student, can meet our happy little bunch, and he prepared for thefirst shocks ofgoing to WAIT We do holdfollow-up activities to consolidate the objectives of the camp. andfor those who couldn't make it. The upshot of this letter is that the N4 Orientation Camp for WAIT will he held Sunday, February 12 to Wednesday, February 15.
Working in the relaxed seaside atmosphere of Aldinga are from left to right Fran Kemp (VVhyalla), Paul Middleton (Brisbane), Leanne Batger (NSW), John Carey (Adelaide), Tony Lai (Vic), Carl Raccani (Perth).
Another great Choice weekend
The Choice programme is up and going again for 1984. It started with a successful weekend at the Eagles Nest Camp at Gidgegannup. Amid the tranquil surrounds that this location offers, an intimacy was quickly developed among those participating in the programme. Lots of fun, games, plus survival hints will he part of Perhaps because of the smaller size of the the programme, such as how to survive cafeteria food. group, 22 including the team members, the You also get to meet us!! and other intending students. trust and openness that was exhibited was I f you are interested and want to know more: Contact: Francis Lynch, 212 Riseley Street, Mount Pleasant, a stounding. phone 364 2230. Michael Neville, 419, Crawford Road, We formed a closeness to our Catholic family Dianella, phone 276 5636 or Chris Winthrop, 23 Dalston present on the weekend which deepened into Crescent. Kardinya. phone 337 7189. a bond of love and caring friendship. I f you are going elsewhere for tertiary studies contact New bridges were crossed and old ones were Father David Strong. c1- University Chaplaincy Services, UWA. rediscovered as we found an awareness of Chris Winthrop. ourselves and relationship with others in our
Church and an awareness of our God. Terry and Margaret Fennessy were beautiful once again and added a new dimension to our experience. They truly taught us how to love. They helped create an atmosphere where faith wasn't taught, it was caught. We are all looking forward to a reunion on Saturday, February 4. The next Choice weekend is being held from April 6 to 8 and we are anticipating an exciting w eekend sharing with still more people in our Church. If anyone is interested in coming along and experiencing the weekend with us, contact Terry and Margaret Fennessy on 386 6194. Peace in Christ, Kevin Bailey. The Record, February 10 — February 16, 1984 13
( Record Kids Club VET uu 1 got dumped by the waves Dear Captain Bob Sorry I haven't written for five times, which was terria while I've been pretty busy fying and also good. helping mum around the We had tea down there. house. We saw the rottnest lightLast Saturday we went to house and four ships. the beach with my mum, We went back to my uncle dad, my two brothers, my and aunties. We came home sister, my uncle and auntie at eleven o'clock. It was a great night. and my nanna.
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Mary and Joseph taught Jesus how to pray while he was growing up. They taught him prayers called Psalms. They can be learned by heart and prayed often as Jesus prayed them. Psalms can be prayed at home as part of family prayer.
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Mary and Joseph loved often. His last prayer as he I hese psalm prayers can these prayers. They had hung on the cross was a be learned by heart as Jesus learned them. They can be learned them from their psalm. parents. And they were Here are some short psalm prayed often as Jesus happy to teach the prayers prayers. They are for times prayed them. They can be to Jesus and to pray them when people want to ex- prayed at home, too, as part press their thankfulness, of family prayer, perhaps at together as a family. their hope. their trust in meals. Jesus too came to love the God — and for other times Thanksgiving: "I will give thanks to you, 0 Lord, with Psalms. He prayed them too.
all my heart." (Psalm 9:2) Lord." (Psalm 35:9) Love: "I love you. 0 Lord, Guidance: "Your ways, 0 my strength." (Psalm 18:2) Lord, make known to me. Trust: "0 Lord, my God, Teach me your paths. Guide in you I trust." (Psalm 25: I - me in your truth and teach me." (Psalm 25:4-5) 2) Help: "0 Lord, be my Commitment: "1 say to the Lord, My Lord are you. helper." (Psalm 30:11) Praise: "0 Lord, my God, Apart from you I have no y ou are great indeed." good." (Psalm 16:2) Search: "With all my heart (Psalm 104: 1) Forgiveness: "Have mercy I seek you." (Psalm 1 19:10) on me, 0 God, in your Hope: "The Lord is my goodness." (Psalm 51:3) shepherd; I shall not want." Joy: "I will rejoice in the (Psalm 23:1)
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World's oldest 'strip cartoon' The Bayeux Tapestry, The Norman Conquest 1066, by Norman Denny and Josephine Filmer-Sankey, published by William Collins. $14.95. Reviewed by Roslyn Ross. You could say that the famed Bayeux Tapestry is the oldest 'strip cartoon', except of course, the scenes it depicts are far from funny. This immensely exciting work, tells in full the story of the bitter conflict between Harold of England and William of Normandy, two men of honour, who fought finally in 1066 one of history's most famous battles, `the Battle of Hastings'. For William the Conqueror, it was a day of splendour; for Harold a disaster. The whole triumph and tragedy of the battle is captured for all time in the glowing, vivid colours of the Bayeux Tapestry, which is reproduced in full in this book. Embroidered in England only a few years after the Norman Conquest the tapestry retains an extraordinary freshness, and it is hard to believe that the action it depicts so vigorously took place 900 years ago. The book has been designed to show the tapestry in its proper sequence with an accompanying text divided into two parts -- the first explaining simply what is happening in each scene. the second describing the background more fully. Every child learns about the Battle of Hastings at school ... through the tapestry and this book, that slice of history can come to life. It's a book for all ages. Young children can appreciate the pictures and their parents and older brothers and sisters will appreciate the quality of the reproduction and the clarity of the linking text.
Matilda's tapestry The French, say the authors, still call it `Queen Matilda's Tapestry' — La Tapisseries de la Reine Matilde. "Matilda was the wife of Duke William of Normandy, "William the Conqueror," and she became Queen of England after the Conquest. For a long time she was believed to be the designer and maker of the tapestry, but we now know that this was not the case," say the authors. "It was made to the order of Bishop Odo, William's half-brother, to be hung in Odo's Cathedral at Bayeaux. a little town in Normandy some ten miles from the sea. "Bishop Odo ordered it to be made, but there is no reason to suppose that he had any share in its making. For the design, an artist was needed. We do not know who he was; but that he was a great artist is proved by the splendid life, and vigour of his drawings, the skill with which he told the story, and the picture he has given us of the life of the time.
"We must note an important point. The Bayeux Tapestry, although it is always referred to as such, is not really a tapestry at all. A tapestry is a cloth made on a loom, with its pattern or design woven into it. The Bayeux Tapestry is a piece of embroidery (needlework), the pictures being stitched in woollen threads of eight different colours on a long strip of bleached linen. The designer may have drawn them first on parchment, but it seems more likely that he drew them on the linen strip, which he handed over to the craftsmen (or women) who did the embroidering.
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Race Talk with Rod Evans COSMIC CAVALIER looks set for another successful campaign judging on his fast finishing third to Misty Shell when resuming on Saturday. In his last campaign Cosmic Cavalier won several races including the Northam Cup. Follow this horse, he is above average. IVORY KEYS won very easily at Bunbury on Thursday and looks set for many more victories. This horse has done most of his racing in Kalgoorlie and there were big reports on him, he didn't let any of his followers down. Follow this horse through his career. BRAZZAKA made a successful return to racing after a year's spell when he won the Rick Hart Welter comfortably at Ascot on Saturday. This former top 2 yo is now being trained by George Way and he has obviously found the secret to this horse, he should win again shortly. PADDY was another impressive first up performer when he flew home to finish third behind Brazzaka. Paddy is a galloper of quality and will improve with racing and increasing distances of his races.
A centennia for NW group Retreat The Rodricks family of Port Hedland hosted the 100th prayer meeting of the Blue Army of our Lady o f Fatima on Tuesday January 24 in their home. This means for nearly two years this group has met each Tuesday night at 7pm for an hour in response to O ur Blessed Mother's request in 1917 at her six apparitions to the children f or Prayer and Sacrifices
for World Peace, the Holy Father's intentions and the conversion of sinners. Pope John Paul II entrusted the whole world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and said, "Fatima is a renewal of the Gospel."
Greyhounds — with The Record Tipster
There are two of these prayer groups in the parish. The original group is in f act coming to its 200th meeting soon and meets on Wednesday mornings before the Tabernacle. The weekly hour-long meetings consist of Rosary, Fatima prayers, Spiritual Reading, Discussion, Intercessary prayer, report on contacts to spread the Fatima apostolate.
home is for sale DOGS' CHANCE
One of Perth's Catholic landmarks, the Franciscan R etreat House in Victoria Park will be auctioned on March 8. The move follows a decline in custom for retreats there and after exhaustive investigations could find no alternate Catholic use for the building. The building was opened in 1964, a year after the Franciscan Missionaries came to Perth. Two sisters will stay on in Perth till the end of the year. Another community works with the Aboriginal apostolate, in Collie.
Pictured cutting the 100th cake (L to R) is Mrs Sheila Rodricks, home h ostess, Father Brian Ahearn, parish priest and spiritual director, and Mrs Irene Rozario, leader of the group. The group photograph shows (L to R back row) John Wiltshire, Mrs Sheila R odricks, Mrs Audrey Holder, Keith Wiltshire, Audrey Wiltshire, Judith # Enright, Lorraine Parker, Irene Rozario. CENTRE R OW: Kevin Rodricks, M arina Ross, Father Ahearn, Shirley LeFaucheur, Lita King with S uzanne King, Doris R odgers. FRONT ROW: Lindie Rodricks, Clifford Wiltshire, Michelle Wiltshire, Edward Wiltshire and Geoffrey King.
R ACE ONE: I Hot Risk. 2 Lucky Irish. 3 Astbury Rose. R ACE TWO: I Cloheen. 2 Vanlee Chief. 3 Leitrim Again. R ACE THREE: I Soft Vader. 2 News Item. 3 Rowan's Reward. R ACE FOUR: I Supreme Carmen. 2 Darville's Pride. 3 Kori San. R ACE FIVE: I Aulfee. 2 Gillie's Jewel. 3 Tema's Joy.
RACE SIX: I The Quick. 2 Prezzy Boy. 3 Scot's Lover. R ACE SEVEN: I Calruin. 2 Lexie's Pearl. 3 Ocean Blast. R ACE EIGHT: I Brindle Avon. 2 Lotsadots. 3 Davina Lad. R ACE NINE: I Bin Jo. 2 Candelina. 3 Droopy Eyes. R ACE TEN: I Gilly Winks. 2 Kellie's Crown. 3 Dark Crystal.
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16 The Record, February 10 — February 16, 1984